Struggle - Blessing or Curse ( Ohel Joseph & Burho Toxer - NEW YORK)

we're about to start the lecture uh those who are outside please come inside we're starting now okay all right good evening ladies and gentlemen thank you all for coming please turn off your cell phones everyone uh the we're very fortunate and great for RAB Ruben being here today in New York came all the way from Florida formerly he used to live in New York he'll talk more about his life story as well uh very interesting personally me I didn't even know about RAB ruin history life uh story many people probably start all first knowing about uh Hur from Western Wall I mean from Wall Street to Western Wall I didn't know none of that stuff all I knew Robert was the videos that you m and other the videos animated version and from there the Torah and that's how people usually get attached to it and I used to love listen I watched and listen to those shes and then little by little because I've been I seen this other logo who's kind of start investigating looking into it there you have it and then somehow I got in uh I saw a video fromi to to Western world like wow fascinating uh those who know you'll hear more about it tonight those who don't uh and hopefully you have a chance to get to it anyway long story short without further Ado by Dar Ruben uh the floor is all yours than thank [Applause] you thank you thank you thank you first of all thank you very much for inviting me to this very beautiful this is big for the Tora I uh I love seeing beautiful shoes it's one of the uh amazing things that has merited to have we have very very beautiful shoes and uh it's wonderful to see because it's big cavod for the Torah it's big honor for the Torah in in in a Time where uh people invest so much money into their houses so much money into their cars so much money into their business so much money into everything else and many times you see that rich communities they have like a little Rinky Dink operation of a Sho like it's a hole in the wall that uh you go you pray if you want you don't pray if you don't want sometimes the air conditioner works sometimes there's no Air Conditional but just make sure they complain because we'll kick you out you know so when you see when you see a beautiful shoe like this it's big cavod for the Tora it's big cavod forem because every Jew needs to know that is a mini bet mikdash is a mini bet mikdash if the mashia decided gave him permission he decided to come tomorrow decided to come tomorrow what do you think he's going to use the the stones of the ugly shs to to build a nice sh no he's going to look for shes that have KES in it that gave for the Tora but on the other hand on the other hand I've seen many beautiful shoes in my life and uh I usually don't talk about it and the reason why is because a beautiful Sho is only half the battle the last per in says there's a uh could put it here there's a conversation between two of theik between two of theik that walking and one of them says look at this town and all the beautiful shs that my family built here one Sho two shim three four five now you would think the other sadik would say to him wow what a family you have what did he say oh wo unto us if this is what your family wasted their money on what do we learn from here what do we learn from here the Tad is telling him woe unto us if this is what your family is wasting on why why did you spend so much money on so many shools why couldn't you spend one beautiful Shool and the rest of it on to publicize to bring to the not just to build a building we're not Christian we're not building buildings we need to build Jews we need to build so when you have a beautiful sh and you have in a beautiful on a regular basis like you guys have not something to compliment why because you have a beautiful sh and you have a beautiful to to complement it but if it's just a beautiful building what are we going to do with a beautiful building we Donald Trump we have a bunch of buildings what are we going to do with buildings any jeude that thinks about it could arrive at the same exact conclusion well you think a little bit about it say yeah we have building building building building people want to build buildings in this generation every organization wants to build a building a building for this a building fund for this a building fund for this we have a fundraiser a million5 dollar in 24 hours to build another building another fundraiser a million dollar 12 hours in another building everybody wants to build buildings now for all of those that are building buildings uh I can't I can't uh say that uh it's good or bad what I can say is what I've seen in my life especially these last five six years that I've been working hand to hand with you know to try to get them back to a is that between us don't tell anybody though between us I'm said doesn't need any more buildings he doesn't need any more buildings you know we need we need Jews we need Jews we need is not the buildings we have buildings has so many buildings we can build a building to just just to say how many buildings we have a building with all plaques on all the walls of all the buildings we have what do we need we need Jews we need Jews to come back to and say we love you we're sorry we're not serving you like we're supposed to not buildings we need people to understand what does it mean to be a Jew and in today's generation it's very difficult for people to be upfront about what it means to be a Jew now most of my life I lived a secular life I was born in Israel I came to the United States uh with my family when I was 10 years old and uh almost 30 years ago and uh in Israel we went to what's called a uh M School meaning you were a keep you were a but you went to the beach on Shabbat you know so you know it's a school know Shalom you say means it's a t with a t shape so every day you cut another mitvah every day you cut another mitvah m is you keep whatever you want every other day you cut another mitah you don't feel like it so today is in today's generation we have what's called modern Orthodox Orthodox wasn't enough we added another name modern Orthodox what a modern version It's like a it's like a Jew with a Ferrari what what's so modern about the modern Orthodox he's modern he's modern with the modern Orthodox what's the modern with Orthodox modern Orthodox means that we are like the muscle te of 30 years ago where what do we do if we don't like this we we cut it out so unfortunately where I live in Florida there's a uh a lot of modern Orthodox kot and a lot of very nice people but some of them forgot their clothes at home they go to Sho but the clothes stay home but they more an orthodox they go to scho but there like like for example I think if anybody wants to go into business Florida and New York have the same problem there's no clothing stores they only sell underwear today I don't understand how come they only sell underwear how come they don't sell clothes anymore when I was a kid they used to sell clothes today they only sell underway get to the airport I only see people on underway say where's the clothes how come nobody has any clothes on anymore how come no B you think about it you you think about you go in the streets when I was a kid the stuff that people walk around in the streets the stuff they walk around the street you barely were allowed to go to sleep with it today they walk around in the streets with it why what happened what happened to us and I'm not talking about the I'm talking about what's talk what happened to us what happened to us at some point along the line we lost our sense of we lost our sense of shame we lost our sense of pride of being a Jew and we forgot what it means to be a Jew we forgot that light to the Nations doesn't mean be a light to the Nations by being like the Nations be a light to the Nations by being different than the Nations by being a leader to the other nations not trying to mimic them not trying to replicate them not even trying to be jealous of them if you want to tell your kid about someone to look up to instead of using to talk about a Donald Trump and all of his buddies and all of the rich people on Wall Street we're supposed to talk about mosenu RAB AKA all theim all the T but unfortunately this is not news this is a reality check so how come how come this all happened I can tell you how it happened to us almost 30 years ago we came to the United States and we didn't really think much we didn't really think much about how wide of a difference it would be for a kid to grow up being surrounded by non-jews so my parents made a decision that to say that since they didn't have much money they sent us to public school now me and my brothers went to public school I have three brothers bem and went to public school now what happens to you when you go to public school anyone that have you probably in a big you probably have a copy of the set of M Lo in a set of mam loes you'll see in a I believe it's par and M says that a parent that sends their kid to public school to learn with theim in shim they count that parent as an idol worshipper wait but he didn't worship an idol all he did he sent him to public school he sent him to ps67 he sent him to ps90 something he didn't send him to uh to the church he just sent him to a public school what's the problem Ki they used to fast for a week at a time when he was writing the M he would fast from Shabbat to shabbat the whole time he's learning tah no eating no drinking no breaks learning he would fast for a week at a time he writes in his book one of the most extraordinary books that's ever been written in the last 350 years he says a parent that sends their children to public school in sham they write down oh yeah here's Steve the idol worshipper that uh took his kids to uh pretty much idolatry why idolatry because you have to do the math who is wise someone who sees what will be born out of their actions what will be born out of sending your child to public school what could possibly be born he's not going to be born Raba mosenu did not go to public school what will be born what will be born out of somebody that went to public school what do you think the the newor is coming from PS something no what's going to come you're going to have a kid that's cute it's funny it's Jewish but by the time he graduates he's a he's cute he's funny he's a though something changed what changed he became a why he's surrounded by GRE he's surrounded by n Jewish kids and even the Jews that are in the school with him they're also surrounded by non-jewish kids and everybody wants to be like their friends just like the rambam writes in he says you are going to be a product of your environment Sigman Freud the scientist the the psychiatrist didn't invent it R wrot it already 700 years before him you are a product of your environment when the battle between nature and nurture nurture wins meaning you will be a product of your environment you're Sur surrounded by go you'll become a go you're surrounded by you'll become R you be surrounded by you become you're surrounded by Jews you'll become a Jew so how come how can we make this mistake sometimes the is like what did do to knew that is more numerous than the Egyptians there was more Jews there was no is than were Egyptians but kept them busy what did he do he gave them a lot of work he gave them a lot of work a lot of work so even when their Mia came to help and save them they told Moshe Moshe we're too busy what too busy I'm here to save you I'm here to save you you're waiting already 200 years he goes yeah you know what come back tomorrow come back tomorrow what come back tomorrow I'm here to see me today we're busy we have to build a pyramid we have to build the Sphinx we have to build this we have to build stuff we're so busy who has time to talk to the mashiach what is it it reminds