Slavery From Torah vs. Nations | STUMP THE RABBI (232)

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This week's paras we have a double parasai uh the mountain uh the the laws and uh of course as in our way of holiness we always want to look at the connection but instead of starting with this we're actually going to take a little bit of a step back to the end of last week's para to the end of last week's para which we've discussed over the years but not last week to just remind everyone about the heretic, the apicos, the blasphemer that uh cursed the name of Hashem and was uh uh the Torah specifically has a whole segment about him that uh he ended up uh getting stoned. Hashem gave him the death penalty. And the question is why is this needed in the Torah? Why is this needed in the Torah? Furthermore, we see that in the beginning of parad we talk about the and then we talk about slavery slavery. And uh if you haven't paid attention enough, for the last couple of centuries, slavery among the nations has been mostly abolished. In America almost 200 years ago, in Brazil a little less than that, most places in the world do not have official slavery. They still have it in Africa in certain places. They still have it even in America in certain places, nonetheless. But generally speaking, slavery is frowned upon. Uh, and while it remains frowned upon by many, the Torah's version of slavery in this world is very different. In fact, it's a world of difference from what the nations consider slavery and what they've done over the years. Tonight, we're going to dig a little bit deeper into what the Torah says to do with slavery in order to help us understand who is truly a king and who is a slave. This, of course, will be followed by your questions and we're going to take another step to get closer to the King of Kings. And as we've said, last week's para ended off with a bang where a blasphemer was uh removed from the world. This week's parad talks about the Jubilee year, then about slavery, and then if that wasn't enough, we then go into punishments for all those ignorant people that do not think that Hashem punishes this or there's no punishment in Torah or that Hashem loves everyone the same no matter what. Apparently, they haven't read the Torah. Needless to say, they haven't read Because it's if you actually understand the basic meaning of what's being said there, you start shaking. And if you don't shake, you should check yourself into a hospital. Perhaps you're not in this world anymore. What's the connection of? What's the connection of all of this? Well, Kazal tell us that in regards to the story of the heretic blasphemer, one of the reasons why a kadosh made sure to put this in the Torah is for the same reason of why there are segments of the Torah like and se countless other places in a where intentionally scares us to death. Why? In order for them to see and be afraid. In so many words has a vested interest to keep us afraid. And after we learn about the schmita and the slaves, we see that this is different. What is this relevant to today? We can understand that the laws of the uh violating Shabbat still relevant today. We can understand that the uh laws of the still relevant today, but slavery has been abolished. Shouldn't we stop talking about it? Anytime you do talk about it, people uh make funny faces. Well, let's see. Let's see what the Holy Torah says about slavery. Well, first tells us that as part of this Jubilee year, one of the things we need to remember is that the world is Hashem's, not ours. Therefore, property that was bought by one tribe from another tribe is returned after 50 years, the Jubilee year. As Hashem says in chapter 25 verse 23, the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. What does that have to do with slavery? Because Hashem says the same thing about the slave. In fact, teaches us how we are to treat each other. Giving us some examples in chapter 25:35 says, "If your brother becomes impoverished, loses all of his money and his means falter in your proximity, you shall strengthen him, press the light or resident, so that he can live with you." Meaning you see your fellow Jew struggling, can't make ends meet, he's getting thrown out of his house, you are now obligated to help him if it's within your means. Yeah, but I I wanted to take a vacation with that money. Okay, cancel the vacation. Why? Hashem put him in front of you in his disheveled situation that he's in for a reason. because you're the one that can help him. Okay, so maybe I'll make some money out of it. I'll charge him some interest. No, Hashem says, verse 36, "Do not take from him interest and increase. And you shall fear your God and let your brother live with you." In so many words, you're doing it for free. You lend money for free. Whether you want to lend him a lot, lend him a little. Point is free. There's no money-making opportunity here. Why? I am Hashem, your God who took you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Kanan to be God onto you. We see that there are many places where takes this verse out and reminds us that he took us out of Egypt. Whether it's the or it's pes or it's don't lend money in in with interest or slavery and many other situations where reminds us he took us out of Egypt. What about if there's a situation where you could do slavery where it's allowed? Hashem says if it's your brother, meaning it's your fellow Jew, that has become impoverished with you and is sold to you. You shall not work him with slave labor. Like a laborer or a resident shall he be with you. In so many words, yes, you could have him as a slave, but he cannot be treated like a slave that's not Jewish regardless. You're not allowed to mistreat anyone. You're not allowed to intentionally hurt them, torture them, any of the stuff that's been done in the slavery of the nations. But the Jewish slave is different. A good example that I saw this week is in a uh sephel that I got, let's say about a year ago from uh Rabbi Deutsch, the living Torah museum. He has interesting commentary on every parala where different things that are relevant to history. And in this week's parasha, he first and foremost discusses the reality of Jewish slavery and how different it is from the nations. There are certain alot. to restrict us from giving this slave, this Jewish slave, certain type of work that will embarrass him. You can't make him tie your shoes or bring your stuff to the bath house. These are things that will embarrass him. Yeah, but he's a slave. I bought him. He's a Jew. Yeah, but I own him. The owner of a Jewish slave is not allowed to order his slave to perform tasks that have no useful purpose just to show him who's the boss or to keep him busy. He can't tell his Jewish slave to just keep digging around until he gets back so you know he's not stealing anything and just keep him busy or just to tell him what to do. Show off that you're in power. can't do stuff like that. And there are many different details to the point where Kazal coined it said someone who gets himself a slave gets himself an owner. Meaning the slave is in power. If you have one pillow, you give it to the slave. You can't use it for yourself. If you have one piece of meat, he eats it. Next time get two. How is that different from the nations? Well, he has some amazing things in the museum and he has some pictures here where you see this example for is an ancient Roman period branding iron with the letter DS on it. What did the Romans do with it? The same thing that the Nazis, Imam did with our grandparents and stamped the slaves. They stamped them just like you would stamp animals in order to brand them. This is the Jewish slave. This is this one. They would brand. How are they brand? They take this, put it in fire, heat up the steel, and then put it on the body of the slave. Many times these were Jewish slaves. He also has another picture of how some of them would put colors on the slave like people do with dogs. There are countless stories of course of the sufferings that African-Americans suffered under the American rule when there was slavery in this country tormenting and torturing them is endless stories of what happened to the Jewish people in Nazi Germany and Poland and different countries where the Nazis ruled and the during the Holocaust. Slavery among the nations has always meant persecution, pain, suffering, near death or actual death. Whereas slavery in a doesn't say any of that. None of that is allowed. Not allowed to brand anyone. Not allowed to torture anyone. In fact, if you hurt them, you have to release them. So, slavery in the Torah is very much different. Why? Hashem says this all has to do with fearing God. But he's my slave. I bought him, paid 10 grand for him. in page 116b says that the laws of slavery are expanded upon when it comes to once We understand the reason behind why the Jewish slave is different to such an extent that not only are they applicable today because the Torah doesn't change but in fact they're relevant to every single person that has a business and has employees. And the says, we see that gives us in this a couple of times the reason behind why you cannot torture, insult, embarrass this Jewish slave. In verse number 42 in chapter 25 says, for they are my servants who I have taken out of the land of Egypt. They shall not be sold in the matter of a slave. You shall not subjugate him through hard labor. You shall fear your God. Then in verse number 55 says, "For the children of Israel are servants to me. They're my servants whom I have taken out of the land of Egypt. I am Hashem your God. And Kazal says simply put a Jewish slave is only a slave of whoever owns him temporarily because really he and his owner are Hashem's slaves are Hashem's servants. to such an extent the says that you have to know how to treat your employees. One of the most difficult things I've had both when I was running a business in Wall Street as well as running the organization in the Torah world is employees. Finding good employees is extremely difficult. Even if you found somebody good, then you have to deal with all of the stories. I'm sick. I'm tired. I have an appointment. I have a this. I have a that. I forgot. I didn't make it. Somebody interrupted. You have to hear all the different things and you have to deal with it because it's people's lives. But at the same token, you want stuff done, but you have to try to find the people that are both talented and have the least amount of baggage, which is almost an impossible task. Needless to say, the here pertains to the Jewish employees. How so? Kazal says that a Jewish employee cannot be treated like he's your slave, like he's your servant. In fact, the inbat the section that talks about the alot of having workers 333 in three 333 says what the says let's say you have found of an employee You tell him, "Listen, I want you to fix my roof and uh after you finish fixing it, I want you to take care of the walls and after that take care of the yard." And da How much? Uh $2,000. Okay. Here, you give the guy the money ahead of time to give him the boost. He said he needs the money. He needs the work. That's why he's willing to do this work for you. He needs the money. Okay. Yes, we pay him. The guy does what unfortunately happens often. Halfway through the day, he's supposed to work, let's say, 15 hours to finish this job. 7 hours later. So, okay, I'm going home. What do you mean you're