RE'EH: Be Happy | STUMP THE RABBI (243)

We are back here on our Wednesday night stump the rabbi. We're after some you guys will ask some questions and will give us the answers. Tonight's show is going to be for the forever and all of Israel and all the righteous nohides that continue to learn with us, support the organization and do as much as they can. Tonight, we start off with some amazing news. We have alul coming al coming and of course everyone knows that this is the time to get to give to do as much k as possible. So of course everyone that wants to and can donate please donate at bzashem.org but those of you that also want to take the step further and distribute our books and USBs and different things in your community you can go to the kir store koftore.org or uh and uh order yourself a few boxes. 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How can this have anything to do with that starts off and is full of warnings about the curse upon the wicked? A closer look into the holy text is going to open our eyes. and in fact make us see clearly a world of happiness. Tune in, find out who's happy, why you can be happy, too. And after that, we'll open up for some questions. So, as we said, starts off with the rebuke. The rebuke that everyone is familiar with. We did a film about it five years ago that I actually watched myself again today twice because it gave me some and asal say there are things that need constantly these are things that need constantly and gives us a warning where says see I present sent before you today a blessing and a curse. A blessing that you hearkened to the commandments of Hashem your God that I command you today and a curse if you do not hearken to the commandments of Hashem your God and you stray from the path that I command you today to follow gods of others that you did not know. Now Bayou did not know in so many words is telling us if somebody comes up one of these false prophets, false teachings, and they tell you that the Torah is changed, they're starting a new testament, they're starting a new Quran, they're starting a new religion, they're even starting a new version of Judaism. This is straying. This is simply a betrayal of God that acquires the curse. But the question remains a kadu is telling us that the blessing and the curse come together. It's not two separate things with the way that he runs the world is that he has structured it similar to an automation. You know, in today's world, the average person has become familiar with what automations mean. If you asked me what an automation is 5, 10, 20 years ago, I wouldn't even know what you're talking about. Perhaps something, some gear in a car or something or in an airplane. But an automation is simply by you pressing several different buttons and deciding that there's going to be certain types of information whether it be data or or or whatever it is that is going to automatically be distributed something will become automatic in essence that's what au did where if we follow his Torah, not just listen to Torah, but herken to the words, meaning we listen and we do, then we get the blessing automatically. The moment you fulfill the Torah, you do a mitzvah, you keep Shabbat, you eat kosher food, you wear modest clothes, you protect your bre, whatever mitzvah you're doing, automatically there is a gate in heaven that's opens up with blessings upon blessings upon you. On the other hand, if a person does the opposite, he goes into a business that is predatory lending, which is 100% forbidden according to all opinions of throughout all of the generations all the way back to and even our par. All right. She decides to wear clothes that only cover part of her body because she wants everyone to see what the store looks like. If you decide to eat non-cooser food, decide to shalom, violate Shabbat, waste seed, steal, simply be a nasty person, then not only does that close gates of blessings that were supposed to go upon you, but it could even open up the door, the gate of curses. So this comes together. It's an automatic. It's not like as if Hashem is looking for who's sinning, who's doing mitzvah. Let me give them something. No, it's automatic. As the says wrote the Torah 974 generations before he created the world and use the Torah as an instruction set as a manual as a blueprint for the creation of this world has the different details between kosher animals and non-cooser animals and therefore he created the animals. kosher and non-cooser fish and therefore he created different types of fish. Tens of thousands of different species have been discovered and more are discovered on a regular basis. We use the Torah for all of this. But this automation that we call blessing of a curse typically gets people scared, gets people uncomfortable. And Rabbi Ruven is saying, "Be happy. Are you confused?" No, not confused at all. Hashem, we open up the midash. And the midash and parhat starts giving us directions. Why should we be happy? Why should we be happy that there's a blessing and a curse in chapter 4 section number one a question of is discussed when a Jewish person who is reading the Torah in a synagogue the Qur that's reading the Torah portion each Shabbat what is the law as to whether he's permitted to divide the theot the section of rebuke which this para is full of. Can he divide it up into several readings? Meaning he can only say a few verses, another guy says another few verses because it's a lot of curses, a lot of problems, a lot of scary stuff. Can can we just divide it up? of who said in the name of the holy one blessed is he says I wrote concerning my glory and I am with him with Israel in distress this is Psalm 91:15 and therefore it would not be appropriate that my children are being cursed while I'm being blessed how would this be the case if the the admonition s would be divided into several readings. None of the people who are called up to read their portion of the admonition will be able to avoid blessing God twice over it. Once before the reading, you do a blessing and once after it. But if they're only reading the section of the rebuke, then there's no there's no blessings for them. They're blessing only Hashem and they're getting curses. So conclusion is read it with one aliyah. Fine, that's the but the question is why should I be happy about it? Cuz you said I have to serve you with happiness. And the rabbis continue and say something else. It's not for Israel's detriment that I gave them the blessings and the curses. On the contrary, it's for their benefit to inform them which is the good path that they should choose so that they may receive a reward. Now when you look at the para you see that is promising us all types of wonderful blessings. You'll have a pibetan. You'll have children. It'll be healthy and wonderful. You'll find a zeug. You'll have you won't be lacking anything. Your enemies will fear you. And on and on all types of wonderful blessings. Your business will prosper. You'll have peace. You'll have blessings. You'll have shea. Wonderful. But these are all material rewards. And of course, between you and I, we already know that the real reward is. And that's what the Rambam says. The Rambam says that the real reward for all of the that you do is inab a place where there's no end to the enjoyment and the will bestow upon us when we merit to get there if we do his will. On the cursing side, the wicked will go to a place that has no end to the suffering. And for anyone that wants to know the details and nearly 200 sources from across the spectrum of the Torah, they can watch the movie we made the uh Gum film. We made this year we did about kafa all types of lectures where it shows what the curse looks like. But here we're talking about the blessings today. Here today we're going to focus about the blessings. Be happy. Why be happy? You just told me blessing curse comes together and then you told me that the reward that I'm going to get is not really the real reward. You're making me even more confused. Rabbi says the mahazu. The reward is a spiritual reward in the world to come. You're right. And that's what the righteous people will enjoy. But the rabbis are saying that a kadosh included the monetary reward, the zeug reward, the shea reward, the material reward in the Torah with all of the physical rewards in the Torah, which includes elimination of physical sufferings of the curses because this is what will entice a person to choose to act righteously because if Hashem started giving them details of all the rewards they would potentially get if they were righteous in Aabah they wouldn't know what to do with it. They would not even understand it. And therefore he entices us with material reward in this temporary world because that will lead us to act righteously. And as a result of acting righteously because we want panasa because we want children because we want good health because we want the shea as a result of us going after those by being righteous he will then be able to give us the ultimate reward of the world to come. The more you delve into this explanation of the mahazu, the more genius you realize, but also the more you realize how different the thoughts of Hashem are from ours. As a says to the prophet, "My thoughts are not like your thoughts." He furthermore says the midrash the holy one blessed is he said listen to me for no person ever listens to me and loses out as a result meaning if we follow the Torah there's no way that that will bring a curse upon And that should make a person happy. But you said that it was in the para and it is you delve into and delve into it and you'll find it. Now the parasa has some other things before we find the happiness. It first tells us about the sanctity of the land of Israel. Fine. But it's so holy that you have to remove idolatry from there. What does removing idolatry mean? Says smash their pillars and their sacred trees, their little Christmas trees. You shall burn them in fire. these trees and their carved images you should cut down and you should obliterate their names from that place. Now the first few we understood. What does it mean to obliterate the names? What? Put some white out on it. Erase it with a little eraser. What does it mean to obliterate their