Why Are Jews Still In Exile? (Tisha BeAv & Teshuva Special)

[Music] how 5777 now is 6:15 p.m. almost is over so we have with us here shalita one of the famous lectur is going to speak about sh sh why are we still in Exile what's meaning of the shab so we are happy to have him here very important message thank you for the thank you for having me next year we could be together again seeing the mashia but the question today that I want to present to Theos is why is am still in Exile why are we here K says that anyone that wants an opportunity to see Y in its peak with celebrations must cry today must cry at the times when it's not at its peak when at the Times where it's destroyed even though we still have the and people celebrating that we have a independent nation which we do the reality is is very different we still are under control of both the go which influenced the Israeli government but also the goish mentality not just the non-jews but also the mentality of the non-jews which is also unfortunately inside the Israeli government and it's running millions of Jews into confusion many of them don't even know that today is a special day for us to mourn many of them don't know much about Judaism and the question is why the question is why are we here why are we so confused why don't we know what to do and why isn't the Messiah here to save us so and as The Story Goes hasem decided already Mount saai it's going to be a day that am is going to mourn for crying for no reason he decided this is going to be a day that we're going to actually have a reason and for the last 3,300 years we've always had a reason to cry in 2,500 years ago approximately we lost the first bet mikdash about 2,000 years ago we lost the second one for many reasons we've all heard so much about whether it be or murder we have all these things but if you look at Mid it goes into depth about the reason behind it the Prophet Jeremiah already in the first chapter of the book of that he wrote every single word through R KES and every single word with a cup full of tears to match it because he saw all of this he wasn't writing about something that happened before him that's why in the first verse of chapter three of the book of book of Lamentations he says I know suffering I know suffering how does he know suffering I saw it he saw am said get murdered and slaughtered by the the Roman Empire that decided that Jerusalem is a place they need for no reason very much the same thing of all of the other go throughout the years they've always wanted Jerusalem they've always wanted to destroy am but never really had a valid reason they just needed it they have the entire world it's not enough for them they want this little piece of land the entire Israel is smaller than the size of New Jersey Jerusalem obviously even smaller but everyone fights over this one land the zos says the prophecy that at the end of times the Arabs are going to fight for even a smaller piece of land within the small land it's going to be one of the signs the mashiah is near and we see it happening you follow the news you see it happening right now they're fighting for AR more than ever mashia is knocking on the door eventually someone has to answer but the question is why we here why are we crying why are we mourning why don't we have the BET mikdash why are we so confused so the book of talks about how at the times of the bet mikdash the leaders did part of the job part of the job was teaching certain things the other part is to wake them up when they needed it so that was specifically a job for for the prophets the prophets all prophets from the beginning of time until the end of time all prophets all prophecy ended about 2,000 years ago their main job was to rebuke the people tell them that they're doing wrong tell them that hey it's time to wake up stop violating Shabbat stop eating kit stop eating non kosher get married don't waste seed and so on all of the mitv waking up to people with the hard mitv not just the easy ones the easy ones of you know make sure your is really good they don't you don't need a profit for that the hard ones that make people Flinch a little bit they don't really like to hear it they don't like to hear that they have to change their lifestyle that hasem says I'm going to send the prophets but unfortunately am did not really accept the words of the prophets and killed many of them so Hashem says I sent you different messages you didn't listen I sent you different Messengers not only you didn't listen but you killed the messenger times run out I have to be the messenger but the problem is that when Hashem is the messenger it hurts it's painful so how did we get to this point in uh the same time of the mikdash we have a story in about trying to see if it's possible to save something so since his son-in-law was the leader of the bonim the bonim were like the zionists of their day the bonim were people that were trying to fight with their own arms with their own weapons with their own minds they didn't really want AEM to much they wanted they wanted their own power to beat theim and they force their power on the on the Jews in what way by locking Jerusalem down and saying no one's in no one's out and it's our rule they took over but to such an extent that they caused the starvation of the people and that's why the book of says that the worst punishment was not really the sword of the go but was actually the starvation of the Jews Jews starving Jews so ranan B zakai snuck out pretended that he was dead so his talim put him in a coffin and said listen we we can't bury anyone in Jerusalem so we have to take him out so the weren't exactly uh or anything they weren't exactly full of good mid so they said oh let us check what do you mean check sadik you're going to open his grave even the go know you're not allowed to do that okay so let us stab the coffin to make sure he's dead so you're not pulling a fast one on us you g to stab a holy body long story short they said okay fine fine fine get out so here we already see the was pulling willing to put his life on a on a line knowingly for what to go talk to the leader of the go the leader of the go was vpan that was his English name vpan and he came to him and he says Shalom King hello King hello King he said it twice is the English name besian says you deserve two death penalties not one for saying for calling me king one I'm not a king so says no you are you're a king because it's written in our Torah that only a king can take down Jerusalem not an average person or an average Commander only a king So as they're arguing somebody comes in and he says the king died and they elected you to be the king the king committed suicide in Rome and and he they elected you to be a king So pan says toan you still deserve a death penalty why the second reason I've been here in Jerusalem for three years surrounding Jerusalem for three years if you knew I was King where were you until now where were you until now every day an average Jew says blessings you're supposed to do 100 blessings a day and whatever the blessing is whatever the rest is saying blessed you hem the king of the world king of the world that gave me fruit that gave me bread that gave me this that gave me that but every day what do we do we sanctify hashem's Name by reminding ourselves and others that he's the king of the world so every day we're reminded AEM is the king of the world but sometimes we say it he's the king of the world but not me everyone else he's the king of except me he's the king of him and them and them and them and them but not me why not me because I'm allowed to do this a I'm allowed to do this or that that sin or this sin or that sin like he doesn't see he's king of everyone except you so if everyone would have said he's the king of everyone except me then you leave king of no one so each day we have an opportunity to connect to hm and ask him for different things but there Comes A Time where hasm says fine you ask for all these things and I gave you many of them you wanted to see I give you Vision you wanted to hear I gave you hearing you wanted P I gave youa you wanted marriage I gave you a Isa I