TERUMAH: The God of Money - Stump The Rabbi (192)

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helping a person uh fix their past but also their present and how could donating money help the present this is part of one of the things that we're going to talk about tonight uh as is uh famous for uh teaching us about how to manage money because if you look at the Torah uh you see some unusual things that perhaps can confuse you and then you go to the sages and they confuse you even more so of course we need the help of and the and the and some of the other great sages in the to give us a hand to help us understand how to manage money where in the beginning of the we see that says which literally means take for me a portion like take for me a donation now if you are speaking properly then you would say give me a donation not take for me a donation now of course sages teach that when you give for the sake of Torah you're really taking because rewards you but what can we do that most people even some that actually give don't really believe that how do we know well the sages pick it up a not and the the holy Jewish SES teach us one of the most those profound ideas that testifies of whether a person truly believes in a kados or not which is thear says if you see your financials dwindling your bank account goes lower you had a savings account you had a stock portfolio Bitcoin whatever you had you invested in some stock that went up 50% and then it went down 50% your financials have gone down you see your financials go down give more donations wait hold on a second logically mathematically scientifically and any other Le this doesn't make any sense on one handh who says take for me a donation not give me a donation then the sages confuse us even more and take tell us you're losing money you're having some troubles with your finances where your bank account is starting to make you worried give some more donations don't you mean maybe collect donations perhaps you didn't get to that bad situation but uh you don't need to collect donations but certainly giving donations wouldn't that make the bank account account go even lower I was just complaining that the bank account was struggling the bank account is almost un life support you're telling me to give more is it not the opposite ah here the holy T is here to teach us it's here to teach us it's here to teach us now of course the holy Torah teach us other things in this parasa teach us other things we have have the Min that we're introduced to the holy Min the beautiful Min where the have a on how it looked whether it was based on Rashi or the ram whether it was standing on three legs or it had a box like bottom which is what Uno said that had a box like Bottom now don't worry yourself too much many say it was both how could it be both because anyone that followed the extraordinary series of uh or the book follow read the book by about the clay mikdash the uh the different tools of the BET mikdash and the uh the historical and archaeological findings and discoveries and a lot of uh different uh conspiracies and involved in all of it uh would have learned that many of the actually say that there were multiple men meaning that there wasn't just one manora there were multiple replicas made at the time of the BET mikdash and therefore it could have very well been both cases in fact one of the things that shows that there is a uh uh one opinion is an archaeological proof that you can see in uh in Italy over there they still have it on the wall when after they destroyed the bet mikdash they uh they actually uh they celebrated by making monuments and on the monument they have a in essence uh sculptures types of uh um art showing the Jewish people carrying the manura and the manur is in essence agreeing with the shape of uh the box like shape but in other places we see that it's the other so not to worry both could be right both most likely are right meaning that since there were multiple Minot uh then uh you could have actually seen uh both of them in the bet mdash but we learn about this manora we learn about all of the different tools of the mishkan which was the BET mikdash of the desert really it's the whole holiest of all three it's the only one that did not get destroyed as the teaches us that after they stopped using it it was uh uh buried and hidden uh and when mhia comes it'll be uh uh unveiled whether it'll be used again or not I don't think so because we'll have the third bet mikdash but certainly some of the things that uh we will see at that time will be extraordinary and uh we learn all of these wonderful things but in between in between the lines and especially if we start reviewing some of the details of the previous weeks we discover perhaps an unknown God why do I say an unknown God because it's the god of money that men many people don't believe in now you would say in today's world when every second YouTuber tells you that he has become a millionaire by making some type of application or some type of self-help uh uh uh program or or or or whatever they're doing in investments in real estate everyone's a millionaire everyone is just literally so focused on chasing money that they've turned to saying on the dollar bill and God We Trust into pretty much thinking that the dollar is God but that's not the god of money that I'm talking about many people believe in money many people have turned money into God but perhaps it's time that they learn more about the God of money because once a person learns it they can no longer allow themselves to believe in anything that opposes this God of money now in the Tells in chapter 27 in verse number8 that everything that he's telling him to do whether it's the manora the the table the all of the different he says as you were shown on the mountain so shall they do meaning hem not only told him about these mitv he showed him what they look like and he says this multiple times also in chapter 26 verse number 30 as you will have been shown on the mountain so we see multiple times that knew his creation and knew that sometimes we need to see proof we need to see proof of concept we need to see that what you mean in order to do what you want us to do now if we go a little back we track back a couple of par we'll see that was not kidding when he told us about the MIT and about the a where in mat when we receive the Tor Mount sa inat in chapter 20 verse number 20 easy to remember he says hasm says you shall not make with me God gods of money gods of gold shall you not make for yourselves a warns us as part of mat t as part as giving us the Tor not to turn money into God no not to turn gold into God not to go to a foreign God so how could we say that there is a God of money hasem says don't make money into God don't make gold into God don't follow that mentality of society that has abandoned their creator and has worshiped its creation after aadh tells us don't turn money into God he clarifies what he means in the next where he starts telling us about money management business man management ethical Management in business and money and one of the MIT in chapter 22 verse number 24 he says when you lend money to my people let's just say you happen to have a few extra Millions few extra dollars whatever you have and you don't feel like going back to the construction business to make another few million you don't feel like going back into the heavy duty business that made you the money you want to make easy money easiest money in the world is Lending people money you want to lend people money they're going to do whatever they need to do with the money and along the way they're going to pay you interest says when you lend money to people he's not telling you not to lend he's not telling you not to lend hasem never says don't lend you're not going to find a single place in the says you're not allowed to lend in fact it's a mitvah to lend how how about that but you have to read the terms and conditions of lending what's the terms of conditions when you lend money to my people to the poor person who is with you it doesn't literally mean someone that's poor and is look begging in the streets waiting for somebody to give him a dollar in essence he's talking about anyone that's in need it could even be a multi uh you know multi-million dollar business that just simply does not have liquidity and needs liquidity in order to survive it could be someone that's looking to expand their business it could be somebody that needs to pay their mortgage whatever it is someone a need when you lend money to my people when you lend money to is to the poor person who is with you do not act towards him like a creditor do not lay interest upon him that's the terms and conditions you have money how do you have money you said I worked I had a store I was providing good customer service I woke up at 6:00 in the morning I got home at 10:00 at night I worked like a dog for many years and I saved and I was Frugal and I made a few good deals and I got myself a nice chump of change and now I I don't want to work so hard anymore I want to make some easy money says you want to lend some money because you have extra money fine it's a mitvah to do it but it's not a money-making opportunity why when you have a fellow Jew in your community in your circle that's in need of money he needs to borrow money sure you you should lend him the money it's even better to lend the money than to give himaka cuz he'll still maintain his honor but it is certainly not a moneymaking opportunity why you're not allowed to charge him interest wait hold on a second you're telling me I worked all of these years I got myself some extra money now I want to lend money so I can make money good but you can't make money only half of your equation is good you can lend the money cuz there's certainly people that need but you're not going to make money out of it why you're not allowed a Jew that lends another Jew money assuming both of them a Torah observant lends another Jew money if he charges him interest he loses both of them get punished the lender and the borrower get punished and if there's a broker between them he also gets the punishment they won't be resurrected with the Dead the punishment is severe as severe gets so you my dear friend that thought wait a minute I'm going to make some easy money by lending my money out you're sadly mistaken because a who clearly says do not charge him interest now you're about to take