Shiur Torah #121 HaShem Why Are You Scaring Me?

[Music] great to be in always good to be here we usually have the best over here so we um we had a great Che last night about saw it difficult uh oh you already had time to see it difficult par lot of uh scary things but um this is the time where everyone has to wake up you know we have Judgment Day coming up in the next couple of weeks you know is a day for all of us to be ready by the time we get there we can't get uh you know we can't start getting ready once starts we have to be ready by then so we have this to give us a little bit of a wakeup call before we uh before it's too late uh also to do to uh Ruben Ben RKA Mel Coto lues Garcia aaro Balu Ed Guerero Cesar jimz jeline Bella Bor B siia Hannah Vasquez Jessica hne Karina Vasquez Jorge Hernandez Isabel Perez Josephina Matos marel Matan Jose Antonio AA gu Mo Solano clus me garez ruven Pablo sues Leana SAR s Lana David and all of will have so we already covered a lot of different parts of the last night but uh not surprisingly there's still a lot more to do you know the uh main thing that aan a uh someone that gives lectures is supposed to do in every lecture not just during but throughout the entire year and every single lecture that they does is to wake us up if someone that's giving a lecture regardless of whether it's a five minute sh after the or it's discussing an or it's discussing a whole you know major subject over a few hours it doesn't really make a difference the point is to touch our hearts you know just teaching people things that are uh not going to give them the uh understanding of its significance number one it's not going to work for the most part it's not going to work unless the person is already excited about Al he's already in the system he's already very very much religious he's already excited about doing new things to serve hem for the most part you know for a person that's not a um that's not in it which is pretty much the uh majority of the people today uh it's not going to work you going to tell somebody you know a different new every day and the person is uh barely keeping Shabbat uh and in many cases not even keeping Shabbat not only is he not going to listen to you but most likely he's going to play with his phone throughout the entire uh Shure and most likely what you're going to do is actually turn him off more than turn him on because if if you are a rabbi or someone that knows a little bit of Tor and you're going to take the initiative to do Zim you're going to take the initiative to do K to try to get people to learn Tor um and you're going to go to a full of and you're going to teach them the of the that most of these people never heard of and don't really care for not only are you wasting your time but in essence you're actually doing the opposite of what's going to work cuz if a guy is not keeping Shabbat if a guy is not keeping family Purity if a guy is not keeping kosher he's eating McDonalds twice a week if a guy is not even doing the very very basics of Judaism to teach him things that are like a uh in his eyes even though they're supposed to be standard but in his eyes in his perspective they're considered kumas they're considered stringencies it's just going to make the religion seem like it's farther away from him than it really is if he is already having a difficult time understanding why does hem care if I drive on Shabbat or I don't drive on Shabbat why does hem care if a uh you know if I eat this meat or that meat why does Hashem care if I do anything and you're going to start teaching him about how he has to have a certain type of uh bread at this time during the year or after PES or you uh you have to make sure that theog that you buy has to look a certain way can't have any types of uh you know flaws in it and so on the guy's like n this has to be like a business this has to be more of a money-making type of Shure rather than something that hm cares about because if he doesn't think that hem cares about whether he plays with his phone or not on Shabbat why would you think that he would agree that hasem cares about what kind of AOG he's going to buy or what kind of cookie he's going to eat why would he care about the cookie Hashem really he's running the whole world he's running the heaven the Earth he's running you know the geden GES the Stars the moon everything he's running everything and all he cares about is this cookie go deal put somebody else's cookie leave my cookie alone so what happens here is that when a teacher does not follow the mishna which says that a rabbi must be close to the crowd close to the crowd it doesn't mean physically close doesn't mean physically close cuz in even in those days it wasn't a uh like today where you have to beg you know 10 20 people to show up to a lecture or if you have a big lecture like we had in New York you have 500 people it's already like miraculous in those days if the rambam was doing a lecture had 10 15,000 people a big giant comes to town to have 10 15 20,000 people no big deal there wasn't like a uh wow we had 15,000 we're normal what else they going to do didn't have PlayStation have baseball didn't have basketball what else they going to do learn Tora they learn about hem today we have to find different creative ways to get people to show up so we have now this sh enjoyment uh that's helping us get people from all over the world to listen to the I'm sure if they're listening to the sh right now and you know in Israel for example right now it's I think it's like 4:00 in the morning someone woke up at 4:00 in the morning to listen to a Shure obviously they would come if they could but they can't made it easy for them he already knows that they're looking for him they're look for the truth they're looking for Tor he's going to find a way he's going to give them a way to to to hear this tor but in other way some other people are saying listen you know what it's a uh the sh is down the street for me but I could just watch it on YouTube tomorrow I I watch it on YouTube tomorrow so that's what they do which is fine it's not the end of the world but according to the the biggest part of the reward that someone gets is for going to the lecture for listening to it live much F much more than actually being at the lecture and the reason why thear says is because if it's a good lecture if it's a most people are not going to understand or remember everything he says how you're can to understand you have a two hour Sho or you can understand 50% let's say 30% in some cases depends depends on the level of the lecturer and out of the 50% that you understand you're not going to if I ask you know you ask the person 10 uh you know 10 minutes after the Shure uh what the what the rabbi say and uh he's going to tell you um yeah he said all types of uh said all types of things he said all types of things it's okay but what did he say exactly I don't remember everything he said [Music] so what ends up happening is that people go to lectures they learn but they can only really grasp and remember a very small portion of the lecture and this is the reason why the gar says that the biggest part of their their biggest part of the reward is actually going to the lecture so now we have an opportunity as as rabbis as teachers to make sure that when we get in front of people we use that opportunity to wake them up if we don't take advantage of it then not only did we waste our time but we waste a their time and in many cases someone that's secular someone that has a saf a a doubt about the religion a doubt about the Torah will get further from hem instead of closer this is the only way you can rationally explain people that go to beet every day for 20 years 20 years they going to beet but still don't keep Shabbat you ask the guy wa so be you go to yeah sure he's very proud of because on Shabbat I even go extra early 5:30 in the morning I'm already in the car he doesn't realize that you know being in the car driving on Shabbat is not a it's not a it's rather than that he never step one foot into Bess then turn on the car once not only not only to never step a foot in Bess just on shabat never go to theet ever at all just not to violate Shabbat one time going toet it's a it's great but it's not a meaning you're not obligated it's good it's much better to pray than it is to Pray by yourself because you have the there's a special significance in praying with am minan but it's not even close it's not even in the same Planet as a significance of Shabbat so someone that thinks that they could somehow get credit for going to beet on Shabbat by driving there or by taking one of these electric cars and thinking that it's okay they just created a new rule in the Torah which is a sin from the Torah not only sin to violate shabab but a sin to create a new rule so part of the fault is not just on this person that's driving on Shabbat it's also on the people that he's learning from because most likely they never told him this most likely he came to messet every single day for 20 years and after the warning prayer they tell you about you know some Al and Al could be about anything but they tell you the AL plain and simple a b c very very simple which is good learning the is great the problem is to him it's not even relevant to him he has no idea why he's even on this Earth all he knows that he wants to get a little bit of Judaism in his life go to beet feel like he's Jewish and that's it as far as keeping anything listen I'll keep whatever is easy for me God will understand that's his rationalization I will keep whatever is convenient if going to besset is convenient I'll go to besset now besset is 15 minutes from my house I don't want to walk 15 minutes I'm going to drive or is an hour from my house because I want to live by the beach so of course God is not expecting me to walk an hour so I'll drive for 5 minutes God understands and he rationalizes his way out of his responsibility and when the rabbi that's trying to teach him to Li he's trying to teach him all these different Al is not taking the initiative to explain to this person that every single one of these Al has a consequence there's some type of consequence for not doing it if you just tell him what he has to do without telling him the consequence of not doing it the secular mind thinks that it's an elective meaning if I do what this Rabbi is saying I get a reward I get a cookie if I don't do it I get nothing okay so if I find a nice atog great I'll get a nice uh reward from hashm if I don't find nice hasm understands because it's not my fault I couldn't find one if I eat I'll get a special reward if I don't I don't the secular mindset which most of my life I was and I could tell you from experience you rationalize ize everything you everything is going to make sense in your mind until somebody gives you a wake up call until somebody tells you said in the Torah if you treat me with casualness if you just make my Torah like it's an elective like it's okay if you follow it's okay if you don't follow you could do you could not do I love you anyway for that you get an additional p punishment there's the punishment of violating Shabbat there's the punishment of not eating kosher there's punishment for being adultery there's a punishment for all these different sins we'll go over in a few of them today but there's an additional punishment that's the same weight same weight as the big sins as all of them put together and that's treating AEM with casualness so when you as a secular person hear this like whoa so you're telling me that I have to start paying attention there's a consequence of not eating kosher there's a consequence for you know not being uh nice to my wife there's consequence for doing all of these things all right so what do I have to do now sign me up let me get started is a consequence of doing once you know there's a consequence things change the whole picture changes once you know the price of everything that's a men on the menu every everything changes when you think that everything is free you'll order everything so this is one of the opportunities that every lecturer has everyone even the ones that don't want to teach mus even the ones that