Modern Inventions vs. Ancient Wisdom - Jewish HaShkafa (118)

are the Innovations of modern day inventions making it a better world if schl was truly the wisest man that ever lived why didn't he invent them these are some of the questions we're analyzing as part of the debate of ancient wisdom versus modern intellect and once we delve into the answers we find that there's a new question a deeper question a question that actually has an answer that once we know it it will address different problems that could help each one of our lives our fa families our businesses and even resolve the problem with anti-Semitism enjoy share and be holy we're back here starting a new week with our continuation of the Jewish hashkafa series Jewish ideology based on the teachings of the and is faith trust is translated in English but of course anyone that's been watching the series over the last couple years knows that it's a lot more than just the simple meaning of tonight is going to be for the for and everyone out there that continues to contribute and help us 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discussion over the last couple of weeks as the uh Kish began a new chapter chapter five where it's comparing the non-logical thinking uh and the intellect but that non-logical thinking versus the intellect gets us into a ongoing battle an ongoing battle between the modern day uh intellect versus ancient wisdom and uh of course last week uh we went over some of the things some of the claims that uh both parties say uh you know and uh really try to compare are we better off uh you know today with all of the inventions that we have today whether it's the most recent uh artificial intelligent uh development uh intelligence development that we have out there with computers are actually helping people do things much better uh and uh in fact are actually very useful uh although can be used for bad but needless to say are definitely used uh for good uh and of course you have all the different developments in medicine you know the the average lifetime at least according to the statistics seems to be higher uh or at least uh should be higher because of modern development of medicine uh at the same token you have the ancient wisdom where the world uh was a very different place in the past which uh to a person that's unlearned of the past especially unlearned about the Jewish past it seems like uh ancient history is uh you know history to be forgotten why would you want to go back there so the Kish gave these two sides and he says this is really a a clash between the two that's ongoing and it's pleasurable to watch it meaning it's humorous that it's even being compared because automatically you see that anyone that's actually part of this competition uh that actually thinks there's anything to compare between the the present and the past doesn't really understand the depth of the actual uh debate here and that's really what we're going to get into tonight so he says that the uh the more recent Generations are going to tell you that the earlier Generations seemed like they did nothing they grew up on some Farm they were alone they were segregated from from everyone else whereas today you know they uh they built a world with you know all types of Technology as as if everyone is living in the same city you know in the past if you wanted to go and visit is from a different country you had to number one put your life on the line because traveling was never easy uh and even more so you had to prepare yourself to uh go for several months just to reach the destination and some uh people that travel didn't make it so uh it's a uh it's something that uh today people don't really think about because it's not really a problem of today today if want to go from the United States to is just hop on a plane and 10 hours later 12 hours later you're there uh that of course if you don't include all of the uh time at the airport and traveling to the airport and delays at the airport but needless to say within a day you're there uh you know in the past this was only something that uh was in dreams you didn't do anything like that so it seems like the develop element that we have in the world today clearly makes the world a better place and if it was so clear why debate it hence the reason why the Kish is bringing it up to show us that the debate is much deeper than just simply the development itself and he says as follows the non logical thinker meaning the one that is depending more on his imagination listen seriously ly and intently to those two debaters and in keeping with his way to judge on the spot he writes and signs his verdict you earlier Generations go and rest in peace with your collected wisdom we're living in a generation of Industry a young and sophisticated one so we see here already that here the kazun is giving us a personality of the day that really hasn't changed you know since he wrote this a few decades ago where this modernday logical uh non-logical thinker number one wants to get to a conclusion right away on the spot makes decisions this is similar to today's you know instant uh satisfaction mentality where people want instant satis satisfaction whether it's wanting fast food or fast service or they want fast answers you know all the things that you have in the world today Are all uh you know having uh their priority number one is to actually give you a fast response whether that response is the best response or not you know obviously you'll have to figure out once you try the response and this certainly has it's a uh its downside when you have a uh a society that is so uh dependent on a fast response that Society also makes itself vulnerable to such things whether it's something like the artificial intelligence when they're you know looking to type a few things and get the uh computer to give them an answer instantly it's miraculous literally how this machine gives you a response which is looks amazing at first until you double check where sometimes you'll see that the answer is not only wrong it's completely fictitious it has nothing to do with the truth and we've tried a few times we've certainly benefited by using it in a in a a certain way but we've also seen that there is a downside to this fast response the Fast Response doesn't necessarily always give you the correct response but in today's world the priority speed everything has to be faster and this is in essence the mentality that the non-logical Thinker is bringing to the argument he's saying listen modern day we have inventions these inventions are bringing us a type of Industry that's making everything fast production we have instead of in the old days where one person will build some type of carriage and then eventually finish it and then give it to the person and sell it and then start and use that money to feed his family and hopefully have some left to build another one you know today you have the uh you know factories that are building machines and the machines themselves are building other machines and you have this whole system where it could literally operate and which it does operate most of the time 24 hours a day with less and less human involvement so clearly that makes today better at least according to the non-logical Thinker and The non-logical Thinker is going to come up with this response quickly as he says on the spot based on the surface that he is evaluating he's evaluating the surface he's evaluating what he sees is what you get he sees something that's what he understands now the intelligent judges the ones that are not going to be using their imagination but rather they're going to be using their wisdom the wisdom that is more analytical they sit and they study this debate using deep reasoning and determine that wisdom's importance lies in its theoretical study and neither side should Place its many practical applications on the scales here the other type of Judge the intelligent judge is not coming up with a conclusion at all as far as which one is better before it gives you the the the rules of the actual debate whereby they tell you the inventions of this generation versus the last generation should not even be part of the debate at all as they're not going to tell you the actual wisdom of each generation because the wisdom is not necessarily going to be measured by how it's actually put into practice because it is possible and in this case it is reality or factual that much of the wisdom that was possessed in the previous generation was not applied and therefore it didn't just because they didn't apply it doesn't mean they didn't have it because really if you look at the wisdom of some of the ancient Scholars even if you are not going into the world of Torah you go into the ancient scholarship some of the famous Scholars whether it's the D Vinci or the aristotles The Plato all of these different uh people that were world-renowned uh uh for for for their inventions for their intellect in general you see that much of their work was not actually put into practice didn't invent things they did some things but generally speaking most of what's appreciated by the world today is not their inventions but rather their wisdom that was theoretical needless to say in the world of the torat where you see the wisdom of the sages especially if one studies the talmud and sees literally Divine wisdom now at first glance when a person starts learning talmud they don't even understand what they're reading so they're not going to see Divine wisdom they're just is going to see a bunch of words they have no idea what it means and needless to say how does this apply to you today and year 2023 or whatever year you're watching this later on as a person continues to delve deeper and deeper into the talmud and begins to understand what's actually being written and why it's being written you will literally see the words come to life and how this wisdom that was just everyday wisdom of the sages a couple of thousand years ago or less was something beyond the scope of what's possible in the world today now these intelligent judges are telling you for this reason you cannot consider the inventions as part of your argument on either side now you're going to say wait of course they're going to say that argument of course they're going to say that uh you can't use the inventions of today as part of the argument because this generation certainly has better inventions don't be so quick to judge because we're going to get into a little deeper and you'll see that perhaps there was someone and there was some things that were far beyond anything the world can comprehend technologically now certainly if you calculate the Miracles the Divine wisdom the prophecy thees all of that stuff of course the argument already ends just simply by saying those words but I'm not talking about that I'm talking about