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Tonight's for the foravid who actually is here with us and came to visit and bless them and all those that support the organization and help us and watch the shim and donate their time, their skills and of course their resources to help us continue publicizing to all over the Tonight we have that parades. It's an extraordinary para which we will delve into something we haven't in the past which is the difference between life's difficulties and a difficult life. I know it sounds the same but it's actually not. were first reminded about Yakob Vinu's difficult life and then we see that his blessings for Ysef his son included similar details that Ysef also had a difficult life and of course the age-old question is why are the righteous granted such difficulties while the wicked seem to prosper this age-old question has a multi-part answer that can clarify whether you're dealing dealing with life's difficulties or simply have a difficult life. And of course, after that, it'll be followed by questions and answers by the dear live audience that always has new directions and new interesting questions each week. But before we start, I want to remind everyone that uh you still have an opportunity for tax purposes, for mitzvah purposes to donate on the website bzashem.org or bhourra.org or on the app and so on. But also aside from that to remind many of you that if you [snorts] care about doing tikunit, if you care about the times, the auspicious times of shaveim that's starting in less than a week from now, then I would highly recommend that you go to our kof store and get yourself the amazing posters that we have. We actually got a new edition of them. This can turn into your car or your uh uh store or whatever you have. You can put this magnet on into a place of chuva opportunity that can help you do tikunit. You can get a couple of these in this on the store for free. Simply put it on your car during the whole time of shuvim. 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Not a day goes by that somebody doesn't send me something that is showing more degradation of the generations. whether now you're seeing this uh new uh situation that's happening in the froom world in the froom world at least here in America where people that pretend to be religious even uh with garb they are having a wedding that's a mixed dancing wedding which is it's against the Torah and not only that they even video it and put it online or you have people that pretend to be rabbis they even have a place they call a shul uh and then that same rabbi will actually dance with women in his in his synagogue. Whether it's his wife or not is irrelevant. The point is that men and women dancing in public together is forbidden according to Tua. Aside from it being a uh something that's considered uh a it's uh it's also something that's but the point is a lot of these things that are happening in the community are uh simply the sign of the times the sign of the times and Yakov lived in times where his life was extraordinarily difficult whether it was running away from his brother that tried to kill him or working for Lavan that also tried to destroy him or it's running into his brother again who wanted to kill him but couldn't or it's simply suffering a tragedy after a tragedy with his children whether it's the rape of his daughter Dina or it's his son Ysef disappearing for two decades Yakov suffered an enormous amount no one suffered out of the avot more than Yakov. And Yakov is impressed with how his son Yseph overcame his obstacles. So much so that in chapter 48 verse number five, Yakovu gives a something very special, something that only happened once and something that changed history, which is that he made the two sons of Ysef, Ephim members of the tribes. And he says, "And now your two sons who were born to you in the land of Egypt before my coming to you in Egypt shall be mine. Ephim and shall be mine like and Shimon, but progeny born to you after them shall be yours." In so many words, Yakovu is aware that he has other grandchildren. Aware that Ysef will have more children. But what everybody doesn't realize is that knows that said that is will fall into the worst level they've ever been in in Egypt. And they're going to need leaders that are not necessarily from from birth perfect in their righteousness from day one, never going to the movies, never going to, you know, a uh the nightclubs. No, no. He says, "I need people that are able to survive in the worst possible climates of irreligiosity, of atheism, of idolatry, and still stay righteous." Now, I don't know so many details about all of the grandkids of Yakov. We know thatan the sons of Yea were wicked and therefore Hashem killed them because they wasted seed. We know that Dina made one mistake that caused her a life-changing trauma. We know that but got a gift of life long life and never dying. But we don't know so much about the rest of the grandkids. There are little bits of details here and there. Hushin Bendan who ended up killing Asav. But out of all of those grandkids, Yakov chose Ysef's kids to be added to the tribes because he saw that since they did not grow up in his house, didn't grow up around the yeshiva community, the Akovad, they didn't grow up in a from neighborhood. They grew up in idolatry. They grew up in Miami. They grew up in in Tel Aviv. They grew up in Sodom. They grew up in Egypt. Yet they stayed glued to Hashem. He says, "That's the type of leaders that my descendants are going to need." Not just people that are religious behind closed doors. Not just people that are religious inside the yeshiva or inside the synagogue. I need people that are dedicated to Hashem no matter what the conditions are. And therefore he chooses and to be among the leaders among the tribes. Now of course Yakov then goes into giving blessings. But why now? Why give the blessings? Now the sages teach us that before a person dies adds another part of to him which makes the he has much more powerful and the blessings that they give at the end are fulfilled. This is the reason why blessed his children before he died. This is the reason why Mosher Renu blessed his children before he died. all of Is this also the reason why when Alisha asked his rabbi to bless him with the ability to make double the amount of miracles that he made told him you'll have to wait because I can bless you right now while I'm alive I can bless you to be maximum as good as me as great as me. But you want more. For that, I'll have to tell you a secret. Told me that he's going to take me up to heaven with a fiery horse and carriage and if you are with me during that moment, I'll be able to bless you. And that's exactly what the Tanakh says happened where one day Elia and Elisha are going on their way. Eli knows this is the end and suddenly makes this awesome event take place. Ela Navi is taking up the Shamim. Alicia in a very dramatic scene cries out, "Rabi, RABI, MY MY RABBI, my rabbi." And then Ali Nvid gives him a blessing, a blessing to be able to do double the amount of miracles that he was able to do during his life. And the blessing is fulfilled. Later on when there were a group of 42 wicked children that disregarded the Torah to such an extent they were insulting the Nave they're insulting the Alicia Navi seized through prophecy that all of these kids are children of Nidot are children of wickedness and nothing good will ever come out of And Alicia uses this extra this extra power that granted him through the blessing of his Rabbi Ya. It literally creates creates a forest with 42 bears in it coming out to eat each one of the kids. But tell us in reality there was no bears and there was no forest. This was the level of miracles that Alicia was able to do. is simply using the opportunity that gave him to give each one of his kids a blessing. A blessing that will be carried forth from descendant to descendant. But interestingly, when he blesses Ysef, it's very different than the rest of the brothers. And he says to Ysef that Ysef had a very very difficult life. He says a charming son is Ysef. A charming son to the eye. Meaning he was very beautiful. So much so that when the women would see him, they would literally if they were cutting a fruit while seeing Ysef, they would continue cutting their own fingers and not even realize it. Meaning their fingers will be completely cut off and they would still be enamored by the beauty of Ysef. That's how beautiful he was. You could say this one is handsome. That one's handsome. This one's good-looking. But no one on earth can ever be as beautiful as what Ysef was. Each of the daughters climbed heights to gaze. Women simply did everything they possibly could just to get a look at the beauty of Ysef. But then Yakob says they embittered him and became antagonists. The arrow tongue men hated him. But his bow was firmly imp placed and his arms were gilded from the hands of the mighty power of Yakov. From there he shepherded the stone of Israel that was from the God of your father and he will help you. and with Shadai and he will bless you with blessings of heaven from above. Blessings of the deep crouching below. Blessings of the bosom and womb. The blessings of your father surpass the blessings of my parents to the endless bounds of the world's hills. Let them be upon Ysef's head and upon the head of the exiled from his brothers. We see that not only is the blessing here very long, much longer than everybody else's, but also very detailed of different parts of Ysef's life. The bitterness, the people fighting against him, whether it was his brothers or was Yousef lived a very very difficult life. for those period of 20 years that he was in prison and but even before that when he was younger in his father's house to wake up and say hello to your brothers and they don't respond to you for anyone who's never experienced it you don't want to experience it literally is heartbreaking had to go through this but in the end as Jacob