KI TISA: Is Torah Too Difficult For This Generation? | STUMP THE RABBI (262)

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So uh perhaps they had an easy time protecting their eyes. In those days the Jews all lived in the same community. There was no bend theim and the safarim and getting uh into yeshivot. Uh there was also no need to come up with so much money to pay for yeshivot. You know, everyone was learning in the desert. Uh everyone was learning at the time of even the babies were learning Torah to the point where they knew the entire Mishna by heart. Not like today where if uh you're not rich uh or you're not with the from a certain type of family then you don't get into yeshiva in some places as unfortunately we hear from people that literally crying crying because the yeshivot in their community will not let them let let their kids in and simply tell the parents to send their Jewish kids to public school because either they are not from uh you know the the wealthy families. So, they can't afford paying $1,500 to $2,000 a month for yeshiva, especially if they have four or five kids. Uh, or they're they don't have enough. What does it mean they don't have enough? That means in today's world, they're not. That's that's what it means. Now, of course, I know that some of you are not going to like to hear this, but this is the truth. that anyone that has sent their kids to yeshivot in seminaries knows exactly what I'm talking about. Or the best ones are when you're not religious enough to allow your kids to learn in their yeshivot because the father is wearing a blue shirt or the mother has our earrings that um apparently are not sne because they are uh hanging a little bit longer than the uh than the uh administrator prefers. Or shalom, if there's a few strands of hair sticking out of your then we might as well call you. Now, none of these are made up. All of these are real legitimate claims that we've gotten from people. And if I told you all of the ones we've gone, literally there would be no time for the shield. there would no be no time to live to live. So, it's so difficult and there's so much anti-semitism and every other day another person comes out with another anti-semitic video where he goes and investigates the religious community or there's another person that's off the justifies that uh he's not religious or she's not religious anymore. And let's not forget the countless people that call themselves teachers or rabbis that tell people that they don't need to do chuva because Hashem understands that it's too difficult for them and they didn't grow up religious enough. So, is it true that this Torah that we got at Mount Si is too difficult for this generation? Because too many times we've heard how some people are not meant to be religious apparently or that it's too difficult for them to follow the mitzvot. So maybe being secular as long as they love God is okay. maybe being reformed and not believing that the Torah is from heaven, but at least going to a building and claiming that this is Jewish pride. Maybe that's enough. Maybe uh we should just send all the rabbis to uh you know, follow the uh footsteps of all of those that have abandoned the Jews and go become rabbis for the goim. They start noahhide organizations. What about the Jews that need to do chuva? Like 80% of them. No, somebody else take care of it. Well, apparently they have it. So what's going on? Is it too difficult? Why am I asking this question? Because if it's difficult then to the point where it's too difficult then you can say Hashem doesn't care anymore. But if this is Torah does not change, then you have to ask the question or better yet, you have to ask all of these other people the questions of will Hashem forgive the fact that your friends or family are not religious because they didn't grow up that way or they just prefer not to be. Will he just forgive them and just let it go? Aren't they considered, you know, captured baby the term that 95% of people misunderstand what it even means? This will clarify what Hashem thinks. Not your own Reven, not Raime, not anybody. What Hashem thinks because that is what matters. Because once we know what he thinks, we'll also know what he commands, we'll know what he punishes for, we'll also know what he forgives for. Because don't forget this para has the sin of the golden calf and it also talks about. And once we know that there's no more questions, well, perhaps you guys could figure out some nuance other than that. Hashem spoke to Moshe saying, "When you take a census of the children of Israel according to their numbers, every man shall give Hashem an atonement for his soul when counting them, so there will not be a plague among them when counting them. So we already see that at least at this time in history where we just got a few commandments we didn't even get the old Torah. He punishes he punishes. In fact, he says if you don't count your fellow Jews the right way when there is in your counting of minan or if you simply decide to count how many people in your synagogue or your community, you don't count them according to the instructions of Hashem according to the clarifications of our sages, you could actually bring Corona virus number to just simply from counting the wrong way. But hey, maybe it's not relevant today. Maybe doesn't say anywhere it's not relevant because one of our 13 principles of faith says this. This Torah will never change. But anyway, we see here that Hashem says they should give a coin. From there we know the but he says this shall they give which the mid says means Hashem is actually showing Mosheu a coin made out of fire a heavenly fire and tells him this is what they have to give a coin that looks like this not made out the fire. But it looks like what Hashem is showing Moshe. Why? Not just if he can make a coin out of fire, he could certainly just simply create coins and show it to Mushe. Teach us this is to show us that fire and money can both be used for good and bad. If you use them the proper way, they're very good. If you give staka, you could do a lot of good things with fire and with money. But if not, then they both become hazardous like fire. Furthermore, we also know that where Hashem says the is to teach us that and to remind us that Israel has a commandment that the go do not have which is called Israel. All of Israel are responsible for each other. The goim are not responsible for each other. In fact, this din is the reason why is indestructible in the normative way. Meaning that we know we're not destructible because Hashem decreed so. But the way it plays out in the world is that am always cares about each other. Especially when push comes to shove, anti-semitism skyrockets. All of a sudden become friends. All of a sudden the neighbors that haven't spoken in 20 years become best friends. All of a sudden the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law become, you know, best friends. Why? We have a common enemy. The goim hate us. But the Torah says you can't just wait for all hell to break loose, to be responsible, to care for each other. You have to understand that I gave you several reminders in the Torah that you need each other, that without each other, you're incomplete. One of them is the shekel. Hashem could have simply said every Jew has to give a she a full shekel. No, Hashem said she half a shekel. Why? Because if you are removed from you're incomplete you're half. But needless to say if you disregard your fellow Jew even though he's going against Hashem, even though he's in Shabbat, then don't expect to get a full reward because you have a whole lot more sins than you imagine. Whose sins? His sins. Furthermore, the Torah tells us that when it comes to the Hashem says, "Give Hashem says in last week's par give what comes from your heart." But then when he says that they should gather to make the kio the copper lver unlike all of the other kaleim there's no measurement for this why because this kio was made out of the mirrors of the women that these women were not only self-sacrificing their mirrors that they used every single day but also it shows how these women were becoming more and more modest and Hashem loves that mitzvah so much he says don't stop any woman from giving this kio could be the size of a building the bigger it is the more I know that is going and following me instead of following all of the fashion uh fashion police out there then we see that tells us about Shabbat in chapter 31 verse number 123 and on says Hashem says to Moshe saying now you speak to the children of Israel saying however you must observe the Shabbats for it is a sign between me and you for your generations to know that I am Hashem. who makes you holy. You shall observe the Shabbat, for it is holy to you. Its desecrators shall be put to death. For whoever does work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among its people. For six days work may be done, and the seven days a day of complete rest. It is sacred to Hashem. Whoever does work on the Shabbat day shall be put to death. And we see that Israel at this point, listened because the next verse says, "The children of Israel shall observe the Shabbat to make the Shabbat an eternal covenant for their generations between me and the children of Israel. It is a sign forever that in six days Hashem made heaven and earth and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed. Obviously the translation does not mean Hashem rested like going to sleep like us. The sephil by from about 1100 years ago explains that all of these anthropomorphic anthropomorphic terminologies that put words that we understand as physical descriptions for Hashem or actions for Hashem can never be understood that way. But rather when it says that Hashem rested, it simply means he stopped doing what he was doing before, which was creating the world. And each week he stops doing certain things every Shabbat that he does during the rest of the week. Now here we see that Shabbat is a must. doesn't say only the religious Jews that live in Benak and Mahim and Halov keep Shabbat everyone else off the hook. Especially if you live in Miami, especially if you live in New York, especially if you live in Los Angeles, especially if your rabbi tells you it's okay, you're at it doesn't say that anywhere. It says the children of Israel, meaning all Jews must keep Shabbat, young, old, male, female, if they were born Jewish, they converted to Judaism, if they want to call themselves secular, if they want to call themselves reformed, it doesn't matter. Everyone has to keep Shabbat. You can call yourself Pikachu. Perhaps you'll be the Pikachu that was sold for $16 million from some idiot that bought it for $16 million. It's mindboggling for a piece of cardboard. But nonetheless, Pikachu, if he was Jewish, has to keep Shabbat. And if he doesn't, Torah says at the time of Mosher, at the time of the he would be put to death. And even though there's no today, the says, although the punishments by the can no longer go into effect today, they still go into effect. how himself manages this system whereby gives examples instead of him getting stoned a wall falls on him or a bull runs into him in today's world a truck runs him over or a building collapses and other examples the GMA says for the four different types of death penalties Now, of course, we already learned from this para where after we made the sin of the golden calf, Hashem did not punish us completely right away, which already shows in his actions and also in his words and how he describes himself that he's a merciful God that he's also does not uh um punish right away. We see that punishment could be paid later on. But nonetheless, punishment is always paid. Anyone that says that Hashem does not punish the says will get an extra punishment for such a thing, which is they give details of how he's going to be cut up into many, many little pieces, become a little shish kebab. Perhaps they'll put some sauce on him, maybe make him into something very delicious for the Shindal and the out there. But nonetheless, here in this world, he could feel like a million bucks. He could feel like he could do whatever he wants. But Hashem says that's not going to last forever. But what about if he was born into a secular family? Doesn't matter. What about if his uh best friend said it's okay, you don't have to. Doesn't matter. What if he even has a rabbi telling him that it's okay? Doesn't matter. What if he gives a lot of staka? Doesn't matter. He has to keep the Shabbat. In fact, the Torah says, "Aside from the death penalty, whoever does work on it shall be cut off from among its people." What does that mean? That means that according to our Torah law called, he has to now be judged by his fellow Jews as if he's an idol worshipper. Hashem still judges him as a Jew and will punish him as a Jew unless he does Chuva, unless she does Chuva. But the fellow Jews have to treat him as if he is an idol worshipper when it comes to specific things such as wine. If he touches it, if he pours it, then we have to throw it out. Uh if a uh we have a Jewish ceremony, we cannot use him as a witness and so on and so forth. anything that uh we have to have a uh a Jew there, he cannot be considered one of them. Why? Because he has cut himself off. No different from an idol worshipper that prays to Yosh. No different from someone that prays to a rat that drinks milk at one of the temples in India. Does not matter. Him and him all speaking are considered the same until he does cha. But how can he do chuva if everyone keeps telling him that he is a balm that he cannot do chuva because he's wasn't born that way or because it's too difficult because of the billboards and the iPods and the iPads and and and and all of the people that you know tell him that as long as he gives money everything is okay like they do in Christianity. What about that? Doesn't matter. Why? Hashem's Torah doesn't change. chips to doesn't change. So now we see that