Parashat Behar: Why Do TeShuva With So Many FAKE Religious People?

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throughout the last few years of doing and doing K is only getting bigger we have have uh a bunch of shim set up for uh next month and just the next couple of weeks uh in New York we'll do uh some things in New York in New Jersey several and a lot of the fans that have been watching us online uh will be able to see us live and B after that we have we come back to Florida and then uh after that maybe a few weeks later another one of the trips to somewhere else so a lot of T A lot of work to do am is is is thirsty for Tor as we find ourselves in a very very confusing time very troubling time on one end there's constant Talk of the Messiah uh there constant talk that he can come at any moment if you would have talked about it 50 years ago it was harder to believe on one end people thought yes maybe the Messiah is coming now that we have is almost 70 years ago maybe the Mah should come since we have the land of Israel but unfortunately the land of Israel was not founded by people that admired theem or the Zionist movement uh has generally been anti Tor uh benon one of the uh forefathers of Zionism that everyone looks up to uh viewed the Torah as the uh biggest tragedy that ever happened to the Jewish people this is his words not mine so you see that there is a uh his words little by little have touched some of theot and infected some of theot today we create a lot of confusion many Israelis today as I saw them in in Israel in our trip uh are very confused on one end they uh want to be part of the people on another end they feel that if they're religious maybe they're not going to be part of the people but the reality of it is that if you look at the nation of Israel if you look at our history for over 3,300 years no one is more Jewish than someone that's religious uh because when you are Jewish you are that means that you're observing a religion when you are observing the religion when you're connecting to Hashem uh you're constantly feeling feeling like you are different from the rest of the Nations when uh you're just Israeli and you don't keep anything or even if you're just Jewish by birth but you don't keep anything it's very easy to be lost amongst the people I remember when we first came to America 27 years ago you know I came I went to a uh religious school in Nat before we got here you know we kept the M we weren't Ultra religious but we kept a few things but as soon as we got here we made the mistake of going to public school and uh but an innocent mistake we didn't realize that things would turn out as they did where slowly but surely my brothers and I and our friends there there was a huge amount of Israelis that came to the United States in the early 1990 late 80s where uh little by little we found ourselves wanting to be like the Goen not only being okay with the fact that we're not religious which is already one problem but actually wanting to be like the Goen trying to emulate them trying to act like them trying to be just like them and looking up to them and that is the biggest tragedy that's hitting our the Jewish people today is that we don't realize what we have and we want what's something that's not really better not that there's anything wrong with the go if they're righteous with hem and there no hides to keep the of the T the r writes that a uh a that keeps the the seven Noah laws has the share of the world to come this is so this is a big deal so a that's keeping the has share of the world to come but a has no share of the world to come a Jewish person that was born to a Jewish mother and even if his father is a giant Rabbi but he does not keep Shabbat has no share of the wealth so we find ourselves in a situation where the thirst for Torah is continuing to get bigger and bigger and one thing that continues to amaze me personally is that I see so many big scholars in the world so many people that know so much more Tora than I do they've been studying for many more years than I did but yet if you look at the followers on YouTube if you look at the followers on Facebook on WhatsApp and all of these things the popularity that I have uh especially these last several months is exceeding people that have been doing it for 20 years so obviously this is has nothing to do with me the only thing I could say that I contribute is that I say what what Hashem wrote I generally don't add my opinion that much unless it's obvious that it's my opinion and I have no problem telling you about things that are very very difficult to hear whether it's the dean the Judgment for Shabbat or wasting seed or uh is is or any of the major sins in Judaism one thing that I uh I've never been politically correct if one thing is the truth it's always the truth and this is how we start a paral is giving us an overall par that is discussing the uh there's 26 different mitv in this par but the vast majority have to do with the the sabatical year and which is every 50 years this is the overwhelming majority of this Paras which is relatively short about half the size of a normal par that we read but it's swamped with information that could change your life starting with the first verse hem spoke to Moses on Mount sa saying speak to the children of Israel and say to them when you come into the land that I give you the land shall observe the Shabbat rest for hasem so first thing you notice is that there's one extra or a couple of extra words in the first sentence the first verse if you remember every day we do kma in the morning and at night and then also we do before we go to sleep is the third time that we we do it the major obligation is the and but there's a third time you're supposed to do it before you go to sleep this is a uh not that I know much about cabala but this has a lot to do with protecting you in your uh sleep uh especially against mikim you know different uh demons and things of that nature so if you have bad dreams if you're seeing things things of that nature is the uh The Cure but regardless you're supposed to do it because it's also part of is to do is to do to I sinned unintentionally intentionally purposefully why why do we do we do right before we go to sleep to clean yourself before go to sleep okay but you already cleaned yourself twice already if you're sapharic you already cleaned yourself twice you cleaned yourself in you cleaned yourself in why are you doing it again at a uh why can't you wait for the next morning because then sh go that time you go you go to bed so the goes up no so I going going to go up when you're not uh prepare for it so you're in the right direction the main reason why we do VII before we go to sleep is because you don't want to ever have someone says was a you don't want anyone to ever die without saying without doing V without saying I'm sorry doing at least a part of their CH and when you go to sleep technically it's a partial death we don't know if our is going to come back in the morning that's what we see we say in the morning first thing in the morning say we thank AEM for bringing back our because the body without is dead it's nothing it's just a piece of meat so you don't want anyone to ever die without having without uh without doing VI without doing partial chuva this is maybe where they got the idea of why you know how someone could do chuva in the last second of their life they could do be doing but as we all know as we've learned over the last couple of years together that doing chuva take is a process it's not something that takes one second yes you could do a partial Chua in 1 second even before you die 100% you could do it but that's not the Chua that's going to get you out ofat that's not the cha that's going to get you out of it's not going to be the Chua it's going to get you out of the big sins yes you said I'm sorry so that will help the suffering in the next World be lowered but it's not going to be something that's going to get you into gunen so we do we do it before we go to sleep but in this we have one of the uh you know we have verses from the Tor and the part that talks about and if you notice it says and hasem spoke to Moses to speak to the nation and this is how it said throughout the entire tor but here in this say okay so we all know there's no such thing as an extra letter of course there's no such thing as extra two words but why out of all of the Tor the entire torem picked right here this verse to add the two words B where is he going to talk to him in a pub where is he talking to him in a uh sh place what he talking to him of course he's talking about Al we know he's talking about the whole the whole mitv coming from from Al so why over here is he telling him that is he telling us that he spoke to Moshe so a few things that we can learn about this first and foremost this is to remind us that just like he spoke to mosu here in Al to tell him about theah all of the other times was also in Al so no one should ever misunderstand that anything changed as the Torah continued this was still in Ali so that's one what's the significance of him talking to him in Al why does he have to remind us that he talked to us in Al we did a k today in the the WhatsApp K that we do which is very very popular very successful and is helping M people change their life I think in some cases even more than uh some of the long shoe R do it gets them to watch the long shoe R you watch 15 minute clip something relevant makes you want to watch a little more you watch another 15minute clip the next thing you know you're watching a three- hour Shure people do Chua that way people convert people do Chua so now one of the major difficulties that we have today is this is as says this is this is the world of lies in the end of page 49 we've gone over it before kazal says that in the end of times in the times of the mashia there's going to be certain things that happen in the world that are going to be signs that you know the mashia is around the corner one of them that we've heard many times is the face of the generation it's like the face of a dog now even though scientifically we found out that dog owners tend to look like their dogs no they really do I showed you a picture I think in last week's year and I uh did it also in Miami Shure but one of the main things we also notice is that people start acting like dogs and why does what does it mean acting like dog is dog a dog is a loyal animal for the most part you know I had a dog for 16 years he was better than most people that I know he very loyal very happy what is it what is the saying here you know the face of a generation is a face of a dog it's not a compliment cuz the rest of the is talking about bad things that are happening a dog has very bad traits he has no bu he has no shame and this is the reason why he feels comfortable licking himself anywhere that you that he wants it doesn't matter if you're in the middle of a 20 course dinner with Kings and uh presidents or you're in the middle of a uh the living room with a bunch of little kids none of that stuff matters a dog wants to touch himself he touches himself no problem today's generation is not too different you see that today's generation has as many problems in the religious world as it does in the secular World secular World obviously has never been more ignorant people have gone to the point where if they don't know Tor they actually think it's bad for you it's like poison you get to a point people that don't know Torah think that there's something wrong with it it's some you know brainwashing it's this it's that they have all types of negative stereotypes that they have for the Torah not having a smallest clue in the world of how magical and divine it is and how it could change your life just like this to the better so in the secular World we've talked about that enough there countless problems in America in Israel all over the world but in the religious world they're creating more problems why because in the religious world there's a lot of people that look religious they look religious some of them even look more religious than the religious people the black and white the Hat the beard the long dresses they look religious Str they look very very religious but unfortunately all that is a costume all is a costume