VAYEITZEI: Meshuganei People | STUMP THE RABBI (252)

We're back here on our Wednesday night stump the rabbi where after some you guys will ask some questions and who will give us the answers tonight is certainly going to hit some nerves for some people because you know some people like this or you may very well be that person hopefully not but nonetheless we're talking about mishugaim mishugas Mishug all types of different expressions that we call crazy people. What's crazy people? Tonight's show is going to be for the leaves and all of Israel and all the right that continue to support our organization. Before we get started, I want to give you guys a update on a couple of small things because we already have a delay because of some technical difficulties, but it is important enough for you guys to know about it. So, as you already know, one of the most amazing things about Am is that we have many many different customs and one of the customs that our organization has is a wonderful custom which is to help poor people as much as possible. Of course, we work all year round around the clock to help people spiritually, but we also help them by feeding poor people during the holidays and even really throughout the whole year, but especially during the holidays. So, we just started a campaign, our Hanukkah campaign to uh try to get as much money as possible so we could help as many people as possible. We've already made a big commitment. Hashem, hundreds of families are going to be getting some food baskets from us and uh anyone that wants to be a partner with us in helping poor people in Israel, please do. And we have a very very special bonus gift that took us a lot of time, lot of work, lot of money to get together, which is a one-of-a-kind oil that belonged to Rav Kadulli. Uh this oil abutayim uh wasn't uh just something that you uh could buy from the store or you could just get anywhere. This is Kadulli's personal oil. He used oil for a lot of different things when he would learn Taw to when he would do different things. And Hashem after uh lots of effort we got some uh some oil in our hands. We even have some in America. Very, very limited supply. But the amazing team at Bezem also put together a nice little bottle for you guys. The sticker. We got some pictures. It even has so you could eat it. You could use it for you could use it for different uh things, eye elements, whatever it is that you have. If you have, this is certainly something that you would want. If you don't, you don't. For those of you say, "No, but it's too much." Don't buy it. There's no obligation. But point is, this is not for sale at this point. Anyone that helps us by donating at least $1,500 to the campaign so we can help more poor people, so we can help Am will get one of these for free. Uh so that's the that's the deal. It's not a matter of uh like you, don't like you, want you, don't want you. Simple. If you help us, help Am is we give you a very very special gift that you can't get anywhere else. So again, there's not that many of them. So first come, first serve. But nonetheless, uh anyone that donates it and helps us, we will send them a uh a bottle. Also, Rabai, just a reminder, next week on uh Sunday, I'm not so sure, but uh the middle of the week certainly I'm not going to be able to give uh Shirim because I have a another surgery. Uh so uh that um we'll uh we'll have to wait until I recover. But we have another film that's coming out uh that will come out next week instead of that. So with that being said, we have parat is telling us about struggles. But why is the Torah telling us about Yakov's struggles if we're living thousands of years later? Simple. like the rest of the Torah, it has to do with our life. And if you're watching it, for sure it has to do with your life. Why? Because everyone has had to deal with some difficult people in their lives. But then there's the mishugim. Then there's the mishugness, the crazy people. meaning they're not just difficult. They're mishuga introduces us again to the father of all mishugan lavan. And tonight we'll revert back to a shure that was given nearly 80 years ago by one of Israelitz and to see why he called Lavan this name and how this can help all of us deal with people that have similar traits to what Lavan So we start off the para where Yakinu is 87 years old. He leaves his parents' house. He goes and studies Torah at the Yeshiva of Shim and Evil. And uh after 14 years of doing that, he uh decides to go and find himself a he finds himself a kala that is beautiful in all ways. And the only problem that's getting in his way is that he has to deal with her father which is Lavan. Lavan if you don't remember he's the very same that tried to kill Elzer. And for that is say is one of the ways that he tried to destroy all of Isel because had he killed Elzilu Jacob's father would have not known if Eleazar already committed him to a certain woman and therefore he would be in a problem of who to marry, who not to marry. There's also other reasons, but nonetheless, this very big is known as so much so that nobody wants to deal with him. So when Jacobu gets to the well and he asks the people, the people that live there, do you know? And they say yes. They keep it short to the point. Is everything well with him? It's well with him. And see here, here's his daughter Rael. She's coming with the flock. Okay, fine. But who asked you about his daughter? I asked you about him. In so many words, these shepherds are telling Yakov, look, this Lavan that you're asking about is such a nobody wants to even work for him. So he has his little daughter Rael as the shepherd. That's how bad he is. So you're asking us well with him. Yeah. Well, this is the well. But what made Leavan such a what made Leavan such a mishuga? After Yakovu deals with Lavan for 20 years, he decides that it's time to leave, [snorts] take his wives, his kids, all of his possessions. He became very very wealthy. He decides it's time to leave. But he knows that Lavan is such a mishuga that uh and a thief and simply an evil person that uh he can't tell him he's leaving. So he runs away and Lavan runs after him. Lavan runs after him with all of his kinsmen. and catches up to him. But before that au comes to him in a dream. From there the Rambam writes this is the reason why we don't get impressed by people that just because God spoke to them or just because they say God spoke to them because we see Lavan God communicated with him and he's with a degree a master's degree of So, anytime somebody tells you, "Yeah, I hear voices." Most likely they're simply crazy. But even if they're not, it doesn't really make a difference. Just because you think God spoke to you, doesn't mean anything. Not at least not in the world of Tawra. In the world of idolatry, every uh fly that flies next to you can mean something to some people. But in the world of the truth, we know that there's much more significant things than you can possibly imagine. And the most significant one is whether you're doing the will of Hashem and not just simply imagining that Hashem needs you. Anyway, Lavan catches up. He then has five verses of how he accuses Yakov of cheating him. Leavan says to Yakov in chapter 31 26, "What have you done that you have deceived me and led my daughters away like captives of the sword?" "Why have you fled so stealthily and cheated me? Nor did you tell me? For I would have sent you off with gladness, with songs, with timber, with lair, meaning I would have done a wholes goodbye party for you. And you did not even allow me to kiss my sons and daughters. Now you have acted foolishly. It's my in it's in my power to do harm to you. But the God of our father addressed the God of your father addressed me last night saying beware of speaking to Yakov either good or bad. In so many words, Lavan is accusing Yakov of cheating, of lying, of everything that Leavan himself did. And this is when Yakov responds [cough] especially when Lavan accuses him of stealing stealing his idols. Yakov first says I Yakov answered to Levan verse 31 in chapter 31 because I was afraid for I thought perhaps you might steal your daughters from me meaning after that track record of 20 years suffering I realize that you're so corrupt that you may even take my wives from me because we all know that origin I came to marry and you cheated me and even after I agreed to continue working for another seven years that wasn't enough. You continue cheating me, but now you're telling me that you think I stole something from you. So, Leavan comes into Yakov's tent and into Leah's tent and to the tent of the two maid servants, but he found nothing. What does it mean he found nothing? Say that Lavan wasn't just looking for his for his idols. Lavan was looking for anything that belonged to him. Even a spoon, a fork, anything that he could use to accuse Yakov of being a cheater, of being a liar. This is one of the traits of people that cheat. They accuse everyone else of being a cheater. That's why the says anyone that says everybody else is bad, he himself is bad. So Lavan is looking for anything but he found nothing. And that's when Yakov is angry. Then Yakov became angered and he took up his grievance with Lavan. Yakov spoke up and said to Lavan, "What is my transgression? What is my sin that you have hotly pursued me when you rummaged through all my things? What did you find of all your household objects? Here we see that it was he was looking for more than just the set it here before my kinsmen and your kinsmen and let them decide between the two of us. Yakov is saying you're constantly accusing me of things that you yourself are doing. Whatever evidence it is do you have of accusing me of everything? And then Yakov breaks down the whole 20 years of what he's done. These 20 years I have been with you. Your hues and she goats never miscarried your nor did I eat rams of your flock. meaning even though I worked for you and technically when you work for somebody that deals with food certainly you're allowed to part of the payment is to get food from them. There are some stingy people. I remember years ago when we first uh came to America my uh brother and mother worked for this person that was so stingy he would make them pay for eating in the restaurant they're working at. Mindbagging. He eventually lost, you know, his restaurant multiple times. But when you're a stingy person, you can only lose. But the point is here is that Yakov says, "I didn't even eat the rams of yours flock. That which was mangled, I never brought you. I myself would bear the loss. For me, you would exact it whether it was stolen by day or stolen by night. Unless you're an owner or a partner in a business, there's no reason for you to absorb the loss of a uh of you're a boss, unless there is willful negligence. Here he's saying, "No, no. Whether it was my fault, not my fault, stolen, a tragedy, you would constantly charge me all this. You'd constantly charge me all of this. This is how I was by day. Scorching heat consumed me and frost by night. My sleep drifted from my eyes. This is my 20 years in your household. I served you 14 years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks. And you changed my wage a hundred times. What does it mean you changed my wage a 100 times every time we agreed to a deal? If you saw that I was benefiting, you change it. It's like somebody comes works for Lean, how much you going to pay me? $1,000 at the end of the week. Okay. Can I get paid $1,000? Oh, no. No. A uh this week um was it a trial week? What do you mean trial week? No, I wanted to see if you really are serious. So, I wasn't I didn't think you think you actually get paid. This, by the way, happened to me years ago when I first started on Wall Street. Only for a month, though. This named Steven cheated me for uh a month, telling me no, I was just uh trying. After two months, he gave me $81. Long story short, person works the second week. Now, after the second week, okay, can I have my $1,000? Well, listen, you did uh come, but I saw that you really weren't putting 100% of your effort. And uh in fact, I think you actually even