gave you a give whatever you know man or woman you wanted children I gave you children you wanted food I gave you food I gave you all these things and every day you told me king king of the world king of the world king of the world so why you still driving on Shabbat why you still not eating kosher why you still have a reformed mentality where you think that you're supposed to modernize the Torah change it why you think I didn't know that the year 5777 on 2017 is going to happen when I wrote the Torah it has to change nothing changes where were you until now mhia shows up there's not going to be an opportunity to do chuva the prophet says that one of the things is going to be a sign of the mhia is that he's going to be able to smell your whether you have or not whether you have fear hm or not whether you really have when you say king of the world you really mean he's me including you he's going to be able to smell it and two verses later it says he's going to punish on the spot he's smelling it you have okay come with me to come you're protected no punished on the spot so anyone that thinks he's gonna have a little bit of time to say no no no but I didn't mean it but no but I could do this I could do that what is he going to say to you where were you until now where were you where were you until now so at the time of the bet mikdash some of the things that we don't know is that the very same reformed mentality that's trying to destroy the Torah and Judaism today existed already back then if you look at the history books whether it's Josephus or some other writings that were at the time you see that after vpan got this kinghood he left left and he put He says it also in he says that he left his uh Titus Titus in charge he left Titus in charge and Titus was the one that ended up destroying bet mikdash now the sad part of all of it is that Jews helped them along the way there's a king by name of Herod hus in English he's called Herod the Great who's credited with uh rebuilding not building the entire bet mikdash but fixing it up and kazal says that anyone who hasn't seen herod's bet mikdash after he remodeled it hasn't seen a beautiful building but many of the Great sages through history says so how could someone that fixed and invested millions and millions of dollars to rebuild the BET mdash be called is because in reality all he was doing was trying to get himself a name it's like somebody donating a million dollars for the B not because he cares about to he still drives on Shabbat still eats non kosher still goes out with a Goya he doesn't care about to but he wants his name on theet this in essence is what Herod did he killed a bunch of sikim because he thought they're not going to accept him because he used to be a slave but he thought that maybe I could do chuva by investing I'll buy myself a really biget I'll take a billion dollars and I'll put in AET called mdash great they're going to remember me as Herod the Great so what is that that's a reformed mentality that's not Judaism that's Judaism without mus that's Judaism without that's Judaism without God that's Judaism as like a culture he said I'm going to invest a lot of money into stone maybe that way everyone's GNA think I'm a sadik but he wasn't worried about what Hashem thinks people say yeah but at least he should be Tak we should remember him for good he did something good so from good maybe something else maybe his descendants will be better than him sadly something that's tame only tame can come out of it a few Generations later his great granddaughter her name was bernes and bernes was even more reformed than Herod and she decided that she wants to be a politician and to make negotiations between the Romans and am but to such an extent that she was on the Roman side just like the people that fight for the Jewish people that fight for Palestine that doesn't exist and eventually what did she do she married Titus so a Jew marri Titus the that actually says in of all the G that he goes through she married him thinking no no this is good this K I'm marrying I'm Marrying the G but I'm gonna make peace I'm protecting the Jews little does she know that it doesn't matter what people think it only matters what thinks and if hasem wants you to win you're going to winm wants you to lose you're going to lose wants you to be rich you'll be rich wants you to be poor you'll be poor also says that a person's is already decided on from to is already decided so the bov asked one time if it's already decided on I'm going to get why does another part of the mishna which preceded the say that you're also judged for it every day if I'm already judged on R why am I judged every day also you're already judged you already decided so he saw one time somebody that was carrying water he says how are you and he says oh everything is good it's hot but is good everything is good family is good the next St sees the same guy carrying the same water for the last 20 years says how are you know everything so hard this all of a sudden what happened says you helped me understand a that I've been looking into for years he goes me helped you how could I help the B he says I've always asked if they judge me already on sh why are they judging me every day in sh you help me they already decided in sh what I'm going to get upon I'm going to get I'm to 50,000 100,000 200,000 200 million whatever I'm going to get they already deciding sh on sh what do they judge every day they judge every day how I'm going to get it I'm G to get it working really hard at 95 degree weather I'm going to get it just sitting on my computer doing five minutes worth of work I'm going to get it working overtime or I'm going to get it working just a big basic level basic level so here we understand that someone that has true true understanding of what really put them in this on this Earth for will never ever work overtime will never ever feel even an inclination to spend any extra time chasing money when he knows that is the one that decides what he gets whether you work an hour a day you work 100 hours day it doesn't matter the key is having a blessing in the dollar that you get because even if you work a million hours a day you find a trick to the system and you invent a day that has 25 hours not 24 and you find a way to work all 24 25 hours if there's no in the money it's worthless if I never worked a day in my life on in a in the business world then you don't need to listen to me what do I know but anyone that knows my personal story knows that we spent a lot of time working on Wall Street and had much much money go through our hands Good Times bad times millions of dollars so I know a little bit about money I know a little bit about having in your money and I know a lot about not having in your money so here we have Bernice thinking that she could have our own blessings our own way our own strategy excluding God and God says going with the go is already one punishment thinking that you can beat the system is the second level of punishment so even during our lifetime only a couple of years after she married Titus the Romans decided that even though we beat the Jews we destroyed the bet mikdash we did everything it's still not really Pleasant for us to see a Jewish woman Inside the the Kingdom so Titus cared a lot about what people think so he threw her out so even that she couldn't win this is one of the disasters toout history that's not really spoken about is that in reality it's not just the sins we made of the known sins that caused the disaster of bet mikdash but rather it's more of who was behind it it wasn't just the Romans it wasn't just the Romans last year we did in sh we did a big lecture in New York brought many sources to show that unfortunately although the Nazis killed six million Jews it wasn't only go Nazis there were some Jewish Nazis too there were some Jewish Nazis some Jews that pretended they're not Jews they reformed their mentality some of them came from atheist families that didn't believe in God some came from traditional families that believed in God on Friday night and some actually came from Orthodox families but didn't really believe didn't really