NITZAVIM |You're Stronger Than You Think: - STUMP THE RABBI (218)

we're back here on our Wednesday night stump we after some you guys will ask some questions and will give us the answers tonight sh is going to be for the [Music] for s s Leana tal s Ben ra and also for the for the and all of the donors and the helpers and the team of will we blessed a thousandfold in all the amazing effort that they've done over this past year b as this will be the last Shure of the year for us uh next week uh we're not going to have a Shure on Sunday night preparing for the uh the big uh the big day the uh day of Judgment of Rashana that's going to begin on Wednesday night but uh tonight's sha certainly should uh be more than sufficient for everybody to have a lot to think about and a lot to act uh as a result of it anyone that wants to uh join us and partner with us in our uh campaign that we have for the high holidays to uh help feed over 10,000 people we are literally a world away uh for meeting our goals as far as uh getting your help we need a lot more donors we 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uh you can get yourself a monthly subscription which certainly is going to help you get endless answers uh to your uh Torah questions ideological questions uh with sources and in 30 different languages so with that being said we have to get started already uh and uh so this week we have a double parasa double parasa means that we have two parot uh this week that we have to read uh this this happens a few times a year where in order to uh complete the entire the entire Five Books of Moses every year uh there are uh each uh time we usually read only one Paras but there's a few times of the year where we're actually reading uh two parot and this is one of those times in the uh days of the uh uh uh of the they actually used to complete the Kash once every three years uh but then when the sages saw that people are forgetting and the degradation of the generations they decided to change the uh the reading to actually read the entire Kash once every year uh so this double par are The Parting words of mosu and uh we see that there is endless rebuke in the entire book of Deuteronomy seph is full of rebuke one after another one bomb after another one punch after another uh but yet when we dig deeper inside the words of rebuke from from his messenger mosenu we actually see the compassion and the love uh that uh that mosenu for us that has for us and in fact that's what we're going to delve into today to actually dig deeper inside the words that mosenu told us before he left this world uh and find the diamonds in there and realize that uh what he's actually telling us is that we are much stronger than we think so starts off with a reminder to every single gen generation this Torah applies to you it's not just the generation of the desert it's not just the generation that followed it it's not just the people living in Israel it's not just the people that live in a religious community it's not just the people that grew up from it's not just the people that uh are aware it's for everyone in fact the Torah says in the beginning of the par in chapter 29: 11 that m is tell telling us he's bringing this Covenant to bring you into the Covenant of Hashem your God and into his oath that hasem your God seals with you and then later on in verse 13 He says not with you alone do I seal this Covenant and this oath but they also include whoever is here standing with us today before Hashem Our God and whoever is not here with us today see here mosenu is confir affirming that this Torah will never change no matter what philosophers and Heretics come out you know from the Woodworks over the years this same exact Tora stays the same and furthermore he gives us the details of those of us that are not glued to Hashem and perhaps think that maybe there's another way maybe I don't really need to care so much like the rabbi is saying maybe I could just be a nice person observe the mitv that fit within my life and perhaps that's enough or better yet I'm already keeping mitv I observe Shabbat I wear out's clothes I uh eat kosher I'm not robbing anyone in business so enough I don't need to necessarily care so much about the poor Jews in Israel that don't have food for this holiday I don't need to care so much about the poor Jews all over the world that are not observing Shabbat unless they're my cousin or my brother or my mother then I'll care but those that are not really related to me perhaps it's not my business maybe I could just Live and Let Live maybe it's not really my responsibility to fight God's Wars against the Heretics then m tells us perhaps then there is among you a man or a woman or a family or tribe whose heart turns away today from the fear of Hashem Our God to go and serve the false gods of those Nations perhaps there is among you a man contemplating sins or malice and it will be when he hears the words of this oath he will think in his heart saying peace will be with me when I go as dictated by the sentiment of my heart so as to act for him the unintentional sins onto the intentional ones here mosu says perhaps the scariest words in the entire Torah where a person that simply thinks that they're doing enough and they don't need to care care about the rest of they don't necessarily need to care about the spiritual poverty material poverty or even quite frankly they don't even need to care about their own spiritual poverty they're doing enough I'll do whatever fits with me in my heart mosu says in that particular circumstance where a person says I'm doing enough and everything will be fine that alone acquires that person a decree worse than all decrees where will punish them by turning all of their unintentional sins that otherwise they would have been punished for but not as severely but Hashem now turns all of their unintentional sins into intentional ones which get the work most severe punishment why says the B Ulus and the ne because this type of unacceptable attitude of Peace will be upon me I'm doing enough shows that this person's heart is not with Hashem and therefore Hashem will punish them because he intends to follow the dictates of his heart both his intentional and his unintentional sins are committed with the same disre regard for hashem's will meaning that since he disregards hashem's will then he doesn't get the special privilege of Hashem actually judging him differently based on different things because he doesn't care about any of the decrees he doesn't care about any of the mitv he just cares about whatever is in his own heart she just cares about whatever she thinks is good she thinks it's much more important for her to get an extension to our house or a more uh you know more fancy kitchen that perhaps to publicize tah perhaps to help it's much more important to take 40 50 60 70 $100,000 and get ourselves a nice vacation or a uh you know a more beautiful chandelier or a nicer jewelry that to help and says if you have that kind of an attitude where your jewelry is more expensive than your donations your car is more important to you than your fellow Jew then what ends up happening is you're saying that you're doing enough and by saying that you're doing enough means that you actually don't really care about hashem's honor you don't care about Tor you don't care about anything and therefore says then I don't care about you I don't care about how I'm going to judge you I'm going to judge everything the same thing because you judge all my MIT as if it's nothing and mosenu continues by saying Hashem will not be willing to Pardon him for then hashem's anger and his wrath will be intense against that man and all the curses that are written in this book will adhere to him and Hashem will erase his name from under the heavens Hashem will set him aside for evil from among all the tribes of isra like all the curses of the Covenant that are written in this book of the Torah and the later generations will say your children who will arise after you and the members of the other nations who will come from a distant land who did not hear about this Covenant when they see the blows of the land and the illnesses with which Hashem has Afflicted it he's comparing it to Sodom and Gomorrah all the nations will say for what reason did Hashem do this to the land what is the reason for the intensity of this great anger and they will say meaning even the go will know this after they see how much hasem beat us up if we have such an unacceptable attitude ah it's because they forsook the Covenant of Hashem the god of their forefathers that he sealed with them when he took them out of the land of Egypt now here we have to understand what we're reading what is this Covenant is hasem saying oh because you violated one mitvah of let's say not washing your hands before you eat or perhaps you violated one Mitzvah of let's say you didn't pray on time or perhaps you didn't do a mitvah where uh you had an opportunity to give somebody a ride to sh but you decided that you're in a hurry you need to go to work so let them let them uh find something else is that what he's saying no here mosenu is telling us that this careless attitude of I'll just do whatever I feel like doing and everything will be fine I'll keep the mitv that I can keep that fit my schedule that fit my life I'll give whatever I feel like giving because I don't really have to I'll pray when I have time to pray I'll do whatever I want God loves me anyway everything will be fine that unacceptable attitude shows aadh that we really don't understand anything about who's the king and therefore the wrath of a is most severe because it takes everything that a person does and puts it in one category unacceptable now why is it so unacceptable we'll get to in a moment but so far we're seeing that the words are words of rebuke where is the blessing the Torah continues warning us verse after verse if you read this you don't have to be a genius to understand that God means business in fact you see what's transpired in the history of but you also see what's transpired even in your own personal life anytime you've gone through difficulty you could find that difficulty in the Torah especially in the book of Deuteronomy especially in these last few parot where mosu is warning us before he leaves the world now all of the sins that a person does kazal called them where he sinned because he had a spirit of foolishness and therefore K who says through mosu in Chapter 30 verse 6 that after we do chuva after we fix ourselves Hashem your God will remove the foolishness of your heart and the foolishness of the heart of your children enabling you to love hasem your God with all your heart and all your soul so that you live and then he starts telling us about all the wonderful blessings hashm wants to give us Hashem will give you back bounty in all the work of your hands in the child of your womb in the young of your animals and the fruit of your land for good when Hashem will return to Rejoice over you for good as he rejoiced over your forefathers so here we see that everything we are about to pray for on R when we ask Hashem to bless us because we want to have kids to bless us because we want to find a Zug to bless us because we want to have more money so we could live a more comfortable life to bless us to bless us to bless us during that section of prayer everybody's excited amen amen even