NOAH: MEGALOMANIA In Disguise | STUMP THE RABBI (247)

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In fact, so how do we go from here to here? And in fact, there is something I want to talk to you about. You see, we have to ask some questions and then get some answers. That's how the Torah works. In fact, in the world of Torah, the questions, if they're questions with wisdom, they're even more important than the answers. What distinguishes the righteous Noah from the rest of the generation that he lived in? Now, before you give me the answer, there's another question. What steps did, the king of Yuda, take that seemed fanatic, even though he was at Sadik, many called him fanatic. And before you answer that one, how did the Balim, one of the baltov deal with child abuse? How did he deal with it the rest of his life? While these questions seem unrelated, the answers will help us understand the difference between the truly righteous people and the megalomania that is walking comfortably in our communities while disguised as righteousness. And then of course your questions and I'm sure you have many. So no starts off telling us that there is a eastim named No at the end of the already told us that the degradation of the world during the first 1600 years or so was to such an extent that he decided to destroy the entire world. But there was one righteous person by the name of Noah. Now quite frankly, if you look at the midrashim, if you look at the details behind the details that the sages tell us about the world at large at the time of Noah and you compare it to today, it would seem like we should be expecting a flood. any momentum. And in fact, many people like to complain about that, how the world has gone down and people are wicked, lying, cheating, deceiving, adultery, all of the horrible things of society have become standard. The Torah tells us the earth became corrupt before God and the earth had become filled with robbery. And God saw the earth and behold it was corrupted for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth. This is also referring to the animals. Even the animals literally went against their own nature. Similar to the LGBTQ of today, the animals also wanted to be LGB. The panther wanted to be a zebra. The zebra wanted to be a lion. The sheep wanted to be a bird. Everyone was confused. Similar to today, corruption standard similar to today. Not a day goes by where somebody does not get exposed somewhere on the on the news online for some type of corruption or Ponzi scheme. It's become standard. In fact, just because somebody does something corrupt does not mean that they're going to get in trouble. They may get a few people to make videos about them. They may get a few people to sue them, but crime has practically become legal even by leaders. But you see that these types of words have become practically day-to-day conversation. People are always complaining about how this one is corrupt and that one is a cheater and I can't believe that this happened. And I can't believe that happened and did you hear this and did you hear that? You look at Noah and say, "Where's the flood?" But yet Noah remained a sadik. Noah remained a sadik. As a side note, it says that Noah was tamim. What does it mean that was the the says that there were certain people in the Torah that were born circumcised and Noah was one of them. Page 32A says that Noah where it says Sadikim it's referring to Noah did not have the physical blemish of the foreskin that is connected with tumah that everyone else has. He was born Maul and in fact there were others in the chapter two number five in says that was circumcised his son was circumcised Noah as we said but also Noah's Shem who was also called Malited was Maul Yakov Ysef Sadik Mosherenu Jeremiah the prophet Sadikim. But then the ba tells us that even was born. As the alzar says in chapter 29 that bil was born circumcised because that was the only way that he would merit to have the degree of prophecy that he had. teaching us that in order to receive prophecy, one has to have be circumcised. But needless to say, we learned from this that just because Noah, all of these righteous people were born circumcised, it didn't guarantee that they're going to be righteous because Bam had the same head start, if you will, but ended up being the most wicked person that ever lived. In fact, before we go into the difference between Noah and the rest of the generation, we have to go into the second question of what did king of Yehuda do that was so fanatic in chapter to number four says there were four things that did the book of remedies. This was a book that some say was written by one of Noah's sons Shem that an angel showed him in Ganedin. Some say it was that wrote the book says the regardless of that this book included the cures for all illnesses and decided to hide it to bury it. Why people have diseases, cancer, AIDS, whatever other horrible diseases out there, as the says, there's over 900 different ways that a person can die. Many of them are diseases. The worst possible one was the one that actually the Tomim of died with where they choked slowly, their throat closed slowly. It's a horrible, horrible disease. This book had the cure. Meaning that had the Tom of had access to this book, they would have never died. At least not from that disease. Why did you hide it? Further also took the copper serpent that Musher Benu did and it says in the book of Kings 2 18 verse 3 and 4 that did what was proper in the eyes of Hashem. He ground up the copper serpent that Musher Rabenu had made. For until those days, the children of Israel used to burn incense before it. What was this copper serpent? This was the serpent that was the vehicle for the divine healing that Hashem brought to Israel when the snakes were attacking them. and they kept it all those years as a reminder that the Jewish people suffer only because of their sins and that was actually a reason not to grind it up and destroy it and they kept it as a commemoration of what happened. So why would you throw something like that out or hide it? He also removed the high places and altars where the Jewish people brought cobbanote offerings. But if there's cobanote sacrifices to people, it's like saying you're shutting down all the shs. Well, people are praying. Don't you want people to pray? Don't you want people to make sacrifices? Lastly, he stopped up the waters of the Ghon, which was the Shiloa spring, which seemed like a wrong move during battle. All of these were not wellreceived initially. All of these seemed phonetic, seemed extreme. In fact, tell us that agreed with this was good, but the people didn't. until after the fact. The did, but the average person did not. Why? Why is there such a difference between the average person and the average person could be someone that learns a lot of Torah, did Chuva 5, 10, 15 years ago, 20 years ago, but he's not He may think he's a he may think he knows more than his rabbi. But the truth is he's not. So how come said people their default opinions are the opposite of When it comes to going to a rabbi to ask what to do, should I buy? Should I sell this house, this investment, this business? Should I get married? Should I go to the doctor? Should I start learning this or that? Should I make a video about different things that bother me? The average person out there that believes themselves to be religious, wise, and certainly righteous does not ask for permission. And usually they just ask for feedback and support after the fact. Oh, can you tell everybody that you like my video, but I haven't watched your video? Yeah, but you know, I made it, so you must like it. I just started this channel. I need people to watch it. So, can you recommend it on all of your uh groups? Why would I recommend it? Well, because it's me, meaning they assume that their videos and their teachings and their ideas are by default the right way to do things. Do you think that this investment is going to work out? Which one? The one you already made? Yes. I don't know. Well, why not? Well, you didn't ask me about it before you made it. You're asking me after the fact. Do you think I'm making the right decision by marrying this guy? If you already decided to marry him, what's the point of asking the question? Why is that? Why is it that people have such a difficulty asking questions before it's too late? Would constantly have back and forth insults with the priests of his day. And one day told one of the priests, he used to bother him a lot. He said, "You know, I thought about it. Being a priest must be the best job in the world." Of course, the priest is like, "Huh? Yeah. Well, why do you say so, Rabbi?" He says, "Because every day you walk into your office and you see that your boss is hanging." Nobody likes their boss. You see your boss hanging dead. Of course, this is an insult with wisdom in it. But there's a lot to say. There's a lot to learn here. Asking a rabbi has turned into something that is disliked almost as much as asking the boss for a vacation or for a day off or for a raise. People don't like to talk to their bosses usually. In fact, they try to stay out of their way and just do their job and not get in trouble. But really, asking a rabbi turning into something like this is the opposite of what it's supposed to be. And one of the primary reasons for it is not because of the rabbis but rather because of the way that people view themselves. the in one of the questions