pure wisdom technological wisdom put into application and what it actually put together once a person understands what that is they'll see that all of the inventions of today still have not come to par with what was already there just a couple a few thousand years ago so here the Kish continues and says the height of wisdom is abstract wisdom and the fact that people use it in order to better their material life does not add honor or elevation to the wise soul that dwells in the heavens true the later generations have made much use of wisdom in the service of mankind and have enriched the world greatly but that is not a reason to belittle previous generations which gave themselves over completely to the acquisition of wisdom and understanding without intending to use their wisdom to invent new inventions on this Earth so here we see pretty much everything I just said where he is clearing up and clarifying the debate that if you are one that's really truly looking for the difference between previous wisdom the the What's called the ancient wisdom or past wisdom to the intellect in the world of uh uh today you can't you can't base that on the inventions of the iPads and the tablets and the iPhones and the rockets and fast food and all of those things you have to look at simply at the abstract wisdom which is things that uh many times are simply theoretical simply theoretical radical in other cases they could actually you know it's factual information but it's not applied to anything in particular because there you will see what one possesses versus the other now why wasn't this actually applied and how does this have to do with us today are some of the questions we're going to have to answer in fact there's going to be a few questions we're going to answer we're going to address tonight that are going to pique some of your interest more than perhaps it was already one question is was Einstein a genius according to the sages now everyone can say yeah but he was a wicked Jew he didn't uh observe Shabbat so certainly but that doesn't change necessarily whether he was wise or not was he wise or was he smart sages have a definition of who is wise did he fit even by his own admission that particular definition second thing is Debaters we see that the world today since you have online presence that's uh you know easy to attain anyone with a camera and sometimes even without a camera could uh put himself out there and debate his beliefs usually much more than debate his knowledge because many times the deaders more times than not don't actually possess knowledge they usually have piggybacked off of somebody else's knowledge and uh they like to debate they like to prove people wrong needless to say this is very common in the religious World needless to say times a million this is constantly targeted at the Jewish people and unlike past history where debates were usually something that the sages tried to run away from not because they couldn't win the debate because in fact we see every debate that the sages had they won but rather because they knew the outcome of these debates could actually mean death simply because the other debater didn't like to lose because and uh their loss would usually mean that they would uh take revenge and therefore many times you see that uh one of the grounds for the debate was that there had to be uh you know some Tye of Promise of uh of of some type of uh uh peace between the two or something with protection but even that failed as we know the debate the famous debate in Barcelona between the ramban uh and the former uh uh the heretic uh Jew that was pres representing Christianity the king actually offered protection to the ramban and after the ramban won the debate to his dismay even the king admitted that uh he can't protect him and he simply helped him or at least allowed him to run away so he doesn't die he's going get murdered in Cold Blood by the losing Christians but today you see that uh debates is much more common and I'm not talking about Fame Debaters that actually have something to speak of and have qualifications and there's a need for them to debate like Rabbi toir singer or the debate that was done by Rabbi ysf mrai no no I'm talking about you know people that really have no actual scholarship no actual knowledge they just know a things by heart uh perhaps they know how to speak quickly think quickly and they want to debate they want to go on the internet and debate everybody that simply is willing to pay attention to them at at the very least uh you know promises to pay attention to them and they go online and they do these debates and uh many times you see this uh leading to disaster I don't mean disaster like death at least not that but it does lead to disaster which is desecration of God's name more times than not by the one that's trying to protect God's name or at least theoretically trying to protect God's name why why is this happening we're going to try to address that as well tonight another thing we're going to try to address is what inventions did we have in the past that uh really surpassed anything that we have in the world today we've discussed this in the past but we'll discuss it again and try to get a better idea of the depth of this debate between ancient history ancient wisdom and modern intellect so the Kish is telling us one of the flaws of The non-logical Thinker is that they want to do something quickly and that includes their decisions this is not a Advantage but rather a flaw because the faster you do something the less time you have to analyze all of the moving Parts on the other hand the int intelligent judges are going to study it and after they study it they conclude that really the inventions of either side are really should not be part of the argument altogether because it's very possible that the uh intellect existed even though it wasn't applied and therefore he completes this particular section by saying moreover these these uh wise men these sages intentionally refrained from doing this for they fear that these things might fall into the hands of disreputable people who might use them for various idolatrous purposes and for Bloodshed as was said in the page 38 about G and vna's family and we're going to get into what happened with them so now we have a situation where someone that's new to the world of Torah sees the Torah as perhaps a bunch of old men arguing what are they arguing about he doesn't know and as soon as he finds out a little bit about it he doesn't seem to care you open up usually the most common tractate of the the talud that a person starts learning is the is a you open up the and you start seeing sages debate when is the best time to say is and all different types of things that are connected to the prayer to the when to say it whether to say standing up sitting down is it important to say it out loud can you say it in your mind all of the different things and this of course branches out into the whole world of prayer whether it's everything else out there now when a person is not really familiar with Judaism opens this up this seems silly to them this seems silly why did the sages care so much about this particular prayer and even if they do care about it let's say it's important let them just decide tell me the final decision and that's it why do I need a whole track dat of thear to talk about it how do I know this because I was one of those people where I didn't understand opening up the G and I'm seeing this one page after another another after another after another after another it seemed to never end arguing this this point about when to see the how and I just said okay just tell me the final decision and I'll do it I want to do the right thing just tell me what to do and then you keep going and you keep going and you keep going and abay and Raa and abay and Raa and one of the other C just throws in and and you're like whoa why why are you arguing just tell me what to do and then the word worst part of it all is ran gel comes in the middle and he ruins the whole thing why because everything you just argued on for the last 10 pages gets thrown in the gar because because raban Gamel is the n and he says this is what the law is and I just simply wanted to just cry I don't understand why did you take me on this journey I went up the mountain I went down the mountain I went up the mountain again I went down the mountain okay I was on a bias side and then I was on Rab's side and then a few other sages came through and I said okay maybe they make sense too and then you bring ranel and just sells you an answer that no one even thought of no one ever spoke of and I said okay this must be the first and the last time this is going to happen and then you contined to learn in the tud and you realize this is a constant recurrence not every time but it happens and then you have bet and and they say this and then they argue and then you find out that one of the debates about the which is whether to push your hands on theban on the sacrifice with your hands was this way or that way that debate was the longest debate that ever existed go ahead and try to guess how long that debate went on for a week a month a year try over 300 years over 300 100 Years of sages debating at first look when a person starts to learn the talmud without any basic background in Judaism this seems ridiculous once a person has the prerequisites has a basic understanding of tah has a deep honor and fear of the almighty and his sages he he can't get enough of it on one hand the Christian Idol worshippers are saying this is why we don't like you guys in your talmud this Yos rockar that died 2,000 years ago and got discovered by some prostitute he got rid of the Old Law he got rid of the Old Law we are relying on The Prostitute because she said that the grave was empty but us sages we're saying wait a minute hold on a second we don't rely on prostitutes we don't rely on non- kosher people we rely on factual evidence we rely on both every possible thing that needs to be reviewed every possible consideration needs to be reviewed in order to arrive at the truth even if you heard a voice tell you something you cannot do that if it forsakes the Torah so now you start going into the tud and you see wait a minute what are they saying and you start realizing they are giving you the basic premise of what's being debated the law already exists the reality already exist the truth already exist but they're putting this truth to the fire and trying to explain to you not only how this truth was concluded but also that every possible thought of any heretic of any wise person of any naysayer of any good one every single side will be analized and put to the test and to show you that the ultimate truth is indisputable we don't have to rely on some fairy tale we don't have to rely on some uh person