the guy that just showed up five minutes before the end of the holiday everybody's amen amen everybody's excited yeah yeah yeah I want that blessing yeah I want that one I want that one but if you notice during the time of there are times we have to do v v where we confess our sins especially during Yip when we talk about before in where it's the immorality it's very short it's very quiet I made this in made this in I said oh you can barely hear the guy everybody's quiet how come you're not excited about confession of your sins as you are about the blessings because no one wants to talk about the bad things they did but everybody wants not only a sh they want a sh a good year that's sweet when it comes to Blessings we want no end to the blessings we want sweet blessings we want more kids want good marriage someone that's not married wants good a a good wife good husband we want not just to havea not just to have a way to make a living but a good living which respectable and perhaps even extraordinary a lot of money want to be rich when it comes to the blessings we do not skip a beat in our request from Hashem when it comes to admitting that we've made some mistakes we're not as enthusiastic and what's the difference between the two says mosenu the difference between getting the blessings of the curses is simply following the the T and not having an unacceptable attitude what is following the tah is is it difficult is it far away is it something that requires for me to grow up in a religious house in a religious family in a religious community is it require me to to know everything no says mosenu for this Commandment that I command you today it is not separated from you meaning Beyond you it's not so distant it's not in the heavens for you to say who can Ascend to the heavens for us and take it for us and let us hear it so that we can perform it nor is it across the sea for you to say who can cross to the other side of the sea for us and take it for us and let us hear it so that we can perform it rather the matter is very near to you in your mouth and in your heart to perform it here mosenu tells us Point Blank fulfilling the Torah is easy if you want to if you have the right attitude the Torah is the easiest thing in the world why easiest thing in the world where do we see the words easiest thing in the world it's in your mouth it's in your heart to perform it meaning you were created to fulfill the Torah just like a phone was created to make calls and a car was created to drive and a plane was created to fly or anything else that was created was created for a specific purpose therefore if you used a plane to fly that's where it's going to perform the best but if you use the plane to use it as a as a speed for for for driving you're not going to do so well if you try to fly with your car by driving it off a mountain it's not going to have a good outcome it wasn't created for flying it was created for driving if you use your phone as a weapon to throw at people it's not really going to be such a good weapon number one it's going to stop performing as a phone it's going to break and number two you're not going to be able to use it a second time it'll break but if you use it for the intentional purp for the purpose of it the phone to call the plane to fly the car to drive yeah that's it if you use your time in this world to follow the Tor certainly you will succeed it's just a matter of time and effort but if you have the unacceptable shalom peace will be upon me attitude as I do what my heart sees fit not only will you not find the Torah easy but in fact over time you will find it intolerable you will hate it and you'll find yourself violating it left and right and that's why mosenu continues verse after verse to warn us what happens if we choose to go against the Torah if you choose evil says m in verse 17 chapter 30 and your heart will turn away from Hashem and you will not heed his Commandments and you stray and prostrate yourself to the false gods of the Nations and serve them then I tell you to day that you will surely be lost you will not have long days upon the land that you cross the yen to enter there to take possession of it I call the Heaven and the Earth to Bear witness against you I have placed life and death before you the blessing and the curses and you shall favor life so that you will live you and your children to love love Hashem your God to heed his word and to draw close to fear Him for he is your life and the lent of your days to dwell upon the land that hasem swore to your forefathers to Abraham is and yob to give them here we see mosenu speaking clearly without any type of sugar coating whatsoever the question is where is the compliment one of the things that people want more than anything else and it's not even one of the things it is the one thing that people want more than anything else so long as they're normal is life people want to live so if somebody finds out that they have a disease that's going to lead to their death there cannot be worse news when they find out that somebody that they care about has a terminal disease there cannot be worse news people want life when a woman finds out that she cannot have a child to celebrate and raise with her husband she cannot produce life s menu taught us this is like death this is like the news of death people want life they want to live they want their loved ones to live they want to their kids to live they want to bring kids to the world they want to create life there's nothing greater than life even the people that chased money and wasted their whole life chasing money and honor and and and all types of lust at the end they're willing to spend all of it just for another day of life if they could but the Torah tell tells usem decides on R who will live and who will die meaning that even if somebody tries to kill themselves they will only succeed if it was already decreed upon them to die if they didn't kill themselves they would have died anyway just in a different way just now they're dying and is a sin and they'll have to pay an extra punishment for what they did did to themselves they murdered themselves but at the end of it all when you sum everything up what is the number one most important thing for any one person out there it's life and every aspect of life their own life and their loved ones life producing life and despite the fact that we know that a kadosh is the only one that decides who lives and who dies and he decides this on the says this on page 16 and so does the page 16 Hashem also told us that there are things that influence his decision things that we can do to give us more life because when a person is judged in shim to live or to die Hashem does not only judge that person but also every single person that will be affected by it his mother and father his siblings his wife his kids his friends his cowork workers employees long-distant friend that he hasn't spoken to in years everyone gets judged because everyone will be affected by it and therefore the say that one of the greatest things that a person can do is have a very close relationship with a sadik because that sadik can save his life because if let's say he has been decreed for whatever sin he made or whatever happened that made this pretty much a day that is going to hurt a lot of people and according to the calculations of Heaven the parents deserve it the kids deserve it the spouse deserves it the business partner deserves it but yet he has a friend he hasn't spoken to him in 20 years and in the last 20 years that friend has done chuva he's watched the B rabis teaching T he's done chv he learns T he does he dedicates his life to tah and that sadik although he hasn't heard from his friend in 20 years he has purified himself so much that his judgment is not to deserve to have any harm and if he hears that his long lost friend has died it would cause him sorrow and for that the say hasem will not let him die that sadik can save his life but how many of us can say that we have a close relationship with someone that's a sadik in fact how can we know so there's another way by the same calculation we see that when a kadosh decides what he's going to decide on R he's going to evaluate the person and everyone around them and therefore if a person makes himself a benefactor of the public meaning more and more people need him people need him to teach people need him to give Saka people need him to uh to help them in different ways to give them guidance to give them a house to whatever it is he's a he's a benefactor of the public the greater of a benefactor he is to the public the more the public needs him the more there's a reason forh to leave him in this world because even if none of those people are sikim the fact is that he's still a vessel that Hashem is using in this world to benefit his people to benefit the world so if he is responsible for helping a thousand people eat this holiday through his donation if she's responsible for helping 5,000 people celebrate the holiday this this year if they're responsible for thousands of people doing chuba in the last several months as a result of their donations as a result of their teachings as a result of their actions even if none of the peopleim yet there are simply too many people that are relying on them they're not easily replaceable if you will and therefore decrees they're good for the public the Merit the combined Merit of the public will give them life so here we're starting to understand that saying peace will be upon me as I do whatever my heart sees fit is contrary to being a benefactor of the public because if I do whatever I see fit is the attitude of a person then that means that he doesn't really care about the public I'll only help when the public can help him he'll only do if it's profitable for him it's only self-interest this is the reason why there are many places that may call themselves holy institutions but in reality they don't help anybody but themselves you see the kids graduating that Yeshiva with 50 60% of them barely even believing in God you see that people that come to sh with 50 60 70% of them not even observing Shabbat you see people growing in the community comfortable looking more like the go then they do like Jews in fact emulating the G intentionally you see that there is a lot of buildings with names on them but God's not in the picture so while somebody thought oh yeah well there's Torah out there you're right there is Torah out there but not every Torah is for the sake of hem sometimes Torah is used as an ax to self a self-purpose selfish so how does a person turn themselves into a public benefactor the mid in second section says as follows and these are the laws the laws that are being referred to of what was written about the king the king who would build the land on these laws and the man of tum will destroy it the king the m is referring to the king of Torah as we see from The Book of Proverbs chapter 29 verse 24 what about the TR we see that the king will build the world based on the laws so the king bu built this world based on the laws of the Tora but what is this tum that's going to destroy the world this man of Trum Trum is an offering that they brought at the bet mikdash it's a very special very extraordinary offering that only theim could take part of and because only theim could take part of it they had to protect it by covering the Tuma when it wasn't