names? Says Russia Kadosh. you shall obliterate their names means not only should the idols themselves be removed. But the Jews were not even allowed to refer to these idols by their proper names. Instead, they should use derogatory nicknames for the idols, calling them all types of derogatory names. It's a mitzvah from the Torah to make f fun of idols. And unfortunately today you find some people that have become famous, plead with the nations of Ih they should support us and love us and how we really are in the same and how we really are uh you know supposed to help each other and how this and how that. No, you want to help them, tell them they're idol worshippers and to abandon the idolatry. That's if you really want to help them. But if you are trying to kiss up to them, reason with them, partner with them, you're not helping them because as we learned in last night, those that are idoltors will be destroyed. So here the Torah is telling us this is one of the mitzvot make fun of idolatry, destroy idolatry. And then it says, "You shall rejoice with your every undertaking." Even this mitzvah of making fun of idolatry should make you happy. But not just happy like, "Oh yeah, I just did a mitzvah." No, happy, real happiness. you your household as Hashem your God has blessed you no less than six times in the tells us to be in a state of happiness that's called rejoicing what's rejoicing you're so happy it shows on the outside. A few verses later when it starts talking about the private altars you're bringing coenote again Hashem says bring the choices vow offering that you will vow to Hashem and you shall rejoice before Hashem your God you your sons your daughters your slaves your maidervants and the Levite who is in your cities for he has no share any inheritance with You everybody has to be happy. Happy happy. Okay. I mean Kuban is pretty cool. I never did one. I'll be able to merit doing one when the bet third bet is built after Mashia comes. But I don't know. I never really connected the two. Going bring Kuban. You bring $30,000 $40,000 bull. sacrifice it and dance the whole way. Person doesn't understand. What do you mean? Again, happy further talks about the sacred foods that's only allowed to be eaten in. And he says, "And you shall rejoice before Hashem your God in your every undertaking." Another mitzvah. Be happy. Rejoice. I don't know. The happiness of this world is a little bit different. Hashem, we have a little bit different understanding. Unfortunately, the Torah continues telling us about different mitzvot telling us about the prohibition of copying the goim. Don't act like a Don't start becoming some gangster rapper because you decided that you want to emulate the nations. Don't dress like them. Don't act like them. Don't worship like them. Don't follow the false prophets, which we talked about already earlier this week. If there's somebody that's aim causes people to sin, at the time of the Sanhedrin, we were obligated to kill those people. Today, we're not allowed to do any of that. There was some foolish guy that called and uh told him, "Listen, this uh member of the Israeli government that's causing a lot of problems to the F community, the Torah scholar community. I'm willing to fulfill the mitzvah of and go kill her told him no, not allowed. And then he called the police on him. We do not have permission to take the law into our hands. And a person that already thinks that they can do such a thing, you have to be very very careful of such a person. People say, "Wait, but you do it. Isn't that aren't you a mo by calling the police on him? No, he's endangering all of Isel by such behavior. The time of the sun did not the regular average person and you deluding yourself to thinking that you're a pas means that you are spiritually sick too. But needless to say, the Torah tells us that if somebody causes people to go against Hashem, distorts the Torah, nullifies the mitzvot with their speech. Even if that person is your brother, your son, whoever it is at the time of the senadine, you would have to not just call the police on them. Let's just say that you are not allowed to be compassionate on such people. But remember, be happy, rejoice. Wait, he's bringing his cousin to the senaded all tied up. Bring him to his end while he's Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How how furthermore tells us that we are a treasured people. We're unique and therefore we have to behave differently from the nations. We can't just eat whatever we want. We have permitted and forbidden food. We can't just eat whatever we want, however we want. There's only specific types of animals we're allowed to eat, specific types of fish. [Applause] But don't forget, be happy that you can't eat the bacon and the cheeseburger. Be happy about it. Not just happy, rejoice. What's rejoicing? Yeah. And the average person is either entertained by my dancing or more confused or both. Furthermore, Torah tells us that we have to be warmhearted to our brothers, help the poor, help the needy before they fall. It's a big mitzvah to give Daka, but even bigger to lend money to your fellow Jew if you have it within you with your abilities to do so. And then the Torah tells us about the holidays. It's a shabat. Another few days you can't work, you can't make any money, you can't go on the internet, you can't even watch the YouTube videos by Rabbi Ruven. What can you do? You shall rejoice before Hashem your God. You, your son, your daughter, your slave, your maidervant, the Levite who is in your cities, and the convert, the orphan, and the widow who are among you in the place that Hashem your God will choose to rest his name. Yes. Rejoice. What's rejoice? Did you guys forget? I'll remind you in case you forgot. I almost forgot. What's rejoicing? It's rejoicing. Happy. And if in case you forgot, oh, you have to go. You don't even have to go so far. Just a few verses later tells us about. And who doesn't know that ink there's an obligation from the You shall rejoice on your festival. You and your son and your daughter, your slave, your maidervant, yourite, your convert, the orphan, and the widow who is in your cities. But not just any happiness. And you shall be completely joyous. Meaning all the I just did up till now, I'm kind of tired from it. Guess what? You have to elevate even more even more happiness. A person that does not follow what the Torah says has no concept of happiness and therefore they look at this strangely. They look at this confused. What do you mean happiness? In fact, the part that will confuse them the most is in chapter 14 verse 22 where says you shall give a tide give you got $1,000 this month take a hundred out of the thousand and use it to publicize Go donate it to a to Torah scholars. Go donate it to Kiru. You made $10,000, take a,000. You made $50,000 profit on your investments, go take 5,000. And in fact, the only says meaning give 10%. And then after you give 10%, give another 10%, 20%. Meaning you made your profit, you made your income, take 10 and if you're a real sadic, take 20% of the money a kadosh gave you and celebrate with it. How do you celebrate with it? Give it to Kiru. give it to publicize Torah. And in case you're not sure how to do this mitzvah, a few verses that tells you exactly what have to do, how do you do this mitzvah? You shall rejoice you and your household when you give m When you give, you just made $10,000 for the month. You just made a $100,000 profit. Whatever you made, go take that money and donate it and do and have a party. That's what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to enjoy, but not enjoy like, oh, we're going to have a nice dinner. No, go have a feast. Why? Why is the Torah telling us it's so important to be happy? As we already hinted in the beginning, said it's for your benefit that I gave you the blessings of the curses. The blessings I made it in such a way where it's material blessings, physical blessings, things that you understand, things that you can see, you can see more money, more profits, marriage, children, all the things that people want, good health. So those I said it in the Torah, you're going to get all that stuff. And the curses I also showed you things that you can see scary stuff. Sickness, war, animosity, losses, collapses, disease. In order to help you make the right decision, make it easy. If you do the stuff that's going to get you a profit, you get the blessings. If you do the opposite, you're only bringing a punishment upon yourself. As the Torah says, his blood is on his own head. And therefore, when you realize why you're doing the mitzvot, you realize that will give you the profit in this temporary world only to entice you to keep going and doing more and more and more. Because really, after all of it, he's got much bigger plans for you, a much bigger award that you cannot even quantify with all of the human minds combined. If you took all of the good that ever existed from the beginning of the world until the end of the world of every single person and you put it all into a little box and that's gave it to one person as as that's their happiness. It's a lot of happiness that will not even account to 1% of the happiness that au has waiting for you if you fulfill the Torah and do what he says. But in order to get you to do that, in order to get you to do that, he entices you with treats, all types of profits in this temporary world. You want another house, no problem. You want a bigger house, no problem. You want another kid, no problem. You want to win the war, no problem. You want your enemies to be scared of you, no problem. He gives you all of that. Just keep doing what I said. Just keep doing what I said. No one ever lost by listening to Hashem. And when a person understands that every mitzvah is getting them a much bigger profit in this world and the next, when they understand what that means, when they understand that destroying idolatry gets them closer to the reward. When they understand that destroying the heretics gets them closer to the reward. When they understand that giving taka, the giving m gets them closer to the reward and the reward just keeps growing and growing and bigger and bigger than you can ever imagine. If a person truly understands it, of course they're going to do it happy. Of course they're going to take care what 20,000 I made 100,000. 