Parashat Eikev, Emunah That HaShem Has Unlimited Money

[Music] we have a an amazing and you know it's viously called which means reward um has an enormous amount of when it comes to and it comes to which in our generation is one of the major problems that most people have uh people that say they believe in Hashem they believe he created the Heaven and the Earth obviously they have common sense where they realize that uh you know uh Big Bang couldn't have created the world you can't create something out of nothing unless there's a Divine being so they say okay he hasem created the world he created human beings he created the cells he created everything but then they cut him off and they say listen Hashem you created everything but money you don't have you broke they have a problem believing in Hashem when it comes to money and this is the excuse that they use when it comes to working on Shabbat when it comes to working so much that even if they keep Shabbat the whole time on Shabbat they're talking about business because they're afraid that the guy they're going to see you know neet they're not going to see him during the week and if he doesn't tell him about the deal that he wants to do on Monday he's never going to get an opportunity like they never actually stop working okay so maybe they keep mitv maybe they go to beet maybe they even have a nice uh fancy table for Shabbat to have a lot of food but in reality they never leave the Y they never leave the weekday so that's not really keeping Shabbat that's working but just without going to your office and uh it's actually considered Shabbat it's not the same Shabbat as driving on Shabbat but you're not allowed to talk business on Shabbat under no condition you are allowed to talk about mitv meaning you say listen I want to uh invest uh my money into building another synagogue I want to invest my money into this uh you know kiru organization to save more Jews I want to make an event for a lecture or a shabbaton you know that uh is going to give to even though there's money involved in those conversations you're allowed to talk about it why because you're planning a Mitzvah and planning a Mitzvah you're allowed to do but when it comes down to planning a business deal that's not a Mitzvah even if there's a Mitzvah that's going to come out of this business deal you still can't do it why because people on the outside are not going to be able to tell the difference so sometimes you have people that could look 100% F you know they uh Dressed apart they have the black and white or they just have the uh the look they go to pray every day three times first one in the store to buy the uh best lul and the best for for sukot all fine and dandy but when it comes to shabbat it's not the Shabbat that it's supposed to be it's a business Shabbat it's just a it's not really a Shabbat like it's supposed to be so that's not necessarily because they don't respect the Shabbat it's because they don't have AA in AEM that if they stop working the money is still going to come in then you have people that they keep Shabbat they don't talk business on Shabbat but during the week they have no life all they do is work like I used to be they go to the office early in the morning they get there they work non-stop by the time they get home the whole family is sleeping there's no life there's no Torah there's no learning there's no nothing there's only work and unfortunately there's a lot of people like that where there's no day there's no night and they just work and they feel that they need to work they need to work this much because the Yeshiva cost x amount of money and the kosher food cost an x amount of money and they give all these different excuses of why they need to work this many hours and this is again same problem same thing noem thinking that hasem is broke so he created everything but he has no money ran out of money ran out of money he spent it all so this is borderline this is borderline heresy against hem which is not intentional so it's not going to get the full punishment Shalom but it's something we all have to work on because in the it says in andem decides what parasa you're going to get on until the next R sh until the next but it doesn't include any money you're going to spend on a Mitzvah and it doesn't include any money you're going to spend onim and it's not doesn't include any money you're going to spend on Shabbat meaning if let's say say excuse me if it said let's say for example somebody's uh destined to get $100,000 this year and um that $100,000 does not include any money he's going to invest on he's going to invest into his Shabbat or into his meaning that if he invests $10,000 on and he invest another $5,000 into a Shabbat to make a Shabbat really special and invest another you know $5,000 onto his holidays to make to make them special so technically he spent $20,000 out of the $100,000 so really what he should get is 880,000 net after the 100,000 he should have 80,000 but hem says no you were destined get to get $100,000 that's what you were supposed to get you're going to get the $100,000 the money you spent on and Shabbat it's not included meaning you're not going to get 120,000 so someone that really believes that this is this is oral Tora someone that truly believes that is not going to think twice when he goes to the supermarket on Shabbat should I get the yogurt that's $3 or the one that's 350 he's not going to think about that should I get the bread that's like really nice $6 bread or should I get the one that's like a little homeless like $150 it's kosher $150 should I get you know three different types of meats each cost I don't know $20 should I get one it's enough listen we don't have to be Glutton so when it comes to somebody that's on Shabbat food's part of it enjoyment if you know that bringing more of that into the house is going to make it more uh more joy more on Shabbat and you really believe the you really believe the oral Tora you're not going to think about it twice about whether you're going to spend extra money on shabat or not and that's why for example my cousin when we went uh I mean I already know this for a few years but the last time we um went to Israel we stayed with them and uh we go shopping together for Shabbat and I see and I know how much money he makes he's an he makes $500 a month yes five kids wife house $500 a month does obviously none of those things cost $500 a month he needs a lot more than $500 a month but the K pays $500 a month they learn morning night and night non-stop non-stop learning and even when he gets home he continues to learn that's what gets $500 a month if you work that many hours in a in the worst job in America you'd get probably $3 $4,000 uh that many hours but anyway he uh goes to the supermarket One cart whatever he wants puts it in the cart puts it in the cart puts it in the C like no no you don't need this we already have the other one goes no well you like it looks good okay get that too and just shops with no care in the world I go to we go to get to the cash register I think the last time was maybe like $400 almost a month salary in a week I'm looking complete and the money is going to show up I'm like you have the money goes I don't know I'm like so you bought all this stuff we bought two carts two shopping carts every Shabbat two shopping carts full of food you show up to the cash register he gives them the card and it works it's not a credit card debit card go I'm like did you know how much money you have he goes no I was you know I prayed to hm that it's going to work and it worked see let's go home celebrate Shabbat like to him it's not really like it's like this is it this is how it's supposed to be if AEM is AEM he's AEM all the time not just sometimes so when someone really believes the the Tora believes the written Tor when Hashem says that he's in charge of everything you don't have you don't uh think twice about spending money on things that hasem told you to spend money on whether it's or it's mza or it's a uh uh Shabbat or holidays all of those things cuz specifically told you he's going to give you the money back anyway so it's not really coming out of your pocket he's paying for it he just wants to see if you believe it if we believe it 100% not believe it like we're just going to try it out and then you know get nervous once we don't have money like 100% believe it you'll see that there's M Miracles happening Non-Stop on the other hand if you don't believe it then there's a cost there's a big cost of not having amuna the cost is is that your life is full of suffering having amuna is heaven not having amuna is Gom in this world problem is the space in between is very very big meaning to get from no takes a lot of hardship takes a lot of test you have to over come a lot of tests you you can't just go one day wake up and say okay I have inem doesn't work that way especially on something that's so sensitive to this generation which is money you know it's money is the it's this generation it's this generation's idol worship that's why I said in all the lectures in New York and a few other times in the past when people read dollar bill and it says In God We Trust they make a mistake where they think that it's talking about the dollar being God but it's 100% true people work for the dollar as if it's God so you can't go from having no amuna to having all Thea in the world where you're going to be like r f and you're going to go and to the supermarket without even know whether you have money or not but you're buying everything in sight because Hashem said so you understand so in order to get to that level of has to go through difficulties you have to go through tests you have to build it you can't go from zero to 100% just like you can't go from being a scrawny little kid to being a bodybuilder you know if you uh if you want to build yourself you want to build muscles you want to look a little bit like a gorilla fine God bless you I used to work out when I was a kid also I looked a little bit like a gorilla it was a lot of fun while it lasted but the point is is that how does it work how does it actually work is you go you start off with nothing and tell you the guy tells you okay lift 10 lb okay so you lift 10 lb for the next 2 days you're in pain but then you come back even though you're in pain you come back why CU you got to lift it again okay next two days again you're in pain you keep doing this and eventually you start getting to the point where you start doing it you know four five six times a week even uh but now you want to get bigger so how do you get bigger you can't just keep going and lift the same weight you have to keep lifting more more weights so now it's not 10 lb now you have to live 15 lb then 20 lb and 50 lb and you a house whatever you can lift you lift but if you want to be a uh a bodybuilder or you want to be a power lifter there's one thing you have to do that's different than a traditional person that exercises which is you have to max out once in a while to see where you stand meaning that you have to go to a point you don't have to but this is what people do um you have to I don't know every few months every however long you want to do it you just want to see how what is the most amount of weight that you can lift in one shot you know for maybe two or three times or four times like it's not considered really exercise like there's not much benefit out of it there's really more risk than there is benefit CU When you're lifting a lot of weight you're more likely to you know make it you know to tear a muscle or to uh drop it hurt yourself but in essence what you're trying to do you're trying to bench press the whole gym in the beginning to 100 lb or I don't know 75 lb then you go to 150 lb and then 200 and whatever it is I remember when I was a uh kid I was very excited cuz I was able to lift 325 lbs thought it was like the greatest thing in the world today I don't think I could I could lift 30 lb but when you're a kid you get excited so why do you do it though though what's the point what's the Naina what's the benefit out of it is that it tells you where you stand okay so your body is changing and you're lifting and this and you feel good but that's not enough I want to know where I stand next to the guy that I was 6 months ago 6 months ago the most I could lift is 200 lb am I better or am I the same if nothing change like okay I have to change something cuz in a gym just like with Judaism if you're not growing you're shrinking can't stay the same there's no maintenance like even the guys that tell you no I only try to maintain like the Michael Jordans of the world they're not maintaining anything their level of exercise is maintaining the highest level possible which is even harder than someone trying to grow there's no such thing as maintenance is it's either you're trying to grow or you're not but sometimes when you get to a high level it takes much more to grow in the beginning it's easy to grow to go from a you know 100 PB little kid to being 125 or even 150 lb just 25 or 50% increase in your weight seems like it's like a huge milestone but in reality it's not that difficult it's much more difficult to go from 150 to 160 and 160 to 170 much much more difficult why because already at that point you've built something and obviously as the uh levels go up so the point is why do you do this why do you do this max out because you want to see where you you stand so once you see where