PURIM Miracles You Didn't See | STUMP THE RABBI (261)

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So with that being said, we are uh going to talk about but also talk about and talk about the new by our own dear Ravim Klon that wrote a new book and we have it available for free on our website. It's actually the hard copy is being distributed uh in Israel as we speak. Uh thousands of copies and uh this uh this book is simply a miracle of miracles and it's uh it's simply showing us miracles in every single puk of the migila. Now before purim we're commanded to read paras in order to remind us of the mitzvot of not only remembering amalik but also to eventually destroy amalik. And we're commanded to do this commemoration, this reading of these verses of what's called in the book of Deuteronomy right before Purim. And the reason why is because Ham was Amalik and he tried his best to destroy Amis. Now, we only survived through the mercies of Hashem and his endless miracles. And tonight, we're going to learn from this new book Nestle by Rab about some of the miracles that you didn't even know happened. After that, you guys will ask some questions and we'll answer them to the best of our abilities and of course with So, It starts off with the all of the different garments, special garments of the and tells Mosheu to take she clear olive oil that's going to illuminate the manura and after that to go and make sure to find people that have what is it's a spirit of wisdom. Why do they need? Because these people have to be given special wisdom from through the merit of Mosherenu to be able to make these special garments for the queen. Why can't they just sew whatever they feel like is nice? So whatever they feel is appropriate. The says in page 35b that all of the garments of the of the Q were something that the nation had to pay for not theim. And the reason why is because wanted to make sure that everyone knows that what the are doing in the beta mikdash is for the people's benefit, not just their own. They're not in some type of religious business. Like people view rabbis today sometimes where they feel like, oh, the rabbi is doing it because he's making money. Now, of course, there are some bad people out there that call themselves rabbis that only do what they do in order to make money. But if somebody is rebuking his community, helping his community, do chuva, teaching him about teaching him about serving, it is the community's obligation to make sure that the rabbi has above and beyond what he needs. In fact, Am is commanded to make the kohanim rich. Why rich? Because people listen to rich people much more than they listen to poor people or people that they view are just the same as them. And these special vestments, these special garments had to be paid for by the nation. Many of them had gold in it. If it had to be made today, it would be much more expensive since gold is at over 5,000 an ounce, the highest level it's ever been in history. But more than ever, they have to learn that these special garments require divine wisdom to such an extent that if the does a service in a bet mikdash without one of the garments, if he got one of them, he forgot the if forgot the if he got the uh something the if he got the seats on his desk and it's time to do if he does the service it is null and void the service does not count in fact he'll get punished for doing what he did what's so special about these clothes to such an extent that the Quran is forbidden from wearing anything else other than these garments. The ken gad had to wait eight garments. Six of them are mentioned in the beginning of the pala and two later on in the parach. And the reason why is because the first two the the two that are missing in the beginning are to cover his private parts issues of modesty and also the tits which is really not a uh it's like a crown. It's not really a garment. It's more of a sign of holiness. But nonetheless, this coin has to wear all eight of them. If he's the Quen Gad, if he's the coach, the regular, they had to wear four. And on Yum Kipur, there was a part of the day that the Quen Gad will even only wear four. And if he wore his cog garments at the wrong time or the coin garments at the wrong time or he just forgot one of the garments, that his service in a beta mikdash is not only not a mitzvah. It's a problem. What's the big deal? After all, if you look at it, it's material made out of things that you can buy in a uh fabric store, things that you could buy in a jewelry store, things that are not so difficult to get. So why why is it that the coin had to do all of this? As the Ramban writes in, everything is a miracle. There is no such thing as nature. Everything is a miracle by whether it's a open miracle because what we have become accustomed to has been changed and something supernatural happened or the hidden miracles that we don't even realize are happening. Everything is a miracle to such an extent that the Ramban writes that someone that does not believe that everything is a miracle has no share in the Torah of Mosheu has no share of the God of Israel. Which means that the garments of the whether the ord are all part of the miraculous way that a bahu runs the world. And a person that looks at them as simply fabric, fancy garments, or anything aside from what they really are has a serious problem with the Torah. Now, one of the places that akadosh Bahu hid his name where you will not see the name of a kadu written plainly anywhere but still it's part of the Tanakh is migil and migil is what our nation went through a near annihilation that was only ended when the salvation came in what seemed like a natural way. And the says that is also in the Torah, not just the you'll see hints of megat. in the Torah, the section of the Torah talks about the ET where warns that he will hide his face if we violate his Torah. These couple of things I've mentioned in the past and I wanted to bring you something new. Another way that you can see how the migila is very much part of the Torah just like everything else that ever was or ever will be. It's inside the Torah. Not in a way where it's hard to see it, but rather once you see it, it's like seeing the color blue for the first time. No one could ever fool you that something else is blue. If someone sees the color blue or red or any other color and then a moment later or even a year later or 100 years later they tell him, "Listen, this color over here that I'm showing you that everyone calls red is really blue." They tell you, "No, you don't know what you're talking about. I know what blue looks like even if I only saw it once." I heard this from my dear son bless him and give him a lot of and all the good that he does and learning him and his brother and his sister and of course their mother and he learned it from his rav one of our an extraordinary a few weeks ago we learned and bash at the end of the Pala, we go to war with Amalech, after they attack us. And after we win the war and weaken Amalead tells Mosheenu, write this as a remembrance in the book and recite it in the ears of Yoshua. He's talking about Yeshua that I shall surely erase the memory of from under the heavens. The words which translates in English to surely erase have the numerical value of gimat numerical value for each one of the letters of 107. M is 53 is 54 and when tells who is this enemy who is this hidden enemy that's trying to kill you and your nation she says zaman this ham and the numerical value for zaman is also 107 z is 12 Haman is 95. So we see here that already hinted us that he is going to you will surely erase. Furthermore this 107 as I said is two parts. M is 53 is 54. The 54 is also the 54 times that Haman is mentioned in the migila and also the 54 letters of the 10 names of Haman sons. All of these things show us that this is divine wisdom. It's in the Torah, not by accident. but rather put it everything in a Torah before it even existed in which is in book of Deuteronomy chapter 25 the section that we're going to read commands us to remember what Amalecch did to you on the way when you were leaving Egypt that he happened upon you on the way and he struck those of you who were inmost all the weaklings at your rear when you were faint and exhausted and he did not fear God. It shall be that when Hashem your God gives you rest from all your enemies all around in the land that Hashem your God gives you as an inheritance to possess it, you shall wipe out the memory of Amalecch from under the heaven. You shall not forget. The sages teach us that the word that he happened upon you also gives us signs of who has the traits of amalikch. We don't know if for sure they're Amalikch, but certainly they're acting like it. One, someone that's also is comes from to cool. Someone that cools you off from the Tawat. Someone that tries to steer you away from a Torah, not listening. Don't listen to this rabbi that's helping you do chuv become more religious. Don't keep Shabbat. Don't go to the sh anyone that's a m that's a sign of Amalik. Furthermore, Rashi tells us this verse of remembering happens to be right after tells us about the importance of being ethical in business. Because someone that is someone that lies in sizes and weights, meaning he lies in business, He misleads people. He tells them to sign there as if he's helping them, but in reality, he knows that they're signing away their life savings. He sells them a product that he knows will hurt them instead of help them, such as merchant cash advance or all other types of corrupt businesses. Unethical business, Rashi says, is not only a sign of Amalik, but it actually strengthens Amalik. And the third one Rashi tells us as well. He brings it from that came happened upon you. He came at your rear. Why? This is because that's the way Amalecch was. He was LGBTQ. So those that follow that ideology whether they are themselves that or they are supportive of it they're practicing the traits of Amalik in Nestle by our own dear Rab the Rav brings us endless miracles. in every single puk in meat still where the migila itself is called megilat because our goal is to find where hashem is hidden in it to find his miracles. But furthermore, we know that didn't do it for no reason. It was only after we made mistakes by going to the mishe to the party of the gi in his commentary in chapter one second verse he says why did our sages tell us that we have to read the whole megila without missing a single verse. If you if you miss one word of the you have to read the whole thing all over again. Why? Because every single verse tells us about the greatness of the miracle in so many words. The goa is telling us every verse in meale not just the obvious miracles every verse has a miracle in it and more in his in chapter 2 section number 17 he says It looks like all of the miracles that were made in Megatel were written in a hint, not obvious. Just like the way Hashem was treating is at the time. He was saving them by making things happen behind the scenes, which we only realize at the end. says the name itself comes from a verse in Psalms. Psalm number 60 verse number six says to those who fear you gave a banner to be raised highos for the truth's sake. So while n the word n means miracle, it also means banner and is telling you you gave those who fear you, those who are at mount si a banner to be raised