What Makes You Think God Loves You? - MUSSAR Pirkei Avot (50)

[Music] okay good we survived another fast 17th of tamuz is one of our many fasts and it always seems like when you ask people how is the fast people always you know during the fast it's like they're barely surviving at the end of The Fast depends if they uh if they're surrounded by friends they can go fast for another six hours they're not even not even in a hurry to go eat oh you have a cigarette you have a small sip maybe here and there you're not acting as hungry as you did 5 minutes ago before the fast was over take your time but if you're alone bored then you're acting like uh you're starving you never ate before but the thing is though is that every one of us needs to ask ourselves did we really achieve the point of the fast you fasted said you didn't eat the whole day you didn't drink all day if it's Yip you didn't shower it's a very uncomfortable day in a world that was in this generation built just to comfort you it's unusual it's unusual feeling to be uncomfortable in past days if you talk about the times of our grandparents and of course any time before that being uncomfortable was normal if you wanted to go to the bathroom you had to sometimes run out of the city right outside of the borders of the city to go to the actual bathroom because the would have it really far away from where the city was because they didn't want it was a hole in the ground they didn't want the city to be infested with the smell and all the germs and so on and the days of thear of course uh you see that there's stories of how they actually had to run away from the city where to go to the bathroom but this wasn't just 2,000 years ago this is even 100 years ago in some cases of course Plumbing advanced in 2,000 years but the point I'm trying to say is that being uncomfortable was very much normal part of daytoday life in today's world being uncomfortable is uncomfortable it's unusual because everything we do is for convenience if you g if you want a business idea everyone always ask me business ideas I reviewed a lot of businesses in my time and uh people always ask for business ideas investment ideas what should I invest in what should I start what kind of idea everyone always at wants to ask me to be a partner I never want to be a partner and the simple reason why I don't want to be a partner is not because it's bad ideas cuz sometimes it's my ideas I tell him here's an idea go with it it's not that it's that I know my own yet I know that if I go into business I'm not coming out I'm not going to give you lectures every Tuesday night I can't do I can't do 5050 if G to start a business I want to build an Empire I want to learn T I want to be a either one or the other it can't be it can't be this one and that one I can't do I can't do both other people maybe rambam can do it that's rambam many other people could possibly do it they can learn to they can work in business me I can't I know my but anyway people ask me all the time what what should I invest in what should I start and I tell them the best business in the world is convenience provide convenience for people whatever way you know how to give convenience if it's a phone application great if it's a uh restaurant if it's a marketing company if it's a clothing company whatever it is it doesn't really make a difference the product is irrelevant whether you sell t-shirts or you sell phones whatever you sell is irrelevant the point of a successful business is to provide convenience make it easy for them to give you money if you make it easy for them to give you money you have a good business if it's hard to get to the cashier you're going to go broke simple simple business advice but most companies Believe It or Not don't follow this the ones that do end up being on the stock exchange and become very successful the ones that don't end up either staying a small business between ABA and IMA and fight every week about how they're going to pay the bills and how they're going to pay the overpaid employees or it's going to go bankrupt why because they made it difficult for people to go to the cashier so in a world that's full of convenience every business tries to provide this convenience this is not a unique idea this is not my own all businesses try to provide convenience we live in that world so we feel uncomfortable being uncomfortable it's not it's not a normal feeling because you wake up in the morning you press a button coffee is made you press another butt the shower is already warming up the water for you whenever you're ready you can go inside you press another but another button the uh the car is warming up in case you live in a cold town just press buttons you press another button you see the news what happening in around the entire world entire world not just in your community your neighborhood your synagogue the entire world one but you know what's going on in the entire world in one one sentence Dow Jones up 500 points pre-market you already know everything's okay D Jones down 300 oh okay we have some problems we have to look into it one sentence you know what's going on simple button makes your life go so now when you wake up and all of a sudden you really can't press the button that tells you the coffee to go and you can't press the microwave that warms up the grilled cheese sandwich and you can't press go for this and you can't press go for that what do I do you're you're left with nothing to do you have no idea what to do with yourself I remember when I first start stopped smoking before I stopped smoking I said what do you do with your hands and my wife what asked me what do you mean what do you do with your hands I said what do you do with your hands when you know if you let's say you want to stand outside she asked me why would I want to stand outside I said don't you want to go outside sometimes no it's 95 degrees it's Florida I said okay so what do you do with your hands in general she said I don't know I use my hand if I don't need to if I need to if I don't use them if I don't need to to me that was like as as silly as that sounds as a smoker for 20 years it sounds strange that you have nothing to do with your hands because part of the fixation is not just an oral fixation it's not just a nicotine addiction it's something to do with your hands because you got used to it and you got to a point where you thought you're supposed to do this you're supposed to move your hands you're supposed to do this constant instantly so for me this was like a mental battle little that I know that couple of days after you smoke you don't care about that you don't pay attention to what you do with your hands you do other stuff you write you I don't know press the buttons like everybody else there's nothing wrong with it you text you do something you tweet so but we got used to it we got used to it we got used to a life that's full of buttons and full of things that are convenient to such an extent that we think it's normal it's normal that if you press a button you know the world news it's normal if you press a button the coffee is made it's normal if you press a button the car turns on and all of these thousands of pieces of equipment that are put together all move simultaneously and make the engine go and you get to your place within five minutes it's normal so when you can't do that anymore at least for 25 hours or 24 hours or in today's case what is it the 15 hours it's unusual it's uncomfortable so you finally survived you reached the end of the fast the whole day you're thinking about food when usually barely you barely have one meal you survived the fast but then we arrive right now and we all have to ask ourselves a question did we achieve the point of the fast does God actually care whether you eat or not God doesn't go to sleep God doesn't fast so does God care whether you eat or not if he cared whether you eat or not then he would say you have to fast all year don't ever eat or he would tell you have to to fast once a week if it's so important to fast fast once a week Shabbat once a week fast once a week you ate overtime on Shabbat Sunday should be a day of fasting probably be healthy too as much as we eat on Shabbat people increase their body weight 5% a week just on Shabbat so if if fasting was so important fast every Sunday the answer is no Hashem does not care if you eat as a matter of fact he specifically tells us this he tells us to the prophet y the prophet Joel in chapter 2 verse 13 it's mentioned here in page um uh what is this 158 and it says so here the prophet is telling am Rend your hearts not your clothes the people started doing chuva what's the first thing people do when they do chuva they learned from the Prophet Daniel Prophet Daniel told them hey do cha start fasting but he was worried is God listening is God not listening so Daniel's best friend was the uh Angel Gabriel best friend we barely have human best friends he had an angel's best friend it so in chapter 2 verse 10 of of the Book of Daniel Daniel is talking to his best friend he said I'm worried is AEM accepting my prayers or not the Mal Gabriel says to him don't worry since you started fasting your prayer started AC started becoming acceptable to Hashem so fasting is working but here the prophet Joel is saying the opposite he's saying listen forget about the Fest forget about ripping your clothes putting uh all types of ashes on your head which is we don't do anymore and the Catholics took over and ruined it same thing with prayers by the way you know in the old days when we used to pray we used to Bow we used to bow on all fours the Muslims ruined it we're not allowed to do it except on yum Kip man this is actually how we used to pray we used to pray on all fours just like the Muslim you see him on in the middle of Midtown Manhattan they pray they stop traffic five million people are waiting to go home they're praying in the middle of the street they don't do any to anybody nothing middle of Brooklyn middle of manatt middle of anything they get everyone has to pray in the same place all the guys that have the uh little Huts they leave the Huts they put the carpets on the floor and they start praying no Bush they're not ashamed at all they're excited they're celebrating it middle of the street they pray in the airports everywhere if only am was as proud about their prayer that's actually goes to their credit by the way foolishness also goes to their credit where they use the name of God to kill his Nation too but nonetheless we as Jews used to pray like this in bet mikdash in the days of we used to go on all fours and actually pray to hem beg Hashem to give us forgiveness but they came and ruined it so we're not allowed to do it anymore that's why we pray the way we do by the way that's why for example we do when you bow on uh in the old days you would go all down you go all the way down so anyway here we have the prophet telling us the opposite of what Daniel said in Daniel we learned fasting is good Prophet Joel is telling us listen forget about the fast forget about ripping your clothes forget about bowing on the floor forget about the ashes forget about everything the only point of the fast is is to rip your heart apart what does it mean rip your heart apart do Chu do Chua so in essence this is not a contradiction this is in essence this is not a contradiction in essence what this means this is actually him supplementing it the Prophet Daniel told us when you fast Hashem views it in a positive way but the proph Joel is explaining only if the fast includes chuva if your fast includes using lack of material lack of food for you to replace that with spirituality with learning to with prayer it's a good fast but if all day you're sleeping you're better off eating if you're sleeping all day just eat doesn't make a difference if you're planning to go back to your life after the fast and nothing changed don't fast you're wasting your time this is why in Yip it says K says it if someone is not planning on doing chv after Yip it's better off they don't even do it why don't the rabbis teach this because they said listen people are so crazy now that if you tell them you better off not doing it they not going to come at all so don't tell them but the point is is that the point of the fast is for us to do chuva that's the point of the fast so now we have ourselves a situation we fasted but we only realized what the point was now the fast is over what do we do the good news is is that today the 17th of tamuz is the beginning is the beginning of the chuva time for am is if you ever wanted to start doing chv this is exactly the time 17th of tamuz is the beginning of the disaster there's the next three weeks every single day happen really bad things happen throughout history culminating with onab we lost the two temples we got bad decrees from Hashem not only for the two temples but also for being in uh staying in the desert for the next 40 years a lot of really really horrible things happen throughout history both in the in the Torah as well as just regular history that we know recorded history that we know of uh even events major events that happened during the Holocaust a lot of really bad things happened onti shab uh it's actually such a spiritually negative day for that all the beaches all in in Israel put a red flag in the ocean because the most amount of drowning happens on tab so they tell people don't even go to don't even go into the water It's Dangerous Waters so if anyone needs proof that God runs the world just go to the ocean is Isel you see it unless you go inside then you won't be able to report it to the rest of us so the point here is that we have another big fast coming up the big fast that's coming up is in it's in three weeks but this fast is much much bigger than this one the one we had today is big but the sh is much bigger not only because we have to do more we're not allowed to take a shower it's for a longer period of time you don't have the option at least if you want to remain a righteous Jew you don't have the option of sleeping all day you have to go to sh you have to pray you have to do CH but you have to get to a point of crying someone who doesn't cry kind of missed the point why cry you cry because you don't have the bet now for most Jews myself included most of my life that meant absolutely nothing to me most people are not going to tell you that but it's real for most people in the world myself included most of my life recently it's changed but for most of my life when people tell me yeah we don't have the BET mikash okay so build a new one we don't have hm give us one whatever like it's 2,000 years ago leave me alone what's it to me that there's no building okay so if hm wants to stop the building he'll give us a building if hasem really cared about this building thinking it's just a building then you just build a building and if not he hire somebody what's the what what's it to me that we don't have this bet mikdash now most people are not going to tell you this and the reason why is because they still want to show face and go to synagogue if you tell people listen I don't really care the bet mikash is destroyed tell you listen do me some favor find a new Sho find a new community maybe even find a new religion don't talk to us anymore it's like if you tell people you know the Holocaust people ask where was God during the Holocaust the real answer is he was there he did it that's the answer he was pressing the buttons he did it nothing happens in the world without Hashem doing it nothing a leaf has to ask God for