you stand you know that you've either improved or you deteriorated if last in 6 months ago or 3 months ago you were able to lift 200 lb and today you aren't able to lift 200 lb then it's obviously doing something wrong if you're able to lift 225 lbs then obviously you're doing something right so you know where you stand the same thing goes with amuna hem is going to continue giving you tests without you asking for them but to show you where you stand so in the beginning you first start doing Chua it's little tests small things do keep Shabbat eat kosher so what's the test when you're start first starting out you don't have any uh you know you're at some meeting all day and there's no Kosher food to be found nothing you're starving and everybody is going to lunch because you have this meeting out of town is going to lunch at this fancy schmancy non koser restaurant you're thinking to yourself I just started keeping kosher last month I'm happy with it but what am I going to do now I'm going to starve until 10:00 at night what am I going to do not going to eat that's the question that's the test you can either go break become a again go eat a uh Pig and whatever else is in in the food and then you start and then you feel terrible the next day or even while you're eating it you feel terrible cuz now it looks like the month or two months worth of work has gone to the garbage doesn't feel like I've been keeping Kosher for a month and I only broke it once you could say that to yourself but you don't really feel that way you to in your mind in your your says you just started from nothing and that's what the is going to tell you ah you broke it you're worthless don't even keep it tomorrow don't keep it next day you're never going to keep it why you're not going to have a meeting again so that's your test of or you could do option be he said no I'm going to go eat salad not going to eat with the guy's non kosher I'm not going to eat the steak or the chicken or the uh frog or whatever food they have over there I'm going to eat salad what's the big deal I'm here to break some news to you news that I did not know until I start learning about the laws of kosher in most cases most it could actually be worse to eat the salad than the steak most cases it could be worse to eat the salad than the steak so anyone that's watching this right now it's a new B Chua doesn't know what I'm talking about thinks see this guy's crazy stop watching it right now no but here's the thing why as Jewish people Hashem told us we are not allowed to eat non kosher food part of the things that are considered non kosher food are bugs when you eat one bug it's six sins it's six different sins you eat one Pig it's one sin you eat non kosher cow it's one sin you eat one bug an ant a fly doesn't matter a worm it's six different sins you have yourself a problem why you go to this non koser restaurant they manufacture salad like it's a uh like it's free they give Everybody free salad or it's part of this so they're not Jewish people they're not worried about bugs not bugs they wash it you know right away one two three that's it get it out of the kitchen already we need more customers they don't have any concerns or deals with AEM that they're not allowed to eat bugs they're allowed to eat bugs so they're going to wash it quickly if there's a bug okay I'm sorry sir we'll give you a new one what's the problem why you making such a big deal out of it okay so those was a fly I'm sorry okay so there's a little thing okay we didn't intentionally put a bug in your food problem is that if you're Jewish you have yourself a serious problem because now instead of making One S you made six so people think that they're being kosher by eating salad at non- kosher places have mercy on you because you have no idea what kind of trouble you're putting yourself in same kind concept when you go eat non koser Pizza which we talked about in a few lectures someone goes and thinks oh no no I'm not going to eat come on I'm not going to eat the steak or the hamburger McDonald's I'm going to I'm not going to eat the steak of the uh you know at McDonald's I'm only going to have pizza from Domino's what's the big deal the big deal is is that if you see in the ingredient list of non kosher cheese you see that there is an ingredient that's comes from the stomach of animals most of the time the the animal is pig CU a cheap animal so when you're eating non kosher cheese whether it's a non kosher cheese from dominoes and uh you know in Pizza Hut or some other non- kosher Pizzeria or it's just non kosher cheese that you bought into your house 100% of the time there's meat in it so now you're not only making one sin you're making several sins because it mentions in the Torah three times not to eat milk and meat Hashem obviously didn't waste one letter in the Torah there's over 300 4,800 letters in a Tor there's not one extra letter in the Tor so why would he mention the same exact thing three times why you got bored because with milk and meat you're not allowed to cook it you're not allowed to eat it you're not allowed to enjoy it there's three different SC you ate a nonosa cheese think oh it's not a big deal it's just pizza what does it have tomato bread cheese what's the big deal cool down hasem understands me okay understand you just made three different sins at the minimum at the minimum is three different sins so sometimes people think it's not it's it's a uh it's not a big deal to eat the neutral or what they call Par of products but it's not par if it's not Kosher it's not Kosher for a reason okay what about the what about the worms that are in the meat you have yourself a problem it's not good uh so first of all just so you know you could verify this yourself Hashem told us there's four different animals that can never be kosher uh they have uh cuz for an animal to be kosher like a cow or a deer or a um sheep uh or anything like that there's not only is the animal itself has to be considered pure but also it has to be slaughtered in a certain way uh and they have to have how how is it pure it has to have these two signs it has to have split hooves and has to chew its cud so now Hashem says that there are let's say maybe about 10 different species that have have these two signs and every other animal in the world has no signs nothing it's either they have two or nothing except four there's four animals in the world that have one sign the pig the herrings the rabbit and the camel so out of all of the animals in the world there's only four that have one sign and he says those spe and he's mentioned specifically who they are in tah saying don't get fooled because they have one sign everyone else you go to a lion you're going to get fooled why because he doesn't have either he has no sign so he can never be kosher and it's clear that he's never going to be kosher because he has no sign he has nothing but with the pig or the rabbit it it looks like maybe it could be kosher because it has one sign he says no no no don't get confused they have one sign but it's not going to be kosher so the pig specifically is such an animal that's hasem considers a filthy animal he obviously created for a different for for a purpose though um and he says that this animal you're not even allowed to grow it if you're a farmer you're not even allowed to grow Pig and the uh Pig itself is considered a completely T animal and and you could see it from the meat itself it's the only animal that doesn't sweat doesn't sweat so for example people okay it doesn't sweat okay so maybe it doesn't get hot that's not the case so for example if you know a little bit about the human body you know that when you sweat you are detoxing yourself so when someone gets sick they have fever and when they're about to break the fever when they're about to break fever and they start getting healthier they start sweating a lot so the sweat is actually a good sign because the body is taking out all of the toxins that's in the body it's causing them to be sick when a uh uh dog runs a lot and then he has his tongue out the reason why is because he's sweating from his tongue he doesn't he doesn't have sweat glands on his body but the way he detoxes himself is through his tongue a pig doesn't sweat at all ever why is this a problem because that means that all of the toxins stay inside the Pig forever to such an extent that it's completely 100% poison how do I know it's poison go check on the internet if you want and see what happens to a pig if a snake bites it snake poison a snake snake bites a human Shalom human can lose their life within a matter of moments without medical attention a snake bites an animal most of the time the animal is going to die snake bites a pig nothing happens happens why there's more poison inside the pig's skin than the Venom of the snake now how can we see this we're not going to we don't have any spare snakes and pigs running around our backyard okay so you there's many people that have made a video about this they take a they take a uh a a steak made out of pig you know the meat pork chop or something like that and uh without cooking it fresh just killed the pig I don't know and then you know bought it from the store it's fresh they put it they pour Coca-Cola on it they pour Coca-Cola on the uh on the meat on the on the pig meat and within a matter of moments moments all of the maggots and the worms that are inside that uh that steak come out doesn't happen with any other animal that's why they said don't eat pig don't eat pig but the point is is that when hasm told you not to eat it he said it for a reason it's a filthy animal can never be cleaned so when there's when there's uh the animal has some type of sickness obviously you're not allow to eat it you know if the animal is not Kosher it's not Kosher for a reason but if you bought it from a kosher place you bought it from a kosher Place reliable place and something ended up being wrong with it it's not your fault you an if you have exerted all effort that you can to make sure the food is kosher to make sure that it's the Quality Meat and it just ended up being you know something wrong with it not that's out of your control it's not considered a uh the same level of sin because youve are sin at all because you consider that new it's not up to you anymore you double checked okay this is bet this is a uh you know this is a good this is a good place it's not some hole in the wall that's selling meat from the back truck with a sticker on it saying kosher and you're buying it by a dozens because it's 50% less no no you're buying it from a respectable place and you know that other people have checked it out maybe you're not exactly an expert in but other people that you know are shopping there okay fine no problem right so there's no problem but if you haven't done anything you haven't checked anything you go to restaurant just because there has a k sign on it and you eat and you find out you know 3 weeks later there there was an investigation the guy is really selling tar the whole time he's selling non- kosher animals you're part of the sin why your responsibility there's actually a very famous story about they had him when he was younger they had him uh come and become the uh the head Rabbi in Egypt in Egypt and a few people would complain about the uh the local butcher the guy that was the main butcher there and uh so went and he saw that this guy first of all was a hotthead angry person but second of all he uh he looked at his how he's slaughtering the animals the meat he says this is T took the kosher sign off of his wall and told him you're never going to have kosher sign never no Chua for you cuz you knew that it's not Kosher but he took advantage it doesn't matter as long as I'm alive you're not going to have kosher sign charge full price so charge full price yeah but the point is is that he uh the guy's a he's making he's making people non kosher thinking that they eating kosher soya was not scared of anything took his kosher sign says you're never going to get it the guy tried to kill him one day Rya is a uh walking in a street and he hear somebody walking behind him footsteps so he turns around and he sees the guy pointing a gun at him walking toward his him with a gun soya opens his shirt he goes go ahead he still never going going to have kosher minut there was a witness seen this still never going to have kosher as long as I'm alive you're never going to have koser sign the guy wanted to kill him wanted to kill him but of course protects him the guy got scared and left years passed years passed Raad went to Israel continued going Malo Mala with his Torah became much bigger one day somebody runs into his office it's this guy again with a gun this guy again for this still now he still wants to kill him came all the way from Egypt comes to Israel wants to kill says opens the shirt again he goes you're still never going to have kosher as long as I'm alive the guy ran away again point to point is number one kosher is a big deal to says when someone eats impure food food that's not Kosher Tora says you become impure means you become impure but the word in the T that says is missing the usual Al is missing one of the letters that's in that word usually how you spell it so the kazal says there's a reason why it's missing this Alf it's missing a letter you could still pronounce it the same way and it get it still means the same thing but there's a reason why this elective like a