SHEMOT: Pharaoh, Batyah and Us | STUMP THE RABBI (256)

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And of course a big kizuk and a big is to all of you that are doing the tikunit during this time of shaveim. We have a whole website uh full of shim for tikunit. Uh it's tikunit.org. You can go there. You could watch the shim duva and if you want to do a tikun over there as far as donate, you could also donate there as well. Uh and uh lots of good things, lots of good things to learn tonight. And uh just as a uh reminder for everyone that uh wants to uh do kiru, especially for the issue of uh tikunit to get yourself one of these uh car magnets that you can put on your car at least for these next several weeks during shaveim. You can get it for free in our kir store, krooftore.org. And uh there's also a uh decal which one of my students just sent me a uh video of him putting it on his uh car window. Whatever you prefer with it, the magnet, the decal. The point is put it there. Help people do chuva. Watch the film and do chuba. So we are in these are the names of the children of Israel. This is the para where the exodus begins. But of course, we are in a similar situation today, even though most people don't realize it. Although the stories in the entire Torah, needless to say, in our weeks para, seem like old stories of past times, the eternal Torah gives us relevant lessons and news for today and even for tomorrow if we simply pay attention to the details. Anyone that's watched my shim, especially when it comes to the weekly para can always see how every question to every single answer that you have that week is always in that week's para and we've done this time and time again over the years and we'll do it again tonight. The question that we're going to ask today in answer is how did convince the most successful people in the world to become slaves? Yes, Am was successful but not just successful. They were the most successful people in the world. How did he convince them to become slaves? Another question is how did his daughter Batya see the hypocrisy and the lie when so many people didn't? And last but not least is what was the point of Mosheu showing Ami is the miracles, the snake, you know, the stick turning into a snake, his hand turning into the water turning to blood. All you know why? Why? If the Torah itself says not to choose your leader based on miracles, these and much more will be addressed tonight, followed by questions and answers from you that I'm sure are going to take the sh to the next level. So we start off where after the entire saga of the 12 tribes realizing that their dear brother Ysef that has been gone for two decades is really the visceroy of Egypt. We finish off the parala with not only Ysef dying but also Ysef leaving his brothers a nua a prophecy that akadosh will take them out of Egypt one day. Why take them out if they're doing so well? They were the leaders. They were extremely successful multi-millionaires. And in fact, they did not listen to Yusf Sadi's instructions when they first came. He told them not to leave Goshin. Apparently, they didn't want to listen or their kids didn't want to listen. They wanted to expand and buy real estate in different places. And this is one of the things that will bring them to a very very heavy price. As the paradise starts off by telling us that Is became extraordinarily successful, extraordinarily large in size where even though they only came to Egypt with 70 souls by this time they became enormous and the children of Israel it says in chapter 1 verse7 the children of Israel were fruitful teamed increased and bec became strong very very much so and the land became filled with them. The reason why there are six adjectives describing how much am grew is not only because they grew in so many different ways but also to give us a hint that a kadosh made a miracle that every Jewish woman would give birth to six babies at a time. If it was only like that today, I know that some of you are saying shalom right now, but in reality, just imagine. Imagine that a woman having six kids at a time, a religious woman having let's say six, seven, 10 births during her marriage. By the time you finish breakfast, you already have to serve dinner. But the point is that was doing well, was doing extremely well. But then the Torah says, "A new king arose over Egypt who did not know." And he said to his people, "Behold, the people, the children of Israel, are more numerous and stronger than we. Come, let us outsmart it, lest it become numerous, and may it be that if a war will occur, it too may join our enemies and wage war against us and go up from the land. So here convinces his people that these successful Jews, these that built the country are really the enemy within. You know, sort of like when people say, you know, these Jews that invented the microprocessor they use in the computer and the phone that you're watching me right now and they also developed the biggest company, technology companies in the world, whether it be Google, Facebook, extraordinary parts of Microsoft, developed the most extraordinary graphics chips in the world in the number one company in the world today and as far as market value Nvidia or even what many people don't realize your USB the USB they use was invented by an Israeli many different things were developed by the Jews but yet in recent years somehow within the countries that they reside in whether it be America America, England, and unfortunately even Israel. They're viewed like enemies by many people. Just yesterday, there was an unfortunate tragedy where during a protest where the religious community was protesting against the government's war against them to force the Baha to join the army that doesn't even need them because they don't even have enough weapons for their own soldiers. Needless to say, they don't need it. But they want to destroy the world of Tawra. So we they protested And of course, tragedy came when a Arab bus driver decided to run over one of these young boys and kill him. Do you think the government is upset about this? No. Do you think there's going to be any type of mercy coming from them? No. In America, you see that some of the talking faces that used to be seemingly pro-Israel, whether it's the Rashit, Candace Owens, or some of the other people have become avid anti-semites, bringing up all types of conspiracy theories, all types of lies in so many words looking up under every single thing they can just to find something bad to say about the Jews. Even now as I'm speaking to you, there are some people that are saying, "How are you enjoying the Venezuela oil?" Because Trump attacked Venezuela and of course uh took the uh president as a uh as a prisoner. But the anti-semites say, "No, this this whole thing is by the Jewish people." How? In their minds, it's a whole thing. In their minds, the Jews did it, not Donald Trump. In their mind, the Jews are benefiting from it. Not Donald Trump. So that's what Pero did. But with that being said, how did the same same anti-semitic paro convince the Jewish people that were successful that were developing the USBs of their time, they were developing the most prosperous real estate of their time, that were developing the microprocessors of their time? How did he convince them to become slaves? You can't just say, "Oh, all of you become slaves." Well, he said, "The only way we can convince these people because they're clever is by fooling them." Fooling them with what they seem to crave. What do they crave? They crave more success. They crave more success. And you know the reason why I don't want to recognize Ysef anymore is because I want to pretend like he didn't do it. So how could I pretend like he didn't do it? He didn't build the country. I'm going to do the same thing. And it says in verse number 11 that they built storage cities for parole. Where did we see this before? A couple of times. We saw this in Palat Mikitz. We saw it in chapter 41 verse number 35. that when Ysef told P the interpretation for his dream, he told him that in order for you to protect your country, you have to build cities, special cities to store the food and use the same thing. Just like it says that uh built storage cities said build food in the cities and safeguard it. And then later on again and he placed the food in the cities. So these special cities that Yousef built, I'll do the same thing said Po. That way I get the recognition and no one's going to dare say that I am doing the same thing like because he doesn't exist anymore. In fact, we're going to make it fancy. We're going to give it brand. Call it Pamis. How did this parole convince everybody? Because parro the name itself also gives us a hint of how he did all this. Pero is spelled in Hebrew Fin. If you take the first and the last letter and make it one word, it's P which means mouth. Take the two letters that are in the middle and make it one word means means evil. Evil mouth. What does it mean evil mouth? P had an evil mouth. He knew how to scam people. He knew how to convince people. He knew how to bring evil into the world without people realizing it until it's too late. And per did this first with his own people and then he moved on to the Jewish people. He moved on to the Jewish people. This is no different than convincing people today. Go to the predatory lending business. It's good for business. You don't have any special skills of medicine or architecture or accounting or technology, but you're still going to need to make six figures, seven figures, right? Young kid 18, 19, 20 years old says, "Yeah, sure. with the yeshiva education for, you know, for being so expensive and the houses, you know, being so expensive. Of course, I'm going to need at least uh, you know, half a million dollars a year to be just to be a Jew. At least he thinks so in his mind. So, how are we going to make that much money? Come into the predatory lending business that we call something else. We call it helping society, helping the economy. We call it all types of names that as if we're helping people, but in reality, we're destroying the economy. We're destroying people's lives. And if that's not enough, they even call people to invest just like they did call one of my students who told me about it today. One of my students from England told me that they are trying to convince him to invest in their business and they're guaranteeing him 30% on his money. an absolutely absurd return and he said it was very very enticing and the only reason I didn't do it is because of your last lecture about this topic after I heard you say what are the ramifications that are happening to people's lives I looked at it in a completely different light but he said it's very very enticing and of course he's not the only one that's almost falling into this satan of today. Every day I get somebody that asks me about this business. They want to get into it or they're already in it and they're asking if there's a way that there's a for it. There's a leniency for it. There's a permission for it. There is no permission for predatory lending. The Jewish people are forbidden from lending these predatory loans to Jews or to Gentiles. It's forbidden according to the Torah. It's forbidden according to the sages and anyone that wants to challenge that answer. We invite them to read our chuva that's in a couple of Rab Fry's books and be our guest to find an one error in the whole chva. Every that has read the chuva is not only agreed with us. and said that this chuva shows that not only is cash advance business inherently evil and forbidden for the Jewish people, but this chuva, this response, this answer is indisputable. No one can actually come up with a real reason of why it's allowed. And therefore, anyone that tells you it's allowed to be in the cash advance business is either ignorant of the actual or they are simply so biased as a result of being blinded by the money and the donations they're getting from it that they don't care what the is anymore. But per of 3,000 years ago is still alive today. He's also there's many of there's many of evil mouths out there that will convince the Jewish people to go against Hashem thinking that it's okay. And Par did the same thing. told everyone, "Listen, you uh Jewish people, you Israelites, as they were called at the time, you're very successful. You built already your empires. You have big store in the corner. You have a big building. Why don't you guys help the country a little bit, close down your businesses and start working for us and don't worry about money? I'll pay you double what you're making now. What are you making? 