high. What is this banner raised high? when you lifted the mountain in the air over their heads as the Shabbat says and told them if you accept my Torah this is the sign this is our wedding if not I'm going to drop the mountain on you and this will be your burial ground but we see here that the vidame is telling us everything that a Jew must know on his daytoday life if you want an if you want miracles you have the instructions here those who fear hem get the why because gave him the banner what's the banner is and you have to hold it for truth's sake. Just like the verse says, meaning fight for the truth even though the truth may be inconvenient. The truth may be unpopular in your circle. But of course, a person has to use wisdom and not just argue with people and prove them that they're wrong, but rather try to help them. Try to help them by providing them information. Don't try to prove them wrong. Try to help people. Feel bad for them, not angry. In the first verse, we see a verse that seems like has nothing to do with a miracle. The says, in the days of he is who was in control of everything fromu India until Kush until Africa 127 nations what's miraculous about this First in his commentary still he says why does it say we know it's avo why mention his name twice he says because some people that are reading it many years after this whole thing happened are going to read about the story and they're gonna if they don't read the commentary by the sages and they just read it like a story book like the goim read the Torah they read like a story book that's why they don't understand anything then if you read any part of the Torah whether it's written the Torah Torah or oral Torah without commentary and explanations by the sages you're going to arrive at the wrong conclusions by default even something as simple as this everyone knows story already at five six years old. Every Jewish kid knows a story of purim. But what's the story? Oh, Hamashi Vashi gets killed. Ham rises to power. He's the bad guy. Tries to kill the Jews. Hashem makes a miracle because Estel became the queen. in so many words because Esther, our sister, was in the uh in the government. She was part of the White House. Then we got the miracle. You're already wrong within the first few words of the migila. The migill specifically says in the days of who? Meaning, don't think for a moment that the miracle that we got was because Haman was the only bad guy and we got saved because of our sister that was in the government. No, who was no less anti-Semitic than Haman. In fact, killed his own wife. So if you were to say, "Listen, our sister Estelle, she's going to save us." Don't forget, he killed his last wife. He killed his last wife in order to teach us that the miracles are from uses different things that become vessels for him to bring his salvation. And when it says he is a king of 127 nations, it's also to teach you that he made himself king because he found a great treasure. Before that, he was just one of the people that would clean the horses. He would clean the horses of Nebuet, the father or grandfather of Vasti. But did not come from a royal family. But that's the reason why he married Vasti. He wanted some royalty in his family. But because he came from nothing was able to insult him when he commanded her to come out. She says, "Who are you to talk to me like that? You're the guy that cleaned my father's horse. And of course he insulted her, she insulted him. Before you know it, Akadosu makes a miracle and kills her. But more than that, the fact that he controlled 127 countries is also to tell us that before this the writes and he brings the in chapter 11 that before this actually controlled 240 nations and after He stopped the building the rebuilding of the beta mikdash. When his advisers, his evil advisers told him to stop building the beta mikdash, Hashem punished him and the people went against him and he lost 113 out of the 240 nations that he had. Hence the reason why he had 127. The nations in Africa were under his control. and he lost it to show us that the reason why this decree came upon was because he stopped the building of the bet mikdash. In fact, it's also to teach us that it was only the Hashem that did not build the bet mikdash right after it was destroyed. After the first bet mikdash was destroyed, we had to wait 70 years before Hashem allowed us to build the second betdash. This seems like an extraordinary hardship. Many people say, "We've been waiting for 2,000 years for Hashem to bring the Msiah and let us build a third betash." Not realizing that if Hashem didn't build it, it's only because it's good for us for it not to be here yet. Why was it not good for it not to be there during those 70 years when stopped it from being built? Because after married Vashi, he decided to have this huge event for 6 months. And during those six months, he invited and commanded everybody to come to this party. And the Jewish people did not listen to Modai. And they went to the party and they drank and they made sins. And because of that they got the decree for Haman to kill them. And teach us that had the bet mikdash been around during this mishe during this party Hashem would have destroyed it. Meaning the fact that he delayed it those 70 years was to our benefit. No different than the fact that he's deleted for the last 2,000 years. Furthermore, the Malbeim brings that the entire time that we had the first bet mikdash am was sure that we were protected from all enemies and any punishment because of the betdas were bringing koba every day. Once it was destroyed, everyone said, "Okay, your protection is gone." In fact, they said that Hashem doesn't want you anymore. Hashem is not going to make miracles for anymore. And akadosh made these miracles intentionally before the building of the second beta mikdash to address all of the people that were naysayers then and all of the people that will be naysayers during the last 2,000 years of exile that say that after Hashem destroyed the second betdash then the covenant is broken this new one with the uh the Christianity the man god you're not protected. anymore. There's no miracles anymore. No, no, no. Look, Hashem made not only showed us that he's with us and protected us from protected us from Ham, but he made endless miracles for us before, during, and after. Another example of a miracle in the second verse where it seems like again a verse that doesn't talk about any miracles in those days when was sitting on his throne in the capital. What's so miraculous about this verse? The gi says, "Look at the greatness of Hashem and how much kindness he has that he has decide to make his capital, his palace rebuilt in a tiny little city called Shushan." Shushan wasn't a great city beforehand. Shusham was part of a greatest city called uh greatest state called Ilam which the says out of the 10 uh levels of immorality nine of them were brought to Ilam. So why would make this arrogant place that nobody even cares about his capital. The Gino says you know why? Because Modai lived in Shushan. Modai was one of the vessels that a kadosh Baku will use to bring the salvation. So the second verse is telling us you know why decided to go to Susan because he wanted a throne like but no one was able to build it where he was living and the experts lived in Shushan. So he tested them said, "Listen, build me a throne like a replica." They built it and said, "We're sorry, your highness, but there's no way to move this thing. It's too big." Says, "If the throne is there, I'll build a palace around the throne." He literally moved his entire palace and built a new palace around the throne. Why be so stupid? Because will use that stupidity in order to bring the salvation. In the third verse, again, another verse that does not seem like there's any miracle in it. They call in his third year of his kingdom. He made a mist. He made a celebration. And Evanza writes that he made this mishe as I said before because he just married Vashi and he was celebrating it that now he has royal lineage in his family and not just horse cleaners. So why is this miraculous? Because says the Ezra in page 12 tell us that Vashi hated Jews. The enslaved them, destroyed the bet mikdash. So she was anti-Semitic from within her blood. And what she did was take all of the Jewish girls and make them her slaves and make them her slaves and servants in the castle every single day in a most awful, embarrassing way by having them serve her naked. while they were naked. She would do everything possible to embarrass the beautiful Isl that were modest and did not want to be not servants and not want to be immodest. But the good miracle here is that did not marry her right away when he first became king. It was three years before he married her. Which means that during those three years, the daughters of Israel were not harmed by anybody. They were only harmed during those 180 days of this party after married. So the suffering of was shortened. And furthermore, it says that had this and he was with all of his ministers and his servants and there was sitting meaning together with him. Why is the fact that his ministers are sitting together with him a miracle? Because after his ministers and servants, low and high positions, saw, their king, eating and drinking and making a fool of himself right next to them day after day for months. They lost respect for him. And this would help Am because when commanded everyone to listen to Haman and go kill the Jews. They didn't run to do it. They said, "You know what? Maybe it's not necessary now. Maybe we can wait. Before you know it, it's delayed a year." Why? They don't have to listen to he's just like us. He's one of our friends and that's also the reason why they asked since they became friends with him. They're drinking and acting like a fool just like him every day for months. And eventually they were able to show their real colors because like I said these are all people from Ilam. These are place of immorality. It was the Sodom of its day. So they said listen your highness the way we show our honor in Ilam is we show our wives naked. Why don't you show us the queen that you just married naked? That's the custom. Who would ever ask a president or a king or even a CEO of a company to do such a thing? But they lost respect for because he was sitting right in front of them drooling the food, dirtying himself, spilling stuff. So they felt comfortable. The fact that they were able to ask him for this helped Akadosh bring the salvation because through this request he can now remove Vashi from the world in a natural way and bring another part of the salvation which is a still into the picture. teaches that anyone that has arrogance is uprooted from the world. And the says someone that's an arrogant person can get to a level that even his own family hates him. And I can tell you, I know some people like that that literally their arrogance has destroyed their family life to the point where even their wife and kids hates them, but they're too arrogant to change. But says it doesn't only destroy a person's life, it uproots him from the world. And in fact since moved to this place of arrogance that was another reason another strike against him to uproot him from the world. And even though he did not die at the end of the story his wife is like him and therefore