in some cave telling you that they know that no no we have the wisdom that gave us with the rules of the T that he gave us in Mount sa of how to extrapolate the truth from it we use these tools in order to arrive at the truth so now when a person goes into a tud and he starts seeing wait this debate has a lot of different factors why because it's not just which prayer to say and when to say it but who says it under certain circumstances and how this relates and how this connects to 50 million other things that are part of the day-to-day Jewish life and you start seeing how the questions that they ask literally are things that your basic mind could never arrive at why because it's much more difficult to ask ask a good question than to give a good answer because to ask a good question means you need to know the material really well to give an answer sometimes you could just simply get lucky but the answer doesn't necessarily mean you know how to arrive at the conclusion it just means that you threw the number there it's like a one of these Math teachers puts a uh a very uh uh complicated uh calculus type of uh statistics mathematic equation on the board fills up the whole board with pies and square pies and all types of different mathematical terminologies and know a little 5-year-old kid comes and puts one on the uh on the board and it happens to be the right answer does that mean that that little 5-year-old kid knows what he's doing no he just got lucky put the number one there to ask the question is much more difficult now here The non-logical Thinker doesn't care about the question cares about the results what do you have and his results according to his standards are he has a tablet he has airplanes he has fast food he can make a phone call he could go on Skype he can use a computer so to him this represents wisdom the real intelligent people are telling you no no no these are inventions these are applications of certain intellect that existed but it doesn't necessarily mean that they know the root of the wisdom itself and things that are expanded Beyond it in fact it doesn't negate the fact that previous generations had not just this wisdom but even Superior wisdom they just simply chose not to use it now why would anybody choose not to use it says the [Music] Kish they refrained from doing it because they feared that these things might fall into the hands of disreputable people that would use them for bad Bloodshed idolatrous purposes so the first first question that we have to answer is what is the definition of a wise person according to the Torah the m 2 m number n and also in the page 32A says who is wise someone that will see what's born what's the outcome of what he's going to do before he does it that's wisdom wisdom is not giving somebody an iPhone wisdom is not telling people a story wisdom is not age wisdom is not looks wisdom is not a good speech wisdom is someone that can see what will be the outcome of his actions or any other particular action before it's done and there thereby decides based on this knowledge of what will happen rather than trial and fair the typical mentality is trial and error he tries if it's an error okay we try again that's the mentality according to the sages that's the mentality of fools why because if you truly had wisdom you wouldn't take a risk and just risk failing you would actually analyze it until you can see what would happen before you try now of course there are certain things that are necessary you need to try them out but when it comes to intellectual topics there's no need there's no need to try it out in practical purposes you can actually look at the different debates analyze every single condition that could possibly be and this is really more of a scientific way of doing things they don't invent every single thing that they draw on the board they put the things on the board and they could already calculate what will be as a result they see what will be out of it this is closer to what we're talking about as far as wisdom than people that are just trying things out he's going to try a business out hopefully it works out that's not wisdom that's hoping for the best so this trial and error this uh um uh knowing what will be the outcome before you actually do it already tells us what the sages determine as ad as wisdom and by that we also have our first answer as far as whether Einstein was considered wise according to the sages although Einstein did a lot of things that certainly people appreciate many people don't realize that some of the things that he actually claimed to that were his claim to fame were already written by the sages 800 years before he was even a thought in his parents uh in his parents' minds but needless to say one of the things that Einstein is most famous for is the atomic bomb but yet later on in his life Einstein regretted being part of the atomic bomb because he saw the disaster that it brought to the world so according to the sages he is a fool although smart intellectually had a very high IQ but as far as wisdom is concerned a complete and utter fool because what did you think the bomb is going to be used for did you think that the bomb is going to make ice cream did you think that the bomb was going to sell cookies what are bombs made for they're made to cause damage they're made to pressure someone even if that means the destruction of entire cities or countries you should have thought of it before you became part of it you and Oppenheimer and some of the other people that were smart as far as mathematics and science and physics and and all types of other subjects smart but wise not at all because look at what's happened because even though you can certainly use the atom for positive purposes generally speaking the main thing that's changed and transformed War over the last 100 years versus all other Generations before it is that every war could literally lead to the end of the world now in the past people would fight they had some Spears and some bows and arrows and eventually they had some uh cannons and all types of things and yeah it certainly led to destruction and a lot of death but nowhere near what could be done now in a very short period of time in fact one of the prophecies that's in the Tanakh in the book of Zechariah Chapter 14 where he talks about the final war of goou Magog where 2third of the world will be destroyed the sages come over there and they tell us that this this destruction will happen in 8 minutes when the sages said it it was at a time where atomic bombs didn't exist nothing even remotely close to an atomic bomb existed at that time when they said it literally didn't even have guns your most powerful weapon was a boulder that you were able to slingshot to destroy you know a building that's it you didn't have anything that could annihilate two-thirds of the of the world population needless to say in 8 minutes if you went to war you could kill a bunch of people that are in front of you but their friends in a different city they're beyond your reach so when you when when the sages said yeah this destruction of the world that's predicted and prophesized in the Tor in chapter 38 ofel Ezekiel and also in chapter 14 of Zacharia this seems silly like a silly prediction until we arrive at the last century where this so-called silly prediction became a reality showing us the power of Prophecy and how it's the true prophecy is not predicting something that's probable it's predicting something that's not even possible according to the current status so when you have a bunch of smart people not have wisdom the damage could be catastrophic this is also the case in modern medicine of course everyone is aware of the pandemic we've all dealt with over the last few years of the Corona and of course I know there's a million and a half different debates on either side the vaccine no vaccine we're not going to get into that we've spoken enough about it over the past but the point being is is that one of the reasons that this whole vaccine had such an impact on society is because of the society that has been built a society that wants on demand service a society that wants fast service a society that demands immediate answers is also a society that has made itself vulnerable to accept whatever answer is giving to it even if they don't know necessarily what side effects will come with these answers so as soon as these vaccines came into the world everyone you know they felt like as if the Messiah just came people running running towards getting this vaccine without really considering do they really know enough about it do they really know the risks and then later on crying foul about Oh look The some people died some people this some people got sick anyway you can't even blame either one of the sides certainly there's corruption certainly there is capitalism at its worst certainly there's foolishness but the point is is that this is a product of society it's not the first or the last that will be this way so long as Society wants this type of product when you want an on demand answers you have to understand that that on demand comes with a price if you want Google to be your Rabbi if you want the AI to be your marriage counselor if you want immediate responses there's a price because immediate responses are not able and not created in a in a way where they could actually put everything into consideration this is also the reason why Ally speaking even if they programmed the AI to have all of the know the known Torah books out there which is literally millions of books into the program similar to the Baran program or the uh uh some of the others that are there they put everything into the AI and they program it to give you answers based on the AL not like it does now we just create stuff and it gives you a you ask it a specific question about something new how to treat certain things and he uses all of the known information in order to arrive at a conclusion you still can't use that just by itself until a reviews it why because even though the program could use all of the material even beyond what the average Rabbi can use average scholar can use it will never have the ability to look at the uh specific situations that are not known to the computer whether it's particular circumstances that have to do with specific people specific circumstances that have to do with Society things that you're always going to need a human needless to say a to evaluate but once a evaluates it sees that all of the uh things were done you could easily use that as a but to just simply think oh yeah the computers will eventually be the uh uh the uh the post scheme of the future that can never be why because you're always going to have to have some type of human factor that could analyze things and evaluate things that a computer simply can't for example if you uh