me it was one time an old man working in a field and uhi comes to Himi says listen as it says in is goingon to come before mashia I'm here to tell you M's coming he says okay uh where you okay one second I got to go ask my wife I got to go ask my wife so he goes to ask ask his wife he says uh honey guy says the mashia is coming says a favor go tell to go talk to AEM tell mashia to come some other time maybe he go somewhere else so he comes back to he says listen my wife said you can't you can't you have to go somewhere else what do you mean come somewhere else we why he said because we just planted all of our plants in the field and the farm and the season if we leave all of our crops will go to garbage we're going to lose so much money so tell thei go somewhere else go somewhere else because we already invested a lot of money in America we already invested a lot of money in Germany we already invested a lot of money in Spain go somewhere else mashia go tell the mashia go somewhere else so says to him he goes listen you know the Nazis are coming you know ad is coming you know it's coming right he says okay hold on a said yeah let me tell my wife that all this stuff you just said you're scaring me a little bit especially she have a nice beard no let me go so he goes back to his wife he says his wife he says Amal is coming the Nazis are coming all this stuff is coming he says go telling Lei to go take the mashia and the Nazis and let them deal with themselves somewhere else we have crops than you with sometimes we're so busy with work and money and the mundane that we forget thear of the world we forget the the the point of the world we forget to ask questions we forget to do a a little bit of calculation what is the point of our life why are we here like does anybody here really think they came to the world to make money before you answer it and embarrass yourself I'll answer the question for you says to to the prophet he says says to the prophet mine is the money mine is the gold so why you why do you want my money why do you want my money it's mine's the money money why do you want the money so it's my money mine's the gold you have to give me a real if you want I'll give you some but it's my money so it cannot be your purpose money cannot be your purpose why hasm says it's mine all the money all the possessions all the land everything it's mine so what how could it be your purpose if it's all mine how could it be it's like saying I'm married to who to your wife how could I be married to your wife if you're married to your wife it cannot be so a person obviously has to understand money is not the purpose so what is the purpose gives us a Tora that gives us an instruction set each and every single person has an individual purpose an individual test and the nation as a whole has a national test the more a person learns from the instruction set of a the more he realizes what his personal individual test is and how he fits into the global plan but when a person is very busy dealing with the mundane he forgets what's day years ago a person by name of aadya kid young kid maybe 16 15 years old went into aari and he was learning there a little bit and uh he saw that there's a book previous generation but it's high a high shelf so he wants to learn why the what what's what you're supposed to do in a Sho you have to learn it's not just for looks you have to go learn to so what did he do he took one of the sofas and he climbed on the sofa to go get the book the gab of the Sho saw him put his feet on top of this expensive $10,000 couch started yelling at him hey what are you doing you know how expensive that seat is you're putting your dirty feet on it at that very moment the the richest guy in the community comes into the Shool the one that built a Shool he was so rich his suit was made out of gold you know you bukharians have very nice taste in clothes you really do I want to borrow some but M he comes in with a M gold suit not even like a imitation gold su he comes in the whole thing is gold he sees the gab yelling at the little talid he yells at the gab he goes what do you think hold on a second what you yelling at he takes off his uh his suit he takes off the gold he says come son come he puts it on top of the couch he goes now step on it now step on it to go on top of and get the book for you it's the kabai system because he's going to ruin your jacket jacket is a million dollars was million dollars that's a million dollars him learning that Tor that's priceless so what's a million dollars next to Priceless what a million dollars next to price it's nothing that little you know what that little was it ended up be becoming Shalom became the he surrounded by good people thean community has a lot of because the ban Community has all we need is to add more T we have to add more more learning tah like we're doing today like you did before like you did yesterday every single day we have to learn more and more to why cuz that's the only only way we're going to ever arrive at a clear conclusion of what's the purpose of our life when we came to the United States we didn't know any of this stuff so we went to public school and little by little we became gim within a few years I had four earrings within a few years my dream was to become a football player and then after I finished my career to become a psychiatrist you know no no no inkling of Judaism whatsoever I mean yeah once in a while we would go to Sho for the holiday you know we'd fast on yum Kip by sleeping the whole day you know we uh we'd uh celebrate PES by eating matah one day and the rest of the time putting chocolate chocolate on it with some water so it became edible that was a holidays I mean it was a superficial Jew people ask you what are you I said I'm a Jew okay wow what makes you a Jew I said I don't know it's my mom's fault what makes your Jew what makes your Jew all I did know though really was that being a Jew had to be better than being a Christian why their religion doesn't even make any sense first of all their God is Jewish so why would I believe being a Christian if even their God is Jewish doesn't make any sense second of all why am I worshiping somebody that says he's God but he died like what kind of God do you have what kind of God is this that he dies my God's Alive I don't have to be a genius I want a living God not a dead one I don't understand why he's so power ful he's so strong he can't even defend himself against a bunch of Romans how does this make any sense it doesn't make any sense it never made any sense to me so I didn't have to know a lot of toat to have common sense but unfortunately our common sense is not enough so as we grew up I little by little I did good in school but shortly after I realized that I'm not going to become a member of the NFL I'm not going to become a football player because I'm still short Jewish and slow and uh really all I became was the dummy for the rest of the players to hit during the game because there's nothing I could do to defend myself it was so big each one was like five five feet taller than I and I'm this little guy he like where' you eat where how did you get so big how how is it possible for somebody to get so big I eat the same thing you ate but you double the size how is it be you're 13 years old 9 feet tall how what did you eat people what did you eat I never I never cuz in Israel there's no such thing as such big people we never I never saw such big people I saw m I was 13 years old one of my one of my classmates a 13 years old had a beard he was a classmate he had a beard I how's it possible he's 13 years old didn't make any sense this America was big on me but little by little you become American and uh you do good in school and you work hard and you want to make something out of yourself and I worked all types of odd jobs because I wanted to make money I wasn't a you know a bum like the current generation that wants their parents to pay for everything and anything that they have ABA I want a car go work ABA I want a house go work that was the answer we got ABA I want a car go work son you want a car go work for it ABA I want a house go work for it we didn't ask ABA for anything why because we know the answer you want something go get it this generation IA want to eat okay son you're 18 years old let me feed you you're only 18 years old let me feed you no say ah what ah he's 18 years old 35y old kids still living with Mommy and Daddy what happened what happened to the generation I don't know I don't know something you see guys you're all laugh because you know it's true but something happened in the last 30 years something happened there's like a glitch in a system something happened I don't know what but something happened they announced in England a few months ago new educational system for fiveyear olds what if you are a boy but you don't want to be a boy we will have a a former boy that's now a girl teach you how to be a girl when you're really a boy they're having a transvestite teach five-year-olds about how they should maybe if they don't want to be a boy they want to be a girl or if she's a girl she wants to be a boy how it's an option now and guess what the head Rabbi the head you call him a rabbi rabbi the head Rabbi of England he said I think this is perfectly fine I think this is perfectly a fine addition to our educational system in England for what to make monkeys for who what are you going to do with this type of education what does a 5-year-old need to know about sex he barely discovered that he has a member like what does he need to know about sex I don't understand something happened you see something happened I don't see anybody disagreeing with me me so far everything we're all on the same page so far so what happened you see promised us a world that we can build and make beautiful or we can destroy says your conquerors your destroyers will come from within you if you're asking how did all of this happen how did the world turn upside down how did a lot of the disasters that happened and you can name them and I can tell you how usually at the source at the beginning there's some Jew that's off the now a lot of people when they want to cry they think about the Holocaust and no one really likes to answer honestly what happened in the Holocaust why you say what how what was God during the Holocaust and people say yeah maybe it was on break it was really the Satan he took over it was Hitler he was evil it was this one it's not where was God God did it that's the answer that's the Torah answer where was God during the Holocaust what do you mean where was he he was there pressing the button he was the one doing it why because we did not follow the instruction set and he wrote it in the Torah the instructions should be in the Tor he wrote he wrot he wrote he wrote the entire he wrote it countless times this is what happens if you don't follow the instruction set now if you don't want to listen why you never learned T okay so I'll have theim I'll have theim remind you of what I said he sent Hitler you look at the mine comp don't waste so much time but just go to chapter 2 chapter 2 the end of chapter 2 MC Hitler says what he's a messenger of God why because the Jews violated the Covenant of hem Hitler evil of all evils believed he was a messenger of God and he says why do I hate the Jews I don't care about the religious ones why do I hate the ones that are the Zionist ones why he says because they're communist they're communist they ruined Russia with Carl Marx what do you think he was a British what do you think he was a Italian he was a Jew a Jew the the original the the creators of Communism were Jewish he says that Toki trki another another Beauty Trotsky over there tried to ruin the whole world communism so he says they ruined Russia already Russia became anti-god not just like a non-religious