SHOFTIM: Who Decides What's Good |STUMP THE RABBI (244)

We are back here on our Wednesday night stump. The rabbi we're after some you guys will then ask some questions and will give us the answers. Tonight's sh is for the nishat of Yeshua bud and for the of anatria jorah and all of Isra and all the righteous Noah ES bless you and all of those that continue to support the organization both righteous Noahides and of course the Jews that continue to watch us continue to learn with us. Anyone that hasn't seen the uh new film that we have, Go Magog, you're uh simply missing out on a huge huge portion of learning uh that uh is simply fundamental to a Jewish belief to simply understand what is happening and what will happen. The movie Bashem, the people that have watched it have given amazing feedback about it with the exception of a couple that are upset that I mentioned them uh in the film in a negative way. Uh but of course the people that uh don't think that uh they uh their u heretical statements or simply uh manipulations of dua are going to be unnoticed. will make sure to uh to bring that out at some point and sometimes we have the merit to be the ones to do so. So we haveim is judges in essence the judges are supposed to be the judgment with the righteous judge the righteous judgment and uh in so many words the way we call it today is good. But who defines good? Who defines good? Everybody thinks that they're good, but what makes you think you're good? I had a discussion with somebody and uh this person currently does not follow the Torah, but says that they're a good person. And of course, I've heard this 50 million times. And Boashem made many of those people that thought they were good realize that uh good cannot be defined by their own logic. uh and boashem succeeded in making many of them do chuva but uh there's still a lot of work to do we have uh many Jews out there in the world that uh still do not understand that they cannot define good according to themselves according to their own logic and this is one of the things that we want to discuss today is what defines good who has the right to define good if you say no well I help people that are less privileged than I am and uh therefore that makes me good I uh do good things. Well, you do know that Hitler, who killed 6 million Jews and millions more non-Jews, also thought, said, and wrote that he is doing God's work, that he is doing the ultimate good. Now, you're going to say to me, like this person in discussion, well, it's common sense that what he did is not good. But if you understand what common sense means, common sense means that the majority of people say one thing and therefore it's common. But if you look at history and you will find that in fact what you call common sense is really not favorable to you. In fact, the majority of people throughout all of history, needless to say, today agree with Hitler, agree with killing Jews, agree with hating Jews, agree with anti-semitism. So if the majority believe that doing this is good, does that make it good? Does that make it good? So, you're going to say, "Well, it's not common sense." Well, you said it's common sense that helping somebody that's needy is good. But common sense, that same common sense also said that anti-semitism is good. So the reality is that in order to understand good, a person first has to realize that they cannot define good themsel. And the reason why is because what makes your definition any more qualified than somebody else's definition? You say this is good, they say something else is good. What makes you more right than them? And if you're going to talk about the numbers, the numbers are unfavorable. If you look at society at large, you see that most people do things that you would not agree is good. But if you ask them whether them stealing, raping, killing, all of the other crimes under the sun, if they're good person, they will tell you yes, they're a good person. I once saw a short interview of a uh car thief person that steals cars for a living. This is what he does. And he justified his wickedness by simply saying, "Listen, all of these people have insurance. So the insurance is going to give them even more money than the car is worth, and therefore I'm doing them a favor. I'm doing good by stealing cars." Now, of course, you're going to disagree with it unless you're a car thief. But the general public cannot define good because each person will simply be biased to their own actions and they'll say that whatever they do is good. So what makes your definition any better than theirs? So, if everybody is going to leave it up to themselves to define good, then we're going to have mayhem like we have today. And therefore, you could say, well, if his good is good and his good is good and her good is good, then what makes Hitler's good? Bad. Everyone can justify. Everyone can give you an argument to justify their evil as good. And therefore in order to understand good a person has to know that only one only one can actually define good and that is the one that created good and everything else included evil. That's a that's Hashem. He is the only one that could define good because he is the one that's simply created it. created good and evil. And if he says something is good, then you could be sure that it's good. If he says something is bad, something is evil, then you could be sure that it's evil. Now starts off by telling us another warning. Another warning that ends with a statement that if you adhere to this warning, you will get good. And that is you shall not pervert judgment. You shall not respect someone's presence and you shall not accept a bribe. For the bribe will blind the eyes of the wise and make just words crooked. righteousness, righteousness shall you pursue so that you will live and possess the land that Hashem your God gives you. This is in Deuteronomy chapter 16 verse 19 and 20. So in essence tells us that you can't just judge a case according to your logic, according to your bias because you're going to end up perverting justice. You're going to end up accepting bribes. Bribes are sometimes money, sometimes fame, sometimes they are simply notoriety, recognition, all types of bribes, people telling you thank you. Sometimes that in itself is a bribe. The says that one of the was on the way to the bed and on the way to the bed person opened the door for him. When he said, "Thank you. And who are you?" said, "Oh, Rabbi, I'm the one that's going to be in your case today." Meaning, you're judging me today. As soon as the Rav found this out, he recused himself and removed himself from the case since I already have a bribe here. Why? You were nice to me. Open the door for me. Now, does that mean you shouldn't ever open the door for anybody? No. But the point here shows that the ones that are looking to fulfill this mitzvah of being righteous have to always investigate and look into their own hearts to see if they have a bias because warned us to stay away from it. In fact, the midrash inim tells us exactly what said in the name of who said do not make light of justice for it is one of the three legs of the world. Why is this so? As the sages taught, the world stands on three things: on justice, truth, and on peace. Be mindful then that you shall not pervert justice because you will cause the world to shake for justice is one of its legs. Furthermore, the rabbi said, "Harssh is the punitive force of perverted justice, for justice is one of the legs of God's throne of glory." And from where do we know this? We know this from the Torah itself. The Torah says, "Righteousness and justice are your throne's foundation. Kindness and truth precede your countenance." This is Psalm 89 chapter uh chapter 89:15. And the holy one, blessed is he said to Israel, since the punishment for perverting justice is so harsh, be careful not to do so. And from where in a Torah do we see this from that which we read in the passage, judges and officers you shall appoint, which is our para. See here theim explained to us that perverting justice is not just something that Hashem takes lightly. In fact, it's one of the things he calls abominable, one of the things that he hates the most. So when you have the film that we came out with Go Magoo, not even discussing the details like we have in lectures and so on, but simply highlighting specific statements that were false by certain rabbis and even people that call themselves rabbis that uh simply were false where they said that there is no ganam, there is no punishment and in so many words perverted justice. We highlighted it because this exact thing is a prophecy fulfilled that the says will have to happen before Mashiach comes. people will pervert justice. And as you'll see from the film with dozens and dozens of verses and quotes and sources from across the entire spectrum of this heresy, this manipulation of a kadosh's justice system is what will happen before Mashiach comes and only get worse. So when you highlight it and you tell people listen stay away from such speeches and some of those people ask oh why did you mention that you uh you took it out of context they say well how did I take it out of context here's the full video in fact the full video is much worse than the three or 10 seconds that we took I could have said much worse things about this person. Perhaps I should have. Well, you know, I didn't mean it and I I Well, this is what you said. This is what you said in the video. And if the video has 90,000 views over the last 11 years since you posted this nonsense, that means that no less than 90,000 times have you manipulated justice. And who knows how many lives and souls and eternities you have completely destroyed as a result of that statement. in that video and who else where else you said it because if you said it there certainly you must have said it elsewhere over the last 11 years and perhaps even before that. So if you want something fixed, you need to fix it. Come out with a correction video and make sure that that video also reaches 90,000 or more views. in order to make sure that people realize you were wrong. You admit you were wrong. You perverted justice. The Torah does not say what you said. In fact, it says the exact opposite of what you said. And so did the people said, "No, but this is the as if we never heard of the BMT." The is quoted in countless writes, I heard from my teacher and father-in-law who was the chief disciple of Rabbi Mik of of that once when the Baltov was traveling on the road, he stepped into a wooded area to pray the afternoon prayer. His disciples were dumbfounded to see him hitting his head against the tree crying and screaming. Why is the baltov hitting his head against the tree crying screaming during ma? I mean this is not a typical prayer. It's certainly not part of the customs of am I can tell you that to hit your head against the wall and cry in a regular ma certainly not. So they asked him, "Rebi what happened?" And he explained that he has seen with divine inspiration that in the generations before the coming of Msiah, there will be a multitude of rabbis and that they would be the very ones who would impede the redemption. Furthermore, the balmto is quoted. I heard from my teacher