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Tzadik or Chasid: Is There A Practical Difference That Will Effect You?

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we are back here in our lecture series stump the rabbi haven't seen you guys in some time asking questions so after uh a little bit of will uh give a few little insights little thoughts that I had and then you guys will ask some questions and will give us the answers uh so uh few things updates uh like I said we have a lot of things going on regards to uh the K is actually growing uh the we have a couple of uh things uh that are going to be uh coming to Market very soon um the uh the flyer thing for anybody that's asking about it uh uh that website should be up uh was the next few days'll be able to order same thing with the books uh and also I just got word that are uh my first book my first book in uh in Hebrew is uh done it's printed it's uh published we're going to be giving out uh few thousand copies in uh Isel anybody that is in located in Al Isel and wants to uh give some copies of the book in is um please contact me uh and then we're probably in about a month or so we'll have uh them available in uh in the US available in the US for anybody that wants to give them out uh the price is a fortune uh but you don't have to pay for it if you're going to be giving them out and that's in essence the policy is going to be with the book and these uh new posters that uh of course everybody that has a brain understands that these things cost a lot of money and uh trust me when I tell you it cost a lot of money and uh but uh we got to get the material out there with everything that's going on in the world today I saw some uh some things recently uh what's happening in the world what's happening in the uh it's just one tragedy after another we need to get as much truth out there as possible so we can't let money be the uh continue being the that uh slows down K so we'll give them out for free uh but as long as you're going to be giving them out right away to people and not uh just uh randomly dropping off you know everything you have at some sh and hoping for the best actually handing the people uh the books in hand in hand uh uh and um you know we're we're tired of wasting you know where you send somebody a bunch of stuff and you just give that box to somebody else and they think that they've fulfilled the mitvah we don't want that uh so the books will come out in Al in the next uh it's couple of days uh so again anyone that wants to give them out uh please let us know we'll send you a few um probably be an average uh between I would say about you know uh 50 copies per person uh and uh of course anyone that wants a share in uh this mitv uh of of kiru and helping us publish uh my first book is more than welcome uh to donate on our website be.org uh to to help us uh you know with all this huge cost um as far as the uh uh you know for those of you that are asking asking uh two questions one um you know why aren't you uh uh with a Publishing House meaning why self-publish why uh not uh I don't know go to one of the organizations out there and publish it there uh the answer is uh relatively simple number one if we uh you know publish it with somebody then we'd have to sell every copy uh cuz nobody wants to publish your book if you're going to be giving out thousands of copies for free uh doesn't make any sense for them uh so since we're more concerned about kiru than we are about making money uh then uh that already kills the whole idea of publishing it with somebody uh but even if we would find somebody that wouldn't mind us giving some copies for free uh the the reality is that when you're dealing with publishings uh there's certain limitations and certain uh things that uh would cause delays uh would cause delays uh to getting the uh the information out there and uh after having the the book uh read reviewed and uh publicly supported uh by some of that have their letters in the book whether it's y m from the US from uh uh z uh and and several other uh that uh you know read the book word for word and uh put their name on the line for it we don't really need anybody else to uh to tell us that it's uh that it's good and of course again people that read it will see we'll see what it is uh so uh again you know from what I know from uh you know I I don't uh I don't watch my own lecture I don't uh you know uh um I guess rate myself if you will a very critical of myself but uh from what other people are telling me meaning you know raim the other rabbis that have read it um they're saying it's a big deal they're saying the book is a very very big deal and uh B is going to be a very big hit to help a lot of people do so from their from their mouth to ears uh so again anyone that wants to be part of that is more than welcome to um we're starting with uh I believe uh we'll be giving out like maybe like 5,000 copies uh to get started everybody can simply do the math in their head uh what they uh and especially once you see the book it's came out beautiful uh very nice cover and colors and so on uh so with that being said let's get uh going with this week's parasa to to see what uh what we can find in the treasure chest The Never Ending treasure chest of the T we see that the starts with in a very unique way uh every par is beautiful we had obviously began the world in last week's uh where the ran says also means with wisdom where at that time uh he created time uh and thereby if you look at the commentary by Rashi when people asking questions about what came first the chicken or the egg or uh you know what uh how did he do this and how did he do that uh you simply you know have to just look at commentary by Rashi to answer uh the overwhelming majority of your questions you see that in the beginning of last week's par Rashi discusses how the creation itself took an instant uhem created everything in an instant and then over the next six days he put everything in its right place uh whether it was the heaven or the Earth or was the animals or was everything else he simply uh put everything in place after that and uh where do we learn that from well we see that uh in the beginning of last week's par par it says means to create from nothing and only a can create from nothing we cannot create from nothing we can do what's called uh we uh you know take something that already exists and innovate and uh in essence that's what it says for the rest of the par that uh where you see uh day one day two day three uh it keeps mentioning the word that he uh it's not that he created from nothing but uh rather he took what was already there he took what was already there and uh and innovated from it uh and put it in specific ways that he wanted it to be so the creation from nothing happened uh initially that's the word bar uh uh but then after that that hem created it's a different type of creation which is taking something uh uh creating from something that already exists same thing with the word v uh that he uh he took the uh he made the firmament meaning he uh shaped it and put it in a certain place uh that he wanted it uh and and uh we uh we see that the rest of the words that uh are used in each and every single day it's uh somebody that knows the the the you know the Hebrew language knows that these are uh Hashem telling us that he took something that already exists and you know uh shaped it into what he wants it to be whereas uh means that he created from nothing now we uh go and we obviously we heard the whole story with Adam and we uh in in last week's par we uh had a write up where um we discussed how the uh really the biggest mistake in uh in history that uh was ever made as far as the creation is uh concerned the beginning was the fact that simply allowed the to talk that was in essence the the biggest mistake in creation because at the end of it all the uh the Nash obviously knew what Hashem wanted the serpent knew what Hashem wanted knew what Hashem said and but he wanted to uh debate he wanted a dialogue so what did he do he said to K why uh you know why aren't you eating from uh this uh fruits uh is it because uh you know hasem said don't eat from any of the trees that's only because he's afraid that you're going to eat from the uh tree of life and be like him you'll be like God immediately wanted to defend the truth wanted to defend the truth no no no no snake he didn't say Don't eat from all of the