collateral but don't put your uh don't put your so-called customer which is really your fellow Jew in an uncomfortable position where he has he's missing things that he needs to survive just because he needs to provide you collateral now here we see that K has a very different perspective of money than we have in society very different perspective why because many people are in The Lending business and they're relying on the fact saying okay fine we can't lend money to the Jew and charge them interest so we're going to go and charge interest of the non-jews schl banned charging non-jews interest and in fact as we've said in previous years and previous some of some of said that it is a wicked act that creates anti-Semitism to charge interest of non-jews that are otherwise helping you by allowing you to live in in their land and anyone that wants to know some of the history and some of the other laws relating to it can go to my shim about cash advance and the lending money which is not what we're going to talk about tonight what we're going to talk about is really the god of money well we see first tells us don't make money into God and then he tells us in if you already have money you have to know how to manage it and if you think that you can manage it by doing things that are against going into corrupt businesses like lending money with interest or all types of illegal businesses destructive businesses predatory businesses you're sadly mistaken tells us here that yes he gave you money as the and B both tell us that he decides on R how much money each and every single one of us is going to get for that year so he gave you money this year and last year and the year before and all the years that you've lived he gave you different amounts of money but you now need to know how to manage it you can't just decide to go against the god that gave you the money and therefore we need to understand who is the god of money told us don't go after the money to the point where you turn it into God told us don't go and use that money that hasm gave you and turn it into God by violating the Torah tells us about the mish how is that going to help us about money it first starts where says take from me a donation how is how is this going to help me look at what happens after Hashem says we got some donors we got some donors each one gives whatever his heart desires give whatever you have free choice when it comes to money give whatever your heart desires but don't think that I'm not watching when we get the man oh we have some technical difficulties here like when we get to the manur after we've gotten this money we got the donations now mosenu can go out there and get some gold start putting some things together that told them we has to do the manora is one of them and the details of the manora are extraordinary says Shu make me a manora like a world expert designer it has to have these flowers and these buttons and these specific knobs and decorative cups and branches and has to have designs on them oh and by the way it's about three and a half tons of gold and all of the gold has to be a single piece meaning you have to take a huge amount of gold melt it all together into one big piece and now mold it into like people do with Clay into this manura hammer it out and make this giant piece of three tons worth of gold into the most beautiful manora the world has ever seen from a single piece M raenu wants to do the will of hem that's why he's there but he tells hem I can't do it I have no I don't even know what you how to do what you want me to do I don't even know what it will look like so says no problem I'll show you and he shows him an image of the manur now is even scared more scared he sayem that for sure I can't do I don't have the skills to make these these knobs and these flowers and these cups and I have no idea how to do this Hashem says no worries M you got the gold get the gold put it all together throw in the fire I'll take care of the restu gets the gold that people donated puts it into the fire and L behold shows him how this gold transformed into most beautiful manora you could possibly imagine but he says Moshe you did it now between you and I Moshe didn't do it the Torah itself says Moshe didn't do it but doesn't lie he says Moshe you did it how come say why is why why is why is saying this says don't turn money into God don't go into businesses that take the money that I gave you and make you look like you've turned money into God even if you say you haven't you want to know how to treat money look at my dear Moser raenu what did moser raenu do he put the gold in there who gave him the gold am gave him the gold he had some gold everybody put some gold together but who gave them the gold I gave them the gold and then they took part of the gold that I gave them and they said okay we're going to give a peace we're going to give a peace for the sake of the MIT then M who just pushes this giant piece of gold Into the Fire what a fire it was then I made into a manora but since mosenu was the messenger that desired to do the will of hem you know what I said he did it and that's how you know that mosenu was the ultimate leader in every aspect even in teaching us how to manage money where mosenu here is teaching us if you understand what aadh is trying to tell us here you'll understand how to manage money if you think that your idea that your talent that your job that your customer that your fortune that your Simply Good Deeds are what made you money you my dear friend have turned different things into to the god of money but if you understand that a tells us are very careful to specify is in essence telling us he is the god of money he is the god of money there is no other God he is the god of money and the teach us very carefully and precisely that who cannot ever cannot ever be described as one who is receiving anything from us because everything is his the entire world belongs to a and therefore theim say is in essence you're bringing an offering you're bringing a donation in front of me not to me so why does it to me because when you are using the gift that I gave you the money that I gave you the Salvation that I gave you in order to make more in order to sanctify my name in order to publicize my name in my Tor that means that you believe in me not only as a God that created the Heaven and the Earth not only is the god that can help you when you have no other choice but you also believe in me to the point where you know that I am the god of money where you know that mosenu all he did is show that he wants to do the will of hem and therefore Hashem says you showed that you want to do the will of hem I'll do everything you show that you want to do something in business you want to go make a sale you want to go build a company you want to go make money says no problem I'll make the money I'll send you the customer I'll make the idea that you had work account I'll give you the idea I'll give you the money that will transfer into your account I'll do everything you just show that you want to do something and I'll actually do it now how do you know that a person believes that aad is the one and only God including the god of money when you take the money that gave you and you realize gave me 100% of my money gave me 100% of my house gave me 100% of my life who gave me 100% of my wife who gave me 100% of my kids who gave me 100% of everything that I have when am I when I'm giving 10% of the money that I have the income that I'm getting to publicize this name I'm not giving him anything everything is his he's the one that gave me all I'm doing is I'm taking 10% of the 100% that he gave me and showing him I know you gave it to me and I want other people to know that you gave it to me and in fact I want other people to know that you give it to them too I want other people to know that you are the god of money I want other people to know that you are the god that gives us everything so I'm going to take money that you gave me and use it to go and publicize your name so more people can know the same beautiful lesson that I know that I learned from mosenu trying to do the will of hem by putting this IGN it together but admitting that he simply cannot and then says I know you can't but I wanted to teach you a lesson that everything you do in reality I did it but I'm going to put it in your name why you had the willpower to do it you wanted to do it so I'll put your name on it the question is what do you want to do is your will the will of hem or is your will the will of a different God perhaps you've turned yourself into God when a person has a clear understanding of who of who is the god that runs the world they don't have a problem to use the money that this God gives them the one and only god of Israel gives them and use it to publicize to and they don't have a problem in making the right choice of where is the best place to publicize toah they're not going to choose it based on what's most convenient they're not going to choose it based on what's best for their reputation they're not going to choose it on where they get the best deal or notoriety they're going to choose it based on where is hashem's name going to be publicized most now on the other hand the vast majority of society that is chasing their tail shows an image that they're succeeding in acquiring assets and money despite the fact that they don't believe that a is the god of money they believe that their skills are the god of money their customers are the god of money their product is the god of money the combination thereof is the god of money and it looks like they're succeeding they have cars and houses famous it looks like they're winning says the wisest man of all say inph the Book of Proverbs Chapter One easy to find you open the Book of Proverbs you're going to find treasure question is what you going to do with it say there are certain people who hate knowledge what kind of knowledge knowledge of hasem in chapter 1 verse 29 and on schl says they hated knowledge and did not choose fear of hem they did not desire my counsel they spurned all of my rebuke says I tried telling them that there's only one God and he's also the god of money he's also the god of your heart he's also the god of your disease he's also the god of your fortune he's also the god of your bankruptcy he's also the god of everything that you could possibly want he is the one and only but they didn't want to hear it said nah come