Who's Influencing Your Rabbi's Daat? | WAR OF AMALEK (34)

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But the question should be, who's influencing your rabbis dot? Who's influencing your rabbi's opinion? Now, in the world of politics becoming mainstream and practically a standard in uh every household, it seems like it's become more and more common for even rabbis to have thrown their politics into the mix. There was a recent uh uh court ruling where uh the um in America where the division between state and uh and and religion is no longer a uh you know an absolute where they're now saying that even the uh religious leaders, the churches and so on uh could also state their opinion about politics even though it kind of negates uh the uh and blurs the lines between state and religion. But needless to say, is it a good thing? Is it a good thing that your rabbi likes to talk politics that he has a lot of opinions about corona virus, about who is the president, about uh the current affairs? Uh so much so that you see that the majority of his lectures are talking about it. Is that a good thing? Raan Vasiman's war of Amalech series will delve into this very relevant matter in order to understand the outcome of this new influence. It'll put things in perspective and allow us to understand a little bit more about the importance of who we're being influenced by. Now in section 28, continues to build on what we started last time where he says that unlike the past generations where the heretics, the those that went against the Torah would stand behind the scenes like a George Soros types of figure and try to put people in place in the position of power by empowering some unknown rabbi in order for him to uh in essence give them the so-called kashut. But in our generation, which needless to say is also our generation that we live in, these heretics have sometimes become the leaders, have actually become the rabbis themselves. And they teach all types of new ideas that have an influence, have an impact on people's lives. Some of them have even got into government. Some of them have, you know, positions of power beyond the pulpit. And you have even entire organizations that are supposed to be representatives of the Jewish people, but yet when you look at their religiosity, on one end, they're saying they're orthodox, they're rabbitical leaders, they're those that have dua. But when you look at their work and what they spend most of their time on, you see that literally nearly 100% of their time is delving into politics. Is that a good thing? Well, says that in the past generations, in the generation that he was in, this led to a lot of problems because these so-called leaders that spend more time in politics than they do in learning Torah ended up causing not only a lackings in their own Torah learning, but also lackings in their community's understanding of what Torah even is. And unfortunately, more and more people continue to choose RAV rabbis to be their influence or a rabbi that may not be, but is a type of rabbi that likes to invest more time into politics than they do into Torah learning. and sometimes even put the political and secular knowledge on a higher pedestal than they do in Torah. Now, when Rabb Fry, my dear Rav, was younger, he didn't know what a reformed rabbi is. Those things weren't really very uh common in Israel when we were younger. And uh he asked somebody, "What is a reformed rabbi?" I mean he he has a keep on uh you know what's just like the other one. No, he says no. A reformed rabbi can be explained by a story. In the world of Torah, usually stories are the best way to explain things. He says there was a guy that uh came to visit America and uh wanted to know where the uh local rabbi is and they told me, "Oh yeah, this uh rabbi is over there. He lives in such and such address. You can go over there." Now, he didn't know what a reform is, what a conservative is, orthodox. He didn't know anything. So he just went knocks on the door and as you would have it a woman without arms and legs meaning she doesn't cover half of our body opens the door said hello how can I help you? The guy is shocked says uh c can can I see the rabbi lives here? Oh yeah sure yeah the rabbi is here let me see if he's available. She goes and checks and while she's checking he's looking around. He sees statues everywhere, pictures of all types of politicians, all types of things that are not very common for the rabbis that he's used to to have. And she comes back, says, "Yeah, the rabbi is uh is available. You can go to the back." And as he's going into the house, he sees more and more of these strange things and he gets to the back. It's Shabbat. So, he was expecting to see maybe the rabbi having lunch or finishing lunch, you know, with his family, but he doesn't see any of that. He goes to the back of the house, he says perhaps maybe they're having their uh their sahuda or their enjoyment in the backyard, but as he gets closer, he sees there's no one there. And then he opens the door and he sees that the rabbi is working under his car fixing the different mechanics of the car on Shabbat. And he says on this I said the verse in the Torah where it says where the Torah says it's a about it's a great nation. It's huge. It's awesome. But the like to, you know, use the words of the Torah to say, you know, have different meanings also. Sometimes when they're mocking something or trying to deliver a certain message, it says this rabbi, this rabbi is not a regular