said blessed him. So we see that Jacob not only gives a blessing to Ysef, he gives a certain set of instructions of the outcome for those that have a life similar to Ysef. And the question is why is it why is it that the righteous people suffer the wicked people not so much didn't have a difficult life it's not mentioned anywhere didn't have a difficult life is didn't have a difficult life at Well, it's not mentioned anywhere. A lot of these wicked people before they get exposed seems like they're all coasting, but yet you see righteous people struggling. Many of you contact me and ask me questions about your lives. And many of you, many of those questions are in regards to struggles you're dealing with. So are you like yourself [snorts] and Yakov where you have a difficult life or you have life struggles to explain it we'll go to the Rambanad in the writings of the Ramban and Shahmul the gate of reward he explains quite a few things and he says as follows The sages mentioned that it was taught in the academy of that anyone who has gone 40 days without suffering has already received his reward. The meaning of this statement relates to the steady changes customary in the world that affect all people. For example, he may find trouble in his work at certain times, and his body will ache when eating certain bad foods unsuitable to his nature. His head too will ache when he stands in the sun. Such things cause him worrisome labor and befall even kings. Only the thoroughly wicked person destined for gay is saved from these molestations. Again, only the thoroughly wicked person destined for gay is saved from these molestations. Meaning the wicked person does not have these problems. Why? For he is receiving his re reward in this world and is being protected by heaven so that he may do his entire will in this world as it says his ways prosper at all times. Psalm 10:5 all other people however whether righteous or wicked are subject to customary ways of the world. See here in this first segment the Ramban explains that there are two different types of suffering. There is the standard suffering that is the dayto-day suffering life's difficulties. Everyone is subject to this. Whether it's a flat tire, stomach ache, somebody doesn't call you back after [clears throat] you left three messages, whatever. You know, different things that people have problems with. These are life's difficulties. The bigger deal you make it, the more you'll suffer. The more you'll complain, the more you'll feel the pain and it won't help. Why? Because these are part of life's struggle. But then there's the painful suffering. These are the big tests. And those that are destined to get go to gay don't get this. They don't get these difficult tests. In fact, even the dayto-day suffering, even a day-to-day suffering are minimized for those that are really wicked. Why? Hashem has given them a smooth life to get in essence all of the reward for the few good deeds that they did in this world. Thus the sages says the Ramban explained there in the page 16b what is the limit of suffering? It is in a case of one for whom a garment has been woven and it does not fit him. But the rabbis objected to this statement as being too harsh form of annoyance and the term suffering extends to even lesser forms. And they decided that the limit of suffering constitutes even dawning his shirt in the reverse or even putting his hand into his pocket to take three coins and getting only two. Why does suffering include all of this? asked the Ramban. It has been taught in the academy of that anyone who has gone 40 days without suffering has already received his reward. In so many words, the difficulties of day-to-day are necessary for this world. And if somebody does not have any of this, then that means that they're getting judged like a wicked person. If their life is too smooth, then they're being judged as if they're a wicked person and they're getting reward in this world. To have the day-to-day difficulties are literally part of life. That's a normal part of life. That's a necessary part of life. Why? This concept of suffering is a different matter. It's not a form of suffering in which there are usually distinctions between one person and another sufferings that are part of this world. But as far as the painful suffering is concerned where a person has extraordinary difficulties above and beyond, we've learned that they come only as an atonement for sin. Meaning there was some sin that you've made either during this life or in the previous lives. And that suffering that you're getting is due to that sin in order to atone for it. Person loses his arm perhaps as a result of stealing money in his previous life. Person loses money perhaps because he took somebody else's money or didn't pay back a debt that he could have paid back. person suffers something that's extraordinary, it's an atonement for sins. But if you ask says the Ramban, is it not written in the Torah that there are sufferings of trial? meaning it's a test such as when it says in Genesis chapter 22 verse1 and God tried of and you shall remember all the way that the eternal your God has led you these 40 years in the wilderness that he might afflict you to prove you to know what was in your heart whether you would keep his commandments or no this is in Deuteronomy 8:2 meaning there's multiple places in the Torah where it says that Hashem gives us suffering. That's actually a test. So is it a test? Is it an atonement? Is a life's normal part? The answer to this question says the Ra Ramban is that yes, it's true that this is a principle that the holy one blessed be he subjects to trials. However, he does not test all people. Meaning these big life-changing tests where someone is given an extraordinary difficulty, whether it be a financial difficulty, whether it be a health difficulty, children, lack thereof. This he doesn't give this test to everybody. Who does he give these big tests to? He tests his sadikim. As it says in Psalm 11:5, the eternal tries the righteous. And therefore, the sages interpreted this verse in the midash bes 55:2. When the pot putter examines his furnace, he doesn't test the bad pitchers which cannot withstand even one knock without being broken. So which one does he test? He tests the good pictures which do not break even if he knocks upon them several times. Similarly, the holy one, blessed be he, does not try the wicked who cannot endure the test. So who does he try? He tests the righteous. As it is said, the eternal tries the righteous. It's also written and God tried a suare is a explanation from one of the explanation from one of the that there are different types of difficulties. If you see that you are dealing with annoyances, not able to pay your bills on time, but you're still surviving. Your house has a lot of broken things in it, but it's still a house. Perhaps it took you a little while to get married. Took a few years to find somebody that wants to marry you, that you want to marry. took you a while to have children. These are part of life's difficulties, but it's also part of the atonement of sins depending on the level of suffering, depending on the circumstance that you will not see your wicked neighbor enduring. More often than not, the wicked guy that's dancing mixed dancing weddings, the wicked guy that's driving on Shabbat, the wicked guy that has a business of predatory lending most of the time will not endure, will not have to deal with these things. Why? He's so wicked a decided to give him a reward in this world. That doesn't mean that he's destined for doom. He can always do chuva. Which is also the reason why many times people that do chuva in the beginning there's a lot of gives you a lot of blessings. But also there could be a time where you'll go through a period of difficulties. This is not because forgot you. This actually because loves you that now you're going in the right direction. So, Hashem is starting to remove some of the sins that you've made during this life by giving you problems in this life for a period of time before he gives you the next series of blessings because he doesn't want you to go to get home anymore. But these difficulties are mix. You have life difficulties, atonement for sins, the difficulty of watching the wicked prosper. But then there's a difficulty that's unique that from there it's simply a stamp from heaven that you are a righteous person that's being tested. Why? Because not like a normal test. It's a test unlike anybody else. You know, it's a test unlike anything else that you've ever dealt with. It's a test that no one understands how you're even continuing to do what you're doing without jumping off of a bridge. How do you still have a smile? How do you continue moving forward despite the test? And why is Hashem giving it to you? Because he knows you will pass. So then the Ramban asks later on says, "Well, if he knows you're going to pass, what's the point of giving you the test?" the same thing as the pottery. Uh the guy that's testing the best pottery, he knows that they're going to pass the test. So why does he do it? To show the customer, cuz the customer doesn't know they're going to pass the test. So tested, not because it's are going to fail. He knows they're going to pass the test, but he tests them for a couple of reasons. One of them is to show everybody else this is why he's at Sadik. This is why she's at Sadika. And number two, because it's a I'm giving him an opportunity to earn more reward for what he would do anyway. So from there, we see that all of the difficulties that we all deal with are part of a system, an organized system. A system that's so perfect. No such thing as someone as a Jew making a wrong turn. was once a Tadik named Modai Proski and he got on a train and he happened to see that there was a uh another Jew am also on the train. So he sat next to him and they started talking and of course that's the way of they start talking and they got so deep into it that they forgot that they're on a