Who Are The Rich Sons of Lavan Today? | WAR OF AMALEK (17)

the mafia boss is happy as can be he feels like he finally found the solution he goes to his daughter's house he presents her the drink he presents her the 10 chickens but to his dismay even though his daughter was not religious she says to him ABA I love you but I'm not going to eat those chickens it's [Music] song bless [Music] in's the soul we a great job by team [Music] us every breath we take a miracle that we have for we're back here on our Tuesday night war of am series with a short little introduction of the new song that was published today on our chuva music channel uh which you can find on uh YouTube you can find on Spotify Apple music and so on and so forth all the other places uh for you to stay up to date with all of the amazing things that the organization is doing whether it's the uh BH kids uh uh Hebrew and English cartoons that are giving you stories of sadim or animations I should say or it's my or or the different campaigns you could simply follow us on uh WhatsApp 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that the organization is doing so we have our series we have our series we have our series The Holy words of vas are piercing the hearts of literally even hearts of stone are starting to bleed from this series because he's telling you literally the uh not just the plan not just the uh diagnosis but he's literally making it very specific to each and every single person out there that can do something about it now in the past Chim we've heard Ran's precise rebuke to the religious community now in the era of msah series that we did a few years ago based on Ran's uh work the main attack was really against the secular Zionist Enlightenment type of uh uh mentalities and ideologies and even though that's also mentioned in this series as well we saw that throughout this series the main focus was really on the religious community what's the problem with the religious community you know technically if we're supposed to be more religious more united uh we should be more successful in our Outreach we should be more successful in our in know getting more people to become religious and getting all of our brothers and sisters that are not religious or less religious to catch up and bring the Salvation bring mashiah here because that's what the mhia is waiting for he's waiting for to do chuv as we say in our prayer every day the the Masia is going to come when people do CH but until we don't we do Chua uh we're delaying it so's Direct and precise nuclear missile into our hearts as a rebuke to the Jewish Community uh is certainly uh something that everyone has to face because this is a reality uh and one of the main things that rasan is simply saying is that there's a lack of passion in this war of amalik there's simply a lack of passion people are more excited about other things than they are about publicizing Torah tonight we're going to deep a dig a Little Deeper into's holy writings and find out what he thinks about our generation Our Generation specifically in their hunger for monetary success there's not a day that goes by that somebody doesn't ask me some type of question about their uh Ambitions their business their uh financial situation and of course again this is necessary part of life we're not saying that a person needs to expect to live on M coming down from shamim like we did in the desert for 40 years but there is a certain level of obsession that people have about money where they're willing to send you a question about some type of business transaction they want to do at 3:00 in the morning but uh if it comes up to a some type of sh that you're telling them to watch or it comes up to some type of good that you're asking them to help all of a sudden they're not available it's too late it's too early it's too this and it's to that we see that the obsession when it comes to money uh is much more than anything else in fact all of the other T that that exist out there always connect somehow to money now on one end we can say technically it's good why because if we're ambitious then we're going to have more money theoretically speaking and if we have more more money then there's going to be more money available for the sake of publicizing TOA so perhaps it is good perhaps it's bad though because maybe it's not being utilized for Torah maybe people are spending more money on buying more watches and newer cars and bigger houses and a vacation and all of the other things that people spend their money on then they are spending on Torah which for sure is the case but does that make it bad perhaps there's actually a cost of success that we're not realizing at all and that this is where the rich sons of Lavan caught us off guard who are the rich sons of Lavan we met them last week in this lecture but tonight we're going to meet them a little bit more and we're going to address these issues the words of the gas from the previous generation that is telling us words that are as relevant today as ifu was literally giving us the torat today told us last week that one of the things that most people don't realize about yakov's cry when he uh met with asav was the fact that he wasn't afraid afraid of becoming less religious because he was prepared before he went to lavan's house but he is disappointed he is disappointed that after 20 years of being in lean's house he didn't learn from him not that he uh wanted to learn his heresy or anything like that but he didn't learn his excitement his excitement for for doing uh sins but yet yov wanted to learn that excitement in order to apply it to MIT in order to apply it to serve AEM and he says I lived with Lavan for all of these years and I fulfilled the entire Torah but yet I did not learn the passion and excitement that Lavan has when he makes sins in order for me to be able to apply them when I am serving hem and making MIT and thisas is telling us is what we are supposed to know we are supposed to learn from the wicked people how they are excited about their wickedness their evil their craziness and apply that same level of passion and commitment to serving hasem and thereby learn from the students of lvan from the sons of laan and then he continues and he says we have to delve into the actions of the students of in order for us to learn how we should carry ourselves when it comes to doing good deeds just like the wicked people are excited about doing their wickedness if it comes to promoting a party that's going to have a bunch of toy in it or it's going to be some type of heretical event or it's going to be some other thing that is against Hashem we see that people unite people are excited people all of a sudden have all the time in the world to do it nothing else gets in their way they have narrow Vision focused on the goal and even though the goal is evil even though the goal is against God even though the goal is going to hurt everyone involved including those that are a part of it they're focused on itas says we have to learn from this we have to learn how they behave when they're doing their wickedness and apply that type of behavior when we're doing good furthermore says Ras it said we he says we also see with all of these so-called VIPs these private uh party type of people the leaders of the secular world the celebrities if you will we see from them that their ideology their lifestyle is based on materialism but yet we see though he says that although these VIPs these social leaders of the secular World these leaders of the heretical world which sometimes looks religious one of the common denominators that we see is that their lives are very materialistic they show you where they stand based on their material Acquisitions bigger houses feny or sports cars vacations private planes all types of material so it looks like their primary focus in life is material butas says no this is a disguise because if you actually look at where