going home? You You didn't finish. I told you the roof and the wall and the yard and this and that's I I I paid you I paid you ahead of time. Yeah. Yeah, I understand. I'm going home though. What do you mean you're going home? You need to finish the job. No, no, no. I'm going home. I'm done. I'm finished. I don't want to work no more. What? So, you're going to finish tomorrow? No. No. I'm not I'm done. I'm finished. I can't do it. Okay. But I I I paid you ahead of time. Okay. You paid also. Give me the money back. Oh, no. I spent it. I already paid my rent. What? Are you kidding me? I paid you the money. What do you do? He started working and he decided after half a day he can't do it. Doesn't want to do it. Whatever it is, you already paid him and he doesn't have the ability to pay you back. You already paid his rent. He already sent it to his uh family in Israel. He's allowed to do that and he's just going to have to pay you back the money. Where are you paying back? Tomorrow pay me the money. No, he doesn't have. So when he's going to pay the money, listen, uh, Mr. Ruven, um, I can't work. I can't do this anymore. It's too much for me. It's too hot. Florida is like gay. I can't. I'm used to normal weather. So, uh, I'll pay you back. When are you going to pay me back? I'll give you payments. I'll send you, uh, $10 a month. What do you mean $10 a month? I give you $2,000. $10 a month. It's a thousand years before you pay me back. Listen, um I could do that. I could pay $10 a month and uh just make sure you don't deposit the check before the first of the month because then it's going to balance and the bank charges me $25 fee and I don't have the $25. Hey, Khabibi, I hired you to work here. Why don't you just do the work? No, I can't. It's too much for me. It's too hard. I thought I could fix the roof. I thought I could fix the garage. I thought I could fix all the It's too much for me. It's too hot. I can't do it. I'll pay you back though. Says allowed. Why? Why? Why is he allowed? What kind of corruption is this? It's not corruption. Says the as the says they use the verse in this par because are my servants. Hashem says they're mine. I've taken them out of Egypt. I am Hashem your God. Meaning this is a Jew. He's not he's my servant. He's not yours. He's not a servant to another one of my servants. In fact, the Rama expands upon this and says this is also the reason why if someone wants to get a job and the guy says, "Listen, I need you to come work in my building in Dubai for uh three years. Three years I pay you $100,000, but you have to be there for three years. Ram says not allowed. Why? We see from the Torah that three years is already like slavery. Don't do three years. Yeah, but it's money. Don't do three years. Why? You're not a slave. But what about the money? Do two years. Do a year. One year at a time. Don't do three years. Why? You're Hashem's slave. You're not a slave of a slave. We see here the Jew is different. Furthermore, person would ask, "Okay, fine. They're different." But you said in many lectures that everything that Hashem does is good and everything what good could possibly come out of slavery? Well, first and foremost, slavery was one of the ways that you would help a thief do chuva. If he stole something and he didn't have the money to pay back, he became a slave for however long it took for him to pay back that money. And during that time, he's a slave. Who is he a slave to? The guy he stole from. And the guy he stole from's sole job is to make sure to help this thief. Not abuse him, not insult him. The opposite of what the nations do. Yeah. But he stole from me. Yeah. Yeah. He stole from you obviously as you have to help him. Help him realize that he made a mistake and help him realize that you don't need to do that. Help him. help him to cha. That was one thing. Furthermore, one of the most disgraceful things to live with is being a mumil. What's a mamale? If a woman is married and she decides she wants to be with somebody that's not her husband and she makes the mistake of doing that and a baby is born from that. Same thing if there's incest if a brother marries a sister or a mother. all of these different types of forbidden relationships. If a child is born from that, that child is called a mum. In English, they call it bastard, but it's not really the proper uh the proper uh uh term for it because a mam has ramifications. Aamsa is not allowed even though he's Jewish. The mother's Jewish even though she the father could be Jewish, not Jewish, could be a uh whoever he is, the mother is Jewish, the kid is Jewish. But needless to say, if this child came while she was married to somebody else, even if she wasn't living in the same house with him, let's say she was married and then she ran away, she decided to run away to Atlanta. She ran away to Atlanta and she decided that she wants to have a new husband and a new husband didn't know that she's already married to somebody else she ran away from and he has a kid with her. Guess what? That kid is a mam. Being a mam changes his status forever. Why? He's not allowed to marry a regular Jew. He's not allowed to marry a regular Jew. There are two people he can marry. He can marry another mamzel, someone else that had similar wicked parents or he can marry a convert. No. What happens if they have kids? Their kids are also mum. Wait, so you're telling me that the kids are going to have to stay with this curse forever? Almost. Why almost? Because the say one of the permissions the Mamz also has is to marry a maidervant, to marry a slave, non-Jewish slave. Why would he ever want to do that? His situation's already bad enough. His everybody knows his mom cheated on the father. You know the the horrible situation. Why? Or his father cheated on the mother. Whatever it is, everybody knows this guy's a disaster. This guy didn't even do anything. He was born already into the world with problems. Imagine you're born into the world. You owe $10 million. So what are you going to do? I don't even know how to balance balance a checkbook. That's the way, buddy. Okay. So, I can't fix myself. But, uh, can I fix my kids? Yes. Marry a Goya. What? I thought it's forbidden. Listen to this. Say, and actually Sternbach recently spoke about this and they uh said, "Yes, this is the applicable today." says if this mam goes to a country that still has slavery so he'd have to go today to Africa different parts of Africa still have slaves over there buy for himself a slave a woman's slave a maid servant then he's married that slave has a kid with her according to she's not Jewish The child is her kid. It's not his kid. Biologically, it's his kid, but spiritually it's not his kid. The kid's not Jewish. And guess what? The kid is also his slave cuz whatever is hers is his. She's a slave. Once he has that kid, the non-Jewish kid, he frees him from slavery and that kid automatically becomes Jewish and thereby using slavery to free the mam, his lineage, his descendants from this curse they've had upon them. the the kid is considered a Jew just like you and I. He's not considered a uh someone that is a son of a mom. No, no, no. He's considered 100% a Jew. He can marry whoever he wants in a Jewish world because he was born to a non-Jewish woman. He's a slave. As soon as he's freed, he becomes Jewish. That's one of the ways that a mam can fix their bloodline. Perhaps that's the reason why Hashem allows slavery to continue despite the horrible things that these nations do to slaves. He still allows them to continue in case there's any in the Jewish world that want to fix their lineage. This is one of the ways to do it. As they say teaches us, Torah scholars bring peace. The more you know Torah, the more you realize how the Torah allows a lot more than it forbids. As someone asked me just the other day, what does he do if he has allergies? can he take the uh I think it was benadryil. He didn't take it for a few weeks already and Shabbat was very difficult for him. And I explained to him the medicine that the sages are talking about that's forbidden is curing. When you take allergy medicine, it's not curing you. It's not considered a cure. It's just subsiding the pain and therefore you're allowed to take it. He says to me, "Wow, the more I learned Torah, the more I realize how so many more things are allowed than I thought." Now, back to the equation at hand. The whole concept of slavery is something that has to be treated different because we're constantly reminded that Hashem, he is our master. We are his slaves. not other people's. And the page 10A talks about the Ni. The Ni, which translates to prince, but really was not a prince. The Ni had special sacrifices he would have to bring different from the rest of Am is says, you know why he has different sacrifices? Because the Ni, he's the king. How do we know he's the king? Because only Hashem is above him. And anyone that has only Hashem above him, that's a king. So from there, we learn that a person that has put themselves in a situation where they're only going in the way of Hashem. Only Hashem is who they're afraid of. Only Hashem is who they follow. That's the definition of a king. And page 62b says who are the real kings in the world today. Says Torah scholars tell me they are the kings. Why? For the very same reason we said before. Because the real Torah scholars, they only follow Hashem. They don't follow the money. They don't follow the reputation of uh the opinions of people, the likes, the dislikes. No, no, no. They follow Hashem. Only he is above them. That's why they're the kings. And in fact, anyone can become a king. If only Hashem is who they follow. The problem is that while many people say, "Yeah, I only follow Hashem. I don't follow the uh idolatrous religions. I don't follow this. I don't follow that. Yes, but sometimes you may not follow idol worship. You may not follow heresy, but sometimes Hashem is not your only king. You believe that Hashem is your only king, but you follow him to a point. where you're willing to do the mitzvah, you're willing to go, you're willing to learn until it comes to money once there's money involved. No, no, no. Listen, I got to go make money. I got to go make this investment. Uh, and then I'll come back to Hashem. Or listen, I love Hashem. Everything for Hashem. Okay. So, why don't you use the money that Hashem gave you and help us publicize more Torah? You have few million. Use a big part of it. You don't need all of it. Use it so we can publicize more Torah. Listen, I'll give a hundred bucks. What? 100? What are we going to do with $100? What we going to do? We're going to buy a few cups. What are we going to do? Buy a few books. What are we going to do with $100? You have millions. You have hundreds of thousands. You have more than enough. You don't need to eat all of it in one day. Use it to publicize Tua. Listen, I worked really hard for it. Oh, you worked hard for it. So, your commitment to Hashem and he is your king up to that point. Up to the point of where a certain amount of money is involved. to other people. It could be something as simple as ice cream where they follow Hashem, they go to the sh, they see the rabbi is there, but then they hear ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding outside the ice cream truck. Oh, they're like a little kid run out of the shield while the rabbi is speaking. Why? They want to get ice cream. Hey, first of all, it's insulting