What Does The Torah Say About the Vandalism at Nessah Synagogue on SHABBAT?

for anyone who hasn't heard the uh anti-Semitism in the world bem is growing rapidly especially in our Allied country called America um the uh weekend say Shabbat uh for anyone who keep Shabbat heard about it in M Shabbat anyone who doesn't keep Shabbat unfortunately heard it during Shabbat that there was a u vandalism on a uh Sho in uh Los Angeles and uh when the Kaa showed up or the workers showed up in the morning on Shabbat morning uh they saw that the uh big fancy beautiful Sho was vandalized uh by some uh to the extent where they took the ripped them apart the chairs were all over the place took the threw them on the ground ripped one to in half uh we okay ripped one uh and the people of the Kil were shocked the people on the news are shocked Beverly Hills police releasing these images of the suspect police say he is a white man between the ages of 20 to 25 years old with short dark curly hair wearing glasses he was carrying a backpack and rolling a suitcase in these images police were called to the synagogue around 7 this morning after an employee discovered an open door and items ransacked inside furniture was overturned and brochures and other materials were thrown about several Jewish relics were damaged the only one that's not shocked is a now of course everyone is crying foul because this is not something that any one of us wants this is not something that any one of us ever thought is going to happen you know especially in in such a uh rich neighborhood uh you're talking about average net worth is 10 million plus uh I wouldn't be surprised if there's a few billionaires in town attending the Sho once in a while so you know these are the type of things that you think happen maybe uh I don't know maybe in the projects uh maybe they're happening in uh places where there's crime is very high they're happening in places where uh definitely not a place where there is uh so much money so someone came out from the Kila and made a video and uh said look let's pay attention to what is telling us he says anyone would notice that the uh seph that was ripped was ripped at a beginning of a Paras not in the middle as he said not in the middle not in the uh some odd section but in the beginning beginning of this is the only reason why I made this video is to tell you exactly what I saw this tor that was just rolled on the floor crumpled bent the guy looked like he tried to tear it at the seams it didn't go by any parts because it's not regular string it's senu there was one part of one of the toras that was torn and where it was torn the strings of the Torah where it was torn it separated the two parchments from each other I know that nothing happens for no reason I held the part of the seph T and I look at it do you know what part was torn what par it started exactly it started at the beginning of the parha not that it was just torn in middle of a parha in middle in middle of a Torah portion this Torah was torn right at the beginning of a Torah portion you know what Torah portion that is if you're not familiar with that it's the Paras it's the Torah portion where the spies were sent to see Israel and if you know anything about the parha the parha is known as the par of it's the para of when of ill speaking there's nothing else to say if out of you're looking at 52 it 60 360 Columns of Torah and the one column that it's torn it's the column that talks about lonar the entire par of lashon har of speaking ill about each other speaking ill about the betet speaking ill about Israel speaking ill about yourself speak speaking ill about your family speaking ill about everyone in CL is is it a chance he says look at that this is the of the where you had some Jewish leaders go to is to scout the area and they came back and they said about the about the place and hasem punished them so he says from here we learn from here we learn what do we learn we learn we shouldn't say now let me ask you guys a question you've been enough of my do you believe that is gonna tarnish a place because of because if the answer is yes if the answer is yes we should shut down all shs all shes all around the world why because there's not a single SHO in the world there's no might as well just shut down shop go pray at home okay guys it was nice to pray but no no no anym why somebody here is talking sometimes in the middle of of the while you're praying while there's a shield somebody saying about somebody else so we have to look a little further what else does talk about we're going to designate a certain amount of time of the sh to identify what parat is talking about not because it's this week's Paras but rather because if we're already going to learn thank you if we're already going to learn a message from our holy Torah we have to learn the message now par says a lot of interesting things first and foremost it tells us who are these people that went is who was called at the time it says K these were not just regular people that went to scout The Landing these were the most distinguished men the heads of the children of Israel they were this was the board of directors this was the president this was the vice president this was the president's cousin this was everybody's a who's who's list who's who's list that's who went biggest rabbis in the world that's who went so you don't think oh these people anyway they went and that's what they no no no these people were the biggest already we're going to learn from the okay so we got to already start from the top you're going to start looking at faces don't look at the average guy who barely knows Al if he said let's look at the top who's that the leader right because if it's happening in Los Angeles guess what is warning us here in Florida is warning Us in New York is warning Us in Tel Aviv in NATA in y in Arizona everywhere that's what is doing somebody came to and told just came back from a trip to raise some money and give to Africa and I wanted to tell the ra a little bit about the Kil over there the says to him hold on before you tell me about the K can you tell me a little bit more about the the go over there are the black people still being uh you know persecuted against the Rabbi says what why why does the care about the go in Africa goes no what are