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The point is about time is that there
are certain people that are wanting to
make exceptions that we're not.
And that is a key tool against us.
That's a decree against us. That's a
judgement against us in Shamayim.
Because in Shamayim we're going to
they're going to ask us, "Why weren't
you so why why didn't you keep
everything? Why?" It's like "Oh, it was
hard for me." It was hard for me. Why
was it hard for you? "Oh, I had a lot of
money." So they're going to bring you
they're going to bring you Rabbi Elazar.
I'll bring you Rabbi Elazar
who had ships and cities, zillions and
zillions of dollars. The Gemara says
that his maaser was 120,000
cows.
His maaser was 120,000 cows.
Every year his maaser was 120,000 cows.
I did the math, he made over a billion
dollars a year.
So now
it's showing him that you have more
money than him. He was tzaddik, he was a
ton, he was able to revive the dead, he
knew a lot of Torah. You have more money
than him? No. Okay, what else was the
reason? "Oh, you know, I was really good
looking, the girls were chasing me, you
know."
Every girl, you know, the good ones they
were after me, I couldn't keep it. What
are they going to bring you? They're
going to bring you Yosef HaTzaddik.
Yosef HaTzaddik was so beautiful, women
threw their underwear at him.
Threw their underwear at him. There was
a few women that would looked at him
while they were cutting salad, they
ended up cutting their own hands and
they didn't notice.
He was so beautiful, they started
staring at him they forgot they were
cutting their own flesh. Not little
nicks, they cut their whole hands off.
THAT'S HOW BEAUTIFUL Yosef HaTzaddik
was. So you were more beautiful than
Yosef HaTzaddik? He was tzaddik, he was
kodesh. He's one of the 12 tribes.
Was it more hard for you than him?
What other reason you have? Every reason
they're going to give you somebody. And
one of the biggest reasons he says, "Oh,
but you know what? It was really
difficult in general.
You know, I had to leave my life, I had
the yetzer hara, I lived in New York, I
lived in Miami, I lived in Gehenna, I
lived in Las Vegas, I lived in all these
places, the girls are naked, the guys
are naked, everybody's this, everybody's
that, there's the gambling, there's the
this, there's the Bitcoin. I COULDN'T DO
IT, HASHEM." WHAT ARE THEY GOING to
bring you? They're going to bring you my
student.
They're going to bring you my students.
Why? They're tzaddikim.
And you know why? They're converts.
They're converts, many of my students.
They're going to come to you and say,
"Oh, you had it MORE TOUGH THAN HIM?"
WHAT? He's the one that left his entire
family in Haiti.
Left his entire family in Haiti, no he
has nothing here, no money, no job, no
nothing. What did he leave it for? To
convert. Here's another guy, he left
everything in India. He came to be with
Hashem. He does more kiruv than anybody
else in the world. Remesh, God bless
him.
You have you have a um
uh Emmanuel. Emmanuel gave him self a
brit milah. Brit milah he gave himself a
brit milah. Who is going to do it here
today?
Brit milah, the same day he had brit
milah, he went back in the computer and
did kiruv. Who's doing that today?
Without the brit milah.
You had a woman leave family, 17-year
marriage. 17-year marriage finished.
Why? Hashem.
Every single one of them had one reason,
Hashem. Leave India, leave Bulgaria,
leave anywhere. For what? For Hashem.
You're going to say it's hard for you
because of your Bitcoins and your your
your your smartphones and everything
else? They're going to show you my
students.
Say it was harder than them.
What are you going to say then?
I don't know. You know, I didn't know it
was like that. Oh, well, now you know.
Now you know.
So that's why about time Pesach is a
very very important time to do teshuvah.
Very important time to get rid of all
the chametz. The number one chametz is
excuses.
Number one chametz is excuses. Excuses
why we're not better than we were a year
ago.
Excuses of why we're not better than we
were a year ago. How come we don't know
a lot more? How come we only know a
little bit more? How come we don't
remember what happened in the shiur
Torah? We only remember a little bit of
the Torah.