silent k in English you know when they say night and there's a silent k which in English it doesn't actually make any sense whatsoever by the way why they have silent letters but nonetheless it's similar to that says this Al it's removed but it still means the same thing so kazal says why why did hasem take out the ALF here because it also spells without the AL It Now spells another word it spells means andies makes you stupid you eat non koser makes you spiritually stupid you could still be the best architect in the world you could still be the best doctor and surgeon in the world you could be an accountant a hedge fund manager no problem it's not what we're talking about stupid talking about spiritually stupid you come to t you listen for two hours you leave the somebody asked you so what did you learn today I have no idea you can't remember one minute out of the sh but you were there for 2 hours you can't remember one thing from the sh I don't remember you learn T you open a book you're reading for an hour and a half somebody asked you so what did it say I don't know I don't understand what you're reading for an hour and a half you read you read you read 20 Pages hour and a half you didn't understand one thing no I don't understand makes you spiritually stupid sometimes you can't even get to learning meaning you open a book and you fall asleep in two seconds or you're just reading the same line 5 hours you have no idea what's going on that's what that's what non koser food does why do we eat non koser food one reason is we don't know the significance of how bad it is and two we don't believe meanings that person that has that went to that meeting started keeping kosher a month ago like we started the story started keeping kosher a month ago now he's at a meeting all day and he knows he's not going to get home until 10:00 at night he didn't bring kosher food with him he thought there's going to be kosher food in this place there's no Kosher food whatsoever and he has to decide do I go to the restaurant of non kosher food with the guys or do I eat nothing that's the first emuna battle and believe it or not it's not a big battle it's a very very small one a very very small battle why cuz it's physical it's something you know it's it's okay so you don't eat go the vending machine by potato chips that's koser B potato chips 80 bags of potato chips if you want what's the problem eat a cookie that's kosher or pretzels you can find something find junk food that's kosher that's it no problem but if you want to have the salad you have a problem you want to have the steak you have a problem so that's the first emuna test as a person grows Hashem is going to show him listen my son now you're keeping Kosher for four months you're good with kosher I have no problems with you with kosher but now I'm going to give you a little bit of a more difficult test I'm going to give you a business test and they have a customer come to your store and instead of paying you $4,000 he's going to pay you $4,900 he made a mistake you made a mistake and you have an ability to keep $900 extra if the guy is Jewish if the customer is Jewish you have to give it back to them 100% have to give it back to them not allowed to keep it if he's a you're actually allowed to keep it but if you give it back you'll do K which is the biggest the only purpose you exist is to do sanctify aem's name you don't sanctify aem's name you don't find a way to publicize aem's name and some way or another there's no point for you to live 100% there's no point you have no purpose in the world you and the bug are the same thing maybe the bug is even better because the bug when he needs P he prays to hasem at least said what's the difference between an animal and a human being human being has an option animal doesn't have an option so this entire par talks about a lot of different subjects but a lot of it we'll see talks about parasa so one of the other things that this par also brings up is how far we are from knowing what's good most people think that they know what good is they think that having a lot of money is good having a uh you know a a lot of material things is good uh Fame Fortune publicity all of those things are good even though they can be used for good in most cases they're not it's just the reality but if you tell somebody listen I'm going to give you a blessing may you have many many kids immediately if you go to somebody in America they have uh you know they just had a kid they go to Rabbi to ask for a blessing Rabbi tell him may you have 10 more kids people like no no it's too many it's too many no we don't we don't have that kind of money so they people think that a lot of kids like a curse but this is what it says here let's see so translation this shall be the reward when you herken to these or ordinances meaning m is telling if you listen to all of the rules that Hashem put into this world all of the rules of the Tora this is the reward this is part of the reward you know we don't have many parts of the Tora talk about the reward right here first paragraph of this tells us what the reward is If You obser observe and perform these you know these mitv hem your God will safeguard for you the Covenant and the kindness that he swore to your forefathers so here he's saying he's going to keep the Covenant the breit the deal that he had with abah is and jaob and the kindness so there's two different words here he could have just said he's going to safeguard meaning he's going to keep his promise whatever deal the Covenant is the bre is a deal you a deal with abah and yob so if you follow the you you do your deal hasem is going to do his deal but here m is telling us there's two things first of all if you do it Hashem is going to keep his part but then he adds something he says and the kindness that he swore to your forefathers meaning there's what he owes you based on all the mitv and then what he's going to give you extra just because you did him he doesn't owe it to you but he's still going to do it for you that's why it's called kindness kindness is something you're not obligated to do he will love you bless you and multiply you and he will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your land so here he's telling us he's going to love you that's good he's going to bless you that's even better but then he's going to multiply you meaning you have children but if that's not enough says he's going to bless the fruit of your womb meaning he's even going to bless you anytime you have you're pregnant theem it's going to be a healthy boy or healthy girl and on top of it he's going to bless them too and then later on he says that um you are uh May uh your males and your females not are not going to be infertile and even your animals are not meaning everyone's GNA be able to have kids in a natural way no problems couple wants to have kids one two three no problem you can have kids this is one of the blessings so he has given you no less than three different specific blessings or four actually Four specific blessings about having a lot of children this is the blessing you do the MIT you're going to have a lot of kids now you tell this to somebody in this generation they're not always going to consider that it's like okay AEM one is enough two and a dog is more than enough four blessings meaning was going to give you more and more we already have a lot of people and uh we just we have millions and millions of people in the desert here the uh toah says that one of the blessings that Hashem gave am while we were in Egypt is that every birth was six kids each time a mother would give birth it would be at least six kids six kids this is you could see it in is we did on the book of Exodus the first Paras goes into the mid and explains exactly how it is but you know what since you guys are here and I like you I'll tell you now um so in when um a wanted to make sure that am is grows rapidly because we only came to Egypt with 70 people yov came with 70 people that's it 70 Jews in the world or Israelites in the world he wanted us to grow rapidly we're there for 210 years naturally you're going to grow to be something but he wanted us to grow to become like the promise that he made and yob we're going to be like the stars we're going to be like the grains of sand it's going be millions of us so it can't be in a natural way so what did he do in first uh the first in the in the second book of the T in the book of Exodus in chapter one verse six I'm sorry verse seven it says in the children of Israel were fruitful teamed increased and became strong very very much so and the land became filled with them so here you see there are six adjectives six descri uh words describing how am Isel grew could have just said and the people of Israel grew it a lot two words you have six adjectives you have six words describing how fast we grew and kazal tells us the reason why it's six is because every birth with six kids so now imagine now it wasn't like today where somebody has you know gives birth one two kids two birds is too difficult already that's enough we're uh tying the pipes cutting this cutting that we're not we're not having any more kids so what happens here they kept giving birth so now every couple of years another six kids so an average family has you know a mother gives 10 births in or 20 births if 60 kids 120 kids and then also kazal says that 80% of the adults died in Egypt in the plague of Darkness because they didn't want to do chuva they didn't want to go to uh get the tah so in the plague of Darkness 80% of the Israelites died hasm killed them but their kids weren't rashim the kids weren't Wicked so what happened to these kids they came with the righteous that left Egypt so now the family that had 60 kids now all of a sudden has 300 kids by the time you feed them you're already up to dinner by the time you drove ABA I want a t-shirt today IMA I want this dress ABA I want a uh kab I want omelet em I want pancakes by the time you get everybody's order you need a track the trailer to give everybody the food every family has 100 200 300 kids this is why hasem is telling you this is a blessing I'll take care of it why this is why I gave them the man you don't have to worry about breakfast M comes to you to your kid straight to your house you don't have to worry about showers and dressing them I'm going to have clouds seven clouds around you at all times you're never going to have to change your clothes in 40 years never going to have to take any showers you don't have to change any diapers cuz no one's going into the no one's going to the bathroom 40 years no one went to the bathroom once why because the man was so holy it would be completely absorbed by the blood system meaning the whole thing will turn into blood now any food that you eat a big part of it turns to blood that's how you survive Apple turns to blood steak turns to blood especially if it's kosher turns to good blood if it's Pig you have a problem it's Pig blood uh ice cream blood everything turns to blood beastly blood everything these pretzels that no one's eating for some reason my wife worked really hard to give you guys these pretzels Blood also so uh his cookies is I tell her don't give them anything but she doesn't want to listen I'll just so anyway everything turns into blood amen but the part that does doesn't turn into blood becomes waste go to the bathroom the man was so it was food from heaven so the whole thing turned into blood meaning no one had to go to the bathroom no one have to go to B so Hashem took care of all these kids so now if you tell somebody that you can have a lot of kids not everybody thinks of it as a big blessing but then if you talk to couples that can't bring a kid to the world and all they see especially the mother M the mother doesn't have any kids she see all of a sudden all of her friends have kids she can't bring kids she's praying she's crying the husband this they go to doctors they spend tens and tens of thousands of dollars trying to have some type of medicine help them bring kids to the world they can't bring a kid and the little ungrateful parents that uh you know want to don't want to have any kids at all like no no we want to have fun so you ask the mother can't bring kids to the world what's the value of a kids I'll give everything I have just to have one kid so you see a different perspective there a story is a uh real story there was a guy sadik lived in Israel and uh poorest can be I had 15 kids aad one day he says okay I'm going to try to raise some money after you know pay for these kids weddings one day you know they don't always stay they don't stay babies forever have to pay for weddings you have to pay for Bar Mitzvah you have to pay for all types of things so he comes to America to try to raise some money and he goes to this rich guy that someone introduced them to and the guy the rich guy only has two kids two kids and a dog and uh he comes there he says listen I'm trying to raise money for my kids to get married this that da da da and the rich guy gets angry on him he starts yelling at him he goes you should be ashamed of yourself you're rash he tells him tells thead he's a rash because such an irresponsible person who do you think you are you're bringing eight 15 kids to the world if you don't have any money why do I have to solve your problem go work go work you made your bed laying it sadik says you know what s can I before I leave after he got smashed in the head by