want to teach love they want to teach loving hasem and everything is wonderful and the the Mish that they read after MF on Shabbat of how every uh member of Israel has a share of the world to come they want to teach that part they don't want to teach the other 90% of that very same mishna you know that mishna where it says every every member ofel has a share of the world to come that's 10% it's 10% of the mishna the rest of the mishna if anybody actually opens thear and sees it page 94 start say wait a minute this is just the first line there's another almost 10 depim not just pages theim is really two pages because it's front and back almost another 10im in the talking about this mishna what's the rest of it talking about who doesn't have a share in a world to come there one line says everyone has a share at the world to come and then the rest of it says the following people do not have a share of the world to come these are the crimes that they committed whether it's a you know someone that embarrasses somebody else in public of course someone that's a someone that's all these different types of violations that make somebody lose their share of the world to come but most people that go to be but never actually open the they know the by heart but have no idea what it actually says they know by I know plenty of people that know this do by heart but they have no idea what it actually says what it means what one word means because anyone that actually understands what the says forget about what the written T the put all those aside let's say it's too much for you let's say it's too much for you just understand what it says in the Sid anywhere pick a place anywhere you want just notice how many times it says that we have to fear AEM what is this how many times say we have to love hm and the entire all of the where does it say it say love then it says one more time that's it that's it no more you're not going to find one more time in entire entire s it says love hasem but fear hasem every page every page if you guys notice just thinking about it right now on Friday night we'll go to B it and right before we finish the prayer we uh finish amida beautiful prayer everyone enjoyed it everyone is happy everyone's excited they're about to eat right and we go into the uh little paragraph from The Book of Genesis chapter two the first couple of Verses first three verses and then is a bless thing that we do which is giving hem all types of blessings the usually the Khan reads this telling hasem that he's great he's powerful he's awesome he's the most high God who created with his in his compassion the Heaven and the Earth the shield of our forefathers through his word you know he revives the dead just through his words The God Who is Holy there's no one there's no one like him that who grants his people rest on a day of Shabbat a holy Shabbat for he delighted in them to give them rest he's happy when they have rest because why is he happy that they have rest because they finally get the feeling that he had you knowm doesn't actually have feelings like we do but for better for For Better or For Worse this is for us to understand when we keep shamat we're separating ourselves from the mundan we're separating ourselves from the rest of the week the rest of the six days and we're getting the same feeling that he got when he stopped creating on the seventh day so he in essence minimized himself for us because in reality he created the Heaven and the Earth and everything in between in a moment he didn't actually need six days he created everything in a moment and the Z says that he actually put everything in place over those next six days he didn't actually have to like hire Construction companies to create the sun maybe get a title you know get a certificate from the state so you could put the moon in its place they rejected and then he had to come back with a new new plan there was a you know he created everything in a moment and then over the next six days he actually put everything in place and then on the seventh day he stopped creating he stopped putting things in place because everything was already ready everything was already set in order for us to feel a difference if every every day was a day of creation then there would be no difference between one day or the next every day every day would be the same he wanted one day of the week to be different and the only way for it to be different for both us and him is by making this one day something that we can do that he that he does we can't really do much but if he stops creating we stop creating that's that's what he created Shabbat for so in essence he minimized himself for us by stretching out the creation over 6 days instead of just make giving us one day created everything that's it which means if it's what if he just gave us one day then every day would be the same every hour will be the same there would never be an end it would never be a beginning nothing would change so to give us a feeling like he feels he says okay I created a Shabbat for you so now so it gives him a good feeling when we're honoring the Shabbat when we're resting on the Shabbat because in essence since we're achieving our purpose that he already had 5,776 years ago almost 77 and then it says something that most people sing they sing this part everyone sings this part but I bet you if you ask people 90% of them at least don't actually pay attention to what they're saying before him we will serve in awe and in fear doesn't say we're going to serve AEM all the love and we love him and we're best friends and I could talk to my God all the time and like a friend like people want to be friends with God he's my friend I could talk to him whenever I want and yes you can talk to him whenever you want but he's not your friend yes you can connect to him with the most intimate feelings but he's not your friend yes you can ask him for anything and tell him anything even though you already knows but he's still not your friend he's your God this is why it says here that you're supposed to serve him because he's your God and how do you serve a god are Our God it's not like the gods of a where they do all types of disgusting things some of them even uh use uh you know their waste they throw on them even to this day our God is the real Gods the only God and him you serve with fear and awe why because if you understand even a 1% of 1% of 1% of who and what he is how could you not be scared how could you not be scared he's in control of all of the molecules and your body all the cells all the brain cells the blood cells the white blood cells the red blood cells the proteins the thoughts that you have the money you have in your pocket the vision you have in your eyes the sound you hear in your ears the relationship that you have the success the failure everything and anything that happens it only happens because Hashem thought about it the minute he stops thinking about it it ceases to exist easiest way to explain it through science is by looking at the makeup of an atom and I think we've talked about this before but in short an atom in essence is really two main parts there are other parts but there's two main parts there's the nucleus and then there is the electron proton and the electron and what there's in so many words for someone not to get into too much of a deep science because it's not really a science class but just to give you guys an understanding just visualize one ball one big ball let's say just call it the sun okay one big ball and there's one small ball spinning around it really really really fast and if you compare it as far as the size difference it's the size difference is probably even more significant than the difference in size between Earth and the sun the sun is drastically bigger than Earth the atam it's even more so and the space between these two balls is the equivalent of between Earth and the sun which means that most of the space between them is nothing it's empty but the reason why you see everything because everything is made out of atoms everything is energy reason why you see this book as solid and this table and this other book and you and me and everything else is because the atom is spinning really really really fast similar to let's say for example this fan that's above us right now the fan is spinning slowly so you notice that there's five blades it's probably the slowest space that it has but if you press the if you pull the string again it's going to look like maybe there's three blades you press it again it goes really really fast it'll look like most likely it holds only has one blade even though nothing changes other than the speed the number of blades never changes when you look at a fan going really really fast it looks like there's one blade even though it may have four or five six seven blades same concept with us everything looks solid but it's really all an optical illusion in reality 99.9% of everything that exists is nothing absolutely nothing and the reason why we think it's something is because hasem miraculously makes these atoms spin really really fast to make everything appear as if it's solid so what happens if they stop spinning the truth will be exposed if the fan was going at top speed and it looks like it was one blade and then you just shut it off and it instantly stops not stops like it slows down but it instantly stops on the spot immediately you will see the truth which is that it's not one blade it's 5 6 7 8 blades in truth of the world in the universe the nothingness will be exposed meaning the only thing that would be shown is nothing cuz the actual material matter that actually exists is less Le than 1% of 1% and all of the matter of all of the universe can fit into a box of matches that's what we actually have so when Hashem said in the book of Jeremiah if not for my Covenant day and night the rules of the world will cease to exist what he was saying here is that if it's not for you keep keeping the Covenant of learning my Tor observing my Tor day and night the rules of the world will cease to exist what he meant here is that if there's no one in the world at somewhere in the world some 24 hours a day studying his Torah and observing his Torah someone has to be doing it according to kazal 36 people have to be doing it if we don't have these 36 that are observing the to 24 hours a day then the rules of the world cease to exist meaning that Hashem will instantly destroy the world not like he did with Noah and the flood that was a year process here he's saying instantly the rules of world world cease to exist so back then we didn't understand the whole concept of Adams now we do now we know that all hasem needs to do is stop thinking about the world stop thinking about the atom spinning and as soon as the atom stops spinning there's no explosions there's no Wars there's no debates there's no please stop there's nothing it ceases to exist everything turns to nothing so the average person that's praying in the afternoon mean the average person that takes five minutes of their day to press play on a Torah video and listen to it the average Jew that takes a takes a take opens it in between his break instead of you know smoking for 20 minutes without doing looking at nothing he smokes he wants to smoke smoke it's a sin but you want to smoke smoke but at least open something read a book do something with your time instead of looking at nothing instead of doing nothing that person could very well be saving the world that's the significance of Torah so now when you tell somebody listen it's good to learn Torah okay it's good it's good for you it's good for you to learn to you like it enjoy for me it's not good it's boring to me for me it's a too difficult for me I don't connect all types of excuses that a secular person can come up with or even a religious person he does the Mitzvah but he doesn't want to learn anything else he feels like he's capped out he can't do anymore says for you it's good for me it's too much I can't do anymore I just learn whenever I go to beet now if you just tell them listen it's good most likely he's not going to Lear but if you tell him listen if everyone makes the same decision as you and