How come we're still not doing what
we're supposed to?
If Hashem hasn't given you a zivug yet,
there's something wrong.
If Hashem hasn't given you parnassah
yet, something wrong.
If Hashem has given you health problems,
there's something wrong.
If there's a shooting
in your country every week,
there's something wrong.
Somebody came to the Chofetz Chaim.
He told the Chofetz Chaim, "I just came
back from Africa collecting money for
the yeshivot."
The Chofetz [snorts] Chaim asks him,
"How are the Africans doing over there,
the black people?"
Rabbi asks him,
"What?"
"What why does the rav care about the
they're not Jewish?" "Because I know how
how are they doing over there? I hear
that they're being persecuted."
"In Africa they're being persecuted. How
are they doing? Are they still being
persecuted?"
He says to the other guy, "I'm not sure,
but maybe a little, maybe yes, maybe
no." He wasn't really sure where you
what what's this question? Where which
Gemara is this talk about?
He says, "Oh, you don't know?"
Any time there's anything bad that
happens around the entire world, whether
it's persecution of a black guy you
never heard of in Africa,
or an earthquake in India,
or a tsunami in Haiti, or a shooting in
America, or too many leaves or too many
bees dying in some place in the world,
bees dying,
there's going to be less honey in the
market, there's going to be less sugar
in the market, there's going to be
inflation.
Anything bad happens to the world,
that's Hashem talking to Am Yisrael. He
says, "It's time to do teshuvah."
"Yeah, but the black guy died. But the
Indian guy died. But the school over
there that" No, no, no. It's all
connected to Am Yisrael.
All connected to Am Yisrael. The tsunami
happened over there because of Am
Yisrael. If Am Yisrael was doing good,
tsunami wouldn't happen.
If Am Yisrael wouldn't would would be
doing good, the shooting wouldn't
happen.
And that's what we have to understand.
You sit here for an hour, two hours, you
learn Torah, the world exists because of
you.
The world, the entire world, continues
to spin because of you, even if you're
half asleep.
The world exists because of you.
Why? You're fulfilling the purpose of
the world.
So this about time is the number one
mission we have. Learn Torah. Take it
seriously. Stop acting or wanting to be
like the
Because they want to be us. They should
want to be us. We just need to be one of
you us.
We need to be one of you us. We want to
be we need to be Jews.
Not them. If they want to be, welcome,
baruch haba. But we still need to do it
anyway.
And that's the most important thing that
we need to learn in Pesach. Pesach is
all those excuses, it's hard for me,
it's this for me, it's that for me, it's
that's chametz.
That's chametz.
That's chametz all year round.
It's chametz all year round. Enough with
the excuses. Because if I told you if
you make this call or you go to the
shiur or you do whatever you say that's
going to take you two hours a day and
you get a million dollars, you tell me
how many can I get of those?
I'll do anything for a million dollars.
I'm telling you you get infinite
dollars. Just learn Torah two hours a
day.
Now if you haven't started yet, learn 15
minutes a day. And know that the matara,
the goal, is two hours, three hours or
more. If you have zero now, you can't go
from zero to two hours a day.
So start somewhere. Start like I did, 15
minutes a day, but every day.
After you've done that for a while, you
can handle more, increase it to a half
hour every day.
You see you're handling that for a
little while, another week, another
month, another two months, your half
hour a day is good, increase it to a 45
minutes to an hour. But get to a point
where you're on the on your direction,
on your journey to two hours a day.
You can't go from zero to two hours. You
can't go from zero to 100 either. But
the reality is you have to start
somewhere. You have to start somewhere.
If we don't start start start somewhere,
we're never going to get anywhere.
There's a lot of really cool stuff on
our [music] websites,
new features,
and a lot more projects that are on the
way. The business of Hashem will help Am
Yisrael get closer to Hakadosh Baruch
Hu,
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