believe in Judaism they you know they likeed they were they were the black and white but inside it was just black and there's actually documentary about it mentioning different names different people it's documented it's not like you're mentioning oh maybe maybe no it's m proven evidence this actually happened we talked about it last year so the question is how do we get to such a point how do we get to such a reformed mentality such a warped mentality of of of what we're supposed to be on earth to such an extent that we join the enemy that we have this week it says thatu prayed 515 times begging AEM for Mercy to go and enter isem says enough don't pray anymore I don't want to hear it anymore I decided that you're not going to enter so ask why what's the big deal what's the big deal of letting mosenu in because mosenu was saying listen even if you don't want me to come in as a m I'll come in as a g put me into a cow I'll be a cow if that's not good put me into a bird put my into a bird and I'll fly over is so kazal answers he says if mosu would have come in the first thing he would have done was build mikash if he would have come in as a cow he would have been a Corban in bet mikdash if he would have been a bird also would have been a Corban bet mikdash and one of the deals that hasem made with mosenu was that anything that he does he puts a stamp on it it's permanent it's Eternal the Torah that he gave him five books of Moses is eternal can't change doesn't matter if it's 2017 or 2097 or 1927 it's irrelevant Torah is permanent doesn't change it knows about you it knows about your grandfather knows about your children knows about everything so now said if I put you into is you're going to build the mikdash I already know as AEM that knows the future that am is eventually going to make very big sins after they change their mentality and give into the yet they're eventually going to make enough sins where the Satan is going to say listen according to your Torah who doesn't change it's always been the same you've gotten to the line you have to destroy the nation so I'm going to say to them no I'm not going to destroy the nation I'm going to destroy Stones I'm going to destroy my own house but if mosu built it I can't use that excuse ifu built a mikdash I can't destroy the house anymore I would have to destroy the people and I don't want to destroy my children so despite all of the 515 prayers of mosenu where each prayer was heavier and more significant than the entire nation's prayer put together each one 515 hasm says no don't pray anymore he didn't tell him the reason says it's enough sometimes we don't know the reason why hasm does what he does but he knows what he's doing he's been here for a while but later on in the par we see at the end of the Paras hasem is giving us a little bit of details of who should feel okay if the Messiah arrives who should be worried who should say for the mashia to arrive and who should say for the mashia not to arrive and the last three verses says so is telling is a rule a rule that doesn't change you should know that hasem your God he's the god the faithful God who safeguards the Covenant and the kindness for those who love him and those who observe his Commandments for thousands of generations so rule number one he tells you you keep mitv you're considered aem's Lover he loves you you love him he says the ones that love him are the ones that keep his Commandments which means the opposite is the opposite if you don't keep Commandments you're not considered his lovers so if you're considered one of his lovers you all of the basic laws of Judaism says you're considered part of hashem's lovers and he's going to pay you for thousands of generations you say comfortably come you're going to be okay if you're keeping all the mitv not if you're doing like 30% all the stuff you like one of the also includes to means you see somebody that's making a sin am see them driving on Shabbat you have to say something if you can't speak you get somebody else to speak you give him a CD you give him a shi you give him a link you do something you can't just sit there look pretty no no I'm keeping me I'm keeping because that's why the mdash was destroyed the Prophet Jeremiah says in the first page first page of he says why was the BET mikdash destroyed because no one rebuked no one said anything everyone said the No Going worry about myself worry about myself worry about myself eventually everyone worried about themselves and no one worried about anybody else eventually everybody fell together so the first thing first M tells you rule number one if you you're good how many people can really go before they go to sleep when they say they do V do V you read sins you made says in the Torah means you made a sin you didn't know it's a sin a means you made a sin you know it's a sin but no not on purpose it's just you you know beat me means I did it on purpose to make a angry da why CU he didn't give me the job I wanted why because my girlfriend broke up with me why because my kids failed the test why because my boss uh made me angry you go to war with God like Bernice and then it says details all the things we did can can anyone say no none of this is relevant to me before they go to sleep ever in their life no no I didn't do anything yet everything on this list nothing I'm good comfortable with myself I didn't do I didn't do a I didn't doti I didn't get angry is this is a thing as a Jew not getting angry without mus doesn't exist without working and fixing your n like a diamond it doesn't exist it's impossible not to get angry without M all we have is anger so here we see that yes it's good is good but we're not 100% there yet we still got work to do on the other hand our brothers and sisters which unfortunately is almost 80% of who doesn't know anything who hasn't done chva yet who doesn't keep or even say or perhaps doesn't even keep Shabbat he says the opposite what happens to them and he repays his enemies in their lifetime to make them perish he will not delay a payment for their enemies to their face he's going to pay them in their lifetime so I've always asked how do we know this actually happens in real life okay it's nice it's great how do you see this stuff actually happening now none of us have gone TOA and come back to tell the story but there's a lot of proofs in where you can see this stuff happening about a week and a half ago there was a celebrity rock star I believe he was Jewish I think he he has a Jewish name at least who succeeded in an extraordinary way millions and millions of Records probably worth over $100 million if not more six kids with two women so it seems like in the material world he had it all 41 years old he decided to hang himself and die so for all the money in the world that many people chase he had it but it wasn't enough children that everybody wants yet had six wasn't enough wives two wasn't enough Fame more than even the celebrities normally have he's one of the top not enough so if there's any ever proof that money doesn't solve anything and definitely does not bring happiness this is one of them but unfortunately this is a recurring story everyone knows of the famous comedian that killed himself about a year and a half ago or so um Robin Williams at the peak of his career worth a fortune you could feed several civilizations with had kids had a wife all the material you could want all the fame you could ever desire not enough and many many other stories like this it's a recurring thing unfortunately that's the P for this for this PUK in hasem punishes the snake he punishes everyone but the snake has a special curse Hashem says you are you are cursed a is going to have to work to make a living a woman is going to suffer when she raises the kids and to bring kids to the world their punishment is still going to have some pleasure there's still a certain amount of pleasure in working hard and winning you work in a project for a year two years three years and it works out you work on a book for a year two years 3 years four years 10 years and it works it sells you work on a lecture for however long and it works feels good you