the balmto about the commentary in parasitis. the what uh what can we learn from this Rabbi and the BMPto says there are some where there is beautiful aroma coming from them from their acts they are theoret. But the very same puk says that if a person does not do the right way, they'll be cut off. Who are those? He says it's the very same people. That instead of telling Is the truth, they will manipulate justice. They will manipulate the Torah in order to build themsel, an aroma, an image, a stage for the sake of the people to like them. And those says they will be eventually cut off. someone that speaks in such a way that they want to change the Torah in order to make it seem more appealing to people. So it doesn't turn them off and tells everyone that they're righteous even though the Torah disagrees with them. Tells them they're good. When a kadosh certainly does not agree that they are good, the says they will be cut off in the end, but they'll cause a lot of damage beforehand. So now a holy Torah tells us that first off in order for us to ever have a chance of getting good we have to stay away from perversion and manipulation of the Torah. In so many words, stay away from evil. What else does the Torah tell us? Torah says in verse number 22, "You shall not erect for yourselves a pillar which Hashem your God hates." Now the then after that said you shall not slaughter for Hashem your God an ox or a lamb or a kid in which there will be a blemish am any bad thing because that is an abomination of Hashem your god. Now the word theim say has 86 86 numerical value which is the same value as p as wig. Now of course in the time of the Torah was written 3,300 plus years ago no one was wearing a wig. You can be sure that were not wearing wigs. The wife of Mosherenu was not wearing a wig. The wife of Yeshua was not wearing a wig. And certainly Kana was not wearing a wig. But the Torah made sure that everything is in it. And therefore, there are always different secrets that the sages discovered throughout time. Why would a blemish have the same numerical value as wig? Because we see that at the end of days before Mashiach arrives, it was discovered that virtually all of the real hair wigs that are in the world today are coming from temples of idolatry, which the very same Torah says is forbidden to wear, forbidden to benefit from. Meaning not only you can't wear it, you can't sell it and therefore it's a m it's a blemish. Now person say no maybe it's a coincidence. You could say coincidence about a lot of things. There is no coincidence in Torah. Now, if a person decides that they want to manipulate the Torah because they want to get 90,000 views, they want to get a million views, they want people to like them, they want people to listen to them. The Torah says this is not a good way to do things. Chapter 17 verse two. If there will be found among you in one of your cities, which Hashem your God gives you, a man or a woman who commits what is evil in the eyes of Hashem your God, to violate his covenant, and he will go and serve gods of others, and prostrate himself to them, or to the sun, or to the moon, or to any host of heaven which I have not commanded. So here already tells us that in so many words doing anything outside of the Torah, whether it's idolatry or praying to the sun or the moon or some type of witchcraft or even simply judging yourself as you see fit. That is not in accordance with the Torah. This is what he calls evil. This is evil in the eyes of Hashem. In fact, the tells us in page 7A that this is anything that perverts justice. And the plra explains that is very harsh with those that knowingly tamper with justice because it deprivives a person of their money, of what they're entitled to. And it can even get to a point of life and death. And therefore the punishment for manipulating justice would be measure for measure a death penalty on those that manipulate it. Now a person says what's so evil about a person praying to a man that died 2,000 years ago or a statue. What's so evil about it? I mean Hashem says it's evil. What's so evil about it? says calls this evil as this is the ultimate violation of God's covenant because it constitutes the denial of his very existence and therefore he refers to this forcefully to imply that this has no justification whatsoever. Meaning all of your rationale, all of your arguments to justify manipulating the Torah, even to the extent of idolatry, which idolatry can doesn't have to be a statue. It could be money, it could be your job, it could be uh your uh public image. Whatever it is that you elevated to be above God, anything you elevate to be in the same level or above God is a form of idolatry. Calls it evil and there's never going to be a justification for it. And that's why said that the one that's an atheist gets a severe punishment because although they claimed they didn't believe in God, everyone knows it's a lie because how can you possibly go through our entire life without realizing that to create this world? Now, furthermore, what do we do with these evil people, says the Torah? What's the good that could come out out of this statement? Okay, so you warned us. So, what's the conclusion? And it will be told to you, and you will hear it. Then you shall investigate well. And behold, it's true. The testimony is correct. this abomination was done in Israel, then you shall remove that man or that woman who did this evil thing to your cities, the man or the woman, and you shall pelt them with stones, so that they shall die. And of course, talks about how you have to have testimony of two or three witnesses. But in so many words, says that these people that manipulated no other outcome for them. In fact, after they're removed from the world says as follows. The hand of the witnesses shall be upon him first to put him to death and the hand of the entire people afterwards and you shall destroy the evil from your midst. So here is teaching us multiple things. Number one, as far as you can't just say, listen, I know this guy's an idol worshipper. Should we kill him? No, it doesn't work that way. There has to be witnesses. But there are sometimes people that like they're like flies that always go to garbage. They know about all the bad that goes in the world, but they don't know about any good. They know about all the rumors, all the gossip, all the garbage. Like literally flies. Flies that go to filth. That's all every day, all day. Oh, you heard about this bad thing. You heard about this bad thing. You heard about this bad thing. You heard about this bad thing. Only bad. They only hear about bad things. They never hear about anything good. There's never any. It's only bad. Some people like that. So in order to protect the Torah from manipulation of justice of having one of these people that just simply wants to take out one of his enemies says, "Listen, or even just simply cause more bad." Know this. If you're one of the witnesses, you're going to have to be the one that throws the stones on him. you're going to have to be and if you're lying later on in the Torah it talks about one that's proven to be a false witness they actually pelt him with stones they stone him instead he gets the punishment that would have gone on the other person and has a whole section about false witnesses and all the horrible things that happened to them it's not uh it's not a just oh you lied okay no big deal like in the uh civil court system oh he lied okay no big deal we'll make a movie out of Noah if there's a false witnesses whatever they were in essence trying to testify against some person which would have gotten a certain punishment happens to them same death penalty same everything so now the Torah says after you have made sure that you've done this know this You shall destroy the evil from your midst. What is you? What's this extra statement? Okay, we realize the guy's sin. The guy's a manipulator. The guy says all types of nonsense. But why do I need to know that I'm another reminder that I've removed him? And why is this calling him evil? Zodkin says, "The careful and exceedingly rare decision of the senadine that a person is so evil that Torah ordains his removal from the nation is sufficient cause for every Jew to realize that compassion in such a situation is not only uncalled for but is wrong." By describing the death penalty as a destruction of evil from the midst of the nation, the Torah clarifies its purpose. That the death penalty is not a revenge against the criminal. Rather, it's needed to purge the national psyche of an evil that can infect other people if it's left unchecked. In so many words, exposing the wickedness, the manipulation, the heresy is not a revenge. It's not a personal thing. No, it is in order to protect Israel from being infected by that evil. And that's why it's a commandment for every single Jew, young or old, male or female, you shall remove the evil from your midst. And you say, "Oh yeah, but maybe this was only relevant at the time of Rabenu at a time of not today." And therefore the Torah continues. You shall come to the kanim the levim and to the judge who will be in those days. You shall inquire and they will tell you the word of judgment. Here the Torah is telling you that as Rashi says here that even if the judge of your day is not equal to the judge of the previous days of Mushenu of Gabel a day today you must obey him. All you have is the judge of your own time. Says Rashi says God does not cast his people into anarchy and therefore he provides them with leaders who are suited to the needs of the time and place. And further of course anybody that wants to look further this is chapter 17 verse9 where it talks about you shall do according to their word that they will tell you and what they teach you. Do not deviate from their word not right or left. And then what if there is a bad judge bad judge? In fact, we've even had times where there was bad prophets. says if there's a bad judge and a man who will act with willfulness not listening to the Qen who stands there to serve Hashem your God or to the judge that man shall die and you shall destroy the evil from among Israel the entire nation shall listen and fear and they shall not willfully act will wolffully anymore so if somebody is not listening to the judges even if they themselves is a judge they have a very serious But then Hashem tells us, "Don't worry, I'll always have somebody for you. I'll always have somebody for you to lead you guys. And you'll even have prophets. You'll have a king." Says, "You'll have a king. You wanted a king. You don't want Hashem to be your king. So you want a king like the Gim. This is not my statement. This is what dua is telling us where says I will set a king over myself like all the nations that are around me. Amai wanted a king like the other nations. Says okay so what we have laws for the king. Now the king of course has certain ex exceptions to the rule. He's allowed to marry more than one wife, allowed to do certain things. But the king is also subject to the law and he has to be righteous. He has to be he has to follow specific guidelines the Torah has. And Torah says one of them is that he has to carry the Torah always with him to observe all