VAYEIRA: Religious Depression | STUMP THE RABBI (249)

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We learn about how Arainu was the ultimate host and Su was the ultimate chef. But Va is going to teach us something else today. Although the initial goal is to make a person do chuva get closer to the sweetness of the Torah seems to disappear for some people after they've been doing it for a while as if they lost it. If it's not the difficulties of life that uh cause them to simply become miserable. It's the inner feeling that I'm not doing enough that leads to a very dark path that will call religious depression. Meaning they keep Shabbat, they keep mitzvot, but they're depressed. They're depressed about their problems. They're depressed about they're not being religious enough. They don't study enough and so on and so forth. Religious depression, believe it or not, it's more common than you can imagine. And if a person does not cure himself, because you can't go to the doctor, at least not the regular uh family doctor for this. You could only go to the spiritual doctors for this. We also called them rabbis. And even then, you have to select the one that uh could cure you because not everyone has the tools. Some people even give the wrong medicine. But nonetheless, if a person does not cure themselves of this religious depression, this misery, that dark path can actually bring them as far away from Hashem than you can possibly imagine, even further than what they were before they did cha. After this, you guys will ask some questions and will give us the answers. is in essence a continuation of what we learned at the end of last week's par where told to do a for himself and for his household whether it was Ishmael at 13 years old which we discussed some interesting new insights we learned last week or it's the rest of his household of who did a bleak mah for everyone Which means everyone was in pain. Everyone was in pain. And this para continues on the third day after the interestingly enough saw that Abramu is suffering. and therefore decided to bring heat to the world, saying, "How could it be that the wicked in the world are comfortable, but the righteous Abraham and his household are uncomfortable?" And therefore the midrash in section number eight says in the name of that while was recovering from the brit punctured a hole in the wall that separates this world from gum and within a brief moment this heated up the entire world together with its inhabitant. For the holy one, blessed is he, said, shall the righteous be in pain while the rest of the world content. We not only learned that heat is good for the wound, but also that said that it's worth it for the entire world to become uncomfortable for the sake of this one sadik. Now, one of the other things that the tell us here in the name of the is that while could have simply done anything he wanted. There are other places in the Torah say that Hashem took the sun out of its shell. Perhaps this is what it means. Sun out of the shell meaning he in so many words he opened up gum's heat into this world. They don't really contradict. He could have simply increased the temperature to abnormal amounts while keeping everything the same. Bahu wanted us to learn something here by specifically using Gum as something that will bring healing to A. And says, why did Hashem choose to utilize the heat of gum to raise the temperature in the world and heal Abraham rather than just heat the heat of the sun because Hashem wished to insinuate that it was the merit of that his descendants would be saved from the fires of Gum. Now, of course, everyone has heard the very popular saying that will go to Gome and save his descendants. Obviously, if they're there, they're not exactly righteous. So according to this half statement, nobody that's Jewish goes and gets punished. But what can I tell you? When you have half statements, you have half truths which ends up being a complete lie. Just like the famous statement we see in our sidu where it says part of the all of Israel have a share of the world to come doesn't have the rest of the it says and these are the people that do not have a share of the world to come which the heretics the atheists the Shabbat and and so on and so forth. This too, this statement too of saying that is going to save everyone from gay is also a lie. Why? Because the same midrash in section number eight says in the name of Levi in the next world Abrainu will sit at the entrance to Gum and will not allow a circumcised Israelite to descend there. That's the part everyone knows. And what will God do to those Israelites who have sinned excessively and therefore deserve gay? Isan going to override? No. Rather will remove the foreskin from the babies that died before they were circumcised and place it upon the sinners, rendering them uncircumcised. and then allow them to descend into gay. Thus, it's written in Psalm 55:21, he stretched out his hands against those who were at peace, he profained his covenant. This is the reason why it says that in the heat of the day which is an illusion to the time when a day will become what's the prophet Malachi says in chapter 3 19 for behold the day is coming burning like an oven. So says to after he does the blem, you will be able to save some of your kids because of the merit of your because of your circumcision. But those that forsake Hashem, those that die without doing chuva and they were violating Shabbat, driving on Shabbat, smoking on Shabbat, working on Shabbat, the atheists, there are picim heretics. They listen to people like Manis Freman and the other on the list. Well, those of Ramavinu will not even recognize them as his descendants. Why? Because even if their parents gave them a milah at eight days old will take the from all of those babies that die before they have a circumcision whether it's a uh premature birth and the baby dies a uh a palai miscarriage still life baby all types of very tragic situations that people have to deal with and in fact the there is a tradition among amad it's not an obligation that even if there is a uh miscarriage at four or five months old they actually give the the uh the embryo they gave the the baby but it's obviously not a living baby give him a ble partly because it's to show that We believe in the resurrection of the dead and the other part is because of this midrash and and many other talk about it. There are some that say that it's really only if they are born but don't live. But nonetheless, this tells us that is not going to give anyone a free ride. You can't just live your whole life as a and expect the reward of the after that we see that does something unusual. Abrahamu is sitting by the entrance says that Hashem appeared to him in the plains of Mam while he was sitting at the entrance of the tent in the heat of the day. What is Abrau doing at the entrance? In section 9 of midrash he says said woe to me before I did a passerby would come by to me but now that I'm circumcised no one's coming and therefore says before you did yourself only uncertain circumcised people would come to you. But now that you have circumcised yourself, I and my ministers will be appearing before you. And that's why it says and Abraham raised his eyes and saw and behold three men were standing over him and he saw and then he ran towards them. It says the word that he saw twice. Why twice? Once he saw and the other one he saw the angels but he didn't know there were angels but in fact the midrash says that Abra saw these angels and didn't look exactly like a uh Torah scholars says that one of them looked like a Syrian uh a Syrian nomad Saki. Another one looked like a ship captain. And the third one looked like an Aravi. Arava comes from wilderness, a desert nomad. So it didn't exactly look so uh extraordinary. But if said to himself, Hashem will just appear to me. If he stays here while I go tend to these guests, then that will be a sign for me that these are great people. And if I see them showing respect to each other, then I'll know that they're decent people. Now, let me ask you a question. If let's just say the richest man in the world, a king of some kind, Elon Musk, your favorite hero, shows up and wants to have a meeting with you, but then somebody down the street looks like they're walking towards your house. Will you stop? Hold on, Mr. uh King. Let me go attend to these people. See if they need a place to eat. No. The typical answer is no. The truthful answer is no. No one will stop a conversation with some president, with some king, with some billionaire to go see if somebody that's outside maybe needs a place to eat, drink, rest. But Abraham did and knew exactly what was going to happen. Abraham was going to leave the and go attend to these guests which looked like, Arabs, ship captain, nomads, it wasn't Torah scholars. It wasn't uh something impressive. From there we learn a whole lot about it says that when Job had his difficulties to say it lightly he questioned God and in section Na number [snorts] says that. Oh, no. It's not break number five. It's a different one. See, I'll just tell you off the top of my head. Job says toad, "Hashem, didn't I host guests with the poor people? I gave them food like they're used to. And the rich people, I gave them food like they're used to. Then I host them in my house. Anytime somebody would come to my house, I would host them. Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such difficulties? Gives Job the answer of all answers which initially is going to leave us confused. And says to Job, "As much as you did, host guests, you did not even do half of what Arau did. My son Abra, you didn't even do half of what he did." Because although you hosted the guests, it's only when they came to you of went and chased him looking for people in the streets. Although you hosted guests in your one place, my son built camps in every place that he went and filled it up with food and left them money. So anytime people would come by, his workers in those hotels would feed the people. Even though you gave the poor man the food that he's used to and the rich man the food that he's used to, Abra gave all of his guests the rich man's food. In so many words, Akadoshu rebukes Job for thinking that he was the greatest host, that he did everything perfect. He says, "No, you didn't even do half of what Abraham did." Now, that begs the question, why Why did Abraham do all this? Why did Hashem send him guests on the day that he's supposed to be recovering from a surgery of a lifetime? Why? And what does that have to do with your depression? If we notice in the beginning when sees these Arabs/ angels it says in chapter 18 verse number 6 and continues till verse number eight. And hastened to the tent, meaning he didn't just go to Sarah and say, "Listen, honey, looks like we have some guests. Maybe you could prepare something." No, he ran. If that was enough, he said to Sarah, "Hurry, three of me, find flour, knead and make the cs cakes from there." By the way, say we learned that this was during PES. That's why said to need because as long as you need the dough, it never becomes. Further proof of that is later on when the angels go to save Lot's life and destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot hosts him and he gives them mats. It literally says it in the verse. He gives them matsot mat. But Abraham hastened to Salah and tells a hurry. And then Abra ran to the cattle and the youth hurried to prepare it. Everyone is in a hurry. Everyone is in a hurry. Why the hurry? Okay, you have guests. Easy. Take your time. It's not like uh this is the uh president, prime minister and the king. It's not like this is three Moshe just three people. Here we learn Abrainu treated every guest this way just like said. Why? Because Abrainu has enormous physical pain after the brit doing at such an age could even be life-threatening. But Abrainu has an even greater pain. A pain of not having guests. A pain that time will not heal it. A pain that is unlike physical pain because it's spiritual pain. An example story that came out recently is a one of the evil acts of the Israeli government in recent months was to go to the yeshivot and the kals and arrest that didn't go to the army. One of the bahim 18 years old his name was Ariel Shamai. Ariel Shamai Baluva his whole family is secular and traditional but no one expected that Ariel Shamai after doing Chuva will turn into a bul that learns 14 15 hours a day of Torah. after going to Albazha for a while got picked up by one of the top yeshivot in the entire worldkin his rabbi said this story when I called Ariel when he was in the prison that the Zionist government put him in for not going to the army was crying hysterical Now, what did you think he was crying about? Not wanting to be in jail. It smells bad. Bad people. No, Ariel was crying to Rav and says, "How could I continue learning and keep up with the rest of the in in the How could I learn? I don't have the books here. How can I learn? Going from 15 hours a day learning to nothing. I can't take it. He was hysterical crying. A pain that time will not heal. A pain that a kadosh will not forgive those who put him in prison. A pain that most people will never understand. You're crying over not studying. Okay, I understand you like it, but you're crying over it. said a story recently about his father shalom. He said in his last days he had major health issues and went to the hospital. After the doctors checked everything, they said he will never be able to sit down and learn Tawra like he did before. The problem is not something we could fix. They left the room and says I was the only one left in the room and my father said to me, "Is it true? Did I hear correctly that the doctor said that I will never be able to sit down and learn Torah anymore? Only laying down?" He said, "Yes, Aba." Immediately started hysterical crying. What do I need this world for? If I can't learn Torah, what purpose do I have to be here? Take me out of this world. And as the mid says that does not take the out of this world until they request to be removed and his prayer was answered as he shortly died and left this world will pray for all of us to help this orphan generation. the wrote in that we have a whole series on the greatest sorrow that I have is when I steer away from Hashem and the greatest pleasure that I have is when I'm doing the will of Hashem. in our BH Kids channel. One of the stories that I said years ago that was turned into a short film for kids was a story that I'm certain no one in the room in the lecture that I was giving understood and no one will still understand about the goa. The goa one time on the shukan Shabbat accidentally touched the eggshell that was left after somebody peeled an egg from a chulent but it was just eggshell and he touched it with his hand and according to his we don't paskin like this he had a stringency where he pus that it's considered mkt And therefore the moment he touched what he considered mukt he could not handle the pain and he simply passed out. After he got up again and saw the peel again he passed out again. After he opened his eyes a third time, he passed out again. At that moment, his dear righteous mother understood here we have piku nephesh life risk. If he passed out again, he could die. His heart cannot contain the fact that he might according to his stringency have done something against the will of Hashem. So as soon as he got up, she took the peel and she started eating it to show him that it's not mukt food. Now the average person scratching their heads like what are you talking about passing out because you touch m I know somebody that drives on Shabbat. I know somebody that eats pigs. I know somebody that's married to a non-Jew and they don't pass out. Yeah. It's because they're spiritually almost dead. When a person wants to test themselves of where they stand spiritually, our frame has taught us close your eyes. Are they closed? What is the first thing now that your eyes are closed? Immediately your mind is more secluded, more focused, more attentive. And now you can answer the question, what is the first thing that you're thinking of that bothers you? The average person may think, well, you know, I'm hungry. Maybe I'll get some shuama. No, pizza. Maybe pizza. Yeah, the pizza sounds good. Ah, Chinese food. Yeah, Chinese food. They're thinking about their billy. Another person may think, "How I'm going to pay the credit card bill? I definitely overspend. I don't have the money. Maybe I could borrow the money for my sister. Maybe I could just do a balance transfer from one card to the other, like a personalized Ponzi scheme. Another person is thinking, "How come I don't have enough money to buy that new car I want? I really want that car. Where am I going to send my kids to camp this year? How big is the house that we're going to buy since now we [clears throat] have the money? The average person is having those types of thoughts. What kind of dress they're going to wear, what kind of tie they're going to put on, if they're going to go to the sim they were invited to or not. That's what they're thinking about as a first thought. Say, are you thinking maybe about the galutina how the our sages told us that when Hashem destroyed the beta mikdash the left also it's also in the exile. Are you thinking about perhaps that over 80% of the Jews in the world do not keep Shabbat? Over 50% of the ones that are considered modern orthodox, the women do not go to the mikvah, over 60% do not believe in all 13 principles of faith, specifically divine providence. Does that bother you perhaps? No. What about all the that's in the world? heretics, people that are simply wicked but pretend to be righteous. What about that? Does that bother you? Is that the first thing that came up? Usually no. Why no? Because the majority of people have not elevated themselves spiritually to such a point where the first thought in their mind is about Hashem rather the first thought is about themselves their own personal needs. Whether it's their desire for schwama or pizza or desire for a new Tesla car or truck or maybe a stock investment or a real estate deal. Abrainu was not that. Abrainu was suffering spiritually because of his lack of guests. So much so that the physical pain that he had was inconsequential. And therefore the medicine that Hashem made of piercing a hole in Gum TO MAKE THE WHOLE world hotter than ever maybe helping him physically but is suffering much more than ever before because he's not able to host guests because he knows this is the will of Hashem TO HAVE GUESTS. WHY is it the will of Hashem? Because the goal of in every place, whether it was this tent or all of the other hotels that he built everywhere was to make sure that after everyone finished their meal, naturally they would say, "Oh, thank you." And he would say to them, "Thank me. You didn't take from me, you took from Hashem, THE CREATOR OF THE WORLD. And of course, people feeling good are much more gracious say, "Oh, THIS IS FROM HASHEM. HASHEM, [screaming] BLESSED IS HASHEM." And therefore, HASHEM SAYS TO JOB, "YOU DID NOT EVEN DO HALF OF WHAT ABRAU DID. Abrainu made THE WHOLE WORLD LOVE ME, BLESS ME, connect to me. Ainu knew that he could not do this mitzvah because there's no guests. So the initial cure was curing a temporary body that Arau cared less about. Now you would think that if Hashem is going to please Abraham and say you know what I'm going to send you guests. He'll send him three easy guests that everyone would want to host. He'll send them three extraordinarily wealthy, wise, and righteous kings or perhaps three scholars, people of wisdom. Everyone wants to hear wisdom. Three people that you could tell these are good people. But no, Hashem sends him the three angels that look like below average people, nomads, people that live in a desert, go from place to place. This is what he sends