just like you wear a costume or the little kids wear a costume on fim they wear a costume every day why because you see those same people and I remember before doing chuva being in the garbage and filth that I was involved in you go out to all types of places you go to clubs you go to all types of places and every one of those places I always see a religious guy or two or five or 10 whether it was a casino or bar or what kind of other place you could just imagine me I didn't think there's anything wrong with me this is what people do in the secular world you have no connection to hm you have no idea how much damage you're causing your n by seeing the filth in this world you have no idea this stuff stays with you forever your is the best camera in history everything you've ever seen is recorded mhm everything but when you're secular and you have no connection to hasem you have no connection to the Torah you don't think there's anything wrong with it you don't think there's anything wrong about looking at a woman you don't think there's anything wrong about looking at shows you don't think there's anything wrong about looking you're watching TV you don't think there's anything wrong with it what do you know you and the cow are not that different when you have no Torah you find out later when you have they used to be a cow but the religious guy the religious guy the guy with the hat with the beard with the this with the that you know like R mrai says the beard is long enough to sweep the floor you see him in this club or this casino like what's he doing here even the guy that's in the garbage knows that the other guy doesn't belong in the garbage it's like I live here I'm in the garbage all the time I play with the garbage and but what are you doing here little do you know that he's much worse than you much much worse I have a question Rob relig Guy cannot have a hob sometimes even in religion you can go one in while to the casino Shalom never allom never allowed to go to casino never allowed to even $20 to even5 even for free even without money never allowed to go to that casino ever why not allowed to go to that casino why you not allowed to gamble and even he say if I win in the casino 100% for the money go to not only that even if he says that not only 100% that I win goes to staka if I win even $1 in a casino I give everything I have everything I have at home that I didn't win to the to staka still not allowed still not allowed not allowed first of all it's important to know that casino winnings is considered Gaz when you win in a casino it's considered like you stole the money 100% gazed why is that 100% gazed because the person or the place that you're getting the money from doesn't want to give it to you even if it's $10 even if it's five friends playing Texas hold them five friends playing Texas hold them each put 50 bucks into the pot everybody in the on table is a millionaire $50 doesn't matter to them everybody put $50 just for fun not allowed Lama when you win his $50 he doesn't want to give you the $50 which means that it's considered that you stole the $50 from him and says someone that stole cannot come into heaven even if he's a complete sad and everything else he gets to the Gate of Heaven say you can't come in you have to come back and again good you have to come back in a reincarnation and pay back the money you stole you stole $1 in your life you have to come back in a g which means that if you know that you stole at some point in your life you have to do cha here how you have to give it back to the person you want if you don't know who you owe money to because you beat them in gambling you have to take that money and you have to give it the and if you don't realiz that you in the P some you have to do CH you have to give extra you know you've won some kind of money in the past you have to estimate it to the best of your ability and start giving not including that's not part of your M it's separate from your m m is the money that you lose in gam now here's that's the first reason that's the first reason of why not have to gamble at all but it still does an answer why you not to go to the casino why not to go to the casino a casino is considered something called is a place of of of clowns you're not allowed to be amongst people that are completely ignoring the laws of the Torah completely ignoring the laws of hem you're not allowed to be there not allowed to be next to them it's not modest third reason since modest Shalom mentioned is Modesty I spent a lot of time would do full CH spend a lot of time in casinos used to play Texas holdam with the best players in the world a lot of money tournaments all that garbage one thing I can tell you for sure you could learn from me about casinos number one no one of wins other than the house how do we know that's how they have casinos just logic they don't build casinos because they give people money you do not win over the long run you do not win in a casino okay so you say no no I'm not playing against the casino cuz the odds are not good I'm playing against people we just said it's stealing second thing the best players in the world I've played with many of them can't say all of them but many of them in the World Series of Poker and cash games and all that garbage that's there the vast majority of them and by vast majority I mean 95% if not 100% I'm just giving CU to 5% are complete degenerate losers in life in general they you may see them on TV they won a tournament for a million and a half dollars $2 million $5 million in reality they didn't win the money they're partners with at least five or 10 people that paid for the $10,000 buying or the $5,000 buying why because they don't have any money cuz they're all broke yes but you see on on the internet you see the guy won $5 million in tournaments over the last two years how does he not have any money because they're losers cuz they gamble it everywhere else they spend it on different drugs and they spend it on the casino itself and prostitutions and all types of garbages in the world so you see that the vast majority of poker players and and professional gamblers are the biggest losers in the world biggest degenerates in the world they constantly lend money to each other none of them ever have any money they look like they're living their life of the Rich and Famous but they all live on 100% debt and not the best type of debt I've seen it firsthand so I could save you the time and the trouble of going to the same experience with my experience I can tell you that there's no winners there's only losers both in this world and of course in the next one quick question before you continue we start talking about uh some religious people they're basically got to go back to that yeah they looking like a costume and they're wearing this and that yeah there is like uh a lot of times either in the synagogue or either on the restaurant or either even knocking on the door and come to collect money MH now we the people we don't know we think we're doing something good right what is Our obligation is to give anyway depends how much you give if you're giving small money if you're giving a dollar you're giving $5 you're giving you know money that's not meaningful to you then yes you give if there's a hand out there you give they don't come but if they're asking if they're asking for bigger money if they're asking for a few hundred a few thousand depending on obviously Who You Are are some people their minimum to that gu is $5,000 some some people their maximum to that gu is $5 so it depends who you are if you're going to give meaningful money it's a few hundred or more then you're not allowed to give it to somebody without knowing who he is you have to know who they are you have to know where the money is going to doesn't matter who's coming not coming there's too many in the world there's too many Wicked people in the world and I know this firsthand firsthand information also reminds me combines with the two things that you said gambling with fake people I know somebody that used to own a club a uh a gambling club and they have people come play cards every night till the morning and not once not twice not three times not five times religious people would go there with the stro with the hat with the this with the that playing one time the owner sees the guy the the religious guy the guy with the costume is taking out envelopes of checks and money that people donated to him and he's buying the chips that way the amount of that that fake religious guy caused he has no idea how much gome he's going to have his Gom is never going to end not because I said it because that's Tor says it's can't it talks about you desecrating aem's name there's nobody in the world worse than you there's no one in the world in a worse situation than you when you when you're actually desecrating aem's name like that the amount of suffering that that person is going to have in one day in one day in G is not going to be the entire world suffering in all of history is not equivalent to it one day in G on that he's going to have that's how much suffering is that for what for taking out Saka money and gambling it and making another Jewish guy that was thinking of maybe doing chuva not du cha that's what he did and forever he's going to remember this religious guy that's a that's a cuz he's looking for an excuse the non-religious guy is always looking for an excuse not to be religious he's always looking for an excuse so when he sees a religious guy Act like everybody else he says Ah so just a custume who needs this custom so I'm going to stay the way I am cuz he thinks that the whole Torah is a joke so this is again something that when it gets to gambling the addiction of gambling is no less than the addiction to heroin the addiction to cocaine the addiction to alcohol the addiction to women the addiction to all of the the worst possible things that ever existed all wrapped into one gambling why gambling destroys everyone around not just you everyone around and this is why the Torah specifically forbids gambling another reason as we mentioned it causes when you go to a casino as a Jew doesn't matter if you're wearing a yamaka or not and if you do it in online for example still stealing money you have no interest in going to ganed of course oh you want to go to ganed right okay you play online you can't go to G why cuz you're stealing money whoever wherever you're winning from you're stealing their money even it's from go it doesn't matter it's Jewish it's worse if it's a because but he do know who you are he don't know that you're you're stealing money hm knows who you are okay hasem knows who you are not allowed to gamble maximum you're allowed to gamble according to AB Feinstein $1 $1 $1 a week $1 lot that's it some say $2 some say you know you know they say $2 $2 lot so $100 cash game $500 cash game $1,000 tournament no also says says somebody gambles is guaranteed to lose all of his money guaranteed to go go into the poor house so the next thing is in regards to gambling is it causes when you go into a casino whether you're wearing a keeper or you're wearing a hat or you're wearing a Titi that's out or it's inside or you're not wearing it at all eventually someone will find out you are Jewish or using the STA from other people or using St from other people unbelievable so when someone finds out that you're Jewish whether they're Jewish or not is irrelevant it's still in some cases it's even worse if it's a non-jew that finds that you're that you're Jewish why because he sees a Jew in the same place as him now he read he went to uh Christian School when he was a kid he goes to church once a week and his priest keep saying Jewish people are the chosen people chosen people chosen people chosen people says I don't know he's like listen I read in this Bible it says Jewish people are chosen people but I'm in a Cino and he's in a casino maybe hasem made a mistake that's what the go is thinking maybe hasem made a mistake maybe he should have chose me cuz I'm in a casino also I actually won he lost I'm a better player than him I'm smarter than him I'm better looking than him I'm taller than him I'm smarter than him so what a sin that is you pick the worst possible sin last but not least reason of not allowed to gamble as you can