permission if he wants to fall off the tree a leaf every tree has tens of thousands of leaves a leaf wants to fall off the tree says I'm weak I want to fall says not yet wait another week week later can I fall no no you know what weit another week a leaf has to ask for permission if he's going to fall off a tree Hashem cares about the leaf the prophet job said hem maybe you made a mistake maybe instead of a it's O maybe you mistook my name instead of saying that I'm a y your Prophet that loves you you thought of me as an enemy but I'm not an enemy I love you Hashem responds to him he says I know the name of every single hair on your head which means that every hair on our head Hashem giv it a name the hair now I saw in a book recently in our research for About Wigs and everything that's misunderstood in the Jewish world today scientists have estimated that the average head has between 990,000 to 150 ,000 hairs average head so that means that on your head right now there's approximately 125,000 names that hasem knows before each one of those hairs decides to fall turn gray turn different color anything that's to ask permission hem can turn gray no no no yeah he's too young week later yeah yeah you know what he made a sin last week turn gray make him upset has the hair has to ask for permission if it wants to turn gray so why you think the Holocaust just happened but if we tell this to a lot of people that are very sensitive about the Holocaust like oh that's mean these were holy people who's saying they weren't they were holy people I love them as much as you do but to say that anything else other than Hashem caused it is it's 100% heresy because you're saying that there's a power beyond God so now this very same God decided that tab is going to be a day that unfortunately it's going to be a day we're going to suffer the negative things that happened in the Holocaust the negative things that happened the BET mikdash which by the way the BET M was drastically worse than the Holocaust as far as quantity deaths and disaster but nonetheless this is the recent asked we have recorded that most people connect to which is obvious why because maybe they still know somebody that survived it or perhaps died in it no questions asked but if you tell people listen I don't feel bad the BET mikdash was destroyed like really inside I don't feel bad they I tell you hold on they I tell you listen there's something wrong with you you should change K so now the response is then on on when you show up you show up to theet and you're sitting on the floor like everybody else what's everybody doing what's everybody doing on they're sitting on the floor they're looking at the book but in reality what's everybody doing they're always looking at the three guys that are crying say why is he crying why is he crying well it's his house why he live there was his uncle owned it built it what happened why is he crying everyone is asking why there's three guys there's 500 people on the sh there's three guys crying why is he crying I know myself I used to ask the same question why is he crying on why because I didn't feel bad about mikash I didn't feel bad I didn't connect to it now why didn't I connect to it for the very same reason of those 500 other people that are looking at the guy crying they didn't know what happened there they didn't know what the significance of the BET mikash was so today we have an opportunity to start learning what actually happened in this bet mikash why do we need to yearn for it why do we need to cry for it what actually happened in this bet mikdash that we should mourn it not existing if somebody lost their house Toom have to fire or flood all of these disasters that happen on a daily basis in the world people lose their houses all the time but once the insurance check comes in nobody feels bad anymore everybody starts getting excited why because they're building a nice house for for for more money even and still have change because everyone's over insured you have a $500,000 house insurance for a million see now you're buying a house extension maybe a car too so as soon as the check comes in everybody excited plus the insurance company pays for the hotel so no one's crying anymore as soon as the check comes in everyone's crying until the check comes in but here we don't have a check and we're still expected to cry why are we crying because once we understood the significance of the bet mikdash you'd actually cry every day a little bit every day little bit every single day of why we don't have the bet mikdash so first and foremost the obvious is that when the bet mikdash existed were able to see miracles in the open 24 hours a day there was not a minute that existed where there wasn't a miracle but I don't mean a miracle like it's like oh yeah a miracle you just missed an accident like Miracle you would see wonders you'd see AEM at work things that are Beyond nature so there was no question of amuna there's no question of whether God existed or not so the natural question would be so how could it be that Mas and many like him worshiped Idols Masashi was a Jew his father was a sadik to such an extent that Hashem said if I decide to bring mashia he would be it masha's father was supposed to be mashiah but manasha was an idol worshiper until he did chuva how if you see Miracles two reasons number one we're not going to get too deep into it but number one reason is because in that generation that was the of the generation in our generation right now the big yet is money and sex those are two big big yet that people can't control people are literally willing to die for both of them in that generation the big thing that people willing to die for is idol worship the second thing is is that Idols weren't the same Idols like you have today today today Idol is Christianity which is some idiot that died 2,000 years ago and they claimed that he's something or somebody that's one form of idol another form of idol is the stuff that you buy Chinatown you buy for 15 bucks you take it home you start praying to it another form of idol is saying that the cow because she's pregnant nine months that means she's holy so the Hindus made her an idol M the the the cow she doesn't know that she's surrounded by idiots but they pray the cows sadik he showed me pictures he says that many houses have this thing that they buy in a store in a regular supermarket and he showed me this bottle and I don't I don't read Indian so what's this bottle it's urine they buy in the supermarket regular Supermarket they buy cow urine some people drink it every day some people just wash their house with it why because it came from a cow but this is in a supermarket it's not like in some like Baba's house it's in a supermarket regular super you have cookies you have urine you have cookies you have crackers you have I NN you have urine and people buy it they take go to the same Shelf has all of them they take them and wash the house I'm gonna drink and take a sip like Gatorade crazy you can't make this stuff up I know it sounds insane but this what's happening so there's another form of idol there are thousands and thousands forms of Idol but unfortunately the big Idol of all is money people worship money when it says God In God We Trust on a dollar bill unfortunately most people translated as the dollar is the god that they're talking about that's why they work overtime that's why they're willing to get divorced over money not talk to their brothers over money must kill each other over money so this is an idolatry that we have now in the old days we had different type of idolatry where they actually prayed to stat stes but the statues were not like the statues of today the statues of days past were statues that actually had power so if you pray for uh I don't know you pray to the Statue to give you uh money he would give you money you pray for him to give you health he'll give you health hasem actually instilled power in these Idols according to the midash because that was the test because even though you see me performing miracles in a bet mikdash maybe there's a shortcut I'm giving you a shortcut maybe you have a shortcut you're going to take the shortcut you're going to come back to me so to us it seems silly because we don't have the same yet but our is worse though by the way because our is evolved he has idol worship but we don't know if it is most people are Idol worshiping but they don't know the idol worshiping at least back then they knew s is worse so now the BET mikdash was an opportunity that after we realized that we messed up that was the Chua station you didn't have to go to lectures even with free pizza nothing all you had to do go to bet mikdash bring Corban say I'm sorry start crying finished finished you finished you go back home you're back to being tadik why what this is why in t it says ask how come hasem put made put signs all over the place to let people know where the cities were there were cities that they actually had where they would put um people that were murderers people that were murderers by accident they murdered somebody either they got into a fight but it got too far or perhaps by accident the guy hit him with a hammer not on purpose but according to the law the family was allowed to take revenge he said listen if you want your life you should go to one of these cities and he told theim he told all of the leaders that your job is to make sure the signs so when these people are running away from the city they know exactly where to go They're not going to go ask anybody where are these cities why cuz if he's going to knock on the door he's like hello hello do you know where the city is where where I can hide like hey he's a murderer the otherwi yeah he's a murderer look he's the guy on TV he's embarrassed the guy he doesn't embarrassment why he said make sure you put a lot of signs everywhere where they know exactly where to go they don't have to ask any directions they don't even need Google Maps but for the BET mikdash don't put any signs nothing no sign so okay I understand you what I embarrass them I understand so that's why you put signs but why not put signs at least tell people where to go go do chva go to bet mikdash go do chva put some signs remind people there's no no no it's better once one guy wants to do chuva he wants to go to bet mikdash he doesn't know where to go he asks his neighbor do you know where the bet mikdash is the kid the little kid's going to hear ABA they're going to bet mikdash can we go too it's like okay let's go they're going to start going like you know what I actually don't know where it is let's ask the next guy and the next guy and the next guy the whole way they're asking people where to go what happens they end up recruiting 150,000 people to go to bet mdash that's what no signs so this better mikdash was an opportunity for us to do cha by the time we get to we have to become familiar enough with it and what happened during that time well we're not just fasting because not eating we're fasting because we're the guy that's crying finally connected to Hashem we understand what we're really missing so today is sh number 50 in this series and we're going to learn a little bit more about what is this special love that Hashem gave us throughout all of history and even more so in this bet mdash now in the beginning of the par we see something very unusual it's a continuation of last week's story bak and last week's par we saw that After balak hired bam and he told him listen go curse these people I'll pay you whatever money you want name your price I'll pay it bam tried cursing am with his prophecy but Hashem turned his curse cses into blessings so it didn't work so he didn't want to give up so easily there was a lot of money on the line he said listen obviously God is not going to let me curse his own people but there is a way that you can do it and you don't even need me their God it says in thear the god of Israel hates immodesty he hates when there's immodesty he hates when they go against them specifically when they make sex crimes according to his law there's laws of how you're allowed to be intimate who you're allowed to be intimate with how you dress how you don't dress and so on and God is very very strict with this law so strict that even before he gave them the Torah he gave abrah ainu a law he says you have a servant your servant's name is elel elel was so holy that he's one of 10 people in all of history that went to ganeden Alive we only hope to get there dead he got there alive but he says even though he's so holy you're not allowed to have his daughters marry your son why because he's from Canan he's from a different Nation not allowed to enter marry in Judaism Christian person could be very very nice still not allowed to marry a Jew Arab person could be wonderful still not allow to marry a Jew a noahide could be holy job was the noahide job was a noahide the prophet in the Torah now let to marry a Jew why it's the law so bam knew this he says their God is very strict about immodesty he's very strict about IM modesty he's very strict about all of these things all you have to do is send all your young girls with mini skirts and tank tops to the Jewish Camp one guy makes a sin they're all going to lose what did belak do what does he have to lose who did he what did he do he sent not only all the girls he included his own daughter to give the motivation he goes look I'm the king I'm I'm so confident about this plan I'm sending my own daughter to go be with the Jews so what does everybody do they follow the princess so they went with a intention to make the Jews sin unfor fortunately the Jews sinned and for the first time in history hasem started punishing am is without a warning there's no stop sinning there's no cut it out there's no Moses go talk to them immediately a plague hit the people and at the end of Bak it says that the people started dying and within moments 24,000 people died how did the death stop when p elazar p the son of elazar the grandson of aronen Moses's brother he saw that the people are sinning he saw that this is a serious problem but it's they're all being motivated by one guy who is this one guy the leader of the tribe of Shimon the leader of the tribe of Shimon is actually motivating everybody else to do it why because he took balak's daughter he said look Moses his wife wasn't originally Jewish Tor wasn't really wasn't originally Jewish she converted I'll convert her later I let me check it out for now I'll convert her later so Zim the leader of the Shimon tribe went and was intimate with her and from that moment on the plague started and people started dying and then the SE says the the book says that uh saw that this was happening and according to if you see a Jew and a non-jew in the middle of intimacy you're allowed to kill them to stop the and that's what he did obviously this is not put into practice anymore we're not allow to kill anybody anymore we're not to sended but the point is that in the days of the in the days of M this was the law so now this stopped the plague but the says something else it says an addition an inside scoop what actually happened during this time in page 44A it says and P stood up and prayed and the plague was stopped so asked what do you mean prayed you have time to pray people are dying how do you have time to pray maybe you're going to fast also you don't have time people are dying within a matter of moments 24,000 people are dying and Hashem actually writes in the that if it wasn't for P I would have destroyed everyone would have destroyed