these very same people focus all of their energy their energy is actually after spirituality in order to publish ize heresy and lawlessness hereas uncovers an extraordinary secret that perhaps has been under the noses of everyone in society but virtually no one has actually acknowledged it without hearing the holy words of aasan where you literally have an enormous amount of focus on material ISM by these so-called popular people these leaders and it would seem as if materialism is what they're after they want more power they want more money they want more control because they can get more houses and bigger companies and you know every other day there's a new video about the the black Crocs of the world or some other major mutual fund company that owns a bunch of assets and literally 99.999 % of the people that make videos about this are completely clueless at how the stock market Works they make it seem as if these companies these mutual funds own the world they don't understand what shareholders are and what funds are but needless to say whoever is in the headlines whoever is leading the communities the countries whether it's the small community big community on TV on the internet uh they call them M themselves what do they call influencers whatever it is he says we see that what they project is their material success he just got a bigger position in the court he's now at the top of the Supreme Court he just got a bigger position in the government or in the in the C in the uh country or in the company or he got a more material possessions a bigger house a bigger building a bigger company a bigger possession more fancy watches more this more that so it looks like these sons of Lavan that are rich that are successful are focusing on materialism but in reality this is a disguise because their real focus is spirituality because their main message and purpose is to publicize the war against God heresy and lawlessness one of the modern examples we see in Israel for example even though I live in Florida obviously we're very much connected to Israel and all the things that are happening there and spend an enormous amount of energy and resources helping the poor people in Isel having our there and hearing about Israeli politics is by far my least favorite thing you could even say one of the most hated things that I have but you have to hear about it from time to time to see what's going on and when you hear that the Supreme Court in Israel wants to have a bigger building than the congression building in order to show that they are more powerful than the government this is materialism at its best the court the judges the Lefty liberal judges that sometimes pretend to be right sometimes even pretend to be religious some of them but they're completely opim they want to have a taller building than the government building why because we're Above the Law we're above the government we are the law so it looks like their obsession with material is to such an extent that it's literally sickening but that's just a disguise because anyone that pays attention to what this court this heretical court in Israel has spent nearly all of its efforts and resources in recent years would clearly see that all of their resources all of their energy all of what they do has to do with spiritual meaning they're constantly attacking the world of tah constantly attacking theot and what kind of funding they're going to get from the government as if they are enemies of the country and not like other schools as if the people that are learning you know botany and all types of other interesting subjects that vast majority of people can't do anything with getting them the funding at the University of millions of dollars is much more important than getting a Jewish person to learn where he came from and why he's here and who is God Is So giving funding to the university so somebody could learn what horses feel when they're thrown out of a plane like some of the experiments they have here with government money in America similar stupidity happens in Israel just to a different extent the government has no problem the court has no problem funding those things but to fund Torah scholarship to fund yes to fund the religious community is absolutely against everything that they believe and they have done everything they can to cut and cut and cut and even get to a point of penalizing Jewish people for being religious for being loyal to their God for being loyal to where they came from and if that was it I wouldn't even mention it because that's probably something all of you have already known but we see actually that the court that wants a taller building than the than the Congress also spent an enormous amount of energy at attacking the religious community to force the scholars to leave the K and go to the Army so much so that they've literally poisoned the vast majority of people that follow Israeli politics in the world to believe as if there is a lacking a shortage of soldiers in the Israeli Army very few actually realize that the vast majority of soldiers that go into the army do not ever see battle they serve in the kitchen in the bathroom engineering computers the vast majority never see battle so when see people say oh soldiers are going to die because you're not there what are you talking about if I was cutting potatoes that's not going to save anybody if I was playing on a computer in order to make sure that everybody gets their paychecks on time how is that going to save everybody if I was cleaning the bathrooms yes it's all important but it's not going to save everybody's life you're not shooting anybody you're not facing terrorists and in fact the reason why the vast majority of soldiers don't go into battle is because there's already too many so much so that there are certain platoon certain sections of the army that do not have weapons do not have boots there's more soldiers than there are weapons but many believe that it is the religious people that are holding back Israel from winning against its enemy why because the court has done everything possible alongside the media to make people believe that the religious people hate the country hate the non-religious people and they'll do anything in order for you to think that they're not not going to tell you that there are just as many if not much more secular people that refuse to go into the army for no reason whatsoever they're not going to tell you that you're not going to see that in the news they're not going to tell you that if a terrorist kills a Jew his family is going to get thousands of dollars every single month as a result they're not going to tell you that the court of Israel is an enemy of the people without the people knowing it and they've done everything possible to make you hate the world of tah cutting funding distortions in the media drafting of putting non kosher food in hospitals they're fighting tooth and nail in order to make sure that Israeli Hospital hital that have easy access to kosher food supply non kosher food for what benefit because they want to have non kosher food the court fights tooth and nail against the religious people that want to have the same laws we've had for the last several decades which is no public transportation on Shabbat the court fights against them and they want to have public transportation in every part of Israel on Shabbat so we see here these are all spiritual Endeavors they're against the religiosity of the Jews not so much materialistic like you're not seeing the court creating any new jobs you're not seeing the court making any laws that are making it favorable for businesses you're not seeing the court make any laws that are somehow going to make it more favorable for you to transport more things into Israel in fact the court and the government want to continue the tariffs of 177% anytime you bring anything into Israel every time we ship 100,000 $200,000 worth of books or whatever