rabbi. He's a gadole. He's a big He's uh this is a this is the this is a uh a big uh in so many words a person that does not know the difference between an and that has will not really understand the picture until they start learning Torah. In fact, sometimes you have even rabbis themselves not understanding the difference between them and the uh the ones that they're supposed to what they're supposed to be presenting. And says since so many people have empowered these these politicians that dress up like rabbis to be in a position of power. We have a new problem. What is this new problem? He says all of this has come to us where there's now since these these political rabbis have a poverty when it comes to Torah knowledge. This it causes others, those that are influenced by them, those that are learning from them, listening to them to also have deformed understandings of what real data is. As the says in page 92, poverty f follows after the poor. What does that mean? Poverty follows after the poor. So the has a section in where the discuss statements that are common in their days. For example, this one where says, "From where can we learn the source of this thing that people say poverty follows after the poor." And he said to Raa, he says, "We learned it in the Mishnaim in the third chapter Mishna number eight where it says in the times of the betdash, the wealthy people would bring their bikim, which was their first ripening fruits of the seven species, which the Torah praises Isel with, and they'd bring it to the beta mikdash. So the rich people would bring this bikim in baskets of gold and silver while the poor people would bring their bikim in baskets that were of willow twigs cheap basket. And the poor people would give their basket and the bikuim to the kanim. And the kanim would keep all of it both the fruits as well as the baskets. But the wealthy people they would give them the fruits but take back the the expensive baskets. So the say on this we see that you look even in this case the uh the poor the poverty follows the poor meaning the the the poor is giving even more of himself than the rich guy. Perhaps they were trying to increase the significance of the poor man's basket by also taking his basket himself. But at the end of it all, practically speaking, the uh the poor man suffered a a greater loss, if you will. Further the says another conversation between these two sages from where can we learn the source of the thing that people say that it's a bad pal that grows next to barren trees says well this thing is written in the Torah it's also repeated in the prophets and a third time it's also repeated in the in the writings and on top of it it's mentioned in the Mishna and the BA in the Torah it says Asav went to Ishmael and took Mahalat the daughter of Ishmael as a wife for himself the bad pal is Asav the barren trees Ishmael they grow next to each other went to Ishmael in the prophets it says the borish men collected around and they ventured forth with him meaning he was no good and he brought with himself more uh bad people. Another time it says in the writings, every bird dwells with its kind and a person with someone similar to him. That the Mishna says that whatever is tame, whatever comes out of it is also T. or that it's not for nothing that the starling went to the raven because they're similar species. In so many words, what the Rambam said in that you are going to be influenced by your surroundings is the outcome of everything that's stated here in the bad people attract bad people. A liar attracts liars. If you're a liar, you'll have a leader that's a liar. Whether that leader is a rabbi, a boss, a politician, or whatever it is, someone that's not straight is going to attract someone that's not straight. Someone that it's straight, someone that's honest, someone that has integrity is going to attract the same thing. Isav was attracted to Ishmael. Why? Because both of them were shim. At least at that time, even though sages say that later on in his life, Ishmael did chuva, but his descendants certainly did not do chuva and are bringing a lot of harm to am to this day. But the point is is that the had explanations for every statement and they said that when it comes to the poor people, poverty follows them. And the Benishai explains in a story where he says a way to understand this is that there was once a rich man who wanted to buy a new piece of jewelry. But he said to himself, "Why should I go to the store that I usually go to and spend another $100,000? Let me go to the store where the poor people buy. I'll buy from there. save me $100,000. At the same time, a poor man in the community said, "Ah, I've saved for the last 10 years all this money where I could finally buy a piece of jewelry from the rich man's community. Why should I only wear the poor man's jewelry? It's time that I buy myself something to feel rich." and both go to the stores. The rich man goes to the poor man's store and he buys a ring for a dollar. The poor man goes to the rich community store and he buys something with 10 years of savings, something very expensive. Both come to the synagogue and as soon as they come, the people say, "Oh, wow." Oh, to the rich man, look at this new ring that you have. This is absolutely amazing. Wow. We've never seen such wood. We've never seen so Wow. You must have You must have uh really been selective with your jewelry. And they're praising his $1 jewelry. Well, the poor man is waiting to get attention. To his dismay, as soon as