Torah doesn't change. Hashem puts decrees out there that are pretty heavy and he says it's for all generations. But if there was ever a time where we could say, you know what, we have a legitimate excuse to violate the Torah and get away with it. When would that have been during this par? Why? We just got part of the Torah. We didn't even get the whole thing. Mushenu still hasn't gone to Mount Si for 40 days and 40 nights. All we know as of now is the Hashem told us about. He told us the ten commandments. He told us Shabbat. We still don't know all the laws of Shabbat. So, we don't even know what we're going to get a death penalty for if we violate it because there's still there's a nuance to to to everything. But nonetheless, we know that We have to not violate it. We have to follow. But the rest of the details, Mosha Benu still has to go to Mount Si to uh to to heaven and while we stay the bottom of the mountain and stay out of trouble. So if there was a time where we could say, listen, we didn't really know that much. We screwed up, but Hashem is just going to let it go. This would be that time. Well, it didn't work out that way. Why? Because as soon as Mosheu went up there to the mountain, Shem took him up to Shem, the angels were asking all types of questions of what is this man born out of a woman doing up here in heaven. And the Shabbat says that Moshe was scared to death from these angels. They're angels of fire. Hashem told them, "Hold on to my throne of glory and answer them." And Mosheu answered them and they accepted it and all gave him gifts including the Satan himself gave him a gift that even the angels the angels were scared of him. Later on when it's time for Mosha Benu to leave this world the Satan comes to kill him and Moshau beats up the Sultan takes out one of his eyes greatest leader ever was ever will be on the other hand is impatient like kids you know say abba can I have this yes yes give me like10 10 15 minutes I'll give it to you. 37 seconds later. When is it going to be? I I said in 15 minutes when I finish my project I'll give it to you. Okay. 4 seconds later. As you can see it went down from 37 to 4. Aba. Did you finish yet? I said 15 minutes. Oh, it's now 15 minutes. No, no, it's not. When is the 15 minutes in 15 minutes? Impatient kids are impatient. Amisha is impatient and needless to say in the door of impatience and people need satisfaction right away. We understand and they get impatient and that opens up the opportunity for the Satan to fool them. He sends his messengers the to convince everyone thatu died and they tell him listen we need we need a replacement forenu they come to they tell him make us make us a statue why they learned this in Egypt Egypt was full of statues 210 10 years they're in Egypt, it's full of statues. So that's what they knew. Even though they knew, they heard Hashem, they saw his voice, they saw his his words. I mean, still they were used to something. And the were very convincing, especially since there was a lot of them. Said no way, no how. They were so fired up about this, they killed They went to make us statue knew that if he says no, they're going to kill him and then there's no way for them to do according to the Torah because they would be killing a day and they would not be able to do chuva from that. It's unfixable. So he has to find a way to buy time. One of the things people love more than even their own life is money. That has not changed throughout all of history. People will argue about small things when it comes to money, big things. If it's not money, they'll give in. But when it comes to money, people are crazy. So who made in tens of thousands of homes as we learned from the Torah that's everybody called their kids after he knew people. So he says, "You know what? When Mosheu told him that they should give to build the Mishkan to do, he said everyone should give as his heart desires." When Hashem said they should give the he specified small amount. So when it comes to when they know when something is good we say whatever you want to give give a little give a lot whatever you want. So what am I going to do? I'm going tell no you want this give me your gold nothing less. No silver no copper no dollar bills. Bitcoin, gold, and a lot of it. So much so that even take off your earrings and your nose rings and everything. That'll surely stop them. They're not going to think twice. What do we need a statue for? Let's just pray to Hashem. And one says to them, "Remove the rings of gold that are in the ears of your wives, sons, and daughters, and bring them to me." And unfortunately to his surprise, it says, name. The entire people removed the gold rings that were in their ears and brought them to all of a sudden they don't care about money. When it came down to mitzvot, everybody wanted to give a little bit. What is it? What's makita this year, Rabbi? Uh is a third of an ounce of silver. Silver has gone up. It's about $86 the time we calculated. So just figure out a third of that if you want. We already did the calculation. It's on the website. And we have to give the whole thing. Yes. I mean, if you want to fulfill this mitzvah, even for my kids, I How many kids do you have? We have five kids. Okay. Do they all sleep in a little a little cage? Like outside cuz there's no room in the house. No, Rabbi, stop it. They each have a room. We have a big house. It's uh each each kid has a room. Even the baby has a room. And uh you know each room is you know it's probably the size of an apartment. So no no we have we have oh so you have a three $4 million house and you're asking why the makita is 30 bucks. How did you decide that the matan of your is $50 per person? What do you want me to say? It's zero. Well how did you decide? Well, that's what we estimated that it will cost to buy a meal for a small family if you live in the west. Now, don't get me wrong, if you live in Mongolia or perhaps certain parts of the jungle, it will cost you less than $50. But you live where? Where you live? Oh, in a $4 million house. Oh, two and a half million. Oh, that's your vacation house. Oh. So, if we calculate based on your neighborhood, then it's probably going to be about $400 per person. But we don't have to calculate based on your neighborhood. We can just calculate based on normal neighborhoods. And it's about 50 bucks. Do we have to give it rabbi? When it comes to everyone wants to be very very uh let's just say frugal frugal when it comes to Rabbi give me a blessing. Why? What do you need a blessing for? We're going on a cruise and we want to have a really good time. 20 people going on a cruise for for for like a night cruise. No, no, we're going for Pes. Yeah, my husband really uh he did well and you know we're spending about a quart million dollars on Pesak for us to go away on a cruise for, you know, for us, for the family, for the neighborhoods, the dogs, the cats. How much did you give for uh for PES? Let me check the file. Oh, you gave $150 for and you were complaining about the mat of yim but a4 million in pes. What happened? How come it's that way? How come it's that way? That's because the the tries to convince you that 250 bucks for a muza is too much for you even if you have it. helping others too much for you. But if it's to make sins, it's to do things for you to go waste the gift that Hashem gave you that no problem. So the strategy that implemented failed miserably and they have made themselves a molten calf, prostrated themselves to it and in fact it says that And they got up to revel. Explain. What does it mean? Sounds like they went and made fun. No explain is that they made three cardinal sins. They murdered who? So that's one. They committed Auaz with the golden calf and they committed immorality him with this with that oneish. Everything went from bad to worse. But then it says later on that not everybody committed but everyone got judged for it. Why? When it came down to the people that actually served Abu Dh 3,000 of them were killed. All of them. But everyone else that did not actually worship not only got punished but is still punished until this day because they saw the others violate Shabbat, commit immorality, go against Hashem, and instead of telling them you're not allowed to do that, what they sue nothing. They didn't do nothing. Meaning it's not even as bad as people that make up excuses for people like saying, "Listen, it's it's too much for him. It's a Hashem will just understand or creating all types of excuses. They didn't even make excuses for them. They simply said nothing." And initially wanted to destroy them. But then came down asked what happened here. Says in verse number 24 in chapter 32 that I tried a strategy says to him, "So I said to them, who has gold?" They removed it and they gave it to me. I threw it in the fire and a calf emerged. They knew already that when it comes to it's whatever is in your heart. So I showed them this is not this is not this is Abu. So I said, "Give me gold. give me gold to show them that this is not it. This is not good. And I figured they like their money more than anything else. But apparently, not only did they give, they threw it at me. And I threw it into the fire. They threw it into the fire. And this young boy, Mika, also threw a mate that had the name of Hashem on it on one side. and al rise ball rise were engraved on the other side and this mate was mushenu's mate and this had certain kadusha in it and in essence it gave the sin the ability to materialize where the gold was not molded into anything but rather All of the gold that's in the fire that should have burned for hours and hours and hours all of a sudden instantly you came together formed into a bull that spoke and ate grass. At that point it says Moshe saw the people that it was exposed for expose them to the disgrace among those who rise up against him. Meaning now I see they don't have an excuse. I want to expose the truth here. They went against the Torah. There's no excuse. Either they went and they actually threw the gold in there or they saw their fellow Jews doing it. They didn't say anything or they did it thinking something else. And after it came out, they didn't worship the idol, but they saw their fellow Jews doing it. They didn't say nothing. I want to expose them. I want to expose them. Expose the truth. meaning that here there's no justification for what they did andu says who is for God join me and only the levy tribe that did not sin joined him and he says to them every man put his sword on his his thigh actually he says this in the name of Hashem even though Hashem didn't tell him this he knew This is the law of Torah. He said to them, "So said Hashem, the God of Israel, every man put his sword on his thigh and pass back and forth from gate to gate in a camp. Let every man kill his brother, every man his fellow, and every man his near one." Meaning, if your brother is part of the people that worship this golden calf, you got to take him out. if he's your friend. In fact, even if he's your best friend, and after they did it, says to them, "Dedicate yourself this day to Hashem, for each has opposed his son and his brother, that he," meaning Hashem, may bestow upon you a blessing this day. All of you that killed your brothers, your friends because they went against Hashem, come. Hashem's going to give you. Now, so far, millions are there. Only 3,000 got killed. But we don't know what. Maybe Hashem is going to let this one go. Hashem says, "No, no, no. Destroy all of them." Says, "Please come on. Let me talk to them. Let me see what Hashem due to the merit of our own due to merit of of Mushe pleading for them, crying for them, willing to die for them. saying that just like the para is called. In the beginning it said which means that if you take count here it says which also if you take count. So ki says because uh you um or when when you count or when you take count and is if you count if you count this sin then erase me from your book because if you count this sin as something that you have to punish for right now, you're going to have to destroy all of them. So, Hashem says a response for them and for us. Hashem says to Moshe, chapter 32 verse 33, Hashem says to Moshe, "Whoever has sinned against me, I shall erase from my book. Now go and lead the people to where I have told you. Behold, my angel shall go before you, and on that on the day that I make my account, I shall bring their sin to account against them. Then Hashem struck the people with a plague because they had made a calf that Aon had made. So we see that Hashem says, "I'm only going to raise certain amount of people. You can still lead these people." And then he gives them a plague. So it looks like, wait, he's punishing them now. So no, no. Says that account that we have, I'm going to bring it later on. I'm going to bring it later on. right now. Although the plague is a punishment for now, the cancer is a punishment for now, the loss of money is a punishment for now. Hashem already said in the previous verse that the account will be paid over time because the debt for the sin is too big for there to be one payment. And that's why our sages teach us that this is something that was still suffering for until this day. Every time there's a decree on am is not only for what they did now, but also partly because of what they did at the time of Mount Sah, the time that we would think logically, we would have all the excuses in the world, all the arguments in the world for Hashem to simply let it go. We see that Hashem does not let it go. Now, he does promise that we will always be his people. He will never destroy us, but he never said he won't punish us or it's okay for us to be secular. None of that. So this answers the question, is the Torah too difficult for this generation? No. Torah tells us it's in your mouth. It's in your heart to fulfill it. This Torah is for you to fulfill. You think it's hard because you're not trying but I created you says as a perfect vessel to fulfill the entire