Goods into Israel we have to pay a 177% tax so forget about the shipping cost from Israel or America wherever we're shipping it from that already in itself is very expensive you're spending 10 20 $30,000 just on shipping but on top of that whatever your goods cost and there's just simply no way around it if you wanted to get off the boat at another 177% you have to pay the government so even without ever stepping a foot into Israel if you're doing business in Israel you're going to pay an enormous amount of money in taxes now this is unfavorable for business completely unfavorable in fact if you want to get a new car in Israel you're going to pay literally more money for an old car than somebody will pay for a brand new car in America by a factor of 5 10 or even 20 you're going to pay as much money for a 10year old car than someone is going to pay for a brand new car here in America so you don't see the court concerned about these issues what are they concerned about their new obsession the Mikes of the religious Jewish women they're trying to force a law that the Balan the the woman that is in charge of the mikve every time a woman comes to dip before she's able to come back home to be with a husband that one time a month that uh she has to dip this is a beautiful experience a Holy Experience the the mik of today are better than salons they're clean they're beautiful they're holy and they're all people all walks of life in there whether they are you know really religious even sec secular women go to the mik but now the court cannot rest until there is a law that forces the woman that's in charged which called the Balan of the mik to not ask the women whether they followed the laws of the Torah in preparation for the mikve there's certain things that a woman has to do before she goes to the mikve and the Bal needs to make sure she did it the court says you're not allowed to ask them you're not allowed to ask him what they did that's a form of prejudice now this level of obsession shows that the court that on one end wants to have a taller building than the government because of its material Endeavors in reality their main focus is spirituality in order to distort the Torah in order to publicize heresy in order to publicize lawlessness this is just one of the main points theas is saying is that while it looks like these students of lvan these Lefty liberal these Heretics these enemies of the toah and enemies of of God it looks like they're mainly focusing on money on materialism the truth is that it's all for the sake of publicizing heresy so this is the first point that the average person is simply not going to get unless they're hearing the words ofas because looks can be very deceiving andas is saying the influence that these students of lvan have had on the sons of Yakov on the religious Jews on those that fear hasem the influence is actually much more extensive than you think he says on one end this type of ideology and behavior of the enemy of Amal should be something we learn from and apply to our life where the main focal point that we should have in our servitude of hem should be also on spirituality just like the sons of lvan have just like the Amal has they're pretending to be materialistic but in reality their focal point is on spirituality to spread heresy we should also focus on spirituality in order to publicize in order to publicize in order to publicize the fear of hem that's what is saying this is what we're supposed to do we're supposed to learn from them what did we do instead we've been influenced by them how so says that some people among the religious community saying you know what the solution is you know what the solution is to fight Amal know what the solution is to fight against the Lefty liberals we need to have more money than them we need to have more money than them that's what we need to have if we have more money than them then we're going to have more connections than them we're going to go to the White House in America and take pictures and then put it on our social uh social websites put it on LinkedIn put it on Facebook put it on Twitter show everybody wow I'm praying Min at the White House I'm praying Mar I'm eating kosher food at the white house or at some other governmental building or meeting with uh Elon Musk I'm meeting with uh Bill Gates I'm meeting with all these important people if we have more success then we're going to win says that's the problem you think you could win that way he says you see there's a mistaken notion that religious people have the can see with your own eyes when they celebrate materialistic winnings of other religious people such as they uh they're happy that their uh Rabbi or there is a rabbi that they know or even if they don't know they hear that there's a rabbi that went to meet with the uh some important person whether it be the president or some uh CEO or some billionaire they're happy wow look yes maybe he can help us fight anti-Semitism he's the president he's a billionaire he's an influencer he can get his millions of followers to end anti-Semitism once and for all and people get happy about this or when they hear some nice Gentile in Saudi Arabia in the UN speaking for England or some other country cuz certainly if he's part of the UN he's definitely not going to say anything positive about Israel but people get excited when they hear some Gentiles say good things about the Jews look at that it's so nice so refreshing he look at the things he's saying about Israel he's saying that we really do have a rights for Israel we do have rights for the land look he's saying we are God's chosen people look at that and people get excited and jazzed up by this literally they rep publicize the same old video sometimes just because they want the new views the new excitement even though the video was already released five six seven 10 years ago by some person that publicize a portion of somebody's speech that's favorable for Israel it got a millions of views back then and then it died out so what do they do they rep publicize it on a different Channel somebody else rep and again it gets million ions of views and everybody gets jazzed up again wow look at that this uh this non-jewish woman that came from this country is speaking of favorable about Israel look this uh colonel from uh from England is speaking favorable about look this uh Palestinian is speaking favorable look this I don't know Kamas is speaking everybody's fake and Fa everybody gets excited about it and it's a big blessing if they hear some president say nice things about Israel oh I wouldn't be surprised if some in the religious community don't actually say for it they actually take a nice bottle of maybe scotch or their favorite wine and with their buddy they say to the life of the president or the billionaire or whoever it is they're celebrating as if we won as if we won as if we just defeated anti-Semitism as if the Messiah has arrived but hasn't announced it officially yet so now is saying it's a mistake to think that that materialistic win is a win like you think is a mistake in fact some people get so excited that when they see a religious Jew playing in the NBA or in the uh you know the MMC the the what is it called the the martial artarts they see a religious Jew with a TI punching some other person in the face millions of times and winning and then putting his teth back look at that look the Jews are winning the Jews are winning Oh look The Jew can kick a ball or dunk a ball look the Jews are winning the Jews are winning people get so excited about this oh if they hear there's a Jew that succeeded in business and just bought a building or a city or whatever he bought everybody gets excited look at this guy he's a billionaire he's a Jew even though he doesn't wear a keep probably doesn't keep Shabbat and he's married to a non-jew but still he's a Jew and he's proud of his Judaism the Jews are winning the Jews are