they all wait to go to beet to learn from the rabbi and the rabbi doesn't show up today today all the rabbis in the world they don't show up which means no one's going to learn the world will cease to exist so you learning for five minutes even if it's an that's not going to affect your life can change the world like oh I could change the world or everybody wants everyone wants to be a Superman ever since I was a kid I always thought of myself maybe one day I'm going to get myself a cape I us used to have these dreams as a kid want to be Superman everyone wants to be Superman okay so learn to all you Superman you're saving the world with the five minutes even more so if you tell them the consequence of not doing it that are even Beyond this of what happens if we don't do what hasem tells us so with each and every lecture each one of us teachers rabbis whatever you want to call it has an opportunity to touch your heart and wake you up in some way or another if we don't we're wasting our time time but then for those teachers that have a difficulty giving M giving people some difficulties some slaps on the head to wake them up Hashem made sure that he gave us as an obligation where we have to read it and we have to teach it if not to people to our family to our friends and if not to our family and friends to ourselves to somebody you have to teach it to somebody and almost every single par has some type of rebuke approximately half the Torah has rebukes but there's these two par that you can't avoid the rebuke because it's 90% of the par most of the you know when you do a sh for example you can't really cover the entire par even if you do a two hour sh 3 hour sh Le last time we had a three hour sh probably didn't even cover 10% of the par there's a lot it's a lot of details in every par you could teach a par for a year straight and still not finish half of it there's a lot of the more details you go into there's a lot there's a lot to teach so usually somebody's going to take couple of verses within a par and teach it which means that Mo you know big part of the Torah you can get away without rebuking you can teach about abah ainu being a sadik not about Abu suffering could teach about mosenu being our Our Savior notu you know praying and begging hem not to destroy for the sins they made you could teach the law of all the weird things that we don't understand it's interesting and avoid teaching the whole concept behind it which is that whether you understand the Torah or not you still have to follow it it's not a something that Hashem said the didn't say in the Torah anywhere in the Torah saying once you understand it then do it he didn't say that said do it and over time you'll understand why and even if you don't understand you still have to do it so another many you can get away with not teaching the rebuke not teaching the the to and teaching nice things but there's two and that you really have to be like extra clever to teach this without rebuking like you have to intentionally run away from rebuke to teach this Paras without telling people hey you have to wake up if you're teaching this Paras without people at the end of your lesson feeling a little bit of Heartache you shouldn't teach ever again you're defeating the purpose if Hashem didn't want people to know it he wouldn't write it the things that hasem wanted to keep secret like for example the details of G details of Gom we don't really know that much about from the written tah we know a few things here and there but the details of Gom you have to search for them where do you get them you get them in thear you get them in a z there's a book called the beginning of wisdom that has a gives all the details of what happens in Gom very very scary stuff anyone that reads it probably lose sleep for at least 6 months if not more very very scary stuff like all of the horrible things that have happened to am history all of them you combine all of them is not equivalent to one hour of Gom would you read this it's horrible horrible things and a lot of people asking me to do a about Gom and uh even I have trouble justifying teaching it because it's not for everyone I don't have a problem telling a few things here and there I've said it in many sh different things that happen but to have a whole sh or two hours 3 hours but what happened in Gom someone that's not ready for it which is the vast majority of the public listens to this sh they could completely lose hope they completely lose all they say listen just kill me I can't take it I made this and I made that sin I made this sin this is what's going to happen to me I might as well give up you can make people hopeless so yes to benefit 5 6 10 20 people and Shalom hurt hundreds you have to you have to really weigh your options but at the same token not teaching it is also a problem so in your opinion it's it's better not to know what's going to happen to you that KN iten no in my opinion everyone should know but at at the time that they're ready to know oh okay everyone need to know okay so for example if you're already in you're already keeping Shabbat you're already keeping the basics you're already in it for a year two years three years your Torah has become a fixture within your life you have to learn about it at least you know half hour hour two hours just to get enough to remember maybe you don't necessarily need to learn every single detail of what happens there but you need to learn at least a little bit about it to get yourself that before the next time you the comes to you and wants you to sin with the woman with the guy with the dog with the this with the all money all this different crazy things the puts in our head you think wait a minute before I say about this Rabbi I remember it says that over there what do they do to the guy they take sand sand sand is glass and they feed him they force feed him sand force feed him sand without stopping they force him to chew on it until he gets you know he breaks all of his teeth and he cries and suffers and they yell at him rash rash you didn't have a problem before using your mouth for other things why now you don't want it or if he stole If he if he ate if he uh uh ate food without doing a he stole from Hashem stole from Hashem you know you eat an apple you think oh it's an apple I just got Apple what's the big deal right you want you go to one of these you go to Walmart and you're like ah Walmart's a $500 billion company what do they care about this apple you should start eating the apple and you don't pay for it not only you forgot the blessing you stole from hasem but you stole from Walmart also you think it's okay they go it's no big deal it's not Jews it's worse by the way stealing from non-jews is worse than stealing from Jews steal from a Jew it's a problem between you and a Jew steal from a non-jew it's problem between you the non-jew and a why AEM cuz now it becomes now they're not going to say look this guy stole from me what are they going to say look this Jew stole from me is that what the Torah teaches to steal so it's worse to steal from a non-jew people don't know this they think oh no if he's not Jewish it's okay to steal from him it's opposite so now the guy eats the Apple doesn't doesn't bless it and on top of it steals it from Walmart or some grocery store so what do they do to him and G home they feed him to scand and break his teeth and blood and everything there's a lot of details the disaster in so many words they tell when you uh when you were taking it in uh you know during your life what that didn't belong to you what didn't belong to you you didn't say anything you weren't complaining now they were giving you something for free why are you complaining you think about that for details of that for about 5 minutes you lose sleep for a week yes so so it's she three hour imagine a three hour she about something like this it's not appropriate for everyone so of curiosity is it's not that healthy so it's good to know it because everyone is obligated to have everyone has to have some fear of hem and yes some fear of punishment that is the beginning of fear is the beginning of wisdom is fear of hasem and the beginning of fear is fear of punishment you can't just go straight to the highest level of fear of hem which is fearing of a disconnect between you and hem you know there's levels of the lowest level of of fear of hem is fearing that he's going to punish us we're going to lose money we're going to get beat up in G home we're going to lose relationships all types of things like this that's fear of punishment the highest level of highest level is fearing of a disconnect between us and hasem meaning that we're not worried so much about getting beat up by Hashem we're worried about not feeling as connected to him and only someone that spent a moment being in love can understand this why if you were in love why what's what's being in love really being in love means that you cannot spend a moment without thinking about that person without wanting to be with that person you can't be with them all the time obviously but even when you're not with them you're thinking about them oh what is she doing now oh what's he doing now oh let me call him or let me text him you're thinking about you're it's constantly in your mind what this person is doing how are they doing how they you know how do they feel if there if they don't answer the phone it's like oh my what's happening they just they went to the bathroom nothing happened but to you it's like uh 5 minutes they didn't answer the phone it's like uh miniature G like hasm why is she doing this to me she went to the bathroom buddy don't worry she'll call you back in five minutes but when you're when you're in love that's what you think about you can't stop thinking about this person that's the highest level of meaning that you are scared of a disconnect from this person that you're in love with you're scared that she's never going to call you back you're scared that she may be offended by you you're scared that she doesn't want to talk to you you're scared of something being not good that's the highest level of when you're scared of having a disconnect of any type between you and your creator I can't take it Hashem maybe hasm is upset at me no what what I do to fix it that's the highest level of your so now to get to that level you can't get to that level day one we're lucky if we get to that level in our lifetime you can but kazal tells us that the highest level of is the beginning of loving hem beginning of loving him meaning that for most people in our generation loving AEM is not even an option because we have no concept of what really is so why do so many teachers teach about loving Hashem I can't really speak for all of them I don't know the rationale behind all of it it could very well be because it's they don't understand it enough or it could be more likely because it's easier to sell love than fear it's easy to sell love you know you look at all of your eyes when I said falling in love everyone understood what I meant fear not everyone understands what I mean it's like wait what do you mean and then you start talking about Gom and chewing sand okay okay that's what he means okay I don't let's go back to the love part love is much easier to sell it's a much more something you connect to everyone can connect to everyone wants to connect to no one wants to connect with you why should I be scared everyone remembers why because it starts with after and you love God everyone remembers but if I tell you the same prayer that everyone reads on Friday night how many of you actually remember that it says to serve AEM with awe and fear everyone says it every Friday night everyone says it does anybody remember that they say that you have to serve AEM out of fear and it's it's more than just fear it's beyond fear there's of the the Creator but fear of like like shaking yeah that's what I heard it's shaking from AEM it's not like just fear like oh he's great that's he's great that's awe but it says fear meaning you're shaking like it's Terror like it's just it's a really really scary thing like Shalom that I'm going to make a s during the Shabbat like if you actually