worked hard but it feels good so there's like suffering a little bit CU it's hard but there's something good out of it you carry the child for nine months suffering no woman can say I love being pregnant but you see the little baby baby wakes you up at night every night you can't sleep ever it's okay you see the little baby smile it's worth it baby causes you headaches all day he's five six seven years old but you see the little baby say im it's okay baby causes trouble you see him say it's okay I can tell I have a two-year-old kid and also five-month old seeing my daughter do a blessing for the first time Priceless she didn't say all the words all she did was am in and everybody had to do amen amen and she ate million bucks it was worth coming to the world just for that a whole body went into the blessing everything went into the blessing but then we didn't know that it had to be every bite so she finished the bite she started so she Another Blessing aen we have to say amen amen she had another bite and that was the whole meal again worth it to come to the world just for the second bite but she doesn't sleep and she do and doesn't matter you see the little baby it's worth the anguish it's worth the suffering it's worth the headache there's a there's there's a pleasure in there but the snake the snake is an enemy of Hashem Hashem says I'm G to give you everything without struggle you're never going to struggle to find food because you could eat anything you could eat a cow you could fit it in your mouth you could eat a rat you could eat screws you could eat anything you want everything you could eat all the p in the world I'm giving you everything you want you could take just don't call me don't talk to me I don't want to hear from you I don't want to hear from you you want something I'm giving you ahead of time all the money in the world all the p in the world all the fame in the world everything you want but because you are R you went against me I don't want to talk to you anymore and just so you know it's all going to taste the same after a while whether it's a million dollars or a billion dollar it's all the same what do you think that Bill Gates enjoys his 50th billion more than he enjoyed his first or second billion it's all the same ask any millionaire what's more valuable the first thousand they made or the first billion they all answer you the first thousand back then they had some sensation to it after a while losing sensation especially when your biggest accomplish accomplishment in life is creating something that is Obsolete and it doesn't matter anymore like the snake so here we see in the very same week as we learned something significant we learned that expects more from us he expects us to do something more he expects us to get closer to him than to just say am in to just show up to to just donate a million dollars and just walk away but not actually do not actually keep the because what he expects us to do is to work on ourselves because if we don't work on ourselves it's very easy it's very easy to justify reforming our mentality very easy and I'm going to leave you at this point is known throughout the world as being the nation that's in Exile we're in Exile but there's no such thing as go in Exile there's no such thing if the Chinese left China they went somewhere else they be let's say they came to America they're called as American Chinese or Chinese American the Africans left Africa they came to America they're African-Americans Every Nation goes to a different place no one says oh we are an exile of China we're an exile of somewhere else no one is an exile only am is is an exile even if it's a Jew that never saw is one second never went to is he still if he's connnected to tah he considers himself an exile what makes us so different the M says that the simplest mitah to fulfill is the one that keeps us connected which Mitzvah is that Mitzvah of kosher kosher food when theim leave their Nation okay kicked out of their Nation or whatever it is they go to a different country they could easily assimilate within a few years the Chinese guy know speak speaks English within a few years the German speaks a different language Chinese within a few years they acclimate they assimilate you see many people that go that have moved from Europe to let's say different parts of Asia 20 years 30 years 40 years they're very much in tune and in connected to the country they live in they marry a Japanese woman they marry Chinese woman they marry this they there's no like oh no I miss home there's no home this is home wherever they live is home but a Jew always yearns for always yearns for is always always calls it home why says because only a Jew knows that he's not home because he has to look for food and a Jew knows that he's only allowed to eat kosher food so as soon as he's out of his place as soon as he's out of the house he has to eat at some point he seees there's no Kosher Restaurant there's no Kosher Supermarket then there's no besset if there's no B there's no Rabbi there's no Rabbi there's no K there's no K I'm in Exile so this simple mitvah of kosher food is unfortunately one that we could easily fix that could help us reformat our brains when you eat kosher only in the house but not outside the house you're better off eating not Kosher both places it's the same thing because God is inside your house and outside your house so if you eat kosher only inside the house and not outside the house then it's an insult a on you and sh they say what you have a limited God he's only inside your house not outside the house that's the wrong God that's idol worship but when we eat kosher both inside the house and outside the house at least say okay you know what this Mitzvah I can do why it's easy to eat kosher it's easy to know that God is everywhere once you eat kosher on a regular basis all the time inside the house and outside the house not only you're admitting that God is everywhere but on top of that it's going to help you understand Tah it's going to help you understand what the rabbi is saying every week to you when he says you got to do chuv he says you have to do mitv he says you have to do all these good things that are not necessarily part of your nature it's not part of a person's nature to want to give their money why I worked for it why should I give it to anybody else it's not a natural inclination for you to want to give it's not a natural inclination for somebody to want to do stuff beyond their normal schedule so when the rabbi is telling you have to do this you have to do this you have to do this I'm already working I already have other jobs why you giving me more jobs the only way you can start understanding it is if you start understanding tah only way you can start understanding to you start eating kosher all the time even though probably I'm assuming everyone here is eating kosher everywhere the message is really not for you the message is for everyone you know that doesn't eat the message is to remind us that we're in Exile we are in Exile because even though you have a local probably five or 10 different local closer stores in reality you still have to look whether you're in is or you're in America you still have to look at the kosher sign because maybe it's not maybe it's not Kosher even if it's maybe it's not Kosher as long as we have to second guess whether it's kosher or not whether the rabbis actually showed up in our or it's just like they printed it off of the internet as long as we're not so sure we're in Exile we're in Exile so today we don't cry about something that happened 2,000 years ago we're crying about what's happening today we're crying about the fact that if hasem brought the BET mikdash today you would actually have to destroy it again because the very same sins we made 2,000 years ago whether it's of murder still happens sometimes it's not physical murder but it's is a daily thing unfortunately for some people or if it's a which is immodesty and sex crimes in today's generation if you ask our grandparents did you wear the same clothes during your time they'll tell you yes only thing is we called it underwear many women are walking