time yet to bring this offering didn't want anyone to steal it didn't want any kid to make a mistake and think maybe it's okay because he's only a kid he's only taking a little bite because anyone that's not aen that ate from that Trum it's a Heavenly death penalty so protect this Priceless offering they would actually put it in a ugly vessel so no one would be interested and what in that vessel what could possibly be in that vessel nothing's nothing's valuable in that ugly vessel meantime there's the Trum offering and therefore the m is teaching us that if a person makes themselves into the man of Tuma in order to relieve themselves from becoming a benefactor of the public where this person is precious he has an abundance of Torah that he can teach he's extraordinary Torah knowledge that he can help judge in AED he's wealthy and he can help people go to Yesa have money to eat and celebrate the holidays Shabbat feed the poor he has tools precious tools that aadh gave him but he doesn't want to be this he doesn't want to be a public benefactor he wants to be left alone oh they're going to call me every day and invite me everywhere they're going to ask me questions nonstop let somebody else do it he doesn't want to donate he wants to get himself nice vacation expansion to the house maybe a second or a third car redo his garage perhaps plant some more trees in the backyard so he could look at every day while he's drinking his coffee in the morning and the aroma of the coffee will be perfect fit for the beauty that's in his garden she wants to get our another piece of jewelry to our collection so that way when she walks down the street people will not only see her but perhaps a spark coming out of her different body parts that wear this new jewelry she doesn't want to use that money to benefit the public she said listen I I benefited the public last month I gave a little donation I even told a few other people it's good for you but now it's enough enough yeah but you have more you have a 100,000 500,000 a million in the you have a lot of money it's not like you're struggling yeah but I already did we understand you already did but Hashem also gave you more than just what you did ah leave me alone the sages teach us the person who makes themselves into a t in order to relieve themselves from being the benefactor of the public is judged as if they destroyed the entire world and on them it's written this verse the man of T would be the destroyer of the world one of the extraordinary examples of this that I learned with Rim is story of r r say on his Deathbed was crying hysterical and his nephew came in and saw the great RAV the is crying on his deathbed and he know that he's not crying from pain or physical pain he's not crying because of any other reason other than the fact that he's scared of the Judgment in heaven that he's about to face he's about to meet the Creator he's about to meet a and he's scared to death but he's aad he's a so the nephew says rebi why are you crying is there a Torah that you've learned and haven't taught the public meaning you you kept it only to yourself no you taught endless amount of Torah look your tella around you tella all over town is there a DI a judgment that you said no I don't want to do it let somebody else do this is there such a thing did you ignore some judgment no everyone relied on you is there any that you didn't do the entire town has survived because of all of the acts of that you've done to feed the poor to help the orphans and the widows everything is functioning as a result of all the work that you've built over these decades and on top of it all you had such good midot such good character traits that you never asked for any type of recognition or honor and you ran away from it and's deathbed says to his young nephew he says to him my son this is why I cried this is why I cry perhaps I could have judged as a danan even more than I did and therefore I will be Jud judged in heaven for whatever I could have done whereas it says the man of T will destroy it will destroy the world now the question is did R see was he judging only once in a blue moon and therefore he's saying oh you know what I didn't judge enough so perhaps there was a a bunch of bad judgments out there theab page 10 10 a says that when and rabi and RI R and RI was studying Tor these are the two top of their generation when they were studying Tor in the BET mid they would stop every hour and one of them would go to the door open it where the public is there all the people that are studying in the BET midash anyone that came in that's everyone was and they would ask and it would knock on the table is there anyone here that need us to judge a case is there anyone here that needs our help and if no one needed it they'd go back to studying tah how often would they do this every one hour meaning that there's certainly no judgment whatsoever that R denied or ran away from but yet R knows in his level in his level of righteousness in his level of scholarship in his level of the abilities and the blessings that aad gave him perhaps it wasn't enough for him to stop learning every hour and ask people if they needed perhaps you should have gone out into the public chasing opportunities to help people if that's the way they're going to judge me in shim I'm doomed because whatever I did was not enough he's crying about the risk of maybe he did not do enough and the mid R inot says on this verse the king that will build the land on the laws and the man of tum that will destroy it the king is referring to yat who said in the book of Chronicles 2 Chapter 19 Verse 6 where he said to the judges the judges of the that day look what you're doing meaning you're not helping the public enough and on you it is written that you are men of Tuma and you will destroy it because you're too busy to help people and Hashem says about you that you're destroying my world here we see that whatever Hashem gifts us with whether it's extraordinary Tor knowledge or wealth or abilities it's not just for our own enjoyment or our own benefit but rather we are supposed to use whatever we have in order to benefit the public now he's benefiting the public easy absolutely not it's the exact opposite Rua leevi one of the greatest sages that ever lived who went up to shamim Alive went into geden alive he said as a result of him doing K helping people do chv teaching T he ended up forgetting 300 meaning it hurt his own learning but he continued to do it m raenu wanted to select the sanedrin of his day the first sanedrin and he did a goral a lottery but there two names that were selected that were not in the room his Step Brothers elad and midad were also prophets but they were very humble and they did not think that they were fit to be at such high positions mosenu came to them and said to them you think that I'm giving you honor by being leaders of the public you are servants there's no honor now the problem is that the average person does not think that this is referring to them perhaps they're not a speaker they're not a rabbi they're not so knowledgeable they're not so rich but these words of the Torah are just like what parat said this is for everyone men and women alike young and old those of the past generation and those that are listening and reading it today this applies to all of us where a person that desires life more than anything else has to know there is one key to increasing life or ruining life where if a person realizes that I could increase Life by simply doing more for the Public's good more people doing chuva more people learning tah more people serving Hashem and therefore more of hashem's Glory that's the purpose of the world what do I have that can do that if you have Torah knowledge you can teach if you do not have Torah knowledge then you have to find another way what other tool do you have well I have a regular job what do you do well I'm a pharmacist I'm a construction uh worker I have a little business selling all types of chairs and and boats and and different things I'm a doctor I'm a lawyer well guess what whatever profession you have produces money that money is not just for you to eat it it's just it's not just for you to vacation with it it's not just for you to save it for a retirement that may never happen but rather for for you to use a certain section of it where you are using that to you fullest extent to become a public benefactor now how much should a person give anything less than 10% shows that a person doesn't really believe that Hashem is providing him 100% of his money now it's 10% enough it depends how much a person has if a person has a lot 10% is not enough if a person has very little then 10% is more than enough the problem is that a person thinks well wait a minute I'm only making 5,000 10,000 even if I give 10% what can that possibly do what can that do what is that going to get a few this a few that it can't do that much if I was rich if God will give me the lottery and I get $100 million then I'll do much more that's the Satan telling you that why because you now are trying to justify saying shalomi meaning peace will be upon me because since I'm not the biggest Torah scholar or I'm not really skilled with with the ability to speak or I you know I I'm I don't have an audience I don't have subscribers I don't have a crowd or I don't have any money and I'm not so rich so you know what I don't have to do anything I'll just be fine I'll just have to take care of myself I'll get myself my boat I'll get myself a second car I'll get myself an extension to the kitchen make it bigger than the living room I'll get myself this I'll get myself that and uh that's enough says the T yes you are very special you are very special you don't even realize how special you are you don't even realize how strong you are you don't realize why because you are like a person that's a fireman and the fireman goes on his job and there's a fire in some building and he goes into the fire and he saves a baby and he comes out with the baby and he like yeah yeah good job great great wonderful wow wow it's like you doing the mitv you keep Shabbat you keep uh you know you you're good but then all of a sudden everyone their smiles and celebration turn upside down as they look at this fireman start to take off his equipment and sit down grab a co cold drink and starts drinking relaxing W that was great what are you doing what do you mean what am I doing I'm resting said I'm done I'm done what do you mean you're done I'm done how could you be done look I saved the baby yeah but there's 12 more babies inside the building what do you mean you saved the B good you saved the baby good you keep Shabbat good you gave money last year good you did something a long time ago but there's still 12 more babies in the world in the in this inside the building there's still millions of Jews that are not keeping one baby's not enough how can you sit here relaxing well I did I did good things yes but there's still millions of babies that have not returned to their ABA and Sh how can you allow yourself to pause how can you allow yourself to Vacation how can you allow yourself to be so nonchalant and careless about everything else in the world because you did something good in the past while there's 12 million Jewish babies that may go into gome because people like you don't care enough about them how can you do that if a person has