him. And yet Aminou is as excited as ever to see these three nobodies. So much SO THAT HE TELLS HIS WIFE SAG, "HURRY, MAKE MATZAH CAKES. MAKE MAKE HURRY, ISHMAEL, HURRY. GO GET three bulls and get their tongues out. We're gonna MAKE THEM EACH ONE ITS own tongue." A very very elaborate dish for each ONE OF THESE SPECIAL GUESTS. What special guests? Mustafa Kamas and Osama. Why is Abraham so excited? To answer that, we have to address the problem that's relevant to us today. There are many people that when they started doing chuva or perhaps earlier in their life even if they grew up from they were much more excited about doing mitzvot listening to shim reading but then it slowed down not intentionally not even noticeably They started having so many problems in their life. Whether it's sickness, money problems, marriage problems, panas problems, you know, losing jobs, having to move, community problems. Oh, how many community problems people have? And with all of these problems, Yeah. Yeah, they continue going to shul or you know they continued praying but didn't fuel the sweetness of Tah when they opened the book they remember those days that when they learned Torah they would sit there for hours upon hours forgetting themselves. Now they're lucky if they could sit for 15 minutes without looking at their phone or looking around to see if somebody needs them. In the past, they were able to listen to by the rabbi that helped them get on the path to heaven for 3 hours without skipping a beat. But then suddenly now it's almost like they've become allergic when they see a shield. They have no interest and they say I'm just not inspired anymore. Of course, the Satan gives them all types of excuses to keep them where they are and even get them worse. Why? What happened? How did inspiration go to uninterested? How did your serious devotion to learning get to I can't wait to finish. The satan planted a seed and you ate it. You didn't realize it was a trap. But now you're here. Now you're here and you are holding on by the skin of your teeth to stay religious, to stay connected. Even though as soon as you hear that there's a holiday coming, you're not exactly excited. Soon as you hear that Shabbat is coming, you're already stressed out. As soon as you HEAR THAT THERE'S TAKA THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE GIVEN or tuition for yeshiva or some type of religious expense, immediately you see, how come it's so expensive? You didn't say that when you bought the car. You didn't say that when you bought the refrigerator. You didn't say that when you bought the jewels. You didn't say that when you made an investment. But when it comes to religious, all of a sudden, everything's expensive in your eyes. The sweetness of Torah has turned into bitterness. But you want to stay in. You want to stay connected. You don't want to leave the community. You know, overall it's good. Maybe it's going to change, but you're suffering. In fact, even when you try to get yourself up, maybe I'll start watching the sher again. Maybe I'll start reading that book again. Maybe I'll start doing again. You do it, but you know, it's not the same results. Last time you were able to sit there for two, three hours, the whole shure and understand the whole thing and write notes enough to fill a whole notebook. Now you're almost looking at the clock waiting for it to be over. In the past, you were able to put a open a book and just sit there for two, three, four, five hours without even thinking twice. Now if you can sit there for five minutes without thinking about something else, it becomes a miracle. So you realize that it's not the same. It's so disappointing. It's so disappointing. I wish I was back then. I wish I could still sit there for 14 hours and learn. I wish I was still there and I WAS ABLE TO WATCH the lecture. I wish I wish I wish. And you become depressed. AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHERE THE SATAN WANTS you depressed from the sweetness turning into bitterness. Now the Satan wants you to simply outright hate it because if you continue, you will eventually not only abandon, you'll go against. ofu teaches us one of the most profound things I've ever learned in my life. Something that my dear frame explained in very simple words but make all the difference in the world to every single person that's watching this. Because if you're not going through it right now, don't discount it because you will go through it at some point in your life. This religious depression didn't just happen to you. Everyone goes through it at some point or another. Everyone bites the bait of the Satan at some point and cools off. Abrahamu, our forefather, our shepherd says, "I have a solution for you, my kids." You know what the solution is? When I was suffering, suffering unimaginable pain. Not from the brit, you fool. No my child. I was suffering because I used to host guests. I used to bring people closer to Hashem and I wasn't able to that day. My suffering was unimaginable. Unimaginable. And then I saw there are three Arabs. I was so excited to see them. I started running around everywhere. I GOT MY WHOLE HOUSE EXCITED. SAH DID IT. ISHMAEL DID IT. ALL THE HELPERS DID IT. We simply TURNED THE WHOLE HOUSE INTO A BIG PARTY SCENE getting ready for these GUESTS THAT WERE ACTUALLY FAR AWAY STILL. AND THEN I RAN TO them ignoring the pain and the blood that's under my clothes. In fact, I even left my meeting with Hashem to go host these people. Do you know why? Because even though you may think, well, it's still not the same. Before you did the Each time you'd host guests, it could be 10, 20, 50 people. Before you did the Milah, maybe it would have been this. It would have been better. It would have been more glorious. Says, I didn't think that. I said, here I have an opportunity to glorify Hashem. I have an opportunity to get someone to say hashem. I have an opportunity to do the will of hem. This is the greatest thing I could ever do. So even though you may be in a time where it's difficult for you to listen to a two-hour lecture rebuking you, YOU MAY HAVE A DIFFICULT TIME READING A BOOK AND PAYING ATTENTION. YOU MAY HAVE A DIFFICULT TIME GIVING TAKA LIKE YOU USED TO. YOU MAY HAVE A DIFFICULT TIME CONNECTING TO HASHEM in your prayer without thinking about all the other things that are bothering you. Don't allow yourself to become depressed because of that. In fact, appreciate the fact that you still have some connection left because you could still say getting out of the depression is not by simply imagining good and therefore there will be good. Rather, getting out of depression is understanding that you already have good. There's nothing for you to be depressed about. WHY? YOU'RE STILL IN. YOU'RE STILL CONNECTED TO HASHEM. YOU PRAYED. OKAY, YOU DIDN'T HAVE 95% OF THE PRAYER, but you had it for 5%. You had IT FOR 1%. YOU DIDN'T HAVE IT AT ALL 100%, BUT YOU STILL PRAYED. YOU STILL SAID, YOU STILL SAID, YOU STILL SAID, you still OPENED THE BOOK AND READ A FEW WORDS. YOU COMPLETED A SENTENCE. YOU STILL WATCHED A FEW MINUTES OF A TORAH CLIP INSTEAD OF THREE. YOU STILL DID SOMETHING. YOU STILL SAID THE NAME OF HASHEM and you believed that he's actually LISTENING TO YOU. YOU HAVE TO BE THE HAPPIEST PERSON ON PLANET EARTH IF YOU UNDERSTOOD WHAT YOU JUST DID. Andu is telling us although there will be ups and downs for the average person out there, you my dear children should only have ups because the moment you understand the extraordinary nature and the extraordinary gift that we have to be able to say to be able to say to be able to bring people close to Hashem even if those people are ourselves. The moment you understand the significance of that, that should give you enough happiness and excitement that you'll be running around your whole house excited for Shabbat on Monday. You'd be excited for the MITZVAH OF THE NEXT holiday a month before. You'd be excited to give daka even if you could barely make ends meet. You'd be excited for every mitzvah. You'd be excited that you're still in. Even if it's by the skin of your teeth, you're still in. You're still connected to Hashem. Now, be happy. You have nothing to be depressed about. And if you do that, if you do that, you're not only following in the footsteps of our forefathers of, but you're also going to get yourself out of that depression instantly. And in fact, you may even end up back with that sweetness of Tawa before you know it. Because once you appreciate what you have, you can then get to what you want. This was something that I learned and will continue having to teach and learn throughout my entire life like you do because whether it's personal ups and downs or other people's ups and downs, not a day goes by where we don't yearn for more. A person has to understand it's good to be ambitious in every aspect of your life especially when it comes to religiosity but don't mistake that ambition with the ambition of the world because when it comes to the ambition and financials and things of that nature person wants to reach the top of the ladder has to be ambitious. But in the world of Torah, ambition is not enough. Ambition is not enough. You have to know what you have. You have to recognize the good that you already have. You have to be happy with what you have. You have to do the will of Hashem with as much excitement as you possibly can. And it only becomes possible once you understand how great it is. even if it's only a little bit in comparison to what you used to do. With that, we're going to start off with a question that I'm going to ask you as a popular thing that we did in the past that people like and lots of people requested. I do it again. Um, I'll ask I'll ask the question and you guys send me a message with your answers and whoever wins gives me the right answer will uh get a gift sent to them. question. We all know that when you make a blessing for something to eat, to drink, somebody that hears you says, "Amen." Second