Parashat Ki Tavo: What Are The Divine Curses & Blessings? Personal Encounter

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So, you know, Hashem is uh continuing to give us strength and will continue to uh publicize his Torah. So this week's para par is one of the par we mentioned several times throughout the year as the most difficult para in the entire Torah in a sense of not difficult to read. They're all I would say for better or for worse the same. Uh but rather the most difficult to hear because there are two par that are considered that are called the of the rebuke in the Torah is one of them and is the other one in the book of Leviticus. And both of these parachut give us Hashem's perspective of how he runs the world in a very very black and white system. A lot of people in our generation like gray but Hashem is telling you in these there is no such thing as gray. There is no such thing as half religious. There is no such thing as modern orthodox. There is no such thing as I'll just keep whatever meat I like. It's either yes or it's no. For the ones that is yes, you'll get reward. For the one that you do, you don't do, you'll get punished. It's as simple as it gets. And this is one of the things that I think we fail to understand in our generation where we're constantly putting words in Hashem's mouth and saying, "Oh, no. Hashem will understand me." Where did he say I'm going to understand you in the Torah? You have 24 books, five books of Moses and 19 other books. Where? Give me one verse that he says if you do whatever you want, I'll understand you. Where does it say that? What book was ever written in history by an orthodox rabbi? You know, cuz if it's reform or conservative, then you might as well talk about giving bar mitzvah to dogs. So that you can't really use them. So you have to talk about, you know, something that complies with the Torah. Where in history has anyone that was an orthodox Jew, whether it's standard level or sage level, did anybody have a right, if you do whatever you want, Hashem will understand you. It's okay. It's quite the contrary. If you look at Hashem, every time he gave us each description of the curses, there are five level of curses, five levels of punishment if we don't follow his rules. He started it with the same thing. He said, "If you didn't do chuva and you went with me with casualness, casualness meaning that if you didn't do chuva, meaning you continued sinning, but on top of not doing chuva, you made another sin." What is it? Treating my Torah like it's casual, like you could do whatever you want. I'll keep this one. No, this one I don't doesn't fit. This one is good. This one is easy. Oh, I like this one. This one is good for the family. That one. No, no, it's too difficult. I'm not going to do it. If you did that, you just picked pick pick and choose whatever you feel like doing. He says just for obviously not doing cha you get punished. He tells you the punishment. But meaning you treating me with casualness is a separate level of punishment. It's an additional punishment. There's a punishment for violating Shabbat, violating, violating, you know, business laws, all types of things. But then there's a completely separate level of punishment for treating Hashem like he's one of your buddies from the bar saying I could say hello if I feel like it or I don't feel like calling him today. This is what he says. So this is what he So in essence Hashem in his Torah said the opposite of what today's opinion is. So the reason why Hashem spent nearly half of this Torah telling us the details of his mitzvot and the details of if we don't listen to him is to make sure that we know that what to do. But the reason why he specifically wrote in this par the details of what happens if we don't listen but the details not just one off here one off there like in many other par but an entire par about what happens if we don't listen to mitzvot is in order to eliminate the common opinion that will one day arrive 3,300 years after we receive the Torah that says maybe there's Not just a black and white system. Maybe there's a gray. And today's generation with gay parades every other day, maybe there's a pink, too. So, or rainbow, right? Rainbow, right? By the way, do you guys ever think about the whole thing about the whole rainbow thing? Just I mean, it's off subject. It's off subject, but anybody here ever think I've mentioned it in aure a long time ago. uh for anybody never actually look at how Hashem gives us his signature and everything and tells us his feelings in everything. So I give you an understanding. So the gay parade and gay pride and the whole promotion of homosexuality which is specifically discussed in the Torah many times as something that Hashem considers disgusting means disgusting. Okay? And Hashem puts it every time it uh homosexuality is mentioned in the Torah. You will notice uh that I think in every case, but at the very least in most cases, it's mentioned right next to beastiality as we've mentioned before because to Hashem, a man with a man is the same thing as a man with an animal or a woman with an animal. Same thing to him. This one's not appropriate. That one's not appropriate. This one's disgusting to him. That one's disgusting to him. Simple as it gets. It doesn't necessarily mean that you can go out there and start killing homosexual people. But the key is just like told, you can't hate the sinners. You hate the sins. Hate the sins and pray for them to do cha. But to say it's okay, say celebrate them. Oh, you came out of the closet. That's not uh that's not helping anyone. That's enabling them. So you have to tell them what the Torah says. Now in case anyone is confused, Hashem gave you a sign within their own sign. So they celebrate their gay parade unfortunately in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and New York and pretty much all over the world. And there is their flag is the rainbow. Now what was the first time we heard about the rainbow? After the flood. After the flood. After Noah's flood. What happened to Noah's flood? What was it? A flood just like you know I had a flood one time in my parents' basement. No, it wasn't like that, right? It was a different type of flood. That flood didn't just destroy basement. Destroyed the entire world. It was a type of flood that came from above and came from below. According to the Hashem moved one of the stars, which we find out later on is a comet. So, it's a big giant piece of ice out of place and flooded the earth from on top. But on the bottom came boiling water and lava. So anything from above and beyond everything was destroyed with the exception obviously Hashem let Noah and his family and meashan og the giant uh survive and the animals of course or at least most of them. Uh but after the flood we hear that Hashem gave Noah ab a sign which was the rainbow and Hashem tells Noah this is the sign as a memory that I will not destroy the world. Okay that's it. That's what we got. But Kazal tells us what does it mean? Hashem is giving us a sign he's not going to destroy the world. What does it mean? Okay, so if it's really simply, I'm just in a sign. I'm not going to destroy the world. Show it to us once and that's it. One time you have a rainbow and that's it. Why are you showing it to us every other day when it rains? Especially here in Boca Raton where it seems like there is the flood here. Every day it rains. Since I moved here, I think there's half the year is rain. It rains every day. It's unbelievable. It rains all the time. Rain today, rain yesterday, the day before. Rains every day. Um, I'm honestly I'm always waiting to see maybe Noah is going to show up one day. But anyway, if it was really just a one-time sign, okay guys, I'm not going to destroy the world. Then Hashem would show it to us one time, show it to Noah, and that's it. We would never see it again. If it was simply a sign that he's not going to destroy the world, what is it really? Every time you see a rainbow, Kazal tells us you're not allowed to stare at it, point at it, and tell people, "Hey, hey, look, look, look, look." You're not allowed to do that. Why? Because in essence, what you're doing is you're mocking Hashem. How are you mocking Hashem? Hashem is telling you right now, right this second, that you see the rainbow, I'm angry enough at the actions, at the sins of mankind that if it wasn't for the deal of me and Noah, I would destroy the world right now. If it wasn't for the deal that I signed over 4,000 years ago with Noah Sadikim, a righteous person that's complete. If it wasn't for the deal that I signed with him right now would destroy the world right now. You don't write this second, you don't have enough merits to exist. That's why I show you the rainbow to remind you. You better start doing cha. Go do a mitzvah right now. Put the put the world at 50%. So, we're not at 49% anymore. Go do a mitzvah. So, you tell him when you point at the rainbow, say, "Hey, look, look what a beautiful rainbow. Look, this is so nice." In essence, what you're saying is, "Look, look, Hashem wants to destroy the world." Haha. And he can't because he made a deal. Not allowed to do that. Not allowed to do that. So, if you see a see a rainbow, you do a blessing, but that's it. You can't stare at it. Make other tell people to look at it. So, in essence, how does this connect to this whole gay situation? All right, maybe a more politically correct word is homosexuality, I guess. A uh is that they have a flag. They have a flag which is the colors of the rainbow. But in essence, one of the biggest sins that led Hashem to destroy the world, what was the final sin? We did a whole three and a half hours sure about it. What was it? Wasting seed. Wasting seed. But not just regular wasting seed, wasting seed through homosexuality to such an extent that they even affected the animals where animals would became intimate with different species. The zebra with the pig, the pig with the uh lion. It was a complete tovo. Hashem says this is not what I created the world for. You're wasting seed. You're being homosexual. This is not for me. This is disgusting to me. Hashem destroyed the world. So these homosexuals don't realize that they're waving this flag around celebrating this rainbow in reality. What they're saying to Hashem, look, Hashem, we're the reason you destroyed the world. We're still around. And this is why you see a lot of the punishments in the world, you know, happen to areas that have such a thing. If you It wasn't It wasn't It wasn't a Just a few days ago, we had a bombing in uh in New York. It's not exactly the uh the most kosher area in America. You know, I lived I live not too far from there. Trust me, I know it's there. You know, uh you know, it's a the reality of it is that you have a lot of issues. And also one of the uh things that we learn throughout this para is that Hashem says that one of the punishments that he's going to give us if we don't follow his laws which also mean the laws of sexuality. He's going to bring us different types of diseases. And he specifically says I'm going to bring you the diseases of Egypt and even the diseases that are not mentioned in this book of Torah. Even the ones that are not mentioned in this Torah, I'm going to bring you Now AIDS didn't come from a uh a orthodoxi family didn't come from there didn't come from a modest woman and a modest man you understand so I think it's very very important to remind ourselves every single year at least at least more than a couple of times to review these in real detail, especially because anytime we have a hard time connecting to Hashem, we start thinking that he's like one of our bodies and we could just pick and choose whatever we want. We have a little bit of doubt. Fine. Read the para with commentary, basic commentary by Rashi. You want to read even more, you want to read Nam Loes, you want to read some, you want to read all types of other sources, by all means, but even the very basic literal translation of the par should give you enough to stay away from all sins. And this is really the reason why Hashem actually put these in our in our Torah because it's necessary for you to fear him in order for you to avoid sin. Now if we don't fear him problems arise. Now in the beginning of this pala where uh it doesn't go straight into the curses or punishments. It actually talks about the whole aspect of different ways of serving Hashem. But before I get into it, you had a question. You had a question. Yeah. Um I uh I read somewhere that you're actually supposed to point out to remind people to repent the rainbow. point point out that there was one but not pointing out when it's out there when it's in the sky. No. Someone sees a rainbow. You're not supposed to point. Not supposed to point at a uh at a rainbow and tell people to look at it. Some people take pictures in front of rainbows. Yes. Listen, before you someone that doesn't know Tawa, how are they going to know you're not allowed to do it? They think it's nice. It is beautiful. I mean, the rainbow is a very, very beautiful creation like every other creation that Hashem made. It's amazing. Uh it's a uh it's completely against all logic that all these wonderful colors will be, you know, constantly the same thing. It's different places. It's amazing. Uh but um so yes, it's beautiful, but it's it means something. Like everything else in the world, it means something. And Hashem is telling us it means that he's upset enough at us that he would destroy the world had it not been for the deal that he made with um with Noah. Any other question? But shouldn't that show a sign of like repentance? Don't do it type thing. Yeah. Should that's the point. He's he puts it there in the sky because he knows that people are going to look up because naturally you know your inclination is to look if there any if let's say for example you're walking you know you're walking in the middle of the street and uh someone was within a uh direct line of vision from you. Let's say you know from second story of a building waving out of a window. Naturally your human instinct would would be to look at him waving. Even if you don't know that he's there your natural human instinct will direct you in that direction. You'll see him waving. So because there's something new that uh that's that's in the environment. So the same thing with a rainbow or anything else in the sky. Every times you, you know, you hear something, it's above you, you always naturally, your your instinct is to look up. So when there's a rainbow, your instinct is to look up. Hashem specifically put it up there for you to look at it and repent. But he didn't want you to make a party out of it and tell the whole neighborhood, "Hey, hey, come look. Look how beautiful this is." Because it's not about the beauty. It's about a sign for us to do chuva. a sign for us to realize that each one of us has to take it upon ourselves to go do the next mitzvah as soon as possible and get this world above 50%. What's this thing I've been hearing about Planet X? Like this rabbit made a video about it and it like got me very nervous. Planet uh Planet X is true. I mean, from what it looks like based on science, it is true. Yes. I mean there's a lot there's enough evidence about it uh that it is true. I mean people see it. I mean there's videos of it. Um it's true. It's actually also mentioned in Nah. It's mentioned by the prophets. Uh whether what they say is going to happen or not meaning that it's going to you know um destroy the world. Destroy the world or not. That's only in the hands of Hashem. Instead of twothirds of the people will die from hunger. Yeah. I mean, there's there's plenty of prophecies about the end of times. Right now, we're seeing so many of them come true that you have to be blind, deaf, and stupid to not think that it's the end of times. Whether it's the planet X, which it says it's going to be a possibility of how Hashem may uh punish the world before the Msiah comes. uh or uh and again there's plenty of evidence that it's true as far as that it exists. Whether the outcome is that it's going to, you know, run into the world or get close enough to our atmosphere that either way it doesn't have to, you know, uh collide with the world, it's still going to change the gravitational pull to such an extent that it's going to create tsunamis and all type of havoc in the world. Um whether that happens or not, I honestly I don't care. me doesn't really make a difference and it shouldn't matter to you. Why? Because either way we have to do chuva. Either way, the job that you have individually stays the same. You have to do chuva and you have to influence other people to do chuva. So whether it's planet x or it's going to be the war of go or it's going to be there's also a prophecy about an earthquake. Uh there's several different prophecies of what could happen at the end of times. The way it looks right now is that Hashem is making us, anyone that's searching for it will see that all possibilities have become likely. All of them, not one. You know, if you just say, listen, the world's heating up is a possible war. Look what's happening between Russia and the US, Russia and Syria. You know, they brought over 200 atomic bombs to fight ISIS, they say. And obviously, no one with a brain believes that they're actually fighting ISIS with atomic bombs because not not only does ISIS not care about atomic bombs, but you don't need 200 atomic bombs to fight them, uh, you know, so obviously you realize that's nonsense. You see that there's a fight brewing between the world powers. So you see option one, if you say, "Oh, listen, it's only a war." Some people says, "No, no, this has always been happening." But because of the media today, you know it. So you can rationalize this is just regular human nature. It's normal. It's no big deal. Don't get so uh worked up about Russia. Let me go invest some more money into Google and Microsoft, you know. Let me let me build my portfolio for another few million dollars because what do I care about a war? So you could easily rationalize that the war that's actually happening, the third