and answers and he gave it he has in bit he's asked a question how to attain somebody asked how do I attain and answers Having ama believing in the wise sages depends on whether a person even believes in wisdom at all. Because there is no wisdom in the world that could be transmitted to us without the of a living. Meaning that to attain wisdom, to attain, you must get it from a living, says the not someone that died 800 years ago or a thousand years ago or 200 years ago or 30 years ago. You said, "Wait a minute, Rabbi. I mean, don't we read the from 1500 years ago or more? Don't we read the Mishna?" Yes, we read But in order for you to understand it, you need an interpreter. Someone that's a to explain to you what you're reading. Well, but he reads and I reads. Why wouldn't I understand it? I'm smart. That's the problem. You think that you're smart enough to understand everything that you're reading to the point where you don't need a you could read and understand. You could read the different and understand what the greatest sages in history are trying to tell you. And therefore, you don't want to go to the rabbi and ask him a question before you make a big decision because you figure that you could do it yourself. And that's why you cannot have access to because you don't believe in you don't believe in wisdom and even more so you are fooling yourself to thinking that you are more than what you really are now person say wait but I've been learning already for 10 years for 20 years for 30 years good all the learned for a long time. Yeah, but I already learned I did chuva only 10 years ago and I could learn five hours a day. My rabbi, I don't know, he's always busy. Maybe he only learns an hour a day. So, I think I passed them. Or best best thing I've seen one time where somebody saw their rabbi read the Torah out loud. And apparently it was very nice the way the rabbi was reading it. And this bala says to somebody else, "Wow, he reads good. I can't even do that. What do you mean? So why why why is there even a comparison here in that person's mind? He doesn't view his rabbi as superior to him, possessing more wisdom than him. No, he views him as someone that's either the same or less. And therefore he says well well even I can't do that because he assumes that whatever the rabbi can do he can do or person will say listen you know why he is able to make uh lecture like that and bring all those sources it's because he has photographic memory. Okay. So let's say he does. No, but that's the reason. Meaning that they can't give a compliment. Oh, he's just smarter than me. He knows more than me. He is No, it has to be because of a reason. Oh, you know, I think that he's an autistic savant. I think he has a little bit of autism. And you know, these autistic people, they have these special skills. And uh that's why that's why he can do it. That's why he knows all those sources. That's why he could speak for this amount of time. That's why this. That's why. They can't give the credit. Why? Because they feel like if he's bigger, that means I'm smaller. Where does all of this stem from? wrote many books, continues to write many more, gives lectures each week with one time they videoed him completing a lecture or his rabbi completed a lecture and he came up next to speak. And you see the exchange between him and his rabbi Yseph bin Purat. And this is recorded and they think they made some clips out of it. And you hear the words famous all over the world has written dozens of books. Bashem extraordinary achievements in the world of Torah beyond comprehension. And he says to his rabbi, you know that all of my books and all of my Torah, it's all you. It's all from your strength. It's all because of you. I was a nothing. I was with a cuckoo with a ponytail. You saved me. You're the one. It's only because of you that I know anything. Now, did he have to say that? He could have just said hello like everybody else does. But he didn't. Why? Because he has because he understands how much of his life depend and depended on his rabbi where he would not be where he is if it wasn't for his rabbi. And unfortunately, many times people don't realize that spitting into the well that you drank from is the worst possible trait. Not just for your relationships with others, but for yourself. Because the Midrasha says, "A person that is ungrateful to his fellow will eventually be ungrateful to the omnipresent, to Hashem. If a person shows lack of gratitude to his fellow that did something good for him, needless to say to a rabbi that saved his life, saved his eternity, that taught him Torah, ultimately that person in Midrash says, will become a heretic with or without a keepa, with or without a with or without being religious. How how does such things happen? How do you have people walking around believing that they are more righteous than thou believing that they're here to bring justice to the world? believing that they have the way and everyone else, especially the leadership, the rabbis, the people that dedicate their entire life to Tua, they're all wrong. How? It all comes from something called megalomania. What is megalomania? Definition is as follows. The symptoms of megalomanamania include an exaggerated sense of self-importance, a belief in one's own superiority and unique abilities, and a preoccupation with fantasies of power and success. Individuals with this trait may also be arrogant, demand special treatment, take advantage of others, and become hostile when criticized. Megalamomania is often a symptom of deeper psychological issues such as a narcissistic personality disorder, bipolar disorders, and other conditions. Meaning, this is not just bad habits. This is not just bad character traits. This could even be literally a psychological issue that requires serious therapy and even drugs. Now, let's see. Everyone could understand the words that I'm saying, but will you view yourself in the mirror when this is said? Or will you view? Who do you know that fits these characteristics? Hint, you should do both. But first, yourself. All of ourselves. Core symptoms. Exaggerated self-importance. A strong belief in one's own superiority and uniqueness. How many people do not think that they're unique, that they're special, that if the rabbi doesn't call them back or answer them or or simply agree with them by default, there's something wrong with the rabbi. It cannot be that the rabbi doesn't agree. I study three, four, five, 10 hours a day, so I must be right. I've been religious for 10, 20 years. I must be right. I follow all the mitzvot and I want people to serve Hashem. I must be right. Exaggerated self-importance has become standard. People think they're much more important than what they really are. They introduce themselves as the foundation of the community. They introduce themselves as someone that is literally glued to God and they don't have any qualms about it. Now again, they may very well be righteous and so on, but usually righteous people don't speak about themselves that way. In fact, the more righteous they are, the more they have an understanding of what it takes to be righteous. And therefore, they calculate their mistakes more than they calculate the good things they did because they're constantly working on fixing themselves, building themselves, and serving Hashem even better. But today self-importance an exaggerated way is well accepted in society. Another symptom of megalomania is delusions of grander. Holding an exaggerated or a delusional belief in one's abilities, power or status. So many words, people view themselves only one step away from being the Messiah, if not Mashiach himself. Just the other day, we had to deal with a situation where a person literally got into a fight with another one. Why? Because he did not agree to call him Mashiach. These are two religious people and one has concluded he's Msiah. And the other one said, "Oh, according to what I learned, I don't think you're a Msiah." They got into a fight over this three, constant need for admiration, requiring excessive and constant admiration from others. In today's language, doing things to get likes. doing things to get likes, talking about taboo subjects, making fun of people, doing all types of things. Somebody came to me during the holiday asking me what do I think about them going on some podcast with a bunch of foolish people in order to represent Judaism because this podcast is very famous. It gets millions of views and even though it makes fun of everything, it makes fun of religion. It makes fun of Tai, makes fun of anything that it possibly can. They say, "Well, listen, there's still a lot of Jews that are secular that watch it, so maybe I can give them the right version of Judaism. I did it one time and there was a million views and a lot of people called me and said, "Listen, wow, I saw you on that show. So, isn't that Kiru?" I don't The only reason I'm ask I'm I'm answering you is because you asked me. If you didn't ask me, I wouldn't comment. But since you're asking me, this is not kiru. This is called gava ego. You don't care about getting people to do chuva on this place. You care about a million views, more people knowing that you're out there in the world. And of course it was very hard for the person to accept that. They gave all types of reasons why they don't think that way. But I promise you you ask any real tell to analyze the situation have the same exact conclusion. Why? Because again we have