see there's a nice book of reasons why you're not allowed to gamble is because you are obligated to run a world in a normal fashion if we were all allowed to gamble and that was a way to make a Liv living it would not be a natural way for the world to run people would not want to work they would live for the moment and this kazal specifically decreed it's not a natural way of how to run a world not allowed to do it so for all of the Israelis Americans Muslims uh Jews non-jews no one's allowed to gamble but the Jews that do it have a special uh tun that they're going to have to go through and they better do it to this world because the one in the next world is much much more difficult so now going back to the issue at hand a lot of people have a tough time doing Chua when they see these Wicked so-called religious people doing all of these sins and they say listen if they do it what's the difference between me and them I just don't wear a costume I'm real I'm a rational a rationalist they're they're a fanatic they look at us like o Bin Laden they do they're met you ask some some Jewish people that are far from religion they look at religious people like lad they're he's fanatic and he's looking at us like fanatic he doesn't realize that he's the one that's on the other end but doesn't matter the point is in his eyes we have a problem and whose fault it is the guy that wore a costume and went to the casino so now how does this connect to our Hashem is specifically reminding us once again the entire Torah was given to us in Mount Si before we arrived at Mount Si we were not Jewish before we arrived to Mount Si we were called Israelites we were not Jewish Judaism did not exist before Mount Si as a matter of fact if you go to our forefathers AB ainu as we talked about in previous shim was a Hebrew a i his son also I yov also named Israel Israel he was the first Israelite the 12 tribes his sons all Israelites the entire nation of Israel that suffered 210 years of slavery in Egypt all Israelites no Jews we are not referenced to as Jews anytime during those 210 years we to mount sa were referen to as Jews first time why what changed in Mount sa what didn't we have before Mount sa we didn't have Torah so here we know what makes a Jewish person Jewish no it's not his mother possible no it's not his passport no it's not to that's you it's identification card either what makes a person Jewish basis is a Tor without Torah he's not Jewish I have the question when they get get the Torah how they do breit all the people that was there no as a matter of fact kazal says there was no the people did some Brit mil before Mount Si but after they got Tora in Mount Si they did not do Brit Mila until they all arrived or actually the ones that survived and all the Next Generation arrived in Israel is no one did bre mil in the desert it was too dangerous so no one did breed Mila in a desert so here we find out that Isel became the Jewish people the chosen people after they received the tah which means if Shalom we said we don't want the to instead of saying instead of saying we will hear we will do and we will we will listen said no you know what this tor it's not for us and somebody else came along a different people they came and they said to you know what that Torah you want to give them how much is it it's free we'll take it who's the Jewish people then they are they're the Jewish people how do we know this because anyone can become Jewish all you need to do to become Jewish is fulfill the Torah obviously there's a conversion process which were privileged to help many people convert from all over the world some of these converts are the most am amazing people I've ever met sacrificing their life just to do and just to be a part of what most Jewish people take for granted this is a major on that's why thear says a convert is like a skin disease for the Jewish people Lama skin disease if you see most converts that are righteous converts some of the biggest sikim in history were converts the oral Tora we have they're the forefathers of it both of them converts converts AKA came from converts on that without him we would not have any M on convert supposed to be his father was a convert his parents were converts onos was supposed to be the next Caesar in Rome instead became a Jew a righteous Jew convert some of the most amazing people you will ever hear about learn about and see today even a converts so why is the gar saying such a harsh statement saying convert is like a skin disease for the Jewish people because the convert when they're righteous they're so righteous it makes the rest of the Jewish people look like they're doing nothing because they're begging AEM begging AEM they're willing to do anything 35 years old no problem sell my house in the uh you know for that's in a neighborhood that's not good just to buy a quarter of a house in a Jewish neighborhood no problem leave my job no problem change my life no problem disconnect with the with family friends and whoever is necessary no problem why just for you a just for you just to be called part of the chosen people and then we have these little Jewish kids don't they're scared they're embarrassed of putting their keeper on no no my friends are going to see me IMA I don't want to have a keeper on I want to wear the skinny jeans and look like the green which we talked about in is not allowed to wear skin and jeans not alone so little Jewish boy doesn't want to be Jewish but the convert is begging AEM begging AEM give me just like David said one thing I ask from Hashem and that's what I'm going to ask for to be in the house of one thing I asked from hm just to be in the house of hasm he was a king king of the world King David king of the world Rich powerful sadik smart anything you want what does he want to be Little Learning Tor one thing I want I just want to learn some Tor with that's it one thing not money not women not power not nothing what does he want learn a little bit Jewish guy doesn't want to be Jewish convert will die to be Jewish so makes us look bad makes us look bad frun of hem that's why when someone arrives to the next world after 120 and did not do chuva going to come in front of Hashem it's not going to come in front of some a uh all the old friends maybe played poker with them in the casino no he's coming they're already at the place he's going to be he's going to go in front of Hashem first hashem's going to ask him so do you keep Shabbat no do you conduct your business honestly sometimes yes sometimes no do you learn Torah what is tor how come you didn't do anything that I said in my book my love letter to you ohem I don't know it was tough I was busy I had three companies I had a building I had a wife and six kids I had a second wife with another three kids I had a girlfriend with one more kid I had three dogs I was busy hasem oh you're busy T okay so what did I do he brings the G he brings the convert he shows it to the convert to this Jew this ungrateful Jew says it was more difficult for you to do it than my convert that left the family left their neighborhood left their money left their life left everything just for me it was hard a for you than them that's the example that's the example they give every Jew in sh that's why the convert is a skin disease because it's something to look up to or it's going to hurt so now we go back again for all of these people that are talking about and seeing that there are many people that are sinners in the world that are wearing the costume and they're saying ah it's not worth it for me to be religious we we have to learn from this verse we have to learn from what hasem is telling us here the Torah was given in Mount the tah is what makes you Jewish not the Jewish people the Jewish people are not always the best example of what Judaism really is sometimes they are sometimes they're not sometimes they deserve to be the chosen people sometimes not this is the reason we don't have a better mdash if we were great we would have a better mikdash so every Jew needs to understand your Judaism is not based on what everybody else is doing it's not based on if this guy's gambling and this guy's wearing a costume and if she's modest or if she's not modest if she's wearing a wig if she's wearing a k if she's doing this if he's doing that none of that stuff matters why because if you were on an island by yourself by yourself you'd still have to be Jewish you'd still have to fulfill the Torah even without people the woman would still have to be modest and the man would still have to keep the mixold even if you're by yourself without Jewish people why because the Torah is what makes you Jewish of course we have to try to find like-minded people which makes our life a little easier build a nice family teach our kids the right way have a wife or a husband that has a similar mindset and goals like us to fulfill the will of hasem of course we only want to be friends with people that are going in the right direction with us or perhaps people that we could influence to go in the right direction but if they're influencing us to go down then obviously we have to disconnect from them just like a hasem told the first Mitzvah he told before he told them about the rest of the Torah before he told them about Shabbat before he told them about what he tell them as is inside the hole that they full of fire that they threw him in because he didn't want to worship an idol hasem meets him inside the fire according to the midash Inside the Fire and that's where he told him inside the fire leave leave everything behind you can't change these people here you have to leave you have to leave family you have to leave friends you have to leave everything and I'll make you into a go kados I'll make you into a holy nation where am I going he didn't ask didn't askem is meaning he's not asking I already jumped in the fire for hasm he didn't expect to be saved AB didn't jump into the fire because hasm spoke to him hm didn't speak to him yet he went into the fire for hasem but not because hasm told him because he knew that's what you need to do and he was surrounded by costumes you're surrounded by people that were considered religious in abu's generation everyone was religious everyone there was no such thing as not religious the only problem is the religion was idol worship and he was by himself he was the only monotheistic human being that existed even his own father Not only was was an idol worshiper he sold the idols he sold the idols he made the idols and sold them his own father a still chose AEM doesn't matter that everybody else is wearing a costume why because he already knew it doesn't matter what everybody else does even if I'm in a hole full of fire I still have to I still have to worship AEM so no one has an excuse I saw the guy in a casino I saw the guy at a Club the guy stole money from me the guy did this the guy did that none of that will help you in the real world that's after this world no one can use that excuse when they arrive in front of the bed of sh and say no no listen there was a bunch of religious guys that stole money from me that's why it wasn't religious not going to help you no over there no there's no there's no there's no sense of because it's only truth oh and the reality is none of it is going to help you they're already going to suffer anyway their suffering is not going to help you you are obligated to be Jewish and comply with the Torah regardless this is why hasem is telling us what makes us Jewish is the Torah if someone wants to become Jewish they have to comply with toah if someone is was born with the ticket to be Jewish because their mother is Jewish maybe even they went to a Jewish school at some point they've heard of what Judaism is the only way they can remain Jewish is by complying with t that's why hasm is telling us here remember the T we got on Mount we didn't get it anywhere else we didn't get it at 7-Eleven we got it to Mount son another thing we need to understand is that hasem is telling us in regards to this very same issue in Mish chapter 26 section 26 it give us the PA it gives us the path of how to do Chua and how to remain a strong Jew that's zealous which we're amen which like which we're going to learn about in a few weeks but it's connected to a it says in Translation the boore