on no I can do whatever I want leave me alone I don't want to hear this type of stuff I don't want to hear about a God that punishes I'll pray to him when I need something they hated knowledge they don't want to fear hem they don't want to fear punishment they just want a Santa Claus and therefore they hated they hated the truth they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of hem they did not desire my counsel they spurned all of my rebuke what will happen with these people say in verse 31 they will eat of the fruit of their way and they will be seeded with their own schemes wh what do you mean you just said they hated knowledge they hated the truth and they're going to actually be saded they're going to have Ferraris they're going to have big houses they're going to succeed so why would they ever change patience for their waywardness of the simpletons will kill them and the contentment of the fools will destroy them say you have to understand has a lot of patience if you want to be Wicked and you want to turn your so-called Talent ideas ideology or whatever you think is really bringing you the fortune if you want to turn that into the god of money instead of the holy God that we have that gave us the Torah will sometimes allow you to succeed in extraordinary ways but don't think for a moment that that's a reward it's the opposite it's the opposite but you're going to think that you're succeeding in your way because you're a fool and therefore schl says the contentment of fools will destroy them why because the wicked people that are not following the ways of God will think that they're succeeding because of their houses their bank accounts and all of the other things that they find valuable they will think that they're succeeding and therefore they'll continue to act Wicked not realizing that it's only a matter of time that this success will lead to their ruin because they'll become content in their ways these fools that are going against God will be content in their ways so they won't want to change and that will ultimately lead to their destruction and thereby the Ezra says in the name of the Prophet Jeremiah in chapter 12 verse1 where it says why does The Way of the Wicked prosper and why are all betrayers tranquil is explaining here says the that since the one and only God is patient and does not immediately punish even someone that's a persistent Wicked person someone that's a really an outright evil person you won't punish him right away his patience he'll even allow these people to assume that they could continue sinning they can continue sinning with no end in sight to the extent where SCH says in Ecclesiastes 8: 11 the the heart heart of man is full of evil because he's convinced that everything happens by chance but this is the punishment of those that chose evil where aadh will eventually bring the divine retribution and ultimately the Sinners says the Ian Ezra will go to geham will suffer sufferings beyond their wildest imagination they going to say wait why don't he give him another message to change he did he does but they don't want to listen because they're convinced that since they've succeeded thus far where they were able to buy a house that cost more than people making a lifetime they were able to buy a car that people could only see in a magazine or a poster they were able to build a company that you could only touch if it's on the screen screen of your computer they achieve such extraordinary success how could it be that God is not happy with them perhaps he doesn't really care if I keep Shabbat perhaps he doesn't care if I eat kosher perhaps it's enough that I just give some donations to different random people or organizations that say they do good and that's enough good as long as I don't kill people or at least get caught for it I'm a good person perhaps the Torah is no longer relevant gave all of us a choice we got the choice of Mount Si and we've been given a choice each time we've been reincarnated and brought back to this life after we've made the wrong choice after serving some time in CF or both and eventually had the Merit to be given another chance to fix something cuz apparently we did enough good of the Torah good according to the Torah that we earned ourselves another chance but if somebody doesn't take that chance and take advantage of it and in fact they do the opposite they think that since they have money since people listen to what they say since it looks like they're winning they could continue going against God without having any concern about punishment says that contentment of a fool will lead to his Ultimate Destruction he thought that just because I gave him money that meant that I was agreeing with his wickedness he doesn't realize that I gave him money in order to give him a chance to publicize my name and thereby fix all of the mistakes that he has made in his life in this life and the last one I gave him a fortune because I wanted to give him a tool to be able to fix himself and without giving him a fortune he simply could not you see a person could live the life of T do learn some Torah eat kosher but if he has an extraordinary bill of sins such as making people sin such as immorality idolatry stealing money corrupt business his traditional observance of the Tora and of learning some Torah and doing mitv and kosher and and and celebrating the holidays is not enough to fix the mistakes soosh says I'm not going to put you in this world if you can't succeed in actually completing your tun so what would I do I'm going to give you the tools the tools you need to complete your tun some people need an extraordinary mind so they can learn to at the highest level so they could teach to at the highest level so they can help people get closer to Hashem so Hashem gives them that mind some people are given extraordinary skills with their hands so they could write so they could do MIT with their hands some people are given an extraordinary speaking ability so they can publicize aem's name some people are giving abilities in completely different fields that are beyond the norm in order for them to be able to succeed in a natural way without depending on some Lotto or finding a treasure so that way aadh can give him a lot of money so they could use that money to publicize A's name so they could complete their tun but what can we do that people think oh he gave me money because I'm a nice guy no he didn't give you money because you're a nice guy he gave you money because you needed to complete your T he gave you money so you could actually get to heaven not build yourself an imaginary heaven in this temporary world and schl is telling us if you think that there's any other God aside from the god of Israel you're sadly mistaken and the price is dearer than you can possibly imagine in order to put everything into a perspective of what schl has said what the izra said what mosu showed us what wrote for us we go back a thousand years to our dear and in chapter nine in a section called tells us a story a story a story that puts everything we've learned into perspective he says that there was once a people on an island a very wealthy Island full of jewels and diamonds and gold and all types of things but these people were strange people and they had strange laws and they decided that they're going to have a new king every year how do they choose a king they're going to bring an outsider they're going to bring an outsider to be the king over them for a full year let him do what he wants to do but after a year they kick him off the island and he cannot take anything with him now of course they didn't disclose this to the king they went out and they got some guy the was a fool and he was happy to be king in this island wow very nice that's a nice job how much you pay me as much as you want and this guy wow this is great I want a castle they built him a castle I want the castle to be full of diamonds and gold and silver and all types of extraordinary paintings and statues and done this place is great I'm going to bring my family here he asked him go bring my family and in fact tell my family to bring everything I have over there and they brought his family and everything that he had and he keeps telling him okay I want another castle and I want to go golf course and I want a fancy car and I want a all types of things and I want to build a zoo in my backyard and I want to have every watch over a 100,000 and I want to have a very very established investment account just for entertainment and I want to have servants that will do everything for me will put my shoes on we brush my hair we even help me when I'm in the door the the room without a muuza and he was having a good time this fool but after the year was done he's woken up abruptly in the morning and the people that were his servants just the day before and for the past year grab him and his family put them all on a boat with a one-way ticket out of here the fool is as miserable as can be now not only is he no longer the King full of jewels and gold and paintings and everything he could possibly desire but he's now even worse off than he was before he got this gig cuz he brought everything he had into this to build a house over there in this temporary place but of course these people in this island with strange beliefs and rules had to replace the king so they found another one but this time it was a wise man and this wise man that was given this job was happy about it and he was only a little bit you know sad in the beginning cuz he wasn't sure like when am I going to go home like no no don't worry you can do whatever you want oh I can build things here build I could buy things here buy oh it's interesting well I'm going to need I'm going to have any limitation no limitation I could build an Empire sure go ahead and do it Bridges tunnels whatever you want sky is the limit well this Empire is going to need I need some help so he said I need somebody that's not only smart but I need somebody that knows the land he knows the people cuz I don't know them I don't know these people he hires one of the people from the island one of the wise men among the people over there and he says you are my mean guy I want you to help me get to know the people get to know the culture get to know the rules he say sure your wishes my command so so tell me about them who are they what are they and eventually through conversation he tells them well what about the Kings where was