Tests Keep Getting Bigger - MUSSAR Pirkei Avot (89)

[Music] good to be here a uh very long and uh I think successful sh last night and then after this year we had another couple hour meeting couple of people bem couple new people and uh comes and uh starts learning to and starts doing Chu only way to fix our is by doing Chua it's the only way there's a lot of you know inner turmoil that uh many people suffer and uh when they go to the psychiatrist they go to the psychologist they go to their friends they go to the self-help courses and all those things and um realize that none of that stuff helps on a permanent basis this is a reminder is a reminder for all of those people that are seeking cures in the uh chapter 15 the last verse chapter 15 it says I am God your healer so there is an enormous amount of sickness that am is has today and also the G of course um both spiritually and physically and the tests keep getting bigger the tests keep getting bigger um but hasem says there's a solution I am God your healer meaning he's the solution he's the one that brought the disease and he's the one that has the Cure same source so toana Sim Danielle coli he Thorp Keith Thorp Ben Ruth and uh everyone will have all of will have as I said hem tells us in the middle of this par something that we repeat in our on a DayDay basis he said meaning God he said if you hekken diligently to the voice of Hashem your God and do what is just in his eyes give ear to his Commandments and observe all his decrees then any of the diseases that I placed in Egypt I will not bring upon you for I am AEM your healer so thear says is there a do we know which diseases how many diseases it says yes we have there 86 diseases how do we know those 86 diseases is 86 I'm sorry 88 88 88 uh so the um 40 70 78 83 says 86 83 83 either way it's not good either way it doesn't include the a I included the a originally which is makes it 88 but then I remember the says doesn't say 88 says 80 less and then I realized without the a so it's minus five without the 83 gave us to be able to figure out things and not make mistakes in public and embarrass ourselves but nonetheless the um important thing to know is that Hashem says that there is a diseases that we know about and there is diseases that that he put in that was part of the punishment and then there's diseases that we don't know about this the that we don't know about and in several different places talks about different strange diseases unusual diseases and is actually that says that any place that has promiscuity will have a disease where the cells will kill kill themselves he goes into a few more details def finds what AIDS finds AIDS When It Was Written 2,500 years ago so Hashem is serious he's not joking J serious now many people suffer spiritual suffering they uh have a hard time they're stressed out a lot they have an enormous amount of anxiety they uh don't know which way to go go right go left what do we do you ask the guy what do you uh want to eat for lunch three hours until he decides very very uncertain very lot of doubts hard time sleeping hard time waking up always tired oh he's hungry different things confused we're confused generation now one of the things that t tells us to is that you have to have one of the foundations one of the foundations of the Torah instilled into is he gave us he gave us people that are wise meaning people that dedicated their life to Tor he says those people that are dedicated to Tor you have to have in them not just why he's my messenger he's the one that's going to tell you what you didn't learn on your own if you want to learn your own good for you go learn your own be yourself but if you didn't learn everything and you're not ra keski and you're not Raad and you're not one of these Giants you have to get one obviously not every question requires the attention of the you have the which is usually big issues then you have your your own personal Rabbi he say make yourself a rabbi in order to eliminate any doubts but what you notice today is that many doubts are created after you make yourself a rabbi so I have a case right now someone that's and he uh started this uh going to this learning program and different Kine different this the chva doing good want to make upgrade the learning a little bit and uh he's at a uh different place he says I've been here for a few months thinking I'm going to get better thinking I'm going to know learn more do more build a mind buil a uh get to the next level you know in essence this the way you do it even if you go to a regular public school you go learn for three months whatever subject you're learning automatically you're supposed to feel like you've gained more knowledge by default even if you don't go to school you just read a book for three months you're supposed to gain more knowledge supposed to It's supposed to improve with to even more so he says after three months I don't know what's going on I'm very confused it's cre the the situation that I'm in instead of improving is deteriorated I have doubts for the first time in a long time I have doubts why these so-called uh teachers rabbis or whatever you want to call them they're not doing everything that ever they're they're going against so I said yeah I have to give me example I mean maybe you don't like the way they talk have nothing to do with the way they talk so maybe you don't like the way they study maybe they're not you goes no no I see one of these guys studying I've never seen anything like it when he's studying he's moving and he's whole theatrics everyone knows he's studying he's moving this he's moving right he's he's loud and obnoxious a little bit but everyone knows you know next door next door they know oh yeah oh he's studying oh he's studying everyone thinks this is the upcoming uh coming soon basali it's like this guy stud so studying Okay so so what's the problem facility what there's no a condition no it's a $10 million building what they beat you while while you're studying what's wrong with the place what's wrong with the place he says listen you tell me what you think now I know he's telling me the truth number one because there's no reason to lie number two he doesn't realize he didn't realize how significant what he was saying was we we learned together and we we never got to this part so one time I sent them and I told them listen you know you have suits you have suits you have to check for shates you have to check for shates why Tora in two different places in The Book of Leviticus book of Deuteronomy both places say you're not allowed to wear shates now shates you have to check everywhere but the main places they use chates is usually in suits and most commonly if you ever checked for Shotz is usually in the collar now some suits by default always have them like you go boss for some reason they always use Shotz but other suits sometimes yes sometimes no either way you're obligated to check for it so couple of years ago I sent them like listen I have this guy nice Rabbi Rabbi granat in uh in uh Coral Springs right I told him why don't you go and uh go to him check your chz I've used him before he's very good go and uh he goes and he checks and that's it no big deal guy takes the suit for a few days or whatever it is and then that's it I don't know what God you know obviously this allm wants things to happen so he makes him happen he said I had questions all the time there was certain things that were being said in the sh there was certain things being done in the place I wasn't sure but now I'm very confused I said okay what happened with this he says listen I asked just for out of the blue I said asked the guy listen did you check your suit for chatz who asks that kind of question it's like uh it's like saying did you go to the bathroom today like what do you why would you ask me that question like that's that's not a common question you ask a guy do you eat today because maybe you want to have lunch together you ask the guy do you have uh 10 bucks I can borrow so I can get home you ask the guy what are you doing tonight maybe we can learn I don't know you ask those kind of who ask the guy listens you check your shot no one ask such a question which obviously means this 100% this is AEM putting words in your mouth because it makes no sense to ask a question like this makes no sense and the guy says no this is the rabby he says what do you mean what you you're not worried he goes no we don't we don't check for those things usually certain brands have it if it's not that brand it's we don't check what me want to check it's a rabbi teachers confused them says then I ask other another Rabbi you check for uh shates no no we don't need to check for shatz we don't need to check it anymore so conf cuz this is an opposite of what I told him so I mean okay it's either yon is wrong and he's a he's a or something's wrong here what do you mean so he starts looking a couple of things he says wait a minute he remembered or maybe he looked it up I'm not really sure he says listen actually if you pray with chates if you go pray you go to sh or whatever you pray on your own pray with chates hasm doesn't hear your prayers it's like prank the wall doesn't hear your pray this what he said there he says Noah it's not doesn't really matter actually know a lot of they pray and hasm answers them all the time this just turn okay we just went from being a rabbi tamik why you you can't say such things so he asked me this question goes this is true is this this not really a big deal I said not only is it a big deal but you're now no longer allowed to learn from such a person to such an extent you can't even count them Froman this person that told you whatever you what you just said you can't count if you have let's say 10 people he's one of them Froman you can't count them you can't be counted from minan right now until he does why why is a big deal page 19 it says a person that walks around which sh is knowing he knows he if it's an accident it's an accident accident accidents happen but he know he decides no no shut Nez I'll fix it later shot NZ in his suit I'll fix it I'll fix it next week when I have time could and I only have this suit I want to impress the girl I'm going I want I'm going to dinner I'm going this whatever yeah whatever excuse he has to go use this thing I'm going to do it I'm going to use it and Hashem could wait the says every second he he puts that suit on is meaning it's not a small sin it's the biggest sin there is why is it the biggest sin there is because this is a proactive decision this is a decision where anyone that knows that you have shz now and they know that you decide that you're not going to take care of it until later on in essence what you're doing is just like the Shabbat that drives on Shabbat is the says it's like him screaming to hm hasm I don't believe in you the guy that walks around with chatz knowingly is like saying asem I'm declaring war against you not I don't believe in you I'm declaring war against you go go to war me and you see who wins like said now says if a person decides that shaving with he wants to shave he doesn't want a grow beard which you don't have to it's not a it's not a you don't have to grow a beard beard is a it's extra you know there a guy that wants to pass is a guy who wants to get a perfect grade well both of you can get a good grade you don't have to it's not uh it's not one of the 613 Commandments but so some people don't want beards no problem you don't have to wear go beard but but shaving has to be shaved in a you have to shave it a certain way you cannot destroy the root so there's kosher Shavers anyone who doesn't know if their Shavers kosher or not Kosher go to kosher shavers.com kosher shavers.com they'll tell you what makes a shaver kosher and what makes it not Kosher uh even if yours is not Kosher currently there's a way to kosher it's usually removing the technology of the uh that lifts your hair and destroys the roots makes your face like a baby face but in essence it destroys the root which is not allowed um if yours is not Kosher then you could get a kosher sh for I don't know 50 bucks 100 bucks whatever it is it's not the end of the world but if someone decides now you know what this is too much for me I don't feel like doing it I don't feel like doing it I know okay I know it says in the Tora every time you shave with a razor it's like eating pig blood five times like you ask a regular normal Jew you eat pig no come on come on what I look like to you okay maybe I'm notu but come on Pig same thing I would have said to you before I did Chua I didn't keep Shabbat I didn't keep the I didn't keep a lot of things but he told me you want to have a you know a baking egg and cheese what I'm might go to you come on what's wrong with you you think I want to eat a pig most Jews no you can't eat pig so sages say every time you shave with a razor it's like you ate Pig five times not once five but someone says you know what maybe it's the rabbis they're making it up they're stringent they're crazy they're this they're that all these types of excuses that I used to use myself he says you know what whatever I know you're not really supposed to but I'm shaving with a razor I like the way it feels in my face I like that my face is going to be the same like Little's face little baby is two years old one years old even I want I want to be I want a baby face I want want a little baby face I don't want the you know the shaver it gives me this it gives me that you all these red marks and burns and so on and so forth someone once went to the um the told him I believe it was told you're the machine that you koshered it burns my face machine that I'm using doesn't burn my face so I'm gonna use it he says yeah but your machine is not Kosher go yeah yours burns my face he says listen you're right mine burns your face but it's your face here difference is yours it just burns over there you just have to decide where you want to get burned decide where you want to get either way you're going to get burnt just decide where so anyway so a guy decides to shave with a raise think it's not a big deal it's just a razor Hashem has to run the whole world he is not just this Earth that we have here with 8 billion people he has galaxies and he has different planets and and all that of things happening and he has to make sure all the meteors doesn't don't hit us he has to make sure the sun rises at the right time and the the Moon is this way and the planet is this way and all these there's a lot of stuff to do he really cares about my Razor no come on it's a little crazy okay maybe he wants me to keep Shabbat shabb shabb okay he says where did he what do it say what always what do they say the has sh Raz where say sh Razer maybe somebody else has sh rer maybe Sher where say had sh Razer where doesn't say it oh doesn't say it okay I'm I'm don't have to so the sages say this a person that shaves with a razor you cannot count them in a minion why you can't count them in a minion you can't count on someone it's obvious okay says it's considered 100% Idol worshiper Five Books of Moses in 12 different places says all types of horrible horrible things I mean this is terrible things someone violates Shabbat drives on Shabbat even says this person is putting his Judaism on suspension he's announcing to hm I don't believe in you it's horrible things okay that's fine raise it though why because of this in the Book of Proverbs there's a PUK that applies to many many different usually certain Pim usually apply to one or two things this specific applies to many things day-to-day life it says if one turns aside his ear from hearing the tor T even his prayer is considered an Abomination it's considered disgusting in the eyes of hem what does it mean he what does it mean he decides he's not going to listen to T okay so he doesn't want to go to sh he wants to watch football what's the big deal okay