their eyes in their head they realize you know what if God made me a fireman that means I need to to Fe fight fires if God made me a good speaker that means I could publicize his name if God G made me Rich that means I need to use the money to publicize hashem's name even if God did not give me a lot of money but certainly he gave me more money than what I really need then I can certainly take whatever I have and use it to make sure that I'm not the man of Trot that's hiding whatever good is inside just to relieve myself of the responsibility just to have my own peace and quiet because if I do that even the good that a person does AEM can turn into bad in a day of judgment when we ask a for blessings we ask him for abundance and not just abundance abundance that's sweet when we ask him for health we ask him for the best health we ask him for marriage we only we ask him for marriage that also produces happiness and children when we ask hasem for money we don't only only ask him for money we ask him for Extraordinary success when we ask aad for things we want the whole the whole pie when we ask Hashem for life we ask for a long life Hashem says that's all available to you give me a reason the number one reason is if you benefit my nation if you use what I gave you to benefit my nation Beyond the norm to the highest extent then I will also change the norm for your sake and one of the saddest things that you can see is when people fall for the Satan's trap and thinking that whatever they can give is not enough so therefore I shouldn't do anything and unfortunately not only does not turn them into people that not using their gift but it also turns them into ungrateful people where they only benefit from Hashem they only benefit from the public they only benefit but they don't give they don't contribute I always tell you guys that I don't track donations I don't have time there's reporting we look at the overall numbers each month but but with the exception of people that I'm very close to I don't usually know who's donating who's not except if they're a larger donor and I have to pray for them there's usually more that is required when they make the large donations they also have us make a video for them or we pray for them or different things we usually have a a strong relationship because these are people that really believe in our work they believe in what we do but there are many people that perhaps are not large donors but they're still ask a million questions guidance that would cost them tens of thousands of dollars as given to them for free they ask for marriage you know uh marriage questions whether it's to find someone to marry or it's to fix their current marriage where their spouse is becoming someone they hate and they want me to fix it or they ask for guidance with their kids because they don't really know what to do with their kids because their kids have certain issues or they don't know how to raise their kids and they don't know what books to buy those kids or which school to pick or which teacher to teach to use as a teacher a which show is permissible to watch because just because it says says the name Torah on it doesn't necessarily mean it's really Torah there are many Christian missionaries that title their videos also Torah so they'll ask you questions about books and they'll ask you questions about their children and they'll ask you questions about their marriage and they'll ask you for guidance about what to do with money and whether they should get a different job and whether they should ask for a raise or whether they should sign a contract with a new customer or resign something with an old customer or perhaps they should you know hire a new lawyer because of this law that they have or they're suing someone or someone is suing them or someone is throwing them out of a house or they're buying a house and whether they should hire a new company to redo their kitchen or perhaps maybe even a new customer that could become someone that is also a service provider people ask endless amount of questions and we do the best that we can to answer every single one of them we don't always succeed but we do our best and those that do get our attention certainly benefit and if that weren't enough there's also millions of dollars that we give not just to the poor people in Israel but also to the general public with free books and USBS and CDs and posters and magnets and all types of Torah material in English and in Hebrew and in French I and Russian and of course the very same people ask for those books and they get literally thousands of dollars worth of books every month every other month once a year whatever it is but they certainly get thousands of dollars in some cases literally tens of thousands of dollars worth of material that they now have the benefit of Distributing to their Community to not only benefit from the Mitzvah but also benefit from the recognition wow you really care about the community you're giving free Torah and all of this they get for free they don't even pay for shipping that's our Torah store our kirov store now it's wonderful that our organization is built in such a way where we literally believe in Hashem day in day out that he will provide and we know that our breakfast lunch and dinner of tomorrow and the breakfast lunch and dinner of Tomorrow of the poor people that we help and the books and the USBs and the movies and the employees and everything is only provided by hasem there is one thing that a person can do to hurt me and that is to take take take but never give back even when they can and the reason that hurts more than anything else more than the naysayers that insult more than the Heretics that go against the reason that hurts more than anything is because it makes ask me question if you are asking us questions about such critical issues of your life and your business and and and your marriage and and your lawsuits and whatever it is that's happening in your life you're making critical life decisions based on this advice you're spending an enormous amount of time watching these lectures the majority of your understanding of what Hashem once you're getting from the lectures you're watching the videos you have the app for free you have the you get the books you get everything that is given for free why don't you also give it's either you believe in what we do or you're just simply a Lech and that's the reality where some some people simply do not have the Merit to give we know where our breakfast is going to be tomorrow hashem's going to provide it but it hurts it hurts to actually have some people pretend like they care pretend like they believe pretend like they support but at the end of it all they don't actually believe in the cause because they're not willing to also give back they're just willing to take oh it's free books I'll take it oh it's a free lecture I'll take it it's a free video I'll take it it's a free this I'll take it they'll take whatever they can but when it comes to giving no no I'll give locally to my Sho I'll give to uh some organization that's in my country so I can get the tax benefits I'll give to the uh Rabbi that uh calls me every other day and he gives me a lot more attention even though all the real questions I ask you oh I'll give to this but even I like this even though this other organization or this other place doesn't actually give me anything and I already got 5 10 20 30 50 $100,000 worth of material from you I'm still giving it to somewhere else why because I want to save the uh the uh the angry dogs of Alaska and what ends up happening abai is a person can be so diluted in what is the purpose of life that they'll feel like they're doing the right thing by simply being a taker this is not a good thing this is not a good thing in life if you want to serve AEM you have to be a giver how much to give as much as you possibly as much as you possibly can because you want Hashem to give as much as he possibly can and so you don't think that this is a some money hungry uh looking what it's in your pocket or caring what's in anyone's pocket this is a rebuke from the the had many books he was a ga kados but one of the things that he did was travel from country to Country collecting money for the poor in Israel and one of the ways that we know about what he endured is he actually had a journal A Yan which they actually publicize as a book this was his personal journal and he writes in there what happened to him in different communities and he says different hearts that he had where one time there was a community that thought that he was a scammer because there was a bunch of scammers that came into town pretending that they're The Messengers from Israel so the community gave them a bunch of money so then when the came they thought he's the scammer and only after he started teaching Tora did people realize this is not only a sadik this is not only not a scammer this is a do do but he had extraordinary difficulties well one time he came into a town that was being raided by a bunch of Arab terrorists the Marauders who came in and murdered raped and stole everything in sight and as he's there he sees that at the end of the road 250 of them are coming his way and he writes I knew that my life is at risk and therefore I used one of the Holy names and I turned myself into someone that you cannot see where I can see them but they cannot see me he became invisible to understand the level of kadus and Holiness that he had in his hands where he could literally make himself disappear but yet he still had to deal with people that did not recognize their own obligation their own gift and when he came to one community in Europe collecting gave a shield to about how important it is to give he gave the gabai the sack where the community can put some money in there where they're not giving to empower and enrich the he's collecting for the poor and he gives them a shield to and everyone's enamored and Everyone likes it and they know this is a g this is a sadik and people have money they're not uh we're not talking about the poor Community they have enough money to buy a $1,000 phone they have enough money to buy a house they have enough money to buy a two or three cars they have enough money that they have a job these are not poor people not everyone's rich but certainly not everyone's poor and he speaking to them and at the end of his speech they give him the sack and he sees the sack and it's light he opens the sack in front of everyone he reaches inside and he sees there's less than a handful of coins in there and he says to the people what this this is what you give this is how you care care less about the poor people of Israel this is what you think of a t i do not forgive any of you and he leaves after he leaves he gets into the carriage the horse and carriage was the way of commuting in those days the gab of the understood that this K that benefited from that benefited from a that they have food to eat beyond what they need has just made a dear mistake and he immediately appealed to the K to realize that to actually do such a thing could be dire consequences when we say peace will be upon us we're doing enough immediately the Kila started giving and filled up the sack and he the gabai went went and chased after the carriage of the until he finally reached them said please please we're sorry we're sorry here here we're sorry please