Torah. That's what you were created for. Just like a phone is best used if you call somebody with it. That's what it was created for. If you use it as a doors stopper, it's not so good at that because that's not what it would created for. Needless to say, when it comes to a Jew, no matter how he grew up, secular, religious, New York City, doesn't make a difference. There's no such thing as the Torah is too difficult for this generation. There's no such thing as some people were not meant to be religious. There's no such thing as it's too difficult for them to follow and therefore Hashem will just let it go. And all of those people that say, "No, but maybe it's a first you have to understand is a captured baby that even if you see a captured baby and you can say, "Oh, that's a captured baby." If you're a normal person, what are you going to do? You're going to do whatever you can to free the baby. Why are you leaving him captured? If you're seeing a Jew that's captured by the false ideology that he was raised in, free him. Teach him the truth. Don't keep him captured. Needless to say, don't give him excuses to want to be captured to justify his sins. And furthermore, and even more importantly, captured babies don't go to heaven. Captured babies don't go to heaven. In the best case scenario, they get another try a gig. They come back to this world to try again. You can't go to heaven without mit without following the Torah. So just simply saying that we have a generation of captured babies, people that don't know anything, they were born reformed, they were born deformed, is completely against the Torah. The only thing that means is that if you are to need Jews for a Jewish ceremony such as a wedding, such as a minan, a witness, you cannot use this. That's it. That's all it means. Cannot use him. And If he really is a if he touches the wine, there are some that will lean and say you don't have to throw out the wine. But if he knows he's he's he knows about he knows about Judaism, he just chooses not to follow it that he's not. But nonetheless does not mean that the person dies and goes to heaven, you know, and he's going to drive on Shabbat in in heaven next to doesn't work. So if there was ever a time where Hashem would simply let go of his rules of the Torah and where we would have an excuse, this would be the time. We didn't even get the whole Torah yet. So perhaps they didn't know the details of of idolatry, therefore they made one. Or they didn't know the details of this. No. Oh, we didn't have it for long enough. We didn't, you know, we didn't grow up religious. We grew up in Egypt. Doesn't matter. We were surrounded by goim idol worships. Doesn't matter. We were just in a desert. Doesn't matter. We made good mitzvot because we left everything in, you know, the slavery, but we left it and we came to the desert. Doesn't matter. My mother's Jewish. Doesn't matter. My grandfather was a rabbi. Doesn't matter. I have a little wristband that that says I love you, Hashem. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. I fight in the Jewish army when came I fought. Doesn't matter. Violated says here's a little small down payment for the punishment, but then there's more coming. meaning that no one has an excuse that will count for anything in every sin will be paid for and every mitzvah will be rewarded. Once a person knows this, all of the questions are answered. All of the excuses are dismissed and they simply now know what their role in the world is. Number one, they have to take care of themselves and follow the Torah to the best of their abilities that are beyond what they think they are. They have to follow what it says. They have to keep Shabbat. They have to keep modesty. They have to be religious according to the Torah, not according to some deformed ideology invented in the last uh you know 100 years, 200 years by uh the enlightenment movement. Number two, they have to realize that if they are already religious but they're still in this world, they are responsible for their fellow Jews. Yes. Including the ones that they don't know. Meaning, including the person that's down the street, including the person that's in a different street, including the person that may even be in a different city or a different country. We have din. And that's why every Jew is absolutely obligated to do kiru in one way or another. Either directly by talking to people, arranging lectures, doing something, or indirectly by donating and doing things. Yeah, but you know, I I don't have that much money because I just spent $50,000 on the kitchen and I don't have that much money because I just spent a quarter million dollars on the on the cruise for Pesak and I don't have that much money because I just bought my husband a $50,000 watch and yeah, for all of the things that you want, you don't have, you know, you have money for. But for the mitzvot, people all of a sudden are crying poor just like here. Just like here One of the things that shows us that Christianity is falsehood is that they have justified dismissing all of the mitzvot. On top of that, they have deified a human. And more than anything else that we see in this para is the fact that their answer and justification for all of their misbehaviors, whether it be murder, pedophilia, adultery, stealing, and anything in between is always give money to the church just like the golden calf just like the golden calf when it comes to doing chuvat to doing mitzvot they have all the reasons no it's too much it's too expensive it's too this it's not for this generation all the excuses in the world but for the sin for idolatry they run after it all of a sudden They believe that some guy that was born out of a woman is able to make miracles where he goes on stage and he goes like this and all of a sudden the guy that pretended he was blind can see and the guy that pretended that he was a parapolgic can walk. They they believe this even though everybody knows the guy 10 minutes ago they knew that he wasn't blind and only on stage is blind. But why do they follow this? Every week in all of these evangelist prosperity churches and all this scam that's out there because it's easier to justify living a lie when you're part of the lie. from idoltors. We have to understand that we cannot justify our sins also because we grew up secular because we are surrounded by secular people because we're surrounded by nws because uh you know one reason or another says here Shabbat is for all Jews. Those that forsake it will be punished. Those that observe it will be rewarded. Furthermore, idolatry is a big deal. Whether you're turning your money into idolatry or you're turning a statue or a human into idolatry, Hashem says, "This is not uh something I'm just going to dismiss. In fact, whatever a person did against the Torah, if you're still alive in this world, that means that Hashem has not fully punished you yet. He's giving you a chance to do chuva before it's too late. In fact, whether you are a Jew or a Gentile and you're alive, that's only because of the kindness and mercy of Hashem to give you a chance to abandon all the falsehood, to abandon the idolatry, to abandon the liars, to abandon all the people that justify the lie, rationalize the lies. When everybody knows deep inside, they know what the truth looks like. How do they know? Hashem created you that way. He created you with a BS sensor. He created you with a with a mind that you know this is a lie. It doesn't make sense that the Torah that had its climatic event mount Sai where Hashem says I am alone here. There is nobody else. There's no middleman. You're not allowed to pray to a person or an idol of uh metal or gold. And then all of a sudden you're justifying it. Baku told us in the most important event that this Torah will never change. But yet your church tells you that it changed. This Torah tells you that part of the ten commandments is Shabbat, which is the seventh day, but your church tells you that it's Sunday or your uh your mosque tells you it's Friday. Everyone knows the Torah doesn't change. And the reason why you're still alive, whether you're Jew or Gentile, is because Hashem's mercy is giving you a chance to fix it. It's giving us a chance to fix it all day. If we stop feeding ourselves the excuses and justifying all of our misbehaviors, all of our betrayal of the one and only God of Israel, then we can start going in the right direction and perhaps perhaps fix what we broke. addresses the neverending amount of excuses that people have in this generation. It simply tells us this Torah that we got at Mount Sai, it's the same Tawa that we have today. It doesn't change regardless of how you grew up. It's certainly not as bad as at Mount Si. You grew up at a secular neighborhood in Batyam. You grew up in a secular neighborhood in Tel Aviv, in New York, in Florida. But you didn't grow up in Egypt as a slave. They didn't have an excuse. You don't have an excuse. You grew up where nobody cared about Shabbat in your house. Guess what? Am didn't keep Shabbat until Mount Sai till we got there. Tillm told us when we left when we left Egypt. Meaning they all grew up not keeping Shabbat. But here he says if you don't keep Shabbat one more time, death penalty. Later on in the Torah, one of the people gets a death penalty for violating Shabbat. They didn't have an excuse. You don't have an excuse. tells us that when it comes to mitzvot, one of the ways you could identify that it's a mitzvah, it's for your benefit is that it simply comes from your heart in order to publicize Hashem's name. They'll take for themselves this charity that they're giving. But if you have people chasing after you just because you have gold and they're even commanding you, you have to give all of this, you could already know this is not a mitzvah. Why? If somebody is a servant of Hashem, they know that money is going to come one way or the other. They don't have to chase after everyone. They don't have to command everyone. They don't have to distort the Torah. They don't have to change anything. Simple. They give people an opportunity. This is what we have. If you want to be part of it, give what you want. Give what your heart desires. We can give you some ideas. We give you some choices. But to command, to force, to lie, that's not coming from the department of mitzvot. That's only coming from businessmen that call themselves religious. Our Torah is very clear. It doesn't change. It is relevant and applicable to all of mankind. The Jews have the mitzvot that the Torah obligates them. The non-Jews have the mitzvot that are applicable to them. Each one has their role in the world. There are some common denominators. No one is allowed to pray to anything other than God. Not to a person, not to a rat, not to a motorcycle, not to an angel, not to a star, only to God. There's only one God. He never became a woman, a woman or a man, and he never will. Physical attributes are not applicable to him. The Torah is simply clear as day, clear as day, that this is the truth and it will never change. If you're watching this today, that's only because Hashem has mercy on you to try to open your eyes. You want to argue, you want to justify your trinity or your idolatry or your driving on Shabbat or your uh crooked uh predatory lending business or your immorality and immodesty. You can suit yourself. But I can tell you this, nowhere in Torah are sins simply dismissed. Hashem says that he will punish those that violate the Torah and he will reward those that follow the Torah. Each and every single one of us will have this spiritual awakening go into full force so we can all do chuva and get our community and get as many people as we can possibly get to do chuva using all the gifts and resources that hashem gave us whether it's money talent profession whatever it is because once we do abuai we can really fulfill not only our purpose purp for this life but the ultimate purpose of the world. This is what we've learned. There's a lot more that I want to talk about in regards to prophecy, but I know you guys have a lot of questions. So, we're going to go into the questions. Perhaps maybe somebody's going to ask about something in regards to the things we have. But if not, we'll talk about it another time. But before that, we're going to go into the question that I asked you guys uh last week where there was a uh case. One woman uh borrowed earrings that her friend just got as a gift from her husband, $1,000 earrings, and uh the the borrower uh used them and lost one of them. And she said, "Okay, listen. I'll give you I lost one earring. I'll give you $500 because two earrings $500 each. I'll give you $500. The woman that just lost, you know, just that that got the gift, in essence, the victim here went to the jeweler and the jeweler says, "Listen, there's nothing I can do with one earring. I can't sell one earring and uh it's not worth $500 to me. I'll pay you $300." Meaning that it's no longer 50/50. It's no longer 500 and500 for each earring. So she says to our friend that lost the earring, "Listen, I appreciate you wanting to pay me the $500, but really the loss is $700." So who's right? Who's right? Some of you said that $500 is what you think she should pay. It's not our fault. They're her fault that uh the jeweler is paying only 300. Maybe she should go find a different jeweler, get a better price. In fact, there is an opinion out there that she really only has to pay $500. Some of you said that uh she should pay $700. And that's the ala. Why? Because when somebody borrows something, they are considered a shame. and a is responsible for what they're not only what they have but also the loss that's incurred from it. So even though she lost something that theoretically speaking was worth $500, the loss that was created as a result of the separation of the two was a $700 loss, not a $500 loss. Meaning there's an additional $200 loss. So therefore say that she actually has to pay the $700 in relation to our par the gives a