so the Rabbi says this he doesn't want to listen what's the big deal says you don't want to listen to my rabbis you don't want to listen to my I don't want to listen to your prayers when are you going to pray oh you want to pray when what you you broke you broke something and you pray for me to stop the pain I'm not going to listen you got sick you need a cure I'm not I'm not I'm not going to be the God your healer why you got sick you have a disease right you're pray your doctor said you have six weeks to live your wife is already telling the kids to start learning kadish by heart kadish is already preparing everything they already they're already preparing the coffin everything you're praying you don't want to die you don't want to die but you know only a miracle is going to save you it's either going to be a miracle or you're going to turn into a pack of little potatoes in a few weeks like the doctors say you don't want to die you're going to pray to hem says your prayer not going to be listened it's not your day-to-day prayer you pray okay pray pray if you want to pray pray no at the moment of need when you just wrote a check for the mortgage and you know for sure you don't have money in the bank you want it to clear though you want money to appear in the bank or else it's going to kick you out you're going to go foreclosure you want to afford the lawyer you want to afford the doctor you want to afford the Yesa all the problems we all the sicknesses we're dealing with even your prayer is disgusting to me you don't want to listen to my you don't want to listen to my I don't want to listen to you it says that a person who decides to go against the sages on a regular basis is excluding himself from the nation why he's make it he's made his sin part of his life he's decided to sin it's not that you made a sin by accident or you made a sin because of of Desire you've just decided I'm just going to continue doing this I'm not changing you're not even thinking you're not second guessing yourself you have no intention of doing chuva you're not even sorry about it now why is sorry is such a big deal they say that someone that commits murder commits murder has to get punished do chv but their G their punishment ends at some point they still have if they are righteous everywhere else they kept Shabbat they kept you know they late and they murdered once they murdered they got angry or something this many stories of people that were very righteous overall got angry one time murdered somebody it's actually a story in Israel from 25 30 years years ago guy that was actually a righteous guy he killed his best friend on yum Kip he killed his best friend Yip the rav came to his jail after years he said visit him how you doing he goes yeah you're probably asking yourself why did I kill somebody on y cuz regularly I was a regular normal guy cuz I'm telling you I promise you for the was a very normal person I learned everything was good I don't know what happened all I know is we were in yum Kip we prayed then there's a break usually of a couple of hours it's a break couple of hours after you know ends couple hour break before it's very long prayer so me and my friend went to my house and we're just talking we're talking nonsense though nothing Ste next thing you know we're talking about something I think it was maybe Sports and he gets really he gets really fired about sports I don't know it just bothered me so I got into an argument with him but the argument got so heated that we he started cursing I started cursing I went into the room I grabbed the gun I killed him my best friend for 25 years I love the guy butash when the Tor says somebody gets angry call me n all types of G take control of him it's much true because I saw it when a moment of anger I lost it my best friend I love him I'm suffering here every day not because of the jail because I killed my best friend so a person has sin here and there he a sin makes a mistake someone made a big mistake made a murder committed murder not that he's some serial killer psychopath yeah like this story got angry or something like that Tora says he still has still has to suffer has to pay for the sin but nonetheless he has someone that embarrasses his friend in public has no share of the world to come so the say why okay David is the source DAV it's a reliable source great but why say when you embarrass another person in public you've committed it's like you committed murder so now you have a bigger question that I had before why if I committed murder murder somebody committed murder I have I have to pay for the sin no questions asked I have to pay for the sin but I have but if I embarrass somebody in public that's like murder it's like Mur it's not actual Mur it's like murder no should be the opposite the murder should be no Al the like murder should be okay you got away with it you got away with murder no says like murder you you embarrass somebody in public no why the guy that committed murder if he's normal and he made a mistake immediately after the ACT is over immed immediately he feels bad about it immediately he feels bad about it I just took somebody's life he has kids he has a wife he has friends he has mother he has sister and so on people going to suffer you're a normal human being you're not a psychopath you're going to feel bad that already is chuva that's already that that suffering is already a big part of Chua but someone that embarrasses another in public he doesn't feel bad why he thinks he's right he's like no he was wrong that's why I embarrassed him he what he doesn't know what he's talking about he doesn't know what he's talking about that's why he told him off to shut him up he was uh talking too much he doesn't know what he's talking about or he was this or he was that the guy that embarrassed another guy in in public he rationalizes his sin meaning that his whole life he's never doing Chua he never feels bad about embarrassing the other guy in public he says that's why he loses all if he does Chua obviously everything is subject to Cha if he never does Chu never realized this the magnitude of his sin no someone can keep Shabbat keep keep everything but they don't do Chua for something that seems like it's minute they can lose the in a second if people understood how easy it is to lose they'd never think I have you realize you have to do CH every day since you know since you don't know so when a person decides that he's going to shave with a razor he's decided sin is going to be a permanent part of my life I'm just not going to listen to the I'm not going to listen to them even more so when someone says I don't need to check shotes everyone else M has to check for shotes has to check for shz has to check for shz me I don't check for shz this a person that decided to make his sin part of his life you can't listen to him can't listen to his teaching you can't count them as part of it's a big deal now this is not a problem of somebody in the Kil this is a rabbi Orthodox Rabbi so that's why every day when we say we want to have you have to mean it not just okay of course no one wants pain I know somebody that when he studies T he feels like his body is going on fire sometimes most of the time he says he has this immense amount of pain but he says I still have to study what am I goingon to do I know I'm obligated to study hem wants me to have pain I'm have pain what we going to do he feels he's on fire but what can he do he goes he continues he continues so you have sometimes certain people you look at them studying wow this guy's sadik this guy look at the way he's studying how loud he is and how he moves it's like a gymnastics while he's studying he's here he's there something he's over here he's that wow next thing you know you learn certain things wow this guy can't count them to me know it's confusing that's when we say we have to pray for ourselves pray for the people we love pray for every single day more for why pain eventually goes away pain eventually goes away why eventually the body stops working you have to go and mashia comes or you're 120 or whatever it is the body stays here doesn't go go with you over there you have to give something to for the worms to eat the body stays here the continues but if you have a sick it stays you have a problem you have a permanent problem if you have a sick you have a permanent problem why they're going to tell you what to do over there it's not going to be Hey listen you should have done this you should have learned no there's no more certain things no more certain things no more when you get up there there's no more sh there's no more sh oh you have a sick come we'll give you a sh a different sh come we have a special section for sh so it's very confusing you see the rabbi guy looks like a sad people donate money has a Bess the size of the White House and then you realize it's just something so small now what's the foundation of all of this same thing we talked about last night T without the says that you learn T it could be one of two things either either going to be it's a potion of Life a potion of death same Torah you use it right portion of Life how long eternally you learn Tor with you learn tor with trepidation with for the Tor with real you investigate who's a and who's a bluff it's you can live forever body no body is irrelevant you live forever anyone that thinks that this world is it must think Hashem is very vicious the I saw it today I saw today KES one of the last few that Hades someone comes in to the he doesn't have to see him he's 300 feet away immediately he knows who this person is if he's aab not if he's he starts screaming he's in the middle of studying starts screaming get out get out fire enemy of hem enemy of Hemes not like like we barely know each other's name writes on a commentary he says anyone thinks that Hashem just put you in this world just for this world must think hasem is vicious must think Hashem is like why look at people every day everyone if not themselves they at least know one person in their life in their family that's sick really sick and then the rest are somewhat sick one's really sick sick and the rest are somewhat sick there's pains there's aches some spiritual some physical everyone is struggling to makea for the most part everyone's struggling to make ends meat even the rich why the rich need to maintain you know our artist to maintain being rich it's harder than to make the first million in the first place making the first million is to maintain the million is even more difficult anyone that ever had mil you have a few million tell you that's tell it's tell us give a shoe so the key is it's very hard everybody struggling for par and then on top of that he says Everyone is always second guessing what did he say maybe I should have said this maybe I should have said that they're always questioning themselves how they should have answered and how they should have responded and how they should have thought oh maybe I should have done this or maybe I should have done that when he said this I should have responded this way when she said that I should have said that they're constantly sick and guessing themselves eating their heart and they're constantly struggling they're not sure they have anxiety and stress and so on for the most part Life's a struggle that's the bottom line for the most part life is a struggle okay so once in a while you have a good day good day you had the food tasted good you got to work on time the clients were decent the uh wife or the husband is uh nice to you today the kids actually were decent well once I have a good day but overall life on a grand scope of things is difficult there hardship there's there's uh there's Hills and Valleys for the most part you ask people how you doing the best answer you're G to get is not bad the best answer you're G to get is not bad not bad means that bad is theault and not bad means that it's okay it's not bad just it's not the worst thing he's not saying it's good say it's not bad like today that it's not a tragedy today there was no tragedy he's expecting tragedy that's the mentality of people today so he says if you think that God created you to put you in this world into the struggling life where everyone's sick and everyone's struggling rich or poor everyone's stressed out everyone doesn't know what's going on everyone's confused you must think God is evil you have no idea who God is he only wants to give you good here this is just a test this is just to earn a living this is just to get to Allah where the good over there doesn't end and it's immeasurable all the good you could ever experience if you could experience your all of your Life's good you could package it into a little compartment and then you take all 8 billion people in the world today and every generation before you from 5770 8 years ago all the way to today all the good they ever had you put it into another compartment you combine the two together all of that good that everyone has ever had whether the good is from money whether the good is from cavod whether the good is from sex whether the good is from whatever it is whatever desires and lusts and things that people think are good you combine all of that good into a little box it's not even worth a single hour in Thea of a person that got to the good part not an hour you can't imagine such a good so if you think this life is is it you don't believe in you believe in the wrong God so here you have t that can be used for T that you can see I learn this tor I get to all this good great not only are you excited about the end result but now all of a sudden you're excited about your day-to- day why you realize that this same Torah has instructions of how to even enjoy this life how the struggle in this life that you're living in right now is no longer a struggle why you know who's in control okay so I'm not going to have money that's because he doesn't want me to have money for what that's his problem he doesn't want me to have money maybe if I had money now I would do something wrong okay I have a meeting I got a flat Tire in a meeting okay it sounds terrible I'm going to lose the deal but maybe there's an accident ahead and if I would have actually continue driving and didn't have the flat tire I would have been part of the action so in reality hm is saving me and so on and so forth there's always a reason of whyem does something there's never no reason he's not a human being just does things for no reason so when you have Torah you have explanations for a lot of different things you have you have a way to understand certain things and even when you don't understand you know that it's under control hasem is running the world and he knows what he's doing he's been doing it for a while on the other hand if you learn Torah if you don't learn Torah obviously you have a problem but if you don't learn if you learn Tor but your Tor is like a t that's missing the ingredient of missing the ingredient of fearing the almighty then that's a Torah that can never get to reala real real faith in hasem and the reason why is because you cannot believe in something you don't know so in this week's we ended the sh last night this way where am gets and crosses the Sea of reeds and it says and they see the hand of hem and they fear Him and they believe in him and in Moses's servant so here Hashem gave us a map of how to get from nothing to full amuna first notice the hand of God in your life you woke up in the morning realize that hm gave you life you got to work say you have a car to get to work or you have money for the bus or the taxi or some or you have a friend that gave you a ride whatever way you got to work even if you got to work with a helicopter say thank God that it didn't crash you know people die in these things people what you think uh poor people die in helicopters no rich people die the guy who doesn't he's sure for sure he's not going to die just