this rash with the words of encouragement that he gave him I said okay can I before I leave can I give you a little bit of goes yeah know go ahead goes in the foundation of our oral Tor page 30b it says there are three that are partners and every human being the mother the father andm say so you see with me Hashem chose to be my partner 15 times but with you only twice you should think about that partner comes back for more business why cuz you did good business he's not going to come back you keep cheating him he's not going to come back right but if you're doing good business if he sees that your business with you is profitable he's going to keep investing with you he's going to keep wanting to be a partner with you so what he saying with me became a partner with me 15 times with you twice you should think about that so the rich guy was you know maybe wasn't exactly a big sadik but he wasn't stupid so yeah he like okay okay I got the point wrote him a very respectable check and helped him out the uh whole concept of bringing kids to the world is very very difficult if you have NOA it's very very difficult because if you think that which is actually what it says in this week's meaning that Moses is is warning that afterm gives you all of this reward don't forget him don't say that it was due to was through my strength and the results of my actions that resulted in this reward don't forget AEM because if you say that you have yourself a serious problem so when you actually think when a person how's irrelevant to our life when you actually think that your Pala is going to come out of your hard work you're going to go to work you wake up at 6:00 in the morning you work till I don't know 8:00 at night and really that's what's making you your it's going to be very very difficult for you to justify having a lot of kids even if you do make a lot of money why if you're not making a lot of money then it's an obvious it's an obvious uh answer if I'm only making I don't know ,000 or $1,500 a week and I have already three kids which in this generation is considered a lot and I already know that each one of these kids going to cost me at least $500 a month just fiva so that's already one week week or a week and a half worth of salary then you have mortgage then you have a car then you have food how am I going to live so if you're only making $1,000 or $1,500 a week which is a lot in you know in New York it's not not you know I'm not talking about somebody that's barely living somebody that's making $70,000 year a decent amount of money he's not going to be able to do it he's not going to be able to justify rationally in his head to have a fourth kid it's already a lot big stretch for him it's already a big stretch for him the fact that he has three for him it's already three kids I'm already have a lot OFA on the other hand obviously if he makes less money it's even more of a problem and he's going to have less kids most likely on the other hand if someone's really rich someone's making a lot of money someone's making 100,000 a month 200,000 a month he's definitely he's even less likely to have more kids than the guy who doesn't have money why because he has to maintain this High lifestyle that he has the $3 million house the vacations the country club the all these cars and all these toys he has to maintain so for him I can't send my kids to the standard Yeshiva $500 a month I have to send them to the best Yeshiva that's a few thousand a month in the private tutors and I also have to make sure he goes to all these different courses and he plays tennis and he's part of this club and that club meaning each kid is going to cost him 300,000 a year so for him it's like I can't I don't I don't even have time forget about having the money I don't have time to manage this kid I have to work all this all these hours just to make this money now you're asking me to spend the money that I'm working really hard for on this kid that I don't have time for why who's this kid that I want to do it for so when you don't have it's virtually impossible to justify having kids at all having some kids is already a step in the right direction having a lot of kids is virtually impossible without having imuna because you're thinking that everything is in your hands so Hashem is telling you something different here he's telling you that actually your real blessing the real blessing that you're going to get is actually if you do have kids why because with every every kid comesa every kid that comes to the world has a check that comes with him comes with him Shem says okay so someone had I don't know someone has four kids he's struggling to survive every month barely they're surviving the last penny was spent nothing saved no retirement no vacation no nothing they're barely surviving but he has four kids is why wife she wants to bring another kid the husband is like what are you talking about you want me to get a third job I'm already working two jobs that's another check I already have I already have I already have two jobs I'm going to work another job I can't afford another kid if you have full you know that Hashem is going to bring that kid with a check what he doesn't know is that that fifth kid could very well be the million doll check that he's been waiting for his whole life meaning that the wealth that he wanted his whole life you know that's why he worked so much he wanted a lot of money so the real money that Hashem really wanted to give him he already he was destined to be a millionaire this guy but he had to pass a test an Amun test in order for hasem to reward him in this world and the next I'm going to reward you with $5 million big customer Lotto whatever there a million and a half ways for hm to make you rich all of a sudden your little tiny milk business becomes a huge business somebody wants to buy it somebody wants to invest in it all of a sudden the little penny stock that you bought for $100 becomes a blue chip company it doesn't have to be just lot there's a million ways to get rich Hashem has infinite amount of ways to get rich all of a sudden this ant you never knew existed decided she loves you and gives you all the money she has after she she died instead of giving it to a dog they bet so the fifth kid is the ticket the sixth kid whatever whatever kid the next one that you don't have that's the amuna test there's actually a story a true story about a woman named Rosa Rosa the wife of the mo Rabon tber who lived during the Holocaust and she got the coin name she got the nickname the woman that refused to stop giving birth she got the nickname why because even during the Holocaust they were in the Holocaust they we in the concentration camps she still brought kids to the world 100% she'd go to the mik she'd find puddle of water you know they make a hole so she could go and purify herself she could be with her husband to bring kids to the world people look at it's crazy what do you want to bring what for for the Nazis to kill them you're going to bring another kid to the world for the Nazis to starve them to beat them up to kill you to torture you to do all this zah that they're doing to everybody else what are you going to bring another kid for 100% amuna 100% amuna in all the years that she was in the Holocaust she still brought kids not one kids I don't know if it's two or three but kids to the world during all the years that she was in the Holocaust but she survived through all this she survived all of it the kids survived and they live to tell the story to us who barely have a to go to the store and eat K how many total kids how many I don't know I don't know the total kids but I know that they brought several kids during the um during the Holocaust it's unbelievable unbelievable that's 100% amuna that's 100% amuna so when we think about things like this we realize that the the level that we want to be in of actually having auna we can't get there without difficulty you can't get to be a major bodybuilder without continuously lifting more and more weight can't maybe you'll be in decent shape but you're not going to be top shape without continuously tearing your body up it's no different with anything else in life you want to be successful in business you have to continuously try harder and harder and harder doesn't necessarily mean that you need to work 500 hours a day but you have to come up with new ideas you have to be Innovative you have to be creative you have to do something that no one else is willing to do that's the secret to success by the way obviously Hashem but the point being is that as far as our is our effort in order for you to succeed in life you must do something that no one else is willing to do simple as far far as you want to reach a high level OFA you have to welcome more difficulty in the beginning it's going to be am I going to eat kosher or not later on it's going to be am I going to accept this job or not because the job that's going to pay me $50,000 a month instead of the measly 5,000 makes me work on Shabbat once a month is your Shabbat worth 45,000 a month it's big test another one's going to be am I going to marry the righteous woman that's not the best looking or the model that's not exactly the most righteous it's a life decision it's an eternal decision it's even more than money in most people's life the tests continue to get bigger and bigger you have kids and you start saying okay am I going to spend two hours with my kids and 10 minutes learning to or half hour with the kids 40 minutes with the kids and the rest of it learning tah becomes more and more difficult it's not easy tests become difficult is AEM really paying attention to me because I'm working really hard I'm learning Tah I'm breaking my head to do all the mitv I change my clothes I change my friends I change my food I change my everything but I'm struggling I have health issues I have palasa issues sometimes SCH issues nothing's working where is this hasm you've been talking about for all these years are you going to ask that are you going to say no I know everything is I know everything is for the good so that's Thea that all of us want to build must come with these tests if you take it the good way then you go up a level you don't take it a good way you're going to keep getting the same test over and over again until you pass it Hashem is going to continue giving you these tests in order to do it how do I know this this what he says in this par in chapter 8 verse 1 2 and 3 it says the entire Commandment that I command you today you shall observe and to perform them so that you may live and increase what does it mean you may live the dogs alive the people already alive what does it mean to live live every time it talks about living it's talking abouta hasem is telling you this world over here you're going to live what 70 years 80 years 120 years whatever you're going to live here a regular life is 70 years okay so you live seven years that's what you're going to do all these MIT for these 70 years even the rash is going to live 7 years sometimes or even more no he's talking about is you're going to do these MIT you're going to live eternally for you live so every time in the Tora it talks about living it's talking about and come to possess the land that Hashem swore to your forefathers you shall remember the entire Road on which Hashem your God LED you these 40 years in the wilderness so as to afflict you to test you meaning asem tortured you in a desert for 40 years why test you why is he testing us he's boredem has nothing to do he couldn't play with the angels or something or is you know has a lean you know a there's a Psalms we read and it's actually a animal a fish it's called latan and the latan is enormous one of the midashim that I read said that it's 973 miles long huge and hasem originally created two of them but then he killed one and the reason why he killed one is because he didn't want them to produce because if they reproduced would destroy the world and he left the second one still alive because that's what we're going to eat once the mashia comes but there's one of the T one of the Psalms that King David wrote he says you have the Levan so you can play with it meaning it's aem's pet the's pet so how do I even get to this l son but anyway so Hashem so this is the uh weakness of a speaker doesn't know how to connect things so anyway so Hashem is telling us here that I tortured you in order to test you why am I testing you oh because of the uh game with the uh angels that I said the remark I said with the angels whym they couldn't play with with the angels hasem is not bored is perfect so he tell he continues the verse afflict you to test you to know what's in your heart and whether you would observe his Commandments or not so here he's telling you outright anyone that has a question why do I have difficulty in life why is am I doing chuva and my whole family is going against me all my friends hate me all everybody that I used to be uh you know close with is telling me I'm going I'm becoming too religious or the job that I had as soon as I did chva I lost it or I'm making less money all types of things all types of difficulties he's telling you exactly the answer in this verse hasem is going to test you in order to see what's in your heart is your chuva real or you're a faker that's a real question are you really doing chuva because you want to get close to Hashem or are you doing chuva because it fits your current lifestyle that's