what you just did. You just walked out of a shield to her. Second of all, you're going to go buy ice cream. It's going to take you 5, 10, 20 minutes. Yeah, but I really want ice cream. I'm hot. Uh, but don't you love Tua? Yeah, of course I love Tua. Don't you love Hashem? I love, of course, I love Hashem. So, that's your point. Your red line is ice cream. Some people Their line is immorality. He'll go to he'll donate, but he can't help himself. He has to look at immorality, the pornography, and the filth of the world at least once, twice a week. Or he cheats on his wife, or she cheats on her husband. She looks to everybody else, she looks like aid. She has she's modest. She says the blessings properly. Everybody knows she knows a lot of things. But she cheats on her husband. She commits immorality. She walks around not modest. Sometimes she's really really modest. But sometimes if there's a party, she's invited to some bar mitzvah. But mitzvah wedding, she forgets modesty in a closet. She goes there looking like she's part of a different nation. So for those they love Hashem. Don't think for a moment that they don't love Hashem. You ask them, "You love Hashem?" Of course I love Hashem. You love Torah? Of course I love Torah. You do your blessings? Of course I do my blessings. I wake up in the morning and I wash with the hands and I have a little thing next to my bed. So I don't even waste any any time going to the bathroom. I wash it right next to my bed. And then I do the blessings. And I do the blessings with my kids. And I do my blessings. And I also taught my neighbor how to do the blessings. And also I only eat kosher. Doesn't matter what's going on. And I and I give taka every week. I give taka before Shabbat. I donate some money on the uh batm app. And I uh I even gave some of these kiru uh uh cards that the rabbi keeps talking about. I even gave some of those. Wait. So you give staka, you say blessings, you watch Torah. So I don't understand. So how come when it comes to modesty, you leave it in the closet and you forget about modesty for a few hours or a few days. How come? Listen, I I I don't want to look so this. I feel embarrassed. I ah so you love Hashem. But up to a point. Up to a point. Sometimes people love Hashem. They watch. They read the books. They give daka. But somebody said something in the ka that hurt their ego a little bit and they declare war on that person like they are zerik you tell them listen you're a religious person relax stop it enough what are you treating your fellow Jew like he's your enemy no he's my enemy me. He insulted me. Whoa. Whoa. What's the matter with you? What's the matter with you? No, you don't understand. You didn't get this. You get that. And they have all of the reasons in the world of why their ego was hurt. Oh, she looked at me some funny way. And I know she's thinking in her mind that I did then this. How do you know what's in people's mind? What are you a psychic? Psycho. What are you? No, but you don't understand. In reality, understand perfect ego. Ego similar to what I said to a young man came to me. He said, "Listen, Rabbi Hashem, I've changed everything, watching your shuim, and uh I found a girl. I've been dating her for seven months already. I know he hasn't changed everything." What do you need to date somebody for seven months? And how could you date for seven months without making endless amount of sins? But nonetheless, okay, fine. Okay. So, you changed everything. So, you found the girl. So, get married. No. Listen, Rabbi. She's really a good girl. Wonderful girl. Okay. So, get married. Yeah. There's one problem. I don't know. Because, you know, she has like a thing like she wasn't always, you know, and Oh, and you always were. No, no, you know I also but still it's like you know it's like a man he wants to have something that was never touched and you know it's not pure. I don't know. I don't know. I said uh no I know I can tell you the answer. So what do you think? What do you think I should do? I said you should uh watch my series of and hopefully after you watch the whole series once or twice you'll eliminate that ego of yours. Oh, that's what it is, Rabbi. 100%. It has nothing to do with the girl. You could have gotten you have too much of an ego. She won't be good enough for you. You have a big ego. And that's where your line is. And many times people are willing to throw the entire to the garbage for ego. Oh, he said this to me. I can't believe he answered me that way. I can't believe he didn't answer me on time. I can't believe this ego. And people are willing to destroy their relationship with just for their ego. But in their mind, they're closer to Hashem than ever. Why? Because their closeness to Hashem is superficial. It's under their terms. In so many words, they say, "I love you, Hashem. But I also love ice cream. I love your Hashem, but I also love money. I love you, Hashem. But I also love my ego. I also love food. I also I love you, Hashem, but I also love something else. They follow but to a point. to a point years ago said there are healthy relationships and sick relationships. We see that Schlomik in Song of Songs in chapter 2 in essence it is talking about the relationship between Am is as the woman to Hashem the husband and in chapter two of the Song of Songs she says oh I love you so much I have such great desire can't I can't live without you I'm sick from the desire that I have for you. That's how much I miss you. Sounds great. Who doesn't want such a woman? Is there a husband on planet Earth that doesn't want his wife to always want to be next to him and love him and cherish him? It's great until this seemingly healthy relationship turns really sick. when the next chapter, chapter 3, where says, "Okay, my dear, my beloved, I'm here. I'm at your door." And she says, "Oh, no. I'm already tired now. Come back another time." Wait, didn't you just say you've grown sick from how much you miss me and you desire me? I finally I came. And you're telling me, "No, you're already in bed and you you're comfy and and your blankets and your teddy bears next to you and what happened to what happened to that desire and I love you and I miss you." What? Say hello. No, no, come back another day. That doesn't sound like a healthy relationship. Sounds more like a psychotic relationship. But unfortunately, sometimes that's the case. A person can say that they can love Hashem dearly but betray Hashem for a bag of potato chips. Betray Hashem for a few dollars. Betray Hashem for ego. Betray Hashem for the smallest foolishest things in the world. And the reality is The tells us to be a slave is something that could happen to somebody, but they're never a slave of a man forever. They're only a slave of Hashem forever. But who wants to be a slave? I want to be a king. Okay. Well, since you're not the Ni, you can't be a king. Perhaps you're not a Tommy. So you can't be a a king because you're but the Torah still left you an opening where you can be a king. How can I be a king? Only follow Hashem. That's who dictates your life. Nothing else. No lines, no limitations. Because once you have limitations, that means that the relationship has limitations. There's a funny story that you can learn a lot of Mousar from that I've heard at least half a dozen times or more from my RV, but each time it's a new lesson. In the communist Russia in past years, the government wanted to constantly test the people's loyalty to what they called mother Russia. They come, they ask them, they investigate them, sometimes torture them. And they came to a guy and they said, "Who's your mother?" "Mother Russia." "Who's your father?" Stalin. So if mother Russia wants to take all of your fields, you give it to her. You give it to her. Mother Russia wants all of your gold. You give it to her. Give it to her. Every bit of it. Mother Russia wants all of your vehicles. You give it to her. Give it to her. No problem. Mother Russia wants all your chickens, too. You give it to her. Absolutely not. No chicken's mine. Investigate. What? Wait. The gold you willing. The vehicles you the fields worth millions. You willing. But the chickens. No. No chickens. Why not? Explain to us. Said, "Listen, fields. I don't have vehicles. Nothing. Gold. Not even in my dreams I have gold. The only thing I have is a chicken. You think I'm going to give him the chicken? That's sometimes people's mentality with Hashem. They're willing to give everything that they don't have. And on that the Balemar said this is the reason why in our prayer we say God is the king now. God was the king in the past and God is the king in the future. No, it seems like it should be he was king in the past, present, and future. But it doesn't say that. It says he's king now, he was king in the past, and he was king in the future. Why? The Balm says that's because people are like this uh Russian. He's willing to give a bunch of things he doesn't have. But the one thing he has not willing to give. So they don't mind giving the past. When God was the past, yeah. Yeah. He was the king in the past. No problem. Hem, he used to be king. Sure. Before I was born, for sure he was the king. Created the world. All the miracles. Absolutely. Hashem, king in the future. Absolutely. Yeah. He's the one that's going to bring blessings to the children and the grandchildren and descendants and Yeah. Absolutely. What about me? What about now? He's king until I let me let me finish. Let me finish. Let me finish doing what I was doing. I was just about to do some corrupt business that Hashem doesn't like. So, he's not king right this second, but I'll finish later. Okay. He'll be king in the future. They're willing to have Hashem as their mel as their king. But not now. And the question is, do you want to be a slave or a king? If you want to be a slave, you continue with the limitations. You could be a slave to your ice cream. You could be a slave to money. You could be a slave to immorality. You could be a slave to idolatry. You could be a slave to people. There's no end to the amount of owners that would be happy to have you as their slave. But if you want to be a king, then at the very least understand how to get there. If you're willing to glorify and make a king over you, then you could be a king. The more you have him as a king over you, the bigger the king you become. Are you willing to make the sacrifice for Hashem today or only in the past and in the future? I'm going to donate when I have more money. But you have now something. No. So you can donate whatever you can. Now listen, I used to have a lot of money. If I still had that money that I used to have, I would give. But I don't have that much. I have only a little bit. Once I have more in the future. Oh, so you're willing to donate what you don't have from the past and you're willing to donate what you don't have in the future. But today you're not willing. Today you're not willing to make Hashem king. And that's the problem. If a person is not going to make a who is king or her king today, that means they have a different king. And that's why said to a person listen guy came to him says listen I made a lot of sins is there hope for me he says absolutely you're not there yet to make Hashem 100% king no problem but at least don't make the Satan king says how am I making the Satan king says the next time the Satan comes to you 5 minutes from now trying to make you angry, 10 minutes from now trying to make