we do not want the to be angry on us and takes and he sees that the community has donated the substantial amount he says don't do that again meaning even though you give don't think that you could just do whatever you want in this world hasem blessed you you have a responsibility do not be the man of T that hides the Beauty and the gifts that gives you just because you want peace upon yourself because you care less about everyone else to do such a thing has the worst possible consequences you're in this world because you want life the way to get life benefit the public the greatest way to benefit the public is by getting them closer to hem and his T and more and more of you will realize your responsibility before the Judgment Day and take advantage of whatever gifts gave you and use them to benefit the public much more than whatever you've done until now even if you've already done well because even if you saved one baby or two babies there's still Millions more that need to be saved and if you have the ability to do it and don't do it you'll be judged for it and to me that's scarier rebuke than even Gom because which one of us could really say honestly I'm giving it everything I can we will all do chuva and give everything we can with that being said you guys can ask some questions will give us the answers as far as the campaign for the high holidays to help the poor to help us feed over 10,000 Jews to have have these Torah events to have all the wonderful things to maybe perhaps have the Merit and the blessing to also build the ISA that we want to build you could donate generously on the campaign the bh.org bk.org you can donate on the regular website that we have bash.org and see it see that you are giving as much as you can especially especially if you are a major benefit factor of all the things that the organization B has given to you so questions you have okay so I see that uh so far YouTube has more foolishness and questions today so let's go to uh Tik Tock let's see if you guys have anything good please explain why it's impossible for the Torah to have been changed that's because promises Us in actually in this week's par that this Torah is the same tah that we always have so if you believe in God that means that he is above and beyond nature he's above and beyond time he's in control of everything and if he wants his people to follow his toah then he's going to ensure that they have the truth and not some corrupted version like they have in Islam or in Christianity so the Jewish people have always been the Jewish people we have't changed our Torah hasn't changed andem Hashem has ensured that that's the case now in addition to that there are different scientific proofs that show that the Torah could not have been written by men meaning that if the Torah would have changed and there was man-made manipul population within the Torah then those scientific uh uh experiments would not have actually succeeded you see that in the Torah there are prophecies that have been fulfilled and there are promises in the Torah that no human on earth could ever promise and therefore if a person watches my film called Torah science and ancient wisdom or or some of the other films we did about science the signature of God and uh some others on the channel you'll see that it's not just that there is a Creator to the world but that creator has a signature and that signature is the tah and if the signature of the toah is the signature if if the signature of hasem is the toah that means it cannot be changed okay are all Jews zionists no Zionism is a movement that was started by Jews that were against theah and were Communists and uh they fooled the people to thinking that they're representing Juda is M and the Jewish people by calling it Zionism because Zionism the the word or Zion comes from the Tora but this was just simply a play on words uh these people that are behind Zionism were some of the biggest enemies of the Jewish people throughout all of history and I have many lectures where I spoke about the uh founders of Zionism the leaders of Zionism and Zionism at large I have an entire series called the era of mssiah where we teach the uh based on the teachings of the book byas talks about how the zionists are literally the biggest enemy that am is has ever had they're part of the uh they're they're worse than uh than missionaries and uh and uh and the Muslims uh because while the uh while the zionists may be Jewish as far as their uh you know who their mother is they hate the toah and they try to destroy it uh they're spir they're spiritual enemies of the Jewish people so no most Jewish people are not zionists uh in fact even the people today that claim to be zionists but yet religious Jews many of them do not have the same understanding of what Zionism is as what Zionism really is meaning they believe that Zionism is is is represented by simply loving the land well that would make all Jews zionists by loving the land but that's not what Zionism is Zionism is a anti-t movement it's a communist movement it's an atheistic movement that uh simply uh makes the land more important than God more important than the people more important than anything else which is completely stupid but nonetheless that's what Zionism is and they they do it at all costs there are there's a uh documented proof that the even worked with the Nazis uh and had dealings with them and in fact there was one opportunity that uh the were the Zionist leaders were able to save one and a half million Jews from the concentration camps towards the end of the Holocaust and in exchange for a bunch of trucks tea and coffee and they chose not to save them because they didn't want those types of Jews to enter the land so they preferred for them to die this is not a conspiracy this this is proof uh in court cases that were in Israel this was publicized there's books about it I've spoken about it in lectures uh to the point is the zionists are certainly not friends of the Jews the problem today is that there's a lot of ignorance and most people do not know the difference between you know appreciating and loving the land uh and and even the the the people at large versus a ideological belief that is against the people and the land and everything else the the movement the the whole ideological uh um the whole ideology of Zionism is uh is something that is not good for anyone and they're the ones that have caused a lot of problems over the last couple hundred years but needless to say uh the uh there are some people out there that have a different definition to it uh you know and claim that you could be a Zionist without actually caring about the political agenda of Zionism uh yet just simply be a Zionist by the definition of loving the land and that's simply a a new form of Zionism that is not really the real Zionism so uh I have many lectures about the topic you could look into that if you'd like does accept our even if we miss up if we miss one day or another by accident sure even if you only go one time hasm will still accept your your is an extra effort by you to get closer to ASM at this time the more you do the better but uh if you do less then certainly Hashem still accepts the rest of what you do if a person has different skills that can be used to do KES should he focus on the on the one that is more effective and less timec consuming and leave the others behind uh yeah that would make the most sense a person needs to do the most that he possibly can with the least amount of time now that does not mean that he shouldn't do anything with the rest of the time meaning you have let's say 24 hours a day and you have a certain skill that you could use let's say for an hour a day and that could get you the most amount of results whether it's in kiru or it's in business or it's in anything else you have an hour a day now that's great that that one hour of day uh produces so much results but that doesn't mean that you should you know simply do nothing for the other 23 you know the question is what is the other 23 comprised of if the other 23 uh hours are comprised of necessary things in order to allow you to have that one hour free then by all means one hour is the maximum you can do but if out of the 23 hours that you have left there's only let's say 50 15 of them uh that are used for necessary purposes and uh the rest is uh wasted on all types of things that are not necessary all types of things that perhaps are even not good uh then certainly a person needs to do more than one hour so as but as far as which part to do that's going to be the most effective uh I would say that uh you know a person needs to see results usually in the beginning uh you know a person is is not going to necessarily see as much results as they will in the long run uh because results in the world of of of kiru take time even if you give a lecture and people are impressed by it and they like you and they even tell you some compliments that's not necessarily results that just means that you sparked a uh you sparked you know uh their heart a little bit and that's good but to really help the people you know the people have to transform and that's going to take a lot more than just one lecture there has to be more lectures just same thing with somebody that gives if somebody for example gives a certain amount of money and uh they donate and that's great but they shouldn't say okay I gave and that's enough no if if there's more that you can give a week from now a month from now a few months from now whenever it is then you certainly need to do more why because what you gave in the past was good for the past but you have to continue giving you have to continue doing every time there's an opportunity to do every every time there's a calling to do and every time a person does uh they have to exert themselves a little more a little more than they did in the past just like a person that wants to grow in business exerts themselves more and more over time in order to reach Higher Goals a person that wants to you know become more muscular will exert themselves more and more each month because they want to get more muscular and more fit and so on and a person that uh wants to do anything in life know that it's necessary to continue growing and continue exerting yourself more and more the same thing goes with your efforts in kiru whatever you're doing has to continue growing you cannot do the same thing and just be on neutral you have to keep pushing yourself further and further and you'll see the more you push yourself the more you'll succeed the more you'll succeed and the uh and the person that succeeds the most are the ones that push themselves the most you know when people uh ask all the time how we do all the amazing things that we do uh well simple we keep pushing ourselves we push ourselves to the maximum and whatever success Hashem wants to give us he gives us and then the following year we push ourselves Beyond last year's maximum why because we need to and each year Hashem decides what success we have but the one thing that's within our hands is how much we push ourselves last year the limit was let's say one 100 so this year we know that we have to beat our you know our our efforts of last year results are in the hands of hasem but as far as effort we know that we could reach a 100 therefore we need to push further where can you learn that from before he turned all of is into