100,000 a month? I'll pay you 200,000. What are you making? 5,000. I'll pay you 10,000. So, of course, if the patriotism didn't convince them, the charismatic talk and double prophets in the process certainly did. And almost everybody joined the government. Why do I say almost? because there was a few that were not convinced to leave what they were doing. This was the Levy tribe. The same tribe of Moshe and Aon and Miriam, the tribe that will bring the salvation later on. They weren't working. They weren't businessmen. They were men of Torah. And they weren't willing to leave a TA not for a thousand, not for 10,000, not for 100,000, not for 100 million. They chose to work for Hashem. Even if that means poverty, even if that means difficulty, even that means missing out on extraordinary profits. This is what the in around the world that are learning Torah choose every day. But what can we do that there is an entire government that calls itself the Israeli government that wants to go to war with them? It says, "No, no, no. Not only you should leave the yeshiva and the Torah, you have to leave. We're going to make laws to force you to leave and beat you up in the streets and in public and kill people. WHAT PAR DIDN'T DO the Israelis doing, the Israeli government is doing to its own brothers in Israel. What par didn't do, they're doing. And P convinced the vast majority of the Jews just like they're convincing the F community today to abandon some of them at least to abandon honest business and going to predatory lending to go into all types of things that are against the Torah. Why? But aside from the Levy tribe, there was somebody else that was not fooled. In chapter 2 tells us about this very very special person after Moshe Benu is born. His mother Yadika realizes that she cannot continue raising him. He's already 3 months old and if the Egyptians find out about him, they'll certainly kill him. So she puts him in the little basket, sends him off, trust that Hashem is going to take care of him. And Akadoshu made it so that a very special person made a decision that day to become part of the abused slaves of the Egyptians. none other than Batya Batu. And the Torah tells us in multiple places in chapter 2 verse number five, and verse number seven, verse number eight, verse number nine, verse number 10. constantly calling her Pharaoh's daughter, Pharaoh's daughter. Her name was Batya, but Torah calls it Bat Po. The Gar and the Midas tell us that the name is Batya, but Torah says pero. Why? Because it's very important for us to know this was bat. This was the daughter of par that chose to become meaning the daughter of Hashem. How? ignoring the enticement of money, the enticement of glory, the enticement of leadership, the enticement of honor and going to Hashem. And for that she merited not only raising deel Moshe Benu who she initially named in Egyptian Monios or Monos which translates to Hebrew as Moshe according to the Ibeneza. But this Monos became the goel but also the prophet of all prophets and the one that actually visits Batya inabah every day he comes to visit her according to kazal give her honor she is one of the 10 people that never died. She went to Allah alive. Why? She wasn't a regular person that converted because she liked the by Rabbi your own Ruven. She wasn't the regular person that did Chuva because Hashem took back his millions. No, she was the daughter OF THE MOST POWERFUL PERSON ON THE planet and she was next in line to become the most powerful person in the planet and she abandoned all of that to become Batya, the daughter of Hashem. No matter what the risk is, no matter the consequences, she eventually says she marries Ben. She ends up living a life unlike anyone other. She sees Matan. She's at Mount Sai. She sees and hears the word of Hashem. She lives throughout the entire desert. She goes to alive. Why? There was a difference between but and paro use this power use the gifts that Hashem gave him. That's why it's called evil mouth. chose to abandon all of that and use whatever she had that's within our power to become BA. Now as the para continues, we see that after Mosherenu runs away and then eventually after 40 years of being the king of Kush, he leaves there becomes the son-in-law of Vito, married to Tipa, a shepherd And one day nearly 80 years old, nearly 60 years after he's left Egypt, a who says the time has come for me to tell Moshe that he is the go, he is the Msiah that's going to take my children out of Israel, out of Egypt. And during this extraordinary meeting with the burning bush, Akadosh Bahu tells Moshe what he has to do. And Moshe says, "Well, when I go there in chapter 3, verse number 13, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, the God of your forefathers has sent me to you and they say to me, what's his name? What shall I say say to them?" And Hashem says famously, I shall be as I shall be. But you say to them, "Although my name is I shall be as I shall be." Hashem said to him, "So shall you say to the children of Israel, I shall be as sent me to you only part of my name." Why teaches us in page nine that what was telling Mosherenu and teaching him through his name that I shall be as I shall be that I shall be with my children during their times of troubles today and during their times of troubles in the future. I'll be with you during your times of troubles now when you are going through chuva and I will do whatever is possible to be with you in the future after you have already done chuva and you encountered new problems. So Moshe says to Hashem, "It's already hard enough for them to deal with the reality of their problems today. Why should I tell them that they're also going to have problems in the future?" And therefore, Hashem says, "Okay, just tell them that I'm here today with them to their with their problems today. What's the difference? The difference is right now all they can see is their problems. Right now all you can see is your problems. So you want more parasa. You want to find a zeug. You want more blessing in your life. You realize that you need help from Hashem. So doing chuva is a common recipe for success. [snorts] The only recipe for success. Now if the person that's helping you do chuva tells you listen you do chuva now. Hashem is going to be with you today through your problem is going to help you. He's also going to help you in the problems you have in the future. At that stage the person is not going to be motivated anymore. Why? Wait. You're telling me that he's going to help me today to my problems. So you're giving me hope, but you're telling me I'm going to have problems in the future. Then what's the point of doing cha? He doesn't have enough understanding of the significance of Hashem and how the problems are for your benefit at that stage. So all he could think of is just have him help you right now. He doesn't realize that whatever problems and difficulties and mountains you have to climb that Hashem sends you in the future are for your benefit a part of your tikun a part of building you a part of giving you more reward and therefore says just tell them about the blessings of today tell them I shall beat don't tell filmed the whole thing. But then while we understand that P was convincing and convinced the most successful people of his time to become his slaves. How did this go down? They left their businesses. They started working for the government. Initially, everybody was becoming even richer than they were. Similar to how a person starts off by getting into one of these corrupt businesses. It looks good, overnight success. He buys a $300,000 watch, but then Pelos says, "Listen, I can't pay you that much anymore." So, I'm just going to give you what I was giving you 10,000. I'm going to give you 5,000. Person starts thinking, well, you know what? Technically, 5,000 is still as much as I was making before. So, that's okay. It'll go back up. Po is a good guy. And he lowered everybody's salary. And after a while, he comes to them and says, "Listen, even though we just built another pyramid, another city, the expenses are very high. I'm going to lower your salary by another 50%." So now you're only making 2500. The person says, "Listen, we're still okay. We're still okay. It's a little difficult right now. We're not making much money, but we made so much in the past. It's okay." And then comes back and says, "Listen, that 2,000, I can't even pay you that. We're going to have to take a break on paying you for a little while, but you have plenty to live off of." And before you know it, everyone goes to zero salary, thinking that there's a light at the end of the tunnel. But as they're eating more and more of what they had, and little by little losing all of the property they had, all of the money they had, and of course all of it going to parole, everybody becomes poor and then overnight everyone becomes slaves. The process of the pa is a arduous horrific And unfortunately dark process a person doesn't realize that there is no such thing as light at the end of the tunnel. Starts off good but only darkness is ahead. lawsuits, tragedies, horrific things that you can't see because you're blinded by the money that's in front of you. Similar to a story that was said once by one of the delay is that there was once a guy in a town that was asking the Rebi for a blessing to have and the Rebi was Sadik. So a few hundred years ago and gave him a blessing and within a short period of time this man became very successful. His company grew above and beyond. Built himself a huge mansion. Horses were waiting for him in his fancy carriage wherever he went. A whole crew of butlers, one for each day, fancy dinners, felt like he was ruling the world. When the community realized that he's become successful, he said, "Oh, hashem, maybe we could ask him for some help." So they came to him asking for help. He said, "Get out of here. Go work. I worked for my money." And he refused to give them taka. When the rabbi heard that this man was blessed in such a way, but yet he became so stingy and not helping people that were in a similar situation that he used to be not too long ago. The rabbi said, "You know what? let me talk to him in a way that perhaps will touch his heart and not hurt his honor because of course with wealth comes honor and he came to him he said oh rabbi I haven't seen you in a long time what do I uh what do I deserve this uh visit oh I just wanted to see you say hashem that the blessing came true. Yes. Yes, Rabbi. Thank you so