happened a few weeks ago few weeks ago unfortunately a helicopter crashed a couple of Jewish people died you think that they got an helicopter say oh today is my last day no so a person needs to understand that every moment you have to realize hm is running the world that I'm still here I have an opportunity to make another big day another good day I could do something productive notice the hand of God everywhere after that you're going to realize that since you are noticing he realizes that he really is in control of everything it's very easy to understand once you look for hem it's very easy to see him if you're not looking it's very easy not to see him once you see him immediately you have some fear why you realize that everything depends on him the air in your lungs is not going to give you life unless he decides that it's going to give you life the blood in your veins is not going to operate the way it's supposed to unless he decides it's going to operate the way he wants to and so on and so forth all of these little intricate things we take for granted we depend on him who wouldn't be scared it says once they were scared then they believed in him why you have you have a good foundation then you can get TOA you can get to what does it mean meaning that when I don't have an explanation for why things are happening I don't have an explanation of why I don't have money I don't have an explanation of why I don't have a z i don't have an explanation of why I have a whatever sickness or why I have this or why I have different people have different things some people tell me listen I did chuva I keep this I keep this I keep this but I can't find a wife I did this I did this I did this but I can't uh I can't get a job I did this I did this I did this but I can't I can't get to where I want to be why is hasm doing this to me the simple answer is this this this PUK PUK is you haven't gone to amuna yet you haven't gone to amuna yet why you're still asking those questions you're asking why is God doing this to me that means you haven't gotten to amuna yet because once you have amuna you know that even when you don't something's happening that doesn't make sense doesn't make sense why somebody that's a very righteous person doesn't have a perfect wife or someone that's a very righteous woman doesn't have a perfect husband doesn't make sense logically but when you realize that hasem runs the world and not everything has to necessarily make sense to you today then you realize oh he's under control that'sa amuna at a difficult time when everything is dark you still see light that's it's not just Blind Faith where you know the nice stories of if you jump off a clip you know Hashem is going to catch you yeah it's nice theoretically but who's jumping off a cliff what are you crazy why you jumping off cliffs I want practical how do I survive the day the boss just yelled at me should I yell back should I feel embarrassed I tell you there's different test that I have every single day different test bem sends me perfect custom made tests I'll tell you a few tests just to start my day my wife I make my wife laugh I make my wife laugh with these tests because she knows I'm trying to do chuva so Hashem gives me nice tests nice tests good test the ego ego tests are perfect so tell you how my day went today there's a couple there a couple of people have been trying to help I remember I told you a story of um it doesn't make a s of difference with the story is try to help people that's what you try to do all day you learn you help you learn you help you use the instructions shm gave you to help people one time one of the a student asked him for How come every time you help somebody somebody comes to you for helpa something you give them candy why you give him candy yes you for advice you give him the advice but then you give him candy why you give him candy just give the advice let Sal Shalom go home why you give him candy why does he give everybody candy he was the natural inclination of a person is that when you help them eventually they're going to get out of the hole that they're in and they going to look back and they're going to want to return the favor but they're going to realize that they cannot return the favor they can't return the favor you save their life and you don't need them to save your life so no matter what they do they're always going to feel in debt to you and that's going to bother their ego and because of that disturbance to their ego instead of giving you good back they're going to want to hurt you instead they're going to want to throw a rock at you so I figured maybe when they get to that point they want to throw something at me hopefully the candy is still in their pocket so it hurts a little less that's a you help a lot of people sometimes they want to throw rocks at you so there's a few people I try to help recently since I tried to help they won't leave me alone with torturing me non-stop emails and messages and complaints and this and that and publicizing things on the internet trying to help a person yes sometimes the help hurts but nonetheless it's help it's not doing it for my C or for for anything not making money out of this by the way the best thing in the world is the people that that help never donate a dollar it's the ones that you don't do anything for they just learn a sh they donate the most it's unusual very unusual ones you help the most 50 million questions a day not a penny they give they think that you get paid from the government or something Donald Trump gives you a building or something and they ask for more can you send me books can you send me uh you know can you give me a this can you give me this can you find me a house can you find no problem you do it because you work for hem it doesn't matter but it's it's a very unusual thing the that I don't mind that already I'm used to it what do I mind I mind that after finally you finished helping them for if it ever ends they decide oh you're the enemy what did I do I just helped you for a year and a half why you making me the enemy what did I do to you that's the way that's the person so right start off the day with couple of people torturing me with this thing few people that I helped okay this is normal every day happens somebody new it's a good start to the day means we're doing good job so that's the the way the day started okay then after that that's already it's then after that I uh I miss I forget one okay then after that I get a uh now everybody knows I mean you don't need to be a genius to know I'm kind of busy you have the you have you have the movies you have the lectures you have the people very busy I've always been a busy person now I'm even more busy than I was on Wall Street running three four companies I'm more busy now I go to sleep at 4 o'clock in the morning and I'm only because I can't stay up not because I finished work so for whatever reason people like to think I'm not busy so one guy calls me he goes listen uh I have a uh Rabbi that's giving a lecture in uh close to you about an hour from you can you go uh videotape him I turned to cameraman now someone left everything in the world left Wall Street left everything now Hey listen I have a ra I have a I have a uh Rabbi friend of mine or whatever I don't know this guy some Rabbi he's giving a big lecture somewhere else can you go videotape him for me like I have nothing to do nothing oh yeah sure what time what time I want to make sure I'll be there half hour early I want to be there half hour early you know what I'm gonna go buy a a better camera for him Shalom he has my camera I'm gonna get a better camera for him that was the second third thing is there was another guy I helped him whatever you guy did Chua many years ago before he met me and he saw we're doing KY I already met him a few years ago anyway I uh uh he told me how you know we're doing a lot of C Distributing different videos my videos ra M's videos or's videos not just my own stuff always to other rabbis anything that's good we spread it and that's how the was built publicizing Tor and because we're for the sake of Tor gave us success with with getting people to do CH so anyway so I try to encourage other people to do kiru all the time as you know there's one particular guy I gave him a lot more attention and more help than usual I taught himash everything that we're doing do this do this do this do this join these groups publicize this make movies this way make movies that way make a logo make like I in essence you help them build a company thinking that when he's spreading toah it's good it's good what do I get what spread to logically you would think he spread mine too cuz he's not he's not teaching he's just spreading other other rabis that he likes whether it's this Rabbi or that Rabbi whatever it is so if you're already spreading different rabis stuff throw me in a mix doesn't cost you anything it's just an extra share you just press the share one more time one more time you press share that's it one more time now the funny thing is months I see this after I helped them and he's in a relatively short period of time built a lot of different things he has followers and this so it's doing good he's spreading Torah of at least maybe a dozen or more different rabbis and the beginning I saw it's only mostly Hebrew speakers okay so I don't really have many Hebrew lectures that's probably why he's not sharing my stuff even though I taught him everything and he should still share it but he doesn't want share sh no big deal then he started sharing English speakers too said so it bothers me every time I'm like what he's sharing everyone else's he's doing all the all the he's using all the tools I gave him I gave you Tools in I gave you the hammer I gave you the screwdriver I gave you this I give you the lad everything using my tools to do work for everyone else and not even pressing one extra share button for me what can I do but this is not the story every time I see it bothers me a little bit you know it's a little tweaked to my ego a little bit but whatever I don't say anything don't want to share it don't want to share it what can I do today he sends me a poster of some Rabbi that's coming like hey share this he tells me share this he tells me go share share something for him go share it with my people to my these are the test no no no I I show you the text after it's on my phone I show you no no share this no like a no uh please no no no no share this I'm his employee now I'm an employee now I'm an employee come on please were you crazy so so hasem sends me these different wonderful tests these different wonderful tests to help the ego help the ego help destroy the ego that's the only way to do Chua is to destroy the ego sometimes you tell people things and they don't like to hear it because it hurts their ego not because they disagree they agree it's true what you said but it hurts their ego and because of that they don't want to do Chua so it's a very very difficult part of Chua but nonetheless it's a very necessary part of Chua because someone that has an ego cannot do full cha why he's always it's that ego is always going to hold him back from mamash giving in giving in hhm I don't know what I'm doing I don't know what's going on you're running the world I'm just here that's it that's that's that's that's when you have inem you're saying Hashem I don't know why you want me to do this I don't know why you're doing this to me but I'm sure you have a reason you're God I'm not okay I'm doing it when you get to that point you're in the right direction but as long as you're still asking these big questions why' you do this to me and why' you do this to me you're coming to hem with complaints we haven't got to it's not the end of the world you can still get there but you're not there yet the reason why many people can spend their whole life learning T they can learn they can learn they could teach and never get to realuna is because it's missing that ingredient like I said first ingredient you have to notice that Hashem is everywhere including when you're shaving including when you go to the bathroom including when you speak to your wife including when you teach your little kids including when you give change to some customer including when you walk in the streets including everywhere everywhere and anywhere is everywhere first notice he's everywhere if you're noticing everywhere he's everywhere it's going to make it much easier for you to be afraid afraid of the Creator it's not it's a it's a compliment the beginning of wisdom is fear of hem praiseworthy is the person that has fear all the time what fear fear of hem that's the wisest man of all time said this not a fool he said praiseworthy is the man that's always afraid why you realize that God's running the world once you have that fear then you can get Thea you have many people teaching today no fear no fear why is this fear such a such a horrible thing to be missing so so it's so extreme to because without it you're never going to get to the you may have basic level am that the average animal has the average animal knows that it's going to go from point8 to point B just by walking straight you don't need to be to have that level of I'm talking abouta when you don't have money in the bank I'm talking abouta when there's a major crisis in the family I'm talking abouta when you have no idea what's going on why is this and why you questionable times of your life you're not going to have amuna during that time everything you've learned at that point is some of it it's it's it's it's a death pill it's not a life pill why you've learned you've got to the test you're thinking that I've learned to prepare for the test you got to the test and you failed why there's a missing ingredient there's a missing ingredient but it's not the tor's fault it's your fault you didn't learn your so in this now that we finish the introduction it [Applause] say 10 Miracles were performed for our ancestors in Egypt and 10 at the sea 10 plagues did the Holy One blessed the sea bring upon the Egyptians in Egypt and 10 at the sea so we see here that this par as AEM would have it is connected to this mishna as well he's telling us things that happened during that time kazal telling us that there was 10 Miracles happened to our ancestors in Egypt and then there was 10 more miracles at the sea and there was plagues on Egyptians and then there was plagues at the sea and it's giving us some details what is this what's going on so the first first question first question is why did hasem even perform these Miracles the fact that he performed 10 Miracles or 100 Miracles or a million Miracles great thank you why why' you do it and if you did it why aren't you doing it now many people ask a very interesting but flawed question why is it flaw because it's an ignorant question because if you knew this mishna you wouldn't ask the question they ask you why doesn't AEM just open up the seven heavens look in hey guys I'm right over here no one's going to be an atheist again why did J just make some Miracles like he did in Egypt like he did in Mount SII turn the water into blood make a bunch of frogs turn into dinosaurs whatever you want to do just go no make some Miracles tell everybody hey I'm God and that's it no more atheism no more Christianity no more people believing that the rebbi is mashiah no more people uh going crazy and making some Idol into a uh into a God nothing that's it everyone's a Jew now just make a miracle sounds like a smart question why just do it finish first and foremost first and foremost you should know that the whole point of this world is to have free choice if hasem removed free choice there's no point to the world meaning if he made it so simple for you to believe and follow him what's the point of you being here now before he put the in the sages say that there was in sh in sh and they were enjoying the they enjoying the