the last king say well the last king was kicked out why well that's the rule what rule every year they change a king they give a king everything he wants but after the year is done they kick him out with nothing to show for it that's the rule of the land as soon as the wise new king heard this he was saddened at first because he realized that whatever he builds there is temporary so he realized okay I can't this is not forever but fine I can work with this you know what I'm going to do I'm going to start taking some stuff that I have here that I can get here and put it in the life I'm going to go to my old home I'm not going to bring everybody here I'm going to bring stuff there she I want some diamonds he got some diamonds I want some gold I got some gold I want all types of things and every time he got some stuff he chip it back home now on one end he was a little bit having a difficult time just because he couldn't really enjoy himself while he's there cuz he's constantly worrying about sending stuff to the real house the permanent house so he couldn't really enjoy it but the same token the one thing that gave him salvation was the knowledge that eventually he's going to get there and each day he worked on trying to find whatever treasure he could to send it back home and after a year was done the law of the land was implemented and he was kicked out of the land just just like every other king before him but instead of being sad that he's leaving a place where he was able to have pretty much anything that he wanted although temporarily he was much happier because now he was going to a place where he could finally enjoy all of the hard work that he did in the temporary world the says the fool and the wise man could be you could be me the choice is ours it all depends on who you believe runs the world which includes your bank account which includes your health which includes your time which includes your life if you believe that it's not a then you've decided to be the fool if you realize that it is a then you'll understand now why the sages told us when one sees his finances dwindling go give morea more donations because everything is his the reason why you would give more is not because he needs it it's already his the reason why you would give morea is to show him that despite the fact that he has decided to lower your finances you are still 100% certain that everything is from him and therefore you still want to publicize his name just as much as you did when you had more when the customer comes you know he sent it when the product sells you know he sells it when you succeed or fail you know he decided the the only decision that's in your hand is whether you will serve him by publicizing name throughout the whole process if you want to show that you believe in him it all starts with understanding that he is the god of money and not turning money into god with that being said you will all have some questions that I'm sure you've gathered over the last week since our last year and will give us the answers ticktock you guys could ask ask some questions also what does it mean when schl said despise gifts and was he a prophet so schl saying that a person that hates gifts it's interpreted in a couple of ways thear says in a uh that there were women that would walk around immodestly and uh in order to get the attention of people in order to get a uh let's just call it in today's terms a sugar daddy uh so he so the gar says that when people uh when people loved gifts then it created More Death because you know they they wanted money they wanted more gifts and therefore they were willing to act immorally as a result and therefore the one that hates gifts desires life that's one of the things that thear teaches the second thing is also understanding that when a person knows that everything comes from a everything comes from hasem they don't necessarily want anything from uh from anybody they're not going to beg anybody to help them they're not going to uh plead with anybody to join them they're simply going to do the will of hem and let Hashem decide what uh what send them they'll do uh what they say they're going to do they uh they follow the will of hem they if if they uh if they have a certain job they obviously do the job that they're supposed to do if uh they don't have a job they you know use whatever effort they have or that they have to try to find a job and and the point is is that they don't go above and beyond uh the normal uh uh uh effort that's necessary to live in this world you know they're not going to beg anybody or break any rules or or or violate the tah just for the sake of getting gifts or getting money or getting notoriety or anything like that they're they're always going to think of what is uh you know what is a Torah allow me to do what does toora forbid me to do before they take any particular action even if that means that they're not going to get the gifts why because they're not Desiring gifts they're Desiring life and life means they're Desiring eternity by following the toah uh as far as the uh uh Prophet uh to my knowledge uh was not a prophet he Hades but uh but he was not a he didn't give uh uh he's not one of the 48 prophets that uh are noted in that's mentioned in the tanak or 55 prophets but seven of them were women uh he certainly Hades uh and but the father of Alles was his father DAV uh and did not have prophecy that's why he had to go to Shmo shm was the prophet so if David didn't have prophecy needless to say his son schl did not have prophecy is an elderly man who uses diapers allowed to wear tiit uh as long as the uh the diap diaper is uh clean meaning as long as he does not have feal manner in the diaper and there's not a uh terrible stench uh coming from him he could act normally he could even put on thein uh but uh but if he has a horrible smell on him and he's not uh refuses to clean himself and so on then it's better not to uh you know but uh with within withit on the other hand he's allowed to wearit uh and as soon as he needs the change then he would change it's a uh does not have the same level of sanctity Asin do and he doesn't necessarily need to be able to change himself at least if he has somebody to help him some nurse or something like that that could help him how can you help a Jew a secular Jew who got brainwash to believe in the Christian religion uh well I have uh you know different lectures that I've made over the years uh about the falsehood of Christianity in the New Testament uh you know in U anything that has to do with the New Testament regardless of which religion it is whether it's called Christianity or Catholicism or uh Messianic Judaism or Jews for Jesus these are all different versions of Christianity uh and uh we showed that the main document that they all rely on is the New Testament and the New Testament is full of man-made errors that are inexcusable that show that it's a false document it's not a Divine document it contradicts the Torah which is a uh agreed upon by all three major religions you know Judaism and uh Christianity and uh and Islam even though the other two are false still everyone agrees that the Torah is real because everyone relies on the Torah uh it's obvious that the Jews rely on the Torah but also Christianity and Islam rely on the Torah as the original book that they say uh you know had a second version later on which is their books the Quran and the New Testament so everyone agrees that the Torah is the truth and which means that if you're saying that the Torah is true and you're a continuation that means that your book has to agree with the truth so when you see that in countless places the uh uh the New Testament has contradictions of the Torah uh you know and and and things that are literally wrong that a 5-year-old would notice then you realize this is certainly not a continuation of the Torah but rather is antithetical to the Torah and that's why according to Al the Christianity is considered 100% idol worship now I have a whole uh uh series of lectures about this Rim has uh you know whole series of lectures about this topic uh so anybody that wants to watch uh those lectures and be enlightened to see uh the truth about uh Christianity which is that it's falsehood uh you know and then realize that there's only one Truth uh which is the Torah uh and what the Torah says and not what uh the uh the Christians say about the Torah but rather what the Jews say about the Torah uh both the t and t uh that once they do it they'll certainly transform their life whether it'll lead them to convert to Judaism or simply be righteous noahides which by definition is every Gentile is considered by default a noahide question is whether they'll be righteous or not to be a righteous noahide they have to follow the noide laws that are uh detailed in the Torah uh to be a wicked nohide they simply ignore those rules and they live you know a life uh full of idolatry or heresy or anything else that these other religions have but the point being is that anybody that wants to know the truth we have lectures in Hebrew and English and some of them were even uh um translated to Spanish Portuguese and other languages so the information is available for those that are really seeking the truth I heard a rabbi say that the meat chicken today is really non kosher even if if it has certification uh because the animals in the slaughter facility are maltreated is this true allowed to eat bet meat uh certainly they uh if the uh if someone is uh if someone has a a that is relied upon by uh that is a reliable Kut there uh it's forbidden to say that they're uh they meat is not Kosher uh you know whether by a rabbi or by anybody else anyone that thinks that there is no Kosher meat or chicken available out there uh is simply mistaken and is actually saying a shra on uh on otherwise kosher Jews uh which they'll have to be punished for even if they're a rabbi whoever they are uh you can't just say and conclude that everyone that's in the uh kosher business is wicked uh you know for for a couple reasons number one uh you don't know that even if you saw yourself that there's one or two or five different places that uh do bad things whether they sell you non kosher meat or whatever it is that they saw them do on uh that does not mean that everybody's like that uh number two uh it's a uh it's simply putting a doubt in people's mind unnecessarily uh that uh no one can live with meaning that that if