damaged my business because everybody sees that my the rest of my workers work very hard, but you um you work weren't working so hard. So, no, you actually you're lucky I don't uh sue you for the $1,000. All right, fine. Third week complete. Work hard. Is there any fines? Is there any uh work hard? Yeah, you worked hard. So, can I have the $1,000? No. No, you can't have that. Why? Why can't I have $1,000? Well, because I uh thought that even though you worked hard this week, I thought that I made a mistake last week by not charging you the $1,000 that you caused me for not working hard enough. So, this week I'm taking it. All right, another week. Can I have $1,000? I worked hard. Well, listen. You're right. You worked hard. I know there was no penalties, but you ate the food and um I charge $100 a sandwich. $100 a sandwich. Who Who buys a sandwich for $100? Well, I sell it. You should have asked. And this is how Lavan was for 20 years. For 20 years, Lavan would constantly change the deal on Yakov, time after time, no matter what Yakov did, he could not get ahead, he was constantly at a loss. So now Yakov is telling all of this. He's telling all of this to Lavan. You cheated me. You lied to me. You did everything that you possibly can to make me suffer. Before we go into the response of uh Leavan, we'll go back. We'll go back almost 20 years when our dear Rabime was in a yeshiva the rashiva was Solomon. Sadik, he passed away at about 70 years old. But one of the other Rabanim that was in the yeshiva was and was rabbi from the previous generation. When people say, "Oh, from the previous generation," you know, we read about the previous generation, we hear about the previous generation, but he really was. He was 97 years old, completely bent over. It would he would climb three floors every day, five days a week to come give a sh at the yeshiva to the bahaleim at 97 years old. It would take him nearly an hour to go up the stairs, but he would patiently would go up one step at a time for nearly an hour. Then give a shure for an hour and then answer questions for an hour. And this Sadik studied under one of Israelitz. And during this time nearly 20 years ago, they had a Kanuka celebration at the Yeshiva. And then came up to the podium. He would tell everybody not to say hello to him no matter where they see him because he simply does not have the energy to respond. And he doesn't want to seem like he's stealing from anybody their hells. As the says, if somebody says hello to you and you don't respond to them, it's like you stole it from them. Says, "So don't say hello to me. and the microphone he did not even have energy to pick up. They would have to set up everything for him. But when he would speak, everyone would listen. But especially on this day after the celebration of Kanuka went up to the podium and said, "Mug, mugness. all the paying attention. Who's he talking about? Which one of us? Because maybe it's the guy that took a picture of him and came up a little bit too close. Maybe it's because we celebrated a little bit a little too wild. But then the Rav continues and says, "This is what my Ravit said about this week's paran was a mishuga." Why? Why was Lavan a mishuga? who studied under the who his students were himself for example. He also studied under the said that Lavan was a mishuga. And how do we know he's a mishuga? says, "Lavan knows everything he did to Yakov." Doesn't have to repeat it. Lavan knows what everybody thinks of him. I mean, after all, nobody wants to work with him to the point where he has to make his young daughter a shepherd. Lava knows all of this, but yet after his son-in-law Yakov Sadik spills out his heart and tells him, "Look how hard I worked for you, yet you still accuse me." What does Levan respond with? Usually, if you tell somebody, "I can't believe it. Can't believe you said that about me. I can't believe you think that about me." So the person would say, "Oh yeah, maybe I made a mistake." Or maybe, "No, I I didn't say that about you. I didn't think that about you." One way or the other, they would acknowledge that you're saying something. Leavan not only doesn't acknowledge, but he says, "The daughters are my daughters and the children are my children, and the flock is my flock." and all that you see is mine. In so many words, Lavan is incapable of acknowledging or even hearing anybody but his own voice. Yakov is opening up his heart of how much difficulty he went through just to pretty much work for Lavan above and beyond. And Lavan does not even acknowledge you worked hard. Thank you. No thank you. You didn't do it. You did it. No. rather. By the way, Yakov, you know that you called the daughters your wives, but you know they're they're mine. And you called those kids your sons. They're my sons. And you called all these possessions that you have yours. Not sure why you think that. Everything is mine. Everything you have is mine. There are some people that are simply mishug they're simply crazy where they're incapable of hearing anyone but their own voice. And I've had my own experiences with some of those people, whether it was people that were close or far. And it's a nearly impossible test. And one of the more difficult ones is when other people are dealing with it. They're asking me for guidance. At some point or another, you realize this person is a mish. He's not going to change. She's not going to change. But what about Torah? Is Torah helped him? No. There was one guy that came to Rabime asking him for all types of questions. And this person thought that there was no difference between him and And you would ask all these unusual questions, make all these unusual statements. Rever midot had a lot of patience for him and tried to help this person. Maybe you could learn more. Oh, maybe you could write a book or something, keep yourself busy. And the guy was not a young person. He was in his uh 60s, late 50s. And he wrote this book and he brought it to Rafim. He he says through a frame this is not a regular book. This is not like the or the uh um some of the uh most famous books, the writings of the Ram, the writings of Alen, the writings of the Rambam, the Ramban. He literally listed the the most extraordinary books in Jewish history. He says, "No, no, this is better than anything else you've ever seen." uh delusional. In reality, what he wrote in there was a verse, then he added rashi commentary on it, and once in a while he would say his own manipulative wrong opinion of what he thought it meant. And then he says, "I want to get an RF." You want from one from our said, "No, no, it's okay." No, no, come on. You you you're you're you live close to him. You take me there. Takes him there. He gives it to one of the one of the helpers of that reviews everything before they give an Somebody reviews it first. When we got the ask, we had to go through the whole process and it's not a fun process either. Very critical, very uh um there's a system. Anyway, the saw this book is not only nothing special, but it's full of things that the world should never see. And he said, "No, no, I'm not going to bring the thr of." And this person, this Mishuga starts cursing up a storm, starts insulting, starts losing his mind. What? What are you talking about? This book could change the world. He doesn't understand. He's this, he's that. And no matter what Ryan would try to tell this person, he simply would not understand. listen, maybe you could work on it and try to fix things. He goes, "So, you liked it, right?" "Well, yeah. Well, listen. Uh, you know, it does need a little bit of work." Okay. So, you did like it. Well, I mean, there is some issues in there. Oh, so you understand that why I'm upset that didn't give No, I didn't say I didn't say that. I understand. Oh, so you agree with me? No, I don't agree with you. Literally, there are some people that no matter what you say to them, they're hearing something else. I once had a person that to say I did everything for them would be an understatement. Find them a mid, help them in their personal life, help their family, uh get them to do chuva and not go to gum. in so many words, everything and anything you could possibly imagine. Literally treated this person like it was my child. But one day this person turned into a mishuga. Now this was a process like it always is where they first stop watching the shim, they stop listening, they start arguing. One day this person tells me um that uh they don't feel like watching the shim anymore. I said, "Okay, no problem." You know, so you have to find yourself a rabbi that you can watch this. So at least you'll get some inspiration, know what you're doing. Oh, so you're saying that I'll have a bad life if I don't listen to your lectures. When when did I ever say that? When did I say that? I just said if you don't want to watch the showing by me, no problem. Find a rabbi that you do like and listen to them. This person lost their mind. Now, if this was the only story I have like this, I wouldn't even tell it. But this is unfortunately I like, you know, like one of those reruns. It's like one of those reruns where it happens. There was another time where this person I helped their family, I guided them, the children, the uh spouse did everything possible to help this person. And one day they decide that they don't like the fact that the whole family loves Rabbi Ruven because he pretty much changed their entire life. So what do they do? Instead of saying, they decide to curse out Rabbi Ruven and the spouse contact me and says, "Listen, I'm sorry this this thing happened." Uh, and I wanted to ask what should we do? I said, "No, it's okay. Listen, maybe they were in a bad mood, but this became like a new mission for them." Why? They didn't like it. They didn't like it that everybody was giving the rabbi attention even though they benefited out of it more than anybody else. And no matter how many times this person would ask me for advice, I would give them whatever guidance they wanted and they would literally do the opposite because they didn't really want advice. They just wanted to see if I agree with them. So much so that when they would give a devout Torah at the Shukhan Shabbat or they would want to share some type of idea that they learned in a co or somewhere, nobody in the family liked it. Nobody in the family understood it and they would yell at them. He would yell at his family for NOT LIKING IT. ESPECIALLY SINCE WHY ARE YOU LISTENING TO Rabbi Ruven? It became this sick competition. Competition I never signed up for. And unfortunately, this type of situation is not just there. I remember having an employee and I've had many many stories with employees where literally whatever the employee needs you give them whether it's technology, money, guidance, everything and anything. Usually when somebody is connect, you know, close to us, we do everything we can, no different than what we would do for our children. And one day this person decided that they want to make a change. I said, "No problem. You want to go somewhere else? You want to leave? You want to No problem. That's your choice." And then they decided to complain. Oh, you know, this happened four years ago and this that what the what are you talking about? Everything you ever asked for, I did feel. Who in your life ever helped you like I did? Whether it's with your family, whether it's with your marriage, whether it's with your children, whether it's with money, whether it's literally I raised you. 10 years I of my life I invested into you and you decided that you want to go somewhere else. No problem. I didn't get in your way. Go anywhere. Do what you want. Nobody's getting in your way. You don't have any non-compete contracts that's going to nothing. Do what you want. What happens? What happens to those people? How do they get that way when somebody has evil in their heart? They're not oblivious to it, but they try to silence it using any tool they possibly can. And the most often used tool is blaming everybody else. It's everyone else's fault. It's everyone else's fault. Now, this level of Mishuga could literally get to the most wild