train and before you know it they realized they have missed their stop and this was the last train of the And it was Friday, meaning that they have to get off and the next stop, the last stop, completely different city, and they'll have to stay there throughout all of Shabbat. So they get off the train. The is very concerned. what we're going to do. Says to him, "Don't worry. There's no such thing as a Jew making a wrong turn. You'll see how Hashem makes this the best thing we've done." Okay, Rabbi. They start walking. They see that there's no Jews to find in this town. They look around. Nothing Jewish. They keep walking. And they run into somebody over there and they ask him, "Is there a is there a synagogue here?" Synagogue? No, there's no synagogue here. Well, there's only one Jew living in this entire town. Oh, where does he live? Ah, he lives all the way down that hill. Thank you. So they go, it's late in the afternoon. They get to the house at the end of the hill. They see a muza. They knock on the door. A Jew opens the door and he sees the rabbi and the mo there and he nearly passes out and he starts crying with happiness. THANK YOU, HASHEM. THANK YOU. Has never seen this person in his life. The mo has no idea what's happening here. And then the Jew looks at him and says, "Is one of you a mo by any chance?" Pugski laughs. Says, "Yes, he is. THANK YOU, HASHEM. [screaming] THANK YOU. The baby's ready." They go, they do the Milan and they ask the man, "What happened here? He says, "We had a baby, but we're the only Jews living in this entire town, and for the last seven days, I've been crying day and night to please help us. Help us, help us give our son, our first and only son, Abah, just like he commanded on the eighth day." And Pumowski looks at the mo next to him says, "Now you see how there's no such thing as a Jew making a wrong turn. These types of miracles, they're miracles not because of having a difficulty doing something. Everything is a miracle. Everything he does is wonder." They reported as miracles because of the difficulties that the people had to endure in order to live through that experience, in order to get to that point, to have the merit to see a miracle, to have the fortitude to survive until the miracle of salvation came. There are many miracles that happen every single day in every one of our lives. But most people choose to be blind because they're too busy focusing on their problems and not realizing that the solution is in the process. This Abu Tayim is one of the things that Yakovu did not want his descendants to deal with. When there are weak leaders, leaders that do not know how to endure difficulties, then those leaders could easily fall and become one of the wicked people. Whether it's like and countless other wickeds throughout the generations, ours included. Just recently, we got word that one of the people that call themselves a rabbi decided that the Torah prohibition of men and women dancing together in public is no longer relevant. and he decided to dance in the wedding, his own wedding with his new wife. I think it's wife number four or five. Apparently, he also likes to get divorced quite often. And of course, there are many people that didn't mind seeing the rabbi making an issue to what happened to this rabbi. The same thing that happened to others that simply were bad leaders to begin with and in order to appease the public they became like them instead of doing what the devote says that shalom shalom love peace and chased peace and he brought is to the meaning raised am peace chase peace But instead of bringing to the they fell to Islim Certainly they'll be able to lead others in the right direction. And that's actually what says in path of the just that if you want to learn to learn from someone that has done that has gone through the difficult road and knows the way. That's what Jacob wanted. He wanted people that have overcome the difficulties and can show others the way. This tai is a little bit of insights that we can learn from this week's paran. Now we'll address last week's question. We had Ruven and Shimon riding down the street. Ruven sees some bag left on the side of the road and he tells Shimon since she's closer to the bag, get me the bag. He gets him the bag. He gives him the bag. Ruven opens the bag, finds a bunch of money in it, and all of a sudden, Shimon says to him, "Listen, it's my bag. I'm the one that got it first." Now, the question is, whose bag is it? And the answer is as follows. If Ruven asked him for the bag and Shimon got the bag without saying anything and just simply gave him the bag, then him asking for the bag after the fact, we do not listen to him, says the But if Shimon grabs the bag first and says, "This is mine, but here you go. could see it. Meaning he declares that this he takes ownership of it even though Reuben sent him. He could reject Ruven's making him a messenger and simply take the bag, say this is mine, and then he could show it to Shimon to uh he could show Shimon could show it to Reuven if he wants to. But the point is he could take ownership of it. But since he did not take ownership of it and only wanted it after the fact, we do not listen to him. Some of you got the right answer. Some of you got close. Now we have another question. There was once a very very poor boy. I mean this boy grew up with literally seemed like if luck existed he only had bad luck. No money. No matter what he sold, no matter what he bought, nothing worked. And of course, he prayed to Hashem, "Please, please, please." But the best job that he possibly can get in this town that he lived in was to uh, you know, be a farmer, get some grains, sell it to people, make a meager living, always behind the bills, always in debt, always difficulty. One day things change in that town. The weather changes, situations change, and now there's major difficulty in getting food. Literally a famine. Now the price of these grains skyrockets. It's hard to get food. He happens to have these grains. So, he's now he's in good shape. He's making a lot of money now. But the people of that town, Jewish people, that town, they're struggling to afford these grains. So much so that half the town almost decides they're going to sell the houses. They're going to sell the houses to this formerly poor grain salesman, this farmer in, you know, in exchange for the grains. Houses that worth, for argument sake, let's say half a million dollars, they won't sell out for 100,000. At least they'll survive. Now, now that he had a bunch of money, he said, "Listen, what do you guys have?" 20 houses. Okay, fine. I'll give you guys each $100,000. $100,000 worth of grains. Okay, deal. Everybody signs the deal. The exchange takes place shortly after. Couple of ships arrive at the shore full of grains. In so many words, the famine ended. Of course, the price of grains dropped tremendously back to where it used to be. But this guy now made millions. Why? The houses that he bought for a h 100,000 in one day are back to what they used to be. They're now worth a half a million because the famine is done. The grains have dropped in price. But he doesn't care. He already made so much money off the houses. It's much more than he could ever imagine. This poor kid just got the blessing of a lifetime. He finally struck it rich. Only one problem. All of these people go to the bed and they tell the rabbi, "Listen, we want our houses back." What happened to the houses? We sold them to Shimon that has the grains business. But uh now there's so much grains, we could buy grains for nothing like it used to be. Want our houses back. So why don't he give you the house? Well then now the house is not worth 100,000. THE HOUSE IS WORTH 500,000. We can't afford to pay him 500,000. What do you do? You're the bad choices to make it easier for you guys to think of something. It could be one of these choices or perhaps something else you could figure out. Choice one, cancel the whole deal. Meaning, give him back the houses and get a 100,000 or whatever and that's it. But now his millions that he's been waiting for his whole life are gone. But he's everybody likes him. Two, tell them uh 50%. not going to sell it to you for 500,000 but 250 and I'll even carry the mortgage. You guys pay me the 100,000 now and the rest of the 150 pay me the mortgage over a period of time. Choice number three, nothing. Tough luck. That's how business is. You sold. You knew. You decided to do it. I didn't go after you. It's not my fault. I didn't change this market. Business is business. Sometimes you make good deals. Sometimes you made bad deals. Perhaps the blessing that you had your whole lives, now it's my turn. Especially since the guy struggled this whole life. Choice number four, something else that you come up with. Let's see what kind of answers we get. >> I'd like to introduce you to your new best friend. We did it. AI Rabbi is here. It's an AI model that is [music] based on kosher Torah sources. 