world war that already started in September of last year, it already started. It's just quiet started. The war already started. It's just quiet. Meaning the war is very small now. Same thing how World War II started. Same thing how World War I started. Same thing how every war started. It wasn't like one day everybody just started fighting. It started as a small fight, like a straight fight. the next thing you know it's two communities fighting and next thing you know it's two countries and after that the whole world so this is in essence the same type of thing that's happening um now the fight between the US and Russia is not a fight with weapons it's a fight with words but the words are getting stronger and stronger and they're also positioning their armies in critical places for you know getting ready for an attack you see the recent moves if you follow any of this stuff you see the recent moves that um that the United States have made. It's clearly showing they're preparing for, you know, some type of they say defense, but in reality it's attack. You know, you see the moves that Russia has been making. You know, first they uh brought in a uh ship with 200 atomic bombs to Syria. And if that wasn't enough, just a couple of months later, or a little more than a couple of months later, they brought a submarine with even more atomic bombs to the same place. The 200 atomic bombs wasn't enough, they brought even more. So, you see, obviously, there's a lot of stuff happening here. But if you don't like to believe that there's going to be a war because it will disturb your stock portfolio, it will disturb your nice lifestyle, it will disturb your next vacation that you're planning to go to Cancun or something like that. uh then obviously you don't want to believe in war. So you're gonna rationalize it and say no no it's not happening this is just politics. Okay fine. So Hashem says okay if that's not enough I'm going to give you all of a sudden there's going to be a new planet added to the atmosphere added to the uh uh to the uh where we are to our atmosphere. I guess 50 years I heard just another it's been around for 50 years. Yeah. But now Russian TV mentioned it. Of course there's a lot of things that exist we don't know that they exist you know. uh just like a uh the the Na'vi said the prophet said you know to when his helper came to him Alicia Navi came and he says uh look this army is surrounding us this army of the enemy is surrounding us he says to them you have nothing to worry about we're more than them we're greater than them me and you are greater than them so he prayed to Hashem and he says make him see what I see. Please, Hashem, make him see what I see. And he goes outside and he sees all of a sudden the same place, the same mountain area, same army surrounding them, but on top of the mountain are millions and millions of angels with weapons of destruction outnumbering the enemy, millions to one. He sees what's always been there. they just wasn't able to see it. So the point is there's a lot of things that are there where we don't see like for example says every time someone makes a mitzvah they create an angel. Every time they make a sin they create a demon. Anyone see any demons next to them? I'm sure you made sins. We're not all sadikim. Okay. Okay. Well, the Quran also says that if you actually saw all the angels and the demons that are next to you, you wouldn't be able to survive for a moment. You'd go crazy. The cats and dogs can see. Right. Right. They can see some, not all, but Yes. Yes. So, the point is that's why you see them sometimes barking or meowing at the wall. Point is is that there's a lot of things that are there that uh Hashem makes sure that we don't see because we're not ready and we're prepared to see. But this planet has been there for the last 50 years and no one told us about it. No one saw it. No one wanted to see it. The point is Hashem made sure that you're seeing it now. You're seeing it live now. Uses pictures of it right now like with you know there's videos of that's there's like a one video that I uh saw once that somebody took where is like literally looks like there's two sons. It's unbelievable. So it's not like some conspiracy theory. It's really there. It's on the news and so on. So, Hashem made sure that right now, end of days, you're going to see it. If that's not enough, warming, right? So, if that's not enough, you have the earthquake, the earthquake uh prophecy. And if you look at all of the things that are happening in the world, whether you want to talk about global warming or you're talking about all types of weird things that are happening around the world, there's strange earthquakes happening and there's also different sink holes. sink holes happening in different parts of the world. Now, a sinkhole is pretty much one minute you're here, the next minute there's a hole the size of a small town and it just goes straight to the bottom of the earth. Happened before, but happened. It's happening every day. Where? Everywhere. It's happening every single day. There's people that actually track this stuff. It's actually happening at Yamelik, the Dead the Dead Sea. It's happening. Uh, it's been happening already for several years at the Dead Sea. It's happening all over the United States. It's happening all over the world. In Russia, there's plenty of places. Huge huge sink holes in the middle. Just all of a sudden, you have a hole and it's mas that it would take years to to to create that type of hole. Just like that, you have a hole in the middle of the world. Middle of the world. So, you're seeing that the ground is shaking. There's places that never had an earthquake in their history. all of a sudden have earthquakes. The world is changing. People want to blame it if the ones the rationalist want to blame it on different types of uh digging that they're doing for uh for gas, you know, they're digging different, you know, digging into rocks. They're getting gas out of rocks. So, they're blaming that. They're blaming oil companies. They're blaming, I don't know, they're blaming aliens. They're blaming whatever they want. Everything except God. Everything except God. So like I said, for anyone that has even 1%, it's very easy to see that Hashem is making sure that all of the prophecies of the end times are very obvious to us. For anyone who doesn't have, you could rationalize every one of these things that I just said and pretty much say that no, no, this guy's crazy. he should stick to his Torah and avoid science and politics. Fine, you can do that too. So, we go back to Torah. Uh even though this was also Torah, but the point is is that it's a uh you know, it's either you believe or you don't believe. The I think the most important point out of all of it is to know that regardless of which one of the prophecies comes true, all of us still have the same job today. All of us have to do chuva. Whether you are f from birth or you are bal chuva or you're a recent convert or you're a convert in the making. Whatever it is, you must repent. You must do chuva. You must talk to Hashem on a daily basis. It's one of the 613 mitzvot that Israel has is to repent every day. do every day. Say, "I sinned accidentally. I sinned intentionally, knowingly at least. And I sinned intentionally to make you angry." And yes, this happens. People get angry at Hashem. They make sins on purpose. But Hashem, none of you are in that position. At least not on a regular basis. But I can tell you for sure that at some point people have done everybody has done it. Nonetheless, each one of us has to repent for all those sins because we don't know which ones he forgave us for already. We don't know which ones we've actually repented for completely. We don't even know all the sins we made and we don't even know all the sins that we're making because we don't know all the mitzvot yet. We're just doing even if you're a room for birth doesn't mean you remember the entire by heart. So you have to repent every day. A righteous Jew repents every single day. And this is in they say the um sage tells his students a righteous person needs to do chuva the day before he dies. So the students go how does somebody know when they're going to die? Ah that's the point. Since you don't know when you're going to die, you better do it every day. You better repent every day. 6 one of the 613 mitzvah is to do vidi say repent to Hashem. I'm sorry I did this. I'm sorry I did that. Start thinking about your sins. Say I'm going to repent on it later. People say, "Oh, I won't keep repent or I'll go with the makes you a complete." That's like you cannot make you cannot, right? You can't that's that that that makes it a uh the worst type of sin. Someone says I'm going to sin now and say I'm sorry later. That that person has a special penthouse in gum. That's not good. Chuva, right? So now saying someone say I'm going to I'm going to sin and then I'm going to do chuva. The kazal specifically has a memo on it like you just said that they won't you will never arrive at the time to be able to do chuva. So you're not not allowed not allowed to do such a thing. But nonetheless, the point is is that we all have to do chuva every single day. That's the first thing. Last thing is that we have to make other people do chuva any way that you possibly can. Whether it's to give lectures, give CDs out, post things on the internet if you already are on the internet. If you're not on the internet, then don't get on it. Find another way. Give CDs out. Arrange lectures. get people back to Hashem, you must do just like told us two things are going to save us at the end of days. And as we mentioned in many lectures, means to learn it and to follow it. Learning it by itself means zilch. You have to learn it and follow it. And the second thing is which is overwhelming kindness. Overwhelming kindness. Hazal tells us the highest level of kindness is not just giving someone a ride to the store. Highest level of kindness, overwhelming kindness means to bring him back to Hashem. The highest level of kindness. Every single Jew has some type of relative, friend, family, acquaintance, somebody that they're connected to that's oft family. It could be the uh average people. Everyone knows somebody even some big unfortunately have family that you know that's off the you know and I'm not just saying this. I mean this is this is known information. So everyone has to do K in one way or another. And again, you start with things at home, you start with your neighborhood, you start with your community. And if you have saved everyone around you, then start saving people everywhere else. Either way, you have to do something. So that's the those are the couple of things that we all have to do every single day. You know, this is something that we've encouraged a lot of people to do and they're doing it, but there's still a lot of work to be done. If each one of us takes on you know just one person one person I'm not telling you take 50 people take one person entire is takes you know the uh community people that keep Shabbat each person takes one person so let's say we have 3 million religious in is let's say now within the next year you have 6 million within two years you have 12 million 3 years everybody does cha that's item So that's that's the beauty of it is you don't have to take on the whole world if you can do but point is it doesn't take much other than a little bit of love for Hashem a little bit not that much a little bit love forem all of so first thing that uh hem tells us in this for translation. It will be when you enter the land that Hashem your God gives you as an inheritance and you possess it and dwell in it that you shall take of the first of every fruit of the ground that you bring in from your land that Hashem your God gives you and you shall put in a basket and go to the place that Hashem your God will choose to make his name rest there. So here, Hashem is telling us that when we're going to do anything for him, we have to make sure we have some covenant. He says, when you're going to bring your the tithe to me, don't be like a uh I'm sorry, a kind. Don't be like kind and give me the worst of your produce, the worst of your cotton, the worst of your wheat, the worst of any of the goods that you have. Bring me the Bring me the best. Why bring me the best? Hashem really needs this. Hashem needs your apples. Hashem needs your cow. Hashem needs your anything. It's his anyway. So what Hashem says prophet tells us, Hashem is telling us everything is his. His is the uh silver, his is the gold. So what does he need? What does he care if it's the first one? It's the last one. Where does he care? Why? He eats the cow. She doesn't eat. He needs your wheat. He needs anything. No. Anyone has an answer? I don't see how you react. Huh? To see how you're gonna react. Credit. Okay, there you go. Both of you, both of you in the right direction. The point is to show a few things. One, to show if you know where you're getting your panafa from. Are you making it or Hashem giving it to you? Which one is it? If you're making it, then you're not going to give him the best because you feel like you if you if you're making it, if you work so hard, you're not going to give the best of the best to Hashem because you feel like it's yours. It's yours. Why do I want to give the best of what I have to anyone? I made it. I did it. It's mine. This is this is common language today. I I I every sentence starts with I. It is I made the money. It's my money. Anytime that the world yours is involved is there's usually a not before it. Not yours. Mine. That's what it is. So if you think you made it, you're not going to want to give the best thing to Hashem. If you realize that Hashem gave it to you and in reality he gave you 100%. 100, not 99, 100. You did, you contributed nothing. Not 99. Some people think, no, no, no. Hashem helped me, but I did the I did the best that I could. So, but Hashem helped me. No, it's completely false. You contributed nothing. How's how can I prove this? Very simple. So, let's say you say, listen, I wake up in the morning and I go work. I don't know, let's say, I you work on Wall Street, you work at a building, you work as a cop, whatever you work. You say, "Wait a minute. I did the research. I woke up in the morning. I went to the office at 6:30 in the morning. So, I woke up early. I got in the car. I drove really fast. I got to the office. I drove the car. I opened a uh different report and I started reading it. I studied. I analyzed everything and I chose which stock to buy and then I bought it and then it went up and I sold it and I won. So in essence it looks like I did everything. You're missing one small thing though. Who gave you the eyes that you have to see and open in the morning and see the report and drive? who give you the brain that has more wiring in it than all of the computers and all of the intellect the um it there is in the world in one brain. Who gave you that brain? You made it. You made that too with the stock market. Who gave you the legs that pressed on the gas pedal? Who gave you the money to pay for the gas you have? Who gave you the ability to even functional? Who gave you the soul that turns this piece of meat you call body into a human being? If you're saying no, I see. What do you mean I see? No, you don't see. You don't see. Your soul sees. Your body doesn't see anything. How do we know? Just look at somebody that died. They also have eyes, but they can't see. They also have a brain, but they can't think. They also have a heart, but it doesn't work. What makes all of it work? The soul that Hashem gave you. So, you contributed nothing, my friend. All you did was make it look realistic. That's it. Hashem is moving the parts and he's allowing you to feel like you're contributing to the world. So you have some confidence to do your actual real job in the world. Once you realize that he's the one that's giving you the ability to make all this money, then you realize that really he gave you 100%. 100%. And all you're doing here is giving back 10% to the places that he told you to give. things that are related to the Torah, help the poor, help the destitute, help the converts. There's different things that you can do with your money. And we've talked about investing your taka money, your mas money, you know, wisely because there are plenty of people that donate to the Red Cross and to saving some rare breed of dog or tiger. Hashem did not give you money to donate to those causes. Especially since 99 cents out of every dollar goes to the actual CEO and his friends and not to the actual cause. The little kid in the middle of Africa that's they're ask they're putting on the commercial that's waiting for food. It's still the same kid from 30 years ago if nobody noticed. He grew up by now. He's not still waiting for your food. You know, he grew up. I'm sure he has a job now, but he probably is the CEO of one of the divisions of that company. They made so much money because of the poor kid. So your job is to promote Torah. Whether you're Jew and Gentile, you have to promote to you have to promote Hashem. You work for Hashem. So I think the most important thing that in today's world it's I think it's pretty obvious is to get people back to Hashem because the vast majority of the world is either not following the Torah or is just completely off to idol worship. So the key is to get everybody back to where they need to be. So that's the first part that Hashem is telling you when you give me make sure you give me the best because that will give me the sign that you understand where you're getting it from. It's not where you're getting it from. After that he tells you at the end of this uh particular section in verse 11 chapter 26 verse 11 You shall rejoice with all the goodness that Hashem your God has given you and your household, you and the Levite and the procelite who is in your midst. Says, not only do I expect you to give this masel, but I expect you to be happy about it. I expect you to make a celebration when you do item. I'm giving 10% of my income. Number one, celebrating that you have income. A lot of people in the world struggle. They don't have income. And for anyone that wants to know where they stand internationally as far as income is concerned, you know, I I did a little bit of analysis back when I was in Wall Street days, at least when I was working in it, the last time we looked at it. Anyone that makes over $300,000 a year is one of the top 1% earners in the entire world. 