20,000 no problem. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're dancing all over the place. Why? Look, I just made a guarantee for myself. I just donated 20,000. I guaranteed myself an even bigger reward coming in this world and the next. Of course, I'm going to be happy. And therefore, the par that people are scared of, the par that is full of rebuke, the paras that scare people that don't look into the verses from the start. actually has no less than six times in it, an obligation, a command, be happy, but not be happy superficially just by getting yourself another car. Be happy temporarily until you get tired of the car. Not be happy temporarily because you got a new toy, but until you get bored of the toy a few days later, if that long and then you're not happy anymore. No, be happy fulfilling more and more mitzvot learning more and more to doing more. As the stip says, gather them, gather them, gather as many as you can while you still can. When a person understands how much how much kindness a bestowed upon us by telling us there's a blessing and a curse in so many words to make it easy for you to decide to choose the blessings. Who wants a curse? Because I want to give you a huge reward. I want to give you a lot more blessings. and to entice you to keep doing it. I'll give you even blessings in this world. When a person truly understands that they should be walking around with a smile from ear to ear, never upset for a single moment, even through the difficulties, despite the difficulties, because you know that everything is from him, from his hand, and nothing else ever controls what your outcome is. Only he decides. And he decides based on your actions, how did you treat the automation, did you do what was necessary in order to open the gates of blessings? Shalom. Open the gates of curses. If you open the blessings and on top of it, you fulfilled another mitzvah of being happy, that means you don't have complaints. That means you're not sad. That means that even when there's troubles, you know, it's all from your It's all from a shim. It's all from Hashem. That means there is no sadness. That means that you are as excited about life as you could possibly ever be because you know that Hashem is with you. And every day you get a few more blessings. You did your blessing. You did blessing. You put on blessing. You work modern a mus clothes blessings. You did blessing before you uh ate blessing. After you ate, blessing you gave taka blessing. You watch Rabbi Ruven more blessings. When a person understands this, it becomes clear happiness is in your own it's it's within reach. But the Satan makes it hidden. He makes you focus on all your problems. He makes you focus on the cup being half empty instead of half full. He makes you focus on the difficulties. And if you don't have difficulties, you start looking at other people's difficulties. He makes you focus on the agony and the pain and eventually get to a point where even if you're looking at the verse saying you shall rejoice you and your household all in the name of God. It's almost like it becomes meaningless to you. You're too busy crying. You're too busy complaining. You're too busy agonizing in your pain and and suffering that you have now realizing that all of it is from. So if a person wants to do chuva for not being happy, start now. Start now. Start being happy. every time you do a mitzvah, no matter what mitzvah it is. And if you start realizing, wait, I did a mitzvah, that means I'm going to get a reward. That means that Hashem is happy with me. That means that he's going to give me he has even bigger plans for me, even more reward for me. Okay, so let me do another mitzvah. And literally manage your day in such a way that you go from from one mitzvah to to another all the time having smile on your face and any opportunity to rejoice to celebrate take it do it. But real rejoicing, real happiness, not happiness that depends on the sinful world around you, but happiness that's within you at all times. Now, surely you want to go and celebrate with a feast, dinner, restaurant, whatever. No problem. If you're celebrating a mitzvah, absolutely. But understand this and understand this clearly. is telling us if you truly understand what being happy is because of a mitzvah that means that you will be just as happy about putting on to fillin as you are about fighting against the heretics. You'll be just as happy about giving taka, giving mas, giving your hard worked money that you think you worked hard for as you were about simply getting married, having children. You're supposed to be ecstatic about taking advantage of every mitzvah, including the ones that we don't have the ability to do, like destroying all of the idol worshippers and uh all of the that's for Hashem to do. But the point is is telling us inside the verses. Yes, it sounds difficult. It sounds shocking. One of the mitzvah is to destroy an entire city of idol worshippers, including all of their stuff. We don't have the ability or permission to do such a thing today. But at the time of Moshe Benu at the time of the such things would happen and in essence the reaction would be to be happy. If you want to fulfill the mitzvah the right way, you have to be happy that you've uprooted idolatry and heresy from the world. You've used the money to publicize Torah. Whatever Hashem gave you, you are not grateful for just what he gave you. You're grateful for the opportunity to use what he gave you to do even more mitzvot. And that's what the Rambub says that the point of all of the physical reward in this world is in order for Hashem to enable you to do more mitzvot when he sees that you like to donate toem to publicize more to sponsor more of these tablets more of these ku boxes to help people do chuva. Guess what? There's no doubt in the world that a kadosh bahu will give you more money as a result of it. No doubt in the world whatever money you invest a,000 5,000 100,000 100 million whatever you invest in it and you will get to distribute yourself or we do part of it you do part of it or whatever it is whatever you invest to help publicize to help do there is no doubt in the world that au as a result of it not only will give you the money back but will even give you more than you invested And that's why you should already be happy at the time you do the act that Hashem commanded and not just when you get the reward. Most people wait for reward in order to celebrate and in the process they miss the whole point. You're supposed to be happy already from the beginning because you're already showing that you have complete amuna in Hashem that he is happy with what you're doing. You're fulfilling his Torah and he will pay you the reward in this world and the next. the sooner you celebrate the mitzvah, the more amuna you actually show that you have. But if you only wait for the reward, you only wait to find a zoo before you celebrate, you only wait to uh get an inheritance to to celebrate, you only wait to get what you want in order to celebrate, then in essence, you're not really happy about the mitzvah. You're just happy that you got more stuff. And therefore, tells us all of the mitzvot should make you happy should make you happy if you truly understand what's behind all of it. And may it be his will that all of us will celebrate his mitzvot day in and day out and never look at anything as a small mitzvah or a big mitzvah. rather take it upon ourselves to celebrate the mitzvot each and every single time and even more so push ourselves to get more people to do mitzvot imagine you just got one of these you gave it to your neighbor you gave it to your best friend you gave it to your brother sister stranger in the sh whoever it is that person opens it up they decide to do chuva they start doing mitzvot every single day you have now replicated yourself. Whatever you do is great, but you also get benefit for everything they do too from that point on. If that doesn't make you dance, if that doesn't make you start singing, then you don't know what happiness is. And in essence, you're showing that the reason why a kadu did not include all the details of the real blessings in a Torah is exactly applying to you. You don't understand what enjoyment is. You don't understand what joy is. You don't understand what a mitzvah is. You don't even understand what the purpose of the world is. And therefore, if you want to do chuva, start celebrating, start feeling joy about every single mitzvah. And if you want to have a really big party, start doing kiru. Start supporting kiru to the absolute maximum that you can because each and every time you do it, you already get a reward. You're already doing a mitzvah. And if Hashem decides that your K will succeed, in so many words just gave you the gift that keeps on giving even while you're sleeping. Why? Cuz those other people are not sleeping always at the same time. They're doing they're learning to they live in a different zip code. They live in a different country. In so many words, you can get your nama to have its own automation. What automation? automation of getting more and more blessings, automation of getting more and more reward in this world and the next. And that's why the people that support Kiru in in a significant way that make it a priority literally have more blessings in their life than anyone you can possibly comprehend. I've seen it with my own eyes, not just only in my own life, but I see it with people. And the only thing I pray for is that those people don't fall off because they feel like they the blessings will just continue even if they don't continue. Has created this world in order to reward us. But punishment is available if we don't want it. Choose wisely because only one of them earns this dance. Each person will take upon themselves to celebrate. Never be sad because you don't really have a reason to. Never be upset because there's no time to. Never waste a moment to be joyful in doing mitzvot. And if you find yourself not joyful, just do another mitzvah. It'll fix you up. You know, it took a lot of time and effort to study for this