a of how to help people do chuva. We have a mass of who we're allowed to debate, who we're allowed to discuss things with, who we're allowed to teach, who we're not allowed to teach. Even teaching is not for everyone. You're not allowed to teach everyone just because they want to learn. There's something called talmid an unfair student person that has certain qualities where you're forbidden from teaching them. So people that do not know these things, they just assume, listen, if more people view you saying, therefore it's good. Not necessarily because you may be saying, but it's simply a platform for people to make fun of it. And instead of it being it's and you're doing it not really because of the you're doing it because you think that uh going on all types of platforms by non-Jews, heretics, idol worshippers and all of the above is somehow a way for is to grow. It's not debating the uh different uh beliefs. Show me one kam in history that went out of his way to go find debates. A lot of people, young people, they watch debates and they want to debate religion. They see some famous debates that have been done in recent years, whether it's by Rabbi Ysef Mizrai or Rabbi Tobe Singer. They say, "I want to do the same thing." So they simply copy and paste the materials there and they start debating all types of idol worshippers. Who told you you're allowed to debate? Well, he did it and you're him. You're Rabbi Yoshi. You're Rabbi Tobia Singer. You're the Ramban. You're not don't know anything. Who told you you have permission to go debate publicly? Well, what's the problem? The problem is you don't have a permission to do it. That's the problem. But you never asked for permission. You asked for an opportunity and you gave yourself the opportunity. Why? Megalomania. You believe you are more important than what you really are. A sense of entitlement is another symptom. Expecting special treatment and privileges without having earned them. This is become practically a quality people have as much standard as they do uh breathing air. People feel in this generation that they're entitled to everything. And what takes everything to the mania level is a preoccupation with success. Obsessing with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance. This is what people think about all day. Oh, I'm gonna start a YouTube channel. I'm gonna start this and a million people only m there's nine billion people in the world. What do I need? I only need a million people to say I like it and that's it. After that I'm set. If anybody ever offers you a business investment, listen, we have a product and 9 billion people can buy it, but we don't need 9 billion people to buy it. All we need is just 1% to buy it and we're all billionaires. That is a guarantee business that will go bankrupt. If everyone is your market, you have no market. To have the delusions that everything is available and it's all for you for the taking. That means that you live there and you're delusional and completely disconnected from reality. ambition and what you have are completely different two different things. You have megalomania. So now when a person is obsessed with themsel with obsessed with success, constantly looking for admiration, thinks that they're entitled, it makes it very difficult for them to lower their head and ask the rabbi a question before it's too late. before they take action. Why? Because they don't believe in wisdom. Wisdom is something you have to get from a living person. So yes, the is going to use the Rambam. He's going to use the he's going to use of breast. He's going to use the BMT. He's going to use he's going to use them. But he's going to explain to you what it means in a way that you can't do on your own. And since you think that you are better than what you really are, you don't think you need him for that because you believe you could do it yourself. And the more a person thinks that they can do things on themselves, the more reluctant they are to go to at all. And in fact, the more inclined they are to think that everyone is stupid except them. Do you ever meet those people that are certain certain that everyone is stupid? They tell you things and they assume that you're just, you know, you have an IQ of seven only because there's seven days in a week. So, they figure they'll give you a point for each day. They assume that you have no clue that they're lying to you. They assume that there's no way that you can add all of the details and realize that their story doesn't make sense. They assume that everyone is a fool. So why do they come to you? Oh, because they want to pretend to be good. Like this one guy that Rab Fry asked, "How come your father went to go see this uh newly famous rabbi?" What did he find in him that he chose him to be his new rabbi? He said, "My father was looking for a rabbi that is not going to tell him what to do. So why go to him? If you don't want someone to tell you what to do, don't go to anyone." He goes, "No, no, no. You need to have somebody to tell people you have a rabbi. Such and such is my rabbi, but why do you pick him? Because such and such is my rabbi, but he doesn't really tell me what to do. That means he's not really a rabbi. Means he's just a rabbi. And you perhaps you like his shim. You like his videos, you like the fact that he's famous. But in reality, you think that you're good enough on your own. And the more a person thinks that they can do everything on their own, the more it becomes difficult for them to listen to not just of today but of the previous generations. So when say to stay away from certain things lest you fall into sin, they think it's just an exaggeration. A person must distance themselves from spiritual challenges and should certainly not deliberately seek out challenges in order to overcome them and thereby attain a loftier level of says the we have a whole series on called the Jewish very very critical and fundamental series. Some people like to watch the beton series which is short and then go into the Jewish series especially the first 20 when they want to work on their it's a very very good combination between the two but needless to say the whole series of Jewish is based on the teachings of the word by word line by line of called and in there the says even if you think that what you're doing is going to elevate you because you could easily pass the test. You're not allowed to do it unless you get permission from your rabbi. Why? But my rabbi is not going to understand that I'm already on a higher spiritual ground. I can pass the test. He's going to tell me no, it's no good. If he tells you no, it's no good because it's no good. But you don't believe that the rabbi knows better than you. And therefore, the says a person should never put themselves in a situation where they'll be faced with challenges, just as he should never stand in a place that possesses danger to his physical well-being. And this could be proven by the words of the sages in Shabbat page 32A that says a person should not stand in a dangerous place. If it's forbidden for a person to position themselves in a place of physical danger, needless to say, the same must be true for a situation of spiritual danger. So when people ask you, can I just go to that wedding even though they're going to be men and women dancing there and there's going to be all types of immorality there. I'm going to be on the side just to, you know, I'm not going to sin. No. Can I go to uh that place uh the the beach even though everybody over there they forgot their clothes at home? I'm not going to look at anyone. No. No. Can I go to uh the nightclub and do what did 50 years ago and do kiru in a nightclub? No. But he did it. First of all, nightclubs back then were a world of difference from the garbage of today. Second of all of Gosman and you maybe in five Gilgim you'll be his shoe and he got permission from his rabbi. You're just asking for support for a decision you've already made. When a person goes into life thinking that they do not need to from because they can attain it themselves, they're bound to make mistakes. But not just in putting themselves in the path of sins, putting themselves in situations that they should not be in, but even simply dealing with life. Dealing with life, dealing with problems. There's no such thing as a person that lives life without problems. Everybody has problems. But you see where a person stands based on how they deal with their problems. money problems, shiduk problems, children problems, marriage problems, in-laws problems. You see, based on people's questions and how they accept the answers where they really stand spiritually much more than they realize. And one of the things that's a path that is full of success is when people ask questions before they make decisions on a regular basis on big and small issues and they accept whatever the answer is from the a path of failure are people that try to handle everything on their own or they try to find a that simply is never available and therefore they have an excuse of why they didn't ask a question. Tell no, listen Rabbi, we didn't want to bother you because we know you're busy. Wait, so you made a life-changing decision without asking the rabbi because he was busy? No, it has nothing to do with the rabbi. You didn't really want to ask the rabbi. So, you use that as an excuse. And therefore when problems happen to people, when the land is full of kamas, like the generation of Noah, people