the entire people all of them there would be no Jews nothing the whole world would be destroyed why they went against me with that it's the one thing that hm can stand is IM modesty one thing he can't stand is sex crimes and I don't mean sex crimes like someone rapes on a woman even if it's illegal they she's willing he's willing everything's willing if it's against the will of hem hasem hates it so bam knew this Bak tried it it worked we have a problem now Zim doesn't care he's doing what he's doing P sees this is a serious problem and I'll go kill him I have to do it but here in the says he prayed first you pray you had time 24,000 people just died so the elaborates and says not that he prayed and sat there and just started praying like a regular prayer like we are he actually started complaining against theem now we know Pinas as the most zealous person that ever lived one of the at least one of the most zealous people that ever lived eventually kazal says P becomes Eli elah Nai is one of the 10 people that never died went to hasem took him made him into an angel and he's going to return him to announce to us that there's three days to go before mashia shows up meaning by timei we see him again it's the end no more time no more time to do anything he tells us this is written in the Toran Prophet Zaria says before Hashem says before mashia come he's going to send elah three days before and Y is going to tell us purify yourself as to the best of your ability in three days game's over if someone hasn't already done serious CH by then the three days are not going to help them obviously but the point here is that this zealous person this holy of holies such a holy person that uh come here this holy person went and put his life on the line to stop the plague but the says first he complain against God now the last thing you want to do is complain against God when he's upset we see our wives upset we're scared imagine God upset the kid my two-year-old sometimes gets upset I'm scared of her I run away scared she's little but she's scar when she's upset so so now we see someone upset we don't want to mess with him here Pinas benaz sees that God is upset he just killed 24,000 people he starts complaining against God what does he say to God says God after he killed Z and kby killed both of them the plague stopped he goes to God throws the bodies on the floor he says for this for these two you killed all these people for just these two Sinners you killed all these people Hashem so kazal says that's what made him great the fact that he was willing to go kill a couple of people for the honor of hem amazing amazing what made him great what made make him a all the that ever were after him were his descendants why because he didn't fight just for hashem's Honor he fought for his people's honor too that's the secret of being zealous it's very easy to say everyone's a rash you're a sinner you're a sinner you're a this and point a finger at everybody they think is a rash because you're mrad but that's not what Hashem wants Hashem wants you to protect his honor but also protect his children at the same time he doesn't want you to go around tell people y he wants you to bring them back so that's what Pinas did said hem I know your honor was on the line I understand you killed so many people maybe you waited a few times something so here in this mishna that we're up TOA gives us a little bit of an understanding of hashem's Honor but also hashem's love what does it mean that Hashem loves you most people are 100% sure that Hashem loves them everyone thinks they have a special connection with God like BFFs everyone's a best friend with God they talk to him listen to him not so much but they talk to him so AKA is telling you a few things here we'll translate all of it in a moment very very long includes a couple of verses from the Tora for some sources but we'll break it down try to con all of ITA we learned about last week the greatest of all sages the number one Bal Chua of all time he continues he says beloved is men for he was created in God's image and it is indicative of greater love that it was made known to him that he was created in God's image so first and foremost R AKA says the fact that you're here already shows that God loves you fact that you're still here shows that God loves you because God created You In His Image now we have 13 principles of faith and Judaism every single Jew needs to know these 13 principles of faith and anyone that wants to convert and they show up to the bed they can ask you do you know the 13 principles of Faith they say yes they can ask you what they are if you don't know them you can't pass like if someone shows up to the 13 to the bed and they tell him okay what's the 13 principles of faith and they say oh uh JC Penny was here 2,000 years ago and said okay thank you very much for coming go try another religion it's not part of our uh religion this JC peny say uh okay uh what's number two let's say they give him a pass on the first one just to see how bad he really gets oh Hashem will forgive everything okay that's also not part of our 13 principles of Faith so there's 13 principles of faith that every Jew needs to have these are 13 things that every Jew Must Believe In order to be considered Jewish but believe not just in you know in their heart believe in actual action one of them is that God does not have an image or likeness of an image he has no body he has no head he has no face there's no image you can't visualize what God looks like which is actually one of the biggest problems that Christianity has they visualize God as a human being a lowly human being that everything that comes out of his body smelly they visualize God like this this is as as it could get so God is Not Human even bam the wicked knew this he said in last week's what do you think God's human he changes his mind he's not this is actually one of our 13 principles of faith that not only is he not human but he doesn't have any likeness to us and God himself says to the prophet your thoughts are not like my thoughts I don't think like you whatever you think about it's very very far away from my thoughts the solution that you thought was a solution n out of 10 times not going to be the solution why because aem's salvation is much greater than you can imagine there was one time a mother old woman wanted to Salvation for a son a son was broke and was tax collector came to his house and said listen if you don't show up with the money by the end of the month we're going to send you to jail so the mother said what am I going to do what is my son my son is a wine maker it all he does he's going to make money selling wine she says son sell your wine he says IMA I don't have anymore I don't have any more wine she goes okay so go buy more he goes I don't have any money either she goes how you going to pay the taxes she goes I don't know so what does IMA do she opens the little book she starts praying to Hashem but at some point she decided to give Hashem suggestions so the first suggestion is like you know what hasem I have an idea for you make my son into a lawyer lawyers make a lot of money even in those days they were making money so a week passes by the son still a wine maker you didn't become a lawyer no okay IMA goes back to hasem says okay hasm maybe a lawyer is a little too much I understand fine make my son into a doctor doctors make good money even the beginning doctors they make good money a week passes by son you stle a wine maker not a doctor yet third week okay AEM better idea best idea ever make him into a successful businessman the week passes by he's still trying to figure out how he's going to pay the taxes and he has no wine and he's not a businessman a day before the tax collector comes somebody comes to his door and knocks on the door yes hi I heard you're a wine maker I'm from out of town I want one cup of your best wine he's like yes I would love to give it to you but I don't have goes okay listen I know you Jews I know I know you guys want more money I understand you guys are businessmen all of you fine what's your normal price $50 no I'll give you $150 because no noit I don't have I would give you for 50 50 is already great I don't have he goes okay fine 500 he says listen I don't have I don't have it's not it's not 500 it's great thank you I don't have F I'll give you 1,500 for one cup what is he GNA do just one second one second I'll be right back he goes to the basement he looks at his Barrel he says I have nothing what I have a bottom of the barrel there's a few little fruits in the bottom what does he have nothing goes listen what put some water on it put with the fruit mix it up a little bit give it to the guy see what happens what do have to lose, 1500 bucks he goes to the guy he's scared to death because this guy looks who carries $1,500 these days he gives him the cup and he's like closing his eyes just to see maybe the guy's gonna hit him the guy drinks the wine and he gives him one of these slaps on the back like see I knew you can make it why why are you hiding this thing from me only, 1500 you should have charged more this is the best wine ever wow the guy is celebrating like he just gave him the from shamim that we got in the desert he goes listen I'm a very very important mayor in a different city and I'm having a party in three months I want 100 barrels of this wine exactly and I'll pay exactly the same price that I paid now the kid wine maker is now a multi-millionaire he gave him half the money up front so the Ima the mom she looks at hem she goes you know what hasem I didn't think of that one you got me on that one I didn't think of that one she thought she was helping hem so sometimes we think we need to help hem my thoughts are not like your thoughts whatever you think the Salvation is going to come it's not it why if it's salvation from hasem you can't think of it if you can think of it it's not from Hashem so now we havea telling us that hem loves you just the fact that you hear it's already good news it's already good news but even more so the fact that you created in His image makes you special but since hasem doesn't have an image what does it mean so kazal gives a couple of explanations one of them is that we have free choice now the free choice that we have is not free choice like we think most people think that you could just do whatever you want and that's free choice that's not what we have you can do whatever you want no questions asked but it's not exactly like that free choice that we think we have is that you could do whatever you want and there's no consequences so for example you go to work you get paid you don't go to work you don't get paid that's the free choice we think we have the free choice we actually have is the free choice according to the Torah and according to the Torah that free choice means if we go to work we get paid if we don't go to work they send people to our house to beat us up there's reward and Punishment if we go to work we work for hasem we get rewarded we don't work for hem we get punished that's the free choice we have but that's in essence the closest we can get to the image of God the closest we can get to now he says even further he says this it's aside from the fact that he shows you his love by creating You by you being here by you not being destroyed for all the sins we've already made he shows you even more love to you by making you know letting you know that he created you in His image now thear says that if you want to give somebody a present according toat you have to let them know in advance to give somebody a present you have to let them know in advance why we learn it from God when God wanted to give us the gift of Shabbat he says I have a big treasure in my treasure chest and the name of it is Shabbat go tell the people that I'm about to give it to them so we see that hasem notified mosu to notify the people that he has a big present for them so it's a very good thing to do if you want to give somebody a present let them know there's a present on the way so hereba says the first thing that you have here is that Hashem is telling you that he loves you by you being here first place in the first place but even more so by letting you know where you stand now a lot of people have different psychological issues some people think that they're worthless some people think they're Priceless some people don't want to leave the house because they think that everyone hates them and they're not good enough and some people think that only roses come out of their body they think that everything that they say is kados everything they do is right wrong and them have nothing in common it's a lot of people like this sometimes it has to do with money usually if you have a lot of money tends to make people think that their IQ is higher but believe it or not I met a lot of millionaires in my life many of them are stupid as far as like IQ is concerned but very very smart as far as life not all of them are uh Steve Jobs IQ or Albert Einstein many people that are very very wealthy they don't have they have standard IQ standard normal regular person they don't have like a some genius IQ but for some reason or another people that go from nothing to something feel like their IQ also went up that's not true doesn't go up stays the same SOA is saying listen the fact that Hashem created you already shows you good already shows you loves you already shows you that he cares about you fact that he's telling you where you stand shows you even more why if you just came into the world and you didn't really know what what to do you're like one of these atheists to be an atheist is the worst belief in the world and the reason why is because you have no purpose there's no point to life if you're an atheist dying or living is the same nothing changes now for all of those people like no what do you mean why do I have to believe in God in order for my life to mean anything because in order for it to mean something it has to outlive you has to outlast you it has to be bigger than you has to be Beyond this life now how many of you have an iPhone or have ever had an iPhone you've had an iPhone before now the last time you checked your phone which was probably 5 minutes before you walked in here did you say thank Steve Jobs you did right did you ever say ah Steve Jobs thank you no nobody cares he died it's over he's gone by the way he was an atheist it's gone nobody cares he was a business owner that had a bunch of smart people that had a few ideas here you go you have an iPhone the end what you created as far as material it's meaningless especially beyond your life it's obsolete you buy a car five minutes after you leave the parking lot it already dropped by 30% do you think the guy that put the car together thought about this no he said listen I'm doing it because I need to make money not because the car is the purpose of my life so for all those people that think that their business their money their houses their their buildings that's the purpose of their life I'm sad to inform you that's a very very sad achievement because it's not going to outlive you no one cares no one cares as soon as they buy the house they're not saying oh thank the guy that built the house they don't even know the guy's name the only reason why they some people have the name on the building is because the only way to get the donations is if you put the name on the building but no college student ever ask oh do you know uh so and so was that's on his building no one cares no one says oh yeah it's uh I don't know