phenomenal and says this is also what we see in this paris where is makes the mistake of not rebuking the for their golden calf sin and hashem punishes everybody and Then the angels come and they take both gifts that they gave to every Jew. 600,000 males between 20 and 60 were each given a uh two crowns because they said that we will do and we will listen. So since they did not do by, you know, by by violating the Torah, they obviously did not do, they should have only lost one crown. Why did the angels take both crowns back? The Banish says because they were they were supposed to be and when they violated the Torah, they obviously did not fulfill their first word of N. But that that violation also created a loss where it damaged the nishma even though they really did hear what Hashem said but it's not considered the same now. Why? Because you heard but you did not fulfill. This is also why the says that if somebody learns Torah but does not do he learns the entire but he doesn't keep Shabbat he doesn't keep he doesn't get rewarded for his Torah learning because the Torah is there to fulfill not to just simply make intellectual stimulation and to take up your time if you don't follow the Torah then even learning it is not something you're going to get rewarded for. Why? Because your desecration of a Torah creates a loss. And as the Benesai says, person has to not only get to, you know, fix the loss of the earring, but also the loss that was created as a result of the loss. Now the next question, I know you guys like these questions. So I try to come up with you know give you guys questions that are not only interesting but also applicable to uh to to your lives. Um one of the hot topics in recent years has been the issue of guine. There are certain couples that cannot get along and uh they get divorced. But in the religious Jewish world to get married you have to do and in order to get a divorce the husband has to give the wife a get in order to allow her to get remarried. And if he does not give her a get, she cannot get remarried. Even if he gets remarried on his own, because technically according to the Tua, a man is allowed to marry more than one woman. If she does not have this get that severs the original uh that he had the severs the she cannot get remarried. Now the problem is that there are some people that are very vindictive and uh they have such a horrible uh desire to ruin their uh their wife's life that they refuse to give them a get. Now you cannot force the person to give a get by uh you know by saying listen if you uh don't give a get then uh you know uh we're not going to talk to you anymore and uh you know and in fact even take their hand and start uh writing for them. You know he has they have to give it out of their own desire to give it. Now the Rambam elaborates that you could beat him up uh which we don't do today anymore but we should uh until he wants to do it until he wants to give the get and the reason why he wants it after you give him back beat him up is because you broke his but the point is is that you cannot force him to do it he has to give it and if he doesn't give it she can't get remarried so there was a story at the time of spectal where a couple was very miserable with each other. The wife did not want to be with the husband anymore. She says, "Give me a get." And the husband says, "No way. Not giving you a get. You're my wife and that's it. You have to find a way to get along with me." She was suffering from him and she knew she, you know, she cannot get a get and she won't be able to get remarried. She can't do anything. One day some people in the community told him, "Listen, we hear about all your schlumbai problems. Why don't you go to the cabalist that lives in a uh different city and see maybe he can help you because he has all these different gulot and kameote and different things that he knows to uh even fix your house. He said, "Okay, fine. I'll go." On the uh day that he was ready to go, those same group of people came to him say, "Listen, good news, good news." When we sent him when we sent the cabbalis the letter requesting to accept you as an audience, we also added your question about it. the fact of whether he can help you with your swamp bite problems. And we weren't expecting him to respond. We figured he's just going to say yes and that's it. But he actually gave us an answer and he said that you don't even have to come to him if you just simply listen to everything he says. Okay. So what did he say? He said if you're having serious schlumbai problems, get divorced from your wife. give her a get and then remarry and you guys will then be happily married. Happily married. He says, "Wow, what a great couple. Saves me the trip and also going to fix my marriage. Fantastic. I'll give her a get." He goes to the bed. He gives her a get. He's like, "All right, we're going to get married again. I'll settle up." He wants to settle up. And on the day that they were supposed to get married again, he finds out that his now ex-wife ran away. And he finds out that the whole thing was really a scam. There was no cabalist. There was no letter telling him that he should give her a get in order to fix his marriage. This was a scam by the family of the woman who wanted to get a get. Now he says, "Wait, but I didn't give it." He said, "No, no, you did give it. You gave the get. You wanted to give it at that time. So therefore, nobody uh forced you to get but you lied to me." Said lie, no lie. Bottom line is the requirement is for you to want to write to sign over there the get when you do which you fulfill that quote that uh now you have a problem. Is that a legitimate get or not? Can she get remarried or no? I mean technically she was suffering with him. He should have given her a get but at the same token it's his right. If he doesn't want to give her a get and he doesn't want to give her a get. I mean and this thing is not fair because they told him that uh the capitalist said on the other hand listen what happened happened go find a different woman. On the other hand, yeah, but they told me that the couple said this. You see guys, you have to decide is the get valid or no? Is the get valid or no? Yes, he went to a he did everything in a according to that's the complication here. But the question is, is there a little scam something that will avoid the get? Oh no, a prenup. Prenup has nothing to do with uh with the get. Prenup is something that is not a uh something that has to do with it has to do with money and really with when it comes to having a prenup. If the uh person is coming into the marriage with an expectation to get divorced, then he shouldn't get married in the first place. But if let's say he's coming it's uh and he's coming in with a lot of money and he is not sure whether this woman is going to uh uh marry him because of his money or not then uh perhaps he wants to have a prenup. But you know again it's not it's not something that uh uh has to do anything with the get. I'd like to introduce you to your new best friend. We did it. AI Rabbi is here. It's an AI model that is based on kosher Torah sources. 30 different languages that are available to you. So if you want to ask it in Spanish, in Chinese, Portuguese, whatever you want to do, it's available for you. Can you tell me about? So it's timestamped to the shield. You press this green button. AI rabbi on your WhatsApp. You'll have the ability to ask questions at will. You'll be providing sources and most importantly, you'll be able to know the truth and be able to rely on sources. All right, let's see what other questions you guys have. Okay guys, ask questions not the comments or discussions between you guys because just waste a lot of time. Okay, so can't fit your question in the box. So ask a shorter version of it. You have a question. You believe that Jesus is your God. Well, you're considered an idol worshipper. And Torah says that idol worshippers lose everything in this world and the next world. All right. See Do you think that failed failed to convent with Hashem and that's why we need more prophets? If we needed more prophets then Hashem would send more prophets. But uh the question first question should be why did we even need a prophet? So the gon writes this and he says that since Hashem wanted people to know what is the purpose of their life, why he created the world, what is their objective and also the details of what they will get rewarded for and what they get punished for. He had to communicate to the people this and that's why throughout history he sent prophets. But after all of what we need to know is available to us, there's no reason for us to there's no need for us for prophets anymore. You know, at the time of the beta mikdash, at the destruction of the betdash, there was prophecy stopped. Why? Not only because we did no longer had the merit to uh to uh to to have prophets in the generation, but also because there was no longer a need for prophets in order for us to fulfill our purpose because we already got all of the instructions from Hashem of what he said, what he expects from us, what he commands us to do, what he forbids from us to do. And there's no further uh communication that's necessary in order for us to achieve our goal. The only other prophet that uh will come uh you know throughout history is when uh Ela Nvie comes and tells us that Mashiach is here and then Mashiach is going to agree. That's it. There's no nobody else, anyone that thinks that they're a prophet or that there was any other prophets in the last couple of thousand years uh could uh simply uh check themselves into a mental institution and um ask for Bob is Jeffrey Epstein the devil. He's a wicked evil evil person that is suffering in gay more than you could possibly imagine. And he will never leave there. Not only for the sins that he did against people and all the things that he did in this world that tormented and destroyed people's lives, but also because he went against the Torah and uh he will get punished for it and he's going to be a person that goes into gay. No man never comes out. Why do some angels in Tanakh refer to themselves as Hashem? I the first person while others refer to Hashem as in third person. So the um writes that each time Hashem communicated to one of the prophets, he created not just the uh um the person the prophet made him into a prophet, but he actually created a form of communication for that particular situation. So whether that would be a specific type of prophecy, a vision that this uh prophet would see, certain type of uh light that each one saw, but also many times uh he actually created a uh an angel that would deliver the message. And that's why actually in this week's paranis it says over here second I'll find it for you guys. Ah here you go. It says in a chapter 33 Hashem would speak to Moshe face to face as a man would speak with his fellow. What does this mean? Gon explains that Mosheenu was the only one that Hashem did not use an angel to communicate with. Whereas all of the others, all of the other prophets we had throughout history, Hashem would use an angel and he would call that angel Hashem. So why is he calling that angel Hashem? Because an angel is called is named based on his task. So for example, the Malikel is a it means healer. Now it's not just one angel. It's any angel that is sent to uh to bring a healing to somebody that's that his name is based on the task. So when the angel was sent to be communications between Hashem and a prophet then that angel would be named uh as a uh the name of Hashem the tetetrogamatan uh and that's why you see when any time in the Torah when Hashem speaks to uh all of the other prophets whether it's Yakov or you know Isaiah you know Jeremiah all the different prophets that are there there 55 prophets uh in the Tanakh uh 48 males and seven females. You'll see that all of the times there is a uh angel Hashem with the exception of when uh Hashem is speaking to Mosheu where most of the time it there is no angel middleman where it's Hashem speaking directly to Mosheu where it says El Moshe that Hashem spoke to Moshe. Uh and why? Because of this particular verse that we have here that Abenu was the only one that was elevated enough to not require a uh a middleman. Furthermore, tell you since you're asking about prophecy, there's something interesting that uh people need to know. um about prophecy in general and everything that and this is what the of Sadon writes the category of action even though we denominate the creator maker, an agent. The meaning that we attribute to these terms must not be construed in a corporal sense. A physical agent, namely cannot produce an effect upon another before acting upon himself. He must first himself move. Having done that, he can then generate emotion in others. As for God, however, exalted and magnified be he. He need but entertain the wish in order to have a thing come into being. And that is the manner in which he works. Always also every physical agent needs material to work uh to work with and time and place to work in and an instrument to do his work. All this however is far removed from God. So the first thing is what I already mentioned with more clarification of where it says that anything that describes Hashem in a physical sense where he heard he spoke uh he's angry anything like that it's it cannot be a uh something that's uh um uh used as something physical because physicality is not relevant to him. Furthermore, when it says that Hashem rested as one of the examples, it simply means that it's not doesn't mean that Hashem had was exerting himself and now he's uh relaxing. Rather, says he merely is discontinued a production that was created. Now then another thing of explains is that one of the downfalls of using reading learning the Torah with different languages other than in the holy language is that the other languages have limitations where there are certain words that are in the holy language that do not exist. For example, he