used that as another reason to uproot from the world. Another thing that did during this time, it says in the first fourth verse, same verse that we've been talking about that he wanted to show all of his treasures and his greatness. And one of the things that he wanted to show is that he has declin the the uh clothing of the the garments of the co that we read about in this week's para and this was also a miracle. Why was this a miracle? Because this made the Jewish people that came to the party against the word of Modai, he told him, "Don't go to the party." And he said, "No, but come on, Rabbi. They have kosher wine over there. They're catering to us. They have kosher steaks. They have the best kashut. We're only going there to honor the king. We're not going there to make friends." But the reality is is that once they went there they were given wine much more than anybody could handle. Every person was given wine more bigger than him and commanded to drink and they all became drunk and they all started sinning. So how did this stop? When brought out all of the vessels of the beta mikdash, the Jews got offended and they started leaving. And when found out, he said, "Okay, fine, fine. Make them a party in a separate part of the uh palace." Meaning, stay here. Don't leave. But just the palace is big. They don't have to be next to me when I'm uh playing with the manora. This was a kindness from Hashem. Why? Once they separated from them, it minimized the sins. It minimized the unity between Yakov and Asaf. It minimized the problem and the damage. In verse number five says that this had the all the ministers and the servants there migad the big ones and the small ones. Why just say all the ministers? Why does I have to mention the big and the small one? The Malbeim says in order to teach us another miracle that because he sat the important ministers right next to the regular servant that cleans the bathroom. The ministers of started hating him and didn't want to listen to him anymore and looked for excuses to go against him. Later on a few of them tried to kill him. This will help bring the salvation to Is even the fact that there was a lot of wine where in verse number seven it says that there was the there was a lot of wine. Who's this wine given to? To everyone including the Jewish people. Even that was a miracle. But didn't you just say that they sinned? Yes. But that was the kindness of Hashem that they only sinned after they drank a lot of wine and lost control. Because had brought all of the immorality, all of the goot that were promiscuous to the Jewish quarters before they got drunk. They would have sinned anyway and the decree would have been much harsher because they would have sinned knowingly. But once they drank so much and lost control, it doesn't make the sin right. It doesn't make the sin allowed, but it's a lesser sin. And that was also again one of the miracles that akadosh brought that's hidden behind the scenes. In verse number 11, it says that he commanded to bring to bring the queen with the crown. Meaning only wear a crown to show everyone what she looks like with just the crown on and no clothes. The truth is Vashi wanted to go. The plan from the beginning was for to do this. It wasn't she wanted to do this. But the page 12 says that sent Gabriel to make Vashi turned from being one of the most beautiful women in the world to one of the most hideous where in a moment she became full of all over her body and with a long tail. Now this in itself was miraculous because the king commanded her to come without clothes on. Had he commanded her to come with her gown that she wore for the wedding, she could have hid the tail. She could have hid theat. But no, because she insulted and embarrassed and shamed the Jewish women, that's how brought her downfall. As the says, someone that desecrates Hashem's name in silence will be punished in public. And in fact, one of the amazing ways that a kadoshbahu rules the world is shown here because Vashi shamed the Jewish girls because she felt more beautiful than everyone because she was more beautiful than everyone. And in essence, her beauty was her everything. That's what she was proud of. That's what made her her and that's what made her so evil. And that's what brought her demise because she was so beautiful. wanted to show it to everybody and actually commanded her to come. Meaning that her beauty that caused it to sin is the same beauty that will use to destroy her. Now really we find out later on that didn't really want to kill her even after she disobeyed him. He just married her. She was his connection to the royal family. But he couldn't hide this. Why couldn't he hide it? Because it says in verse number 17 that the word of the what the what the queen did will be known by everyone. Why would everyone know about it? Why can't you just keep silent? No. Don't you remember it wasn't just the mish that had the party also decided to have a party. meaning that there was noise and chaos coming from both sides of the palace. So when he said she's commanded, everyone knew. And when she said I'm not coming, everyone knew. There was no way to hide it. Made have a party. Why? because that's another way that he will use to bring her demise to bring the salvation to Is because now you cannot hide it and the significance of that is that if they were able to hide it then could have dealt with it just like a man and his wife. Oh honey, why didn't you listen to me? You should have listened. You embarrassed me but you're lucky because there was only two people there. No, everyone knew. Tens of thousands of people there. Everyone knew she didn't listen to him. He couldn't hide it. In fact, in verse number 12, it says that Vasti refused to come to listen to the to uh to come to and says why couldn't she just simply say I can't I don't feel well because commanded her to come And after he commanded her to come and sent the lowest ministers of his to her rather than send his ministers to her ministers and have her ministers bring her like bring her in honor. He commanded her as if she's a servant. So when she refused and also insulted him that he's just a horse cleaner, it was because he insulted her and she insulted him back. And in fact, Dalik says that as soon as he sent as he sent her, as he sent the command, he regretted. Why did I just command her? I could have just asked her to come. She wanted to come anyway. We spoke about it yesterday. And he knew that he brought shame to her, but she could not hold her mouth and she shamed him back. And that brought again another miracle, another way that brought the salvation. In verse number 13 says that the king spoke to the wise men that knew the times and says who are these wise men that know the times. These are the Jewish sages that knew how to re the renewal of the moon. the mathematics of the renewal of the moon that took NASA and the rest of the scientific world thousands of years to catch up to. They were there and he told him, "Listen, what should I do with this queen? Why did he go to them?" Because he knew that the Jewish people judge with mercy. So maybe they'll judge that he doesn't have to kill Vasti. But the Jewish sages weren't just smart in Tawa. They were smart in everything. And they knew that if they tell him to kill her tomorrow when he's not drunk, he's going to blame them and kill them. If they tell him to leave her, it's like they're treating the queen as if she's uh not really queen and they'll kill them. So what do they do? They told uh oh, we're sorry. Since the beta mikdash was destroyed, there's no more senadine. So, we're not allowed to rule according to uh when when life is on the line. So, he went to the but then he had to go to his wise people. Who are his wise people? The same wise people that told him and convinced him to stop building the beta mikdash. Among them was Haman. And as we all know the next day when he woke up he was looking for Vashi and then he realized he killed her and he regretted it. Ah why did I kill Vashi? teach us in the page 70 79 that he didn't want to kill her and after he killed her he got angry at the ministers that told him to kill her meaning he would have killed the Jewish sages had they told him to kill her but since they did it it saved their life and who did he kill the ministers of his that told him to kill her except Hammon why did Hashem do this to those people because they're the same ones that told to stop building the bet mikdash, stop allowing the bet mdash to be rebuilt. So the judgment from heaven on them was brought then and the greatest judgment was brought on Haman but that will take more time to build up. Here we see miracle after miracle in every verse. I'm just giving you some examples. The last one is just simply again showing you another verse that looks like it has nothing to do with miracles. But verse number 15 says judged Vashi but he wanted to judge her according to the debt according to the law of the land the religion if you will of the idoltors because she didn't listen to him in the midash. And says this pig, he judged her according to a religion, according to the laws of the land. But the holy people, the Jewish people, he didn't judge them according to the laws of the land. He judged them with no mercy. When Haman came and he wanted to kill Am he didn't judge are they guilty are they not guilty did they do something did all of them do it some of them do it is that really the law of the land this too was miraculous lack of mercy was miraculous why because his lack of mercy an am was hypocritical And therefore it's in the world of lies and a lie has nothing to stand on. It does not survive. These are just some of the examples that are literally miracles in every verse. And we just covered maybe 10 or 15 verses. Imagine how many more are in this book and even more exist. In fact, there is another book that rever found out about after he completed this book that somebody else wrote with a similar similar uh things in it. Not the same miracles. He found different miracles on every verse of Mikat. Why is it important for us to know about all these miracles to such a point that the sages decreed that AmI is to read the migila every single year because if a person only believes in Hashem after seeing big miracles then he will eventually abandon Hashem. Why? Because big miracles are not something that a kadosh open miracles I should say are not something that a kadu does on a regular basis. In fact, if you only follow Hashem because of the big miracles, then you're not really following Hashem. Because if you understood the greatness of Hashem, you would know that everything is a miracle. And when a person understands that everything is a miracle, it helps them build in hem. It helps them build in hem. It helps them have it helps them love Hashem. It helps them in every part of the connection to Hashem. Why? Because now they're not just looking for the splitting of the ocean into 12 tunnels, one for every tribe, for them to believe in Hashem 100% and follow him. Now they know that everything that happens in their life, there's a miracle in it. Whether it's the fact that they were able to make it from their house to their job in time or they even have a job or they're able to eat and digest or they were able to find uh somebody to marry and have kids with or anything in between. The