winning this is nothing further there's literally nothing further from the truth in this not just because I'm saying it that's what of us been is saying is telling us people act as if the these winds by other religious Jews in materialistic Endeavors are wins but in reality what is it like he said it's like a famous General who after fight fighting a battle and losing half the country died in the Battle somebody came up to him General tell us tell us how does it feel after such a win and the general says to him such a win another win like this and none of us would be alive anymore meaning how do you even consider this a win we lost half the country yes they lost everything temporarily but we lost half another win like this the other half would be gone we'd all be dead what kind of win is this the same concept is here says he says because these materialistic wins that everyone is celebrating the be the president and the businessman and the martial arts and the NBA and the new artist and the new painter and the new uh all of these things these are all wins that in reality have a very heavy price and that price is a lost in spirituality you want materially but it cost you spirituality it cost you connection to hasem it cost you fear of H it cost you servitude of hem further say you see initially a person is going to deny this reject this n come on no there are plenty of religious people that donate to that's usually the typical excuse that's the typical you know argument there are plenty of look a lot of these billionaires they donated Anda you're right they did but it doesn't mean that that's a win when you look at the overall chart of what our purpose in this world is of what we're actually supposed to be doing well we don't realize ASAS is that these wins generate a greater loss sometimes than the actual win the loss is not always something that you can see immediately like somebody made a lot of money and therefore became a heretic no it's not quite so obvious the loss is sometimes something that you'll see see over time how the mentality changes in recent years there's become a new mentality in the world of yes that everyone has to own a house once they get married in previous years in the times of my parents and grandparents there's no such thing as if you get mared married you have to buy a house all it is is you get married find a place to live even if that means you're still living in your parents house or you're renting a house or you're finding some way to survive but today it's if you're going to get married that means you have to somehow find a way to buy a house it's not enough to rent now since people that are getting married a young all of that pressure is on the parents and since the parents don't want to handle the pressure alone they put the pressure on the goisha that don't have my boy marry some girl that's religious but poor you got to if she wants to marry my stellar son that's learning to day and night she has to come with a family with a lot of money because she has to pay for the house she has to pay for this she has to if he's going to learn a she has to pay for all of these things her parents meaning and there's become this obsession with owning Apartments owning houses rental is not acceptable for many even though many do rent but people have this mentality you have to own a house you have to own a house and it's a common question in Israel it's a common question in America too which is really a very invasive and inappropriate uh question it's shows lack of manners when people ask you are you renting or you or you bought what do you care did you see any deductions from your bank for my rent or my mortgage whichever one you thought it is what difference it make to you if I rent or I bought were you measuring me up to see if I'm an investor in your Endeavor why do you care if I rent or I bought but people ask this as if they're asking what's the weather that's because the students of lvan and their publicizing of heresy masked by materialism have influenced even those Among Us that are loyal to Hashem to think that we need materialism in order to defeat amalik now this obsession with Apartments not only is something that causes many to break there's literally shid as we speak that R FR is dealing with where the shid is about to break because one of the families simply is not willing to accept anything less than the father of the other side to go out there and borrow money in order to pay for the wedding and the house and all of these other things the the the the gift and the uh Shabbat and I think one other party he has to go borrow money and they're not willing to accept anything less than that now this ridiculous mentality shows we're not winning in fact there are major campaigns that you'll see from time to time of different big rabbis in their communities not necessarily but you'll see sometimes rabbis support a campaign to raise money in order to help get more houses for for newly WS why is it enough to just get them rental money no no rent is not enough we need to buy everyone has to own a house everyone has to have a house when they get married or a fancy uh wedding and a big debt that they don't even know how they're going to pay now this type of pressure even if somebody manages to borrow the money for the down payment and they get a house the amount of pressure this puts on a new couple I've seen firsthand it literally sometimes breaks the marriage or simply destroys their life why because the amount of pressure they have as a result of buying this house that they really can't afford now they have to come up with a mortgage payment every month that they really don't have the money to pay so yes they can tell people yeah I own this apartment it's a million doll apartment theoretically but as far as how I'm going to pay the mortgage for the next month needless to say for the next 30 years I have no idea literally it's a miracle every month and many times people don't do this because of being Savvy financially but rather because of this social obsession with ownership you have great things that happen at some communities but also give us a little bit of a little bit of a idea of where our minds are sometimes some communities are so United when they want to buy a car they buy it as a community 10,000 want to buy a car and they'll arrange a special deal with a manufacturer I mean listen you buy 10,000 cars for sure you're going to get a much better deal you're going to save 30% 40% 20% you're going to save something significant from the manufacturer so overall theoretically it's very good yes everybody has saved money but does everybody really need a new car does 10,000 people really need a new car and again I enjoy materialism as much as the next person people like to eat people like to drink people like to live in nice house have nice things but there's a difference between enjoying something and obsessing over it and many times you see people obsessing over money where it's constantly on their mind and they're constantly looking for ways to bring in more money to do this to do that is telling us that materialistic Endeavor even if you win and you got the money now because your wife opened up the store and now the store is making a bunch of money and you don't have to worry about borrowing money from your parents anymore good but don't think that it comes for free there is a certain level of spiritual loss that comes with it also especially when it's on a community scale when the community becomes obsessed with money the loss is greater than the gain and therefore Ras is saying the says the strength the resources the effort that we are spending in order to win the materialistic war in order to acquire more money in order to acquire more possessions a bigger building a bigger house a nicer watch whatever it is the efforts especially when it's on a community aspect of it not just individual aspect of it when we're spending all