trees he just said don't eat and don't touch the tree of knowledge so here we see those two mistakes being made number one she added something Hashem only said don't eat from the Tree of knowledge he didn't say don't touch and number two she responded to him she debated with him why because there are certain types of people that you're supposed to debate there are certain types of people that you're supposed to run away from and the says that when it talks about learning how learning enough to to know how to deal with an aicos with a heretic that's only if that heretic is a non-jew but if that heretic is a Jew don't even debate with him it's a complete waste of time and he could actually ruin you don't debate other Jews this is the reason why you're never going to see any normal from Jew debate any of these Heretics that are Jews uh but the key is to understand that uh when K responded to the snake she in essence started a started a conversation why because now he said something to her and she immediately she said no I want to defend the truth no you're saying that hasem said don't eat anything no it's not true he actually said don't eat from the uh uh from the Tree of knowledge already that's mistake number one why mistake number one because people like that people that are obviously mention things that are completely ludicrous and are simply just trying to get your attention and are simply just trying to you know get some attention are trying to get a stage you're not going to be able to influence these people because they're not coming to you in order to change their mind they're not coming to you in order to learn the truth they're coming to you in order to prove their case in order to flex their muscles in order to you know uh uh make uh themselves uh known that's in essence what they're coming to you for and that was the snake so as soon as the responded to the snake responded to the serpent that was already a mistake because that started the dialogue and of course since he was already prepared with all of the rebuttals in the world because he has an agenda he saw that made a mistake in her rebottle what was the mistake that she added one particular thing oh okay yeah what you're saying that AEM uh is allowing you to eat it's not from everything but you're saying that he uh that's fine okay I understand so he's not so uh but how come he says don't touch he caught her making a mistake that she didn't realize herself making a mistake he said oh I could prove that wrong I can prove that that's a mistake how he pushed her on the tree and uh she she uh hit the tree of knowledge and nothing happened she didn't die so in essence already she was questioning herself and that's everybody everybody knows the rest of the story now uh when it comes to Adam when it comes to Adam why did Adam follow suit after the Adam wanted to serve a to the fullest extent Adam was kados Adam was A's creation uh everything is a creation but he's literally creation from nothing that he's the's hands created and saw how wonderful the creation is that uh he wanted to make sure that he's going to be able to thank Hashem properly because a uh Hashem gave him the wisdom and he understood that you cannot be a good servant if you're going to benefit from hashem's world without saying a blessing without saying thank you unfortunately today people are so focused fed on their own agendas on their own desires on their own uh commands and demands from Hashem and from the people around them that many times they forget to say thank you and more times they spit on you and step on you and do all types of things to uh without even uh realizing that they forgot to even say thank you uh people are just so wrapped up in their own ego they can't get out of their own way while they're stepping on everybody that helps them and that's a reality and needless to say we do it to unfortunately many times a person does not think AEM properly he uh eats without blessing he uh you know he uh gets all types of things of benefits in the world without uh thinking AEM and realizing where it came from hence the reason why there's actually a commandment in the Torah where hasem says after I give you food and I give you sustenance and I give you everything don't forget me which means that this is a very much a real thing that it's not only that we forget AEM but we actually daa uh forget AEM after uh after he gives us everything that we want so the snake saw that made a mistake and he took advantage of it but now you have a problem why you have Adam how do I convince Adam to do what uh you know to to uh to do what I want him to do which is he wants him to eat the food because he wants to kill Adam so he could consort with that's in essence was part of the reason of why uh the the serpent wanted uh uh them to eat from the fruit he wanted Adam to die because he wanted to be with this is a little bit of cabalistic teachings of how the Tuma needs more from the kadus it lives off of the kadus the power of the Kusha so anyway Adam knew that he needs to thank AEM but at the same token he had extraordinary wisdom that's beyond their understanding that and he understood that there is simply no way for him to thank Hashem forever because he's made out of Flesh and Blood and therefore his a his thinking of Hashem will be limited uh and uh because of that he decided that uh he wants to eat from the Tree of knowledge in order to find out where the tree of life is because the tree of life was in the middle of the garden so he didn't know where the middle of the garden is and therefore he said okay let me eat from the Tree of knowledge that will tell me where the tree of life is and once I eat from the Tree of Life I'll be able to live forever and serve hasem forever and in essence he used his own warped logic to serve Hashem and Hashem punished him for it because he said no I don't want you to serve me the way you want I want you to serve me the way I want and that's in essence the mistake that many many people make uh with with that being said before we continue I actually forgot uh to uh bless and to hem knows what's on my mind I even have it in front of my screen but hem uh remind me now that uh I forgot to bless and thank all of the supporters uh so uh the sh will be uh from the beginning to uh uh to all of it and all of the people that watch it forever uh be for the uh Merit and of s anat David benri Doris tal but SAR uh Orit Elana and also for a ofir Ben Shah Ys benam um David Ben estria gab benis elad benis um Ruben sha benan Mara Julie Mara Samuel Ben Mara Seas Ben Mara Alexander Ben Mara and Le Ben Mara we'll bless each and every single one of them and all of the other wonderful supporters uh that uh continue to help us do all the amazing things that we doing uh whether Jews or Gentiles and I have a fantastic story for you guys theem soon uh about the blessing of a on a gentile so anyway uh the uh for all of you that ask how do I get on these uh list one way one easy way to get on the list if you need you go to our website.org and uh you can uh uh go to the store the store and there's a uh thing over there you donate I think it's $180 or $500 uh I think for it's for it's 180 and it helps us uh continue doing what we're doing it's not that uh we won't say unless you donate the money I mean if you obviously a broke and you have no money we'll still say for you we'll still pray for you as we do with to countless people but nonetheless if a person has the means uh then uh you can just do it on the website and then we mention you in a once so uh all of these different wonderful people people that I mentioned these are people that are either uh involved with the uh organization or people that you know as as a as a uh uh involved in so many words these are supporters these are helpers these are people that are very very committed to helping us on a regular basis um and again even if you don't need to somebody else needs it or you simply just want the Merit of being part of getting a blessing uh these are the places to do it uh anyway the uh um the whole issue of parat you have this whole story we learned a lot of lessons of how K made a mistake by debating a missionary and giving him the stage and falling as a result uh women until this day are suffering as a result of that original mistake and unfortunately we haven't learned our lesson because there are countless people that uh you know answer the uh uh the missionaries that come