understood what that word means you'd be scared to leave the house on Shabbat and everyone says it no one understands what they're saying so that's why I say that everyone that wants to really get close to Hashem Hashem made sure that the Torah is not far away from us and he says it in the Torah what do I ask you really to do do I ask you to go climb a mountain do I ask you to go do something that's beyond you no the Torah is very close to you it's very easy for you to understand it you don't want to read fine you don't want to read the fine you don't want to read fine you could still understand the very basics of connecting to hem to the very basic level of your Sid why because yourid is comprised mostly of of psms which is different part of the Torah and in the it constantly talks about so this is why it's upsetting that sometimes you'll have shim about or different parts of the Torah that specifically put it in the Torah to scare us only reason he put it in the Torah is to scare us to death say there's no other value to put all of these curses if it's not to scare you for what just for you to know what what a what a curse is the says that the only reason why Hashem created Thunder is to scare am and to scare all of the Nations that's it there's no other value you don't see any energy being created out of Thunder you don't see any you know oil companies discovering new wells because of some Thunder you don't see any new anything happening after Thunder nothing happens it's just sounds like AEM is either playing bowling or destroying the world thear says he created it to scare us when Amah was in Mount Si and they heard the first two Commandments and died after each time and they told mosenu you go up there and talk to him and tell you know tell them to stop talking so we don't die cuz every time hasem said the uh words they all died everyone died they weren't holy enough or at a level high enough to hear the words of Hashem only Moses was able to hear the words of Hashem and live they felt the pain of death twice they said stop it you go talk to him we'll do whatever he says and mosu tells him don't worry he's only doing this to scare you so you don't sin meaning that Hashem is intentionally actively scaring us because it's necessary it's necessary to be scared of asem in order to serve him to think that you can serve AEM purely purely out of love and no fear it's impossible and this is not my thought Shalom this is what says and we've talked about it before a connection to hem kazal says this connection to hasem that's based only on fear you're only scared scared of punishment scared of everything it's a connection to Hashem but it's incomplete meaning ideally you'd be scared and loving AEM you'd have both that's the ideal situation both fear and love so if you only fear then it's incomplete says it's incomplete but a connection to AEM that's only based on love kazal says it's no connection at all it's nothing it's impossible you cannot love something that you can't connect to you can't and if you connect to it that means you know what it is if you knew even 1% of what God is of course you'd be scared so obviously you loving him without fearing him is impossible so when we teach a like this and we escape the awe we escape the fear it's doing a diservice to so I regardless of how much we learned what we what else we learn today I suggest that everyone read the words of this parha in the language you understand so if Spanish is your first language read it in Spanish English is your first language read it in English don't be a hero and read it in Hebrew and understand nothing plenty of people read the they know how to make the sounds of Hebrew they even Hebrew is their first language but it's still doesn't mean you speakes the holy language the holy language is different than modern Hebrew So reading the words and also reading it with commentary by Rashi explains to you what this actually means I mean most of the stuff is self-explanatory if you understand the holy language but nonetheless it's very very important to understand what's Happening Here now in the beginning of the we've talked about yesterday already talks about how when we give when we're giving money towards Tora we're giving money to its mitv we're giving money to the homeless we're fulfilling a Mitzvah of giving make sure that you give with all of your heart meaning that when you give first and foremost if you want to really fulfill the you want to really fulfill it it's supposed to touch your heart a little bit meaning that it has to hurt just a little bit hurt the that you have for money a little bit if you're giving and it's very easy for you to give this money you're not giving enough if every time somebody comes to ask you for money you go to you give money you uh I don't know you sponsor something you give money and it's easy for you to give you know you already put it PayPal automatic dep uh deduction 50 bucks out of my paycheck it's easy for you you don't even feel it you don't even notice it it's already became like the phone bill that you pay out automatic you don't feel it you're not giving enough you're not giving enough why because it doesn't hurt you it's supposed to hurt just a little bit that's what it means to do the service of Hashem with all of your heart mean that it touches your heart where it's hurting the a little bit because wants the money back he doesn't want to give and if you're giving and the doesn't care that means you have plenty more to give if you're giving $50 it doesn't affect you move it to 55 see what happens 55 doesn't hurt move it to 60 moving to the point where it hurts just a little not to the point where you're homeless no to give you a whole paycheck oh let's see oh yeah this this really hurts look Rabbi I'm homeless now what do I do don't call me with that you know but give it just enough where it hurts a little bit that's giving with all of your heart after this by the way I keep calling that's last week's um after this section talks about this whole process of once they after he dies they're going to go to these two mountains and they're going to go through this procedure of everyone not only admitting to what's true and what's you know what's allowed what's not allowed but everyone supporting it meaning it's no longer going to be a secret if someone is a sinner they need to know that they're going to be cursed and there's certain types of sins that people try to get away with because no one sees those sins you know if someone they murder somebody at some point somebody's going to find out somebody saw them but if someone makes a sex crime there's no Witnesses they think that no one saw forgetting that sees everything so if you notice this list is full of sins most of them are sex crimes but it's full of sins that someone can do in the privacy of their home and for that very reason they get an even bigger punishment than someone that sins in public the reason why is because Hashem tells us that when somebody sins in public somebody goes and murders somebody Shalom somebody goes and steals during the daylight they don't care about me and they don't care about people either they don't don't have any whatsoever they don't care about anything they're rude to everyone they don't care about me they don't care about people they just feel like they're running the world but when someone does something in hiding they steal it night so no one sees their face they have a sex crime waste seed in their privacy Shalom they uh all types of other sex crimes that people do then they're specifically they're giving honor to people because they're scared that people are going to see them but me they don't care about that's even worse I see when you don't care about anyone okay I feel at least at least that but when you specifically don't care about me there's nobody that has more in the world than you so for that reason those types of crimes get the worst possible curse in a Tor called AR a meaning cursed by hem cursed by hasem and no one wants to be cursed by Hashem even someone who doesn't believe in Hashem even the atheist even if you go to a Jewish atheist and he tell them listen put your hand on this book that you don't believe in and say Amen that after I read all of these curses in this book that was written by the god that you don't believe in say Amen to all of them they're going to happen to you no Jew in a world will say Amen even if they don't believe I heard this from RAB M he actually tried this some young guy came to him and claimed to be an atheist then debate for like 2 and 1/2 hours says okay so you're convinced he goes no no I'm even less convinced than I was before now I'm certain I'm I'm 100% sure that my way is right so says listen I learned a little bit of uh how to read somebody's face and I knew that he was lying I knew he was lying but his ego did not let him admit that now he knows that God is real so I told him okay fine you win just do one last thing for me put your hand on this book gave my or T and say repeat after me he said okay what says may all of the curses that are written in this book by this God come on to me say am in like whoa you're cursing me he goes no I'm not cursing you I'm just saying what it says in the book you don't believe in the book you said that it's the same thing as like Harry Potter the same thing as uh New Testament nonsense right okay so say Amen to the curses no I'm not going to say amen he says no say Amen why not if you don't believe if you think it's just toilet paper say Amen what do you care yes no yes no they went back and forth until the guy broke down you say starts crying hysterical saying okay okay you got me you got me but sometimes our ego gets in the way of our CH sometimes our ego does not let us go in Chu because we think oh what are my friends going to think once I take off the 80 earrings that I have what are my friends going to think once I start wearing mod clothes what is this one going to think what is that one going to think for those thoughts for those of thoughts is the reason why I say that everyone needs to learn just a little bit about g a little bit about G even you know one minute about G will help you get over those thoughts about what your friends are going to think why CU you compare what your friends are going to think of if you start wearing long dresses if you start wearing a k if you're married if you start wearing a keep like a kosher Jew if you start wearing TI if you start looking like a Jew and you thinking about the embarrassment from those people cuz they're anti but then you think about the one minute of Gom that you heard about it's like okay you know what I'd rather be embarrassed with them for my whole life than that one minute of Gom that I heard if it's ever going to happen shom so for that is why I say everyone needs to know a little bit about the punishment but apparently the little bit that we need to know is a lot more than just one minute because it says in this some details that are horrifying for anyone that wants to know more details uh I would highly recommend listening to last night sh we go into some of the details not all of them of of course because it's just too many but we go into some of the details so now first it says here the cursed is the man who will make a Graven or molten image which is an abomination of hem so they scream this at the top of the mountain and the whole nation says amen that person is cursed meaning that everyone agrees this person that makes an idol worship he is cursed why an idol worship because an idol worship you don't necessarily need to do in public you can make yourself a little Idol and worship it at the uh secrecy of your home pretend like you're a religious Jew with a beard that could sweep the floor but in reality your idol is money you work nonstop you don't have any time for Torah you don't have any time for Hashem in reality you just look religious but you're not religious at all in reality you look religious but you steal from your companies you steal from your customers you are a completely dishonest person and the just no one found out yet you've turned money into an idol worship and you took the quote that's written on the