people look at him, it's like, "Well, where did you get this uh fake gold? It looks real." Goes, "No, no, no, no, no. It's not fake. It's real." And the diamond's real, too. Yeah, right. It's not real. Come on. Stop it. Where'd you get it? Uh, one of these toy boxes or you painted it. How'd you do it? Goes, "No, no, really, it's real. I I spent I saved for 10 years. All of it." And no one would believe the poor man. says the Benishai. From here we see exactly what the says, the poverty follows after the poor. Even when the poor man finally finally bought something from the rich community, no one would believe him. In their eyes, they have a stigma on him. That's it. This is what he is. He can't get out of it. Says of The same thing impacts the world of Torah. He says, "The same goes with the Torah. When one who has poor who has poverty in Torah knowledge yet decides to teach others, all he ends up producing is other people with poor Torah knowledge. The fact that he spends his time thinking up his own convoluted ideas that are not sourced anywhere in the sages, anywhere in the Torah. The fact that he spends all of his time reading and delving into foreign subjects that are outside of the world of Torah, whether it be politics or philosophy or whatever it is that people delve into. This not only hurts his own Torah knowledge to the point where he himself is lacking in Torah Torah knowledge, but it'll influence whoever is actually watching him and is relying on him to be the the pillar of truth, the pillar of Torah. But says, "No, this ends up being a domino effect. People's poor selection of where they get their Torah ends up creating more damage for them than they can imagine." And on this he says we see the words of the Gona come to light where he says page 5A says says if a person sees that suffering has come upon him he should investigate his own actions where have I sinned maybe if he's losing money he should check am I giving the proper mass am I doing business honestly am I keeping Shabbat properly you know issues of kadusha is his wife modest all types of things that influence panata He has to delve into it. He has suffering says if you have suffering that's means that Hashem is sending you a message. What if he looked and he couldn't find he couldn't find that he's doing anything wrong? The says if he couldn't find anything that he's doing wrong then he should assume that it's because of Torah meaning not studying Torah enough and the Gona has an extraordinary question on this says how could this be well we all know that the sin of Torah meaning not studying Torah enough like you're supposed to is one of the greatest possible sins. Just like we know that learning Torah is one of the greatest mitzvot. So after there is such a big sin that he when we know it's such a big sin not to learn to how could it be that this guy that got suffering investigated his actions but couldn't find anything so therefore it should be the biggest sin. How how does that make sense? says the goa this is what the is telling us the reality is that he didn't looked at his actions and did not find any of his own wrongdoing not because he's not doing anything wrong not because he's so holy and he uh is studying enough and he's giving enough daka and everything is perfect. No, it's that's not the reason why he didn't find anything. Rather, it's the opposite. He couldn't find anything in his own actions because he did not learn enough Torah. Because had he learned enough Torah, certainly he would know and understand where his sin is. And that's why the is telling us that if he has suffering and he can't find a reason why blame it on not that is the only mistake that he made rather the reason why he doesn't know why he has so many problems is because he didn't learn Torah and therefore he does not even know what his sins look like. Many times you have different people. Sometimes they're leaders, sometimes their community members that like to state their opinions about important subjects, about any subject. Sometimes people just like to hear themselves talk. And when you tell them that, well, you realize that there is a about this. There's an there is a that spoke about this already. And unfortunately, when a person does not know Torah, they're more likely to dismiss and just say, "Nah, come on. I don't agree with this rabbi." What the Rambam says this, "I don't agree. I don't agree with what the Rambam says." What? Rabia said that. Listen, I'm not uh I'm not a big fan. I don't agree. I think he made a mistake there. What the rabbi said you should do this? No, I think they mistake. Look, we have this, we have that. The less a person knows about Torah, the more likely they are to dismiss that and treat it as if it's just another opinion. As if the opinion that he has is on the same level or even in the same world of magnitude as what Torah really is. And unfortunately sometimes this is something they learned from their source of influence. Call it rabbi, call it podcaster, call it whatever you want to call it. Because sometimes the way that the rabbi they have chooses to communicate the information is also in his own opinion where he's also dismissing data. He said, "Yeah, well, you know, Rab Vadia said this or Ravnner said that, Rav Moshe Feinstein said that, but I think perhaps maybe they if they knew all the information we know now, they would change it or I disagree and and in essence minimize that and there couldn't be a worse thing for them to do when they do this in front