to them the Heretics that come to them sometimes the missionaries come to them in a uh you know with telling them that they're Jewish but they're Jews that believe in idolatry of of yeshu and sometimes they're just outright Heretics that don't believe in God they just believe in their own version of God or believe something else and they try to Mize and convince everybody else that's that's the truth and everybody else is clueless so missionaries come in all forms and sizes the best thing to do with missionaries with Heretics with people that are vocal about their uh their disbelief in a to that and and the tradition that we have is simply to avoid them like the plague don't debate them don't do nothing avoid them like the plague if the people are simply ignorant and and they're willing to listen they're willing to review information then of course you should send them information you should send them our lectures and try to get them to wake C and realize that they're living a lie but if they're missionaries if they're coming to you with an agenda either an agenda to convert you to some uh form of heresy or idolatry or they're coming with uh other types of agendas that are not in your best interest simply run away don't debate them not publicly not privately not even with a comment on the internet uh that's why for example you'll see that uh in my channel sometimes you'll see uh missionaries uh every day actually you'll see in my channel missionaries making comments but if you follow the comments long enough you'll see that those comments get deleted why I simply don't not only don't want to debate them I don't even want them to be there I don't want anyone else to look at it I don't want anyone else to look at their uh uh at their uh videos or the rest of their nonsense uh this is the reason why we won't debate uh any of these organizations that ask us to debate them because there's just no point we know we have the truth there's simply no nothing to defend here you only need to defend something if you're questioning yourself but as far as uh going against their their own uh their heresy in order for the sake of uh of educating the public we don't need to do that on a debate platform we could simply teach you and a and you can watch ISU and you can watch the uh lectures you could watch over 60 or 70 different lectures that Rabbi FR has made uh which many of them have been translated to uh with subtitles to English uh that proves that the New Testament is 100% idol worship 100% heresy 100% garbage uh if you watch his lectures and and you uh spend the time reading and double-checking everything he says you'll see the sources for everything you'll see that simply the New Testament is spiritual poison for anybody that follows it whether Jew or Gentile uh and he has over 60 70 lectures that he's done it uh any of their claims are you know he is uh he is the that they've said he's taken them to town and have destroyed their claims and uh really one of the biggest things that they try to do is they try to uh mock the T mock the especially the the the sages and the oral tah in order to discourage people from actually double-checking in order to discourage people from seeing the truth same thing like the snake the snake in essence just wants a stage once you give him the stage he knows exactly what to do of how to use your words against you because he knows that you're not as good of a speaker as he is and you're not as prepared as he is and he has all of his weapons now you know as far as debating is concerned it's not a lack of debate skills that is the reason why we're not debating because if that was the case I would be debating every single day that's part of what I did for a living for 20 years uh and trust me when I tell you it's a very big yet for me not to debate or at least it used to be because it was very big part of what I did for almost 20 years uh and I was relatively good at it I could say uh but uh once I heard this is what the AL is this is what I need to do this is what the r says simple that's it he says no I do no just like a good little boy uh it's hard okay let it be hard so be it but that's that's the way it is when an aicos comes to you that's a Jew when a heretic that's a Jew comes to you with an agenda you don't debate them you simply run away now we we move on to is an extraordinary where it starts with isik Noah is a giant Noah is kados Noah isik no is tamim what's tamim tamim is complete with hem whatever hasem said no does simple and uh we uh we see actually that uh the the par goes and such a way where first it tells us about how Noah is such a righteous person and he's completely following what Hashem says but then looks at the rest of the people and it's simply a tragedy everybody was one worse than the other so much so that it's a uh there's so much immorality so much immorality in the land at the time of no that the uh there's men marrying men women marrying women the so much homosexuality perversion immorality stealing filth garbage everything that simply is the opposite of what Hashem uh created the world for uh there's so much filth in the world that it even impacts the animals and the ground uh that Hashem has to Simply uh review everything and see what you know that he has to destroy it but the way that the verses are written is is very interesting we learn a lot from it where it says in the that first says that that the Earth has become corrupt before God and the Earth has become filled with robbery so kazal says that the last straw to Simply push the world to a uh to a point where it lost its right to exist was that the people were stealing from each other there wasn't even Unity among them meaning when they were perverting you know the the nature of things where instead of man marrying woman and and being with a with with his wife he was Marry he was taking his friends wife committing adultery he was marrying another man she was marrying another woman all types of you know things that are the opposite of what it's supposed to be similar to today unfortunately and uh but even with all of that immorality hasem saw at least maybe there's some type of unity but once he saw that they're stealing from each other they won't even allow each other to succeed in anything that people would go to a guy's new store and instead of buying the new food that he has they say can we taste it and they take a few for free that they would taste and okay thank you and leave and they would tell everybody else that he's got some new stuff and the whole neighbor would come and everybody would just taste it for free so much so that they finished the entire bag of goods without a single person paying for it simply robbing each other by using and perverting the law meaning they weren't breaking the law like they weren't robbing each other by uh you know uh uh breaking down the door with uh with guns and knives and everything no they were perverting the law in such a way that they were doing things in a legal fashion similar to how people today uh do conduct their business where they say listen I told you that I'll do the job okay you paid me all the money fine okay but you didn't do the job I didn't tell you when I'm going to finish no actually you did say you said you're going to finish in August yeah but I didn't say August of this year you know people will pervert the law people will tell you different things and be vague in such way in essence that they leave you hanging you can't really do much about it and unfortunately that's just a reality it's similar to how this uh uh uh situation is in the world for all of you that are against the vaccine this is a little bit of ammunition for you which I'm sure you know uh not that I'm for or against it I personally didn't take the vaccine nor do I recommend for or against I've already spoken my piece about that whole part which is simply you have to listen to the sages but one thing about the the vaccine that's very interesting is that the uh all the lawyers out there whether it's in Israel or in America they made sure that the companies fiser and Johnson and Johnson whoever else is involved in this are get the government to simply absolve them from any possible lawsuits meaning if somebody takes this medicine and dies gets a heart attack gets all types of bleeding gets all types of tragedies they have no responsibility which is like the uh the legal Department's dream simply there's no ramifications