which is someone that has little Lally no substance nothing he's just somebody that's empty he's not even fearful of sin he doesn't even know what sh is because he doesn't know what sham is he doesn't know what Hashem is he has no concept he tell him listen not to uh drive on Shabbat he doesn't know why there's no concept why has no connection to has whatsoever he's not learning Tor he's uh nothing he's just somebody that's completely clueless if he's clueless and remains clueless he won't even know that every time he's pressing the button he's turning on an atomic bomb they hired him in one of these Atomic plants they told him listen only job one job you have what's the job make sure nobody presses the red button why don't worry about why just don't let anyone press the red button they give him a big gun tell him listen No One presses the red button this guy is one day two days three days four days five after a while he's bored he starts becoming friends with the cleaning guy cleaning guy also came from the same town hey how are you how you doing what do you do here oh I clean what do you do I don't know I just watch this red button and the cleaning guy is also clueless they're like what's going to happen if you press the red button I don't know want to try yeah why not they press the red button say say nothing they were just lying to me they were just fooling me nothing happens I keep pressing the red button nothing's happening he doesn't realize that every time he's pressing red button he's launching a missile and 500,000 people die when it lands he doesn't realize he he's the buou completely clueless doesn't even understand that every time he turns on the ignition on Shabbat there's an earthquake in heaven with his name on it the amount of disaster that happens with every tiny little shabat with every cigarette that he lights on Shabbat what every time he turns on the car what every time he turns on the light what every time he flicks to your phone or flicks the TV is a major disaster happening in the real world he doesn't realize he's a bull pressing the button one day you're going to arrive there and you're going to see the disaster he caused so that's the first one he says a bull cannot be fearful for a sin without he has no knowledge cannot be scrupulously pious meaning someone who's ignorant doesn't learn Tor knows such thing as an ignorant person that's righteous impossible it is impossible to be righteous and ignorant and ignorant at the same time to KN why is it not say no no I have a bunch of friends and such nice people but they don't learn to the simple explanation is that mankind does not know what good or nice really means without learning it from the Creator because mankind whether Jew or Gentile is a creation they're the byproduct the creation cannot know better than the Creator the one that designed whatever this was designed is always going to be smarter than the design the design cannot design a designer doesn't go backwards the phone cannot make a Steve Jobs again right we all agree the Creator gave us instructions and he says this is what good this is what nice is everything else that you think is your logic your logic is wrong wrong it's meaningless because everyone thinks that they're nice they think that it's nice to steal money from the rich and give it to the poor they have a whole story about it called Robin Hood and T not allowed that's not nice doesn't matter that they're rich and the other ones are poor Hashem made the rich rich rich and made the poor poor what are you trying to be God so people think it's nice to be Robin Hood that's why he looks like you know it's a cartoon there shows there TV shows there was movies he's the hero yeah he give it TOA to the poor people it's not allowed not all to steal same thing as The Gambler not all to steal give it to whoever you want not allow it's not your money to give he's taking it from the rich and uh and they don't you know it's not your money to give you want to give your money enjoy give all your money if you want not to give somebody else's money if he wants to give Sak it's his job to give Sak it's not your job to give his money what if I came into your bank account I said no no no you have too much money your bank account let take some there's people that need there an that needs what do you have 5,000 your account you don't need $5,000 you need what $300 for today fine I'm going to leave you 300 the 4700 that's left I'm going to give it toim to to this how would you feel I mean is big big big r irrelevant it's not your money I want to punish this Ras and to you're not God God punishes you don't punish I let it to God to handle with him he can handle it he buil he created the Heaven and the Earth he can handle him too he doesn't need you help I promise you I'm not a Nai not a prophet but I know for sure he doesn't need your help he ran the world fine without you I'm sure so now when we think that our logic tells us we are nice Hitler also thought he was nice if you read the book that he wrote about 70 something years ago I wouldn't waste my time but if you ever want to read it he's defining what he feels is nice executing millions of people in his mind was nice he was helping the world get rid of what he believed was a disease he believed that conscience having a conscience is a disease that the Jewish people brought to the world having feelings feeling bad for people is a disease so he in his mind thought that was nice so if if he was wrong about being nice what makes you think that you're right about your version of Nice no if somebody comes to kill you you're obligated to kill him first but if he did nothing if he was just like a typical guy that doesn't do anything he sits in his house goes works at the the post office or works at the bank and does nothing then no no problem he's just a regular but if he hates Jews and he's trying to kill Jews you're obligated to kill them not only you're allowed to you're obligated to mean that if he do to me something bad in the past I can give him back in the future in the same way again judgment is if he's a you have to obviously doesn't mean that if he took your eye out you take his eye out ey for an eye actually means that you give back the value of an eye so if let's say for example someone accidentally or even on purpose poked somebody else's eye out now if it was really eye for an eye and you said no you know I'm going to take his eye out that would be fair yeah I lost my eye because of him so I'm going to take his eye that literally that's what it means but that's not what it means why what if he only has one eye so you lost one out of two eyes so you lost 50% but he only has one eye so if you take his eye out then he lose 100% then it's not fair so IE for an i and toot for a toot all of that does not mean literally punishment exactly what they did to us it means you get the payment what the value of the eye is what does it mean the value of the eye the eye of a painter let's say someone that paints is worth a lot more than the eye of a postman if if someone's a painter or someone is a surgeon they need to have very very clear Vision their vision is very important to them they can't work without perfect vision but the postman can work with one eye so his ey is worth less than the post than the surgeon's eye so you have to give him if you took out the postman's eye you have to pay him based on what his eye is worth if you took out the surgeon's eye you have to pay imp punitive damage based on his eye so it's ey for an ey based on the the value it's monetary reward not physical reward but as far if someone comes to kill you you're obligated to kill them not only allowed you're obligated to kill them now moving back into this mishna it's telling us that there's no such thing as someone that's righteous that is ignorant because the person that is righteous without tah is righteous by their own definition and their own definition is human and human is flawed one human can say that killing people is nice the other human can say it's wrong one human can say that being with multiple women at the same time is nice the other person has logic has Tor knows AEM knows that there's nothing more wrong than that so the key is to know what hashem's version of Nice is what hashem's version of good is so there's no such thing as being righteous being good without Torah next person that's shy can never become smart person that's shy cannot be smart why because one of the key parts to learning ask especially Torah is to ask questions like he's doing it's asking questions we're both learning through that question everybody's learning through those questions why because first of all it reminds me of certain things that perhaps I learned second of all that he ends up learning more as a result of it I may have talked about one thing for the next hour but it's not answering the question that he already had so if he asked the question then I can answer the question so someone that is shy doesn't ask questions he's hiding in the corner no I don't know I'm not sure should I ask should I not ask I don't want to sound stupid you know people say no it's kind of it's a stupid question but uh let and let me ask the question anyway first of all most questions they're not stupid at least to you they're not stupid if it's in regard to toora there's no such thing as a stupid question that's the question and move on if you're going to be hiding in the corner being embarrassed you're never going to become a wise person so the Torah specifically tells us unlike all of the other religions this is the one thing that distinguishes us this is the one thing that connects to this that we got Mount saai no one else got anything in Mount saai not the Muslims not the Christians not the Catholics not the Buddhist nobody else got anything in Mount Si we got a Mount Si what do we get we got Tor Tor obligates you to ask questions other religions tell you no no no don't ask have faith just believe yeah but it say says that Abraham had a son named had a son yov oh yov had 12 tribes 12 tribes went to Egypt with yov it specifically says in the Torah in multiple locations 70 people came to Egypt mm but in the New Testament it says 75 did God forget about five of them no no no my son have faith have faith what faith are you is there something wrong with you it says 70 here it says 70 again says 70 again but in your book it says 75 if your book is a continuation of the first book it must agree if the New Testament is a continuation of the Old Testament the two have to agree they cannot contradict each other so how can it say 70 here in several places from God himself that he gave it to us in Mount Si that the Christians agree to the Christians agree we got Torah in Mount sa the Muslims agree we got the Torah in Mount sa everyone agrees we got the Torah in Mount sa so how could you say that your book is right when your book contradicts God's book no have faith have faith my son no faith no bubus this is exactly here in the to tells us you must ask questions and you must get answers if you look for me you will find me Hashem tells us in the book of Deuteronomy after he punishes us making all types of sins he sends us to the four corners of the world in chapter four of Deuteronomy he tells us after all the nation I'm going send you to the four corners of the world but but a big but if you look for me you will find me MH if you want to do chuva I'll be there you want the truth you'll find me whether you're born Jewish not born Jewish born to a religious family or secular family born anything anywhere in the world if you look for AEM you will find him really look not look like oh I opened one book three pages I didn't find Hashem I said I left it all when you ask tough questions and you look for answers you look for answers you never give up Hashem says you'll find me he promises it next thing it says anyone that's impatient cannot become a teacher as I tell you guys each week you guys help me with this mid of patience this is one of the most important things that someone has to have whether they're a teacher or they're not a teacher but you must have it as a teacher you must have patience for students because students will sometime times ask the same question multiple times sometimes they'll arrive late sometimes they'll