country anti-god it was illegal illegal to be a Jew one of the the people that really kept the Covenant they had to M work in secret so there was like a person that was known as the mo why he was M the mo he was the one that was doing in secret how he always had a secret compartment in his jacket that at any given moment somebody says I have a baby he's ready to go that's how it worked in Russia one day a Jeep an Army jeep Russian army jeep pulls over right next to him he starts saying kadish on himself M poor guy he says a general pulls up next to me I'm lucky if I survive the next five minutes then he gets the bad news what's the bad news get in I don't know why he's saying get in Russian but it does it sounds scary than get in get in oh mean the poor guy can't say no so he gets in he goes into the uh thing and he starts seeing the general drive drive and drive oh he started to imagine himself oh this guy's driving out of town what is he going to do to me he's probably going to torture me too this sick person oh he doesn't even want to say a word he's not even saying hello he's not even friendly at least let me see my he's starting to do all the all the accounting in his head what should I have done what could this what he's Scar the poor guy's already he's counting his minutes as he gets out of the town he pulls over next to this house the general looks at him he says go inside in Russian not in English he says go inside and do what you got to do and come back right away not a word the guy doesn't know what's going on he he he has an opportunity to get out of the Jeep he runs out of the Jeep goes inside the house he sees mommy in a little package little package has a little baby she says you're the mo Bo going say no obviously they know said oh yeah so okay do it he takes out a secret compartment out of his jacket does the B Runs Out goes back into the Jeep now he thinks okay so okay at least I did a mitvah before I died cuz this General he's still not trusting this General he doesn't know what this General is maybe he doesn't know what's going on so he continues to drive and he sees the general continue to drive him back to town back back back but he's not going the same way St so he figured oh he's probably going to tell him to to jail or to some other place eventually he stops in the middle of the city he says get out so oh so if I'm going to have my life then at least let me ask a question he said what do you want he said why what do you care about a Brit the general said he said listen I'm a Jew but I can't be a Jew now because of Communism but this communism stuff it's not going to last forever at some point God's going to get involved and stop it so I want to give my son an opportunity that whenever in the future this communism ceases to exist that my son at least has a sign a sign that he belongs to is and now he can choose you want to be part of you have a choice what you have a sign to remind you constantly and not start with nothing so I'm investing into my kids' future and that's believe it or not the of under communism but unfortunately there wasn't that many sikim like him many of the people unfortunately joined communist even 1 15,000 Jews joined the Nazi army believe it or not join the Nazi army they wanted to fight for Hitler and they did fight for him they believe that they were Germans they didn't believe that they they got so far away from the source they didn't identify themselves as Jews Unfortunately today we see the same thing in America there are many Americans that are anti-israel they're self-hating Jews they hate themselves they hate Jews they hate Israel one of them is trying to run for president is Bernie Rasha all these types of people they hate themselves and they hate their Nation why how do we get to this how did the world turn so upside down already for a few Generations well said I have an instruction set the instruction set is called the Tor this tor is a Torah book that is not just an instruction set for you to connect to me and have an eternity as a life but also an instruction set of how you can have a life you can have a life that's worth living many people live a life but few have a life that's worth living why all day they spend their time in anxiety they're constantly stressed out they're constantly worried about things that haven't even happened yet 95% of the stuff we worry about didn't even happen yet did you ever noticed that we're worried about we're not going to find a well maybe you will maybe you won't it's still a 50/50 chance why are you worried that you won't find why why wouldn't you worry that you find it too fast how come nobody worries that they're gonna find a and it's a bad one nobody worries about that everybody worries they're not going to find a who told you that the shid is a good one or we're not going to have any money so therefore we decide not to have more kids who said you're gonna have kids how come nobody worries about the kid part not working how come how come everybody says oh hasem commanded us to have kids but I can't I can't fulfill this commandment why I don't have the money I don't have the money to pay for the kid so what what kind of God do people believe in some evil psychotic God that he told you to bring kids to the world so you could starve them to death like is this is this really within our logic like what he told you bring a kid you are going to bring a kid so and not going to have any money to pay for him you're going to starve to death this is the only reason why people don't have kids they say I can't afford another kid who says you can't afford it oh my current Financial condition who says that your Current financial condition will stay current who says you see the problem is that we constantly do the we constantly do the accounting of heaven and that's what gets us into trouble we think we can't do and therefore we're right we can't when I uh got a little older I fell into the same trap and I realized that in this world of America in this world you have to have money so I already started working when I was 10 11 years old I had paper routes I had uh worked at flea markets sold Electronics anything and everything that I can do eventually I got into Wall Street started making some money within a few years I became a multi-millionaire believe it or not doing legitimate business more details of that are going to be told in tomorrow shoe I don't want to repeat the same sh twice but needless to say I found out or I discovered what schl has meant this whole time for 3,000 years he's been saying something and no one wants to listen what does he say he says all this materialism all this money it's all nothing it's all nonsense like if you're going to invest your whole life for materialism you're going to be heavily disappointed why because it is impossible and I repeat it is impossible to attain Happiness by acquiring materialism it is impossible to become happy due to your materialism impossible meaning it doesn't matter how much money you have it will never ever ever ever ever ever again just to to the 10th power never ever change your happiness status it can acquire you cool stuff from amazon.com you can buy some stuff from eBay you can go to the car lot and buy whatever car you want depending on how big your credit is you could buy a house and show off that you have 18 rooms even though you only have one kid and a dog so each each person has three rooms you have stuff like that you could arrive to the lawsuits when people sue you with a limo all types of fun stuff all types of fun stuff but as far as happiness zero now if I was broke at some point and I didn't know anything about money did I tell you who is this guy what does he know but at one point I made $1.6 million in one day at another point I got to a point where I was making literally on a bad month two $300,000 all the money is gone I lost every single penny but the good news is that I actually learned a lot while I had it I learned that it's a complete waste of time to dedicate your life to acquire money you can do good stuff with money don't get me wrong there's stuff that you need to do with money you need to eat you need to drink you need to publicize T you Dov and so on and so forth but if your goal is to get money because you think that you need the stuff that the money gets you and that's the only way you will attain this happy you're already in the wrong direction you're going the wrong way and your life becomes a life that's not worth living at some point all the money in the world stopped meaning everything anything to me it was fun to make it it was a challenge every month I would try to beat the previous month but after a while even that got boring okay so what are you do okay so now there's another million okay so now there's another 100,000 so now there's another 50,000 so now there's another 5 so what what are you going to do with it and I was asking some young man today we were having this discussion and he he says well material you know money is good I'm like what why what's good about it you I could get stuff I'm like okay so let's see you got the stuff what do you do then because what kind of stuff did I get I said whatever stuff you want it's a free it's on me I'm paying for it what kind of stuff do you want you want a big house I said okay sold what a big house 10 10 rooms 20 rooms because 20 I said okay it's all in our imagination it's free 20 rooms you got a house okay now what what are you going to do with the house with 20 rooms said I'll live in it I said what's the difference after 3 days between the house of 20 rooms versus the house of two rooms that you have right now in the beginning it's a nice uh sell wow look at this room look at that room look at the pool we have inside look at the shower with the with the golden thing and the golden that after 3 weeks later guess what yes it's my house let's get out of here what's called let's go works we can pay for this house you don't care about the house anymore why it's just just walls just walls just it's nothing same thing with a car same thing with all of the materialism why the Torah teaches us this T says that when the bet mikdash is built the third bet will be built says there's going to be certain rules that we cannot follow today because we don't have one of the rules is that if you enter the BET mikdash from the northern gate you're not allowed to exit the BET mikdash from the northern gate you have to exit from the southern gate yeah but what about I mean the bet midash is big huge I parked already by the northern gate you want me to go all the way around you know how long it's going to take me I have an appointment I have a doctor's appointment I have a this appointment have I have a lot of appointments I'm a busy guy you cannot leave why because there's a rule if you enter the northern you have to leave in the southern you enter the Eastern you have to leave in the western why for what yavitz a couple of hundred years ago gives a fantastic sh about this he says the following he says a is already trying to teach us something that if we learn from it and we just take this and apply to our day-to-day life our life changes he says the following he says knows his Creation The Creator knows his creation he knows what what he created he knows that if his creation enters the room for the first time sees the BET mikdash wow wow what a beautiful bet mikdash look at the gold look at the chandeliers look look wow o ah excited right but now he finished excited he has to go back home if he leaves from the same door he entered he'll see the same thing again he'll see the same thing that he saw 20 minutes ago by the time he sees the same thing again he's less excited he's less excit he already lost his excitement and the yav says he will start looking at the walls of the BET mikdash like she like he looks at the