places. One woman that we had the merit to help this woman in so many ways. Never saw her. don't even know what she looks like. But whatever this person needed, we helped them. We helped them. One day they decided they want to start spreading rumors. Why? No idea. No idea why. Don't know what this person looks like. Never met them in person. All I know is that everything we possibly can do, we we did for them. decided to start spread rumors. Other people that have worked, other people that we've known, people just go off, lose their mind. Why? What is this trend that happens? Not just in my life, in everybody's life. Sometimes you could have a husband or a wife or you could tell them, listen, you confide with them and you tell them, listen, I uh I'm having a difficulty because you did this to me, you hurt me, you uh insulted me, you didn't pay attention to me. And their response like, "Did you make any food today?" What do you mean? I'm I'm crying to you, telling you how I'm having a hard time, and you're asking me about food. Yeah, I'm hungry. I'm hungry. Completely careless about anything you're saying. Completely careless. Sometimes you could have a worker, an employee, a boss, tell them, "Listen, there's an issue I want to deal with." and you try to tell them whatever you want to tell them. So, and their response not only doesn't acknowledge what you just said, it completely ignores it as if you didn't say it. This is not just a bad person. This is a person that loves only themselves. they're completely infatuated with themselves that there's no room for anybody else. Now, of course, there's the Lavan and then there's people that have traits like Lavan. One of the things that uh they ask me usually in uh my Hebrew Shir that I do is often about my chuva story often about what's the right path how do you do this how do you do that and we had a shir earlier today and uh interestingly enough as it always is it's in the para it's in the para what can see if you have a person that's difficult, if you have a person that is tormenting you, if you have a person that is completely ignoring everything and anything that has to do with you and only pays attention to what they want, then you could see if it's salvageable or not based on whether they have how far their traits are. Some people simply are selfish. But at some point or another, they'll uh they'll bend. They'll compromise. But there are certain people that doesn't matter what you tell them. It's like speaking to a wall. In fact, speaking to a wall sometimes more beneficial. When Lavan gets told everything that he was told by Yakov, of all of the effort that Yakov exerted to make Lavan rich, Lavan knew that he only became rich because of Yakov. He wasn't rich before. In fact, when Yakov saw Rael, he got so excited that his prayers were answered that he got the strength to lift the entire rock. Huge thing that required many people to lift up. Rael when she found out Yakov is our family and he came to marry her, she got so excited. It says that Yahel ran to go tell her father. But then it says that when Lavan found out Yakov is here, he started running too. What are you excited about? Why is Lavan excited? He's excited that he now has another opportunity to steal all of the money that he missed out by not stealing it from Elzil because he start he tried killing and robbing Elz and poisoning him and nothing succeeded. But now he has another opportunity because the same family must have billions. So he ran also. Lavan was evil from his core. So no matter what Yakov did to enrich Lavan, it wasn't enough. It wasn't [snorts] good. It wasn't even done. Yeah, but I just made you a million dollars. No, no, I had that money already. But no, you didn't have the flock. I did it. No, no, I had it before you. You You're imagining things. like he would literally just simply ignore it, deny it, everything. When a person has a little bit of they act differently, even if they didn't grow up religious, even if they did not get the proper education the person has, they usually follow a certain path. And we see how Yakov Yakov was the is his image is engraved into the so Yakov got all of the best of the best in him. But it says that Yakov in chapter 28 verse 16 when Yakov fell asleep by the rocks on the rocks and he had this prophecy where Kadoshb is talking to him and promises him all the blessings. It says Yakov awoke from his sleep and said surely Hashem is present in this place and I did not know and he became frightened and said how awesome is this place. This is none other than the abode of God and this is the gate of the heavens. Yakovah rose early in the morning and took the stone that he placed around his head and set it up as a pillar and he poured oil on its top and it he became and he named the place Bethl. However, LS was the city's name originally. Then Yakov took a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, will guard me on this way that I am going, will give me bread to eat and clothes to wear, and I return in peace to my father's house, and Hashem will be a god to me. Then this stone which I have set up as a pillar shall become a house of God. And whatever you will give me, I shall repeatedly tithe it to you." meaning give mas here. Yakov is telling us his path but at the same token he's teaching us two other paths that are relevant to us. [sighs] Whatever happens in a person's life, whether they grow up religious and then one day they realize they need to do chuva or they grew up religious but one day they realized that they're not doing enough they've become so accustomed to things they become like a robot. In so many words when a person is looking to make a change there's a path and there's also a path when a person is looking to do a reverse meaning they were keeping and but they want to go off the there's also a path here is what we learned from this from Jacob's words. Although Yakov Yakov was a Sadik was kadosh, he had a Gilui, an enlightenment where after a kadosh Bahu appeared to him just like a person can have a miracle happened to them or some type of enlightenment in their life where they realize that the only truth is in a Torah. all of the other religions, all of the other writings, everything else is falsehood. And a person wakes up and realizes that where everything clicks and there's simply enlightened. They were shown the truth. They see the truth. There's the moment of truth. A person that has even a little bit of a fear of heaven immediately take steps. What's the steps? whether they were religious before or they're looking to change. As soon as a shows them that he's there and that he's always been there, a person that has becomes more frightened. Why? because they realized that as much as they thought that God is watching, as much as they believed in God, as much as they thought they knew about God, it was nothing in comparison to what they understand now. And even what they know now is nothing in comparison to what they'll understand down the road. And the same concept goes with Yakov, as it says, and he became frightened. I mean, after hearing blessings and promises and all types of good things, I mean, typically you would think, oh, you should be happy. No, Jacob became frightened after having this giley, this enlightenment, this prophecy. Yakov realizes how much more there is to Hashem than he even knew, than he even thought. And then the next step, HE SAYS, "HOW AWESOME IS THIS PLACE?" Meaning Yakov recognizes the greatness of Akados. And then he says this is none other than the abote of God where a person realizes that Hashem runs the world. How great is the creation and then they SAY AND THERE'S NOBODY ELSE BUT HASHEM. HE'S THE ONE RUNNING EVERYTHING. THERE'S NO Satan fighting against God like the Christians think. He as if as if they're enemies. No, it's only Hashem. Satan is simply an employee, a servant, a servant of the one and only God. So a person in their path of chuva realize Hashem runs the world, REALIZE HOW AWESOME THE CREATION IS, and then says there's nothing else but Hashem. And then they start thinking about how much reward Hashem is looking to give us, how much g good he's giving us. And Yakov says, "And this is the gate of heavens." How do I get to this gate of heavens? By doing the will of Hashem. How? And Yakov arose early in the morning. They take action. Now they're not going to just wake up whenever, do whatever. They wake up early in the morning, they start praying to Hashem. And he took a stone, he placed it around his head. This is similar to a Jew that puts on in the morning. Put it on his head, on his arm and his head. And then he says and he named that place betel. A person that's doing chuva. The next step in their journey is to turn their house into a bet into a house of God. Everything that is inappropriate. Everything that is forbidden gets thrown out. Why? This is the house of God. There's only kosher food here. There's only kosher activities here. There's only kosher books here. And if a person continues beyond these first few steps of doing chuva, of getting closer to Hashem, they're going to want more. It says, "And Yakov took a vow, meaning they're making a commitment. If God will be with me, will guard me on this way that I'm going meaning this person is vowing to go in the path of hem and through the process they develop and that he will guard you no matter who the enemies are. Whether the enemies are your parents or your former friends or teachers or boss or whoever it is and through that process a person grows further and further and says one of the steps of the process that you want to recognize that you believe that Hashem is the one that gave you everything. So what do you do? You take at least 10% of what Hashem gives you in order to invest into the Torah to publicize more Torah to do more to help other people do. It's literally in the words. This is Yakov's elevation from where he was to where he became Yakov started with fear of Hashem. Recognizing the awesomeness of Hashem, realizing there's nothing but Hashem and taking steps forward further and further culminating with the 11th step of chuva, of giving mas. On the other hand, one common denominator that you see when people go off is the exact reverse of this. The first step, the first step is usually they has to do with money. They don't want to give as much because they want more for themselves or something to do with money. All of a sudden they forget that they got huge amount of blessings as a result of giving mel. They forget that they are entire life changed in a positive way since they've gone on this path. So they stop giving. They start changing the plan. Then after that you see that their all of a sudden suffer. They forget that Hashem is running the world and Hashem is giving them the problems. Hashem is giving them the tests. But their am goes into question. Their Hashem goes into question. Then the vow that they made in the path in the past to stay on this path for the rest of their life all of a sudden they forget it. They decide to change that path. And little by little, the house of God that they build becomes the house of all types of things. And quickly after that, the prayer becomes less and less, the learning of Torah becomes less and less, the mitzvah become less and less. It becomes more difficult for them to serve Hashem. Becomes more difficult for them to even understand why they're doing what they're doing. And even if they stay looking religious, it's only because it fits their lifestyle for now, not because it fits what their heart really wants. And if you ask them questions that have to do with, they're no longer frightened. On the other hand, we see that Lavan Lavan was a complete opposite extreme of Yakov. Why? Because even though Hashem spoke to him, warned him about Yakov, it didn't change Leavan's behavior. He didn't become better as a result. He still completely ignored the truth that YaKob was telling him. And this is sometimes what happens with says that learning to if a person learns it properly with in order to fulfill it, it becomes the the drug of life. But if he doesn't, it becomes becomes the