around the street in underwear sometimes menant too is also something that we're doing when we're worshiping our money working overtime and not showing up to not showing up to not connecting to AEM on a regular basis there's always an excuse and usually has a dollar sign on it so if you ask yourself why don't we have the bet mikdash these are the reasons we have a lot of work to do this year we should get some motivation to really seriously do chuva not only ourselves but those around us because the Prophet Jeremiah says it wasn't just that people made sins that wasn't the problem Hashem decided to destroy bet mikdash when he saw that there's so much spiritual sickness but nobody wants to give the Cure this is the same thing that said in he says the spiritual sicknesses is increasing but no one wants to be the doctor and the reason why is because the medicine is one of a kind it's m to learn that's it it's the only medicine so for anyone who knows tah it's time for you to go out there and influence the public you don't necessarily have to give big lectures you can tell to people that are secular don't just surround yourself with only a bunch of if you have one person two people that are not exactly tell them something tell them man maybe it's time for you to come to my house for Shabbat why no you'll see it try to get some people to do chva because if the BET mikdash was here today hasm would say it's your fault you know and you didn't do anything it's your fault I have to destroy it cuz know so each one of us is obligated to do something about it if you're not keeping Tor if you're not keeping Shabbat you're not keeping the basics of mitv it's time to wake up you don't want to be part of this generation where they see the mhia but they have nothing to do with it they don't know what to do it's time for us to wake up it's time for us to start realizing that today is a date of chuva Hashem doesn't care if you eat or you don't eat Hashem doesn't care if you're going to not take a shower take a shower he doesn't care if you brush your teeth or not doesn't make a difference to him what makes a difference to him is for you to do chuat today that's the point of the fast the point of the fast says in the the prophet yel says the point of the fast is not for you to rip your clothes but to rip your heart time for you to rip your heart time for you to do chva time for you to get better you go learn to every day it's time for you you to teach it page 17 says if you learn T without an intention to teach it it's like someone who doesn't have a God so if you know and you're not teaching you're not doing anything about it you have a problem again you don't have to teach 500 people at a time you teach one person your kid your wife your neighbor your friend somebody do something with it don't just keep it to yourself don't be so concerned about your Torah mashia is around the corner shows up it's going to knock on your door he says oh you want to come but what about all the 50 people you're responsible for what 50 people all of these people you know them don't keep anything you don't know something you don't know Torah there a on you also what's the it's never been easier to learn T in the old days we had to travel for days just for that's why most of the most of the reward says that was for traveling to the T today you press a button you go to.org our website you have a few hundred about all different types of topics there's many other websites that you can look at so it's never been easier to learn to you have books in the old days it would be one guy would have all of the books of the community today you press you go to a website you press click within two days you have any book you want if you you don't have any money there's books like Hebrew books.com you have 60 70,000 books for free you want to see the book physically come to the it's never been easy to learn T this is what was missing we have to start implementing this T in our life if to start actually understanding that this T is not a history book shalom it's something we have to implement something we have to do and next year we can have a sh about how great it is to be a generation that any questions anyone a few minutes now when a or to S oh so I finished uh quicker okay so tell me if you have questions give me questions and I'll answer maybe it's even better than it's sure Ah that's a good question it's a good question so first question question was I was I was a king I'm not the king he says second question if I was the king why didn't you come till now that's the second reason that's the second reason so that's the one question you don't want Hashem to ask you you don't want hasm to ask you where were you till now now one thing I know in America it's very easy to be a it's very easy it's very easy you're in galut already you're surrounded by non-jews already and the mentality it's not exactly the Jewish mentality even among the Jews it's very hard to be Jewish among the Jews you have to have serious spine to stay Jewish that's actually one of the prophecies in page 49 talks about different prophecies what's going to happen at the end of time it gives you different signs says that there's going to be a lot people are going to be very rude but not just the traditional rude of not seeing excuse me rude in much much bigger regards than that but to such an extent that if you're going to be the one that tells them the truth they're not going to accept it just like you guys sitting like sadim whatever I say okay fine or if you accept or don't accept it you're saying okay no people going you tell them the truth they go fight to war go to war with you because they're very confident where they stand people are very confident in being Americans even if they're Jewish there's a storyi came to a person a farmer and he told him okay mashia is coming I came here to get you hold on a second let me ask my wife so the guy goes to his wife he says no no no tell the we just invested a lot of money in uh planting the seeds for this season tell them you know we don't want to lose the money tell them to come back next year after we you know after we finish so he goes to Le he says my wife she's not ready we just made the plants and everything we have the business we have customers relying on us come back next year so the says to him yeah but the are coming the enemy is coming it's coming they're going to attack you so okay hold on a second let me go to my wife Little T goes to his wife she says okay tell to take theim take them to Israel oh my sometimes we're so connected to our money that if you ask somebody do you really want the messia to come H not now let me finish this year first let me get the bonus let me close this deal let me do this let me do that we want the mashia to come on our own conditions now usually the more successful a person is the less connected he is to this mashia less connected he is to him this is a problem because one of the things that Hashem does is that he says to the pride of a man is what I'm going to use to embarrass him so if he's so proud of his money of his Fame of his success I'm going to use that against him if he's using anything to be proud of it except my Torah I'm going to use it against him and even the Torah you have to be careful with because has bad mid do who has Pride a dead animal in the middle of the street is better than him so the people that are so secure and excited and happy about being in America being in the Exile thinking that no it's going to be okay everything is fine you should know that according to the prophets you're actually sitting in a we are here in the place that's called adom and adom at the end of times is not going to be our friend not going to be our friend before Egypt enslaved am Isel they were our friends too as a matter of fact yadik and his brothers they built Egypt they put Egypt on the map especially yadik he made made them who they were they were they had a few bucks he took them and he made them the number one country in the world bigger than any other country in history more successful than any other country in history to such an extent that every country every