of people because when they minimize Torah in public. Even if that public is in front of their community of 10, 20, 50 people, that will have more impact, negative impact on their community than 10 good lectures that they're giving would have on positive. That's the way the Satan works. And that's why the go says if he sees that he has problems that he has suffering but he doesn't understand where because he can't find a sin in himself he should know for sure the only reason why he doesn't know which sin is causing the problem is because he did not study enough Torah in order to understand the difference between what's allowed and what's not allowed. what's dra and what's against the Torah. So what is he doing with his time? Many times you meet people where they are convinced that they know the entire Torah. Like they say about when he was two years old, he was a very clever little boy. He tells his uh father, "Aba, I know the entire Torah." His father, there was a big said, "Oh, already you know the entire Torah. I know the entire Torah." How do you know the entire Tawa? He says, "Well, Aba, I know the entire Alf and the Torah was written in Alf in the Hebrew alphabet. So therefore, I know the entire Tawa." Now this clever little boy ended up becoming one of Unfortunately sometimes people that are not even not even the small ones among think the same type of logic as a 2-year-old kid where they think because they know maybe a little bit of alphabet maybe they heard some shim here and there maybe they read a few books therefore they think they know I remember years ago when I asked Rab about a certain situation that was happening. It was a big maket in different between different big rabbis. And I said, "Well, how come it's so easy to pick the side of Rabya over this other rabbi? He's also a big rabbi." He says he's a big rabbi in certain aspects, but not in being a Tommy. I'm like, "What do you mean?" But he's teaching already for 30, 40, 50 years. Also, he says just because you're teaching for 40, 50 years doesn't mean you're when it comes to when it comes to there's a difference. There's levels. There's levels. The general public that does not know what that Torah is unless they themselves learn a lot of Torah. To them it seems like a personal preference where to choose what's right and what's wrong. And the less people know Torah says of the more of a problem this creates because then they end up choosing the wrong leader because they like the fact that he talks about the current affairs in politics, in business, in all types of conspiracies. If you haven't noticed, since the Corona virus started years ago, and even though it's been already long gone, the same group of rabbis that build themselves a stage discussing the conspiracy, discussing the vaccines, becoming biologists, chemists, and astrophysicists all one somehow without even having college education to do with those subjects. They literally built an entire audience that just watches them, a rabbitical figure theoretically teaching them about conspiracies. conspiracies of the Rockefellers, of the uh George Soros, of the government, of the uh Freemasons, the the the caged masons, that all types of nonsense that will never cause anybody to keep even a single mitzvah. And people think, oh, donating to them is a mitzvah. It's not a mitzvah. It's a mitzvah to help somebody publicize Torah. to help people do chuva by teaching the public about the Freemasons and all types of conspiracy theories and even if the conspiracy theories are all true is never going to help anybody do chuva. It's never going to help anybody learn how to keep Shabbat. It's never going to help anybody decipher what's right and what's wrong even. But unfortunately over the last several years because people's knowledge of Torah has declined their choice and preference of who they get influenced by who they learn from has deteriorated to the point where if the rabbi is speaking politics, that's my thing. If the rabbi is speaking supernatural stuff, that's my thing. He's teaching cabala. You don't even know. You want to learn cabala? Oh, rabbi, listen. I know the is important, but listen. I uh I want to hear all the cababalistic things. What cababalistic things you What are you talking about? Learn the basics and understand how to keep Shabbat properly first. But unfortunately, people do not understand and they end up choosing what's popular, what's more similar to what they like already from the secular world, the business talk, the political talk, the uh the self-help guru talk. You have even a group of rabbis that have become coaches. Rabbi such and such is a coach. Coach. What coach? Either rabbi or your coach? No, I'm a rabbi coach. In the time of of Isa Khalif, it was common for people that wanted to gain more prestige in the world, they would become a doctor rabbi. And Khalif says if you see that the rabbi calls himself doctor rabbi that means that the rabbi is sick spiritually sick. But many times you see people choosing the different types of influences that are not going to give them data, but rather they're going to give them a new perspective on the political situation in Israel, in Venezuela, in America, in England, in wherever, or are they going to give them a different perspective of the behindthecenes conspiracies that no one ever told you except all the YouTubes that they these rabbis got their research from. And unfortunately, this not only produces an audience that becomes even more ignorant than they were before, but