Real Unity Requires God - MUSSAR Pirkei Avot (69)

[Music] it's great to be back in aventur we had a uh extraordinary holiday lots of stuff lots of moving parts good times good holidays new community we had some uh good uh last uh I think it was last week so sh nine hours over here was big hit um it was such a big hit we didn't feel it going at 5:40 in the morning I saw myself was they told me this year was going to be from 99 to 6 and at uh 5:40 in the morning I saw on the camera I asked I I said to myself okay so we have a little while meaning we have another few hours left and I was like what do you mean a little while we have 20 minutes I didn't know was 5:40 in the morning so it was an enjoyable sh a lot of questions I think we actually had more people at the end than we had in the beginning we had more people at the end we had in the beginning so was very good um we continue with uh M number 69 of course we'll start with uh some of your questions we have uh udalit 414 which is uh from ranan asand ranan the Shoemaker he's given us a mish we also have Noah we also have a brand new year we also have a lot of bagana in the world and we also have your questions to answer and we have some new people so the questions from the new people are first because you guys I'm bored of you guys already let's get new new people so give me some questions some well you're not new you're old you're older than everybody else here you were here for me nine hours with me yesterday you definitely you had plenty of time last week to ask questions y go ahead anything nothing yet okay so while they ask questions you think anything let me know go ahead no okay we'll go back to you since you uh you didn't have enough questions last piur and now they find out that it's not okay to stare at Rainbow they used as of they do so they wondering if it's okay to still do that staring at Rainbow okay next question go ahead the months since I'm alive I've like the most TR ever the in cnia the Hurricanes disasters in the world getting worse okay so is it going to get worse before mashia is it going to stop okay next if someone in situation that is simp for Rel continues to do it this person are you allowed to keep them because they excuse me wait he's a he's a Cohen and he's married to a Goya or he's going out with a Goya okay so that's two questions Wicked people honor Cohen with njw okay so that actually answers your question it will get worse before the Messiah comes next question if only sinned if only yeah if only Adam sinned or or vice versa okay what going you said they they're all the will [Music] go the clubs don't go the pubs don't go the The Hangout places don't go go go yes go can each has its own uh each has its own significance each has its own significance I guess it's a similar to a when you say Mi see it covers everything else why because the is why is the is a very good question as of now I don't know the answer maybe during this you I'll know the answer as of now I don't know the answer it's a very good why is the because actually you're right technically the should Beal technically the should be technically yeah no no you're right why is the love not see new guy already stumped me you guys six months you're not stomping not I guy scaring me already I no no more questions from this side okay no go we have seven so far have the knowing everything or would they go back to P state fruit of life good question a good question okay more how is this going to connect to Noah the situation in the world I have no idea but God bless you guys it's good I have something relevant is having mercy on me now only Noah and his family lived not everyone except Noah and his family lived no and his family lived yes yes yeah good he was still alive actually you survived you survived he uh on on top of the uh on top of the Ark on uh okay but there's more to it uh 10 Mak Ken vomit no you already did it what do you mean we are in Exile more than half of am is we're here we were the ones vomited well yeah I mean talk about land yes but in essence yes yes or no oh no no it's a secular State yeah no it's a secular state but vomiting us out of the land the land being a holy land it's still a holy land not a holy government unfortunately but a holy land uh vomiting us out unfortunately already happened and continues to happen uh okay yeah let's start with these we got 10 questions we got the photographer staring at rainbows uh disasters in the world are they going to settle down or get worse before mashia comes are we allowed to honor Wicked people or to what extent uh this done honor go uh if the wicked person happens to be a Cohen and who is wicked because he is married uh to a non-jew and are we still supposed to honor him because he does is he allowed to do uh if only Adam sinned only K sinned only Eve sinned would the world be different uhet that's non kosher does that include in the prophecy of all theet their Kusa their whether it be physical or in spiritual aspect of it uh go to uh Israel I kind of answered that question already being the of the why uh fruit of life if they ate the fruit of life if Adam and ate the fruit of life with anything be different uh the neim that died during uh the flood this week's par how come they reappear later in the Torah uh they also re appear in the Torah when we go when the MIM the uh the spies go to the land of Israel and they say we saw giants Giants descendants of the neim and also we see the fight between Bashan the king of Bashan andu so how what happened where did they come from uh we answer that briefly which is that OG survived why did he survive is the question um and uh why was mosenu scared of him mosu was scared of him how do we know M was scared of him hasem says Don't Be Afraid no one says don't be afraid if you're not afraid right so why was m scared of him that's that's the question I asked yes the Merit uh another one is the land is vomiting us has vomited us continues to vomit us is there more vomiting is going to happen how long did live very good question where's his birthday did they sing Happy Birthday in no happy birthday to you oh you're so big and cute no anything birthday birthday party for OG live a long time okay and only will we actually be able to answer any of your questions let alone all of your questions and actually somehow have the Merit your Merit really to connect it to some of the things we learned this week mishna and uh we start with a mishna that I've talked to you guys about before that connects a few things uh in page a it uh gives a big K about Noah says whoever pay the punishment to the generation of the flood and the generation of the Tower of Babel I'm sorry he will pay the punishment to the one who doesn't stand by his word that's the mishna in so many words says whoever punished these two two disastrous Generations both that happened in our week's No in the year 1648 I believe or 1646 from creation is when par Noah takes place and says to Noah 1656 uh says to Noah that the world has gone above and beyond the threshold of having a right to exist AEM is known as he's a merciful god he's a patient God but apparently that patience has an end has an end at least in this par and even though at the end of the par he says he's not going to destroy the world the same way he destroyed the world at the time of Noah nonetheless we still see that that patience wears thin with certain people on an individual B basis we see