much, Hashem. Yeah, it's great. And then the rabbi stops talking. The men's rabbi, why aren't you saying anything? The rabbi is looking around. Fancy chandelier, fancy windows, furniture. Everything is golden and beautiful. silver, everything is there. And then he looks out the window, and he sees that there's different people, many among them poor. And he, the guy comes up to him, says, "Rabbi, you okay?" And the rabbi asks him, "Do you have a mirror?" Says, "Yeah, right behind you over there, Rabbi." And the rabbi looks at the mirror. Beautiful fancy mirror. He says, "Come, come next to me." And the man comes next to the rabbi. He says, "What do you see here when you look in the mirror?" I see myself. and come over here next to the window. What do you see there? She says, "Well, I see outside the window there's bunch of people. Some of them poor people that are living in the world. Why?" The rabbi says, "What's the difference? That's glass and that's glass. Why is it that in this glass of the window you could see the people but in that one you can't? The man says, "Well, Rabbi, of course you can't see the people through the mirror." Why not? Well, because the back of the mirror is covered with kf with silver and kesf is also another word for money. And the rabbi says, "Ah, I see. So when there's all you could see is yourself." And the man got it. He got the message and he realized his awful ways and he did chaosu has an experience where he speaks to Hashem. Hashem chooses him even though Mosheu does not want this position. Does not want this position and he questions whether he's right for this position. perhaps maybe could choose Aon. And Hashem says to him, "Where's your stick? You have a stick in your hand. Throw it on the floor." He does so. And the snake, it turns into a snake. And Hashem says to him, says, "Now that you have the stick turns into a snake, so they shall believe that Hashem, the God of their forefathers appeared to you, the God of Abraham, the God of the God of Yakov." And then he gives them another sign with the his hand turning into case they don't believe the first one, they'll believe the second one. Why? Later on in the Torah, we find out that people, the necromancers, can also turn their sticks into snakes. So obviously you can't believe someone spoke to God based on their tricks, based on their magic, based on their ability of turning sticks into snakes, or else they would be they would also be considered, oh maybe the Egyptians are. But says, "No, no, this is how they're going to believe you because of this stick turning into a snake." And you can't say, "No, it's because Moshe Abenu's stick ate the Egyptian steaks." No, no, no. They're going to believe that you are it before you even get to the Egyptians. How do we know that? Because we see when Mosherenu comes to Egypt, it says in chapter 4 verse number 31 and verse number 30. And he performed the signs in the sight of the people. And the people believed and they heard that Hashem had remembered the children of Israel and that he saw their affliction and they bowed their heads and prostrated themselves. This is well before Benu goes to Perau and they all already know. No, no, for sure. Hashem spoke to you. Why? Because you saw you showed us the you showed us the the signs just like Hashem said. But later on in the Torah, the Egyptians do the same thing. Later on in the Torah in book of Deuteronomy specifically says to don't believe someone is righteous or someone is a prophet someone is the leader of Amis just because of magic tricks. Wait, but you did it. Yeah, exactly. So what's different? It's not the trick. It's the message. behind the trick. You see teaches us that this stick turning into the staff turning into a snake and this hand turning into was all going to convince Am Israel that is the go how so simple you're going to tell them when I gave you this first I told you to go and you didn't want to and then you told me they're not going to believe you and only then did I tell you okay so give them signs and It's not the signs but rather the message of why I gave you the signs. And Khazal teaches us that these signs were actually not just for the Jewish people were rather forenu himself was rebuking him that he said about Isel and therefore he got punished and the punishment for and who was the first one that said in three, the snake. So you're going to tell them, listen, because I did something that the snake did in the snake turns into a snake and because I said and the punishment FOR MY hand turns into andu when he saw the snake the ram says he ran away from him because he thought that this snake is going to kill him. And when he tells I'm Isel this is the reason why you should believe because the snake in theat they were my punishment for saying bad things about you that you won't believe. And once Am is hears about his troubles, his punishment, then they will believe. Why? Hashem punishing someone that says about someone that is not telling the truth like he's supposed to. That's the Hashem. We know that gave says Rashi. It reinforced their because they already knew from history that God punishes those who wronged them just like he punished and aimed in the times of. So it wasn't the stick turning into a snake impressing them or the hand turning white as snow because of impressing them, but rather because the same we're familiar with. And he punishes the wicked and he rewards the righteous and he rebukes those he loves. like he's rebuking Moshe here. That's the Hashem we know. That's believable. If you tell me God loves us, God loves everyone no matter what. No, we don't know that. Tell us that he's going to tell us to follow tricks and No, no. But you tell us God watches every single thing. God has the 13 principles of faith. We have the 13 principles of faith of in God which is the belief in Hashem. One of them being reward and punishment. Yeah, that's we believe that that gave them that gave them. And that's why they already believed as soon as he showed it to them. And they already bowed as soon as he showed it to them. Well, before they even got to Paul, no one came with Paul. No one came. But of course, even after the goel came, the messenger of Hashem came, there was still some that did not want to believe. That's why Hashem gave the third sign. He said, "The first two signs are for you and for the people that their heart is still connected to me. But then there's going to be some people that that's not going to be enough. So for them you have to bring the third sign which is the blood. But before you show them that blood, who are these people? No. No. It's not the Egyptians. It's the Jews. The Jews that unless there's blood, they don't think there's anything wrong. Unless it's too late, they don't think there's anything wrong. Who are they? They're already working for the other side. The task masters of the people and its foremen went out and spoke to the people. These are the children of Israel that are actually working for Pero, the four men of the children of is of Israel whom Perau's tax masters have appointed over them multiple times. It talks about these. They don't want a go. They don't want a salvation. They they're happy with where they are. In fact, these two religious people, Mushe and Aon, coming make fun of them. Po says to them after they say you have to free the people of Israel, the children of Israel, he says to them, the king of Egypt says to them, "Why do you disturb the people from its work? go to your sufferings. Meaning, why are you disturbing this empire that I'm building like Yousef did? All of this stuff that he did, I'm renewing it, putting my name on it. Why are you disturbing all of this? Why are you disturbing after I've already turned everybody into slaves? For millionaires, they've turned to slaves. Why are you disturbing it? Go to your to your to your problems. What's your problems? Go to your books. Go to your your go to your Talmud. Go to your go to your you know that's the problems that you have. You are the Levy tribe. You are the religious people. Go away. If only that was a choice today that we'd be left alone just to go to our troubles of learning Torah. But no. Unfortunately, the enemy today is even worse than po. And who is supporting this po? The foremen who are also Jews, the foremen of the children of Israel, they don't want the salvation. In fact, in chapter 5 verse number 19, the four men of the children of Is saw them in distress and said to them, "Do not reduce your bricks and daily matter each day." They tell all the Jewish people, "Don't stop working for Pero. Don't even slow down. Work hard." Yeah, but we're slaves and it's tough. We used to be millionaires. Shut up. Stop it with your dreams. We are per people. We are Americans. We are Zionists. We are Englishmen. No, we are B is No. Not anymore. Not anymore. When they came to complain to Perau about the new situation, they said to Perau, "Why are you doing this to your servants?" And Khazal teaches us the name of the these four men were telling po your own Jewish servants are being beaten. Meaning we're your people. What about being servants of Hashem? No, no, no, no. We are Americans. We are Zionists. We are something new. How could such a thing happen? Like I said, it all starts when the descendants of the tribes decided to move out of Gan. They wanted to go into the business world. and reach new success. It wasn't enough for them to be okay, to be financially well in their community. They wanted to go into new places, put the Torah in the back seat, put the Torah in the attic, put the Torah out of the house, thinking that this is going to give them success. And initially it did they became very successful as we see in the beginning of the par they they became greater they became very numerous they were making $100,000 a month a million dollars a month it looked good but then The the same guy you believed in, the guy that was teaching you to cheat the system, the guy that was teaching you to abandon a Torah, the guy that was giving you faith in the country you live in instead of in Hashem. You were cheering of how he was taking over. Oh, look, he's taking over this, he's taking over that. not realizing that eventually he's coming to take over you. One day it's Iran, next day it's Venezuela, next day it's Greenland, Canada. When do you think Israel's next? You trust in people. Tawa says cursed is the one who trusts in people. Only trust in Hashem. When you trust in people, you trusting per you trust your own abilities thinking that you could abandon the Torah and do corrupt business. You forget that runs the world. For some people, as soon as they get the message, they understand, okay, I got to do chuva. as soon as possible. You showed me reward and punishment even goes on. I believe you. You're the messenger. It's enough for them. But for some people, they don't want to leave. They don't want to leave because there's too much money to be made in their dreams. They don't want to leave because they like the system. They've learned to live with the lies so much so that they started believing them. they become the foreman. They don't want to leave. Of course, there's always exceptions. There's always going to be a batya that sees the lies even from within and abandons it. But most people have to decide based on where their connection is with Hashem. What's their priority in life? If Hashem is the priority in their life, you'll see it through their actions. As soon as they see the truth, they'll abandon it no matter what the price is. [snorts] All I need is just show me your reward and punishment. Show me the truth that Hashem rewards and punishes. I'm going I'm going with you, Mushe. Others where Hashem is not their priority, they'll hold on to the ship that's full of gold even when it's sinking deep into the ocean because they'll think that maybe it's just a bad time. And by the time they make a change, it's usually too late. We will all do chuva well before it's too late and hopefully as early as possible starting with today. This albai is some of the things that we can learn from the para that are as applicable to us today as they've ever been. And we could all apply these lessons to our lives, to our communities, to our families today, tomorrow, and as long as a mahu gives us an opportunity to do so. >> I'd like to introduce you to your new best [music] friend. We did it. AI Rabbi is here. It's an AI model that is based on kosher [music] Torah sources. 