jump at the opportunity to say, "No, the problems are because the land is full of kamas. People are thieves. People are liars. He cheated me. She cheated me. He lied. They lied. It's everybody else is at fault. It's not my fault. I didn't ask her to call me. I'm a married man. But she decided to call me. Wait, but how did she get your number? Oh, you know, uh, she asked me one time for the number, so I gave it to her. Wait, so why did you give her your number if if you're a married man? Well, she asked for it. You really believe that everyone is stupid except you? People lie to themselves. lie to themselves and they think that they can fool everyone including Hashem. They think that they can do whatever they want and is not going to find out says in the end everything will be heard and that's where we have to be fear Hashem everything even the fake stories. you told your wife about why you're working late tonight. Even the fake stories you told your husband of why your coworker has your phone number and decided to call you at 11:00 at night. Even the excuse you gave your boss of why you decided to not let him know that he's not working for two weeks but still getting paid. All of those fabrications, they're all going to come out. They're all going to come out. Including those where you think that you're more righteous than thou and you're publicizing the truth. The truth that you think is true because this is what people need to hear. But you realize you're hurting people. You realize nothing good will come out of it. You realize that you're an evil person. No, no. I'm I'm I'm a person of truth. Did you ask whether you should do it or not? No. I know that Torah on my own. When people have problems, they do not know how to deal with it. Now, let me give you an example of how that Torah deals with problems. One of the greatest that lived among us in the last century is had a disease that in Hebrew it translates to the suicide disease because the people that have this disease endure so much pain the majority of them literally killed himself and he endured this for decades in called story of page 425 says the rabbi didn't speak much about the disease but one time one of the people that really loved the ravnel asked about it. After he saw how much the rabbi is suffering, how much is suffering, started crying hysterical just from seeing the rabbi suffering? And he asked him, "Why did such a decree go upon arav? Why? Why are you suffering so much? Why decide this for you? You are dedicating your entire life to publicize. After several moments response says, you ask a good question. He says, "For many years I asked the same question and after deep thought I came to a conclusion that my love for learning Torah is so extraordinary that I think that I love learning Torah 100 times more than any other person loves to do whatever is their highest desire. Whether there's desires to make money, to eat, to to to women, whatever it is, he says, "The way I love Torah is a hundred times more than the greatest desires somebody else has. So much so that I cannot look at a book at a without opening it and reading it. I have to I have to open and read it." And therefore saw that since I'm enjoying learning Torah so much, perhaps my has a deficiency in learning Torah for the sake of heaven because I'm enjoying it so much. So he wanted for my benefit for me to suffer. So when I learn Torah, it's for the sake of heaven. The average person that suffers even a ingrown toenail already makes every excuse in the world of why they don't need to learn of why they are pat from the mitzvot said all the suffering it's the kindness of hashem because I enjoy this so Today's unfortunately tools for every single person to become a cameraman, a producer, and a publishing house all with a press of a button. And therefore, there's a lot of nonsense out there online. People make up stories. people do all types of things that could ruin people's lives. There was a comedian in Israel that uh maybe 15 years ago, 14 years ago, he helps a lot of people, teaches kids. Really nice guy. But one day, this family decided that they're going to sue him for pedophilia. They went to court in Israel. And of course, despite the fact there was no evidence, despite the fact that the uh the story was complete fabrication, the court took the side of the family and they put the comedian in jail. After a few years, came out trying to rebuild his life. But of course in the religious community every opportunity people mention it especially a few people that believe the story to be like Mount Sai and they publicized it and they literally would go after him and get him to lose jobs. anyone that would hire him for a comedy or for something, they would call them and get them to fire him. Must torture him for almost 15 years or 10 years. Anyway, this story came to our and this poor guy came said please can you help me? So they took it upon themselves for no money, for no nothing, simply for the sake of heaven to see if they could help this guy. How can you help him? Investigate. Did it happen or not? Do all of the investigation that the police and the court were supposed to do. Do all of the interviews. Do all of the inspections. do everything that the government was supposed to do before they put him in jail. And after many months of investigations and calls and interviews in so many words, they confirmed the whole story, the whole accusation was fake. Never happened. He never touched the boy. Never even thought about touching the boy. never even had the opportunity to do such a thing. It was all about money. That's all it was. They wanted the money and their motivation for money was to such high level of obsession that they actually forced the boy who's now in his 20s to simply make up the story literally stealing 15 years away from this guy's life. These things happen and this is not the only story that we've encountered. We've had people where literally one person would say, "Oh, I was sexually harassed by this person." Truth is, they're the actual harasser. They're a liar. But why? Now they're trying to play a victim card. They're trying to see what else they can do because they assume everybody else is foolish. So one of the things that you learn from experience is that you don't take anything at face value until you look at the facts. But even if situation happened, horrible things happened. What is the difference between the sadikim and how they endured trauma versus the megalomania type of people that are running rampant in society. No, everyone claimed to be a victim. Oh, why can't we just pray to whoever we want? Why can't we just do whatever we want? We're big. We're strong. We're rich. No one wanted to change. No one wanted to change. No one wanted to believe that the God of Israel, the creator of the world, is going to destroy them. He has patience, but it's not forever. There is a plan and if you're not going according to plan, you'll be removed from the plan. is sending people signs throughout their entire life. Sometimes it's health problems, money problems, marriage problems, all types of issues. And all of these things you're supposed to use them to connect to Hashem to fix yourself. Stop playing the victim card. Stop pointing fingers at everybody else. But the megalomania inside a person is not going to allow them to do so. And they're going to utilize any deficiency in anybody else as in a reason of why they are better. So if a person had some type of horrible experience in their childhood or even at their job or wherever it is in their life if they're a megalomania usually usually this becomes the new card they pull every single time there's a debate about any subject doesn't matter what it is whether it's about religion or it's about money or it's about marriage or it's about anything Oh, but you don't understand. It's because I was abused. Oh, but you don't understand because I was poor. Oh, but you don't understand because I grew up in this place and you grew up differently. It's the victim card. But it all comes from megalomania. It all becomes because they think that they deserve more, that they're entitled to more, that they are more. On the other hand, we have the we have the how did they deal with it in a that was written by one of the sadikim in the past generation the midash of Daniel or parish he has a story from just the last couple hundred years about mit, one of the balu who when he was young, he was a orphan. And the aunt that took him over that took responsibility was a vicious evil person. where she would give food to our kids and only after they finished eating, she would take the leftovers and give it to little Nah. One day she wasn't home, so her children took food for themselves, ate the food, and left. So the was the time was just little saw that this was their leftovers and as usual he took their leftovers. But as soon as he had everything on his plate, the evil monster ant came in, saw him with his food in front of him. So what is this? He said, "No, no, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I I didn't take this. Your your children they eat and I took the remainders. And she starts hitting him. P. You don't do anything without asking. Meaning it's not enough that he's being treated like a dog that he eats only the remainder food. But even if he follows what she does, it's not enough. Why? You don't do anything without asking. Years passed and little became one of the one of the lights of the