Steve Jobs anniversary that's why it's on the building nobody celebrates Steve Jobs anniversary or anybody that Di's anniversary no one cares they just want to go into the building so they go to the course they get past the class so they get a degree so they get a job and maybe become Steve Jobs they don't care that Steve Jobs found the building so if material is your purpose you're living a purposeless life if your spouse is your purpose then that means that most people in the world don't have a purpose because there are many people that can't found a can't find a spouse guys can't find girls girls can't find guys somehow guys find guys and girls find girls but girls finding each other they can't it's like everything is opposite we have many people coming to us asking us for help finding a zuk finding somebody for them and we'd love to do anything we can to help what's the problem the guys that want to get married are usually very young 20 22 25 good heads on their shoulders either just did chuva or a FR from birth whatever just guys that are serious about let's let's get started I want to start a family I want to I don't want to continue sinning they know that every day every day they live as a single person they're closer and closer to sin either wasting seed by themselves or having a girlfriend and I have to have says listen I got to get married Hashem created a guy with certain inclinations he can't control it forever can't so they want to get married problem is that many of the women they don't want to get married when they want to get married when they're 37 38 42 45 50 so that's the problem that I'm constantly having is that the girls are in their 30s and 40s the guys are in their early 20s you can't make a match so once you finally get a match it's like a it's like wow Miracle but it's not a business that I want to be in and the reason why is because it's even more difficult than this I tried making a match finally you found a I found a couple I finally found a couple was like I mean I thousands of people contact me every day so for different reasons once in a while it's for Z so finally I found a couple they're both located in California already a miracle of its own they're both located within like you know driving distance of each other Miracle number two yamu they're both around the same age I said this is the man coming from sham they look at each other's picture they're Ed to each other said this is this m might as well be here I'm thinking this is the greatest thing that ever happened they talk on the phone they get along I start dancing I tell my wife I'm like honey we finally made a match they go on a couple of dates what happens the girl the girl calls me starts complaining to me what happened oh I didn't know this and I didn't know this I'm like yeah but he told you yeah but I didn't know that way I didn't know this nonsense stuff like okay well if you don't want it then it's fine we'll find another match you know I'm already about to cry I thought they had some Miracles they continue and then she calls me back maybe like a month and a half later they're dating for a little while month and a half later she sends me an email that she's very upset with me like what I it's free by the way I don't charge it's free all this is for free like I have extra time in my hands all this is fre she sends me an email she's very upset with me because her psychiatrist told her that I shouldn't have made her go out with this guy because he just not a good match for her why only hasem knows but he's not a good match for her and she's upset with me that I went against her psychiatrist which I didn't even know she had had I known he probably wouldn't have made poor guy wouldn't have put him together his skin so she's upset with me because I went against the psychiatrist I didn't know they existed and a psychiatrist know better knows better so why don't you ask the psychiatrist to make this evil why are you coming to me so this is a business I don't want to be in but if I have a match for you I'll try I just don't want to go into the business of doing it on a regular basis it's just I have enough headaches in my life one Miracle at a time guys one Miracle at a time so Raba we'll go back to rabaa is telling us here keep by saying the fact that you're a human being is already amazing you're in the image of God is already amazing it's a huge accomplishment it shows that Hashem loves you the fact that he told you extraordinary why because if you were an atheist and you didn't know why you were here you'd have mamash a purposeless life there would be no purpose for you to be here someone that dies if they're an atheist no one should cry over him why this is what he wanted it's the same thing he went back to the land he became I don't know a tree he became part of the wind he became soil it's the same thing nothing had nothing he was energy he stayed energy he didn't die he stayed energy you say he was energy before he came from nothing he went back to being nothing why are you crying why are you crying he's he doesn't believe that God created him he said nothing created him so he went back to being nothing what's the problem he said the book is not real right so he's going to become a tree we're going to print the book on him do a favor what's the problem he has a purposeless life M purposeless life there's no point to live anything he did no one cares about on the other hand if someone is living for a God and saying listen this God told us that this life is just a corridor it's just a station it's just the first starting out job I came here to pay my dues work myself up the work ladder you know you start in the mail room eventually you want to be CEO but you can't start a CEO so here this is the mail room little by little you do chuva you start getting closer to Hashem you feel like you got a better position little by little you go up up up up up up eventually before you go to the next World you're supposed to be at your height the best situation so when someone dies if they are righteous the only crying that should be done is for us that are still here that we're not going to live next to them because they're so righteous we're missing out on their Torah we're missing out on their wisdom we're Miss we're missing out but for them we shouldn't cry why they're in a much better place than all of us could ever imagine so when someone is living for a god when that God is Israel is the god of Israel no he's telling you this is just the first station eternity is the next one what kind of Eternity is up to you so the verse that uh R AKA uses as a proof for what he's saying is the verse that hasem said to Noah hasem said in Noah when hasm destroy the world after there were so many Sinners he says listen I don't want to destroy the world again so I'm going to give you some rules to follow I'm going to give you seven laws that as long as the world follows these laws you're going to be okay seven if you don't follow these laws there's no point for this world the first six I gave to ad I'm giving number seven that's why it's called the seven noahide laws the first of these laws is this the verse that he uses here is in because in the image of God he made man but what does the actual verse say the whole verse says the whole verse in chapter 9 verse 6 the law is if a man who spills the blood of a person within a person his own blood will be spilled because in the image of God hasem created man so this is a very big tongue twister spill of blood within blood of blood I mean there's a lot of blood here shouldn't we just say if he killed somebody it's at the end if this law is the law for murder then it should be the same thing as the Ten Commandments Ten Commandments says don't murder but here doesn't say that here it says someone who spills the blood of a man within a man his own blood will be spilled if it was purely murder should say someone who spills blood his own blood will be spilled so this verse actually is the source of why wasting seed is not allowed for anyone Jews or Gentiles because this is exactly what it means the blood of a man we know is just blood but the blood of a man within a man is seed the blood of a man whoever spills the blood of a man within a man his own blood will be spilled so here we know that we're it's not referring to to murder he's referring to someone that's wasting seed someone that's wasting seed according to God whether you're a Jew or Gentile it's considered 100% murder why is it considered murder because you're expected to live like a human being that isn't knows that he's in the image of God not an animal that just procreates out of instinct so this is exactly the verse that R AKA chooses instead of any other verse there's other verses in the Torah where hasem says that he created us in His image it's not the only one he chooses this one the reason why is if you remember in last week's mishna aka the the first law that he said to keep you away from sin and stay connected to God the first thing is stay away from mockery and and levity don't joke around too much don't be uh overly uh comfortable and flirtatious with people that you're not allowed to be with why because it leads you to immorality it leads you to priscu leads you to things that you're not allowed to do so here in this mishna he's just continuing the same thought he said remember why should you not be overly joking overly modest overly uh flirtatious because you were created in the image of God and if you don't if you create in the image of God obviously you want to protect that image because if you don't remember there's a verse after you in a tah that that verse says yes you create In His Image but before that verse is completed it tells you why were you create In His Image because it's a reminder not to waste seed it's a reminder not to make sex crimes so here this is a very very deep first part of the Mish and RAB AKA says the fact that Hashem told you this is an indication of Love why because if you didn't know this and you lived your whole life 50 60 70 80 120 years not knowing this then you could be in your eyes the most righteous person in the world but still have no share of the world to come because one of the the three worst sins in Judaism are first one is uh second one is and third one is wasting seed on purpose so someone could lay have a koser wife have a kosher husband kids in Yesa givea every week kosher business everything's wonderful goes to synagog Great once in a while when his wife says she has a headache he says okay I'm not gonna wait for her he can't control himself that my friend he could lose his as simple as that a person can live his whole life living a lie thinking it's the truth so AKA says the fact that AEM gave you that text message to let you know you're created in His image that's already in the beginning of the Tor you don't even need to be the the whole nothing it's just read the commentary that's what it says just read it so that's already indication He Loves You Next Step beloved are the people of Israel for they are described this Children of the omnipresent so even more so is that aside from being a human being whether a righteous Gentile or a Jew even more so there's love from hasem if Hashem decided that you're going to be one of his chosen people it's even more love for you than anyone else and indication of this Greater Love Was Made known to them when Hashem said in uh Deuteronomy 14:1 you are the children of Hashem your God so here Hashem is telling us here his children not only not like all of the all of mankind obviously all all of mankind is his creation but is the only one that he calls his children so first and foremost he akba says you're even luckier you're in this room you're a natural born Jew you're a convert converted Jew and you know it that already shows God loves you why because now not only do you know that you have a purpose in the world but you're actually one of the few one of the few that has the opportunity to execute their purpose you want a few many people have a tough time with conversion unfortunately in the world today there's a lot of politics and conversion in the old days according to the conversion shouldn't be so difficult if you look at the third you see about conversion you see that in the old days if somebody came to the rabbis a came to the rabbi and says I want to convert I want to be a Jew what would they say they say listen we're persecuted Nation you know they just killed a bunch of us you know they're planning on killing a bunch of us it's not going to stop anytime soon no problem that's that's I want to be that because you know last week you were driving on Shabbat next week you drive on Shabbat no good you get death penalty yeah yeah exactly I want to do that so last week you ate kazil you ate pig last week you ate cheeseburger for McDonald's for $9.99 or 9 cents however much it is next week you do it's death penalty yeah exactly I want to convert exactly they G the same day they G and the only the only uh difference of opinion is whether he dips in the mik on that day and completes his conversion that very day without learning Hebrew without learning all the without learning everything that day whether he dips in the mik that day or they wait for the bleep to heal and he comes back a month later and the very next thing it says in there is not some law I made up you go look at third and they don't put any extra stringencies on him and teach him too much of right away little by little teach him teach him a little bit about Shabbat little bit of kosher don't tell him listen you're not allowed this you're not allowed that E's e but they convert him on the spot that's how conversion used to be used to be unfortunately there's been a lot of over the generations a lot of fake converts people converting for money people converting for wrong reason so the rabbis had to make takote that to change things make it a little more difficult and we had to go through a process the problem is that in today's age we're on the opposite extreme we went from one extreme to the other was too easy now it's too hard and a lot of people have a hard time dealing with this they have a hard time dealing with the politics they have a hard time dealing with the fact that it cost money like why would it cost money to be any any type of religion when people ask me listen can we convert I say absolutely whenever you're ready I'm ready conversion does not take a certain amount of time there some rabbis many rabbis unfortunately when they sponsor people at the conversion they tell them okay how long you think it's going to take they already have in the top of their head how long it's going to take how do you know oh it's going to take you two years it's going to take you four years going to take you 6 years how do you know it's going to take six years what says wait six years says wait two years no Al says convert him on the spot so why does it take two years six years 10 years I have one guy finish conversion after 10 years skin why because they need to be sure that you're sure the truth is that many converts don't really know what they're doing they just want to be jew because it looks cool so we have to be careful but there are some there are some in our generation there are many that are very very genuine about conversion and they're very dedicated they're much more dedicated than even Natural Born Jews to such an extent they're willing to make sacrifices that are beyond our understanding so they're already ready to make all the changes Life Changes right away kosher Shabbat family whatever