the words of the Torah to perform them so that his heart does not become hardy over his brethren and not turn from the commandments right or left so that he will prolong have prolonged years over his kingdom. So from here the telling us why is the Torah telling us so that the king should not be arrogant I mean it doesn't say so the average Jew should not be arrogant exactly for that reason if the king who must have certain level of dignity certain level of majesty royalty still has to be humble and is forbidden from being arrogant. Then certainly each individual has to purge this disgusting and abominable trait of arrogance from their heart because grander is God's alone and human beings should take pride only in their degree of servicing Hashem. I had somebody, dear student of mine, tell me that they're experiencing a difficulty. They want to get married. They can't find a wife, but they prayed, but they did chuva. And if it's somebody is close enough to me, I give them real guidance. If somebody is somebody I just met or somebody that I don't feel comfortable giving them mus, I usually give them a lecture, let them hear for themselves and hopefully understand. Unfortunately, sometimes you give those that you care about the best type of advice, but they take it the wrong way and they unfortunately go away, run away. They like Mousar when it relates to everybody else, but not when it relates to them. But once in a while, you find a diamond. A diamond that's actually looking for Msar. a diamond that's actually looking for the truth, not just in a lecture that he or she can understand it themselves, but somebody that actually wants guidance about themselves. So when they get a rebuke, how come you're not watching the shim anymore? What do you think you are uh above them? You think you know more because you finished the shas once or twice? Oh, you didn't even finish the shas. So what makes you think that you're uh above them? Why? because you've watched it for 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, that's it. You graduated. Oh, because I'm learning here, cuz I'm learning there. What difference does it make? If the shim were a vessel to help your in the past, they're still a vessel today. And unfortunately, sometimes a person doesn't take that the right way. May think that, oh, the rabbi is being mean to me. They don't realize it's for themselves. What do I benefit out of you watching the show? Does YouTube send me a special check because Joe Smith watched the show? And this is irrelevant of whether the person donates, doesn't donate, doesn't make a difference to me. So I tell people what they need to hear. And sometimes a person gets real guidance. That's a little bit painful but necessary. And I can assure you that when I get that from my RV from Rab Fry, it hurts. It's never fun. Sometimes takes me a couple days to digest it and calm down the fire within, but it is what it is. So I explain to this dear nama. You think that after all you've done over the last several years, you pray and you keep Shabbat and you learn Torah and you give Taka and all you count all your deeds, you still think that you have a surplus with Hashem. as if you did the mitzvot for him. No, no, I didn't do it for him. I know it's for myself. No, no. You say things but believe others. You actually think you have a surplus. Did you forget what the said that even if you took the Torah and you fulfilled all of the all of the all of the kindness all the good things that Torah said that exist and you did all of them it still would not pay for even a single breath that he gives you in so many words while you think you have a surplus plus and therefore conclude that perhaps my prayer should be answered. You're sadly mistaken because you are in debt, huge amount of debt. When we pray to a kadosh with the right mindset, we're not praying to him because we deserve for him to answer us. We're not praying to him because we're entitled to anything. In fact, not only are we not entitled to more, we're not even entitled to what he gives us already. We simply pray to Hashem because we know he's so merciful. He's so good. He's so great that perhaps perhaps he could just have even a little bit more mercy on us to just give us this one thing. Give me some pana. Give me a zeug. In so many words, we're coming to him as the lowest of low and begging him to please feed us. But the attitude of an average person is like, "No, what? I gave taka, therefore I should be rich. I uh prayed, therefore I should find a zeug. I did xyz and therefore I should get this." You know what you sound like? You sound like a beggar that's coming up to a person and says, "Give me $1,000 right now." What? Give me $1,000 right now. Wait, you're a beggar. You're demanding money. You're demanding I give you something. Do I owe you something? Do I owe you anything? Now, of course, you would find this ludicrous. This beggar must have lost his mind. Well, guess what? We are lower than that beggar. But we still pray to because he's not only our God, he's our father in heaven. But never ever in your wildest dreams think for even a second you are entitled to anything. Needless to say, more than what you already have. We pray to Hashem because we're simply pleading. Because we have nowhere else to go. Where else are you going to get more breath? Where else you going to get pa? Who else could possibly help you in this world that we live in? Can somebody help you? Can somebody give you anything in this world without a kadu decreeing it? Was there ever a person that fulfilled anything without a kadu signing off? Says the prophety. What can we possibly do without a kadu signing off on it? Can we do anything? Can somebody help us? Can somebody do anything for us? We pray to Hashem not because he owes us, not because we're entitled, not even because we deserve, because we don't deserve anything. We pray because we have nowhere to go. We're literally worse than beggars, lower than the low. We plead to you such a great God. Please help me. I have nowhere else to go. Where else am I going to go? I go to you. that you're the only one. No one else can help me in this rotten world. Please help me. I'm not mentioning any deeds because anything that I did, whether I gave taka or have the k or did kiru or gave a lecture or learned to or whatever I did, it was all for me. It's for my own benefit. Hashem doesn't benefit from it. You think Hashem needs me to do anything in this world? You think Hashem needs your daka? If wants money to go from this to this, it will go whether you like it or you don't like it. And that's the mistake that people make constantly. They think differently than what they say. Even if they're not infected by the heretical words of the manaces of the world that says God needs you, sometimes they still believe it. Well, they believe that if they do a certain mitzvah, therefore they're entitled for their prayers to be answered. And my job that night was to help my dear precious student to tell him, "No, Khabibi, no. No, Mik, no. Hashem doesn't need anything. What you did is for you." When you pray to Hashem, you plead, you beg because nothing else could justify it. It's simply his mercy. It's it's free gifts. It's free gifts gives us free gifts. Now, of course, if you do mitzvot, you improve your nama and you show hashem you're at least trying to be better and therefore perhaps he will have more mercy on one that has mercy on himself because you're doing more ku because you're giving more lectures because you're doing more good to help more people and therefore you're showing you're trying to help yourself. So maybe he's going to help you because certainly he's not going to help somebody that's not willing to help themselves. You keep driving on Shabbat. You keep wasting seed. You keep stealing in your business. Why would Hashem help you? So a person comes to a kadosh bhu with the right mindset can get somewhere because even if your prayer did not yield the reward you thought you still benefited by actually making an honest prayer. But sometimes people think that there is a shortcut and therefore the Torah says stay away from these shortcuts. says, "There shall not be found among you one who causes a son or a daughter to pass through the fire, one who practices div uh divinations, an astrologer, one who reads omens, a sorcerer, or an animal charmer. or one who inquires of oridoni. So different types of idolatry or one who consults the dead in so many words. If you have people like to read tarot cards, go to fortune tellers or even sometimes people that pretend to be rabbis and tell you if you do this, you give me this and I'll give you this water or I'll give you this uh abai says somebody's telling you the future. Stay away. Somebody's telling you future that didn't say the prophets didn't stay, stay away. There's a couple of these lunatics in the world in Israel, in America. One guy talks like this. He closes his eyes. He pretends to be a prophet. Closes his eyes. Mutapi calls him the trucker because that's really what he is. He's a truck driver. But he pretends to be a rabbi and he gets millions and millions of dollars for it. He goes like this. He puts a on his head. He closes his eyes. Doesn't care. No. And he starts telling all types of nonsense. And people think it's prophecy. And this is all this is literally like to the public. This is false prophet. This is this is lies. Stay away from this. For anyone who does these is an abomination of Hashem. And because of these abominations, Hashem your God banishes the nations from before you. You shall be wholehearted with Hashem your God. What's hem? Give your heart. Hashem, everything that I know, I'm going to do. Everything I know in the Torah, I'm going to do. And I know I'm not perfect and not even close to perfect. And I fail every single day, but I'll try better tomorrow. And I know I don't deserve what you already gave me, but I need I have kids and they're your kids. I need to feed them. And I have a wife and she's also your kid. I need to feed her and Hashem I know I don't deserve any of it but where else am I gonna go and literally when you plead with Hashem with an honest heart at the very least you merit having an honest prayer. No certainly like I said there are things that a person can do to improve their merits. doing more mitzvot, doing more, helping people do chuva, giving taka, uh praying better, learning more Torah. All of those things are good and all of those things are necessary and all of those things can certainly improve the blessing you bring upon yourself in your life. But there's no shortcut. It doesn't come for free. Now what happens if there's a false prophet today? We don't have prophets. We have false prophets but we don't have real prophets. What we do in days that there was actual prophets and among the prophets there's a false prophet. What happens? Hashem says, "I'll send you prophets. I will But if they're a false prophet, it's a very heavy punishment. There's a death penalty on them. Now, how do we know who's a false prophet or not? It says when you say in your heart, how can we know the word that Hashem has not spoken? If the prophet will speak in the name of Hashem and that thing will not