walls of his house and Shalom on such a day when we look at the like we look at it's like our house what do we learn from here we learned that naturally our the creation us has no ability to appreciate materialism for an extended period of time meaning every material possession that you have it's only a matter of time before you that spend your heart working money on it lose interest in it that's why Shalom used to say instead of saying I bought this for 2,000 I bought this for 3,000 I bought this for 500 all the prices that people say oh yeah you see the suit what you think this suit is cheap I got this for 2,000 oh you got a discount I got mine for 5,000 you know people compete who paid more who paid more but he said you shouldn't do that what you should say I got this for 3 months I got this for 6 months I got this for one month why cuz you spent three months making the money to pay for the suit so that's really what you spent you didn't spend 3,000 you didn't spend 5,000 how much do you make a month you make 2,000 a month okay so $6,000 that's three months of your life you spent three months of your life to buy a suit you're genius you and Einstein the same book we're going to put you you you're lit this is what happens one time we had a friend that had a sister and he told me something I never even when I was I mean I couldn't I couldn't believe it I had to see this for myself he said his sister she married some poor guy that all he did was work and he saved a little bit of money he saved $50,000 that was their life savings and now they're having schum bite they had schum bite problems they had schom bite problems why because she wanted to use the life savings so I said oh to buy a house because that's what all you guys are thinking to buy a house right that's what she want must use life savings he said no that was the problem said what was the problem he said no you don't want to know no no I said tell me what he says she wanted to take the 50,000 to go buy a handbag there's a handbag there's a handbag that apparently cost $50,000 and she was willing to divorce him and leave him with the two kids if he didn't give her the 50,000 to go byy the B now all of you are saying oh hopefully so so he's single right unfortunately he's still married to this why he gave her the 50,000 to buy a bag the poor guy works day and night gave his wife the $50,000 to go buy handbag a handbag now it would be it would I mean even as a joke it's not funny but this is what happened how could this be when people are so empty inside because all they're trying to do is acquire material in order to satisfy this hold that they have inside little by little they realize that it's impossible to fill this hole this void that we have and that's why when you want to admire somebody you should never admire a rich person as far as materialism if you want to admire somebody admire the poor guy adire the poor people not the rich people the reason why is because the poor person has something that the rich guy can't buy it's called hope you see the rich person the reason why the US government when they did a research on suicide they discovered that suicide is a rich person's problem unfortunately a large part of the suicides are actually committed by very wealthy people over 72% of suicides are by people that are wealthy 7 22% it's a statistical anomaly meaning that suicide losing all hope is by the people that have the most to show the most stuff why when a rich person gets everything he wants fulfills every one of his desires every day he has a new wife every day he has a new girlfriend every day he has a new hobby every day he has a new car and a new new house and a new stock and a new Bond and a new something every day he fills this void by acquiring something new people have attained a new Addiction in our generation called online shopping they go on the internet and they just pray shop even for stuff they don't need it's a very easy addiction why it's easy all you got to do is press a button stuff arrives at your house sometimes I'm guilty of it also don't think that I'm I'm talking just about you I'm talking about myself reality is sometimes you just press a button even though you don't really know if you need these batteries you figure in case I need this set of batteries it's such a it's only $3 it's only $3 for 87 batteries let me just buy these batteries you don't need the B when are you going to use 87 batteries even if you were building a spaceship you still only need less batteries than 87 but you figed it's only $3 let me get the 87 batteries it's only $3 next thing you know $3 and $3 and $3 next thing you don't have food to eat because you bought a lot of batteries you're going to eat batteries maybe one Day online shopping so unfortunately what happens is that we acquire stuff by because we have a void we have a we have an empty spot inside we have to fill we're miserable we're depressed we have anxiety of all the things that are happening in our life and instead of looking at to to fill the void we look to acquire stuff so the rich guy eventually when he starts looking at his glory he sees that okay the house he wants he has the house he doesn't want he also has that the house his neighbor wants he has that also he has a house in every corner he has a car in every place he doesn't even drive anymore he has all types of stuff and he's still miserable hence he has all the reasons in the world to commit suicide why he has no reason to live why he has no hope if he already has everything he wants and he's still not happy what's the what's the purpose of life now if you had to say listen the purpose of life is to get all the stuff you want he's going tell you I already got that I got the stuff that I want Robin Williams had a net worth of over $100 million when he hung himself by a belt Anthony Bordain also unfortunately a Jew when he killed himself also was worth tens of millions of dollars all of these people that have been killing themselves almost on a monthly basis over these last few years they're all multi-millionaires Filthy Rich they have so much money that even if they spent a million dollars a month they wouldn't run out of it so so why do they kill themselves because they lose hope because the void has been filled and filled and filled and filled and still nothing changes nothing changes the poor guy doesn't commit suicide usually why he doesn't have the house that he wants he doesn't have the house that his friend wants he doesn't even have a house he rents and sometimes he gets kicked out because he can't pay the rent he doesn't have the car he borrows a bicycle from his friend he doesn't have a very fancy lunch he gets two pieces of bread that are three four days old put some cheese on it puts it on the microwave tastes delicious he has all simple stuff but he still has hope he doesn't kill himself you know why he says listen all my problems Oh My Thing Once I win the lotto I'll be happy he still has hope that one day he's going to get money he's going to be happy he still has hope the truth is that both of them are wrong both of them are trying to acquire happiness through money now having hadem a a lot of experience with money being in the business with money dealt with a lot of multi-millionaires and some billionaires in my life I could tell you with an enormous amount of experience that it's impossible to attain happiness with money and the reason why is because tells us that it's only a matter of time before you will lose you will lose your desire for it the more you have of it the more you will care less about it you'll become desensitized for the pleasure that I gave you the first ,000 that I ever made in my life when I was in a brokerage business was the best ,000 it actually felt better than when I made two three million why at that moment it was still brand new the $1,000 was crispy was clean was beautiful was the first thing I acquired through hard work by the time I mean made a million or two it's like ah I did this so many times already who cares already like what else is going to change I'm not going to get another house I have a house what do you need how many houses can you live in I'm not going to get another car I already have a car how many cars can you drive I'm not going to go spend 30 $40,000 on a watch I could just use my phone for free you know some people are in a jewelry business and good good for you that you have customers that are want to spend all that money on that jewelry I'm just not one of those even though my own family is in a jewelry business I was always a terrible customer oh he's a terrible customer I never I never saw the value of it but some people do good for you my wife she liked it once in a while and some people like it some people don't I never understood it but that's fine doesn't make it wrong it just simply people have different tastes so I looked at material possessions as for what so what I would do I would take my money and I would either give it to people that needed it or I would invest it into the business but eventually even that lost its meaning so was talking to me indirectly was trying to tell me that son you didn't come into the world to make money you didn't come into the world to have a life just about money that from morning to night all you do and talk about is money there is a time that you have to separate yourself from the mundane once a week There's A Day called Shabbat and that day is a day that you are supposed to do the opposite of what you do the rest of the week if you do the opposite of what you do during the week during that day then the rest of your week is blessed if you don't the rest of your week is cursed now Torah doesn't repeat things very very often usually you'll see that the hand of Hashem did not waste even a single letter did not even insert a single letter if it wasn't meant to be there every single thing that's there was there for a reason sometimes you'll see the same exact word spelled in two different ways it both makes sense but here it needed to have an extra UD or extra VAV or an alif but in another place it didn't why because there's something that we could learn from there for example the Torah codes professionals people that know how to discover and see how to identify Torah codes recently discovered something very interesting the Torah tells us that in the beginning created the Heaven and the Earth and then later on only on the second day on the second day he created the angels and later on he created human beings you know created animals and later on he created human beings and that's why when he said let's create man he said let meaning as if he has a partner as if he has a partner that's when people ask what does it mean how come it says let as if there's more than one God no there isn't more than one God just that Hashem in essence asked the his other creation the Angels what do they think about it now Rashi says we know for sure that Hashem created the angels on the second day day on the second day but there's no p in the Tor that says Hashem created the angels on the second day where did Rashi get this from 900 years ago Jacob how does he know Jacob knows Jacob does how does he know how does he how does Rashi from 900 years ago know where where where the Angels were created maybe Jacob knows he'll call back but how come how how does he know so the professor rip the foremost expert on Torah codes found an extraordinary code he says if you look using Torah codes on the PUK of the second day of creation you will see an equal mathematical skip the word malim Mal meaning angels inside the verse that talks about that hasem created this second day only place in the to you'll find it is here you'll find the word malim in different places but not as a Torah code like this why can we find it because there were certain words that were spelled