it is no problem as far as learning the laws anyone that learns for a few months if they're smart probably a month not so smart three four months learns it you already know enough to convert learn the of Shabbat learn of how how to eat blessings what prayers to say in the morning how to be a Jew day-to-day Jew anyone that learns the basics can easily learn the basics and become a Jew if they're able to make the life changes learn the basics that's all you need if that takes two months let it take two months that takes two years let it take two years that takes 50 years let it take 50 years I told somebody last week or two weeks ago I had two students come to me in the same time one student was m unbelievable within less than a year she knew more about about Judaism than most Jews in the world including including people that learn to day genius but dedicated like you wouldn't believe on the other hand there was a guy that came at the same time she finished her conversion in a very short period of time less than a year him on the other hand I told him in 50 years from now maybe he'll finish in 50 years maybe he'll finish maybe why takes him six months seven months to finish one tiny little book he doesn't show up to 75% of the lectures he's in touch maybe once in a while he's not serious but he has a lot of complaints though lot of complaints it's everybody else's fault except his so as far as conversion it's not supposed to be a certain amount of time it's up to you the timing is up to you if you're serious you're committed but other it's gonna happen quickly if you're not serious it'll never happen so the AL is supposed to be that you're supposed to be able to convert right away unfortunately that doesn't happen so a lot of people are very very upset there's a lot of angry converts in the world today even people that already succeeded in converting they're just angry they're angry at the system they're angry that are not accepted in the community right away they're angry they're just angry they're angry because they're this and they're that or the people are saying things and listen if you're planning on convert or you're already converted and you're watching this you have to understand one thing suffered for over 3,300 years to be to be right now you guys are sitting in front of me for you to be here your grandparents your great grandparents your great great great grandparents all of your ancestors suffered non-stop doesn't matter if they were rich or poor every single one of them suffered for the last 3,000 years why so you can be here listening to because you're a Jew for 3,000 years we were slaves we went through pgms we went through inquisitions we were murdered we were every horrible thing that ever happened to mankind happened to am for what you could be Jewish they didn't give up their soul and say oh yeah yeah I believe in Christianity or I believe in Islam or I believe in some other stupidity they didn't say that why so you could be a Jew today 3,000 years they're doing it so you could be here today say I'm a Jew only reason they didn't do it for them they're finished they're in they have GED why did let it all continue go over and over and over again so today you could say I'm a Jew why cuz he suffered for 3,000 years so you can't ruin it now you have a big responsibility in your hands this why you have to send your kids to Yesa so it doesn't end with you 3,000 years been going suffering inquisitions prgrams Holocaust so you don't ruin it now and don't send the kid to Yesa because you want to save 500 bucks a month so you could spend it on navigation system don't ruin it so we've been suffering for 3,000 years now the convert he just found out six months ago he wants to be a Jew don't expect such an easy ride we've been suffering for 3,000 years at least you could take is maybe a couple years 3,000 years have been suffering don't expect it just get a free Coast I went in right away it's G to be a little bit a little bit of dues to be paid that's number one second thing is is that if you really know what it means to be a Jew it's not suffering it's expected the hardship it's expected it's part of being a Jew the bed the this bed that doesn't make a difference you're not being a Jew you're not trying to become a Jew because there's a system you're not trying to remain a Jew because there's a system or there isn't one you're being a Jew because that's what you're supposed to be that's what you believe in so a few days ago there was a huge report that came from Israel from the bedin of Israel the raban of Israel who said that there's a list of 160 rabbis who perform conversions where their conversions are not accepted in Israel so this is a very very big balagan this is a very very big nightmare in the conversion world because anyone that converted to these people now has to have their conversion in question now some people are trying to beat the system and say listen who cares why do you have to go to one of the approved rabbis the recognized rabbis the reason why is because even though the AL is any three Jews can convert you any three kosher Jews according to can convert you that's the three kosher Jews they don't have to be rabbis they don't have to be a bed de but it's a stupid thing to do why because even though you live let's say in Montana or you live in I don't know North Dakota by yourself you and your six kids and your wife it's not going to be that way forever eventually the six kids are going to grow up they want to get married they want to move they want to leave town they want to get married to a Jewish woman the Jewish woman's parents are GNA say are you Jewish are going say yes okay prove it to me oh yeah I have a certificate he's like who's this Rabbi I don't know we don't know this he's not on a recognized list you're not considered Jewish your kids's gonna hate you forever because even though you're right you're right according to Al conversion but according to reality that we live in it's not conversion so sometimes the dues that you pay are worth it so now there's 160 different rabbis many of them are conservative and reform but there are many Orthodox rabbis that perform conversions that are not accepted anyone that goes through that's going through conversion has to make sure that their Rabbi is on that list and people come to me and say listen it costs money why should we pay to be a Jew I don't have to pay if I was a Christian I don't have to pay if I was a Muslim they welcome me sometimes they pay me I said listen to pay to be one of the chosen if you're even questioning it then you don't know what it means you should reconsider now the best part about it is that they're not complaining about paying me because I do it for free what are they complain about paying the some bed or some ra some other Rabbi it's necessary it's not my problem what do you want to do want to pay for it also so people need to understand if if money is your only barrier to conversion you should thank AEM get the money however you need to get it wait a little bit wait six months save do whatever you got to do get it if that's the only barrier between you and becoming part of the chosen people it's the greatest gift in history why you're G to be part of the chosen people if you don't know what that means you shouldn't you shouldn't do it you should stay Ao no right no why be a Jew if you don't know what it means to be part of the josen and you think it's too expensive or it's too difficult or it's stay the same here you are but if you think that they're going to all welcome you on a red carpet been waiting for you you're dreaming it's not supposed to be easy it's not it's not being if it's easy it's not Judaism so first and foremost Hashem is telling you the fact that you're a Jew the fact that you're part of the chosen people you consider the children of Israel already shows I love you above and beyond the norm the Forgiveness to you is higher but the consequences for your sins are also higher the mercy I have for you is higher but your responsibility is higher too the fact that I let you know shows you how much I love you why why if if a king has a son and the son says ABA you have an interesting job but I don't really want to be king I wanna just be like the rest of the guys so I'm going to go clubbing smoke some kashish to a few uh roller coasters in the middle of the night in Las Vegas you know do what I got to do have fun with the guys do you think that the king will give the son even an option to be able to do such a thing if he does he's not a king why he says listen you're my only son you have to be king next the kingdom is not yours to choose a king is not allowed to just let people disrespect them because being a King is beyond you but that's where being a being a father comes in so thear says if someone disrespects a king he's not allowed to forgive them not allowed someone disrespected D he's not allowed to forgive him someone disrespect not allowed to forgive him not allowed why it's not it's not for him it's not it's not his kinghood hasem chose him to be king but that's where hasem says that's where you being my child comes in because if someone disrespects his father the father's allowed to forgive so the fact that you're a Jew means that chuva is available to you you're allowed and able to do chuva because you're a Jew also a non-jew is able to do chuva but the chuva of a Jew is could bring it to much higher levels to such an extent that thear says that the level of where a CH stands is even higher than someone that's been righteous their whole life why because someone that's been righteous their whole life possibly didn't have the same yet he didn't put himself around the same obstacles so his yet is small on the other hand someone that's about CH he saw the half naked women he saw the money he saw this he saw the in the world and he still chose to go with God so Hashem says the fact that you're my son makes you special but there's always a big butt since there's a lot expected from you I let you know because I love you I let you know now a lot of people think that uh rebuking we talked about it last week we'll let the train finish a lot of people think that rebuking someone shows like you hate them if you rebuke them you hate them it's a sign of hate this couldn't be further from the truth anybody have kids kids you kid ever do anything wrong with they're perfect angels they do something wrong once in a while right little once in a while now when they grow up let's say let's say one of them takes one of the cups on a table and smash it across the wall not happy about it right what are you going to tell him don't do it why are you gon to tell him don't do it because you want want him to stop doing it so he does the right thing because it's the wrong thing to do that's called rebuke you're correcting him so he does the right thing so he stops doing the wrong thing why are you doing it because you love him so when someone tells you listen no no don't tell your son not to do that don't tell your son to stop breaking the house if you listen to that person what are you doing According to some of the big sages you're growing up a little Hitler why because he's GNA do whatever he wants first he throws with the glass then it's the TV then it's the house itself then it's you then it's the neighbors before you know it's a little Hitler a little Holocaust in the neighborhood why why cuz no one ever wants to rebuke the kid so Hashem says when I rebuke you it's not I rebuke you because I hate you I rebuke you because I love you I want you to go in the right direction and it hurts me it pains me that you're going in the wrong direction because I know that the only reason why you're going in the wrong direction is because you don't realize how good and how beneficial the right direction is so sometimes rebuke hurts being told what to do between all of us no one likes to be told what to do anybody like when their wife tell honey take out the garbage you take out the garbage that's what you want to tell her really say Okay than why because you want to stay married he said yeah sure honey I was I was just on the way there take the garbage like garbage again you're thinking in your mind the garbage again again why can't she take the garbage but in reality what do you say yeah yeah I was on the way I was on the way to the garbage right now I was sticking we're the same with the same honey with the same with the same honey we're the same same in the mind in your mind what you thinking garbage again she can't have somebody else take the garbage the kids can't take the garbage these lazy little kids they're only three but you're thinking in your mind the garbage but you want to stay married but you don't like that why why don't you like it it's not the garbage you really care about the garbage if you knew that the garbage was full of diamond you'd care that it's a heavy garbage no why do you care you don't like that she told you what to do you don't like that she told you what to do you don't like it the customer says no this wasn't done the right way fix it fix it what do you say to them yeah of course man no problem no problem in your mind like why they come to me why don't they complain to their father that brought them you're cursing them like the day they were born why they told you what to do but if it was a brand new customer and they told you listen I want it a certain way what are you going to tell them of course absolutely why because it's a brand new order they're not telling you what to do they're ordering something they're asking for something you're asking them for money but the customer that's returning the customer service is always the hard part because you feel like you're being rebuked you feel like they're complaining to you why is she telling me what to do she's going to teach me how to cook I've been a chef for 20 years I was cooking when they were still in diapers no one wants to be rebuked no one wants to be told what to do so rebuke hurts no one likes to hear it no one myself included but Hashem says you have to hear it you have to hear it he writes in Proverbs something that's very very important for every Jew to understand in Proverbs 3:1 it says the rebuke of God my son don't hate it why it's for you it's for your own benefit I'm not rebuking you because I have fun rebuking you I I'm rebuking you because I'm trying to get you in the right direction but sometimes to get you in the right direction hurts it hurts why if let's say for example your son go back to your son I me he's probably two months old but let's say your son two years old okay he's not causing any damage and may may never cause any damage but let's say somebody's son takes plastic cup plastic cup with a little orange juice in it and throws it across the room it's not fun right what I do beat him up no you tell him listen honey don't do it not good you're still civilized why it's at the end of it all it's a little cup it's plastic it has a tiny little bit of orange juice big deal not the end of the world now what if this little honey little cute little pumpkin pie decided that he thinks the greatest idea for him right now is to take the fork that ABA gave him to eat with the metal Fork that he was going to eat with take it and put it right into the electric socket it's the greatest idea he he's running he's running and you know he's going there he's going to the electric socket he's celebrating I'm going to the electric socket I'm G to see what happens are you staying civilized are you staying calm are you staying seated and say oh