you don't rely uh on the Kut of the meat that means you can't rely on a Kut of anything and therefore the only thing that you could eat is fruits and vegetables uh that uh that you actually clean and take care of um and you can't pretty much eat anything else because you can't tell me that the rabbis and the Kut of the meat are not reliable but yet the rabbis are the Kut of the chocolate of the milk of the uh you know the other products that people buy in a supermarket to make their soup to make their seasonings to make everything else but they're reliable how do you know that that uh that uh reddish type of uh um uh ingredient that's that you're buying uh to put some seasoning how do you know that's really a seasoning that comes from a plant and it's not really a seasoning that comes from beetles you don't know because they look the same how do you know that the uh the soup mix that you're getting is really all seasonings that are made of certain chemicals and uh vegetables and they're not actually putting uh other other things that are not Kosher in it you don't know the reality is that a person cannot say that they could uh rely on a cute of uh of of of of candy of uh pretty much every other product that you buy uh you know to to to cereal even uh you you don't you rely on but you don't rely K that says it's bet that says it's GL that says it's kosher by a reliable institution simply it's it's not it's not a realistic uh um understanding of the magnitude of such a statement and uh and quite frankly it's a foolish statement uh so uh again if something has a sticker on it it says it's kosher it doesn't necessarily mean that you should rely and put your life on the line for it you could certainly verify you could look into things uh there are certainly levels of Kut that are more reliable than others but to just simply say nobody's kosher uh unless you're living off of air man or vegetables and and fruits uh you simply cannot live uh in fact even the things that people think don't need Kut need Kut why because the uh the advancement in technology that has allowed us to uh to preserve food for much longer comes at a price you know you could have certain things that you know will last in in one uh place will last a few days to a week before they go bad and you could have literally the same exact product last for months because of preservatives now you can't tell me that uh that this is not something that doesn't require some type of oversight but yet the uh you rely on that oversight but you don't rely on the oversight that is much easier to do which is the Kut of meat it's much easier to oversee Kosher meat or kosher chicken than to oversee the kosher factories that produce all of these uh all of these other products so it's important for a person to know that uh if there is a reliable Co institution behind it um certainly you can and should rely on it if it's an unknown institution or it's known to be unreliable then you shouldn't eat from there uh but uh but to just simply say a blanket statement that everyone is not Kosher is wrong it's simply wrong uh it's it's it's against the tah and whoever said it is not only sadly mistaken but they're causing other people uh to uh to make that same mistake and I I know uh several people that uh have uh made Extreme decisions uh where they heard a uh famous speakers say such things oh you can't rely on the Kut they're torturing the chickens they're torturing the uh the cows uh they uh you know they uh you know there's no way that they could Slaughter you know 500 uh chickens in such a short period of time one thing that most people don't realize is that not a single one of these speakers that speak uh about Kut are experts in Kut they may know some things about Kut but they didn't work in Kut for 20 30 40 years well I spoke to experts I spoke to the top experts in the field when I looked into the issue myself I spoke to RV raon who himself was a world renowned expert butcher that slaughtered countless animals you know cows sheep chickens in Argentina in uguay in Brazil uh literally he was so good at it that they literally would would ask him to come to different places around the world and I spoke to him about it and he said the things that people are saying is complete nonsense he says they don't realize that once you become an expert and let's say for example slaughtering chickens you're the you don't need as much time to to know to slaughter a chicken like a regular person does like they think you do you could literally become like a machine and Slaughter hundreds of chickens in a very short period of time and every one of them is kosher without a doubt why because you not only get know the laws but you're also your your body itself moves in a certain fashion and it gets used to that type of movement it's very very difficult but nonetheless he says it's it's they think that because they can't Slaughter or they can't think of someone slaughtering a certain amount of chickens at a certain amount of time therefore nobody can they don't realize that there's muscle memory and you certainly can also there are certain places around the world that have better quality meat than others because of the uh of the of the weather because of the surroundings this is uh you know so so it also makes uh the the animal uh less problematic as far as cut you know where you know this is why for example there's a lot of the uh uh the best places to get uh uh or that they grow the uh they breed the animals Argentina uguay these are places that are perfect for raising cattle uh versus let's say places like America or or Israel or or other places the weather the atmosphere the the uh the place itself is much better so many times when these few speakers uh you know are are saying things like that they're not familiar with a lot of this stuff they may know certain laws but they've never actually practiced being a butcher and therefore a lot of the things that they're concluding is not based on experience in the field coincided with knowledge of the law but rather knowledge of the law and inexperience in the field so one of the one of the experts that I spoke to is RAB another one Ison one of one of the world-renowned uh experts in the field of Kut uh there is uh literally extensive knowledge that he has uh Beyond this you know our comprehension even about this particular field and of course many others but he's this is one of his areas of expertise uh and uh We've learned we've learned from from him we've learned directly from him about certain things in regards to K and again both experts uh have said that this type of stuff is complete nonsense to say that everyone that's slaughtering cows or or or chickens is it's not Kosher and they're selling the world it's complete shra sin nonsense you can't rely on it you can't even believe it it's forbidden to believe in now does that mean that you should buy meat from everybody no does that mean you should believe everybody no does that mean that you shouldn't check you should you should check but also know that you are limited with your knowledge you know it's the average person the most amount of knowledge they have is how the kosher symbol looks like that's really the most they have they don't really know what it means they don't really understand what means they don't really know the difference between KHAK and glat they don't really understand the difference between they just heard hear people say things they hear people say things so we actually have a lecture we spoke about this and explained different things different laws of of Kut that the average person does not understand uh but uh but we explained it in a fashion that people can understand it I can tell you this I eat meat ra FR eats meat uh you know ra sharit uh eats meat uh you know it's uh I don't know anybody that uh uh is is a who does not eat meat because of they may some people may not eat meat because of preference but not because of Kut now again if a person has the means to have a uh a private Slaughter meaning you can get the cow you can get the chickens you can get whatever animal you have and you could also get a uh an expert to come and Slaughter the animal for you that's great the only problem with that type of equation is that unless you are a Torah scholar yourself you're not going to know if it's kosher anyway any more than what you can buy in a store because if he Slaughters the cow you don't have the knowledge and the average person doesn't have the knowledge unless she's learned and and in this field extensive amount of of actually seeing slaughtering and knowing the difference how to check the lungs how to how to actually Slaughter doing all of these different things how to salt a meat so even if somebody has a lot of money and they get themselves uh you know a whole slew of cows they get a farm to become their backyard and they have somebody say I'm going to be your butcher I'm going to be your private butcher whenever you want to eat steaks I'm here great reality is you still don't have the ability to know whether he's doing the right job or the wrong job you have no concept why because you can't you don't have the knowledge which means that whether you have the means to get private Slaughter or uh you don't you're still going to rely on somebody you're still going to rely on somebody telling you the truth so what's the difference between the guy that's working for you privately which 99% of society cannot afford or buying it from a store where there is a kosher body that is subject to laws and regulations not just Al but actual legal laws and regulations what's the difference you have to rely on somebody and you can't say you know what so I'm just not going to eat meat you can't do that either number one it's certainly not not the healthiest thing in the world to do especially you know there's there's holidays we have to eat meat it's part of the holiday and so on but aside from that even if you say you don't want to eat meat don't not eat meat because of Kash why because either way you have to rely on the Kash organizations that are providing you all of the food that you eat that's not meat everything that has a kosher symbol on it what do you think that koser symbol is on it just falls from the sky and just appears in the Box you you have to rely on the Kut of Coca-Cola if you drink Coca-Cola you have to rely on the Kut of your cereal box if you eat cereal you have to rely on a Kash of everything