30 different languages that are available to you. So if you want to ask it in Spanish, in Chinese, Portuguese, whatever you want to do, it's available for you. Can you [music] tell me about timestamped to the shield? You press this [music] green button AI rabbi on your WhatsApp. You'll have the ability to ask questions at will. You'll be provided sources and most importantly you'll be able to know the truth and be able to rely on the sources. [music] Now you guys could ask some questions of his will give us the answers. Is one allowed to go to a restaurant with wife and friends to celebrate New Year's Eve? If you mean the Gagorian calendar New Year's if you're Jewish? No, absolutely not. This is a uh it's not our New Year's. It's not our New Year's. Nothing new for us. This is a Gregorian calendar. We're Jews. We don't celebrate the uh Gregorian calendar new years. Especially since if you uh learn the history of what this is. This is called Sylvesta, which was a day that they ma would use to massacre Jews. There's a video clip that uh was shared today of one of the shim that I've made over the years talking about uh Jews celebrating uh the Gregorian calendar new years and how it's not only prohibited is uh now if you want to celebrate this Gregorian calendar new years by having a and there food and people are learning Torah and there's some food you can do it it's not really a Jewish thing to do. And really, it's ugly, but it's certainly uh better than uh than uh than something else like going to, you know, a restaurant and celebrating New Year and counting 10 98 uh and all that other nonsense that the Gim do uh and even you know uh worse than that when they uh what they do after it. So, no. So, if you're going to learn Torah and celebrate Torah on this day, you know, there's a uh room for leniency there. But if you're talking about celebrating it, celebrating a goring calendar that was a anniversary of their massacre of Jews, there's What are you celebrating? It's like celebrating the art site of uh uh of uh of uh Hitler. Rabbi, do you have to check if you or your ancestors were mums? Usually the people that are mumm there was a uh some type of sakin that would uh uh that would be transmitted in the family and the bed would have it. But if you don't know of anything, then um you're okay. Lot of just discussions back and forth. People have nothing better to do with their time. So it's takes a while to finally find a question. Brother, a friend of mine is asking if my sister sins and claims it was because everyone was telling her to since they're all idoltors, is that a valid excuse even though she knew better? No, it's not a valid excuse. If everyone jumps off a bridge, it doesn't mean that you, you know, a normal person will jump off a bridge with them. So, no. What biography have you been wanting to read but have not yet gone to? Every biography about a sadik that I haven't gotten to. I wanted to get to I'll get to one day. I have many books that I haven't gone to that I'm waiting. One day I'll get there. Let's see. Is it possible for Goim to see why he might be a [ __ ] He's a [ __ ] because his parents are not Jewish. His mom is not Jewish. Not understanding what you mean. But if he wants to be Jewish, he convert. She can convert to Judaism. It's not a closed door. It's not an easy process, but it's certainly not a closed door. I want to convert to Judaism when I grow up. Is that the shim? You're 13 years old now. Okay. Is that the shim? All of you that have answers to the uh question, you could send the answers either to my WhatsApp or email. You could email uh bhqurbashem.org or um my personal email uh or my WhatsApp. >> [sighs] >> I'm confused because I thought that if something has no use on Shabbat, then it's mukt. So once the food is out of the wrapper, there's no use for the wrapper. So is it mukt? No. And the reason why the wrapper of the food that you just ate is not mukt is because this is the way of eating. Uh you have to take the wrapper off um and then throw it out. So it's in a process of uh of eating you're doing it. So therefore you clean up and uh you uh throw the rapper out. It's not considered muk. Of course, if you go to the level of the goa, he even considered the eggshell mukti, but uh we're not the go and there's no need for a person to add such stringencies that are not the basic. We know what the is and that's it. My friend's sister is yelling at him. She said she wasn't thinking and felt pressured. She said being emotional and overwhelmed. Being emotional overwhelmed her. A friend wants to know if this is possible. If what is possible? If it's possible for her to go. She went. I don't really understand what the question is. Can I make my dog play dead on Shabbat? Yeah, sure. When you first started with 15 to 30 minutes a day learning, what time do you usually pick to learn? When I first started 15 and 30 minutes uh learning, I was still uh working on Wall Street and I would work uh you know 16 18 hour days. So uh and it was a very very busy schedule and uh so was whenever I got a chance whenever I got a chance then I would try to do it at night. Um most of the time it was at night. Is it possible to be overwhelmed by our emotions to sin? Sure, why not? What's the difference between an Adam is a dam? I assume you know the answer. I have many conflict. I heard many conflicting opinions. Are we allowed to turn on hot water on Shabbat in hotel big buildings where the boiler is always due to thousands of people? No, we're not allowed. The only uh issue um you have a duchish um for for Yamto but Shabbat. If two Jews, a man and a woman, who were separately married to their Jewish partners, were heavily suspected of adultery, then got divorced and married each other, what is to be done? Should they divorce? No. If there's no uh evidence of adultery, uh then no, they don't need to divorce and they don't need to care what people think. How could I read the nicodem of hem's name in my sidu? You don't read the nicodem of hem's name. That's all covenant. It's not to be read. Is it true that there was a second? Yes, there says that the uh first uh first woman uh did not want to be Adam uh Adam's wife. That's uh to help him and uh went against him and ended up uh marrying the Satan. And that's what her name is, Lamemed Lamemed. Uh she's the Satan's wife. And then there's that we know [snorts] My friend is asking if he's allowed to be around his family. His family is celebrating Sylvester and he's hanging out with me, listening to you instead of because I told him to sin. Yeah, you should listen to a shield toy instead of uh instead of going to celebrate a uh a day that's a anniversary of massacring uh Jews. Read up about who Sylvester is. Do you utterly reject the Torah's instructions to eat every herb of the land or do you actually eat cannabis? There's no instructions of the Torah that obligate us to eat every herb. Uh so you're just making that up. And that's probably because you do a lot of uh uh smoking of cannabis. So your mind is the mind of a drug drug junkie. If you clear your mind of all the marijuana and cannabis and all the other junk that you're putting into it, you'll start thinking thick uh you know, you start thinking clearly and stop uh focusing so much on the one thing that you've invented in your mind to be a mitzvah, which is not. Can you pray to Hashem lying in bed with the lights off? Can you? Yes. Should you? No. If you have uh the ability to stand. Does the guardle have some spiritual function as the calabia? I mean the whole custom of the gartle is uh it's a uh to separate the top which is uh you know where the uh heart is, the brain is the modesty is versus the bottom which is where the is um so the separation it's a show of modesty even though not every person that has a guardle is uh a modest person. It's custom clothing today more than is a custom that's separating the bottom from the top. You're missed dearly in Israel. Any plans to come visit your coll here? Not at this point. I don't have any plans to go to Israel. It's hard for me to travel. number one. Um, and um, there has to be a, you know, some type of necessity just being missed. Send me a text message. I'll send you one back. I have a busy schedule, but I don't have time to uh, miss anything or be missed. Try to help people whenever I can help. And uh I try to give shuim even uh when it's not exactly convenient or easy. I understand there's people that want to see me in different places whether it's New York, California, Las Vegas, and other places. But I can't just travel uh uh whenever I uh feel like it. Uh because again, it's number one, it's difficult for me. And number two, it's a uh most of the times when I make trips, it's not um it doesn't pan out. Like the people ask me to come to New York. Every other day they ask me to come to New York or to uh somewhere in California, but uh they're not willing to set up lectures with a lot of people. They just want me to come and hang out with them for, you know, and hopefully there's going to be a few people that come. I just I have better things to do with my time. Uh aside from the fact that it's expensive and it's a uh Uh, I'm not willing to spend all that money to to just go hang out with people. I don't have that kind of time. Not uh, you know, if I'm going to give us your people going to watch. Whoever wants to watch, watch. Whoever wants to see me live, we'll have to make it worth it. When I was delving into the zor, I learned that studying to Jewish midnight was powerful and it said, "Woe to the one who does not get up to study. This is obligatory." Well, the Rambam also says that uh the Torah commands us to study in the morning and night. Um now it doesn't require us to uh study all night but the Rambam says there's such an elevation of studying at night that people should have should change their schedule where they would study the whole night and you know uh sleep during the day but that's not a functional thing for most people. Uh and again it doesn't mean that a person has to study the whole night. If they can good but uh most people can't do that. So you could study at night when the sun goes down already. It's the stars come out. You could study for an hour, two hours, four hours, whatever, whatever you can and then go to sleep and you know function and with with your life to to do whatever it is that you do. The Torah specifically instructs us to eat every herb of the land, which includes cannabis. Why don't most modern Jew Jews teach this? because it doesn't teach that. Because this is your invention and you and your junky friends that are constantly doing drugs and now think that you can teach the world of Torah that doesn't do drugs to be like you. Now, I know that there's probably uh a couple of people that call themselves rabbis that uh support you or agree with you. uh and I know some of the names of those junkie that call themselves rabbis that promote uh you know the uh hallucinogens and all types of uh spiritual elevation via drugs but uh this is an is from it's