30 different languages that are available to you. So if you want to ask it [music] in Spanish, in Chinese, Portuguese, whatever you want to do, it's available for you. Can you tell me about Ria? So it's timestamped to the shield. You press this green button, AI, Rabbi, on your WhatsApp. You'll have the ability to ask questions at will. You'll be providing sources and most importantly, you'll be able to know the truth and be able to rely on the sources. >> Now, you're more than welcome to send questions and will give us the answers. Rabbi, how can I become closer to God? Well, you first start by doing chuva, doing what Hashem says. Whatever you learn our lectures, learn from the different books that we've recommended and others that are available that are based on Torah. You learn, you do, you apply to your life. The more you do the will of Hashem, the more you do what he commanded, the closer you'll become to him. Comments, a lot of you like, of course, there's always the typical few that just come here to preach whatever message they have in their mind. Not really sure why don't they just make their own lectures and build their own stage. Do you think the is the scrolls of the Muslims talk about? No. uh Sephri was uh given to Abrainu and um the version of it that people talk about today especially from the church and other places is a corrupted version. Um there is certain that had it throughout history or at least segments of it. Um but um the stuff that you see online, the stuff that's easily accessible is not the real it's different corrupted version. And one of the things you have to know also about all cababalistic books that are real is that they're never written with clear instructions. Meaning that the real instructions are for people that got the masso me from their teacher. Meaning that the uh for example kadouli had endless writings that uh they actually published after his death. But only his closest students know how to read it. Why? Because all of the things that he put in there, he intentionally, he told the students, he intentionally wrote like he would write a specific thing and he would give the wrong uh cure for it, the wrong uh you know uh kavan, the wrong things. Why? Because you're as a student, you're supposed to know how to connect this page to that page and really know that the answer is not here. It's actually this answer applies to a different like a code. Why? because that's how the cabalist throughout history uh taught. So when you see a book that says uh you know uh tries to teach cabala like it's ABC everything is in order you already know that this is not authentic and uh certainly uh not uh not the uh something that uh you should uh waste your time with. uh but uh most importantly you need to know that uh in order for a person to even involve themselves in the uh teachings of Kabala uh they have to know for sure that they are a very very pure person. they've already fixed uh themselves all of their deficiencies, all of their sins. Because if they delve into uh that type of elevated teachings without being pristine in regards to spirituality and their connection to Hashem, then they're going to bring a tragedy upon themselves. Uh the all types of tragedies, sometimes it's death, sometimes it's major accidents. And the reason why is because this involves different uh uh angels that are servants of Hashem that uh as Hashem told Moshe Abenu later on that uh you know he you know he said I'm not going to go with you guys in the desert anymore. I'll send my angel but just know that the angel has no aspect of mercy. If you guys make a sin he's going to punish all of you right away. And Rabenu says no then we're not going. We only want you. We can't handle such an angel. We only want you. you need the aspect of mercy. So when a person deals with the world of Cabala uh the uh you know and and they're not pristine and they end up saying uh the name of one of the uh angels, if that person is not uh clean, that angel is going to hurt that person. Uh and uh and sometimes it's uh extremely tragic. Uh it's extremely tragic. So for all of those people that you know delve into that world without understanding it or even more so for all of those people that say that they're teaching Cabala to the public, just know that if you're, you know, you you know what you're talking about, you know that this is not something you teach the public because again the vast majority of the public is not suited for it. Number two, uh if you still in insist on teaching, that means you don't know and you're not suited to teach it. And uh number three, uh you're usually either ignorant or a liar, you know, or sometimes a combination of both. But the point is is that uh the uh and other that deal with cababalistic issues uh is not something that uh the your average person should even think about delving into. How could I improve in guarding my eyes? Well, first off, you already know uh what makes you fail. you know that if you go to certain websites, you know that if you go and watch certain shows, uh whether it's on the internet or on TV or whatever it is. So, the first thing you need to do is stop stop the things you know for sure that are uh you know are going to make you sin. If you put yourself in front of a test, you will fail. So, the goal is to eliminate as many tests that you bring upon yourself as possible. No more TV, no more, you know, uh, binge watching online, no more, uh, uh, you know, the stuff that's obvious. And of course, no, no more going to certain places that, you know, are going to entice you. That's number one. Number two, you have to occupy your mind with more and more Torah. So your mind is always busy. So that becomes the dominant force in your life. And one of the subjects you need to delve into is the teachings about uh you know a uh tikunit. We have a whole playlist on our uh YouTube channel. Uh we have a interactive guide that you can download from our website for free. Uh that has uh you know all of these different teachings that we have over the years, different books, different lectures and so on. Uh and I would highly recommend a uh every person male and female go through that guide uh you know if you know every day until you complete it and then after you've completed it once uh delve into it uh at least you know once a week uh as a continuation continuing education continuing why because just like the says there are certain things that always need always And this is one of them. So in order to guard your eyes better, you have to take upon yourself the fact that this is something that you have to constantly get for, constantly uh learn about, constantly uh develop uh new tactics to fight against the new the the new version of the Satan that uh you weren't familiar with before. Can I convert to Judaism if I'm a Muslim? Of course. I have several students that were born uh from, you know, Muslims and I've converted to Judaism and they're wonderful, wonderful people. Sure. You have to go through a conversion process, move to a uh Jewish community and uh go through the process of conversion which is not only life changes but also learning uh if necessary uh and um in so many words go through that. It takes some time anywhere from one year to several years depending on the level of commitment and uh how uh how dedicated a person is. Uh it's not like Christianity or Islam where you convert in two seconds. It's a process especially today. But nonetheless, it's all the things that you're doing in the process of converting are things that you're going to have to do as a Jew anyway. So it doesn't really uh matter. you just do it as best as possible as soon as possible and visit you'll succeed and you know not only converting to becoming an orthodox Jew but uh living as an Orthodox Jew uh your whole life most religious people wear beards uh Well, the uh there's two things you need to know. Number one, until recent history, most of the world warbeards. This whole clean face uh look um is is a relatively new thing, you know, as far as all of society. Yes, we had the Greeks and the Romans that uh had their influence in the world for a period of time, but after them, the world came back to the norm of, you know, men being bearded. So, it's not a uh it's not a new thing for the world. As far as the Orthodox Jewish people, wearing a beard is because the uh uh two things. One, there is a Torah prohibition from shaving with a razor five different spots on your face. Uh, so you're allowed to uh trim it with a buzzer as long as you can fold the hair, but you're not allowed to shave it with a razor. Uh, so that's number one. Number two, to show Hashem that we love his mitzvot, we do even more than necessary. That even though we can maintain uh the hair on the face and these different spots uh as a much shorter than what they are as a beard, we want to show Hashem that we love his mitzvah and therefore we grow it even further than what is necessary. And number three is that the uh the sages teach us that the uh hair in different parts of the head bring either mercy or judgment. For a man, longer hair on the head brings more judgment on his actions from heaven. Whereas longer hair uh on the face brings more mercy brings more mercy from heaven. So this is another reason uh of why uh uh Orthodox Jews wear beards. Not necessarily all Orthodox Jews wear beards. There is many that do not. Uh but and there's no obligation to wear a beard. The only obligation from the Tawra is not to shave uh the uh these five specific spots uh you know with a uh with a razor. Uh but if somebody wants to uh buzz it with a trimmer, uh there's uh as long as uh it's not one of those buzzers that goes under the skin and in so many wars they leave a little bit of a stubble uh then uh then there's no problem of uh you know having a uh more clean cut uh face as far as Allah is concerned. I can't grow a beard. That's okay. This doesn't uh it doesn't uh mean that you're not good person. There's uh several famous uh that did not have a beard. One of them being the was a cleanfaced did not was uh you know not uh have the ability to grow a beard. It's not the beard that makes somebody righteous. It's the actions. Well, Mashiach comes soon. What happens if you don't have the genetics to grow a beard? Like I just said, there's no obligation to grow a beard. How do the prophets and the Torah commit such big sins? Is it logical to you? It's perfectly logical and honest. The Torah is not giving the false image uh like the Quran and the New Testament that the people that are the leaders are uh you know are perfect. Only God is perfect. No matter who the leader is, they are still human and humans make errors. And in