it's okay don't worry he'll figure it out on his own I want to show him that I love him though there those kids die unfortunately when PE when the parents are still sitting down and the kid is running to the socket to get electrocuted and the parent doesn't do anything the kid dies and the parent in reality hates him and he wants him to die because any parent that loves their child is going to run out of their chair and do whatever they can to stop the child even if it means tackling him down and tell stop honey please you're going to kill yourself didn't kill yourself and that's what Hashem says Hashem says to the prophet Isaiah tell the people they're in trouble in chapter 1 verse4 Isaiah says to the people wo they are a sinful Nation a people weighed down by iniquity evil Offspring destructive children they have forsaken hasem they have angered the Holy One of Israel they have turned their back to him what have you been smitten since you continue to act perversely and he continues for the next five verses to rebuke them where if he were here today they would throw him out of the synagogue in different places in the in the book it talks about how hasem says my people are stupid Hashem actually causes people stupid Hashem says they're my children but they're stupid they only know how to sin this rebuke is from God not for me God is talking to the prophet because Prophet Prophet go tell the people I think they're stupid sound like such a nice God sounds kind of mean Prophet Prophet go tell them I think they're big Sinners rash Wicked doesn't sound so nice sounds mean but he always says but they're still my children they're still my children and Chua is still available to them I call them my children because I love them but if I stay sitting down sitting down and I do nothing they're all going to go to the electric socket and die so I have to call them stupid I have to tell them they're Wicked I have to punish them I have to beat them up after Shalom give him diseases give him pilgrims give him Holocaust I have to do what I have to do so they survive but he doesn't mean survive just in this world it means survive eternally the that he gave us the image of God that He gave us he wants that part to survive if I let them continue being Sinners continue being idolators continue being Giant Sinners of going with different women they're not allowed to eating doing all the things that I find testable I'm going to lose them forever so it's better that they get upset that I call them stupid and stop running to the electric socket now does that show that hem loves us or hates us if your father told you hey honey you're stupid but at the same time he got your attention you realize that if you didn't stop to turn around a bus passed and just missed you so in reality saved your life are you still upset that he called you stupid are you still upset that he said you're Wicked no cuz all you want to do is to get your attention do you still care that you got the sickness that you suffered for seven years until you woke up no you know he did it for you why because he loves you so rebuke only comes out of love if it's done the right way and that's what we learned from Pinas Pinas in this week's par first he had to do what he had to do you had to kill Z and kby you had to kill them why because you had to save the people he knew that if he doesn't kill them the plague will continue and Hashem will continue to kill more and more people by the time he killed them already 24,000 people died and Hashem himself said if he didn't kill them I would have killed everyone everyone no Nation no people no children nothing start over only time in history that Hashem did this why the sin they made crossed all lines it was even worse than idol worship what was it IM modesty with non-jews when a Jew and a non-jew connect together if it's intimacy it destroys the world why it destroys Judaism so hasem said I had to do something I had to get their attention so I had to start killing people P realized it I had to put a stop to it but after I put a stop to it I went to hm no come on you have to kill all those people I have to go back to complain to Hashem why because just like I know he did it because he loves us I did it because I love him so the last part of the mishna has an extraordinary that if you understand it I succeeded in giving you a nice K but I think it could change lives the last part of this Mish says beloved are the people of Israel for cherished for Cher utensil was given to them it is indicative of even greater love that it was made known to them that they were given this cherished utensil as it is written for I have given you a good teaching do not forsake my Torah proverbs 4 so R AKA says first you should celebrate that I love you because you're alive that already shows you I love you second thing you should celebrate that I let you know by letting you know I created you in my image that already shows you that I care that you know that I created you third thing is if you're a Jew you are one of you are m a statistical impossibility there are seven and a half billion people in the world out of the seven and a half billion people they say they're somewhere between 15 and 20 million Jews out of the 15 to 20 million Jews only about two million are considered that keep Shabbat keep the basic level of where they could actually say if mashia comes they're going to be okay the other 15 to 18 million have a serious problem or 13 to 18 million have a serious problem why because when you don't keep Shabbat and you don't keep the basic Foundation of mitv you my friend are putting your Judaism in Jeopardy you're putting it on suspension mashia comes you're going to do not callist you have a problem so now you are one of the few that keeps Shabbat you're one out of those two million that keep Shabbat keeps kosher has a kosher wife has a kosher husband sends the kiss to Yesa tries to honor praise learns a little bit of Tora you're koser person your statistical impossibility why think of it what are the chances that you not only will be born out of seven and a half billion people but you're going to be one of the two million out of the seven and a half billion people it's m a statistical impossibility if that's not love from Hashem that you know that you're one of those people I don't know what it is so hasem is telling you the fact that I let you know this shows you even more so how much I don't know but even more even more I gave Amy a very very big sign that I love them what did I give them I gave them my biggest treasure what's my biggest treasure my CLE my CLE my tool what's this tool toorah and what's the verse that says that this is the greatest thing this is my greatest gift in Proverbs he says I've given you a good teaching do not forsake my Torah I've given you this tool that that I created the world with don't ruin it says that hasem created the Torah Generations before he created the world after creating the Torah with black fire on White Fire which is the reason why theph T still follows that tradition you see that the cluff is white but the writing is black that's an indication of how it was originally written black fire on White Fire so the original Torah that hasem wrote was 974 Generations before he created the world but this Torah that he wrote was a blueprint it was not just the Torah of the stories it's not just that it's much much deeper than that much much more than that there's not enough ink in the world to write what's actually in the Torah but Hashem says this tool I looked at it and I used it as my tool to create the world as my instruction set you know when you buy your kid Little P Legos even though it looks very easy on a drawing on on the picture to build this ship to build this thing it looks easy know you put this piece this piece this piece as soon as you open the Lego box there 50 million pieces like no come on so tell and the rest of the toy companies knew that you thought you're going to be able to build it until you open the box you show there's a million pieces so what do they do they give you instructions step one put two pieces together step two put six pieces together step three put eight pieces together little by little what happens you're the kid and the kid's watching you you're building the ship by the time you finish the kid's already sleeping six hours but you're as excited about the Lego as ever so what happens most most of the Legos the parents buy not the kids the kid just wants the finish product so now if a human knows this then obviously his creator knows even more so Hashem says I took the instruction set and I created the world but this CLE this CLE this tool what did I do with it it's the most important tool that ever existed what did I do with it I gave it to you I gave it to you in your hands why what are you going to do with it so what's the K just like AEM took his tool took the tool of Torah to create this world this mishna mishna is teaching us that he gave us this tool to show us love what's this why is he giving us this tool show us love says because I'm going to give you my son the ability to take this tool and create for yourself your own you're going to take the tool that I created this wonderful world and you're going to create yourself your own but now everyone knows this m very wellknown mishna that says you guys know that mishna everybody didn't hear this Mish before at the end of every one of the we say it at the end of every sh they say it and prayer they say it Shabbat they say so this is actually a verse from the Torah Isaiah 60: 21 it says so here Isaiah the same Isaiah that we heard about just moments ago he saying all of your people all of Israel has a share of the world to come as it says in Isaiah 60 chapter chapter 60: 21 all your people are righteous and all your people are righteous they shall inherit the land forever a branch of my plantings my handiwork in which to take pride so this is a misnomer or a big misunderstanding amongst Jews today especially the ones that look for excuses where they say listen I don't have to do anything it says at the end of that everyone that's part of am is has a share of the world to come whether they keep Shabbat don't keep Shabbat no problem doesn't say all of isra share of the world to come if they keep Shabbat doesn't say that says all of Israel share the world to come and they stop there especially on Shabbat they say it over there now the problem is that they're not understanding what the verse says first and foremost after it says all of Israel has a share of the world to come it's using a source what's the source from everything can't you can't just say things because you think them there's a source there has to be a source what does the source actually say the source says first and foremost it says your nation your people are all so who is it referring to as all of Israel all of Israel that has the share of the world to come are not just everyone that's just their mother's a Jew if you're tadik you have a world you have a share of the world to come now what is this have to do with this mishna hasem said to us I gave you this CLE I gave you this tool so you can make your own but I also gave you hints and verses in the Tora to give you an understanding of what I'm looking for and what I'm expecting from you so every day you pray you say this m on Shabbat you say it it's in the page 90 it's all over the place if you only spend a little bit of time to understand what it means your whole world will change says all of Israel that has a of the world it's referring to theim it's not referring to just anyone but why am I giving these why am I giving them these this because they created it because it says here they use my planting my handiwork for which to take pride meaning they took my handiwork means my tool they took my tool my CLE that I gave them my Torah and they made me proud why because the that they made for themselves Ah that's my son that's my son Ah that's my son that's the one that I brought to the world that was worth waiting 3,000 years for it was worth it for him it was worth it why he took my CLE took my Torah he followed it and now look at the that he has that's my son you understand it's not just oh yeah it's uh I gave him an opportunity his mom was Jewish his dad was Jewish or he was just born into a certain Community where he just had an attraction to be a Jew and he converted he went to the bed he went to the right place he converted and then he just decided to beab and then he just decided he doesn't want to go to yes and then he decided to marry a Goya and then she decided to marry a and then they just ruined the whole thing no no that's not what we're talking about he says I gave him an opportunity I gave him the same tool that I used to create the world I gave him that tool and he took it and he made me proud that's my son that's why call they're allik why they because they made me proud that makes it all worth it so when you see your son breaking the whole house you're not say ah he making me proud that he broke the whole house but if you see your son take the few pieces of Lego that you bought him he's only a few years old but he takes a few pieces of Logan he makes an ugly looking house but he made some something it's like Ah that's my son he made something he made something he did something I know he didn't build it like he did on the picture he wasn't perfect the picture it's like a mansion it's I don't know how they build it's three stories house there's things coming out there's moving pieces he didn't make that he's not a full he's notu but he made a little house still my son why he tried he tried he tried he did something he did something he did some cha he kept Shabbat he kept he washed his eyes Okay so he wasn't the biggest M on learning to off five hours a day okay fine he learned some he learned an hour a day two hours a day he kept Shabbat the whole way at least everything that he understood he tried that's M I'm proud of him that's what AA is telling youa is telling you you have all the opportunities in the world the fact that you are born and Alive already shows that hem loves you but always remember that there are conditions there are conditions to this relationship and has to rebuke you or has to send someone to rebuke you if you're going in the wrong direction why because he loves you you had a question before okay okay K what's written I mean apparently it seems like it because it says in the uh in the uh second verse means and I didn't destroy them I didn't destroy all of the children of Israel so obviously mosenu is part of them and even though in previous par when Moshe said kill me don't kill them uh he says uh no I'll start a new nation with you or even before that I'll start a new nation with you and I Moshe was always excluded out of the list but apparently uh this uh didn't exclude anyone this didn't exclude anyone of course obviously it didn't happen both but the point is that here hem was M ready to destroy the entire world for something that we all take for granted we think that you know we see a friend going out with a non-jewish girlfriend we think okay he he smart up one day no smart up one day you see a friend uh you know I have a bunch of people they always ask oh listen my friend's marrying a non-jew can I go to the wedding can I go to the wedding or my friend's getting married in a reformed Sho can I go to the wedding like do you realize this par says that if we were in the days of I would have to kill you like do you realize that hm almost destroyed the world because of what you're