in his day he would uh where he was he would speak Arabic and this book actually originally was written in Arabic uh as were many of the books by the Rambam and other at the time and he says that in the Arabic language uh it permits uh to say that uh uh Hashem's speech Wait, hold on. Yeah. See, um, so Hashem spoke, but it doesn't permit silence like where he he does not speak or he refrains from speaking meaning they don't have the word to in the Arabic language. Whereas in Hebrew, the where it says uh it's a these are specific words that exist in the holy language. So anytime there is a translation, there is going to be certain limitations that could easily lead people to misunderstand certain things. Furthermore, when it says another example is he gives is uh when it says for example that uh God remembered God remembered Noah or God remembered. Uh this simply means that Hashem is bringing the salvation to that person. It's not that Hashem is forgetful but rather Hashem is uh bringing the salvation. Now, anytime it says that uh the Torah is describing Hashem with grace and mercy where he's called the merciful and gracious God in this week's para uh and he's also uh uh called a jealous and avenging God. These terms are for physical things. So when it applies to Hashem, it doesn't mean a physical thing that he actually, you know, is is kind like a human being is kind or he's vengeful or jealous like a human being is. Rather, these are in essence the Torah is saying that for this a person will get for for for anything that would make Hashem jealous where the Torah describes it as jealous or anger. That means that this is something that a person will get punished for for anything that it says that a uh mercy or graceful or all the other uh terms then it says that a person will get a blessing or get a uh you know some type of salvation for now lastly one of the things that I want to mention uh that's relevant to this para I'll read you exactly what he says now some people are confused by the story that's related in script scripture that our uh teacher Moshe Abenu requested of his master. Show me I pray uh I pray thee thy glory. And these people are even more confused when God says to Mosher Rabenu in response, "Thou can't not see my face, for man shall not see me and live." And their confusions doubled. by Hashem's subsequent remark where he says, "Thou shalt see my back, but my face shall not be seen." So the all of this this interaction that's in this week's gives those that are ignorant of the Torah, ignorant of the fact that physicality does not relate to Hashem in any way, shape, or form. How do you describe this? What is this then? Now there are several different things. Number one, it's Hashem is asking to understand Hashem's ways. So Hashem is telling him, I can show you things that I've already completed, meaning things that have already happened. But a human being cannot understand the things that I'm doing in order to understand them until they're finished. So I can't show you my face, things that are happening now or will happen in the in the future and you understand them. That's why when he showed him uh getting uh you know growing in Torah but then getting uh killed could not understand how this is Torah and this is its reward and Hashem said quiet. I uh I'll reward those that I want to reward and I'll uh uh I'll show mercy those I want to show mercy to and I'll uh in so many words do whatever I want. Not that Hashem does whatever he wants, but rather this is beyond the scope of a human being. As great as Moshe was to understand God's ways before he completes them. But yet the Torah simply uses these words to describe something further. What is this something further that uh is is being said here? Soon says as follows. Hashem has a special light which he creates and makes manifest to his prophets in order that they may infer from there that it is a prophetic communication emanating from Hashem that they hear. When one of them, meaning one of these prophets, sees this light, he says, "I have seen the glory of the Lord." Or sometimes you'll see in the Torah where it says I've you know in the Tanakh I have seen God by way of ellipsis and obviously it's a it also says in Exodus a few weeks ago we it says Mosheav and the 70 elders of Israel uh and they saw God of Israel. So obviously if Hashem doesn't have a physicality so what does that mean when they saw God? He says this is explained later where it says the appearance of the glory of of the Lord was like a devouring fire on top of a mountain. And when they beheld this light, they were unable to look upon it on account of its power and brilliance. And indeed, whoever looks upon it incurred the disintegration of his entire makeup and the flight of his spirit from his body. As the Torah says in Exodus 19:21, "Lest they break through onto the Lord to gaze and many of them perish." So Mushenu asked Hashem to give him the strength to actually look upon this light, this special light that Hashem creates to communicate with the people in a way that they could actually see something and know that it's from God and not, you know, some uh something else. So, Hashem responds that the first rays of the light are too powerful and that he would be unable to view them clearly with his naked eye without dying. So he would rather cover him up with a cloud or something similar until the first rays of the light have passed because the greatest strength of every radiant body is contained in its initial approach. All this is implied by the statement where it says I will cover thee with my hand until I have passed. And when then the first portion of the light has passed, Hashem removed from Mosherenu the thing that had that had covered him so that he might be able to look at the back of the light. As the Torah says, "And I will take away my hand and thou shalt see my back." And as for the creator himself, however, there's no means where a person will be able to see him. There is nothing to see. Doesn't have a body. He doesn't have physicality. This is impossible. and he gives even more and more clarifications about all of this stuff. The point I'm trying to make is when you're learning Torah, you have to understand that you cannot read it like the idoltors and heretics that read it like a, you know, some story book. Prophecy is beyond the scope of your imagination. Furthermore, when you're seeing certain words, you have to understand that every word in the Torah has clarification that our sages gave us. And this is the oral Torah. And all of this we got on Mount Sai. Without the clarification by the sages, a person would not be able to comprehend even a single sentence in the Torah. And they could easily be misled to think that Hashem has a a body or a voice or a hand or all types of other things that are not relevant to him. This is also the reason why it's as clear as day for any Jew that's knowledgeable of Torah that anything other than Judaism is false. Why? Because if it's Christianity where they uh you know in essence divided God into three, deified a human, all of these things are impossible according to the Tawat. There's no such thing. It cannot be. God cannot be three and he cannot be three and one and he cannot be a human. This is against the definition of the what God is even to communicate to the greatest prophets had to be done in a way where Hashem would create a special creation to communicate with them. Why? because there is no way for a human being to communicate with Hashem without that person disintegrating into nothing. Furthermore, if you're looking at places like Islam where they say that the Torah changed, this also again shows that it's fake. Why? Because Hashem does not change. His Torah does not change. So the more a person becomes familiar with the foundations of the Torah, the easier it is to understand the truth, to see the truth, and also to see the lies for what they are. And each one of us will succeed in doing so. Where did I I get all this from? This is from the different parts of the Torah that you apparently are not knowledgeable about and uh not familiar with. For example, is one of the greatest ages that ever lived. He's certainly the greatest uh one after the uh uh he even before the Rambam. Uh he lived about 1100 years ago and he wrote many many books and uh clarified a lot of foundational parts of of the Torah and actually has entire sections about why um you know the truth is the truth and falsehood that Christianity or Islam or anything else is false. He specifically talks about that. Um, and the more a person uh sees this, the more the more clear it becomes to them. We're not like the uh other religions where a some good talker today could uh become superior to the uh the scholars of his uh of his religion that lived a thousand years ago, 2,000 years ago. is also another sign uh of the falsehood of uh Christianity in Islam is that especially in Christianity they consider uh anybody that's alive to you know today to be better than even the original pope from you know uh 2,000 years ago almost. Why? Because the things that the original pope and the original people that wrote or scholars of Christianity wrote do not agree with the things that the churches speak of today. Now if a person thinks about it, they realize, wait, who is more likely to know more? someone that lived a few hundred years after their man god died or someone that lived 2,000 years after that guy died. Obviously, someone that lived closer to him, he's more likely to know somebody that learned directly from him or from his uh other from his uh students. But that doesn't work. That doesn't work in Christianity. Christianity. Somebody today that has enough donors to build himself another mega church could easily contradict everything that was said before him for the last couple of thousand years. And that's also the reason why you're never going to find two Christians that have a common belief. Each one of them invents their own belief system. Some believe in this, some believe in something else. Some believe in the trinity, some don't believe in it, some believe he's God, some believes he's a something else. It's all types of nonsense. Why? Because these are all man-made beliefs. and uh and therefore it's it's a lie. And the in Shabbat says that a lie only has one leg to stand on. It doesn't have a a foundation that's uh that has that could stand long term and and and for a lie to stand even for any amount of time, it has to have some truth in it. So the truthful part that's uh you would find in the New Testament is not theirs. It's something that they plagiarize from the Torah, from the Jewish sages, and from the Torah. And whatever is theirs is a lie. So what's true is not theirs, and what's theirs is not true. Is a rabbi allowed to create a golem? Uh well, there were some rabbis that created a golem. There was uh even as recent as a couple of hundred years ago, uh there was uh some that uh created a golem and tried to create a golem. Um it's not necessarily uh impossible, but um it's not something that uh a person should uh delve into uh just because they it sounds interesting to them because there's a lot of risk uh to to deal with the uh you know cababalama you know the uh uh that type of cabala that if a person is even if If the person is righteous and holy but they're not at the uh level that they need to be, they could bring bring upon themselves uh you know horrible horrible things. In fact, there used to be a uh a cabalist that uh was very well known and he wanted to uh wanted to bring to salvation and he had enough uh knowledge uh to uh elevate his soul, take his soul out and bring it into shamim and so on. Maybe one day I'll uh give you guys a whole she about that particular story. Long story short, he had the ability to bring the Satan and his wife and uh submit both of them and tie them both up and uh but in the last minute before he got to where he needed to get to, the Satan fooled him and he ended up not only collapsing but he ended up becoming a heretic as a result of it. So, I understand that based on the short uh words that I just said right now, it doesn't make any sense. But this is a legitimate story. It's it really happened. And perhaps one day I'll give you guys a whole she about it. But uh there was another uh another famous story of for example the one of the great Jewish sages from the last few hundred years. uh they uh he was Mikubal, he was a giant Torah scholar and uh he was also uh the uh the uh that the people of Israel chose to go and uh into the uh diaspora and for 5 years and collect money from all the different communities to help the people of Israel that were suffering from the uh the uh uh you know the leaders that were uh the non-Jewish Jewish leaders that were uh taxing them and tormenting them and killing them and torturing them and they needed to come up with money to pay them to to uh to stop it. Uh and the poverty was horrible. So they sent the so you can go into different communities, give them lectures, give them, help the community and uh uh people would be very very impressed uh were very impressed with the and you know they would give him money to to support. Now the one thing that people don't know is we know why the people sent the he was the greatest uh you know person to send. He was charismatic. He was a giant Torah scholar. There's simply no way to say no uh to to somebody like that. He was a very very uh um extraordinary person. Everything you could possibly imagine he had. And that's good. Um but why did he go? So the I heard I heard this actually from that uh the Rashash his rabbi um brought uh his his two students together and he said that this is an auspicious time that we can try to bring the Msiah uh early using all types of for lack of a uh you know better word, Cabala. And they tried and then they got the message from heaven that although they did what they did, this is not the desire the will of Hashem. And because they did it, they're going to get