here slightly differently than they were spelled somewhere else needless to say did it for specific reason so our has all the instructions for everything and anything that you could possibly imagine whether it's secrets about history secrets about creation secrets about your personal life secrets about every and anything that you want but the best part about is that most of it is not even a secret most of it is just plainly out there in front of you all you got to do is learn CH you want to find out what's going on in your life and how to deal with your current problem watch read sh with commentary by Rashi you'll see that your current problem is inside it your current problem that you're dealing with and the solution are inside the weekly par it's one of the greatest signs that the Tor is not only something that was written by a but even more so that the creation is being recreated on a day-to-day basis now once I discovered that the mundan is not going to fulfill my personal void I started looking at other things I started looking at other wisdoms I started reading all types of philosophy you know I started reading Nichi Aristotle The Art of War for from the Chinese all types of different intellectual books started uh learning again Psychiatry psychology started looking into the wisdoms of the world my wife God bless her she saw that I'm spending a lot of time reading about you know aside from Financial stuff because I was in a financial business I was also reading about stuff to get answers to life so she God bless her she said you know what why don't you try this old book I said oh old book is good what kind of book what she give me tell she gives me a t I said this I'm going I'm going to get answers from this what from going to tell me how to live my life she said yes I said really how do you know you know it's in there Hashem wrote this book God wrote this book I looked into the book and I didn't know so much but all I knew is I didn't understand anything why he didn't have any commentary all it had was just the basic words and the English translation to it I understood a little bit of Hebrew because I was born in Israel and I understood a little bit of the English and I knew that the English translation wasn't really a good translation of the Hebrew it was a you know was a JPS uh JPS tanak and unfortunately JPS Tanakh is not the greatest translation it's unreliable translation and I so there's a lot of issues here it doesn't make any sense but either way okay so how is this story going to help my life I never really understood that you're supposed to delve into the words find out what the Giants of previous generations found by looking at each one of the verses I never knew you could do such a thing so little by little I looked at it I looked at it whenever I had time but I lost interest because I didn't know what I was doing Hashem had mercy on me one day he sends me a very serious T by name of who happens to be my cousin that showed me a world that I never knew existed he told me that anything and everything that you want to find you could find it in the tah now I didn't really believe him so I started asking him questions I'm one of these annoying people that will put you to the test you say something I'm going to ask you how'd you do it you tell me you can do something I want to see it I'm one of those people I don't like people just saying things I want to see how who what when people say oh yeah my Rabbi said such and such I said okay what's the source he goes no he just said it I said okay he says a lot of things I say a lot of things but which one of us has a source for what we say if he has a source okay I want to learn from him if he doesn't have a source then what he said doesn't mean anything why T says we have rules you want to say something it has to have a source in the Torah why because once it has a source in the Torah it's no longer you it's God God I want to listen to you not so much you're not so much why it's like a guy went to a restaurant and he says to the guy it's kosher here he says yeah you're asking if it's kosher you know who I am I don't know who you are is it koser here he goes look at the pictures Babas Ben he says but it's a Kos he goes look thean he says fine I see if they were here and you were in a picture I would know that it's Kosh but since it's you here and they're in a picture I'm I have to ask you is it kosher I need a certificate I need a proof is it kosher so you have to ask people say a lot of things you have to ask do you have a source why if it's from you 5050 chance I don't want to gamble I want to know if it's from God so as we started learning one day after 9 months of me asking him questions and questions and questions about all types of things about science and about math and about business and about marriage and all types of wonderful things I never knew I had so many questions until I started asking them and getting answers and every time he would give me an answer he would tell me oh this is a great question Rabbi so and so asked the same question 890 years ago on this book on this page at this number and I said how come you have all these books in front of you you have all you happen to have all these books of all the questions that I have how do you know what I ask goes no I don't have the books it didn't make any sense to me I said so how do you know it how do you know what this Rabbi said 890 Years Ago by heart he says well that's what you do when you learn Tor I said what you read all those books and you learn them by heart you go something like that I said how many books you have yeah he says we're closing in on 3,000 in this room 3,000 books you have I said if I know one book by heart I already consider myself a genius I never knew that I know so many things and they know pages and this and that I said this guy's smart I thought I was smart this guy is uh different world I want to learn more from him so we continue learning learning learning one day he tells me he says listen you ever hear of this thing called Shabbat I said yeah I heard it's a Saturday right he goes yeah whatever sad day that you said I don't speak English what he said says this day that you have over there it's called Shabbat for Jews I said okay no he says you know in Shabbat you're not allowed to work on Shabbat I said no Shalom I don't work on Shabbat I only go to casino I don't go you think I work on Shabbat what am I going I only go play poker on Shabbat he says yeah that's the problem you're not allowed to go play poker on shabat I said what why not what does AEM care about me playing poker he says to rest right I'm resting I'm resting on a poker room with 50,000 in front of me what's the problem he says no no that's not what you're supposed to do and he starts explaining to me this 39 starts confusing me I said oh what when I said you know what do me a favor all the answers all the questions everything I ever said you always showed me somewhere in a book you always showed me somewhere in a book show me this in a book he says which one of the 12 times do you want me to show you this in the book of the or the seven times in the or the countless times in the which one do you want I said okay I only have the all the stuff you just mentioned I only have a show me one time he shows me what a scary day was for me he says he says you keep Shabbat good for you you don't keep Shabbat what's gonna happen to you oh what's gonna happen to you why he says I said excuse me what' you say to me he said no no listen hold on a sec he says if you don't keep Shabbat you keep going to the casino I said yeah it's good no he goes no no it's not good I said why not he said if you keep going to the casino you keep playing poker it's technically work you keep driving on Shabbat it's fire you keep cooking on Shabbat not allowed you keep performing one of these 39 restrictions you have a serious problem I said what's the problem he says well let's see what this verse says it says I said what does it mean I said not I understand death he says exactly he said what he's going to kill me he says exactly I said when said not yet he's giving you more time I said okay so what's the how could I die twice though he says M you I can't die twice why I'm gonna have a have a near-death experience I'm gonna die come back to life so you can kill me again what kind of God is this he says no no relax relax it's not that you're going to die again I said oh okay good he goes no no it's not bash yet he said why he says the me something else doesn't mean you die again it says the first death means that every time you Shabbat you lose life you lose time in your life you were supposed to live 120 years now you just lost another year now just lost another five years now just lost another 10 years now just lost all types of years from this 120 years that wanted to give you or perhaps or perhaps your kid lost those years you have three little beautiful kids you like them right okay well how would you feel if one of them goes missing one day I say hey don't say such thing he said no well that's what happens when you violate Shabbat you're killing your kids I have kids at that time but I have now if he would have said to me I would have lost my mind this what says to us you violate Shabbat you putting your kids in a concentration camp that's what you're doing why because each time you violate Shabbat Hashem takes away years from some account until the age of 13 your boy is Con considered a part of your body until the age of 12 your girl is considered a part of your body meaning if they get a punishment it's not them being punished they sikim it's your fault you as the parent little girl six seven 8 n years old has the has a disease guess what it's because IMA walks around half naked little boy all of a sudden loses his ability to see yeah it's because his father keeps looking at girls that's not his mommy all types of things happen to little kids oh why me why me stop sitting you'll see is not joking when he wrote the Tora he wasn't kidding even though we think he's kidding he was I promise you he wasn't kidding so he started telling me he's like okay listen the first one is cutting days of life I said okay that's enough problem because no no I have to explain the second one it's much worse I said what is it he said you see this world it doesn't endend here this world world is just a stage it's a corridor for as part of an eternal world that doesn't end and now that other world has names you call all types of names I know I know I said what hey heaven and hell he goes yeah that too I say so what happens he says well if a person keeps Shabbat they go to the heaven place ganeden we call it in Hebrew ganeden I said okay so what if he doesn't keep Shabbat there's only one other option left guess which one it's not heaven that's the hint I said for how long he says forever forever forever P 17A says there are certain Sinners that their sin is so grave that even when the msia comes and shuts down part of Gom part of hell he shuts it down there c will not be shut down one of those people is a the punishment for violating Shabbat and not doing chuva is so grave in the eyes of hem that he says that if you don't do chuva in this world you will not have an opportunity to fix it because by violating Shabbat and also Shabbat both say when you violate Shabbat it's as if you go out in the middle of the street and say to I don't believe in you so Hashem says we'll see we'll see if you believe in me in the end we'll see and once you'll see it's too late so he says to me second part says you don't keep Shabbat this next world doesn't look good I said okay so I died twice I lost my next world what's the what is this cutting the soul didn't you already cut me mean to 500 million pieces by now he says yeah that's the ugly part he says oh I this is pretty he goes no