there's no consequences for anything and that's in essence a a a world full ofas that's a corrupt World why because if you have no consequences for your actions why will you be careful if there's no consequences for your actions why will you care to tell the truth if it hurts your agenda if all you care about is making money then what do you care about if people are dying or or or it's curing or it's not curing I mean why do you care you already made the money so that's the thing when once you take out the consequences for things corruption is at its highest level like in an instant it's not even like it's starts corruption starts as soon as you take away the consequence as soon as there's no more jail as soon as they you know uh all the criminals out there Political Criminals out there they want to defund the police as soon as something like that happens that's it the world goes from zero or whatever level of corruption it's at to 100% like it doesn't get it can't get worse than that because once you remove consequences once there's no consequences for things that's it people will eat each other alive and that's why the mishna says that a Jew has to pray not just for his own well-being and not only for his own country's well-being but even the well-being of the of the governments of the why because if it wasn't for these governments people will eat each other alive but once the governments themselves become corrupt to the extent where they're removing the law uh like they do with uh with financial matters where the government in in the United States and I'm sure in other countries they're allowed to do things uh that is illegal for the rest of the people whether it's insider trading or all types of manipulations and so on they're allowed to take advantage of these things while other people that do it they go to jail for many years so that type of corruption is is is horrible but once you take the the consequences across the board out of the equation corruption is officially at 100% like it doesn't get worse than that doesn't matter where you started once there's no consequences that's it and that's also why you'll see many times the people that the uh that uh you see the desecrate aem's name and uh you know in in in in such a way where they pretend to be religious they look religious they have a beard they have a they look this but then they end up being a pedophile then they end up you know being a corrupt in business and lying and cheating people and and doing all types of things you you'll see one common denominator those people do not believe in consequences they do not know anything about gome they don't know anything about kafa and even if they heard about it they don't believe in it they think it's a Christian belief and that's in essence why there are so many people that would listen to these speakers out there uh and uh you know the religious speakers rabbis but still those fans are going to remain corrupt corrupt in their business corrupt in their marriages she still still cheating on our husband he's still cheating on the government they're still cheating on each other they're still lying they're still uh wasting uh seed and being immoral they're still desecrating Shabbat like you could literally have an entire generation of people where you have people that look religious at times sometimes don't look religious but a huge fan base a huge fan base that each one goes to different rabbis and you'll see that those people that listen to these corrupt rabbis that not only do not speak about uh um a reward and punishment but actually speak against it like the Manis Freedman of the world and mesas and dras and so on those people that speak against reward and Punishment you'll see that all of their fans all of them without an exception are corrupt people just simply if if there was a way to double check it I I'll be willing to pay for it like you'll see if you investigate those people's lives they're all corrupt in one way she is probably cheating on her husband he's probably cheating on his wife or they're cheating in business or they're lying to the government or they're they're just corrupt people why because that speaker that source of motivation that they have that source of inspiration they have is teaching them a corrupt ideology which is that there's no consequences for your actions and if there's no consequen for their actions then great I can do whatever I want and that's in essence how you have some somebody could look 100% religious but be the biggest criminal in the world Ian we saw it in Australia this uh Wicked disgusting excuse of a human being woman that was the principal of a girl Seminary uh literally raped uh I don't know something like almost a hundred little girls like if you look at this woman she looks as religious as it could possibly be she almost covers her eyes with the that she has but she is a monster monster and it was recently reported that uh they they caught her lying she said that she was theor said she was crazy and can't be tried she flee to Israel long story short they're now extraditing out they already did extra to be charged in Australia bem shall go uh and get the maximum punishment B now a person like that you're not allowed to have mercy on them anyone that has a mercy on such a person no is a wicked person you're not allowed to have mercy on people like this there's a there are certain types of criminals simply are not allowed to have mercy on them that's why this is one of the things that we have uh uh that's a an opposite of the ideology of Christianity because Christianity teaches you if he slaps you on One Cheek give him the other cheek uh as long as he believes in Yos he goes to heaven meaning that according to uh to the Christians even somebody like Hitler goes to heaven Osama Bin Laden goes to heaven all of these people go to heaven if they believe in Yos so this is obviously a warped ideology that's actually a source of evil in the world so it's important to know that uh when there people are taught that there's no consequences or that all the consequences are removed if you just do this one simple thing corruption is there and that's in essence what happened here where the whole world became corrup corupt immorality was running rampant and what ended up happening is what the what the verses say here is that very interesting use of words here where hem says God says to no the end of All Flesh has come before me for the Earth is filled with corruption with robbery through them and behold I'm about to destroy them from the earth so here we see a couple of things here we see a couple of things first and foremost we see the tendency of hasem to mention things multiple times which we'll get to in maybe in a moment you know kind of running out of time I want you guys to ask questions but we see that Hashem when he says certain things especially decrees of of of uh of judgment we see him repeat the same thing multiple times and he repeats multiple times that he's going to destroy the world not just in this verse multiple times but also later on he keeps telling no I'm going to destroy the world destroy the world destroy the world and when he tells mhu at the end of the T that he's not going to go to he's not going to go to he's not going to go to then he tells them you're going to die you're going to die he keeps mentioning these things these ends apparently when he says these things he knows his creation is not really uh capable of understanding the full ramifications of such a ending decree such a game over such a uh uh uh uh situation where you can't really get the full picture of what does it mean okay so a person dies all right so that means I won't be able to see them anymore says no no he's going to die oh okay so I'm not going to see them anymore and I won't be able to talk to them anymore he's going to die oh okay I'm not going to see him anymore I'm not going to talk to them anymore I can't write them anymore obviously um oh wait a minute oh there's so he the body is is is is not here uh that becomes food for the worms and maggots but he he or her her the real version of them their beginning life in essence judgment begins if they're righteous they get Heaven if they're Wicked they get G uh and then oh so now oh so wow and you start thinking oh so that that's that's that's a lot of stuff what happens there you start calculating has says no it's the end it's the end and every time a person thinks