you steal something, 20 minutes from now trying to make you look at something immoral, a day from now trying to make you believe heresy, a week from now trying to make you do some type of corrupt deal. The next time the Satan comes to you, don't listen to him right away. Don't act like a servant that does not have a choice. Don't listen to him right away. The moment you don't listen to the Satan right away already he's not king over you and perhaps that mitzvah will bring on another mitzvah and eventually you'll get rid of him and actually have as your king with to him you'll listen to right away. this some of the lessons that we could learn. We could see the Torah does not have one extra dot. Needless to say, not one extra word or one extra sentence. We see that at the end of paras talks about how the slaves in so many words person chooses a certain lifestyle. person chooses a certain lifestyle and they could bring themselves slavery right to their front door, the owner of that slave should never fool themselves to think that that Jew is really their slave. Everyone belongs to Hashem. They just don't realize it. Then later on in scares us to death with all types of threats of if we continue living our life as if Hashem is not our king as if we don't need to listen to him and we treat him with casualness. Why does he do all of this? for the reason of why explained the end of last week's let them see it learn it and be afraid of it and if they're truly afraid of it they won't do it this are the lessons people will take these to heart and we can all take this to heart to glorify Hashem over ours and become kings under the King of Kings instead of servants to other servants. You know, it took a lot of time and effort to study for this lecture and every lecture changes my life a little bit and I hope it does to you as well. If you're enjoying it, please make sure to like, subscribe, and share with people that you care about, people that you know could benefit from it. You may end up changing their life. Thanks again for learning with me and we'll continue growing together. Now back to the lecture. This is now your time to ask your questions. Why do you guys visit Jerba every year? Can you explain to me? Well, I haven't visited Jerba in my entire life, but I know that I love maz. I love a shalom. uh has an entire Jewish community uh in the area built in Tripoli and in fact uh many of uh our ancestors lived there. My grandparents were from Tripoli and uh grew up there and started the family there and really only left because of what happened with Nazi Germany and making allies with Italy and torturing the Jews. Uh and but the point is that there used to be a huge community in Jabba. Uh now there is something there but nowhere near what it used to be. But many many spharti Jews especially those uh like myself that came from Tripoli, came from Libya, came from that area of the world go back there because there are there's still Jews there number one. And number two, there's also a lot of righteous Jews that uh were buried there. So we go there and uh pray to Hashem that in the merit of these he'll bring blessings to us. Yep. Yes. Correct. Rabbi, how can you not be a wicked person? I don't want to sin against Hashem. Simple. Like we said in the shield, by making Hashem a king over you, by making Hashem a king over you, that means you'll be following Hashem. That means when you wake up in the morning, you're going to do what Hashem said to do. You're going to wash your hands. You're going to take care of whatever bodily needs you have. After you do that, you say thank you to Hashem for making your body work. After that, you pray. Pray to Hashem. Say, "Thank you for giving me my life." put on to fill if you're a man. I start off your day with praying to Hashem. After that, you eat. But before you eat, don't be like the animals of the world that just gets to the food and eats. Think for a second. Where did this food come from? The store. Fine. Where did the store get it from? They got it from a factory. Where did the factory get it from? They got it from some farmers. Where did the farmers get it from? The field. Where did the field get it from? Hashem. Exactly. So, the source of everything is Hashem. So, say thank you that he gave you food. Whether it's peanut butter and jelly or it's matzah or it's uh uh pancakes or whatever, say thank you before you eat. Thank you for giving me food. You could be eating rocks. You could be eating sand like Hulkos ate for eight days because he didn't have money for food. But he didn't want anyone to know and end up not wanting to teach him to. So literally he ate sand for eight days. You're not eating sand. The food that you eat tasty before you eat it. Say thank you to Hashem. Say a blessing. After you eat, go do whatever it is that you need to do. If you're going to go work, make sure that your job is an ethical job. It's an honest job. You're not stealing from people. You're not one of these corrupt businesses where you're selling people uh broken goods and then when they ask for a refund because they realize that the the what you sold them is garbage, you don't give him the refund. Don't be in one of those businesses. Be in an honest business. Why? Because Hashem is watching you. He can give you kosher money that is ethical and honest, but if you want to steal, he'll allow you to steal, but you'll get punished for it. Why would you need Why would you steal if Hashem is willing to give it to you without stealing? So your job, ethical job. After you finish your job, don't be like the people that waste their life living vicariously through other people's lives where as soon as they get home, they watch sports, they watch movies, they watch other people's lives instead of living your life. Go home, you have a family, spend some time with the family and then start learning about Hashem. Learn his Torah. Learn the weekly Torah portion, the weekly para, learn some uh uh to know how to live a learn some Musar with us which helps you learn how to behave, become a better human being. Try to dedicate as much time as possible to learning Torah, whether it's through the videos like this or it's through books or combination, but try to do that as much as possible. Don't waste your life living a life that is watching other people live where you're watching sports. So you're watching a bunch of other people playing. You're watching a bunch of people acting like other people cuz for a movie you're watching a bunch of people, you know, posting their pictures on the internet. Why? Why are you living through other people? Live your life. Live your life. Once you got home, you spent some time with the family, you ate, you drank, of course, everything with blessings, you learned some Torah, prayed to Hashem, get ready for the next day. The more you live your life in that structure, the easier it is to live a sinless life. Of course, everybody makes mistakes here and there, but generally speaking, if you follow the blueprint of the Torah, it becomes difficult to sin. The more you learn Torah, the more difficult it is to sin. Not because the desires disappear. Because you don't have time. You don't have time to sin. You're busy praying. You're busy blessing. You're busy uh learning. you're busy trying to do whatever you need to do in order to make a living, stay with the family. There's no time to sin. And that's the key. Follow the blueprint of the Torah, the laws, the teachings, and you won't be a wicked person. You'll become a very righteous person. What would you change about Torah? Nothing. It's perfect. Thank you, Rabbi. You're an inspiration to all of us. Me as a public figure on a social platforms learns a lot from your wisdom and words. Not sure who you are, but you'll succeed in all the good you do. You didn't actually think that I believe that you are what your screen name says, do you? I wasn't. You know, I'm young at heart, but I wasn't born yesterday. Okay. What's the importance of understanding what we're saying when davening? Do we have to understand every word? I see everyone around me, Americans who don't know Hebrew, praying with non-transated. Well, understanding every word is not necessarily just for people that uh Hebrew is a second language to them. If you go to schools where the majority of the people are the only language they speak is Hebrew, you're still going to find people that do not know what they're saying because the Hebrew that is spoken and the Hebrew that is uh written as biblical Hebrew are two different languages. Same letters, two different languages. So just because you know how to speak Hebrew does not mean that you're going to understand everything you read. Now should you understand everything you're reading? Sure. But it takes time, it takes practice, it takes effort. Certainly during the time that you pray is not the ideal time to learn what you're saying. You're supposed to learn it before. You know most of the prayer is from Psalms. Try to understand what the actual meaning is. Maybe read some commentary on some of the verses and over time you'll understand more and more of what you're reading. But as far as uh the prayer still counts even if you don't know what you're saying. Uh but needless to say, it's much better if you do know what you're saying. Uh because the more you know what you're saying, the more you can connect to what is actually uh relevant to your life and how it affects you. Will I be punished for staying married to a unbeliever which prevents me from converting? You're already being punished. you're punishing yourself. Why does kishuf and religion have so much in common? Candles, incense, sacrifices, offerings, and is it a sin to do it even if you know Hashem is the only power? Well, to answer the second question first, there's a verse in the Torah that says meaning someone that deals with witchcraft. Torah says death penalty. So a uh it's not only not allowed, it is one of the worst possible sins that a person can do during their life. As far as similarities, there's absolutely no similarities between the Torah and witchcraft as far as their meaning and their purpose. Uh but if you're saying that anyone that lights candles is similar to Judaism, then that means that uh you know, you could compare Judaism to people that light uh birthday cakes. You compare Judaism to uh to people that uh you know are lighting a uh fire to uh see at night. Just because there's candles does not mean it's the same thing. Uh so no there's there's the more you learn about Torah, the more you understand what Torah is and how it has nothing to do with kishu with witchcraft. Uh as far as sacrifices, sacrifices are something that uh we do because Hashem decreed uh that uh at the time of the beta mdash. We don't do sacrifices at this time. We haven't done for nearly 2,000 years. But the people that deal with witchcraft, they bring sacrifices to their demons because that's the price uh that they have to pay for uh for what they want. They want this uh uh you know this uh spirit, this demon or whatever depending on which uh which uh thing they're connecting to. Uh they have to pay a price. They want them to give them certain powers, certain abilities, certain uh possessions and uh that requires certain sacrifices. In the world of Judaism, uh when we brought sacrifices to Hashem, it was only pure animals that were perfect. In the world of witchcraft, it's the exact opposite. It is