about to do in two hours you're about to get married to love of your life yeah great everything's great yeah hasm would destroy the world if this was the time of M destroy it so people don't understand it they don't understand they don't can't get their head around it is because they don't know they don't believe or somewhere in between um but that's our job our job is to educate them and let them understand that you are so important and so loved by God that your actions have eternal consequences when Zim and kby were together they didn't think listen we're going to do this to make hasem upset you think about their own head whatever they're thinking he's thinking about her she's thinking about him they're going to do whatever they want to do they're not thinking we're going to do it against God they're not doing that there's actually even some mid that say that Zim was trying to make peace like he thought this was a mitvah point being is that they're not last thing on their mind is like let's go upset God they're not thinking that but does that thought process make God any less upset is that consideration make AEM any less upset no he still want to destroy the world so when people say no no but I didn't really want to make a upset when I was driving on Shabbat I meant to do a Mitzvah meant to do a mitvah didn't mean to do mitvah doesn't make a difference did you do it or notot people don't know now do you think that Zim and kby knew that hasem was going to destroy the world because of them they didn't know right if they knew that hm was going to destroy the world they wouldn't do it right was hm going to destroy the world anyway he was destroy the world why because they were going to do it why why didn't he stop why didn't he destroy the world CU p came in no he said wa you think hasm is like us right but here there's no rainbow here he says that's it you cross the line there's no rain him yes he didn't want to destroy Moshe he wanted to destroy give a warning destroy exactly my point you're proving my point the point is that hem says yes there are certain conditions there certain things that I'm going to give you warnings so for example to Noah he said every time I get upset and it's really you've gotten me to a point where I want to destroy the world where according to my own laws not that Hashem has levels of being upset but just his own laws every time you've crossed the line I'm going to put a rainbow as an indication that if it wasn't for the promise I made to no I would destroy the world that's every time there's a rainbow you shouldn't say oh look look look look it's not why because in essence what you're saying is that look A is upset he wants to really destroy the world but he can't why because he promised no and he can't go against his own word so now here every time we have a we have a we have a rainbow it's that according to the promise he made with Noah then this is the pro This Promise is being delivered with mosenu the same thing he said Moshe let me destroy them and start a whole new people from you Moshe says no destroy me first meaning destroy all of us or nothing he said okay I'm not going to destroy them and I'm not going to destroy because I don't want to destroy you but here there's no warning why because the deals that he made with Moshe and the deals that he made with Noah didn't include this this is off limits there is no deal for this why because the whole purpose of the world is to fulfill the Tor the only person that could have given the Tor to is wasu if mosenu said to hem no I don't want to do it I don't want to be the prophet hm would have had to destroy the world then we go further after mosenu takes brings him to Mount Si brings him to Mount Si according toab page 88 it says that hem bent the mountain he made bent the mountain like it's AA it covered the the people why do they cover the people it says he said to is is now is the time for me to give you my Torah if you accept it this is our this is our marriage we're going to be together forever if you don't this is going to be your burial ground the ceiling will collapse on top of you meaning there is really no choice here so asks like what kind of is this is this even a legal marriage you're forcing to marry you so Abel and also a few others of the sages give an amazing response he says the whole world knew that the only reason it was created was for hm to give us the Torah if am would not accept the Torah no one else could accept the Torah if mosenu didn't want to give us the Torah no one else can give us the Torah if these things can't happen there's no purpose for the world so not only does am have no purpose at that point but no one has a purpose so Hashem has to go back on his deal that he made with the planet the Angel that's responsible for the planet says he made a deal with him what's the deal he says on on Friday this is the uh I'm going to call that day all the days I said this is but said and if you look at he added the letter he to the word so Kaz says what's this extra letter why is there extra letter when he says Sunday or the first day it's not not the not the first just says first first day second day Third Day fourth day fifth day but Friday it says the Friday the sixth day why says because that's an indication of the deal he made with the angel that's responsible for the planet Earth what was the deal the deal was that on Shabbat I'm going to give the nation of Israel the five books of Moses indication with the letter hey which is the number five I'm going to give them the five books of Moses if they accept it we'll celebrate Shabbat together we'll celebrate the rest of Shabbat together if they don't we're going back to to I'm destroying the world you're not going to be anymore soar says that when Amel arrived at Mount saai all of the Angels were shaking what if they say no what if they say no if they say no that's it we're all doomed so kazal says the reason why hasem put the canopy on top of them he said if you take it good we'll celebrate Shabbat together if not you die why because he's a responsible God do you really think he's going to leave all of creation that also has a purpose up to chance maybe they're gonna say no what kind of God is that that's a teenager not a God so he didn't give them the option of saying no why because he didn't want to destroy them all the rest of his Creations the same goes with Noah the same goes with mosenu but also the same goes with Pinas he didn't want to destroy us but there's a line that we crossed what was the line the difference between the line of of Noah and mosu and what happened with Pinas in Noah they were going against each other hasem says they're too far gone they ruined the creation we have to start all over again with mosu they went against me but they still some of them still say righteous but with the what happened with Bak andam is that now they're destroying our connection why now they're becoming go now they're trying to take the fact that they're Chosen and they're trying to undo it if they're going to undo it let me help them I'll destroy them and that's it there's no point because without them there's no point that's why there was no warning because without them no one's going to get the Torah without the Torah what what is Moshe G to give without Moshe no one's going to give without it all goes back to we're going back to no we finished the entire T we have more questions yeah know they going to do M obviously they just don't ad it no they don't believe no they believe they don't believe someone that knows the truth and doesn't follow it is either someone that you need to send to a mental institution I don't know why no no I'm telling you I have a little bit there's only two types of people that don't follow what God said either they don't know or they don't believe it's impossible to be one of the other something else and the reason why is because if I tell you okay guys I'm sorry to inform you but out of all the Coca Cola bottles that you have in front of you and Sprite and whatever else is there one of the bottles has poison in it I know it cuz I put it there I put the poison inside the bottle so I you don't have to like I did it I did it for sure it's one of them you know there's poison in one of them for sure no doubt I'm crazy I put poison you going to drink it why you not going to drink it because you know there's poison right because you're not crazy like me to you drink the poison I put the poison it's already crazy enough one crazy is too much two crazies already we have a revolution so now you know the truth so you're not going to go against it same thing goes with somebody else if he doesn't somebody comes out from the outside he doesn't know I just announced I put poison he goes straight to the first Coke bottle he takes a drink why did he drink because he doesn't know those are the only two options someone here in this room that goes and drinks anyway and takes a chance he's crazier than the guy that put the poison so he's either crazier or he just doesn't believe me say n come on this guy's teaching to he's not going to put poison it's probably just water to scare us just to prove some example one of his crazy Parables he doesn't believe it's poison that's the only types of people that don't listen to the Torah if you know what it says and you still don't follow it it's either you don't believe it you think it's just like a Harry Potter book no different or you don't know the significance of going against God now most people people that violate Shabbat don't know anything some that violate Shabbat know a few things and they make it seem like they know a lot more they know a few verses by heart they make it like they're Rashi you know they they know a few uh you know Proverbs they make it like they're they taught people don't know as much as as they say they do trust me I see it all day people pretend to know a lot more and if saying I'm giving you that's not a compliment that just says that you don't know much in reality it's not to insult myself it's just a reality real it's beyond me so when many of these people that tell me they've been learning in yes all their life are telling me they're listening to my Tor I said wow I don't know what kind of Tor you listen to I mean gives me to learn but seriously by now 25 30 years of learning T you should have surpassed me why are you learning from me so people don't know as much as you think the most important part is that people don't know anything at all about punishment why don't they know about punishment because this is a part of the Torah they do not teach you could only learn this on your own I did I took some time and I went to learn about the punishment it's not pretty it's terrible horrible everything I've told you guys for the last three years it's much much worse and I'll give you this as an example I said this in last week's sh I went to my it's one of my taught me most of what I know him and ra MRA have been the biggest contribution to my Torah and I went to him and I told him listen teach me about Gom I want to know I want to know about Gom I want to know what happens he says no so what do you mean everything else you want to teach me teach me G I want to learn about G no let's learn about ganeden I said why I want to learn about G no I don't want to learn about ganeden ganeden is great I don't I don't want to learn about G I want to learn about G I wonder what happens is it true is it this what happens no for years years I'm begging him to teach me about G there not once or twice there's a few things he's not willing to tell me everything else he's will everything is off limits is is is you know is allowed except a couple of things one learning about Gom two is how many is telling me how many times you finished the sh no one knows this no one know he's not he's he's ref only person that knows is his wife no one else knows how many times he finished the all we do know is that before he was 20 he finished thei and four times now usually finishes one of them every seven years before he was 20 finished four times say 28 years so running a little fast after that no one knows no one knows how many times he finished the sh no one knows anything is very very humble person I asked him a million times how many times he refused to tell me second thing I asked him is teach me by no no a lot of times and I'm a little bit annoying sometimes when I want to know something I ask I ask I ask nothing so one day I go and I'm come on no I already by now learning to a few years I already learned about get on myself books I know a few books I found a few books I started reading started I started learning but I want to go deeper into it I know he has further knowledge teach me more he said still no I said by now I already know the horrible things they they this they this that I know already so what do you care he says I'm not going to teach you I said why why why he says to me listen when we first met you told me that all the health problems you had and all the money problems you had and all the difficulties you had you told me that you know what gome looks like you know what it feels like to go through Gom abscesses and infections and surgeries and your friends stealing from you worst horrible things I said yeah goes I don't want to disappoint you now it took me a few minutes to understand it but in so many words what he told me is that it's drastically worse drastically worse so everything I've told you guys over the last few years where people are scared of some of my lectures oh he scary scary scary it's drastically worse so anyone who violates the law doesn't know it started York nobody ever mentioned that never right why don't they mention it never why you asking me why they don't mention it here's the problem on one hand there's a belief that's infested in ation like a disease where we live in a generation where our leaders think that we're all mentally deficient spiritually we are not able to handle ourselves we're not able to take the truth this is the reason why politicians feel okay with themselves when they go to sleep despite the fact that there's a part of the United States or some other country that has a plague that's killing thousands of people every minute but they don't report it on the news why they can't handle the truth this is why when there's bad medicine that's in the public they don't report right away and it takes months to hit the actual wires the reason why they can't handle the truth this is why when there's major Wars happening in the world we don't know about it until it's already over why because they can't handle the truth this mentality also infested Judaism and unfortunately many of the leaders feel like you cannot handle the truth now it's true to some extent there is truth to it to some extent now you can't have someone who knows absolutely nothing the first time in his life and you start telling him about the details of G that's written in the book that you can't do why because he'll want to kill himself after the sh you can't you can't no he doesn't he doesn't he doesn't he has he has one one sh that ra has one sh that he talks about G but it's not published online you could only get it on DVD from him personally but as far as real details the stuff you guys hear online is nothing I'm telling you from I'm telling you I read it's nothing it's nothing it's it's it's it's like uh it's like I don't know what are those little Bears Care Bears the stuff you hear from me the stuff you heard you've heard from R mrai for the last 20 years 23 years is Care Bears next to the truth