slaves he gave them jobs he told them to leave their businesses leave your businesses leave your company leave your uh you know your insurance company leave your shop and come work for the country come work for pero and I'll pay you double what you make in your business so everybody left their jobs everybody closed shop and everyone was excited not only they're helping the country but they're also making double what they were making before if you were making 10,000 last month now you're making 20,000 so now they worked with a lot of excitement and that's when par saw how how much can they do oh look this guy he can do 100 Stones a day this guy can do 90 Stones a day that guy can do 110 a day so what did par do little by little the salary went lower but he kept promising them that things will change until eventually the salary went to zero and they turned into slaves but there was one thing now that I know that you can produce 100 stones and you can do 90 stones and you can do 110 stones that is exactly what I expect from you every single day even though you're slaves now even though you work for free now and if you don't and you actually produce 99 Stones instead of a 100 then I'll have to replace that one stone that's missing with one of your kids and therefore is work endlessly because they knew that life is on the line but's strategy is also a m to us to learn that we have to look at things from the perspective of what's the maximum we can produce and usually a person performs the most the the best when they think there's the greatest amount of reward or there's the greatest amount of risk if your life is on the line You'll do everything to say save your life you'll even lift the car over your head if you have to you'll do whatever you can to save your life the same thing if you know there's a great amount greatest amount of benefit if somebody told you work for one hour but your your full potential and I'll pay you a million dollars that one hour will be the best one hour of work you've done in your entire life why because you want that huge amount of reward so when a person does kiru to help publicize God's name to help publicize the toah to help Jewish people get closer to Hashem to help the world recognize the Creator and realize that helping the Jews get closer to Hashem is for the better good of of of the world not just for the Jewish people when a person realizes how much is on the line on the benefit but also on the downside how much we lose if we don't get am the whole world gets destroyed everyone loses as a result then a person is going to actually do everything they possibly can to reach their Peak and guess what since wants us to publicize his name wants us to learn more Torah wants us to help more Jewish people eat drink get do CH and so on he's gonna help us as says somebody that comes to become purified meaning somebody that comes to do good Hashem will help them and in fact the teach that on the says the reward for a Mitzvah is a Mitzvah it's not telling you that there's no reward there's no but rather when you actually do something good for example when you donate money to be hasm gives you more money why is he should give you more money the more money that you got like the nice student that I have that just publicized I believe it was yesterday or today or yesterday that she donated the most amount she ever had in her life at the time of $650 to do a Mitzvah she doned to organization and two weeks later hasm gave her 12,000 12,000 wasn't the reward for the 650 no but rather says the reward for the Mitzvah is another Mitzvah and since saw that you like to give and publicize my Torah I'm going to give you more to give because now that you gave 650 I want you to give more so what did he give her he gave her 12,000 and that 12,000 you give let's say 10% of that as male now you're able to give 1,200 that's nearly double what you gave two weeks ago and the more a person gives the more blessings they have and I've seen this with my own eyes not in my own life but also in other people's lives the problem is that the shows up along the way and convinces the person to start Distributing their wealth everywhere and start giving to all types of organizations all types of places and before you know it they lose the blessing and they don't know why they think maybe it's bad business maybe it's bad luck and they don't realiz it's because the source of their blessing was the first place that gave them the blessing in and when they turned in different directions and they lost the blessing and that's I've seen this multiple times I told you guys a story it was one time a person that uh donated a uh substantial amount of money at the time I think she donated something like $50,000 or something like that and literally within a year or a year and a half her business went from being a few hundred th000 to May four or five million and uh this was great everything was fantastic but instead of sticking to the plan she decided to start you know becoming a little philanthropist so she started P you know she started Distributing money all over the place and what ended up happening she lost everything and she had to rebuild and hopefully I hope she succeeded but it's a uh it's it's something that I've seen one too many times where people do the do what Hashem wants them to do they get the opportunity to do even more meaning the money that she got was not a reward the money that she got was an opportunity to do more in the same place which was the original plan but when a person doesn't follow their deal hasem cancels the deal so it's important for a person to know if you donate to our organization and you don't see a blessing is one of two reasons one you're not really giving enough meaning you're not giving at least 10% of of of your income you're not really giving you're giving you know like the uh the change the change whatever you whatever you you you could live without whatever you don't care about you know how you give to like homeless people whatever you don't care about or there's something wrong with us if you're not seeing a blessing you don't see great things happen in your life as a result of sub of giving to our organization stop giving or give more you know whether you're giving enough or not why because you do meth do meth you have $5,000 coming in every month you give $500 on a regular basis you should see blessings not the next day sometimes it's the next day sometimes a month later some six months later but certainly you're going to see blessings in your life not just monetary blessings you'll see other blessings in your life also if you're not seeing blessings as give as a result of giving and pushing yourself over and over again to give more and more and more there's something wrong and that's why I always tell people and I've said this time and time again people that give to our organization see extraordinary blessings if you're not seeing the blessings don't give don't donate to us go find someone else and until now no one has chosen that uh that option as a result of not getting a uh the blessings the people that sometimes uh go and donate their uh money to to other places also it's usually because they making the mistake they think that they could just now that they have more they can give to more places and that's a mistake that's a mistake but but again we don't tell people what to do everyone has free to do whatever they want with what they want but don't come to me crying after the blessing is gone it's not my fault okay let's see I can I study with you one on one uh as much as I would love to study with every person out of over 100,000 followers oneon-one I simply cannot afford to study uh with anyone oneon-one I study with my RV and uh aside from that I study on my own and aside from that I study with the public and doing these sh I don't have the time to do one-on-one studies with people um but uh certainly you could learn everything that I'm learning uh by watching my you can watch my you can watch many of them there's thousands of them and if you truly want to learn with me then you learn all the lectures you learn them but not learn them as watching them like it's a show learn them by actually writing down notes looking even deeper into the sources that I mentioned and uh collecting them with notebooks off the notebooks just like I do with my R for all these years and you could learn an enormous amount of TOA with me by watching all the lectures and if if you have questions you send questions you could either send questions to the AI Rabbi that is in essence taking the all the database of all the lectures that I've ever done with B many sources and many books and also R fr's lectures were are added right now also all of this information and books are in this database you could ask a questions and you'll get the answer uh and you could even ask specific questions about the lectures that you're watching uh and if you need uh something else you could also contact us uh directly by sending a question to my WhatsApp and I'll answer the question the best that I can it just becomes more and more difficult to answer all the questions every day because there's a lot of them so that's part of the reason and motivation of why we developed the AI Rabbi because it's it's not just some uh computer answering you it's a computer that's based on a decade of teachings uh alongside the books of the Torah so you have the ideology personality and even the voice uh as you know that's available to you and I highly recommend for people to to use it this is the people that have used it are saying this is the greatest thing since sliced bread the the feedback we're getting even from from a few Torah Scholars that I know that are using it they're like listen this is this is my best new study buddy so can you eat kalal meat if you're not Jewish you could eat kalal meat as much as you want because the non-jews are not obligated to uh follow the laws you could eat kalal meat you could eat uh non khalal meat but if you're a Jew you're only allowed to eat kosher meat and kalal meat is not considered kosher their uh their Slaughter is uh different their ways are different and in fact you'll typically see that uh almost every Jewish butcher that has a that sells meat to the public is within a vicinity sometimes even next door to a kalal meat store and the reason for that is because everything that the uh that the butcher you know it Slaughters and and is ends up not being kosher because there's something in the lungs or uh that's not acceptable according to Jewish law they sell to the Arabs because the Arab law allows them to eat what we're not allowed to eat so for example if there is if there there's something with the lungs that's not uh poisonous or anything like that it's just it's not acceptable according to the Torah law so therefore we can't eat it we sell it to the Arabs you know because the Arabs are allowed to the Muslims are allowed to eat kosher meat uh Kosher meat is considered Halal for them but Halal is not considered kosher so many times uh there is a ongoing relationship between the uh the Jewish butchers and uh the uh the Muslim Market where we sell them whatever we can eat all the T we sell to them but uh to them it's it's not t to them it's Halal it's okay for so you're asking another why can't you eat kalal meat what's the reason I just said it's not considered kosher for