generation and acquired the name of the the one that brings light to the eyes. And one night he's studying deep cabalistic secrets in his home and there's a knock on the door. He gets up, he opens the door and he sees an image of some type of being, some type of angel, all types of fire, all types of things that are not from this world. And then the angel speaks to him and says, "I was sent from heaven to teach you Torah." Now, at this moment, any person listening to this says, "Wow, amazing." Of course, it's the greatest gift says to the angel. When I was a little boy, I got beat up one time from my aunt because she said, "We don't do anything without asking for permission first." And because of that, I cannot accept you teaching me Torah without asking my rabbi first. So please wait here. I'm going to ask my rabbi. He left the angel in his place and he went to the mid me and told him, "Rabbi, I'm sorry to bother you, but I was studying Torah and all of a sudden there's a knock on the door and then this angel at my doorstep, he told me he was sent to teach me Torah. Can I learn with him?" The beginning says to him, the angel, he looked like this and this. Yes. Yes, Rabbi. Yes. And he had this on his shoulder. Yes. Yes. Yes. And he had that on his chest. Mh. Identifying him perfectly. Yes, Rabbi. You did good. Because that is the Satan himself. that was sent to destroy you by teaching you heresy, by teaching you things that would confuse you and turn you against Hashem. But because you took upon yourself to go ask the rabbi before you do everything, before you do anything, that's what saved you. That's what saved you. Meaning even if someone is a gonadosh a genius holy person that angels from heaven come to teach him has to ask permission and that asking for permission is what saved him. If he asked for permission on something like that, needless to say, we have to before we do anything and everything. And the only reason that a person refuses to ask is because they think that they already know it. Is because they think that they know better. Is because they think they don't need anybody else's help. They're fine on their own. This is a recipe for disaster. In fact, when put these words together and gave us the oral to different parts of it. They gave us lessons that are eternal. And they told us, "Yes, you have Noah." And tells us that Noah was a sadikim. He was perfect. He was born circumcised. But you have to learn a lesson from Noah, which is that he had to try harder to get people to do chuva. It wasn't enough to just simply wait for people to come to him. Why? Their life was good. The weather was always perfect. Everyone was rich. They were strong. They lived hundreds and hundreds of years. The average lifetime was close to a thousand years old. No one got sick. They literally believe they were perfect. Therefore, they had all of the excuses to not need God, to even have the ideology where they could defeat God. Noah made a mistake. Say that fixed by going out there and helping people do chuva. But helping people do chuva is not just by simply telling them listen Hashem loves you no matter what. The says that in that what would teach people when they would come to him for food tell you could pay for the food or you could learn about Hashem. Sure, we'd learn what's what do we ever learn about Hashem? I'd rather not pay $200 $300 bill. I'd rather learn about Hashem. Okay, what does this God do? And Noah would start teaching them about gum about punishment. That's what he would teach them. But what they would get punished with if they don't follow Hashem and if they continue with the idolatry when took upon themselves to take the book of all medicines, all cures. He understood that people are not going to agree with him. He understood that people going to view it as a very fanatic decision. People going to come to him with crying. Listen, the daughter is sick. The son is sick. The wife is sick. They're on a deathbed. Come on, your highness. You have the book. We need the book. We need the cure. And had to stay strong and say, "Fanatic, no fanatic. I'm saving you by keeping this book away from you." Why? Because the real cure is by you doing chuva and crying to Hashem. That's the cure. That's the reason why you have the sickness. That's the reason why you're still alone and no one wants to marry you. That's the reason why your pnas has problems. That's the reason why you're suffering any type of suffering. This book of cures is a problem because you're not treating it the right way. You have replaced God with his cures. And therefore the and the binua both say that hid it because it was for the better of people and who agreed with him. Akadosu agreed with him when it came to the sign that was supposed to remind them of Moshe Abenu. He made a copper snake. Made a copper snake. The copper snake was flying in the air the time of Mosher Rabenu. but also reminded everybody that the reason why Mosheu made it was because people were getting killed by snakes because they sinned against Hashem. So it was supposed to be a reminder that we only suffer because of sin. So why would take that away? Isn't that a good thing, Rabbi? It used to be a good thing until they manipulated the truth and started praying to the snake itself. Therefore, says even though this was used for good, this was intended for good, the majority of people have turned it into bad, therefore it's no good. Yeah, but how can you take this ancient history, something that was made by the hands of Mosheu and take it away from us? Put it in a museum, put it in a safe. Why? Why hide it? Why be fanatic? Says this has to be out of your hearts. And in order for it to be out of your hearts, it has to be out of your minds. In order for it to be out of your minds, you can't even have the opportunity to see it. You can't even have the opportunity to see it. And Hashem agreed with him. Also took away all of the altars and high places that people brought sacrifices on. Why don't you want people to pray? Yes. But the moment the beta mikdash was built, it became a law. You're not allowed to bring a sacrifice anywhere else outside of the beta mikdash. So even though some people would use it for idolatry. So of course Hashem would not want that. Hashem doesn't want anybody to bring a sacrifice to an idol. So of course there's no question here that Hashem agreed for to remove the altars that were outside of the bet mikdash that were everywhere else all over the country. But in fact teaches that even if somebody brought a sacrifice to Hashem in their own backyard instead of the bet mdash even that was not allowed because you were going against the Torah. When the told us that after you eat meat, you have to wait six hours before you drink milk, before you consume dairy. A person can say, well, what's the reason? Well, scientifically it takes six hours for the food to be digested and that's the reason you have to wait six hours and you lose the taste. But you know the real reason for all of the mitzvot because said it and you say wait but but the six hours is the rabbis. Yes said listen to the rabbis. And that's why a biblical mitzvah. If a person violates it has different types of punishments. Someone that drives on Shabbat violates Shabbat intentionally. needs a death penalty accidentally, he has to bring a sacrifice. Someone steals, he has and he gets caught, he has to pay double. These are all these are biblical sins, biblical mitzvot if you observe him. But what thing one thing that a lot of people don't know and I was telling this to a group of religious kids they're in their 20s over the holiday that what people don't realize is that listening to the is in itself a biblical mitzvah and therefore violating the rabbitical mitzvot intentionally is always a death penalty. There's no different punishment for them. Meaning, if you say, "I'm not going to listen to the rabbis on this from now on," you have now violated the Torah. You didn't violate a rabbitical enactment. You violated the Torah itself. And the punishment for that is more severe than you can imagine. So when we have a law that says all the sacrifices from the moment the beta mikdash was built have to be at the bet mikdash and if there's no more bet mikdash no more sacrifices and a person says yeah but um I live too far away and it's too expensive and it's too this and I want to bring a sacrifice to Hashem. It's of course Hashem will accept my sacrifice no matter where I bring it. I'm bringing it to Hashem not to an idol. I'm bringing it into my backyard. What's the problem? Says, "No, that logic is a biblical sin and therefore we have to destroy them." And Hashem agreed with him. Hashem agreed with him. And when he stopped the waters of Ghon to deny water to the enemy who were about to besiege Jerusalem, this seemed like a bold move. This seemed like a move that did not make sense. Hashem agreed with him and made it work. Made it work. Why did he make it work? When a person is doing the will of Hashem and he's going to try to help people stop sinning and he's going to try to get people closer to Hashem, Hashem will make whatever they do work to such a point that even their enemies will come and say I'm sorry. And that's what says when a person does the will of Hashem and Hashem is happy with them, even their enemies will come say I'm sorry and ask for peace. each and every single one of us start looking at things the right way. The right way meaning the way that Torah tells us to look