somebody asked you a question can I uh uh get a divorce or can I get married or can I uh stay married but not go to the mikve uh you know according to the the computer is goingon to analyze these several questions based on the law but the is going to analyze not just the law but the people the people involved why they want to make this decision who this decision is being made between who and whom and so on and so forth there's a lot more factors that the computer simply does not have the ability to analyze for example the uh one of the things that um that uh the uh people always amazed by the is knowledge of the sages about certain factors uh and uh one time somebody came to uh theam and uh asked him about a uh an egg an egg eating an egg on Shabbat and to everyone's surprised when the uh the young man asked theam the question asked him whether if he eats this egg uh whether it's meat or it's or it's uh considered parve said it's meat now people that heard this question were surprised why because an egg is parve it's not meat an egg is parve so why did the give this little kid what seems like the wrong information then wanted to show his students why he said it and he brought the kid back and he says to him where did you get this egg and the boy said I got it from the chulent on chabbat he says did you have meat in the pot of chulent he said yeah said okay thank you very much and that's when everybody understood but how did you know this came from chulent how did you know he says because throughout his whole question he also said eating it on Shabbat who eats egg on Shabbat other than people that eat chulent calculating every single word and knowing the people knowing the community knowing their Customs this is wisdom or again small small minor minute examples of wisdom that a non-logical thinker a person that wants UND demand responses is never going to Avail themselves to now the sages say that the person that's truly wise is going to see what will occur before it actually happens and this explains why the says that the sages although they did possess this extraordinary wisdom this extraordinary intellect they refrained from using it because they feared that this will be utilized these inventions would be utilized for the wrong the Benish was once asked about schik did schik possess knowledge about modern technology whether it's the things like we discussed atomic bomb or the inventions of the day did he possess it or not if he possessed it why didn't he use it if he didn't possess it then how is he the wisest man that ever lived and responds of course he possessed this knowledge but he knew enough through his wisdom that it will bring much more bad than good and therefore he didn't utilize it but anyone that wants to see some of his knowledge put into practice doesn't need to look very far you can go into the on or there was even a special mid that was written just about this subject called mid the mid of the Throne of and anyone that reads this midash will see wonders of Wonders about the inventions of schl that without any exaggeration surpass anything available in the world today some examples are his throne was not just a huge chair but rather a throne that was on Wheels connected to 71 other chairs everything made of gold all of the chairs are connected now you're just thinking oh this is just a good Furniture guy the stairs that led him to his throne you couldn't just walk up why you had to say specific verses from the Torah that had to do with the warnings on the judges such as don't you know uh don't uh judge uh against the uh you know against the law in so many words like as if you're under a bribe of some kind or make a mistake intentional mistake he had each time he would say this verse the animals that were on each step they represented different things the first step having a lion on one side a golden lion and an ax on the other side the Second Step would have a uh a tiger and a deer and each step had different set of animals once on on one side was the impure animals and on the other side was pure animals animals that were kosher and each time he would say a verse the animals would raise him to the next step as a side note schl married a thousand women because he wanted to bring mashia he wanted to make World Peace one of the women that he made a mistake of marrying was the daughter of par the par of the day PO is not an actual name it's like saying Caesar and she con he converted her to Judaism but she never really was a righteous convert she went back to her idolatrous ways and she caused him to have a lot of problems in his life but this made her father par his father-in-law so after SCH died this par came and came to take the Throne of schlomo his son-in-law but he didn't know about all of these things and he tried going up to the throne but as soon as he took the first step because the lion didn't hear the voice of schl saying this verse as soon as he took the first step he gave par such a h such a hit that he made him uh paralyzed for the rest of his life and therefore from that point on this was called comes from the word is like crippled each step par would have to say a verse and it would raise him it would lift him after he eventually got to the throne there was a golden dove again this is literally gold it's not gold with uh semiconductor chips in it how gold flies how gold hears how gold does all these things your question is is a good question but I don't have an answer for that other than schlomo's wisdom is superior to anything we could possibly imagine but he was able to manipulate gold in such a fashion where after he arrived at the throne there was a dove that would carry his uh his um crown and put it on his head then the dove would go fly in the air by itself not with a remote control even and bring a seph Tora scroll and put it in his arms now what's the connection of all the chairs all the this was the chairs of the saned this is where they would judge and this these this Throne was advanced in such a way that anytime somebody lied lied immediately all of the different animals the Lions and the deers and the oxes and whatever other animals were there all of them started growling and screaming a light detector unlike anything else in the world without connecting any wires to the person and pretending like it's reading it's it's Lies when in reality it's barely even reading its his pulse so these types of things this obviously there's much more these types of things already existed 3,000 years ago so the Ben goes back and he says obviously ly these this invention in itself is superior to anything we had in the world back then needless to say in the world today so why didn't he develop it further make cars make uh planes make spaceships make a bunch of things because his wisdom was true wisdom and thereby that wisdom allowed him to understand that developing it further would create more bad than good the difference between someone that's smart and wicked versus somebody that's wise and righteous is that somebody that's smart and wicked even if they know that they don't really know what is the outcome of this product they created they created a medicine they created a medicine and say listen this's the disease we have the medicine for this disease what do you have Corona no problem we could heal this disease it's going to solve the disease okay great give us how much you want for it we'll pay you whatever price people are dying everywhere no problem I'll sell it to you by the millions sounds like a nice guy sounds like a really clever smart guy until people start dying left and right and I ask wait a minute why are people dying he says oh yeah that's kind of one of the side effects why did you tell us now why didn't you tell us before we bought it oh no if I would have told you before you wouldn't have bought it that's a wicked person smart but Wicked many times people create stuff and it looks like they're smart but in reality what people don't realize is that just because someone is smart doesn't necessarily mean you could side with them because they could be smart and evil at the same time and therefore if a person has righteousness it's much more valuable than the intellect that they have because you know that their righteousness is going to determine whether they'll take a step or not if they develop something and they know that this can create more problems than Solutions their righteousness is going to lead them to to stay away from it and that's what the difference is between smart and righteous and the smart and Wicked with the righteous person will give up on the monetary aspirations for the greater good one of the great uh uh examples that we see this is from schl himself he saw that there is certain things that could be developed in the world but he chose not to develop them because if we take this and we now build cars we now have a whole new problem problems of car accidents something that didn't exist beforehand you may think yeah but it allowed people to develop allow people go from City to City sure but we survived fine without it we survived fine without it now you have a whole new problem there are literally millions of people that die from car crashes literally millions of people that die from all types of accidents a problem we didn't have from the past now that it's already there there obviously you utilize things to the best of your ability but the point being in is is that the wisdom of SCH knew that this is going to be the outcome and knew that it's really for the better good if it's not invented at least not by him same concept goes for a lot of other things there are a lot of new problems in the world today that didn't exist in the past because of these new inventions this doesn't necessarily make a person forbidden from using them certainly you can use them to the best of your ability and safety but if a person asks why wasn't this developed in the past it's not because of lack of knowledge but rather because of higher level of wisdom now this leads us to the next question which is why is it that despite the Jewish people having the truth since day one we receed the Torah at Mount sa the whole world acknowledges that admits it it's never been disputed but yet the Torah tells us in many places that we have to stay away from Heretics from people that are against the Torah needless to say tells us that if this person is a heretic of Jewish background you're not even allowed to be within six feet of him not allowed to debate him and the only reason you're allowed to debate someone of a different religious background is only if you have to not just simply for the sake of pleasure either because you you need to save somebody uh from from going in and becoming an idol worshipper like them or anything like that but to just go and be a debater just because you want to make a living