occur and not come about that that is the word that Hashem has not spoken with willfulness has this prophet spoken you shall not fear him. What is he saying here? In so many words, the Torah is telling us there will become a time. There will be a false prophets, but not your typical false prophets or liars because the word prophet in Hebrew is navi. Navevi comes from fatim, somebody that speaks. But the Torah is telling us there will actually come a time where somebody actually starts off as a real prophet but then turns bad. And Rashi says this is what happened at the time of Jeremiah in chapter 27:16-22. There was a prophet named Kananya bin Azu who was recognized as a prophet but he became corrupted. But how could the people know that he became corrupted that he's a charlatan? Because the prophet doesn't have to prove himself as a prophet every time by making miracles and all types of things. Once it's proven that he's a prophet, that's it. Doesn't have to make a show every time. So this guy was proven to be a real prophet, but then he became corrupted, became a false prophet. And therefore, the Torah says that if this supposed prophet predicted that a certain event will come and it does not, that in itself shows he's a false prophet. Despite any miracles that he may have performed or previous prophecies that were true in the past, he is now a false prophet and the nation should not be afraid to carry out the death penalty on him for being a false prophet. In so many words, if you have people telling you, "Oh, what's your name? You are uh Steve." Okay. And what's the uh girl that you want to marry's name? She's what? Sarah. Let me see. Let me see. Oh yeah. Sarah, that's your zevug. That's your zeug. You know what that is? That is a lie to your face. Nobody can tell if somebody's your zoo by simply their name. Nobody. Not today. Not even at the time of not even at the time of Mosheu. It's complete nonsense when people say, "Rabbi, do you know how to read names?" Yeah, I know how to read English, Hebrew, a little bit some other stuff. But no, no, no, no. But if I tell you the name of this guy that I'm dating, can you tell me if he's my zevug? No, nobody can. Oh, okay. You can't do it. No, no, I didn't say I can't do it. I said nobody can. And anyone that tells you they can, they qualify as a false prophet, a sorcerer, a witchcraft, a liar, a cheater, and if Mosher Bennu was here, he'd kill him. Oh, why so harsh? This is exactly the point. If you judge from your mind, death penalty doesn't make any sense because you figure, wait, hold on a second. One guy killed another. Therefore, Tawa says he killed him on purpose, death penalty. But you're going to say, "Wait, hold on a second. If he killed one guy, that's already horrible. But the guy that killed the murderer, he also has a family. He also has a wife and kids. Why should we make them suffer not having a father anymore just because he killed? Maybe we should already have enough death. There's already enough death. He already did something bad. Okay, we'll just forgive him. He won't do it again. He won't do it again. We'll take away his gun. If you use your own logic, for sure you will manipulate justice because you will say, "No, he doesn't deserve it. He doesn't deserve it. He's a false prophet." Okay, but he meant well. He meant he he tried to get people closer by changing the Torah and saying there's no punishment. He was afraid that if he tells them the truth about punishment, then they won't come to lectures anymore and then they won't do Chuva. No, no, no. what he is. He's a liar. He manipulated Torah and therefore Torah says the worst possible punishments on such people. You're not allowed to have mercy on such people because that's not good. That's evil. But your mind naturally will not agree with that. Why? Because you think you know more about good than a you think you know good better than the one that created good. And therefore, the holy Torah tells us in order to know what good is, first you have to identify what evil is. Good is the opposite. Don't define good by what you think is good. Don't define good by what sounds good. Don't define good by what most people think is good. Because if you look at that, you will certainly arrive at the conclusion that the Holocaust was good, anti-semitism is good. Why? Because the majority of the world back then and today agreed with Hitler. That's the reality. The majority of the world agreed. So, does that mean that they were wrong? But how could they be wrong if it's the majority? So what makes them right? What makes them wrong? That's that's the point. You have to understand we cannot define good. We can only what? Learn what good is. And good is defined by the one who created good. And that's a and to understand good, we begin with removing evil. Even if it doesn't look good in our eyes. It doesn't feel good in our hearts. Remove your own feelings. Remove your own logic. Replace it with the logic of a and you will arrive at good. And we will all succeed to remove the evil from our midst without thinking even for a second that there is a better way than way. We're finally here. The new Kir box opens up. A nice little cushion here. We got Let's see if it's charged. >> Isn't that amazing? Still bust your nose. >> Now available at [Applause] org. Get yourself 20 of them, 30 of them, 50 of them. Distribute them to all the people that you care about and you get people to do the cha. With that being said, I would tell you there's much more to say about the parab, but I know that many of you have questions. So, you guys can start asking some questions will give us the answers. What about being accountable for their oppressive actions and atrocity? Okay, that's another question. Am I going to remove the clip of the uh rabbis that complain that they want to be in a movie? When they undo all the manipulations of the Torah that they did, we'll consider it, but it'll take a lot more work than just simply asking me to remove something. They have to remove everything they've ever done and justify it and admit they were wrong, they lied, they manipulated. Until then, why should I remove? Their lies are still alive and well. There's at least as a defense. How can I improve my concentration when praying or saying blessings? Well, first off, remove all distractions uh that you uh that you have and uh whether it's the phone or it's computer or uh conversations and so on. Second of all, if you're uh making a blessing, then look at the thing that you're blessing and and hold it in your hand. Uh if it's let's say a fruit, uh hold it in your right hand. uh if it's a let's say uh food then you know look at what you're uh about to eat and when you say a blessing break it up into three meaning instead of saying how people most people say blessings they say it quickly because they know the blessing by heart they've got they've become accustomed to it because they say it so many times so many times they uh they swallow words or they mumble words uh so the best way to do it is to uh to break up the blessing into three parts and then the third part whatever the third part is. So break it up into three. If you want to go even a higher level than that, especially during prayer like Amida, then when I I taught this years ago in one of my shim uh in a I think it was talking about prayer. when you say Hashem's name during the you say Hashem's name but you think you you think the uh he was he is and he will be uh so uh there's certain things to think where you're thinking about Hashem his glory when you're saying the name but it's an instant it's not something that takes 20 seconds it's an instant say you say Hashem's name and you're thinking you're not saying because you're not adding to the prayer. You're thinking about certain things, certain covenant when you say the name Hashem and then you continue saying the rest of the blessings. So again, this is a higher level. Don't go from zero to that uh on day one. But since I've taught it in the past, uh you know, I mentioned it again now, but the the best thing is to start off by breaking up the blessing into three. Uh, and uh, at the very least when you say Hashem's name, realize that you're saying Hashem's name. And you're not saying Steve or David or Yon or uh, or Sarah. You're saying uh, Hashem's name. So have some respect when you do it. See, is there a mitzvah to follow through on your word? Yes, you have to uh whatever you say you have to fulfill. Could manis the menace or the falsehood speaker choose to make chuva or is it too far for them? Everyone that's alive can still make chuva, but making chuva is not so simple. I'll give you an example from a story that I heard from my dear mother and this also applies not just to people that are doing want to do chuva for you know for for heresy and Shabbat but also for people that don't necessarily value certain relationships they have with their spouse with their kids with their rabbi whoever it is there was once a uh husband or wife and the husband was um abusive but not abusive physically, abusive verbally. He would constantly insult his wife and uh his poor wife took it on the chin. What could she do? But it was very very hurtful. One of the things that this uh husband enjoyed in his life, one was one of his greatest pleasures was his tree. He had a tree in his backyard. It was a beautiful, beautiful tree. And every day he would go outside, sit on his porch, have a drink, and look at his beautiful tree and enjoy the creation. His poor wife, every time she did anything, he always found something that is wrong with it. She made him food. It wasn't hot enough. It wasn't cold enough. It wasn't salty enough. It wasn't sweet enough. It wasn't on time, it was too early, it was too late. Everything she did, he always found something wrong with it. And unfortunately, there are people like that where they don't know how to appreciate good. And even if you do a lot of good for them, they say thank you sometimes, but they don't really mean it. Unfortunately, it's a very horrible thing to be ungrateful. It's one of the things that Hashem hates, but it's also one of the things that causes a person's life to be hell in this world. And this poor wife, she decided one day that in order for her to be able to deal with this pain, she is going to do something. What is she going to do? Every time her husband says something mean to her, her husband criticizes her, her husband does something that's awful, which he did every day, she would take a nail and she would put it on the side of the tree, but the side that the husband doesn't see because the husband is sitting on his porch looking at the tree and he sees only one side of it. and she put nails and every day another nail, another two nails, another three nails. But the husband who just insulted her, who just cursed her, who just yelled at her, who just made fun of her, the way she looks, the way she walks, the way she this, the way she that, he doesn't see the nails. He sees the beauty in his tree. One day, the husband decided, you know what? I'm going to take a walk. I'll take a walk around my tree. See the beauty of my tree. And he took a walk. And as he got closer, he started recognizing something strange