at things and not just assume that we know better, that we don't need anything, that we're smarter than everybody and everyone is stupid. You have big decisions to make. Ask your rabbi. Ask a Don't just ask about small things. People usually ask the small questions to the rabbi and the big questions on their own. Small questions of which uh you know sidur to buy. They'll ask the rabbi about whether they should invest $500,000 in some company that they don't know nothing about. They decide on their own. People have to understand that is relevant to every aspect of life. Every aspect of life. The more a person sees what Tawa is, the more they'll realize how much they need it. They need it in order to know what the right path is because on their own they're simply lost. We don't repeat the mistakes of the generation of Noah that thought that they could manage on their own until it was too late. We don't repeat the mistakes of other generations that thought that they could make their own rules. We don't make the mistakes of people in our generation that simply have are confused of which way is right and which way is left. We simply look into the Torah, realize that in order for us to understand what's in front of us, we need we need we can't just depend on just assuming that our great wisdom can understand things on our own. We need interpreters. We need we need that's what the is for that's what everything that our organization does from day one is to simply provide people access to because whether it's you listen to me or you listen to other whatever it is you have to make sure that you are simply living in accordance to what Torah is and not in accordance to what makes sense to you. When you do that, you'll have a lot of success. With that being said, you guys can now ask some questions will give us the answers. What is gimmud? The word goim is not just in the Talmud. It's also in the Torah itself. Goim means nations. The Jewish people are called a holy nation and the Gentiles are called which is just nations. Rabbi, what is is it possible that the weighted Messiah is the mi of the Muslims? No, it's not possible. Mashiach has to be a descendant of David. Has to be a Jew. Has to be a righteous Jew. It's not uh it's definitely not some Muslim or any other type of Gentile or any other type of wicked person even if they're Jewish. Okay. Uh, rabbis, I know no hide. I made a channel to repost your videos and sometimes I engage with Christians and explain to them what a nohide is. Is it okay or should I not debate engage? Uh, quite frankly, I think that the best thing to do is to try to just publicize our existing channels rather than create new channels. I think that's a better idea. Uh but as long as you don't change the content, meaning you don't manipulate the content or something like that to make it uh there's no problem. You continue doing what you're doing. As far as debating with uh idol worshippers and so on, I think the best thing to do is usually to uh simply let the video do the talking rather than you going back and forth. Because most people that make comments and uh like to debate online, they're not really looking for the other side. They're looking to prove themselves right. So, I don't think that uh your efforts are going to be spent um wisely if you continue doing that. I think it's better off for you to make more videos and to um you know do more uh you know of building the channel and getting more people to watch it than to debate one by one. And you could go to, let's say, for example, you could sign up to our AI rabbi app and you could ask questions that they asked and then get the, you know, the the AI rabbi gives you an answer. It tells you which video I spoke about that particular question. It timestamps it to where I spoke about it. You could take that clip and then you could put it on the channel and show them this is the answer. So, I think that's a better way to uh to debate people uh by giving them the answers from the Torah that I provide in the in the uh lectures than you going back and forth with comments. Brother, my friend wants to know if his sister can talk to guys online to find someone she likes or should she console the shatan. He wants to know if he should also do that. No, don't talk to people online. Use a shatan. Um, and that's the right way to do it. Why was a couple of each animal and uh another was seven. So in fact the uh if you notice about those uh seven they were uh animals that um were used as a sacrifice. Used as a sacrifice. And uh Noah saw that uh Akadu asked him for extra of the of the uh kosher animals and he reasoned that the reason why Hashem uh made you know brought him extra for those is to bring a sacrifice to bring a sacrifice and that's what did after the flood was Okay. What does it mean when a rabbi wanted to bless me with fruit and started singing? Uh, you have to ask that rabbi. I don't really I mean, if he started singing, then he's maybe singing the prayer, uh, which is an elevated way to pray, an elevated way to make a blessing. That's what it seems like to me. Uh, from what I understand what you're saying. Rabbi, can you make sure are endless? There it's many many books. Um, you can watch, we already have that online for Rabbi Lev has a whole series about go to Rabbi Lev's uh channel. He's one of the rabbis and he has a whole series about there's no need for me to repeat something that's already done. How do you know if a rabbi is the one for me? There are so many who say different things. Uh I mean if it's somebody that's then they follow what is if somebody's investing all of their time learning Torah and teaching Torah uh then certainly they're they're a good rabbi. Where where whether they're the good rabbi for you depends whether you're receptive to what they're saying, you understand what they're saying. Uh you you know if there's some type of uh uh connection between the two of you, then certainly it would be good. But if you don't know the rabbi, you don't listen to their lectures, then uh you don't listen to their shim, you don't then you're not going to know. You have to try. But if the rabbi chain, you know, says things that are different than what the Torah is, then of course he's not good for you. In fact, over the uh holiday, I met a nice guy that uh had a very traumatizing experience and uh by listening to the wrong advice and uh he ended up uh taking that uh evil new uh samit from the Satan called Ayawasa. And uh this thing gave them gave him a horrible horrible experience that ended up lasting two years. And um he thought it was going to help him or help somebody else. Ended up being a disaster. He used to learn a lot of Torah. He's at a point where he could barely open one page. uh you know it's I spoke to him for a few hours and said I'm hoping that he's successful and if he's watching this please keep me posted let me know if the guidance is working and you're progressing but anyway the point is that he went to somebody that looked like a in his community and he asked him what he should do he took this ayawa he got a bad experience and what he should do and this uh this pretender told him you should take it again and I'll come with you I'll take it with with you. Now, of course, that's not a even if he learns a thousand books a day, he's not a why it's against to take that stuff. Musha Feinstein says that somebody takes even uh you know, anything that alters their mind intentionally uh you know, even marijuana is ben so mo it's it's it's a uh it's a divine death penalty. It's horrible. Needless to say, something that uh makes people hallucinate like Iawaska that destroys lives. Um you know, a lot of people know the the so-called good experiences from it, but they don't realize how many lives it destroys. Uh and anyone that pretends to be a rabbi and uh tells you that this is something you should do, you should know for sure that they are not a rabbi. They're not a they're and they're against the Torah and they're certainly not not going to be a good match. Even if they speak well, even if they're charming, even if uh they are a millionaire, doesn't make a difference. Somebody's recommending something that's against that. They're not the right rabbi. They're not even a rabbi. So you have to make sure that uh you uh pay attention to the details and of course you uh get guidance that is in accordance with what Torah is and not new rules. There's no new rules as the used to say uh new is is is forbidden according to the Torah. Why did God ask to sacrifice his son and then stopped him at the last moment? But why itself says it it's he tested him. He said uh now I know you fear me. He tested him to see how uh his level of fear. Furthermore, uh the midash uh says why did Hashem test 10 different times if Hashem already knows the future and therefore he knows that Ara will pass the test? What's the point of testing the Tadik if Hashem knows he's going to pass the test? Um so the midash explains is as follows. says, "Imagine there was a person that was selling pottery. Pottery, take some uh clay, put it, make pots." Now, of course, anyone that knows about these things knows that there's different quality just like in anything else in life. But if somebody went to a place that was selling very expensive pots and the owner of the store wants to prove that these pots are different even though they're much more expensive, they're much better than everyone else, how could he how could he show that it's much better? I