interrupt sometimes they'll ask silly questions that you already had a whole hour Shure about and they didn't listen to anything cuz they were playing with their phone the whole time and then after you finish the two hour Shure they say by the way where was this what par are we on which mountain was Mount Israel in you know did we get the Torah in so somebody like that's you have to have patience because if you flip out on the guy he's never going to come back and then you lost a Jew and every Jew is so precious to Hashem that it was worth it to create the entire world just for him kazal tells us if each one of us if each one of us can love the people that are most dear to us the best Jew the biggest sadik in the world as much as he loves as hem loves the biggest sinner in the world it would already be amazing how much Hashem loves the even the Jew that's sinning he still loves him if we can love the best ones as much as he loves the Sinners that's already a big deal so when you're a teacher you must have patience you cannot lose your patience of people because again if they have legitimate questions and they're really trying then try your best so I try to make fun of the fact that you guys are at least an hour late every week because that's number one helps me with my midot and number two you still show up at 9:30 at night it's still good so next thing it says anyone that's excessively occup with business cannot become a scholar is merchandise someone that spends a lot of time dealing with their merchandise counting their money counting their customers counting the potential contracts spends 16 18 20 hours a day working that person cannot become a scholar he cannot become why it's not enough time you want to become you want to become connected to hem on a very deep level you must make time for the toah business can be has to become secondary to you not secondary like you don't work you work work but it becomes something that you do in order to learn not you learn in order to do after you finish working so you start your the day you learn you learn for an hour you learn for 2 hours whatever time you have but you learn every day middle of the day instead of going and just smoking 85 cigarettes in the middle of the day with your friends on your lunch break you take that time and you learn you could eat your sandwich but eat your sandwich and learn eat your sandwich 2 minutes and then learn you have another half hour you could squeeze in there you have your breakes you smoke cigarettes you I don't know hang out with somebody you're go outside listen to something you learn at night before you go to sleep you have to learn if you make time for T every day you can become somebody you become a scholar but if you spend all your time working chasing money thinking that hasem needs your help to give you money like if you work 16 hours or 18 hours you're going to have more money than a guy that works 10 hours no it's not true it's not true at all if hasem wants you to be a millionaire he can give you become a millionaire if you work 5 hours too or he can make you poor even if you work 20 hours there's many people that I know that work 18 19 hours a day they're still poor and many people that I know that work only a couple hours a day multi-millionaires so this kills your logic of thinking I need to work till 9:00 at night every day in order to make a living no you don't you can work a normal job you can work normal hours and make time for the Tor why because the same one that's commanding you to learn tor is the very same one that's going to give you P yeah have a question Yeah question for example you say about if you have break from walk and you go to smoke cigarette to smoke cigarette to read inor no two different Sins not allowed to smoke cigarettes because you're obligated to protect your body but as far as smoking since it's generally accepted it's not considered it's not it's not the will of hasem that you smoke it's not good but also depends who you are if you're a regular person it's different than if you're a very famous Rabbi but even big famous rabbis in the past before they knew that uh smoking was bad they would smoke uh nonetheless it's not allowed to smoke no one's allowed to smoke doesn't for no reason whatsoever it is a sin to smoke but the there's more leniency there's more uh understanding of someone that's already a smoker before they learned they not allow to smoke then someone that never smoked knows that they're not allow to smoke and then they smoke anyway they start smoking anyway so there's more leniency for somebody that was already smoking before they learned it but as far as learning T and uh smoking does the two have nothing to do with each other you still get 100% reward for learning toah whether you smoke or not okay one more quick question about the soldier from Kon what he do I believe that you see the video that they kill the terrorist that come to in before one or two months and [Music] if a solders allowed to kill terrorist 100% of course that he allowed to but the terrorist not was how can I say was neutralized neutralized if T says somebody the terrorists the people that are trying to kill people you have to kill them it's death penalty the army they have to kill they have to kill them according to the Tora no terrorist should ever go to jail they should all be killed immediately all right there's no such thing as jail in the Tora for terrorists terrorists get death the same day no no court no nothing someone tries someone tries to kill Jewish people they have to get killed right away but like we started a sh the country was the modern Israel was founded and is run by people that are anti Torah they're allergic to Torah so they do things that are against the tor and against logic too which is the reason why you have terrorists that are also in the government in the actual CET is terrorists what what country in the world if you told America listen we want you to elect Osama Bin Laden to join Congress cuz you said there's a uh democracy let the Osama Bin Laden join why why you being Prejudice the American government will send you into a cell they'll take the key they'll break the key and they'll never let you out for just stupid thought that you would have to tell them how to run their government democracy no democracy nonsense why because hem runs the world so Hashem told us when you go against me even your own leaders are going to go against you your own leaders are going to go against the nation which is also in in uh page 49 one of the things that's going to happen at the end of days where our own leaders will go against this last but not least in this mishna after we realize that we cannot be a fool and expect to fear sin we cannot be a ignorant and expect to be righteous we cannot be shy and expect to learn anything in life we cannot be impatient if we want to get to teach and we cannot be a scholar if we spend all of our time working mhm the last part completes the whole thing connects to our par connects to our question of what do we do in a world that's full of Sinners that wear costumes how do we justify already gave you the answer over 2,000 years ago it says if you're surrounded in a place place where there's no leaders there's no people with a with spine that can tell the truth tell you the truth live the truth they're all wearing costumes a place where there's no leaders then you be the leader you're surrounded by your is allowing a nonos to become the Kazan you have to say something if you can't say something and everyone's a you're not allowed to live there if you're surrounded by only Kim and there's no change there's no hope you're not allowed to live there ra says go to the desert live in a desert better than living there by yourself in a desert with the Scorpions and the snakes live there cannot live in a place full of K your Kazan is not Kosher and they won't remove him you're not allowed to go to that your Kazan shaves with a razor blade not to be a Kazan not even allowed to be counted in M someone shaves with a razor blade cannot be counted as a part of Manan why because he's going against on a regular basis shaving is not something you do once in a blue shaving you do all the time so he's regularly going against someone that's regularly going against not considered Jewish shes razor blade not only not allow to be not allowed to be in a as a part of a Manan the guy that's sleeping that's a kosher Jew is part of Manan the guy that's shaves with rasor blade not part of M could be awake could be learning could be studying could know the entire by by heart not considered nothing it's all buus all worthless so the same as shabat if he's going against them it's not at that same level but he's also in a in a big big they in the past when they don't have the machine you know because they have only in the past they didn't shave only beard only be everybody had beard go had beers the uh the the juice had be everybody had beards shaving is only something that started in recent centuries yes there are some people in the last few centuries that would put creams on their face and remove hair that way uh if uh but generally Jewish people beards you know you don't see uh you don't see uh any old pictures of any of the major rabbis that uh would shave they all had beards some of them had less hair because sometimes there's certain parts of the world where people grow less facial hair like you and me are from the Middle East we grow enough facial hair for civilization people that live for example in uh in different parts of Europe Italy in Italy or in different placees in Spain they don't have any any facial hair at all the guy that's 50 years old has a baby face so it's not that he shapes he just has that face but in general shaving is not that was only something that uh became a serious problem in recent years for Jews um but as far as your responsibility as a Jew surrounded by people that are not going the way of hem it's your job to do do it your job to do it now one of the things that uh we talked about one of the sh and I wanted to add to it add the to it is we talk about modesty for women a lot very rarely do we talk about about modesty for men in Book of Exodus chapter 3 verse 8 from here he uses the source it says that is when they left Egypt the one that survived were in a 49th level of tum were in a 49th level of impurity that's the ones that survived as we remember in previous sh we said at least 80% of is was killed by hem in the in the plague of Darkness why they didn't want to do Chua they want to do Chua hasem killed 80% of is during the plague of Darkness both the Jews and the Egyptians died some parts of the the mid they actually say it's not uh 80% it's closer to 99% cuz the the way they get the number is it says the literal translation is one out of five one out of five left Egypt one out of five means 20% which means that 80% stayed behind 80% died but says no Kim does not mean one out of five kushim means one out of 500,000 so only two Jews or two Israelites and of every million survived Egypt the rest of them did not want to do Chua ASM killed them why there's no purpose for them so now the ones that survived were on a 49th level of Tuma 49 still one level away from the 50th level once they get to the 50th level hasem has to destroy the world now says the only reason they reached the 49th level because they were worshiping Idols they're worshiping Idols doesn't get worse but the only reason why they reached the 49th and not the 50th was because there was not 50 levels of Tuma yet why were weren't they 50 levels of tum because there wasn't 50 levels of Kem everything that hasem created has to be even measure for measure okay so just like he has 50 if he has 49 levels of Kus he has 49 levels of impurity 49 levels of Holiness 49 levels of impurity if it's 50 it's 50 he says since we didn't receive the Torah yet we couldn't reach the ultimate level of D we couldn't reach level 50 we didn't receive the Torah so since we didn't have level 50 of K we don't have we didn't have 50 levels of impurity okay but then he says something some that's my crazy he says the last generation before mashia comes because they received the Torah already there is 50 levels of Kusa but the last generation is going to reach the 50th level of T 50th level