fact that you are able to be a giver and not someone that has to be a taker because they don't have a person that is truly connected to Hashem sees miracles every single day because they're everywhere. A person that's not connected to Hashem is only going to remember that Hashem even exists when there's an open miracle. But by then you've missed the whole point. You've missed the whole connection tells us that tried to destroy us. The same amal that were commanded to destroy and to remember to destroy him. The only reason why we brought the Hashem brought us this salvation is because of the merit that Amish has following the Torah throughout all of history where even when we failed it was only temporarily. It wasn't everybody and we had the mitzvah of doing chuva. We still had a connection to Hashem. When a person is looking for Hashem to be something that's equivalent to them, that he thinks like them, that does things, you know, for the same reasons, then they're not really connected to Hashem. They're connected to the wrong address, they're connected to the to to a false god. is giving each and every single one of us an opportunity to do chuva before the next big salvation comes before the next series of hidden and open miracles happen. Those of us that make the right decisions today will live a life full of miracles that only grow from here from hidden to open. those that waste their time trying to convince Amalik to like us say never again and put the stickers everywhere. Never again. Let's have Tucker Carlson and all the other anti-semmites on TV like us again. Thinking that that's going to bring us salvation. Thinking that some foreign president is going to bring us salvation. thinking that some Jewish politician being friends with the the the nations will bring us salvation. You missed the whole point. Our salvation did not come because of our salvation did not come because of Modai. Our salvation certainly did not come because of our salvation came because of who has a Torah and that Torah gives us rules. Those that follow the rules get blessed. Those that don't get punishment. And what happens when we fail to follow the rules like we did at this party? Hashem gives us an opportunity to do chuva. And when we do chuva, he shows us that throughout the whole time, we were looking at the clock of destruction coming. He was making miracles, preparing the salvation, preparing the miracle that will get us out of the situation that we're afraid of. meaning that behind the scenes he was already aware and ready for the salvation that he already has prepared for his kids. Believing in a kadosh is not something that should be hard for anybody. It's something that you should get to a point of realizing you need it because without it what distinguishes you from just a grain of sand can't compare you to an animal because even an animal knows its creator as the Tawa says even a donkey knows its owner. So, we'll use this migila as another reminder of the endless miracles that happened to us back then and the endless miracles that are happening to us right now. And if you're not seeing them, that's simply because you're not paying attention. Baku is there and he's already preparing the salvation both for our nation as well as for each and every single one of us individually. We just simply need to follow the rules. Now I'm going to answer the question that we asked in the last ch where some of you sent me the answers interesting answers. The question was there was two guys friends and they went to a jewelry store and Reuben wanted to buy nice piece of jewelry for his wife and he forgot his wallet at home. So he asked Shimon to borrow his credit card and he'll pay him. She said, "No problem. Here's the credit card and uh he used the credit card to buy $1,000 worth of uh jewelry." Few days later, Shimon runs it to Reuben again. He says, "Hey Ruben, can you give me the $1,000 that I lent you the other day?" And Ruben says, "Oh, you didn't hear there was a major crisis and the internet fell down and it was reported in the papers that that credit card company, that bank, lost all of the transactions that happened on that day, meaning that they're not going to charge you for the $1,000. So since they're not going to charge you for $1,000, why should I pay you $1,000? You don't have to pay." And they went to a bedin because she said whether I have to pay it or not is irrelevant. You still borrowed and you still bought the diamonds. Reuben said, "Yeah, but you didn't pay anything for it." So what's the what's the what's the law? Some of you said that it's right. He shouldn't pay. Didn't really cost Shimon anything. Others said he should pay part of it. But those of you that said that he has to pay it were right. And the reason is because Reuben benefited from the card. The fact that Shimon had the card, that was the benefit. Regardless of what happened a second later with the bank, with the financials, it's irrelevant. Any benefit does not belong to him. Why? It's Shimon's card. Just because he used the card, he doesn't acquire ownership in it. And therefore, since he benefited from the card $1,000, he has to pay back $1,000 regardless of the fact of whether Shimon has to pay that back to the bank or not. That was the question back then. We'll ask another question. It's probably something that's happened to at least a few of you. One woman gets a beautiful set of earrings from her husband as a gift. thousand dollar earrings. Of course, what do you do when you have a thousand dollar earrings? You show off. So, she goes to her best girlfriend and SAYS, "HEY, LOOK, LOOK, SARAH. I uh I uh I got these earrings." And Sarah says, "Wow, they're so beautiful. They real?" "Yeah, of course they're real." Rifka says to her, "Of course they're real. $1,000." Wow. Amazing. Listen, I have a wedding tonight. Family, do you think it's okay if I borrow them from you? Now, girls are not like guys. Girls lend each other everything. Strange, but that's how girls are. And Rifka says, "Yeah, you know what? Sure, you can wear them." So Sarah is happy. She borrows the earrings. She goes to our party. The next day, Rifka comes over. Hey, how was the party? Oh, it was great. It was wonderful. Oh, great. Did Did anybody notice the earrings? Yeah, everybody noticed them. It was beautiful. All right. Great. Great. Can I have them? Listen, I have bad news. Wow. What happened? I don't know what happened, but uh somehow I lost one of them. What do you mean? I lost I lost one of them. I lost one of the earrings here. I only have one. Okay, listen. You know, it happens. I know. I know. I know it happens. Uh but uh you know, I'll pay you. I'll pay you. All right. Well, let me see. Let me see. I'm going to Obviously, I can't just wear one earring. Let me go see if the jeweler has another one, and you could pay for it. She goes back to the jeweler and he told him, "Listen, I lost one of the earrings. Can you give me another one?" He says, "Sorry, man. These were uh one of a kind. We don't have anymore. Oh, you don't? All right. So, all right. Maybe I'll just give it back to you and uh you give me $500 credit to something else. He says, "Sorry, ma'am. I can't I I can't give you $500." She goes, "What do you mean, but I bought them for $1,000?" Goes, "Yeah, $1,000 for the pair. I can't do anything with one earring either. I'd have to just simply melt the gold and use the diamond for something else. I'm willing to pay you 300 bucks for them." Okay, whatever. Give me something. So, he gives her $300. She goes back to Sarah. She goes, "Listen, Sarah, it's uh it's not going to be $500. It's going to be $700." What do you mean? You have two earrings. One earring is 500. The other one's 500. He says, "Yeah, logically that makes sense. I thought that, too. But, uh, the guy wasn't willing to give me 500. He only gave me 300." She goes, "Well, it's not my problem. You know, maybe you're a bad negotiator. I lost one earring. That's half. I'm have to give you half. All right, let's go to the bed. You guys are the bad. How much does Sarah owe Rifka for losing her earring? Does she owe her 500? Does she owe her 700? Does she owe her something in between? Or maybe she doesn't owe her anything at all. I mean, after all, accidents happen. Or maybe, just maybe, Rifka owes Sarah money for the embarrassment that uh she's even asking her for this money and she lost it. Or something else you guys come up with. That's the judgment. Next week, I'll give you guys the answer. But in the meantime, anyone that has the answer, send it over to me and uh we'll seeuh what what you guys say. >> I'd like to introduce you to your new best friend. We did it. AI Rabbi is here. It's an AI model that is based on kosher Torah sources. 30 different languages that are available to you. So if you want to ask it in Spanish, in Chinese, Portuguese, whatever you want to do, it's available for you. Can you tell me about the so it's timestamped to the shield to press this green button AI rabbi on your WhatsApp. You'll have the ability to ask questions at will. You'll be provided sources and most importantly you'll be able to know the truth and be able to rely on the sources. >> Now you guys could start asking some questions and will give us the answers. Let's see. Greetings from Minnesota. Very nice. Indianapolis. Nice. Is work allowed on ping? still hearing the migila and doing all the pouring mitzvot not a full day of work. It's not it's allowed but not appropriate uh because uh pulim is a time that you're supposed to uh not only uh uh hear the migila you're supposed to have a day of celebration supposed to have mishe give out if a person uh you know will get fired if he doesn't work you know then that's something else but uh generally speaking it's not a day to work but If there's no other way out of it, then you know there's no way out of it. Just make sure you fulfill the mitzvot. My friend Justin wants to convert. Can he? Sure. If he wants to convert, he can convert. He has to number one learn what it means to be a Jew, and two, he has to move to a Jewish community. and uh connect to a one of the local rabbis that uh will guide him and eventually when he feel when the rabbi feels he's ready uh we'll bring him to the uh bedin to the Jewish court to convert. It's a process. It's not one two three. It's not like uh the false religions that allow you to convert in two minutes. It's a whole process. It takes time. What is the name of Hashem? And why is his name Hashem? Now the word Hashem doesn't mean the name of God. It means literally means the name. Why do we say the name instead of the name itself? Because as a kadosh tells us himself, as Hashem tells us himself many times in the Torah, including the Ten Commandments, we're not allowed to say his name in vain. In fact, the real name of Hashem, we're not allowed to say at all. And therefore, the uh his name is so holy, we don't say his name. We say the name as if honoring the name. Like it's like as if you would not call a uh you know a king of flesh and blood by his first name just like you wouldn't call let's say you go to the president of uh America. You're not going to call the uh you know hey Donnie come over here. No you're going to say what are you going to say? You're going to say Mr. President but that's not his name. Yes it's not his name but you have to give him honor. If you have to give