7.5 billion people. $300,000. A lot of people think that you need to make millions and millions of dollars to be part of the 1% or as they call it. But what most people don't realize is that the vast majority of the world does not make very much money. The few people you see on television that are the uh you know the uh the the movers and shakers, the guys that are on the Forbes 500, it's very very rare to not only be on that list but to be even a millionaire club. Uh, so there's not there's a lot of a lot more today than there ever was before, but um, nonetheless, if you know, if you're making a high income, you're making a few hundred,000 a year, you're considered one of the top 1% earners in the entire world. So, Hashem is telling you that if I gave you income, if I give you $50,000 a year or $300,000 a year or a million a year, whatever I gave you, giving 10% is not only something that I want you to do to show recognition that I gave you 100% of the money, but on top of it, I want you to be happy about it. So, you ask yourself, what am I going to be happy about? Obviously, the obvious answer is number one, that you even have it. But two is that you're fulfilling one of the mitzvot in the Torah where Hashem says this is the only thing you're allowed to test me on. You're not allowed to say, "Listen, Hashem, give me a sign or else I'm not keeping Shabbat. Give me a sign or else I'm not going to tell my wife to go to the mik. Give me a sign. I'm going to wear a mini skirt." No such thing. Not to do that. It's considered 100%. But Hashem tells you there's one thing you are allowed to ask for and there's one thing you're allowed to test me and I'm telling you to test mem give 10% of your income and I guarantee that you will be rich in your lifetime. Now he doesn't say when. He doesn't say if it's going to happen next month or next year or in 20 years from now. He doesn't say when but he says in your lifetime you will be rich. Now, anyone that's thinking to themselves the crazy thought, "Oh, maybe I'm going to be rich a day before I die." You have a different God than I do. Then you have an evil God. My God is good. My God says that I'm going to be rich in my lifetime. That means that I'm going to be able to enjoy this material in some way or another. Not going to be just before I die. I'm going to win the lotto and then croak. That's not that's not the God of Israel. So, Hashem says that you're fulfilling a mitzvah. You pretty much have a guaranteed lotto ticket. A guaranteed lotto ticket. Now, we've talked about it a few times in the past, but I want to clarify some things and I promised a dear friend of mine that I would do assure about and I haven't never gotten a chance. So, might as well talk about it now very very briefly because I really want to get into the uh part of the parad that I think we need to hear even more. In general, most people what they give is part of the net income. Net income meaning you have, let's say, $1,000 in income per month. And then you have, I don't know, $700 in expenses. Then you have $300 net income. You give $30, you know, 10% of $300. That's what most people do. What you're really supposed to do, and I verified this recently with my Robinets, this is what says, is that if you're actually supposed to give 10% of the gross, meaning you made $1,000, you give $100 right off the top after obviously you pay the cost of making that money. Meaning, if the $1,000, you know, you have to pay taxes on it, then obviously you can't give the thou, you don't really have $1,000. You know, if your salary your job is $1,000 a week, but by the time you got the check, they took out taxes, you only have 500. Then 500 is the real money. So, whatever you have, whatever you got as a check, whatever you got as a payment, you pay 10% off of that money. And even though it doesn't seem like things are going to work because you have your income and you have your expenses and somehow they never add up, you start paying myself and somehow it does. Don't ask me how it does. It's I've been doing it for a little while and it works perfectly. Hashm makes it work. Um, so that's actually one of the miracles you can see live. The reason says the reason why it has to be off of the gross amount is because it's a um if it was off of the net amount, most people wouldn't even give m. We would just cancel the whole mitzvah because most people are living above their means. So, no one has a net income. They're all in debt and uh in deficit every month. So, no one would give mal. But this is not today. If you're in, you know, you're in farming and you live in Israel, there's a different situation. But if you're just a working person, it's not, you don't have to give mas. It's considered a madrega. It's considered a higher level. If you want to be rich, you give mas. You don't want to be rich, then continue going to work and keep all the money. But it's says that it's a ma it's a higher it's a higher level to give 10% of your uh gross income and if you're a real serious amuna you give 20%. That's the highest level you're allowed to give. Judaism is the only religion in the world and in history that actually has a law on the maximum you're allowed to give. You're not allowed to give more than 20%. If you're a sadik, if you have sins on you, you're allowed to give more than 20%. If you have a ton of money, you're not allowed to put yourself in a uh in poverty. Cuz there was one big rabbi who gave 20%, he lost everything, right? They told him, and they told him because you gave more than 20%, he lost everything, right? Not allowed to give more than 20%. But someone cuz he didn't have one sin on his back. Still, you're not he went against the law. You're not allowed to you're not allowed to give more than what says he went against the story. But we aren't we have sins. So it cleans the sins the more we give. You're still not allowed to give more than 20%. Still not says 20% cap. Still not allowed not allowed to give more than 20%, because you're not allowed to put yourself in financial hardship. But if you do want to give more, it depends on your financial situation. If you are making barely uh enough to survive, and obviously this applies to you, but if you're a multi-millionaire, if you're one of these Forbes 500 people, if you're one of these very high income earners, but you're a relatively frugal person, you make a few hundred,000 a year, but you live a regular normal lifestyle, I don't know, that in America maybe costs $40, $50,000, then obviously you have a lot of extra instead of building your IRA and your 401k, you can give more staka. Of course, if you're making millions of dollars, then of course you can give more. Uh but that's not Mel. Nonetheless, it's a uh let's first get to 10%. Let's get and everybody else to get up to 10% and then we could talk about 20%. Point is is that the is it's not to it's not an obligation to do it, but obviously it's very good to do it. But if you're going to do it, do it with it right. do it right and do it with a smile. Don't be one of these people that gives the 10% and is look looks at it like it's an expense. Like I can't believe I have to give this 10% again. Like if you're doing it like that, don't do it at all. Keep the money. Nobody needs your It's not going to go to the right place. Instead of you giving you give it to a rabbi, it's going to be the one guy that pretends to be a rabbi. And instead of giving your money to help people do chuva or help people, you know, have food for Shabbat, it's going to be the one guy that's a criminal that just has a beard. He's going to go gamble in a casino with your money. So, you have to, if you're already going to do it, follow what it says. Do it with a smile. Go ahead. Another question. So, if you have um if you're going to give 10% and you know that you're living right at your means, then you have to you still have to give it. You don't have to give it. It's up to you. It's based on your amuna. You give as much as you believe. But if you believe, if you believe, then you give. If you don't have it, you know you don't have it after you crunch your numbers. Is it wrong then? Still no. I mean, listen, it's a like I said, if you have amuna in Hashem, then the numbers don't have to necessarily make sense. Somehow Hashem makes it work. Uh, but again, that's if you really believe. If you really believe, you don't look at the numbers because they're never going to make sense ever. I mean, I could tell you from my own personal lifestyle, just that I don't know, my own life is the best example that I know of because I lived it. So, uh I don't know everyone else's financial situation. Um, but I remember that, you know, when I was when I was in the business world and, you know, on an average month at the peak of my career, we're making somewhere in the neighborhood of, you know, two $300,000 a month. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but overall it was an average of a couple hundred,000 a month. That would be what would go to my pocket. Somehow I was always struggling somehow. Always like every month was make or break. Every month was pressure. Every month there was like an enormous amount of expenses that were more than the previous month. Every month there was a surprise and I donated money. I didn't give 10% but I I donated money. But every month was a problem. Yeah. Exactly. Now I don't work on Wall Street. I don't work for anyone other than Hashem. I don't even look at my bank account. But somehow it all adds up and somehow we have everything that we need. So again, it's a uh it's amazing to me that that's how it works. But the best example that I have is for my own life, for my own Rav, Rabbi Fry, I keep telling you guys the about him. Him and every practically every is living monthto month with no idea of where their income is going to come in because the coal gives them $500 a month for studying five, six days a week. you know, 9, 10, 12 hours a day. They don't have times for any jobs, for second jobs, third job, nothing. They study all day. There is no other job pretty much for most of them. And they get $500 a month. But the average family to survive is going to cost them $2,2500 a month, which means that every single one of them is living a miracle. They're in a deficit of $2,000 to $2,500 per month. You five, six, seven, eight kids cost money. They don't like just because they learn tawa doesn't mean that the uh government subsidizes anything. If anything, the government makes their life even more difficult. It used to help them in the old days, you know, a few years ago, they used to give them some money. Now they in some cases they even find them for for for not working. It's anti-ra. Yeah. So, uh point is is that you know they uh every month they have a miracle. How you ask any of go to any of how you surviving? You make how much you make from the cola? $500. How much is your expenses? $2,500. Okay. So, where's the $2,000 come from? I don't know. But it's every month. It's not one time, two times. Every single month like clockwork. No one knows how they're surviving. Hashem runs the world. Doesn't have to make sense to us. So again, you have to give as much as your amuna is. But again, your real amuna. You can't just go from nothing to everything. You can't say, "Listen, I want to test my own amuna. I'm going to give every dollar that I have to do. No, you can't put yourself in jeopardy. You have to really believe it. Then you have to grow gradually like a no, you know, like with don't put yourself in a situation where if things don't work out right away, you're homeless. You're not allowed to put yourself at risk. You're not allowed to put yourself in a situation where you're harming yourself. You have to comply with the Torah to live. To live, meaning to you have to protect yourself. But at the same token, obviously you have to constantly test your amuna just like you test your muscles. If you're trying to become a uh you know muscular person, you have to constantly pick up more weight in order to grow your muscles. So uh moving on after this mashenu is telling us our job in the world is to you have to be a a special nation. a distinguished people that is going to observe all of the mitzvot that Hashem commanded us. And if you do that, if you do that, start to give us some blessings. and Hashem would make you supreme over all the nations that he made for praise, for renown, for splendor and that you will be a holy people to Hashem your God as he spoke. So here it tells you if you just keep my mitzvot they're not far away from you they're not so difficult keep my mitzvot you have nothing to worry about you are going to be the number one nation in the world and now mobenu tells am is there are few things that we need to do now because these are my last days and we have to first and foremost make sure that we are light to the nations. We publicize the Torah. So we have to take on tablets these stone tablets and we have to write the Torah on each one of them in clear language in a well clarified language. This is in chapter 27 verse 7 and 8. You shall inscribe on the stones all the words of this Torah well clarified. So Kazal says what does it mean well clarified? What does it mean? It means you have to write it in all 70 languages must be clear. Why? Because you want to make sure that one day when the go find this Torah each one of them can read it. There's no doubt of whether the Torah is divine or not. There's no doubt that it's the only divine document. There's no other thing that's divine or from God other than the Torah. Whether it's called New Testament or Quran or the Secret or Harry Potter or whatever other books people come up with, nothing is divine. The only divine document that exists is the Torah. But then it says something that is very very relevant to a lot of Jews and many of them are religious actually today that uh most people are not going to really like to hear but it's a reality check. Moses is telling us here in verse 9, Moses and Aanim the Levite spoke to all Israel saying, "Be attentive and hear, O Israel. This day you have become a people to Hashem your God." So he's telling us, "Be attentive and hear Skit means be quiet. Do you ever meet one of these people? You're trying to tell them something, but they won't let you talk. Like they say, "Oh, yeah. Yeah, I know. I know. I know. Yeah, but what? I know. I know. I know. I know. I didn't even say anything. How do you know? You're trying to, you know, give the guy advice, trying to give him a compliment, you're trying to give him any idea, anything. No, no, I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I had a student one like one one time like that where like I uh before I started saying anything it's yeah I know I know so why'd you come teach the class if you know everything why' you come I know I know I know so if you really want to do the will of Hashem first start with being quiet listen to the word of Hashem stop talking for a Second is listen, but not just listen with your ears. Listen with an intention to do because today you became a nation. So at this point, we don't have the country of Israel. We don't have the land yet. We're outside of Israel. But Mosher Abenu is telling us that God made us a nation now. Under what condition? Under the condition that we comply with the Torah. That's what makes us a nation. It's not if you support the IDF, you are a nation. It's not if you live in Israel, you are a nation. It's not if you're a Zionist, you're a nation. It's not if you support some bet and buy, you're a nation. No, none of those. It's not if you kiss the muza 6,000 times a day, you're a nation. What makes you a nation is complying with the Torah. What makes you a Jew is complying with the Torah. As we've said many times, before Mount Si, we were all Israelites. We were not Jews. Judaism was created in Mount Si. First Jew was the first one that accepted the Torah. His name was Moses. He's the first one that had it 40 days and 40 nights. Learned the Torah, accepted the Torah, and then had to teach it to the rest of Isel. Am became Jews when they accepted the Torah. Which means that shalom if they would have rejected the Torah and someone else came along and accepted the Torah, the Israelites would remain Israelites and the other nation would become Jews. Meaning that what makes a person Jewish is not their mother or their father or their neighbor or who they know, but what books they read. What makes somebody Jewish is what they follow. They follow the Torah, they're Jewish. Now, obviously, there's a procedure that needs to follow. If someone is Jewish, then it makes it easier. that procedure is easier for them because they're already born with the all of the qualifications to start being Jewish the day they're born. Day they're born, they have to comply with the Torah, they're already chosen to be Jewish. They're already lucky enough that they don't have to convert. But if somebody wants to join a Jewish people, they weren't fortunate enough to be born into a Jewish mother, then they actually, Hashem says, you have the ability to be even more fortunate. How so? If you actually choose Judaism and you choose to convert and you choose to follow the Torah, I will consider you even higher than a natural-born Jew. Because the natural-born Jew didn't choose to be Jewish. He was just born that way. born that way. So this is how we know that Judaism is not like most people think if my mom is Jewish, I'm Jewish. Yes, it qualifies you to be Jewish. Qualifies you and you're technically you're obligated to be Jewish, but if you don't follow the Torah according to you're not considered Jewish. You don't keep Shabbat according to you're considered an idol worshipper. And this is not just in this is also in I