he because no no but it's not the same it is the same if this is poison that's poison if this is allowed that's allowed in fact like I said many have told me that are experts in the field much more than I I even even telling you tell me that honestly it's more difficult to supervise the stuff that you see in the supermarket than the stuff that you see in a in a kosher butcher shop much more difficult to supervise so people make a big stink about this whole Kut of meat and they make a lot of mistakes by following this and I can tell you for sure if you're not eating meat because you believe these rabbis that are telling you that nobody's kosher you are making a sin you are believing Shem and you are making a sin and you'll have to go to Gom for it so if you're not eating meat because you simply don't like meat different story different story but if you're not eating meat because of you think nobody's kosher that means you don't believe you don't you don't believe the you don't believe the you don't believe in so many words you don't believe that any Jew in the world is kosher aside from you and the rabbi that you that you heard this from and if you two are the only kosher people in the world I have two questions for you number one why isn't hasm destroying the whole world because we're we're supposed to have at least 36 sikim and apparently there's only two number two why you listening to my shoe if I'm a also because I eat meat then why you listening to me sure you're not allowed to listen to me says now listen to not all to listen to I me that make me no so that's the thing people don't do the calculations when they say these statements and a lot of these people that are saying this unfortunately most of them are young people uh but they're listening to mainly one or two uh famous speakers in the Hebrew language that have made a big stink about this but I could tell you that none of is have supported them about this none not even not nothing no one no big uh Gad supported them in this regards they may have supported them in other things they may have uh even uh uh you know gave them letters of recommendation about other things but not in regards to this why because this is literally saying that the entire Jewish World there is no righteous people among us everyone is a liar everyone is evil and that you're simply not allowed to do unless you know for sure and you don't neither do they nobody knows you don't know what what's happening behind closed doors and again it's not a livable type of circumstance Hashem does not give us test that we can't pass so finally a person could go back and eat meat or at the very least know that they're going to go to Gom for sure for believing shra so doesn't matter that they're keeping Shabbat or they learn T they'll know they're going to G on for a certain amount of time for believing shra whichever one a person wants to do at least they go there knowingly and they can't say oh no but the I believe the rabbi you just heard it otherwise that you're making a mistake now you could check further uh if you want a third opinion but I would recommend going to and I I already did the job for you none of them are going to agree with this none of them are going to agree that you're not allowed to eat kosher food so don't uh fall for the trip uh let's see see during your time on Wall Street is there such a thing as a humble wealthy individual uh yeah of course there's uh there are humble wealthy individuals wealth does not necessarily make a person uh arrogant it's their perception of wealth that uh before they even have money that uh is going to make a person arrogant I I've met many of many people that were broker than than than than anything they were arrogant even though they had nothing to be arrogant about they weren't exceptionally smart they weren't exceptionally wealthy they weren't exceptionally talented but they were just arrogant people uh and I've met uh you know some people that were not arrogant uh so wealth does not make a person arrogant it's uh character flaws are developed before uh person acquires money certainly wealth uh can lead to a person becoming arrogant uh you know but uh it doesn't start from scratch meaning they were already arrogant it justed the wealth you know made it made it worse it's they were already spiritually sick and the wealth was uh more poison to make them sicker but it's not uh it's it's it's never the only thing it's usually something that uh uh that happened beforehand see thoughts on day trading and Drop Shipping uh day trading if you're doing it as a profession meaning you're trading for other people and earning a fee or you actually have a strategy rather than than than wishful thinking you can make uh uh you know you can make it a uh job it's allowed as a job uh it's just that it is a Fool's errand uh the overwhelming majority of Traders ultimately lose a lot more than they win uh because uh trading in the market even World experts in finances that run major head funds uh all know that it's better to Simply invest uh in just the S&P 500 over a long period of time and you'll make a lot more than Traders do now there are some exceptions to the uh to the uh uh uh to to the case but there are so few and far in between that uh it's it's like a statistical anomaly to be a successful Trader if it's just trading your own money you know the people that have succeeded in trading are uh like uh Simons that had a hedge fund that was averaging 60% a year for I think 20 years or something like that uh uh Cohen uh that eventually got uh you know uh um uh his head fund shut down because of insider trading but he was an exceptional Trader uh and uh now he has a family office um you know and there's a couple of others that were good Traders but uh these are people that were uh you know were superstars of superstars the average person is uh is is nowhere near uh doesn't have the tools that they do and it's you know the chances of you succeeding in trading uh are very limited plus it's not exactly the most ideal job because it's consuming it consumes a lot of your time it makes it very difficult to study to it makes it very difficult to live a normal life uh you know it's very high highs and low lows so it's not really a healthy job can you do it you can technically but it's a uh it could be problematic especially if you don't actually have a strategy and you're just pretty much wishful thinking type of trading you would just assume that just because the stock went up a dollar yesterday it's more likely to go down today and you just assume that just because the stock has has the momentum uh in the last 5 days the momentum should continue uh it's not really a strategy uh and uh that's that makes it more likely that you'll end up losing all your money and it also makes it more like gambling which goes into the field of possibly forbidden uh possibly forbidden uh gambling in itself is always forbidden but uh possible gambling is uh you know it depends has to be evaluated but generally speaking I mean I was on Wall Street for almost 20 years uh I didn't meet many successful Traders uh investors yes Traders no Traders no uh as far as Drop Shipping Drop Shipping is a completely different uh field Drop Shipping is an actual business uh if you are good at finding products and you uh uh you know it's a uh or or you are at the very least have some type of access to products it's certainly something you can make a living off of uh takes time takes a uh uh you know takes some uh Capital but uh it's certainly something that uh you know you can make a living on a lot of people are making a living and even more than just a living off of it uh all this stuff that people say about oh you know Drop Shipping is no more no good anymore or this is no good anymore that people used to make money out of it that's all nonsense don't ever believe people that say that uh there's no way to make money in any particular field there are people that are making millions with dog food and there are people losing Millions with uh the money business and there are people that are doing the exact opposite in both that are losing millions in some and making millions meaning that decides uh who's going to succeed and who's going to fail but as far as the uh um the the the viability of the business itself whether it be Drop Shipping or it's a uh um uh giving Consulting work or it's working for Fortune 500 companies and building yourself way your your way up over the next 30 Years or it's providing uh you know any type of expertise you can make money in almost anything you can make money in almost anything uh how much money you going to make that Hashem decides but as far as the viability of the businesses there are more opportunities that are viable today than uh than uh any other time in history just because of the expend uh the expense in technology as well as in the consumer base meaning that there are more uh possibilities of things to do because there's more demand for different things but also there's more customers today uh not because there's more population but rather because there is worldwide trade there's worldwide trade you can sell to a customer in China uh you know in in a matter of five minutes and he can sell you in a matter of five minutes uh you couldn't do that you know 100 years ago without traveling there or them traveling here now it's just a click of a button so there's more consumers the the consumer base is continuing to grow as more and more uh economies join the uh the uh the worldwide economy and uh and and or at least give access to their economy meaning that you can go and travel to some of these uh uh countries like India or uh um or different parts of Asia uh that uh and actually uh do business there or bring the business business back to wherever you live and actually make a good living from that point being is you can make money from live working at home you can make money by traveling you can make money selling Jets you can make money uh selling uh Nets you could make money in a lot of different things how much money you going to make that Hashem decides but as far as viability of the business there are uh endless amount of opportunities out there uh my recommendation is not necessarily to go where you like like a lot of people recommend go do what you love I I don't necessarily think that's uh you need to love your job I need you just need to uh not hate it and do something that's going to be the