example when you slaughter a uh uh when you slaughter a uh cow for for a Jew you have to slaughter it in such a fashion that uh it rips the one vein or one uh um what is it called one artery that that that is connecting the the brain to everything else in a single shot so that way there's the the animal is instantly killed in the the laws of of of the Muslim laws they don't have such a thing so many times they just chop the whole head off of the cow uh or they slaughter it in in ways that are unacceptable to Jewish law uh so uh in fact if if you compare the two you see that the uh the way of the tah is much more Humane now that does not mean that it's fun to watch or it's pleasing to the cow to die uh uh but needless to say it's a it's a very different way of slaughtering so if somebody slaughtered a a cow uh and uh they made a mistake not that they chopped the whole head off but rather they cut the cow and they didn't get the whole vein they didn't get enough of it then even though they could do another another push and they could die it's t it's you can't Jew can't eat it a Jew can't eat it it becomes non kosher the whole cow is not Kosher now for for Muslim purposes for Islam there's no problem with it they could eat it uh and do what they want with it but for Jewish purposes not or even if they cut and they slaughter the cow and it's perfectly fine the the The Cutting was perfectly fine uh but then they found out that there is a uh certain a hole in the uh in the lungs you know cows uh you know all types of these uh these animals they you know they eat all types of things on the ground and sometimes they'll eat nails and those Nails uh you know stay inside their body and could affect them now if there's a hole in the lung that even though the slaughter itself was perfectly fine for the Jew that cow is no longer kosher because the lung has a hole in it or there's some type of hole they find out that there was something within the cow that shows that that cow would not have survived for a full year that's something that's some type of thing in it now for for Islam purposes they don't care if it could have survived for one year or for one day once you kill it you kill it the end whether it has a nail or it has a entire uh garage inside the lung it doesn't make a difference to the to to Islam to them the only thing that's uh that's uh critical is just simply Slaughter the cow but to us we have many many more laws so therefore or it's a uh there's a big difference in the uh in Kosher meat uh from kalal meat it's a big price difference and there's a lot of effort difference another major thing is that the knife the knife is supposed to be constantly sharpened so that means that if somebody has a uh the butcher's knife has a a a break in it of some kind or has uh it's it's not perfectly sharp and somebody uses that knife to slaughter even though the slaughter went fine the cow died the lungs are perfect it's still not a kosher cow it's still not Kosher why because there was a problem with the knife now again if this is done knowingly the whole cow is not Kosher if it's accidental then they rely on AIC uh uh um leniency based on quantity and and other circumstances but the point is is that there are many many different laws that uh are required to follow in order to make a Slaughter of a cow or chicken or whatever other kosher animal uh to to make it kosher whereas for Islam it's there's in so many words one law uh just a Slaughter uh now as far as the uh the animals that uh also is makes a difference in Judaism uh you're only allowed to eat animals that have split hoves and they chew their cud they have to have both of these signs so if they only have one of those signs like the pig then you you cannot uh eat a pig because it only has one sign if it has no sign uh then they can't eat the uh the animal so in order for an animal to have to be kosher they have to have two signs that the Torah says which is split hooves and also has to chew its cud so the typical animals that uh Jews eat uh you have uh uh goats uh sheep cows those are the types of animals that we typically eat but there's also uh you know uh other animals that are not eat often but they also they are also kosher like even a zebra is kosher not a zebra a um what it called the the big thing not zebra the uh giraffe giraffe even a giraffe is kosher but nobody eats giraffe uh not only because uh it's a uh um not necessarily rare but it's obviously rare in comparison to cows and and sheep but also because the uh the the the market for it is uh doesn't really exist uh and it doesn't pay doesn't pay to uh to kill it uh but uh some people believed I myself used to believe that it's different to it's difficult to slaughter a uh um a giraffe um as far as finding the specific Place uh on it that uh uh that's kosher but that's not true it's actually relatively easy to find a place of where to slaughter it it's just extremely difficult to actually Slaughter the giraffe because it's so powerful but needless to say nobody eats giraffe today even though it's a kosher animal um but so there are animals that are Kosher that are not eaten uh like deer for example is kosher but it's rarely eaten rarely eaten now on the other hand there are animals that are not Kosher so even if you slaughter them it doesn't make a difference you know so there's specific types of animals when it comes to uh fish fish do not need to be slaughtered uh they you could eat them right out of the ocean there's no problem but they have to be kosher fish in order for it to be a Kosher fish it has to have fins and scales if it has fins and scales then it's a Kosher fish but if it only has fins and no scales then it's not a Kosher fish so a shark for example is not a Kosher fish uh you know but on the other hand if you have a uh tuna tuna is a Kosher fish no the uh the um shellfish is not uh does not have neither fins nor scales and they're actually considered bugs and they're considered not Kosher Salon is kosher yes do I agree with what Israel is doing with pal Palestine I've spoken about this many times no I don't agree with what Israel is doing with Palestine I think that they need to be a lot more aggressive with them to remove them from the land completely uh just like the Torah says and uh that's it that's that's it's that's what I agree with I don't agree with uh a two-state solution I don't agree with them even having a a job in Israel uh there's no uh reason whatsoever why a terrorist enemy of the people needs to be uh given rights and permission to live in the same land that wouldn't be allowed in in in America if somebody was known to be a terrorist in America they wouldn't allow him to live here but even if they want to live allow him to live here let them move to America let them move to the UK let them move to Gom for I care why live in Israel the only reason why they want to live there is because they want to cause chaos they want to kill people I can't have that opinion why can't I have that opinion that's the opinion of the Torah the opinion of the tah hasem told us not to allow any of our enemies into uh to live in the land Jewish people pray in synagogues where do you pray if there's no synagogue in a mosque or a church neither one I'll pray at home why do I need to pray at a place I don't have an obligation to pray in a synagogue if I don't have a synagogue available to me pray at home I could pray in the middle of the street there's no reason whatsoever that any Jew should ever enter a musk or a church they're forbidden from entering a church because it's a place of idolatry uh but a musk is still a bad idea to enter Because many of them are terrorist uh organizations that are funding it or behind it and unfortunately uh you could be uh praying right next to somebody that is more than happy to slaughter you 15 minutes later can you explain why meat and dairy can't be consumed at the same time because the Torah says it three times that you're not allowed to eat meat and dairy benefit from meat and dairy cook meat and dairy meaning you cannot cook meat and dairy you cannot eat meat and dairy and you cannot benefit like sell meat and dairy it's three times in the Torah are you for Wars absolutely the wars of Hashem the wars of hem and the wars of the tah as far as Wars with people and wars with countries as long as they leave us alone and they let us live in peace no there's absolutely no reason for us to go to war we're not looking to conquer more land we're not looking to take anybody's uh property we're not looking for uh anyone to be uh you know in in our property but uh if it's a war for survival then sure you have to fight for survival but if it's a uh uh for you know gaining something no do you know any Muslims in real life yeah of course I do I even have a few uh friends that are uh Muslims I actually have some students that were former Muslims and converted to Judaism I have some students that uh are uh former Muslims and did not convert to Judaism but they abandoned Islam and uh following the noahide laws of the Torah and I even have a few uh uh friends that are you know old colleagues of mine uh that uh still practice their religion but they don't have the common belief of terrorism uh that uh the Muslims uh preach in many places they're normal decent people uh we obviously have an ideological difference as far as uh uh what's the truth and and so on but uh we still have an amicable relationship and uh there's no uh there's no problem I don't have a problem with somebody believing something different than I do I have a problem if somebody's trying to make me believe what they say uh in in a uh in a way that's uh despicable like missionaries and uh do and in in in disgu in disguising themselves as Jews but really they're preaching Christianity that's the type of stuff that makes my skin crawl uh but uh as far as uh Muslims I don't have a problem with Muslim people per se uh like I said I have friends uh have students I you know I grew up in Israel for the first 10 years of my life my uh my parents and grandparents spoke Arabic in the house uh so uh you know with each other with us they spoke Hebrew uh but uh as far as um as far as uh Muslims there's no I don't have an issue with them I have an issue with the people that are taking the part parts of Islam uh that are said in the Quran or or the Hadi uh that are preaching anti-Semitism that are preaching Jewish hatred that are preaching things that uh are um leading people to become violent to become terrorists uh to become uh weapons of mass destruction that I have a problem with that I have a problem with uh so it's not necessarily the people per se it's the belief system now if you're a Muslim that's a decent human being and you choose to believe that Muhammad is your uh is your Prophet by all means I believe you're wrong and I know you're wrong but you don't have to agree with me but if you're a decent human being we can still have coffee we could still shake hands we could still uh talk about different neutral topics no problem uh but if you are either a physical terrorist or a spiritual terrorist then you are my enemy in fact even if you're Jewish and your parents are rabbis and rabot and you're a spiritual terrorist that's preaching heresy you're also my enemy why anyone that's an enemy of Hashem or the Jewish people is also my enemy that's what uh David says in that we read in our prayer every