this is even uglier he says you see sometimes there's weddings and the weddings in Judaism have to have witnesses you have to have two Jewish witnesses to a wedding to sign the in a bed you have to have witnesses when you do a k you do K the person that says the K has to be a or Jew you have a you have a somebody that Slaughters your food Slaughters the cow it can't be a Christian but it also can't be a m Shabbat why because the person that's a m Shabbat is cut off from the nation which means that until he does chuva he's considered 100% like a is considered 100% like an idol worshipper according to Allah now hasm still considers him or her his son or or his son or daughter but they have a status of an idol worshipper meaning that you cannot rely on them when it comes to so if they do a K on Shabbat you're not allowed to say Amen if they say kadish you're not allowed to say Amen if they slaughter your account you're not allowed to eat it it's t now if you won't probably have y you probably have somewhere in his beautiful and you're going to see you go there's a nice little book about somewhere in the middle of the book it talks about and it talks about what about if you want to cook on yomtov you're allowed to cook on yomtov if it's for yov if it's for Holiday you're allowed to cook from fire to fire but there's a very very interesting Clause within it what's the Clause you're only allowed to cook for Jews you're only allowed to cook for Jewish people you're not allowed to cook for a like if you have a friend that's not Jewish and he wants to come over on PES you're not allowed to cook for him you're allowed to cook for the family if there's extra you want to give him no problem but to cook specifically for him you're not allowed why because the holiday is not for him you're not allowed to violate the holiday for him you're allowed to violate for a Jew the very next the very next very next one it says in all to cook for the but you're also not allowed to cook for the but you can cook for the animal can you have a as a guest can you have a as a guest on PES no other times possibly depends P you're not supposed to and a you're not supposed to unless unless there's a leniency because he's an authority figure or it could create peace or perhaps War if he doesn't come there certain exceptions or if he just shows up by himself but in general it's not an ideal time to invite so now he says that you cannot cook for the Shabbat you cannot cook for the go but the animal you can meaning some times an animal gets favorable treatment over a Jew why because the Jew doesn't want to be a Jew this is not to insult the people that are violating Shabbat I violate Shabbat most of my life until I realize how much is on the line here the point is is for us to realize what is God's opinion about Shabbat if God is feels so strongly about Shabbat needless to say we should take it seriously too if God says I hate Zima I hate Ima mody needless to say we as his creation should also take it seriously and say okay you know what we want to be why says two weeks ago you be holy because I am Holy what's the number one way of being holy when it comes to modesty when it comes to intimacy a woman that's IM modest is considered a she causes other people to sin when a woman or a man makes other people sin she has a very very serious problem with a why every one of those people has to be punished because of her what is she going to get a reward for that no so when we start doing the accounting we start realizing maybe our logic is not such a reliable logic our logic is not such a good one to follow maybe we should look at this book and see what it says so little by little I started looking at the book now along the way I had a lot of help crisis a lot of financial crisis a lot of crisis of all kinds the money that came in was starting to run out faster than it came in the body that was healthy became the sickest body that you can possibly imagine I went to over 50 different doctors just to try to figure out a diagnosis no one would have a even remote idea of what's wrong with me but a when he wants to get your attention he has a very very interesting way of doing it and I promise you it's not always fun in games one of the times after one of my surgeries it didn't really work out so well I was in pain constantly but I don't mean pain like o e I'm talking about screaming at the top of my lungs 24 hours a day as long as I was awake now you would think that if some rich guy is in pain surely he could afford to pight some painkillers and some good doctors well says you can have all the money in the world but I'll decide what happens with it so after screaming and yelling and screaming and yelling and bleeding for my eyes and my ears and every other hold that I had and didn't have all types of wonderful adventures eventually they realize well you probably need to go to the emergency room because you look at your it's not a good look this blood from your eyes thing so don't go for a modeling shoot if you're bleeding from your eyes guys so I went to the hospital it's a very good hospital it's called NYU NYU New York University Hospital fantastic hospital but that day that I went there it wasn't so fantastic why blinded them and made them deaf and stupid at the same time how they decided that it's a good idea to investigate my surgery by putting their hand inside my body while I was completely awake without even an ounce of no volcano painkillers now since I was annoying them by my screaming they put five other doctors to put me down like as if I was in a concentration camp and being tested on by MIM so you have five doctors each one with a better degree than the other holding me down and one one doctor is the genius takes their whole hand and puts it inside my body like as if I was a doll no way way I remember the screams like it was yesterday and that's why I smile I smile because I know it was a showing me what it looks like when he closes his eyes and hides his face a lot of people ask questions about where was God during the Holocaust where was God when certain tragedies happened to the nation where was God when certain bad things happened to my life where was God when certain horrible things were happening the answer is always the same God was there and God was doing it why is the why is the real question so the page 7B says that before a person gets even pricked get eats even a needle Pricks his hand generates a little bit of blood and a half second of pain before that happens there's a bed de in heaven that argues debates judges and concludes that this has to happen guilty he deserves to be pricked by this needle he deserves to have foot pain he deserves to have some vicious doctor that forgot everything he learned in medical school put his hand inside his body and go like this just to see what happens he deserves that why O Let's see what he did with his life and in heaven they do the accounting they do the accounting and they start seeing all types of things that you didn't think was a big deal in your life like for example driving on Shabbat you didn't think was a big deal for example being with a non-jewish woman you didn't think was a big deal for example you know doing all types of things like for example using hashem's money to gamble it's not allowed but you didn't think it was a big deal cuz you had a good time all types of examples that you didn't think was a big deal when you wanted to eat you didn't ask whether it's kosher or not you just ask whether it's meat or not why if it's not meat I don't have to worry about whether it's kosher or not so many Jews they go to non kosher restaurants and they think they're eating kosher because they're only eating the salads they're only eating the salads but you should know once you learn kosher laws you're going to learn something very interesting eating the salads at the non coer restaurants is actually worse than eating pig there you're better off eating pig I'm not suggesting eating pig but you're actually better off eating pig why if you eat pig you eat pig which no normal Jew eats but if you eat pig it's one sin you eat salad it's six sins why because the salad is full of worms and and all types of of interesting bugs that you're not allowed to eat as a Jew and go are allowed to eat that's why they don't wash their vegetables like we wash they wash their vegetables with water which does absolutely nothing they just swim it just gives them a little swimming pool for a vacation it doesn't actually remove the bugs where removes the bugs all types of salt and soap any Jewish woman knows that when it comes to washing vegetables it's K not it's you go to G just because of the vegetables that you washed but why because after you finish Wasing them you see there's on your desk over there on your table for all the bugs that are in this lettuce you go to a non koser restaurant you eat a nice juicy uh salad you should probably do Shak for all the meat that you're eating of the worms so now I didn't know this stuff I didn't follow this stuff and guess what I violated this stuff like many other people wasn't happy with me because he gave me one chance two chance three chance four chance and I kept ignoring the call little by little the call gets more serious and then little by little shows up banging down on your door I realized before it was too late I have to start changing my life I started learning what he said why he said it and I started seeing that not only am I going on the wrong path not only am I going in the wrong direction but the right direction is much more fun the right direction is actually going to be the one that's going to help me get the answers that I've always wanted get the happiness that I've always tried to get and it doesn't require money so even though I was losing it faster than I could even imagine it didn't matter anymore why I have tah now in a couple of days we have anula of rim called says that the story of Rish Shimon is something that you need to learn from now there's different aspects of the story of rabish Shimon but one of the interesting aspects that I just wrote a article about that hopefully you'll read in the uh in our website and our other Pages it's published I think today or tomorrow but I'll give you a synopsis of it the article says that at the end of the story there's something very very interesting to learn Shimon after he spoke against the Romans saying that the only reason they developed the country they build the bridges they build the bath houses they build the tolls the only reason they did all this stuff is for their own good for their own pocket to make money not because they care about people so when the Romans found out about this they weren't too happy with rabish Shimon they put a bounty on his head whoever couches rabish Shimon kill him so he hid in a cave for 13 years and he says that even his wife did not know why we learned from then women are someone that you could influence much easier than men not that you could influence them because they're lesser than men but rather because they're greater than men women naturally love much more than men men are much more selfish more or less women are willing to sacrifice their life but the problem is that once you torture the life of a woman they're her kids and things of that nature she could easily give up the farm because of that that's the reason why it's one of the reasons why a woman is not allowed to be a witness in a Jewish Court a woman is not allowed to be a soldier if she gets Shalom captured she could disclose a lot of Secrets as a result of torture if they torture a family and things of that nature whereas a man can with withhold himself because of his emotional disconnect to some extent anyway Rish Shimon did not tell his wife where he was hiding he went to a cave and because he knew that is going to be in