you talking about of course I care if something is happening to the go go not the Jews even the go in Africa that's a warning sign for needless to say if something is happening to in Los Angeles in New York in Arizona in Florida in jenam wherever it's happening that's a sign for all of us all is where does it start it says starts with the leaders something going on with our leaders okay let's move on so we sent the leaders we sent the leaders and they didn't do so good they came back with so that's the first lesson I don't need to give you sh on that because that we already know is in every if you don't say there's something wrong with you we have to send you to some psychiatrist like why AR you saying everybody's doing it that's all the cool kids are doing it so what else that parat say what else does it say so par actually happens to be a par that is extremely scary not because of any details of details but rather because of simple language that uses to scare the lights out of us if we actually understand the par first and foremost chapter 13 verse 32 simply says to M I've had it with them what I've had it with them he says he says that he's so he's had it with them to such an extent that he's considering destroying all of is chapter 14 actually he says chapter 14:1 hasem says to Moshe how long will the people provoke me and how long will they not have faith in me how long you're not going to havea in mea about what what do we do okay the said but what does it have to do with us today we'll get to that I know I know you I know you got the end already hold on one second give me a minute we'll get to the point hem says to mosu J how long long will these people provoke me how long will they not have amuna in me what amuna what do we do it's 2019 5780 Whata why is that bad not to havea says despite all the signs that I have performed for them in their midst all the anti-Semitism all the governments going upside down all of the things that are happening they didn't get the sign I will Smite them with the plague and annihilate them and I shall make a greater and more powerful Nation than they one of the few times in the entire T really considers destroying is and if it wasn't for mosu begging and putting his own life on the line we wouldn't be here till giving you for what for not having a not having that's it not having ma already how we surviving today hold on let's go on what else what what is this really so upset about what is AEM so upset about in he's upset about the but this par also has other lessons in it not just this not just this what else does it have it has a message for us that is the message of messages chapter 15 verse number 32 the children of is of Israel were in the world and they found a man Gathering wood on Shabbat Shabbat he was gathering wood he wasn't driving a car even he wasn't driving a car he wasn't driving a car he thought he was driving a he wasn't driving a car he took a bunch of wood put it together p a nice little rope around it why he wanted to gather it it's hard to carry all the wood one at a time he gather the wood what's the big deal a big deal it's one of the 39 restrictions you do not have permission to do on Shabbat so okay we just got the to week before this this is the second week after you didn't have time to get to that second week we got Tora last week this is the second week so you didn't get the it's a big book did you read the whole Kash in one week not yet tell you the truth I didn't either in one week but don't fault me for it because it's takes more than a week it's a big book but over here this person by name of made a why he gathered some wood so what say maybe give a pass those who found them Gathering wood brought them to Moshe andon and the entire and to the entire assembly they placed him in custody meaning jail for it had not been clarified what should be done with him not what should be done with him I'll explain what should be done with him in a minute what does it mean what should be done with him we give a pass is not one of those options so mosu goes to hasm hasem what should we do with this Hashem says to Moshe The man shall be put to death the entire assembly shall Pelt him with stones outside the camp the entire assembly removed them to the outside of the camp and they pelted him with stones and he died and as hem commanded m one week after mat a person by the name of the says shabat violated Shabbat didn't know what to do with him what do you mean you don't know what to do with him Shabbat is death penalty no no we didn't know do we which kind of death penalty we're going to kill him with for sure we're g to kill him it's Shabbat we just don't know is it going to be stoning or is it going to be a chop his head off what are we going to do with him no no Hashem says give him a death penalty and the worst kind the one that hurts the most stoning you look at what actually means stoning it's scarier than they throw you off a second story just enough so you don't die then they throw a big boulder on top of them then on top of that if you not did enough everybody throws stones on him what happens to this person for what he gathered some wood guys he gathered some wood now yes they knew not to do what he did because there's only one Shabbat let me finish the point for a second it's relevant yeah didn't he do it on purpose he still died purpose or not purpose he still died point is he made a mistake why because if he didn't make a mistake hasm would let it go he made a mistake hasem killed him there a m between rud and RAB AKA whether he got a second Chance by being reincarnated different place in the but nonetheless we see here now death penalty why this is so what do what does have to do with what does have to do with the leaders what does have to do with anti-Semitism well some time ago a person came to me and asked me if I could come to Los Angeles I said no problem just arrange some sh for me he says no there's a very good k for you perfect I said why why is this perfect why is so perfect he says because almost I don't know if it's everybody but a big part of them drive on Shabbat I said how do you know how do you know they drive on Shabbat why you just sit there look at everybody it's not nice say we got killed for it almost in because no it's it's OB everybody knows I said how does