punished where either uh they will separate and one of them has to leave Israel and go into the diaspora for a period of time or uh they they will die. So that's the reason why they uh sent the into the diaspora. So it was it's not something that usually a Torah scholar especially of his magnitude is you know it's ideal for him to be in you know in Israel and learning and not not wasting his time going to collect money but he went and uh because this was a part of the tikun the point I'm trying to make is that the little bit of uh cabala that people hear about whether it's in different lectures or different books little tidbits. Just know that uh it's it's there's a lot more to every uh story. There's a lot more to every detail and it's not so pursuit to just simply read a few words of text and then you could uh move things with your mind or you could uh you know, you know, make a uh an angel come to you or anything like that. Anyone that has ever dealt with had to pay a very very serious price for it even if they were very holy for example he had he lost his son uh you know it's not a uh um it's something that he knew he knew that this is a risk and even though he was holy he was kisim he helped a lot of people but nonetheless uh the uh the judgment of heaven is uh very very particular and there's a very high price to use these types of things. This is also the reason why uh even the non uh um uh cabala that's kabalama even regular cabala is not something that you ever teach the public uh and certainly you don't teach it to to people that are uh you know not very well-versed uh and in scholarly and entire you know foundation of the Torah uh not just uh knowing some stories from Shàu people that have you know completed the shas completed or, you know, have spent decades toiling over Torah. You know, somebody that uh is not a Torah scholar has no business whatsoever uh learning uh the Cabala because in the uh in the best case scenario, they will hurt themselves, but not permanently. That's an best case scenario. In the worst case scenario, they could lose a whole lot more than they can imagine, including uh the life of people they love and including their own life. So, um it's best to stay away from things that you're not familiar with. What's going to happen with non-Jewish people when Mashiah comes? Well, the prophet already says that uh part of the uh end is going to be that twothirds of the world will be destroyed. Meaning twothirds of the population um and then the one-third that's left only part of it will uh survive. So let's just call it just for argument sake. Let's say there's 9 billion people in the world just to make the math simple. That already means that six out of the 9 billion gone. Obviously these are people that go against the Torah. These are idoltors. These are atheists. These are people that are enemies of God. Now the remaining third that are left among them there are going to be Jews and Gentiles. Obviously there's no there there isn't three billion Jews in the world. You know the amount of Jews that we know about which include both the righteous and the wicked ones uh is maybe 20 million that we know about. Let's say there is another 300 million somehow in in the world. There's different tribes in Africa and different places around the world that people speculate that maybe they're Jews, maybe they're not. But point is, let's say there's 300 million more. Okay, that still leaves out of three billion still 2.7 billion that are non-Jews. So certainly there's going to be a lot of righteous non-Jews that uh will uh you know will see the salvation, will be part of the salvation, we'll get rewarded for all the good they did. Uh so just because somebody is not Jewish doesn't automatically make them uh wicked you know because like I said before the Torah is relevant to everyone in creation. Those that follow it will get rewarded. Those that go against it will get punished. The Jews have laws that are pertain to them in a Torah that if they follow them they'll get rewarded. If they forsake them they'll get punished. So that means that when Mashiah comes, part of those Jews that exist in the world will not only not get the salvation, but will actually get a punishment that, you know, will never end. In some cases, they'll be completely destroyed and uh and punished and in a way that's worse than any because they went against Hashem throughout their life and they're enemies of God. Part of the Jews will get rewarded beyond your comprehension because they're extremely righteous. But just because somebody's Jewish doesn't automatically put them in the, you know, the the good side or the righteous side. No. If you fulfill the Torah, you follow what it says, you'll get rewarded. But if a person goes against it, they'll get punished. And in many cases, the punishment is much more severe than people can understand. For example, a Jew that lives a life where they're not observing Shabbat, that Jew will be punished forever. There's there's no salvation for them. a Jew that's an atheist, a Jew that's an idoltor, uh a Jew that uh uh you know uh cheats people in their business like the cash advance business and uh Jew that's uh constantly committing immorality. These are people that are going to get punished severely. So a person has to understand that just because Hashem calls the Jewish people the chosen people doesn't mean that everyone is uh righteous. We see in the Torah that although Kak the Tanv uh you know were there at Mount Si they heard the word of God they saw the word of God you know they were prophets but they were wicked and therefore they are in gum until this day until this day. That's what Torah says. Torah says that Kak and his followers are in Gom until this day. Which also answers the question of those people that say that Gaom is only one year. Well, how come is one year? But Torah says that Kak and his followers aren't in Gome for now more than 3,300 years. Certainly, they're not an exception. There's many people that are much worse than Kohak today and that have been throughout history. Ka certainly believed in God. He wasn't an atheist. He wasn't an idol worshipper. But he went against Moshe. He went against Hashem by going against Moshe. So, it's a he got a punishment that's beyond any comprehension. But I could certainly assure you that someone that's an atheist or someone that is a uh idol worshipper is going to be judged much worse than K. much worse than now a Jew that follows a gets rewarded. The reward is endless, endless. beyond any pleasure that you could possibly imagine. Where if you took all of the good that ever existed for all people that ever existed and you put it all in a little box, all of that good is not even the equivalent of one second of the reward that a righteous person will get. So you have to understand how much good Hashem has waiting for us. The reward is you know beyond anybody's imagination but the punishment too on the same token for the for the uh for the Gentiles for the non-Jews if they follow the laws of the Torah that are applicable to them because Hashem commanded them then they will be rewarded beyond their imagination. If they don't, they'll be punished beyond their imagination. Now, the reward is not as great as the reward of a righteous Jew for obvious reasons that the righteous Jew is righteous because he followed many many more laws and many more restrictions than the non-Jew. So, that's why his reward is bigger. But nonetheless, the reward for uh there is a reward for non-Jews. there is a punishment for non-Jews. So the prophet says that out of the world population twothirds will not even have a chance. Why? Because they're that wicked. Because they're that wicked that they're simply gone. The remaining third, some will, some won't. But everyone that's alive today has a chance. That's why you're alive. You're alive because Hashem is giving you a chance to join that third. If you do what Torah says that that you're obligated to do, you'll be part of that third. If you don't, you won't. I only believe the original Torah. and uh the ten commandments, not all this other stuff. Well, that's because you're a and you don't understand that the oral Torah and the written Torah are part of the same thing where you're not able to even read a single verse in the Torah without the oral Torah. Because like I said a few weeks ago and several times over the years, part of the oral Torah is not just the clarifications and the commentary, but part of the oral Torah is the vowel system, those little dots. And without the vowel system, you simply do not have the ability to understand even a single word in the Tawat. It's just like having five letters out of the English alphabet missing. a, e, i, or u. Uh, if you don't have those foundational letters, you're not able to make any word. So part of the oral is the vowel system. Furthermore, if you say, "No, I only want to follow the ten commandments," then I want to ask you something. In the ten commandments, uh, it says that uh, you have to keep Shabbat. That's the fourth commandment, right? It says you have to keep Shabbat. How do you keep Shabbat? You you keep it in a locker. You put a lock on it. You uh what does it mean? Because it says in our in this week's that a person that violates Shabbat would get a death penalty, loses their horrible things. It says so obviously if somebody wants to keep Shabbat, they need to know how and they need to know how not to violate it. Because if they violate it, they know the consequence. The Torah specifically says if they violate the Shabbat, the consequence is very, very dear. Where does it say in a Torah that someone that gathers wood is a is forbidden until the person gets a death penalty. There's a story of a person named it's in the Torah. He gathered wood and he got a death penalty. He gathered wood on Shabbat, but he got a death penalty. But where does it say in the Torah that to gather wood is is forbidden? It doesn't. That's in the oral Torah. So that means according to you that God punished with a death penalty according to the dua without ever telling him that he's not allowed to do something. If you believe that, then my initial description of you is 100% correct. Furthermore, it says that uh in the ten commandments that you say you believe, it says lot. Now, you probably think that means don't steal. Like don't steal somebody else's stuff. But that's not what it means. Doesn't mean that because we see that there is somewhere say in Logic and then we see this Gazel. If somebody stole something that's going to gazel, they get caught. They have to pay double. But if somebody violated the ten commandment of nov, they get a death penalty. Why death penalty? Because lot in the ten commandments is referring to kidnapping. Kidnapping a person. Now without the oral, you would never know that. Furthermore, it says is do not commit immorality. Now that's uh very interesting. It's in the ten commandments. But also in the ten commandments it says that you should not covet your fellow's uh uh your fellow's wife. What is coveting your fellow's wife considered? Immorality. So why would God say immorality twice in the same ten commandments? Obviously he's limiting the ten commandments to 10 for a reason. So why would he say the same thing twice? That's because they don't mean the same thing. They mean the same thing for people that don't read the oral or oral, but they don't mean the same thing to people that actually know what they're talking about. One is immorality with a person. One is immorality with self. One is, you know, immorality with a uh uh wasting seed. So a person that does not accept the oral Torah is simply not accepting the Torah. Not accepting the Torah. And it's too bad because it's like drinking a poison and expecting the other person to die. Where is the best place to put the AI stickers? Oh, the AI rabbi stickers. Um, you could put them on uh polls. Uh, you could put them on different things that have other stickers there already. Uh you could put them on uh you know any place that you see that it's uh it's possible to do it. Um you know you have uh different walls that have stickers on them. You have boxes you can put them. There's plenty of places you can put stickers. You can put them on a book inside the cover of a book. You could put uh you know wherever where you know like anything else like any other sticker and many play as many players as possible. Can you explain Torah and murder? Well, I don't really understand the question. As far as murder is concerned, uh there is different things that the Torah calls murder. One is the obvious, which is do not murder, don't kill somebody. But uh there is other things that the Torah considers murder. Rape is somebody that rapes somebody else is considered as if they murdered them. Uh and for murder is death penalty. um which is obviously much more uh harsh than the laws of today. Uh furthermore, a um somebody that uh embarrasses his uh his fellow in uh public uh it's considered like murder because he like spilled his blood. This is the reason why when somebody gets embarrassed their face becomes red. If it wasn't for their cheeks, literally the blood of their entire body would come out of their body from the shock that they got when they got embarrassed. So embarrassing somebody in public is considered like murder. Not quite murder but like murder. Meaning the judgment is very very harsh on somebody that does that. Um so there are different things there are different things that are considered uh murder and like murder. Uh also abortions are considered murder. Uh wasting seed is considered like uh like murder. Um these are different things that the Torah calls uh murder. Uh but again, each one has different uh different acts and uh but similar ramifications. Some uh get the punishment of death in this world but still a chance to get to after they get punished and some they uh lose uh they may live in this world uh a full life but after they finish this world