of the resources on upgrading our social standards that means that we're spending our resources on materialism when we should have spent our resources on spirituality because had we spent those resources on spirituality the results would have been much more respectable would have been much better why would the results be much better now you can say yeah if we spent all of that time and money instead of arranging 10,000 people to buy a car we get 10,000 people to come to a lecture and instead of getting all of the big rabbis to get people to donate money so people can have houses and in a bigger building and so on we could actually get all of the big rabbis to fight for the truth and get people to do chuva and in essence make sure that whoever is in a position of leadership follows the code of law called the and not just let everybody out there do whatever it is that they want to do whenever they want to do without any re any recourse without any consequences this Unity for materialism is absent when it comes to spirituality you'll see for example even the campaign that we lost we we launched today to help poor people in Israel now we help poor people literally every single day in Israel we have some a few campaigns during the year especially during the holidays we try to raise some money so we could help even more so people donate to those campaigns and they do because we could use that money to help people that are poor that don't have Heating in their house that are walking around during the winter without a jacket not because they don't want a jacket not because they uh their jacket is not the nice color enough rather because they can't afford a jacket or you have kids that literally walking around winter with last year's clothes that have holes in them or shoes that open up their mouth like it's a uh like a hippopotamus but they can't afford to buy new shoes so there's plenty of poverty in Israel and we're trying to address as much of it as we possibly can we've literally given millions of dollars over the years to help poor people in Israel we continue to on the other hand when we have a spiritual campaign to let's say to public ize more Tora to uh to help to publicize the films that are literally changing people's lives the amount of money that people donate for that is significantly less significantly less why because we're all much more influenced by materialism than we are by spirituality people are much more scared of being poor than they are of being not religious so they're much more scared of being poor so therefore they want to help the poor and they're willing to help the poor but they're not necessarily so scared about their cousin or their friend or their uncle or even their children being not religious so they don't necessarily see the need for it as much and therefore they don't donate the scene they have no problem spending 50 $100,000 on remodeling their house but to donate to help more people do chuva if they donate $500 it's a miracle literally it's a miracle for some people even if they have the money they just don't see the need even if that same spiritual teachers that have helped them the spiritual doctors as the rambam call calls them even if they healed them from their sickness they still don't see the need not as much as they see the need for a new kitchen or a new roof or a new uh garage or a new set of tools or a new vacation or a new second car this is because even though we're on the side of the religious we're on the side of those that are committed to hem that have fear of hemas is telling us we're still influenced by the students of lvan that portray materialism but in reality are fighting spiritually we we are supposed to be portraying spirituality and fighting spiritual but in reality our resources are mainly going towards materialism he says and those resources that strength that money that time that effort to unite people spent on materialism cost us a part of our spirituality a part of our spiritual elevation because had we spent those resources on elevating ourselves allowing ourselves to become closer to hem having more fear of hem having more people learn about fear of hem says the results would have been much better the results would have been much better but since the yet the evil inclination will do anything as we learned in last week's U we do anything in order to create Unity for the sake of materialism just to make sure that you don't learn to and you don't unite when it comes to toah so if the Safari and ashkanazi Community the kidish and the uh different part of the Jewish Community the Safari Community want to unite in order to serve some type of materialistic purpose no problem the Satan will even help them the Satan will even help two opposing sides the the the uh theik and the M pretty much everybody else to unite in order to acquire more materialism in order to have more materialistic accomplishments whether it be put somebody uh as a uh somebody that works in some uh important position representing the Jewish people in America or in England or in Australia or in wherever or it's they'll unite for that the Satan will even help the Jews unite for materialistic purposes just don't unite for Spiritual purposes if you want to have an event in a community that already has an audience already has people he said okay I'm gonna invite this uh speaker wait no no we arei or we are asazi isari or we are Safari he's asazi he's a Safar okay so let's just bring a bunch let's just bring Kish guy askanazi guy a uh a safari guy we'll bring a little bit of everything well let's see do they all agree on everything that uh we agree with what do you mean they all teach they're all good yeah but we need to you know investigate oh his is U it's too much for us it's too little for us it's too this for us it's too that for us and what ends up happening abai is that when it comes to spirituality the only Unity you will ever find is unity of people that are just like each other Unity within the ashkanazi community with the ashkanazi community Unity of the Safari Community within the Safari Community Unity of the kidish community of whichever it is with itself you're not going to see spiritual unity in other ways why because Unity that way will promote more Tor can't have that the Satan will not let that happen but what about you know some type of uh you know uh materialistic issue Unity there much easier to get so much so that the Satan will even help sometimes the Satan will even help sometimes now what is trying to tell us here is that if we spend that same energy to elevate the in our communities to elevate the learning to in our communities to elevate the religiosity within our communities in a United effort the results of both the material and the spiritual would be much better how so he says so here he says what people are misunderstanding missing forgetting whatever the case may be is that the success ESS that you would have when it comes to money when it comes to materialism is all in the hands of sh it's all in the hands of hem whereas the success that you would have in spirituality is in the hands of man most people look at it the opposite of what it is instead of investing in people invest their energy in acquiring business success or materialistic possessions because they believe that if they don't exert themselves extra they'll never get the house they'll never get the car they'll never get more money or the job or whatever it is but don't you realize that the toah itself says everything is from Heaven except the fear of Heaven which literally means all of your financial success all of your Social success as far as what position you have what job you will have uh all of those things are all in the hands of Hashem it has nothing to do with you your material success is 100% in the hands of Hashem but the spiritual success that's in your hands that's your whether you fear hem or not whether you listen to hem or not