showing people you're smart there's absolutely no permission the question is why if you possess the truth why aren't you flaunted like everybody else flaun their lies this is the common uh question out there where people have oh I uh you know I challenge you to debate such and such what they don't realize is Jewish law doesn't allow you to to just simply debate just because you feel like debating why why doesn't it do that one of the things that you'll see in people that are not nonprofessional Debaters that put themselves into the debates is a lack of consideration for the outcome of whatever they say in so many words lack of wisdom they may be able to have a quick response to whatever question the opposite side has where he brings up all types of verses from his Bible and they'll have rebuttal for it quick rebuttal from it many of them they simply memorized from expert Debaters but needless to say it seems like they know what they're doing they're able to quote certain things from the Tanakh and they are sometimes even able to win the debate but usually and more times than not there's more damage that's created by these debates than good but none of this is taken into consideration because they're too focused on their aspirations for winning their aspirations for the honor that you get as a result of winning their aspirations for these feelings that they're going to get as a winner whether it's a monetary or not is irrelevant because many times the aspirations for Honor are even greater than the aspirations of money and they want to soothe their ego they're looking for people to be wrong on in on the internet if they see somebody making a video they'll challenge them for debate if they see somebody making a comment on the internet they'll constantly tell him how wrong he is and they'll show their mental prowess and their knowledge of a few verses and a few pages just for the sake of winning and what they don't realize is that their lack of consideration of the greater good more times than not causes more damage as a result of their answer why is this the case I one time heard not too long ago somebody that uh invited me or somebody on his team invited me to attend the debate or promote some debate that this young guy was having with uh Christians and I told him I'm not interested and uh moved on with my life to my dismay the debate continued they had this debate and they had many other debates and I didn't track it but until recently maybe a few months ago I ran into it I ran into some other debate that he had I listened to it for a few minutes and the opposing side of the church is uh was a me Messianic Jew which is really the church uh was telling this Jewish guy that uh he doesn't know his rambam well enough he doesn't know his talmud well enough and uh he was quoting it and the Jew comes back and says listen who cares about what the rambam or the talmud says I care about What God Says and at that moment he lost everything he doesn't realize it but he lost everything even if he won the debate and even if he won a thousand debates before it why the moment you say that you don't care about the tradition you don't care about our Pim you don't care about our sages you become worse than the one you're debating against and that's unfor unfortunately one of the things that I've seen as a common denominator is that people don't think through what they're saying and they say stupid things because he heard professional Debaters that actually know what they're talking about there actually really are me say let's consider What God Says or let's prioritize What God Says in his little mind this little peanut decided oh yeah let's say What God Says and disregard the sages disregard the T disregard everything as if they were presenting something else as if they're representing their own unique thought as if that's not also Divine wisdom as as if Hashem is not speaking through them as as if they're not simply interpreting what the Torah tells us he wants to interpret things on his own who cares at that moment he desecrated God's name so what ends up happening is that the debat that are not really considering the weight of their words usually it's a domino effect of tragedy then they start debating anyone and everyone and giving a stage to a bunch of people that could easily manipulate and Influence People in a negative way even if they lose the debate they could still get the stage of actually a few people and and win a few people over this is the reason why we fought so hard against the uh uh Ephraim Goldberg and his uh idea of bringing Christian missionaries to synagogues and why the sages forbid it under all conditions not allowed to be within four feet four amot six feet of them why because even if they're talking about a secular subject even if they're losing the debate still it could be a problem it could be a problem now when the guy told me that he doesn't care whatsoever oh he told the other guy that he doesn't care whatsoever about what the sages say or what the uh is or the is I understood over there that this guy is much more dangerous than he realizes and unfortunately there's a few of them there's a few of them out there that are trying to make a name for themselves and this is the product of lack of wisdom they know a few things to make them dangerous but that's exactly where they stayed dangerous now the deeper understanding here is that we have AAR that tells us that a a gentile that learns the talud gets death penalty Heavenly death penalty why the Gentiles are not allowed to learn the talud and and this is something that was never really a problem because throughout all of history the Jews were the only ones that were really promoting the talmud why is the talmud say that the Gentiles are not allowed to learn the tud what's why why if it's wisdom and has all seven levels of wisdom in it why not share it with the world why only the in Torah why only specific things within the oral Torah like M why not the tud itself which is really the core of everything has everything in it that's because because it has everything in it the sages already knew that if an untrained eye goes into it it's not going to understand things and it's going to misunderstand them and this is exactly what happened multiple times throughout history whether it's a uh few thou a thousand years ago or nearly a thousand years ago 800 years ago where they ended up burning hundreds and hundreds of tuds as a result of them not liking what's in it because it spoke about their Idol Yos and how he's in gam and different things that it says about Gentiles that are again easily to easy to misunderstand but this was not the only time in fact in the book The History of Zionism which talks about literally the history of Zionism and uh talks about how some of the evil that they did in the first hundred or so Pages it gives you a very good history lesson about the times themselves something that a lot of people are unaware of because most people that are familiar with with Zionism are simply familiar with some of the the personalities some of the pictures but they're not really understanding or or familiar with the history itself of what happened at those times so in the 1800s a lot of things were happening one of the things that happened was that there was a h a prophecy coming true which is that the Barbarian nations of Rome were coming together again and eventually forming into Nazi J Germany where Rome is Germany it's not a different it just changed names the Roman Empire continued from a uh 100 years before the destruction of the BET mikdash until about 500 years after the destruction of the bet mikdash there was animosity between the leadership over the next couple of hundred years that broke it up into pieces where different Barbarian uh uh uh uh uh came to uh and caused a lot of problems but then they United again along with the church and continued under a uh uh same Roman Empire but called the Holy Roman Empire this time for the next thousand years but the name changed in the early 1800s when the uh 34 German Nations uh uh uh United again and then uh it was it was was uh uh um get brought down even uh uh more about 60 years later to 26 Nations or 26 German countries in so many words Germany was the continuation of the same Roman Empire that destroyed the bet mikash that's in essence the point now the animosity of the Romans toward is the Jews doesn't have to be explained they Destro our mikdash okay uh the animosity of the Germans to is the Jews doesn't have to be explained they killed six million of us but what a lot of people don't realize is that some of the animosity that happened throughout the last couple thousand years was as a result of misunderstanding certain parts of our Torah in such a fashion that it was obvious that they're going to use that as a hatred whether it was during the Spanish Inquisition where one uh Jew that abandoned Judaism wanted to take revenge against his own brothers and brought different parts of the tud to the uh Church in order to create hatred against his own brothers that are the Jews by showing them different statements or it's in uh 100 years before the Holocaust where anti-Semitism was becoming more and more common but in order to add fuel to the fire the book says in page 28 that anti-semitic Jewish campaigns proceeded on various levels a a by Street Corner rabble rousers petitioned to limit Jewish influence in the public the appearance of fresh Revelations on the talmud the exclusion of Jews from from uh student organizations here in so many words he's telling you that 150 years ago was no different than what's happening today different troublemakers thugs went into the tud grabbed whatever they could that they could recognize and say look it says that the Gentiles are animals it says Gentiles deserve death penalty for learning the talmud it says uh all types of things in the tud they don't really understand the body the context who what when how they just look at a superficial statement and they publicize this this statement and of course the viewers are even more clueless than the actual uh uh Thug that's that's preaching this they're just looking for an excuse to hate the Troublemaker is giving them the excuse to hate in the middle of the street where is this done today and has been done for the last several years or even more than several years you have all of these anti-semitic uh uh Hebrew Israelites or Israelites whatever they call themselves Black Hebrew Israelites burgund Israelites whatever they are they in essence Define themselves as the real Jews apparently and their identity has been stolen when was it stolen how can you possibly steal identity I'm not really sure they even have arguments what is their argument how could you really be the real Jews if you're not all black as if the Torah says that you have