lecture, and every lecture changes my life a little bit, and I hope it does to you as well. If you're enjoying it, please make sure to like, subscribe, and share with people that you care about, people that you know could benefit from it. You may end up changing their life. Thanks again for learning with me, and we'll continue growing together. Now, back to the lecture. With that being said, you guys can start asking some questions and will give us the answers. The person that you guys are recommending on the comments to watch about reincarnation is an apicose. Just so you know, he's a heretic that distorts the Torah. He says that certain sins are not sins if it's hard for you. He even calls the Talmud uh a uh so he's an a and uh if you watch him you'll get punished for it. Not for me from Hashem. But suit yourself. Why haven't I made a video about him? Uh because I'm too busy fighting the top heretic in the world today, which is the the menace. Is one allowed to read a book of Mal or other religious books on a plane or other forms of public transportation? Absolutely. What else are you going to do? Waste time? No, of course. All right. Okay. Let's see here. Okay, I have a couple of questions that was sent to me and I wrote them down. Let's see. What is the best mida to fix to be saved from goog magog? Well, first a person should listen to everything we just said today on a regular basis and get themselves to a point where they're always happy. Happy doing mitzvot, happy doing the will of Hashem. If a person is happy about doing mitzvot, certainly they're going to be able to fulfill the entire Torah, fix their any other deficiency they have. They'll be happy to remove anger. They'll be happy to become humble. they'll be happy to do everything that they know makes them closer to Hashem. So I would say that if a person wants to really seriously prepare themselves not just for goog but even for this month of the high holidays coming up start working on being happy doing every mitzvah. The more you do that the more pleasure you're going to have serving Hashem and the more you're going to want to serve Hashem. What should we take on for aloo to get ready for rashash shana similar to what I just another question where what a person should take on in order for a person to understand the happiness that they're supposed to have they have to do more mitzvot so for for the men especially they should learn more to whatever you're learning now increase it if you're learning a half hour a day learn for an You're learning for an hour a day. Learn for two hours. Learn for an hour and a half at least. Learn more Torah and add some mousar into your life every day. 15 minutes, a half hour, an hour. You could watch my lectures for mal. That's the uh constant topic we talk about in every sh to fix ourselves. For women, focus on fulfilling your obligations as a woman, which is to be modest, to always be a supportive of your husband and children, learning more Torah instead of going shopping, instead of going on vacation, instead of, you know, wasting all of the energy on all types of material things. Make sure that there is also time to learn Tawa. Now, there's no problem with going on a vacation as long as obviously it's kosher. There's no problem of celebrating. There's no problem of spending money to buy things. There is a problem if all of those things get in the way of serving Hashem and and learning Torah. So if a person wants to improve themselves during this month of start paying attention to everything that you're doing in order to make sure that you're learning more, you're doing more and you're serving Hashem with happiness. How could Mosher Benu show the lean the uh the talim the giant sea creatures the snake that kills when it looks at those things. So a very smart person. Now in essence knows that the uh mid tells us that uh in this paraben is telling all of the different mitzvot having to do with animals. But how would they know what the uh you know the the the kosher fish look like or the non-coosher fish look like? He's not just leaving everything up to chance and memory. In essence, Kazal teaches us that every time he told them about an animal, he actually showed them the animal. He showed them the animal. So, how exactly that was certainly seems like the uh there's physical animals that he showed them literally in their hand. Ah made miracles to show them the physical animals, but didn't necessarily have to sit on Mosheu's lap in order for him to show it to them. could simply make the appear right there and then and tell them this is it. Give them the the huge lion that uh existed uh nearly 2,000 years ago. Still around today, but obviously we don't uh see him and we're lucky we don't because just as a roar from miles away makes people's uh bones shake and teeth fall out. It's a uh one one of the great sages uh came to uh I believe it's Eli but I'm not sure came to uh uh one of the uh uh Roman Caesars and said listen you uh you guys say that you have this giant lion in the Torah but uh where is this giant lion I want to see him I want to see this lion he says well you don't really want to see him no I want to see him or else I believe that you're lying your to is full full of lies. So the Jewish sage started praying and all of a sudden a huge roar came from a distance but the roar was so scary and so horrific that it caused an earthquake. Things started falling. The the building started to shake. Said what is that? Said you said you wanted to see it. So I prayed to God to make him come here. A few moments later, cuz Di is running towards them, another roar. This time, all of the soldiers fell on the floor and their teeth started falling out of their mouths. By then, the Roman Caesar told them, "No, no, no. Tell, please, please, please tell this, tell this line not to come. Tell him not to come. Please, no, no, no. We we've seen enough. We've seen enough." And this is Kazal says when the when the lion was still miles and miles away that's how massive he was now that showing is the big animals the small animals the the unique animals that only existed for a specific time like the tash that was used uh the skin of the tash was used for the Mishkan because it was so beautiful. Thisai was not Moshe's doing. This was akadoshu in so many words, not even having to to snap fingers like we do. Simply making something appear. Now, of course, the little bunny could go right and sit right next to Mosheu and everybody sees what a bunny looks like. But only people in the front. Only people in the front. What about the millions and millions of people in the back? How do they see this little bunny? Where are they all going to have to go to the front? Nobody, not everybody go to the front. In so many words who made miracles where everyone was able to see it. So whether it was 50 million bunnies and 50 million fish or one really really big bunny in the air that everyone was able to see or in so many words put it in front of everyone, there's no limitation to and if there's no limitation of showing him a little bunny to millions of people, there's certainly no limitation of showing him the uh levatan or or some of the other huge animals. So the beauty here is that we have a kadu and a does not have limitations. If he wanted to show something to everyone saw it and just like the whole world knew that what Hashem did for in Egypt with the plagues they also knew when he split the sea into 12 different tunnels. Everyone knew because even their coffee and their water and their local uh bar split into 12. The water split everywhere. When is received the Torah, the whole world knew. It wasn't the whole world was there. The whole world knew though. Why? Because made sure everyone saw what was happening. Whether it's in the sky, in front of them, on the side, all types of different ways. There's no limitations that has and therefore we understand that the words of the sages are not just fairy tales but literally they're telling us when Hashem did something and he we says that everyone saw everyone saw no exceptions everyone saw and that's one of the beautiful things when you have a God that's not limited, a God that doesn't need you, a God that gives you opportunities to celebrate his mitzvot because it's only for your good. There's nothing else that you would ever want. And people get closer and closer to the one and only God of Israel and live this way where they know that there's no limitations. There's no limitations with his past creation, present creation, future creation. Certainly, there's no limitation of how much money he can give you or Zivugi can send you or anything else. There's no limitation. All we have to do is give him a reason by turning on the automation of blessings by doing his will. We turn on the automation of the blessings already. Start celebrating What do you think about of breastliff sadik one of the great sadikim we had in the last couple hundred years has plenty of sadikim and he was one of them what should a person do when he's jealous of other people who are serving hashem better than him and are learning more and better I wish I can serve hashem like they do well that's The point the real gave us every character trait in order for us to serve him with it. And the character trait of jealousy was not for people to be jealous of other people because they have better better cars or more beautiful wives or more kids or or different type of life but rather to be jealous of other people's uh serving Hashem better, learning more Torah better and therefore to entice ourselves to do better. So it's in essence that that competitive nature that's within you needs to be turned on and when you see other people serving Hashem better than you are, you should start serving Hashem even better and you'll succeed. Is it kosher for me to wear my grandfather's? uh that sure if they're kosher tiline uh then there's uh no problem but you have to make sure that uh you get them checked and uh many people uh wearin uh of their parents or grandparents uh just assuming that since they're old therefore they're holy therefore they're kosher and many times they find out that uh you know they when they check the feline that uh they've been laying feline that are not really