it also ruins the rabbi further than what he ruined himself to begin with. Because instead of learning more Torah to elevate himself and thereby elevate his audience, he is spending his time learning more and more foreign subjects until even the Torah that he knows becomes influenced by the secular knowledge to the point where the secular knowledge gains superiority over his Torah decisions. recently told a story where he went to visit one of the important rabbis that are leading the dati in Israel. The Tleumi is Israel's version of modern orthodox if you will. and he wanted to find out what has happened with the dati rabbis and and different leaders that have suddenly become enemies of the if you're orthodox Jewish whether you wear a black keepa or a uh a different type of keepa if you're obviously if you believe in a Torah you know the importance of Torah you should love the you should support them you should help them why you going against them and saying that everybody should go to the army and uh all types of things that even the secular people don't say sometimes. So Rabbi Tusf wanted to find out what's the underlying cause here that this rabbi is saying such things. So he went to his house and when he entered the house as he was waiting for the rabbi he saw that there's a bunch of secular newspapers on a table which is absolutely forbidden and he says to the assistant over there huh what's this doing here all these secular newspapers how how can you have them here the assistant looks at says What are you talking about? The rabbi, meaning the rabbi, he gets them every day and reads them. And says, "From there, I already got my answer. I didn't need the meeting anymore. Now I know why this rabbi that has learned Torah, has lived a religious life has suddenly changed to the negative and actually in agreement with the Zionist lefty liberal and anti- Torah world because he is delving into foreign newspapers that are constantly speaking negative. about the Torah, about the world of Torah, thinking that it's not affecting him because he thinks he's getting the news. In reality, the words of the Rambam are coming true inside that community where the more they delve into the secular world, the more they accept the secular secular mentality into their own lives. The more they become even worse than secular people many times. Now, the rabbi can have the excuse, well, listen, the rabbi needs to know the news, needs to know what's going on. There's a very big difference between knowing the headline and delving into the articles on a regular basis. And even that sometimes is not even necessary. Now when the rabbis learning becomes inappropriate, newspapers and journalists and podcasts and bloggers and all types of so-called literature that is foreign to the Torah and many times an enemy of the Torah to such a point where he's spending a lot of his time learning this. Even if he's learning Torah, his Torah knowledge and ability to decipher one thing from another in order to make the appropriate decision will be influenced in a negative way because this is the way that created the person and that's why the Rambam says in chapter two number four that a person will be influenced by his surroundings whether he likes it or not. He will be influenced by whatever he allows to influence him. And the same thing goes for those that are watching him. If you watch a heretic long enough, you'll become a heretic. If you watch atheists, missionaries, all types of things like that, eventually you'll become just like them. The times of uh of Mosha Feinstein, I love Shalom of Mos of Mosha Feinstein was a extraordinary ga sadik anav. and to some that were not even the grains under his feet. It seemed like he was too lenient in certain alakut especially the way that he wrote he was very short with many subjects of how he would make a leniency on something or choose the lenient side without giving much explanation. So those that were not aware of his greatness would criticize him. And one time Moshe Feinstein writes to them to his adversaries that a response and he says while I'm happy that you are trying to rebuke me because you think that my lenencies are not valid. You should know that everything that I write is only Torah because I have never let my any secular book or subjects enter my mind. While you admit that you regularly delve into the secular matters and thereby your opinions are influenced by them and also by the opinion of what will people think and have turned the community's the community stringencies into somehow or the heo, the magnifying a mitzvah, that's not an obligation, but somehow you've turned that into a mustdo. Whereas my words are only influenced by pure Torah. Can you imagine someone living nearly a hundred years never allowing any secular subject influence them in any way, shape or form but yet having such wide knowledge about every subject you could possibly comprehend. How is it possible? As I've said once and a thousand times and we'll say for another million times, all seven wisdoms that exist in the world are inside the Torah. And only few extraordinary were able to pick certain things from the world like the Rambam whether it be philosophy or other things that he learned. And he says, "I only took these different wisdoms from the world in order to help me learn more Torah because these other wisdoms are like little seasonings for the queen." But what people think is that they'll become smarter if they learn more philosophy. They'll become smarter