have to be black in order to be Jewish how can you uh believe in this uh evil talmud as if you know what's in the talmud how could you even call yourself Jewish when the letter J was only invented 500 years ago who cares when the letter J was invented 500 years ago all of these things just show how stupid they are and how ignorant their leaders are because they're basing everything that they have on the premise that their current knowledge is the only knowledge that exists one of it being the English language they're saying oh J J was invented 500 years ago there was no J Judaism started 3,334 years ago at Mount saai we spoke Hebrew you morons we didn't need J we have the letter giml which under C Nik has the sound of the letter g under different Nik which is a different uh it's it's the equivalent of vowels it has the sound of J the entire English language was invented about less than a thousand years ago who cares about J or English Judaism wasn't didn't start with either one of them nor does it need either one of them but of course the average person that's following these people doesn't know any of this stuff they're just looking for excuses to justify their hate so when they tell you different things about the talmud says this thing is bad about the Gentiles that thing is bad this thing is bad the average person out there oh yeah Jews are bad look they like this talmud so only a person that's well learned could truly tell you that this is foolishness whereas somebody not really familiar with the talud doesn't know how to explain every single thing doesn't know how to his left or right could easily arrive at the wrong place and that's one of the things that happens with these debates that's what happens with these types of teachings where they're teaching people anything and everything just for the sake of getting a crowd this is no different than giving people any type of medicine because it does one thing good without really considering the side effects so when you have the old generation of sages compared to the new generation of inventors of smart people the reason why the Kish is telling us this is humorous it's because there's no comparison while the current generation is primarily focused on what can you show me mean now the older generation was solely concerned about what can I learn from this and what kind of good versus what kind of bad can come out of this before I do anything with it I need to know the risks I need to know all of the possible outcomes every single possible thing that could come from there this is also one of the reasons why the sages tell us that as a clear law in to all teachers that consider themselves Wise Wise Men Must Be careful with the words that they say lest their students drink bitter poisonous Waters and eventually end up in geham this is a rebuke to different type of teachers that teach but in a fashion where only they understand themsel like for example where we have different things where we've said about these Heretics like Manis Freedman usually and we say look he says things that are heretical we have the 13 principles of faith that there's reward and Punishment the Torah will never change he says things like there's no reward and punishment that God will say I'm sorry and apologize to everybody these types of statements are heretical he recently said that uh you know God is at fault for your sins this is literally even worse than idol worship so what do his followers or what I like to call his victims say to defend him no no you don't understand him okay explain him to me then and really they never could explain him but the funny thing is is what they don't realize is that if you're a public speaker and you're speaking to the public especially via internet if you're truly a wise person you have to take everything into consideration meaning you have to take into consideration what will come out of my mouth and enter their mind will they understand what I'm saying or will only some unique special people understand what I'm saying because if only a few people are going to understand this particular speech perhaps I should make some type of statement that this is only meant for specific people perhaps I shouldn't say it at all perhaps I should clarify myself so everyone could understand me and if somebody makes that mistake one time fine fix it the next but if somebody makes a career of statements that apparently nobody nobody understands not Scholars not students no one understands all they could all say is no one understands it's something magical mystical perhaps maybe I don't know in geham they're going understand it in the seventh chamber because in this world no one understands it if no one understands it why are you teaching it who's learning anything if you're not if you're not explaining yourself if you're saying God will apologize to you to a normal person that means you are a heretic you think you're God you think that God owes you something that's what that means to a normal person but if you have a different meaning then please tell us show us this wisdom of yours that no one's ever heard of because anytime somebody has watched it without already being poisoned by the heresy but only by knowing tah within two seconds they literally want to put their fingers in their ears to not hear this horrible statement and some of them make the statement of the famous T statement ofuma put dust in his mouth how could he say such things but his students that are not Scholars they don't understand either either but they tell you don't understand so apparently the scholars don't understand smart people don't understand the students don't understand no one understands but it's still good uh teachings apparently according to some people why because uh it's been happening for a long time so here we see is that if a person wants just any bit of information just in order to meet his immediate desire there's a risk with it if you're going to take any pill just because you don't feel good you're also putting your life on a line if you're going to listen to anybody just because you want to listen to something be prepared that you may listen to something that's forbidden if you're going to go wherever you're going to go without really considering all of the things that could happen with this trip you're putting a lot of things on the line this is something that's not common in the current Generation by most of the leaders out there simply because they're the leaders of a generation that is looking for immediate gratification the previous generation was led by the sages that didn't care about immediate gratification they cared about outcome what is the outcome of this statement now this is one of the interesting musar stories that can put things into perspective the by he brings a famous story about a fox a fox that spotted a field full of the best grapes you can possibly imagine and as soon as he tried to enter this field he saw it's covered by a fence he tried going through the fence there was a hole in there but he couldn't fit but the grapes looked so good he couldn't give up on it he said I have to get this I have to get these grapes so what did he do he fasted he fasted for a week lost some weight went back to the hole slipped right in and he started feasting on the grapes and since there was so many of them the owner couldn't didn't know that he's even there and he was there day and night day and night enjoying himself one day said okay okay I ate enough grapes I'm tired of the grapes time to go he went back to the hole but now he's got representation can't fit in the hole he says Whoa Harvest is coming up soon if the owner sees me he he going to kill me I got to get out of here what did he do he fasted again he fasted for a week and a half this time cuz now he has some extra weight some extra representation after a week and a half of starving himself slips through the hole climbs up the mountain and looks down at the valley and all these beautiful grapes he says what a world of Lies this is I'm in the same place that I was before I entered you this is the world of Lies a person that focuses on immediate gratification doesn't realize all of the things that they're going to have to forsake as a result of it and this leads us to the next point when it comes to business one of places that the anti-semites have constantly captured Jewish people with a hot hand or a red-handed is in the world of business where unfortunately when you're looking for an excuse to hate Jewish people you don't have to look very far because if you go into business whether it's business of Jews or Gentiles you're always going to find some people that are crooked some people that are thieves but if you're looking for an excuse to hate Jews you're only going to look at the side that has Jew but the Torah itself warns us against this in last week's par tells us what's really on the line here in chapter 25 he tells us that we have to be honest in business to the extent that we're not allowed to even own a weight measuring system that's broken needless to say one that's intentionally uh manipulative where if you have a weight system a scale where you know that one party is going to uh benefit while the other loses as a result of this manipulation of the scale you're not even allowed to own it and as an actual that you're not allowed to own a broken scale why because when the Jewish people look at the Torah they can find every answer to every question possible but when they look at this they if they're only looking at it from the modern day perception they see there's something wrong here why because first it says you have to have honest business honest scales not allowed to have these these uh broken scales and then the next verse talks about remember what Amal did to you what does one thing have to do with the other I can understand if it talks about the scales and it finishes the par talks about business and it talks about other parts of business but here it says you have the scales and then it talks about amik what's the connection Rashi from 900 years ago extrapolated from this the need for us to know that when we as a Jewish people are dishonest in business we Empower amalik that's why the two verses are connected but why why is it that dishonest Jewish business business empowers the Nazis empowers the anti-semites empowers the people that are looking for an excuse to destroy the Jewish people even without a reason why does it why does what's the connection between the two I mean certainly there is non-jewish people that are dishonest but you don't see any programs and inquisitions against them there are certainly plenty of people from China that are cheating but you don't see any country attacking them for stealing billions of dollars because of the fake Goods industry that they have there's plenty of drug dealers in