Did You Read Parashat Ki Tavo?

If you didn't get it by the first para when there was 49 crazy insane curses that should scare any human being to be the biggest sadik in history you didn't get it you are a stone I must hit you harder if it's a care rabbi you're not allowed to attend even when you're not studying why because the care bear rabbi is also in last week's para At the end of the paras, Hashem said he commanded us as a commandment that will last until Mashiach. He says you must destroy the memory of Amale. You must destroy the memory of Amalech. Why did he say you must destroy Amalech? Why does he say the memory of Amalikch? Because Amalech, the memory of Amalech is beyond Amalech. It's more than just a people. It's an idea. A molecular people. We don't know them. We don't know who they are anymore. We know it's the Nazis, but Nazis are 70 years ago. We know it's the Romans, but the Romans are 2,000 years ago. We know it's a bunch of different, but we don't know for sure. If we knew for sure who's Amalecch, we have to kill them. But we don't know anymore. But the memory of Amalecch, we know why. It's anti- Torah. It's anti- Torah. Finish this point, then I'll answer your question. It's anti- Torah. It's things that not necessarily people saying that there is no God. That's not necessarily just anti- toah. That's stupidity. Anti-ra means saying things that are just nonsense. Saying that if your wife doesn't feel like going to the mikvah, you could still be with her like some idiot said who calls himself a rabbi. Saying that if your wife wants to go to the beach with a bunch of other naked people, you should take her. It's a mitzvah. even if it's on Shabbat like the same idiot said or telling people you're all sadikim because you're Jewish, you're all great and Hashem loves you because you love the Rebi or because you go to Oman or because you uh read 500 times a day. That does not make you righteous, my friends. What makes you righteous is following the law. There's a law. Follow it. Part of that law is fixing your midot fixing your character traits in a letter he wrote his wife and children when he went to Israel. Now in those days not like today you go on a plane a few hours later you're somewhere else. In those days you may not survive the travel. So he wrote them a letter instructions of what to do. It's amazing letter. You should read it at least once a week. Four or five pages. You should read it at least once a week. If you don't have it, I'll send it to you. You get it online for free. English, Hebrew, whatever. It's called writes to his wife Mar. He says, "My dear wife, if the children curse, say cannot protect their mouth, they're not watching their mouth. Hit them. Hit them. Hit kids. This is the Mia teaching. I need you to tell me to hit the kids. That's what you're teaching." Every mother knows the kid acts up. to slap him and maybe at least the previous generation. Today they give him a uh award previous generation when I was growing up. When I was growing up, we did something through a shoe would follow you wherever you are in the air. >> You mouth it off to ima. You mouth it off to Aba. A shoe is following you around the corner. P right ahead. Why? Don't mouth off to imba. Don't mouth off to grandma. Don't don't talk. Who do you think you are? You little five little peon. You have to behave. You can't curse. You can't scream. You can't act like a zoo animal like today. Today, what do the kids beat up the parents? So, in the previous generation, still when I'm a little older than most of you, in that generation, we still got a shoe. Today, you get a uh reward. So, the says to his wife, if they can't watch their mouth, hit them. This is what you have to write down. She doesn't need you to tell reminder that at the end of the letter he says some people if you teach them some they listen it touches their dova you teach them you remind them what their already knows you remind them like the says in the beginning the introduction letter to his famous book, Path of the Just. He says, "I'm reminding you of things you already know." By the way, we don't know anything. But in this generation, maybe they knew. We knew nothing. He says, "I'm reminding you of things you know." Says, "Some people, you tell them mar, tell them how to behave. You're reminding them of something they already know. They do cha, oh, I didn't know I shouldn't be angry. Oh, I didn't know I shouldn't yell. Oh, I didn't know I shouldn't be stingy. Oh, I didn't know that I should do all these things. I didn't know. You remind them. They come to lecture, they hear it. No problem. He says, but some people have made so many sins that the kipa has become a stone around their heart. Their heart has become uncircumcised like a stone. And the only way you can get the water out of the stone is by hitting it. This is why I told you to hit the kids because if they're cursing