because somebody didn't check them and uh the uh something happened over the years and uh they're no longer a kosher feline. So get them checked. Cost I don't know $70 $100 to get them checked. Uh certainly put on a different pair of feline during that time. If they're uh they're they're good fine then sure you could later you could put them on. But uh if uh if if they're not then get yourself a new parrot. What do you think about teaching the Gentiles? Well the focus for every Jew is to teach Jews. If Gentiles decide to show up and learn also, they can. But uh Jews should never go out there and start teaching uh Gentiles as their primary focus. No, it's not allowed. Can you tell us about the gates of curses? I have plenty of lectures about the the curses, the punishments. Even have films about it. Uh so you could watch all of those. So you can just simply go to my YouTube channel, type in uh either the para uh which is a r e h or you can just put the word curses or the word punishment and you'll get a whole lot of uh different lectures that discuss the the the details of the curses. Khaleim lent me a electric lift chair recliner to use before and after my valve replacement easy breathing and to the next back surgery. Can I use it on Shabbat? Uh electric chair or no? It's you have to have somebody push you. You have to have somebody push you. Uh Ruven, are we obligated to give into the financial demands of one that extorting us or may we cut off all contact? Uh that depends on what your definition of extorting is and why they're extorting you. and uh uh you know if somebody's violating the Torah then of course you don't need to uh follow uh what they say but uh if uh if you really are obligated to do something then you need to do it. So people uh sometimes don't like when other people ask him for for money and they uh define things uh as extortion or as a uh stealing just because they don't want to do it. So you have to uh make sure that uh that's really what it is. commands rejecting idol idolatry. Can I listen to my Jewish parents non-Jewish beliefs like the New Testament? Is it disrespectful to say I don't want to hear this? No. If if your uh uh anybody, your parents or anybody else says uh things that are against the Torah, you certainly do not and should not hear it. If you want to avoid conflict and so on and you're not comfortable saying, "I don't want to hear this," uh you could just simply change the topic. always have a story of Torah or something, some uh wise thought from the sages on your mind that as soon as they uh start talking about this nonsense, change the topic to something else. Should one help a gentile in need? Uh depends. uh if uh if if you're talking about the Gentile that has a uh medical condition uh and you're a doctor, not only should you help him uh but you're allowed to violate Shabbat uh in order to uh save that Gentile's life in order for the sake of peace. The the sages permitted for the uh the doctors to violate Shabbat to save a gentile's life. uh because if we don't save the Gentiles life, then the Gentile doctors will also use that against us and won't save Jewish lives. So you're even if you're a doctor, you're allowed to even violate Shabbat in order to save a life. Human uh uh life uh was all created by Hashem. Now, as far as to help a gentile in different things, it depends. It depends if they really are in need. If uh if this is a uh if this is a gentile that is a uh you know someone that's an anti-semite, if this person is a uh you know it depends can't it can't be one sizefits-all. Not all Gentiles are the same and not all Jews are the same and not all needs are the same. Shalom, Rabbi, can you tell us more about what happens to the after the Tanakh? Well, I can tell you what Tanakh says. Why? Why? Why? Why? Uh why speculate? I tell you what Tanak says. You go to the Navaja. Nava tells everything as it is. He's not concerned about YouTube views or uh people that don't like uh to hear the truth. um and them blocking him. No, in so many words, the Navaja is a very very short book prophecy and he was originally a non-Jew that converted and Nvya says, sorry, here we go. A vision of Oada. Thus says the Lord Hashem concerning Adum. So you know I'm not just assuming it's adom. He's saying it's Adom. We have heard tidings from Hashem and a messenger has been sent among the nations saying arise and let us rise up against her for battle. Behold, I have made you inferior among the nations. You are very despised. The wickedness of your heart has misled you. You who dwells in the cliffs of the rocks in his lofty abode. Who says in his heart, "Who can bring me down to earth?" Sounds like Trump, doesn't it? Or maybe Putin. Even if you raise your nest like an eagle or if you place your nest among the stars, I will bring you down from there. The word of Hashem. If thieves have come upon you, if plunderers of the night, how utterly you are cut off, would they not steal only until they had enough of for themselves? If grape harvest harvesters would come to you, would they not leave over gleanings? How has been searched, his hordes revealed? All the men of your covenant escorted you until the border. The men at peace with you misled you and prevailed over you. Those who eat your bread made a wound in your place. There is no understanding in him. Behold, on that day the word of Hashem, I will eradicate wise men from Adom and understanding from the mountain of Asav. Your mighty ones to the south will be broken. So that every man will be cut off from the mountain of Asav by the slaughter. for the oppression of your brother Yakov, disgrace will envelope you and you will be cut off forever. Well, he's telling you that Asav is going to be punished because of what he did to Jacob, meaning to on the day that you stood from afar, on the day that strangers captured his wealth and foreigners came to his gates and cast the lottery on Yushim, you too were like ones of them. Gaze not on the day of your brother, the day of his estrangement, and rejoice not over the children of Yehuda, on the day of their destruction, and do not expand your mouth on a day of his misfortune. Enter not the gate of my people, on the day of their calamity. Gaze not, you too, upon his evil on the day of his calamity, and do not extend your hands to his wealth on his day of calamity. Stand not by the crossroads to cut off his fugitives, and deliver not his survivors on the day of misfortune. For the day of Hashem upon all the nations is close, as you have done, so shall be done to you. Your reququid shall re return upon your head. For just as you drank on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink ceaselessly. They will drink and be confounded and become as if they never were. On Mount Zion, there will be refuge, and it will be holy. And the house of Yakov will inherit those who had dispossessed them. The house of Yakov will be fire and the house of Ysef a flame and the house of Asav for straw. And they will ignite them and devour them. There will be no survivor to the house of Asav for Hashem has spoken. And those of the southland will inherit the mountain of Asav. And those of the lowlands will inherit the pleim. And they will inherit the fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria. and Benjamin will inherit Gilead, this exiled host of the children of Israel who are among the Canaanites until Zer Zerapath Zarapath and the exile of Jerusalem which is in Zafar will inherit the cities of the south and the saviors will ascend Mount Zion to judge the mountain of Asav and the kingdom will be Hashem's. This is the entire prophecy of the Navaj. It's in the Tanakh and in so many words it's even in the New Testament. But apparently the pastors skip that one. That's why I tell people if you really want to help your friend that's a gentile that believes in the New Testament, you want to help your countrymen that are following the New Testament. You want to help them get them to abandon the New Testament and follow what the Torah says. Be righteous Noahites or convert to Judaism. Whichever one you prefer, whichever one you can. Either way, abandon anything else that's not the Torah. Why? Hashem himself is telling people what's the end. What's the end? The end will come to everyone. Question is, what's going to what's going to be your end? Is it going to be blessing or curse? Choose wisely. Well, you may want to call it satanic verses, but if you believe in the Quran or you believe in the New Testament, those so-called satanic verses, they're in your book also. So, you're not only ignorant, but um apparently you're a Satanist. Since the Torah existed before creation, did God plan expecting sin and meat eating after the flood and how does this fit with our free will? Do we always have free will? Okay, so those are a couple of questions as far as did Hashem or does Hashem know the future? Yes, Hashem knows the future, but he does not interfere with your decisions. Just because he knows the future does not mean that he will manipulate your choices. So, for example, as I've given this example many times over the years, let's say I tell you that I know the future and I'm going to prove it to you by writing down on a little piece of paper what you're going to do this whole week and then we take you don't see the paper. No one else sees the paper, but we take it, we put it in an envelope, and then we put it in a safe and only you have a key to that safe. So, you know there's no manipulation, there's no cheating, there's no nothing. and you go about your life. You live your week. You go to work. You go on vacation. You do whatever it is that you do. At the end of the week, you come, you bring some cameras, you bring the media to make sure that everybody sees. It's either you're going to be exposing the rabbi or you're going to be promoting the rabbi. You're going to see what would happen here. So they open up the safe and they take out the note and you start reading and then you start realizing that everything that I wrote is exactly what you did the whole week to the detail to the smallest detail minute by minute. Now the fact that I knew the future did that interfere with your choice? No. In essence, it's the same concept as Hashem knowing