believe in page 65. It talks about the uh issue of making an you know you live in a community and you want to carry things on Shabbat. I think it's yeah 65 believe me it's 65 or 64. And it says if you want to carry something in a uh on Shabbat, you have to make sure that they you're not allowed to carry on in Shabbat. But if you live in an AU, it's considered in essence a uh one location where you're allowed to do this. But if one of the people that's in this, let's say for example, it's between three houses, three houses, they don't have an like Booker Raton where it's miles long. They had a small little between, let's say, three houses. They wanted to be able to carry from one house to the second house to the third house. So that between the three houses, but if one of the three houses is a Shabbat, can't count on him for the it's not reliable. Why says he's considered the same thing like a It's considered the same thing like as if he was a non-Jew. Can't count him. I'm not talking about for being a Kazan. I'm not talking about a uh you're not even allowed to count them for can't rely on them for anything. So someone that wants to be Jewish has to follow Torah. It's very simple. So now what happens if someone is doing things that are against the Torah, but he's doing it in hiding? He looks religious. Looks religious. He has the uniform. He has the beard, has the hat, but in reality, he's one of these psychopaths that likes to look at little kids. In reality, he's one of these psychopaths like this so-called fake rabbi that was looking at women in a mikvet that we heard about. All these crazy people that you have in the world today, they make sins but in secret. In secret, they look, you know, they look to the world, they look like all that stuff. But in hiding and there's something like you wouldn't believe. They're the worst of everything. They're little Hitlers. So there's a special part of this para for them. Hashem says there's a section here we had to go tells us when you go to the land you have to go to two different mountains. You have to go to Mount Gizim and Mount Eval. Half the tribes are going to be on one mountain. The other half giving blessings. The other half is going to give the curses of whoever is going to listen to Hashem is going to get the blessings. Whoever does going to get the curses and the quanim are going to be on the in between the two mountains on the bottom and they're going to go through this process where they're going to say what the mitzvah the sin is and how the nation is going to respond. So it gives us what they're going to say here. So here in this particular procedure it's a what the entire nation is repeating and it's specifically talking about who is considered cursed. Now says if you notice these approximately 10 verses that talks about the cursed it's for the most part it's all sex crimes. It's all sex crimes. Why is it sex crimes? Because these are things that you can do quietly. Do quietly. No one's going to know. So it says this. Everyone is going to say it. I'm sorry. The uh the um the tribes are going to say it and the Levites and then all of the people are going to scream in. Cursed is the person that did this. this and this and everyone says amen to show that they agree with this guy and he needs to get the worst possible curse in the so I'll give you some examples. Cursed is the man who will make a graven or a molten image, meaning idol worship, an abomination of Hashem, a craftsman handiwork, and imp place it in secret. And the entire people shall speak up and say, "Amen." He's cursed. Where is he cursed from? From me? No, he's cursed from Hashem. Doesn't get any worse than that. Because idol worship you could do in secret. You don't have to tell the whole world you're idol worshiper. Cursed is the one who degrades his father or mother. And the entire people shall say, "Amen." Cursed is the one who moves the boundary of his fellow. mean he's stealing from his fellow, stealing land, doing things that are uh illegal, but his but his friend is not going to notice. Says that person's cursed. Everyone says, "Amen." And I'll really repeat another two because I think you guys get the get the uh point. Cursed is the man who causes a blind person to go astray on the road. and the entire people shall say amen. What does it mean cause a blind person to go astray? Says not just about telling a blind person to go right when it's really left. Come on. We have to be more. We have to investigate the words here. No, no, no. Cursed is a person that causes another person to sin. Why don't you come with us to the beach? No, I don't think you're allowed to go to the beach on Shabbat. I don't think you're allowed to go to the beach at all. Now you're a newbat. No, no, it's okay. It's okay. Don't worry about it. I'll take this in on me. You're like one of these good friends that people have. Good friends. No, don't worry about I'll talk to God for you. The guy is brand new. Doesn't know. Doesn't know. Doesn't know if he's doesn't know. He doesn't know Mishk. Eat. Eat. It's kosher. Yeah. Yeah, it's kosher. It's kosher. The guy just bought it from McDonald's. It's closer. It's closer. Don't worry. I blessed it for you. It's one of these people. So that's to someone that makes another person sin. Me skin. Another one. It says cursed is a person who perverts judgment of the prostite, orphan or widow. This is a people today. There's a lot of converts. page 4 says at the end of times there will be a lot of converts. So as we see today there's an enormous amount of converts coming our way coming to coming to different rabbis is trying to ask for help to convert to become part of the chosen people willing to die willing to mash to die just to become a righteous Jew. And sometimes you have get in the way. You have wicked people get in the way and make their life very difficult in regards to conversion. Now, of course, you have to make sure that the convert is real and they're not just converting because they have a boyfriend or a girlfriend and they want to make the mother-in-law happy. You know, they have to be converting for, you know, for Hashem, not for the boyfriend or girlfriend. Um, you have to make sure that they know what they're doing. They know the laws and most importantly they're going to comply and not just converting today, they have the kis today, they have the long skirt today and everything is good today and tomorrow they're going back to the uh, you know, to the clubs or the guy looks like a sadik grew his beard could sweep the floor with the beard and the day after he's going to put a tattoo on with the name of hem or tattoo because he thinks he's doing mitzvah. So you have to make sure that they're real. So they have to learn. If they learn and they comply, they make the change necessary changes in their life. Move to a Jewish community, learn of Shabbat, learn of the learn the history of Israel, learn at least the first couple of books of the five books of Moses with the commentary. You know, go through this list of actually knowing what they're doing. They make the adjustments. Conversion shouldn't take more than it takes for them to learn and to adjust. Meaning, conversion should be based on you, based on the convert. However fast you make the changes necessary and the lessons, you learn the things necessary, that's how long it should take you to convert. If it takes you 6 months to do it, convert. If it takes you 60 years, 60 years from now, you can convert. You can't just convert anybody anymore because a lot of fake converts. By the same token, what happens today is that you have a lot of fake converts uh that made it very difficult for real converts. So the rabbis took it from one end to the other where some rabbis are making it very difficult. They say no no minimum requirement is 2 years, 3 years, four years, 5 years. I have one guy Sadik. He's been going through conversion for 10 years. 10 years. He learns in every day. He knows more Torah than probably most of Isel. His kids don't even know they're not Jewish. That's how long they've already been keeping everything. They don't even know they're not Jewish. They're 8 n 10 years old. They don't know they're not Jewish. They've been the way he started converting like he just started learning. He pretty much been keeping everything for a decade. But the of where he lives, they won't let him convert. Why? Because they're so people like that talks about them. Someone that perverts the judgment of the uh converts. also talks about someone that's a homosexual is a someone that sleeps with an animal is a that has sex with an animal is a connecting the beginning of the shield to where we are right now. Then the last one that uh we have to really take into account is cursed is the one who will not uphold the words of Torah to perform them and the entire people shall say amen. So Kazal says this is what do you mean some anyone that doesn't keep the Torah is cursed? No, no, this is not what it's referring to. It's referring to people that are in a position of power to help people get closer to Hashem, a position to teach Torah, in a position to help people do chuva and they don't do it. You know the truth, but you say otherwise. You went to yeshiva your whole life. You have a ka. You have a bit everybody pays you good money every month. You have a house. You have kids. You have a car. Everything is wonderful. But why do you have all these things? Because you never rebuke anyone. You keep telling everyone. They all drive to shul every Shabbat. No. I get to sh 5:30 in the morning. I'm already in my car in Shabbat. I'm on the way to Shul. You don't tell him anything. Me skin. The guy's violating Shabbat to go to shu. He doesn't know why. Cuz the rabbi didn't tell him anything. He thinks he's a sadik. Cuz he wrote a book. Maybe. Is he at fault? A guy who drove on Shabbat in the He's also at fault. Of course he's at fault. It's not as bad as you. Every everyone everyone is at fault. You cannot claim ignorance when you go up to Shama. You spent 10 years, 20 years learning for your career being this highriced lawyer that charges $1,000 an hour. Why? Cuz you learned a lot, right? Why you couldn't spend a month learning you about Shabbat just to five minutes you learn Shabbat you know you're not allowed to drive five minutes you should know most people not supposed to drive everyone knows how to drive everyone knows everyone knows no such thing as you don't know such thing no such thing as you don't know people don't know how severe the sin is they don't know exactly either they don't know how severe it is or they just don't believe it like the reform they just don't believe it they say we don't believe in your old Torah. We don't believe it. The conservative, same thing. We don't believe it. We don't uh we don't hold to this high standard. They call the oral Torah, which is pretty much the foundation of our Torah. It's too high of a standard. We have to adjust. Okay. That's an au. That's a cursed. So someone that's in a position to teach to tell people the truth and chooses not to, they have a special curse. But now sometimes you have stupidity between rabbis between rabbis where you have one rabbi that's doing trying to benefit the public get people to do chuva, get people back to Hashem. He's doing the job that nobody else really wants to do. Let's be real here. Most rabbis do not want to do what I do. Most rabbis do not want to do what Rabbi Mizra has been doing for 22 years. Most rabbis don't want to do it. Why? Because this is the hard part of the work that is not as financially beneficial as saying to everyone that they're all you don't see any buildings with my name on them. So this is not exactly the uh best part of the business if you will. Number one. Number two, you also have a lot more enemies, haters. A lot more haters because someone doesn't want to hear the truth naturally they're not going to like you. And but not only not like you, if you don't like some rabbi that's a key rabbi, you just don't go to the synagogue. But if you don't like a guy that's constantly doing, you see his shim online every 5 minutes, a new sh a new clip, a new poster, a new this, what do you do? It starts eating you up. So what do you start commenting? I hate this guy. He's this, he's that. You start cursing him out, start insulting him, all types of stuff. Now, if it's happening from somebody that is just a hater of Hashem or a hater of the truth, it's expected. It's expected. But what's happening here? He's not talking about that here. Here he's talking about he's talking about cursed is the one that's going to get in the way of the guy that's making comments. But he cares who he is. Who does everyone care if a rabbi makes a comment? If a rabbi gets in the way and says, "No, no, no. This rabbi, he's not welcome in our kila." Why? Why? Why is not? Oh, no. His teachings are not uh they're not this, they're not that. They're too strong for us. Like I just heard from somebody, they didn't allow CDs in a in a synagogue because no, no, we teach out of love. We don't teach mousar in the synagogue. That's what they said. Another case is a rabbi that unfortunately decided to destroy his own Lamaba and start commenting online calling it nonsense, telling people not to listen, all types of things. So one this is very very surprising and there's plenty there's plenty unfortunately. So this is plenty. I had a koo today. Lord would ra give gave me a koo. Oh, hashem he's full of kushim. It says in the book of Samuel, book of Samuel 1, chapter 2 verse says translation, he guards the steps of the devout ones, those that are dedicated to Hashem guards their steps, but the wicked are stilled in the darkness for not through strength does man prevail. So basic literal the translation of this is that don't worry about it. It doesn't matter who goes against you. If you're devout to Hashem, Hashem will protect your steps, will protect your path, and all the that are going against you, he's going to take care of them, too. Don't worry about it. And you don't if you really have all you have to do is follow what said to right before we cross the sea of reeds. Exodus 14:14. God will fight your wars and you shall remain silent. So he's saying you have nothing. And you don't have to even fight. The real war is not through the effort of man. The real war is won by Hashem 100%. So what's the he says every there's a lot of little hints in the Torah. What's the first letter? Rashe means the wicked in the uh the first letter of ish darkness. What is it? Sometimes they're going to be the rabbi. Sometime it's going to be a rabbi out of some state in California who you never heard of and you don't know who he is. You don't know who he is. You never heard of him. He never did anything to him. You have no idea why he wouldn't like you even. But he decides to take it upon himself and start telling people bad things about you. So the Torah tells us yes that can exist unfortunately. And in case he's wondering whether what he was doing is right or wrong, as we say in every paral, we always find the secrets of relevant to that week. Here in the para ver chapter 27 verse 26, just in case you wondering that rebi cursed, you don't have to fight any wars, my friend. Hashem will fight the rest. But we try to help people do chuva. Even the rabbi sometimes what can you do? Sometimes sometimes sometimes people let beat them and it's it's not a uh you know it's not their fault. All we have to do is tell people the truth and they all do chuva. Don't ask me for names because it doesn't really make a difference. Everyone needs to do chuva. So moving on. Moving on, Hashem continues to give us all these wonderful blessings. There's even more blessings here than we have in, you know, in the beginning. We have 10 verses from verse 3 to verse 13. It's 10 different blessings before Hashem tells us the curses in this para it's 14 verses 14 verses of blessings. So one of the nice things that I thought maybe is that in Hashem is actually telling us directly what the blessings are and what the curses are in as in the rest of the book of Deuteronomy. It's Moses speaking Moses speaking on behalf of Hashem. So I thought that Moses obviously is not Hashem, but he after going through everything that he went through with Amish for 40 years, despite them going against him, causing him so much anguish and suffering, he loved them and he fought for them day and night. And even the blessings that Hashem gave him, he added a little bit more to it. He added a few more blessings to show him, listen, I love you. And I wanted to tell you that these all these blessings you're going to get from Hashem. Give him some more details that we didn't find in gals of the blessings. But just like he says, there's more verses in the blessings. There's more verses in the curses in it goes from from verse 14 to 43. So verses of curses. It's from verse 15 to 68. 