thing we know is that you can make a blessing and somebody else can benefit out of it. Meaning, let's say if you're both about to eat bread and you're doing the blessing of the bread, they can also eat bread as a result of listening to your uh blessing and you thinking that you're fulfilling it for on their behalf as well. But what if there's this situation, a person makes a blessing, two people are listening, one benefited out of it and one did not. How could that be? They both were listening. They were both intending for that blessing to be for them. Let's just say it's for bread or for anything else. One can eat as a result of that blessing, but the other one cannot. How could it be? Send me your answers and we'll get some interesting answers. You know, it took a lot of time and effort to study for this lecture and every lecture changes my life a little bit and I hope it does to you as well. If you're enjoying it, please make sure to like, subscribe, and share with people that you care about, people that you know could benefit from it. You may end up changing their life. Thanks again for learning with me and will continue growing together. Now back to the lecture. So with that being said, you guys can start asking some questions and will give us the answers. No, you don't have to give me the answers now. Send them to me. Send them to me. We'll give you guys until next week to give me the answer. I always had this question. Did the malim eat or not eat? Yes. Rashi says the malim ate not because they needed to eat, not because they're hungry, but rather not to embarrass for all the effort that he made. It's a lot of comments, not questions. So, if you guys could focus on the questions, I appreciate the thank yous. I appreciate the compliments. Those of you that are criticizing Why are you watching Rabbi? Do you agree with Manis Freiedman? No. Automatically I don't agree with Manis Friedman on anything. And your question directly do I agree with Manis Freedman again is 12 months. Not only do I not agree, anyone that does agree with him is considered a aos, a heretic that has no share of the world to come. This in fact the Ramban writes nearly 800 years ago. Someone that says that gum is a maximum of 12 months only is turning God into an evil god and is considered a heretic. So to say that someone that stole one gets the same punishment as someone that stole a hundred, someone that killed one gets the same punishment as someone that killed a hundred is not only stupid, but it's evil. They're turning God into an evil god. So someone like Manis that teaches such stupidity obviously he is a not only a heretic but he's an amalit. What's the best way to find a kosher wife? Step number one become a kosher person yourself. Meaning do complete cha work on your mid to become the best version of yourself servant of Hashem. After you do that page 2A says that will give you a wife just like you. If you are a righteous person he'll give you a righteous woman. If a person is wicked Hashem will give him a immodest woman. Why immodest and not wicked? Because if she's immodest certainly she's wicked. But if she's modest it doesn't mean that she's righteous. So, Hashem says that person that's wicked gets a modest woman. And don't think for a moment that people that marry immodest women are happy. The most miserable marriages you will ever find in your life are marriages where the woman is immodest. Why? Because our husband always thinks she's cheating or someone is going to steal her away from him because everyone is looking. So the uh and the only time the husband doesn't care is because he's already cheating. If you're a Christian missionary, you could just go to one of your pastors, priests, or idols and ask them the questions. Don't uh missionize on uh our thread. We don't go and missionize in your uh place. Rabbi, I want to convert to Judaism, but I live in Brazil. And you answer that Brazil does not do conversion. So my question is, what can I do here in the meanwhile? How should I study? Which laws can I keep? Well, you have to already plan your way to leave the country and move to a country that has a Orthodox community with a bedina that does conversions whether it's going to be uh Israel or the United States, Australia, England, Canada, there's certainly places that do have it. Uh the second thing is you could continue studying um the things that you'll need for conversion and keep 99% of uh what you know throughout the conversion process if you have a path to conversion. But uh you have to be really realistic with yourself that you really do have a path to uh to move and to convert and it's not something that will never happen. is going to be inab is also there. Yeah, he's there. He's there already. Where in Job does Job mention of Ram? Google does not know. No, no, you're you're you're looking for No, they lived at two different times. This is the oral Torah explains to us what each thing was mentioned, what's behind the scenes. It's not a not everything is the uh written in the written Torah. There is a written Torah and there's an oral Torah. So the uh story that I said today about Job being told by Hashem that he wasn't even half he didn't do as half as much as Aam is not literally in the book of Job like you would expect like the rest of the story of Job. But that's part of the oral Torah the commentary on it that our sages told us which is in several places. The source that I brought you today's in a seph called Rabatan which was written at the time of the Mishna about 2,000 years ago. A friend of mine did chuva. He has concerns that in shidim families won't accept him since he's a b cha. What would you say? If a family wouldn't accept him because he's a bouva, then he shouldn't accept them either. You Why would you want to marry into a family that does not accept bal? It's like marrying into a family that does not accept converts or marrying into a family that does not accept Hashem or does not accept a kosher or does not accept any other of the major things in Judaism. It's like marrying into a family that calls itself religious but they violate Shabbat on a regular basis by driving to Shu. So somebody that doesn't accept Bal Shuva is somebody that does not accept the Torah and does not believe in a Torah. they are uh simply secular people with a keep on. So if they don't accept him, that means Hashem did him a kindness by keeping him away from something that he was a trap that he almost fell into. connection. Okay. What should Jews in New York City do now? Chuva. Have the souls that have reincarnated passed through gay? Some. Yes, of course. Okay, let's see. [sighs] I said shalom to a Muslim lady and she went mad on me. And shalom. Prophet says no peace to the wicked. >> [sighs] >> Are we allowed to research the answer to your question? We're supposed to respond from pre-existing knowledge. Of course, from pre-existing knowledge. If you're going to use computers, then defeats the purpose. It's like going to a school and asking the uh teacher can I uh bring my computer also and uh the answer sheet point is for existing knowledge logic just think of yourself what could I what could it be it's not the answer that matters it's the thought process the effort there's no effort in asking a computer a Aside from Gom and Cafella, there are places called Akra to places. You're talking about different uh uh there are different names, different uh madim different uh chambers in gum. It's not a different place. It's just a within the same place. If you want to know the names of each mad, you can go to the over there. It goes into details. is the fact that Madani Mani won because of the prophecy that Ishmael will take over the world before Msiah comes. Hashem didn't send me a uh a WhatsApp message about that one about whether he won because of that or that. But I could tell you that the already says in that if does not do chuva and bring the mashiach in a good way then hashem will send him a leader like ham uh that will force them to do chuva. Now I don't think that mani is uh has that such a power like ham at this stage but uh don't think for a moment that uh any other leader that uh can't turn into that. I mean we're seeing what's happening in Israel. We're seeing what's happening in America. Um, Manny is just another puppet in the hands of Hashem and Hashem was going to allow him to do what Hashem wants him to do. And if that means to rebuke the Jewish people, then that's what it's going to be. If that means to bring blessings to them, then that's what it's going to be. That's why says um when hem is pleased with uh someone even his enemies will come say I'm sorry and want to make peace with him is it because the cash advance business sins certainly the cash advance business is not bringing any merits to Israel and is certainly bringing more problems to Israel. If you look at history uh and I've discussed this in my lectures and discussed this in the film organ it's also discussed in the uh book uh by Robert Fryot the section about the cash advance business we brought many historical facts whether it's from the time of where outlawed lending money with interest to Jews and non-Jews uh the Torah already outlaws to Jews but he outlawed it to charge interest to non-Jews or it's the time of the destruction of the betdash or it's the time of the uh uh horrible things that happened in uh England in the 1100s or the uh different pilgrims uh and massacres in France or in Morocco or the French inquis the um Spanish Inquisition or the uh Nazi Germany holocaust. Um, all of these disasters that happened to the Jewish people over the last couple thousand years have a common denominator where the number one business that the Jewish people were prospering in right before the disaster hit was lending money with high interest. And you could check the facts. We put them in the book. We put them in our lectures. We gave dates. We gave numbers. We gave names. Uh so it's it's it's a fact. So