that's in your your hands andas says did they forget that when it comes to gash when it comes to materialism to physicality we learned from the Prophet Jeremiah chapter 17 verse S blessed is the man who trust in AEM and then hasem will be his security but when it comes to when it comes to spirituality the prophet mik in chapter 7 verse5 says so don't trust a friend don't rely on official guard your Doorway to your mouth from the one who lies in your bosom here we have two opposing things brings both of them says when it comes to materialism Jeremiah tells us blessed is the man who trusts in hasem if you trust in hem that he's going to provide you anything that you need that in itself self is a reason for hasem to provide you on the other hand if you trust in a person to provide you that in itself is a reason forem not to provide you so in essence Jeremiah is telling us in the name of hem that this is a cause and effect says theak where as a result of you trusting in Hem Hem will provide you everything that you need the malim on the other hand says that even if a person trusts in hasem but he still believes that his source of success will come from his boss will come from this customer will come from a uh a uh specific uh idea that he has now that's not considered full so they're not going to have this complete blessing where Hashem will always be their security because as long as you believe in anything but Hashem being your source of Salvation that means there's a lacking in your belief in Hashem so the blessing will lack as a result of the belief lacking now you won't be cursed because you still believe in Hashem and that he's the one that's going to provide you but because you in essence assume that Hashem is limited to how he can provide you your sustenance your material success your position or whatever it is that you're looking for materially because you limited hem you lost a big part of the blessing still not cursed like someone that relies on a person though but if a person wants to have complete blessing with they don't have to worry about ever lacking anything the more trust you have in theem the more blessing you will have when people ask me how do you survive I said hasem provides okay but how does that happen I said hm sends me money what do you mean how yeah but you still invest in the market you still working maybe you have a side gig that you are working in a different company doing consulting board of directors and no no all I do is I learn to and I publicize to that's what I do okay but how do you live I said Hashem provides well how does the organization live Hashem provides what do you call people to donate money every month never called a single person to donate money literally the the the the maximum effort is publicizing a campaign once in a I think maybe a handful of time s in my entire last 10 years I've sent somebody a text message or or an email letting them know that there is a campaign going on or an opportunity other than that I generally don't even talk to people about donations well then how the people donate well theym sends them and people have a hard time understanding that and the more confidence you have in Hashem the more Hashem will worry about you in fact anytime that asked or told people listen there's a opportunity to donate or there's a uh something to donate for literally 100% of the time I regretted it why I felt like I failed a little bit in my why' I ask if if hasem wanted us them to donate they'll donate on their own why do I have to ask I didn't ask the other 99 million times why do I have to ask now but that's a constant work that a person has to trust in hasem and the more they trust in Hashem the more hasem will put provide for them when a person does not trust in theem at all then he doesn't have this blessing at all he gets a curse because he's trusting in something else when a person has a partial trust in Hashem where they believe that Hashem will provide for them through this person through this idea through this client through this job then they lose out a very big part of the blessing why because you're not trusting in hashm 100% you're trusting in a limited God Shalom could even be considered a different God because God is not limited so the first part of the message that Jeremiah tells us thatan is bringing up is having complete and uncompromising in trust in theem shouldn't just be the goal of every Jew but it has to be it has to be in order for us to win because the blessing that a person gets looks like this says Jeremiah this person that trust in hasem and now Hashem became his security the next couple of verses tell us what that looks like he will be like a tree planted near water which spreads out its roots along the brook and does not see when heat comes whose foilage is ever fresh it will not worry in a year of drought and will not stop producing fruit the heart is the most deceitful of all and it's fragile who can know it AEM Plumb the feelings and test the innermost thoughts to give man according to his ways the fruits of his deeds here Jeremiah is telling us if a person has trust in Hashem literally they're going to be like a tree that continues to grow without anybody nourishing it nurturing it nothing nobody has to water it nobody has to touch it but you see the tree continue to grow for hundred years how does it grow 100 years nobody's watering and nobody nothing hasm takes care of it it continues to grow continues to produce more fruit what about the tough weather the fires the wind the hurricanes none of those are going to affect this tree why Hashem is Hashem is his security when a person trust in asem the more trust you have in hasem the more you rely on Hashem the more Hashem is going to protect you and Jeremiah is reminding us of this but on the other hand he's also telling us in verse number n and 10 that a person's heart can be deceitful who can know it meaning a person can lie to thems by making them appear as if they have trust in theem where they're doing everything that you would do if you had trust in hasem but says theak this person may be doing all of the right things but really in his heart he may not have a at all and that's why he does not have blessings meaning that a person has a certain level ofuna that he could portray but Hashem checks his heart Hashem checks her heart how much does she really believe how much does he really believe and that's how he decides how much blessings to give that person and that's why hasem said in that verse IEM Plum Plumb the fings and test the innermost thoughts to give man according to his ways the fruits of his deeds because a person cannot hide his thoughts or his feelings from Hashem this is one of the 13 principles of faith that Hashem knows your your thoughts hm knows your feelings on the other hand there are some people that pretend to be good pretend to be faithful of hem but in reality they're criminals they lie they cheat they steal they do all types of things and they acquire money in ways that are against the toah businesses like cash advance businesses that are corrupt selling different types of things to people like we ful thinking to people and these types of people hasem says in verse number 11 like a partridge summoning together chicks it did not bear so is the one who amasses wealth unjustly in the middle of his days it will leave him and at his end he will be considered the scoundrel says the prophet that this's this bird that sometimes steals chicks from other birds looks like it's has a big family but in reality it stol them it's the same thing with somebody that acquires money in inappropriate ways like this wicked Rabbi that uh I don't know what his name is but he certainly is wicked when he took literally pictures publicized pictures with one of the biggest criminals in the in the uh uh in the world today who is one of the biggest cash Advent uh companies out there he's in a picture after this guy was sued