the the future. So Hashem gives everybody choices to make. You have the choice to make in regards to doing what Hashem says or going against what Hashem says. Everything is from heaven except the fear of heaven. Meaning Hashem does not force you to serve him. You can decide to go against him. You'll get punished for it, but you can decide to do bad because if he controlled your choices, then there's no reason to punish you and there's no reason to reward you. You're simply a robot. So gives everybody the ability to choose whatever they want. Now as far as free choice, everyone does have free choice, but it's not really free. It's like I just said, there's reward and punishment. But there is an exception. There is an exception that the Rambam brings. And it's also in other of course that a person can get to a level of such high level of wickedness that Hashem punishes them with the worst possible punishment in this world which is removing their ability to do chuva meaning like he hardened his heart. He was not able after he made a lot of bad decisions a lot of horrible decisions. Hashem says now you're not even going to may be able to make the right decision. Why? I want to punish you even worse. So this is not standard. This is not something that happens a uh on a massive scale. And certainly if you're watching one of my lectures or even if you're connect, you know, even remotely connected to the Torah, you're not part of those people. Many people think, "Oh, it's hard for me to do. Maybe I'm one of those people." No. If you were one of those people, you wouldn't even think about Tua. You wouldn't even think about Tua. But the point is that that is an exception that exists. But the general public, everybody else, everyone, as long as you're alive, you could still do chuva. Why can't you eat chicken and dairy? Because the sages said no. And the says that if a person says that even a and this is that if a person says I believe in a Torah I believe it's from but except this one word and the written or except this one word in the Talmud or except even this by one of the sages that person is considered an aos, they're considered a heretic and they lose. So when a sages said ala is you're not allowed to eat chicken and and um and um milk and dairy at the same time. That's it. This is this this be this is the law. Now, as far as biblical, there is a difference between a biblical violation and a uh and a rabbitical violation when it comes to the type of punishment that they're going to get. But needless to say, they're both uh they're both punishment. They're both horrible. uh and uh but the bigger uh the bigger thing of reason of why uh we say something is rabbitical or something is a uh biblical is how we treat it when it comes to a uh you know puskining different alas different things that come from it where there's room for leniency or or or obligation for stringency but the basics of the if it says no Then no, that's it. It's the end end of story. How can someone redeem themselves if they swear on God to stop something but break their promise? Well, that depends. If let's say for example a Jew says they'll stop breaking Shabbat uh and they continue breaking Shabbat then they the sin is still only one sin which is they're breaking Shabbat which is big enough that they they're going to lose if they don't do but their swear was not really a valid swear because they already swore at Mount Sai. So you can't swear for things that you're already obligated to do. But if, let's say, for example, somebody swears, somebody vows that they're going to start keeping Shabbat an extra hour every week and they uh they decide that they don't want to anymore, they can't anymore, then they have to go in front of a in front of and get the uh the vow uh canled because the says that if somebody makes a vow and they forsake it, they uh risk losing uh you know their not only their own life but other you know their wife's life, their children's life. So it's not it's a big deal. Now if the person is not Jewish, then there is no concept of vows for non-Jews. Simply they should just learn how to say uh what they mean and mean what they say. But there's no uh concept of vows for non-Jews. Is eggs and cheese forbidden? I'm asking for a friend. I love those f those friends. I don't even understand why why you even um add that part. But uh anyway, yes, you're allowed to eat eggs and cheese. Egg is not considered uh meat. They're considered parv. Why is there a difference between righteous Noah Hide and a righteous Jew? Also, why is a heretic Jew still considered a Jew and an apostate? So, the difference between a righteous nohide and a righteous Jew is monumental. Why? Because a righteous Jew has to follow the Torah that applies to them which is fulfilling the law. Which means to put on every day, means doing, means to keep Shabbat, means to keep kosher, means to, you know, do or fulfill the entire Torah. Uh whereas a righteous gentile, not only they don't uh fulfill all of what the Jew does, but they're not even allowed to. Even if they want to, they're not allowed to keep Shabbat. The Rambam says that a a nohide that observes Shabbat is uh considered a thief and acquires a heavenly death penalty instead. It's a sin for a nohide to keep Shabbat. Uh so uh there it's it's it's a very big difference between the two because their obligations are different. Now, as far as a heretic Jew still being considered a Jew, that means that once a person either was born to a Jewish mother or converted a legitimate conversion, there's no removing that Judaism from them, meaning they're going to be judged as a Jew, even if they're a wicked Jew, but they'll be judged as a Jew in in in heaven. They're going to either be rewarded or punished if they're going against God. They'll be punished in the genome for Jews, which is much worse than the non-Jewish gay, by the way. Uh the punishment is much worse for Jews that go against God than uh the punishment for for everybody else because their obligation is much more significant and their blessings are much more significant if they observe. So a uh a Jew always gets judged as a Jew whether they're righteous or wicked and a non-Jew always gets judged as a non-Jew whether they're righteous or wicked. you know, so it's a uh it's not that uh the Jew that goes against God becomes a non-Jew. They're treated as a non-Jew. For example, if a Jew uh you know desecrates the Shabbat or believes in an uh in the New Testament in idolatry, then you treat them like an idol worshiper when it comes to certain like for example, you can't give them a wine uh that's uh uncooked wine to to pour for you because it's considered as if that wine as soon as they touch that wine, it's considered as if it's wine of idolatry. You can't uh use them as a witness for any Jewish ceremony. uh you uh you simply treat them as an idol worshipper even though they're they're a Jew but because of their behavior they are treated as a non-Jew and they will be judged in heaven as a Jew but here in this world they're treated as a non-Jew so long as they don't do chuva once they do cha they get treated in the same fashion as every righteous Jew out there uh on the other hand with the uh with the noahides if the noid follows the laws that apply to them because Hashem says so, they'll be rewarded and they'll have uh you know, but if they uh don't follow them, they'll get punished severely. And in fact, Rambam says that even if no follows the laws of that apply to them, not because Hashem said so, but rather because it makes sense to them. Makes sense to them not to kill. It makes sense to them not to steal. It makes sense to them not to commit adultery. then not only will they not be rewarded for it, uh, but they're not even considered a righteous nohide. They're considered a fool. You don't need to ask questions that ask if you have permission to ask a question. Just ask and if I see it, I'll answer. Why have the takenote to forbid a convert to enter the Syrian community uh have not been revoken? You have to ask the rabbis of the Syrian community that question. I've spoken against it many times. Ra spoke against it and even went to the Syrian community leaders multiple times to remove that horrible taka and they refused to listen even to Raadya. If they don't want to listen to vanya, you think that uh some nobody like me can can help. Even though we have boem, many wonderful people that watch our shuim that have done chuva uh that we've helped from the Syrian community, you know, and uh to this day, many of them, but uh unfortunately the the community has many good people in it. uh but um you know there's a certain type of uh leadership that refuses to listen to about that. It's uh it's unfortunate. I can assure you it's not helping the community not like it used to. Many people that have uh intermarriage simply decide to remain intermarried rather than do chuva and convert their uh their spouse. Even when the spouse wants to convert, why? Because it's the strangest thing in the world. But as long as the guy, even if he's marrying a non-Jewish girl, they'll accept him in the shul, they'll give him an aliyah. But if the non-Jewish girl converts to Judaism, they no longer give him an aliyah. Meaning he has done chuva and he's getting punished for it. That's how foolish that takana is. It's a it's it's a horrible thing. And I think the only way for it to be removed is if the community itself, the leaders of the community itself go to the rabbis and tell them this is not this is not what we want. Uh Rab Vadia said already uh multiple times that they should uh cancel that taka and uh the the situation of the community itself is not being improved because of that taka. It's many people are uh are are very upset about it, but they're not doing enough about it. So, if I don't know who you are, but if you want to do something about it, publicize this message to as many of them as possible and get your community to speak to the rabbis and uh you know, and and and change it. Do you go to Aatam in Baltimore in Baltimore? I have no idea what that is. I'm sorry. No, not familiar. I'm not from Baltimore. So if specific fish are considered kosher, why do some fish eat other animals that aren't kosher? Because