forbidden in fact Moshe Feinstein said that a person that does drugs is uh has a bringing upon himself death from heaven. So, it's a sool. It's forbidden. So, you're just inventing things. And like I said, it's because your mind is full of drugs and uh you can't even think straight. I'm a concrete contractor. hardly lazy. I'd outwork you and anyone you know any day of the week. In fact, I won't hire lazy people. I don't use cannabis. You're a junkie. That is delusional. And uh Jimmy, as far as you outworking me, good luck with that, buddy. When yadik revealed himself and no man stood before him, was this his ego being gone and accepting that all came from Hashem as he mentioned three times that God did this to him? No, he uh did it by him he did it he kicked out all the Egyptians out of it because he knew that um when he would show himself to his brothers uh it would embarrass his brothers and he didn't want to embarrass his brothers in front of the Egyptians. Please explain and ed and educate the performing Okay, which is visiting the sick. The whole point of visiting the sick is to help them. Meaning to help them if they need uh to go to the bathroom, to help them if they need uh food, if they need uh help eating, if they need to take a shower, if they need uh you know ability to commute somewhere. The point of uh of is to help the person that you are visiting. That's why there's a between about whether you can do via phone call uh and because how much can you possibly help a person by calling them. So is in essence trying to help the person that's sick. Uh that's really the goal of it's not about buying them flowers and chocolates. Uh it's about having the opportunity to help the person in some way or another. Sometimes talking to the person helps them uh or or you know or simply giving you know keeping them company is the only help you can do. But if there's a way that you could also help them with with something uh then certainly that would achieve the mitzvah of uh and it's a very big mitzvah but uh it's not a mitzvah that you should cancel for uh and there's a story that uh and also I believe it's in as well that uh once went to uh to do and uh he heard one of the uh patients there cursing God blasphemy and he said you fool you know instead of you know uh pleading to God to heal you you're uh you're cursing him you're sick you're dying instead of pleading to Hashem maybe he'll maybe he'll heal you instead of that you're cursing him and uh the guy did not uh did not do chuva. He continued and he actually also cursed and then said, "This is my punishment for leaving my learning to go to a lesser mitzvah of meaning as great as it should never come at the price of of learning to if you're learning Torah, learn to if you're not learning Torah and you're doing something else, whether it's working or it's uh something uh else then yes if you have the opportunity to do go do it but if you're learning to uh or teaching Torah then do not cancel that for the sake of Is it possible for a Muslim to turn Jewish? Yes, they could convert to Judaism would have to go through the process of conversion, move to a Jewish community and uh go through the process. Yeah, I actually have several uh students that were born Muslims and some were born Christians and some were born uh different uh things uh Hindus uh that uh have converted to Judaism. Sure. Since the Torah only accounts for Yakov's grandsons who were born before history migration to Egypt but not after, did Ysef have other children according to the Midrashim as implied by his father? Uh yeah, I believe he had daughters also. Uh I'm not sure about sons, but he had daughters. uh as far as um the uh the other uh brothers also had many kids and in fact Adam what most people don't realize is that most people think that Adamon had uh just a uh uh kind heaven and [ __ ] uh and perhaps also the the twin sisters that they had but that's not the case had many kids uh as the Torah itself says when they do the uh the chronicles of of uh Adam's life, it says he had many boys and girls uh aside from those. But the reason why those are mentioned specifically uh is because they were the uh the most important ones. And the same thing goes for all of the other uh people that are mentioned in the usually when they mention a somebody whether it's or any of the others uh they mention uh the person they mention how many years they uh lived and they mention one of their children usually but that doesn't mean they only had one child they had many children but that was the most important one that continued the tradition uh that the Torah mentions. And in fact, one of the things that we also learned from that that has is uh there was a once a question that uh came to the rush uh of uh of whether uh Akila came to him and said there's somebody that uh wants to donate a uh a house his house uh to the synagogue and uh to change the synagogue to his house, meaning he's donating the house. He's a multi-millionaire and the uh the synagogue was next door to it already, but the synagogue was old and his house was much bigger and fancier. So he wanted to donate his house uh as a uh you know to you know as the new shul as the new synagogue but the condition was that he wanted to put his name on the synagogue as a uh commemoration that he donated it to uh to the synagogue and the community didn't like this. They thought it was very arrogant and but they asked are we allowed to reject his donation? Are we allowed to reject his donation? and the the is one of the uh he writes, "Not only are they forbidden from rejecting his donation, why would they go against the Torah, which the Torah itself highlights the mitzvot of different people by mentioning their names?" So much so that the midrash says that had Ruven known that him saving his brother Ysef from death was going to be written in the Torah, he would have taken him out of the hole himself and put him on his shoulders and ran all the way to Yakov's father's house with Ysef on his shoulders. Had a known that Hashem would include in the Torah that he welcomed his brother Moshe without being jealous that he was chosen to be the leader of Israel. would have actually welcomed Moshe with a entire band and celebration. Meaning that mentioned specific people in the Torah performing good deeds as a commemoration to be remembered in a positive way. And this guy that's donating his his house to the synagogue wants the same thing. He's following what the Torah teaches us to do. So not only is the community forbidden from rejecting is uh donation uh they you know they're wrong for even thinking that it's arrogance. Now again you may have a preference of uh of of of one thing over another but again it always has to be based on and uh the point of uh you know the uh uh this this is not necessarily that a person should look for their name recognition uh like they do in the marketing world where they spend uh $100,000 on a marketing and then $200,000 on letting everybody know that they spend spend $100,000 on marketing or they spend $100,000 on a mitzvah and then spend a million dollar publicizing that they did a mitzvah. That's not necessarily the point. But again, there's no problem of being recognized for a good deed, especially if it's going to uh you know, help somebody, whether it's going to help uh you know your uh your children and you know get uh uh you know get better wives, get better husbands because your your family's known in a positive way. um and uh it's perhaps going to encourage other people to donate. There's no problem in in in putting your name on things. But again, the intentions behind it uh has to be has to be clean. Has to be clean. What is the status of the are they nohides? Uh yeah, I guess everybody that's not Jewish is a nohide. Whether they are righteous no hides or not depends on on on the people. But everyone that's not Jewish is considered a no hide according to the Torah. Thank you for the blessings. have any advice on somebody wanting to convert, you could go to my website bzadashem.org. In there, there is a section for free PDFs and books. One of the free PDFs is called guide to uh conversion. Download it. It's free and uh it's an interactive guide and follow everything that it says and learn all the things that it says to learn and you'll have an idea of what it means to convert and what's required and you'll be prepared for whenever you are ready in your life. [snorts] What prayers should aim say for healing for a fellow Jew who needs I mean they uh if it's a kan that's prays in a safari minan then they do and they uh so the person can go to shul and be part of um other than that I mean they could just simply give the person a to have there's no special prayers that they need to do. I mean there are certain prayers that the wrote uh that are uh have specific uh meanings and uh uh things. There's a book called Aneni that has many different prayers uh by different like and uh other mubalim uh that are specifically for uh certain ailments or problems in life. Um there's also prayers that the Ramban wrote uh that uh is uh has actually been translated to English. It's part of the book uh um uh uh there is a uh there's many different prayers but they could also pray they could also do a uh blessing with their own words. I was born Christian, but I'm converted to Judaism now. Oh, good for you. Good for you. I humbly ask if it's bad to go walking in a cemetery to pray. It reminds me of where I will go eventually and it swells my uh my heart. No, don't go to cemeteries. Don't go to cemeteries. If you're going to go to a cemetery, go to a cemetery of Sadikim, to a cemetery of the Sadik there. But just go to a cemetery, a regular cemetery. No, you can get hurt. Don't go to cemeteries. Endless tuma there. And uh it's not uh it's not something that's uh ever recommended. If a room is freezing cold with babies, is one allowed to turn on the heat on Shabbat if it's an electric remote? Um no. They could just put a blanket on the baby. And if that's