fact, the Torah itself says there's no such thing as a righteous person that never sins. Uh so the mistakes that were made uh by uh different uh prophets by different sadikim throughout all of history uh are not a surprise at all. It actually shows that the Torah is honest and not some man-made document uh like the Quran and the New Testament that tried to uh make people think that there was such a thing as a perfect uh person in the world. How would I convert to Judaism? Uh the conversion to Judaism, like I said, it's a process. Uh if you'd like to know more details about the process, there is a uh conversion guide on our website, which is besimm.org be zem.org. Uh over there, there's a section that is uh called conversion or the free PDF. Over there, there is a conversion guide. It's an interactive guide. It has different lectures and teachings and uh about conversion. There you will learn the things you'll need to know uh for the sake of conversion as far as knowledge and things you'll need to do uh as far as life changes, you know, moving to a Jewish community, uh you know, becoming more modest, uh learning Torah, and so on. All the different things you'll need to uh do. And um once you move to Jewish community, uh you'll uh meet with the local rabbi over there, Orthodox rabbi over there. And of course, you could speak to them to see if they're able to help you uh by uh sponsoring you for conversion when they deem that you are ready. Um and uh not all rabbis deal with conversions. So sometimes they'll refer you to somebody else. Sometimes you'll have to find somebody else on your on your own. Uh but the point is that as far as the teachings are concerned of what you need to know for the sake of conversion that you can get from many of the lectures we've made over the years either directly from the lectures or from the books that we recommend. Uh and as far as the uh the place and where to convert, you'll have to find a local community to you that's uh not only an Orthodox Jewish community, but also is one that has a rabbi and a uh you know, and a bedim that is uh willing and able to convert you when you are uh when they see that you're ready. How can a person tell me to do the right thing? uh when he's doing the things the sins that okay well if you're talking about how can your Muhammad uh tell you to do the right thing while he himself was a pedophile a murderer rapist and a lot of other things that's exactly what we say that you can't do you can't listen to such a person because uh he was an evil person you shouldn't listen to him the Torah on the other hand is given by God the one and only God the God of Israel And he is telling us what to do and what not to do. And he's even showing us that even the most righteous people that ever lived that he chose as prophets also made some mistakes. They certainly didn't make the mistakes you're making or mistakes I'm making. They made mistakes in their level. But needless to say, he's showing you that he created people and of course people are imperfect. And therefore, he expects them to make mistakes, but he also one of the mitzvot that he put in the Torah is the mitzvah of chuva, repentance, that you can say, "I'm sorry to Hashem, promise you're not going to do it again, and uh you know, and and make make a change." And uh so that's what we have in the Torah. So when you have a man-made book like the Quran in the New Testament, then uh of course you should not listen to it because the leaders of those religions were uh horrific people, criminals um and uh people that you shouldn't listen to. They were hypocrites. They uh said to do things that they themselves didn't do, you know. And uh when it comes to the Torah, you have the one and only God telling you. And uh that's why you should listen to it. What's the difference between orthodox conversion and secular? There's no such thing as a secular conversion. If you're converting to be a Jew, it has to be for it to be a valid conversion, it has to be an orthodox conversion. Did Kush turn dark because he made fun of Noah? No. Um the uh there was a sin at the time of Noah that uh um and therefore Noah cursed the son of Kaman. Um and uh he cursed him to be a servant. Now, as far as uh darkness, no, there's a uh different level of uh um shades for Jews all over the world. Being dark is not a curse. Uh there's many righteous Jews that were dark complexion. Uh there are many righteous Jews that were white complexion. So, darkness in itself is not is not a curse. Not sure why uh people think that. What kind of harsh decrees can we expect from heaven if they don't stop with the forcing most precious of Hashem's children um to learn yeshiva? What kind of decrees? Not good ones. I mean, uh I don't need to give Hashem instructions of what he will do. I mean, as as far as uh what's possible, you could just simply look at what happened in the Torah and uh in the past and you could also look at past history, beta mikdash, the Holocaust, Spanish Inquisition, all of these different things that happened. I recently heard a very respectable rabbi. He's a syndicate for cash advance. I don't understand how he can do this, but he he's a very respectable rabbi. He may be respectable rabbi in your eyes and in other people's eyes, but he's certainly ignorant of the actual and um unfortunately is misleading people and they'll get punished for it if he doesn't do chuva. Why does the try to make you worship idols even when you have a and doesn't and don't worship idols like whispering their names in your mind to put doubts in your mind because if somebody keeps you know putting things in your mind over and over again eventually uh a person can break. So, it's not something that he uh expects to work in one one shot. It's just like for example, somebody trying to entice you to do something illegal, to go rob a store, to go do drugs, to go do something that's terrible. And the first time you say, "No, no, no. I'm not going to do it." Why? Cuz you were raised, you were raised in uh better ways. And uh but then he comes back to you again. Come on. Come on. If you do it, we'll have fun. And you say no again. But if he keeps coming to you, you know, every day, every day, every day, and you let him, you know, continue doing it, eventually you could fall and say, "Okay, you know what? Fine. Let me just do it. Let me just try it one time." So that's the uh that's the strategy of the Satan. Where is the best place to put the posters for people to take? Um, I think that they uh there's plenty of uh places to put you could put them in uh you know Jewish supermarket usually have a station somewhere that people put flyers and papers and you know you could put there. There is uh Judeica stores, you know, on the counter. Uh pizzeras, restaurants usually have a place in the counter or near the counter somewhere that they're willing to do it. Put it there. uh synagogues, yeshivas, there's plenty of places to put um anywhere that there's a lot of Jewish people that gather on a regular basis. How can we help out the rabbi? Uh, I mean, there's several different things that people can do to help. Uh number one, if a person has resources or access to resources, people that could donate or you could donate, then of course the more you guys help, the more we can do, the more we could print more books, posters, you know, make more videos. Uh uh maybe one day open up a place. Uh we're still trying to raise money to buy a building uh one day. Uh so if you could help us with that either by donating directly or helping by getting people to donate uh then that's certainly one thing. Another thing that a person can do is uh share all of our lectures online and in WhatsApp groups and so on in many places as possible. That's another easy thing to do. Number three is if a person lives in the United States, they could go to our Kiru store, krooftore.org, or and order some books and USBs and distribute them in their Jewish community. Uh that's another thing they could do. Uh the books you could order it for free and uh we'll pay for shipping as long as it's in the United States. Um and uh you could distribute them there uh in your community wherever you are. It's a very very big uh you know investment for us. Huge expense. It's literally it's cost us millions of dollars over the years uh and continues to cost us a ton of money every every month with the shipping and the printing and so on, but we're doing it to help people do Chuva. So, if you could help us by distributing it in more places, that's another way you could help. Another idea is if somebody has a specific expertise, if they have legal expertise, they want to become the uh um you know the legal adviser of the organization proono. If they have accounting expertise, they want to be the accountant of their organization or bookkeeper or if they have a uh technological knowledge, they're a developer. Uh we need as many developers as possible. That's probably the number one thing that we need. Uh but people that have uh you know, serious knowledge about it and you know it could help with certain things, that's also very good. Um we have uh you know people that can make videos whether it's uh short films or uh or just cut my lectures into or Robert Fry's lectures into short clips of you know one to three minutes or some you know for shorts or if you want to make long longer clips you know five to 10 minutes uh and then send it to us and we could post them on our channels. Uh that's another thing that you could help. Um and uh pretty much there's there's a whole lot of things that a person can do to to help us based on whatever uh you know resources they have. Some people have financial resources. Some people have you know a a network of people that have financial resources. uh some people have the ability to arrange lectures where they can bring a few hundred people and uh you know I'll come to speak or friend will come to speak and they know for sure they'll able to gather a few hundred people and they rent a place and you know make the whole event. Some people have the ability uh to you know some type of professional ability uh then uh that's uh that's something that they could help with uh you know whether like I said you know different professions that are out there some people have the technological ability uh whether it's making videos development websites marketing uh SEO I mean there's countless different things usually uh the people that I've had that have been uh the most consistent helpers ers uh as far as volunteers are concerned have been I would say the top have been uh ones that make um share the stuff online. Uh ones that make videos come and go but you know usually for when they're with us they're very good. Um and uh the ones that distribute the material those have been usually the ones that last the longest. uh people with technological uh uh expertise um most of them don't work out um for different reasons. Uh and even the ones that do usually don't last very long. Um which is very uh disheartening because usually with technology it's a built-up process. So if if you don't have the same uh people uh lasting for a while, it makes it difficult to progress. Um and as far as professional expertise, you know, people that have like a service or something like that, usually they're not here to help. Usually they're here to make money, meaning they want us as a customer. So they want to sell us their SEO service or their accounting service or legal service or whatever professional service. in so many words they pretend they want to help us but in reality they want to