the Hem and all the things that he was giving them nurturing them but then eventually they started feeling bad because they said listen all you're doing is giving us and anyone that has even 1% good in them that's a normal person have a little bit of good in them the more you give them the more they want to return that's a normal person a person that doesn't want to return is an evil person it's an ungrateful person and it's an evil person because to have gratitude is what makes you human even a dog knows how to say thank you if you save a dog's life no I'm serious if you save a dog's life Save A Dog's Life what if some one of these crazy people you know they fight dogs they fight dogs M the little dogs they you know their life is on line every day they want to fight these dogs if somebody's a hero and saves one of these dogs that dog is going to love you for the rest of your life it doesn't matter what you do to him you can punch him in the face he's still going to love you why you saved him you saved him you saved him okay you got mad you made a mistake he's always going to love you if he doesn't see you you can see some of these videos M's heartbreaking anyone that likes uh dogs or different uh animals you see sometimes these videos people have a guy that went to the Army or different places hasn't seen his dog in five years or six years you would think the dog forgot about him the guy shows up he saw he sees him from a football field away he starts running to him like it's m it's mashiah wow what do he do what what did he do to you he just gave you a little bit of dog food six years ago yeah yeah he gave me dog food six years ago yeah it's gratitude so meaning if you don't have a you're worse than a dog the dog's better than you maybe you're going to come back and say go as a dog learn how to have gratitude so what a person needs to understand is that the plagues we had in Egypt had all of these there not just plagues to teach us oh hasem is running the world but also to teach us measure for measure also to teach us different so for example the first plague when mosenu was supposed to make the water into blood Moshe says I don't want to do it m righteous anad kados I don't want to do it I don't want to do it why why don't you want to do it because I owe gratitude to the water cu the water saved me it made my little uh basket go from my mom's house to butya's house I owe it gratitude the water something that's not even living and also I owe the ground water uh gratitude the ground I owe the ground why I owe the ground because the ground swallowed the Egyptian's body there was no proof that I murdered him it protected me the ground I don't want to destroy the water gratitude to things that are still like that's not even living needless to say to say thank you to to give you everything meaning if you don't know how to say thank you you don't know gratitude why' you come to the world so the first thing is that we have to ask ourselves why did Hashem make all these Miracles why did he make all these Miracles was especially a Grateful Nation the answer is no they actually very stubborn people that's the way we're being described in fact it says that says that when reached the yam the Sea of reeds the Mal there's an angel named MIT who was responsible for MIT responsible for Egypt wanted to drown them in the ocean wanted to drown he had power each one of these angels has the power to destroy the entire world and he wanted to drown all of am is he says I have the right to drown all of them kill all of them why why is the case Hashem you're going to split the ocean okay fine and you're going to let them pass and then you're going to drown the uh Egyptians why because Egyptians they worship idols but so do the Jews there's no difference between them they're both Idol worshippers the Egyptians are Idol worshippers and and is Idol worshippers at the time of was at the 49th level of T the worst level in history until now to such an extent that hem the Z kados says hasem had to be the one that makes the last plague the uh the uh plague of the firstborn he had to do it himself you remember in P it says it was me and not an angel me and not a messenger me and this it says me why was it a him whym had nothing else to do in life he has zillions of angels unlimited amount of angels he can send Hey listen go kill all the Egyptians the in bakama says that any time that hasem releases a forces of Destruction the forces of Destruction cannot tell the difference between Good and Evil and they would just destroy everyone unless they're completely righteous people was not considered different than the Egyptians they were also considered evil they were also considered Wicked before the plague of Darkness Moshe came to the nation said we have to leave we're going to have to leave we're going to go to mount saai get to the whole purpose of the world we're not going what do you mean not going look what hasem did look how many miracles he gave us look how many miracles he gave us he turned the water into blood he did this he did this he did this for the whole to culminate to get to the point of leaving we're going to leave soon we're not going why you not going listen when we were slaves we would have gone with you of course we want to stay a slave we're not slaves anymore we haven't been slaves in months open a store the other guy open a business this guy just got a car this guy's building the second floor in his house this guy's remodeling here this guy's working on Gardens everybody's life we're living life now well we're comfortable what we're fine why and as far as uh as far as hem you have to worry about hm you know how much suffering we had you know how much karat not we had we don't do Chua anymore we're fine you know we've been slaves for 100 16 years more than half the time that we've been in Egypt 210 years we're in Egypt 116 years we're slaves but not slaves like today's slaves that Butlers make $150,000 a year talk about slaves they beat you up if you don't make your quota they put your son inside the blocks you want to have a kid nine months if the kid ends up being a boy they kill him to make sure that you don't build an ego they make they give you they take you they make you watch the little babies they take your wife she starts building the building you make the wife do the man's job and the man does the woman's job destroy egos after you built everything they destroy it on purpose why so you don't even have a sense of building anything not even a sense of achievement forget about making money even a sense of achievement to at least say you know what I didn't make any money I'm a poor guy I didn't do this I didn't do that but you know that bridge your father did it you could tell your son one day your father did it you built a bridge have something to be proud of okay I'm not a rich man I'm not a smart man blue col a guy but you know that building I was there they didn't want to give them even that sense of of pleasure nothing evil of all evils was saying we're not there anymore we're not slaves anymore if it was then we leave but we're not there anymore so let hem give us the Torah now because if it's in regards to Egypt Egypt is definitely better than the desert so Hashem must not want us to go into the desert you must be making a mistake mhe maybe you're making a mistake maybe you're mistranslating what he's saying if it's in regards to Hashem wants us to sacrifice and so on you've been sacrificing for 116 years no one did Chua like us not even you Moshe you've been on vacation for 60 years no one does Chua like us we're ready this is us today I'm not telling you the story of two or 3,000 years ago I'm telling you the story of today this is today you tell him he say listen mashia is going to be here soon has wants everyone to do chuva the rambam says we learned that chuva is the number one most important job for all of is because every single Prophet we ever had talked about chuva every single Prophet every single Prophet made chuv the number one Mission they have must do CH whether it's mov Isaiah anyone anyone Zacharia Ezekiel David any Prophet men women we had seven women that were prophets 48 men all of them number one job some worked on communities some worked on the enti nation but the point is all of them deliver the same message must do Chu the r says that's the number one mission for do CH what do you mean but everyone's religious you have to do Chua but they keep Shabbat exactly do Chua but they learn exactly you got do chuva it's good you're keeping Shabbat now you have to do chuva a lot of people think they've done chuva a lot of people are sure the Chua is not relevant to them they tell me no no I don't need to come to you just talk about cha all the time I already did Chua 15 years ago I keep Shabbat said yeah you keep Shabbat but now it's time to do chat Shabbat is good is good koser is good modesty is good now you have to do Chua what do you mean you have to do Chua you have to fix the inside outside you're perfect everyone thinks you're basali inside you still run potatoes inside you're still angry every five minutes inside you still have an ego that's bigger than the room inside you're still stingy you're still not sure whether you should give $5 or five and a half dollars for the entire year you made a half a million dollar you want to give $5 yeah help AEM out $5 the guy ate a sandwich the size of his head he says is there a shorter version of it took him three hours to eat the sandwich but he doesn't want to spend three minutes say say thank you to hhm three minutes doesn't want to spend three hours to eat the sandwich but three minutes to say thank you no okay you keep you you're eating kosher but your midot is still rotten your character Trace is still he still haven't done chuva this is all of us you tell people listen you have to work on all of these different things you have to learn M you have to work on yourself and so on and so forth people look at you you have five heads and you start noticing that a lot of people live such a life that's so consumed with material so consumed with the Egyptian Greek life that if the Messiah came they just tell him to leave why listen I'm finishing remodeling my house right now can you come back in a couple years let me enjoy the house I just signed a new deal with uh Walt Disney I'll make a million dollars this year off of Walt Disney Let me uh enjoy the million dollars first then you come back is Gonna Come three days before Mas tell the mashia hold up a little while hold up a little while it doesn't have to be three days 3 days a little uh little little too much on us we have to get ready you know the wife is still doing this the husband's still doing this the kids haven't fished school people say mashia mashia mashia but as soon as the mashia comes they going say go away because they haven't done chuva Chua is something that happens on a day-to-day basis not a one time thing so did not do cha before took them out of Egypt they did not do chuva and they also did not have an intention to do chuva because they intended on living a life no different than a guy that decides that he's going to shave with a razor no different than a guy that decides that he's going to wear shatz and whether it's chatz or not it's God's problem not his he's not going to change they decided to live with the sin Hashem says okay you want a sin no problem he killed all of them 80% at the best case scenario 80% of am Isel did not survive he killed 80% of am is only 20% left Egypt we learn this from the in the beginning of the for anyone who didn't hear it already it's very important to know this says Kim means one out of five one out of five meaning one out of five of am is left Egypt what happened to the other four the other four hasem killed at the plague of Darkness why they didn't want to do Chua they don't want to go to mount sa they wanted to get the toat their version make hasem bring us the toat to Egypt make Hashem give us to the way we like it our version there is no version there's no your version now the scariest part as you see in also says Al alv meaning I wish that one out of 500 one out of 500 of of of B is left Egypt I wish it was one out of 500 but in reality he says continues but in reality even one out of 5,000 did not leave Egypt meaning the one out of five that we just said 20% survived 80% didn't he says I wish it was one out of 500 because it's really not even one out of 5,000 and M says it's not even one one out of 500,000 the numbers are scarier and scarier when people say listen you know I mean most of doesn't keep basic level they don't pray they don't say they don't even know they don't e they don't keep shabat basic level mitv nothing what is going to kill all of them not going to let them do CH they can do what if they don't okay tells you what if you don't it tells you what if you don't it won't be the first time that's why every Friday before you go into shabat most important what does it say God sat and let the flood happen he let the flood happen what do you mean with the flood flood destroyed the entire world without Tor Without You complying with Tor there's no point he doesn't need you we need him he's perfect meaning that the only one that can win or lose out of this is us he's perfect we don't decrease or increase anything he's perfect we could win we could lose so without us winning we lose not him am was not interested in doing it now the best of them the best of them that survived the one out of 5,000 or the one out of 20 whatever it is whatever the number is either way it's a tragedy biggest tragedy that ever happened in the history of am was its beginning whatever the number was the best of them that survived got to yam those best of them that 20% that 2% whatever that is the Mal of MIT says I want to kill all of them I have the right to kill all of them there they still have the even the best of them were still Idol worshippers theyel deel says that only a foolish dog says that Moshe knew the timing of the tides while par did not this is conversation of crazy people that's what he says a lot of people try to rationalize how yam was split in today's world they try to say a tsunami in previous generation the generation of the Evan there was also Kim back then Kim weren't just born in this generation back then also says they said no no the reason why am was able to split go to go into the ocean was not because split the ocean was because Moshe knew the timing of the tides and he know when there was a really really low tide and he went and he specially took millions of people out of Egypt exactly at a time where there's a low tide so they could pass and Par arrived right when the tide went back up says this is conversation of a crazy person hasem split the ocean and the 10 Miracles are his father hasem split the ocean on top of it he turned it into tunnels tunnels 12 different tunnels why so each tribe each tribe is comfortable with themselves ashkanazi with ashkanazi Safari with Safari y with Y Shimon with Shimon everyone's comfortable with themselves listen it's it's not it's not necessarily so far from us it's a reality if you have a k it's a strong Kaa they pray together for a few years together and all of a sudden new guy comes in from somewhere else no one knows who he is it's going to bother people who's this guy who is this guy what does he want what does he want from he's a spy what do you mean he's a Jew what do you want from him a spy what does he want people are not comfortable they're not going to talk next day who is he what is he but he's a Jew though what do you have a that's us that's am it's we have Comfort we have our own people our own family our own things that's just the way it is HEM knows this is there's 12 tribes I'm going to give each one of them their own tunnel you're comfortable with Y is Yuda Shimon Shimon bamin bamin and so on and so forth the third was that the seabed