the only way that could be saved 50th level is hasem himself so now I thought in Jerusalem we learned a lot T you know wasn't kidding when they said Torah in Israel is different than Tor in the rest of the world you have a lot of of things you learn over there amazing so now I'm thinking to myself every day you see something bad that somebody did you think ah okay we got to the 50th level we got to the 50th level how we going to get to the 50th level like what's the difference between us and the Jews of Egypt I mean the Jews of Egypt worshiped Idols I mean okay so we have serious problems in our generation too but for the most part most Jews don't worship idols and then I fell on then put the in my head there three things that did right in Egypt they didn't change their clothing they still look like Jews they didn't change their name they still had Jewish names and they didn't change their language still spoke Hebrew so even though they were surrounded by Egyptians those are the three major things they kept them separated from the go yanan was still yanan Yehuda was still Yehuda yov was still yov they were still speaking to each other in Hebrew they were still wearing Jewish clothes they're all Jews now we go back to this all he says they were 49 but the generation before the mashia is going to reach 50 how we're going to reach 50 look at just look at the world today most Jews don't speak Hebrew more Jews in the world do not speak Hebrew than the ones that do speak Hebrew and the ones that do speak Hebrew most of them don't speak proper Hebrew KES so language the fact that I'm speaking to you and teaching you Tora in English already proves the problem the fact that I've been in America for 26 years 27 years and English has become my first language okay I speak Hebrew but English is still my first language at this point already shows the proof of this problem so one thing that they had in Egypt we don't have Now language that's one names many Jews are no longer called yov Kobe they're called Kobe called Steve called Matthew which is interesting they called all these different Mikey Sean Sean SE they have all these goish names so we have strike two names and language now clothing this is a picture that I found two pictures now you guys already know I've talked about this before that uh I've always hated skinny jeans I always found them repulsive this is just no year two years three years now I've always disliked them I always thought there's something wrong with them always in general it's theim it's the the clothing of go it's not clothing of uh of Jews Jews do not look like that they one person the major people that made skinny jeans as ridiculous as they look popular were celebrities mainly the guy named uh Little Wayne the rapper he uh started wearing skinny jeans and eventually got to a point where he started wearing women's jeans because no men's jeans until the designer started making manufacturing skinny jeans no men's jeans could fit that tight so you started wearing women's jeans and then designers picked up and started making skinny jeans and Little Wayne is not exactly a model uh anything let alone not a Jew and not anything remotely close to a Jew but in the world we live in today when we're not close to tah and sometimes even when you are close to tah but not enough you want to be like the go so one thing that I noticed here and also in Israel is not only a problem if someone's secular what can you do you know they're far from hasem you can't really you know skinny gen is the last is the least of their problems but one thing I saw is that Yeshiva guys Yesa boys are wearing skinny jeans Nowa people are learning to all day are wearing skinny jeans not all of them obviously but many of them are cuz they want to be fashionable and they think it's good or nice or I don't know what they think but and I saw some people in Israel people that I family and almost drove me crazy how could could you learn to Li at the same time wear this clothes like do you even know the background of this clothes and also people should also know the the whole concept of skinny jeans they have you know a lot of people wear their pants down oh and you know the custom of wearing your pants down came from jail mhm which showed that the rest of of theil cellmates that you're available for homosexuality people don't know this but that's what having your pants down means the fact that it became fashionable for the last 20 years is ridiculous but the original original original original Foundation of it was actually from slavery because people weren't given Custom Clothes in those days just give you clothes and a lot of it was big on people and the clothes will fall off but it became popular in jail to show that you're available for homosexual behavior in Israel is different it's identified your profession identify your profession yeah what profession is that if you're a painter if you're a plumber [Laughter] oh so anyway so the skinny jeans is a combination of both it's both that and this it's both having your pants down sometimes and uh and one the ones that don't have their pants down since they're designed fat you know very very wide on top so it just looks like the guy I don't know has a diaper on it does if you look at anybody that wears jeans you see the pants he looks like the guy's wearing a diaper he looks like the guy's wearing something something in his pants that doesn't belong in adult's pants so anyway it's still this I still have to connect to so I'm thinking I'm thinking to myself this is Le this is not modest this is not but then one more morning we're actually in at and I see this young kid maybe like 20 years old 18 20 years old runs in front of me with he has you know he's religious he has but he has skinny jeans on thinking to myself where did I see these pants and then it came down so this is a picture I took the same picture of this guy I found those pants online and then I'll show you exactly where I saw it huh skinny jeans versus Nazi pants no one can debate this you know to say a picture is like a thousand words yep that's the picture so anyone that debated whether this Le or not cannot debate it anymore Nazi pants were exactly skinny jeans I rest my case someone that wants to be a Jew but yet where's the leou of the people that killed six million of us God bless you I don't know what to tell you I can't help you anymore so this is something that's Mas not only but it's just it's disgusting and in general should not be allowed and uh I think that it's a uh it's creating a lot of pro I know it's creating a lot of problems amongst the uh both religious and non-religious uh communities especially since this for some reason or another it's very very fashionable amongst older Israelis like guys that are in their 40s and 50s love these pants for some reason Z so this is something we must m must have to let people know about this take the picture spread it around people need to know this stuff so that's the third so we lost our language we lost our names and now we know that unlike the people in Egypt we lost our clothing and now that's how my friends we arrive at the 50th level of Tuma that's the difference between us and Egypt and as far as idol worship modern days idol worship is money people worship their money they spend their entire lives chasing money they do anything for money they'll kill for money they'll sell their family for money they'll sell God for money they do every day and this is why in this par when it talks about slavery talks about money talks about how what type of slavery is allowed what type of slavery is not allowed when it ends one major thing that's very interesting in this Paras is it reminds us of one of the most important in Judaism fearing of hem many people teach about loving AEM and we've talked about this before when without fearing ashem you have no concept of what loving hasem is if you look at chapter 25 verse 17 says [Applause] says each of you shall not agrie his fellow and you shall fear your God for I am hasem your God you shall perform my decrees and observe my ordinances and perform them then you will shall dwell securely in the land so first and foremost he's reminding us that if we are going to conduct business because this is talking about the and how you're supposed to sell back the land says first and foremost you have to remind yourself before you conduct any business you shall fear your God for I am AEM I'm watching everything first question they ask somebody as soon as they get up to sh after 120 is how did you conduct your business how did you conduct your business why why don't they say how did you conduct yourself in a synagogue it's easy to be fake in a synagogue you wear the hat you wear the beard you wear the suit everyone looks like a sadik especially when you put tal on on Saturday morning Sage everyone looks like a sadik everyone the Rashad that's drove to shabbat looks exactly like the guy who just finished writing a series of books even aaric part of there covering your head with you the is going to the casino 5 minutes after you finish Theo service of course you don't know that everyone looks at sadik so doesn't ask you about that says how' you conduct your business why because over there everyone going to say ah if it was only about synagogue why he was a sadik he was a sadik but they know how you are when you conduct your business why when you conduct your business that's when you show whether you have a boss or you don't have a boss that's why you're not allowed to do business with somebody that doesn't have because if he doesn't have then he thinks he's the boss if he thinks he's the boss nothing is beyond him meaning that cheating you it's not a problem stealing not a problem killing not a problem why cuz he's God to himself he's God so it's very very important to know who you're dealing with and hasem is telling you that one of the best signs of who's kosher and who's not is how they conduct their business because how they conduct their business is going to show what who they really believe is God me or them if the guy is working 25 hours a day obviously he doesn't believe there's a God he thinks he needs to help God to give him obviously if he's stealing he doesn't believe in God no cuz he thinks that Hashem is not giving him enough so he has to take extra if he's cheating if he's lying he's thinking maybe he needs to help AEM give just like the uh Story Goes guy is on a way to a meaning has hasem help me help me get on time if I'm late 5 minutes they're going not going to sign a deal with me he's looking for parking he's looking for parking can't find parking four minutes left hasem I'll start doing every morning three and a half minutes left I'll do and I'll keep Shabbat three minutes I'll keep Shabbat and koser instantly there is a uh car moves out of a spot right in front of the place he has to go ah don't worry Hashem I found it that was love I managed I managed I managed without you that's a person hasn't beli in God says not only you have to believe in me you shall fear me for I am AEM one of the things talks about Rashi actually explains this from verses 14 to 55 Rashi explains there a reason of why these these uh there a sequence to how this parasha is says by the progression of these Commandments he giving us all these mitv the is implying that if one allows greed to keep him from observing the shita and the Jubilee prohibitions so if he's not going to follow what Hashem says he not following the sabatical year he's not following the Y which are much much easier than many other mitv asash she says if you follow the uh you see what what the punishment is if he's not willing to stop working after the sixth year and let the land be left alone on the seventh year he will eventually have to lose his money and be forced to sell all of his move property so instead of him making money on that seventh year mhm he'll lose money and he's going to lose all of his property that he has cash because he didn't save if he does just so you know the is one of the best ways to prove that hashm runs the world why Hashem is specifically telling you here on the sixth year you stop working seventh year you don't work but on the six of they ask if you were to ask it says in here if you were to ask how would I survive without no you need