make money [laughter] for us. Uh so if if you're looking to sell something um I mean I you know we have plenty of different things that we're already paying for but if you want to help us uh as a volunteer it's a different story. It's a different story but like I said there's plenty of ways that a person can help. It all depends on your resources. Yes, we have lots and lots of expenses. Uh almost $2 million a year in expenses. Uh Rabbi, if someone knows a bit about tech but low level, is it worth to invest more time to learn in order to hope to be a good help for the organization? Uh sure. there's certain courses that uh you can take to uh to learn more. There's, you know, if you want to learn AI, there's certain courses for that. If you want to learn development, there's certain courses for that. Uh there's actually a couple of courses that I've recommended uh to people that wanted to learn how to be developers. Um I mean, they're serious courses, but if somebody dedicates their time to it, um they could learn, they could become a serious developer. Uh but you know, it takes time, money, and uh and effort. I mean, it's not only something that could help them with helping the organization, it's something that could help them uh professionally. Can I send you my songs so you could put on chuva music? No. Now, I know that a bunch of you send me your songs or sometimes lyrics. Hashem, we're okay with that. We have plenty of uh people on a team already and uh we have more than enough. Thank you very much for the offers. Glad you like Jew music. As far as everything I said about Kiru, uh, we have as far as how you could help us and so on. All of the ideas and more of what I've discussed is actually in our Kiru guide, an interactive Kiru guide that we have. It's also available on our website bzadashm.org that you could download for free and see the different ideas and choose how you can help us. Out of all the lectures you've done, which one is your favorite? the next one which I don't know what it's going to be about. Each one has special because it's another opportunity to learn, another opportunity to teach, another opportunity to serve Hashem, get people closer to Hashem. Rabbi, is there a new website to donate specifically to the BH Yeshiva? Uh, you could donate on bez.org. Um I believe there's also bh yeshiva.org. Um but in so many words you can donate on any of our websites and if you want to specify that it's for that and you could just write in notes there that this is for the yeshiva. Should I argue with my wife to try and not put my children in a mixed school? Uh yeah of course should be doesn't necessarily need to be an argument just explain to her explain to her the best usually the best explanations by education. Okay, the guys that are having uh a discussion back and forth on the messages, if you could stop and just communicate to each other privately, that would help because it wastes a lot of time for me to find questions while you guys are talking back and forth. It's not the place. Rabbi, do you have any plans to make new more versions of the cure of tablets such as BH Kids? Uh, the plan is there, but we need the funding. We have an idea. We have the uh whole thing, but we need the resources. What can I pray for financial success to give to charities like Kabad? Um as far as school for more ponas to give m and to do chuva what sins does hem not forgive is only forgiven after death and um person that says shalom person that says that they're going to do whatever they want even if they know that uh Hashem says no. Okay. My secular relatives invited me to a kosher delhi. When I called, they said that all the employees and the owner are non-Jews. So, they have kosher certification by conservative rabbi and they're open on Shabbat since the owner is not Jewish. Can a Jew eat there? Absolutely not. It's not kosher and uh Jew is not even allowed to sit inside. How should we deal with the threat that Mam Dani is posing to the Jews of New York? Do chuva and get more people to do chuva. Hashem runs the world. If the Jews do chuva, Hashem will fight their wars. When a Jews do not do the says he'll send them has a book called okay [sighs] and he uh calls those that believe in reincarnation fools. Show me a source. I have to see what the uh language is in there. What do you think of Lev to I don't I don't think of them. >> [snorts] >> Okay. Proverbs 30. Good. Go read it. Do you speak Arabic? Few words here and there. I grew up a uh in a house where my parents from, you know, from Tripoli. My grandparents from Tripoli. So their first language was uh Arabic. But uh my first language is Hebrew and then after that English. I wish I was a Jew. Well, you can be if you really wish. You could convert to Judaism. The Old Testament talks about Yosh. No, it doesn't talk about it. It's a junior of dreams. That's just in your dreams of what is Tripoli? Tripoli is in a country called Libya. There used to be a very big Jewish community in Libya. Rabbi, I sent you some shorts by email. Thank you very much. If you sent them to me, I'll look at them when I get a chance. For some of you that send me messages uh and I don't answer them. It's nothing personal. It's just that there's a lot of messages. There's hundreds and hundreds of messages every single day. And also people that send me messages on different um platforms on Tik Tok, on Facebook, on a lot of these things. I don't really manage the channels. Uh so I usually don't see the messages and if I see them, it's usually months and months later when you know I have free time. actually look at something over there, but I uh rarely get to it. So, it's hard to keep up with the emails, the WhatsApp messages, the different things. Israel was a prophet. Yes. Israel was another name for Yakovu. And he was a prophet. Yes. Arabic is a powerful language. My first language is Arabic and I speak Hebrew and understand well. We have an Arabic channel where they uh translate my lectures to Arabic and you hear uh my voice speaking Arabic. We actually also have uh so you go to Rabbi Ruven uh Rabbi your own Ruven in Arabic, you'll see there's a channel there's a bunch of lectures that go on there every day. Uh so if you prefer to hear Arabic, you could hear it there. I also have a channel in Hebrew. Um with Hebrew lectures there in German and French and Chinese in many different languages. Um, but we also have uh songs in Arabic and Archuva music channel. Do you have Telegram? I have the application on my phone, but I don't really use it. Um, I just uh never really got to it. I know there's a lot of people that go there, but I just prefer WhatsApp and I never transitioned to something else and I just don't have the time to keep up with everything. So, usually the best way to communicate with me is uh sending me a WhatsApp message that's short and concise. That's usually the best way to communicate with me. Email, not so much. Um unless it's business related to, you know, things I need to do to operate the organization and so on. Um phone calls almost never. Um and uh meetings never like personal meetings simply never. Uh I think I had maybe one meeting in the last three or four years. Um I just don't have the time for all that stuff. Usually most things could be handled with uh a message, short uh text message or voice note. And since I have so many of them coming every day, people needing help, people needing guidance, people need answers to questions, um I just don't have, you know, I have to decide what can I do the most. How could I help the most amount of people? And uh if I had a phone call for every single person that wants to talk to me or ask me a question, uh you know, I wouldn't have enough time to h you know, handle even 10% of what I do. Um and if I had meetings for sure or not. So I understand that some people uh want to meet in person either because they have a personal issue they want to talk to face to face or sometimes because they want to donate a lot of money and they want to meet face to face. I just don't do it. I just don't do it. Um you know as far as meetings maybe I maybe I exaggerated one in the last three years. I'd say it's definitely less than five. It's definitely less than five because now I'm remembering another one. It's definitely less than five meetings in the last year. I just don't have meetings often. It's just a it's not uh takes a lot of time and uh usually most things can be handled uh with with messages. Um phone calls uh more often than meetings, but not often at all. Um, you know, I have some students that uh donate a significant amount of money to um because they want not only to support the organization, but they want ongoing guidance from me and so on. So, they uh they donate $10,000 a month and uh then uh that's a different type of thing. Uh but uh as far as uh people that want me to just call them just to help them with uh specific issues, usually I could do that with a message much more effectively. Uh and as far as emails, again, I don't I don't answer most of them because there's just so many. And um you have to understand that I I don't just give lectures. You know, giving the lectures is just a small part. It's the part that you guys see. I have to number one run the organization. You know, we have many employees in different countries in Israel, in Colombia, in Canada, in uh um in America, of course, in a uh a few other countries uh Romania, in um where else a few other countries are escaping my mind right now. Uh we have uh different employees in different countries. Uh we have a uh different contractors. We have different contracts you know for printing design. I have to deal with the the printers with the shipping companies. Um you know it's a uh different technology deals different technology uh applications apps. Uh you know so I'm involved in pretty much everything. There's really nothing that's on autopilot. Even if there's a team of people there, I'm always involved in everything. Of course, all of the financial stuff, uh the donation platforms, the uh uh financial handling of the organization, paying bills, um all that stuff. It takes an enormous amount of time. Then on top of that, there's endless amount of people that send me messages that they need guidance or answer to questions. Some people they they feel like if they don't ask me a qu a few questions per day, it's like they didn't breathe. So, they send questions. And I I try to do my best to answer everybody's questions. And I usually hope that people uh don't ask me questions that they can answer on their own by simply using AI Rabbi that we have. Um but needless to say, I do my best to answer questions around the clock. For example, last night I got a question at 4:00 in the morning uh about a woman that was about to give birth that uh needed to know if she's allowed the water broke and she needed to know whether she's allowed to get a shot to uh stimulate the the birth because to stimulate the birth before the water breaks is is is not supposed to do it. It's it's not allowed. It's uh could be a uh a disaster for the kid on a spiritual level. Uh so entice the birth is not good. Uh but uh after the water breaks it's a different story. It's a different story. Uh but she didn't know that. So at 4:00 in the morning, literally 4:00 in the morning, I got this question and I was uh able to answer it uh that she can and she should. But the point is is that there's questions coming around the clock. There's no there's no day, there's no night there. It's pretty much everything is you know uh just goes along. Then on top of that uh of