mean, the colors, it's the same colors, it's the same shape. How could he show him that even though the next door store sells the same something that looks exactly the same for a cheaper price, his are better? How could he prove it? He takes the pot and he starts hitting it. P. And the customer sees, "Wow, he's hitting it hard and will break. These must be really good pots." Now, the owner of the store is not hitting the pottery to prove himself that the pots that he has are good. He knows they're good. He made them. Why is he doing it? To prove it to the customer says what does what he did with Abrau. He knew that Abrau is going to pass the test. He didn't test to prove something to himself or even to prove something to but rather to prove to everybody else this is why I love my this is why I love this is why I love the until this day where he test them with difficulties and they pass it's because he wants to show you see this sadik now you know why it's sadik because I gave him a test and he passed a test that's why I love That's why it's so Hashem tested not for the sake of the sadik but rather for the sake of everyone else to see why this person is really a sadik really righteous. I have a question about the four animals with one sign. Does the rabbit chew cud because of how it chews or because it does so psychotherapy? Uh I'm not a veterinarian or an expert in uh in uh animal chewing, but uh I know that there's a chuva on hidabut. Uh someone that investigated the subject specifically about the rabbit and you can go to hidabut.org I guess or.com. Uh there's a chuva and ask that question. There's a whole write up that they have about the rabbit. Were there insects in the ark? Yes, that's what Tawa says. I saw a post on WhatsApp warning about Frian Palmanov including saying that it's it's okay to waste seed comments. Uh yeah, he's a heretic. I've spoken about him uh recently. He's a heretic. He manipulates the Torah, manipulates sources. I don't know what the data is, so I just listen online and the rabbis say different things. A lot of the rabbis are kabad. Uh well, I always tell people that whatever you hear, if it's a specific question that um is different from one place to the other, that the answer is different from one to the other, then ask for a source. Where does it say your answer in a book? Where does it say it? If what the people are saying is from one of the books of the in the which is also called the Talmud and the Rambam they give you a page number you could look it up then it's no problem. Uh but if they say no no it's there's no book this is just their opinion then you could simply dismiss what they're saying. Everything has to have a source. Are there giants or nephilim on earth today? I haven't run into one yet, but if I do, I'll let you guys know. Maybe we'll do a video together. Are we all descendants of K since Noah married his greatg granddaughter? Uh technically the uh Nama Lama was her name starts with a noon I think it's Nama was her name uh was the wife of uh of Noah and u descendant of K I think she was uh granddaughter. Um so are we descendants of K? I mean, yeah, I guess so. You could say to a certain extent. Yeah. Naomi. No, it wasn't Naomi. Nama. I mean, technically Nama Naomi is similar, but pretty sure it's Nama. Okay. Not really see just see. Yeah, it's nama. There's confirmation. time. I don't see any more questions. Oh, here we go. Uh, my close friend and I were arguing a subject. The Malim on Job 121 says, "If such Sadik didn't complain, who am I to complain?" He got offended saying, "I'm comparing myself to Job." Okay. So, what's the argument? If that's what he understood from you, then clarify that. You're not comparing yourself to him. Not really sure what the question is. Cain killed Abel. Why was Abel not more protected by God? Because Hashem put free choice. People have free choice to do what they want. Hashem does not uh get in the way of free choice. How's Palmanova Heretic? I spoke about it in I think it's the uh um a lecture about a month ago or so. No, before the holidays um to get the Torah foundations number four. I mean so many words. He manipulates the Torah. He mocks the sages. He said he calls the Talmud the teachings of the uh he says that things that are forbidden are allowed and like wasting seed he said is allowed. Um and he he just simply says things on a regular basis that are contrary to the Torah and he manipulates sources and that's it. He's a heretic. I mean, I don't know. There's a whole uh list of things of that he does wrong, but it's pretty clear that uh he's a heretic. There's actually um write up that went around that somebody uh wrote uh that chooses to remain anonymous for some reason. And uh I don't I don't know why people do that but anyway he spoke to uh he spoke to this Palmanov character and communicated with him for a period of a few weeks or months or whatever it was he met with him personally uh watched many of his lectures whatever and he showed me the dialogue between them and over there Palmanov uh literally admits that he is against which in itself makes him a kofel. He is uh against uh pretty much everything that the uh the Torah stands for. He looks at the Torah as you know uh intellectual stimulation, but uh he's not an orthodox Jew. He's closer to a uh Christian uh or reform combination than he is an Orthodox Jew. If you ask him yourself, you could ask him yourself. He It's um and uh you could see a video that he did with some degenerate that sells drugs for a living. Uh the iawaska has a YouTube channel and you can see the interview over there how he says things that are against the Torah. The uh the guy is an AIO. That's he's a snake oil salesman. That's all it's all it's really what it is. I mean um it's pretty obvious. But that write up anyway, the write up that's out there, if anybody's uh doesn't know what I'm talking about and you want it, I'll send it to you. Just send me a message on WhatsApp and I'll send it to you. Um, but there's many examples of why he's a heretic. I just don't have the patience to go into the details uh and make videos about him is just it's a big waste of time. Anyone that wants to real Torah does not listen to such a person because they see it clearly that what he says is against the Torah. You don't have to be a genius or or even very religious to know that he is not what the Torah is. is he's closer to being, you know, uh very different religion than the Torah. He just uses the Tawa as a platform. Um, why do some sex not agree with Kiru? I don't you have to ask them that question. I don't know. I'm a Palestinian. What should I do in my life in your opinion? Number one, follow what God said and be a righteous no hide. And number two, try to convince some of your Palestinian brothers that the Jews are not the enemy and uh in fact they should be supportive of the Jews in the Torah rather than being the enemies. If you succeed in one out of the two, you'll be doing good. The Muslim worship the one true God and have access to eternal life. Although they believe in the same God according to most opinions of the sages um they don't serve him the way God says. They believe in God but they serve him in a way that's against God. similar to what uh is in a book uh was written about a thousand years ago called the Kuzari where the angel tells the Kuzarian king that your uh desire to serve God is good but the way you're doing it is wrong. So when the uh the Muslims tell you that they love God and Allahbar but you know that's good but when they use that as a justification to kill Jews and to terrorize their their their enemies uh which are the Jewish people uh then obviously they're not uh they're not doing good. Why? Because the Torah itself says that the Jewish people are Hashem's chosen uh chosen people, chosen children. So when you terrorize God's children, that means that you're not serving God. You're serving yourself. I read in this week's para that two shadim were allowed in the ark. The comments say, "Shadeim are like humans and die like humans do." Could you elaborate on these creatures die like humans? Yeah, the talks about how there's three different types of shadim. There are ones that are um more uh like completely like angels. They're like there are ones that are completely like human beings where they're completely flesh. They eat, they drink, they breed, they get married, they look like humans. Could even be your next door neighbor. Uh and then there's ones that are a mix meaning that they're half this, half that. Uh so that's but there's different types like people uh categorize anything that's supernatural as shadimal. But there's three different types that I just mentioned to you are not all of them. There are other types that you would call shadeim, but they're not shadim. They're mezikim. They're there's different things. In so many words, the uh as many different creatures as you see in species as you see in the physical world, don't think that that's all there is to see. There's beyond uh that in the spiritual world that we don't see uh with the naked eye unless Hashem opens up her eyes. Uh one of the examples of that is uh when uh the uh uh the king threatened Alicia Navi. Uh he came with his entire army uh to threaten Alicia Navi and uh the helper of Alicia Navi saw all the chariots surrounding the house of Alicia and he came to came to the prophet told him oh they're here. They're going to kill us. They're gonna they're threatening us. And