YOM KIPPUR INVESTMENTS (18 minutes)

[Music] there is a an enormous amount of generosity that uh comes out of people during this time of the year because they believe that it's going to help them do Chua they're partially right partially wrong the M says that if a person donates money because he's looking for kav not only it's not a Mitzvah it's actually a sin so if you're going to donate money don't be one of these fools that donates publicly and make sure that everybody knows that you did it it's not only not a mitvah it's an that's number one you want to donate donate donate quietly you don't necessarily need to donate anonymously but at least donate quietly whether you want to donate to theet you donate to kiru or you want to donate to whoever you want to donate to whatever good cause you want to donate to be quiet second before yum Kip there's something called kaparot there's a custom in is across the board from MIM everyone has this custom to do kaparot in the old days they would uh kill a chicken slaughter a chicken and then you know after putting it around the person's head um and uh as a uh symbolic not M but a symbolic to the uh sacrifices that we would make as part of our repentance of bet mikdash now the ramban as well as the as well as the the um ru uh well actually yeah ran and and specifically did not agree with this custom and they actually called it Superstition they call it Superstition and they went against it the Rashi and the Aral as well as a few others did like this custom and they said it's not Superstition it's just symbolic so throughout the generations even though there's been both sides to the equation some people continued to kill the chickens to slaughter the chickens as a token of kapar as a uh sort of like a ransom for their own life a sacrifice for their own life where it's supposed to entice a person to do Chua by realizing that it's really supposed to be them being slaughtered for their sins and not the chicken there's a couple of problems with this custom number one is that we make sins the size of a cow but we're only killing a chicken that's what R again used to say uh it's unfair for the chicken but the real reason is is that in those days where they actually permitted it uh the chickens would be given to the poor people and eaten by the poor people today especially in communities large communities that do these chickens these karot for the most part they throw most of them out if not all of them out because no one wants them no one wants these chickens no one wants your chicken that's full of your so-called sins even though it's only symbolic people are so superstitious that they don't want the chicken that's full of sins so you see hundreds and hundreds of chickens going to the garbage this according to all opinions is it's a wasteful it's being wasteful which is not allowed not allowed to be wasteful so because of that and other reasons we follow what the Mish says um which is that you should replace the chicken with money you replace the chicken with money something that's the value of a chicken so the last couple years what we did some people that have a poor person that they know they can give them the money instead value of a chicken is anywhere between 15 and $25 uh so if let's say you even do $18 or $85 dollar um you can give it directly to a poor person you know if you don't know anyone at least not anyone that's uh a b to and also poor at the same time then what you can do is you could donate the money to and we give it to and uh poor people that are in Israel that are also in a Torah world not just uh the local homeless person and it's uh $18.65 the reason why the 65 is we're trying to cover the transaction cost so the entire $18 goes to the people we're not taking a single penny for B it's no it's not a money maker for us or anything it's just a service provider uh it's $18 per person um but if it's a so if you have let's say I don't know 10 people in your house then it's $180 if you have two people in your house it's $30 $6 but plus the 65 so 3730 um but if your wife is pregnant if your wife is pregnant then you have to give three for her you have to give three and the reason why is because her the child and since you know since you don't know if the child is a boy or a girl you have to give one for a potential boy one for a potential girl so you'd have to give for a uh a pregnant woman three um again you don't have to this is a custom you want to do it you can do it you don't want to do it don't do it again people that are cheap are thinking that this is some type of money maker so for those people please don't give it to us deal with it yourself uh people that uh understand this a Mitzvah they want to do it they connect to it they could do it now the other thing is in regards to uh in regards to donations during this time you see a lot of people going above and beyond their normal donations they save up all of their of donations to this time of the year and one of the main reasons because people see them in they sell alot or they publicize what people donated they publicize who's on the diamonds list who's on the gold list you know with the new uh every bigness that has their own way of trying to convince people to donate more and more money now the mitvah of the Mitzvah of writing a seph t is is the last mitvah in the Tor but the say that this was during the time writing an actual T was applicable as a commandment in the toah for a person to fulfill at a time where people used to actually learn from the scroll itself today since we live in a generation where people learn from books it's much more important to actually sponsor and uh invest and donate for the sake of books and learning T and people doing CH I wrote I just finished an article that I wrote Today Will Come Out Tomorrow talking about the religious world the secular World secularism in general and in reality one of the main things that you will notice I don't have to help you with is that in today's world most people are spending an enormous amount of resour resources building buildings building more buildings more centers more synagogues more places more walls more Torah centers and yes and so on they're so busy raising millions of dollars for these places that it just seems like no one seems to realize that the average place doesn't even fill up 10% of capacity for Torah lectures we're not the only ones that have low attendance this is considered a lot for a lecture you see a lot of places with the exceptional with the exception of major events like for example if I if I or somebody else comes from out of town then you can have more people show up the regulars they have a lecture five people seven people 10 people the B could host 500 but five or 10 people show up 20 people show up why because we have a lot of buildings but very few Jews and I don't mean Jews as far as the population I mean Jews that actually want to be Jews Jews that are becoming more Jewish Jews that actually interested in being Jews that are proud to be Jews and that's one of the things that people need to understand yes you could donate another 5,000 or 50,000 or 500,000 to the besset so they could buy another extension to the building and have another Library nobody uses and have more books that stay new for 25 years you can do