everybody know says even the non-jews know I said how does non-jews know what non-jews know Shabbat they know who's violating Shabbat he goes no you don't understand they have valet parking on Shabbat Mr billionaire shows up with his Rolls-Royce with his Ferrari with his Mercedes with his whatever he's wearing to the sh on Shabbat on Y and he has a little guy with a papon with a little bow tie waiting for him yes sir shabat good chabas shabbat [Applause] shalom orthodox pretending to be uh reform pretending to be Orthodox I told him sure I'll come no no they they wouldn't have you you talk too strong what's too strong I called you guys called I said also I just said the rest of the par I said the rest of the that we have synagogues all over the world committing the same exact crime and thinking it's thinking it's okay where does it start with the beginning of the where all of these distinguished men heads of heads of the children of isra whether it's the rabbis the Border directors the people with money that's who's got setting up the valet parking on Shabbat the rabbi Works in a place like this he's part of the crime also even if he himself does not drive on Shabbat why you allow you're allowing it to happen no no but if I say something they'll fire me so let them fire you but what am I going to do for food I'm gonna feed my kids hey it says you have to have that'll have for you you're on the board of directors of such a place you're in a kav such a place they don't want to change they don't want to start this public you leave why you have to have this is a public week after week week after week now if we give them let's say nobody knew the entire Orthodox Jews from all countries where their grandfathers their grandfathers were willing to die to die M die not die like you know no I almost died like die just to keep of just to keepah just to keepah but the other two their grandparents were willing to die to die M die so they could light candles for Shabbat so they could keep Shabbat so they keep K their grandchildren are desecrating desecrating their grandparents driving on Shabbat Faria like as if it's allowed it's mitvah already and still calling themselves Jews still call themselves Orthodox Jews and then you have all of the newscasters the Jewish networks all anti-Semitism what anti-Semitism what anti-Semitism what youting anti-Semitism happens by itself he's the STA but he's also the stick he's the staff that leads us in certain directions but he's also the stick that hits us if we go against them on a regular basis the fact that they've survived this long is a miracle now of course many people going to be offended by this message let you be offended I'm glad you're offended that means that it hit your heart it's time that people understood what it means to be a Jew you don't want to be a Jew do what you want but don't pretend to be one now I'm going to ask you a question how come in the morning you all do I'm assuming right one of your blessings you say thank you that you didn't make me a go how come we don't say like you know the woman says thank you hasem for making me like you wanted how come we don't say thank thank you hasm for making me a Jew why do we say thank you Hashem that you didn't make me a go why can we say thank you for making me a Jew know who's going to give me some answers louder by way Bo we still a blessing in the morning you wake up in the morning you say thank you for for for not making me a well an answer that I'm going to give you can only come from a I didn't have this answer Shalom was asked this question how come in the morning we don't say thank you hasem for making me a Jew how come we say thank you hem for not making me a Shak says that's because all a did is make you not a that's what he did to be a Jew that's up to you you got to learn Tor you got to do you got to dress appropriately you got to act appropriately you got to fulfill the Tor even though says what is a Jew a Jew is mother is a Jew but then you go to a different part of the says what's a Jew oh yeah if he converts to Judaism which means that it's not just because your mother or your grandfather or your great grandmother and all of those people were Jewish that doesn't make you a Jew qualifies you to be a Jew cuz you could also convert to Judaism if your grandfather is Yos your grandfather is ham himself who cares who your grandfather is you want to be a Jew you you're allowed to convert no problem in fact the rambam says if you're a righteous convert we're obligated the Jews are obligated to love you more than they love regular Jews that are born that way in fact were're obligated to love the converts as much as we love God a Jew that's born Natural Born Jew we're obligate to love him as much as we love ourselves a convert that's a righteous convert we're obligated to love him or her as much as we love a himself even more than ourself so here we learned that Judaism is not necessarily only based on who your mother is because ham the says ham is grandkids Tau big was tried to K off but what his grandkids became big rabbis meaning that you could be a Jew no matter where your background is no matter who your father is who your mother is you want to be a Jew you could be a Jew but that also means that you could be born of a Jewish mother and a Jewish father and they could both be rabbis in fact they could both beob whoever you want but in the eyes of a you're a go 100% but you judge does Jew but you're acting like a why because in order to be a go in order to be a Jew you have to act like one you have to fulfill the Tor Judaism only began at Mount sa when we got the Torah anyone that fulfills the Torah in accordance to what we have that's a Jew anyone that violates the Torah it's not a Jew his Judaism is on suspension now he doesn't have to convert if he violated Shabbat his whole life and now he wants to start keeping Shabbat in order for him to be a Jew again he doesn't have to go to a conversion process go to B no he just keep Shabbat finished he his Judaism that was on suspension for 30 40 years is no longer on suspension why he's no longer driving on Shabbat he's keeping Shabbat he's keeping Al he's trying the best that he can with all the knowledge that he has whatever he knows he does whatever 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