a serious question keeping Shabbat is not exactly the biggest deal in the world by the way it's actually a vacation every week if you really think about it not keeping Shabbat is the most idiotic thing in the world for a Jew because not only are you instead of keeping Shabbat you're working instead why would you want to work go take get you're working all these hours to take a vacation one week vacation two weeks vacation a year hasem says take a vacation every week what's wrong with you why you working you're one of those guys that goes to work when no one else comes to work why so that's number one number two if let's say you're not working what are you going to do really on Shabbat are you going to go to the mall you go to the movies go to the beach you could do all those things on a different day you don't have to go on Shabbat why avoid it because for all those stupid things that you're doing for going to the mall for going to the beach for going to the restaurant you're going to get forever Eternal suffering in this world and the next why would you do that you understand so that's the problem when people don't keep Shabbat that's why I always say there's no way in the world that someone believes in hasem and doesn't keep Shabbat it's impossible there's no way that you believe in hm and you don't keep Shabbat meaning the one that's obviously says I believe in hasm I believe there's a Creator but I don't keep Shabbat how could it be means that you believe in a different God it's not this it's not the god of Israel because the god of Israel said whoever doesn't keep oh he has too much pride no way doesn't believe in God doesn't believe in God doesn't that's it's a can't have pride when you really believe in God can't if you have pride you're you know you have something wrong with you the same God that created you the same God is responsible for every one of the proteins in your body to work so you don't get sick the same God that's responsible for your nostrils to work so you can breathe properly the same God that's responsible for your teeth not to rot so you don't have a toothache that destroys your day the same God that's responsible for these balloons you call eyes to be the best cameras that were ever invented and will ever be invented to continuously clean themsel so you continue seeing by lubricating the eye you know if your eye doesn't lubricate itself on an automatic basis eventually you'll lose your vision yeah you could put the drops and so on but eventually you're going to lose your vision so all of these little things for you take for granted if you believe in this God that did all of these things how could you not believe in the part that he says Yash he created he created the Heaven and the Earth and he stopped on a seventh day and he told you that you have to do it also so that means that if you're not keeping Shabbat it's not the same God because it cannot be the same God if you're saying no no maybe it's the same God but he doesn't know that Shabbat is an obligation that's possible but it's unlikely why is it possible and unlikely cuz yes you may believe in a Creator it's not exactly rocket science to believe in a Creator even a donkey knows that there's a Creator but as far as that Creator being the god of Israel the one that's in the Torah that means that you have to know what it says in the tah and the minimum requirement that every person that knows that toah exists must know is what happened during the first seven days you don't just Skip and go to Moses 2,400 years after creation you go seven days okay I'm the seventh day says he created the Shabbat so obviously you've heard of what the Shabbat is so you heard the Shabbat what that you already hear that hasem made the Shabbat very very special so now back to the point keeping shabat it's not exactly the biggest deal in the world when you really think about it meaning that if you don't keep Shabbat it's either lack of belief or just a disconnect lack of knowledge to keep Shabbat on the other hand a lot of people are keeping Shabbat it's definitely hard in the beginning because you have to change your lifestyle all of a sudden you can't go to the mall all of a sudden you can't go to the meetings which in in the beginning it seems like it's harder than what it really is after you start keeping Shabbat and you treat Shabbat the right way you realize that it's really not that hard but then you get used to it become it's a nice day you take a vacation once a week you go to besset you hang out with the guys hang out with the family eat a bunch of food sleep maybe learn a little bit it's a fun day it's a great day if you actually treat it the right way it's the best day of the week which means it's not really that big of a deal after a while you get a big deal reward for it but as far as saying listen I'm I've completed my chuva because I keep Shabbat you cannot say because in reality what's what's so difficult what are you really doing what self sacrifice are you really doing for hem by keeping the Shabbat he's giving you vacation you're taking it the company is giving you a vacation you're getting paid for it too what you want a raise for taking a vacation you understand so Hashem is telling you that these other things the the self sacrifice overcoming your your your bad midot your mid of anger you know your character traits of Anger of stinginess of lack of you know having a lack OFA not losing your cool when life throws a few hammers at you that's what he's telling you that's the part that's how I'm building you shabbat is going to connect usat's going to connect us we're going to have a relationship once you keep Shabbat we're going to have a a relationship until you we have until you keep Shabbat hasem considers you 100% enemy says it last week's my lovers and my haters so once you keep Shabbat we're not enemies anymore you're considered one of my lovers one of my children I love you but in order for me to get you to your full potential my son I have to torture you a little bit have to build you up I have to give you some extra weight you wanted to only lift 75 lbs but I know how much you can lift I know you can lift 125 so I'm going to give you 125 and show you that you can lift it so I'm going to give you tests that are seem like they're impossible but Hashem already knows you can pass it it seems like it's impossible but you hasem is going to show you how you passed it and that's say he's going to build you and the test that's impossible today tomorrow is the easy test you're wishing for yesterday's test that's if you are glued to Hashem glued to Hashem you're constantly looking to grow so he's telling you I afflict you to test you to see what's in your heart and to see if you're going to be one of these real B that's going 100% or you're Faker you started keeping Shabbat and that's it everything else you're still doing some people I know 20 years they go to 20 years they go to Every Rabbi you want all the big rabbis they go to this that everything still barely keep they keep a few Basics they keep Shabbat they keep this a few basic things but someone just started doing CH a year ago and them same thing 20 years they go nothing changed they started and they finished whatever they started with 20 years ago that's where they're at 20 years later but they went they could tell you everything by heart they could tell you where the mitv is they could tell you with this they could tell you that but they don't really connect to it so hasem says that in order for me to know whether you're really connected to me I have to give you some uh tests he Afflicted you and then he's giving him an example he Afflicted you to let you hunger then he fed you the Mana that you did not know nor did your forefathers know in order to make you know that not by bread alone does Man live rather by everything that emanates from the mouth of God does Man live so the same words that we just described where he says he's going to afflict you meaning he's going to torture you a little bit and give you difficulties in order to test you why to have an outcome of showing you to see what's in your heart and then if he sees what's in your heart he going to see if what how's he going to see what's in your heart by seeing if you're going to be one of these Kim that's going to get angry at God and stop keeping Shabbat and stop keeping MIT or you're going to continue keeping the mitv knowing that everything is for the good and this two shall pass and then he's giving you an exact example of how this plays out say don't you remember first he gave you the test of going to the desert no food then on top of it you went to a desert you became hungry why didn't he make you hungry just so he can give you the Mana he didn't make you hungry only to punish you he wanted to see where you stand he made you hungry to see if you you going to go back to Egypt or you going to start praying to him continue you start praying to him what do he he give you the best POS food that ever existed for a little bit of prayer low level CH that you did he gave you the best bread ever give you Mana bread bread that even your forefathers abrah is and yob didn't have you even got a reward bigger than your forefathers in this world to make sure that you know that everything that you have it's not from your work it's not from your physical work it's not from your job it's from the will of hem as he specifically says to make sure that you know that not by bread alone does Man live rather by everything that emanates from the mouth of God does Man live meaning if you're having you're having a problem believing whether you have enough P to bring another kid to the world enough P to get the house that's closer to the synagogue so make sure that you go to the synagogue every week and not once a year on the holidays because the house is half the price you know some people buy a house because of price not because of community you know so they will go to community for example you go to this community the houses in this community are at least double the price as the houses outside of this community and this is the case in every Jewish Community it's not just this community there's nothing special about this community versus other communities as far as prices some communities are much more expensive than here but someone that has no amuna whatsoever say why should I pay x amount of money to live close to the synagogue I'll live 10 miles from the synagogue and I'll go to besset I don't know whenever I get a chance I'll live 5 miles from the synagogue and I'll go to besset you know when it's not that hot the problem is you start that way in the beginning you go to besset every weekend and then it's once a month and then it's once every a couple of months and then it's once when it's perfect weather and then it's never why because of a stupid decision that you're going to live a little further from the synagogue so you could save some money someone that has a does exactly what Yu did it said in the Tora whenu found out that his son Joseph is alive he sent Judah to Egypt first he said go over there and build us a build us Yesa he didn't say go build us a uh Castle build us a house says no no build us a place to study cuz that's what's important build us a place that we connect to Hashem with so when someone is actually looking at things then he starts realizing okay having these tests having these difficulties that are going to build me it's for my benefit why because when the time comes for me to make big decisions like what house I'm going to move into what community I'm going to move into what school I'm going to go into how many kids I'm going to have the most difficult tests in life I'm only going to be able to pass them if I Ace all of the small tests but if you're not acing all the small tests if every time you get a flat tie you get Ang r at God if every time a check bounces you're questioning whether the Torah is real if every time you see a so-called religious person on the news for something bad you question the entire religion you're not going to make it you have a question yeah is it wrong to plan that and to save and to prepare for the future no it's nothing there's nothing wrong with it as long as it's not destroying your present meaning that if you ask the highest level of tadim whether it's uh from this generation or previous generations no they don't really plan you know uh they live they do whatever they can their plan is how much to are they going to learn today for you know um but standard people yes there are certain things you need to plan for whether it's to financials to make sure you're able to Wed your kids or take them to school and so on there's nothing wrong with it but there's nothing wrong with it if you still number one contribute all success today past and future to Hashem and not your own two it does not stop you from being any more religious today meaning you're not going to uh eat less Quality Kosher food or less quality Shabbat or less quality holiday because you're saving for retirement or you're saving for college or something like that you know so as long as it's not destroying your present yes you're allowed to plan but if your future is a dis you know making your present life a disaster then for what who knows if we're even going to make it and that's one of the questions that's very very difficult for People of Our Generation to to look at if you notice the world around us no one thinks they're going to die