drug of death. Meaning that even if the person learns more Torah, he actually becomes more arrogant. He actually becomes more egotistical. He actually becomes more selfish. He forgets the difference between him and he forgets the difference between him and he thinks he can challenge everything. He thinks he can pick and choose what he thinks is true. This is Lavan. This is how the heretics behave. This is unfortunately how some people that may very well be in your life are. If they have some bad traits, certainly those are fixable through the Torah, so long as they acknowledge that they have to fix. But if you come to them and open your heart to them, tell them, help them, do whatever you can to plead with them, and they completely ignore everything you say, not even recognizing that you've said it, change the subject, then you know this is not going to change. Not today, not tomorrow, most likely never. And you have to then decide whether you want this person to be in your life or not. But at least don't waste any time thinking that they're going to change because they're not. Hopefully you guys don't have as many experiences with these types of people as I have or as Rab Fry has had. But nonetheless, certainly there are some of you that I know deal with this deal with certain people like this. And unfortunately, the solution is in your hands. You simply have to decide whether you want this person in your life or not, assuming and pretty much being sure they're not going to change. Is it possible for them to change? Yes. But they have to make a huge transformation. They have to swallow their ego. They have to recognize everything they haven't until now. starting with they're wrong about everything, even the things they're certain they're right about. Without the hand of Hashem punching them a few times, usually that doesn't happen. So this is not necessarily a sh that's going to give you new insights about the midrash about the about kabala but it's a sure that's relevant to everybody's life because everyone deals with these problems some more some less whether you're doing kiru or you're simply doing business whatever it is that you're doing you're going to encounter a lot of different people. And in life, you have to choose who you want to deal with and who you don't. Who you want in your life and who you don't. And even if you have to deal with somebody either because you're married to them or you're a child to them or they're your son or a daughter or whatever it is where they're going to be in your life one way or the other, this still helps you because at least now you'll know whether it's worth it to invest any more efforts trying to change something that's unchangeable. It's not because it's unchangeable at all. It's because it's unchangeable from your end. You're not going to be able to change them. The only way that they could change is if they decide to change their entire entire life. Like Lavan doing complete chuva. It didn't happen. Bilam doing chuva. It didn't happen. Is doing chuva. It didn't happen. It didn't happen. Can it happen? Sure. Not so often though. Why? Because people don't like to swallow their ego. People don't like to admit that they're wrong. People don't like to think that anybody else is better than them, anybody else knows more than them. They simply don't want to. They want to live in a fantasy land, even if that means they're going to torture everybody around them. Why? Not because they don't care about other people being miserable. It's because they don't even acknowledge it. The only thing they acknowledge is their own pleasure, their own satisfaction. Everyone else is insignificant like an ant. Yes, there are people like this in the world. And unfortunately, all of us have to deal with something like this one way or the other. At least now you know how much to invest into it if you're planning on changing them because it's not going to happen. Good news is is for those of you that have traits like this and you acknowledge that you have them, that means that it's possible for you to still change. Because if you acknowledge that you're going in the wrong direction, then you can change direction. The problem is with those that don't even think they're going in the wrong direction. The problem is with those that you could confide and literally tell them they've done horrible things and they could tell you, "Listen, I thought about it for a few days. I have no idea what you're talking about. This is a person that simply doesn't doesn't think that uh reality exists outside of their own perspective. They can't see beyond what they want, what they need. what they think they need. It's sad. It's very difficult life for those people that are around them. But it's reality. It's a reality that YaKob had to endure for 20 years. That's what made him Yakov because usually most people don't last that long. Not in this way. This is some of the things we learned. And this is why the Tadik is still remembered this sh at 97 years old to give to young teenage Bahim because he heard it 65 years before he said it. But he remembered it literally word for word. Mishug. That's may we never have these types of people in our life in any capacity whatsoever because that's what we pray for in every single morning that Hashem protects us every day from a pe it's certainly fits the mishugan at least the way they start it just gets worse from there. Hashem protects us from them. So now we're going to answer the question from last week and then ask you guys another question and uh go from there. Last week, we asked the question of the young guy that could not deal with the fact that the girl was not interested in marrying him and used that opportunity to not only bring embarrassment to her, but also to somebody he didn't like, telling this other person that he should go on a shiduk with her. And uh the guy shows up at the house thinking that he has a date only to find out that this was just a uh this was just uh to bring embarrassment to him. But as Hashem would have it, the father liked this young boy and he decided to let him meet his daughter and they liked each other and they ended up getting married. So the first guy, the guy that started this whole thing came to them said listen there's a custom and we don't abandon customs customs that's old custom in becomes like uh like a law. So there's a custom that you have to pay the person that brought the two together. So much so that there's some discuss that say that if the two people do not pay the shatan fee, they're not allowed to get married or they're uh you know it's considered as if they stole all types of harsh language about paying the he said oh you have to pay. Many of you got this answer correct but not necessarily always for the right reason. And the answer is that they do not have to pay him anyhate because the custom is not relevant to him because he did not try to make a shid. He tried to bring embarrassment to both people. And since his intentions were evil from the start, there is no fee whatsoever that belongs to him that he's entitled to. And in fact, he should spend many, many hours, days, and years if necessary doing chuva for his wickedness. That's the question from last week. Now for the question of this week. Since Lavan taught us a little bit about dealing with difficult people when it comes to money, I'll ask you guys an interesting question. And whoever can get this answer right, it's very impressive. Again, not if you ask a rabbi, you get it right. Some of you tell me, "Listen, I asked my rabbi and he said this." Well, that's not the point. The point is for you to know it. I understand that you can figure it out by asking. That's not the trick. This is not a uh uh I got it right, I win. Uh this is simply understanding where your logic is. Where's Tawa? Imagine there's a guy that uh has a business and uh let's say he's a builder and this builder he has he hires employees he hires different people to do stuff for him and one day they you know the people that are working for him for the day day workers they uh say to him uh listen we need some tools we need some tools so let's go to the tool shop so they all go to the tool shop that belongs to his friend the guy. Ruven is the let's say the boss with the employees and he goes to Shimon's tool shop with the uh with the employees, the workers. They tell him which tools they want. And Ruven gets a call. His wife is frantic on the other side on the other line. You have to come home right now. You have to come home. There's this, there's that. says to Shimon, "Shimon, do me a favor, put these tools on my tab, and also I owe these guys $1,000 for working today, so pay them for me, and I'll uh add that to my tab also." Shimon says, "No problem." Ruven leaves to go deal with what he has to deal with. Then you have Shabbat Sunday. He comes back to the office on Monday. And uh he calls Shimon. Shimon, are you around? Maybe want to come by my office. I'll give you the $1,000. Yeah. Yeah. I'm coming right now. Shimon comes. As he walks in, those day workers come also at the same time and they both go into Reuben's office and uh Ruven takes out $1,000 and he wants to give it to uh Shimon, but then the employee say, "Hey, Seor, he didn't pay us. You still owe us the $1,000. So Ruven now switches and goes to give to the employees, but Shimon says, "Hey, I don't know what they're talking about. I paid him $1,000. You owe me $1,000 plus the tab." So now Ruven is confused. Wait, hold on a second. YOU PAID THEM? YEAH, I PAID THEM. So he goes to employees. Hey, you saying he didn't pay you? No, Seenor, he didn't pay us. You owe us $1,000. What is Reven to do? Who gets the money? Option A, he doesn't believe the employees because he's friends with Reuven for 10 years already. Of course, he takes his word. On the other hand, maybe Ruven is not really who he thinks he is. And maybe Ruven tried to uh get over on him and not pay these guys because after all uh Mishima didn't pay them. And after all, Reuben wasn't there to witness it. So maybe the employees, poor guys, they worked all week to need the money. Or maybe he has to pay both of them. But then somebody's lying. What? What are you going to support a lie? I only owed $1,000. Shima was supposed to give it to the employees. Why should I pay $2,000? Somebody here is lying. Or maybe split it 50/50. But then there's a problem. If Shimon really gave the money and I only gave him $500, that means I'm taking $500 from him. It's not fair. He did me a favor. I'm shortch changing in $500. On the other hand, if the employees really didn't get paid and I'm giving them $500, then I'm giving them, you know, is a problem. Also, if they did get paid, they get extra. If they didn't get paid, they are getting less than what they get worked for. Is a pretty big dilemma. What do you guys think? What should Ruven do? And don't be a Mr. Perfect. Oh, LISTEN. REUBEN PROBABLY HAS A LOT OF MONEY. JUST GIVE THEM everything and you should even say thank you. Stop it. What would you do if you were Reuben? What would you do? What does the Torah say you should do? This is a question. No cameras. Simply Shimon's word versus the employees word. Ruven has to pay somebody. Who does he pay? Or maybe you should shouldn't pay anybody. They should just fix it between of them. It's not your problem. But then he's stealing from both of them. It's a problem. No witnesses. Simply Shimon employees proven. That's it. What do you guys think? [snorts] So, while you think about it, I'll look at some questions to see what we have. Uh, given the nature of how visual input affects offspring like the peeled rods, was the fact that red and hairy while Jacob was smooth skinned a result of something or looked at or thought about? Not that I know of, but there is a um uh I think it's a midrash. No, I think it's an aal that is had the or whatever you want to call it the spark from theash the from so his animalistic nature stemmed from that let's see return the tools. No, but the tools have nothing to do with it. This is a salary money. The tools he paid for. Fine. We're talking about salary money. He owed Ruven