was dried made into perfectly flat land that was dry why cuz if it's muddy if it's like the ocean really is you're not going to be able to walk there it's going to take you uh a year and a half to walk 10 steps with all you know putting you on top of if you have uh if you have cattle you have this so it allowed the Jews to pass unimpeded meaning no no problem but he also flattened it because the the the uh the bottom of the ocean is not flat it's like a valley it's like a hill and the valley and the so on hasem made it flat so they don't tire out but then after they passed the fourth miracle was the seabed turned back into mud which stopped the Egyptians slowed them down on top of it he solidified the water like a rock so it wasn't like there's a uh something sometimes the movies show that it's a an ocean and there's like a wind and no no the the actual water turn into a Mas like ice there's a p in the Tora says that it was like ice but he specifically made it hard enough hard type of ice that's especially hard what hard hard like a sa like a um one of those giant stones in the ocean that's indestructible pretty much why because he was going to use that same strength to destroy all the Egyptians and smash their heads on it same thing that's pleasing the Jews is being used as a punishment against the Egyptians solidified the water like rock substance that caused injury to the Egyptians the Midas is a little bit more specific than injury to the Egyptians he actually says to crush their skulls listen after all they did to us they deserve all of it the sea waters for formed into perfectly shaped Bricks now hasem took parts of the ice parts of the ocean and he made it into little dust but not dust dust the shape of diamonds big diamonds with different shades and lights it's like a beautiful 20 star hotel not uh like oh let's get out of here no it's beautiful why so they could be pleasing for their eyes when they passed they enjoyed how it looked to see going above and beyond next Miracle is that the W walls of the um formed by the waters created 12 separate corridors allow each one of the tribes oh actually that one I already said and then it says that the Sweet Water keep came out of the saltwater so Shem would we're in an ocean salt water but now it's a long journey it's not five minutes takes a little while to go across the ocean with millions of people it's going to be a while you're going get thirsty hasem made the seawater whenever someone was thirsty you just go next to to the ice a little wall would open and the sea water that salt water turned into fresh water and would give him as much drink as he wanted and plants came out of the uh fruits came out of the ground and trees with special fruits and you had as much water as possible now so you don't feel uncomfortable that maybe we're going to run out of water as soon as you finished drinking the water stopped by itself the remaining sweet water froze in place ready for when the Jews would need to drink again so the Miracles that we had is amazing Miracles before this we saw the plagues each one of the plagues was bigger than the next but who is he doing this for he's doing this for what thear calls a nation of people that were naked what do you mean naked naked of mitv they arrived at the Sea and the Mal says they have no right to live this generation these people that are he made all the Miracles for them even further despite the plagues that he did of the uh blood and the lice and the animals and the boils and the first born and the hail that had lava in it and so on we went over all this stuff he used the same thing that gave salvation to am as a way to destroy the Egyptians to see to show am that he's controlling everything the same ground that they walked on turned into something that was hot enough to destroy the wheels and melt the wheels of the Egyptians same ground you just walked on if you walked and they took a different Road it's different story but they went in the same place you just you were just there two seconds ago and turn to Lava and burn them now so you're not scared you're going to a tunnel you're going comfortably and Benyamin is in a different route but you don't know did Benyamin survive did he not survive oh so hm that he made the tunnels what did he do he made them clear so you can see oh bamin is still okay just a different tunnel and yud is over here and Shimon is over here you know everybody's okay who's not okay the Egyptians only one that's not okay is the Egyptians so for not even for one second are you concerned hasem is changing the world for you and even [Applause] further when we got to mount saai hem opened says hem opened the seven Skies the seven Heavens to show there's no one else here there's no one else here there's no other gods there's no son there's no there's nothing else just me open the heavens said look nothing I'm I'm alone so there's no doubts why these are people that didn't have any mitv first first of all why' you even do the Miracles for someone didn't have the mitv second of all why don't you do it again why don't you do it now open the sky right now seven Heavens all of us do cha so from here we learn a few key things number one the the that had was that they did fulfill a couple of things that gave the merits and also some say the uh their modesty so they kept their names as Jewish names they kept their language as Hebrew as the holy language they didn't change it to English or Arabic or something else they didn't start calling their kids you know uh different goyish names no one was named John or Matthew or Luke Unfortunately today you have some people that are actually Jewish and have these names and in some cases you have people changing their names to this because they're not comfortable with their Jewish name I know one Rabbi that his real name is Gabrielle and he changed his name to M like the like a Christian name Galore like it's not like I forget what the which one it is I don't want to miss that but the point it's m it's like it's it has has nothing to do with Judaism this name but he's a rabbi of this is happening it's happening I'm not just trying to say everyone everyone knows this is a reality so even the of we don't really have anymore unfortunately most of does know how to speak Hebrew we prefer to speak other languages I remember when we first came to the United States I was uh just finished fourth grade as soon as we arrived in America I stopped speaking Hebrew why there's no point why you're in America speak English so for almost 20 more years I did not speak Hebrew except with my parents which even that became lower and lower over time and English became my first language why if you're not learning all what are you going to use Hebrew for so even the credit of Le we didn't know we needed then their clothes look like a Jew in the old days Jews look like today's Arabs today the Arabs look like Jews how can you tell the difference the Arabs are the ones that want to kill everyone the Jews are trying to survive but you have a lot of people you tell them listen you know you have to do chuva like what do you mean you're speaking to us we Yesa I speak a couple times I spoke of yes I start talking about Yesa sometimes people ask me what do you mean we're Yesa we're students in yes what chu why you talking about Chua said yes all of you have to do Chua why what do you mean they don't even realize what's wrong you look at them and see you have to do chuva their clothes are tighter than their skin the skin is suffering from how clo how tight the closes they all want to look like the they all want to look like uh you know one of the rappers on on TV even in Yesa sometimes we're not just talking about the people that are secular keeping nothing talk about people that are religious everyone wants to look like uh they just came off the runway show they want to look like one of these uh uh Beckham the soccer player that became a runway model or something you want to look like a Hollywood but you're Yesa student you're a Jew you're not Hollywood so even bdam we don't have the credit for and they say the some of says it's also because of their modesty on that one what modesty do we have so had a few credits but still wasn't enough so hasm gave him a couple couple of more mitv he says these couple of mitv will show me youra because the out the exterior is never going to be enough you could wear certain clothes because it's comfortable you could speak a certain language because you were never educated in something else your name is not up to you your parents gave it to you so you g him two where you have to have well whether theban and also why you're not going to do those two unless you have some level of that he runs the world so told tell each one of them to bring their own kban take a a um what it called in English sheep take a sheep and tie to the bed tie to the bed for a few days it's going to make a lot of noise exactly but it's going to make the noise and the Egyptians are going to come the Egyptians are going to come they're going tell us what are you doing with our God why you tying Our God to to to your bed because the Sheep was their God why you tying Our God to your bed and tell is we're tying them because in a couple of days we're going to kill him we're going to slaughter him and make him a little shabab out of him only way you're going to do such a Mitzvah against your former boss is if you have some level of inem says I need to see your I need to see your talk is cheap in his mouth and his lips he showed me respect but his heart was far away from me people talk talk is cheap oh I love hem I love hem I love hem the minute you have a test oh where's AEM what do you mean the same one you loved he's here he didn't go away he doesn't go on vacation he doesn't sleep so hasem had to give us a certain test to see at least something give us a I could I could use this against the Mal that wants to kill you now people ask why doesn't hem okay so hasem made certain miracles for this generation to save us he promised to our forefathers ab and yov that he's not going to destroy us why doesn't he do it again now why don't he just open the sky and tells hey I'm the only one here why you do it again because from the very very same story from the very same story we learn the Miracles do not make people do Chua because because at this point when am is is being exiled is it's being taken away taken out of Egypt they've already seen Miracles above and beyond the norm a year worth of Miracles they saw the water turn into blood they saw the frogs they saw the uh light they saw the animals they saw all types of things that were Miracles things that didn't make any sense and they still had doubts to such an extent that 80% of them were not willing to leave miracles do not make people do Chua and hasem still showed the few that survived Miracles why it had nothing to do with them the Miracles were not for them the Miracles were for you the Miracles were for you to talk about and to realize that hasem runs the world 3,300 years later for them to survive he made the whole show but he could have done it other ways could have done it in a natural way could have just killed a bunch of Egyptians all of them the whole show The Miracles the magic all of that stuff had nothing to do with them that was so difficult that even the Miracles didn't work imagine a year the Miracles in Egypt still doesn't work still the one wants to do chuv you get to the ocean says listen AEM there Idol worshippers they're Idol worshippers says you're right I'm not splitting the ocean for them then ocean didn't split mosu hits the ocean ocean does nothing says I'm not splitting Moshe go away what do you mean not splitting how we going to go split not splitting split I'm not splitting not splitting go way you split not splitting why am I going to split for you Idol worshippers why am I going to split for you starts everybody starts screaming some of them want to commit suicide someone them want to go back to being slaves someone them want to go fight some are just confused goes into the water he says there's no way there's no way that hasm does something for nothing nothing he brought us this test because we can pass it behind us Egyptians obviously it's not a choice we can't go back he took us out so we could leave not so we can go back right and left is not an option there's scorpions and there's snakes there's nothing there you can't get to the destination going sideways meaning the only other option that's viable is straight yes but there's water that's hashem's problem yes but there's difficult that's hashem's problem yes but it doesn't make sense exactly that's amuna goes into the water believing 100% this is the only way but what's 100% he's willing to put his life on the line is is willing to put his life on a line for his belief in hasem not just money not just relationship ships not just Cav his life there's no turning back he goes into the ocean Kaz says up to the point we start swallowing water at that moment that M that act was enough to give all of us the Merit to cross the ocean to see but not into one but into 12 we showed some level ofuna we showed some level of one person show their level of a few people followed say oh they want to follow good that means they have potential maybe they'll do chai eventually but even then even after we saw the Miracles of the ocean when we got to mount saai Hashem still had to do the impossible still had to do the unnatural because the nation was was a 49th level of t says if they would have gotten to 50 he would have had to destroy the world meaning there was such a lonely generation that he had to literally open the heavens and say listen there's no one else here the statue you're praying to he's not here he's still there next to you he's still there he's no there's no I'm here alone you have two options you see Mount saai I bent it on top of you it's like a like the you have here's my Tor I created this Torah 974 Generations before I created the world if you accept it this is our if you don't this will be your funeral which one do you want kazal says what kind of deal is this you're forcing them into the Torah says what do you think God is negotiating with people he's going to make all of creation depend on a bunch of people that were in a 49th level of tumat didn't know right didn't know left yet cuz everyone else is depending on a yes including the angels all of them were shaken because already in already in the creation of the world hasem made a deal if they accept the Torah good if they don't I'm destroying the world meaning the Angels were shaking the planets were shaking the go were shaking the animals were Shake everyone was Shake everyone needed to say them to say yes but no one can make them say yes it was free choice what kind of free choice free choices if you say no I'm going to destroy you and everything else you have a choice it's just it's Choice it's not free choice there's a price for this Choice it's an expensive choice not free choice why because we have a responsible God that he's not just going to punish all of creation because of a bunch of fools now this is a generation that was in the 49th level of Tuma and still they had difficulty until they did Chua and even then they still made certain mistakes but we are there gilim all of the generation that was in the desert for 40 for 40 years whoever is alive at the times of the mashiah you are Reincarnation of one of those people we didn't stop messing up back then we're still messing up today a little bit what's the difference what's the difference what changed what is this Mish telling us there were Miracles that were performed for our ancestors good abah yov thank you very much we got miracles because of you there was 10 at the sea we didn't deserve it but we had a few people step up a few zealous people mash comes from him he stepped up we got some Miracles bem 10 plagues hem