they it the world is mostly secular and I'm not just talking about Jews I'm talking about people in general for the most part most of the people in the world are completely secular whether they're Muslims or Christians or or uh Jews the three major religions or maybe some Buddhists for the most part people are secular they may go to their church or their mosque or their uh uh you know synagogue but in reality as far as real life they're secular how do I know go to any Christian person any of them find 10 of them ask all 10 of them what they believe they'll give you 10 different translations one Guy believes that guy's J is achine another guy believes he's God another believes he a sadik another everyone has a different belief meaning that they all make up their own belief and they apply to their life the way it fits so it says in the Old Testament we have to be modest but that doesn't apply to us it says in the Old Testament we have to be generous okay I'm not making enough money I'm only making $150,000 a year when I make a million I'll be generous so they applied the way they want if it fits their lifestyle they apply it if it doesn't fit their lifestyle they don't apply it same thing with the Muslims and same thing with with the Jews so for the most part people are secular so when it comes to actually having real inem the Torah is the only place that taught you how to do it having faith means nothing just a word like you know the Christians say Have Faith have faith believe but they're not saying have faith like believe everything's okay they're just saying listen we don't really have an answer for you so just believe that hopefully it's going to be okay to actually says no no we have an answer we have an answer but it's going to require you to believe in hem to have real in hem to see it play out instead of seeing torture in your life either way it's going to play out but it's your decision of whether you're going to suffer through it or enjoy the ride it's your choice the actual experience will happen regardless the financial diffic difficulty is going to happen regardless the kids's not doing great in school is not is going to happen regardless whatever difficulty people have in their life sickness and so on it's going to happen regardless it's your choice of how to deal with it you could either have NOA and scream hashem's name and you know blame him for everything or you could pray to Hashem for Mercy but at the same time also thank him for giving you this instead of something much worse meaning it's your choice of whether you suffer or not and specifically tells you I'm giving you the suffering to see what's in your heart that's it it's it's not it's not it's not a uh there's no two ways about it and that's one of the most important things that we need to to understand when it comes down to it in page 53 it says we are not allowed as Jews we're not allowed to benefit out of idol worship in any way shape or form not only are we not allowed which also comes one of the sources comes from this week's par actually in verse 25 chapter 7 verse 25 it says it says the carved images of their gods you shall burn in the fire and you shall not covet and take for yourself the silver and the gold that's on them lest you be ins snared by it for it is an Abomination for Hashem your God meaning that if you find an idol you find an idol statue of uh JC statue of Buddha any of these things that people bow to You Must Destroy it you can't sell it obviously you can't worship it you can't even use it for beauty hasem is specifically telling you it's considered disgusting to him abomination TOA is actually Abomination is like half description of what TOA is disgusting is really more uh more in line with what TOA means Jews that have them in their homes know I go to homes every day and I see them uh okay the problem they set him up in the entrance on the table and he got candles next to it it's ridiculous it's an idol worship of mein so now Hashem is telling you that idol worship you're not allowed to benefit out of it in any way you have to burn it you have to destroy it and you're not allowed to even want to even want the silver and the gold that's on it let's if for so okay so you say listen this statue some idiot made a uh JC statue some other guy made a Buddha statue it's all completely gold they spent I don't know $100,000 on the thing I found it let me melt it that's it go sell it I don't know give some staka get some CDs dollar CD $100,000 100,000 CDs can make can make at least 10,000 Jews do Chu no no not allowed it's a sin it's 100% sin it's 100% sin why hasem said so says you're not allowed to even want it so now thear this lead to the good point says you're only allowed owed to want it you're only allowed to to benefit out of it if it was cancelled out meaning that uh I think this is M yeah if it was nullified meaning if the idol worshipper broke it and say it's not really it's a meaningless Idol I don't really believe in it nothing then you could take the gold then you could benefit out of it then you could take the gold but now you have to witness it we all right but now here's the thing says if an idol was sold or pledged to a Jewish smelter meaning someone that melts the uh this smal all agree that that nullifies the idol meaning that if the guy is uh melt you know is going to melt it he's that's his business and he's the one that's take buying this uh this Idol that that cancels out the idol he's allowed to if he's melting it he's he's allowed to uh do it but then there's one Sage that says no if the smelter is Jewish the guy that's going to melt it is Jewish it's not it's not it's not allowed it's it's not nullified it's still he's not allowed to melt he's not allowed to um benefit out of it we're not allowed to benefit out of it so the says why why if it's a that melts this metal then you're allowed to benefit out of this Idol why because we know if if the is taking it he's going to uh melt it no problem but if it's a Jew just imagine this if it's a Jew Rashi says the sage says it not allowed to why because we can't trust the Jew to overcome his yet and actually melt it why because the money is such a big TAA it's such a big desire that he's just going to sell it to another Idol worshiper he's not going to work it himself but he says listen I got a $100,000 Idol as an idol I could sell for for $100,000 as just scrap metal it's worth maybe 30 so let me just go find another idiot Idol worshipper sell him this JC statue and that's it I get $100,000 so it says if it's a jewan Allah it's not lfi why because the desire for money is M something unbelievable it's m 100% idol worship this is this is 2,000 years ago it's not new in this generation it's not new so when we start thinking about things like this you start thinking about you start seeing that oura whether we like it or not is running our life in case we didn't know enough in case we didn't take Hashem seriously enough when he said the first couple of times that he's testing Us in order to see what's in us he mentions it again in chapter uh 8 verse 16 says who feed you the Mana in the wilderness which your forefathers knew not meaning same thing we said before your forefathers ab and yob didn't get Mana in order to afflict you and in order to test you to do good for you in your end so this again reminds us of the same exact thing that we heard before which is that Hashem is going to test Us in order to see what's in our heart in order to do good for us in our end what does it mean in our end in our end meaning after this life but why is it mentioning it again because this and this the first section he's talking about blessing talking about listen you have AA you realize that all of these tests are for your benefit you're good to go you'll have a lot of blessing but here in this section it's talking it's a warning if you don't this is what's going to happen says take care lest you forget Hashem your God by not observing his Commandments his ordinances and his decrees which I command you today lest you eat and be satisfied and you build a good house to and settle and your cattle and sheep and goats increase and you increase silver and gold for yourselves and everything that you have will increase meaning hasem blesses you you did some mitv theem starts blessing you with we're wor in this world you start becoming rich you have kids you have a good house and so on and so forth but he starts but he starts the he starts the verse he said don't forget AEM after he gives you all these things because that's what happens a lot someone starts doing chuva someone starts keeping MIT and all of a sudden business starts working they get a deal here a deal there they start a new business they got a promotion at work work all of a sudden I don't have time for God all of a sudden god listen you gave me all this money so I obviously I have to work to keep it saying you no no if you get the reward don't forget God why because then you go back to the torture again you go back to having these tests and why if you forget AEM and go after the gods of others and worship them and prostrate yourself to them I testify against you today that you will surely perish like the Nations that Hashem causes to perish before you so you will perish because you will not have hearkened the voice of Hashem your God he's saying if I give you all this reward you have a good life you're healthy you have a fiance you have a new job you have more money or life in general is not full of problems everything's okay you're not collecting enemies every single day everything's okay and all of a sudden you forget about hem hasm says if you start acting like a I'm going to treat you like a meaning not just not a righteous but a wicked one these very same ones that I'm destroying that I'm kicking out of the land I'm going to do the same thing to you so now Hashem starts talking about Moshe is telling us what hasm is telling us that now that we're going to go you're going to go into the land make sure that you know and you don't even think it you don't even see it in your heart that Hashem is giving you this land because you're righteous cuz you're so righteous he's giving you the land because it's not because you're righteous it's because the other nations were Wicked and because he promised it to your forefathers ofam and yob so mhe is specifically telling us here that hasem has decided a certain certain amount of reward to give to the world this he this Treasure Chest full of reward full of money full of good full of everything someone has to get it he has nothing to do with it you're either going to be the party that gets it or the one that gets it taken care uh taken away from them for every winner there must be a loser there's no such thing as just pure winner and someone you know out of nothing the guy that wins the lotto he wins while everyone else millions of people lost each one lost a dollar $10 $5 but in reality the one guy that won the $500 million pretty much beat 500 million people or however many people that bought the ticket the team that won beat everyone else the stock that went up all the guys that shorted it that went against it lost the stock that went down people made money out of the stock that went down but it also means that the guys that actually bought it for it to go up lost there has to be a winner there has to be a loser in all things so he's telling you you got the this land of milk and honey not because because you guys are the most righteous but because you have potential to be righteous because I that's why do you have potential how how does HM know you have potential because you come from the seed of ab and yob and I know that they were the greatest human beings that ever lived so you have potential to be great but that wasn't enough because when you were coming into the land you are you were a uh people that were a stubborn Nation so I'm telling you this to remind you that it's not because you were already righteous but rather because it was a promise and on top of it because I had to take it away from someone else the go that were originally given this land they're Wicked so why does it mention first the wickedness and then the fact that Hashem promised it to our forefathers is to remind us first we have to start with and fear punishment that's the first level of first level of fearing the almighty first level of connection to Hashem first sign of wisdom is fearing punishment I'm not going to violate Shabbat because I don't want to lose my job I'm not going to violate Shabbat because I don't want to go to Gom forever I don't want to violate Shabbat because I'm scared of getting sick again and so on and so forth scared of punishment there's no nothing bad about being scared of hasem it's actually admirable to a very very high level already because most people in the world are not scared of hem how do we know look at how they behave look at how people behave do you think if people were scared of hem they'd walk around half naked in the street when Hashem specifically said it's not allowed do you think if people were scared of Hashem they'd steal even1 when Hashem specifically said even the go not allowed to steal of course the Jews are even more so you think if people were scared of Hashem they'd act like animals on a regular basis thinking that it's good obviously most people are not scared of hasem so even having the lowest level of fear of hem but real fear of hem is already a high level I don't