honor to a leader that's uh flesh and blood, needless to say, you have to give honor to the King of Kings. What is the best way to get a guarantee that my blood test tomorrow will have good only good results? Uh guarantee? That's uh not something that you can do in one shot. But if a person wants to uh get good health, get good blessings, get good things, the most uh important thing that a person that uh can do to help themselves bring blessings to their life is to support Kiru with meaning to support whether it's by uh donating a lot of money relative to them or uh distributing books or helping people do chuva in different ways. Supporting kiru is the one thing that sages teach us brings blessings, protection more than anything else in this world and the next. So if a person wants to uh uh wants to bring a lot of those blessings to their life, that's what they would do. And in fact, every year when we have our high holidays uh campaign, uh we have a uh the special prayers part of the campaign where there's some people that are able and willing to donate much larger amounts and every year we show how those people that did it that donated the larger amounts got, you know, miracles that were beyond any comprehension. whether it's, you know, making millions of dollars or it's cures for cancer or having kids when they haven't uh even had a chance of having one for 10 years of marriage and so on and so forth. So people that support Kiru with me get miracles Can you call Hashem Aba in personal dvening? Yeah, why not? If a Jewish person renting a commercial space decides not to pay rent because it's CO 19 and leaves after three months of not paying, is he still obligated to pay rent? If that was the agreement, yes. The Rabbi is awesome. Thanks so much. But anyone that hasn't subscribed to the AI Rabbi yet, you're missing out. Actually, there was a major upgrade that was released in the last 24 hours. features, the UI, different things that were released. So, the AI Rabbi is um highly advis advisable for anyone that wants to get answers from a Torah regarding any aspect of their life with reliable sources. What do you think about the Assyrians? I don't think about them. What's a The literal meaning of is nation. So sometimes the Torah says the nations meaning the uh the nations and sometimes it says the kadosh the holy nation which is referring to Israel the Jewish people. So the word is applicable to everyone. But when it's referring to go, it's referring to the Jewish people. My friend asked, "What does the Jewish court ask when you're converting?" Well, in order for somebody to go to the bedin, the Jewish court, um they have to have a rabbi that's sponsoring them. And uh that rabbi once they feel that the uh person is ready for conversion, then he talks to the uh to the one of the daim to one of the uh um judges of the court about this person. Tells them about them. tells them uh you know their story. He tells them, you know, where they are as far as knowledge and so on and that they're confident that this person is uh, you know, is is really looking to convert and um once they go to the bed, if they're a male, they the first time they have to go and they have to do a circumcision if they're a male. If uh they're a female, then obviously it's no circumcision. And um but then after that as far as the questions that the court asks them are different basic questions of Judaism. Nothing too complicated. Uh just to make sure that the person understands what it means to be Jewish, that they're only allowed to believe in the God of Israel and nothing else. They don't believe in the New Testament. They don't uh uh believe in other false gods. Uh they're going to uh observe the laws. They know the laws. They ask him some basic questions about the laws of Shabbat, the laws of holidays, the laws of kashoot, different basic things. Uh we have a on our website a um conversion guide, an interactive conversion guide that you can download for free. You go to our website bzashem.org. In there on the top there is a on the left there is a tab called free books uh and PDFs. So over there and one of you search under the word conversion you'll find a PDF and uh you can download that for free. It's an interactive PDF where every page you click anywhere and it'll open up either uh a lecture that we've done about a specific topic regarding conversion or a book uh that we recommend or a book that you can read for free. whatever it is, uh it's all in that uh it's all in that interactive guide as well as all of the major things that you need to know for conversion. Meaning all of the things that you would need to know for the bed uh that are there and it's based off of our experience of bringing people to the bedin to convert them in the past. So these is a legitimate uh uh resources not just stuff that uh we prefer or you know we're pushing. It's it's this is what the Medine is looking for. the word uh that's uh says adonai uh is referring it's another way of saying my master. So we use that word to uh pray to Hashem to uh to to connect to Hashem but it's not doesn't it's not Hashem's name. Adon means master. Nai is my probably said in one of your previous videos, the Jews build the pyramids, but the pyramids were made with stones and the Jews use bricks. Okay. uh stop watching the history channel and try to learn religion from them. That's what I would suggest. That's the answer. Um why did sacrifice to idols? He never sacrificed to the idols. When the verse says that uh it was considered as if he sacrificed to the idols, it's referring to the fact that some of the women that he married, even though he converted all of them to Judaism, they all converted to Judaism, after he married them, some of them uh specifically Mal Katva, the the queen of Egypt, she went back to our evil ways and uh started worshiping idols again. And uh Schlomik did not rebuke her. So because he did not rebuke her, it was as if he uh was in agreement with it or partner of the sin. But he never worshiped an idol or sacrificed to the idols. It's just showing us the importance of rebuke. When you see somebody that uh uh somebody sinning, can you talk about Yes. Here Israel? Um Hashem is uh this is one of the statements from Yakovu. Yakovu was uh the first time that this was being said uh was when Yakovu was uh asking his sons if they were worshiping idols and uh the sons replied here O Israel uh meaning uh the uh Israel was another name for Yakov for Jacob. Hashem is uh our God. Hashem is one. We believe only in God. We believe only in one. But this was a uh it's one of the verses in the Torah. It's one of the ways that uh we accept the kingdom of Hashem. And uh that's another thing that Yakov said, Jacob said when he first saw his son uh Ysef for the first time in two decades. And it's a obligation for every Jew to say the Israel to say this verse uh once in the morning and once at night. Rabbi, what do you think about the Muslims? Uh if the the one if you're referring to the ones that want to kill us, I don't think too highly of them. If you're talking about people that are nice, then sure. Nice people. Thank you for being nice. I'm not really sure what kind of answer you're asking for. I don't really think about um all of these things as far as thinking about other people. Rabbi, can you tell me the definition of idol worship? Would you say people worship countries or money? Absolutely. Being afraid of anything but God is a form of idol worship. Giving the uh your your heart to anything but God could be a form of idol worship. Believing that anything has power over you other than God is a form of idol worship. Uh praying to anything but God is a form of idol worship. There's different types of idol worship. So if somebody is spending all of their time chasing money to the point where they don't have time to pray or even when they pray they don't really think about prayers they're thinking about money again then that means that they are serving money. They're it's a form of idol worship. If somebody is praising sports stars, soccer players, football players to the point where they know everything there is to know about these players. They watch all of their games. But yet when it comes to Torah, when it comes to serving God, they don't have time or interest, then that's because they are worshiping an idol. Who's the idol? The soccer player or the football player, whatever or the sport, whatever it is. So idolatry comes in many forms and sizes. In so many words in the same verse that the person asked me about that means that you are accepting the kingdom of hem. And after that the verse says and you love Hashem with all of your heart, with all of your life, with all of your resources. Meaning that a person has to understand that by accepting Hashem's kingdom. That means that we are fully committing everything to him. Everything to him and we're connecting everything to him. So even though we have to work, we have to eat, we have to procreate, we have to uh do whatever it is that you do in the world, there is a way to connect Hashem to all of it by thinking about Hashem, by being grateful to Hashem, uh by praying to Hashem and so on and so forth. But if a person is only thinking about God only when they need stuff and all of their uh uh time is spent uh you know giving everything else, their uh attention, their money, their uh their their heart, then this is a uh very very tragic uh situation and certainly form of idolatry. Does the world to come already exist to an extent? Well, there's different parts you have to understand. There is a heaven. There's two heavens and there's two genomes that already exist. That's where the righteous people that already passed on. Some of them are in the heaven. That's the lower heaven. Some of them that are more righteous are in the higher heaven. Gome, there's the lower gay. There's the higher gay. wicked you know different level of wickedness. Now as far as the heaven part that is a temporary reward for the righteous people then there is the world after Mashiach comes where this world is going to be for another thousand years after the Mashiach comes soon there will be a physical this physical world the same world we live in but it will be under different circumstances where there's not going to be evil. There's not going to be wars. Um, and there's going to be a much more majestic and holy world. Then there is several other thousands up to the 10th thousand that in essence the uh the uh spiritual and the physical combine. But then there is that comes after all of that after the 10,000th year. No one's there. No one's there right now. And we, you know, people that anyone that goes there, which is only the righteous people, uh, is only at the end. So whoever is righteous and passed on and does not have to come back to this world is now either in a lower heaven or higher heaven. After Messiah comes is going to be resurrection of the dead. The righteous people will come back to this world and live in this world for that time until the 10th,000th year. Again, each thousand is a different uh it's almost like a different world, but it's the same world. But the point is that it's a uh it's it's it's different transitions of the world. Uh so that's another level of reward and then after that is the and that nobody's there now. Nobody's there now. How is it that you're a rabbi and