bottom of a dollar which is in the God We Trust literally you turn the dollar into God you have an idol worship doesn't have to be an actual statue there's all different types of idol worship or sometimes you have people that want to be friends with the other religions now I know many Christians that are very nice people even Muslims that are very nice people no problems with them personally but to do a coalition a partnership with Christianity or Islam is against the toah 100% never it's never in one time in a toil you're allowed to partner up with idol worship if on the worst case scenario Christianity is 100% idol worship they turned God into three they say that a God had sex with a woman like he's a uh a human being they made God into a human being and so on that's the worst case scenario and that's most likely what it is most Pim say it's idol worship some Pim say no it's not idol worship but they don't say it's okay what do they say it's heresy it's this one's G and that one's G there's no like this one's okay and that one's worse this one's G and that one's G no way in to does to say you can become best friends with an idol worshipper you could be nice to them you could help them find out the truth it's actually your responsibility to help the GRE find the truth you're supposed to be light to the Nations but by doing a coalition and working in Partnership like unfortunately some rabbis Orthodox rabbis are doing today and partnering up with the Christians partnering up with them to say that you know we could have a universal acceptance of each other you stay Christians you stay Jews doesn't say anywhere in the tah that you're allowed to do something like that doesn't say anywhere in the toah that you could say it's okay to be an idol worshiper it's not okay it's absolutely there's nothing okay about it as a matter of fact part of your obligation as a Jew is to be a light to the Nations meaning you have to tell them the truth it's that we don't necessarily we're not obligated to become missionaries and go start knocking door too convincing the uh you know all the uh Christians and different types of idol worshippers to convert the Judaism but if you see someone that is interested in finding the truth of God and you have the truth in your hand and you don't show it to him you're rash why you so selfish for you have the truth tell him if he doesn't accept he doesn't accept it but at least you told him by the way your New Testament has a mistake in every single page how many mistakes every single page has at least five which uh which which New Testament you talking about cuz there's over 200,000 of them there's over 200,000 different types of New Testaments it's not one New Testament because New Testament has mistakes in it and each mistake every time there was a mistake instead of correcting it they just wrote a new book so there's a constantly new mistakes and over the last 2,000 years it got to a point where there's over 200,000 different versions of the New Testament most popular version is the King James version but that one has like mistakes that even a I don't know year-old Yeshiva boy would know that this book is a joke like for example and no less than nine places in the New Testament do they translate the word is a Hebrew word for a huge animal somewhere kazal says it was the size of like a equivalent of like a dinosaur but looks more like a combination of a bull and a deer bull and a deer really really big animal but anyway this we used the skin of the for Holy causes and so on but it was you know it's mentioned in nine different places in the tah the New Testament the King James version and when I first verified this I couldn't believe it so I went to another King James and another King James and just the same thing I thought there's no way maybe people have to be crazy to make such a mistake so the word in Hebrew is they word they trans translated to in the New Testament is a unicorn a unicorn is a mythical horse with wings that they made for cartoons that they made for little kids the stories it's not a real an it never actually existed so you're saying that your book is divine but you have a mythical character in it I mean a 5-year-old know this is this is like might as well put Smurfs Smurfs and Gargamel in there Harry Potter put in there I mean it's it's a mythical character everyone knows it's a mythical character no one actually believes that a unicorn ever existed you ask a Christian you believe unicorns no of course I don't believe in unicorns unicorns it's in myths it's in stories and you know things that people made up to entertain kids you talking about you know that in your book it's written nine times nine times it's written in your book no no way there's no way that they wrote unicorn in this holy book okay look I'll show you nine different verses okay that's nine mistakes and countless others point I'm trying to make is that Hashem made sure that if someone is looking for the truth it's easy to find it he says it the book of Deuteronomy chapter 4 if you look for me you'll find you'll find me if you look for me with all of your heart and all of your soul if someone is truly looking for AEM with all of their heart and all of their soul it's very easy for them to not only find AEM but to find the mistakes in everything that looks like AEM whether it be Islam or it be uh the Christianity or Buddhism or the 880,000 other Cults and religions out there it's very easy to find mistakes in them whereas in Judaism no one has ever found one mistake there may be things you don't agree with but there's no mistakes there may be things that you don't understand but there's no mistakes it's two different things no one understands the mitvah of a the red cow even SCH that in the beginning of the uh book of Chronicles it says that a SCH asked hasem to gift him wisdom to judge his Nation wisely and Hashem says because you asked for wisdom to judge my nation wisely and to comply with the Torah not only will I give you wisdom Beyond any man that ever lived or will ever live but I will also give you wealth and power and so on so even said the red heer is beyond me I don't understand it I don't understand how it does what it does it purifies the impure and it imp purifies the pure doesn't make any sense and we went over this so now when someone goes and does idol worship whether it be money or it be a statue or it be a fake religion and you have the truth in your hand and you hold it away you don't tell them you don't have the guts to tell them I could understand not having it you may not be a uh person that likes debate you don't like to argue I personally do enjoy arguing that makes me a uh interesting character for some people I don't like arguing especially my wife who doesn't like arguing so I usually win all arguments cuz she doesn't even argue back so I just talk to myself but uh no it's it's good it's good for what I do for what I did in the past but not everybody likes to argue I can understand that it's not necessarily uh fun for everyone some people hate it like my wife hates it and many people I know hate it fine you don't like to argue but you can still have somebody else argue for you what do you do take a link of one of the lectures you take the debate that RAB mrai had with the Christian Professor you take the debates that Rabbi tovia singer had with many other pastors and different types of uh Christian uh experts and you show that in each one of these debates Judaism wins hands down every single one of them it's not like half it's not like 50/50 or 7030 every single one of them Christianity can never win send send them the link let them be the judge have somebody else is doing the fight for you if you're scared of what's going to happen if you show it to this friend of yours if they see the debate okay then take a CD leave it in that mailbox and leave don't tell them it's from you but do something do something if you can't even get the CD just pray for them at least but do something for them you can't just say no not only am I not going to do anything for them but I make a partnership with them make them feel like they're okay make them feel like they're it's okay to be uh Idol worshipper sadik it's not allowed and again even though there are some poim that say that Christianity is not idol worship no one says it's okay what do they say it's heresy it's what's what does somebody get in the Tora for being a for being a heretic death penalty one is worse than the other it's not like it's okay it's never okay so the rambam asks why did Hashem make these religions come to the world if they're so wrong right mm because before Judaism there was only idol worship there was no other religions there was Judaism and it was idol worship after Judaism is when all of the other Rel religions were born whether it's Christianity Catholicism the different sects within them Islam Buddhism and 80,000 other religions that they keep making new ones every other day some people start religions by worshiping rats other ones worshiping cows other ones worshiping motorcycles you know all types of really seriously there's religions that worship motorcycles and cats and dogs and all types of crazy things there's a new one that started was popular one called Scientology a few years years ago they got some Fame because they had some stupid actors saying that they're promoting it allp you know all types of craziness happens in the world everything except God people want to worship anything except God so you have all of these things that are happening out there but you have the truth in your hand it's very easy to prove somebody could actually prove it for you it's not it's not like rocket science somebody could do it for you give a CD give something to just say that all of these things are there for no reason it's not it's not for no reasons why did Hashem allow it rambam says is because if it was just idol worship and one day the mashia comes and they say oh this is a completely different world we believed in a statue we believed in a star we believed in a motorcycle and now you're saying this is the Supreme Being it's too much of a gap too much of a gap for the gim to adjust to whereas at least with Islam and with Christianity even though they're completely wrong one more than the other at least they believe that they're monotheistic they believe that they're worshiping one God they believe that it's the same God so when they finally see the truth when the mashiah comes and he's going to everyone's going to know who he is not going to be a doubt oh is he a mashiah is he not yeah but I'm not so sure maybe he's he's askanazi maybe he's sapharic maybe he's yemenite I wasn't sure I thought that the uh mashiah is going to be something else you know people people people want to have a visual of the mashiah black people want the Messiah to be black white people want him to be white Spanish people want him to be white Spanish you know every want want him to be yemenites think he's definitely yemenite everyone wants him to be like them so when he shows up finally he's a no way half the world going to say no way right but hasem says when the Messiah comes everyone's going to know why because there's going to be bigger Miracles at the time of Messiah than there was during Egypt during Mount Si so the go they were unintentionally intentionally serving Hashem the wrong way not like the the Pope that knows the truth but still practices the wrong thing MH but the people that are just ignorant and unintentionally serving you know they made up pretty much a lot of what a lot of Christians do is that they're not even Christians that are really authentic Christians like they don't actually believe in the New Testament the way it's really written like you ask most Christians they don't believe in the New Testament but they believe in JC so wait a minute but it's written JC in I believe in JC okay you believe JC is God no okay the the New Testament says he's God no no no I think he's the Messiah but it doesn't say in the New Testament he's the mssiah no but that's what I believe so you created your own version of Christianity most Christians don't actually believe in Christianity they believe in