that means that their hearts are made of stone wrote in the same thing he wrote in but doubled it up. He doubled the ante. Why? If you didn't get it by the first para when there was 49 crazy insane curses that should scare any human being to be the biggest sadik in history. You didn't get it. You are a stone. I must hit you harder. If the care bear rabbi is not telling you these things, you're not allowed to go. But if you have a rabbi or someone trying to be telling you what Hashem said, it's much more important than you studying by yourself. It doesn't matter if you're studying Z by yourself. It doesn't matter if you're studying by yourself. It doesn't matter if you're studying anything by yourself. Why? Because at the you get fire at you get woken up. Whereas in your personal study, maybe you're going to have the TV in the background. Maybe you're going to have a little bomb in the background. Maybe you're going to fall asleep. Maybe you're going to relax. Maybe you're on the couch. Maybe having a conversation on the side. Maybe you're going to smoke a few cigarettes. It's comfortable. It's home. It's ah it's okay. Fine. Ah. No. No fire. No fire. No, you're by yourself with one book. You have one book, whatever what book it is by yourself. You're not doing cha by yourself, my friend. You can't do chuva by yourself. Why? Because this Mishna says you can't. There's no for you being by yourself. You want to do chuva, you come to Any questions? Yeah. terrible, terrible things of following the news have been happening in Syria. And now they're coming closer to the Gabul of >> Israel. >> And obviously this Putin, the successor to the Eastern Roman Empire, we cannot depend on anything he says. >> And now Trump goes back on all the promises that he made. And really it begins to seem as if he was a very good man. >> It says in prophet Jeremiah, someone that trusts a human being gets cursed. Special curse in shamine. Why you got special curse? Why you trust Trump? Why do you trust Putin? Why do you trust Netanyahu? Don't trust people. No, I'm not saying you. I'm saying in general, anyone that trust any of these government officials, any man on earth, anyone gets a special curse from heaven. Why? Only one. you're allowed to trust. All of these things that people are worried about, whether it's or it's Putin, whether it's Korea or it's a Trump, whether it's Iran or it's anything, anytime you spend any worry on these people, you have the right amount of worry, but you're worried about the wrong thing. You have the right amount. You should be worried. All of you should be worried. Judgment day is in two weeks. All of you should be worried. I am worried. I was so worried last night. I couldn't sleep. I could not sleep. I'm not joking. Not exaggerating. I slept for an hour last night. I could not sleep. I was reading this para. I could not sleep. I continued reading more and more and more. I couldn't sleep. Why? I said this para happened. This para continues to happen. >> If you read this para and you could sleep, you're my friend of stone. Not the heart of stone. You myself, you are a stone. You read this para, you understand what it says. You can't sleep. Everything is happening. Everything happened. Everything is probably going to happen again soon. If you can sleep at night with no worry, you have to get hit a few times. I got hit a few times. Almost a decade full of hits. A decade full of hits. I know this is real. So worried. All of you should be worried. I am worried. Everyone watching should be worried. judgment days in two weeks. Hashem is showing you he's close. He's not showing you he's close and happy. He's just showing you he's close. You got IMA, you got Houston, you got Amalik, you got Iran, you got Trump, you got every all the problems in the world somehow culminating right now. Everything is happening. Everyone wants to go to war. The world is about to explode. Why wouldn't you be worried? The problem is we have the right amount of worry, but we're worried about the wrong thing. Worried you should be, but the only thing you should be worried about is your connection and righteousness with Hashem. If you're righteous, you have nothing to worry about. You're doing what it says in the Torah, nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter if you live in America or you live on top of the Kotavi the western wall. It doesn't matter if you live in Iran or you live in Afghanistan or you live somewhere in the middle battle with Malt that's doing chv as we speak or you live anywhere else. Why? If you have a real connection with Hashem that's full of full of doing what he says he'll protect you. Where does he say? This week's para. This week's para. This week's par. He says, "Your enemies, you have nothing to worry about. I'll beat all of them. I'll beat all of them." But if you're not righteous with Hashem, you have a lot of worries. [Music]