here. He got to the back of the tree and his heart fell. All right. What is this? Who did this to my nail? Who did this to my tree? My beautiful tree, where did these nails come from? Where's the Who did this? His wife was there. And she told him, I did. What? You did this? Why? Why would you do this to my tree? She told him, "In order for me to stay married to you, to not run away, to not kill myself, to not get into a depression that I can't come out of, I had to do something." So every time you insulted me, every time you showed ungratefulness, every time you criticized me, I took a nail and I put it there and I said, "Let it stay in the tree and not in my heart. And at least I tried to help myself. At that moment, the husband looked at the tree and he literally saw hundreds and hundreds of nails and he realized, "Wait, I hurt you all these times?" She said, "Yeah." He said, "Well, I I didn't know. I didn't know I hurt you so much." Wow, I'm I'm so sorry. C Can you ever forgive me? I can't believe I hurt you so much. At that moment, he didn't really care about the nails so much as he cared about the fact that he hurt his wife so much. For the first time in his life, he received mousar and accepted it at least for a moment. Can you ever forgive me? And she says, "Yeah, I mean if you become better every time you do something better, instead of criticize, you compliment, instead of yelling, you show gratefulness, I'll remove a nail." And from that moment on, the husband decided that he's going to become the best husband in the world. Oh, honey, you're so beautiful. Oh, the food is so delicious. Oh, thank you so much for making it. Oh, can I do this constantly compl he literally changed everything overnight and he became the husband she always wanted and every day she would remove nails from the tree. After a while, the husband wanted to see what does this tree look like. He worked really hard. So he went back to the back of the tree and he saw now there's no more nails, but there are still holes all over the tree. He said to his wife, "Look at that. Look at all these holes." and his wife told him, "Yes, my dear husband, the nails are gone, but the pain doesn't just go away." A person that does chuva could lie to themselves and say since I'm doing what Hashem says from this moment on I'm keeping Shabbat I'm protecting my bre I give saddaka I am uh honest good but that doesn't fix all of the holes yes you removed the nails but the holes are still there that's why we do kiru move. That's why we have to help as many people as possible to do chuva so they can fill the holes with their if you have a relationship that you hurt somebody time and time again saying I'm sorry is simply not enough to remove all recollection of what you've done gives us the opportunity to do chuva not just to fix ourselves from this moment on. But he even gave us a special gift of how to fix the past. It's not simple. It takes a lot of work. But if you want, you can. So whether it's a person that used to violate Shabbat doing chuva or even somebody that used to publicize heresy doing chuva, the fix is the same. How? First and foremost, stop doing it. stop doing it. Second, make sure you build yourself a fence that you don't go back to it. Third, say I'm sorry for Hashem. And if there's a test, pass the test. That removes the nails. But if you want to fill in those holes, beautify the tree so much, it's as if nothing ever happened, as if it was perfect since the day of creation, you're going to have to do something extra. That's what tikunima are for. That's what helping people do chuva is for. When you go out there and you use the money Hashem gives you to help us make more of these lectures, more of these films, more of the different tools that we have to help people do cha and somebody takes this, watches this, does Chouba, they start keeping Shabbat. Every time they keep Shabbat from that moment on, that fills up one of the holes of the violation of Shabbat that you made. Every time they protect their bre and don't waste seed, that fills up the hole of the time that you did it before you did. So, a person that wants to fill in those holes to fix that nama has to invest time, effort to the absolute maximum. Someone that publicized heresy, it's not enough for them to stop. They have to undo everything. They have to openly just like they publicize heresy publicly openly proudly arrogantly. They have to arrogantly proudly say that they are wrong. They were a liar. They were a cheater. They manipulated the Torah and they have to work the rest of their life to try to save everybody from their former heresy. It's not easy. In fact, the says in Abu that people that used to be missionaries for idolatry and then discovered that they were living a lie and they ended up not only doing cha, they ended up literally going all the way converting to Judaism. Very often they would die quickly. Why? The nama that they had going from idolatry, heresy, missionary to kadusha simply could not handle the transition because it was afraid it may fall back to heresy again. So Hashem said it's better for them now that they did the chva, it's better for them to die now before they go back to idolatry. So person that publicized all types of heresy in the world. Yes. Can you fix it? Sure you can fix it. Question is not can you. The question is will you be willing to do what it takes to fix your past? Whether you were a Shabbat desecrator or someone that was an adulterer or a thief or whatever it is that you did in your past. Are you willing to do what it takes to fix your past or you're okay with having a bunch of holes in the tree? Unlike the story where it's just a tree in Shmim, there's no such thing as just a soul with holes in it. One way or another, they have to be fixed. As the Malim told in his Whether you fix those souls with your tikunim or they get fixed in gehenn or kafaka or what does hashem care? He just wants to clean the shama. And in fact, one of the amazing things I just saw in the last couple of days is a short clip of Kfki Shalom. People, even people that were not religious, understood that Kfki was keshim. What most people do not know is that the holier you are, the more afraid of punishment you are. the more aware of punishment you are. In one of these short clips which I'll put on this video is sitting with a student and he says to him, I learned from my teacher in the name of the that when Korak was falling into Gum and Korak the ground opens and Korak was falling into Gum. How long was he falling into Gum says in the name of the he was falling into gum until Kana prayed to to stop it? So he says, "How long was the time between Kak and Kana?" Over 300 years Korak was getting deeper and deeper into gay. He says, "This teaches us just how deep the punishment of Gaom is. 300 years he's fallen into Gum into the depths of Gom and still didn't land until Kana prayed for him. [Music] The didn't manipulate Torah didn't pacify people. They glued themselves to the truth of the Torah because nothing else mattered. Because they knew this is the ultimate good because say it's good. Gome is good. Ganed is good. As long as it's given to those people that fit fit the requirements. There's a requirement to go to Ganedin. There's a requirement to go to Gong. So if a person wants to go to Ganed Eden, certainly they have to do chuva. They have to remove the nails. But they also have to do whatever they can to remove the holes too because removing the nails doesn't remove a person from gay. It just lowers their sentence. removing the holes that removes a person from all of Israel and the entire world will do chuva to remove the nails and the holes from their by doing what Hashem says. The labrei said that we must influence Gentiles to follow the noahhide law. Uh well, like I said in the uh I think it was a sh we did last week, a Jews top priority aside from their own chuva is to help other Jews to do chuva. If in the process of helping other Jews to do chuva, there's a noahhide there that wants to listen, that wants to learn, and it's not going to impede on the uh on on the Jews efforts to help uh the the other Jew, then by all means, he could help other Jews and he could help the Noahide. But if he wants to make a career out of helping only Noahides, then he's making a mistake. It's not that's not allowed. Is there any way that we can donate without YouTube stealing 50% of my cure of donation? Yes, absolutely. You can simply donate on our website bzatashem.org. B E Z R A T H A S H E MO R. And if that's too hard to remember, then you can go to BH Torah, bht t o r ah.org, uh.org. And that's another website that we have. Um, and you can donate over there. Okay. Doesn't the Torah say that Jews shouldn't have their own land right now? No. Torah doesn't say that. God gave us the land and it's ours. Let's see. What is the benefit of starting my work email to Gentile colleagues with the letters BSD which means the benefits more than it benefits them. it benefits you. The uh Torah tells us that uh when uh told uh Mosher Rabenu about the plagues, he told them go and tell Aon to in essence make the plague start the plague of the uh of the of the uh the water turning to blood. Now why why is it that Hashem told Mosherenu to go tell? So say it's because Musher Renu shouldn't start the plague of turning the water into blood because he was saved by the water that when he was a little baby and his mom wanted to save his life, she put him in a little basket and put him in the water and the water didn't topple him over and kill him. So he shouldn't give bad to something that did good for him. And the Talmud says, "Does the water have feelings that it's going to get hurt if Moshe turns to blood? That it's going to feel like wasn't grateful to it?" The water doesn't have feelings. So why is Hashem doing all of this? He says, "It's not for the sake of the water. It's for the sake of Moshe. It's for the sake of every Jew. not to be ungrateful because being ungrateful ruins you. It's not just hurting the other person by being a liar, by being a cheater, by being ungrateful. It's not just that you're hurting other people. It's that each time you do those actions, you are ruining your own soul. You are ruining your own nature. The more you become accustomed to lying, the more you become a pathological liar. So saying one lie is bad. But what you don't realize is that that lie just made you one step closer to becoming a pathological liar. A person that lies all the time. Now you made a second lie. Now lying has become something acceptable to you. As the says in a person that makes a sin and does and doesn't see himself get punished for it will make another sin. Once they made the same sin twice, the satan tells them it's allowed. Look, you aren't punished the first time or the second time. Therefore, it's allowed. What does that mean in practice? Once a person does something the Tawa says is forbidden. Once a person lies, once a person cheats, cheats on his wife, cheats in business, the first time they did it, they hurt their soul. They hurt their nature. They hurt their in essence that line that they're supposed to have that is between good and bad. But they didn't ruin it yet. Once they