they ran out of blankets for whatever reason, uh the worst case scenario, they could ask uh a [ __ ] to do it if it let's say if the if the baby is at a point where if the baby's really you know very very young like you know just within the first few days and it could even get to a point of picnish uh for baby to be that cold, you know, then uh they could ask a [ __ ] to do it. Um but um if it's just, let's say, I don't know, one year old baby or something like that that's perfectly healthy. It's just that it's cold. Um then, you know, again, it's for you to turn on and off the the light. No, but uh there's other ways of dealing with it. Either getting a blanket or uh getting nonju to do it. Do you recommend any passages to study in the hum? Uh yeah, all of them. But uh if you want to memorize something specific, then you could start off with a uh passage that the first letter of it is the uh first letter of your name and the last letter of it is the last letter of your name. First name. When I say your name, it's your first name. So if let's say your your name is uh your own like mine, the first letter is yud. The last letter is nun. So you have to find a verse in a starts off with uh and uh ends with noon. So for example that would be that's in Exodus 14:14. That's when tells not to be scared that there Yamsuf and the Egyptians are coming because God will fight your wars and you shall remain silent. Now why did I recommend that specifically? Because inat that we pray three times a day right before you say shalom there's a section over there where uh it's probably in your sidul where you would say the verse for your name. Now why would you say the verse for your name? It says that you would actually say this in your mind. You don't say the words out loud uh during you would say it in your mind. So I would say during that time and then do the shalom. Why? Because after a person dies the uh the uh uh taught us that during the process of the Satan uh is there with different and they ask you he asks you your name. He asks you your name and since you just went to trauma of dying uh you don't remember you don't remember your name and each time you don't remember they hit you and the hurts more. So, one of the zulot to remember your name is by having a uh a verse that starts with the first letter of your name and ends with the last letter of your name that you're saying three times a day and thereby you will remember your name when you're asked without getting a bigger beating than necessary. So that's one verse that every Jew should learn and you'll repeat it several times a day every day. Every time you do aid the linen and cotton mitzvah is up. only to linen and cotton or can someone dress cotton and silk for example if you're talking about wool and linen chhates chhatz are not allowed to be worn sewed together. So if let's say for example you have a shirt you have a jacket uh that's made of uh uh wool and they want to use linen to uh as the thread that's not allowed. You'd have to change that or vice versa. You'd have to change that. That's why many times when you buy suits, uh, you have to take them to the shot lab to check what shot is in it and have it removed and then replaced. Usually the shot in suit jackets is in the neck. Sometimes uh in the the pockets or the the sleeves uh but usually it's in the neck. Uh, and that has to be removed because it's a sin to wear it every second. Meaning it's a sin. A sin sin sin sin doesn't stop. So much so that the says that if you know that another fellow Jew is wearing chines uh and he refuses to take it off, you're allowed to rip it off of them. That's how much of a sin it is. Now, as far as other materials, like for example, uh cotton and silk or cotton and linen or any of the other mix, they're allowed. They're all permissible. You could do whatever you want with them. The specific prohibition is wool and linen. Uh but again, it's if they're woven together, not if it's a uh uh different layers. If it's different layers, it's allowed. But if it's woven together, that's the prohibition. How does one battle the test of going to minan every day? It seems impossible to me. Well, you start off by going once and uh then uh on every day the same one. Every day the same one. So, pick the one that you're going to go to. If it's very hard for you to go in the morning, then go to Mina. And if you go to Minha, usually you're able to go to because usually Minha and are prayed backto back. So go to that one every single day, get stronger, and then try to start going to the [ __ ] also. And if you're just going twice, you're already going to all three. But uh if um if you have the mentality of if I can't go to all of them, I'll go to none of them. It's the wrong mentality. If a person can't do all the mitzvot, it doesn't mean they should forsake all of the mitzvot. Do whatever you can and then grow from there. Well, I learned that if I was to turn the light on in a way that is not normal, that the sin wasn't ket anymore. For example, using my foot or elbow to turn it on. But it's disallowed. It's only allowed under extreme circumstances uh that the allows it. Not just if you just feel like turning on and off in a strange way. That's not allowed. There's extreme circumstances that it's allowed to do something in an unusual way. Um but uh that's not um that's not in every case. You could learn the uh it has three volumes and there's a whole section uh about that when it's actually allowed to do things in an unusual way. How can I avoid bad thoughts? By learning as much musra uh as possible because if you have an empty mind, you will have negativity in your mind. If you have a mind that's full of the goodness of the Torah, there's no room for bad thoughts. Can Noah be sent to Israel to be buried or does he need his own burial space out of Israel? Can he be sent? I mean, if somebody has enough money, I mean, they could do anything. The question should be, should he be sent? And the answer is no. Um but um can he if person's a multi-billionaire they could buy a whole plot of land and do whatever they want. I mean it's [snorts] so it's not that's not really um an issue but uh should he the answer is no. Even even for Jews to go send bodies to uh to Israel to be buried is not exactly accepted by all. Some speak against it. Why you sending the person uh even a few thousand years ago that says why are you sending the person that lived his whole life outside of Israel uh back to Israel after he died? You're sending him to Israel after he's t dead. And there's a uh it's not exactly a uh big mitzvah to send somebody to be buried in Israel. Um it's a lot of people think it is, but it's not it's not necessarily a uh um accepted by every by by all. If you do it, do it. Go ahead and do it. But you'd be better off spending all that extra money on, you know, publicizing Torah on that person's behalf. It'll do him a lot more good. will do them a lot more good instead of spending 50 100 $200,000 or more to go fly the body to Israel and bury them uh and you can do it for you know 90% less locally where you are should take that all that extra money that you would have spent and use it to publicize Tawra in the merit of that person that will do them a whole lot better than uh than uh wasting the money sending him to be buried in in Israel, especially if they didn't live in Israel their whole life. What should I respond when my Jewish relative wish me a happy new year? I mean you could tell them that uh Shana is not uh not for another several months or you could uh just smile and say nothing or you could say thank you and you know I mean whatever whatever is going to uh uh not uh not not create a lot of fights and uh I wouldn't go into battle with them over it, but I wouldn't make an argument over it with somebody say, "Oh, no, 2026 is no good." No, we use the Gregorian calendar for for day-to-day business activities and and and functioning of the world. It's not a problem to know the year of the Gregorian calendar. It's a problem to celebrate uh especially the way people celebrate. But um saying happy new year. Okay. Thank you. You too. That's I don't know what makes it so happy. But say beef. What is the proper burial for Noah hides if most burials have idols? The fact that there's idols in the cemetery doesn't change anything. It's not a place of worship. you bury him in the ground. People don't uh worship in the uh their idols in their in the uh in the cemetery. They may have idols there, but it doesn't mean anything. I will take one or two more questions. Although I'm going through conversion, am I allowed to break Shabbat more than one time? Like if I have to help a Jew with something, even if they don't ask me to do it, am I allowed to do it? It depends at uh which stage of the conversion uh you're at. If you're early stage, yeah. But if you are late stage, meaning you're supposed to convert in the coming months, then no. Rabbi, should a person request for the car magnet if they live predominantly in an area where they're conservative reformers? Doesn't matter where you live, you should put those magnets on your car and you never know who's going to watch it. I could tell you myself, even though I'm not I don't drive that much. Uh usually Bo Hashem in my room here learning, teaching, helping, doing whatever it is that we're doing or uh usually once a week I have to go out take care of some uh things that but every time I go out um people look at the magnets and sometimes they ask me sometimes what it is. Sometimes uh they just take a picture. I It works. It works. and it doesn't require any effort. Um, and I've had people uh tell me that they saw the film because they saw it on a magnet or poster and so on. So, it's just it's such a simple mitzvah. It's such a simple mitzvah and it gets so much that people simply don't understand. The kiru story that we have is literally one of the greatest blessings for the generation that that is unnoticed by most people. You have to understand that it's not my