this cave for a long time he wanted to make sure that just like this KLA in Queens that giv gives cavod for the Torah he wanted to give cavod for the Torah so what do he do he says my clothes I only have one outfit I only have one outfit and I want to make sure that I can wear it whenever I pray and whenever it's Shabbat but if I continue wearing it every day in this cave what's going to happen it's going to get ripped so what did he do him and his sonar they dug holes in the ground took off their clothes went into the holes covered themselves with the sand and that's how they learned tah all day and then they would come out of the holes when it came down to prayer and it came to shabbat why so that way they're not using the clothes too much and they could last a much longer amount of time now after 133 years of being under sand for 95% of the day it doesn't look so good why because sand for everyone that probably knows sand is what you make glass out of so sand against your skin for so many years doesn't look so good so when he got home and he saw his father-in-law his father-in-law was happy to see him said we want you relax let's go to the bath house so you can relax and rabish Shimon took off his jacket took off his robe and he and his father-in-law saw that his whole body was full of wounds full of scars full of mamash engravement of the sand inside his skin as if he was cut into 50 pieces his whole body was full of this and started crying started crying thank you started crying same price started crying hysterical seeing o to me woe to me that I see you like this and shim says to him no to the contrary that you see me like this you're praiseworthy that you see me like this because now I possess a lot of Torah that this story I never really thought about much about it until the last few weeks started thinking thinking thinking I said it doesn't make any sense why first of all why is crying overseeing his his son-in-law okay it's natural it's an emotional reaction it's it's terrible okay but why is he saying woe to him like why he saying O to me like it should be o toim that he has these scars not o to me you have the scars why is it oate to me why is it poor me that you have scars it's like saying oh yeah such and such friend just died oh o to me what do you mean he's the one that died not o to you he's the one that o to him and his family not you it's not relevant to you second question is why does Rish Shimon answer in such an unusual way saying no not only to you you're praiseworthy do you see me like this because now I have t now if you're gonna say you know they you see me like this because I have Tor you're confusing me even more why it should be he's the one that has t not why is it why is praiseworthy that rimon has is praiseworthy so I thought about that puts all of our sh in a certain perspective understood that the 13 principles of faith that the ramb put together in his at the end it gives you the details of the 13 principles of fith and elaborates even on free choice but most importantly reminds us that any Jew that does not follow believe the 13 principles of Faith puts his Judaism on suspension no different than a Jude that violate Shabbat one of the those 13 principles of faith that you're supposed to usually read at least once a day at the end of prayer on most people read it one of those is the principle of reward and Punishment meaning that we are obligated to believe we're obligated to know that a rewards the righteous and punishes the wicked we're obligated to believe this a Judah does not believe this a jeude that believes that everything is fancy schy and you're only going to get cookies from shim you're only going to get candy and hasem loves everybody no matter what you do even if you curse him even if you insult him even if you uh violate everything he's still going to give you cookies he's still going to give you everything then well I can give you two answers number one you're probably not reading sh because last week it said somebody cursed Hashem hasm killed him in front of everybody so how come he killed him and he's not going to kill somebody else what his favoritism he just didn't like the guy he didn't like the son of me at the end of the last week he cursed AEM cuz he didn't like the way his life was going so ashm said oh he cursed me kill him in front of everybody with stones the worst possible death penalty so so we see here that is not joking there is reward and Punishment we have to believe this so said the following I know that the reward and Punishment it's not just given in an vious way where you're righteous you get a ninstory house you're Wicked you get a little uh you know hole in the wall to to live with rats no it doesn't work that way you're righteous your wife is beautiful smart and she even knows how to cook you're Wicked she looks like paro's wife short ugly and everything in between like it's not that it doesn't work that way what happens sometimes it's confusing sometimes the righteous guy his wife is not exactly so great sometimes the wicked guy his wife looks like she's wonderful but you have to look at the inner details what's happening behind the scenes what's happening on a long story so says there's a reward and Punishment does not work in an obvious way reward and Punishment Works in a precise way meaning it is delivered when it needs to be delivered how it's delivered to such an extent ENT that before I decide to reward or punish anyone I have to review first of all every single thing that he's ever done in his life then I have to see what the punishment could possibly be but then I have to see not whether he deserves it that I already concluded based on his own punishments then I have to see what does everybody else deserve that will also suffer from it his mom his dad his brother his kids his wife everybody else he may deserve to get all such and such that he deserved because he did all this stuff but do they deserve it also if he's married to a sadika even if she's not the best looking one in the world but she's a sadika guess what she could save him why why she could save him cuz she doesn't deserve for him to be punished she doesn't deserve to be punished so therefore he won't be punished if he has a son even though the son is not exactly what he wanted the son to be he wanted his son to be a Wall Street Warrior he wanted his son to be the best uh investment banker in the world but his son became a simple making $1,000 a month guess what that little th000 a month is saving him why because he doesn't deserve to see his father suffering and such and so on and so forth so OD that reward and punishment is not just given in an obvious way Hashem evaluates everything and everyone so when he saw all of the suffering of Rim he says wo on to me woe un to me that I see this why because it means that I deserve to suffer too and it's wo un to me because I don't know what I did to deserve it that's what makes it wo making sins everybody makes sins but at least if I think about it I can figure out oh you know what I messed up in the morning I prayed late you know what I forgot to pray before I ate the apple I could do calculations of what I did and what I need to do Chua but now it's wo on to me it's terrible for me why because I'm thinking thinking thinking and I can't figure out what I have to do Chua for so my situation is even worse than I thought and then rim to finalize gives us the of he says no no you're praiseworthy you're praiseworthy and I want to you why he says see my Rabbi was rabaa had 24,000 students all of them died between P all the way to why one of the other reasons why we celebrate is not just because of theim that restarted the Tor but also because that's the day that the death stopped the death of the 24,000 people stopped today stopped on that day so now Rim says my rebi was R even though R AKA lost 24,000 students that the lowest among them was able to revive the dead he still said everything that the merciful one does everything that Hashem does is always the best not good the best meaning even though a has an infinite amount of ways to take each one of us from point A to point B whatever Choice he has whether it's a plane or a train or a car or a motorcycle or a bicycle or walking or crawling or flying whatever it is infinite amount of ways to take us from point A to point B whatever he chooses is the best of all choices and the only reason we have anxiety the only reason we get depressed the only reason why we get all like you know why because we're questioning his system because we think we have a better idea than we think we have a better idea than him why because we see our own perspective which is the wall in front of us who sees behind the wall on the side of the wall after the wall before the wall at the end of the wall even when there isn't a wall he sees all aspects that we cannot see because we're still limited as you beings so says to he says you see I learned this from my Rabbi and RAB my Rabbi also taught me something else he also taught me the words ofish who says that if if you want to learn tah you have to sacrifice your life to the extent of dying for the Tor end of the page 63b he says you have to be willing to die for the Tor you have to be willing to die for it so that's the good news you see these scars is US fulfilling the words of our re AKA we almost died for the T so now it's still said wait a minute so I am I praiseworthy okay your praise you have the Tora why you saying I'm why you saying to me he says ah all you got to do is go look at the sh go look at the page 25b says praiseworthy is the generation where the bigger sages teach the small sages but even more praiseworthy is the generation when the smaller sages listen to the bigger sages you see you witness the whole story here you witness the whole thing that's what makes you praiseworthy because now you can go teach it to the rest of am is you have the instruction set from all you got to do is first listen to it watch it think about it delve over it and next thing you know you're going to have all the answers that you could possibly want after that please please teach your kids this stuff don't send them to public school don't send them to go play basketball they're not going to become the next NBA King they're not going to become athlet stop kidding yourself Jews are not supposed to be athletes we're not supposed to be uh you know gamblers we're not supposed to be losers we're supposed to be people that are connected to you already have the facility you already have the place all you got to do is continuing living the Torah continuing giving honor of the Torah but honor Tor is not just honor to somebody else honor yourself with by following it by listening to it by reading about it we brought many CDs with uh part one and two of our M series it's 27 lectures out of almost 180 each one of the lectures would change your life it's completely different one is different from the other the rest of the series uh these 27 lectures are on CDs they're free I believe they're available somewhere in the Sho there's also our other CDs from Wall Street to the Western Wall tomorrow we'll have a sh about that but most importantly please follow us on the internet watch the sh every week we have three sh each one is different and the other the only time I tell my personal stories when I meet new people like you but generally we try to have New Tah each time because the Torah is vast it's huge it's enormous and every time you discover another part of it it's such a beauty it's so beautiful and recently we realized that there's a little bit of yet there's a little bit of yet in a generation it's called money you guys ever hear of it it's called yet it's called money so now in Florida in Florida these these rabbis before I finish I just want tell you what what we have to do to get Jews to