you make lives on Tik Tok? What's the What's the problem with doing a live on Tik Tok if my whole goal is to help people just like yourself? Listen to the words of the Torah. Get inspired by it. Apply it to your life. Become a better person. Become a better servant of Hashem. Observe Shabbat. Become moral. Stay away from immorality. do uh business in an honest way in so many words whether you're watching this on Tik Tok or you're watching this on YouTube or you're watching it on Facebook all of which are right now live uh or you're watching it anywhere else this is going to be later on uh that's our goal our goal is to get to people everywhere and anywhere we possibly can and especially in place like this in social media where now a person that's watching me and is learning Torah, they're doing that instead of watching nonsense. Meaning they were already on the app. They were already on Tik Tok or YouTube or Facebook or whatever it is they're watching me on. But if they weren't watching me, they were watching something else. And usually that something else is not a good thing. So certainly our goal is to spread the Torah, spread the truth in every single possible way that we can and everywhere that we can. And in we've had a lot of success in helping people get closer to Hashem do complete chuva uh in different ways whether it's through Tik Tok or YouTube or Facebook on our Roku television uh uh channels that we have on WhatsApp and Tik Tok uh X what all these different social medias we have people that uh have watched us from all over the world and as I've told people many times uh we have people watching ing our lectures in six out of the seven continents that I know for sure. How do I know for sure that there's six out of the seven continents? Because we have people that donate from there from, you know, each one of these continents. The only one we don't have is Antarctica, which maybe one day will come when they figure out a way of how to deal with the uh weather over there. It's not not nice weather over there so much. Uh but uh until then, we have people from all over the world. We have people from United States, from Africa, from South America, from Canada, from uh Indonesia, Australia, literally from all over the world. People that are watching our lectures and especially now that we have our lectures translated to, you know, 15 different languages. So, we have people listening to my lectures in French, in German, in uh Spanish, in Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, uh in many different languages. So it's not just people that are listening to the live that get affected by it, but also people that are listening to it when it's translated to all these different languages all over the world. So our goal is to share the truth of the Torah in every possible way in every possible uh place because this is what's going to help people. This is what's going to help people and we've seen it and will continue. Another thing to say about that by the way, oh has a person from Gambia is watching us right now and a person from Israel is watching us right now. Another thing to say that is that our sages teach us that everything that Hashem created in the world, he created it for us to use it in order to honor him. Which means that Hashem allowed people to bring the internet and social media and technology into the world, not just for them to make money, not just for them to share nonsensical videos of, you know, of ducks crossing the road or of people eating in strange ways or beating each other up. The reason why Hashem allowed all of this to come to the world is because this is going to be a way for his servants to share the truth of his Torah and to fight against the lies of idolatry uh of heresy and to warn people to stay away from the bad and to help them get to the good by showing them what the good are. And the point of all of this technology is to sanctify Hashem's name. That's the whole point. So yes, in order for this to exist, people have to make money. And yes, people have to have the, you know, the ability to make, you know, videos that are even against God and and do all types of bad things with everything. You could do bad and you could do good with. If you choose to do good, you'll be blessed. You choose to do be bad, you'll be punished. Are you orthodox rabbi or modern orthodox? How do Jewish people purify themselves to prepare for heaven? By following the laws of the Torah and doing chuva. Rabbi Nava gave a lecture and gave several points of why American Jews should leave us and go to Israel if they're able to. Of course. Okay. Rabbi Nava call to all the good he does and did. He's not the doll and um you don't uh we don't take a uh commends just because it's a good idea. We everybody has to listen to the words of the sages. The have told us time and time again. If somebody wants to make aliyah, Sternbach wrote a letter about this less than five years ago. Somebody wants to make aliyah, they can make aliyah so long as they can answer in a positive way to the three questions. Question number one, are they going to be able to become stay as religious or become more religious by going to Israel? them and their kids. Are they going to be able to if their rabbi, their yeshiva, their uh their community is better where they're living right now outside of Israel? And if they move to Israel, they'll only live in a uh place where they're going to become less religious, then they're not allowed to make aliyah. It's a sin for them to make aliyah. That's number one. Number two, do they have a way to make a living in Israel or are they going to be in the poor house? Now yeah you could say oh have sure have but you also have to understand that you have to have a plan too you have to have a plan also if you have a specific business here and that business does not travel with you and it's not a sellable business which means that you live monthto month from this business and you are simply relying on the fact that the moment you land in Israel you're going to find a replacement for all of income on day one and you don't have any other way to to make uh ends meet, that's not a good idea. It's not a good idea. You have to have some way to make a living. If you don't have a way to make a living living in Israel, but you do have a way to make a living where you are, then certainly uh moving to Israel is not a good idea for you. And the third thing is Schlomite. If you want to move to Israel, but the rest of your family does not want to move to Israel, especially your spouse does not want to move to Israel to such a point where they say that if you move to Israel, we're getting a divorce. Guess what? You're forbidden from moving to Israel. You're not allowed to get a divorce just for the sake of of moving to Israel. So to say, oh, people should go to Israel if you know, it's great. It's nice. But you have to understand that there are that give us guidance. Guidance that takes into effect. What is that? Considers all of the implications that have to do with life beyond getting on an airplane, beyond being idealistic and living next to the uh the graves of the and going to a ancient synagogue. Is teach us how to live as a Jew. You do not have an obligation to live in Israel. right now. Israel is not considered right now to be a place we're obligated to live in. Msiah has not come. In fact, if you look at the Torah sages throughout history, many of them lived outside of Israel, whether it's the Rambam, the Ramban for most of his life, Rashi, the Baltoot, the Talmud Bavi, all of the sages, you know, the Talmud Bavi, many of lived outside of Israel. And even the Torah sages of the last hundred years traveled and lived outside of Israel for several years and sometimes on a permanent basis. Whether you have Araf leaving Israel for several years to live in Egypt um that moved to Panama uh and lived there for the rest of his life. The point is is that to just say, "Oh, live in Israel if you can." If that's all anybody said, I'm not saying I don't know what Rabbi Nova says. I'm just reading what you wrote. Anybody says, "Oh, move to Israel." If that's all they said, that's an irresponsible statement. Why? Because you have to take everything into consideration. And to make people just be idealistic and say, "Oh, if you move to Israel, everything will be great." It's not true. It's simply not true. Anyone that's not aware of what's happening in Israel has to understand that for many people it's much more difficult to live a religious life in Israel than it is anywhere else in the world because right now the government of Israel has declared war against the religion against Judaism. So if you are a 40, 50 year old man with no young kids, you want to go move to Israel, go. Go move to Israel. Go tomorrow. Go right now. Stop the shield. Go fight right now. If you could afford it, you could go there. Go. But you're not THE AVERAGE PERSON. THE AVERAGE person is somebody that's married to another somebody THAT HAS A FEW SOMEBODY KIDS, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, 10 kids, WHATEVER THEY HAVE. AND SOME of them ARE TEENAGERS. WELL, GUESS WHAT? AS SOON AS THEY GO TO ISRAEL, those teenagers are on the army's target. THEY ARE TEENAGERS ARE going to you're GOING TO GO TO THE ARMY. NO, NO, NO. We're religion. We don't want to go to the army. Okay. So, you're going to go to jail instead. What are you going to tell that somebody? Move to Israel so your kids can go to the army and defend ALL THE ZIONISTS OVER THERE THAT ARE fighting against the Torah. What do YOU TELL THEM? MOVE TO ISRAEL BECAUSE WHAT? WHAT? WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IF YOU'RE GOING TO MOVE TO ISRAEL? WHAT? You're going to defend his kids from the terrorists that are trying to kill him every two seconds, whether spiritually or physically. You're going to take the responsibility on your shoulders that his little 15year-old kid that grew up with pretty much the the the scariest thing that HE SAW IN HIS LIFE IS TRAFFIC. And now he's going TO GO TO ISRAEL. SECOND year he's there, he's going to the army. YOU'RE GOING TO PROTECT HIM. YOU'RE GOING TO FIGHT FOR HIM. YOU'RE GOING TO TELL THE FATHER THAT uh he HAS TO GO TO WAR. Now you're going to say, "No, no, I went to the army. I would go TO THE ARMY." SO YOU GO. You can't decide for other people. Not everybody wants to go to the army. Not everybody should go to THE ARMY. AND GUESS WHAT? Right now, that's no longer a free choice because I have bahim in Israel that the the the Israeli government treated them like outright criminals. showed up AT THEIR HOUSE AT 2 3:00 in the morning, SMASHING DOWN the door, taking the kid, the teenager, 18YEAR-OLD KID OUT OF THE bed and put him in jail. Why? Because he didn't go to the army and he went to yeshiva instead. So, who who's going to take him out of jail? You or or or the uh the other idealistic people? Who's going to take him out of jail? I don't like idealistic people because they're stupid. You have to take real life into consideration. Real life into consideration. Living in America is not easy at all AND IT'S NOT FOR EVERYONE. Living in Israel is not easy and is not for everyone. Everyone has to evaluate their own circumstances and speak to their Rav and decide accordingly. There is no oneizefits-all. For some people, moving to Morocco is the best thing they can do, the Moroccan Jewish community. For other people, the best thing they can do is move to the community in Lakewood in America. For other people, the best thing to do is to move to Tvat or to move to Bamesh or to move to uh uh you know somewhere in Jerusalem. Everyone has to evaluate their circumstances. There is no oneizefits-all. And this idealistic talks, oh, you know, the war is coming and and if you want to be saved, go to Israel, Khabibi. The war is going to be in Israel. The land will not protect anyone. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU ARE. The only THING THAT WILL PROTECT anybody is how they served Hashem before the war started. THAT'S THE ONLY thing that you will protect you. If you're a wicked person, you could be sitting on top of the and still get destroyed. And if you're righteous, you could be literally right next to the atomic bomb and Hashem will save you. Why? Because runs the world. Not the land, not the government, not the weapons. So you have to understand we cannot be idealistic to the point of stupidity. We have to be conscious of reality and apply the Torah to reality and not live in fairy tale dreams because to make idealistic statements breaks up marriages, makes life hell for people. I know because I deal with those people that they listen to all types of idealistic things and they abandon everything. Last year you were Shabbat. This year you're living in this year you're living next to the you think that what you're you left your wife and kids back in the cave and you're here. You think you're doing a mitzvah. You're not doing a mitzvah. You're not doing a mitzvah. I had somebody come to me just a few days ago told me, "Listen, Rabbi, I'm thinking about going to learn in Kell full-time." Now, THIS SOUNDS LIKE EVERY RABBI'S DREAM, RIGHT? A person that did Chuba just a few years ago wants to go learn in Cole fulltime. If you were the rabbi, YOU WOULD SAY, "YEAH, THIS GUY'S A SADIK." WELL, GUESS WHAT? You would be wrong. Why? Because I told them don't go to k because it will ruin your life. Not because Torah will ruin your life. Your decision will ruin your life because you are not alone. You're a married man. And your wife is not on board with you going to k. And the fact that she's not on board will become even worse after you go to cola and you don't make an income anymore and you don't have a way to feed the kids anymore. And on top of it, YOU'RE MOVING TO A DIFFERENT place and guess what? You're going to end up in a divorce. Hashem does not give you the Torah. You can get a divorce. You can work and you can STUDY ALL AT THE SAME TIME. YOU DON'T HAVE to go to a coal to study. You could study at home after work. You could study at home before work. Being at col is not the only way for you to study Torah. And a person has to take every single situation into consideration. There are some students of mine that I tell them the best thing for you is to go to yeshiva to go to Kell park there for the next 5 10 20 50 years. For some people I tell them absolutely not. Why? It will ruin your life. Why is one this, one the other? Because you take into consideration their personal situation and not act idealistic and give a one-sizefits-all advice. Judaism is not oneizefits-all. The Torah is not oneizefits-all. We have to know how to apply the laws. That's why the Torah says, Hashem gave us the Torah to live by it and not to die by it. So I understand people think that if they move to Israel and they go to or they go to Jerusalem or they go to wherever they uh wherever they they they they dream is to be everything is going to be great. Guess what? It may not be because the itself says three things are acquired through suffering. Three things. One, you're not going to get to Allah without suffering. Two, Israel. Living in Israel. Everyone has to understand living in Israel is not simple. Living in Israel is not simple. You may be used to getting Amazon boxes to your house every day, every other day. Get your groceries delivered. You're used to, you know, people saying, "Thank you for coming, sir. THE CUSTOMER'S ALWAYS RIGHT." GUESS WHAT? YOU SHOW UP TO ISRAEL, first thing you're going to get. Customers all right. YOU'RE GOING TO GET KAFA TO THE FACE. What customer always right? What are you talking about? NO CUSTOMER. I'M RIGHT. I'M THE BOSS. There's no customer service in Israel. and you're a little American or little English man, LITTLE AUSTRALIAN SHOW UP TO ISRAEL WITH YOUR CUSTOMER ALWAYS RIGHT MENTALITY, YOU'RE GOING TO GET A CUFFER TO THE FACE. THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO GET. AND GUESS WHAT? Your little American kids ARE GOING TO HAVE AN ADJUSTMENT. So again, I love Israel. I was born there. I wish I can live there. And I'm only here because my rabbi tells me I have to be here. The second he tells me I don't have to be, I'm out. I'M GOING TO ISRAEL, TOO. But that doesn't mean I'm gonna tell everybody to go too. Why? Every case has to be treated with responsibility. Cannot be idealistic. Why? Because the Torah is Torah for life. It's Torah for life. I know some people that made idealistic moves. They left everything in a short period of time. I'M MAKING ALIYAH. They thought they were like back in, you know, leaving Egypt. And guess what? Some of them ended up getting divorce. Some of them ended up losing all their money and coming back to the country they came from. Some of them live there and they're miserable, but they can't afford to leave. And some are very very happy that they did and they tell me, "Listen, you should come and we love you. We'd love to have you here. It's not a one-sizefits-all." Some people succeed and have a lot of blessing as a result of their move. Some people do not. You cannot give advice. Everybody has to go. It's not true. Some people, especially those that have young kids that are teenagers, the last thing you should do is move to Israel right now. Why? I don't know. Why would you want your kids to go to the army? For what? They don't need more soldiers and you don't need more dead bodies. What are you going to do? tell your kids go to the army so they can go to the army and then beat you up because you're religious because that's what a lot of the soldiers are doing now in the police officers. They're commanded to beat up the religious people to go take a religious woman and beat her up in the middle of the street and take off her kis. That's what they did a week ago. A woman that was old enough to be his mother. They beat her up. That's what you want your kid to go to the army so they can beat you up. The government is training these young 18year-old kids to be criminals if they didn't already become criminals. They become criminals after they join the army. And don't get me wrong, I love soldiers. I have many soldiers that have listened to my shim, that have helped, that have donated, that have helped, and I continue to help. But right now, what's happening, the government is at war. The government of Israel is at war against the Torah. They are literally influencing and forcing these kids to beat up their brothers and sisters. But when it comes to the enemy, the terrorists, they're not allowed to kill them. They're not allowed to kill them. If they kill one of the terrorists, they go to jail. Soldiers, Israeli soldiers sitting in jail because they killed an Arab terrorist that already killed somebody. No, Netanyahu is not a good Jew. He's a What are you talking about? Good Jew? What's good about him? That he's Shabbat? That he allowed dozens of planes full of Christian missionaries to enter Israel during CO 19 when Jews were not even allowed to leave their house, but he allowed the idoltors, the missionaries to COME TO ISRAEL. WHAT'S good about him that he sold out the entire country as a as as an experiment for these drugs during CO 19? What's good about him? Now, don't get me wrong, the next guy that wants to replace him is worse than him. But they call him a good Jew. What's good about what Jew? What what's what's Jewish about him? He's a Shabbat. He doesn't keep. It's a compulsive liar. Like all politicians, people have to understand, we have only one truth. That's the Torah. That's the Torah. Everything else is a lie. But the Torah does not tell us to live with blind faith and be idealistic. Doesn't tell us that. It doesn't tell us that. Torah tells us use the Torah to live by it. Which means if you're going to have a better, easier way to serve Hashem, to raise your kids to be religious Jews, to learn Torah in the exile, then stay in the exile, whether that's in America or it's in Iran. For all I care, doesn't make a difference. If you're going to be a religious Jew and your kids are going to be religious Jews and you're not worried about your life, you're not worried about uh you know somebody killing you every day. You're worried simply about serving Hashem and you're doing that perfectly well. Wherever you are, then stay where you are. There's no obligation for you to move. Now, once Mashiach comes, all of the things that are problem are not going to be a problem anymore. He's going to, you know, fight all the enemies of the Tawra. He's going to fight all the wicked things. But until then, we're living in the exile. We're living in the exile. Even if you live in Israel, it's still considered the exile. Why? Because Israel is not controlled by the Torah. Right now, Israel is controlled by people that are against the Torah. The politicians that are running Israel are against the Torah. Many of them are communist, heretics, atheists, lefty, liberal. They hate the Torah even if some of them wear a keepa. So we have to stop deliluding ourselves to thinking that oh everybody should move who has big enough shoulders to say such a thing didn't say such things and you're telling me somebody is giving blanket advice like this? No. I highly doubt that Rabbi Nava said everybody should go. He said, you know, probably said something similar to what I'm saying or maybe added more color to a single statement. But again, regardless of who said it, I don't care if a uh, you know, a uh, what the real Torah tells us what I just said. How do I know? That's what taught us. That's what taught us. And that's that's what we know. That's the truth. There's no other opinions. Other opinions are wrong. Simple. And it says to afflict yourself. What does this command mean? This is usually referring to fasting, afflicting yourself during uh yipool. When something stops me from doing something, how can I tell if it's Satan's trying to block me or if it's Hashem guiding me? Uh, and does it have anything to do with having to? Uh, well, it depends what you're trying to do. If you're trying to learn more Torah, you're trying to give more. You're trying to publicize Torah and something is getting in the way, then certainly that's the Satan because you're about to publicize Hashem's name. You're about to learn more about Hashem, get closer to Hashem. So certainly the greater the reward for what you want to do, the more resistance there's going to be in order for you to achieve it. On the other hand, if a person is a uh about to go make a sin, they want to go to a pub, but all of a sudden they have a flat tire, that's not the satan. He's not trying to stop you from going to the pub. He's not trying to stop you from going to make sense. That's Hashem trying to help you before