something else they make up their own religion so people like that that were really you know genuine and serving hasem they just made a huge mistake by having a middle man the adjustment is not going to be as drastic from that to knowing hey by the way there's no middleman the guy is actually a rash and there's only one God God of Israel and that's it and this is the real Messiah for them it's not going to be a big adjustment but for someone that's an idol worshiper like a complete Idol worshipper for them it's going to be too big of an adjustment they won't won't be able to do it that's what the rambam says that's why hasm allowed it at least that's one rationale that rambam had that I know of uh but of course no one really knows the so that's the first thing to talk about idol worship yeah um um I mean it's my opinion I'm not I've read about the religions but is it is not a personal interest of the Creator because there are are they are creators of the religions that are still alive they are still alive the creator of the religion that that that that the one sonologist L H I think he's still alive yeah he's still alive yeah but uh he's a creator of religion he's a for personal reasons or is based on on the well I mean everyone that creates a religion is in essence trying to create a purpose for their life okay you create a religion because to you know you finally realize that money can't be the purpose of life women can't be the purpose of life men can't be the purpose of life children can't be the purpose of life all of these material things cannot be the purpose of life because if it's really the purpose of life that means that everyone will be able to do it cuz we all are humans and we all have to have a common purpose you can't say that you have onep purpose and I have a different purpose you may have a different personal purpose but a as far as a universal purpose everyone has to have the same thing we're all humans so if bringing children to the world was the purpose of the world was the purpose of every single person then how come every sing you know many people thousands millions of people can't have kids if the purpose of the world was to be rich why is the vast majority of the world poor the majority of the world is poor not it's a very small percentage is middle class and upper class most people are below middle class in America you don't see that much of it because most people are relatively okay in America but in the rest of the world where the 7 and a half billion people live most people are not you know so people in America are relatively ignorant about the rest of the world you know you asked they went they've done several research things that really show how ignorant this generation is they go to universities where it's supposed to be a place of higher education and they have these uh recordings asking these students this higher level education students questions and they can't even ask answer the most basic questions like for example they asked people in New York who is Hitler who's Hitler most people didn't know who he is not talking about that they thought it was somebody else most most people never heard of him at all then another time they ask another research they ask people how many Jewish countries are there in the world how many Jewish countries in the world average person said like 27 27 Jewish countries in the world is not one it's 27 how many Arab countries are in the world they usually said like two or three like opposite uh ask him about oh they said one time they said this is sad but hysterical it said uh listen uh Hillary Clinton once she uh becomes president she said that the first initiative she's going to do is pass sharah law she pass sharah law that the the Muslims have what do you think oh yeah yeah Hillary Clinton yeah I'm going to vote for her yeah it's a good idea Shah law you know what Shah law is you know you have curfew you have to wear you have to cover your whole body or they chop your head off people have no idea they're clueless complete clueless but that's the that's the they play Playstation all day what do you expect them to do what do you expect out of people we're one level above monkey that's why most people think we come from monkeys not we're not far away from them the generation right now is honestly I think if mashia Waits too long he's not going to have anyone to save monkeys maybe he's going to save it's all what's left people don't know anything they don't know anything when we were kids I don't know you remember a lot of things by heart now myself included how many people do you know remember phone numbers by heart now who remembers any phone numbers by heart now no one remembers pH numbers by heart why remembering nine digits 10 digits you crazy it's all in the phone why should I need remember it's in the phone but when I was a kid you remembered at least I don't know 15 20 numberers by heart you had to you know you go to pay phone you have to remember you know this phone number that phone number that's the way it was now you ask one kid to remember the phone number for home they don't remember nothing that's it you don't use your brain it stops working moving on after Hashem tells us the significance of worshiping idols and how he considers them cursed he talks about all these different types of sex crimes and the last one that he talks about in this specific section in verse 26 is we also covered it a little bit yesterday but it's still worth mentioning and again says a cursed is the one who will not uphold the words of this Torah to perform them the entire people shall say Amen so kazal says what does it mean a person that will not uphold the laws of Torah the words of Torah this is actually referring to people that get in the way of Torah not necessarily ones that don't observe the entire Torah like you know make SS but rather people that get in the way of teaching get in the way of teachers and our generation unfortunately it's these types of people are the least expected sometimes you know someone that's a heretic someone that's anti- toas some I don't know some a left crazy person you you know you start talking about the laws of the Torah that has versus uh you know homosexuality they lose their mind but from them you expect it from a communist mentality you expect him to be against the Torah what you don't expect is the Satan that happens in between rabbis where you have certain rabbis that M make it their job to go against other rabbis and if it wasn't a prophecy in the Tora it would be very very discouraging for me you know it's a prophecy in the it's prophecy in page 49 and it says that this is one of the signs of the end of days the truth will be despised and anyone that says the truth will be despised so if it wasn't a prophecy that we're in the end of days it will be very discouraging for someone like me or someone like Raba mizi uh because listen having going into this trying to make people do chva is not easy already you're already arguing with certain people that don't want to become religious and you're trying to save them it's already one battle as it is there's many many battles that come with it but to have someone that's supposed to be on your team go against you or at least someone that's supposed to have this a common interest you teach T I teach T okay you want to teach about fine I teach you teach them about whatever you teach I teach whatever either way we have a common interest we're here to teach what do you care what I'm doing I'm not interfering with you don't interfere with me and unfortunately in today's generation some rabbis make it a personal mission of theirs to go against it and it's very very sad because you have no idea what's true what's not true you have no idea where to go where to lean on what to not lean on and then you start having doubts everywhere it's becomes impossible to have like a peace of mind but the Torah already knew this 3,300 years ago when we got it AEM already told us that this is going to happen first of all and he also told us that listen whenever anyone one is going to teach the truth they have nothing to worry about worrying is just a waste of time but at the same token anyone that decides that they're going to get in away in the Torah they need to know this par they need to know that there's a special curse meant for you whether you're a rabbi or you're a regular person whatever you are you get in the way of Torah you're messing with God has nothing to do with me the the few people that you know dislike the fact of how fast we're growing and publicizing the Torah you know and uh they feel like uh it's a uh I don't know for whatever reason it's unjustified and it bothers them they were reaching tens of thousands of people in a relatively short period of time and make it their mission to uh to say bad things they don't realize that if one person one person out of all the people that are out there one person listens to them one person not five or 10 or a thousand one person listens to their Studio to their nonsense that they say like comment that was written recently says uh or here's the clown or something like that uh and uh some party says oh okay so if if if this Rabbi says he's a clown I shouldn't listen to it if that one person doesn't listen doesn't do Chua because of that Rabbi or whoever wrote the comment doesn't matter what you do for the rest of your life the chuv you have to do is is impossible go find out who listened to it go find out who didn't do chah because of you so this is why hasem gives us details of punishment of what happens because he wants to scare us to death so we're not stupid I mean some of the punishments which we're going to go over very very briefly into are horrible horrible things we I mean is from losing all our money which to every person that ever worked a day in our life is a nightmare if you have kids losing all of your money is even a bigger nightmare the thought of not having any parent any parent not having money for himself is one disaster but not having money for his kids it's it's got already G home here imagine coming home and not having money to give your kids any food ABA were hungry IMA were hungry I'm sorry honey we don't have any money imagine that thought you're any mother that still has a heart in our in our body immediately starts crying just thinking about even if she has $50 million in the bank she thinks about I come home my kids don't have anything to eat she already starts crying that's one of the punishments it's the first one it's the lowest level lowest level the highest level says that the mother is going to feel s so sorry for her kids she's going to eat them this is in the tor eat your children says you guys don't believe it I read it yesterday but read it again this is people need to know this stuff it's actually in the to it's not like some crazy guy mentioning this stuff it's written a couple of places in the tah by the way not just this a few other places also and we go is this you'll find destroy right see KS ah okay foot so it says here okay so first it says you're going to be cheated and everything that you do all the business you do you're going to be cheated you be down TR meaning that doesn't matter what you do you're going to this is just the beginning of the punishments you're going to feel down with everything you're going to start losing your mind you're going to go mad everything you see is going to seem like it's upside down you have boils shalom in your legs and knees um that can't be cured from the bottom of your feet to the your crown meaning to the top of your head like which is what actually job had uh it says that you know whatever War you're going to go into you're going to lose already instead you know you're going to go in one road and run away in seven meaning you're going to be scared to death from going to war you're going to become a conversation piece meaning that people going to make fun of you and say oh remember that guy used to be rich yeah now he's homeless remember that uh famous couple they were married they had 10 kids well yeah now they're divorced like stuff like that who wants to be The Conversation Piece um you will take abundant seen out SE out