about it's the end it's the end starts realizing oh there is a uh uh a lot and that's in essence one of the reasons that Hashem mentions the uh these ending decrees these heavy decrees multiple times because he knows that we cannot comprehend the full ramification the full picture of what it means after one time plus it obviously emphasized that we need to learn more but I'm sure that there's countless other sages out there uh countless ages out there to discuss other other reasons but also we see here that uh the second point that we learned from this verse where hasem says to not that the end of All Flesh has come before me uh for the Earth is filled with robbery through them and beholden about to destroy the world that we see that there is a certain order to the words meaning that Hashem says to no the end of All Flesh has come before me and at the end he says I'm going to destroy the world so what does that really mean when you when you analyze it if you look at the commentary by by Rashi is that in essence hasem is trying to tell uh Noah he trying to teach us that the immorality in the world has reached such a high level that simply the actions of people led to them losing their right to exist and therefore hasem says I'm going to execute this and there thereby eliminate their existence meaning that it's not I'm punishing them is that their actions their actions them pressing the button over and over and over and over again led to the button breaking and therefore the whole I'm throwing out the machine the machine is is in the garbage I didn't tell them to go do this I didn't tell them they should do this I didn't even tell them that they could do this they did it over and over and over and over over and over again to the point where they have forfeited their right to exist and that's in essence one of the things that we can learn a lot of M from where when a person has problems in their life Financial issues marriage issues uh children whatever it is says look into your actions look into your actions look into your actions why look into my actions because hem is not making life difficult for you for no reason don't look for some Rabbi or some Baba or some uh Miracle Worker to fix your life there's no such thing the only one that can fix your life is you you have me if you want to go to a a rabbi to tell you uh you know different things you need to do as far as if you don't know how to do cha you don't know how to learn you don't know what are you don't know which direction to go how to go fine but if you think that some Rabbi is going to bless you and that's going to fix everything despite your horrible actions it doesn't work that way it simply doesn't work that way you have to help yourself you have to do things for your own many times people say oh what can I do for the of my grandfather what can I do for the of my uh such and such person you could do a lot of things for them but did you ever do anything for your own did you ever do anything to prepare your own for what happens after this body dies oh no my kids will do it well who says that your kids are going to do it who says that your kids are going to do it why are you waiting for your kids to do it why don't you do something for yourself first and foremost you need to do chba second of all you need to make sure that uh you prepare you prepare yourself you take all of the what you possibly can do all the you can do all the things you can possibly do for yourself don't wait for your kids to do it or for somebody to do it for you and think that just because you did it for somebody else they'll do it for you it doesn't necessarily work that way all the time you have to do things for your own n don't wait for other people to do it for you and don't go to a rabbi or to somebody and say oh can you fix my problem no one can fix your problems and that's one of the things that is trying to tell us if I'm giving you problems if if and there's a horrible thing out there that's because you did something to earn that you did something to earn that and therefore you need to do something to change it but if a person doesn't get the message they could literally lose their right to exist if they're continuing to sin it's already bad if they're continuing to make other people sin it's a completely different level of bad and what happened at the time of Noah is that people were sinning causing other people to sin doing everything wrong so much so that they lost the right to exist and hasem says that's it game over I'm destroying this uh this world now later on we see something very interesting we see that it says in the uh so says in a uh verse number 22 in chapter 6 uh and 21 that uh as for you take for yourself of every food no I'm sorry it's a uh 22 yeah yeah TW okay so he says uh as for you take for yourself of every food that is eaten and gather it into yourself for yourself okay then he saids Noah did according to everything God commanded him so he did then hasem said to Noah come to the ark you and all of your household for it is you that I have seen to be a sadik righteous before me in this generation so you see a couple things you see that Noah did everything that hasem commanded him thereby calls him aik again he called him aad already in the beginning of the says first verse of the no is a righteous man and then he tells no no by the way you're a sadik why am I a sadik why cuz he did everything that commanded you but then there's an interesting mid it's interesting mid it says it's even in the that uh um after the Maul after the Maul After the flood Noah comes out of the Ark and he sees the whole world is destroyed all of the people that he knew are gone and he starts crying and he says to this for this this is what you did you destroyed the whole world and says to Noah you are a drunk Shepherd kind of leader are you kind of Shepherd are you you're you're you're you're like a drunk why a drunk he says had you cried had you cried Before the Flood perhaps it would have been enough of a merit to give the people more time even though I gave them many many years centuries and even after I told you to build the ark that would take you over a hundred years I specifically did it so they could come to you and ask you and instead of coming to you and asking you uh you know what are you doing and you telling them it's hm's going to bring them a bull what they do they came to you they asked you and they made fun of you and they made fun of hasem and they thought the whole thing is a big joke you told told them about that there is a punishment coming and they make fun of it it's like somebody makes a sh about G somebody makes about instead of the person doing Chua what does he do he makes fun of it ah this is crazy these people are fanatic it's only natural my doctor told me my boyfriend told me my girlfriend told me my dog told me everybody told me a person instead of doing CH they make fun of the Torah there's nothing worse than that simply nothing worse than that says in that when a person rejects M rejects or rebuke they Nation signed a decree on thems they signed an evil decree on thems so here we see that Noah cried but after the fact after the fact but yet despite crying after the fact and hasem rebuking him for it that doesn't change the status of him being a sadik he's still a sadik why is he a sadik because he did everything that hasem commanded him now is it wrong to be a sadik we can all beik what is it what is it what is what is what am I getting to here says Noah you are aad you did everything I commanded you and therefore this is the result meaning I commanded you to build the ark you built the ark you went into the ark you brought the animals and here you are you're alive to repopulate the world that's what you listen to what I said you're aik you're a righteous person but now you're crying that the damage happened that's a problem why is it a problem because if you want the world to change it's not enough to be aad you have to be a what dear friend of mine showed me this this week and it made me think you look at the page 30 38 uh the says talks about how they was so careful about everything where if if they had some type of material that was hazardous whether it was broken glass or anything else they would dispose of it in in very very unique ways where even though they could stick this broken glass or whatever it is in some wall they didn't do it why they made sure to go and put it in a uh