opinion that doing kiru is the greatest of great already wrote this over a thousand years ago already talked about it in the uh you know there's there's many stories about the significance of kiru uh you know uh was was a uh one of the greatest sages of his times because of his kiru um it's mentioned in the zor It's it's mentioned in it's mentioned all over the place. So doing Kiru is so extraordinary that the says that even if somebody were to uh was would to actually learn Torah and uh you know like the greatest of Torah scholars and he's considered like a partner to Hashem because of the Torah and the it brings to the world and Raba writes this actually in uh in one of his introductions to his books and he says, "Even if somebody's learning Torah and he's a great Torah scholar and he brings and he's considered a partner in w with Hashem uh because of all of the amazing Torah that he learns, he's still not going to be in the level of merits of somebody that does ku, somebody that helps other people do chuva." So doing cube being the greatest of great has always been the case in this generation particularly it's more than ever because this is simply the last chance people have to do chuva. You know Hashem has been waiting to you know bring the salvation for thousands of years and and it's we're in that generation. So this is everybody's last chance to do chuva. Hashem has been waiting for his children to do chuva for 3,000 years and literally there's very little time left. and you rescue one of his kids a minute before it was it's too late. Imagine the reward that a person is going to get for that. So doing kiru is is is something beyond people's comprehension and a person should literally invest writes 70 years of his life meaning all of his resources efforts and time even if it's going to yield him only one person doing chuva it's still worth it. Uh so but people don't understand it how significant it is and what's mindboggling is is that you have the opportunity to do kiru in the most extraordinary generation for free. How you could go to our kirof store it's krooftore.org order the books, the USBs, the magnet, distribute them, get more people to learn Torah, get more people these books, you know, and literally you're doing the most extraordinary thing for free. Now, of course, if somebody could support, if somebody could help us, can donate and so on, that's, you know, that's uh even more amazing. Uh and it's the most amazing is if they could do both. But the point is is that you don't have nobody has an excuse of not having the opportunity to reach the highest level of kaduca because literally we're giving everyone that opportunity on a silver platter. I don't know of any other organization that uh exists that is doing what we're doing and what we've done over the last 10 years. Usually they're organizations that distribute some things uh for sale for money. Uh and usually if they if they uh do give some stuff for free, it's usually for a limited amount of time, you know, for a limited amount of quantity. But we've had this Kiru store for all of these years. We've distributed millions of USBs and CDs and and and and posters and uh hundreds of thousands of books. Uh so and it's still going and Badm will continue going. We actually have another 30,000 copies of a new book uh that's uh uh going to be on a ship later this week and arrive in Israel and in the United States in probably the next month or so. And will continue distributing all this stuff for free. So a person that has an opportunity to do Kiru uh doesn't understand how significant it is. And a person that doesn't take advantage of of of the kiru store is excuse me but it's a is an idiot because it's you don't even need I mean money to do it like you just need time. Now, of course, the reason why people don't do it is either because they don't realize the significance of it or because they think that they're busier than what they really are or they are embarrassed of their Judaism. So, they don't want to to do it. Now, somebody came to my house to pick up some of the kiru boxes to distribute few hours ago and uh couple hundred to going to be distributed locally over here in in Florida. And uh he couldn't believe when I told him I'm jealous of him. Now, why would I be jealous of him? Because I would love to go into the streets and give out these curve boxes. It's the greatest thing in the world. But unfortunately, it's aside from time and uh and all the other things that I'm responsible and need to do. It's it's not the same because if I go out there, I know that people are going to want to talk to me and, you know, and do all types of things that are is going to stop me from the actual mission of actually giving people the actual kiru bucks. The whole point is to give to as many people as possible. And I can't do that if you're having conversations with people non-stop. So, I I wish I can do it. I used to do it. I you know I've been doing cure for many years even before I started speaking I used to send uh uh boxes and books and uh CDs to to people all over the world um because I understood early on the significance of it but only over the years did I realize that it's much more significant and much more important uh and much greater source of blessing than I could ever imagine. So if I was if I was in everybody else's shoes, um I would literally be ordering, distributing, ordering again, distributing as soon as possible, ordering again like on a regular basis. And some people actually do that. Usually they do it for a period of time and then they stop and maybe they come back, you know, uh later on down the road. But if somebody actually understood the significance of of Kiruv and what the opportunity of the Kiru store is literally that would make this their second job uh and uh and literally do it on a regular basis. But what could I do that people don't understand the uh the priceless opportunity is being given to them in their hands? Um I could I could assure you that a lot of people are going to cry because they didn't do it or they didn't do enough of it. And some people even did bad things where they ordered something and then they um didn't really want it and they either threw it out or sent it back or just simply wasted the organization's money. Those people are going to cry the most. But um uh but people that don't don't take adv take advantage of the opportunity of doing of using uh the books and USBs and everything we have to distribute in their community are literally going to call themselves crazy. So conclusion is as far as the magnet for the tikun blit doesn't matter where you live in the US uh or if you live outside of the US you want to pay for shipping we'll send it to you over there you should put it on your car um each box comes with two magnets if you want the decal uh that we could include that in the box also uh it's simply turning your vehicle uh into a mit mitzvah uh mitzvah uh machine mitzvah machine and uh that uh you have no idea how many people you can save. And the reality is that even if one person actually watches the film and does chuva, all of the good deeds that you've done in your life will not be equal to that one guy doing chuva bringing merits to you. So you're bringing so many merits to you. Uh the problem is the language. I'm in Brazil. I would love to share the books and USBs. It needs to be in Portuguese. Well, I don't have the books in Portuguese, but what you can do is go to our Portuguese YouTube channel and every day take a few videos, two, three videos, and publicize them on your social media. publicize them on your WhatsApp groups, publicize them and share them with people. And you could do Kiru that way. We have our videos translated uh to Portuguese. It's a growing channel. Bashima has I think maybe 10 15,000 subscribers already and you could uh publicize those videos in in different social media and get more people to do Chuba that way. Use the tools that are available. There's no books that we have in Portuguese that are available, then at least use the tools that we do have, which is many lectures about. What's the car magnet? The car magnet is this. It's a car magnet goes on a door and it has uh it's the name of one of the films that we made about Tikun Bleet. It's called Tikunet and somebody could scan this QR and it goes directly to the film. They can watch the film and it can change their life. That's the magnet. Simple. Um it's a fantastic film that has reached millions and millions of people in different languages because we have it translated uh in uh to Spanish to Portuguese to uh other languages and many many people have done chuva as a result of it. [snorts] Uh tikuna kali is not a complete remedy for for tuna. I'm sorry it's not. It's a uh big uh and common misunderstanding but that it's not it's supposed to the whole point of tikuna aquali is to inspire a person to do actual chuva. It's not chuva itself. If you have a Ferrari, should you put the magnet? Sure, why not? The mitzvot that you can get from putting the magnet will go with you to eternity. The Ferrari is not Can you send your books overseas only if you pay for shipping? It's very expensive. If you live in Europe, probably cost few hundred dollar $300 per box. It's very expensive. I mean, if you want to set up shipping and, you know, on your end, if you have a cheaper way to do it, so you have somebody that wants to come pick it up, I have no problem. But, uh, for us to pay for shipping going overseas is too much for us to handle. The books themselves are already expensive. First person who has several channels in different languages. Rabbi your own Ruben. Excellent. Everything after this year I'm going to the cur store. I spoke to for celebrating idolatry. Was that a mitzvah? It was a waste of time. guys on a regular basis. I wished if only celebrating the uh idolatrous new year was his only problem. Is there an order you recommend of Rabbi Nishim's books? Should one read Selfmastery or Life of Torah first? Whatever. Whatever