of the field but you will harvest little for the Locust will devour it this is people that have businesses sometimes you have a business makes a ton of money makes millions and millions of dollars but somehow the owners the bosses they can't get by they always have a problem they're always short on money they're always Under Pressure they always feel like the next deal is the one that's going to save them what do you mean you're making a million dollar a year what do you mean save you your employees work off of $30,000 a year how you the one that makes a million you don't have any money he says this is specific he says you're going to make a lot but keep nothing it's always going to be something that takes away lawsuits medical bills all types of disasters accidents theft one way or another hasm is going to take away the blessing that you have from the money and you're going to have nothing left so when anyone has a business or works but somehow they don't have any money know that this is already a wakeup call from you'll plant a Vineyard and work them but Vine will not you will not drink and you will not Gather in meaning you're going to start different projects nothing's going to work this was what happened in the second half of my career everything worked in the first half first half of my career everything everything we touch turned from Sand to Gold second half of the career everything turned from Platinum to Gold to nothing it was unbelievable and you all initially you make excuses for it n just the trend just bad timing just bad luck just bad this just everything except God and this again it continues says you will bear sons and and daughters but they will not be yours this is multiple things this not only means if you have a uh children with a non-jew a man has a children with a non-jew those children are not considered his based on Al they're not considered his they're not Jewish they're not considered his even if the kids convert to Judaism they're still not considered his because now they're completely different people spiritually biologically they're still his but spiritually they're not considered his another one is what happens in a lot of Rich families today says that these you bear Sons and Daughters not they will not be yours meaning they'll go against you they'll go against you you have many people people Unfortunately today especially in very wealthy families where the kids become enemies of the parents they can't wait for them to die so they could inherit the money I had a situation like that in my business I had a guy gave everything to his children he was a multi-millionaire huge amount of money he was in the dog food business and uh one of his kids literally became an enemy of his lawsuits police everything the kid had he wasn't really a kid anymore he was like 50 something years old but everything he had was from the father everything like 100% all of a sudden he uses this money that his father gave him to sue him a curse from sham curse all your trees and fruits of your ground the chirping Locust will impoverish meaning whatever you do have Shem is going to take all these curses will come upon you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed because you've not herken the voice of hasem so it says here that all these curses right now up to this point this is not even finished this is just this part all of these curses are for what because you don't fear hasem it's not even just for the sin this is just for not having and I only read maybe 10% of this section just for not having that's what you get people say no no you don't have you have to love hem love hem okay first fear him because it's a consequence of you don't fear Him and it says you're going to serve your enemies hasem will will send against you this is some of the stuff we went over yesterday but one of the things that we have we went over in uh New York is that all of the punishments that we have in these two they happened during not only the destruction of the bet mikdash the first one and the second one but they actually happened multiple times throughout history after that one of the notable times that everyone can connect to is the Holocaust and we had a whole Shure or a couple of shur in New York talking about how everything that happened during the destruction of the BET mikdash was written in E pal that it's going to happen and everything that's that's going to happen also happened in the Holocaust so for example here it says that you will serve your enemies whom Hashem will send against you in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness this is obviously the Nazis turned us all into slaves you see how they treated the uh the Jews righteous and wicked were all the same to them they were just bodies they anyone that spends a few minutes watching any of these Holocaust videos it's really really very disturbing but it's necessary for every Jew to know that it happened and to watch it if you don't have you'll have after that and it says that AEM this is this is a punishment from hasem but there's a few ways of how we know that this is specifically referring to na see Germany and the Romans number one we see here that it says AEM will carry against you a nation from afar from the end of the Earth an e as an eagle will Swoop a nation whose language you will not understand a Brazen nation that will not be respectful to the old nor gracious to the young so here as far as an eagle anyone that knows little history they know that both the Romans and the Nazis their symbol on their Flags was an eagle now in both of them had a flag that said an eagle but further to show that the Torah knew about Nazi Germany well before Germany came into existence we go into the this is the oral Tora the one part of the Tora that everyone has a problem with is the oral T everyone says no the five books of Moses the tanak the 24 books the Christians the Muslims and the Jews all believe in them even though the Muslims and the Christians contradict their books contradict the Torah they still say that our Torah is real they just have a continuation according to them so how come you're not Jewish he goes no no we're not Jewish because we believe we have a different book like yeah but if you read the Torah and understand it you'd understand that there is a second part of the Torah called the oral Torah and the oral Tor has several parts one of them is the the M the the one major part that is the foundation of all of the oral Torah is the and that's the one major part that all secular Jews reform Conservative Christian and Muslim people have a problem with they have a problem with the oral to they all claim it's man-made now if something is manmade something is man-made is it possible for it to have Divine information if something is man-made meaning that AEM had no involvement in it whatsoever then it would be impossible for it to be divine also it's either Divine or it's not Divine now of course yes there are stories within here that are personal stories of certain rabbis and historical events and even certain mistakes that they made by listening to the G but to say that this has no source to say that the oral Tora has no Source no Divine source for anyone that learned for in a few moments would know that this is a clear mistake they're 2 hours late to this sh what [Music] came com so what's the example of a little bit of divine information in the oral Torah that shows shows that this clearly cannot be man-made and it's clearly the word of hem you go into this par as you see that there's obviously signs that we're talking about Germany but Germany didn't exist 3,300 years ago Germany was only founded about 800 years ago you look at the US archives and they say that 300 Barbarian nations came true uh came uh together and they formed a new country or a new people and they called it Germania Germany that's 800 years ago and you fast forward approximately 800 years or 700 years and you have the Holocaust now the that was written approximately 1700 years ago well little less than 1700 years ago it also has some writing in it like the mishna which was from well over 2,000 years ago has a little bit of information here it says here in page and also said talking about Hashem don't Grant the desires of the wicked one do not remove his nose ring that they should be exalted sah soal explains what what does this mean oh no I'm sorry it wasn't was so is saying here is saying to Hashem Hashem Master of the Universe do not Grant a which is his brother the Wicked the desire of his heart what's the desire of his heart desire of his Hearts to have ultimate power to kill yov to kill is do not remove his nose ring do not remove his nose ring what's this nose ring about when you have a bull bull is a very very strong animal now you can't control it by telling it where to go so what do they do they put the nose ring cuz all of the Power of this big bull is worthless if you pull on this nose ring it creates too much pain for him so he slows down if you pull him by the nose ring so it's a parable here by Yu he's saying to AEM don't you know I know that you have to use them as a uh tool to punish my descendants but don't give him everything he wants meaning don't give him full control always leave the nose ring on his nose why it says here this refers to gmania sh a royal Province gmania the royal province of Edom if they would but go forth would destroy the entire world so y has given us a parable he's saying that asav who Edom turns out to become this country called Germania that if they will be given full control and all of what they want in their heart they would destroy the entire world sounds familiar Germania by the way is the way you say Germany in Hebrew so how do we know this Germany is the same Germany maybe there was another Germany if you look at history there was no such there was no country named Germany 2,000 years ago Germany was created again 800 years ago but maybe it's a coincidence maybe it's a coincidence so we read further says there are 300 Crown princes in gmania of adom and there are 365 Chieftains in Rome and every day one group Goes Forth to encounter the other group and one of them is killed and they would then have the trouble of appointing a new ruler instead so here it's giving us a wealth of information telling us this Gman adom is made up out of 300 crowned princes what did I just tell you guys in the beginning you look at the US archives and you look at the foundation of Germany Germany was founded by 300 exactly 300 Barbarian countries came together 300 princes what was the downfall of them leadership which is what it's saying here so here you see that the and it continues to go further into a lot more details but the point here is that it's pretty obvious that we're talking about the very same Germany we're talking about the very same country the very same people all the very same details all of this stuff that happened and all of the stuff that will happen is already written in the Torah hasem gave it to us in the tah for a reason we have prophecy in the written tah we have prophecies in the talmud andar we have many many Prophecies of things you know that have already come true and things that are going to be coming true one of them is the mashia another one is you know the goog the war of go Magog all types of things that should give people a little bit of a wakeup call and make sure that they understand that it's time to do and in this when we turn away from Hashem he's telling us you're going to get to the point where as I said before the parents will have to literally get to a point of instead of taking care of their kids they're going to eat their children it doesn't say it in the Torah just because hem is entertained by it it doesn't say all of these curses pages and pages and verses and verses full of curses for entertainment purposes it says it in the Torah because it's obviously Hashem wants us to know it and he wants us to know that we are that he is very serious [Music] now once somebody knows that the prophecies have come true already once somebody knows that there is only one God and this God is very very serious they start doing CH they start taking things seriously