by the government for I think a billion dollars a billion and a half dollars apparently they settled for a much smaller sum like 3040 million because they charged their clients 800% interest which obviously destroyed his clients point being is this guy settled with the government for a substantial amount of money and and uh as a uh for his corrupt business and he after that publicized a picture with him and I guess a couple of his partners and one of the partners or at least somebody that's very close to him is this Rabbi that's cering his Pig every day now the rabbis that are supporting this cash Advan corrupt business or any other type of business where everyone that looks into it knows that this is a pig even if you put lipstick on it this is completely against the toah those people are doing it because they're acquiring wealth and hasem says to the prophet they're acquiring wealth unjustly just like the Partridge is acquiring more Birds by stealing it from others and what's going to happen with those people eventually the money is gonna go away eventually hasem he's going to take all of it from them in fact some of the say no no he's not saying he's going to take all the money away from them theak says no no he's going to take them away from the money he's going to kill them early that's why the izra says people that are uh evil when it comes to that type of for money and and things of that nature for them to to Die Young is actually considered a natural phenomenon based on their negative character flaws after they uh how they affect their life in so many words Hashem doesn't leave anybody with debt he pays everybody whatever they deserve and for those that are not in the criminal obvious criminal and they're not the most righteous but there is flaws in their they need to know that the higher your trust in Hashem the higher the blessing the less trust you have in Hashem the uh the less blessing and the way that a person could understand it is the mid says that there was once an architect who built an entire city and one day they decided to make this architect the king of this city of this country and one day there was criminals in the country in the in the city robbed a bunch of people and then went and hid hid from the King hid from the Wrath but since the king knew exactly where everything is he knew exactly where they were hiding and he caught them and the mid says imiles don't you realize that I built those secret cles you can't use them to hide from me the same concept Hashem tells the Sinners that they shouldn't think that they could hide their thoughts from him the wickedness from him their lack of trust in him because he's the one that created you so on one end we see that rasan is telling us in essence warning us that having less trust inem Less in is not only not good for us where it lowers the amount of blessing but it actually is even something that a person could eventually get punished for now what happens when people trust in materialism not only they don't trust in Hashem and that he provides but they simply think that it's in their hands to provide you eat what you kill mentality aasan says the people that have this mentality that their position in the government their position in the Army their position in the company their position in the community in the Kaa whatever their position is that's what's going to win whatever their bank rooll is that's what's going to win whatever their idea is that's what's going to win he says these are people that are trusting in the ministers in the uh in the uh and the you know the human powers and they're making not only a mistake they're putting themselves in a position where they're literally living against the toah as the Prophet mikah The Prophet mikah says don't trust a friend don't rely on an official guard the doorways of your mouth from the one who lies in your bosom here the prophet Propet is telling us that in his generation needless to say in our generation people were so lowly that it's impossible to trust people it's impossible to trust people so much so that in the previous verses he says there's no such thing as a uh that uh a judge or any type of official that will give you any type of benefit without a bribe the best of them he says this in verse number four the best of them is like a thorn the upright one is like a hedge of thistles in so many words all of these people in power that uh in judges and and and uh powerful people that people rely on he says you don't realize how much it's going to end up costing you in the end and a lot of people put their trust in these officials and these uh uh powerful people and they don't realize that not only are you now trusting in something that brings you curse but you're also removing any type of connection you have to Hashem and N come on we're going to listen to our uh speakers that say otherwise to our rabbis that say otherwise and that's why the prophet mikah continues and says on the day of your expectation your punishment will come now you will become perplexed why perplexed why is somebody confused that punishment came because all of their their life they were hearing that there's no punishment that this is the way to go that you can do whatever you want that there's no laws that heresy is the truth and that's why the prophet mik is saying don't rely on any of these people in fact even protect your secrets from people that are close to you why we're living in a he was living in a degenerate uh uh you know generation needless to say we are in a similar situation where a lot of people if they don't have if they don't have fear of hem you have to remember what Abu said to the reason why I told you that Sarah is my uh sister instead of my wife is because I saw that there's no fear of hem in this place and you may kill me over my wife the same thing is what mik is saying you can't trust anybody this doesn't mean you can't befriend people you can't be friendly with people you can't do business with people but you have to know that if you're looking for more friends you're looking for more problems if you're looking to develop more Security in your relationship with some type of public official you're looking for more problems if you're sharing all of your secrets with everyone because they're close to you you're looking for for problems and if a person wants to listen to what mik says in verse number S as he closes this section he says as for me I put my hope in Hashem and await God of my salvation my God will hear me hereas is in essence giving us a map a map with certain Treasures in it he gave gave us a verse in Jeremiah that is no less of a treasure than all the Treasures of the world and if that wasn't enough to help us with he gave us the verse in mik that is again no less than the most valuable Treasures in this world because it also shows us the reality of the times couple of thousand years ago is identical to the reality of today identical the only difference is electronics iPads iPhones Tik toks Facebooks aside from that Society is the same and therefore both of these prophets said don't trust in people don't trust in politics don't trust even in your own materialistic abilities trust in theem the more you trust in hasem the more success you will acquire material Al and spiritually but the more you invest in acquiring material success the more you are becoming like Lavan his students who acquire material success but they're still winning because they're acquiring more material success but their efforts all their resources are spend on spreading their heresy spreading their heresy and you are focusing just your energy on materialism and in essence no time on spirituality so a person that actually invest all of this effort all of this time to build themselves and not enough time to get closer to Hashem to get the community closer to Hashem ends up losing out we'll finish it up with a amazing story that I think puts everything into