they're uh you know their eternal world is going to be a horror show on a daily basis meaning they go to Gome they go to Kafaka they go to all typ of horrible places for the things that they've done. But again, there's different types of murder. Uh another thing that you could actually learn from uh uh the ten commandments since this other fellow mentioned the ten commandments, you'll see that the ten commandments are mentioned in order. There's a certain order to them. It's not just uh a random order. You see that there is order of magnitude where the first one uh is that to know that Hashem is your God. Uh and uh that's the the first one obvious to not uh uh recognize other uh gods you know to not make yourself a uh you know idols carved images of that nation of that nature uh to not uh worship anything else. So these are the first three commandments. After that, God says that you have to observe Shabbat. That's the fourth commandment. It's very very interesting. That's the fourth commandment. the uh then after you completed the understanding that Shabbat is elevated in the same level as the prohibition against idolatry. You then hear that honoring your parents is also very high. Now this not might not seem like a big deal until you read the sixth commandment which is which is do not murder. Now according to human logic do not murder should be at the top of the list because that's the way the logic works. But the divine logic that knows everything that created good therefore is the only one that knows what good is and what evil is. He says that to be an atheist is much worse than murder. To believe in idol is much worse than murder. to live a life of a secular Jew to desecrate Shabbat every week is much worse than murder. And therefore, that's why the punishment for those things are much worse than murder where a Jew that commits the horrible sin of murder would get a death penalty in this world but still has a share of the world to come. They could still fix it after getting a certain amount of suffering. They could still if they did everything else good, they could still have an opportunity to go to heaven. But a Jew that lives a secular life like an atheist person does not observe the Torah, does not observe the mitzvot, which means that they not they don't keep Shabbat. The punishment for them in this world would also al also would have been at the time of sun would also been death penalty but they also lose their meaning there's no heaven for them ever there is no way for them to fix it so according to the divine logic according to God Shabbat is much is is much more important than people can imagine. So much so that desecrating Shabbat is worse than committing murder. This is not by any imag any any stretch of the imagination saying that it's okay to murder. It's the point is that we we're showing you here the divine logic works very very differently because God says in this week's para that when a Jew observes the Shabbat that means that he is recognizing that God and only God created the world in six days and stopped creating on the seventh. Which means that by desecrating Shabbat intentionally, he is denying the existence of God. He's considered an idoltor, an atheist, someone that believes in a foreign god. Whereas a murderer, it doesn't say that he believes in a foreign god. He could even be Torah observant Jew that committed murder. He lost his mind. He committed murder. uh you know a uh something that unfortunately happens sometimes where people lose their mind for a moment and ruin their whole life. So person like that uh has a way to rectify whereas a person that dies as a as a desecrator is uh in uh in the worst possible situation you could be in. Is self-defense Okay. In the Torah, not only is self-defense okay, but it's actually a obligation where the Torah says somebody is coming to kill you, you have to kill them first. Uh so it's not only that you are allowed to defend yourself, you're obligated to defend yourself. It's a mitzvah for you to defend yourself. you'll get rewarded for defending yourself. But again, there's a difference between defending yourself and being one of these uh UFC fighters that just beats up other people for money. That's not uh that's not self-defense. What does the rush feel God's ro euphemism? I mean there's the different things that the sages talk about of how God in essence is uh showing Mosher Rabenu that uh he's fulfilling his own Torah and uh but it's uh there's much deeper things than that. This is not the time for that. But it's it's in essence Hashem himself following the entire Torah. But again, it doesn't mean that he actually has a leather on his head because there's no head. Hashem doesn't have a head. He doesn't have a body. He doesn't have arms. So, it doesn't mean anything like that. But it's in essence, Hashem fulfills his own Torah, studies his own Torah. Um, that's the uh simplistic explanation of it. Very simplistic. What about defending your reputation or character? That depends what you mean. uh if uh there there is a mitzvah that uh to be uh clean in the eyes of Hashem and also people which means that if let's say people are accusing you of uh stealing something and you did not steal it's not only uh good for you to uh to know that oh I didn't steal so God knows I didn't steal if you have a way to prove to show people that you didn't steal by showing them video evidence uh showing them all types of different proofs that you're not the thief. In essence, you are uh showing that you're pure in the eyes of people, then that's also a mitzvah. Uh so to clean your name up that way is actually a mitzvah of uh but if you're talking about defending your reputation in other ways, uh that depends what your reputation is. Uh but uh if if people let's say accuse you of being uh a criminal of some kind and you have and you're not a criminal and you have a way to show it to prove that you're not a criminal, that's a mitzvah. Sure, you have to show that you are not a criminal if people accuse you of it. Uh but if you're talking about uh something else uh defending your reputation in other ways, it depends depends what you mean by that. What kind of things are permitted in Shabbat by? If you mean if somebody's life is at risk, what's allowed to save their life? Anything. Everything is allowed. If uh they need to go to the hospital, it's a mitzvah to drive them to the hospital. um on Shabbat to save their life. In fact, I had a situation years ago, maybe uh let's say about eight eight or nine years ago. Uh my next door neighbor at the time uh knocked on my door on uh on Friday night. Uh we actually had our uh my parents were visiting at the time and uh I see that uh it's him and his wife and their little baby uh and the baby's face is covered full of blood and they said you know what are we going to do? The their dog bit their kid in the face and said rabbi you know what do we do? I said you have to take him to the hospital. like, "No, but we're not sure if it's that bad." I said, "No, according to a a dog bite could be uh poisonous if the if the dog has a rabies and therefore it's considered pufish and uh you have to take him to the hospital and uh in fact I took him to the hospital. I drove the the mother and the uh and the boy to the hospital and they also got the medicine uh you know the pharmacy that they gave them and so on. But the point is that it was a mitzvah to do that. Why? Because it was a life risk. It was a life risk. Uh now did I know for sure that the the dog had rabies? No, I didn't know. But I don't need to know for sure. the fact that there's a life risk that's already enough to in essence put the Torah on hold uh in order to save a life. uh so but also on another end uh spiritual life is also considered a life risk and therefore the uh says that if you know that there's a Jew that's about to convert to Christianity and dip in the uh water with the uh their their their process of idolatry of accepting the idolatry uh if they're going to do that on Shabbat you are allowed to desecrate Shabbat And it's a mitzvah to desecrate Shabbat to go save them from that. It's a mitzvah to desecrate Shabbat to drive to go wherever you need to go to do whatever you need to do to go save their life their spiritual life from dipping in the ocean or something or some lake uh you know and and and ending up being in a spiritual sewer forever. So it's a uh the spiritual life is also considered a life risk in that in that regards. Um but uh again as far as pesh if life risk physical life risk if there's legitimate physical life risk doesn't even have to be for sure just be physical life risk like the example I gave you with the dog bite which is one of the animals that's considered uh an animal that uh you know a dog bite could be enough to kill a person. um even if they just simply break skin, it could still be they could still be rabies and it could kill the person. Then uh the uh says that it's uh it's a mitzvah to violate Shabbat to to you know to to go save that person. Uh now if a uh uh a person has a way to uh to take care of themselves uh to get a doctor without them driving to Shabbat. Let's say the doctor is their next door neighbor. Then certain certainly it's great if they could do that. But you know if it's a life risk you don't need to think about uh all those things. You need to get the person out of the risk out of the risk. How many generations did it take for a mamza to return back to the community? Never. Mam will always be considered mamza. There's no way for them to rectify it. Is it true that when Mashiah comes the only holiday we could celebrate will be pulim? It's not quite that. It's the poem would still stay be the same poem that it was back then. Whereas everything else will have a uh uh an additional significance. Pes will always be pes. It's part of the Torah doesn't change. But the uh the prophet says that you know until Mashiach comes we are you know God is known as the God that took Israel out of Egypt. But once Mashiach comes God is going to be known as not you know as as the God that took Am out of the land of the north. So there's going to be an elevation something more significant that's going to happen in the uh at that point. Uh certainly uh there's not going to be a reason to uh fast on uh on tishab because we're not mourning anymore because the third beta mikdash will be built. Uh yon kipool will no longer be something that uh we need to fast because there's no atonement that's necessary because anyone that's still alive uh after mashia comes uh that means that they've already atoned for everything. So there are certain things that it's not that they're uh uh they're canceled, it's that they're no longer relevant to the people that are alive at the time. Uh but there are certain things that will be elevated because of new circumstances. So for example, right now, you know, it's it's a we don't have the beta mikdash unfortunately. Now, had we had the bet mikdash right now, we would all have to bring a koban to the bet mikdash, a sacrifice to the bet mikdash, which means that all of the mitzvot that are in a which is nearly half of the 630 mitzvot have to do with the beta mikdash. They're all still 100% uh, you know, relevant and uh an obligation. It's just that we cannot fulfill it because there's no bet mikdash. So it's not possible. So it's not that the mitzvot of the bet mikdash are void or have been cancelled. It's just that it's not possible to fulfill them since at this time. But once the third bet mdash comes, Hashem brings the third bet mikdash immediately those mitzvot become effective that we're able to fulfill them. and every single Jew will have to bring a sacrifice to the betash. Uh in fact at the time of Zakai uh the anyone that converted to Judaism was obligated to have a special savings account for a sacrifice that they would have to bring at the time of Msiah because Am is at Mount Sai uh had to do multiple things in order to accept the Torah. we had to uh uh do the mid we had to accept the mitzvot. We had to also uh bring a sacrifice whereas the people that converted after uh mount si uh I'm sorry uh at this time or after after the destruction of the bet mikdash uh were not able to bring sacrifice anymore because no more sacrifices after the bet migdash. So therefore uh for hundreds of years all Jews, all converts had to have a special savings account for bringing a sacrifice not only because they would have to do it but also because they also believe that Mashia could come at any given day. But when Zakai saw that uh this is creating a major hardship for people where they don't have enough money to meet their their needs and sometimes they would end up going into this savings account. Uh these converts didn't have enough money to make their ends meet and they would go into their savings account, their sacrifice savings account to uh to use it for their basic needs. But then they would feel like a sinner and that would make them you know uh give up hope and uh sometimes lead them to other sins because they figured since they already sin in one thing they'll sin in other things. whenabanuan uh saw this happening he uh said that this obligation uh is no longer necessary and simply any convert it's obviously a righteous convert that is uh merits to see the Messiah then certainly Hashem will make sure that they also have the ability and the money uh that to bring the sacrifice when uh when when that happens uh and therefore there's no need and there's no obligation for them to have a special savings account for a sacrifice. But the point is is that you know the sacrifices were relevant and applicable at that time. It just was not possible to fulfill it because there was no bet mikdash. Just like right now it's relevant and applicable right now but it's not possible to fulfill it because there's no bet. But the moment Hashem gives us the beta mikdash, the third bet mdashdash, third and final betash, immediately all Jews will have to bring a sacrifice, the bet