53 53 verses that discuss the details of the curses. Even though Kazal says there's technically more curses in and Moshe actually lowered it or made it lesser of a curses there's more details so it looks like there's more curses. So why I thought to this is my opinion I haven't found a source for this uh but I think it's nice to uh to think about it is that Mashe is telling you listen I love you and that's why I give you so many details about the blessings but for the same reason for the fact that I love you I also give you more details about the punishment too because I don't want you to get punished so I want to scare you to death I want to scare you to death so you don't sin and you never go and fall into this disaster. So he gives us all the beautiful blessings. He tells us that we'll succeed. We're going to succeed materially. We're going to succeed spiritually. We're going to succeed in every way possible. We're going to have more kids, more money, everything and anything in this world. Amen. Verse 13, it says, "Hashem shall place you as the head and not as the tail, and you shall only be above, and you shall not be below. If you hearken to the commandments of Hashem your God that I command you today to observe and perform and you do not turn away from any of the words that I command you to stay. So he says as long as you listen to everything you're only going to be on top. You're only going to win. Everything will be wonderful. your enemies that will be afraid of you. Even the ones that are brave enough to attack you, they're going to come in one line and they're going to run away in seven. You know, meaning they're going to come with one road and they're going to run away in seven. Meaning, they're going to be in such hysteria of fear that they're not going to have any order whatsoever. Everyone's going to run for their life without worrying about what kind of missile system you have or if you're going to have help from the United States or if you're going to have help from some other country or you're going to get some votes from the United Nations or if you're going to be allowed to defend yourself because according to the UN we're not allowed to defend ourselves anymore. Die. Just die. That's pretty much what they said. Now, defend yourself. They even There's even videos of terrorists actually launching their missiles to Israel from the UN building. What? From the UN building. Mhm. Not like next to it down the block. He's just saying giving a high five to the UN guy. From the actual UN building. So, the terrorists got the IP from there, huh? Maybe the UN are the terrorists. Point being is this is the world we live in. When you following what Hashem said, you don't have to worry about the UN. You don't have to worry about anybody. You don't have to fight. Anyone is everyone's going to be scared of you. And the ones that are crazy enough not to be scared of you that as soon as they come, they're going to run away. You don't have to worry about anything. You don't have to invest into weapons. You have to invest into anything. Hashem takes care of your business. give you the diseases, everything. Hashem takes care of everything. Everything. Someone came to attack us, Hashem sent locust, locust to them. That's what he did a couple of times already. We won a couple of wars because Hashem sent locust to the enemy. They went to, you know, trillions of locust started eating the eyes of all these people, the Egyptians and also the other goim. What is locust? One of these flying bugs that uh Apparently they stick to you. Stick to you and eat your eyes. Oh, if Hashem wants him to. Snakes. Snakes. He say, "Well, he could do whatever he wants. He can just kill." The point is is that uh if you do what Hashem wants, God will fight your wars and you shall remain silent. When we went when uh Yeshua Benoon went to war, Hashem not only helped with the war that he actually brought there was a uh a bunch of hail. The midash says when Mushenu prayed to Hashem to stop the hail, the hail that was falling on the Egyptians, the hell that was falling on the Egyptians was a combination of ice and lava. It was inside the ice was lava. So it was against nature. But Moses when P, you know, begged him to stop this plague, Moses screamed to Hashem, please stop this plague. Stop the hail. And Hashem instantly stopped the hail on the spot. Which means there was a bunch of hail still in space, still in the air. So, Hashem took it back and he left it according to the midrash in the atmosphere in the outer atmosphere. And he says that the midrash says part of it Hashem used to fight the goim that Yeshua Benoon fought went on their heads and killed them. And the other part of it is going to fall on the goim and go in the war of go. Maybe it's planet X. Maybe it's No, I don't think it's it's a lot smaller than planet X. But the point is is that it's a uh it's amazing what Hashem can do if he wants uh if if we do his will. But now what if we don't do his will? Now I went over a lot of the details of what happens if we don't do in the past, but I'll go over a few of them. I also went over it in tab the sh we did in uh the the shabaton we did in New York with Torah any time in Kazak um a few shers over there we went over and comparing how everything that happened during the um beta mikdash both the first one and the second one also happened in the Holocaust. Same thing. And all of it is written in these two parot meaning that all the curses that Hashem said that's going to happen happened. And these are a few of the highlighted ones. the woman when the woman eat their kids. That's one. So it says here says, "But it will be that if you do not hearken to the voice of Hashem your God to observe to perform all his commandments and all his decrees that I command you today, then all of these curses will come upon you and overtake you. So what does it mean overtake you? It means that before you have a minute to catch up after you got one of the curses, there's already another one coming. Already another one coming. Nothing not even giving you enough time to breathe. Once the decree from Shamayim comes. Now, anyone that learned this to one of them that I said my personal story uh we had a sure I think it was last year or two years ago. We went in this pal and I showed you guys verse by verse how every single thing that happened to me in my personal chva story before I woke up and saw reality. I went through seven years of suffering and every single thing that I went through is written in this para everything it's number 45 very good about absesses everything absesses hemorrhoids lost money embarrassment friends becoming enemies everything infections everything is in para this para literally not even to code literally sure you can find to code you probably find my name in here But it's best thing that ever happened. So aside from that, you see that why do I mention this? Why do I mention the stuff that happened to me? Because when people, you know, read this para sometimes, most of the time, they don't even understand what it says. You know, if you don't read, if you don't learn to on a regular basis and the first time you heard this pa is you hear it in beset when the bal reads it in besset and you're like reading along or listening. Most people don't really understand to such an extent where they know what it actually means. They hear the words, they hear the sounds, they get a general understanding of what's happening, but the real details they don't know. And to know the real details, you have to like actually read it, which takes more time than just a guy reading it like you know uh like he does in bikes. Second thing is most people not only don't understand a high extent, they don't understand at all. They don't understand anything in in Hebrew because that's not their first language. So that's another one. Third is people just don't read it. Don't pay attention. They're too busy talking in basset. You know, usually the time that people talk the most in basset, when is it? During the time that the guy is reading Torah, worst possible time talking. That's when they talk. Hey, how was your dinner last night? Oh, what'd you guys eat? Cougle. Oh, yeah. We had Oh, no. We had shakshuka. We had we had whatever. Who cares what you had eat? Go to the restaurant then already. Don't come to MCN. What do I care about you? Oh, the worst is if somebody is uh talking business right behind you. You're trying to pray. You're trying to repent. You're trying to talk to Hashem. The guy's like, "So, I'm not sure if this client is going to do what do I care about your client right now in Shabbat? Go home. Go somewhere else. Why do I have to hear you talk? Why do I have to suffer because you can't shut your mouth? I came here to pray. I didn't come here to socialize. Go socialize. Go outside. Go outside." Which by the way is so it's very very important to never embarrass anyone in public. The we learn this from Tamal that said that it's better for her to jump in the fire than to embarrass Judah. We also learn this from David. But if someone is making an open sin is a he's making he's talking in you're allowed to embarrass him and actually according to embarrass him to the point kick him out of the shoe kick him out of the shoe. No one's going to do this in reality because no one has the guts to do it, including myself. But uh that's really what the alka is. You're allowed to you're actually supposed to kick him out of the shoe for talking. Someone like would pin would do it right away. I think would put a spirit through him and then it pin to a shoe like that that they talking business on Shabbat. Yeah. Find one that does. They don't. But they have those bookmarks that they say stop talking. Ken, we have we given them out. We give them out. Ken, so you got to give people listen. Listen, put it this way to to to to sum it, the whole point up is this. Everyone that goes to shu, everyone that goes to pray, first of all, they really have to realize even though it's a time that people like to socialize, if you want to socialize, socialize outside. You don't have to socialize inside. socialize. Socialize outside already. There's no mitzvah of being inside the mcess. There's no mitzvah. Mitzvah is praying. Mitzvah is listening to if you're not praying and you're not listening to there's no mitzvah. And it's the opposite. You make it. You're making a sin. Better not to come at all. Stay home or be outside. Socialize as much as you want. That's number one. Number two, in such a politically correct world, it's unbelievable to me how people that are so politically correct are so wrong about this because it's the most, you know, wrong thing as far as politics is concerned to talk to me cuz you're interrupting other people. You're disturbing other people. And the whole concept of political correctness is to not disturb other people, not to offend other people. I come there to pray and your discussion it doesn't matter what it's about. It could be about even if it's about Torah. Even if it's about Tora, you're not allowed to disturb me while I'm praying. I'm in a you want to learn to go somewhere else. There's a time to pray. There's a time to learn. Right? So you're not allowed not allowed to do anything. There's a time to pray, time to learn. You want to go pray, pray. You want to talk business, go somewhere else. says, "Want to learn? Go somewhere else." Says, "If you taught on Shabbat in the it's like you didn't keep Shabbat." Could be. Could be. Listen, if Z says it, that's what it is. But the point is is that it's so wrong that if I'm coming to pray, you're going to pray and the guy next to you has the audacity to talk freely and it's okay and he feels comfortable and you have to what do you have to do? You have you have one of two options. One of two options. Either you turn around and yell at the guy, but then you know what's going to happen, right? The whole is going to look at you like you're the not he's the rash. They're going to look at you like, "Oh, why you so uptight for if you you're probably too high for us? Go to more stringent bikes. What are you yelling at people for?" Okay, there you go. Someone tell somebody to shut up. They look at him as the guy told them to talk outside if you wanted. Everyone said, "Who is this guy to tell them not to talk and show right nowhere else?" That's what they said. That's shim. So that's option number one. It doesn't work. What's option number two? You have to move. Go to a different seat where there's nobody there. So you try to sit in some corner far away from people. Go next to a few people that don't talk. That's all you have. That's the only option you have. Is it not to go to sho or go to a different shoe? Listen, I have a lot of problems with certain shooles and I've had to change shoes a couple of times because sometimes you go to shul and it's just not a kosher shul. There's actually a seool I heard a story I heard from a um uh this week about the Babasali. The Babasali didn't go to shul on the for two three years. Two or three years he didn't go to the Why? Because the they didn't he didn't believe that the Kazan they had was kosher. He didn't believe the Kazan was kosher. What does the say about aan that's not kosher? page 16 says if you put a kazan it's not kosher says this there's no one in the world that hashem hates more than this kazan because right now because he's such a he's the and the ka gave him hashem has to curse the entire ka the entire ka gets put up the entire ka gets the ka that place. You're not even allowed to you're not even allowed to be in the same block as sometimes you let him go up cuz he wants to go up as sometimes he's not she's not even allowed in the guy what can I do listen that's what I don't understand listen you want to be Shabbat it's your life it's your eternity do what you want but why do you have to be a kazan though okay you want to drive to you want to do whatever you want you want to eat pig every Tuesday do whatever you want but why do you have to be a kazan why do you have pretend that you're religious when you're not. It's a bury, right? So that's the thing. So that so so that's why Hashem says that he curses the entire ka. Why? Because it's not only the kazan's fault. It's not only Hashem hates him, but it's also the ka's fault. Why? Because they put him up there. If the kila had a spine, if the kila had one ounce of they wouldn't put a Shabbat asan to the rabbi. They wouldn't tell him. Tell it to whoever. The point is the ka gets it because the ka is responsible, not just the rabbi. Sometimes the rabbi is just a puppet. He's the guy with a beard in the hat. He tells people when they ask him. Otherwise, he doesn't do anything. He's scared that they're going to, you know, the check's going to bounce. He's scared. What can he do? What can he do? He has no choice. But that's the thing. So you have to make sure that you go to a kosher sh is not kosher. You're not allowed to go there. Is it a sin not to go to? No. Not a not to go. I don't go on Shabbat morning to listen find. It's a it's it's you have to find you have to do your and find a kosher sh to just give up on all shoos when you have 18 shoes on your block but one of them that you went to is not kosher. No. Obviously, you're missing out on a very big mitzvah of minan, but uh you know, so you have to praying with minan is a completely different level of prayer than playing by yourself. So definitely do everything you can to go find a kosher. But if you live in an area where there's only according to the is you must move. You're not allowed to live there. And if you tell Hashem, listen, I can't find there's no place that I can move to. Everywhere there's only says move to the desert. Be by yourself. Not allowed to live next to anyone. If everyone's don't live next to anyone. You must live in an area where you can have a kosher minan. Must not allow to live. Not you can't have say can't like use the default option of no listen there's no kosher minyan so I don't go to mcnesset. No, you have to move to a place that Kosha McNess during the week. You can't just use a default option. No, that's the only thing that was available. No, it's not. Why? You lived there 80 years. That's the only thing that was available. You couldn't move at some point during the 80 years. You had to live there. Could have sold the house, buy something else. You could have, you know, get a moving company from Nissan. And uh he helped you move to the next place. Nissan, you help him move, right? To Koshul. No problem. See, Nissan helped me move. He helps everybody move. Why not? Especially if you're going to kosher give you a discount too if you come here complexion see so there's no default option there's no I'm a victim of uh of uh bad shoes everyone has to take care of themsel so it continues here and it says all types of horrible horrible things I'm not going to go into all of them because number one it will take about three weeks and number to uh it you probably won't sleep for about a year. So until next year's para. So we'll go into only a few of them to give you a little bit of a taste of it says in the in the written puk disturb things like scary stuff. They said we're not going to sleep till next year. Yes. If you think about it. Yes. Hashem will send you in a mi in your midst attrition, confusion and worry in your every undertaking that you will do until you are destroyed. This is uh chapter 28 verse 19. And then it continues but focus on this part of the verse says I'll send you in your midst attition. What does attrition mean? No attrition. Okay. Attrition means you're constantly going to lose your strength. Not because you're just losing it because you're getting tired because, you know, you're sleeping because it's 11:00 at night. Because you're going to get beat up so many times. It's just like the uh chicken cuts, the schnitle you make, you have to beat it up with a hammer for a while. You get nice and soft. That's what's going to happen to you because someone that's going against the Torah is going to have pressure. He's going to be under pressure all the time. All the time they can't a deadline. All the time there's bills that he can't afford. All the time there's collectors. All the time there's lawsuits. All the time there's fights from the wife. There's fights from the husband. All the time there's problems from the kids. All the time there's no place to breathe. All the time he can't sleep at night. The few hours that he does have, he can't sleep. All the time. It's unreal how much of a disaster our life is. And it's just constant suffering to suffering to suffering with a break in between of joy of maybe an hour a year. That's real life for most people. Most people's life is comprised of suffering after suffering after suffering and in between there's a little more suffering and once in a while there's a break of a little joy. That's most people's day and most people's year. How so? You wake up in the morning at an hour you don't want to wake up. So because you don't see a reason of why you're even alive, it's already suffering. You're not excited to wake up. I wish I was still sleeping. So, you're already suffering first thing in the morning. Instead of saying, you're saying Hashem, why? Next thing is you get to work, you work for a job, you don't want to work. It's more suffering, more suffering. And on the way, you had traffic and you think the traffic is bad for you because you have to go to a certain appointment. So you're suffering more on the way. You're suffering once you get there. As soon as you get there, the client calls and the client's complaining. It's like, Hashem is giving me more punishment with this client. So you're suffering with the client. And the check comes, but the check is just short about $150. And you need the $150 or you wanted the $150. You're suffering about the $150 now for the next three months. Even though you don't really need the $150 anymore, but you still remember this client that shorted your $150. You're still suffering about the guy. And then your lunch wasn't good. You didn't enjoy your lunch. Oh w you're going to suffer for a week just for this lunch that wasn't good. The rest of the week you're not going to enjoy the food because of the one day that the lunch wasn't good. And then you finish lunch finally and you have stomach aches. Oh wow. You go to you go to the bathroom pains. Oh well, you know they say in someone that has stomach problems his whole life doesn't see the the entrance of gay like ulcers though not regular stomach talking about oh all types of stomach problems all types of stomach problems someone has stomach problems during their whole life doesn't see gay why because gum in this world this is good for me this is good for me this helps me out it's not this I don't I if you're on that level God bless you I'm not on that level I don't pray I Don't pray for pain. I bless Hashem when I have pain. But Hashem, uh, you know, we worked hard to get to that point, but to pray for more. No, let's say that's huh praymuffer prayed to suffer great to suffer. Uh, an prayed for suffering. But if you're on that level, God bless you. Yeah. A gunnas he was a billionaire was a billionaire but at the end of his life he said he he confessed that he didn't enjoy one penny of it he suffered uh for many years I think it was a total of 29 years he had uh 16 years of horrific stomach pains to such an extent that he would tell the guy that was managing his horses he had a lot of horses to make sure to feed them at this specific hour because that's when he went to the bathroom because when he would go to the bathroom he was such suffering he would scream so loud scream so loud he didn't want to make the people you know sorry for him so he make sure to he told the guy feed the horses why feed the horses because when horses eat they make they make sound they make sound so you feed 500 a thousand 2,000 horses it's a lot of noise but the says that his screams from the bathroom were louder from all the horses That's how much he suffered. 