it it's your money but the reality is it's not going to help you in heaven it's not going to help you in heaven that there's another building that has books in it that no one reads what will help you actually Jews coming to become Jews Jews that are looking to become more Jewish Jews that actually coming to Shu and praying and not just chitchatting people actually doing chuva people actually doing MIT these are some of the things a person needs to realize a lot of people God blessed them they tell oh yeah you help me do CH I just donated all my money to some organization this is every single day just yesterday four people four people told me thank you for helping me do CH I donate all my money to the and I think to myself you saying thank you to me at the same time you're telling me that you don't want anyone else to do the same thing you did do chuva it's mindboggling to me that unless you remind people to donate they simply don't do it so I'm going to give you two things that we're doing because people need to to like make everything like they need to touch it they need to feel it so first thing first is there's another two discs coming out another two CDs coming out it's been a long time since we've come out with our own CDs we came out with uh uh two CDs Wall Street to Western Wall a couple years ago over the last couple years then ra F's two CDs now these are the next two CDs are my own in the series so our first print is 50,000 first print is 50,000 the these uh these CDs are G to people for free even though we sell them on the website Sunny will tell you he sees the orders and it's virtually none so far we've given away close to a half a million CDs for free a half a million CDs for free so somebody has to pay for them somebody has to sponsor them anyone that wants to sponsor CDs you could sponsor you could sponsor $5 or five million whatever you want the more you when you sponsor them people do Chua you don't sponsor them people don't do Chua that's as simple as it gets next thing is is these s cards if you notice this one is double-sided not like the last one why is it double-sided because now we want to say thank you and I love you to our brothers theim the first addition I didn't realize was my mistake was only a Safar so we wanted to make a ashkanazi but we we realized that this has two sides so since we don't know who's who instead of sending a box of just askanazi to this one a box of just Safari to that one and so on and so forth every poster will have both every poster will have both and this right now we're printing 40,000 of them supposed to cost almost $6 each we've given already almost 60,000 for free anyone wants to sponsor them there's 40,000 on the way whatever you want to sponsor you want to sponsor five you want to sponsor 5,000 whatever want this is these are the things that make people do chuva why they not only see oh I have to thank hem that I could actually go to the bathroom and I didn't just die but on top of it there a little sticker there's a little stamp on the bottom over here where if they put their camera on it it takes downloads our app once they download the app they have to do Chua why you can't download the app without listening to sh you can't listen to without doing CH so this is another way to help people do CH last but not least this is the first time I'm talking about these first two some of you know about this last one no one knows about is we're coming out with our first book our first book it's a uh it's going to be in Hebrew the first book is predominantly going to be in Hebrew and the reason why we did it this way is because um 90% of our lectures are in English and the Hebrew speaking public doesn't have enough of our Torah so we're coming out with the book uh hopefully within the next several months it'll be out and and copies and so on but this too unlike businesses is going to be given for free it's not going to be sold on Art scroll or on Amazon on scham Amazon or anything that it's gonna be given for free reason for the same reason we do everything else for free it's all for hasem so but this it's free we give it doesn't cost free doesn't cost free someone that wants to have their name as a sponsor in the book as a anything like that they can contact us be happy to talk about it it's a uh this is something that you'll see in a book you'll be part a partner in a book this book even the walls are going to do Chua this book goes straight to the source it's not like I chitchat with you guys here and there I laugh with you here and there joke once in a blue moon no this one goes straight to the bottom line over 400 sources 400 sources from the Torah listed in the book that literally an atheist an a a half a Jew a middle Jew a big Jew a small Jew a fat Jew a skinny Jew everybody can do chew from this book we to start with Hebrew and after that add some more English stuff but later on uh so this is another very very big project the book itself is finished the book is finished it's now being edited H the cover is almost finished and printing printing takes a little bit of time but obviously we need to raise more money so anyone that wants to be generous before you send 10 20 30 40 50 $100,000 to your sho I'm not saying don't donate to the Sho but you have to look at these big Investments you make as what's going to generate the most amount of return the Bess you could donate 10 $20,000 how many people Canna do chba from the B by going to sh and maybe here in one a day how many how many going to do versus a company that only does kiru all day and does everything for free this says no I'm not trying to be a salesman here I don't make any money out of this reality is every person needs to evaluate themselves people love to donate to these other places that show their name on the Internet they show their name oh he donated $500 to the chandelier you want those donations you want your name to be on a chandelier donate to them you want your you want your name to be in sh that's a different story so everyone take takes all of this into account thinks about this very carefully and does Chu and helps others do chuv right now you have an opportunity of a lifetime you're going to see a bunch of strangers in sh you're going see a bunch of people you don't see there in the rest of the year in sh there's a reason why you don't see them they don't know anything do yourself a favor say something say something want to come over for dinner after yip W to come over for Shabbat want to come to the Sho you have to listen to the CD I have what is it it's amazing what is it about I just got to show it to you say something you have a mouth all year we talk at least say something good once a year say something these people you may not see them for another year you may not see these people for another year say something you don't need to tell but say something say something give him a CD after the after the do something if you're driving to Sho you parked in front of the Sho have a bunch of CDs in your car as soon as everybody comes out you're already given CDs one at a time one at a time you're like a machine do something it's the best opportunity of the Year why almost everyone goes to almost everyone this will give you guys some ideas to think about CH and this will also help all of [Music]