did it a second time, now they've made a major damage. Why? because they have now made themselves comfortable with evil. They made themselves comfortable with something wrong. And in essence, the more they do it, the more damage they cause. So once a person shows that they're ungrateful, ungrateful to their wife, ungrateful to a husband, ungrateful to their parents, ungrateful to Hashem, ungrateful to the rabbi, ungrateful to their children, ungrateful even to the clerk. If they show ungratefulness one time, they caused a certain damage but didn't ruin everything. Once they did it a second time, the damage is much bigger than just going from 1 + one because now they have made themselves okay with being ungrateful. And it's much easier for them now to become ungrateful all the time. And that's why you see people that are pathological liars, that are constantly ungrateful, that are cheating all the time. It's they used to be good until they made themselves comfortable with doing the wrong thing. And in their eyes, the wrong is not wrong. It's right. They'll have a justification for it. They've redefined good. So the same concept here. You have to understand that when you do something like putting writing with the help of Hashem on your paper on your email, it's not for your audience. It's for yourself to remind yourself that everything is with Hashem's help. So, it's not just your emails that you send to non-Jews. It should be on all your emails if you're already going to do it. It's not just on the letter you send to your lawyer. It should be on all your letters if you're already going to do it. It's not just in your letters. It's also in your conversation that every time you say something you get yourself accustomed to saying that with God's help, this is the reason why we call the organization our organization because we understand and continue to understand more and more every day that everything is with Hashem's help. Everything. The more you accustom yourselves to doing good, the more you are protecting your nashama from turning into evil. The more you ignore doing good, the more you will numb your nishama to evil and eventually even accept evil as good. Are you supposed to serve God out of fear or love? Katchma focuses on love. Why don't you also mention the importance of love which the Rambam says is the ultimate goal and not to do out of fear. Well, unfortunately, you did not read the Rambam, nor did you read the because the starts off. And then the G says, what does it mean that you love Hashem with uh all of your heart, all of your soul, and all of your uh sustenance, all of your money? What does that mean? says with all of your heart. The GMA explains to us that literally nothing is above him. Love him all of your soul means that you should imagine yourself getting burned alive. If anyone wants you to abandon God, all of your sustenance, all of your money means that you are actively putting all of your money to publicize God's name. Now, that's just the first. Furthermore, you could see more details about it in our series of this is real. Furthermore, it says if you don't do what Hashem says, then will punish with horrible, horrible punishments. Read what is actually says, all of the punishments that Hashem brings upon is when we don't follow his mitzvot. So in fact if you look at the order of things the Rambam has a sephit fourth mitzvah fear God of breast says that I wish that everyone will do chuva from fearing God because to love God is not relevant to most people most people think that loving God is the way you should serve him do not even understand what loving God means. In fact, the shalom says that fearing God is absolute must and priority when you want to serve Hashem and not sin because loving God is not going to protect you from all of the immorality in Broadway. This is his words. We have this in our book which talks quotes In fact, all of the follow exactly what Torah says countless times about how much we're obligated to fear God. If you count the number of times that Hashem says to fear him versus the number of times that he says to love him, you're simply going to give up on counting because you'll see that there's literally dozens and dozens of times that he tells us and commands us to fear him and very very few times that he even mentions to love him. Very few times. So this whole concept of loving God is one of the ways Satan deludes people into thinking that they could serve God without being afraid of his punishment. And that's why the says in the uh uh chuva in the fourth uh section over there that he gives you the details of how to actually do chuva, how to repent. He doesn't even mention loving God. Doesn't even mention loving God. Why? It's not relevant to the vast majority of people in all of history. Needless to say, today in our lowly generation, can you get to a point of loving God? Yes, of course you can. But to start off to serve Hashem, regular person loving Hashem, absolutely not. Loving Hashem means you remove your own personal choice from things. You no longer make choices based on your own preference. Can you imagine a life like that for five minutes? Can you imagine life like that for five minutes? Not even a whole day. Not even a whole year. Not even a whole life. Five minutes. You don't have a personal preference. All you do is what Hashem says. All you do is what Hashem wants. Can you imagine five minutes like that? Even during people's prayers, they're not willing to do that. Why? Because they're thinking, "How quickly can I finish the prayer?" Why? Because I want to go play basketball. Because I want to go and uh work. I want to go and uh to the restaurant. Because I want to go do this, this, and that. Even in prayer, people are thinking about themselves. Okay, I'm going to pray so Hashem gives me more stuff. Wait, are you praying because you love Hashem or you pray for stuff? So loving God, if you look at what talks about, what loving God is, if you look at what the rest of the sages talk about, discuss, define, describe loving God, you will find it anyone saying that they love God as the most ridiculous person in the world because their definition of loving God is as as far away from reality as it is that I'm talking to you from outer space right now. They think that if they put a little rubber band on their arm saying I love you Hashem, therefore they they love God. Or if they buy one of theem t-shirts or or sweatshirts or cups that says I love you Hashem, that means they love Hashem. It's nice to to to wear something that says I love Hashem. It's nice to say I love Hashem. But to live a life where you actually love Hashem takes an enormous amount of work, fixing your character traits, fixing your actions, fixing everything. And it's only after you've reached a very high level of fearing God and therefore say the heads of teachings of the BMT of words of the you'll find it in our it's about gay actually serving Hashem. with fear is not a recommendation. It's a must because there is no such thing as serving Hashem with just love. It's either fear and eventually also love or just fear because serving Hashem with just love is not serving Hashem at all. It's not real. It's fake. So you could assume you know what loving Hashem is or you could learn from what have said from what Torah says and actually know what reality is. I have a f I have a friend that is married recently and since he watched porn before he got married he thought that it was going to be able to quit after he but he keeps falling even though he's married. Yes, the immorality doesn't stop after marriage. Immorality is not helped by marriage. Immorality is only helped by learning mus and understanding the significant damage that you're causing yourself by doing it. Proper fear of God is not terror but reential awe and profound respect for his holiness which stems from his love for us. Again, another mistake, another nonsense that you're saying. um you have not learned anything and you assume you know this is like somebody walking into Intel Corporation, one of the biggest semiconductor companies in the world, and starting to tell them how they should fix the company uh by uh innovating, by creating new things. And then they're going to the chief engineer is going to walk up to this person and say, "Uh, okay. What um what semiconductors have you uh used in your work?" Say, "No, no, no. I've never I've never uh I've never done anything with semiconductors." Okay. So, what technology have you developed? Software perhaps? No, no, no. I'm not in the software business. Okay. Um what technology companies have you led? Perhaps you have enough understanding that you at least lead other people. No, no, I don't lead anybody. So, what do you do, Mr. Advice? What do you do? Oh, I work for the garbage department. I uh pick up the garbage every Tuesday and Thursday for people's houses. So, what makes you think that you can come to one of the biggest and oldest semiconductor companies on the planet and tell us what to do? Well, I mean, I bought a 100 shares of your company. Doesn't that give me uh doesn't that entitle me to tell you what I think? No. It entitles you to pick up more garbage. That's what it entitles you to. You're a garbage man that owns stock. That's all you are. You're not an expert in technology, nor semiconductor, nor anything. And that's the problem. You guys all understand the example I gave, but only a few of you will understand how to connect that to the foolishness that people say when they simply read something in some blog or podcast of some idiot. And therefore, he said, "No, you should only fear God out of the awe and his majesty and not out of terror. You're a garbage man protecting pretending to be an expert. Do you even understand what the awe of his majesty means? Awe of his majesty is higher not only from fear of punishment but awe of his majesty is higher than loving God. Meaning there are levels to everything but basic level of belief in Hashem is afraid of outright punishment. That is the basic level we're all commanded. Then you build on that you're extra sadic. You can get to a point of loving Hashem on top of fearing punishment ganom horrible uh death all the horrible things in the world you build on top of it. You also love Hashem while being afraid. Now if you are then you can get to the level of awe of his majesty which is higher than loving Hashem as it says in the now I know that you fear me. Hashem says in the Torah in the book of Genesis, what does it mean? Now I know you fear me. Now I know that your fear of me is the fear of the awe of Hashem. You're not afraid of punishment. What's going to punish you for not killing your son? You are beyond love. You're higher than love. So stop being an advisor while in reality being a garbage man. Stick to your garbage and learn instead of trying to teach things you do not know nothing about. It'll only cause you to have more holes in your trees that you'll eventually have to fix. Stop pretending to know anything. You do not know anything. When you say, "Oh, you have to serve him from awe." You don't even know the definition of awe of Hashem. Needless to say, you're not even close to having awe of Hashem. Is it okay for the Israeli