come back from where they are to AEM in Florida we have a lot of rabbis that work for the they're very good at that they're fantastic they tell people to drive on Shabbat park right in front of the sh on Shabbat all types of things that are against hem so there's a group of kids maybe about 40 50 kids that have been going to a so-called Torah program for two and a half years now Torah program when you go to it what are you supposed to do in this Torah program learn Torah well I got to meet a few of them after they've been going to this Torah program for two and a half years and we asked him what do you do in the Torah program he says we eat sushi I said okay at least you get a nice appetite you eat some sushi what about what else he goes oh uh we talk about video games I said okay video game Sushi this sounds perfect Tor I said when does the Torah come in he says what Torah he said that's just on the door we don't learn any Torah I said anybody here keep Shabbat he says no nobody keep Shabbat how do you go to a Torah course for two and a half years you still didn't learn how to keep Shabbat so now one of my she says she started crying when she heard this she said I can't take it we're going to deal with this I said how do they get these 40 kids to go to a Torah program if they want sushi I'll buy them Sushi they want pizza I'll buy them Pizza I don't have any money but I'll go back borrow and steal if I have to just get these kids over here she says no no is a problem what is what it says $20 or $15 I said what do you mean $15 each kid gets $15 or $20 to come to this Torah program to eat sushi so I they pay each 15 16 17 18 19 year old $15 to come eat sushi in the Torah program to eat sushi and talk about video games so I said uh this is why can't they teach T though she goes n forget about it so she says listen we're going to do we have to do the same thing but we're going to teach to so we started the program a month and a half ago we started the program two kids showed up they liked it they liked the Torah that we learned they learned some things like what you guys just learned tonight which is called em they stayed for they stayed for a little over an hour the rest of the students that come to me regularly stayed for for a couple of hours they I'm not I don't take things offensively somebody's here for an hour somebody's here for 5 minutes somebody's here for 5 hours doesn't make a difference to me at least you're here so next week they surprised us each one of them brought a few friends so two became five then five became 10 then 10 became 20 and yesterday at 9 9:30 10:00 at night we had maybe 25 kids aside from the regulars that come 25 kids anywhere between 14 to 20 years old they're all excited about Torah they're all excited yeah they get 15 bucks but that's just the deal with the that's just to deal with the yet now just think about it okay so now the week cost us $1,000 ,000 just to get these kids to go learn Tor but what do you think a is not going to give us the money back what are we doing we're taking the money we don't even have to what to go take his kids from the G home that putting themselves into and put them into G well you think H is not going to pay for it that's what I tell people all the time if you ever want to invest invest in is don't ask for stock quotes don't ask for what Bitcoin is doing don't ask for what real estate project you want to buy we have plenty of real estate we have plenty of buildings as a nation we don't have enough Jews anyone that wants to invest in the next World in the next world world where they can go up to sh and sayem I have something to show for it yeah I lived 70 years in this world 80 years in this world 120 years in this world and I did some good things I did some bad things I messed up here I messed up there I fixed here I fixed there but I wasn't perfect but you know what I have something to show for it what I brought 15,000 Jews with me why I helped all of these Jews do Chua what do you think Hashem is going to send a person that messed up a little to gain home but all of his students are going to ganeden says absolutely not it's not possible for to send the rabbi that help people do CH to G when his students are in G the rabbi doesn't have to be a real Rabbi it simply could be somebody that invested in another person to go do Chua this is what I advise each one of you after you take those CDs you listen to those CDs don't leave the CD in the Shelf give it to somebody it cost you nothing you want to invest you want to invest in b you want to help us help people do Chua welcome we need as much as possible we only take sh of of a million or more though but the reality is anything you want to do do it but you could even do it for free so you don't have an excuse take one of the CDs give it to a relative give it to a friend give it to an enemy as long as they're Jewish give it to somebody go on our website take a link go to YouTube type my name take any one of the sh don't even think about it just take any Shield pick a sh to a bunch of people without thinking why you start thinking yet starts getting involved because that way you become a partner with and says to his children to the Prophet Jeremiah if you bring a you bring someone precious that used to be a lugger used to be a sinner used to be rash but you bring him back as good you're going to be like my mouth what does it mean you're going to be like my mouth Rashi says on this place he says Hashem says and therefore it happens you say and therefore it happens instead of going and buying like people buy they go to all types of graves they go to all types of mystical rabis you don't need to do any of this stuff has a just for you you want your prayers to be accepted in heaven help his children come back home once you pray Hashem says oh you're my partner of course I have to do it if I don't do it for my partner who else I'm going to do it for what for the Christians or maybe for uh for the basketball players so this AB is just a little bit of advice if you don't listen to anything else that I say at least listen to that if you don't listen to that listen to everything else whichever one you want same price move from here to over there by the table feel free to take as many as you like and pass it over to I know there a lot of wantful and I want to get married amen yes of course yes and also by the way I've had this you in front of me this name's in front of me the whole time which is the and Son these both were in front of me the whole time for the family just huh Al of course also and for Emanuel Ben NAA and family and uh that's it K question I live in I live in is very secular and I don't know what to do uh can you afford to move out not really no um nowhere near that but I'm working you know okay doing you have a job you're making a little bit of money working in the I also want to ask you you said in a lecture about your life the computer business okay that there not always an honest business what did you mean by that they sell uh a lot of times in those days and they still do it today they sell uh refurbished Goods as new you're talking about selling like computers and stuff okay right right anything TVs cameras and so on they buy they buy refurbished but and they rehash them taking off the refurbished stickers and so on and sell them is brand new yeah so it's not it's not legal aside from being illegal it's unethical what I do in my saying you're doing saying that's what they did no I'm trying to also make my business more koser not that I was koser before but do best make sure to look at it like very strictly no no you I mean first of all it's a uh it has to be ethical business meaning that you're doing the right you're trying to do the best thing for people trying to do the best also charge like the right amount yeah there's no no making money is not is not a sin you can make money you can be fair there's no problem even being expensive as long as you're Fair as long as meaning that no but I feel like when I make price like sometimes if it's too much I feel like okay that's kind of Steal no no no it's if if if they have you're not you're not forcing them to buy from you they have an option to buy from wherever they want for example when I was in a brokerage business I wasn't cheap I was actually one of the most expensive guys oh you said I was one of the most expensive guys there's not a sin of being expensive there certain doctors that are much more expensive than USS why I was a specialist Specialists deserve more than a regular practitioner so if you you deserve you justify your price no problem being expensive it's just that some people sell you know a uh you know a toothpaste for $5,000 because the guy's a fool not because it's really worth it you understand so that's that's the thing you have to be just fair and and reasonable uh as far as as far as the uh uh the type of business that you have would have to know more details about the business itself to say whether it's C or not but I mean it seems like if it's traditional business should be fine what I so what do I do to help my family like like learn about Judaism they're so like against it like what do I do the best thing to do is to give them not say things directly but indirectly meaning instead of you saying to them they should keep they should do this they should do that instead of doing that send them a video or give him a CD of either me saying it Ori saying it I I do that still tried you tried with me you tried both and neither one of them worked so far no okay so would you send them long lectures or short lectures I even we watched one hour of the Torah and Science by ra and nothing so far no I want to get to the two first last two parts okay so yeah there's also there's also shorter ones that we made yeah like 17 minute ones 15 minute ones that are Torah in science there's also shorter ones that are not Torah in science there's different topics they like movie version a lot of people like the movie types so uh that's uh that's also a good idea keep sending it and don't give up you know send one five minute video a day don't you know don't uh send them the three- hour lecture because they're not going to press you send them the 5 minute video send them the 10 minute video which works yeah send them the 5 minute clip send them the 10-minute clip and each day send them one and don't like uh you know give up ever just send it whether they watch it or not you'll eventually find out and that way pray for it also pray for it also and also send it to strangers meaning don't just send it to your family send it to other people too why if Hashem sees that you help other people too and it's not just your family say oh you want to help my other children then I'll help the people that you care about also what I do and I watch your sh I record it with my phone from the computer and I send it on like WhatsApp grou there all play if you go to YouTube there's a whole playlist of short clips there's maybe 5 600 Clips there so uh you can see that there's also another playlist of movies there's maybe like 80 or movies there so you just pick and choose every day you have something and uh something you know something will help other people make a little WhatsApp group share with as many people as possible little by little we'll get there we'll get there 917 468 2324 you have the CDs you have my CD somewhere oh business card you go the CDs are in front foree for okay thank you for all you do I just want to get the I did already with you guys earlier before the Sho to CL the oh okay so we'll go on the other side let me just take a picture for the followers and I would like to get some blessing from thank this year I don't know what happens crazy allergy I don't know what's happen thank K can you could already uh shut off the [Music] I [Music] n [Music] [Applause] [Music]