different parts of South America but you don't see anybody over there going to war with those countries because they're killing people in the streets there's plenty of Thieves and and and and and horrible people all over the world needless to say in America needless to say in every country but you don't see complete annihilations or attempt to annihilate entire people just because of bad business except the Jewish people where anytime there's a large part of us are caught or accused of doing dishonest business there's constant threats of annihilation complete Annihilation even to the ones that are not related to it you saw 50 people stealing money charging interest that's obnox ious and predatory and now you want to call you want to kill 15 million it's like saying one Mexican guy robbed the bank so go and uh you know conquer Mexico one black guy uh beat up some old ladies so go and uh destroy Africa like it's this the stupidest thing in the world that's because aadh is trying to tell you here anti-Semitism is not part of logic it has nothing to do with logic it has to do with a Divine hand in the world if you are a superficial thinker of today thinking that you need to get immediate answers at face value you're going to look at the Tor and you're going to be confused why because you're not going to see the connection you're going to see that one paragraph talks about scales weights dishonest business forbidden dishonest business the next verse says don't forget your Archen enemy Amal that did not fear God destroy them okay but at least tell me they're the ones that are cheating in business maybe but no Rashi says that's because Hashem is trying to teach you anti-Semitism comes from his hand it's a tool he uses in order to get his children to do chuva during this month of alul is an opportunity for every single Jew to change their ways but this is simply another tool that you're going to get to motivate you if you are part of a dishonest business or you know somebody that's a part of dishonest business but yet doesn't realize the ramifications you should let them know every single transaction they do dis honestly whether it's in a lending business or a jewelry business or a technology business or a car business or any business they're in and they're doing it dishonestly they should know they are giving fuel to the next Holocaust how our holy Torah tells us the reason why these two things are connected to each other is because of the ultimate battle between good and evil that began with yov and yov being good good asav being evil asav is not just a person but is literally the representation of evil and this he denied the complete monitoring of a in this world and and completely disregarded any will of doing the right thing from him came amalik and amalik has the same letters as the word me that's where it comes from the word me means twisted or distorted that's in essence the mindset of of amalik the mindset of adum is distorted they have one thing that's true and they'll build 55 different Lies over it still thinking because it has one thing that's true that everything else remains true as a result all comes from his distorted mentality because Amal has no desire to do the right thing but Amal is given power over the Jewish people when the Jewish people act like him because yov his name was also is that's our nation's name is isra I'm is is also comes from the word is Ison means to be straight honest yov represented honesty and therefore it says the cleal that when the Jewish people are dishonest in business such as the example that's given in the tah here in or in the mitvah and the mitvah number 605 he says when a Jew is using a scale but it's a dishonest scale it's being double-faced why because the scale is supposed to represent that you are honest that you want both sides to get what they deserve but if it's a dishonest scale then it's no different than the pig who has the split hooves but doesn't chew his cud he looks kosher but really he's not on the inside when you have a scales when you have a storefront you have a business you have all types of fake customer reviews that you're honest but in reality you're a cheat it's double whammy of evil because not only are you cheating and planning to cheat but you're representing something honest this is the Twisted nature of amalik and therefore when am is acts like Amal acts then all of the things that they do Empower amalik instead of empowering the Jews and when Amal gains more power it attacks when do you go to war you go to war when you have the most amount of power when does anti-semitism happen when Amal is at its highest power and the more that Jews go with dishonest business the more they're empowering amalik and the more they're actually readying the next Holocaust this is why our sages teach us that in the and in several other places that when it comes to dishonest business what people don't realize is that it's much worse than you can imagine you could think listen what's the big deal I'm only cheating him for 100 bucks I'm only cheating him for $500 I'm only cheating him for 50 million whatever I'm cheating he has a lot of money he could afford what you don't realize is the damage of of dishonest business first and foremost the PUK says to warn us that we shouldn't have these counterweights or two different measuring systems one one honest and one dishonest in order to teach us that if you have this and you conduct this honest business there's a promise from Heaven that there's going to be a measure for measure judgment that a person will be punished with the fact that he wants to become wealthy he will not only fail at becoming wealthy but ultimately he will lose all of his money that's the first punishment this only history could show you how this works a person looks like he's ruling the world before you know it he loses everything we've seen as the already said over a hundred years ago there's a lot more people that are losing all of their wealth overnight in modern day than any other time in history a lot more people are gaining wealth but at the same token we're seeing a lot of people losing everything overnight something that was that's incomprehensible losing you know gaining money takes a lot of time you know usually takes time even if you made a lot of money in a short period of time it still takes time but losing money literally could happen in one day just a week ago I spoke to somebody that had an extraordinary business everything was going good and in one day in literally one hour everything was shut down everything was shut down after a few some a few prayers some chuva things are uh getting back to themselves and hopefully things will will improve but literally he saw that within one second a business that took him a long time to build in one second it was it was destroyed one second something that was generating money and everything everything one second destroyed and this is something that's happening more and more anytime something like that happens to a person they need to check a couple things number one are you honest in business number two are you giving M you using the money not just for to buy more stuff in the world are you actually giving the right amount of staka number three are you are you actually keeping the MIT whether it's morality or it's Shabbat or you know things that are the foundation of Judaism if a person has a check marks where he's doing all the right things he has nothing to worry about if he's got a few X's where he's missing Shabbat he's missing morality he's missing then he has a lot to worry about but a person that steals as a business they simply should know they're guaranteed to lose all of it it's only a matter of time and we've seen billionaires lose a fortune lose everything in recent years something that never happened before at least not as often the second thing the Torah says is that one of the other measure for measures judgments from Heaven on such a thing is that aside from poverty the person will also lose their house because the verse says you should not have this measure in your house in order to tell you then if you do you'll lose the house and lastly that if a person is honest in their business then you'll have you'll eventually succeed now some people may not be scared of losing because they have so much and they figure how could I lose everything Hashem has to destroy the whole world in order to take all the real estate all the stocks all the Bitcoins all the private companies yes the destroy the whole world just to take all the money no no you forgot he doesn't have to take all the money he can just simply take you instead of the money and person said yeah but I gave a lot of sta so I'll be in a good place wrong why because the page 88b says the reason why the tah finishes with the words anyone that does these all of these is in order to compare the crime of immorality to dishonest business to tell you that when a when a Jew is dishonest in their business it's actually worse than immorality it's worse than adultery it's worse than prostitution it's worse than wasting seed it's worse than whatever immorality you can think of why is it worse I mean technically if you look at the at the punishment itself certainly wasting seed or adultery or or or any of the other ones that are there are the punishment is much worse so why is thear saying that dishonest business is worse because anytime a person stole in business but in a way of doing business it's very different than if somebody committed immorality because if he committed immorality he knows he did something wrong he doesn't need the rabbi to remind him that cheating on his wife and committing adultery is wrong he doesn't need to remind her that cheating on her husband and committing immorality is wrong she knows he doesn't need to remind him that wasting seed is wrong why his body his own body his own Nish already feels it he doesn't need to tell him that immorality is wrong why because you know it already and therefore you know that you have to do chuba for it on the other hand when somebody makes it their business to steal where they're in one of these cash advanced businesses and they're in a predatory lending industry that's charging 50 500 you know 4,000% interest all types of ridiculous number numbers and you think this is an honest business you think that this is good business what you've done is you've turned the pig into a kosher animal and therefore the person that's in that business whether it's the cash advance business or any other dishonest business they don't see what they're doing as wrong and therefore they never do cha for it so while the guy that committed adultery knows what he did is WR wrong and may not do cha for it now but perhaps down the down the line he will do because he always knows it was wrong but the guy that cheated