single day we read in our prayer where uh loves DAV but DAV says say that whoever you hate I hate whatever you hate I hate whatever you hate I hate so a person that understands that in order to be a lover of hem you have to follow his tah uh and following his tah means that you hate whatever Hashem hates then certainly there's a that that shows you where the line is and you can't go past that line you can bend the line that's where the line is if you're an enemy of hem or you're enemy of the Jewish people you're my enemy simple so whether you're Muslim Christian or Jewish or you're even an alien coming from the planet Pikachu and you look really really cute and you're yellow but you say things that are against the Torah you are my enemy simple but if you are not an enemy of the Torah you're not an enemy of the Jewish people certainly you could send a m message and I'll send you a response when I get a chance though but don't send a long message because then I'll probably skip it is it okay to kill someone in self-defense and Judaism it's not only okay it's an obligation the Torah says somebody it comes to kill you kill them first can Jews pray pray in a musk like I said you're allowed to pray in a musk you just shouldn't it's a stupid thing to do number one there's plenty of synagogues and number two with the way the world is right now and the extraordinary level of anti-Semitism especially coming from that belief system praying in a musk is simply taunting the enemy it's a stupid thing to do you want to do stupid things go ahead go do stupid things you know there's some people that jump out of a plane without a par you want to be one of those stupid people by all means enjoy enjoy there's no I don't have I don't have any uh any stock in uh in the uh stupid.com I don't have any stock in that I invest in smart.com smartt what smart Tor smart okay you eat the what uh there are parts of the cow yes that even if it's kosher you can't eat the entire cow there's the G uh that in essence almost the the back part of the cow you can't eat but the rest of the cow you can if you just a uh type on the internet on Google what are the kosher parts of of the cow you'll see a thousand pictures uh of uh cow with like a uh like squaring off the parts that the kosher and uh you know like having like a digital line showing you where the parts are Kosher and what parts are not Kosher you'll get it in two seconds just put right on the internet on Google or somewhere else what are the kosher parts of the cow we love to be your enemies in the street sure you could be an enemy in the street you could be a rat for all I care doesn't make a difference to me um whether you're an enemy in the street or your enemy on the internet because I have no problem with you being my enemy Ramy you're a Kurdish Jew you guys have overcome some major obstacles in the last 30 years there's actually a uh couple of books that I uh read about the what happened in uh in that part of the world and there was actually many uh American Jews that made trips to Kurdistan and different parts of uh of of Russia to literally infiltrate the community to bring in Judaism and there's been great results where many Jews as a result ended up coming to America to Israel to different parts of the world and joining the rest of the Jewish World so uh the Kurdish people that I know are very very warm people wonderful people uh beautiful Jews see okay let's see if uh Facebook has anything smart to say see what the T name for intentional uh you go to uh tunit live over there there is an explanation um of the the that uh the whole concept of T each intentional wasting seed is 84 fasts now since the average person will not be able to do even one tun for one sin needless to say for many sins they did for years uh the way that the say to do T is with money so on that site t. live not only you can get educated about tunit but you could also do the tun you could donate for the sake of T it tells you exactly how to calculate it uh and you can do as many tiim as often as You' like you could do it once you could do it once a month once a week we've had people do it uh you know once uh uh one time we've had people that signed up for once a month or a couple times a month we've have even couple of people that have done it uh I think the biggest one we had probably someone do it like a couple hundred or 200 times at once um so you know depends depends how much how much you want to do Chi depends what your your your financial means are but it's certainly a good thing to do every guy that has or girl that has the financial means to do a tun for immorality you should go to that website tuna. and do as many t as you can uh and if you can't do a lot at once you should at the very least sign up to do once a month uh tun there's also tya T other things but that's the main thing if a person wants to give more regularly but other the other wants to pay down debt what is the best course of action uh well it all depends you know if you're able to service the debt um then uh certainly uh it's better to to give more because you're not promised tomorrow a person can pay off their entire house you know 15 years early let's say instead of having a 30-year uh mortgage for 30 years they'll pay double the mortgage and they'll finish their mortgage in 15 years thinking that uh they won't have a mortgage payment in uh after 15 years so they could live uh you know the rest of their life uh you know having a mortgage payment but who told you you're going to live a long life who said you're going to live 30 years even to finish the mortgage so certainly a person should do the most they possibly can to uh to invest into toah and to help the the the world of to to help kiru now rather than later this doesn't mean that a person should ignore their debt or their obligations they should still serve their debt they should still serve their their their obligations uh but I wouldn't necessarily uh be uh so um set on paying off all my debt so uh I could be financially free because that plan never works that plan never works uh it's a uh once your person pays off all their debt they feel good for a few minutes couple of months later they start developing new debt all over again just the way it is the way to uh pay down uh uh the way to to to grow is not not necessarily uh to to pay down debt it's obviously to have a reasonable amount of debt not to get overboard not to be an overs spender but really the the biggest winning strategy is to find a way to make more make more with your time make more with your money make more with your skills um having debt is not necessarily uh a bad thing in fact if you are going to grow in in the world of investments in the world of entrepreneurism in the world of business debt is required uh you know so so I mean there's there's there's a purpose to it I actually have intentional debt that even though I don't want I don't you know you know after everything changed and uh we to rebuild everything from scratch rebuilding you know rebuilding credit and everything took a while but I choose to carry certain debt on purpose to deild the debt to build the to build the credit and you know but I my strategy is to pay it off and you know to to never really uh uh you know to pay the full balances on certain cards or to uh to to carry balance on other ones but the point being is is that it's it's not because I need it for the sake of uh affording something that I can't really afford but rather for different purpose but you know so so so debt is not necessarily automatically a bad thing you could use debt for many many different reasons um um in a positive way uh but as far as the idea of uh of paying off all your debts so you have uh uh peace of mind that's a very young idea and by Young I mean it's an immature idea it's idea that young people have uh thinking that uh the only way they'll have peace of mind is if they have no debt it's people um you know believe these things because they were told on some podcast or some TV show it's not really true there's a benefit to debt again as long as it's within reasonable levels not telling you guys to go take your credit card Max it out tomorrow on buying t-shirts not what I'm saying okay we'll take maybe one or two more questions and we're finished can you make me admin so I could block the hate comments I honestly don't even know how to do that uh but don't worry about them they all the people that say stupid things it's it's it's good that they do it there's two reason there's a few reasons why it's good that they do it number one if they're cursing me and they're insulting me and or they're insulting the tah or anything like that or they're insulting the Jewish people or they're anti-semitic then it's better for them to be here instead of actually doing it to other people because other people will be offended by it other people people will be hurtt by it uh for me it's it's completely irrelevant to me they don't exist so that's one other than just being a little Annoying that they it takes a little while to get to the final to the question because I have to keep scrolling other than that it doesn't make a difference so it's better for them to be here and waste their life here making hate comments here rather than doing it in real life that's number one two the more they insult me or the tah uh the better because that means that they're increased their cup of sins much much higher than they even know what what it means and that means that the punishment will come to them sooner soosh could destroy them sooner rather than later I mean isn't that what we all want all of these terrorists to be out of the world so this is what we're doing right now we are actively allowing all of the free Palestine people to come to our channel to make all of the hateful remarks they want to make because our goal is to free Palestine only difference is it has a different meaning to us our free Palestine means we're going to free the world from that ideology by allowing them to make all the sins they want so could free us from them as soon as possible free Palestine go come in the way guys come in the way and uh be the uh internet terrorist that you want to be at least don't become don't do the same terrorism you do in real life what if no one will pay your debts when you die okay nobody will pay your debts what's the problem you have an estate once a person dies they have an estate and the debts are taken uh from your estate so if let's say for example you have a house and you owe $100,000 on the house then the bank is going to want somebody to pay that $100,000 if nobody's there to pay the $100,000 they're going to foreclose on the house Force the house to be sold and take their $100,000 and the other the rest of the money goes to the estate whether it's handled by the kids or something else or whoever's the the uh the beneficiary of your estate does reciting tuna khif for intentional even help a little bit while feeling guilt uh certainly reading T in general helps everything it's always good to read T is just certainly is is a several chapters of T of Psalms you could read it every day you could read it whenever you want there always good it's always good to read taim uh as far as will it erase sins no reading T does not erase sins it helps you know Inspire the soul to want to do uh chuva by stopping 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