16 years. So finally you got a kadoo fin. Hey, what can I do? I'm working all day here. Two hours I'm working. They give me a kadoo. What can I do? I don't know that much. He was a sadik. He didn't deserve to suffer like this. Ah, apparently he did deserve. And I'll tell you why in a second. The second suffering. Second suffering is he had tooth pains. Toothaches for 13 years. Okay. Toothaches for 13 years. So why did he deserve suffering? That's the question, right? Yeah. Yeah. Why you deserve suffering? So one day says, he saw one of the uh he was in a slaughter house. He saw sheep and the sheep was scared. So he came and he hid under the uh gown that Habudi was wearing. It was a president. He wore fancy clothes. A gown type of thing. I don't know what it's called. Glema. How do you say gleman? Uh, gown. Gown, right? I don't think it's called a cape. It's a gown, right? It's a gown. So, he had a gown. So, this little sheep was hiding under his glea. You didn't want to go get slaughtered. So, Rebi says, "What are you hiding for? This was what you were created for. You only created to get slaughtered." So, we say, "You need you. You didn't you weren't created to uh for us to uh teach you dy me right? So he said you were created to be slaughtered. That's what he said. That's all he said to you. You say it. It's not a sin. To me I say it's not a sin. Barely Jews let alone created for it really is what he created for. It's telling the truth. Hashem got upset. Somebody your don't have mercy. Yes. That's what he was created for. Yes. That's what he was created for. But that's still no mercy. There's still no mercy. No mercy for a sheep. No mercy for a sheep. It's a sin for you. So Rebi suffered for years. Just for that. Just for that. When did it stop? When did it stop? When was he able to finally understand why he was suffering? When did the pain stop? One day he sees his cleaning lady you know sweeping the floor and you know in those days it wasn't exactly today's world where it was Taj Mahal you know those days say there was animals there was this there was that even though there was fancy places it's not like fancy like today so you can't compare it. So, there was a rat. There was a rat running around and the uh cleaning lady took the broom and sweeped the rat away. Shoot him away, you know, sweep the rabbit away. Like, hit him. Shoot him away. And Rebby said, "No, no, don't hit him. It's not his fault. It's what he's he's just a rat. He's trying to survive. Don't kill him." The opposite of what he did with the sheep over a decade before. That's when the pain stopped. Why? He showed mercy even to a rat. Yes, it's true that the sheep was created to be slaughtered, but it doesn't mean that we have to turn into machines and have no mercy. It's actually, if you guys didn't hear last night's, we had a uh nice kush last night about last week's para about the where Shem commands us to uh anytime you're walking and you see a uh a bird in a nest and she has eggs or little young birds in there. You shoe the mother bird away. Shoe the mother bird away and then you take the eggs or the young. But you have to make sure you shoe her away. Why she shoe away? So you don't kill everyone in the same day. I never understood this. So did you listen to last night's kush 2:00 in the morning that I sent? Ah, so you missed it. So I'll give you a short version. I'll give you a short version because I don't want to repeat the same thing. It's not fair to anyone that listened to it. Um, so what's this mitzvah? Mitzvah. So I had a question actually. This young boy, cute kid. uh send me a question. He goes, "I never understood this mitzvah." There's a lot of mitzvah in the Palai tells me, "But I never understood this mitzvah. It doesn't even sound like a mitzvah, it sounds like a sounds like you're causing suffering to an animal." So, how is this a mitzvah? Not only is a mitzvah but Hashem says in in the pursuit that for doing this you live a long life. What's the other thing that Hashem said you're going to live a long life for? Respecting your parents. Respecting your parents. So this is the same level as respecting your parents chewing this bird. When the bird comes home there's no little chicklets, no little eggs, all the young are dead. It's not it's not nice. How could this be such a big mitzvah? So here's the kush. First of all, we have to understand that not every mitzvah needs to make sense to us. This we already learned before this from the red cow. Just because it doesn't make sense to you does not make does not mean it doesn't make sense. The shortage is with you, not with Hashem. That's number one. Number two, this is to remind us that despite the beauty of the animal, the beauty of the world, the beauty of mankind, the beauty of everything, remember that you are the reason for creation. Is the reason for creation. If there was no, there would be no creation. which to add to my story from before or example from before the uh hypothetical example of if Am is came to Mount Si and rejected the Torah I told you they wouldn't be Jews but that's not necessarily the truth the I think also says uh that um when was going to mount Sai all of the angels were petrified were scared. Why? Because they knew that if rejects the Torah, Hashem would destroy the world instantly. Meaning that if Am did not accept the Torah, there would be no purpose for the world. No reason to let the birds and the cats and the dogs and the goim and the mountains and anything, nothing. No, there's no reason for anything else to exist if Amad does not accept the Torah. Even the stars, anything. Allem says specifically in the in he says I created all of these stars for you. Page 32. All of these stars I did them for you. So now f next number two we have to understand that the bird as cute as it is was created for you. Not you were created for it. Created to serve you. not you were there to create it to to serve it. Even though a lot of us spend a lot of time cleaning after our dogs and look like the dog is the boss, the reality of it is the dog came to this world to serve us. So if the alien if there were aliens and they looked at us, they would probably look at the dogs like, "Oh, that's their master. Look, that's their king." They look at the dogs, that's the king. So, so uh that's number two. Number three, number three, the Rambam says it's to make us sad. To make us sad. Why make us sad? Anyone with a heart will become sad. If you just think about what you're doing, you think about this mitzvah, you become sad. Mother bird has these little bird. She worked on, you know, pray to Hashem or something to to to get these get these little chicklets and now you're taking them all away. Anyone with a hard work start, you know, maybe shed a tear or maybe feel sorry something. Usually comes back to look for them, right? She comes back, looks for them. Where's my little my little guys? What happened? No, nothing. So, it makes you sad. That's the mitzvah. Why make Why is want you to be sad? because he wants you to feel what he feels when 80% of does not keep Shabbat when all of his kids don't say you have over a million kids over a million kids in Isl Jews 60 70 80 years old never late feeling since they mitzvah. I have a friend first time he did his first time he did was when he was 13 years old. Second time he did feline was a 73 years old feline that I gave him at my house. Hashem gave him I hope he's still doing it now. Hashem is sad. Hashem is crying for those Jews. Where are my kids? I give them life. I give them eyes. I give them ears. I give them money. I give them wives. I give them husbands. I give them kids. I give them everything they have. But they won't even look up. They won't even look at me. They won't even pray to me. That's how I feel. So when you think about that bird, you get a little feeling of what Hashem feels like. If that doesn't make you cry, then you probably don't have a soul. Everyone should do the mitzvah. Try to do it once in their life. Yes. But the big part of the mitzvah is that you can't look for it. Meaning the mitzvah says if you happen to see it, if you happen to, you know, you're walking and you happen to see a nest with the bird and the eggs or the chicklets in there, then you do the mitzvah. But if you go look, if you go kill them, you eat them. Uh, eat them. Eat the eggs. What do you make an omelette? I don't know. What am I? What are you going to do with the eggs? What do you do with eggs? Throw in the garbage. Why you throw it in the garbage? Eat the eggs. It's It's It's scrambled eggs. Make some nice What? You don't eat eggs? All of a sudden, you became a no eggs person. You eat eggs. I eat eggs also. There's chickens in there. By the way, don't anymore. It started to become the process. Huh? What if it started in the process to become like No. If there if there's blood, you're not allowed to eat the egg. If there's even one drop of blood in the egg, not eat it. No. I heard cuz they're organic except almost every single one of them has blood. No, no. When you told me this week, you have to just remove it. That's completely wrong. And I don't know who said it. I don't believe it's him or whoever it is. I don't want to know the name. 100% not allowed. There's one drop of blood in the egg. You have to throw it out. It's not kosh. Who said no way? No way. Don't I don't want I don't want to hear the name. Don't Don't correct me. I don't want to hear it. No way that an actual rabbi said that you're allowed you have to remove the blood. Mapito organic eggs. Mapito. It doesn't matter what eggs could be. No chance in the world. There's one drop of blood in the egg, you throw it out, goes garbage. Mapito. Doesn't matter. Organic, not organic. Uh it could be from Alaska, from Siberia. It could be from anything. One drop of blood in the egg goes in the garbage. Not allowed. I don't know what People make their own rules these days. So a uh don't scare me like that. Tell me rabbis say stuff like that. It's Rabbi. So I got it from That's what I've been doing lately. Now I know I got to No, ask me. Don't go look at Don't Don't Don't listen to people. Don't even listen to me. Listen to you can't see his blood. Is a different story. Obviously we know. So, it has to be in the egg or it can be Why don't you open the egg? No, the yolk comes out. The uh with the with the bird. No, no. Even if it's a young bird. Even if it's a little bird, take it. Keep there's no one, two, three. All of them. All the All the little birds that are in there. You empty out the nest. The whole nest you remove or just what? Inside the nest. What are you going to do with the nest? I don't know. Just ask. You keep the nest. You sell on eBay. What are you going to do with the nest? So, you just go in and see a nest. Oh, there is a nest on the tree. Then yeah, you can't go looking for it. You can't go out there and start looking for birds with the nest and start taking the thing. That's not the mitzvah. The mitzvah is if you happen to see the nest, you run into it, then it's a mitzvah is to go and uh get the uh birds from there after you shoe them out. But you have to make sure that you she's not still flying around. She has to go away. You have to push her away. She has to go away. She can't watch you do this. It's too much. That's too much suffering. It's too much suffering. Even even the birds, Hashem worries about them. But the point is to remind you to become compassionate. Have some compassion. Be sad because you'll feel the child that Hashem feels every day when his children don't pray, don't talk, nothing to him. They don't connect to him at all. They believe that everything came from an accident or a big bang or a monkey or some other stupid process they're going to create at some point. Scientology. Sure if they're going to have like a new invention, of course, that's what they've been doing since the beginning. Why not? Why not? Just the easiest answer scientists have that don't want to believe in God to explain any stupid invention or theory that they have. Just give it time. Just give it more time. What do you mean? But nothing can't create something. Yeah, but if it a long time. So what if it's a long time? It still can't create it. It doesn't matter a long time. No, but it's a billion years. So what if it's a billion years or 10 billion years or five weeks? Huh? Everything had a beginning. Exactly. So that's the thing. So it seems like Hashem doesn't really want me to tell you guys about all these curses. So we're going to we're cut we're cutting we're cutting cutting close already. Uh well already two hours. Okay. So So first thing is if you have a lot of pressure in your life already know that it's time to do chuva. There's something that you're missing. I'm not saying you're Hasha. The Torah is not even saying you're Hasha, but it's saying that you know there's different levels of curses. If you're if you feel like that you can never get ahead, Hashem is talking to you. Hm is talking to you. Um and he's also telling us that it doesn't matter what happens with the uh armies that we have or any of that those things. What ends up happening is that just like before it says that the enemies come to us on one road and we when we kick them out they all run scattered and scared into seven roads. It's the opposite here. We will go with one road to attack our enemies and then be scattered ourselves shalom seven going to be in hysteria. Then he starts talking about different types of diseases balan that people are going to get. I had some of these. Uh Shem will strike you with swelling lesions, fever, burning heat. I had that one. Thirst with the stored and with blasts and with withering. And they will pursue you until you perish. So what does it mean? It keeps saying until you perish until you perish. But it doesn't say you will perish. Meaning on one end it's he's telling you you're going to have a lot of suffering. He's not just going to kill you and that's it. He's going to make you suffer which is slowly but surely going to destroy you. But on another end he's also telling you telling you that he's going to give you time. Eventually you're going to wake up so that suffering is good for you. Suffering is good for you. It's giving you some more time. Hashem, this is also now talking about verse 25 about embarrassment. Hashem will cause you to be struck down before your enemies. On one road you will go out against him, but on seven road you will flee before him and you will be the co cause of terror to all kingdoms of the earth. So first thing he's telling you that not only will you lose, you lose in front of your enemies. The worst thing in the world is getting fired in front of your competition. In front of your somebody that you don't like. Lose a client in front of your competition. Lose a client to your competition. Mhm. You know, he's telling you that's one of your curses. You get embarrassed in front of your competition in front of your enemy. You know, you your wife yelled at you in front of the the guy that you hate, your neighbor. Your husband embarrassed you in front of the one woman that you can't stand in the neighborhood. Just know it comes from had a bad evil wife who used to yell at him. One of the big Yeah. Yeah. It also says someone has a a bad wife doesn't see the face of gay. Someone has a bad wife. That's what it says in Should he divorce her or he should stay with her so he doesn't go to gay? Depends. Depends. Depends. Depends what he wants to do. Sounds much