course I have a family boem and uh my family is very very unique boem very very special very dear to my heart and we also homeschool our kids I don't uh you know I don't send my kids to schools I we homeschool them in our house and uh that means that our kids we have the privilege of having our kids 24 hours a day. uh there's a lot of uh benefits to it, but there's also a lot of, you know, difficulties that uh you don't usually have to deal with for part of the day uh because the kids are are out and uh so I have that and hashem I uh as many of you already know I have a very uh unique body that that that requires uh requires surgeries and all types of uh interesting things. So that's not not so simple either. And uh everything is good. It's just that it's a very very busy schedule. Uh we try to work around the clock. We try to uh be innovative. We try to be productive. We try to be helpful. We try to do whatever we possibly can. So um because of that and there's a bunch of things I'm not telling you, but I'm saying the because of that I have to be as efficient as possible. Yes, we have clips going on Twitter. We have Twitter, Tik Tok, Facebook, Instagram, um threads, WhatsApp. I think there's a group in uh Telegram. Uh yeah. Yeah. In Spanish. Um there's a bunch of stuff. Prophet Solomon had a secret about world of humans. It's regarding a city of gold. Um that's already in Do we have WhatsApp? Yes, I have WhatsApp. We have many WhatsApp groups. That's probably the most um active uh part of all of our social media, the WhatsApp groups and WhatsApp page. How important is Mazone? Can you elaborate? out of all the blessings that we have uh whether it's a blessing of before you eat or after you go to the bathroom or uh uh the the blessings in the uh you know of uh that you do in the morning or the isel or the uh uh out of all of the different blessings there's only one blessing that is commanded by the Torah and That's meaning is a it's an obligation by the Torah and needless to say is full of blessings that a person wants because if you read the baton you understand it you see that it brings it's a blessing for more blessings. Now the says that was written by several different people. The first section was written by Mosher Rabenu. Second section was written by Yeshua Benoon. Third section was written by David and Schlom. Fourth section was written by Aneknes Adah which among them were not only the sages but also prophets. So the entire mazon is coming from you know the greatest people that we've had in AmIad throughout all of history and it's an obligation according to the Tawat to do it. A rabbi is usually as disrespectful as you. Um, I don't know where I'm disrespectful, but I don't know who the rabbis that you're talking about, but uh, if you don't like me, tune off. Go somewhere else. You don't uh, have an obligation to listen. [snorts] Do I have a channel in Latino? No, I didn't know that. Uh there's a large amount of people that speak Latino still. Interesting. you're disrespectful because of the things you say about Jesus. No, that's not being disrespectful. That's being honest. So, you have to understand that the Torah itself commands us to mock idolatry. And believing that something else other than God of Israel is God is idolatry. And uh if you actually watch my lectures about the New Testament uh and uh your uh man god Jesus, then not only will you uh agree that everything I said is not disrespectful, but you'll actually abandon your beliefs in Jesus because you'll see that it's all man-made uh foolishness and heresy and idolatry. And the proofs for all of that are not only coming from the Torah and the sages, but it's also coming from the New Testament itself. There are proofs that it's a man-made uh document. So, uh that is not from God and it's idolatry. So, it's not being uh it's not being a uh um disrespectful. It's actually fulfilling the Torah. Now, you're saying that you don't believe that Jesus is God, but that's a problem according to your religion. You see, the New Testament says he's God. So, you are like most Christians that are different from each other. You're never going to find two Christians that are the same. Every Christian makes up his own religion. Now, the book itself that Christianity is based on is the New Testament. And the New Testament says that he is God. Now, obviously, this is nonsense. This is idolatry, but it still says it in there. So, if you're saying you believe in this man God with the only book that supports him, which is the man-made book of the New Testament, but yet you don't believe what that book says, then you're confusing yourself. Why would you believe in this person from a book that you don't follow? Cuz you're never going to find any other book that supports him. You're never going to find it. Now you say, "No, no, no, but I saw that uh my pastor said that uh he's mentioned in the uh you know in the you know five books of Moses." He's not. I saw he's listed in the prophets. He's not. I saw he's listed in the writings. He's not. You're never going to find that name Jesus in there. And the insinuation that he is by the church, different varieties of church are g being given to you by people that do believe he's God. So you're believing in a person that says he's God, but you don't believe he's God. So you don't believe him, and you don't believe the book that supports him, and you don't believe the teachers that teach about him. And so so many words, you've created your own religion. So even you yourself [snorts] don't know what you believe in. That's why I tell you if you watch my lectures about the subject, you can go to my YouTube channel and you will see how quickly you will abandon this belief not only in the New Testament but in Jesus and anything related to him and you will either become a righteous nohide according to the Torah or you'll even want to convert to Judaism like many of my students have over the last uh decade or so. Uh so uh this is the reason why we fulfill the Torah commandment to insult idolatry because it's not only to do the will of Hashem, but it's also something that helps people realize that they are living in an error. They are living in a state of hypocrisy on a constant basis. So you can't say I don't believe something that's in a book about this guy when that book is the only one that talks positively about him. Every place else that you'll look throughout the times doesn't mention him. And the only other place that mentions him is the Talmud. And the Talmud doesn't mention him in a positive way. Quite the opposite. And the Quran came 600 years after the uh the New Testament. So you can't really use that as a source. It's like using a source of a book that was written last week by one of the pastors. You have to use books that were written either at that time or before. And needless to say, the Quran is also a man-made book that's full of errors and hypocrisies and and and foolishness. But the point is is that you can't say, "I believe in Jesus, but I don't believe in the New Testament." Just like you say, "I believe in God, but I don't believe in the Torah." You can't do that. They two come together. God comes with the Torah. You don't believe in a Torah, that means you don't believe in the right God. You believe in something else because God gave us the Torah. Now if somebody says that they say they believe in Jesus that means they believe in New Testament. If they say no I don't believe in New Testament that means you don't believe in Jesus. Why? Because that's the only book that talks about him. That's the only book that talks about him in a positive way. And in there it says that he's three and he's God and there's all typ. So you can't say no no I believe this but I don't believe that. It's nonsense. It's complete nonsense. So the more you'll investigate your own beliefs, the more you'll realize that you are in a very serious quandry and hopefully you will educate yourself about the truth and abandon the falsehood that you're living in. What does the full moon represent? At the time that we do a uh monthly blessing, a renewal of the moon as far as it affecting sorcerers, we don't deal with sorcerers. Rabbi, canaz Jews in the Somalian in Somali land wage a holy war against the Somalian goim. I don't know the situation over there, so I can't really give you guidance on that, but I don't really usually recommend going to war. Um, unless you know for sure you could win and it's for your own survival. What is Oh, here's the famous uh anti-semitic question, but I'll answer it. What is So, metab is one of the things that is part of the Jewish tradition as part of the circumcision in order to protect the baby from dying. How? So after the baby is 8 days old, a Jewish baby, a boy has to do a circumcision. Now because he's so young, the you have to be very very careful with things that are pertaining to his health. So for example, if he has jaundice that's higher than the level, I believe of 13, then he's not allowed to have the circumcision. So you delay it. You don't do it on the eighth day. You could even delay it, you know, as long as it takes. Sometimes it's a month, two months, sometimes longer. If he has any health issues, you can't do it. So, the perfect baby has to be perfectly healthy at 8 days old in order for you to do a circumcision. Now, even then, when you do the circumcision for the baby, um there's obviously still a cut. And in order for uh there not to be any clotting which could actually be fatal, uh the uh one of the things that the muel does is take the blood out from that area. And the most effective way we've had throughout all of history is the mitab which of course the mo uh is uh spitting it out immediately and you know before that washes his mouth with alcohol. It's not a pleasant process in any way, shape, or form like all of the pedophiles and sick anti-semites think it is. It's actually a major sacrifice for the sake of saving a Jewish baby's life. Uh but the point being is is that this is what we've done throughout the last several thousand years. Uh this is obviously only done with, you know, a uh babies. It's not done with if let's say an adult uh does a circumcision they do not need the uh the same thing it's done with uh a tube. Uh but the point being is is that the mite is a major sacrifice that the mu who is like a doctor uh and an expert in circumcision uh is doing in order to make sure that the baby lives. Um, now a person that thinks that this is a uh some type of uh uh pedophilia or some type of perversion is number one an idiot. Uh, number two is ignorant about what Judaism is, what the Torah is, uh, and how careful we are uh, about all of those things in the Jewish world. And uh unfortunately when people are so consumed with hatred uh they also are ignorant of reality because the hatred blinds them. This is the reason why anti-semmites continue to use the same tools they have used in the last generations. Whether it's the conspiracy of blood and matzah, blood of, you know, uh, children and matzah, which is complete nonsense. You know, we're not even allowed to eat blood of animals. Needless to say, we're not allowed to eat blood of people. But, you know, again, the anti-semmites don't care about the truth. They're too focused about, you know, to promote their hatred. uh different uh perversions of uh and manipulations of text in the Torah and the written Torah and the oral Torah, especially the oral Torah. The point is is that if you are looking to educate yourself about the truth, Judaism is the only place you're going to find it and it's very