owed them $1,000. And Shimon says he gave them $1,000 on behalf of Ruven. But the employees say that Shimon didn't give them anything and therefore Ruben still owes it to them. Trust Shimon, you say? So, trust Shimon and pay uh and don't pay the employees. So, now they're not going to want to work for you anymore. Trust the employees. Okay. Problem is that if you trust the employees, then Ruben's not going to want to be your friend anymore. Trust both of them. But then for sure somebody's stealing from you. You see the dilemma here. Give nobody money. No, you can't steal from both of them or at least from one of them. pay both of them. Why? Somebody's lying. No. Instead of $1,000, now it cost you $2,000. To avoid issues with the friendship and employees, I would pay both of them, but I would fix this and make a contract later. Contract, no contract. The bottom line is that it just cost you $2,000 instead of $1,000. Somebody's lying here. Can't just pick one of the two. You have to have a reason for it. Meaning, a Torah reason for it, not just a rational reason. Why is it right to pay one of them? Why is it right to pay both of them? Why is it right to pay nobody? Whatever the reason is, everything makes sense. No, the tools were just part of the story. They were not part of the $1,000. They got the tools and uh Ruven is going to pay for the tools. We're talking about the $1,000 that he borrowed from him to pay them the salary. Why do the workers have to be Hispanic? Want want me to make them uh which one you want? Want me to make them uh Israeli? Hey, Alo, I want my money. Give me my $1,000. Or maybe you want me to make them uh Hindu. Hello, sir. I want their money. Please give me the money. Or you want me to make them Chinese. Listen, you need to give me the money. or you want to make them uh whatever else. I don't care. This is just simply extra theatrics for the sake of teaching you Torah. If you are a sensitive person, do not watch my lectures. I'm not politically correct. I'm here to entertain you while educating you. Why the person have to be Hispanic? You want me to make them black? You want to make them white OR MAKE THEM? WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES it make? Pay attention to the story and not your ego. Why they have to be Hispanic? Crimea river can't stand people that look for stupidity teaching you to change your life to teach you something someh somehow you can actually have some mindset. You're talking about Spanish. You think I see colors. You think I I see race. Everybody's the same to me. I have students that are black, white, green, blue. It doesn't make a difference to me. That stuff you bring to somebody else. Kapal has nothing to do with me. [snorts] All right. >> [sighs] >> Who is the rabbi that you said you're going to talk about? Um, well, if I didn't talk about him yet, that means uh I'm not ready. I can tell you that um the same thing I've told you before already very problematic person and um a lot of people going to get hurt from it. Um hopefully Hashem gets involved before it becomes the next uh but uh it's a problem. It's a very very big problem. It's a very very big problem. The reason why I'm not telling you yet is because it's a uh not sure if it's going to help you or not because if you're listening to him most likely you're addicted and you see blind and if you're not listening to him then what difference is it to you? And if your family is listening to to him, for sure they're not going to acknowledge anything that we say. Even if I tell you everything you want to know, you won't see it. So, we'll see. We'll see. This looks like an interesting answer. We need you in Lakewood, New Jersey. Um, you could set up a big lecture and I'll be happy to come. Not right now cuz I have to heal first. But let's say next month or something like that. If you could arrange a lot of people, I'll be happy to come. Any thoughts on what's going on in Brooklyn? Rabbi vouching for Syria. Sorry, not uh not familiar. What should one do if he does chuva and people keep reminding him of his sins? And every argument, the same old stuff is brought up against despite the uh chuva. Well, two things. Number one, you should know that if somebody else sins, that doesn't mean that um you know they even realize that they're sinning because you know tell us it's forbidden in the it's Rambam writes it that you're not allowed to remind somebody of their uh if they're used to be secular now they've done chuva or if somebody used to be not Jewish and now they converted you're not allowed to remind them in a way of mocking them if it's praising them it's different but uh even that you have to be careful with. But uh if somebody else is doing that, one thing you should know is that they're making a mistake. But you have to ask yourself instead of why are they reminding me uh why are they doing that to me? You should ask yourself why is Hashem bringing this to me? Meaning a person doesn't get hurt unless there's a deen in shim that they are going to they deserve it. They benefit from it. What's the benefit? Why do you deserve? So if somebody's bringing you a certain type of pain, what can you learn from it? Perhaps you haven't done enough cha. Perhaps you are doing one thing but saying something else. Perhaps this is a test from Hashem to see if you're still going to stay strong. And therefore uh Hashem is going to try to test you to see if how strong you really are. Just like for example if you want to test uh different uh types of gold or different types of metal you test it's hard you know how hard it is. That's the difference between you know the 24 karat 14 karat and 18 karat and so on. It's how you know whether it's bendable or not. So in essence, Hashem sometimes smacks us in the face not in essence to punish us, to hurt us, but rather to test to see how far. Why? Because the more a person can endure, the more they can handle in the future that are much bigger tests. So instead of focusing so much on what the wrongs that other people are doing to you, you should internalize it and try to see what can I why am I getting this? You know, what is Hashem trying to tell me? Why? What is Hashem trying to tell me here that uh I need to learn from this? I need to grow from this. [snorts] Isn't that a coalistic way to find out if somebody's lying versus writing it on paper, getting it to ingest it? That's not coalistic. You're talking about the uh at the time of the beta mikdash. I'm glad you like the answer. What's the best app or AI to use to translate Hebrew videos to English? I don't know. Okay. See? [sighs] [snorts] What's the nature of business relationship between Shimon and Reuben? Uh let's say Reuben is a builder and Shimon has a uh tool shop and they're friends also. So Ruven is a customer and a friend. Are you in America? Yes, I'm in Florida. Isn't Ruven responsible because he borrowed the money? Yes, he's certainly responsible. But who does he have to pay? Does he have to pay the employee? Does he have to pay Shimon? Does he have to pay both? Does he pay nothing? Does Shimon keep Shabbat? Yeah, he keep Shabbat. Or you could say doesn't keep your butt. Doesn't really make a difference. What does the scripture say about Go Magog? I have a whole film about Go Magog. Go to my channel, my YouTube channel. There's a whole film we just released about a month or two ago uh that uh was translated to different languages. It's in English uh and a lot of people learned a lot from it. There's dozens and dozens of sources in there uh of what the Torah says about What should one do if invited to in-law's house for Thanksgiving dinner? Uh, say if you're Jewish, say no thank you. or say uh you don't celebrate it or say uh you're busy or whatever other excuse you come up with. Oh, you like my impersonations. Which one do you like first? You like the uh Indian one, the Israeli one, the uh Chinese one, Asian? I'm not sure if it's Japanese actually. Most more like Japanese. Which one you like? Hold on. Good. Okay. So far, I'm getting a lot of answers from you guys. Uh, but no reasoning. Think about it more. Think about it more. Oh, I'll give you guys another thing now. This is actually not a question. This is for anyone that likes to do Kiru. I forgot. I almost forgot this. I have a sponsor who wants somebody to distribute a uh couple of boxes of this. Meaning each box comes with 20 of them. So, we can't just distribute them everywhere. It's not that many. If you think that your community needs it, send a uh short to the point uh explanation of why you think you should get these uh uh these ku boxes to distribute for free in your community. We're going to pick somebody uh over the next I don't know uh few days after we see all the letters and uh send it to them because it's not enough to put it on the Kiru store for mass distribution. [sighs] It's also not necessarily uh the right thing to just uh pick it myself especially if the person can't do it or don't want to do it. Point is if you want to distribute some of these I uh for free uh it's 20 of them. We have a couple of bucks, so it'll be uh 40. Send us a email explaining why your community needs it, why you should be the one that gets it, and we'll uh have somebody uh we'll review it and decide who's going to get it. How can someone know when Hashem wants a person to learn something from an experience and when he wants them to move away from a particular experience? You always have to do always have to learn from experiences. That's why they happen to us. says that one of the ways that we see Hashem's mercy is that any part of your body that you have pain has to do with a certain sin that you made during this life during the previous life that has to do with that body part. Uh because or else we would not know how to do chuva at least in the previous generations when they could connect the two. But the point is is that there's something to learn from everything. If the uh person is having a difficult day or having a good day, a profitable day or a losing day, there's something to learn from everything. Now whether a person should move beyond that experience or not depends on what the experience is depends on whether they learned from it or not. Sometimes you're not going to be able more times than not you're not going to be able to learn all you need to learn from that experience on day one. Sometimes it's a process. I'll give you a story I heard from Fraim a few years ago and then I actually heard it recently again from it's famous story I think I even said it I mentioned this story years ago where there was a uh that uh young that uh uh had a that lived in Harov in Israel and uh his house had a fire big damage almost 200,000 shekels to fix it which was uh which is a lot today but a lot more in those days and uh he tried raising money from people from Daka and so on wasn't very successful and the house wasn't really uh wasn't livable so he came to Raad Ysef and uh he asked Roadya you know what uh what he should do what should I do said what uh how much have you raised so far he there's only 10,000. Ra says, "Okay, listen. Uh, I uh can write you a letter that uh will support you and you can show it to people and hopefully that'll help you raise uh raise some more money." And the guy, the poor guy, was very uh um discouraged. He's like, "Wait one second. Just wait over here. Uh and maybe I could think of something else." As he's waiting, another uh rich Jew comes into uh see Raadya that um you know made they made an appointment and he came to see him and this Jew comes to Raady and asks him if the Rav is willing to come be a suck for his his grandson. He just had a grandson and he wants to have a raak said yeah bring him to the sh. He goes, "No, no, we're doing it uh in Benak." Brother says, "I'm sorry. It's for me. You know, I can't. It's too much time. I have to give Shereim. I have to learn. I have to teach. I have to write books going all the way to back and so on. It's a lot of wasted time." And the guy said, "Listen, I promised my son that uh if he has a uh you know a son, I'm going to ask the Rabaj to be the Sak. Please, please, listen. I understand