put on Egypts and Egyptians and 10 plagues on the sea destroyed everything to show us that he's running the world and so on great why you repeating it what's the point what's the connection to us today today 5778 what's the connection with the Gil the difference is says the time before the mashia we will reach the level 50 we will reach worse than what we had in Egypt but why wouldn't ASM destroy us then because it said 50 will destroy 50 will be destruction only without Torah because tah can make you do chuv which means the only way only way that we can survive that we can prosper that we can celebrate that we can be excited for eternity is if we hold on to the truth because our life depends on it you hold on you have nothing to worry about you'll be part of that section that survives you want to stay with the go you want to stay 5050 you want to be Aon religious sometimes except on vacation religious sometimes except in a business M sometimes when you go to the but not outside where it's only in the house but not outside you know religious whenever it's convenient for you learn whenever it's convenient for you AEM comes second everything else comes first we learned from this story we learned from this mishna it didn't work for them and if you're saying you had a tough life and that should be the reason of why you should survive and why hasem should should welcome you with open arms because you you suffered you struggled you had a tough life did you have a tougher life than they did they didn't have that they didn't have such an easy time they suffered a lot more than we did they were slaves and still they needed to do chuva if there was ever a generation that was 100% with all the excuses in the world to not do chuva was them hasem says you still need to do chva so yes there's a lot of confusion yes there's a lot of fake rabbis yes there's a lot of different yet there's girls and there's guys and there's money and there's no money there's sickness and there's this there's a million and a half different things but we have a t you learn the Tor you learn how to fix your mid you do real chv you have nothing to worry about you don't you have everything to worry about and that's what we learned from this Mish that is Rel you could say some of these things inat especially if you have people that haven't done Chu or people that think that they're finished they're really religious there's no such thing as FR from birth anymore everyone has do chuva everyone has to work on themselves for some reason something and if we continue working on yourself then hashem's not going to have to help youm is not going to have to work on you you're doing it already self and that is the last thing that we learn got a special Merit in this parasa the parasa in essence is named after him the is named after him it says says and it happened when par sent out the people what do you mean par sent out people God sent out the people mhe was the messenger not why does it say sent out the people Wiki know he killed 150 babies every morning because somebody told him that their blood is good for him to B bathe in this psychopath every day killed 150 B why you nameing after him why you saying that he freed us why because in this after being Wicked years for decades telling mosu next time I see I'm gonna kill you to mosenu tell M next time I see I'm gonna kill you I don't want to see your face I'm never releasing them who's your god he killed so many he destroyed so many is called me why not AEM because realized he's wrong okay I did what I did but in reality I have to free them so what he do in his pajamas he started tell no no no come on come on the bottles pick up the bottles hey guys here's some money here's some toys here's some this he started saying no said go go you need to go go serve hm pray for me too put put put this in the Cel for me go go go pray for me here he embarrassed himself it says it wasn't a fake chuva was a real Chua he embarrassed himself a king coming out in his pajamas telling the nation hey go go go he did some level of Chua and that's the reason why hasem let him live and killed everyone else everyone else he killed they didn't do Chua he did cha he became the me of nve became king of nve we learned about him in in why he did some level of CH even though he went after them again and the whole thing happened still there was some type of regret he knew God is real so what about us what about us that's what we have to realize all of these different things these are small little bombs some is a grenade some is an atomic bomb some is a hydrogen bomb all different bombs each one of these bombs can help you do chuva pick one pick one what's going to help you tomorrow what's going to carry you to the rest of the week because the next time you hear Rabbi telling you something different says no no no Hashem loves you you're okay you don't need to do anything just GI the kind everything is fine tell prove it to me prove it to me prove it to me that hem loves me and I don't have to do Chua show me a verse in the Tor that says you don't have to do CH if he says no it's it says of Israel has a share the world to come but it says you read the rest of the verse says yes all the all the I don't keep how iik prove to me I don't have to do Chu prove show me one verse in the entire Tor one verse not two not three not four not 50 one verse in the Tor one verse in the entire one verse everything tell you no no no all has has many like has a pomeg granate has seeds great 613 they say it's not really 613 they just say it is great 613 not going to help you why maybe if you do one day you did 600 mitvah great you need to do that uh lifetime you do a lot more than the 600 you can't dovah you can't say listen I'm going to teach uh T but the T you teaching is not Kosher so again these tools that you're learning this m this real check that's your weapon that's your weapon against the Liars the thieves the people that are just interested in your pocket the people that just interested in you staying exactly the same there's a lot of them it's very confusing time it's very very confusing but if you want to be part of that part that's going to survive you're going to have to hold on to the truth because your life depends on it any questions K they have to where didn't they work well I mean to pray you always have time for you pray you pray while you're doing other things but I mean as far as the uh will always make time for you to make sense always so for example you tell a person listen we have a shield T oh when 9:00 oh no no it's too late it's too late it's too late for me I can't do it I can't do it I can't do it so okay next time I'll call you when we're having I'll call you I'll call you when we're having the 7 o'clock sh and then you call the guy after the shoe at 12:00 at night you're calling the guy no so what are you doing oh no no I'm just watching a show if you're already watching a show at 12:00 you could have been at the sh for 3 hours why did you have time to watch the show why did you have time to go to the gym why did you have time to do nothing but to come to the Sho you didn't have time why because the convinces you it's too late yet convinces you you can't do it yet will always make time for for you to to meet him always always always that's the way it works always if you notice if you notice is that when it comes to wasting money on you always have money somebody wants to get a fancier car they could always find a way to afford it somebody wants to find a way to get a bigger house they could always find a way to afford it somebody wants to get an extra watch for $110,000 that they don't still does the same time as the $5 watch the $10,000 watch and the $5 watch same time but they're always going to find a way to afford the $110,000 but he tell the guy listen you want to save some Jews from actually going to Gom you want to help them do cha okay it's 100 bucks 100 bucks you can save 100 Jew no it's wow it's a lot of money to save Jews these days huh $110,000 in a watch not a lot of money $100 a lot of money $1,000 a lot of money for $10,000 for you always have money but $10,000 for MIT no come on it's come on what do you think I am Rockefeller no I just think you're a guy with $10,000 watch that's all I think but that's the thing yet Works inside he has a he has a he has a villa inside he says no no $10,000 for guaranteed you're gonna have $100,000 for the car guaranteed you're G to have you tell the guy listen you need to buy I had a guy says you he doesn't have started doing have oh no no I have my from Bar Mitzvah said yeah but you're 40 years old you have to buy a regular normal normalin for an adult that's you know how much is it listen if it's a basic basic level for Bar Mitzvah 500 bucks 600 bucks if you want something for an adult that's me that's respectable and so on you can get even to a couple thousand depends depends what your budget is oh let me think about it let me think about it okay no problem let me think about it a little time passes I uh you know I hear from him again Hey listen yeah we're on vacation and uh you know I was just thinking that uh those feeling are very expensive I'm think wait you're on vacation vacation flight for you your wife the kid and this kid that the vacation did not just to get there cost you no less than $10,000 but $5 $600 for they don't have why will always give you money for he'll give you unlimited money sometimes the will give you business just to make sure you learn to sometimes you have a guy all day nothing there's no business it's like a it's like a uh Funeral Center no one's dying today everyone's Alive 5 seconds before he needs to leave he wants to go to sh all of a sudden the customer that he never heard from decides to call five minutes before oh you know what let me talk to this guy for two hours he talks to the guy misses the T what is willing to give you money just don't go learn T why is for him Torah is the it's it's potion of death for him that's how you kill him so the sins we've made in of course there's room for it for sins there's always room most people think today that uh you know someone that's from from birth you know is should not have any worry about a if you're let's say a secular person and you go to the Israeli Army many of them go after the army or many young guys to today uh around the same age they want to go to different places around the world to Thailand to India to different places and they want to climb these mountains and they go to the mountains and they don't realize that on top of these mountains are huge idols and climbing these mountains you have a serious problem you're you're enjoying Idols you have a very very big sin in your account now when a secular person doesn't think about this stuff he's thinking oh wow I just climbed a mountain oh wow I just climbed a great wall oh wow I just did all these different things he's thinking it's an achievement in life he doesn't realize in in sh they just put an x mark on him so secular person doesn't even know what he doesn't know now religious person also also thinks Idol worshiper is not for me I know I I can't pray to Idols I know I'm not going to climb some mountain in uh Thailand so I don't have to worry about Idols but what do we find out two years ago that unfortunately today Many religious people have idols on their head it's called wigs it's called wigs sometimes it's in their pocket it's called money they worship the money more than they worship God tell the guy listen uh you know use this money that you have instead of building a extra large size 401K that you're not going to live to see why don't you build an extra large mitv account do something with the money no no you know how hard I worked for the money so the point is is that people think that they're they don't have to worry about anything everyone is convinced that they're finished that all they have to do is just survive long enough to see the mashia like in the business World they used to tell people all you have to do is succeed is survive long enough to succeed which is true in business if you have a decent honest business all you really have to do to succeed is survive CU eventually the ties are going to turn and if you have a decent business that's proactive that's a you know you're you're you're you're chasing you're doing whatever you're supposed to be doing you're an honest guy you're treating customers right even though you may not start at the top on day one and it may take you even years before you actually make a few dollars in general you see that these really successful businesses that became Empires they didn't start that way many of them actually started with a completely different business like for example if you see the history of some of these major corporations that run the world today the way they started and what they are today are two completely different businesses uh example Samsung oh Samsung yeah Samsung Samsung I believe it's Samsung it's huge electronics company huge electronics company giant now you would think Samsung maybe the guy that found that Samsung was born with a computer inside a stomach but you know what they I believe it's Sam Samsung it's either them or something similar it's huge huge company multi-billion dollar company it's in electronics you would think the founder was born with a maybe a iPhone in his pocket but you know what Samsung started as selling macaroni Pasta Pasta they s pasta that was the company many of the companies if you look at them if you look at the foundation of the companies it's completely different business how do they become multi-billion dollar companies they survived long enough to succeed and they adapted to the times but that's business you want business that can give you a course for 10 hours you can make a million dollars in the next 24 months it's not going to get you all that's why I don't teach it trying to get you doesn't have the same rules you can't survive long enough to see mashia why survival is not going to help you what's going to help you is doing chva only thing that's going to help you is doing chva because if Mia comes tomorrow we we're in a worse situation than we're in a worse situation because many of us are not ready many of us are not ready Al will going to be ready Al and I'm not talking about people outside I'm talking about us here so it's a lot to do it's a lot to do cha say you have to work on your you have to work on character traits you have to work on all types of different MIT that you're not doing you have to learn there a lot there a lot to do there a lot to do the good news is that Hashem is merciful and he's giving us the time he's giving us the time he's giving us the ability it's easier to learn to than any other time in history and in a generation of RAB AKA they passed a decree they said whoever learns T we're going to kill Hima came out and started teaching T start teaching T why are you doing it I have to teach D they started killing him destruction of what these evil Romans did is unbelievable they started peeling his body peeling his body like you peel an apple and they started selling the meat in the market for people to eat the that weren't in the jail knew this is what's happening with them but they were debating about Tor they were debating about t they had you go in Su they had a different complication if a man is allowed to go back with his ex-wife if when they married she was really young because really if you if you were married and you got divorced and then she married another guy and she wants to go back to you can't do it but what about if she was really young so were arguing she was really young so it wasn't really it's not the same thing as someone that made their own choice and so on and so forth was a debate we don't know said we have to ask who we going to ask who going to ask R AKA how we going to geta is in jail I want to get a messenger to to give him a