Kingdom had to pay them taxes but after he died they forgot him how do you forget somebody to put you on a map you don't but you make it seem like you did the Jews did the same thing throughout history most recently they also did it with Germany they built their political system they built their financial system they built their economy and eventually they forgot God along the way so said oh okay you forgot me so let me remind you like I said when hasem gets involved it hurts when anyone asks you where was God during the Holocaust is a very simple answer he was there he did it that's the sad reality and it's not the first time the Jews are also building for the last century or so America and everyone is very very confident in their position in America there's this America Israel relationship that everyone is so confident in even though Obama kind of put that into question everyone is very confident that they're secure in America they have their money they have their house if you ask anyone that's 60 70 80 90 years old they tell you yeah this is kind of uh interesting because very similar to Germany and it's very similar to every previous generation whether it be in Spain or in other countries it's everywhere same thing happened we got so connected to the money we got so connected to the government we got so connected to the go we forgot we're Jews soem eventually has to do ABA hasem has to do abah Hashem has to eventually say oh it remind you you're a Jew so for anyone who wants a verse to see that this is actually going to happen I'm not telling you a prophecy for me A Prophecy from a this is going to happen here too so in the book of Jeremiah in chapter 16 verse 14 it mentions a prophecy of what's going to happen at the end of times what's going to happen when mhia comes it says so the first verse says however behold days are coming meaning the end of days the word of hasem meaning this is a promise that this is going to happen it's not like there's no two ways around it when it will no longer be said as AEM Lives who took the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt but rather as AEM Lives who took the children of Israel out of the land of the north and from all of the lands when he SC them and I shall return them to the lands where he gave to which he gave to their forefathers so he says I'm gonna take I'm not gonna be known as the god that took the children of Israel out of Egypt and anymore because everyone knows oh yeah God the god of Israel that's the god that took am from Egypt everyone knows even the go even the terrorists even the missionaries everyone knows am yeah hasem took them out of Egypt everyone knows it no one denies it so everyone knows isem made miracles for them he took the biggest civilization strongest civilization in the world and turned them into nothing and made their slaves into the kings first and last time in history it ever happened Amy SL that were slaves turned into the Kings the Egyptians had to beg them to leave so much so they gave them all their money just go just leave so everyone knows the Christian missionaries the Arab terrorists the Buddhists whoever everyone knows am is their God he took them out of Egypt hasem says all of them T I mentioned that I'm the god that took you out of Egypt it doesn't say hasem that created the world why because there was no Witnesses but took you out of Egypt there was millions millions and millions of witnesses so you can't say it didn't happen somebody along the way would have said it didn't happen no one said it didn't happen this is the first time in history people are saying no maybe it's not true 3,300 years everyone agreed now people all of a sudden geniuses all throughout history I was known as the guy that took you out of Egypt but that's going to change that's going to change I'm not going to be known as the guy that took you out of Egypt I'm going to be known as the god that took you out of the land of the north and all of the other places so for anyone who studied a little bit of geography knows you have a few continents how many continents you have in the world seven continents which continent is called called North North America where are the most Jews in the world other than Israel North America Canada and America this is why the prophet says he's going to take you out of the land of the north and all the other places if it was he's going to take you out out of everywhere in the world then he would just say I'm the god that took you out of everywhere who gathered you from the corners of the world but it doesn't it says he's the god that's going to take you out of the land of the north where all most of the Jews in the world are and all the other places where you have 100,000 here 500,000 here 20,000 here the place that has the significant amount of Jews gets a special word North what do you think it's a m you think it's a coincidence they call it in English North America you think it's a coincidence it's called America so this is going to happen whether you believe it or not is irrelevant it's going to happen the question is what are we going to do when it does we say hold on a second AEM let me finish the deal let me finish this deal I'm working on let me buy another thing on Amazon let me get another Starbucks Coffee wait a second I'm GNA start now I wasn't ready what are we going to do so this is the biggest question question that a person has to ask themselves because the mashiah can can appear in several different ways it could be a personal Messiah or it can be a national mashiah National mashiah we know mhia arrives three days after Nai comes hasem says he's going to sendah Nai three days later mashia arrives before that happens going to be a lot of balagan be a big war it's going to be a lot of craziness but once the once that happens there's no more time for chuva there's no more time to go to there's no more time to have seminars there's no more time to make excuses for why we're this way why we're that way there's no more excuse of all I didn't wear TT because I didn't really know if it was for sure why the fact that it says it inma twice a day is not enough the fact that is part of the T is not enough that you have to wait every day it's not enough reminder the fact that you have to do kma is not enough of a reminder so there's not going to be any more excuses in page 3B and also 4 a it talks about that once the mashia comes there's no more conversion there's no more chuva there's no more nothing clock's over finished so a person needs to ask themselves once that day comes am I going to be ready now most people can't tell the speed of a train when they're looking straight ahead and the train's coming at them if you're on the tracks the train is far away from you far enough from you you can't tell if it's going fast or slow it's far if it's straight up looks fast looks slow it's coming if you haven't done chuva you're on the train tracks you're on the train tracks and you're sure it's not so fast you're sure that if the mashia comes you're going to be okay by then yeah once I get married I'm gonna do chuva once I make money I'm gonna do chuva once this happen or that happens I'm GNA do chuva I'm GNA start learning toah every day once this or that happens you're giving conditions you're making a deal with Hashem that you give me this money I'm going to do Chua you do this I'm gonna do this like AEM ow you something the train's coming and you're saying no wait a second if you already did cha you're already going to you're already learning to every day you're already keeping you're already learning you are sitting on the side you're off the tracks you're looking at the train and you know how fast it's coming you know what I say I say to you is true you know this is is this is not my own opinion you know the truth you know the train's coming but Shalom said the is on you the one that's off the train tracks the is on the guy that's off the train tracks and the reason why he says that there's no greater than someone that knows knows the truth sees his brother or sister sinning and says nothing because he knows the train is coming fast he doesn't tell the guy to move