the animal is hungry and the animal does not need to keep kosher. Only the Jewish people have to keep kosher, not the animals. Some people convert for the wrong reasons. Uh yes, some people convert for the wrong reasons, but many don't. I would even dare to say the majority of people that convert do not convert for the wrong reasons. So, it's just like a uh saying uh some people uh steal. So, you're not going to do business anymore because some people steal. Some people lie. So, what? You're not going to talk to anybody cuz some people lie. You can't punish uh a bunch of uh you know the the everyone because of the uh bad acts of a few especially when the Torah has countless uh verses in the Torah 36 verses in the Torah that specifically say how much Hashem loves the converts protects the converts and and takes revenge against anyone that goes against converts. So, uh, this, like I said, this is not bringing the Syrian community a blessing. I could assure you of that. It may have helped them in the past, but once Rab Vadia said it's no longer relevant, that's it. Posan in this world, they pas in Sham the same way. And I know from experience, I deal with a lot of people and a lot of people from the Syrian community contact me on a regular basis. Every week I have people from the Syrian community contacting me and very often they come up with this issue. This issue, you know, they uh he has a non-Jewish girlfriend, she has a non-Jewish boyfriend, uh and they want to fix it, but they're scared of getting thrown. It's a it's a horrible thing. Horrible thing. Many many of them. Not not one, not two, not five, not 10, many. And on a regular basis there's new ones coming up. No, we're not bringing anybody up on the live. Sorry, not interested. Can you elaborate on the prophecy from what it means in our days? I just read it 10 minutes ago means that people that go against Hashem that have hurt the Jewish people are going to get punished that their day is going to come and in fact there's a whole movie that uh we've been working on for several months that's going to be posted next week the war of go the war of the worlds and this will be this will come out for everyone on Tuesday uh night. Uh for people that are paid subscribers to our YouTube channel, they'll get early access to it. Um and uh anyone that wants to could do that. But uh the point is is that uh you'll see that uh there are dozens and dozens of sources from all spectrums of the Torah from Tanakh from Navi from from the written Torah the oral Torah the Z uh the Mishna all over the place talking about the inevitable uh destruction of the uh enemies of am the enemies of God and Um unfortunately uh most people are not aware. So this is coming out Tuesday night. I have Rabbi I've been working on watching my eyes. Please can you say what sigula is? protecting your eyes is protecting your not understanding what what you mean with a skoola. I mean, if you're talking about what benefits a person gets as a result of protecting their eyes, they if they protect their eyes, it's going to be much more uh uh possible for them to protect their bleet. And if they protect their bleet, then uh they'll have all of the greatest blessings of the Torah come upon them whe you know whether it's a uh monetary uh you know zoo uh all types of uh literally they're they're the I have a whole shure about it that I did a couple years ago um where we went over I think I don't know maybe a hundred different sources of how many blessings a person that protects uh gets it's unbelievable. They're literally uh teach us that they become literally like glorified like a king like higher than the angels. Uh but that's only if they protect their bleet. That's only if they protect their bleet. And of course they cannot protect their bleet if they don't protect their eyes. One of the simple things that uh that uh you benefit from as far as protecting your eyes is that you're less likely to sin. you're going to remember your uh Torah that you learn. Um but again, it's not uh just closing your eyes all the time. It's making sure that uh also you protect the issues of kadusha. If you want more details, you can watch that lecture. Hey Rabbi, I'm back earlier. I as I asked if I wanted to start putting on to fillin, but it was too expensive for me to afford a set. What can I do? Uh, well, if you're Jewish, you're obligated to put on to fill in every day. If you're not Jewish, you're forbidden for putting on tillin every day or at all. Uh but if you're Jewish, you have to get fine. If you can't afford them, then uh you could still go to synagogue and uh after somebody else finishes using them, you can ask them to borrow the feeling to put on to do the mitzvah. Yeah. They won't give it to you to take home, but you put it on few minutes and then put it off and do the blessing and then put it take it off and start saving money to buy. How to navigate differentic opinions of eating at other homes like Ashkenazi and Safhari with though we should judge kosher Jews as keeping kosher. Well, if you are a safari Jew, uh then uh you have to make sure that uh you uh if if it's if you're eating meat, you know, you eat at a place uh if you know, you eat people that give kosher meat only, that's a uh um that's beta. Uh but if you're eating at uh a Ashkanazi Jews house, if it's chicken, that's no problem. Uh if it's meat, then make sure that it's it's it's glut, which most of the meat that's out there that they buy is usually glut if you want to rely on that. Uh but the point is is that they uh you know, you have to make sure that you eat at only at, you know, people that are religious, not just people that just keep say they keep kosher. You know, if somebody's in Shabbat, you're not allowed to eat their food. Now to you know to trust them is that their food is kosher. If I have a local rabbi is it permissible to no longer participate in online shim and stick only to one's local rv? It depends of what kind of local RV you have and it depends what kind of shim you're watching. If the local RV that you have is a very good RV that teaches you a teaches the truth and he covers and teaches you everything that you need to know uh then by all means but if uh the local RAV that you have is not doing that then you need to get as much as possible uh elsewhere. And if that's lo online shimm then get it from online shim. If that's getting a another rabbi, then get another rabbi. Whatever you have to do, do. You know, so it's just because somebody lives next to you doesn't make them uh, you know, better or worse. Depends on a case- by case basis. I have to work on Saturdays, but can still do Shabbat on Sunday. If you're a Jew, you're not allowed to work on Shabbat. and I'll work on Saturday. If you're a non-Jew, you can work whenever you want. Rabbi, where can I send my staka? Uh, you can go and you can donate on our website, which is b e zm.org or bh tora bht t o r ah.org. Uh and uh you could donate online or if you want you could uh send a check and on those websites there is a address of where you could send it to um and you could send a check or you could wire the money. You could also donate cryptocurrency if you want online. There's lots of ways to donate. People that are on YouTube, you could donate through uh the YouTube right now. People that are on Facebook, you could donate through Facebook. There's plenty of ways. And if you haven't figured it out how to do it, you could just simply contact me privately and I'll send you the links. Send me a message and I'll send you links when I get a chance. Do you want my spirit changed too, Rabbi? I don't want anything. When you donate, you're helping yourself. You're not helping me. You're not uh enriching me. I don't take the money. How do we contact you privately? You could send a message. Uh you could send a message and if uh and if I see that uh it's a message I want to answer to and I have time to answer to then I answer it. One recommendation is don't send a long message. Don't send a long message. Send short messages, quick questions. I tried my best to get to them. Where does the money go if I send it to you? It goes to the organization bestheashem.org. If you uh look at if you want to know the details of our financials, you can go on guidestar.org and you can see our public financial report. As a non-Jew, can I connect to Hashem just as strongly as a Jew can? Depends what kind of Jew. If you're talking about a uh connecting to Hashem and a uh as far as through your prayer and um you know, yeah, sure you everybody could talk to Hashem. Everybody could pray to Hashem. But if you're talking about being considered in the same level as a righteous Jew that keeps mitzvah, then no. If you're talking about uh you know like a wicked Jew, then of course even more than them. But um it's not there's no equality. Torah doesn't believe in equality. There's no equality between genders. There's no equality between young and old. There's no equality be between the ignorant and the uh scholarly. There's no equality. Equality is man-made falsehood. If we pass by a Jewish cemetery in a non-Jewish cemetery every day, do we have to recite the blessings of seeing the Jewish grave and the verse from your meow each daily? No. You usually not going through the cemetery. You're going around it. So, it's not considered uh something you have to do uh blessing for. What if I got fired for keeping Shabbat and removed from participating in a $8 million contract as a result? That's a big uh it's a big test. It's a big merit. It's good for you. How does a uncertified gale approach a bet midlash? Do I just knock on the door and ask for the rabbi? I don't know what you mean by uncertified g. If you have not converted, then you're not a gale. You are somebody that wants to be a gale. You are somebody that wants to convert. And if you want to convert um then you have to go to the bedin and uh ask them uh you know how what's the process of conversion and they'll probably recommend for you to uh study with a uh some rabbi uh for conversion program of some kind or to do some self-study which they'll test you on depending on the bedin. But as far as uh going to the bet midash, every bet midash has different rules. But most of them are not going