army to be destroying the trees in Gaza? If they're not fruit trees, there's no problem. Even in a Torah, if they are fruit trees, it depends whether these trees are causing a life risk. If it cause a life risk, you could of course destroy them. But if there's no life risk, there's no problem. When someone is trying to convince the public to sin, but no one listens, are they still punished in the same severity as they did, there's two levels of punishment. There's number one, there's the action. Person tried to do bad, they'll get punished for that even if they didn't succeed. As it says in the uh if uh in Torah, a person that tries to uh influence people to uh to idolatry uh to go against Hashem gets the death penalty even if he didn't succeed. Even if he didn't succeed, just the fact that he tried already gets punished for it. Now, if he has success by of of getting people to idolatry, then the punishment just simply gets worse. And that's why it says that on who opens the book of the living and the dead meaning that everyone gets judged based on not just their actions in the past year because that's for the living but also the fruits of their actions which is for the dead people that have left a heretical book that's called you know uh I didn't ask to be born people that uh read that many years after uh after the heretic is dead are going to fall into the trap of the Satan and he'll get punished even worse than what he's getting punished for already. So or any other type of heretic book. Uh this is one of the reasons why when we speak about evil people, we say may their name and their memory be blotted. This is not necessarily just a curse upon the person, but it's also a uh praying to Hashem to remove the memory of these people uh from the world so they won't continue damaging people. They don't continue damaging people with what they did with the fruits that they left the rotten fruits they left in the world. So the action brings a uh punishment and the results also bring a punishment. And in fact the gi also says that uh even the amount of time and effort and pleasure that a person got from the action is also an additional punishment. Meaning the the amount of uh depth there is into the judgment of heaven is beyond our comprehension. This is what's called omeadin where most people do not understand the depth of judgment. A person is judged not just for actions and results but even for the amount of pleasure that they got out of it. Uh where every time a person enjoys a sin, what they don't realize is that you enjoyed a sin, you enjoyed stealing, you enjoyed wasting seed, you enjoyed adultery, you enjoyed stealing. Now that joy, it's not just punishment. Eventually, Hashem is going to hurt you and so on. No, no. That joy in itself is removed from the joy that you're supposed to have from other things during that year because on decides how much joy and suffering a person will have. So now let's say Hashem decided that this person is supposed to have a 100 pounds of joy. joy from his kids, from his wife, from success, from whatever it is. And he decided to make sins, waste seed, commit adultery, steal, lie, whatever it is, which he actually enjoyed. He enjoyed lying to people and not getting caught. He enjoyed committing adultery. He enjoyed that. So guess what? That gets removed from the 100 pounds of joy that he was supposed to get. So now he's instead of enjoying his marriage, he's going to hate his wife because there's no more joy left. So now all that's left is the suffering because he spent all of his joy stealing from people. He spent all of his joy committing adultery. He spent all of his joy doing bad things. So now the 100 pounds of joy that Hashem decreed that he will have is spent. And all that's left is the 100 pounds of suffering that he has. So that's why it's not a surprise that all of these people get divorced. Why the divorce rate is higher than ever right now. The more successful people, the higher the rate of divorce. So you see that they do not enjoy their marriage. They don't enjoy their children. Especially as the kids grow up, you see how more often than not the kids get sick. They have all types of mental disorders, drug addictions, all types of uh simply being uh uh enemies of their own parents. They call their parents by their first name. They rebel. You see all of these celebrities, politicians, famous people. Very very rarely do you ever see a story where, you know, their kids show up like Donald Trump's kids show up and they're everywhere and they're they're part of building the empire that he has. Very very rarely. you know, all of the I don't know the 15 or 20 kids or 50 kids that uh Elon Musk has, you don't see all of them in the picture. You don't see all of them in the picture. You don't see all the wives in the picture either. And I can assure you, he doesn't see a lot of the joy that's there. Rest of the celebrities out there, politicians, successful people, your local millionaire, just look into their personal lives. If they're not going in the way of Torah, then what you see is most of their life is misery. Even if as they're making millions of dollars, one of the most uh uh popular thing going now because things have changed few years ago, popular things was doing stupid things in public. You know, all types of uh all types of, you know, annoying things that people will do. Uh that's how they got famous. They made money out of it. And now the popular thing is people that have a miserable life, but they succeeded in business. They made millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars, and now they want to tell people that they're no longer depressed. Wait, so hold on a second. The first time when you had $500 million and everything looked perfect, you said you were happy. But now you're telling us that all of that time that you were making $500 million in reality behind the scenes you were depressed, you were a drug addict, you were a degenerate, you were a sociopath, you were everything, right? Yes. That's the whole story is built on that. And now you're better. Who says you're telling the truth? You lied back then. Who says you're not lying now? And that's the new thing now. New thing now is that a lot of people that were successful in money but failures in life are now making like a new thing for themselves where they're writing books and doing all types of uh new business for them in so many words of how they're now have found happiness. They have found peace in reality a person that goes against Hashem does not know what happiness even looks like. Does not even know what happiness looks like. Why? because most of their life is temporary pleasures but big sufferings, big sufferings. And a person that makes sins is in so many words wasting the pleasure that Hashem wants to give him or her. So if she is gets pleasure out of people commenting of how beautiful she is because she's not modest and how attractive, guess what? The pleasure she was supposed to get from her spouse, the pleasure she was supposed to get from her kids, the pleasure she was supposed to get from all other parts of life, she's not going to get now. Why? Because she got it by making a sin. So she's actively punishing herself by wasting the pleasure on on sins. It's like trading a brand new car for tuna fish sandwich when you trade your place in all about to make sense. Yeah, interesting way of putting it. I didn't realize and still don't re realize the consequence of lying and saying that you're a g if you're not in fact a g. Yes, it's a big lie. um because it could cause other people to think that you're Jewish and want to marry you and uh put you in front of a test that you can't pass. Actually, I have a case uh that uh was trying to help this uh this guy that uh wants to convert to Judaism move to Israel, join the yeshiva and uh to convert. And of course, one of the common things about people that want to convert uh is they change their exterior very fast right away. They grow a beard, they grow pot, they they look more religious than than than people that are rabbis. And uh now the average person walking around in Israel, in America, in England, can't tell necessarily that, you know, this person is obviously not Jewish or or is a convert. You know, it's it's not so obvious. He can't even say anymore about colors anymore. Black, white, yellow, because Jews come in all color, shapes, and sizes. Uh, and to judge somebody simply by the look at by the way they look is is wrong. Uh, because many times people that don't look Jewish are Jewish. And many times people that look Jewish are not Jewish. Like this uh rash that was exposed in Israel in the last few weeks. It just came out in English uh I think today or yesterday because a bunch of people sent it to me, but it came out in Hebrew at least a couple of weeks ago. This one guy uh who is a Christian missionary fooled many many people in Mim including rabbis famous rabbis to the point where he was a rabbi selling and writing meot doing weddings and kushim while converting people to Christianity. He was an active rabbi in a synagogue, writing meot and selling them to people, doing kupah kupah, marrying people. But in reality, he is a Christian missionary. They have him on video dipping people in water and praying to yoske. So this guy, you say, "Oh, he doesn't really look Jewish. He looks There's no look. There's no look. There's belief. what you do, what you don't do. So, this guy was exposed by Hashem finally. But as he's exposed, one of my dear uh supporters sends me a message. There's another one also in Israel. He's a Spanish speaker. And you look at him long pay tit outside black and white. Looks like this guy came from uh from from uh breastliff. looks like he came from Ghoul came came from uh Sans came from Mamash like right off the boat just came here from Poland in reality he is a Christian missionary that most people don't even know he's aware of we just found out now so looks can be deceiving now what's the problem with somebody that says that they're a convert and they're not really a convert so in this one particular case this guy changes his exterior, change his behavior, started learning Tawa. And of course, as the Satan would have it, he met a girl, Jewish girl, nice Jewish girl, wonderful Jewish girl, righteous Jewish girl. And they started talking. Yeah. Looking for a shid. Oh, wow. Oh, yeah. Da da. Oh, by the way, uh, what do you think? And guess what? They're in a relationship. and he's not Jewish and he has a problem. Why? Because even after he told her, even after he told her that he's not Jewish yet, that did not stop her from continuing to be together with him. That didn't stop him. And guess what? What I told him? You're not allowed to even talk to her. You're not allowed to be in a shid with her. You're not allowed to even sit next to her. Nothing. You're not like a Jew looking for a shid. You're a non-Jew until you become a Jew. Guess what? They've been going out already for a year. And who knows how much longer and who knows how many more sins they'll make. All because Eli in the beginning about not being Jewish. So a person that gets themselves accustomed to one sin in order to make another says he will get to a