speaks to you. Okay, I think we did it already. When someone texts the number, is it you or someone working for you? depends which number. If you text my number, then it's me. [sighs] If you call, would I answer? No, I don't answer calls unless it's a planned call that I planned because I need for the purpose of running the organization or it's specific cases where I uh need to call somebody. Um, I don't generally speak on the phone. If you have questions, you could send questions to my WhatsApp uh short text message or short uh voice note and I'll do my best to respond to you. If you have the answer to one of the questions that we asked during, you could send it over there. Okay. Um, Rabbi Nakman wrote a book called Complete Remedy to help regain sparks of the kipot. Correction, Rabbi Nakman did not write the book Complete Remedy. Um, Rabbi Nakman only wrote one book. Uh, everything else was written by. Now, as far as the tikun clei, it is something that's supposed to inspire a person to do chuva. It's not chuva itself. I've spoken about this extensively over the last 10 years in many different lectures and I've brought many sources. Uh and you could even see in uh one of the books that the breastliff uh organization uh um publicized uh over the years called holy nation. in there it says it uh if you need that book you could either buy it online it's called the holy nation or you can even get it from our website uh go to our website there's free PDFs and so on it's over there we've distributed I don't know how many thousands of copies of that book over the years uh and it shows all the different things all the different teachings many people think that just reading some timikun is rectifying the ble it's not it's not a complete tikun. It's supposed to inspire a person to want to do chva. It's not an actual tikun in itself. What is your approach to people that say that your approach is wrong? Show me your results. I'll show you mine. Usually the people that say that my approach is wrong are not going to want to show their numbers. Do you know why? Because their numbers don't exist. So it would be very embarrassing to them. The amount of people that they've helped do chuva are usually non-existent. And if they do exist, it's so minimal that I literally helped more people do chuva in a single day than they did in an entire lifetime. Number two, as far as if you ask them for their numbers of how many people they've helped financially, they could probably think for about a half hour and come up with maybe a list of three, four, five, or even 10 people they've helped. But if you look at what we do every single year, we literally help tens of thousands of people every single year. Throughout the year, throughout the holidays, all the numbers are published. We've helped over 300,000 people almost eat and have uh you know and help them financially. So it's it's literally it's they could continue what they're what these naysayers continue doing for the rest of their life. Even if they lived a thousand years, they wouldn't reach what we've already done. Now that's number two. Number three, ask them how many books have they uh distributed to help is do chuva, to help learn. I'll tell you, well, you know, I bought a book and I gave it to one of my students and, you know, I I got some free books and I I gave it to a few people and you could probably count, you know, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 books they've given for free. We've given out now after this next uh next shimit, it'll be well over 300,000 books for free. Over 300,000 books for free that we've published, printed, and distributed for free. And the list goes on. how many you know so so so you show me your numbers I'll show you mine in fact I don't even have to show it to you it's published on our website it's all public and who let's see which approach gets better results which approach gets better results doesn't matter whether you agree with the approach who gets the results that's number one after that let's compare what I say to what the Torah says and compare what the so-called mainstream uh different approach uh how they compare if you compare what I say you'll see that I say exactly what our have said for the last several thousand years all the way to the prophets if you look at what the other approaches you could find this generation other people saying what they're saying because they're not going to agree with the tradition of what am has had over the last several thousand years. If you look at how the prophets spoke to Isel, including Abenu, you won't see them, you know, speaking to people like uh like uh the mainstream approaches of God loves you no matter what and everyone's at sadik. You're never going to find that. You're never going to find that in the written. You're never going to find that in the oral Torah. You're never going to find that in the Z. You're never going to find it in You're never going to find it anywhere. It's simply a modern-day invention to be politically correct and in order to uh empty people out of whatever is in their pocket. It's to be liked by everyone. It's not to help everyone. My concern is to help everyone do chuva. I don't care if you like me or you don't like me. It doesn't make a difference in my life whether you send me a compliment or an insult. It's the same exact thing to me. It doesn't mean anything to me. My goal is to help you do chuva. So if you do chuva and then you hate my guts. If you do chuva and then you love me and you think I'm your msiach. If you do chuva and then you act like I don't exist. If you do chuva and you simply want to talk to me every opportunity you get. Whatever I can do to help you, I'll help you. But my goal is to help people. It's it's that's that's the goal. Whereas this other approach, it's to do something new, to reinvent the wheel, to reinvent the Torah, to give it a new modern approach. And we know throughout all of history that anytime people tried to change the Torah, it only led to bad. It only led to bad. And the best proof of it is not only what we've seen throughout the generations. Look at the results today. 99% of the rabbis are so-called, you know, mainstream. Are the results good? See for yourself what's happening? The communities are disastrous. You have mixed dancing inside the from communities in my uh and and in and all types of places. Rabbis are doing mixed dancing intermarriage assimilation. It's a disaster. So if this new approach that is the majority already for for a while, if it was working so well, how come everything is getting worse? Whereas if you look at what I do, look at the results. People that watch our lectures get better, get closer to Hashem. They get so close to Hashem that your modern mainstream people call them fanatics. Well, guess what? I'd rather be called a fanatic than a Shabbat than an adulterer than a thief. So, anyone says, "I don't agree with the approach." Well, if your approach's goal is to get people to do chuva, then like I said, show me your numbers, I'll show you mine. If your approach is to be liked by people, then I'm not even competing with you. I don't care about what makes you more popular. Doesn't make it that's just simply not what we do. We don't try to be popular. We try to help people. And whoever comes and drinks from the holy Torah that we teach and publicizes gets better. Simple. Whoever doesn't doesn't. So what's your approach? My approach is what Am and its leaders has been doing since the beginning without changing it. What's everybody else's approach? mainstream mainstream needs to make a U-turn and go back to the right stream and that's what we're trying to do succeeding doing it. We've answered all the questions that we've seen and uh we'll continue learning and teaching and publicizing the Torah. Everyone that wants to support could donate at batm.org. If you need a big tax write off and a big mitzvah at the same time, you could do it still for another 55 minutes. If you just simply need to do mitzvah, you could do that as soon as possible because run to the mitzvot. But you could also do it tomorrow or the next day. Pretty much the sooner the better because that's when the mitzvah is going to come to you. But aside from all that, everyone should go to the kiru store. If you're living in the United States, go to the kiru store as soon as possible. Order the magnets while we still have supplies. It's not unlimited. I mean, obviously, we have a lot, but it's not unlimited. Get them as soon as possible. Shaveim starts in a few days. Shaveim lasts for only several weeks. Even if you decide that you don't want this magnet on your car the whole year, at the very least, it should be on there for those five, six weeks of shvim because that's the auspicious time to do chuva for morality. That's when the tikuna bleet uh is most important. So get the magnets, get some USBs, get some other stuff. If you have some money and you want to do the matching uh donation, then you should do that. Oh, and actually I think you guys wanted a question. No, I think I gave you guys the question. I gave you a question. Okay. Uh and uh that's it. Some of you, by the way, that have uh received the gift for answering the question, right? Maybe you want to uh send people some pictures, put on your social media that uh you got the pictures, you got some gifts from maybe you can get some of them for for other people. Point is do something to get people to learn to learn what we're trying to do here to publicize name. Thank you very much for learning with me. May bless each and every single one of you, especially those that support and learn and share these lectures. And we'll learn again next week. We're finally here. The new Kiru box, opens up. A nice little cushion here. We got Let's see if it's charged. >> Isn't that amazing? It's the buff. >> Now available at.com.org. org. Get yourself 20 of them, 30 of them, 50 of them. distribute them to all the people that you care about and you get people to do the cha.