place where no one can get it they would dig it into the ground bury it deep enough where even if it rained it wouldn't come out it says says these are the these are the why these are the why they go above and beyond they go above and beyond say that the uh uh the uh devout people of the earlier Generations would hide their thorns and charge of glass in their fields and make a hole for them and and uh so they would not be able to block the plow they they meaning that nobody would get hurt from these things these are the these are the these are the real from 2,000 years ago plus so ask how do you become a why if I just uh take all my uh bad stuff and bury it that makes me Aid so comes and says whoever wishes to become Aid here now is the instructions first and foremost he should fulfill the words of what's is really it's really all one it's called which is the uh um the uh uh the laws between one person and another as far as how you can damage another person in in business stealing cheating uh fraud charging interest all of the different issues that a person could hurt another person are in one of these three uh tractates it used to be one tractate but it so big they broke it up into one all the B all the those are a person that becomes wants to become a has to be an expert an expert in why if you're an expert and all the possible ways that you could hurt somebody else then you'll avoid them you'll know exactly what to avoid you'll know that you can't talk to people in a certain way why because it could hurt them you can't charge people certain things why because it could hurt them you can walk a certain way you can look a certain way you can act a certain way you can't do business a certain way you can't do all types of things if you become an expert in all of these things you already have taken one step to toward becoming a real not one of these people that's a just by looks there's a lot of people in the world that are as far as the looks they have the different exterior looks whether it's to to SE on the outside or the or the jackets or the hats or the beard or this or that but in reality many times some of these people are the most corrupt people on planet Earth not all of them many many but there are some people that you'll see these corrupt people in casinos in in in in clubs and all types of garbage and some of them you'll even see them speaking on YouTube as uh and going talking against God saying that God needs you all types of things so first and foremost is an expert in the issues of Nik which is the matters between one person or another in order to know how to avoid hurting anybody else all of the law that have to do with governing the relationship between one man and this fellow so that's step number one of becoming a it's not all of it just step number one continues and says also he should fulfill the words of what's we have a whole series 179 lectures on a person that learns and not just learns it superficially studies it spends a few hours on each of the understand what's being said applies as much of it as possible as often as possible to his life will know how to correct their midot their horrible midot whether it's stinginess or it's arrogance or it's anger or it's uh promiscuity or whatever it is all the negative traits that a person has if they want to fix them you have to become an expert in and if you do that that is Step number two of becoming a or now you can start with it and it'll be step number one for you but either way this is one of the things you have to number one don't hurt be an expert in how to manage relationships with other people step number two be an expert in knowing how to manage yourself how to overcome your own obstacles your own bad traits but that's not it you want to be a real you said real requires step number three what's step number three he should also fulfill the words of what's all of the ways of the different things to bless why do you need to why do I need to be an expert in blessings because if a person is an expert in all of the ways to bless a for all of the things that hem provides them whether they look bad or they look good whether it's food or it's some other form of sustenance or it's something else in the world whatever brings you you know exactly how to bless a and you don't only know the blessing you also know how to do the blessing how much put do the blessing you put the right effort into it because the say that a person that the does not put kabana into His blessings and bless AEM in some robotic way doesn't really care what he says who what when and how he'll get punished for all those blessings there's a whole y there a y I read during sukot where he gives a story from the sages where they talk about how a person goes to uh sham goes to sh after fulfilling the uh you know his his whole life and the uh this whole um example is written in it's mentioned in many places and said the person fulfilled the he was a prominent Torah scholar he learned T he did he did a lot of good things goes up to sh they ask you in sh did you fulfill the uh he says yes you fulfill the oral says yes you care okay they say finally the judges in the bed ask him we're not talking about regular person we're talking about somebody say were you careful not to pronounce God's name in vain now since the sh can't lie he didn't answer and the judges in sh continued to ask for a testimony suddenly a horde of angels dressed in black arrived and testified each one saying I came into being on this particular date when this man pronounced God's name during his prayer without paying any attention to the name's meaning meaning he was saying AEM like he says like he says Mikey like he says Stevie and at that the judges in heaven stood up rent their garments they ripped their clothes like somebody died and the person that was being judged also ripped his clothes rent his garments and then the chief judge in the beding of Heaven turned and looked at this man and thundered at him saying you drop of Filth how did you dare do such a thing and sentenced him to go to G or be reincarnated into the physical world and redo his whole life just for that a person does not know how to bless AEM not only only cannot be a his delusion that he thinks that he's going to have GED just because he does a little bit of MIT here and there whenever he gets a chance it's so far from the truth now to be a to call yourself a to be known as a is a very big deal according to the Torah you want to try it go for it but you have to know how to thank AEM thank him for the good thank him for the bad thank him for the food thank him for all of the different things you benefit from you cannot benefit from anything in this world without thanking AEM and a person has to put as much Cav as possible on every blessing which is not it's not difficult to do but it's extremely difficult to do meaning it's not difficult to do if you really thinking about the problem is that the puts our mind in 500 places that many times we're simply not thinking about that we see aem's name like we say Mikey like we say Stevie that's the problem yeah have to say aem's name with kav need to say have to think AEM and not think that you did anything hasem is everything so says you want to be a you have to be an expert in in that's all of those mentioned they buried their uh charge of glass and everything else that's not what made them a that was simply part of them performing their they made a million and a half other things they did in order to be so now in essence what the is trying to tell us if you want to be a you have to do above and beyond what commands you above and beyond what commands you now Noah was sadik which means what Noah did everything hasem commanded him hem rebukes no he says no you did everything I commanded you and therefore the world operated in a certain order meaning all of the wicked died you the righteous lived but if you want me to change the natural and do something Supernatural in essence you want me to give them more time to do Chua you want me to not punish them you want me to do all types of things then you have to do something if you have a lot of difficulty in your life you have lawsuits against you you have people trying to kill you both spiritually and and physically in every way you have a heartbroken you have a disease you have financial crisis you have a decree and it doesn't matter you bless and you pray and it's not working it's not working you go to