things that are broken. It is things that are forbidden. It's the things that are immoral. It's the things that are uh damaging. It's the things that are impure. So many times uh if you get to uh uh uh read about it, hopefully never do it, uh you will see that the sacrifices are uh pretty much 100% of the time either seed or blood. Either you know the wasting seed or blood or both. Uh and uh the uh and then sometimes also it's a some type of uh death. But that's usually secondary. The primary uh uh thing that the uh the powers of impurity want is blood and uh and seed. So uh because they feed off of the impurity. It's the exact opposite of the Torah. Does Kishu make you an a uh kishu makes you someone that cannot be counted on minan? cannot uh uh it's a person that loses their thank you for the support for those that are donating on YouTube and on uh the website. Appreciate it. Should non-Jews have a rabbi that they get to know and go to regularly for advice? Does this have to be a local rabbi or can we just contact them online such as by emailing them? Should a non-Jew have a rabbi? I mean, if they can get one that's uh that's good and it's a uh uh honest and helpful, by all means. If they can, yes. But most rabbis are going to be very very busy with uh helping Jews. So it's going to be very difficult for uh for people to find uh you know to enough rabbis to to help them. Um the main thing is to learn as much as you possibly can. Uh as far as getting guidance certainly if you can get it, sure. I have many students that are not Jewish uh and as well as many students that are Jewish. I try my best to help everybody that I possibly can, but I can't tell you that I can help everybody. There are certain times that uh people send messages and the messages go unanswered. Why? Because there's just so, you know, too many messages. Uh there's there's a lot uh so not every rabbi is is going to have uh as busy a life as I do. And not every rabbi is going to have uh uh you know the interest to help everybody. Some people are just going to focus on Jews because that's their priority. So the question is not should you. Uh the question the question is really more could you and if you could by all means. I read in the Saka edition of Yakut Ya that going to the restroom frequently makes it so that one does not have lewd thoughts. Why is that? Uh I explained it in a lecture in the series I believe about a week or two ago that uh the more a person uh keeps the uh wastes in his body uh that that brings uh filth into their mind. So a person has to make sure that they're always clean. Whenever they have to go they have to go immediately relieve the self immediately. Sometimes a person is ashamed of giving so little. It happens to me. Well, I can tell you this. Hashem knows exactly what he gave you. Uh and therefore, he judges you based on what he gave you. He's not going to judge you based on what he didn't give you. He's not going to judge you of why you're not giving a million dollars when really all you have to give is $10. He's going to judge you on why you're not giving $10 because that's what you have. On the other hand, if you have a million dollars and you're only giving $100, then he's going to judge you why you're giving only $100. Hashem judges us based on where we stand. So, a person does not need to care about the uh the amount or anything. One thing I would suggest and actually even ask you guys for there are some people that are wonderful people that uh donate $10 and $20 and there certainly boem people that donate 500 and 5,000 from you know so boashm say uh there's a lot of money needed for all the things that we do uh and there's a lot more money needed for the things that we want to do but there are some people that also donate literally as soon as they get and they'll donate $2, they'll donate $5 for people that are donating smaller amounts anything that's less than $10. My personal recommendation for them would be to if let's say you could give let's say $5 uh a week, wait two weeks and give $10. Why? Because the transaction cost of the merchants, regardless of whether it's Venmo or it's PayPal or it's Give Butter or it's whoever it is, the transaction cost uh are are percentage- wise more when it's a smaller transaction. So, if you can make the uh donation uh uh $10 or more, that would uh help us keep more of the money that you're donating. But if it's difficult for you for whatever reason, you can only donate that, then by all means, donate whatever you can. But never be ashamed of what uh you give. If what you're giving is the most you can do it. The only thing that you should be a person should be ashamed of is if they're giving less than what they can give. They can really give 4,000, but they're giving uh 400. They should be ashamed. Why? Because they made money more important than God. They made money more important than Torah. And that's that's certainly something to be embarrassed of. But if you're giving the most you possibly can, by all means. Does he decide on how much passion one will have for Torah learning for the year? Obviously, one must keep in mind it's up to the individual to use his free will to study. No. As far as passion for that's based on effort. The more you invest into something, the more you're going to love it. The reason why mothers love ch their children uh more than the fathers typically typically aside from the fact that the child was part of their body for nine months. Uh is even when the children grow up, the mothers are usually much more connected to the children than the parent than the fathers are. And the reason why is typically the mothers spend much more time with the kids and invest a lot more into the kids than the fathers do that are typically working and and doing other things. Uh so and and that's one of the places we understand uh and the sages have spoken about this in different lectures and brought many sources where the sages talk about how the more you invest into the Torah, the more you're going to love it. to to have the sweetness of a Torah requires sacrifice for the Torah which means to learn Torah when you don't want to to learn Torah when you feel you can't to learn Torah when it's difficult and impossible for you that's what ultimately will bring you the sweetness of Tawra that is something that a person decides uh for themselves based on their actions. How can one stop procrastinating getting up in the morning? Uh the first thing I would recommend doing is watch the lecture I did earlier this week that uh talks about uh lazy people and over there you'll have uh lots of information that will help you. Why do people get embarrassed from doing good? Especially people who change from being a bad person to a good person. uh people do not get embarrassed of doing good. People don't necessarily commit to the good that they're doing as much as they commit to the bad. Meaning that let's say for example, somebody used to hang out with bad people or and and do things that are against Hashem's will. And now they've done chuva and now they are in a religious community and they go to shul and everything else. But as soon as they see their old friends, they start, you know, they change their clothes, they change their behavior. And the reason why is because it's not because they're embarrassed of the good that they're doing. Uh but rather because they're not fully committed to it. They're not fully committed to doing good. They're just doing the good because it makes more sense to them. It's more pleasurable for them. It's more convenient for them. It's more profitable for them. But the reason why they go back to the bad is not because they're embarrassed of the good, but rather because they still like the bad, too. So until a person is fully committed to the good, they're always going to be uh jealous of the bad people. They're going to be jealous of the sinners. And that's a horrible, horrible thing because that means that they're going to suffer in both worlds. This one and the next one. Living one foot in, one foot out is worse than living both feet out. Is it allowed to talk mundane things in shul after davening is finished? No. Shul is not for mundane conversations. Go outside, talk whatever you want to talk about. Rabbi, fear robs us from being effective in the world for ourselves and Hashem. What can a person pray and do to shake off fear? If you're afraid of Hashem, that's the best fear in the world to have and the only fear you should have. The more you're afraid of Hashem, the less you'll be afraid of anything else. So work on your uh and there's many lectures that I've done about the topic. The more you're going to be afraid of Hashem, the less you'll be afraid of anything else, whether it's terrorist or lack of money or other types of issues. How does Hashem find a way to bless someone giving ma more money if working a regular salary job? Should he enter Chinese auctions or buy lottery tickets? How? Hashem has no end to the amount of ways that uh that he can bless somebody. And I told you guys a story the other day. I have a student Hashem him and his wife and kids have been very very uh uh committed to learning Torah with us. The kids are watching BH kids. The parents are watching the lectures and hashem they've transformed their life for the better and in a very very good way over the last several years. And despite having many difficulties uh financially and otherwise they committed to giving male to giving male to giving 10% of whatever is coming in. If 2,000 is coming in they give 200. If uh 1,000 come in they give 100. They're very very committed to giving because they know that this is good. It's good for them to do. It's necessary to do and blessings will come. But they never expected uh any miracles beyond uh uh the norm. They just did what's good because it's good to do good and they trusted in Hashem. Well, on Shabbat, I got a message from him, from the husband, and he tells me literally something unbelievable. I mean, I've seen a lot of miracles. They never get old, but each time I get excited about it. So he tells me, "Listen, I uh got a call from somebody about a year ago, year and a half ago, that I haven't spoken to in 13 years." Out of the blue, he calls me and he tells me, "By the way, you know, we used to work for that company and uh I found out that we can get back pay. You can get back pay for the years you worked there." And you know, people have all types of crazy conspiracies and stuff like that. He said, "No, listen. Just apply over here. Just put sign over here and you can get it fine." He did it and he forgot about it. It was easy enough to do and he did it and he forgot about it. A year and a half passed. All of a sudden Shabbat he sees a wire of back pay for over 10 years of work. If that's not a miracle, what is? Now, did he have to work for it? No. This money he made, while he made this, this is money that he didn't even think he was ever going to get. There was he didn't even think about it that it exists. I had another guy come to me tell me that uh he's been trying to sell uh a property for two and a half, three years. That uh some type of property they're trying to sell. said, "Rabbi, bless us. If uh we sell it, we'll give mas." I said, "If you're going to give mas give 10% to help us publicize Torahem, you'll uh you'll have a huge blessing." He says, "Yeah, but no one's even looking at this place for two and a half years, three