very easy to find if you're really dedicated. If you're looking to hate, then it doesn't matter what the truth is because you will pervert the truth regardless of what it is in order to promote your hate. Rabbi, we know we could win the war because Israel just recognized the Somali land and we hold power in the country. Just because Israel recognize you doesn't mean that they'll support you in a war. um two those are two different things but again it's it's not something that I could just say go for it sacrifice your life and I don't know enough about the situation what does the tom say about Jesus many things he was born Jewish is uh his his mother is an adulteress that cheated on on his father um he uh which means he's a mom he uh learned learned uh initially from a uh very big very holy rabbi uh but he abandoned the ways of the Torah and made people follow him and uh he's a wicked person even after they came to him to try to uh help him do chuva to have him repent to have him come back to Hashem he refused refused many times uh and there's many other things that it says But the point is is that it's uh it's it's it's there. Why does the Talmud say that you can rob and steal from a gentile? The Talmud does not say that. See, that's exactly my point. You just somebody told you that and you're just copy and pasting it. That's completely forbidden. In fact, the Jewish law which is called ala that originates from the Talmud and then is written clearly by the later sages called the rishim. So the Rambam which is one of the heads of theim writes that stealing from anyone is forbidden but stealing from a gentile is actually worse than stealing from another Jew. Why? Because if a Jew steals from another Jew, then that Jew is going that the victim is going to have, you know, is going to hate the guy that stole from him naturally. But if a uh a Jew steals from a Gentile, then that Gentile is not only going to hate that Jew, he's going to put all Jews in the same basket and he's going to hate all Jews. He's going to blame all Jews for something that one Jew did which causes what's called aem a desecration of God's name. So the Rambam says while stealing while Jews stealing from a Jew is a sin that can be easily rectified by simply returning the money. Stealing from a non-Jew is a much worse sin because even if you can give back the money to the uh Gentile you stole money from and rectify that part of the sin, it's virtually, you know, almost impossible to fix the desecration of God that it caused. So, and the desecration of God is something that you can't repent for in this life. uh you know in in the same way like you could repent for other things through yamipur through fasting through giving uh the uh which is another part of the Talmud says that uh desecration of God is the one thing that you know you can repent for by uh you know after death uh you know and the only thing that uh uh can counteract it if you will uh says is which is sanctifying God's name which is not so simple the point being says is that what you are taught about the Talmud is not only not true, it's the exact opposite of the truth. And the truth actually is more critical on the Jews than, you know, stealing from uh from from Gentiles than it is Jews stealing from Jews. Literally, it's it's it couldn't be a bigger lie. Would you recommend we make aliyah? Um, again, I don't know. It's It depends on your circumstance. Now, it depends what your circumstance is going to be. uh after you make aliyah, you know, as far as making aliyah, it all it depends on three factors. Rab Sternbach uh wrote something about this and he said it effects on three factors. Number one, uh if your how your Torah is going to be affected. If you're going to learn as much or more after moving to Israel, that's a plus. But if you're going to learn less uh then uh then uh um you know once you move to Israel or you have less access to Torah for some reason then it's a very very big no. Second thing is uh if you are making a good living where you're living but if you move to Israel you will not have the ability to make a living the same way uh and you're you're not going to be able to make a living then that's a big negative. uh but if uh you will be able to you know survive living in Israel then there's no problem. Third is schlomite, peace in the home. Meaning if let's say the wife wants to go to Israel but the husband doesn't and if they go the husband is going to divorce her or vice versa then obviously you don't move. You don't get a divorce just for the sake of moving to Israel. But if you have a, you know, a uh a yes, meaning a positive answer on all three of those questions where you'll learn as much or more Torah in Israel, you'll be able to make sufficient pona or more in Israel, you'll have schlomite in Israel, then certainly you can move to Israel and you should move to Israel. But if there is a no, a negative answer on any one of those, then the answer is no. Don't move. >> [sighs] >> is exactly my my my my point. the guy that asked the guy that said that he thought that the Talmud says that it's allowed to steal from Jews. After I explained and proved that the Torah says the exact opposite, the Talmud says the exact opposite of what he said, that you're not only not allowed to steal from Gentiles, but it's it's worse to steal from a Gentile than it is to steal from another Jew. But if you're full of hatred, this truth is not going to matter to you. What does he respond with? He responds with, "Did God promise you Epstein Island with a uh, you know, 3,000 years ago and a bunch of other anti-semitic." So, you see, the point is that when they're asking questions, if they're full of anti-semitism, they're not looking for answers. They're just looking to preach hatred. When they're asking, you know, questions out of actual, you know, request for knowledge, then usually you you get some way. You get you move forward. What does the tomood say about Jesus? I've already answered that question, but if you want more information about it, go to my YouTube channel, Rabbi Yuron Ruven. I have several lectures with many, many different things, many sources that talk about it from all aspects of the Torah that give you a whole list of things of what the Torah says about Jesus and uh the Talmud and uh in different books and so on. I have several lectures Do you consider the mitzvah is mandatory? It's not mandatory. Not today. We first of all, Israel is not controlled by the world of Torah. It's controlled by Zionists that are anti-ra. Uh second of all, if uh living outside of Israel is for, you know, the the benefit of your Judaism, you know, or panas or zevug, then certainly you're allowed to live outside of Israel. Uh third of all many of the great sages throughout all of history uh until today lived outside of Israel whether it's the Ramban the Ramban Raben Raady lived in uh you know outside of Israel for many years of uh um uh Tion from Panama. Uh there's many many that have lived outside of of Israel. So it's not a uh Rashi lived in France obviously like the person is saying. So there's no obligation to live in in in the land of Israel today. Once Mashiah comes is a different story. But today, no. Would you ever become a Christian? Absolutely not. I don't want to live a lie. And Christianity is a religion that's based on lies. So we call the New Testament false testament. Do you know many Iraqi Jews? I know some I know uh one of the dear Rabanim that I uh grew up in his community and I'm very very close to he's a uh Iraqi Jew. Uh I had some friends in childhood that were Iraqi Jews and even adulthood that were Iraqi Jews. Uh so yeah I know some. Sure. Do you know any Simoleander Jews? Uh I don't know. I don't think so. I have many uh um students in uh Nigeria and different parts of Africa and pretty much all over the world. But I don't usually ask people uh so much details unless they tell me why do the Jews practice the I already answered the question. What are your thoughts about the Quran? It's a man-made false document. I didn't hear it. So, you'll hear it in the uh tomorrow's lecture. If you want to hear the the video again, it's on it's on YouTube. If I repeated every question people didn't listen to, then they'll be just repeating the same thing over and over again. They give an extensive answer. Do I know what kahhat is? No, I don't know what kat is. Who's Rabbi Zev? Rabbi Zev Rabbi Alan Zv. He's extraordinary to Sadik. He's done the circumcisions for all my the for all my kids. He did our wedding. Uh he's a sadik. Knows the entire sh by heart. uh his uh his family are some of the pioneers of uh of of of of the Jewish world today. For example, the first blood bank that uh the state of Israel ever had was started by his father. uh because in those times apparently many women were dying as a you know after birth from loss of blood and his father who was a big Tom Sadik decided to uh uh to start a blood bank and uh actually it's the main blood bank of Israel until this day uh his uh brother was one of the founders of Shas of Shas. Uh he today has uh the biggest girl seminary in Israel. I believe it's four 4,000 girls. So, they're uh and they're uh very very uh uh very, you know, very important family and Rav is just a special in his own. He's just uh he's above and beyond. >> [sighs] >> What's your opinion on Trump? And if religious Jews should support him, religious Jews should do chuva and get closer to Hashem. Hashem will fight their wars. Not saying to go against Trump or for Trump. Just saying that don't put too much any trust in man only Hashem. Is there an entrance to Gom? Yes. The says there's three entrances to Gom. One is in the desert, one is in one is in the ocean. Do you recommend any kosher comedians? Uh, yeah. You could listen to me when I say jokes during my lectures. It's pretty funny for people to understand my jokes. Other than that, no. I don't uh have any recommendations. school. Should high school graduate go to Israel for one year? It's very common. Depends. Depends on the circumstance. Some yes, some no. In most cases, it's not necessary. In some cases, it's a big upgrade. Depends. I have a uh a few students that have told them not to go, and I actually uh have some people that told me they should go. So, it depends. It's not one sizefits-all. is a sleeping pod such as a tent within a room considered a separate room? No. Let me see. You're welcome. Oh, what? It's 11 o'clock. Past 11 o'clock. Okay, we'll answer one more question. Go Magog. I have a whole movie about GoGu people can watch. Anybody who hasn't watched the movie Go Magog, you're missing out because a lot of information about Gogum Magog that people don't know. And it's in the film Hashem. It's reached many, many people, but there's still a lot of people that have not watched it. It's on our uh YouTube page. Go Magog the film. Watch it. It's about an hour and a half. Very, very high production. Uh lots of Torah sources, dozens and dozens of sources, many things you've never heard before. and uh really gives you a full understanding of what go is, what it isn't, and uh what you can do about it. Can you share which courses you recommend uh for technology? Yeah, just send me a message privately. I'll send it to you. I don't know off the top of my head. Okay. Okay. Rabutai, thank you very much for learning with me. Anyone that wants to support, like I said, you can donate on our website. ism.org or bhttora.org or you could donate on our app. Um you can also donate through different applications. 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