question question they're peeling his skin they're selling it in the market like okay get 400 zoos you know what 400 zo is 400 zo you were able to buy a farm full of sheep ton of money it's like a million dollars pay the messenger 400 Jew to go ask question this is what they did they sent a question here give a question to yeah they appealing after they feel peeling his skin today and and and blood everywhere and suffering and screaming and so on as the question need to know the answer yes or no it'sa says no you're right the question he gives him the answer no you're not allowed meaning Raba completely agreed with this m he didn't get Ang oh he instead of paying 400 Jew for used to to ask me a question why don't you pay 400 for them to release me no to what do you mean has nothing to do with each other has nothing to do with each other you need to know Allah that's Torah you need to know T you I have t okay I'll tell you it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm suffering one has nothing to do with the other says the whole world eats off of himself doesn't have any food but the whole world eats because of his his his his Good Deeds they said you're not all to teach T not teach T in the Middle Street start teach T middle of the street start teaching so why you teaching what you at least do it hiding was hiding from who they say teach teach go who the Romans yeah but hasm said to teach yeah but the Romans said no but hasem said to teach meaning in his head it didn't reg so what if they said so what if they said don't yeah but they're going to kill you now they're going to cut you up to Pieces so cut me up to Pieces so what I thought T that's what hasem said so what that's a is kados that's someone that mamash has made himself completely holy he's completely disconnected from our reality our version of reality is not reality I learned some of the these stories with r fr the other day and seriously we have a warped version of reality what these willing to do for T it's not even something that's comprehensible for us for them that's the point of life Hashem put me in the world to learn Tora to teach T the fact that I'm suffering I'm struggling I'm sad I'm happy the dog is you know pooped on the carpet the the the the kid failed in school the car has a flat it's irrelevant that's whatever it's part of life yeah but the is life that's part that's somewhere there we have unfortunately the opposite we're not going to go to the sh because the dog pooped we're not going to go to the sh because the the kids are crying we're not going to go to the sh because uh the rabbi looked at me the wrong way and I got offended you understand so that's that's that's the things about the is that they understood the significance of Tor when you're struggling is much more than you think to such an extent that mosenu came to after Mount Si which we'll talk about a little bit next next week and he says and he Gaz he made he said listen do you know how much I struggled to learn this Torah what do you mean you struggled went to hasm he gave you Tora he goes I had to go through fire all the Angels wanted to kill me they to burn me they burn Moshe wanted to kill mosu to struggle for this tor it's our decree and it's actually Pleasant to hem for us to struggle for his Tor meaning if you're looking to eat popcorn and and potato chips and that's you're going to become a says unlikely you can enjoy the popcorn though so that's the that's that's these are things that again some of these things we're not expecting to be but it just gives us a little bit of a taste of how far we really are from from what reality really is so start with ch start with doing start with laying of day start with keeping Shabbat start being a kosher person keeping kosher in the house out of the house being honest in business working on your character traits learning T every day coming to the making T number one part of your life why because Shalom we end up being the generation of that doesn't survive there's no more G there's no more reincarnations can't rely on anything like that what else issue of weed of what weeds weeds like like pot oh Wigs Wigs I thought weed like uh people smoke said oh K actually did Che about that in New York about uh marijuana is not allow unless for medicine yeah when we see a church church look at unless you're that Rabbi that I talked to two weeks ago that he talked he looked at every woman he told me I looked at every woman to make sure she's wearing a wig so what about woman we we turn our we're not looking at it necessarily but F the opposite direction she coming to okay so in general like you said If a woman is not your wife you're not all to stare at anyone um you're not all to stare at any woman even more so um so if she's not your wife then there's no reason for you to stare at her anyway you're not allowed now if it's for common dat today things for example she's your boss or your assistant or your colleague and you need to talk to her then if you give her your back then it's disrespectful then it's m the person it's it's embarrassing to the person then you have an issue of you're embarrassing a person in public so you have to be able to look to them to look at them and uh not necessarily a uh looking at them because they're wearing a wig you're looking at them because you're talking to them but even then you should limit the amount of eye contact you have limit the amount of facial you know uh connection that you have uh which is difficult in the business world but still it's possible so you should limit it limit it as much as you possibly can um this is why many of people that have and are really serious about uh watching their eyes usually stay away from you know big parties where there's uh you know the uh men and women there and so even even if there's no dancing which at that place you're not even allowed to go even if you want to just even dinners they just usually don't go simply because they want to avoid even this type of relationships uh and actually specifically said he should be worried if there's a rabby that specifically focuses on just teaching women all the time giving a Sho to just women here and there it's fine but if that's his Focus you should be worried about him why why is he only teaching women they're not even obligated to learn to why is he only teaching women something wrong with that should be worried about so as far as as far as the the looking and so on obviously ly you have to worry about it and you have to make sure that you take that into account but at the same token you have to also take into account that this is a Jewish n so you have you can't just embarrass it uh so it's not like a uh Shotz where if somebody wear chatz actually you're and you know for sure they're wearing chatz you're allowed to take the uh clothes off of his back uh the wig you're not 100 there's always going to be somewhat of a saf we know it's a very small suff but nonetheless always a suff whether this idol worship or not and even if it is idol worship the person itself is not doing it because of idol worship uh they're not putting the the the uh the wig on because of idol worship they're putting the wig on because of Desire um so it's it's again changes things so you don't necessarily need to look away and embarrass them uh but in general if you're not really looking at them you're not really enjoying the wig anyway and you shouldn't be enjoying the wig anyway uh overall the ideal situation for a person is to try to um not be in a situation where he has to stare at you know be in front of the opposite gender for an extended period of time uh limited as much as possible because you have a even if somebody's righteous and even if somebody learn all day even if they work on the is smarter than us he's bigger than us he's stronger than us and he even came TOA ban with uh fake women you know meaning that he dressed up as a woman the pretended to be a woman that was the most beautiful woman in the world and they almost fail meaning that no one even R AKA was a uh at a level or that was possible for them to not have the for women for sex sexual desires which means that we have to protect ourselves as much as we possibly can by limiting our exposure to it our exposure to it as much as possible uh but at the same token you know the uh just embarrassing people in public is also not allowed you know so this is reminds me of some guy that uh thought it was a Mitzvah because in Israel they're much more they're much more uh stringent on smartphones smartphones cause a lot of problems especially in the religious world and in certain places in Israel in Jerusalem and B and so on if they see you in a smartphone uh they have an H they have a a leniency to take your smartphone and break it because they believe it's aod they believe it's a uh it's some you're making a sin and so on and so forth um now this is not really an actual Al but some people believe it is some people believe that if you have a smartphone you have no ala it's all types of craziness again it's not a good idea to have a smartphone if you don't need it for a real reason but the point is is that um some people take things too far so for example uh there's one guy that came to U and uh or in a call of refinement he told a uh he told him listen uh he started like yelling embarrassing him in public oh you have no this you know all all types of uh no no no compliments no compliments compliments were deleted for what cuz he had a smartphone next to him there was a smartphone next to him and if I looked at him he says you know even if everything you said is true even if everything you said is true that uh let's say you believe that I was going to use a smartphone to go look at uh I was going to look at the worst things on the internet on the smartphone that's one sin I would have me you're yelling at me for maybe possibly I was going to make one sin to go look at something inappropriate but you just embarrassing me for five minutes straight is no you can't make a you can't make a even if what you were doing is a mitvah you can't do it this way so some people go to the extent of taking the phone out of a person's hand and smash it on the floor so you can't make mitv that way you have to have little you have to have a little but that's also why it's important to make sure that you make yourself a real Rabbi not some crazy person you know but again you know people mean well people mean well but sometimes they take things too far next questions oh why did theem create the idea of the 12 tribes isn't it against the idea of of one United Nation isn't it going to cause fights no not necessarily I mean it's a uh the uh if everything was the same then we wouldn't appreciate the significance of each one of us so for example you could have said the same question of why did AEM create seven days why don't you just create one day you could just create one day that way you don't have a problem every day Shabbat you're never allowed to use fire or every day okay or you have one day is yes one day is no one day is uh Friday next day is Shabbat so he created six days in order for you to be able to do what it is that you do make your living you know and so on learn and so on and he made a one day a week Shabbat because if it was six days holy and one day not it wouldn't make sense it wouldn't make sense you would just turn all seven into holy if it was one day yes or one day no it create a lot of confusion of which day yes and which they no to such a point that half the population will be wrong if it was now you know the fact that it was six days basic mundane and one day holy it's much more significant and much more by Design simp simply because it shows you the significance of the Holiness because it's Unique and it's a small amount things that are um plentiful people don't appreciate things that are plentiful people don't appreciate so if I just for example if if money just started uh flying from the sky you know just falling from the sky within a matter of a couple of days no one would care about money all of the money will be worthless why because everyone's a millionaire everyone's millionaire therefore everyone's poor because you have to have scale if everyone's a millionaire then everyone's poor uh so the the the diversity is what creates significance it's part of it's part of our tah where Hashem had to distinguish us from each other because each one of the tribes had a different role to do in order to reach their own unique goal diversity is important because diversity is also leads to the ultimate goal the ultimate goal is Unity Unity because of diversity not Unity because we're the same if it's Unity because we're the same then we're all monkeys there's nothing there's no no it's so what you're you're obviously together because you're all one Ant Farm but if this farm and that farm and that farm and that farm all built something together that's significant that was by the way the significance of the tower the generation of the Tower of Babel technically they were bigger Sinners than the generation of the flood generation of the flood just didn't want to do what hasem wanted them to do and they made a lot of sins but they didn't declare war against Hashem but yet Hashem destroyed all of them the generation of the Tower of Babel wanted to go to war against hem meaning it's a bigger sin than what the generation of the flood did but yet hm did not destroy them why because they had unity and so long that they had Unity Hashem said I can't punish them so that's also why he made them have different languages because that broke up the unity so each one of the tribes has their own mission so for example the levy tribe that's our tribe of that's the tribe of the of the people that are going to be the Kim that's the tribe of the people that are going to work at the bet mikdash the tribe of Yuda that's were the Warriors these were you that was a warrior and so on and so forth each one of the tribes had certain things you have one would learn to one would make business each one had their role if we're independent is worries about himself zun worries about himself y worries about himself and everybody worries about themselves then yeah we're not a nation then we're no different than the rest of the green but says what means meaning that we're all worried for each other regardless of the fact that we're you know that we're different tribes even if you're Benyamin and I'm and this guy is a uh YF and the other one is this one maybe on a day-to-day basis we're going to have some differences you might have a different synagogue I may have a different this different custom and so on but when all of us if there's a problem and the go want to go against one of us that's when we unite and we've seen this time and time again for example even in recent history the religious people and the and the secular people in Israel fight on a regular basis fight on a regular basis I mean it's like almost like a Mitzvah to fight in America it's less they just don't bother each other really we live two separate lives but as soon as there's some type of Shalom if there's a some family that has an accident or someone was kidnapped or something like that all of a sudden everyone unites everyone publicizes donate money everyone does something for the family everyone prays together everyone unites wait but you hated him last week it doesn't matter the hate is back then yeah I still hate them but right now we have to be United but if we're all the same if we're all in the same Kaya we're all in the same Kaa then there would never be a a uh you know there's no diversity and there's no unification we're in essence we're the same thing so the significance of of unity is because there's diversification if there's no diversification then there's no no Unity if there's no Unity then we don't have a significance as a nation as a whole so yes a the uh customs of the ashkenazim or the