if they learn more science. They'll become smarter if they become politicians, not realizing that all the wisdom you can possibly need or have is already inside the Torah. And the more a person delves into other subjects, especially foreign and inappropriate subjects, the more those subjects are going to influence even their existing Torah knowledge. And this is why the ignorant say that the Torah ways says that we have seem rotten in their eyes because they're clueless about Torah. And when you're clueless about Torah, what ends up happening is that you become spiritually sick to the point where what you view as straight is really crooked. And what you view as crooked really is straight because you don't understand what that is. You don't understand how a that has toiled day and night for many many decades how his mind even works. for that. I'll give you a couple of examples. There was once I was traveling and got to a certain town and he wanted he needed a place to stay especially for Shabbat. And he came to the synagogue and he was waiting to see who would show up. And shortly after he came, another man came in, sat down and started reading tailing. So Tom, looked at him for a few moments and then got up and came up to him. Hi Rab Davidid, I hope you're doing well and your businesses are continuing to succeed. Who are you? He says, "Oh, I uh travel from such and such town and I was hoping that uh somebody would host me for Shabbat." He said, "Sure, I'll be happy to host you, but I have to ask you, how did you know that I'm Davidid?" So tells him, well, it's a long analysis. It's very, you know, a lot of decisions had to be determined. Well, now you're my guest, says Ravi. I want to know, please tell me, how did you know that I'm Ravied? Then how did you know my business is doing well? says, "Well, listen, before I came to the town, they I was told that this town has 10 Jews and uh the rabbi's name is Ra Davidid and he has uh successful businesses and there's also a gil rich person that he is very wellto-do and part of the government here or the and then there's also a uh sufam and a realtor. And when I looked at you, I said certainly this is uh not the doesn't look like a gir to me. If he was a he uh would come with several people, he can't be the su because he would have some ink on his fingers. And if you were to say, "Well, maybe I washed it. I looked at your hair and it was dry." And then I continued looking. I said, "Maybe is the meamed of the kids, the one that teaches the young kids, but it's only 6:30 in the morning." And usually the mill of the kids is not staying in the bet midash at 6:00 in the morning. He has to attend to the kids at that time, get ready for them. So, he can't be. And it certainly could not be the realtor because the realtor I remembered somebody told me the realtor's name was and you're Davidid. He says, "How did you know my name is Davidid then?" Oh, because on the way in I saw the chair and it had the name Davidid on it. The point is the way that the analysis was broken down gives us an idea at least an idea that their thought process is certainly not the same. But the gives an even better example. in page 104A and continues into B gives an extraordinary example of the great minds of am when they learn Torah and the tells a story. There was once these two men, two Jews that were taken captive on Mount Kill being uh captured. They would sell them as slaves and uh it wouldn't be a good life. Let's just say that. And these two were captive and they were taken and now to be traded somewhere. And as they were walking on the way, the one that captured them, the boy that captured them was listening to their conversation as he was walking behind them. And one Jew said to the other, "You know, a few miles ahead, there's a camel walking in front of us. that's blind in one eye. And as he has on top of him, he's carrying two flasks. One that's containing wine and one that's containing oil. And there are two men that are leading this camel. One of them is a Jew and one of them is a Gentile. When the captor heard this, he said, "You stiff necked people, where do you know all this stuff? How do you know? There's a a camel led by two people. One of them is Jewish, one of them is not Jewish. What he's carrying? He has wine. He has oil. How could you possibly know any of this stuff? you can't even see them. So the Jew tells him, well, you see, as you were walking, I paid attention and I see that only one side of the grass is being eaten. The right side is being eaten. So it must be that the camel is blind in one eye cuz he only eats from the side that he can see. Okay. Well, how do you know what he's carrying? Well, as you were walking, I noticed that there were drips on the ground. Two types of drips. One drip sunk into the ground, made a little hole, and one did not. It floated. Wine, when it drips on the floor, it sinks into the sand. But oil floats, stays on top. Fine. How do you know that there's two people leading them and one is Jewish and one is not? He said, "Because on the way, I noticed that the people went to the bathroom. You know, they relieved themselves at the side of the road. One relieved themselves close to the road. That must be the and one relieved themselves a little further from the road because he's a Jew and he's preserving his modesty. The captor heard this and said, "I must find out." And he started running forward to go catch up to the camel with the two people there. And he got there and he confirmed every