but there's one thing that gets in the way of doing it and that's the the comes in all forms and sizes all forms and sizes the is going to tell you that when it says here in chapter 28: 53 you will eat the fruit of your womb the Flesh of your sons your daughters which hasem your God has given you that's those same kids that God gave you as a gift you're going to eat them that money that God gave you you're going to lose it that uh you know the uh marriage you had is going to be destroyed the delicate woman that you once had is going to turn into an animal all of these disasters the is going to tell you no no that was then that already happened it's passed it's passed already already happened bet mikdash like he said like look he said in the shoe himself it happened already so that's what it meant it meant that it happened in the bet mikdash it meant that it happened in bet mdash it meant that happen in the Holocaust but that's it we're done the is going to convin convince you always that you have more time you have more time to do chuva God will understand God will understand that we have a weak generation God will understand that we have you are weak God will understand that we have limitations and if the generation of RAB AKA was not righteous enough to bring the Messiah how can we be expected to be the you know bring the mhia and be righteous the is going to conv you of every single thing that's against the Torah so there's two last things that I'll mention and then we'll finish how do we know that this Torah this very very same Torah applies to us how do we know that this if it's written in the Torah it must be applicable to every single generation and the same M the sages come to Hashem and they say to him hasem how many prophets were there throughout history how many prophets kazal responds and says there were over 1.2 million prophets throughout history double the amount of men between the age of 20 and 60 that came out of out of MIT which is 600,000 it says at least double that amount so double 600,000 at the very least is 1.2 million so it could be more than 1.2 million because they're saying at least double the amount it could be 5 million who knows the very next natural question is for anyone that knows a little bit of Torah is that only 55 prophets are mentioned by name in the entire 24 books in the tanak 55 where are these other 1.2 million we're not talking about like there's 50% missing we're talking about there's 99.999% of the 1.2 million profits that ever lived are missing we know nothing about them nothing that we don't know their names we don't know when they lived we know nothing about them in our generation maybe R AA knew who they were we don't know anything about them what happened what their Torah wasn't good their prophecies didn't come true what kind of prophet is that so the responds no prophecies were very much true the prophets were very much Prophets why aren't they mentioned in the tah why are they mentioned in the tanak because their prophecies were only relevant to their generation meaning that if the prophecies only relevant to their generation they're not going to be mentioned in a book that's relevant to all generations IE the 55 prophets that are mentioned in the 24 books in the tanak the prophecies that are written in the five books of Moses the prophecies that are written in the Tora from whether it's Zacharia or Jeremiah or Daniel or mosenu abrah andov David schl any one of these names and many others there was seven women prophets anything that they said anything that's related to them anything that's written in the Torah whether it's a verse you understand or verse you don't understand everything is eternal meaning it's relevant to every generation because hem did not write even one extra letter in this tor that's not going to be relevant to every sing single generation meaning that these punishments that no one wants to hear about they're relevant to Our Generation Now how do we get over now that we know the truth now that we know that it's relevant to us how do we know what do we do about this yet that keeps getting in our way was a nice K I got from uh last week something amazing gives us a little bit of a Divine understanding of human nature it's amazing this comes from an from the r the r RA in talking about the laws of divorce chapter 2 it says here I say in in English so someone that they have to force him to uh to uh let his wife go to divorce his wife and he doesn't want to give his wife a get he doesn't want to give his wife a get the B of of is in every place in every time he says meaning it's relevant to Forever not just to his time he's not talking about a of his generation this is an means this is the same thing as it was in Mount sa same thing it's going to be mashia comes every place every time this husband that doesn't want to give his wife a get the bed they go and they beat him up he says they beat him up until he says I want to give her a get and that get is K that get is kosher so there's a couple of things we need to know first and foremost a get from a husband must be given out of his will you can't force somebody to give a get it has to come from his own will and here he says the guy doesn't want to give a get so you beat him up until he says I want to give a get does it sound logical to you guys at all doesn't sound logical at all right so that's what the rambam says so it says here I'll translate it directly it says now you would say I'm going to explain this in in my own words but this is what it says you could look at it you would say that this person is considered anus meaning this person is considered forced he's forced to you're beating him up how can you say he wanted to give the get after you beating him up if you if a guy tell you tell a guy listen give me your money he says no you slap him in the face tell him give me your money he says no you punch him in the face saying know you keep punching and punching him over and over again at the end say okay take the money leave me alone doesn't mean that he wanted you to give the money right but he says no here's the opposite he said says he's not anus he's not forced why if you would say that he's anus is no such thing as someone that's anus that's being forced to do something that the Torah commands him to [Music] do why because the only reason that he doesn't want to do it it's not because he doesn't want to do it but only person that wants to make a sin or not comply with the Torah is only because the yet is forcing him not to do it so in reality by him not doing the mitvah of giving the get or by him making a sin of all any type of sin it's not him that doesn't want to give it it's the that's forcing him so by him not fulfilling the mitvah he's actually he says he is making himself putting himself in that position so by beating him up so the guy that actually is making a sin by not giving the get the fact that you're beating him up you're doing him a favor because each time you beat him up you're softening his yet that by the time you finish beating him up and he says I want to give the get it's not that you beat him up it's that you scared away the and really at that point he says I want to give it because he really wanted to give it the whole time so where does he get this from he says theot the the spark of every Jew is a part of hasem your soul part of that soul is a part of hem it's 100% pure yes it only wants good it only wants mitv it only wants to do good things it does not want to make sense it does not want to go against shom that's its connection according to the holy books after Gan after after all of these worlds and eternities and so on the original spark that we have goes back to the source goes back to Hashem so you have a part in every Jew that's actually pure and that part doesn't want to sin so he says when someone is sinning by holding a g of a woman not letting her move on with her life this rash it's not that he's doing it on purpose is that he can't he can't beat his his yet so by you beating him up you're doing him a favor you're doing him a favor cuz you're softening this yet just like you soften the chicken you make chicken cets you smash it with the hammer a few times tell it's nice and soft and and and delicious that's what you're doing with him you getting away the so why why what's the other reason that I'm teaching you guys this hasm is telling us something important both in this to the r as well in this some of these punishments will come and happen to us even for things that are not as horrible and horrific as idol worship and as incest and all types of things some punishments are going to happen for things that we don't view as significant sometimes it happens even without us even making any one of these sins at least we don't understand why they [Music] happen the rambam is telling us that the pun punishments are necessary because what we have without Torah is just the without Torah all you have is the all you have is this flesh the flesh that's covering the real you the real you the real you have inside only wants good only wants MIT only wants to connect conect to hasem only one's good and when you don't learn T when you don't pray every day when you don't fulfill the will of hem you create more and more demons according to thear you create more and more shell that covers this beautiful n that you have making it more difficult for this n to actually the spark to shine for the spark to come out so hasm needs to beat us up once in a while to break some shells so you connect to him who connects to hem usually people that have difficulty the ones that are on top making money with everything all the material Desires in the world are not usually very religious and if they're religious they're religious in the wrong place Scientology Christianity all types of Sheiks all types of nonsense of the world not the word of hem they create their own religions their own idol worship their own nonsense but am is unique Hashem is not going to let am just fall and disappear into nothing he wrote Us in the Torah and instruction set to follow but he also has a bailout plan as he writes in the Book of Ezekiel the prophet tells us at the end of times you will serve me whether you want to or not meaning whether someone wants to do chuva or not whether want someone wants to serve hem or not at the end of times you're going to be put in a position that you're going to do it it's either going to be out of will or out of force hasem has a bailout plan and he wrote it in this Paras he told you listen the blessings you know you don't even understand how much good I can give so I can't even give you the details because you don't even know what good is let alone how much good I can give you so I'll give you a little bit of details about the good most of the Torah talks about good good good good but here I'm talking about a lot of bad why because this bad is necessary this bad is something that I'm going to have to use as a bailout card in case you don't want to give the get in case the yet takes control of you in case the does not allow you to connect to me does not allow you to keep Shabbat to keep to shut your mouth and listen to not interrupt every time somebody's trying to give you a m actually listen to what the guy says maybe he's right to not interfere with a t just because you're jealous cuz you don't have anyone listening to your sh t toight yell at your wife every time she feels a little stressed out be compassionate to not get stressed out every time the check doesn't come in the mail have some the is taking control of your life to such an extent that you and Hashem have no connection this is my bailout plan I send the punishment I send the hammer to break the shells you created for you you create those shells pretty much put your n in jail and I'm doing you a favor by breaking them even though it's going to hurt just like the rambam says the husband who doesn't want to give a get you're doing him a favor by beating him up because really inside really really inside he wants to give the get he just has so much yet he doesn't know it any questions I know as soon as I shut off the camera there's more questions [Music] [Applause] [Music]