yemenites or the safarik or the Moroccans or the this one or that one do create differences they do create differences and the can't eat rice on on on P it's very diff I don't know how they for me not eat rice on P it's a I don't know how they do it but but then they tell you okay fine we we suffer on PES but you suffer every day your and is like twice as long it's twice as long after day you're inet so or different custom or this or that so yes there are differences there are differences there are even differences in certain opinions wise it's different not you know not a lot but there are some some some differences where the ashkenazim are more stringent than the s or vice versa the more Stranger Than Asim but Tora says this and that one both of them are words of of the Living God why because the Torah is dynamic Torah is a moving is something moving it's not something still AEM did not give us a black and white Torah where we knew all the laws clearly yes there is the laws but how to implement each one of the laws we don't know we know from the but how did they get to know it we broke it down we have from obviously but still there's certain intricate part of laws that come from the law like a to meaning there's the law of I don't know let's say uh you know you're not all to tie tie on on on Shabbat not to tie on Shabbat not to untie okay so I'm not going to tie why because they were tie kns in the mishan TS to make the oil and so on okay great you're going to make oil this Shabbat no I'm not going to make an oil either okay so no what about if you're in B and you're one of the you know you have your and sometimes your becomes a little loose and they starts going all over the place a little bit the strings go all over the place so all you want to do is just tighten it a little bit so it doesn't go all over the place you want just tighten it a little bit allow or not allow allow or not allow ass why ass you're tying yeah but it's not Mish it's to it's born from in essence the same thing so there are things that are born from the bigger law there's a smaller one but in essence the according to it's the same thing so the point is is that we have to toil in Torah to get to the truth but sometimes sometimes there's two truths there's two truths meaning black and white are both right but black is white for you white is right for you or vice versa you're both right bet sh and bet are both right you can't be you can't be bet or vice versa they're both right for your specific case sometimes not always not all there's no he's allowed to keep Shabbat he can't keep sh there something like that there little details of the law why did hasem do it that way why is the Torah so Dynamic with certain intricate laws is because to the the action of toiling of Torah to get to the truth that's the significance that's what Hashem wants it's not just memorizing a bunch of of laws and then already all everybody has because if it was just about memorization of laws no one would toil with t it would just be on you know on the walls as wallpaper it would just write you the laws every time you did this you know no one would toil with t and that's what hasem himself does it says mid says that hasem himself his his shua his his fun you know what he does for fun has fun where has fun he learn tah he toils in Torah TOS in t so that's that's the that's the thing it's not it's not supposed to be uh just get to the law some people ask oh why don't we just instead of reading why don't you just tell me what do I need to do what do I don't need to do you're missing the whole point you're missing the whole point to get to the law how how hasem gets to the law how the get to the law get to the bottom line that's the significant part of of learning toah not the law itself law itself is important but it's not the significant part the significant part is how we got to the law why because that's the blueprint and that blueprint you could reuse you could reuse and reapply in different parts for different laws or different parts of your life I'll give you one example and then let you guys get some sleep I'll give you one example now anyone know what a is to most of you means that it's a wig right wig but the really has another meaning a also means the end the end of a field now there are laws of and this is a uh this is a law of um how to give how to give so the main job in those days says inat um both in in uh 23 and also here too in 68 yeah 23A and 68 um that uh a couple things that in order to someone that has a farm they're obligated to give they're obligated to give money to the poor but what money to give to the poor not cash they have to give a part of the field they have a season you're growing a certain amount of fruit or whatever vegetables uh during the season and you have to give a certain amount to the poor you have to give it's not like a you have to give okay so the question is what do you give you have to give a certain section A Certain percentage okay so when do I have to give it you have to give the what's the the is the end the end of the field why not the beginning why not the middle if I'm giv I can decide when to give no you have to give the end why and there's a few reasons number one it says that if you give the uh if if it's undetermined and you decide to give in the beginning another guy decides to begin at the end what ends up happening is you end up being a GV you end up being a a Thief why a thief a thief in two ways Thief is that you're stealing the Poor People's time they don't know when they're getting it so all day they're going to wait oh did you give now no did you give now no did you give now did you give now you decide that you want to give it the end but they're waiting for you from the beginning because they don't want to miss out so they're waiting the whole season until you get to the end because they don't know if you're going to give now you're going to give to the end so in essence what you're doing instead of giving them the ability to go collect from other people they have to sit there by you like a like a statue waiting for you to give because they don't know what you're going to give so now you're a thief you're stealing that time they could go collect them somewhere else make a good living but now you're stealing their time on the other hand if you give them the uh you know the beginning then you end up being a different type of thief why different type a thief because if you didn't give if you decide if you just didn't give you skipped it it's still going to look like you gave why because you continued doing whatever it is you're doing no one knows what you did or you didn't do so said you have to give the end you have to give the end because the end exclusively for everyone it has to be the end because everyone knows that the end of the field corner of the field applies to everyone they know when to wait they know that if the poor people are not collecting at that point that means you didn't give and you have to punished for it and so on and so forth even more so even more so which part of it do you give do you just give the rotten part do you give any part that you want that you decide as the end the says no you have to give the best you have to give the best part but it's the poor guy why should I give him the best give him the rotten fruits like uh K gave to hem as a Corban he gave him the rotten fruits you didn't want to give him a good Corban you wanted say why hasm is not going to eat it anyway why should I give him the uh good tomatoes let me you give him the Rotten Tomatoes anyway he's not going to eat it what if the end is only if the end is not your responsibility okay it's not your responsibility you abide by the law but the point is you're supposed to give the best part not decide okay this is I'll make this the end because it's the worst part you have to give the best part so none of us are farmers I don't think and none of us are dealing with all of this stuff how can we play this no one's going to open a farm reply is because it teaches us about how to be charitable first and foremost you have to understand charity is not necessarily just about giving as far as giving money charity is also about giving cavod the most difficult part of collecting charity of collecting is the embarrassment it's the embarrassment someone that collects charity it's it's it's m a t and a half to ask people for money anyone that has still self-respect in them it's a disaster to ask people for money I've never had to ask people for money I don't I don't think I would survive I don't think I would survive yeah we post it online if you want to donate donate and so on but directly oh listen we need $5,000 please help us for mortgage never give me that and may He Never give it I don't know how people do it I don't know how people do it why because it's it's a disaster what the is teaching us here is you have to know to give charity it's not just give your money thank you you're wow no it's giving the person some sense of respect give the person the feeling like which is that he's doing you a favor now you're doing him a favor the says who benefits the most out of the the one that gives not the one that receives why the one that receiv why not the one that receives because the one that receives is going to give him anyway he's going to give him anyway if he's right is gonna give him anyway the one that gives he has free choice he decides whether he wants to be the tool that Hashem uses to give or not meaning he's really the only one that benefits the one that receives hm's going to give him anyway it's decreed in sh what he's going to receive say meaning their investor is the one that's that's benefits why because he decided by his own free choice to be the tool that hasem uses to give to his children so first and foremost we learned from from this P this whole thing about farming and giving to we learn how to behave ourselves with poor people or people that need with organizations don't wait for them to ask many people say listen they always tell me listen if you need anything just let me know and in the back of my mind I'm say I'm never ever going to let you know it's never going to happen I'm going to die before I'm gon let you know why I'm never listen it's not I don't have that I'm never going to ask you for money ever it's never going to happen I'll die before I ask you for money why my ego is over here it's never going to happen it's never going to happen I'm never going to ask you for rent money I'm never going to ask you for more it's never going to happen I rather kill me why this person has self-respect he's just not going to do itm knows give me that he knows he knows I'm a weak person I can't do it he knows in this regards I'm a pencil can't do it can't do it but but I don't have a tun of money what's the T I like to give so you have to decide who you going to give and so on the point being is that some people say listen if you need something let me know that's the wrong approach the biggest part of your of your is that you give before whether they need it or not is irrelevant whether they need it or not obviously is irrelevant you want to give you want to be the tool that hasem uses give you want to be part of kiru give you want to be part of give don't wait for somebody Hey listen we're so poor we don't have please why why are you waiting for them to to embarrass them themselves why why wait for people to embarrass themselves why it gives you better pleasure and that's what they're teaching Us in this just basic I'm not even telling the whole sugya this is just the beginning just the beginning learn how to respect the needy the needy of the respect not the rich people respect the rich respect the needy even the way you give you have to give them respect so that's one two what do you give them do you give them just the change that you have in your pocket you know some people like to say oh say you have something yeah look hold on they take out all the bills no no not the bills hold on a second the other pocket they look for coin oh no that's from Canada I'm not going to use that that's from Australia that's this finally they find 87 cents of quarters and and say hey hey hey hey guy hey hey good luck to you good luck to you Hem Hem will bless you Hashem will bless you the guy is saying to himself Hashem is blessing with you 87 cents he took out all the bills $500 nothing but the 87 cents he gave him says what do you give him give him the best part instead of spending $3,000 on a navigation system once you think about your your brother and sister that's why the never wanted to be rich they said you know how difficult it is to be rich you have to be responsible for everybody if somebody that's connected to you is is is is suffering under your watch you have to pay for that Dean says you have to give the best part you can't if you have a guest you have a guest you have to give him the best you have a Slave people ask about slaves all the time about Judaism they believe in slaves first of all the slaves in the T are very different than slaves of today slaves of T choose to be slaves either because they were criminals or they were thieves or they owe a lot of money but to finalize it all it says if you have a slave you have a boss why you have a boss why you have a boss if he he's a slave no no if you have a slave he's a boss because if you have one pillow you have to give it to him you have one steak you have to give it to him but he's a slave that's to slave you have to give him the best so these are just small things that you learn from that you think is completely disconnected from our world but in reality when you look at the intricate part of the laws you see it's very much connected if we could all apply just what we learned at the end of this year forget the first three hours just the end of this year to our day-to-day life next time you see somebody that's needy say oh hey come come come to the H come I'll show you you give the guy instead of making the guy feel like he's homeless and give him 87 cents you give the guy sit down say hold on you're probably tired you're walking all day sit down let me give give the guy a drink even if you still give him 87 cents if that's all you have that's all you have what can you do but you give the guy a drink you give guy potato chips or something you say ask the guy how you doing how you making out give him some sense of like respect some like don't make him feel like he's he's he's a he's a disease he's tat for some reason people don't feel like they don't feel like they even need to worry about the needy like oh oh yeah you know hey hey herey here take care look there the pet give him a treat yeah here go yeah yeah good luck to you yeah good luck to you these are small little things this is midot this is character traits you always says no I'm a good person yet you do this last time you gave did you give 87 cents and tell the guy good luck or you actually ask the guy how he doing when was the last time you asked the guy that me that homeless guy average guy you never met him in your life or came to your asking for how you doing how are you you ever ask him how are you once in your life once can you say you know what there was one homeless guy or one guy I said how are you you ask one time one time how are you do you even care how are you that's what Torah teaches us that's TM that's the difference between logic that's human and God God says how are you God cares how are you that's the beauty of that's the we have next year is going to be on Sunday in Hollywood the the series that we're having over there is having a lot of success and then a couple of sh next week uh if anybody has any questions issues and so on please send them over hopefully I as I answered all the questions that you have now I give you guys some sleep so no one complains and uh you have a fantastic rest of the week amen amen [Music] [Applause] [Music]