single thing that this Tom said. He came back and kissed them on the head and blessed Hashem after he brought them to his house and made them a great feast and danced before them saying, "Blessed is he who chose the seed of Abraham and gave them of his wisdom. Wherever they go, they become the princes of their masters. And he released these two Jews and they went to their homes in peace. How did these two Jews that were captured and sold to be slaves gather this wisdom? Did they get it at Harvard? No. Did they get it at Yale? Absolutely not. Did they watch the news? Not even if it existed back then. Did they get it from some political leader or rabbi that likes to talk about politics and all types of conspiracies and and who and what and when is happening in the world. No, they got it from the same place that Mosheu and all of Am got it from, which is the Torah that we received at Mount Si. The Torah that has no end, that is whiter than the ocean, that contains all wisdoms, all good and every possible pleasure that you could ever imagine is not equivalent to knowing what Torah is. Vasman is telling us here. This deficiency in the generation has gotten to the point where people are not only choosing leaders that are misinformed, leaders that do not contain and have dora. But it's creating a domino effect that their children and their children's children will continue to deteriorate even worse. Because if the parents are listening to a politician that's dressed like a rabbi, then guess what? The children will end up listening to the politicians and the grandkids. Who knows if they'll even believe in God? And we see how this has transpired over the last 80 years. Even though there was the enlightenment, even though there was a lot of secularism and there was communism and there was a lot of things that isn't doing good. Hence the reason why brought the holocaust. The religiosity back then was still much more significant than what we have today. The good news is that today made Torah and truth so readily available that anyone that wants it can get it. It's easy to get. It's cheap to get. It's even free. But a person that is not really looking for the truth, a person that is looking for something that is in the same realm as what he enjoys from the secular world. He wants a rabbi that does podcasts about music, about all types of taboo subjects. He wants to learn from someone that's going to constantly talk about secular subjects. And even when he brings the weekly parasa, he's going to compare it to the president of the country. He's going to compare it to a secular author. He's going to compare it to some scientist that's in the news. He wants somebody that is well aware of what's really happening in the world. And what ends up happening? This guy that is uninformed and too ignorant to even know what data is, becomes even more ignorant about what data is because now he's choosing a speaker, choosing a rabbi, choosing a leader and a source of influence that is not really someone that's capable of giving him data. Instead, he's giving him his political opinion. Instead, he's giving him his conspiracy opinion. Instead, he's giving him all types of foreign opinions that are never going to influence him to get closer to Mount Sai. So is in essence telling us the degradation of the generations continues to have an impact on us because it's not just the bad leaders but rather that now these bad leaders have produced fruit where their students are not only don't have dra as a result of listening to this leader. But they also do not even have data of how to choose the right leader, how to choose data because they don't value the Torah. They don't see these two Jewish capttors as anything special just like the guy didn't see them as anything special until he heard their truth and the wisdom that they had. And that's why anyone that wants to get closer and closer to to have access to has to be very very careful with who they listen to. Has to be very careful with what books they read. Has to be very careful with what they allow into their house in every way, shape, or form. Just in the last few days, multiple people have asked me about some of these younger people that have started giving Torah videos. What do I think about this and what do I think about that? And generally, if someone is creating enough of a damage by their heretical opinions, I speak about it. But we've have too many wars that sometimes it's better not to mention every single heretic out there cuz sometimes it makes them even more popular. But people ask me, "What do you think about this one? What do you think about that one?" And unfortunately, I see that people literally, even if they've watched some of our lectures, they still haven't learned how to determine who to listen to because their decisionmaking skills are not based on the Torah knowledge of the person, on the shamim of the person, on how this person presents themselves. Their decision-m is based on what other people said. Oh yeah, I heard this guy and and people like him. Why why do they like him? Well, listen, he uh he's really uh he talks in about Amuna. Okay, great. But why do people like him? What's the Well, you know, he's very modern. Okay, fine. I mean, have you looked at the way he looks? I mean, he looks more like, I don't know, a non-Jewish model than he does look like someone that you should learn Tawa from. So I mean if that's the way you want to be then why are you asking me the question? A person has to present themselves in