that you're unhappy about it, but what I'm going to do I'm going to waste time just because you are uh you know want me to go to and the guy is upset. Please, please, Rabbi." Rabbi says, "You know what? There's a Jew over there sitting outside of He is looking for uh help. Anything, Rabbi? I'll do anything. Well, listen. He needs 200,000 shekels to fix his house. To fix his house cuz he got burned. If you're willing to help him, I'll come be the sunduck. The guy says, "Of course, absolutely." So, they asked the young bah to come and told him the good news. And the bul says, "Rabbi, I heard I heard everything you said and I appreciate it, but I'm not going to take the money." I said, "Why? Why not?" He says, "Because I heard how much the Rav is careful not to waste time, not to have to." So what? I'm just because I need 200,000 shekels, I'm going to be responsible for the rabbi wasting time. No. When the Rav heard how this person cared so much about the Torah that not even his rabbis, he says, "Okay, now I'll give you an idea. Do this. It'll be good for you. sell the house as is and take that money and go buy a house in this little place that they're trying to develop. It's called Betish. There's not much over there. There's no safari ka over there. So, you have to travel a little bit. But uh you'll have enough money even though you're selling a house that's been burned. You'll have enough money to go over there to buy a house over there to even start a little uh uh to learn over there to do something. You'll be okay. Bul wasn't so happy about this advice. But Raady said, "What are you going to say?" No. So he did what the Rav said. He sold his house, went to Bamesh. Now for him to find a shul to pray it. He had to travel. He had to move, you know, to to he was in a k. Now he had to go really far to you know because it wasn't close to Bish. His wife had to change jobs and she had a good job. He said they had for the first few years it was very very difficult very difficult adjustment because they were finally settling in in Hanov now they have to go to a place where there's practically nothing there but one day he's in the uh outside and uh some uh some guy walks up to him and asks him about uh where's if there's a safari shoel there. He says, "No, no, there isn't, but uh you know, I wish there was. I moved here from this." He starts telling about himself. And the guy tells him, "You know what? Listen, I'm a businessman. I'm very successful. You go find the land where it to build. I'll pay for the whole thing. We'll build a whole sh here." What? Really? Yeah. And that's what happened. He secured the land. The guy ended up building a huge beautiful shul the that of became a very very well-known Rav the head of the kila the the head of Bish over there all because he listened to Raadya and because he was very very careful not to disregard the Torah and he cared so much about it that he didn't want to waste time But initially it looked like a disaster, a fire, a uh then moving to a place where there's nothing there. It looked like there's only problems. What could I possibly learn from these problems? So it took time to learn. But what did he ultimately learn? Simple. Had he not had the fire, he would have never gone to Raadya. Had he not listened to Raadya, he would have never moved to Bamesh. And if he would have never moved to Bamesh, he would still be an making barely any any enough money to buy diapers until this day. He wouldn't be the head of the head of thousands of of thousands of he wouldn't be anything. you would just be in LEARNING TO WHICH IS good but it's certainly nothing to compare. So it took time for him to learn this lesson but because he had Instead of asking why is Hashem doing this to me, he asked what does Hashem want me to do? And when he heard the guidance of the even though it didn't make sense to him, it didn't agree with him, it wasn't simple for him for years, ultimately it was the best thing that ever happened to him and to many, many other people. a curses black magic. So the book of Leviticus als curses are black magic. No, there are things that come from black magic, but they're not uh what Hashem said. It's people using the tuma. It's going against the Torah. In fact, to to use black magic qualifies as being a a witchcraft, which is the Torah says at the time of the will be a death penalty. Will Yahwe and Avi Elijah the prophet appeared to anoint Mashiach? Yes. Three days before. Some say the same day. Why does God curse us in the book of Deuteronomy? God is not cursing us at all. God is telling us the blessings we will get if we do what he commanded and the curses we would get if we go against it. It's not a it's not him wanting to punish us. It's warning us not to go against them because just like for example, if you wanted to put your finger into the electricity, if somebody loved you, cared about you, or simply just wanted you not to destroy their carpet, they would tell you, "Don't do that." Because if you do that, you'll die. And part of the first thing that happens after a person dies is all of their filth from their in insides gets released because all of their muscles. So you'll ruin their rug. So whether it's a person that loves you, so they don't want you to die, or it's a person that's simply a concerned person, they don't want you to die. Or it's a person that doesn't care about you at all. He's like Lavan, but they don't want to ruin their rug. They don't want you to die. All of them will tell you the same exact warning. Don't put your finger into the electricity. It's dead. Are there ways to protect yourself from black magic in a Torah? Yes, absolutely. Follow what the commandments say that you are obligated to do. The more you have Hashem, uh the more you do the will of Hashem, the more you fulfill what Torah commanded you that's applicable to you, the more Hashem will protect you. [snorts] My grandmother is Jewish. Does that mean that I'm Jewish? Uh, it depends. If it's the grandmother of your father or grandmother of or your mother. If it's the grandmother of your father, then no, you're not Jewish. If it's the grandmother of your mother, meaning your mother's mother is Jewish, then that means your mother is Jewish and therefore you are Jewish. When is the best day to learn paraw commentary? Uh, many people do it first day of the week. Some people do it a little bit every day and some people do it on uh Friday night. It depends on your schedule. It depends on your study uh commitment. Depends. What's best for one is not the best father. Why don't we trust fathers? Oh, when you mean it comes to uh a person being Jewish has nothing to do with trusting fathers. It has to do with Torah says that Judaism comes from the uh the mother. The tribe comes from father. But the uh whether someone is Jewish or not is based on the mother, not the father. It's not about trusting or not trusting. It's the law of God. What Torah says. What land does your Msiah arrive in? Israel. Why did God decide that? Because he's God and he decides everything based on his [snorts] infinite wisdom. Same thing of why God decided that we have to observe the Shabbat or why we have to eat kosher food or why we have to have family purity. All of these reasons are because God decreed. There are different things we understand from them. But the ultimate reason behind all of the commandments of the Torah is because God said so for reasons that are beyond human comprehension. There are certain benefits and certain understandings that we do know and we and the sages teach us. But the ultimate real reason of for all of the commandments in the Torah, for all of the statements in the Torah is because God decreed and that's that that's it. I'm trying to quit a bad habit. Any advice? It depends what's uh what's the habit? It depends how uh committed you are to quitting it. Uh if you are uh you know if you if you have a bad habit that's hurting other people then certainly you should uh take that into consideration that even if you yourself don't want to stop uh because you care about other people that should motivate you enough to stop. If the habit is uh only hurting yourself then uh you have to see how much it's actually hurting yourself whether it's hurting yourself physically it's hurting yourself financially it's hurting yourself in mentally and you have to evaluate uh what's the benefit of continuing to be in pain despite uh you know you know and continuing this habit. Why is it worth it to continue being in pain and hurting yourself and continue this habit? So you have to evaluate do uh a deep thought process of the pro pros and cons and write them on a piece of paper. What's the pros of continuing with this habit? What are the cons the negatives of continuing with this habit? And once you put pen to paper and you start thinking about it, it'll make it easier for you to apply to your life and be more firm in your decision to to move forward and and and stop When does a rabbi's decree become adding or subtracting from the Torah? Uh, we don't add anything to the Torah. The um the sages um were commanded by the Torah to protect the Torah. Meaning there is a law in the Torah. one of the 613 laws that we have to listen to our sages to our and um there's a responsibility that they have in order to protect the Torah. So out of the 613 mitzvot there are seven that are by the sages the holiday of Kanuka Purim uh the muv these are different things that the sages add it's not the 613 is all from now as far as the these laws number one for example these were extraordinary events that happened to throughout the years uh and to commemorate them uh we celebrate them. Now as far as the other laws for example whether it's MT and so on those are laws uh that the sages did in order to protect the the Jewish people from violating the Torah. So for example we're not allowed to write on Shabbat. So the sages said that if somebody already picks up a pen picks up a p pencil they're already likely to write. So they made a law as if to make a fence around the, you know, uh, the real law, which is that not only you're not allowed to write, but you're not allowed to even pick up a pen in your hand. Now, the Torah says you're not allowed to write, but the sages said you're not even allowed to pick up a pen or touch anything that's mukt because if you touch something that's called mukt that's forbidden, then you're more likely to use it than violate Shabbat. So it wasn't adding a law for their uh for their own benefit or their profit. It was for the benefit of the people. It's sort of like putting a fence uh on your house to uh so let's say for example around your pool so your kids you know don't fall you that don't know how to swim don't fall into the pool. So you don't have to put the fence around the pool. You can just leave your kids inside the house. But if you want to have extra protection for your kids, at the same token, more peace of mind to let your kids, you know, go in the backyard and and and not be worried about them falling into the pool, you put a fence. Same concept here. So the sages in order to protect the Torah, they did this. Now, as far as the laws that we have today that were not written in the clearly in the Torah, they still come from the Torah. It's just that the uh for example, God told us that we're not allowed to light fire on Shabbat or or uh so fire is clear, but today most people don't use fire as as they did a few thousand years ago. So what the sages have done is to show us how the laws of fire or all the other laws are applicable to today whether it's you know electricity or other things that are similar to it that's in essence the equivalent of fire. Uh now all of the uh sages that publish books like for example these couple of new books that are referring as uh just uh we just published and will add them to the k store. These are all clarifying what the Torah already says and how it applies to the modern world of today. It's not adding new laws. It's showing you how this applies to this. This is connected to this and uh this is what Hashem uh decreed that we have to have because if everybody would