the cash advance business is what it's called today. But lending money to go with high interest has been around for and causing disasters to am for thousands of years. And it's always been used as a pretext as an excuse for the uh for the nations to hate us. Every single time we had a disaster. If you look at what the enemy said about the Jewish people of why they hated them, this was always at the top of the list. The Jews charge us high interest. Uh and so it's the fact that we are making the same mistake again. And uh the uh highinterest lending, usery business, destructive, predatory lending is uh the uh one of the most popular businesses uh today uh that Jews are a part of. is it not only a disgrace uh but is simply a uh disregard to history. And you know it's it's bizarre to me bizarre to me that people have the audacity to still mourn over the Holocaust saying never again while repeating the same mistakes again. It's literally it's it's it's the most bizarre thing in the world. It's bizarre to me that rabbis uh from every community are not speaking against it. I mean, I know why they're not because it's either they're scared of their community firing them or they're scared of losing the taka that built their yeshiva or built their synagogue. Either way, shows that uh people are clueless. There are cases where people are not aware of how bad it is. Uh so to give them cuffs, not everyone is aware of how bad it is, but nonetheless, anyone that has ever learned about that business for more than five minutes knows that it's a predatory business and it's clearly against Alaka. Uh and uh it's unfortunately something that has brought the Jewish people a lot of uh a lot of blood was spilled because of that business over the years. And unfortunately uh that same mistake is being repeated again. So whether Hashem sent an evil uh leader to be uh you know in a place where there are more Jews than anywhere else in the United States. Um certainly it's a uh possibility. Certainly it would make sense. Uh but again this is not the only issue we have. We have many issues we have to fix. There are many things that we need to do chuva for. I think that the uh the both the religious community and the non-religious community has problems they need to work on. The obviously the non-religious community of course has to do chuva above all but the religious community also has to do chuva for for a lot of different things. One of the things that the religious community um simply ignores is the reality that the majority of am is not keeping Shabbat. And guess what? the religious community will be punished for that. If you look at the Shabbat page 52, 53, 54, 55, there's a whole uh section about it tells us clearly that when he destroyed the beta mikdash, he punished the religious community first because they did not rebuke the rest of the nation to do chva. So the problem is not the non-religious people. The problem is the religious people not caring that their cousin, their brother, their neighbor, their uh you know their their fellow Jew is not observing Shabbat. And how do you know that they don't care? Simple. You see how much the religious communities donate to support causes that they care for? Whether it's uh feeding a poor or building another building for the community or another mikvet or uh remodeling of a mikvet or uh or whatever a million and a half other causes. You compare all of those different causes in comparison to how much people actually invest into Kiru and you see that there's no comparison. In fact, there are literally people that would watch our lectures for years years and still refuse to invest into kiru like stinginess that is beyond uh comprehension. It's a disease. It's a it's a spiritual defect. So I see it also with the with the uh kiru bucks. It's another thing that I see is that uh literally I I'm look always looking for sponsors to make these things free because not because people are lacking for money. People are spending hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars to get themselves houses, second houses. Average person is spending in America, you know, 50, 100, $200,000 on cars, jewelry. People are not lacking money. I mean there was a recent uh uh you know group of uh people that had a whole podcast about talking about the financials of the Jewish community and you see like literally there are many many that are doing extremely well making you know a lot of money but yet if you look if you ask those same people are you willing to spend 100 bucks to get uh you know $1,000 to get 10 of these or 100 bucks a unit so oh yeah let me think about it let me think about it now if you ask the same person are you willing to spend $50,000 $20,000 on a new watch or on a new ring or on basketball tickets or uh or something else, they wouldn't even think about it for two seconds. Two seconds. But when it comes to kiru, there's a very very big stinginess and uh that is going to be a very very big problem for people for religious people. Why? Because the taught which we actually learned together a couple of series of one of the times the told and several other students that were there listening that the people that will uh be punished the worst at the time of Msiah are uh wealthy Jews that did not donate uh the what they were supposed to to publicize Hashem's name and to uh get people to do chva. So it's a again this is not a wealthy people problem this is a a n national problem everyone has something everyone has the ability you know people ask me about you know financial things personal things all types of things and one of the things that uh makes people uncomfortable if I ask them you know any questions when they ask me for guidance whether it's a uh married children uh the uh what do you do for a living do you keep Shabbat not wasting seed personal things intimate things people don't have a problem sharing information in fact many people volunteer all that information but if I ask people do you give mas automatically there's a major pause people very uncomfortable why number one because they don't they don't give masel they don't even give close to mel and number two internally they know it's wrong but they don't want to do it why because they like themselves more They rather they rather they rather invest the money in buying a second house uh remodeling more shoes, more uh vacations, more camps. That's what they rather. So I think that when it comes down to uh to our biggest problem today, uh the fact that people do not realize that Kiru should be at the top of every single person's list of investments in their life. Top number one and if so long as a person does not make it their top they simply do not uh understand what why we're in even in this world uh should Jews leave New York if they don't like it leave I mean as far as if they think that running away from New York is going to help them [snorts] zen is a I mean it's not a uh if Hashem wants to bring somebody problems, he'll bring them problems wherever they are. They could be in New York. They could be in Cancun. They could be in uh you know on the top of the moon, they could be uh you know on a beach. Doesn't make a difference. If Hashem wants to send somebody problems, I'll send them problems. If Hashem wants to send somebody protection, I'll send them protection. That's actually one of the things that we learn uh you know in this week's where decides this week that is going to be who uh we're going to bless ourselves by when we see the uh you know we say uh that is the shield of why why this why this language because the midrash says that was crying to hashem when there was no guests and was crying to Hashem that saying you have been my m you have been my shield you what shield when when you saved me from from the fire where they threw me into the fire you know all of the difficulties throughout my life uh you have always been my shield so Hashem said you said I'm your shield I will be your shield and also the shield of your descendants so we say again of a was thrown into the fire and Hashem protected him if Hashem wants to protect somebody he'll protect somebody if Hashem wants to uh you says decrees that it's time to harm somebody, it'll harm somebody. It doesn't matter where they live. Um, and you know, I think that uh, you know, the amount of efforts that people have uh, invested into politics uh, truly shows how little they believe in Hashem and his power. Because if people understood um who runs the world, they wouldn't invest even even a uh you know five minutes on politics. Uh it's it's a complete waste of time. And this is a clear example of it where so many people invested to try to uh uh get this guy not elected or whatever it is or to you know and obviously Hashem said otherwise. Hashem said otherwise. runs the world. The heart of leaders is in the hands of Hashem. Shem decides who's going to do and who's not going to do >> [snorts] >> I've been in no hide for about five years, yet a month now. I have had a I've had bad dreams relating to being asked to reject idolatry. I've not wavered in my beliefs. Any advice? watch some Torah before you go to sleep, pray to Hashem to give you better dreams. But a dream where you're rejecting idolatry, it's not necessarily a bad dream. It's a test of life. Unlike a Jew that if uh somebody, you know, uh threatens them either to accept idolatry or die, a Jew is obligated to die. say that a non-Jew is not obligated to die. [snorts] It's of course I'm but nonetheless it's a the company that was supposed to campaign against Mam Dani is the same anti-semitic company that fired me for keeping Shabbat is that multi-million dollar contract that I mentioned before. Okay. [sighs] Thank you for the lecture. What is the significance of celebrating PES prior to the exodus of Egypt? Well, the have been part of the Torah since creation. The um says that first he created the Torah and then he created the world and he used the Torah as a blueprint for the world. And