to save no don't save nothing hasem says gives you a miracle here the land will give its fruit and you will eat your fill you will dwell securely upon it if you will say what will we eat on the seventh year mhm this say is land you know whatever you plant comes out behold we will not sew and not Gather in our crops so how are we going to eat if we don't if we don't sew if we don't put the seeds in hasem is telling us I will ordain my blessings for you in the sixth year don't worry everything you need it's going to be coming to you on a sixth year M and it will yield a crop sufficient for three years L at three years wow cuz seventh year you're not planting anything so that's one year eighth year you plant but you're not going to get anything on the eighth year you're planting you start all over again you're going to get it on the ninth year so you're going to have enough coming from the same seats you plant the same thing every year let's say you plant 100 seeds every year MH 100 seeds in the first year 100 seeds in the second year third year fourth year sixth year fifth year sixth year he said even though you're still planting the same amount on the sixth year the sixth year is going to generate 300% return three times the amount you get in every other year is going to come out in the sixth year it's going to be enough for you to feed you until the nth year till you are again back in the regiment this is a miracle Beyond Miracles you could see it today anyone keeps you can see it today I heard the story from it says a story about the K had his students and his students one year they were looking to uh it was the sixth year they were looking to plant wheat but this is one of the years there was M drought in Israel couldn't find wheat no one had it so they went to a bunch of Kik the kikim is like people that live in the um like Villages and many of them are much like anti-t Communists so they went to this kikim and I said you have wheat like yeah we have in the uh in the basement over here but it's all ruined it's full of worms and holes so Ben the students asked the r r says don't worry take it so the kib said listen it's if it was good it's worth let's say $10,000 but it's all bad you're actually doing us a favor give us $500 the chances of anything coming out of these wheat that's full of holes and worms what is it this was the sixth year they planted it and 300% return they got three times the amount of what it was supposed to get even if it was perfect wheat so the kib went to court they wanted to sue them like well listen you only paid us 500 pay us full price you got 300% return says that the worms didn't give any blessing AEM didem made the wheat so this this AEM is telling you you want to see proof that Torah is divine you want to see that Hashem runs the world here you go what's du is a um the um crop oh fruits vegetables so so whatever you plant it's going to grow three time threefold enough to feed you for three years this is aash a miracle you can see you can Witness Hashem is telling us you want proofs go to the farmer sadik you'll see it so this is actually one of the major reasons of why Rashi explains of why it says Rashi says that he specifically mentions Al here because this unlike all of the other mitv unlike Shabbat unlike TI unlike all of the other ones this is one that not only has proof that hasem runs the world but it's the one that proves the oral Tor because this one this particular mitvah gives us all the details of it of how to do it what we have to do with the land what we have to do with the slaves what we have to do with the property and so on and so forth hhm gives us all the details of this mitvah all of the other in whether it's Shabbat we don't know how to observe doesn't say how to OB erve it that's in the the uh we don't know what to put in it unless it's in it's in oral Torah same thing with M same thing with uh every single circumcision says the what's the is it the ears the nose the nail so here hasem tells us exactly how to keep this mitvah and he says just like I gave him all the details of this I gave the details of all the other MIT also in but this particular one you see that there's proof of it you could see the mitvah you could see proof of it in real world in the real world and has the instructions almost done the next part is in regards to again it talks about since it's talking about the it talks about business a lot it says in verse in chapter 25:35 is an obligation that many Jews do not know about if your brother becomes impoverished meaning he's having financial difficulties and his means falter in your proximity you shall strengthen him proelite or resident so that he can live with you if you know somebody a fellow Jew whether he's a convert or he was born a Jew is irrelevant and you see that they're going through financial problems you're not allowed to let him become poor before you help him you're not allowed to let him go bankrupt before you help him it says You must strengthen him you must help him now you see him going through problems you and you have the ability you have to help him and Hashem knows if you have the ability you know why he knows because he gave it to you he go so when you have people with a lot of money don't realize how much responsibility they have when you have a lot of money you must have a huge responsibility to make sure that everyone that's in your proximity as it says in the verse everyone that's you know of or it's in your world is okay if one person is not okay there's there's a judgment against you there's a case against you where do we learn this from says big sadik he was financing the nation of Israel with two other of the big uh rich people in the nation of Israel such as sadik mentions a story that hasm made a miracle for him but not a normal Miracle every year there's a pilgrimage uh holidays where people come to yush for the three major holidays so thousands and thousands of Jews come to Y so in one year there wasn't enough water he went to a go and he said listen we need water so lend me these uh 12 Wells that you have and I'll return them back to you full just like you gave me but if I don't return them to you full with water I'll fill them with gold with with uh silver coins meaning huge amount of money 12 Wells full of that's a billions and billions of dollars M so the day came to return the uh water in the morning in checks the go check says the wells are empty he sends it somebody to nagon says listen I said I'm going to pay you back the the uh water is going to be filled at the end of the day right now is the beginning of the day mhm the sun hasn't set yet it's only 8:00 in the morning I have till the end of the day goes why even if it rains all day it's not going to fill up the wells goes you don't worry about it I have till the end of the day fine this happened a few more times towards the end of the day he send somebody to them he goes listen it hasn't rained in months hasn't rained not only today didn't rain it hasn't rained in Israel in months and months you want it to rain rain enough in the next hour to fill up the wells it's it's months worth of rain I have another hour goes into the BET mikdash and prays to Hashem say hem you know I didn't do this for my own honor or the honor of my father I did it for the honor of your children want to give your children water when they come visit your holy uh city of here in Jerusalem you said that we can't lose for Mitzvah at that moment a huge amount of rain came down and in a very short period of time filled up the the uh Wells even more than what he got him so then he goes to the yeah you have it but the says yeah but I have a problem with uh with you and I have uh against your God also I know that your God made this miracle for you but technically by the time it was full the sun already set so technically you still owe me the money so went back to the BET mikdash says this is not what I prayed for supposed to pay it on time I don't want it to be a Hashem spread the clouds back and brought back the Sun to the Sham only three people that I know of are mentioned in the Tor that hasem M changed the position of the sun froze the sun in its place or brought it back foru yeshu so this gives you an idea during one of the wars Yeshua also during one of the wars and in the story so this gives you an idea of how much of a righteous person Aon benon was and how rich he was too I mean he can't just say I'm going to fill up 12 Wells full of coins if he has no money Tells A M scary story says one day one of theim sees the daughter ofon benon looking through the waste of the horses the poop of the horses says what are you doing this modest woman says I'm looking for something to eat and he sees it he says wait a minute aren't youon Ben's daughter your father is a rich one of the richest men in the world she says no he lost everything how could he lose everything he gave so much staka enough he says he didn't give enough that's what we learn here my friends giving Saka giving a couple of dollars giving a dollar to the homeless guy $5 in the Stocker box at the store that's not St up hasem knows how much money you have someone that has money has knows how much money he has because he gave it to him a responsibility with this money in and also in bet says specifically if you believe in hasem you have to realize he's giving you p and the P that he decides for you is from but it does not include money you're going to spend on Shabbat on holidays or onak meaning if you givea it's not considered part of is going to give you more you made $100,000 last year you gave $110,000 M hem is going to give you the other $10,000 back and more so if $100,000 was what he wanted to give you he will give you the $100,000 so it's not like 100,000 goes to 90 he's going to give you it again and more but if you don't give and you think that you made the $100,000 instead of Hashem gave it to you he gave you really 90 he only wanted you to give back 10 he only gave you the 100 so you can give the 10 at least the 10 you don't do it says okay you know what just keep your share the 10 you keep the 10 I'm going to take the 90 back and this what he's telling you when you have someone that you know that's struggling financially you're not allowed to let them go broke you're not allowed to let them go bankrupt it's much more difficult to help somebody after they're bankrupt than someone that's struggling struggling so invest in his business support them give them a job the rambam says in uh chapter 107 says the highest form of Charity is to step in with help to prevent a person from becoming poor which includes offering him a loan or employment or investing on his business or any other form of assistance that will avoid poverty now why does he start off with loan why does he say just give him little bit shameful you know someone you give just give it his $100 good luck guy's going to have a little bit of Shame unless he's in the business unless he's a rabbi who runs a synagogue he's used to uh he's used to that's that's his form of living anyway yes but if it's just a somebody that works for a living usually in you know in the regular jobs not a uh spiritual job he's not used to so he's going to have some shame that's why I say that giving someone in need alone a Jew alone is higher than why cuz when you give him alone he has no shame because he knows he has to give it back at some point but then the very next verse 36 says says do not take from him this person that you gave him loan do not take from him interest and increase and you shall fear your God and let your brother live with you do not give him your money with for interest and do not give your food for increase I am Hashem your God so twice he mentions to you do not give him an interest and do not give him interest or increase why is K ask why does he mention twice the same thing to make sure to to remind any Jew that s gives money lends money to another Jew with interest it's two sins not one it's two sins why to punish them extra for going against theem this is a very big problem in the business world today a lot of people make this thing called where they say they give this agreement where they say listen I'm going to give you $50,000 and you give me back $55,000 but we'll call it like it's part of the profits well call but