most profitable not hate it and do something that's most profitable doing what you love doesn't necessarily mean profitable doing what you love can mean going bankrupt doing what you love sometimes in business is the worst thing in the world why because sometimes you'll go bankrupt because you love it so uh don't do what you love do what you don't necessarily hate and is the most profitable the best use of time the best use of time uh uh you know and uh and gives you uh the uh the most amount of freedom of time when possible that's that's that's what you need in a uh in a viable business a viable business uh you don't necessarily need to love it I think people say that you need to love your job is stupid just it's just a stupid thing to say uh should a person go to college to be successful uh nowadays many professions require a degree it's not true at all there are many professions that always required a degree but that's there's nothing that's uh there no more today than it was in the past in fact it's the opposite there's less uh there's less need for degree today than any other time in history there are endless amount of people that are making a fortune uh by uh creating applications uh having all types of entertainment or media types of uh things on YouTube and Tik Tik Tok and all of this uh social networking um there are over 550,000 people in the world today that are worth over $30 million which is considered ultra high net worth uh there are extraordinarily wealthy people in the world and I promise you the uh there's more of them that do not have a degree than there are those that do have a degree now is getting a degree necessary depends on what field you need to go to if you going to go into the medical accounting uh legal professions that require a degree then it's a uh it's a you know it's a rhetorical question but if you're talking about fields that uh you could actually learn uh the skill set either through experience or through uh uh professional schools that are not necessarily universities you can go to a uh you know some type of uh school that teaches that expertise or course uh then uh then uh uh it's definitely better to do that than to go and waste a quar million dollars on University and uh four to eight years of your life uh when you could do all of that in a matter of six months to a year if not less uh I personally think that the vast majority of people attending college are wasting their money and by vast majority I mean literally a v overwhelming vast majority uh let's see Shalom RAB I hear that each part of our body have a correspondence with a specific uh in the case that someone has an issue why isn't this thing working with the serveral what would be the SE on how to fix it in order to heal I'm not a cabalist so I don't uh I don't know the uh corresponding uh body parts to this sorry you have to go to a cabalist uh and perhaps they could help you uh can a person who suffers with a lot of pain use cannabis in order to release the pain uh yes but you could uh it's better to use uh uh something that's not going to make you high uh some people have recommended uh uh what is it called CBD uh CU it doesn't make you high other research that some people have told me about I haven't read it myself I've said that CBD is uh is is is worse in certain ways than actually the part that makes you high again I can't vouch for either one uh but if it's the only thing that uh could help you with pain uh is cannabis uh that makes you high uh you're allowed to use it but if there is something else uh that you can use that does not make you high then you're obligated to use something that does not make you high can a holy person be someone who doesn't care about money renounce money lives simply or someone who gives who gains a lot of money in order to help others or both a holy person could be somebody extremely wealthy like R Anda and a holy person could be somebody extraordinarily poor like uh you know the money is not going to be the deciding factor if somebody's holy or not their actions are their perspective of money is uh is is going to decide whether they're holy or not uh let's see what is worse according to the T Society imist acts and behavior or LG gbt degeneracy they're both the same they're both considered immodesty and perversion uh good evening RAB ruen what would you suggest for an incoming Yesa B going to from public school to a Yeshiva as a new convert what would I suggest for an incoming yes going from public school to a Yeshiva as a new convert uh what would I suggest for them as far as what as far as what to learn um well first obviously uh they should you know learn uh the uh things that that helped them thus far uh which is the uh of day-to-day life uh the M the weekly Paras these are all things the person has to continue with their whole life uh as far as further uh learning uh it all depends on the type of Yeshiva they're going to go to usually the Yeshiva is going to keep them pretty occupied uh with uh you know withar uh and my recommendation is that uh they gets uh a AR scroll uh you know at first uh that they're also going to learn with and do the review when they're home because not all yes are going to permit uh him to use a art scr at the Yesa um because they want him to learn the language and they want him to learn certain how to understand thear rather than uh the uh explanation of certain things by Art scroll uh so they don't want people to use it even though it's a mistake even though it's against what have said needless to say the tradition is for most places that they don't allow art scroll so but I would still recommend that he gets art school and just simply uses it at home uh uses it at home but uh as far as if the Yeshiva allows him to have art scroll then he should definitely have art scroll and like I said continue learning the things that have helped him thus far which is the basics of Judaism which is the weekly parasha with commentary m al uh certainly he can watch all of our shim uh to learn um you know M to learn the weekly par sometimes as well so we can watch our shim as well to do that okay let's see see what see okay let me see if there's any more all right is a man allowed to wear cologne for Shabbat um if if a if a man wears a a deodorant it's already enough if he wants to wear a little bit of cologne you know it's okay but it's a uh uh before Shabbat obviously and um honestly I don't really uh understand why guys think that they need cologne um for any reason number one uh it's a um many times people overdo it and they become more of a problem for people around them uh than uh than a pleasure uh number two if a person is doing it for the sake of being attractive uh you should know scientifically speaking that uh your uh your uh sweat is actually more attractive than cologne to to a woman uh meaning even the the the the bad sweat this one that smells bad is more attractive to a woman uh not because people enjoy bad smells scientifically speaking they've proven this that uh that the uh the smell of the man uh of his original smell is more attractive to his wife uh than than uh you know than um than any cologne out there so you know again I mean it's uh it's just it's not necessary you want to do it put something before Shabbat by all means but it's uh just don't put too much how should I maintain my relationship with my parents now um as I'm getting older and um if the person is a uh Jew you know honoring your parents is an obligation from a toah but honoring your parents doesn't mean sacrifice your life and uh dest destroy your marriage or not get married uh you know you have to uh you know honor your parents based on what the laws of the tah if they ask you to to help them with something uh that's within your ability to do it by all means there's no obligation to give them your money uh you know but if they're poor and you're rich then certainly you should help them um but uh as far as spending time with them uh it's again it's a within reason as long as it does not cause you problem which schom and it does not cause you to go against AEM in any way uh that's uh you know and certainly a person should honor their parents uh should uh stay in touch with their parents and uh you know call them at least once a week uh say hello uh but it's you know if you live uh far away from them it's not possible to go visit them regularly if you have a life if you have a kids you have a career it's not possible to go visit them every week now if they live close to you and you have a good relationship with them you want to go visit them once a week twice a week by all means you can but if they cause you problems every time you see them then obviously that's you know it's better for you to move away uh now for for non-jews that are converting uh to Judaism or or just converted already to Judaism it's a little bit more problematic because many times the parents are uh still believe the uh the religion uh that they grew up with meaning that uh while you have adopted uh you know and have acquired yourself in eternity uh by converting to Judaism and following the Torah they unfortunately still believe believe idolatry now the fact that they believe idolatry is not just a problem for them but it could also be a problem for you if they try to preach it to you uh so going to visit them is much more problematic meaning that if you go visit them you know you have to stay at a hotel uh you can't eat their food uh you have to make sure that there's Co restaurants around uh there are certain a lot of things that you can't do that they like to do they maybe like to go to the beach you can't go to the beach uh that's you know full of perversion and so on they like to go to the movies you can't go to the movies right because it's also full of perversion uh they like to have a barbecue and roast a pig you can't roast a pig so there's a lot of things that you can't do there are certain things that you can do and you have to find some type of neutral thing uh neutral ground uh to uh to to keep yourself uh uh somewhat connected but I could tell you this from experience that uh the more a person is uh you know busy serving hem uh the less time they're going to have uh for everybody uh that is not in their immediate circle of responsibility of connection such as your spouse and your children uh you know so that there's less time to see even you know your parents even if they're good parents there's less time to have friends