Care Bears little Gummy Bears T cute if you knew the truth it's much much worse so most people can't handle that part they can't and the people that if you tell them that it doesn't affect them it just means they're sick in their mind or they don't believe it so it's right that you can't give all of that truth to people it's right it's 100% right where did we go wrong where do we go wrong we went wrong we went to extreme the extreme truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth you can't tell people right away you can't tell your kid when he's two years old that he can't be with a girlfriend until he's married why he doesn't even know what a girl is yet he's two years old said but at the same time you can't just not talk to him until he's 20 because then he's going to be a mute that's where we went wrong we went from not telling them the biggest to not telling them anything so now somebody drives to Sho on Shabbat for 25 years no one tells him anything why he's coming to sh he'll find that on his own someone that's eating T in his own restaurant he doesn't know there's anything wrong with it no it's okay why I'm selling it to the go I'm selling t to the what's the problem withell I'm not eating it you're not allowed to deal with it it says in the Torah you're not allowed to eat milk and meat three times three times in the Torah it mentions the same verse don't uh cook the uh deer in his mother's milk why why why is the same verse mentioned in the Torah three times same exact verse three times why CU three different prohibitions first one don't eat it second one don't cook it third one don't benefit from it meaning if you accidentally put cheese on your burger you can't even obviously you know you can't cook it you made a mistake obviously you know you can't eat it even if you take off the cheese because it's already too late but you can't even give it to your dog forget about selling it you can't even give it to your dog for free why because if you give it to your dog for free you're benefiting by the fact that you won't have to give him dog food so you're benefiting monetarily so there's no way that you can benefit out of milk and meat so this stuff is in the Tor it's easy to teach people what's hard to teach people it's hard to teach people at Town listen if you don't keep Shabbat according to the rabbat chapter 30 according to the in seven places including the section about you look at the section it's one of the seven places it says a Jew that doesn't keep Shabbat and does does slaughtering you're not allowed to eat his meat it's considered 100% why it's like an idol worshipper cut the meat and if an idol worshipper cut the meat it's not Kosher it's not Kosher Idol worshiper cut the meat it's not Kosher and youw cut the meat it's kosher he said yeah but he said his mom is Jewish goes no if he doesn't keep Shabbat he's an idol worshiper it's one of the seven places so that's hard to tell people why you tell people your friends family neighbors all the people you love and tell them listen I love you and everything but according to Hashem you're an idol worshiper what Idol worshiper look at the scar David I have it's bigger than my head it's all full of diamonds diamonds no diamonds you're still an idol worshiper in hm's eyes that's the hard part to tell people but if we don't tell them we hate them not lose them we hate them why because they're running to the socket with the fork so that's where we went wrong telling them about the details of g no good right don't tell them not telling them anything like politicians it's also not good you have to go in the middle tell them the basics Shabbat it's not negotiable you keep it you're in good shape you don't keep it there is no shape you're destroyed that's it there's certain things that you have to do but unfortunately people don't do it now the biggest reason of why they don't do it is money I'm only telling you that because I come from a world of only money I know more about money than most people in the world because I lived in the world that the only thing we had the only commodity we had was money that's what we sold we bought and sold money people came to invest money so they can buy money and make more money so it goes back to the house that houses money yes it was in a form of stocks and companies and so on but the whole point was money I was in a world of money I had money they had money everyone had money if you didn't have money you weren't around me if you want to be around me you have to have money so the people that wanted money either worked for me or they came from so there was a lot I know about money and I could tell you that the reason why most people do what they do is money that's the idol worship of today so the reason why most rabbis will not tell you that Shabbat is considered an idol worshipper that someone that that waste seed on purpose is destroying theira that someone that's goes out with a Goya is destroying his Isa and pretty much everything in between and all of these things that are hard to hear but are very much a reality of our world today the reason why is because they know that if they tell you that you won't come back it's not so much that they care about you is that they care about your they care about your money if they cared about you they tell you the truth they tell you to stop going to the socket and putting the fork in if they cared about you tell you listen honey I know it's fun to get electrocuted but stop it's dangerous once one of those times it's going to hurt but the Pain's going to last forever if they cared about you they tell you honey please I know it's cute it's fun and you run away every time but one one of these guys you're going to get stuck that way it's not a game okay hasm is sending you test you lost 50 bucks you lost 500 bucks you got a flat tire your girlfriend left you you failed a test okay it's small little test it's fun in games you think you're you know but one of these times it's going to hurt permanently then what so if they cared about you you you they cared about you they tell you honey stop because you're playing with fire eventually it's going to explode eventually the the bomb's going to work you press the button even though the button is like not working for eventually it's going to work but by the time you realize it works it's too late so if they care about you they tell you that so that's why I say they don't care about you they care about your that's why they care about you not coming back to sh because if you come back to sh you give you don't come back to sh you don't give and this is a great example of today I told a story a few weeks ago a woman told me that she was going to kabad for many years she started doing chuva five years ago but chuva Chua she started being modest which is the hardest mitvah for a woman to such an extent she was wearing a with for woman might as well be R in this today's ageu woman where wow amazing it's hard to find sometimes you see K with a Min skirt that's not modest that's just style you see no there's a lot of people they wear K but they have a mini skirt and a tank top that's just style that's not K that's not modesty when a woman is actually modest it's very hard to find these days even if they so this woman was telling me my modesty was more than the of the my clothes were wide my was was this everything was great four years straight I'm doing this he says then I saw one of your lectures and it changed my life already modest saru how could I change S menu's life I can't change the dust she walked on I can't change what could I do she says no then I realized that I'm a walking she says how can a woman that's modest with more modest than she I realize I'm a because when I'm driving to the rabbi's house on Shabbat with my k other people look at me and it doesn't look good you're driving on Shabbat to where to the rabbi's house with the and she said the first time I realized it when I was one of your lectures you talked about Shabbat and all those things and from that moment on I decided to stop driving on Shabbat and I've been keeping shab for the last year so I said this story a few weeks ago what's the always has to be can't repeat stuff you guys not going to come anymore K was today before I come to the lecture today she sends me a message copies the message from the rabbi the rabbi sent her message says Oh I wish this is a kabad rabbi this is not necessarily representation of all of kabad because the real kabad Unfortunately today there's more fakers than there is real ones but unfortunately this guy ends up as as a kabad rabbi and he says oh we miss you so much in our K I'm hoping and praying that one day you relent and start driving back to our sh and to my house every Shabbat this imbecile is encouraging her to what to drive on Shabbat and he's Orthodox Rabbi has a Kil for I don't know 20 30 years he's writing in an email I can't wait for you to relent to give up this dream that you have and drive back to us on Shabbat he knows he driving that she doesn't you understand what's happening here why he doesn't care about her doesn't care about our husband doesn't care about our kids doesn't care about our grandkids doesn't care about anybody who do he care about his pocket cares about his pocket that's the same thing for all those people that came to my office for years they say they love me they say they cared about me but in reality as soon as the money and the well dried up they disappear too that's just the reality so as far as why doesn't why don't people people teach it is because of the god of money the god of gold hasem says don't follow it but unfortunately a lot of people would have beard follow it doesn't mean everyone does doesn't mean that they all bad Shalom but the fact that it's a disease that that is the plague that's happening still till now no question about it we need a pinhas we need a pinhas the plague ended after the 24,000 people died today we have millions dying Millions dying every day spiritual deaths are happening every single day people are intermarrying people are going against God people are starting website against rabbis people destroying their owna every single day every if you just think of the numbers some big rabbi did a lecture he says if you just look and how many Jews we would have just since the Holocaust till now if we just didn't have abortions if it was just without abortions already we would have almost 36 million just without abortions huh we would have 36 million more Jews if there wasn't abortions just abortions we're not talking about inter marriage we're not talking about you know anything just abortions if there's no intimate marriage another 50 million I mean you start tacking on the numbers before you know it we bigger than China at the very if you think about it we came before the Chinese the CI CI in Hebrew is Chinese the cinii came after Shem he was shem's grandson so at the very least they have almost two billion we should have two billion at the very least we should have the same I heard from uh R zitron my friend in New York sadik he did in a lecture recently and he said 2,000 years ago somebody did some statistics they said that there was approximately 14 million Jews back then and there was 25 million Chinese people 14 million 25 million 2,000 years 2,000 years later we're still 14 million they're two billion why we don't rebuke people we don't tell them stop going to the electric outlet we keep letting them go go electric yeah but it's inter marriage let him go let him go find out on his own go electric no but no let him go let him go go elect no no no it's reform no it's okay it's okay Sadducees it's all of these things don't they keep letting them go to electrical why because they don't love you they don't love you they love your money that's as tless as it gets how do I know I was one of them I was one of I'm the I am the example I am the example of why it doesn't work of why M if you don't have a merit r r says in he says at the end of times not everybody's gonna be happy not everybody's goingon to be happy mashia came actually says in also says when at the end of times not everybody's gonna be happy the mhia came why not everybody's gonna be saved he says you have to have to do chv at the end of times you have to have you have to have Merit to do chv at the end of times you have to have Merit so you think about it this way I had two to three people come to my office every week 15 years let's just make the numbers easy 10 years and let's make the numbers easy one person a week not three one person a week every week 10 years how many is that 520 no come on no come on you guys sleeping it's only midnight one person a week 52 weeks years 52 time 10 you add a zero to the 52 520 good answer okay so 520 that means you had with your beer and you had your box 520 chances to tell me Mr Ruben you married to Goya oh Mr Ruben shabat it's the electric outlet it's the electric outlet Mr Ruben but thank you for the say this Mr Ruben you're eating N koser Run do something even if you get the run but tell me something 520 times when are you going to tell me when when is it going to work when is it going to work if you had 15 years and it was two to three people a week not one person a week that obviously means that the 520 is a low estimate but even with 520 if it didn't if you didn't do it after 500 times when are you going to do it when is this system going to work when the slow system of one day is going to realize it when is it going to work that's the mentality no no he's going to realize it on his own when is he going to realize it when that's why I say they don't care about you they don't care about me they care about money it's bottom line I'm telling you this that someone that's in it someone that was out of it I see it it's just a reality doesn't mean everyone doesn't mean they're all bad but we all have to be real we all have to just see things as they are you give someone double check double check where's the money going is it going to expand his kitchen or is it going to help you want to extend the kitchen fine I just don't want to pay for it you want to extension in your house my enjoy I don't want to pay for it though enjoy I don't want to pay for it though I want to help people do I want to get hashem's little children that are running into the sockets that put their fingers into the sockets put their entire bodies into the electric socket I want to take them out and return them to God he God he's a little electrocuted but you have that's your job now it's your I took him out of the socket he's a little burnt his hair is a little off he's got a few scars but he's here here good luck I brought him back I did my job after that A's job but to pay for his kitchen to pay for the extension to pay for the new car for the third car for the fourth car for the fifth car and for the extended beard I'm not paying it's not my job you want to do it enjoy no problem I have nothing against rich people I used to be one of them nothing against them I just don't want to pay for it you understand because that's according to this Mish I don't get any for that I don't get any I don't get any reward for making people rich nothing so before you guys give ask yourself a question what's the what's the point of this where is it going why am I giving it and last but not least ask yourself did I achieve my mission in these next three weeks when I arrive to bet mikdash and I'm supposed to cry am I crying or am I looking at the guy that's crying asking why is he crying amen amen [Music] [Applause] [Music] n [Music]