you have to give me back the $50,000 and in five months or 10 months or whatever you have to give me 55,000 but we're not going to call it interest we're just going to call it profits this is 100% not Kosher it's worth bubus it's worth nothing as a matter of fact both the lender and the receiver are both sinning and Tora says someone that does this is guaranteed to not have with this money and lose this money if what if they lend money or receive money with interest oh to a Jew to a Jew unless the Jews then you're allowed you're allow to do it right he's not a Jew he's not considered a Jew [Music] but why do they do this because they say listen I don't want to lend money for no interest so I'm going to call it profit so here's the way to do it in a simple way obviously there's more details to it yes there is something called that's kosher but not the way that most people do it 99% of people that do it they don't do it the kosher way there's no such thing as getting your money back with a profit without risk the only way to do a that's legitimate and get a return on your money means that part of the money has to be at risk so let's say for example just for argument sake let's say we still use the $50,000 and you want to get $5,000 back in return you want to get $55,000 okay so that means that part of the money let's say we'll call it $40,000 you're lending him interest free it's a loan which means he has to return but it's interest free there's no interest not allowed to charge interest $40,000 no matter what happens with this money 40 it's $40,000 goes broke doesn't go broke it's not a problem eventually he has to pay you the money back but if he does but there's $10,000 one second but there's $10,000 that you're investing into his venture that if it works out you can get up to $55,000 profit you get up to 50 50% return on the $10,000 but it also means that if it doesn't work you can lose that money you can lose the $10,000 oh okay the minimum you can lose out of the 10,000 is at least the the maximum that you can make meaning at least you have to be able to lose 5,000 out of the 10,000 if you want to make 5,000 out of the 10,000 you have to have at least as much risk as you do reward so part of the money yes it's interest free there's no return on it but the other money that you want that $5,000 return on it that has to be money at risk meaning that you have to be able to lose it if you're not willing to lose any of your money there's no you have to give money for no interest or don't do it at all but if he's in trouble and you're the only source of help you have to give them you have to strengthen him so that's the thing when somebody lends money and they get money in a non kosha way and they write these agreements that are not even worth toilet paper they're making a very big sin I actually know somebody right now that made this mistake with a group of people Everyone lost the money and everyone's religious everyone did this they they I found out about this after the fact obviously and somebody did this to me also before I be before I became religious I uh near a short-term loan from a couple of people they lend me the money one of them was supposedly a rabbi he lend me the money I found out later on after I learned this Al 100% interest what I paid them back 100% interest wow 100% not legal not allowed but he made me sign this you know this uh this that made it look kosher no no we're not allowed to charge interest but I want you to pay me 13% a month what I said okay whatever I just need the money I'll give back to you in a whatever short period of time I had money just not liquid but this other guy that I know is going to a big T mayem help him do chuva and get get back to where he needs to be mostly close to hasem a bunch of religious people a bunch of religious businessmen everyone signed the everyone Bor slend the money everyone lost why is telling you I'm the boss not let to do it you only allowed to do it it's not a Kosher Way so when you do a non Kosher Way you're asking for problems serious problems and and it says says he guaranteed to lose the money says it it's it's very scary very very scary um almost done almost done we only have another hour left that's it that's it that's it you guys are going to miss me in a couple weeks I'm going to New York I'm going to give you extra time to see yor oh yeah you're coming to me so at the end of this par at the end of this par it ends in a very interesting way after it tells us about these business laws and the O and the slavery and helping each other out preventing your friend from being poor chapter 26 starts like this verse [Music] one an Adonai so even my alarm wants me to finish the whole Paras is discussing and Foundation of it is a the sabatical year the end of the Paras the last verse of this Paras it mentions Shabbat says you shall not make idols for yourselves you shall not erect for yourselves a statue or a pillar and in your land you shall not in place a flooring Stone upon which to prostrate yourself for I am Hashem your God so no idol worship and then the last verse in the par my Shabbat shall You observe and My Sanctuary shall you rever I am AEM now this is something strange we know everything always connects foundation of the of the par is Shabbat sabatical year okay end of the par Shabbat and then we have this verse in the middle talks about hey by the way don't idol worship just reminding why don't just leave finish it with the Shabbat and put the idle worship somewhere else just reming because it's worse if you notice in the entire Tor each time Shabbat is mentioned violation of Shabbat is mentioned idol worship is mentioned right next to it the rabbi Z the one that came to visit you guys in uh the Sho during the uh right before P big wrote many many books he's a very humble very big sadik so when you talk to him he loves everyone he begs people to come to his be like you're doing him a favor but to him you're doing him a favor no come toan come pray with us I he everyone in his everyone gets an alyah they have a the entire has an alyah goes to the they extend they extend the instead of reading each seven Al on Shabbat on Shabbat everyone in the gets an Ali he loves everyone so much and he wants everyone to feel special he's an amazing person M amazing but you talk to him it's jble guy so humble so loving you was want to hug him and never never let go so when I read what he wrote in his book in one of his many many books you also see why he's such a sadik because someone is a lover of lover of Tor does not mean they steer away from it it actually means that they embrace it to the full extent in his book in peric it says going someone who drives on Shabbat whether it's to beet or to the beach is irrelevant cannot be included in the and he provides sources so he give you one source over here gives you theour in so many words some as we've said time and time again gives you Source from someone is a violator of Shabbat his judgment his decree his the Viewpoint of Hashem on that person is a 100% Go 100% not Jewish but not a righteous Jew righteous non-jew righteous Noah we were talking about before that loves hem is keeping the seven no this is a wicked Jew and then he gives you at least 10 other sources M so on gives you many many sources of the here so again this is I have this this book is actually not even about Shabbat this entire book is about the blessing of leaving the bathroom and what the blessing you do after you finish the bathroom whole book he wrote about it he has a book about it's like this big not the the whole you do in the morning and at night not just the that you do in the morning and you do at night the one before you go to sleep he has a book this big wow 700 Pages small print pages are this big whoa giant gives you a small this is in a book about but just so you know we talking about if you're not considered Jewish this is why it mentions it in this this is not my opinion so again Idol worshiping comes with the Shabbat why idol worship Shabbat in hm's eyes same thing same thing that's why it mentioned together does is saying that hasem does not exist Hashem did not create the Heaven and the Earth in six days and rested on the seventh the idol worshipper also is saying the Buddha did it him the cow the snake the rat whatever other idol worship they have my dear friend vies sends me all these different types of idol worship they have where he lives some are close to him some are different towns he sent me this thing it's amazing tell him send he sends uh he sends me uh no he doesn't go to those places but he sends me this thing they had you know they worship cows in India they have urine in the fridge of every single house some people drink it at the minimum they clean their house with it as soon as they move in to that's like for them but he said they had a cow beauty contest and they said he sent me the pictures he's a sadik he doesn't go to these places but you guys obviously see from the groups from the posting he does more K than I think most people in the world but he sends me this picture it's m it's a cow competition it's a uh get it's a beauty contest and they take their cows but this is this is why am I laughing at this I mean this is obviously horrendous but I'm laughing at it because it shows you that when someone doesn't have AEM huh they believe in the cow yes the cow is Holy to them that's why they drink their urine when when a here we go here's here's the picture these are the winners I think you see this in the screen this is my M ridiculous but AEM is telling you those people that are worshiping this cow these idiots that are worshiping the cows these fools that are worshiping the cows andab Jew same thing that came here came to Florida humble amazing giant sadik if you knew 5% of the tests that he's going through right now you would thank God every moment for for the life you have with all of your T you'd ask for more just the small T that he's going toad he's telling he gives you 50 sources in a book about side note side note idol worship same thing it's not a joke my friends 80% of is not keeping Shabbat we have to wake up we have to not only do ourselves we have to start encouraging people to do you have to encourage people to do bring them to shim give them discs give them links you have to get on to wake up have to do it because M we are losing time and it's our fault so to finish off on a lighter note because it was a little bit of a long and tough sh I heard this amazing joke I should have opened this sh with it but maybe we finish it off to get you guys in a good mood before you go to sleep so one time there was this old lady that uh every day she' go on a bus and she'd give the bus driver peanuts him peanuts give him a bag of peanuts for years he's getting these peanuts from this old lady he nice what why not right mhm one day she stops and he sees that she's eating chocolates but she doesn't bring peanuts is that maybe she forgot one day two days three days a week pass the guy's been getting peanuts from this lady for 10 years he's not getting any peanuts right now for a week he's going crazy cuz he's used to it right it's not that the peanuts are a big deal it's just that what happened did I offend her did I do something mhm so then he excuse me ma'am you know you've been giving me peanuts for 10 years can you um why didn't you give me the peanuts anymore oh the peanuts oh see for many years I would get these peanuts that were covered with chocolate but now you know I just they just make the chocolate so I just eat the chocolate so for many years she was giving him the peanut because she was just eating the chocolate off of it she was giving him the peanut after she ate the chocolate this is what do we learn from this this is the the gives you the peanut he makes you chase money he makes you do stupid deals like lending somebody money with uh interest and knowing that it's not allowed he makes you convinced that you're allowed to go to a casino he makes you convinced you're allowed to make all these types of sins because there's somebody wearing a some type of uh costume looking like a religious person all this time he's giving you the peanut after you ate the chocolate what are you going to find what are you going to say when you find out what it really is understand