even if they're good friends there's just simply less time why cuz you're busy serving hasem you're busy doing the things that you need to do in life uh now I know some people are more social than others they almost feel like they need to be next to people and by all means as long as the people that you're around whether it be your parents that are Jewish or not Jewish uh you know as long as they are not trying to influence you to go against theem uh or they're they're not just simply putting you in a position where you feel inclined to go against theem more than than otherwise because of their surroundings then there's no problem staying in touch but don't stop your life don't stop your life don't stop yourself from getting married don't stop yourself from having kids don't stop your life from from moving closer to a Jewish Community uh from going to learn T just because you think that you're honoring your parents by keeping yourself back uh you're not honoring your parents by that you're just simply damaging yourself you know so a uh a person needs to uh serve AEM first more than anything else serving hasem certainly is uh part of doing it is also honoring your parents but that means so long as honoring your parents is not uh causing a lack in serving hasem you know you not getting married is certainly a lack in serving hasem because you have a Mitzvah especially if you're a man uh that's connected to serving hem uh you know bringing children to the world uh the kadha between a husband and a wife and so on uh so you not getting married because of uh husband because of uh a uh parents are old and you think you need to take care of them or something like that no uh you are not having kids because uh you feel like you need to take care of your parents and uh you you know you you don't think that you could do that uh with be raise kids with your husband and also take care of your parents so you decide not to have kids mistake mistake that's not the will of hem will of hem is for you to have kids is to have kids who's going to take care of my parents if you could still do it do it if not get somebody else to do it get somebody else to do it again there's no there's no uh obligation to stop your life in order to to uh you know in order to help your parents I mean certainly honoring them is important but it's not at the cost of your life it's not the cost of of of your obligation uh so I would highly recommend people to uh discuss with their RAB uh you know big decisions like that either you know decisions like not getting married not having kids not moving closer to a Jewish Community or or or or learning tah uh before they make such decisions and and speak to a competent Rabbi not not one of these people that's like you know waiting for your parents to die so they could give them the money uh of The Inheritance you know like a competent Rabbi that knows Al knows knows what's responsible uh has a responsible take on Judaism and not just a lovey-dovey nonsense uh but like I said you know in uh honoring your parents important stopping your life unacceptable okay can nonu kid that is in the process of conversion do a bar mitzvah uh I I don't understand the question I mean a bar mitzvah means you're accepting the mitv on you if the person is not Jewish he cannot accept the mitv upon him he can't convert himself so if if they understand what bar mitzvah mean Bar Mitzvah means you become an owner of the mitv you're taking the mitv upon yourself but you can't as long as you're not Jewish so I mean if they want to have a party and just feed a bunch of strangers and and get some guy with a I don't know a Harley-Davidson to to drive in you know they they don't have to call it Bar Mitzvah they just call it a party but if they want to do a bar mitzvah they have to be Jewish uh at the very least need to know what a bar mitzvah is but not not uh uh not not just create things just because they they want to feel Jewish many people do that and it creates problems uh people that are in the process of conversion get so acclimated to the Jewish life that they lose momentum when it comes to actually converting which ends up causing them to uh um take longer for conversion they don't have as much enthusiasm because they already feel Jewish it's a mistake that a lot of people make uh you know they already go to the synagogue they already pray they already you know go to shim so they feel like ah so what okay I don't have the certificate but I already feel like my n is Jewish like you know it's a stupid statements like that that cause people to end up losing their eternity but a lot of people do it so uh I I always tell people if you're in a process of conversion do everything you possibly can to keep yourself uncomfortable until you convert to until you convert you know make sure that you're doing everything possible to keep yourself enthusiastic about conversion now it's more problematic to do that when you have a family involved meaning if you're alone you're a single guy you're a single girl it's easier to keep yourself motivated to take less time converting because all you have to do is just take care of yourself but when you have a family involved even if you're extremely motivated if your spouse or kids are not motivated it's it becomes much much more difficult uh the journey much is much more difficult but uh generally speaking there's no need for a person to break up their family for the sake of conversion uh they just need to be patient uh and use that time while everybody else is getting up to speed use that time to keep everybody motivated uh and use that time to learn more and do more that they can that's within their power uh at time while they're still in the process of conversion okay let's see I think we've answered all the questions today yeah okay we've answered all the questions May Hashem bless each and every single one of you that's learning that's sharing that's being inspired anyone that wants to donate can go to our website bash.org or BH tor.org or you could donate on our app the app there's a lot of new developments on the BH Torah website uh that uh are uh are being added as we speak if you go to the questions section you go to the Discover section there's a lot of amazing new features over there we're going to talk more extensively about them next week B but there's a lot of really cool stuff on our websites uh new features uh and uh a lot more uh projects that are on the way that will help get closer to to publicize A's name and know that he is the one and only God not only in our eyes but in the eyes of everyone that we have access to because we've tried our best to inspire them thank you very much for learning with me bless all of you we'll see each other and learn together next week call [Music] of hos as what can we do to protect ourselves from he says even if somebody does a nice thing or learns a lot or anything like that it's never compared to bringing one of aem's lost kids that's been lost for the last 3,000 years back home one of the beautiful things that we have in our organization is that we have both Torah and because we have our we have our and we also have our that we do around the world our lectures reach every corner of the world in multiple languages but of course we always want to do even more for fore while we have C of work that we've done throughout the whole year we also have the Torah that we're constantly producing more and more of and last but not least the uh to feed the poor people in Israel a very special thank you to all our amazing guests who show real our vatis by taking the time out of their busy schedule and sharing their ups and downs with us all for the sake of one of the big things that we have aside from this campaign you probably see this poster or something similar to it is also we published some of the recent results that we have or at least up to now of the organization and one of the reasons why we do this each year is because we want to make sure that our partners our donors our taline know where their money is going unlike everybody else that you know uh says a lot does a lot we want to show you what these results are I could tell you from my experience and a little bit of knowledge about the whole Torah world I don't know of anybody else uh any other organization on planet Earth that produces dollar for dooll what we've produced over these last few years this is nothing to be arrogant about it's simply who helped us we made every sacrifice that we can possibly make in order to H to make it happen producing nearly 300 films publishing 32 books our own books giving out 154 ,000 books for free giving out 154,000 books is not a cheap Endeavor anyone that wants to do such a thing has to be completely committed to to his children and most importantly to have we also have fed over 160,000 people over these last several years each year during PES the high holidays throughout the year we help a lot of people eat make sure that they have groceries food all types of things and you guys have seen many of the videos that are uh that we've produced over the years to actually show you the people that are getting this food you have here 60,000 people have e nearly 300 Torah films and then on top of all of it we have 1.4 million USB CDs and cards that have been giving out for free all of the work that we've done over the last 10 years on these USBS given out for free last but not least 12,000 video and audio lectures available online in about 14 different languages for the world to watch for free am for [Music] is for for [Music] after somebody dies their naturally feels like it needs to be clean and like it needs to go to G home to go clean itself so it could feel better after one of the reasons why we do this why we show these numbers is because want to show everyone what we've done to give you an indication an indication of what we can do in the future so this is the time where we need as much of your help as possible to push yourself more than you typically do if you typically donate a couple hundred donate a th if you uh if you could afford uh the uh uh 8,000 15,000 50 whatever you could afford this is the time to do it because this is going to be the help that we have to help all of these to feed these people and perhaps one day to get that building that we've been wanting to to build here in the United States to build a community but the all of these things require millions of dollars if not now then when