point where the sin will be justified and rationalized in his mind that he will say I'm allowed to do this because she loves me and it would hurt her if I leave her. I'm allowed to do this because I love her and I I'm planning on marrying her anyway. It's allowed because why would Hashem send her to me? It's allowed because of this. It's allowed because of that. And uh that's why says from a thing of lies stay away from. He doesn't say just don't do it. He says stay away from lies. Meaning lies are so abominable, so gross, so disgusting, so dangerous. Stay away from lies. Meaning don't just not lie. Stay away from anybody else that lies. Stay away from anything that is a lie, a scam, a scandal, disgusting. Should make you want to vomit. Anytime I think about lies, it's a little bit of you should be disgusted by it. If you're not disgusted by lies, you got to work on yourself. Should be must disgusting to you. A must disgusting like everyone want to spit. That's that's how disgusting you're supposed to be from lies. It's supposed to be must disgusting. Disgusting. There's very little that's more disgusting than lies. very little left in the world that's more disgusting than lies. And I think that even those things are connected to lies in some way or another. Can a convert be mashiach? No. Can a be mashiach if his biological father is linked to the vid? No. Because his biological father is no longer his father after he converts. and is no longer his father before he converts. Meaning a Jewish man that has a child with a non-Jewish woman, that child is not considered his. It's considered the non-Jewish woman's child. There is no connection from the Jewish father to that non-Jewish kid spiritually aside from sins. meaning so long as they're alive and in the world making uh sins, he'll get punished for it even more severely. But regardless, he'll get punished for it. But as far as the uh non-Jewish child converting to Judaism, that helps the Jewish father a lot because now you know something good came out of it. Um that he won't get punished further for it. But the child that converted is no long is not considered his child at all. Uh, in fact, the Rambam writes, and I've said this, and it shocked a lot of people and even made some of them think that I'm making things up, but I read it from the from the Torah, that a child that is a uh, doesn't matter, a non-Jew that converts to Judaism, he is considered a new person, new soul. So much so that if two siblings man, woman, they both convert. According to the Torah, they're allowed to marry each other. According to the Torah, a father and a daughter, they both convert. According to the Torah, they're allowed to marry each other. Now, we don't do that because it would look ugly in the eyes of the nations, but according to the Torah itself, to the biblical Torah, biblical text, it's allowed. Why? because they're once they convert they're considered completely unrelated to each other. They're two completely new souls. Yeah. Biological biological. Okay. You you biological yourself. This is what Torah says. This is the Torah and it will never change. Now again understood that even though it's allowed from a Torah, there's no obligation to do it. So therefore since it looks ugly in the eyes of the nations or even our own people we'll say why their brother their sister and so on so don't do it but if they did it it's not a sin to allows it. So the point is is to show that when a non-Jew converts to Judaism they literally become a different person and says they do not only change soul even physiologically they change and I have seen this with my own eyes on multiple occasions since I've dealt with a lot of converts over the last decade there are physical changes in converts some more more noticeable than others. So the person that is uh a product of intermarriage can help the sins of their father or mother uh by uh conversions and so on. But um as far as relations, there's no relationship. There's no spiritual connection between them. Do you sell muzot? Uh yes. Uh we have on our website bzashem.org. You can over there you can buy uh muzaasiline um and a few other things over there. We have uh amazing quality stuff that comes from Israel. But as a side note for people because I know it's common for people to want to order muzzot right before the high holidays. As of this second, the only thing that I have in stock that I could send same day is the high level Muzot uh the Mudal the ones that are uh standard Muzot. I have to uh uh wait for the Sim to complete our uh most recent order. I'm hoping that I'll come here before the high holidays and uh then from that I'll fulfill whatever orders we already have and anybody else that wants to order. But if you want something right away, then it'll have to be the one uh that um we have. But the answer to your question is yes, we do. Oh, and as a side note, if you are going to order or muza, please only order if you're Jewish, not if you're no hide or you're in the process of conversion. We can't sell it to you. I know that sometimes people get offended by this, but this is the law. We're not allowed to sell to somebody that's not Jewish. This is not something I created. This is simply the reality of the law. That's what says. And if somebody sold it to you already in the past, then they made a mistake. What can I tell you? Rabbi, I sent you a message and you haven't answered it. Yes, a lot of people send me messages. Bashem, I do my best to answer as many people as I can. I can't answer everything. uh not because I don't want to, but because there's just so much time in a day between um running the organization, learning some Torah, homeschooling the kids, you know, dealing with countless people that send messages and uh need help every single day. Um it's a pretty busy day. So, we uh we do uh we do a lot. We do as much as we can, but uh we can't do everything. So, if you sent me a message and I didn't answer you, uh it's not something intentional. Usually, it's not intentional. Um sometimes it is intentional if you are very nasty. Um and you make too many holes in the relationship. Um so, I uh I simply just cut off certain people. But if you didn't do any of that, then usually I'll answer you at some point. uh if I get a chance to. Unless you're asking me things that uh uh you know are just um you know ridiculous things that um you know don't need to be asked or shouldn't be asked. Why is Lubavich against Mous? Lubavich original Lubavich is not against Mousbi of Lubavich Labavichi spoke Mus on a regular basis since Mousar is part ofidut. But the people of today um that don't follow the real they just go with the flow and whatever pleases them. uh then they're against Mous because Mousar reminds them that they're wrong for everything that they're doing. Uh but I mean if you look at the uh Tanya, you'll see Mous if you look at the uh Vinskan or or the the second that he has or or you'll see Mousar you'll see Msar everywhere. Mousar is part of every aspect of Judaism. There's no such thing as you know Mousar being absent from Judaism. In fact, the Rashi on comments on Shabbat I think it is I think it's on Shabbat uh that uh the um word mus is synonymous with the word to the same thing. So, anybody that's against ms is a person that is uh simply living a life that's against the Torah, but wants to lie to themsel thinking that they're uh they're they're religious. It's like uh Muslims thinking that they're doing uh what God said by killing his people. So this is uh you know fools are unfortunately plentiful in the world. Thank you for the movie Goa was amazing. Great job. Go the film is very important very important teachings not just entertaining it's a lot of teachings I understand that it's um it's not uh care bears it's not a uh you know uh something that uh is easy but it's certainly necessary part of teachings for every single person that's alive today. So if you watch the film, don't think that it's the first and last time you need to watch. You need to watch that film and certain parts of it, even especially the end multiple times. And you need to share it on a regular basis with as many people as you possibly can on a regular basis because until there is people in the world that haven't, you know, until there's no more people in the world that have uh that, you know, that haven't watched it, uh there's more work to be done. To every person that's watched it or wants to watch it or will watch it, make sure to share it not just once, not just twice, but on a regular basis uh at least once or twice a week with as many people as you can because it has information in it that is relevant to every single person on the planet. It could change a lot of lives and uh it's a very very important film uh that could help people change their life, transform their life because you see the words of the prophets coming to life literally you see it. Um okay. All right. We answered questions. We learned together. Hopefully we've helped as many people as possible. And if not, at least we help ourselves because each one of these certainly helps me fix myself a little more. We continue to work on ourselves, continue to serve a kadosh, continue to get closer and closer to the ultimate truth and do as much as we possibly can to publicize a kadosh's name. Anyone that wants to support can donate on our website.org. Again, reminding you guys, you want to make an investment of a lifetime, take a,000, 2,000, 5,000, $10,000, buy yourself as many of these as you possibly can to distribute them in your community. There's simply never been a better investment in your life than to take these and give them out in your community. If you don't want to give them out, you want you want to just us first to give them out, we could do it for you. But it's certainly better if you do it. Why? Because you know people that uh are Jewish and you can hand it to them and you could literally save their save their eternity. Save their eternity. I mean, I have every day people come, you know, send me messages about how they enjoy the films. I even had somebody that uh uh contact me that uh literally wasn't even a person that I was uh trying to help them do chuvat. They was somebody that was business related. Uh they looked up who I was online and so on. They clicked on one of the things they ended up watching. Hashem took back his millions said that uh it transformed his life forever. So this is a person that was business related was Jewish. So it works. It works. 19 hours of films on the Kiru box that uh will literally resurrect the spiritually dead. Get as many of them as you possibly can and give them out in your community to every single person. Even to people that watch my lectures, even to people that don't like my lectures. Even to people that don't like Hashem. Even to people that uh think they love Hashem. even to people that are Manis Freedman's students, to anybody and everybody you possibly can. Give this to as many people as you can. You will get results from it. It's simply uh something um that uh is unbelievable. Get as many as you can. Buy them in bulk. Give the man your greatest present you can give anybody. Call to We'll learn again next week. All right, guys. for Amen.