want to be like these Wicked go that hasem threw out of the land he's telling you that's already high level then you go to higher levels of fear of hem which is fearing a disconnect you're not worried so much uh on about punishment all the time even though you're worried about punishment but you're more worried about hurting the relationship you have with you have such a good feeling every day that you talk to him you have such a good feeling that you connect to him every single day that you don't want to lose that feeling just like a relationship that someone has whether it's a friend or a spouse when someone has a very strong relationship they don't want to lose it so they're not going to do things they're going to hurt this other person they're not going to yell at their wife or their husband and treat them like a uh like their some uh you know stranger or some enemy because they don't want to offend them because they don't want the relationship to be hurt that's a higher level of eventually when you continuously work on eventually you can get to a point of actually having you could actually get to a point of having love of hem but in here in this specific section it only talks about and in this you'll see something very very interesting where it gives us the aware the source of how do we know how we know that comes before comes before love of hem actually one of the many sources is this par in chapter 10 verse 12 it says now Israel what does your God ask of you meaning how much is hm really asking of you guys like what is he asking keep Shabbat keep kosher take a vacation once a week eat eat food that doesn't have worms and maggots in it talk to him every day and ask for whatever you want what is he asking you really what's the big deal what's the big deal of doing some basic mitv learn to every day stimulate your mind become a human being work on your character traits you're not an animal like a lion in the middle of the street stop being stingy stop being angry what is he really asking you to do is he asking you to climb mountains no so that's what he says here Israel what does Hashem your gun ask of you instead of telling us now what would you think the answer would be well am should answer what do you mean he's asking us to do the mitvah Shabbat he's asking us to to kosher all of these things you should give him a list of 600 things but no mosu continues only to fear Hashem your God that's it where's all the mitv why he says what does hasm ask of you he says to fear Him that's it why doesn't say to love him why doesn't it say to do all of his mitv it says it later right after it says to to fear your God to go in all of his ways which means to fulfill the mitv and to love him and to serve AEM your God with all of your heart and with all of your soul and to observe his Commandments and his decrees in the end of the verse says for your benefit meaning all of this is for your benefit but the first thing that it mentions is fear why isn't not love hem like most people think in this generation most people think that you're supposed to love God first and then only then maybe consider fearing him but in reality if you already have love it's enough and this is one of the most misunderstood things that we have in our generation Hashem is telling us here in the Torah through m if you actually want to get to a point of fulfilling the mitv if you want to get to a point of loving AEM if you want to get to a point of being one with Hashem connecting with him on a regular basis if you want to get to a point of having AEM in your heart at all times where he's always on your mind if you want to get to a point where you're not only observing his Commandments and his decrees but you're actually doing it 100% with a full heart you're enjoying laying you're enjoying buying a that's even more NAD more special you're enjoying Shabbat like it's the greatest day in in history even though you just had Shabbat last week but every Shabbat is the greatest day ever you're enjoying every single mitvah even when you don't understand it if Hashem said it I already like it you want he's giving you exactly a map of where to get to you go going all his ways meaning do basic level chv become a Jew then love him it's already a big level then serve him meaning that Hashem is with you at all times you're always thinking about hem he's on your mind your decisions before you steal or before you do a deal you're thinking what does Hashem think each one as you can see each one is a high level each one is a bigger difficulty then he says observe the Commandments of Hashem again well he just mentioned observe what does it mean here he says observing the Commandments With Love full love you're enjoying every single thing you got another test you got another difficulty I know it's for my best so he's giving you a map of how to get to be the ultimate sadik or sadik but he says this step one it's only one step that can start all of it fear AEM no fear you can't go anywhere you can't observe the Commandments you cannot like you can't do anything you cannot do anything without fear of Hashem and you could say listen no I have a bunch of people that I know that keep Shabbat or keep a few mitv they don't fear hem nonsense nonsense you ask them are you afraid of uh losing you afraid of G you afraid of this everybody's afraid of something if they're keeping some that means they know there's a God has to some people are always afraid of something to acknowledge that fear and build on it is what we're trying to get to here because once you build on that fear you can get love you could eventually get to loving Hashem and eventually get to a point where you know for sure that all of these tests are for your benefit so we start the parasa and we'll finish with this couple of points we start with the parasa we said that most of us today have no clue what a blessing is and what a curse is we think that the blessings are a curse and the curses are blessings meaning people are begging Hashem for a lot of material even though Hashem is specifically telling us that if you are going to get a lot of material you are at risk of forgetting God which is not a problem that someone that's poor usually has if you go to all the poor countries in South America in Africa in different places those people usually don't have a problem believing in some type of God obviously many times it's the wrong one but nonetheless they believe in a god they believe in a higher being poor people are drastically more religious than rich people that's just a fact of life it's always been the case of course there are some rich people that are religious and and have and are even but for the most part it's very very difficult test that's whym is specifically telling us here that after he gives you all the this reward don't forget him it doesn't say don't forget him after you have all these tests only if you're really if you're broke don't forget him he doesn't say that say after you get all this reward don't forget AEM so it's obviously someone that's asking for a blessing of wealth needs to know they're also asking for a big test which some people that know the significance of that test like the would consider it a curse one dayim gave his son a blessing and someone overheard it he says may you never be rich may you never be wealthy says why wouldn't you want your son to be wealthy he could do this he could do that he could do this go no I know what my son needs wealth is not a problem that he needs so he knew on the other hand the blessing that hasem is starting this par with several times no less than four times where he says this is the true blessing of having a lot of kids you tell people today listen may you have 10 15 20 kids in your house Mom the mom might get a heart attack we think it's a curse so this shows us that we have a little bit of a gap to say the least between the will of Hashem and our will through Torah we can connect the two how so one time there was a uh Rabbi gave a blessing delivered a blessing to the through one of his students he says go tell that I pray for him to walk Barefoot and carry many stones on his heart sounds like a curse so the student you know goes to his and he says got a bless I got I got something from this other big Rabbi but I don't know if I want to I don't really feel comfortable sharing it because why why no just tell me what he said what he say he's a sadik he's this he's that so he says he wishes for you to walk barefoot and to carry big you know big stones on your heart says am in am in gets excited student said okay please share it with me why you saying amen sounds like a curse walking barefoot like a homeless person carrying stones in your heart means problems goes no you don't understand he's wishing for me to be aen when the mashia comes you have to be barefoot and you carry the big Stones theen the stones of the that's the difference when you know what's a blessing you know what's a blessing when you don't know what's a blessing you don't know what what's going on so this was the difference between someone that was and us the um way that he got to it is 100% to there was actually a really good story um that's in a mid it's also part of the oral Tora there's one sadik they used to uh decided that he's going to learn all day every day that's all he's going to learn that's it not going to learn anything else in thear he's just going to learn this his whole life and uh one day he went to his to the next World and he had there was a funeral he died but nobody showed up to the funeral so the uh one this woman comes to the uh synagogue and says starts screaming at everyone this sadik just died you have to come you have to come to his funeral no one knows who this woman is no one knows anything you see this woman screaming and yelling to some sadik that died how dare we not go to his funeral what's going on here she goes from place to place yelling go anyone that goes to this sadik's uh funeral and celebrates it and honors him like he's supposed to be it's promised the next World okay so a bunch of people go to this guy's a uh funeral at the of the funeral no one knew who this guy was if he's a sadik not sadik just know this lady screaming that's it people have seen the guy before but it's not like today where anyone that learns one verse in the Tora Mak sure that he puts it on Facebook and publicize it to the world that he knows this verse you know he gets a tattoo on his arm to make sure that everyone knows that he remembers this verse on by heart some people are humble so anyway people so it's just guy okay so they went to the funeral funeral is over and they asked this lady like what are you to him what are you to him that uh you worked so hard to get she says I am and disappeared and disappeared and disappeared meaning the mid says that he studied m think is behind me yeah this one he studied this day and night and never left it so much so that he became one with it that hasem embodied the an angel obviously in as a as a woman to represent this this gar and to make sure that he has a nice funeral point being is that you have two different worlds and one thing connecting them on one end we have a blessing that we think is a curse on another end we have a curse or at least a big test that we think is a blessing the difference between us and where we need to be and we don't necessarily need to be at the level of the we don't necessarily need to be the level of bringing Angels that's uh representing thear that we learned but the solution is the same we look at what hasem says and we start doing it fulfill the mitv make sure that we learn a Tora seriously make sure that our chuva is 100% serious and not a half half a chuva make sure that we're serious about hem and the reason why that you have to do all of this is that not only do you end up getting a reward for all of this but most importantly you get yourself ready for what's coming and what's coming is that whether we like it or not is the end it's either the end of days for everyone or it's the end of each and every person's days everyone's going to die at some point and that's just to finalize the point I mentioned before the difference between our generation today and people of the Torah is in our generation no one thinks they're going to die no one thinks that's why you see people like Kirk Koran guys 99 years old he's still doing billion dollar deals on a regular basis Warren Buffett I think he's 89 88 maybe 90 years old old guy one of the richest people in the world all he has his business I mean yes he enjoys his hobbies and so on but the point is that business is his life and even though he may find joy in it and he donates money and so on and he could be a nice guy I'm not saying there's anything wrong with any of that what I'm saying is that these people are operating in a way where they're assuming that they're going to have tomorrow they're assuming they're going to have next year and 10 years from now and 20 years from now because the deals that they're doing they're not six-month deals they're not overnight deals they're doing deals that they only know if they're going to work out in 10 20 years from now and no one's going to do something for 10 or 20 years from now just for the sake of it they want to see how it's going to work out they want they believe that they're going to see the end of that deal they are operating their life as if they're going to live forever and that's most people it's not just rich people