mikdash for different reasons. Uh we also have the uh there's going to be a whole amazing extraordinary celebration uh like uh the world has never seen. I want to know if Judaism is the truth as a Muslim. Okay. Well, I have several lectures on my YouTube channels. There is uh Rabbi Your Ruven and there's also Rabbi Yu your own Ruven uh short clips. So, a couple of English channels that I have. I also have a channel in Arabic, also called Rabbi Your Ruven, but in Arabic. in those channels. If you go to the search term and you simply, you know, type in Muslim or Islam, it'll give you a bunch of different uh videos that I've done discussing uh different parts of the Quran proving from the Quran that it's uh not true and uh also showing that Judaism and the Torah is the truth. Uh there's obviously many other lectures also that prove why the Torah is the truth. But before um you'll even be uh open to accepting the Torah is the truth, you have to understand that the Quran is a lie. uh because when a person uh finds out that the Torah is truth but they still believe that the New Testament is true or the Quran is true then they live a you know a very conflictive knife conflictive life that it's hard for them to decide which way to go. So it's important for you to understand that there is no other truth other than the Torah and to get that I have plenty of lectures uh that uh prove that All right. Yeah, good job. You enjoy enjoy the videos. I actually have several uh students that were born uh into the Muslim faith and hashem have converted to Judaism. Uh and wonderful, wonderful people. Um, and I have many students that were born into the uh uh Christian faith that have converted to Judaism. And I also have many that have been born uh atheists and have converted to Judaism. But I also have all of those that didn't convert to Judaism but live as righteous Noahites according to the Torah. Now again, this is not with my lectures. The more of my lectures, my videos you watch, you'll notice one thing. Everything that I say, I always provide a source. I always provide a source. I don't just say things off the off the cuff and just invent things. That's why I told you go specifically to those videos and you'll see not only me there talking but you'll also see the verses that I'm mentioning whether it's from the Quran or it's the New Testament or needless to say obviously the Torah you'll see it from the text you'll be provided the text that you can check yourself you can check yourself and you could uh follow and and and see what you know that it's true or not. If I'm a liar, then obviously don't listen. But if you see that what I'm saying is true, then you realize then uh this is the truth. I I don't have any benefit out of uh uh you watching or not watching. It's it's all to your benefit. Now, as far as what a Noahide is, a Noahide is a righteous Gentile because they follow their the applicable laws to the Gentiles that are in the Torah. There are just like there's ten commandments uh in the Torah for the Jewish people where from there there's 613 um mitzvot for the Jewish people. Um there are seven noahide laws which from there stems another 40 or so 50 um ethical laws that are uh applicable to the Gentiles. So a gentile that um follows the laws that are in the Torah that are applicable to them because God said so is thereby called righteous. It's called righteous. Now the reason why we call them Noahides uh uh is because we are the descendants of the righteous person of Ramino. The Gentiles, they're also descendants of a righteous person which is Noah. Now, we're all descendants of Noah because even though Adam was the first human, the world was destroyed and the only one that was left was Noah and his sons. So, the Jews and Gentiles are descendants of Noah. But since the Jews are also the descendants of Yakov, then we're considered a uh uh our our forefather is Avan. Whereas the uh the non-Jews, their uh righteous uh uh forefather is no. And we want to mention righteous people, not wicked people. If somebody's grandfather is Hitler, you don't want to mention to people, listen, by the way, my grandfather is Hitler, you know, may rot in hell forever and ever and ever. No, you want to tell people that you you have a righteous uh ancestor. Who? No. No. Now again to be a right to all non-Jews are called Noahides according to the Torah. All of them. Now whether they are righteous Noahides or wicked Noahides is based on their actions. If they follow what the Torah obligates them to do, then they're considered righteous. if they forsake it because they're idol worshippers, because they're thieves, because they violate, you know, the the Noahide laws, then they have they're considered wicked. Now, I have a playlist on my YouTube channel that's called Noahides. And over there I have a bunch of different videos where I specifically discuss the noahhide laws. Uh and uh certainly educational, free, and available for anyone that goes to my YouTube channel. Uh we also have on our website bzashem.org. Um a uh section on top that says free books uh free ebooks and PDFs. If you go there and you type in noahhide, you'll see that there is an interactive guide that uh uh you can download for free and over there it uh shows you different lectures and books that uh you can watch or read to uh to educate you about how to be a righteous nohide and what it is and and so on. We have many many students from all walks of life and hashem we help all types of people. We have people that are righteous Jews. We have people that are righteous no hides. Our goal is to make as many people righteous according to the Torah as possible. And in the process, you help them, you guide them, you do the best that you possibly can to the best of your ability. in Bush. Please don't say that the Quran is a lie. Uh but it is. It is a lie. It's easy to prove that it's a lie. It has historical errors. It has a uh you know it says that Haman and Pero were friends but they lived over a thousand years apart. It says that uh Jesus's mother was also Moses's sister even though they lived 1500 years apart. It has errors in it because it's a man-made document and it's a lie. Not saying it to insult you personally. I'm not saying it to uh make anybody upset. I'm saying it to help you. I don't have any benefit out of it. Whether you listen to me or don't listen to me, it's only to your benefit. I don't lose out of it. I don't get any like uh extra uh you know money in my bank account because you decided that you're going to follow the Torah versus following some man-made religion. I'm here to educate you. You want to listen, you're welcome. It's free. You want to disregard, it's also your choice. Your choice to either disregard or to double check. Maybe I'm right. Now, the good news is I've already spoken about these things in the past. I have entire videos about it that you can watch for free, meaning I have no financial benefit whatsoever. You can watch them and you can doublech checkck everything that I'm saying because I provide verses. I provide actual things that you can check yourself in your books that are available and you can see for yourself whether I'm saying the truth or I'm not. If I'm not saying the truth, show me where I lied. Show me where I made a mistake. But if I am saying the truth, then that means that you are living a lie. And perhaps you need to fix that and you should. Either way, only you benefit out of this. I don't. All I get is, you know, headaches, people thinking that I just make stuff up. Yes, I believe in one God and was the first person. That's what the Torah says. No, Msiah did not come. Only the idol worshippers believe that Messiah already came. Jews do not believe the Messiah came. Do you believe in preaching Judaism to Gentiles and trying to convert them? No. I believe in teaching Judaism. And whoever wants to listen and apply to their life is more than welcome to. If it's a non-Jew that wants to apply to their life to the point where they want to convert, then of course I'm more than happy to help them in any way that I can, guide them in any way I can. I have a conversion syllabus on our website. that's available for free. We've helped several people convert either by guiding them or even sponsoring people and entire families uh that have, you know, gone through the whole uh uh process of changing their life and applying all of this to their Torah, the Tawa to their life. And guess what? I don't charge for any of it. I don't charge a conversion fee. I don't charge for guidance. Anyone that wants to donate is more than welcome to donate on their own. Uh but for me, there's no fee for any of this stuff. Uh now, if they eventually go convert at a at a bedin, uh then they'll probably uh have to pay a fee to the bedin. Nothing to me. What I do as far as teach teaching Jews, teaching non-Jews is all for free. In fact, we do, you know, we give food for free, we give uh money for free, we give uh uh books for free, USB for free, everything that we do is for free to uh to people that we are trying to help. But uh again, it's a uh as far as to go out of my way to go look for non-Jews and convert them. No, that we don't do. I teach Torah and everyone that wants to watch, everyone that wants to listen is welcome. Why not? where in this you know in the world there's social media there's millions of people that have watched my lectures over the years uh different uh lectures some like it and continue watching some don't like it and go on their way anoints has to be a prophet How we know who Mashiach Ben Ysef is? Uh well, unlike the uh false faiths where there is easy ways to to show that the They're they're not it way. They're self-proclaimed Mashiach. When the real Mashiach shows up, whether it's Mashiah Ben Ysef or Mashiah Ben Davidid, there will not be any doubt. Everyone will know, including the enemies, will know who the real Mashiach is that that has arrived. Uh that's one of the things that uh Hashem tells us that that's going to happen, that the real Messiah, there's not going to be a dispute of whether they're the real Messiah or not. uh there is going to be a dispute about you know fighting with them or fighting against them. The wicked people will fight against them uh whereas the righteous people uh certainly will fight with them you know with alongside them uh but the will fight against them even though they know it this is Msiah Bened Mashia Ben Ysef No, the Mashiach is not going to be a reincarnation of David. The reinc the Mashiach is going to have a spark of the of Rabenu and David. It's a spark. It's not the entire It's not a reincarnation. Um, in fact, says that it's actually going to be Mosherenu himself. It's not going to be a new person, but nonetheless, we'll see what's going to happen when it happens. We'll see what's going to happen when it happens. Okay, I didn't realize that we're already going on for almost three hours. We learned a lot. We answered a lot of questions. The goal is for you to take this information and not only apply it to your lives, but also to try to get more and more people to watch this lecture, to watch the other lectures, uh to continue learning. Because as inspired as you are right now, it won't last forever if you stop learning. You have to continue learning. We have thousands and thousands of lectures that are available online for free. Anyone that wants to uh watch the lectures can watch it on our app, can watch it on YouTube, uh can watch it on our website, BH Torah. You can also get one of these uh Kiru boxes uh from our website that has some of our uh music and uh and Torah films that we've made over the years. This is for sale if you want to buy it for yourself, for other people. It has 19 hours of uh films and uh and music in there that's we all ours and uh this is the best kiru tool to inspire people to change their life and go and do chuva best possible tool that exists in the world today. Not only because of the the device but rather because of the content that's in it. It's organized. It's a uh simply an amazing tool and we have some people that boem are clever enough to send money for us to give them to as many people as we possibly can for free when we have somebody that's sponsoring. We have some people that buy it by a bunch of them and give it to their friends, neighbors, different people that they know or people that they meet. Uh there's a lot of clever people that are doing it. But if you're not doing it, you should you should you should get 10, 20, 50, 100 as many as you could afford to try to get as many people as possible to open this up, watch, and they could transform their life, transform their life, and all of the merit that they will get for the good things that they do from that point on will also go to you. Meaning the amount of reward that you're going to get from helping other people do chv from helping other Jews return to Hashem is even greater than what you're going to get for the good that you do for yourself. So supporting Kiru, whether it's by donating for us to do it or for you to get some of this stuff and give it out, whatever it is, it's a uh opportunity that could yield more merits than anything else you can possibly do. Even more than you learning Torah, even more than you keeping Shabbat, even more than anything else. Why? Because when you're helping another Jew return to Hashem, all of the mitzvot that they do also reward you. And all the reward that they their kids uh the mitzvot the kids do and their families and their descendants, all of it will also go to your account. Meaning that even after you're long gone, uh your account will continue going up. And that's why people that are smart make one of their top investments in this world supporting us in Kiru and helping us do what we do so we can make more lectures for free, more films for free, more channels, more languages, more books, more stuff to publicize Hashem's name. And they they see the blessings. 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