interpret things the way they wanted to then uh it would be mayhem. Nobody would know anything. So, the Torah has not just the laws, but also the rules of how to apply the laws. What happens to non-Jews after death? Depends. If they were righteous and they follow the Torah, they go to heaven. If they're wicked, they will suffer. Go to gay, they go to horrible places. But that's also for Jews. Jews are righteous go to heaven. Wicked get suffer punishment. If one's friends are very into meeting up to gamble smoke, should one Oh, no. Absolutely not. Rabbi, how do I protect my Jewish family from going to joining Christianity? They're deeply involved now. Uh, you have to educate them and not you directly, but you could send them different lectures that we have about the falsehood of Christianity. watch it with them and to wake up and realize that they're going to falsehood. How is Moshe Rabenu different from all the other prophets? Well, God himself said that Moshe Rabenu is the prophet of all prophets and the way that he received prophecy was different. Hashem says it was face to face. I spoke to Moshe, not like you. When he uh rebukes Miriam and is his siblings, Hashem himself says that Mosherenu is not a prophet like any other prophet. And the Rambam writes in a called I believe it's in chapter 7 uh where he talks about the different levels of prophecy. And the way he explains it is that prophecy is a message that Hashem gives the prophet about things that haven't happened yet, things that no one else can see and so on. Now the message as far as its clarity depends on the vessel that's receiving it. So for example if one you know if I wanted to give you a message and let's say I uh you were on you know there was a wall between us cement wall between us and I yelled the message Hashem is one now if you know you hear it you're going to hear if it's a very thick wall you're going to hear it very faint Now if the wall is not cement but rather it's a like they make houses here in in America they make many houses from sheetrock you know it's why they you know the way they uh they're able to build very fast but also the uh uh if you hit the wall there's a hole you know in Israel if you hit the wall or in Europe you hit the wall you break your hand here you hit the wall you make a hole you go through the other side so and this wasn't very good when we were growing up and we didn't know that when we moved to Israel, me and my brothers would play and then one of us would end up making a hole in the wall. So, this was an adjustment of uh Israelis coming to America. All of us have to go through it. Anyway, the uh now if I'm on one side of the wall, that's sheetrock and you're on the other side and I said, "Hashem is one." Now, you're going to hear it much clearer. Much clearer. Now, you still can't see anything, but you heard something. Now, if the wall is even thinner than that, thinner than that, and perhaps it's not a uh completely uh covered, but it's something where you could see like a little bit of sort of an image or something that's in the other side. Not quite glass, not quite complete, you know, wall, but something you know in between. And I say Hashem is one. Now, not only you heard something more clear than the previous versions, but you saw something clearer. And the Rambam explains that each prophet received a prophecy in different ways of clarity depending on their level. the the higher the level of the prophet, the more clear the message was. And the more we see that in the way that they communicate the prophecy to us in the way that Mosheenu had it was as if there was almost no separation whatsoever between him and and the messenger. as if there was just simply like a a thin little glass uh uh uh window between him and and and Hashem. And how can you see that in the actual text? Very simple. Look at the clarity of the message that said in the five books of Moses and compare that to the clarity of the prophecy of Isaiah, of Ezekiel, of Jeremiah. It's much much more difficult to understand their messages since there's a lot of hidden messages and a lot of uh difficulties in the language and so on. uh and even what the message even entails even if you understand the words like for example the prophecy that Ezekiel uh says about how he saw the meav and who understands what he said now you could imagine yourself like you understand but you don't understand whereas what is saying here what the Torah here is saying it's much clearer of course there's endless endless secrets within the Torah also but the basic level of the message is infinitely clearer in the five books of Moses, you know, versus the prophets. And if you go furthermore, you go, let's say, into the book of Daniel, the book of Daniel is literally almost impossible almost impossible to understand, you know, without having the sages help you at every single word. Not even to understand the secret part. I'm talking about the basic part. Why? Because again the level of prophecy, the level of prophecy between each and every single generation. Uh as the uh the prophecy deteriorated, meaning the level of the prophet deteriorated, the message became less and less clear. Less and less clear. We still know uh the uh you know obviously what's what's being said here to a certain extent but it's certainly not as clear as the first one. So what made Mosheu uh greater than everybody else, the prophet of all prophets is that we have a Torah that is very very clear that even if you are a new student to the Torah, if you open the uh the Torah and you simply read the verse, you can understand a lot and if you look at what Rashi, for example, the commentators, the Jewish commentators say about it, it's very easy to understand why the commentators are explaining explaining things for what they are because you could then understand how how they're interpreting things. It's not something that's coming out of left field where it's like how did he get this, you know? So, it's much much clearer. Whereas if you look into the rest of the uh uh of the Tanakh, the other 19 books, it's uh only somebody that knows the different rules of the Torah and knows the uh you know is very very well uh uh versed and you know in the oral Torah in the in the in the uh uh sometimes in the Z sometimes in different midashim is a person going to be able to understand what the other uh prophets are saying and that's why it's a fool's errand that uh and and very very unfortunate of what the Christian uh teachers uh teach their uh their their their victims meaning their students their followers because they interpret everything literally. They interpret everything literally and therefore they misinterpret everything literally. They misinterpret everything. They read everything like it's a Harry Potter book and they don't really have any type of uh uh um admiration or or uh or appreciation for previous generations or or teachers in the past. Meaning that you know a person that is alive today that has a church of a few hundred thousand people coming to see him dance and with music and b bands and so on. he decides to tell him what the uh the uh the Bible says and he's let's say he's referring to the Old Testament or he's referring to let's say one of the uh prophets and the people will value what he says more than they would value let's say the first pope that you know from nearly two you know almost 2,000 years ago. Now this is a clear flaw. Why? Because everybody understands if they think about it that if let's say for example uh you know I am next to my teacher and I learn from my teacher versus let's say 10 other generations further let's say I teach it to my son my son teaches his to his sons his sons teach to their son so on and so forth 10 generations later everyone understands that I gave a much clearer message and my son has a much clearer message from what I learned from my teacher then they would have 10 generations down the road. No one would ever rationalize to think that 10 generations down the road knows more than what I do now or what my son knows now because we're closer to the source. But in the manipulated man-made New Testament world, they do the exact opposite. Similar to Darwinism where the teachers of today complete of of Christian teachers of today completely ignore the their previous teachers from previous generations. Many times they mock them justifiably but nonetheless they mock them. Many times they ignore them completely, contradict them completely and simply do not even include them. They simply tell you I think this means this even though the pope or some other uh major uh uh uh sage if you will that they had from 2,000 years ago said it's irrelevant to them. But it's against logic. So the point is that with Torah we have a mass what's called a maso is is a tradition that the Mishnavot says everything that we have today came from Mount Sai originally Hashem taught the Torah to Mosherenu Mosher Benu to Yeshua Benoon Yeshua Benoon to the elders the uh the elders to the uh the prophets the prophets to Anekess Abdullah and of course this continued. Now from there each generation had great sages that would continue repeating what was said before. And therefore, if you look at any rabbi, if he's a real rabbi, he has a rabbi and his rabbi has a rabbi and his rabbi has a rabbi, you could actually trace down exactly where each one of them learned from and literally track it all the way back to the original source. And you see that what they're saying today is exactly the same thing as what was said before. Because in the Jewish world, in the Torah world, you have no right, no permission to think for even a second that you know more than the previous generation. Not even just the previous generation like 3,000 years ago. Previous generation like yesterday, like you know, like 20 years ago, 30 years ago, or even one of the dom of today. So why? Because everything is a chain. It all connects and there's nothing new under the sun. So the more a person connects to the roots, the more they're in line with the truth. The more a person tries to plant new trees, the more they end up re, you know, inventing new religions. And that's why you can never really compare two Christians to each other. They usually two they could both say call themselves Christians but they have completely different beliefs even if they both go to the same church. You can never compare two churches because even though they both cons themselves Christians or different types of Christians and even if they're both Protestants or or or evangelical or whatever other forms of idolatry they have they're completely different from each other and and it's simply many many different religions. many many different religions and even the New Testament itself has over 200 diff 200,000 different versions. Why? Because each teacher decided to reinvent the wheel. Each teacher decided to start new lies according to his own agenda and today even according to her agenda. You know they have women teachers too uh priests or pastors whatever they call themselves. So the point is is that in the world of Torah this is very very far removed. Now yes there are different customs that orthodox Jewish communities have for example theim of Sat have different customs from Bob or from uh you know theidim of let's say uh or Safari Jews or Ashkenazi Jews. There's different customs that people that lived in different parts of the world have, but the basic bottom line laws and the, you know, the the the uh actual truth in the mass itself is the same across the board. It's across the board. is a uh you're not you know if if when we actually uh um had millions of Jews come to the land of Israel in 1948 again after uh after many years of not having uh the ability to have such a massive amount of people of Jews living there. Everybody brought their Toras and you saw that the Torah that they had in different parts of the world or the or the tit uh you know the the how they followed the the holidays whether it's Pesak or Sukkot or everything was the same no matter even though these Jews that lived in one end of the world didn't even know the other Jews on the other