a certain way. I'm not saying that everyone has to have long primal and but the discerned look that the world of Torah is supposed to present something at the very least more conservative when the speaker is walking around with a halfopen shirt like he just came out of a nightclub or rock concert. I don't know if you can call whatever he or she says Torah because the Torah is conservative. The Torah is modest. Or another person. Oh, listen. Is he good? Why do you think he's good? Well, my cousin listens to him. Does your cousin listen to him for a long time? Yes. How long has he been listening to him? Oh, he's been listening to him already for a year. Great. Does your Does your cousin keep Shabbat? No. Well, if he's listening to him to for a year, why is he not keeping Shabbat? Well, the this this this guy said that if it's hard for you, you don't have to do it. And you're still asking me if you should listen to this person, this so-called rabbi or speaker or whatever he is, or another. Somebody sends me a video says, "Listen, Rabbi, it's a little weird. I'm not going to ask you to watch this whole thing. I said, even if you ask me, I can't watch these videos. But what do you what tell me something specific? I I answered, well over here, he said that the is from the what do you think of that? I said, what do I think of it? Bah just put a curse on this person. Every single Jewish sage in Amad that ever lived, including Yakov, Moshe Von, David [Applause] Every religious Jewish person has just put a curse on this that called the from the that with a degree and you're asking me if he's good. People simply do not have the capability of making the right decisions because they're not looking for a source of truth. They're looking for something popular. They're looking for something that's similar to what the non-Jewish world, the secular world is looking at. They're looking to bring secularism into the world of Torah. And if that's what you're trying to do, then all you're doing is continuing the domino effect of negativity, of deficiency, of degradation of the generations. Vasim in essence is trying to tell us these false leaders that were put into power did not just impact his generation. They've impact the next generation where the people have gone to the point where they rather pick a rabbi because of the way he dresses because he has a strim and he has pot despite the fact that he promotes using ayawasa and other hallucinagen drugs that are literally the Satan himself. You're listening to him recommending drugs, things that are illegal, things that are against the Torah, things that Feinstein says according to the Torah, a person that takes this deserves a death penalty. You're listening to him. Why? Because he calls himself aid because he has the garments. Which to did you ask about whether you should listen to this before you decided to? Unfortunately, if you shop around in the world is telling us you will find more garbage than you will find good. In fact, it wasn't just it was who said that the generation before Mashiach comes the majority of rabbis will be and the same teachings was elaborated and explained by the majority of rabbis in his generation. He said, "We're out of love. This is not to speak against the good guys. The good guys don't need you to speak against them or for them. The good guys know what they're doing. They're good. This is to warn you that if you continue shopping around everywhere because of your different interests, then you are putting yourself and your ability to access in jeopardy. You have to have a rabbi that has most of his time dedicated to learning to and helping is. If your rabbi is del is spending most of his time, learning about politics, learning about conspiracies, if your rabbi admires the pope and other, if your rabbi says things that are foreign to the Torah, like God needs you or God has a body or all types of other convoluted heresies that are out there, then you have a very, very serious problem because you're putting yourself in a position where you're not going to even know the difference between what is and of a person. You need to learn from the right sources, from the right places, and it'll take time and effort and complete dedication in order for you to clean up whatever filth you've allowed into your mind. Because if you just think this is extreme or or or it's too much or you could just do whatever you want, by all means, suit yourself. Everyone has to make a choice in this world. People like to call it free choice. But anyone that understands reward and punishment, one of the 13 principles of faith, knows that the last thing we have is free choice. It's definitely not free. We have choice. We can make whatever choice we want to do. But it's not free. For every single mitzvah, you will be rewarded. And for every single sin, you will be punished. Listening to heresy is not just bad. It's a sin. A very big one. in many aspects even worse than looking at immorality because the immorality may influence you for a certain amount of time but you could overcome it but heresy could literally influence the your entire life. Be very careful with your put it in you in order for you to take care of it. And each and every one of us will take care of that precious and be able to learn to learn that understand that Torah is available but you just have to do everything in your power to get it and hold on to it at all costs. Thank you very much for learning with me. 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