When Can You Follow Rav Yisroel Belsky zt'l Regarding Wigs / Sheitel (10 minutes)

[Music] one particular issue that was a very big battle in New York was the issue of wigs same we've been talking about for the last couple of years and in the sh one of the shim that we had in Queens people were arguing arguing the point yes but you know that uh Rabbi bski said is that um it's not he wrote in 2005 after rash said it's AAR that the wigs are coming from India it's AAR rski shortly later wrote wrote something say it's not AB 13 years ago okay and that's what we're holding by they just found this nobody knew about this until I brought it up again by the way but here's the problem first first even if you actually read not just the bottom line of the answer you read the entire answer the entire answer of rski he says who am I to go against rash he himself says don't listen to me he just doesn't think he didn't get to the same conclusion but he said don't listen to me he's bigger than me that's number one number two where were you 13 years how come you didn't know about this for the last 13 years how come he just found it now all the people that are holding by him but those are just two small little titbits just as a little needle what's the big atomic bomb the big atomic bomb RAB is even if R bski is Right which he's not even if he is 90% of the people that are arguing this can't use it anyway why can't they use it because there's a page 14 page 14 b b says the following someone who picks the leniencies of bet Shai and the leniency of bet like he beats both houses they disagree but he says I'm going to take the leniencies from this Rabbi I'm going to take the lency from this Rabbi says rash he's a rash he's just looking for shortcut he's looking for to make his own religion okay fine this guy wants to be ultra religious he says no no I'm not going to take the lenen he's the opposite he's going to take the stringencies of betai and the stringencies of bet it says on him it is written in the Tor the fool will walk blind the fool will walk blind why the fool will walk blind he says the Torah does not allow you to pick and choose rabbis like salad dressings you can't pick your rabbis I'm gonna hold by R for everything except the P except the wig I'm gonna hold by Rabbi bsky just for the wig except on PES I'm going to eat uh rice I'm going to be Safar the whole year except on PES I'm going to be asazi or the opposite you can't pick and choose rabbis today I'm here tomorrow I'm there why the Torah says you do that you're rash or a fool either way you don't lose you can't pick rabbis like you can't pick that way and that's something that the rabbis are not teaching they're just telling yeah yeah but this Rabbi said this and allowing the crowd to assume they don't tell them outright listen you could hold by this Rabbi they're saying listen but this so and so Rabbi says such and such and they allow the crowd the foolish ignorant crowd like we were most of our Lives to arrive at their own conclusion by saying oh if such and such Rabbi says it's allowed he's a big sadik I'll follow him you can't unless you follow his entire Torah unless he's your P unless you're going to hold on if you want to hold by Rabel you can't eat rice on P it's coming up throw it all out you're going to wear a wig because of Rabel ski no problem you cannot you cannot under any condition eat rice on P why he consists but I'm Safari too bad now you're not you hold by rosi oh but my Rabbi allows it okay so rabos is not your Rabbi meaning you can't pick and choose you can't pick and choose rash here raeli here R here the uh this here this you can't that's why it says make yourself a rabbi and eliminate all doubt make yourself a rabbi not a salad that's what is very important you have a rabbi stick to it stop making laws there's no everybody I used to like blaming the rabbis for everything I didn't know all these rabbis have different opinions yes you're right many rabbis have different opinions make yourself a rabbi make yourself a rabbi yes there's different rabbis with different opinions there's a reason for that too it's living Torah but nonetheless make yourself a rabbi you want to hold on to somebody that says it's allowed to wear a wig for certain reason hold on to everything they say yeah but I don't know everything they say oh that's a problem that's a problem you have to know everything they say you have to hold on to everything they say you can't pick and choose and that is only caused it's only caused because of it's only caused because we're connected to materialism if I told you listen there's a law in the Torah and for every second that you hold it you get a million dollars you wouldn't even ask me what the law is you say okay when can I start I'll take two I'll do it twice a day if I told a law in the Tor every you hold it you get a million dollars a day tell I'll do it all day I'll do this the only law I'm gonna do on this law I'm gonna be the most stringent guy on this law in the world why give me the money I want materialism if I tell you there's a law you get nothing get zero who wants to do this not only that you get a headache it's getting worse not only that everybody's going to look at you and uh you're not going to be the most popular guy you're not g to be the most popular guy in parties so this getting worse and worse it's called emit it's called truth you say the truth you're not the most popular you say the truth you don't have too many friends you say the truth is only one way you say the truth you don't get anything for it other than GED in this world you get nothing for it other than headaches but over there you get G you have to decide what you want you have to decide what you want a difficult life everyone has doesn't matter how much money you have doesn't matter what car you have doesn't matter if you have wife and kids or you don't everyone has a difficult life anyone that tells you that by by fulfilling the to you're not going to have a difficult life is lying to you difficulty is life everyone has difficulty it's part of life that's life the minute you don't have difficulty it's because you're dead orm is taking a break for a little bit maybe for like five minutes and the difficulty going to start again sometimes you have difficulty put in your pants because you're fat like me or sometimes you have difficulty to arrive to election because you have a flat tire sometimes you have difficulty eating because you don't like the food but you don't want to tell the person that made it that it tastes like es sometimes you have difficulty that every time you eat you vomit difficulty sometimes you have difficulty because the house that your family needs is three times larger than your salary sometimes you have difficulty because you don't feel like you feel like you're alone you're in the middle of Montana like this guy that I met recently he's in the middle of Montana religious Jew but it's difficult to be alone in Montana no no no Community but nonetheless difficulties are everywhere disease death money relationships every everything is difficult what the Torah does for us is it gives us a reason it gives us a purpose behind a difficulty that's what the Torah does it doesn't eliminate difficulty of course there's certain problems you won't have if you live a life of Torah but you'll have other problems but those problems you'll have they'll have a purpose they problems with a purpose that's something a will never give you because a will give you more problems but no purpose you'll never know why why because is sitting in a garbage bag it's a bunch of wigs is a bunch of uh stock accounts that you have that you've sold your life to and that's all you do and all you care about you're following these accounts that's your everybody has a different doesn't give you any purpose all doesn't give you you problems and it burns time to gives you purpose once you have that purpose you can get the happiness both in this world and the next this P we clean out this we clean out this [Music]