end of the world existed but when they all came to Israel was you know everybody had the same exact laws. There were differences in customs, but the laws themselves were the same. The laws were the same. So, it's a uh it's a beautiful thing. Uh when you understand it and and realize how uh how connected we are to the truth of of what Mosher Rabenu heard is what we're learning. So when it comes to Mosher Rabenu, Mosher Rabenu's message was as clear as day in comparison to all of the other uh prophets that followed him. This doesn't minimize the other prophets. This is simply a reality that Hashem decreed. He is the one that decided to give him that prophecy in that level. And the Rambam writes the reason why Moshe merited to have the highest level of prophecy was because he was the most humble. Meaning he was the purest vessel of all. They were they were all humble. They were all righteous. But the difference between Mosherenu and them was very significant where they thought that you know one level of humility. But Mosherenu literally considered himself nothing. Ma means nothing. He literally considered himself nothing. Even though he was extremely powerful, he was extremely rich. He was the wisest man of all time, even more than Schlommo. Um, nobody can compare to him and all of the gifts that Hashem gave to him. Yet, he was the most humble. So, if somebody is a complete and total loser and they're humble, that's not really truth of of of humility. But if somebody is the greatest of all, but yet the most humble, that gives you an understanding of why he was a uh a purer vessel than anything else. And nobody would compare to him. Even the Mashiach. When Mashiah comes, it's not going to be like Mashia. What about Muslims and Islam? U I've spoken about this before and Islam unfortunately is another man-made religion that uh started about 1400 years ago and has uh many mistakes, many uh heretical things in there and unfortunately a lot of uh hatred. But uh more than anything else when they asked uh about these other books whether it's Christianity he mainly fought against Christianity but the same thing applies to the Quran uh and he he they asked him to describe it he said whatever they have in those in their books that's true is not from them and whatever ever is um whatever is false uh is theirs. Meaning that the the good that they have in there, the truth that they have in there, you know, whether it's the Quran, it's the New Testament, they plagiarize from the Torah. And you can see it in the Torah. It's not a uh and the uh the rest of it that's there that's man-made. You see a lot of it is uh not only uh doesn't make sense uh but it actually gets the Torah What should you do if you're finding it hard to put on to fill in a proper davin? Uh well, you should know that you're not allowed to eat according to you're not allowed to eat until you put on to fillin. Uh you're also not allowed to work until you put on to fill in. So if you apply those uh laws of the you know of what we have what's to your life then certainly you're going to make it a priority to not start your day whether it's working or eating until you put on that's number one number two many times it's difficult for a person to put on because they're thinking I have to sit there and I have to do the whole and it'll take me an hour to do. So therefore they end up you know justifying procrastinating it to do it at 3:00 in the afternoon or something like that. So make it simple after you do the morning blessings right away. Put on to do the blessing on the arm. Then put the head if you're do a blessing on the head. Also if you're there's no blessing on the one on the head. Then say the until the end of where it says and then you could take them off. This may take you literally five minutes to as little as 48 seconds. Depends of how fast you do it. Five minutes if you read it with 48 seconds. You want to take it a step further. do from all the way until the end of Amida meaning that let's say anywhere from you know 15 minutes to literally could be as little as eight minutes and this is again this is not what you should do every day. This is not what uh you should make a standard or go tell your uh people in your synagogue, they should do the same thing. No, no. This is for a person that it's either putting on to fill in at uh you know uh uh like this early in the morning or not doing it until 3:00 4:00 in the afternoon 12:00 in the afternoon which is after they've eaten after they drank after they worked after they did a whole bunch of things. And pretty much they're sometimes even in a position where they're not going to put on at all cuz they forgot. So rather than do that, this is the best case scenario. Again, morning blessings. Put on do the right blessings on go work. Do what you got to do. you'll get stronger over time and eventually do the whole morning uh routine of of sh and so on. But anybody uh no matter how busy you are, everybody has a few five 10 minutes doesn't take that long. Now, if you have an even more extreme case, even more extreme case where let's say for example, you have to catch a flight or whatever you have to go and you only have one minute. One minute. Put on with the blessings. Take off. That's an absolute extreme cases, but at least you did it. You did something. You did the mitzvah. At least you did the mitzvah. Again, this is not a standard. This is not every day. This is not what you should be doing, you know, for the rest of your life. This is extreme cases. Is one mitzvah is another mitzvah. Amida is another mitzvah. These are all separate mitzvot. ideal is to do the whole do uh you know all all of the do everything do even extra AFTER AND STUDY FOR FIVE HOURS AFTER YOU uh you know uh you prayed but reality is different reality is different so you have to crawl before you walk before you and everybody knows where they stand. Would I recommend doing the short version of versus praying on the airplane? Uh yeah, personally I I think it's better for a person to pray short um than to pray on a plane many times because many times the praying on planes creates problems for a lot of people. Uh whether it's a person not being sensitive to other people's uh you know wanting to pass by them or sometimes there's anti-semitic people or anti-ra people. I think uh praying on a plane is not exactly a good idea at all. Um if you want to pray at the airport, by all means, you know, I've done it several times um when when necessary. But um if it's either praying a short prayer at home or praying a longer prayer on the airplane, I would tell you pray at home. Uh because it's less likely to to have problems. And uh um next time schedule your flight to different times. What is the importance of having a rabbi? And says you have to have you have to make yourself a rabbi in order for to have the proper guidance, the proper understanding, studying on your own uh without having anybody check you and make sure that you're studying properly, that you're understanding things properly, that you're applying things properly. You know, it's uh it's a problem. This is a uh an absolute necessity to have a rabbi. Absolute necessity. If you don't have a rabbi, the says God hates you. Why? Because you're if you don't have a rabbi, meaning you have the ability to get a rabbi, but you choose not to, then certainly you're going to go again. You're going to use the Torah against the Torah. Uh for those of you that are just writing a whole McGillilla, you know, of different uh things you think and different things you learned or whatever it is, I'm not really sure why you come to my lectures just to write your thoughts. If you want to write your thoughts, go write a blog or something. There's other people that are trying to ask questions, but you're practically spamming the thread with all of your uh unusual thoughts. Nobody came here to listen to your thoughts. Nobody came here to listen to your thoughts. They came to listen to a lecture that I'm saying. If you want to do your own lecture, go get a phone, get a camera, make a channel, and maybe somebody will watch you. And if nobody watches you, then you can watch it yourself if you want. The point is that people that come to uh lectures whether it's lectures with people or lectures uh online just to express what they thought instead of what the speaker is doing. You have to understand that you are you're like a uh a pothole in the middle of the street. Why? Because you are completely ignoring everyone else's reason for being there. Nobody came here. I promise you not a single person came to watch my lecture in order to talk to you. Nobody, not even one person, not even one person, I promise you. I pro I don't even have to know there are thousands of people watching this. I promise you not a single one of them came to watch my lecture because of you. They came because they are interested in what I have to say and how the sages interpreted the Torah. So that means that when you're writing all of the mig all the different things that you learned somewhere or your thoughts or everything else over and over and over and over again which means that number one you're not paying attention to what I'm saying. You care less about what we have to say here and you really just came here to hear yourself talk. So that means that you are simply disturbing everybody else. Even if you get a few victims to pay attention to you because now they're not paying attention to why they came here because they're talking to you. And it ends up being a problem because not only are you distracting them, but you're also not allowing me to see the questions that people have because you're sending so many messages over and over again and not a single one of them has anything to do what I'm saying. So, you should know you have terrible manners and um it's it's not a good idea. Not a good idea. Is it true Jews will never do usery to each other or a myth? If you're asking what the Torah says or if you're asking what reality is, the Torah forbids Jews from charging each other interest and even charging a non-Jew interest. uh is often very problematic and has specific laws of who's allowed to do it and how much they're allowed to do it. But as far as the reality is concerned, there are many Jews that not only um do things that are unethical to non-Jews, but unethical against Jews, too. So if you're asking the reality, the reality is that. If you're asking what the Torah says, the Torah says that. So it depends which one you want. [sighs] Okay, I think we've uh answered a lot of interesting things. Ohm. So what's the answer? the answer. Let's see what's next. You know what I will do is maybe maybe I'll be able to give another sh on Sunday. Unlikely, but possible, possible. Maybe it's going to be a short one. So, if I dom have the strength uh the merit to give a sh on Sunday, then I'll give you guys the answer on Sunday. So, at least gives you guys some time to think about it. Plus, the people that don't watch it live will have the opportunity to hear the question and uh decide who Ruven owes money to, if anybody, and um why. And this will get you guys to think more and more Torah and uh compare what you think versus what Torah is. we succeed. Thank you very much for learning with us. Again, for anybody that wants to help us help AmI is by feeding more poor people during this holiday, by doing all the things that we're doing, we have a campaign. Go to bhed.org. That's where the campaign is. Uh if you're able to donate $1,500 or more, we'll give you a very, very special one-of-a-kind gift, which is the oil of Rav Kadulli. Again, I don't have many bottles, but um we'll do our best to send it to you as soon as possible. If uh our goal is to get it to you during Kanuka, uh but um if it's not during Kanuka, there will be after, but we'll try our best. Thank you very much and um we'll learn again soon. cultiv. >> I'd like to introduce you to your new best friend. We did it. AI Rabbi is here. It's [music] an AI model that is based on kosher Torah sources. 30 different languages that are available to you. 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