Rabbi Rabbi pray is not working that mean that there's a decree there's a decree somebody has a critical disease somebody has a critical situation there's a decree you want AEM to do something Supernatural for you the government says we're taking you to jail on such and such date the doctor says on such and such date this person is probably going to die within a couple of weeks you want something's not Supernatural you want to change the nature of the world how he's God okay but why would he do it for you why would he do it for you if you do something that's above and beyond your nature you do something that's above and beyond your nature you give more of yourself you commit more of yourself you do more not the standard don't think that if you just do the standard it's enough you have to do above and beyond above and beyond if you do the standard then you're simply a sadik you're following the the way of the world is going to work but if you want something above and beyond you have to be you have to do above and beyond what's above and beyond don't just become religious help other people become religious it's good that you're religious it's good that you're keeping shab it's good that you're good you're doing what you're doing but if you want AEM to be treating you on a different level than everybody else then you have to do above and everybody else you have to do above everybody else everybody else is watching about their own life they're like noad you want to be like you want a treatment that's above and beyond you have to be above and beyond this is one of the things that mentions he he he rebukes no how can you possibly expect the world to not get the Judgment I told you a bunch of times S I gave you an opportunity you did not go out of your way to go teach them M and you waited for anybody that came to you you told listen hasm is going to destroy the world and when they made fun of you you make fun of you what are you going to do if you want for me not to destroy the world you would have had to go looking for people looking for people in the street who can I help who can I help you can't go look for people you don't have the strength get somebody else to do it for you pay for it do whatever you can to get it done why you want hem to be treating you differently than nature than the nature that he that he instilled in in in into the world then you have to do something Supernatural but not just a one time thing on a regular basis you have to be anytime somebody hurts you anytime somebody mocks you what do you do nothing nothing you do she made fun of you he made fun of you no problem what about if they come for you for help how can I help you what do you mean he marked you yesterday he made fun of you yesterday okay he made fun of me so what he needs help he's a Jew he needs help I'm going to try to help him if he made fun of God it's a different story he made fun of me okay I'll still help him I'll still help him it's not so simple it's not so simple to be a but if a person wants to it's a big deal that's a big deal now the uh last thing I know we're a little bit over time but I give you the story it's worth it's worth worth uh delaying the question for this story give you an example of how has is not just for Jews only it's also for Gentiles anybody does does above and beyond and again above and beyond may seem to you at this point like it's impossible because you're barely surviving with the basics let give you an example of how above and beyond for at certain times of your life is a lot less than you think my grandparents are from Tunis Tunisia tripol and uh many years ago there was a big in Tunis his name was a was dedicated toik and he used to wake up at midnight every day and start his day at midnight how you start his day learning to now in those days you didn't have electricity and and the things that we have of today so if you wanted to uh light fire it was a process to have a fire so many people would have a candle all you know on all the time but one night saw that to his dismay the uh candle that he has on at all times got turned out got turned out it's the middle of the night what am I going to do on one end it's late can't just go knock on people's doors on another end have to learn t t is on the line I'm going to go next door to the bakery the uh the Gentile that works over there I'm going to ask him to light my uh candle so goes middle of the night knocks on the door doesn't work knocks a little bit more and then all of a sudden he hears a voice a very tired voice who's there says oh it's it's me the rabbi the uh Gentile gets out of bed doesn't want to but he knows that the is a big deal not only for the Jews but also for the go everybody knows the rabbi is a holy man now the uh he used this this this this used to uh sleep inside the bakery in order to protect the bakery from anybody robbing it or anything but in order to the door had a wooden plank that was extremely heavy that he had to lift in order to open the door so the last thing this guy wants to do is open the door but what is he going to do he's knocking on the door in the middle of the night gets out of bed goes picks up this really heavy plank opens the door yes for and the says I'm sorry to bother you I know it's late at night but my candle is out I need to learn Torah please light my candle he lets him inside it was very very cold night and he lights his candle and the r says very thank you very much and he leaves after literally halfway to get into his house wind comes the candle's out feels bad but what am I going to do I have to learn to he goes back to the bakery knocks on the door this time what's going on what happened oh it's the rabbi please open the door for me my my candle is out oh you know this go he wants to sleep he worked hard all day what is he going to do goes picks up the plank heavy as can be opens the door lights his candle okay good night he takes five six uh uh steps candles out he doesn't know what can I do gets the courage goes back in there knocks on the door oh no what happened now who's there we're not selling anything oh no no it's me please please my candle is out Rabbi I need to sleep Rabbi I know I'm sorry it's not it's not on purpose I'm really sorry please opens the door lifts the plank heavy as can be okay y he takes he gets halfway to his house and the candle is out a fourth time now this time already four times the rabbi is embarrassed he's he doesn't even understand what to do but at the same token Torah is on the line L what what other option do I have for people that are they understand everything that I mean what do you mean not learn to let the world explode I need to learn tah what do you mean yeah but you're going to you're you're causing somebody anguish yeah you're right how do I not cause people anguish yeah but this but that you start arguing in your head argued in his head and said I got to go back one more time he goes a fourth time to the bakery he knocks on the door and the bicker says I'm not opening the door go away the rabbi starts begging please please I I I I I beg you please please after some begging the uh Baker says okay fine he gets up he's exhausted cuz not only is he tired from a long day now he's tired from LIF lifting this huge plank it's like lifting a whole tree every time and and he opens the door and he says Rabbi look at this plank look at this wood that I have to lift every time I open the door please Rabbi let me sleep it's heavy I'm tired the rabbi for the first time sees what this has to do to lift the door and he sees is it's not just he's tired he wants to go to sleep M it's hard to open the door and the rabbi FTI gives the a blessing May bless you to give you this weight in gold and you have a lot of success you become very rich the is so happy he never got such a blessing from a and he knows this blessing gonna answer it even though he's not Jewish he knows that to 14 says makes a blessing changes nature for them changes nature for them the is so excited about this all of a sudden he doesn't care that he just had to lift this thing for the fourth time 50 times he is as happy as can be okay he lights his candle he goes on his way and goes learns to a little while later maybe about a week or two later this Baker is on his uh is in the market and all of a sudden this very honorable person comes up to him says hey you you want to work Baker says what he goes you can't work for me I'll pay you a lot of