worse though. There's actually a story. A guy came to a big rabbi, I forget the rabbi's name, asking the rabbi, to give him uh to help him get a get, you know, to make a get for him. He wants to divorce his wife. He says, the rabbi says, "Okay, why why do you want to get a divorce?" He goes, "Listen, from the day I met this woman, and for the last 25 years, she's tortured me every single day. Everything I ask her to do, she doesn't do on purpose. And every day as soon as I get home, instead of saying hello, instead of saying honey, making food, how you doing? Anything. What does she do? She's so upset. She takes one of our shoes and she throws it at me. Rocket. Every day she throws a shoe at me. Every day. Who wants to I've been suffering for 25 years. Schlomite. Slomite. Schlomite. I watch that shite. Went to Rabbi for Schlomite. Listen, I I talked to her. I did this. She doesn't want to change. Rabbi says, "I know your wife and you're right. She's not going to change." Okay. So, just wait for me in the living room and I'll get you the get. The guy is so happy. It's like finally the rabbi is not trying to convince me. Finally, I can get to get leave this devil of a woman. Be free. Be free. and he's sitting in the living room. It's true story. Sitting in the living room, he's waiting a few minutes and you know it's a long day. Falls asleep. Falls asleep and apparently has this from Shamim that they bring his up and he goes to the bed. What? No, he just has a dream and they show him. They bring him to the bed. He goes to the bed of Shamay. And so it's time for us to judge you. It's like now I died and it's time for us to judge you. Let's see all of your uh mitzvot and your sins. They start seeing all the okay guy was keeping Shabbat keeping keeping a few things good. But then they start seeing the mean the sins work too much didn't come to was working till 9 10:00 at night thinking that he needs to help Hashem give you know make money you know Hashem created the world he spent all of his money on on the creation he doesn't have any money to give people so people think that they have to work till 9:00 at night they have to help Hashem they're doing by Hashem to help him because you know Hashem doesn't have any money he ran out of money paying paying for the construction construction companies, paying for title companies, paying for someone has a MA, never in their life are going to work overtime. Never. Not one time. A obviously we have to get to that level. At the very least, at the very least, we have to understand that we're not allowed to miss a Torah or miss learning Torah for work ever. Ever. Unless you're saving a life, of course. But if it's just to go make money according to now to save someone. Yes, that's page 25. If you learning someone is drowning, you went and saved them. You made a sin. There's one. Yeah. Yeah. It's a it's a theor learning Torah is more significant than but if someone is uh has if there's that person has no other option someone is drowning drowning and you're the only option you have to go save them you have to stop learning Torah and you have to go save that person but if the person has another option somebody else can go save him let them save him because learning Torah is more is is more significant but nonetheless you still have to stop to save a But anyway, the guy falls asleep. They start showing him all the sins, all the all the missed minan, all of the missed opportunities of doing all the things, all the mit and all the sins. And he starts seeing that all of the sins are gathering and gathering and gathering and the scale is weighing a little heavier on the sin side. We have a problem. He's petrified. He's scared. He's already thinking of the fire that he's going to burn in cuz Gay is very much real. And he said, "No, no, don't worry. Don't worry. We have one more thing." Oh. Oh, okay. What happened? Goes, "Bring the shoes. Bring the shoes." So, he start bringing all the shoes that his wife threw at him. Was she mocking his wife? And she put the shoes on the scale. And the scale got to be even. And it said, "You only need one more shoe to go on the mitzvah side. You go to Ganeden." And that he woke up at that moment. And the rabbi was, "Okay, I have your get ready." No, no, no, no. I don't want to get I'm going home. I'm going home. Thank you. Take ran home. And every time that he got a shoe in his head from his wife from that moment on, Hashem showed him that his suffer his suffering is for his benefit. His suffering is for his benefit. should look for a devil when for listen you want to bring to your life by all means there's plenty of ways to bring to your life I want to avoid hell you know avoid hell by making avoid hell by making you know all the things that we like we don't know what's because like is so severe like punishment for it has no ending right people say swallowing your saliva while you're learning isra like you know why you asking for suffering. Why? You know why you think you're asking for suffering? Never suffer. Because Hashim, you've never suffered a day in your life. That's why. And I should never suffer. You never suffer. So just like just like just like just like in the opening of the third chapter of lamentations, the prophet Jeremiah starts the chapter by saying, "I am the one who has seen suffering because he saw the beta mikdash. He saw the bodies piled up as a practically as a wall of death. He saw the river from city to city of Jewish blood. Saw disaster. He says to the people that remain, I've seen suffering. Why is he? I said, I have experience with suffering and I can tell you what it's like. So you believe me because I have experience, not because I read it in some book. So I'm not Jeremiah or even his foot or even his nail or the nail of his nail that he threw out. But I know a little bit about suffering. You don't want suffering, my friend. You don't want suffering. What you're saying, you know, it's 100 times worse. Either way, regardless of what level it is, you still don't want suffering in this world. The best thing you want is do mitzvot. If Hashem didn't give you suffering, that means he still you still have a chance to earn your gun with mitzvot. Focus on that hard. Yeah. Why suffering? Why you want to suffer for I know suffering. Everyone suffers a little bit. Yeah. Yeah, but real suffering you don't even know what it is. You pulled out a dollar and you pulled out a five. That's suffering. No, no, but real suffering. That's not that type of suffering is not getting you to kind that clear. No, that kind of suffering everybody suffers, but that's caparot. A flat tire I got two weeks ago. Right. Right. No, but that's that's I'm talking about real suffering. And I went to school when I got it. That's even more angry. You know what's okay? I'll give you a small taste of what suffering is. So you see when he says to you, you're going to get these burning heat. One of you know what the burning heat is. I tell you what burning heat. You guys want to know what burning heat is? Yeah. Okay. I tell you what burning heat is. Burning heat. None of you ever know this and only know it from the sh. Burning heat is feeling like you're on fire. Feeling like you're on fire and you feel like you have mash lava instead of blood going through your veins. In mam you feel like you're on fire and it's unbearable. Nothing helps. You can't sleep. You can't I know a lot of details about it because of a reason. Yeah. You can't sleep. You can't walk. You can't think. You can't function. You're screaming in pain. Sometimes if it's that to that level, even if it's the lowest level of burning heat, it's debilitating. What's it called in English? Uh there is a uh disease that they say is similar to it. Uh I think it's uh something my um fibromyalgia my oh yeah fibromyalgia something like that. There's some type of disease that they say it's similar to it. All I know is burning heat. I had that for a long time. Hashem still have a little bit. Uh here and there I get the to have it. Um, but it's g you feel like you're on fire. What does it feel like if someone got uh bitten by a snake? Snake bit snake snake bite. The venom goes into the blood veins. You must you feel like you're on fire. Feel like you're on fire. So that's what it is. But it's again sometimes it's just in your arm. It's almost you just go like this constantly. Constantly. No, carpet tunnel is gonna next to it. uh you know it's a uh you know so you go with your arm what do you what do you do you start so what do you do with it with with your arm you start smashing your arm on the table or on the wall start hitting to create different pain because the pain of the burning heat is so bad it's so bad that you rather break your hand than feel it in your hand the mental or if it's in your leg you start punching your leg or do other things that are worse but then once in a while you have a nice it's your entire body. You can't do anything. What you want? You want to jump off of a building. Imagine about five, six years of that. That's going That's You saying some people have it for their whole life? Like 10, 20 years? I never heard about this. Let's go. What's the other bigger? You said it's probably much worse. Much worse. You have that and a few other things together. So, okay. So, why do you guys want to know this stuff? I just I'm curious. I like to know everything. got picture. Okay. So, okay. Smoke s got no hope. One thing that a person can't do is a person can never really if they're a mentally stable person, they can never give themselves a surgery. Why can't a person give themselves a surgery if they're mentally stable? Because they're inflicting pain on themselves with precision. If you just stab yourself in the leg, it could just be, you know, you know, you just it's a one action type of thing. Even though still you'll have a very hard time to do that and you'll always natural reflex you always like move it or stop it. You have to be really like majun to to do something like that. But to give yourself a surgery where you're pretty much inflicting pain on yourself is you have to be a little crazy. So imagine doing that once a month. Am I meant not what happened to you? I'm talking about what the paral this what is telling you do surgeries on yourself. This is what this is telling you. Is telling you this is you do surgeries on yourself. You can have f pain fong in alcatra. So you have that and the burning pain and the burning pain. And there's more. Sure it gets worse. What I had was ganed next to this. So okay now move on. That's uh it's enough torturing you guys. The rest of the people here are not going to fall asleep for a week after they hear this. So, okay. Hashem will strike you with the boils of Egypt. So, that's absesses. And if that's what that wasn't enough and it says with hemorrhoids, that's how it all started. That's how it all started for me. 2000 November 18, 2006. innocent innocent hemorrhoids. Innocent hemorrhoids that uh hurt twice a year surgery, a hemorrhotomy that's supposed to be a simple elective surgery. The doctor says he does five, six of them a day, like a factory, you know, they have the cows, they chop them up like nobody's business. Doctor is doing five, six, six surgeries, no problem every day. No big deal. says, "Oh, the guy's uncomfortable for two, three days, then he goes back to his regular life." Okay. So, I become one of those guys and next thing you know, everything changes. Seven years of suffering non-stop. Even if you wouldn't surgery, Hashem would have sent it some. Thank you very much for reminding me. Yes, but that's how I got it. You're running my story. So, and then he tells if the boils the uh is not enough, the hemorrhoids after and then the wet boils and then the dry boils. And the best part of this verse 27 is he says which cannot be cured. That's what he says. Not only going to get this hemorrhoids and this boils, the absesses and the fire and your pain and all this stuff. It can't be cured. Go to 50 doctors, Mr. Millionaire. They still can't heal you. Why is who's giving it to you? The creator of the world is make is the one that makes you sick or the one that makes you healthy. If you sick, you're only going to doctors to make it look realistic. But the one that heals you, you want a solution, you go to the same one that gave it to you. Took me a while to realize that. Another part of the sin, he says you're gonna uh marry a woman. Oh, I this did not happen to me. You marry a woman and she's going to be with another man. You're going to build a house and somebody else is going to live in it. You build a house and lose it. As soon as you build a house, I had a friend actually. It happened to the guy worked his whole life. Was a plumber. Worked his whole life. Worked really hard. Da da da. Whatever. Build this house. Mansion. Beautiful. I don't know. Was three, four, $5 million, whatever. Was in my opinion one of the most the most beautiful house I ever saw. Everything you could possibly imagine. All the amenities something or must beautiful. and um like all the finishing touches and everything. And uh one day he finds out that uh his wife is cheating on him with the accountant. And then shortly later, the deal that was pretty much holding him financially with a building goes to nothing. So he loses his wife and he loses his house, loses his money, and he ends up losing his business. This first, actually, I'm thinking about it right now. This entire verse, verse 30, actually happened to him. His skin Pete, he lost all his No, he was Greek. It's Greek skin. So yeah, that's what happened to him. He owes me half a million dollars. So that's why he didn't pay. So that's what happened to him. That's why he couldn't pay me. He lost his He lost and I don't feel I don't I don't hold anything against him because this is actually what happened to him. He lost his wife Miscan. He lost his house and he lost his business. He had to restart everything from scratch. Is he doing good now or is he still down? He's surviving but he's not I don't think he's making like uh money like he used to. Um but anyway, this this verse actually happened to him. This entire verse, one verse. What can you do? So this is one of the things Hashem says you go against them is what happens. Uh then it says your sons and daughters will be given to other people. This can mean a few things and your eyes will see and pine in vain for them all day long but your hand will be powerless. Your kids go with your enemies. Shalom is hostages in war. Uh shalom and uh you know in many other things you could go and become intermarried. Go marry goim. And it says specifically here your hands are going to be powerless. He's not going to not be able to do anything. You tell your daughter no don't marry him. Don't marry him. Sakima don't tell me what to do. Aba mind your business. This is a punishment to the parents, not just the kids. Punishment to the parents. Why? Because the parent did something to deserves this apparently. And it says a nation unknown to you will devour the fruit of your ground and all your labor and you will only you will be only cheated and downtrodden all the days. Meaning it doesn't matter what you do. Anyone you hire, all the vendors you hire, all the people you deal with, everyone's going to take advantage of you. Unless, this is exactly what happened to me towards my downfall. Hire lawyers, the lawyers take advantage and charge me all the money in the world and do bad things. Hire a company, some type of technology company, they do horrible job and still charge me 60, $70,000 for the horrible job. All like pretty much everything that could go wrong went wrong. I hire a manager to run an insurance division. I give the guy $25,000 signing bonus. 