years, nothing. No interest, nothing." Said, "If you're going to do it, is going to bless you." Okay, I'm going to do it. He says, "Okay, fine." He sold the property I think within a week. Within a week, I had another guy come to me says, "Uh, Rabbi, I have some money and I want to invest it, but I don't really know anything about investing." You know about investing. You spent uh almost 20 years doing it. I'm going to give myself. I've been giving myself doing it. Giving myself for couple years. Said, "Okay." I told him something. He has no clue about all this stuff. I mean, he has a clue, but he's not I mean, he didn't spend 20 years on Wall Street. I told him a few things. in hopes make 10% a year, 20% a year, 30% in over a few years, you know, if you make 20% a year, you're already uh you know, you're considered uh successful in the stock market. If you make 10%, you're already considered successful. The best hedge fund managers in the world uh you know, have consistent uh returns of you know 20% a year and they're they become billionaires from it. So usually if you make 10 20% that's great. Within less than a year he made something like 500% 550% after listening to what I told him. Hundreds of thousands of dollars. And there are countless other stories just like that. meaning he didn't have to work in order to make another half a million or whatever it was. The other guy didn't have to work in order to get paid for something he worked for 15 years ago. The guy didn't have to work extra in order to sell the property. Needless to say, in a week. These stories keep coming. But who do they happen to? They happen to the people that already give the male when they don't have a lot and really have the intention to continue doing it even if they do succeed. The sad thing is Abu is that sometimes success gets to people's head and they forget where the success came from and after they succeed they stop giving m or they start giving it elsewhere and it's happened a bunch of times I had one woman where when I uh met her started guiding her in different things she was making I don't know her business was making maybe three $400,000 within less than two years that business grew to $4 million. $4 million a year take home for her instead of her doing all the things that she said she was going to do. And what did she do? She started literally donating to everyone else. She bought this guy a new building, new house, a new this and literally she just decided to become a and stopped donating altogether to us. You know what happened? the business went back to couple hundred thousand. Another time I had a guy he had I think three four businesses. When I met him I think he only had two. Then he started giving mel and it grew into three four businesses. made a lot more money. Then he uh asked for a blessing to open a fifth or sixth business. Got blessings, succeeded in doing it and a bunch of other miracles and guess what? He stopped donating everything. Nothing. Zero. Why? I don't know. I don't ask people why they stop. I don't have the that kind of time or interest to ask people why they do what they do. But this happens constantly. Constantly people forget and many times they end up losing as a result. Sometimes like that woman I explained sometimes like other people but sometimes you know they uh simply uh they they may continue getting the money but they don't have the blessing anymore. Meaning they don't have the joy of it anymore. They don't have the health anymore. They don't have a lot of other they lose a lot of other things. So, as far as how Hashem does what he does, to to know what how Hashem does, you have to be Hashem. There's no end. There's no end to the ways that a can bring a blessing to a person. I've seen it with my own life. I've seen it with countless other people's life. But I know that one thing is consistent among those that uh get the biggest blessings is they make the biggest sacrifice. And unfortunately many times when the people get a big blessing they think this is the peak. They don't realize that if they continue doing the same thing they have been doing meaning but just with more the next blessing is 100 times more. 100 times more. So, he gave you a blessing and now you sold and you uh you your house or your business or whatever it is you made a half a million dollars and you've been giving m until now. Guess what? If you give m now the next blessing could easily be 5 10 20 $30 million. But many times people don't get that. They think oh no but listen it was easy for me to give m off of 10,000 but now to give mas of 500,000 now it's too much. Maybe I can give it in payments. Maybe I can distribute it among different places. Maybe this, maybe that. Who asked you to think? Did did somebody ask you to think in order to make this big blessing? Hashem thought for you and Hashem succeeded for you. That's the problem. People fail the test of money. It's very very difficult test for people. Test of money. It's uh say that the test of uh success with money is more difficult than the test of poverty. And for many people it is depending how you know how your is programmed. Any stories about people who overcome wasting seed in their success? Absolutely. People that uh all of the people that I just mentioned to you uh for them to get the blessings, every single one of them without exception had to overcome the issues of immorality. The person that continues to waste seed cannot get the blessings because they're ruining them every day when they waste seed. If I'm in debt, is it proper to still give 20%. as long as you're able to service the debt. Meaning that let's say, for example, you owe $20,000 two credit cards, but you don't have to pay the credit card or the loan or whatever it is of completely this month. You have to pay them payments. Let's say you have to pay them, I don't know, $1,000 a month. And your income allows you to pay that $1,000 a month and still have money left over. So, sure, if you can give 20%, absolutely. But if the whole money is due, so it's either paying all of that money for debt or giving uh the uh the 20%, then sure, you have to you have to pay your debt first. But if the debt doesn't have to be paid completely and you could just continue servicing the debt, then by all means, you should give. You should give. Rather, where are you located in Florida? In South Florida? Cooper City. Do you give 10% of gross or net? I give 20% of of gross. If you're asking me or if you're asking in general what a person should do, they should also give at least 10% of gross. uh if they can give 20 then by all means but uh as far as uh as far as gross and net gross meaning it's what's you get in your hand. So if let's say you are a employee and there and the employer takes taxes out of your uh out of your check. So your check let's say was supposed to be a thousand but they took taxes out of it so you really only got 600. So you give the uh the 10 or 20% from that 600, not from a thousand because you really only got in your hand 600. But if you are a contractor of some kind or you get paid per, you know, for that way where they give you the $1,000 and it's up to you to pay whatever taxes you need to pay. So really you got a thousand in your hand, then you need to give the 10 or 20% you choose out of the thousand out of the thousand. So it's all about money. The questions they're asking is about money. Is the lecture about money? Uh, no. There's a lot of things that we discussed, but you just showed up right now and uh, you sound like you already know everything. So, why are you even here? People that come here come here to learn. So, let's see. Is a sh allowed to have a kadouch after davening inside the sh? If when they started the sh they uh said it that they're also going to use the shul for a uh for that purpose as well then there's no problem. But uh which is usually done. But if they did not and this is only a place of prayer then you know that wouldn't be ideal. But generally speaking, most places that open assume that they are going to have also a kouch there. It's not a problem. As a teenager very as a teenager, it is is it a very bad idea to get a smartphone or is it always bad to get an unfiltered smartphone? It all depends on how you're using the phone. A hammer can be a tool, it could also be a weapon. A knife can be a tool. It could be a weapon. A phone can be a tool. It can be a weapon. Depends on how you use it. Okay. All right. Let's see. Rabbi, I have a question. Okay, ask. What's the question? What would you say is the number one thing that Hashem wants from us? He doesn't desire anything that's against your interest. He everything that he wants is for us for our own best interest and therefore he says it in the to follow his laws. How do you cure depression? First you have to identify that depression is not a physical disease but rather it's a spiritual disease. The sicker a person is spiritually the more they'll be depressed. In order for a person to cure themselves spiritually, they have to feed their nish, what the na wants. And the nama wants closeness to Hashem. The nama wants the truth of the Torah. The nama wants the mitzvot. The more you feed yourself what the Torah says by getting closer to Hashem, by loving Hashem, by following what he says, by learning more about him, the the more you will distance yourself from the sickness of the soul, which is also called depression. But all I do is dav in and learn but I'm depressed. There's something wrong with your understanding of your role in life. So I would recommend that you watch our series called it's about 16 or 17 lectures. People love the series. It's a short and has a lot of tools that you can learn of how to apply to your life and which will not only improve your prayer and learning uh but will also improve your overall life and you'll understand that you don't have any reason to be depressed regardless of what you're going through. Once a person understands where they stand in life, what the purpose of life is, they realize that depression is a uh is from the Satan. Uh and uh the more bet a person has uh the more uh happy they become how does one pivot from learning paradise uh a week and shim to start including with time being limited? Well, I mean, depends how long they've been learning the uh para with uh with uh shim uh and uh depends where they stand. It's sometimes the more you learn uh the more you realize you have more time than you think. So, it depends depends on a person. It's a case by case basis, but uh generally speaking, it's usually uh you have to add some more time to it or do more with less. Um just depends depends on the schedule of the person. What is the opinion of the Jewish what is the opinion on the descendants of Jews who were forcibly converted? Should they return to Judaism? If a person wants to be one of Hashem's chosen children, then certainly they will feel the need to return to Judaism, not just want. But uh if a person does not have that feeling then no they shouldn't. Rabbi you're a great blessing to this generation the generations. Rabbi Nishim again ways. Thank you. Can you be affected just by your surroundings like in school with lefties and others other things even if you barely talk to anyone except a few select friends and keep away from others? Absolutely. The a person uh will be affected by his surroundings with or without him wanting it. Therefore, if he's in a city where there's only wicked people, he