money how much money cuz last time the guy told him to make a lot of money he's sleeping in a bakery what's a lot of money he says I'll pay you 10 times whatever you make right now he say who 10 times you know how much I make he goes how much do you make he says I make two real a day he says okay no problem I'll pay 20 and he sees the guy's clothes are worth more than his house so is not uh it's okay fine you got to come with me so one second I got to tell my boss that I can't come to the bakery I got to take this job and then I'll come back so he goes to his boss he tells him listen I'm sorry have to have a job I have an opportunity but I'll come back I'll come back but I have to go take this opportunity pays me more money the banker doesn't care I mean getting uh people to work is easy so he lets him go he goes and uh follows this rich man and after they walk and they go and they on the carriage and so on at some point he says to him okay if you don't mind I'm going to take this handkerchief that I have I have to cover your eyes why he says because I don't want you to know how to get to where we're going it's a secret and I don't need anybody to know so fine he puts the handkerchief covers his eyes a little while later they get to a place and he gets into a house he says okay K he takes off the handkerchief and he opens up his eyes and he sees a room full of boxes and the boxes are open wooden boxes are open and every single one of them is full of gold coins full of gold coins I mean he couldn't even imagine how much money is in this room the rich man says to him listen this is why I had to cover your your face now the job is I need you to sort out all the different coins I have coins from all different places but I need to sort them out so you have to sort every single one of them you need to be here for probably about a week I left you all food and everything that you need and drinks and everything to be here and I'll come back and pick you up when the job is over Okay so this Baker starts working separating everything there's a lot of money in there and he's doing his job he says oh you know the the rabbi blessed me I'm going to make money and okay look I already have 20 time uh 10 times my living already things are looking good okay fine he's working working working after a week or two worth of work the uh he finishes the job and the the rich man not only pays him the money but even gives him a bonus oh he uh goes on his way and he goes back to the bakery a short while later literally a matter of days is an announcement in the street attention attention attention attention government message so all of the towns people come to the market to hear what's the what's what's what's the government's message here here there is a auction that will take place tomorrow at such and such time at such and such address what's the auction whoever wants to buy this property is going to be able to bid because the owner was a person that came from out of town who was living in this very beautiful property and uh he died and he left no descendants and therefore the government does not want to deal with this property they don't have anybody that needs it and therefore the government would rather just take the money and sell you know from sell sale of the property so whoever wants to buy the property is a welcome so of course everybody L loves auctions opportunity to get a deal and the guy the baker heard this he said you know I wish I could buy this property maybe maybe I could put a down payment on it and it'll give me some time to get the property he decides you know what let me go look the next day everybody gathers and they see the property the baker is astonished that when he sees the property this is this must be this is it this is where I worked for those two weeks this is the place now he wants to go see but the whole place is blocked off no one is allowed to go inside you buy the property as is what all the furniture and everything that's in it comes with the property if there's problems it's your problems and he says to himself the rabbi's blessing is coming true this is the property but I'm going to buy it so they start the auction one of the rich people there says I'll pay 500 500 gold coins or 500 R another guy says I'll pay a th000 next guy says 1,500 another one says 2,000 then all of a sudden the baker says 10,000 R 10,000 R is a lot of money but it's not Millions it's a lot of money but the rich people are looking at they see this guy with clothes like a homeless person they start laughing who's who's this guy is he crazy he's making fun of us and they're so baffled by the fact that this poor guy is bidding on the property that they don't even pay attention to the auction going no one bids and he ends up winning the bid offer of 10,000 so now he has some money that he made from working for the guy and he says to the guy here I'll give you here some money that's what I have on me I'll give you the rest tomorrow the government member doesn't care okay fine here a minute this is yours here's the keys the baker goes inside goes into the room opens up and he sees gold gold gold everywhere and he knows that the Rab's blessing came true he became filthy rich but he's scared that if everybody finds out that this is what he has and take it away from him so quickly he pays everything to pay for the property pays the next day and he starts a new mission to transfer all of the money to Turkey to Istanbul slowly but surely he moves everything to Istanbul where nobody knows him and uh he becomes the richest man of the land over there years pass and decides that he's going to make Aliah from Tunis to is although the Kaa is not happy that their Rabbi is leaving they all say farewell to him and a few of them go with him they get on the boat they start traveling and at some point they have to stop over in eul Turkey in order to uh get some more food and water for for the rest of the trip and and his few get off the ship to go into the market until uh the ship all the people get whatever they need as they get off and they start walking all of a sudden they see a whole Entourage surround surrounding a very rich man and all of a sudden the rich man sees he runs moves everybody aside splitting the ocean runs to and falls on his face bowing to the rabbi kissing his feet in his hands for the for the for the rabbi doesn't know who this guy is he says Rabbi me you remember me I'm the baker I'm the baker you gave me a blessing made it who made it real he tells them the story he gives the rabbi a very big gift and he also says he take this also for your and and I'm going to send you money every month says to him as long as you're going to be good to the Jewish people will continue blessing you and that's what he did every month he would send money to and not only did continue blessing him he became even more rich and more successful and the blessing of the of came why first and foremost if you're going to do what said that's already a good thing you're sadik it's already a good thing but if you're gonna do above and beyond for the sake of Torah the blessing that a person can make does above and beyond only apply to a Jew no it also applies to a non-jew does it have to be above and beyond like you have to lift a mountain over your head not necessarily look at the example of this story a real story all he did is wake up four times lift something that was extremely heavy in order for the RAB to learn more toah it's not exactly such a big deal the question is at the moment of truth where hasem sends you that opportunity would you have done the same thing that's the question some people say yeah of course I would do it just give me the same thing but who says hm is going to give you the same exact test gives everybody test in their own level and their own time make sure you know if you start working on yourself now to be not just a sadik but to be a in every way that you can to do Above and Beyond in every way that you can of course do everything you need to do but if you can do more sometimes do more sometimes if all you can do is what you need to do then do that of course but the point being is anytime you have an opportunity to do more do more bless each and every single one of you no matter where you are in the world and no matter what your life started as but rather where you're taking it e [Music] n [Music] n [Music] [Applause] 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