as says it's a uh um Hashem looked into the Torah. He created the world. Now that means that the mitzvot of all of the holidays, all of the, you know, the things that we do were already in existence before uh the Exodus before the uh is existed. Uh whether it's or the love and or it's anything else, that's all been part of the Torah well before existence. And the uh says that the avot they kept and the 12 tribes and of course they they kept the Torah completely they kept the Torah uh and uh they uh they observed the Torah. There is an interesting z that says that since uh the um tells us that a non-Jew is forbidden from keeping Shabbat and technically there was no Judaism uh before uh before Mount Sai. Uh so uh technically we're not allowed to keep Shabbat 100%. So what do they do in order to violate Shabbat? uh the Abrainu wrote the and in there there is instructions of how to create things and therefore would create a cow every Shabbat as their mel of in essence their way of violating Shabbat and not keeping it 100%. In fact, one of the places that we learned from is in this week's para where it says that Abrainu gave uh uh gave the three guests gave these three angels the food and it was milk and meat. It was milk and meat he gave them. So, how could it be that he kept the entire Torah but yet he gave them milk and meat? How could it be? The answer is if you look it says that gave them the uh the uh the cow that he made the calf that he made. What does it mean that he made says that he made that he literally made with the so therefore it's not considered meat. It's not considered meat. It's it's it's a calf. They ate it tastes like meat but it's not considered meat because it wasn't born in a natural way. It was created by a from the dust. So therefore they were allowed to eat milk and this uh let's just call it uh uh cababalistic meat. made. Yeah. So it says here in chapter 18 verse number eight. It says, "And he took cream and milk and the calf which he had prepared uh and placed these before them and he stood over them beneath the tree and they ate." Now the word assa uh it's translated here literally as prepared but assa al actually means made like created. Uh so and as says this uh uh Abra made the uh the calf literally No, like I said, I don't think that the problem that is bringing bad decrees to such as this government or anti-semitism is uh the fault of the uh intermarriage or Shabbat of the majority of Israel. I think that there is a bigger uh decree coming because of the religious people uh that are not doing Kiru, not supporting Kiru, not helping their brother uh uh their sister Duchvaha. In fact, there's so much hatred uh between religious people to each other because one of them is not Ashkinazi enough and one of them is not spari enough and one of them is not lit enough and one of them is not rich enough and not poor enough and not from their community enough and not wig enough and not enough and not prayer enough and nobody's enough for them and people literally hate each other while they smile at each other and they talk about each other after. There's a lot of and uh between the religious community and the and and each other as well as complete disregard to the majority of the nation. It's uh that it's not keeping. So if you look at the sources, you look at the you look at the uh you look at literally across the board, you'll see that punished is because of the behavior of the religious people. Now, of course, the non-religious, the idolattors, the the people, you know, many of them will destroy it, you know, if they didn't do chuva. But the decree came when the religious people failed failed to help the non-religious do chuva. So if a person is uh upset about the uh what's happening in the world now with anti-semitism with everything that's happening um and they want to point a finger uh they should look at the mirror. Look at the mirror. What have you done to sacrifice today, yesterday, plan for tomorrow to help Amisucha? And that person said, "Well, you know, I I gave out some books or I uh I donated last month or I donated six months ago." So, if Hashem would, you know, said to you, "Okay, so I gave you air to breathe six months ago. That's enough for you. don't need anymore. Now a person has to understand that the responsibility to help our brothers do chuva to for us to do chuva to stop hating each other to stop you know uh uh simply uh doing things that are against the Torah is every day there's an obligation every day and if a person is more concerned about their uh their their house and their car and their jewelry and their clothing than they are about their fellow Jews than They have their priorities wrong. They have to fix that. They have to do true by themselves. Yes, the pursuit says meat and dairy together, but like I explained, it wasn't regular meat. How to cope with anti-semitism. By doing chuva, a person is not only starting to keep Shabbat and starting to watch, but a person starts developing a closer relationship with Hashem and understanding that there's nothing else but Hashem. The more person understand that there's nothing else but Hashem, the more they have, the more they'll understand also that no one can help you and no one can hurt you if it's not the will of Hashem. In regards to the vast majority of places around the world right now as we speak, it's not exactly the Holocaust, but so most Jews could live in peace generally speaking. Yes, there's more terrorism. Yes, there's more anti-semitism and protest and so on, but generally speaking, uh we could still live freely in most places around the world. Um now, so to the the uh the um Israel did not go out and say everyone must leave XYZ city or country right this second, you know, about places that have anti-semitism because number one, it's not all the time and it's not everywhere. uh but at the same token uh people have to also evaluate their own situation. If they feel endangered in the place that they live because there's more anti-semitism over there uh then certainly they should leave leave and go somewhere else. Go to a different Jewish community somewhere else. Uh where there's less danger um that's number one. Number two is to do a do a selfacounting to see what am I doing to bring more of Hashem's name and his Torah to the world because that's the only thing that could destroy anti-semitism. Politics are never going to defeat anti-semitism. Money is never going to defeat anti-semitism. uh you know a uh the uh the uh all the YouTube videos uh that people say never again and or they highlight anti-semites are not going to stop anti-semitism. The only thing that is going to stop anti-semitism is simply getting more people to do chuva publicizing Hashem's name in his in the world. That's what stops anti-semitism. If you look at all of history, all of history, the greatest times that AmI has had, whether it was at the time of or the a few other times throughout history, uh is when is glued to the Torah and submissive to the whatever the said, that's what we did. Those were the greatest times is worst times for Isla. When we went against the Torah, when we simply worried about uh materialism, when people thought that everything is in their hands, they invested into becoming part of the political system of Greece or a political system in uh Spain or political system in Germany. And uh to my knowledge and according to history, not only it didn't help us, but it actually brought more damage on is all of this political involvement. So anti-semitism is not defeated by money and politics. Anti-semitism is defeated by bringing more light of Torah to the world, which translates into more Jews do chuva, more Jews doing mitzvot, more Jews following. That's what brings light to the world. That's why we're called Queen, the light to the nations. All right. A friend asked me, I love those questions about the friends. Friend asked me when they could consider themselves fully ready for when they're ready to get married. >> [sighs] [snorts and clears throat] >> Well, what should a Jew do if he's asked someone for forgiveness more than three times and asked before Yamipur to no avail? Is there more we can do to attain someone's forgiveness? It depends. If the person that you hurt is a regular person, you don't have an obligation to say I'm sorry more than three times. But if it's a thousand times is not enough. Thousand times. If it requires a thousand times, you do a thousand times. So if it's but if it's just a regular person, three times is enough. They don't want to forgive you. Move on with your life. I understand that some people are not willing to move on with their life. They want the forgiveness. So you have to simply let uh time pass. Let time pass and uh also do things to improve yourself to show this person that you've changed. Not just say you're going to change, that you've improved, not just say you improve and uh you know and go go that way. But to be honest with you, I would not recommend that anybody um change for the sake of others and improve for the sake of others. You should always change for the sake of yourself and improve for the sake of yourself. Because if you do it for others and they don't forgive you, then you'll give up everything and you'll go back and become even worse than you were in the past. But if you do it for yourself, then either way you benefit. Whether they accept you or they don't, you still benefit because you did it for yourself. You become better for yourself. What are the six letters in the Torah that are different but are the same but have the same meaning? Why does this exist? is a uh usually it's the uh place where you could have one or the other where you could have a spelling of uh the word with a ud or without a ude and instead just have a instead of a yud or an al if and no alf because the sound could stay the same uh or a vav or instead of the vav it could beam. So there are um words that can be spelled in multiple ways. Uh