you lose your so he tries to guide you, tries to stop you, tries to steer you. So it all depends on what the intention is, what's the destination and as far as and again it's a it's more about the the the bigger thing is is about what is your destination? What's the objective of where you're going? Can you tell us about insuff infinity without end? The only thing that uh we know is that we don't know. There is uh no possible way for a human being to understand and there's no possible way for a human being to understand timelessness, spacelessness. If you look at the writings of the Gon from about 1100 years ago, he goes into the explanations of why uh you know anyone that believes in uh you know in in uh anything physical uh or that God has a body or that he subject to time or the man god that they have in Christianity all these other things simply does not understand how far they are from the truth Because they god does not have a body and the definition of God and what he is being the creator he cannot have a body he cannot have parts meaning it's not only because it says it in the Torah it's because by definition the creator cannot be part of the creation and all of the things that I mentioned are part of the creation time is a creation space is a creation physicality is a creation the creator does not become part of the creation Furthermore, a person that um wants to give God an image because they misunderstood what it says in the Torah, let's say in last week's para where it talks about how the uh Mosheu and the uh the elders are seeing God and uh on the bottom of his feet there's a stone. Now, this is a prophetic vision that they're seeing. They're not actually seeing God. This is a uh the uh sitting being on something. It's not God. God is giving the prophets different types of things to see in order to transpire a message to them. God does not have an image of any kind. Nothing. There is no image. There is no nothing physical about him. There's nothing no shape, no size. Um so when a person starts putting a picture for God or puts him at a specific place or a specific time then what they're doing is that they are making God tangible physical and thereby limited which is the opposite of God. The reason why he's none of those is because all of those things are his creation and he does not become part of his creation. He is not part of time. He existed before he created time. This is also the reason why it's impossible to say that God needs anything because he created everything. And since he was before the creation, why did he wait to create something in order to need it? So he doesn't need anything. Furthermore, since he's not subject to time, the past, the present, and the future are all the same to him. to us says we only understand something once we acquire a certain knowledge about it. Once we see something, hear something, uh you know, learn about something, once we encounter something. And therefore, our knowledge and us are two separate things. Hashem is not two separate things. When we say Hashem, Hashem is one that means him, his thoughts, his creation, everything is one. There's he's not pieces. When we want to create something, we need stuff to create it. We need stuff to build it. Hashem simply thinks of something and it comes to being. He doesn't need stuff. He didn't take all types of chemicals and and and pieces and put them together and meshed them together to create the world. He simply thought to exist and therefore it came to existence. The sun, the moon, the earth, the universe, you, me, everything else. So all of this is concepts that are beyond human comprehension because a human being cannot comprehend timelessness. You cannot think of anything without time because you are physical and time depends on physicality. There is no such concept as time without physicality. In order for it to be subject to time, it has to be physical. Has to be material of some kind. Even if it's limited material like fire, it's still subject to time. There's still some element of physicality of material in in fire. Even though it's the really the highest level of uh of spirituality, the highest thing we can get close to spirituality, but still being physical is fire. But the point being is is that Hashem is not subject to time. He's not subject to space. And we cannot think of something that does not occupy space or time because everything we think of is either from the past or the present. Because that's what we've encountered. That's what we've encountered. Anything that we can think of, we have a picture of it in our mind. What it looks like or what we think it should look like. So the there's nothing like him. He's not one in comparison to two. But like the says a united, you know, the fact that Hashem is one means that he's one and there is nothing else to compare him to. There is nothing else to compare him to. So when people start breaking up Hashem into pieces where they say oh there's this part of the this part of the this part the cabalistic terms really they're they're not doing it appropriately if they're not explaining that these are not different parts of God. God does not have parts but these are different ways that au unveil himself. It's like the, you know, Hashem shows the prophets different visions. He shows Mosher Rabenu certain visions. He shows certain visions. He shows everybody certain visions. And the only one that was able to uh hear a message from hem without a uh somebody in the middle was Mosheu. But when Hashem spoke to Moshe, it's not the same thing like you and I are speaking to each other or you're speaking to your wife or your husband because you know that you have a voice. You have vocal cords that create sound. Hashem doesn't have anything physical. Which means that when Hashem communicated to Moshe Rabenu, he created he created a sound in order for Mosheu that was still subject to physicality to be able to comprehend the prophecy he was telling him. Hashem doesn't have a voice, doesn't have a sound, doesn't speak like you and me. to all of the things that we see in a Torah that are, you know, uh, an arm, a mouth, an ear, the eye of God, all of these anthropomorphic, uh, uh, anthropomorphic terminologies are not because God has anything physical, but rather these are different ways that a kadosh is trying to help us understand based on our limited ability to comprehend. and things that are beyond the physical. When we understand message that there was a communication, we understand message that is subject to physicality. A message that's communicated either through sound or through uh vision, through light, you know, through through something that we can put something tangible on. gave the prophecies to different prophets in different ways that he created specifically for them. But when you see for example uh the word God that speaking to somebody most of the time you will see Malik Hashem the angel of God the explains that means that it's not Hashem but rather it's an angel that Hashem sent to represent him to speak to Abrainu to speak to Yakov to speak to speak to somebody else. The only time it doesn't say is when speaking to times that it says it, there are times that it doesn't say it. Why? Because Hashem spoke to him in a higher level of prophecy without something in the middle. But again, even during that communication between Hashem and Moshe Rabenu, it's Hashem had to create a creation in order to communicate in a way that Mosher Rabenu would be able to understand. And that would be a voice, that would be a vision, that would be, you know, a certain light, special light that uh uh, you know, is different for every prophet and so on and so forth. Is there any fora or something we can do on puin? Uh, one thing that a person can do is give a lot of to help publicize dua to publicize dua even if it's without publicizing books and so on. Kiru is the number one way that a person can bring blessing on their life. Uh when it comes to pona, when it comes to pretty much everything. Uh that's one way. Uh another thing on is a person can you know take on themselves uh more Torah. Uh so if let's say they learn Torah half hour a day or an hour a day, commit to learning more. An hour a day, two hours a day, whatever you're doing, do more. That's another thing that because the more blessings you bring on yourself, the more merit you bring in yourself, uh the the more ends up coming. Uh that's that's another thing that a person can do. Um you know it's when it comes to pu those are two things that certainly everybody can do. Um as far as generals gulafona giving uh is a uh the sages teaches somebody that gives humish the go says it someone that gives uh is assured they'll become wealthy during their life. He doesn't give the time. It doesn't happen necessarily within a week a month a year two years five years but Hashem promises that a person that gives kish will get will become wealthy. Person that gives m will have their money protected. meaning that they won't lose their money. Uh that's how the go explains it. So if a person gives homage to the right place uh they could get a lot of blessings from it. Uh that's another thing they can do. Schlomite is uh one of the things that can either bring blessings to a life or problems. If you have schlumb it helps pana. If you don't have schlumb you'll have problems with pasa. Uh also uh kadusha protecting your bleet protecting your eyes. person that watches pornography or immodesty uh things like that they're ruining their ba they're ruining their bha person that protects their eyes is bringing bha uh also gambling anyone that gambles uh or does unethical business is ruining their ba anyone that does not is protecting their ba so there's a lot of different things that could either destroy the baka or add or at least protect it. But again, it's these are things some most of them you could do all year. Uh not just necessarily on would you make a series on Kuzari is that the same one day maybe it's a fantastic uh seph and teaching. Did you watch Amazon series House of David? No, never heard of it. I see. Try to see if I can take some questions. Okay. Is there an angel named Hashem? Yes. Yes. Okay. It's uh good to be back, good to learn, good to prepare and get closer to another way to serve Hashem. Not just Shabbat that's coming, but also Pim. Make sure that you fulfill the mitzvot before and the further make sure that during pim everybody uh acts appropriately and does not uh make but we'll have a sh before pim on Sunday night. So we'll get another opportunity to remind you guys. Thank you very much for learning with us. Anyone that wants to support can go on our website bzashem.org. Uh for those of you that uh want to support uh and you want to use um different currencies uh out aside from the dollar or simply uh different website, we have bh tora.org. A lot of people have an easier time donating there, especially if they want to donate shekels or uh different uh currencies from Brazil, from uh different parts of the world. Uh but uh the key is to learn more Torah, apply it to your life, publicize it, get more people to do the same thing, and we will all succeed. Called to learn again next week. We're finally here. The new Kirv box opens up. A nice little cushion here. We got Let's see if it's charged. Isn't that amazing? 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