9 months later, I find out the guy is not only stealing from me, but he's m like all the money that he's supposed to be making for this division. I don't see it. He's like, "No, it's going to take long." So, I think I find out that he's taking it for himself. And on top of that, he's overcharging the company for different things. I hire a different manager to run my brokerage division. The guy is stealing from the office. All types of things. Everything that could go wrong goes wrong. When Hashem wants to wake you up, he has a lot of ways. So he says you will go mad from the sight of your eyes that you will see. You start seeing start seeing everything goes wrong. All of a sudden the stock investments go bad, the health is terrible, the uh friends are terrible, the employees are awful, every you start losing your mind. Then you hit like. No, no. You just started here. Say, it gets much worse. Hashem will strike you with a foul boil on the knees and on the legs that cannot be cured again from the sole of your foot to your crown. So that's actually when the pain in the bottom of my feet started. And then a few days later, my legs doubled in size and then I couldn't walk for about a year and a half. Uh, and it just got worse and worse over time. Oh, hashem. So then, uh, let's skip a few of them. Uh, you become a conversation piece. You get to a point where everybody starts talking about you. Oh, remember that guy? You know what happened to him? That's what I became. I became that guy. Remember that guy? He was on CNBC and D. Yeah, you never know. He lost all of his money. He lost this. He lost that. That's what happened. Used to be famous. He used to be, "Oh, remember that guy? Yeah, I worked for him. Oh, wow. You work for your own. Now it's like, what? You still you still in business? You say it goes from one opposite to the other one. That's how it works. You will bear sons and daughters. This I didn't have. You will bear sons and daughters, but they will not be yours. It's when you have children with a non-Jew. A Jewish person has children with a non-Jewish woman. Children are not considered his. This is a form of punishment. Form of punishment. Some people. Why? Because one day he's going to do cha. one day gonna do chuba and he's gonna realize who according to I didn't fulfill the I didn't fulfill it it's a problem and many other things so that's why it's better to do chuva sooner rather than later uh let's go skip a few more all these curses will come upon you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed because you will not have hearkened the voice of Hashem your God to observe his commandments and decrees that he commanded you. There will be a sign and a wonder in you and in your offspring forever because you did not serve Hashem your God amid gladness and goodness of heart when everything was abundant. So here he's telling you not only you're going to get all these curses and everything but part of the reason why you're getting all these curses because when everything was good I gave you money. I gave you health. I gave you wife. I gave you kids. I gave you a job. I gave you everything. What did you do? You forgot about God. Became CEO of Goldman Sachs making 50 $100 million a year. All of a sudden I want to be reform. became business owner, started a company, started making a little bit of money, more than just a few thousand a month. All of a sudden, I don't want to keep Shabbat anymore. What happened? You were keeping Shabbat more as a poor guy than a religious guy. Goes, "Yeah, but now I'm busy. Now I'm busy for God." So, oh, you're busy for God. Okay, we'll see. We'll show you what happens. When things were good, you didn't serve me. That's one reason you're going to get the punishment. What's the second reason? What's the second form of punishment? That's the worst type. He says, "Because you didn't serve me when everything was abundant. So you will serve your enemies whom Hashem will send against you in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and without anything. And he will put an iron yoke on your neck until he destroys you." saying you don't want to serve Hashem, you don't want to be religious, you don't want to keep Shabbat, you don't want to keep kosh, you don't want to keep, you don't want to do anything. Fine, just know ultimate punishment. Instead of serving Hashem, you're going to serve your enemies. And this is what happened in the Holocaust. This is exactly what happened in the Holocaust. Rabi says a story in his book about the Holocaust. And he says the worst part about the Holocaust was the hunger. Hunger, suffering from hunger. They wouldn't feed us for days. People would got to a point where they would use the food, the little old slice of bread as money cuz you were rich if you had a slice of bread. if you had tomato. But he said the worst absolute worst punishment we ever got was when the verse from came true. And we got to a point one day these worked us nonstop and they didn't feed us at all. It got to such a point where some guys started dying on the job. Dying on the job. Eventually the few that survived, they stopped us from working. I said, "Okay, go back to the barracks. Go back to the places." And we come back, we see a big pot and a German Nazi garbage of the world. Evil is cooking. in this giant pot and we smell the first time we smell meat in years. Say, "Wow." And we all run to get this food thinking, "Oh, maybe this have a heart." They worked us for the last couple of days straight without drinking, without eating, without anything. And maybe this is the reward. And we all grab and grab whatever meat we can get from the hot water, not caring about anything. Just get whatever you can eat to survive. until one of the people runs out. One of the Jewish people runs out. No, it's your children. You will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, which Hashem your God has given you. This didn't only happen in the Holocaust of eating our children. It also happened in the beta mikdash. It also happened in beta mikdash. What people don't understand is that when Hashem says something, he's not joking. When he said in the previous verse that you're going to end up working and serving your enemies, this also happened in both the beta mikdash as well as in the Holocaust. We said this in a shoe, but for anybody who didn't hear, there's a book called I was Mangal's assistant by a Jewish guy named Mikolos Nitzili. You can buy it. It's a famous book. And this Jewish guy tells about his experience working for this mangal which the Jewish people also called malakamit the angel of death. This Lasha used to Nazi used to be responsible on making all types of experiments on human beings which is the reason why Germany after the World War II were became more advanced in medicine than anyone else in the world because they did experiments on the Jewish people. And this Jew, Mikolos, was his assistant. And apparently this Mikolas wasn't exactly the biggest Sadik in the world before the Holocaust. And he got a special punishment because he didn't want to serve Hashem. He ended up serving his enemy. He ended up serving the Nazis, ended up working for them. But if that wasn't bad enough, unfortunately, when you have enough evil you could become part of it. And he writes in his book that he was became passionate working for this Hasha and he would help him with his collection of body parts. He would go look for gold bladders and different bodies and be excited to give it to his boss to add to his collection because his psycho boss, the Nazi, instead of collecting baseball cards or football cards or stamps, he collected body parts from Jewish people. Oh, he's already in Gome and never going to get out. But the point is is that this is showing how Hashem is telling us is fulfilling these verses. He's not joking. It's not gray area. It's black and white. It's black and white. There's no gray area. Experiments. I heard horrifying stuff they were doing to Jews there. Yeah. You could literally could read from that book. That book actually a lot of the sources of what happened in those experiments are from this guy. Yeah. This guy there documentary about it on YouTube. I don't know about YouTube. I don't know about the documentary on YouTube, but it's possible. not on YouTube. Uh, so it says here, and also in case anyone is saying, "Oh, maybe this is a stretch. How can you connect the Nazis to any of this stuff aside from Torah codes and everything else? We look at no further than verse 49. Chapter 28 verse49 it says says Hashem will carry against you a nation from afar from the end of the earth as an eagle will swoop a nation whose language you will not understand. What was the sign of the Nazis? An eagle. What was the sign of the Romans? An eagle 100%. And also if you look at Torah code, you'll see the names of Hitler in here. You'll see Mangal in here. You'll see the uh uh Aishman in here. You'll see the concentration camps, city names, all that stuff in this para. Go ahead. Are the punishments for non-Jews too because the sign for America, right? The the eagle, bald eagle with the national sign, slavery. Yes. And yeah, I mean, yeah, to some extent, yes, of course. I mean, they say Torah applies to everyone. Of course, the Jews must comply with more laws in the Torah than the non-Jews do. But the punishments for some of the violations that Jews do are less are lesser than the goi. Meaning if let's say for example a Jewish person steals and they get caught they have to return double. So they stole a 100 has to pay 200. But if a non-Jew steals it's death penalty. So they have less the non-Jews have less laws. They have less laws but each law if they violate there's death penalty. There's no other there's no other punishments 100%. So, so there's less laws but more, you know, more significant ramifications. So, yeah, I mean, obviously if non-Jews go against Hashem, they also get punished. There's no no question that they're also Hashem's creations. They also have to comply by Torah, but it's just the one the rules that apply to them. Moving on to finalize this, because I think you guys got enough of an idea of what's going on. It says after we work for our enemy, after Shalom. They uh people get to a point of having to eat their children to such an extent that it says that a delicate woman, a woman that was so delicate that she would be scared to go outside. Scared to go outside. She didn't want to uh deal with the public. She was modest. But as you know, when there's a decree for the nation, the wicked and the righteous get punished the same. So this delicate modest woman goes out and he says she go completely loses her mind to the point that she starts fighting with the rest of her family of the kids that she's going to eat. What up here? It says that she's going to also want to eat the kids. Yes. says, "She will eat them in secret for lack of anything in the siege and distress that your enemy will distress you in your cities." So, it's it gets bad. It gets bad. This all happened cuz the billion burned all the food in the middle. It happens because we sinned. Happens because we sinned. And then last but not least, it tells us something awful. It says, "And you will be left few in number instead of having been like the stars of heaven in abundance." In the book of On Your Walls, Jerusalem talks about what the situation was like before the beta mdash. And we'll finish with this point to give you guys an understanding. This doesn't make sense to us because we think in numbers based on our knowledge of today. So this is not going to make sense to anyone. But it's true. And even if it's exaggerated, it still gives you an idea of how many people we had. It says here tells us in also and also several different sources page 57 kazal gives the description of Jerusalem says in Jerusalem there was 24 main squares and each square had 24 main thoroughares. And each thoroughfare had 24 small streets. And each street had 24 smaller pathways. And each one of these smaller pathways had 24 courtyards. And each courtyard had 24 homes. Got it so far? And passing through each of these courtyards every day was double the amount of people that left Egypt. Meaning no less than 1.2 million in each one of the courtyards passing through it. So the courtyards have to be bigger than we'll get to the numbers in a second. That's why I'm telling you this. If you do the math, this means that there were 18,824 side roads, which means that there was 331,776 smaller passageways, 7.9 million courtyards, and 191 million2976 homes, houses in Jerusalem alone. Now according to today's knowledge this cannot be it's impossible it doesn't fit but tells and also in that is like a uh skin of a deer which stretches stretches once with the Jewish people removed from to you from the country. It shrinks a deer's skin. You could stretch it and stretch it and stretch it with no end. Stretches now. It's unbelievable. It's miraculous how much it stretches. You can make so much out of one small deer. He says that the same thing when comes in and we're holy and there's no limit to the amount of people. And it says here, besides there being almost 200 million people actually living with in homes in the fact that there's 1.2 million people passing through each courtyard means that there was 9.55 trillion people traveling back and forth in Jerusalem every day. Trillion. Trillion. What did you say today? 95514800 0. Yes. What do you think? You guys got it from his uh from his head. That's what I just told you. As a matter of fact, say 100 million. No, no, no, no. A trillion. You see, today we have and this is actually No, no, it's absolutely. Nobody says that. Nobody said no. Not according to the most. No. in the world according to science. Yeah, but not according to Judaism. How do they have enough food that the If you look actually if I did the math one time with I'm finishing this point. I did the math one time with and we did the math on how many people left Egypt. How many people left Egypt? Now there's a there's a um migrash in Mes Jews in Egypt. 300 million Jews and only 3 million left Egypt. Meaning 297 million Hashem killed them in the uh plague of darkness. And there's other midashim that say even more. But we did the math of how many people the lowest number of people leaving Egypt is three million. No one actually really believes this 3 million only left Egypt. Everyone believes the much higher number. But we tried to figure out how many there were. So we have to look at it this way. If every family every family it says in the Torah each birth was six kids. Each birth, each time a woman gave birth was six kids, average family through their uh marriage, let's say they would give birth 10 times. Not like today where they only wanted two kids and a dog. Each family average would have probably 60 kids. By the time you serve them breakfast, it's already dinner. You need a uh truck to feed all these kids. So you have at the very least you have 600,000 men. That means you also have at least 600,000 women between the ages of 20 and 60. But it also means that the amount of kids that you have is drastically higher. Long story short, we did the numbers, the calculations, took us a while. We came up with a number very similar to that. A trillion trillion over a trillion people. Over a trillion people did the math, calculations, this I mean I I know a little bit of math sounds different, right? One migash just said is one midash only says three million. One midash says 300 million. One out of five got killed. Right. Most common most most common most common midash says one out of five Jews uh survived. Uh which means 80% died instead of 99%. Doesn't matter. It still shows obviously a horrible number. But some people say only 3 million people left Egypt. Some people say you know u 30 million 12 million. There's different numbers. The average is somewhere around like 10 15 million. I think trillions of people got killed in the midash. Yeah. According to the according to the sources here in this midash, there's a lot of people. Again, even if the trillion, like he said, the author himself says, even if you want to say that the sources are exaggerating, it's not 9 and a half trillion. It's it's still not 9 million. It's still not 9,000. Still not 900,000. You're not going to exaggerate by that extent. Everyone knows it's 10 to 20 minutes. It's a lot. You understand what I'm saying? So whatever the number is, Hashem says you used to be like the stars. You used to be like the stars because you sinned, you're going to become few, few in number. We always asked Hashem, where where when were we allowed? It was only barely what 15 million Jews in the world, 20 million Jews in the world. How many Jews are in the world? That's what we think and uh out of them how many actually keep mitzvot I mean there's very very few of us in the world but used to be a lot more when we kept mitzvot used to be a lot more each birth would be six kids more than the queen were right more than anyone we were the strongest we were the uh most populous we were the smartest we were everything but we forgot about god and that's what happened and this is the last line that we'll finish off with today and it says says in chapter 28 verse 69. These are the words of the covenant that Hashem commanded Moses to seal with the children of Israel in the land of Moab. Besides the covenant that he sealed with them in Hiv. is Mount Sai. So he's saying just I gave you the ten commandments. I gave you the written, the oral Torah and everything. But I wanted to make sure you guys realize in case you forgot over the last 40 years, there's also a consequence of if you don't listen to me. There's also a consequence of if you don't listen to me. This is all the details. And again, right now we're in the month of there's a reason why this para comes during this month. time to do. It's a time to stop with the It's a time to stop messing around with Shabbat. It's a time to start keeping and be serious. It's time to be modest and stop dressing like prostitutes. It's time for guys to stop dressing with really tight clothes so we could see the definition of their body. It's time for us to start learning Tawra like it's real important to us instead of a, you know, a uh some type of like a torture. It's time to put Torah as number one and work as number something else. It's time to start believing that Hashem is the one that's giving you your and not your job. Your job is just to make it look realistic. It's time to take things seriously. And if it's not because you have judgment day coming up in the next couple of weeks and you have to stop messing around because nobody promises you tomorrow. If it's not for that, it's for what we learned today. This is very much real. Hashem, as I told you guys, I experienced a small part of it. And I wouldn't wish my enemies, my enemies, I wouldn't wish them what I suffered for one day, let alone for seven years. So, it's time for us to start doing chbad. Make it that you got the message from me. Cuz when you get it from me, it's painless. Yeah, it bothers you. Maybe you're going to lose a little sleep tonight. Maybe you're going to be a little worried. Maybe the next time before you sin and you're going to think twice. But it's still painless if you wait for God to tell you. It's not the same. It's a little more painful. You understand? Yeah. So, better you listen to me and what I'm reading to you because it's the same Torah and we do questions. Yeah. I heard um he has good questions. make sure you better now you see there so many Jews living so I heard that all the money in the world belongs to the Jews but since like the Jews they waste their seed they do stuff that they block their shea so the money goes to the dark places like to Las Vegas to dirty movies I haven't heard I haven't heard that midash I mean I know I know I know that we would have all the money in the world it says here that we would be on top and you know on top of everybody else if we block it for ourselves yeah it says in the beginning of the palad that one of the blessings if we follow Hashem is by being number one being uh everyone else serving us in essence. So yeah, I mean listen the uh everyone has a purpose in the world but the ultimate purpose is you know belongs to the Jews to fulfill it but when we don't fulfill it everyone suffers everyone suffers. Next scare you guys enough to do chuva. Yep. Amen. Amen. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. All [Music] right. 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