tell the guy to move what's the big deal no he's going to hate me well it's better he hate you than I'm dead the laab rebi was asked one time why is it that we're obligated to say to people the truth because if you look at the um um original founders of kabad in the first chapter first chapter of a he says he mentions gar he says someone who doesn't rebuke his brother someone who knows his brother is sinning and doesn't say anything the entire sin goes on him you see somebody driving on Shabbat you don't say nothing no no as long as he comes you're one of those people no as long as he comes you even show him a park no park over here no we need somebody for Manan what minan he's not counted for minan if he drives on Shabbat according to Al someone who drives on Shabbat is not counted as part of Manan this is in this is this is T anywhere you want endless amount of places any that was ever written about Shabbat in previous generations mentions someone Shabbat drives on Shabbat Smokes on Shabbat people know that he's a Shabbat he's considered a he considered a he getting an idol worshipper why because he's denying the Creator so someone showing the guy way to park on Shabbat and say no we need him to come for Manan he should know should go back to the books go to sh go to Tor go to wherever you want look at the rules for Shabbat look at what the guy's doing you see that not only is he not counted for minan but on top of it even worse you are in question for telling them where to park so the bat said it's one of the originals of ofad he says if you tell the guy where to park you don't say nothing or you tell the guy where to park he says the entire sin goes on you and him both of you now both you going to have sweets and G together next to each other tell the guy tell each other where the park why because you knew you didn't tell him anything there's no changes so they asked the why is it that we're obligated to do this mitvah of rebuking people people they're going to hate us they're going to get mad at us he says if you had a roommate and the roommate was a little bit of a hotthead he was Moroccan trip something he was a hote head and you know if you told him something he didn't like you may get angry at you so one day he comes home and he says listen I'm tired I just came from this I did this I did this I did this I'm going to sleep don't wake me up I don't care who calls who texts who anything don't wake me up under any condition you say what's what's wrong with you what do I care about you sleep don't sleep go to sleep I don't want to talk to you not just today tomorrow I don't want to talk to you either with that attitude you'll leave the house all upset cuz this guy just talked to you like you're a little child but as soon as you leave you smell smoke you look look up you start seeing Oh there's a fire there's a fire in the building what do you do you're going to run upstairs you're going to wake up your roommate you're going to wake him up hey it's fire let's get out now once he wakes up theab asks you do you think he's still going to be mad at you do you still think he's going to be mad at you once he realized you woke him up because there's fire he says someone who's not a sh he's sleeping he's sleeping he doesn't know you being wa you waiting to tell him the truth because you're afraid he's going to be upset what are you upset about he's sleeping once he sees the significance of MIT and what it does to him and how it connects him to how it gives him a purpose to his life you're going to do it all day just like the zorad said says if a person if a Jew knew the significance of helping somebody do chuva he'd leave everything he'd leave his work he'd leave everything and start chasing start chasing Jews that are not keeping anything secular Jews why help them do chva yeah depends on what mitvah if it's a rvah like for example you know that your brother your sister your friend whoever is not go you're going to tell him to do you that he's about to eat bread and he didn't wash his hands that's a rabal Mitzvah is you know he's not going to listen don't tell him why it's a rabinal Mitzvah but if it's a Biblical mitah or something like that you have to tell him not only you have to tell him you have to tell him up to the point where he's about to beat you up like I said even if he gets to a point where he's about to beat you up so as a matter of fact one of the Ra's one of his original rabbis when he was young I forget the name he uh when he got old already he um started seeing that the uh driving on Shabbat in Israel became was happening when he was a kid it wasn't happening and it started happening so he would stop people in the street you would stop the car or you put toot on the floor you put toot on the floor and Jews even though they weren't keeping anything they weren't drive over the talot tell move the talot go I'm not moving and you get a chance to talk to them try to get them to CH try to get them to stop the car come to besset but one time there was a big uh balagan and he was going to protest going to join a protest but there was a he was already very old he was already probably almost 90 years old and uh there was cops surrounding the whole place like don't go over there it's very dangerous they could potentially beat you up or push you or something this is not the same type of Jews that you're used to from 30 years ago some of them are a little bit of sugar no no I'm going I gotta go I gotta go he goes okay so the cop apparently knew a little bit of knew a little bit of he goes okay give me a hand gives a hand okay I beat you up that's it you're now you're p and he left now you knew he fulfilled the mitvah I got to a point where I was going to rebuke up to a point where they hit me they hit me like I'm that's if it's that's so again sometimes you know somebody's not going to listen to one mitvah but maybe he's going to listen another Mitzvah another time he's not going to listen from you anything so you bring somebody else so for example the most difficult people in general to rebuke is family or anybody that remembers you before you did Chua if you're about Chua it's very very difficult to get the people from your own life to listen to you because to them you're always going to be the past you just with a beard now just with a hat just with okay you're keeping some like you keep it what do you want for me so it's very hard to get them to join you sometimes not all the time but sometimes so the best thing to do is to get somebody else to do it so a few ways of doing it is you can give somebody else to do it by either if you could bring a rabbi to your K to speak that's one way another way is to give C C I have some CDs I brought anyone wants CDs they're free right there double CDs each one is about 30 hours there maybe about 75 80 hours of uh it you give it to somebody it's free English and uh my personal story why did CH why left Wall Street plenty of shim similar to this and so on but all different topics long ones short ones 15 minute ones 5 minute ones three hour ones there's some shim that you won't find anywhere else like for example the issue of wasting seed in the English language it doesn't exist there are a total of six hours of lectures about wasting seed in the English language five and a half hours is me this is sad it's not really something I'm celebrating it's just a reality so point is is that there's you give them a CD you get if you don't have CDs you go online you go to my website take a link from one of the uh one of the sh you texted to somebody you WhatsApp somebody you email somebody it's never been easier to learn it's never been easier to do K so this is why there's a this is why when we go up to sh they're gonna tell you how come all of your friends were still how come all of your friends were still go how come like what happened why don't you tell them something why were you why did you hate them so much no I didn't hate them I love them that's why I don't want to tell them anything that's not love that's hate you know a train is coming at someone and you don't say move you don't love him that's not love it's worse than an enemy at