it's most people no one thinks about death and that's the difference when you learn when you learn um you learn you learn you learn Torah it's the exact opposite reminder of the end is everywhere reminder of an end to something to to Life as we know it is mentioned by every major Sage is mentioned by every major person it's mentioned practically in every single Paras something referencing the end but the end is not the end like we think well most people think that you know once this life is over that's it it's over it's very depressing morbid topic it's not that they saying it's the end of the first phase it's the end of your job here and then it's results what happens next no one wants to think about that point because if I'm going to be judged based on the 70 years 80 years 100 years that I've been living in this world then obviously I have to start acting differently to make sure that I'm judged in a favorable way but if I'm going to think and act as if this world is the only world then I don't have to worry about dying so that's the difference between us and and uh you know as far as the um T is that you have to always think about the end now no need to um depress yourself but you have to look at it in a different way number one if it's end of life then you realize that okay if Judgment Day is coming I want to be I want to be sure that when I get up to the bed of sham I have something to present myself with I kept Shabbat I kept kosher I learn to Li every day I learned I learned I went to sh every Tuesday I did this I did that I have something to show up with on the other hand if it's mashiach which is in essence The Whole World's Judgment Day then I also have something to show up with the only problem is that we don't know when either one of those days is going to happen and that's why the says a person needs to act as if the end is coming every day as if he's he's going to die every day and do Chua before he dies so the the the students asking them wait but if you're saying that everyone needs to do cha before they die how are they going to know when are they going to die she say exactly that's what you must do chuva every day because it's not just in our generation it's not just our own personal life mission being over but it's the world as as we know it and that's why even a couple hundred years ago when you look at people that were really really close to hem like from salant from salant when he would do a uh prayer there a certain part of the prayer that talks about mashia one of the blessings talks about mashiah before you did the blessing that you know that brings the the mashia brings the go he uh he would look around he would open his eyes cuz you're praying amid technically the way he's supposed to do it you're supposed to do with eyes closed so you have real kavana which means you obviously need to know by heart so anyway so he would open his eyes and he'd look around and then he would do the prayer so one of his students caught him a couple of times and he asked for why do you open your eyes in the middle of amid why you're checking to see if we're praying we all praying we all you know we're listening to you no Shalom I know you're praying so why why do you open your eyes he says I want to make sure I'm not doing a mean I'm not using hashem's name in vain and just wasting a blessing goes what do you mean he goes before I do the for the mashia I'm looking around to see if he's here if he's here then I can't do the but if he's not here then I could do to to bless ask hem to bring him meaning he really believed that's way they that's the way they lived he really believed the mashia was coming if we start implementing that our own minds that could help us get the that we need this whole that we've been talking about the whole day we can't get there if we think we're going to live forever if someone thinks they're going to live forever there's no point for them to fear anything live forever they never there's never going to be a judgment day not mashiah not death not nothing if you're never going to pay the bill what are you going to have fear of hem for so that's the most important thing that we need to start learning about these things start thinking about them because sometimes it's hard for somebody to take that first big step without thinking that at one point this is the this is going to be the most important step that I ever took that first big step you know you can't you can't take the second third fourth fifth step without the first step um and last but not least one of the recent prophecies I think I mentioned in in another Shure a few months ago continues the story continues to develop if you remember I told you guys that um one of the uh prophecies that's going to happen uh at the end of times is that uh all of the 12 tribes will come together 12 Tribes of am we only have three right now that we know of for sure uh I mean Y and uh Benyamin we have a little bit of each uh but there's all these other people around the world that we're finding now that are uh claim to be part of the uh lost tribes so there is a uh a king in Africa that um is a what's called his uh claims to be uh part of uh the tribe of uh e and bem he's converted to Judaism he's from what I heard the sadik and I actually saw I saw him in a uh lecture uh and um a lot of the stuff that I heard is real everything was verified there's more to see but the point is is that it's very very much real and um but now the big thing is is that his country alone has 25 million people and they claim that they're all Jews problem is that throughout they have proof of 2,000 years of lineage mean meaning they have proof all the way from the BET mikash who they are where they are all this stuff but throughout 2,000 years they didn't have the oral Tor didn't have they only had the written Tor so they have they keep kosher they they keep a lot of the laws of the Torah but not all of them because they didn't have the rabinal laws they didn't have the oral Torah um and also there was a similation and so on so the uh the big difficulty now is that they're uh being asked to convert they're being asked to convert and they're saying why should we convert we're Jews so now this could you know this this whole thing can turn into a big problem but I heard a today from that was actually uh very very good that gives another meaning to um to the book of Isaiah there's a very famous verse of um of the book of Isaiah is very famous chapter that talks about chapter 11 uh that talks about Prophecies of what's going to happen at the end of times and uh that a lot of people heard that you know they um chapter 11 verse 6 the wolf will live with the sheep and the Lepard will lie down with the kid and the calf and the lion would welp uh the lion welp and um and fatling will walk together and a young child will lead them pretty much in so many words the uh this is a very famous verse especially Christians love this verse but this is obviously from our tah um it's says that one of the proofs that mashiah is here is that nature will change meaning a lion is no longer going to hunt for meat they're going to become vegetarian things are going to come back to the world of how it was at the times of um kid will be able to play with a snake not without a worry he's you know a uh the leopard is going to uh uh lie down together with a uh with a kid you know like all these different things that are you know if you think about it right now you know tiger sees a a little sheep he's going to hunt them that's food it's lunch so a lot of people have some videos online of how this is actually happening really happening in the world there's actually a lion right now in one place in the world that killed a deer but then decided to adopt the deer's baby so now they've been grow he's been raising this lioness has been raising this deer for a while now like she she takes care of this deer which is completely unnatural it's against nature uh and then there's uh a few other animals that are natural predators or natural enemies are coming together so until now I also thought that um this is what's going to happen Okay this this is okay the line is is not surpris what written in the T that's what's going to happen but I got I got told me another today he says no no it's not just that is that when you think about it as it mentions in this it's it's a uh it's a stubborn Nation two Jews 10 opinions you know that's why there's a h joke it said that uh nine Jews arrived in a Island deserted island and uh they're hoping to see maybe there's going to be a couple of juicy or at least one they can make a m they look they look oh they see two but it not one but two two synagogues like oh there's probably a whole few K over here that's two right next to each other and they see this guy running out of one of them heyy welcome welcome to myet like oh okay where where's the rest of the Kil no no there's nobody else here you joking with us there's two but there's two synagogues here goes yeah yeah I built both of them ask why would you build two bit Nets goes well this one I go to okay fine you go to this bitet what about the second one was no this one da I don't go to this one on purpose I don't go to so we're difficult Nation so now when you say that part of the the way that we know for sure that the mhia is going to be the Mia there's going to be no doubt whatsoever hasm is telling us there going to be certain signs first of all the sound is going to be heard around the entire world without internet without TV without uh necessity of Technology that's one second of all the Miracles that are going to happen at that time are going to be bigger than the Exodus than so much so that in the book of Jeremiah it says you're no longer going to be uh known as the god of Israel that took them out of Egypt but rather the god that took them out of the land of the North and the rest of the world meaning that they the ex uh the Salvation we're going to have at the time of mashia is going to be bigger than and so on and so forth but one of the main things that we're going to know that the mashiach is here even before there's peace even before everything else is that he's going to uncover the tribes he's going to bring everyone together all 12 tribes all the Lost tribes that are around the world no one even knows who's Jewish who's not in some places there places in a jungle there people saying in a jungle underwear they're saying in Hebrew there's pathans in Afghanistan 16 million of them they keep kosher all these laws that only the Jews keep 16 million of them there's different places around the world there's a lot of different people that these are the Lost tribes but still questions so one of the things the mhia is going to do he's going to bring these tribes but now you think about this wait a minute okay bringing a tribes that sounds great you got 15 million 20 million Jews today after he brings all these tribes together we we going to have half a billion people half a billion Jews serious amount of Jewish people in the world great but wait we we can't even get along with our neighbor we're going to get along 500 million Jews now 200 million Jews so this nice thing is going to be a disaster so we're actually seeing this right now with you know this issue that's happening with uh the place in Africa where they're saying listen you got has got to convert and they're saying why should we convert we're even more than you 25 million and this king is a king of like 357 other kings it's like a serious King so here here this verse is telling us it's just like there going to be unnatural things happening where the tiger is going to be friends with the sheep or the deer and the kid is going to be able to spend uh time playing with the boy with the with the snake all these things that are not natural same thing is going to happen with people and it says here the jealousy of Ephraim shall stop and the oppression of Jud Judah be cut off ifme will not be jealous of Judah and Judah will not harness a harass a frme they will fly in unison against the Philistine to the west and together they will plunder the people of the East their hand will extend over Edom and moav and their discipline over the children of Amon so here he's telling us this is chapter um 11: 13 and 14 15 he's saying here at the end of times not only is the mssiah going to uncover the 12 tribes but just like he's going to show us unnatural things in the animal world where natural enemies will become friends but even our stubborn Nation where each one of us gets into fight ashkanazi doesn't like the sapharic the ammonite doesn't like this one the bukari and doesn't like that all these things that we have there going to be no more just like the animals will act unnaturally we're going to act unnaturally so it's it's specifically talking about the tribe of aim and Judah which are Judah is we know who the tribe is and this place in Africa they claim to be the tribe of a so a lot of recent developments really really interesting is uh umash it's it's it's extraordinary seeing some of this stuff happening if you're paying attention to the details uh it becomes easy and easier to believe that mashiah is really coming soon and if he's really coming soon we got to do something about it then it becomes easy to have your any questions no questions today almost almost where's almost today didn't come usually has a bunch of questions almost has good questions amen amen [Music] [Applause] [Music]