to tell not going to welcome a non-Jew to come study with them unless they trust them that this person is serious about conversion and they get the okay from the rabbis. There are many religions and everyone calls God different names. how I believe that Hashem is the only one because that's what the Torah says. If you look at the major religions of the world, you know, you have a uh Judaism, you have Islam, and you have different versions of Christianity, Catholicism, Protestants, and so on. Now, this is where the majority of the world worships. And of course there are over 80,000 cults and religions in India and there's all types of other unusual ones but the major religions are Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Now the Jews are who got the Torah. Muhammad didn't get the Torah. Yeshu did not get the Torah. Uh Peter, Paul, they didn't get the Torah. The Jewish people got Tora. Mosher Rabenu got the Torah. Mount Sai was a public event and it's written about in a Torah. Now you have the Torah given to Amish is 3,335 years ago. Only about 1,400 years later did a heretic Jew called Yeshu or as they call him Jesus um decide to go against the Torah and make people follow him. Now he himself did not start a religion called Christianity. He just simply decided to make himself a leader of as if it's a new version of Judaism. And anywhere between 70 to 300 years after he died uh did the Christianity become invented by people that never saw him by people that never spoke to him uh all the people that wrote the New Testament um lived many years after he died. They never saw him. Now those people in essence started this whole Christianity. Jesus at his time, he was thinking that he's following Jews and his original followers were Jews. Now, the New Testament is not something that came from nothing. What they're saying is that the Torah, which is the the five books of Moses and the writings and the prophets, this is 24 total books, that they call all of that the Old Testament. So, that's in essence for them. for us. That's it. For them, that's part one. And then they invented a new thing that's man-made that was not given at Mount Sai, that was not given by God. Just a bunch of people decided to write it. And they say that's part two. Now, even though if something has a part one and a part two, that means that the two should agree with each other. But the New Testament contradicts the Torah. Says the opposite of the Torah. says that the covenant is is null and void and so on and so forth as if God changed his mind or it says that they humanized God. They turned God into a human being uh or in a trinity and all that nonsense. But needless to say, they do not say that the Torah is false. They just say that there is a continuation that change things. So if somebody uses their mind, they'll realize that logically it is statistically possible for one option, both to be true. That's one possibility. Second possibility is for both to be false. Third possibility would be for Judaism to be true, the Torah being true, and Christianity false. What's not possible is for the New Testament to be true and the Old Testament, the Torah to be false. Why? Because the New Testament depends on the truth of the Old Testament of the Torah. So if the Torah is false, by default, the New Testament would be false. So here you see that statistically possible even without investigating the verses and being a scholar and you already know that the chances of truth are guaranteed to be higher with the Torah. The same goes with the Quran. The the uh New Testament started 2,000 years ago. The uh Quran started about 1,400 years ago. And the Quran just like the New Testament copies from the Torah where they say the Jews got the Torah Mount Si they also believe in the New Testament to a certain extent and then they came and they say there are in essence like a third book a continuation. So again you have the same exact issue here. You have possible chance everything is false. Possible chance everything is true. possible chance that the Torah is true and the Quran is false. So already you see that the uh chances of Judaism being true are much higher than anything else. Now of course this is just simple statistics. Now if you actually want to spend some time researching the subject, I have many lectures about it. There are many books about it. If you truly research a topic, it will be impossible for you to ever arrive at a conclusion that the Torah was written by anyone other than God. It's impossible for such a book to be written by a human being. There are certain informations in it, not only prophecies of things that happen in the future, but information that could not be given by anyone other than God. For example, in this week's Torah portion, God tells us that you have the kosher animals and the non-cooser animals. And in order for kosher fish and non-cooser fish. Now, in order for something to be considered a kosher fish, they have to have fins and scales. Fins and scales. But if something has just fins and no scales, it's not kosher. But you will never find anything that just has scales and no fins. So here the Torah is in essence telling us something about the species of the world. There are countless countless different types of fish. 40 50,000 have already been discovered. So, whoever wrote this book has absolute certainty that no fish would ever exist in all of history, past, present, or future, that will just have scales without fins. So, here you see that this is something that cannot be written by a a person because if it was written by a person, you could easily go find. Is there something? But no, no one's ever found such a fish. The same goes with the animals. There are certain rules of the animals. They have to chew their cut and have a split hoove. Uh and I have a whole film about this different scientific evidence that the Torah is divine. The Torah is from the one and only God. No other book has such a thing. Not the New Testament, not the uh Quran, not the stuff from uh the teachings of Buddha, not from Aristotle and all the world of philosophers, not any other book in existence has the scientific evidence, mathematical evidence, archaeological evidence, and prophecy that the Torah has. Nothing even comes close. So if you actually study the the topic, you'll see that not only is the Torah divine, but the oral Torah, which includes the Talmud, is also divine. Because the oral Torah, the Talmud has information in it that is not something that a human being can ever know unless we got it from God, from the creator. For example, the Talmud page 32 B uh says that the number of stars the number of stars in the universe this is something that at the time the Tamud was written about 16700 years ago the telescope was not invented yet that only came over a thousand years later but yet they had a knowledge of the number of stars in the entire universe something that modern day science only arrived at a close number to it only in the last 20 years. So even when the telescope came out, they were only able to see only a few stars. They weren't able to see as much as we can see today with the big telescopes they have and the machinery they have. Uh and even now they still can't see everything. But the point is is that the number of stars are in the Talmud. the uh different scientific evidence that are in the written and the oral Torah are beyond the possibility of them coming from human knowledge or intellect. So the more you investigate that the more you'll see in my on my YouTube channel there is playlists and one of the playlists is I think it says playlist for beginners uh and you'll there's several lectures there several films there start over there and you'll see that there's more than enough information there not only to educate you but that you can build upon that you could go try researching further if you want. I don't think you need to, but by all means, you could research further and you'll see that not only that the Torah is from God, but the God of Israel, the God of the Torah is the only God and there is no other God. A Jewish lawyer wants to help me. I have proof of being fired for keeping Shabbat. May I sue or should I remove the or would that remove the merit of being fired for keeping Shabbat? Um I mean if you're suing non-Jews, you're you're allowed to sue non-Jews uh in a court, but uh would it uh would it remove the merit? Not necessarily. I mean, I think that uh it's a very hard case to to win nowadays, but um by all means Well, Rabbi, I'm Moroccan Deist. I am trying to convert. I'm learning Hebrew and keeping Shabbat all alone. and I want to know what to do since I don't have access to any Jewish community in my city. You'll have to move to a different city in Morocco. There's actually uh several big synagogues that are active in Morocco. You need to find a way to get there and uh hopefully they could try to help you with conversion if you're genuine, if you're serious about it. Let's see. There's a website say that they give free feline. Is it legit? Ask them. about the forces of impurity being stronger than ever and heretics harnessing the their power. Will we start seeing false miracles and prophecies that come true? That doesn't seem to be happening yet, at least publicly. Yes. Yeah. There's already some stuff happening, but uh it'll become worse. Can I choose my own Ashkafa? As long as it's in accordance to it, it says fine. But um if it's against the Tawad then no there's there's only one Ashkafa if it's the proper Ashkafa if it's against the Tawan it's not it's not considered it's considered heresy What happened to the billions of agents believing in Buddha and other idols? As the prophet says, twothirds of the world will be destroyed initially and the last third will be um purified. Meaning that only a part of the last third will survive. If you want to know more details, there's a film that is coming out on Tuesday night. It's going to be on our YouTube channel. Uh and uh it's going to be it's called Gogu Magog, the War of the Worlds. It'll be about an hour and 40 minutes full of dozens of sources from all parts of the Torah and um that you can investigate further if you like. 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