and those are the places where you have it. As far as why it exists throughout the last 3,000 years, um the Jewish people have gone through a little bit of trouble and uh especially the last 2,000 years. And in fact, the fact that there's only six letters that distinguish the Safari and Ashkanazi uh Torah scroll that has over 304,85 letters uh shows the legitimacy and authenticity that we've preserved over the generations. If you compare that to let's say the New Testament that's only a couple thousand years old or the Quran that's only about 1400 years old, they have literally tens of thousands and in some cases over a hundred thousand different variations. Uh so the distinguishing factor between the uh the three uh versions we have uh is this handful of letters. Uh everyone knows that the Yemenite version is the right one, but no one is willing to um take the uh risk of being wrong and therefore all of them are accepted. All of them are uh are good uh and um all of them are uh have the same exact meaning. It's just again specific spelling of certain words which does not change the meaning of the sentence. How can I get other women to go to the mikvet? I'm trying. Do you have any videos on the mikvet? I could send them. Yeah, it's on the channel. Go to the YouTube channel. Type the words mikvet or family purity. There's a few videos there about it. There's one film uh about it also. Two films actually. Can you send it to me? No. Go to YouTube and uh get it. If you can type on uh YouTube, then you know where YouTube the channel is. go to the YouTube channel and uh type those words in the search box and you'll find it. Or if you subscribe to uh to the AI Rabbi app that we have, uh then uh you could save yourself the time and you could just simply ask the AI rabbi where that video is or a question about mikvet or any other topic you have and AI rabbi will give you a response with sources which will include the videos of where I spoke about it and exactly where I spoke about it. Uh the main thing I use for example I use AI rabbi for is to find specific times where I spoke about specific things spec you know so um we need it for different reasons some people sometimes it's part of answers or whatever um so it's a great great uh uh tool for people that uh want sources. Yeah. But the AI rabbi costs money. Yeah. So does gasoline. So does internet. So does electricity. So does food. So does this book. So does everything. If you're not willing to invest money into Torah that's going to help your life, even if it helps your life once a year and you're not willing to spend a subscription fee for it, then you have your priorities right uh wrong. You have you don't understand the value of Torah. Even if the Arab, if you only use the Arab once a year, it's still worth a whole year subscription. Needless to say, if you use it once a week, a couple times a day, it's worth it. The people that actually use it, usually literally they uh they end up upgrading it because they like it so much, they end up going over the uh the minimum subscription. But the point is, people don't understand the value of Tawa. In fact, actually, you know what? I have I have a story from today. I have a story for him today. Somebody um told one of my students that uh this generation is you know all the agreed that this generation everyone's ach and uh my talid told them no that's not true my rabbis taught me and uh this person um sent them sources sources and my students sent it to me. Now, I not only I learned Torah, but I'm relatively familiar with technology. So within about I would say half a second half a second I don't think it was a full second I knew that not only is the uh response that uh this information that my student got wrong but I also knew that it was AI. How do I know it's AI? uh aside from the fact that it simply invented things that don't exist, sources that don't exist. One of the things that AI is uh you know, if people use it for Torah and it's not AI rabbi uh and let's say they use chat GPT or or one of the other LLMs out there, one of the things that AI likes to do is use emojis, little emojis in their responses. And uh it's very funny, entertaining uh but it's not going to help you in your Torah life. So, if people are using Chat GPT or or uh Claude or any of the other LLMs that are out there for their Torah questions, uh they're simply asking for u directions to gan because they will give you the wrong answers and you will not know it's the wrong answers because the these AI uh models are trained in such a way where they will invent answers. They will tell you that Raadya said certain things or Raf Khani said certain things or the Rambam said certain things that never existed. They'll even give you page numbers that don't exist. Don't exist. Uh so on the other hand with our AI rabbi it's a world of difference because we actually not only give you the explanation of the answer we give you the source itself. like you actually can click on the link that takes you to the source itself whether it's Mutapi or Ra or whatever or one of my or whatever it is. So many people are using uh these uh LLMs for their Torah questions and they don't realize that they're getting the wrong answers and the reason why they don't realize is because um they're getting sources and they just don't know that the sources don't exist. Sources don't exist. So today I got one of those. It was a relatively long answers with a bunch of different sources and um this answer is wrong. And I spoke to this person. And I said, "No, look writes in in the 10th volume in section 55 uh in 11 that uh somebody that knows of Judaism, sees religious people, synagogues, but still continues to drive on Shabbat is not considered and they're considered an idol [clears throat] worshipper. This is clear language of Rabf. So when this person um heard this obviously they uh did not like the answer uh but they understood they were wrong. But again understanding that you're wrong and accepting that you're wrong are two different things. Needless to say we learned a couple of things from the story. Number one, sometimes a person that thinks they're helping um by being more merciful on others is not helping at all. Um in fact, there is a statement by that uh is is very scary where it says that a person um makes the uh wicked righteous and the righteous wicked. Uh Gamn. Both of them are considered disgusting in the eyes of Hashem. So sometimes people think that they're being kind and gracious by simply passing out, you know, a get out of jail free card to an entire generation. They don't realize that they're not helping anybody, including those wicked people that are going against Hashem. The second thing is we learned is that just because somebody provides you sources does not mean you should believe it. You have to check the source because in today's world where 90% of the material that you see out there being generated today is uh created by AI uh it's becoming harder and harder to believe uh what's real and what's not. That's why having the hard copy real books is always going to be an obligation and a priority. Um so AI and other technology is good tool to help you but it's never the foundation and never will be the foundation. It's always going to be books, hard copy books. So even though somebody gives you an answer and it shows a source, check the source. Check the actual book itself or a source that actually has the book itself. Uh because many times you'll see that they don't exist. Sources simply do not exist. AI literally invents it from nothing. It'll tell you that Roadya wrote this in or one of the other Greek uh over 50 books that he wrote and he wrote this in this section and you go to that section you have the book at home you open the section you say not only he didn't write it that section does not exist doesn't exist and many other not but AI is certain about it but then you tell the AI no you're wrong this doesn't exist where's AI say oh you're right it doesn't exist just [laughter] has no fear. It doesn't care. It's not going to go to gay. AI is not going to gain. The person that's going to listen to AI uh that gives a mistake is going to go to Gum though. Um now you're going to say, "Oh, why would Hashem do that? Who told you to use the AI of Gim instead of get the AI of Jews? Who who told you? Who who told you to do that?" Yeah. You know, so the point being is we learned that just because somebody provides you sources does not mean that you are, you know, absolved from doublechecking. And number three, uh we learned that having the book is of absolute must and obviously knowing the book, learning the book is of absolute must because when theos will come to you at some point in your life, you have an obligation to give him an answer. Even if theos doesn't know he's an aos, even if he doesn't mean to be an aikos, you have to know the answer. So when you have the answers, you know, okay, I'm sorry. What you're saying is wrong. It's something else and here's the source and here's the information and that's it. There's uh uh we made it easy for you guys by, you know, creating this AI rabbi. But that's not supposed to be the end all be all for anybody. It's supposed to be a helper, a helper, you know. So you still need to learn from books, you still need to learn from the lectures, you still need to do everything else. Are drugs a sin in the Torah? Yes, drugs are a sin at all. I just upgraded my AI plan. Honestly, I recommend a lot of people do the annual plan uh because it saves you money. Also, if you're going to use it, you get it for the annual plan. I usually do that with all my subscriptions that I have. If I know I like it and I use it, I uh usually pay for the year. Save 10, 20, 30%. Yeah. All right. What advice would you give to someone who wants to avoid overhearing in the workplace? How could I shut down others respectfully who speak it? Uh there's a couple of ways. One, you could put headphones on and not listen to