in business never thought about it being wrong why listen I was just making money I was hustling he doesn't realize hustling is not allowed in Judaism because it's that means dishonest business the real meaning of hustling means dishonest business it's not allowed in Judaism so going back to our original topic or source of the topic which is the debate between the Primitive ancient wisdom versus the modern day the Kish tells us that the reason why the sages with all of their wisdom chose not to utilize that wisdom wisdom and make the same type of modern day inventions like we have today is because they saw that the outcome would create more damage than good when a person is looking at things from a the perspective of Torah they're looking at it from the perspective of wisdom which looks at things from every single facet that you can number one is it allowed according to God or not number two what did the sages have to say about it number three what could go wrong number four do I really understand it enough to answer these questions and the list of questions goes on and on and all of a sudden you start finding yourself to be like a talur scholar asking 50 million questions about something that seems superficial and simple to the average person all of a sudden the format of the T make sense to you because if you want to make the right decision it's not just asking questions it's knowing which questions to ask and knowing who to ask and that's why when the families of GMU and a Vitas were originally viewed by some people as greedy people they explained themselves and therefore got everyone to understand that their reasoning is good who are these family page 38a say that the Galu family had possessed the art of making the the showbread that they used the bet mikdash that they had 12 loaves put into the place and stay hot like they just came out of the oven for an entire week after they were there for a whole week stayed hot like they just came out of the oven without being connected to anything without being inside an oven being outside they would take them out simultaneously replacing them with a new dozen breads at the same time so there's never a time where there's no bread in there and then they were able to give them to the people to to the quim to eat them but somebody asked them how do you do it how does the bread stay hot for a week even if it's I'm not going to take your job for the business or for the bet mikdash I just want to do it at home I want to make a piece of bread at stays hot for a week and just eat it whenever I want they wouldn't disclose the secret the same goes with the avitas family atina family who had knowledge of how to make the where it would have a pillar of smoke go all the way to the sky that's completely straight by adding this special grass to it when they were asked why you know tell us how to do it even if we're not doing it for the BET mikdash just just I don't know I want to have something cool my house didn't didn't disclose it initially the people said ah you guys are greedy what's going to happen when you're dead no one's going to know how to do it anymore you just want to save your own uh you know your own money your own Traditions but you want to share it said no no no it has nothing to do with that it has nothing to do with that it has nothing to do with money it's the fact that we know that if we give you the secret there's nothing that's going to stop you from sharing that secret with someone else and even if you share that secret with someone that's also good there's nothing that's stopping the next person from sharing that secret with the next person and at some point or another somebody that's a thief somebody that's dishonest somebody that's an enemy of God will find this secret and will then utilize this whole secret for idolatrous reasons will utilize it to steal money will utilize it to do their own interest even if their interest is against the people's interest and therefore it's better that this secret dies with us than it ever be used by someone that can manipulate it after the sages heard this they knew that wisdom is what caused this decision to be made this is the difference between the sages ancient wisdom and what we have today we have today is a world that's comprised of people that can invent things and do things but if we want to benefit from the sages we can't be part of the crowd we have to always exclude ourselves we have to evaluate things from a Jewish perspective we have to analyze things ask ourselves do we really understand the issue at hand is this allowed according to God or not what did the sages have to do what do they have to say about this how do we analyze each and every single topic in our life in such a fashion if not for the wisdom of the sages and since none of us are becoming sages overnight this is the reason why we need as many as many Torah Scholars as we possibly can get to help them to support them to make sure they continue teaching and learning because this is the wisdom that kept our nation alive all these years because while they did good and they obviously produced good there's always some of us that rejected that wisdom and in fact we're the cause of anti-Semitism by doing dis honest business and empowering amalik we're both part of the same Nation when the enemy judges he's judging everyone together this is the reason why each and every single person that acquires wisdom has a certain level of obligation to teach to help to make sure to reproduce this type of mindset this type of thought process this type of Lifestyle now you don't have to necessarily be a very wise person in order to know that this is wisdom but you do have to have some courage in order to teach it in order to live it this is why the prophet Isaiah says that if a person simply looks at The Superficial things like fasting and all of the exterior things thinking that this is the will of God they're mistaken as he says in chapter 58:3 why did we fast and you did not see it why did we afflict our souls and you did not know this is the people complaining to God because he's still punishing them despite them you know fasting and the prophet answers in the name of God and he says behold on your fast day you seek out personal gain and you extort all your debts because you fast for grievance and strife to strike each other with your debts uh with a wicked fist you do not fast as be Fitz this day to make your voice heard above can uh to make your voice heard above can such be the fast that I choose a day when man merely afflicts himself in so many words says if you're going to show up to yip fasting without changing your behavior the fast is a waste of time what is looking for is a change in our hearts a change in our behaviors once a person changes their heart changes their behavior then that's going to put them in a certain position of Purity and more importantly it's going to give them a certain amount of responsibility to share this information now one question that this uh Chapter 58 answers a question that a lot of people ask and we'll finish it with this is that some people ask me how do you know if your chuva was accepted how do you know if you Chua is accepted did cha two three four five six years ago how do I know if it's accepted the prophet says ancient ruins will be rebuilt through you and you will restore Generations old foundations and they will call you repairer of the breach and restore of the paths of habitation this is in the same chapter 58:12 over there tell us that here the prophet is telling us that after a person does chuva forsakes the bad goes on the right path is going to give that person opportunities to build not just their own life but other people's lives other families other communities that are going to be rebuilt old family names all family names of the ramban family names of the Kish family names of all of the great sages that have descendants that live in this generation he's going to give those people that have gone off an opportunity to come back through you why through you CU you chose the right path soem to show you that he wants your ways he wants you to continue he's going to allow other people to go on your path as well and you will restore Generations old foundations and they will call you repairer of the breach and restore of the paths of habitation say when they come to you you're going to have the ability to help them do cha and turn from being Wicked to righteous so if you're asking how do I know if Hashem accepted my Chu I'm already keeping Shabbat for a few years I'm already doing this I'm already doing that you know that's what people ask all the time the answer the prophet says is simple if is giv you many opportunities to help people do chuv that means that wants to build through you and if he wants to build through you that means you're good to be built upon this two will give each and every single one of us something to build on if we're not exactly there yet and no one's building upon us and no one's asking us for any help then certainly this should be encouraging for us to do more So eventually we get to that point if we are in a dishonest business this should be a critical note to take into account that you heard this today because is telling you it's time to leave the dishonest business today if you have the mindset that the talud is not good perhaps you should reconsider simply because you don't know doesn't mean that uh you know it's whatever you don't know is not good there's a lot there's a lot of the there's a lot of tah out there and this will give each and every single one of us enough enough ammunition to R at the big day of Rashana and eventually yum with something in our hands something we've produced some good we did something good we learned some new uh good thing we've took upon some bad thing that we've uh given up all of these things now is the time to do it and we'll continue to learn this series uh you know over the next few months not sure when the next Che of this series is going to be because we're going to be on the trip for a little while uh in but our next sh is going to be on Wednesday a this different series of stump the rabbi that will be our final Shure for a little while until we uh get back into uh things hopefully it's going to be while I'm still in Israel but again I don't know the schedule once I'm there thanks again for learning with me mayem bless each and every single one of you there are several thousand shim on our YouTube channel or on the app that you can watch I'm sure that none of you have watched all of them and even if you have none of you remember all of them because even I myself don't remember all of them even though I gave them so there's a lot to learn there's a lot to do and each and every one of us will take advantage of all of it [Music] call for [Music] is [Music] n [Music]