has to leave the city. Uh, and if there's no city that, the Rambam writes this, if there's no city that has righteous people, then he should go to the desert, live alone in the middle of nowhere. But the point is that if he's going to be surrounded by wicked people only, then certainly he should change location. Every place has wicked people, but there's also places that also have righteous people. The Jews believe in the existence of the prophet Muhammad. We know that Muhammad, a person named Muhammad existed. Uh but he was not a prophet and he was actually a murderer. He murdered many Jews because we did not want to follow his foolishness. explain how Jesus isn't the Messiah. Uh very simple. In order to be a Messiah, you have to be a righteous person. Uh Jesus was not a righteous person. He was a wicked person. He violated the Torah. He turned himself into an idol. And the uh says that he right now in g in boiling feces. In fact, even the uh Christian teachings say that Jesus is in GM. Uh so in order to be the Messiah, the the minimum requirement is to follow the ways of God and not pretend that you're God or part of God or some other form of idolatry. So certainly he did not fulfill uh the role of what the Messiah is supposed to do. Uh he was a very wicked person. He was a womanizer. He was a liar and uh a lot of other things. And uh if you actually watch my lectures that talks about uh Christianity, you'll see that there are literally endless proofs from the Christian text that the whole thing is falsehood idol worship. How much is in your bank account? A different amount than it was yesterday and most likely a different amount than what it's going to be tomorrow. What do Jews believe happens after death? You get judged. If you're righteous according to the Torah, you get judged favorably and you go to heaven and you get eternal blessings and salvation. If you're wicked, then you get punished. How punished? Based on how wicked a person was in accordance to the Torah. If they were wicked but with certain limitations and they were more righteous than wicked, then their punishment will be limited. But if they were very wicked, uh idol worshipper, womanizer, uh you know, people that uh did things that are uh abhorrent in the eyes of Hashem, uh then their punishment is forever. I have actually a whole film about gay uh with over 170 sources from across the spectrums of the Torah. Uh the Torah, the oral Torah, the Cabala, different and um in that uh film you not only get to understand what happens after death uh to to the wicked people but you actually also get to see where it's actually written. I mean what I said over 170 sources is only a scratch on the surface. There are literally thousands upon thousands of sources. But uh if we covered all the sources, the the film instead of being three hours, it would be, you know, 3 million hours. All my family are pagans. How do I help them see the truth? I feel like I'm failing them. Well, the more you help yourself, the more righteous you become, the more you could lead by example. People want to follow success. Uh so the primary focus should be on yourself to not only improve yourself to better yourself to become a better person. So therefore they could see that you've changed not just hear that you change they could see that you've changed you're happier you're uh you know in better moods uh and in so many words you are uh you are becoming symbolic of success of happiness of joy. And the more you are that way, the more they're going to want to become like you or at the very least the more they want a guide uh that's like you and they're going to ask you. But if you come to them just I told you you should do this and I told you this, they're not going to listen to you. Especially since you're family. Is it possible to order one copy of Manis Friedman's book that came out? No, I'm sorry. I don't have that. uh that kind of time. Right now I'm trying to distribute tens of thousands of copies. I can't handle uh also personal orders, but you can distribute. You could order a box and distribute the rest of them in your community. We're going to try to put them uh through a third party in the coming months for these individual sales for people that want only one copy, but I can't do it right this second. Right now our primary focus is to mass distribution as fast as possible to get this in every shul in every Jewish community in every place. Um and then hopefully along the way we'll be able to put uh uh this other idea that we have which is to have a third party uh actually sell the books individually for people that only want to get one copy. How does one bring along his wife to be more religious without being too pushy so she doesn't feel forced if wife is slightly lower level or religious? Uh for the same advice that I told the person that's trying to help his family. The more righteous you become, the closer to Hashem you become, the more you're become a better person. the more your wife will see that you are happier, that you're less moody, that you're more generous, that you have more compliments. And the better you become, the better she'll want to become. Not only because she's a reflection of of you, but also because people see happiness. That's what they want. That's why people do most of what they do because they think that's what's going to make them happy. Some people go after drugs. Some people go after money. Some people go after women. Uh some people go after fame because they think that's what's going to get them happiness. If she sees that you connecting to Hashem brought you happiness, you're always walking around with a smile. You're you're always under control. You don't lose yourself. Then guess what? She's going to want to be like you. So she says, "Wait, so you're telling me that washing your hands in the morning and reading this book and watching this rabbi that helped you get happy?" Yes, I did other things, but that certainly is the way. Okay, I want to do it, too. All right, let's do it together. And guess what? She'll want to do it together. But if a person is reading a lot more, watching a lot more, but is still nasty, is still cranky, is still miserable, is still depressed, is still stingy, still has horrible character traits. Unfortunately, no one is going to want to learn from them. No one is going to want to be like them. And in fact, they're more likely to distance people uh from uh from Hashem than to get them closer. So that's usually the problem with people that do chuva and try to get their family closer is they don't have any type of guidance. They try to do everything on their own. Uh and usually they themselves are not as righteous as they think they are and they don't succeed in helping others. Many times it causes problems. So it's important to get guidance. It's important to also know where a person stands. But like I said, the the uh the uh system of success is the more a person improves themsel, the more they're going to be an example that other people would want to follow. All right. I can talk in a synagogue all I want. Sure, you can do whatever you want and you'll suffer the consequences for violating the Torah, too. No one is going to put a gun to your head and tell you you don't do it. You could do whatever you want. It's just that there's consequences for it. Just like somebody puts their finger in a electric socket, they can do it if they want. There's going to be consequences, though. It's a sin for Jews to stay in physical galut. Only calamity befalls us. Then why are we continuing to do so? Uh it's not a sin to stay in the exile. Many of the Is lived in the exile throughout the last few thousand years. Mosher Rabenu never got to Israel. Is he a sinner? Rambam didn't live in Israel. Is he a sinner? Uh you know many of the entire Talmud Bavli was written in Bavl. All these sages were in Bavl in Babylon in in Iraq. So no, there's no obligation to move to the land of Israel. That's that's u not not right according to any opinion. You can if you want to, but uh is taka giving us gulah for better parnasa? It can be depending on how much you give and who you give to, when you give, why you give. Why do some Torah violators get a free pass? Because there is they're too established. Uh, no. No. Nobody gets a free pass. Everyone eventually has to pay the bill. Now, sometimes it looks like a person gets a free pass because they're not punished right away, but uh eventually everybody pays the bill. There was a um tell you two stories. There was a a man that uh at the time of the that threw out a widow and her kids out of the house in the middle of winter and uh because she couldn't pay the rent even though it was snowing. It was she had no place to go, he threw her in the streets and he continued succeeding and making a lot of money and everybody was baffled at how he did what he did. 20 years later, he was at the peak of his success and money and everything else. And all of a sudden, one day, a dog bites him. A dog that had rabies. And this guy got rabies. And he died a painful, horrible, slow, and horrific death to the point where the entire community was just amazed at what happened to this guy. His fall from grace. When they asked about this, said, "I've been waiting 20 years to see what Hashem is going to do to him for what he did to that poor woman and her kids. Everybody has to pay the bill." There's different There's different dates. Sometimes the credit card is due on the first of the month. Sometimes it's due on the 15th of the month. Sometimes you have a six-month interest free. You don't have to make any payments. Sometimes it's a loan where it matures uh like a bond uh you know after a few years. Everybody has a different a different deal. Hashem makes sure that at the end everybody pays the debt. Everybody with no exceptions everybody pays the debt. There's no doubt in the world that these heretics will not leave this world without an embarrassment, public embarrassment and complete destruction for everything that they built. Everything they built will be destroyed unless they do complete chuva miraculously. But there is no doubt in the world. Why? Because the Torah promises that says someone that uh desecrates Hashem's name in private, Hashem will punish him in public. Bring him in public. Needless to say, if he desecrates God's name in public, like bringing Christian missionaries to Ashul and fighting for them or uh or saying things that are heretical on a regular basis and preaching idolatry, every one of them will not leave this world without a complete destruction for everything that they did. No questions asked. So you look at the uh the uh one of the uh uh leaders of the reformers thought he was himself an Orthodox Jew, but he coined the phrase be a Jew at home and uh like everybody else outside. And during his life, all of his kids with the exception of one converted to Christianity. He was an Orthodox Jew, but he was preaching freedom and modernization. All of his kids, with the exception of one, I think he had seven or eight kids, they went to idolatry. So there's no question about it. There's a story written from over 500 years ago, the time of Daral, but there was a book by Art Scroll published almost 40 years ago, 1988, about the life of Darizel. fantastic book, highly recommended whoever could find it. They don't sell it on art school anymore. Um, and says in there that there was a uh the uh of Daral was one day learning with Darizel and uh somebody came calling needing the help to a woman had a debuk. There was a spirit that entered this woman making horrible painful suffering for this woman. Voices coming out of her all types of horrible things. And um sent to go take care of it. And he went there and he saw the woman is suffering and then the voice coming out and he asked who who are you? He told him the uh wicked person did a lot of bad things and uh suffering in Kafka. He said, "Yeah, but this woman that you entered uh she uh she's a righteous woman. She's a righteous woman. What's the why why you bringing her so much suffering?" He says, "No, she's not as righteous as people think." Really? when uh any time there was the uh pes they were doing the and talk about she would make fun of it in her mind. She didn't believe that Hashem took us out of Egypt and all the miracles and in her mind she always made fun of it and snickered at it. She didn't believe in the miracles. So the moment that uh I was given the uh chance I was allowed to enter her and cause her endless suffering. endless suffering. And uh asked the woman, "Is it true that you did all that? Do you believe that?" "No, no, no. I believe in Hashem. You promise you're always going to believe in Hashem. You believe in I believe in everything. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I ever did anything. I ever questioned anything." She begged, begged, begged, begged. And commanded that uh that uh Debbuk to leave, forced him to leave. Kusha is much more powerful than tuma. Fast forward some time is with learning one night and the tells him tonight stay with me. Stay here. Don't go home. And says no Rabbi I need to go home. I have family. Okay. He went started walking home and he went into the same road he goes every day and he went into a uh between two buildings and all of a sudden he sees that there's a a donkey without an owner chasing him down the the the hall. He couldn't get out of the way. The donkey ran over him and broke his arm and hurt him tremendously suffering the whole night. The in the morning told the go get bring him here. They brought him. He says I told you don't go home. I knew that someone was looking for you and that's why I tried to get you to stay, but you didn't want to listen to me. He said, "I'm sorry. I I didn't know. I'm sorry I didn't listen to you. I just thought it was you being n you know, I didn't know. I didn't know what happened." Darel says to him, "There was a debuke that you forced to leave a woman." And that debuk was really angry at you for forcing him to leave her and he wanted to take revenge against you. So he entered the donkey and he got back at you by running you over. And then the result touched the arm of and healed it as if it was brand new. It wasn't broken anymore. These are stories of but the point that I'm trying to bring to you here is that everyone has an account at some point. Everybody pays the bill. Like I said, some people on the first of the month, some people on the 15th of the month, some people six months later they have interest free. They feel like they don't owe anything. Some people it's after they graduate school they feel like they don't owe anything. Some people some people have you know what seems like a free account for 10 20 years but eventually the whole balance comes due in a second and it's impossible for them to withstand it without extraordinary pain. That woman thought that no one is listening to the thoughts in her mind as she was making fun of the Torah eventually came that wicked person that died is in Kafka and and to the woman and so on the debuke thought that no one's listening no one's paying attention everybody pays the bill just today I saw headline company uh that uh has been in business for over 40 They uh they're called Wolf something. If you just type in Wolf company Wolf, you'll see this company has been around for almost 40 years. And in the last 12 months, their business being went from being a business that's for over 40 years worth billions and billions of dollars [Music] to they're most likely going to declare bankruptcy within the next two weeks and the stock will be worth zero from being worth billions. How? Simple. They had multiple creditors that they borrowed money from. One of the creditors didn't want to be a creditor anymore. Wanted to change the deal. Said it's due now. Yeah, but that's not what we spoke about. That's not this. That's not that. Long story short, no other option unless the creditor decides to somehow feel bad for them or realize that there's a better they have a better interest in keeping this company uh solvent. Literally within a matter of days, this company went from being a multi-billion dollar company. I think the stock was worth at some point maybe like I don't know $80 a share or something like that. today was a dollar. Uh and uh if they don't have some type of miracle in the next uh couple of weeks, maybe couple of months depending on how things are, all of the shareholders that bought the stock at 20 and at 30 and 50 and even the people that bought it at $2 and $1, all of them will get zero. Why? The debt came due. They thought they have another year, another two years, another five years, another 10 years. They thought, listen, we've been in business for a long time. I mean, over 40 years of working, 40 years of selling, making billions of dollars, doing all types of things. They thought they had more time. Hashem decided, "No, no more time. No more time." The same concept with all of these wicked people right now. They look like they're winning. They think they have all the money in the world. They have all the power in the world, all fame in the world. You know, most popular rabbi on YouTube, most popular rabbi ina. Right now, it looks like they're winning. It looks like there's no debt, but there is. And the debt is growing by the second. And one day that debt will all come due just like that. The massive destruction that they will face will make this company that I just told you about look like a success. The destruction of Manis and all of the others that followed suit that went against Hashem, those we spoke about and those that we didn't. When their debt comes due, oh well, it's a destruction with man. But people that cause the public to sin, their destruction is going to be so massive, so horrific. You're going to hear the worst possible exposures in the world. The stuff that you would never imagine is going to come out. You're going to think that I was complimenting him all these years in comparison to the truth that's going to come out against him and all the others. You're going to think that we were nice to them with all the criticism in comparison to what's coming. You're going to think that literally it's it's it's it's hell on earth. But that's just the beginning. Why? This world there's going to be something because Hashem's name has to be sanctified. But in the next world, magnified by infinite amount of numbers and you still won't even get to the first minute of suffering that they're going to have. Someone goes against Hashem is in a bad situation. Someone that leads others against Hashem, there's no one in the world worse than him. No one in the world worse than him. They're worse than Hitler. Their punishment will be worse than Hitler's. Just so you know, does the Torah say that Jews may not be in one country, they have to spread out in the world? No. We are allowed to be in one country. We're allowed to be in multiple countries. And actually, in this week's parashem says that uh a punishment that is got for not following the laws is that he's going to spread us all over the world. There's also a blessing that he's sending us through that as well that we're going to be able to um uh bring righteous people from other nations to join AmI is as a result of it. It's also going to be a sort of protection for uh AmI from all of the anti-semitism where since we're spread out everywhere even if there's antise-mitism in one part of the world uh Hashem's not going to allow them to ever destroy all of us, you know. But the point of why we're not all in Israel is because we didn't follow the Torah uh to the point to the level that we're supposed to and therefore we got punished. We got uh spread out all over the world. But there's no obligation for us to be in one place. Is it true that Yokipool that falls in Shabbat ate? Not according to the says that does not get atoned by only thing that could help you is aside from death is the main shareholder backed out and the other companies take the dead hit. No, that's not uh that's not necessarily the case. the uh the uh the the big problem that they have is not the shareholder. The big problem that they have is that they took uh one of the loans that they did was through this uh private credit that I told you guys about a few days ago, which is like a magnified version of cash advance. Um and this private credit is not like traditional bank loans. they have more control over the company even though it's a loan. So therefore, when one of the shareholders wanted to um renegotiate their deal, the company couldn't decide for themselves, they had to ask the uh the debt holder, the private credit, and the private credit did not allow it. And therefore, as a result of it, uh they uh they have to default. They have to declare bankruptcy. And the private credit company's not worried about getting their money back because uh they're the first creditor. They're above everybody else. The private credit terms that they had were horrific. But uh always know in regards to investments, the debt holders are the real owners of the company, not the stockholders. Where can I donate? You could donate on our website.org. You could donate through YouTube. I believe there's some type of button that you could donate through there. Uh uh you could go to our website and get the address over there and there you could send us a check. You could wire transfer, you could donate cryptocurrency. But there's a lot of different choices. If you go to our website bzashem.org be z hm.org or uh there is a lot of uh options. Okay, let me see. I'll take one more question. Two at most. A dear friend of our family was Jewish, passed away uh last week and And a few days later, my father passes away as well. When a Jewish person passes, he needs a rabbi who is more sadik to say the blessings. But what about no when they pass away? They don't need a rabbi. The family can say prayer for them or do good things for them, givea on their behalf, do on their behalf. Did I miss? No, he's not set free. No, the setting uh I'm not sure what you're asking actually. Yeah. If if if a if there's a non-Jewish slave and he is set free, he becomes Jewish. Yeah. In fact, the says that Raan Gaml he had a slave uh for many years and to the point where this slave became a and one day they uh but he was still a slave and one day they needed the minan and they couldn't uh count him because he was a slave. So freed him. The moment he freed him, he automatically became Jewish and he was able to be counted in minion. Yeah. Okay. Boashem, I think we've answered many questions. I think we've learned Bohashem quite a lot. Thank you very much for learning with me. May Hashem bless each and every one of you that learned with me, that's supporting. Please go to the website bzashem.org, donate, support. 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