it. Uh number two, you could simply change the conversation. Uh number three, you could tell them you have to go to the bathroom. Uh number four, you could tell him you have a meeting. Uh number uh five. Tell one second. One second. And just don't come back. Uh you could do a lot of things. It's a lot of things. You have to be creative. Are you an Orthodox Jew? Yes, I am an Orthodox Jew. >> [sighs] >> What do you think of the New Testament? I think it's a perfect tool that will lead people to gay. Uh it's a book of idolatry and the Torah tells us clearly that idolatry is hated by Hashem. And uh I've tried to help as many people as possible over the last 10 years and we'll continue to try to help as many people as possible to uh abandon the teachings of that book and uh go towards uh hem by learning his and only his theorah and the and the oral. If you want to know more details, you can go to my channel, the YouTube channel, and type in the search box New Testament. And I have several lectures, at least a half a dozen lectures about the different uh mistakes that are in the uh New Testament and um the um hypocrisy, ridiculousness, falsehood that's in it. Uh and um it's as clear as day. you could find it. I give quotes. I give specific verses. What is your YouTube channel? I want to learn. Go to my YouTube channel. It's Rabbi Yuron Ruven. Rabbi Rab BBI and then Y A R O N and then R EU ven. Rabbi your own Ruven. just like the name of my profile on Tik Tok or on uh Facebook. Um go to Rabbi your own Ruven on the YouTube. I have many channels but are in different languages. Russian, French, Arabic. Go to the English channel, Spanish, there's a bunch of them. go to the English channel and over there go to the search, type in the uh subject that you're interested in and it'll give you all the lectures that I've made over the years about that subject. And uh I promise you if you watch those lectures that I've made about the New Testament, about Christianity, you will be convinced without a shadow of a doubt that not only is Christianity falsehood, but the Torah is the truth. And you will thank me for the rest of your life. I've helped many people. I even helped a uh Christian missionary that came to missionize uh to to try to convince me to abandon Judaism and uh instead I showed her the uh different things about the New Testament uh in my lectures and so on and uh she ended up converting to Judaism. So, so it's uh it's it's not uh it's not things I invented. These are teachings from other great that have researched things and uh it's been a uh it's been available to people for throughout all of the generations. It's just that most people don't double check. They just believe uh their uh the teachings of their parents and their household. Uh and the good news is that today it's very easy to search. It's very easy to research and double check. Double check your beliefs because your eternity depends [clears throat] on it. Don't believe something just be because people told you. Check. Check. That's why you I every time in my lectures I give people not only the things that I come out, I give you sources. I give you the verse number, the book name, uh you know, all the details so you can double check and see that what I'm saying is actually in a book and not something that's my opinion. So the same thing goes with those lectures about Christianity or Islam uh where I talk about the Quran. There's actual verses from their book, from the New Testament of the Quran that I bring that shows that prove the point. It's not proving it from our books. It's proving it from their books that it's false, that it's hypocrisy, that it's idolatry, and so on. Um so you go check for yourself and you'll see All right, we'll take one last question. Is another who keeps some kash considered stealing spiritual inheritance? [sighs] If you're keeping kosher just because you like that particular food, there's no problem. But if you're keeping kosher because you think it's it's a mitzvah, then you're simply making a mistake. I mean, there's plenty of food that's kosher and is available for for everybody. Um, there's no obligation for a non-Jew, for a no-hide to uh to eat kosher or to eat non-coosher. Eat whatever you want. Uh, but if you're going to keep specific laws of Torah because you think it's a mitzvah for you, then it's considered stealing because it's not a mitzvah for you. For example, non-Jews that keep Shabbat because they think it's a mitzvah for them. It's not a mitzvah for them. It's stealing. It's a sin. Uh but for a Jew to keep it, it's a mitzvah. Now, if a if a uh if you want to keep the mitzvot, then convert to Judaism. But there's no problem of a non-Jew eating kosher food. It's just that again, what's the reason behind it? Is it because you like the food? Uh or because you think it's spiritual elevation? If it's the latter, it's a mistake. Well, is it permitted for a Jew to have social media for work? I'm asking specific because I use it to speak to clients for my job. I have it on professional mode for business. Uh, yes, of course. If you are using it for business purposes, then sure, there's no problem of you having it. The problem with social media is not the tool itself. The problem with social media is what how people use it. Right now, I'm using social media. I'm using Facebook. I'm using uh uh YouTube. I'm using t uh Tik Tok. Uh I'm using WhatsApp. I'm using multiple uh things for for social media. And I don't have any problem looking at things uh you know because I'm right now I'm looking at only kosher things and I don't use social media you know for any other purpose other than giving lectures uh or to share information. And I have a whole team of people that share our lectures and our different things all over social media. And I always tell them uh what I tell you guys in the lectures, which is when you're going to go to Facebook or to Tik Tok or to YouTube, wherever it is, you know, for the sake of Kiru, uh go or even for sake of work, go do what you have to do. Share and leave. Go, share, leave. Don't spend your time searching around, socializing, reading people's posts and all that stuff. Go share the lecture, leave, share, leave. Like a sniper, go share, leave. And again, the same thing for for business purposes, uh, LinkedIn and other social medias, Facebook, whatever. Uh, if it's you have to sell your products or you have to market your products or you have to communicate with people for the purpose of your job, there's no problem doing that. There's no problem. The problem is not business. business is per, you know, is is is okay. Uh Torah is okay. What's the problem? The problem is the things that are forbidden, which is looking at pornography, looking at immodesty, you know, being part of uh unethical things, illegal things. The problem is the obvious things. So, but that's not just with social media, that's with anything. That's with phones, that's with a uh uh you know, all tech all technology. That's even with your car. Even with your car, I could give you an example. When I use my car, when I use my car, I use my car to go places that I need to go to. So, for example, to go pick up mail, I usually go once a week to go pick up mail. Sometimes I don't have time for that. So, I do once every couple weeks, but usually it's once a week. And I go with my car and I drive the car. And you guys think I'm silly right now telling you how I drive my car, but this is what I do. I drive the car and I get to the mailbox and sometimes I go to the bank if I need to or run some type of an errand and then I take the car again and I go home. That's it. Now, when I see other cars that are on the road, I follow the traffic laws. That's what I do. So, if there's somebody ahead of me and he's slowing down, which is indicated by the red lights that are, you know, becoming uh turned on, then I slow down. Now, this may sound odd to you guys that I'm explaining this to you if you know how to drive. But what I found out today when Rab Fry was being uh uh returning from a lecture that he gave, he was uh being driven and there was another person in the car and they were driving from that place back to Yushim where Robert Fry lives and next to them on the you know on the uh uh road was a uh group of uh terrorists and those terrorists I don't know the terrorists. Do I know their name? Do they have bandanas say I'm a terrorist? No, I don't know the terrorists because at some point while they were driving, following the laws, there was no other cars on the road. There's no other reason to to do anything. At some point, they intentionally tried to run them over and run into their car. Not even like cut them off, like literally run into their car and make a whole accident. and do a suicide uh uh accident. So, so from here what do we learn from? Number one, we learn that there are multiple uses for cars. You can use them to be a normal civilized human being or to be a terrorist. Number two, you see that protects those that he loves. Even if the terrorist hates, Hashem loves, Hashem always wins. That's number two. Number three, we could also see that we could learn mousar and lessons for life from everything, including a story that I just heard a few hours ago that almost gave me a heart attack. Hem is with us. Thank you very much for learning with us. Hashem bless each and every single one of you that's going to learn, that's going to share, that's going to support. Anyone that wants to support can go to our website and donate bezelm.org. You can also donate on bhttora.org. You could also donate via our YouTube channel. You can do a lot of things. You could even send a check, wire transfer, bitcoin, billions of dollars, few dollars, whatever you want to do. If you want to be part of this, you're welcome. Regardless of all of that, the most important thing about is not only to listen to the lectures and share them, but to apply them to your life. 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