least an enemy is going to say something enemy is going to push him that way at least you're going to know it to go the other way so that's the most important thing that a Jew has to do next yes I the question I answer the question I already answer the question before you asked it go ah go we have 15 minutes so that's to confence of right now yes I said in well I mean put it this way we are according to all the prophecies we did a sh about mashiah um about a year ago and also another uh maybe a week ago also we did s similar thing about mashiah here's the thing 50 60 years ago we had only a few of the signs of what's going to happen when the mashiah come only a few of them happened 50 60 70 years ago there's PL several NE several Prophecies of what's going to happen at the end of times page 49 talks about maybe about 25 30 and there's also a few other places in that talks about different Prophecies of what's going to happen at the end of times um so during that time 50 60 years ago most of them didn't happen today all of them happened except one which is the mashia everything that we need to have happened happened including the red cow including the red cow we actually have two of them now and apparently there's more being grown or breed or whatever it is so meaning we have everything we need for to set the table to prepare for mashiah the only thing that's not ready is us only thing that's not ready is us if the mashia showed up today we' be in trouble and the reason why is because when Hashem took us out of Egypt what most people don't know is that the next par after we left Egypt starts with the word v means like why like crying why crying kazal says crying because hem killed 80% of am is during the during the plague of darkness and the reason why he killed 80% of them and only let out 20% is because they didn't want to do Chua he says you don't want to do chuva I don't need you Hashem doesn't need people that's the thing we're missing hm doesn't need us we need him as soon as a person understands this and gets this through their brain then they can start changing their life accordingly so now if the uh neat are all here Why didn't it happen ism is giving us more time he's giving us more time to do Chua because as soon as the decision is made the knock is happening someone's knocking on the door he's knocking on the door he's knocking on the door knocking on the door knocking on the door eventually someone's going to open the door once the door is open time's over so whether it be Korea or America or Germany or whoever doesn't make a difference the point is it's here it's here it's happening it's could be next week next month next year 10 years from now doesn't really make a difference because the reality is everyone including myself including the including everyone needs to do chuva in their own level every single person needs to do Chua so even if the mashia doesn't come for another 10 years you still have to do chuva today hopefully be ready in 10 years from now because Chua unlike what most people think it's not overnight Chu is something that takes time you have to work on your midot you have to work on your Tor you okay so you say I'm keeping Shabbat for example somebody starts chat they start keeping Shabbat the reality is it's going to take you a couple of years to learn how to keep Shabbat so even though in the beginning you just sleep all day or maybe you have a k you could be some part of your eating could be shabat how you're eating with you're not you don't know how to peel the seeds pistachios or or certain things that there certain that if you don't learn you're not GNA know how to do so you think you're keeping Shabbat but really you're or you think you're you know how to how to make tea but you're not making tea you know and so on it's different you need to know so even to do chuat takes time the biggest part of chv is M the biggest part is work on your character tree that's what the mitv are for the mitv are to influence you to be a better you so if you are not learning any M and only you focus on is you become robot great you robot you know all the but you're not even a human being you don't know how to behave you get angry so quickly you don't know how you're too stingy you're this you have bad character traits you have a problem so that's the thing so chv takes a while I don't think that people need to necessarily worry so much about whether the mashiah is gonna come next week next month or next year or in 10 years from now I think they need to make sure that today tomorrow next week next month and next year they're going to be the best version of themselves at that point you understand like you are going to be I'm doing everything I can today today I did everything I could tomorrow I'm gonna do everything I could the next every day you're exerting the most amount of effort you possibly can because they're not going to ask you in sh why weren't you M they're not going to ask you that what are they going to ask you they ask you why weren't you your why weren't you Jonathan why weren't you wherever you are this is a story from rusa R zusa they asked him his student was a tadik one of the Giants of the previous generation and they asked him what's your dream what's your dream in life he says my dream in life is to be zusa not even RAB zusa just zusa like what is teach us and he says when I go up to sh they're not going to ask me why weren't IU they're not gonna ask me why wasn't i r because I'm not RAB AA I'm notu all I have is the skills they gave me and I am zusa so they're going to only ask me why I didn't use the skills they gave me the talents they gave me the money they gave me whatever they gave me whatever gave me why didn't I use that to the fo's potential so my dream is that they don't ask me that question because I did so Hashem gives you money go up to sh you still have $50 million in the bank5 million in the bank or even $50,000 in the bank and you don't have muchaka in your in your in your life they're going to ask you why didn't you use the money we gave you no no I bought a house yeah but we didn't give you the money for the house no but I bought a car we need buy give you the money for the car we gave you the money so so you could help a few we gave you the money so you could help Jews come back to hem we gave you money for some reason gave you a reason the BET decided let's give him money what do you think Hashem okay give him the money they gave you a million dollars they gave you $50,000 they gave you whatever money what do you give $18 the guy made $20,000 last month he gives $18 it's better to give M at least it's 440 do you understand so the point being is that when we get up to sh they're going to ask you why didn't you use what we gave you what gave youm gave you Hashem is one he gave you something why didn't you use it he gave you Talent he gave you a brain he gave you money he gave you this he gave you why didn't you use it so says I don't want them to ask me that question because I want him to know that I did use everything I had so that's going to help us to start living with that in mind not necessarily worry so much about if mashia is going to R if there's going to be an atomic bomb if there's going to be this if going to be that the only thing you should worry about is what am I doing about me because if you're doing everything you can about you meaning you're influencing the public you're influencing yourself you're doing Chua you're causing other people to do chuva doesn't matter where you are what happens you're going to be fine but if everyone around you is not keeping anything if your midot are horrendous you could live on top of har and it won't help you you understand so that's that's the most important thing today is to learn that Chua starts inside once you start with your own heart you can start influencing the others get to show up ready when mhia comes I think they about to pray so anyone that wants to come to the we have a every Tuesday night and also like I said there's many CDs here for free take them at the breast center in uh in Aventura and uh also you go to the website bam.org [Music] [Applause] [Music]