perspective this is a story I heard from my R Who heard it from a uh well-known R RAB Rabbi Kim Z who has amazing Stories and this story he heard from the person in the story meaning this his firsthand information some years ago there was a mafia bus in is Israel and this gangster was feared by everyone except he found a girl and he married the girl and she and this girl was like the love of his life they had a daughter but two years after they got married his wife died he was heartbroken over this and uh refused to marry anybody else after that but he spent all of his time and effort raising this kid his mom raised her and he provided everything in anything that this kid wanted there was no limitations whatsoever fancy dinners fancy clothes fancy vacation fancy toys everything literally no limitation whatsoever he put everything he had into this into this uh daughter that he had time passed the daughter grew up and she got married too now the the Father the gangster he looking forward to finally having some fruits cuz he only had one daughter he never got remarried he wants to have grandkids year passes two years pass 3 years pass no kids what's happening how come there his daughter is not having kids with her husband it's not working they go to doctors doctors say can't help you don't know why go to other doctors can't help you do all types of treatments again money was not an issue see literally they're spending Millions to get all types of treatments in order to have grandkids in order for them in order for his daughter to have kids and it's not working one day he's in his office and one of his uh one of his guys comes in and sees the boss the mafia boss sad he says boss what's wrong ah nothing nothing what can you do for me goes nothing boss if you want somebody's uh said something about you I'll clip him right away I'll get rid of him just let me know the address goes no no no it's nothing like that then what's wrong boss he says listen my daughter she's already married for several years but there's no kids and there's she's my only daughter I don't have any other kids and what is going to be after her nothing I'm not going to have anything left in this world he said boss why don't you tell me just come to our village why what's in your village says oh in my Village we have this Arab Sheikh he does all types of uh witchcraft and it works you want a kid I'll give you a kid in a week I'll give you a kid in a in a year oh yeah why don't you say so all right they went now again this is a Mafia Boss this is not just a small time Gangster he arrives with his little Entourage to this uh Arab which some of them know all types of Witchcraft and this one got the uh SE this mafia boss and he comes to him and he says to him listen you know who I am you probably heard about me or you said it in the newspapers now anything you want I'll give you money this that no problem but it better work it better work if not I promise you I'll come back here and do all of the worst possible things to you in so many words a deal the she could not refuse so she says no problem you can have two babies in one year you're can to have uh twins your daughter what do you need so he asked them for different things for witchcraft certain hair certain liquid certain uh different ingredients he got these ingredients Together made some type of potion and then he he told him listen now I need 10 chickens 10 chickens why I need 10 chickens okay so here's a ,000 go get me some chickens they went they got the chickens now the Sheikh continues with his little witchcraft he starts speaking and saying certain types of uh sounds to each chicken then he chops off its head with his hands Bloods all over the place the whole witchcraft is set then he gives the 10 chickens to the mafia B he says listen now you take this and you give the drink to your daughter after she drinks this she has to eat one chicken every day for 10 days she does that she'll have twins in one year the mafia boss is happy as can be he feels like he finally found the solution he goes to his daughter's house he presents her the drink he presents her the 10 chickens but to his dismay even though his daughter was not religious she says to him ABA I love you but I'm not going to eat those chickens what why not she said even though I don't keep much of the religion I still have never eaten n kosher and I refuse to eat non kosher meat of course the father he's a gangster he loses his mind starts yelling at her what are you talking about all of a sudden you became sadik you violate Shabbat you drive you do this you do that what do you care a son so well if this Arab ripped their head off so well it's still chicken just eat it what's the difference what do you want me to be just by myself and that's it I'm going to die and there's no grandchildren it's your fault and now he's taking out literally Decades of frust ation on his kid on his daughter but she's not having it she says listen I'm not going to eat these chickens no chance in the world that I'm going to eat these chickens the not koser he says okay fine listen just leave him here think about it and then maybe you'll change your mind she says no ABA they're not staying in my house they're going straight into the garbage absolutely not allowed in my house these chickens and of course the father loses his mind gets really really upset and says I'm not going to talk to you anymore he threatens up with everything she takes it she says listen I'm not doing it and he disconnects from her he stops talking to his own daugh his only daughter but she was willing to stand her ground for this small amount of Judaism that she still had in her life she wasn't keeping modesty or Shabbat or or or or or anything else virtually except she didn't eat non kosher me but for her this was everything and guess what that little bit of light that little bit of spark that little bit of connection to Hashem that she held on to that little bit of spirituality that she stood up for was enough of a reason for a to give her twins 9 months later without any witchcraft without any T chickens without any medical treatment without any supplements simply based on theun that she had in hasem that she's GNA simply refuse to eat non koser so if the gangster's daughter can get a blessing that she's been waiting for for years just based on a little bit of spirituality that she still had left in her to connect to Hashem how much can we as the religious Jews the religious community how much more can we get if we help more Jews get closer to Hashem more of these young women and men to get closer to to to keep to keep to keep Shabbat to keep modesty and instead of actually investing so much resources chasing money chasing positions chasing popularity chasing the White House or the black house or whatever other house instead of looking for wins in some type of NBA contest or or soccer or or some type of business adventure we could attain all the success we can possibly imagine by simply helping more Jews become more Jewish by helping more Jews connect to a kados that's what is telling us he's telling us that yes lean's students make themselves pretty obvious they're the ones that present materialism but in reality they fight for spirituality we have to learn from them to fight for spirituality but what about materialism if you fight for the sake of Hashem if you fight for the sake of publicizing tah if you fight for the sake of saving am is from heresy AEM will will provide you all the material you can possibly need and want because someone that has trust in hem only kindness will surround him may it be his will that each and every single one of us will take the resources that we have to help spread more Torah to help more Jews get closer and use those resources use those blessings that hasem has in order to show hasem that we know where it came from and you know where it 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