Alicia told him, "Don't worry, we have more than them." He said, "What do you mean we have more than them?" He goes, "Our army is bigger than theirs." And he just sees himself and he sees Alicia. He says, "What are you talking about?" So Alicia says, "Okay, go outside again. I'll show you." He went outside and he showed him and that all the entire mountain was surrounded by tens of thousands of angels in their fiery chariots that the naked eye was not able to see unless Hashem wanted to show him. So here the prophet showed him. So those angels were there you know even when the helper didn't see it just that again there are a lot of things that the eye cannot see. The also talks about how there's a way for a person to see the uh the supernatural that is uh mystical. I don't know whatever you call it that's the um uh the things that are you're not supposed to see. Uh, I'm not going to tell you how to do it because it'll ruin your life and you'll go crazy. But the point is there is there are ways to do it. There was actually one that did it at the time of the and after he did it, you he wanted to die because he was so scared uh of what what what it really is until the prayed for him to for Hashem to take it away from him and uh and he did and he went back to normal. uh in so many words there is a lot more than you could possibly imagine as David says on one side you have a thousand on the other side you have 10,000 there's a lot more there's a lot more creatures there's a lot more beings there's a lot more things than the human eye sees um and uh some of them are called shindality some of them are called other things um and it also and as far as whether they're good or bad depends depends on the person. If the person is righteous, then they're surrounded by good. If the person is wicked, then they're surrounded by evil. Every single time a person makes a mitzvah uh makes a good deed, then they're they create their action creates another good angel, if you will, uh that uh will help them. every time they do something bad that's against the Torah, they create a uh a shindal, a mazik that uh is going to entice them to make more sins. And just imagine how many decisions you have to make every single day that are good or bad. And each time you're creating something, your actions are creating something. Um so in so many words if a person actually saw uh the real world what's really around them they would lose their mind. They would lose their mind. They wouldn't be able to live. They would be too scared uh and they would simply lose their mind. So Hashem does not show us everything that's really there. There are times that Hashem chooses to show a person uh different things uh for different reasons. Uh and there are also certain people that uh Hashem brought into this world that have um supernatural abilities if you will. Some people are able to move things with their minds. Some people able to read minds, some people are able to see things. Um you know, some people are, you know, there's and I'm talking about people that use witchcraft to bring those things. That of course exists. But I'm talking about people that have a natural ability uh to see things, to uh to know things, to do things that also exists in the world. Uh it's certainly not common. And don't think for a moment that uh there is uh the X-Men movie is real and you're going to meet Wolverine one day and he's going to show you the knives coming out of his hand. No, that's not what I mean. But there are certain people that have abilities that are similar to what you see in the movies. Um there are there are uh not all of them obviously but the point is and there were many more in the past. Either way the point is that just because you don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Just because it's not popular does not mean that it doesn't exist. Just because you never heard of it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. uh just because nobody's made an article about it or or or publicized it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. In so many words, people assume that uh lack of publicity and knowledge means lack of existence. Uh and that's a mistake. There are new discoveries made every single day. But the truth be told is that those discoveries are not really discoveries. They were there the whole time. we just found out about them. Uh we're not it's not new it existed. And in fact talks about and the Ramban elaborates in his Ramban when he talks about when he writes about Cohellet of how was trying to tell us that all of the things and the ideas and the innovations and the technologies and all the amazing things that you're you see today whenever that today is is not new. It existed in the past and it was forgotten. And everything that you're doing now that you think is new and elaborate will also be forgotten. Meaning that a lot of the things that people think are new, new developments, uh you know, are not necessarily new. They're just um they're new to you. They're new to you. Um and in the uh in the world that we live in today, there's a lot of things that uh people um people don't know and there are some things that people do know but choose not to believe and there are some things that people uh you know argue about. But point being is one way we know for sure is that if it's in a Torah, it's real. That's that's the one one uh one thing we know for sure. If it's in a Torah, it's for sure real. If it's not in a Torah, then it's not real. Do I need to be a Jew in your religion to go to heaven? Um, no. You could be a righteous. Noahhide. Righteous Noahide means a righteous gentile that follows the laws of that are applicable to the Gentiles which is a nohide laws. Uh, is it possible for someone to be sensitized and partially open to the supernatural plane you speak of? And will the Torah study help to clean that up or shut it down? Uh, yeah. I mean, if it's a person is naturally inclined to that, that's one thing. If a person is learning Torah um you know again it's not just you know one two three and a person uh becomes uh you know the lublin I can see from one end of the world to the other end of the world and everything in between. Uh but uh can Torah help it? Yes, certainly it can. Uh but it's only after years of toil and and and specific uh type of learning and elevation, but it's not it's not something that you aim for. Um it's something that Hashem gifts you if he chooses to gifts it to you. Can it happen? Sure, it can happen. Uh does it happen to everyone? Absolutely not. But if a person tries to go after those things themselves, then typically they're going to end up with the dark part of it, which will ruin their life. So don't look for that stuff. As we reach the end of times, what do you think Hashem is the proud proudest about? What do you think he's disappointed in us about? Hashem told us to follow Torah. Those that follow the Torah will be rewarded. Those that don't will be punished. We don't measure Hashem like you do people. There's no fifth animal. It's only four animals that have one sign. God sent angels through women to the earth to live. There were two angels uh that uh spoke against man and Hashem tested them uh as a and he sent them to uh to the world and they ended up being the angels that sinned with women and uh the nephilim came from them and so on where it talks about Noah and um Hashem punished those two angels and sent them It's a specific type of place where they're being punished to this day. It's called uh talks about vampires and sorcerers never do sorcery. Uh but the Torah talks about yeah that's actually one of the reasons why the uh uh the seph of medicines uh that hid uh why he did it. Um, some say that uh uh it had uh certain um teachings in there of how to make certain things that like poisons and so on which we're allowed to learn about but not allowed to use. So some people were using it for bad. So that was one of the reasons that encouraged to uh hide that sephilo. That's what the uh the rumbum says. Islam the son of David in heaven. He took women without permission from God. Slommo is certainly in heaven and he did not take anything from God. You can't take anything from God. All right. I meant I meant the opposite. I don't want special abilities. I want to to help remove such things. They're problematic. Oh, can it remove it? Yes, certainly. If you um there are certain things that bring the tuma to a person's life. Two main things that bring that stuff is idol worship, any connection to idol worship and uh immorality, wasting seed and things like that. If you have any connection to either one of those two, then it's going to make a lot of problems in your life, especially if you have if you're prone to uh seeing the supernatural and so on. Um so you want to fix that. Torah studying itself will help, but it's not enough. You have to fix those two other things. Any plans to come uh to Israel? Uh I don't have any plans to come to Israel at this moment. I don't have plans to go anywhere at the moment. There is a thought of possibly going to New York. Um but uh nothing is uh set. I know some people have asked me to do lectures there, but nobody has actually planned it. an actual event yet. So that's a possibility, but uh nothing is set in stone. Israel, no. Okay. Okay. Oh, we learned, we answered questions, we asked questions. We have another uh sh back on. Thank you very much for learning with me. 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