it every year unfortunately is I don't know if you guys notice but after a lot of people die I'm not sure if it's because I'm getting getting older or if it's just a reality of the world we live in but I've noticed that a lot of people died since R and each year I know more and more people that died right after r a day after two days after a week after a month after it's much like a plague of people that are dying so theid goes to work right away with some people at least tells Noah to build himself to build an ark he actually doesn't say build an ark for yourself he just says build an arc The Arc he gives us the measurements of this Arc it's one and a half football fields it's a huge huge Arc one and a half football fields and the height is approximately a half of a football field it's huge Mon it's a monstrous ship it's not like a little tiny fishing boat it's huge bigger than Titanic huge monstrous ship but still in reality if you measure all the two animals not even the seven pairs but just two of every animal we have in the world it's not enough so obviously there's a miracle that had to take place to fit whatever animals that exist in the world in this giant ship but Hashem still wanted to make it look realistic and therefore made Noah build this thing over the next hundred years but still nonetheless we see that despite Noah building it anytime somebody asks them what are you doing in the middle of the city he says listen hasm is going to destroy the world no one wanted to listen kind of sounds like today you come you give shim for free tell people to do chuva some people want to listen some people don't want to listen some people want to keep Shabbat but they say maybe after I get married I'll keep Shabbat I spoke to somebody today I told him listen got do chva it's not so hard it's not actually as hard as you think why is it not as hard as you think because initially before you start doing chuva before you start keeping Shabbat kosher and all the different things before you start keeping it it seems like a Monumental thing seems so far away from you it seems like it's so hard what am I going to do on Shabbat how am I going to handle life without smoking a cigarette how I'm going to handle life without watching the TV how I'm going to handle life without being on Facebook how I'm going to handle life without being on my phone Shalom start spinning on the floor it's like listen is there like a fast I can do instead of keeping Shaban it's like anything just don't let me keep sh because it sounds so far away he tell the guy listen what about kosher you have to eat kosher oh kosher what am I going to eat is there any food that's kosher in the world what do I have to eat like uh little plants like carobs like I have to grow a tree can is there burgers for kosher people it seems so far away before you do it but the reality is is actually once you take the first step you trust AEM I don't know how to keep Shabbat let me try what are you got to do food you can't cook it okay so how do you eat hot food you're obligated to eat hot food on Shabbat there's something called a Plata hot plate by a Plata $25 $30 one of the main things of of Shabbat is on Shabbat on Shabbat means you have to eat hot food and you have to eat meat unless it disgusts you unless you're unless you're not you know you don't like to uh you don't like meat or it's you know bad for you you have to eat meat it's part of on Shabbat eating hot food is part of on Shabbat Shabbat is not just sitting home sleeping all day so you start realizing hey it's not so bad I can still eat food as a matter of fact the food on Shabbat tastes much better than the rest of the week same food better taste why it's an extra an extra ingredient called Shabbat you can't buy during the rest of the week only shows up by itself on Shabbat and it's free don't sell them in supermarkets even Amazon so you have that's so bad the food and not watching TV for a day not using my phone it's a vacation all of a sudden you don't feel like the need that you have to go to some uh far away Island you already had a vacation here you didn't answer the phone it's already a vacation and little by little you start realizing it's not only it's not so hard it's actually enjoyable it's enjoyable to be a Jew it's enjoyable if you're doing it right if you're doing it right it's enjoyable to be a religious Jew that keeps all of the not some of the but all of them name Allah everything all of them they're all enjoyable if you're not enjoying it your MIT are not from sh you made them up if your mitv are not enjoyable it's not from hem you're doing something wrong what hasem gave you is enjoyable what hasem gave you is diamonds if it's not enjoyable you're doing something wrong you're not understanding what you're doing maybe you translated something wrong you're not using it the right way you don't know anything about it maybe you don't know the significance of it similar to like somebody says this analogy is very good analogy he says one time a guy tells a guy uh listen do me a favor carry this sack up the mountain for me please do me a favor I'll pay you $100 it's hot but I need $100 fine no okay upet give me the sack he starts climbing the mountain but it's hot like the day that after uhu had hot like AEM just took the son out of the Nar the the shell it's hot and he's climbing the mountain and all he's cursing this guy in his $100 and his wife calls him right in the last he calls him she didn't say anything he's already angry at her what do you want from me call me in the middle of the day no what do you want no I just want to see how you do what how could I be doing I'm climbing a mountain with this giant sack that's so heavy and he's suffering and he hates life and everything is the worst and eventually gets to the top of the mountain and he gets a call and it's the guy he's like this guy has the nerve to call me he has the nerve the spun I'm gonna tell him off no yes yes what do you want I just wanted to let you know the bag you carried is full of diamonds take one of them give it to the guy across the mountain the rest of it is yours that's the real payment all of a sudden wow it's so light he's so happy honey how are you he calls his wife back honey how are you how's your day I'm so worried about you I just called you five minutes ago you were Hitler what do you mean worried about me no no no I thought it was somebody else it wasn't me I love you I miss you all of a sudden everything changeed why because now he knows he knows the reward he knows the MH he knows the significance of what he just did so if you're not enjoying the mitvah it's because you don't understand the significance of what you're doing so to finish the point in the beginning it looks far away difficult impossible you start keeping it you start realizing it's enjoyable it's amazing it's beautiful life is grand you actually start enjoying a piece of Al in this world so I tell people the time today I spoke to somebody I told him listen got to start keeping Shabbat I know it sounds hard got to keep you know late feel it sounds hard it's five minutes really forem five you have 24 hours five minutes 24 hours you have each hour has minutes five minutes to take a piece of leather put you're finished finish five minutes max if it's more five minutes I'll give you money what did he tell me no yeah you know I know I know it's good I know it's good I just do things at my own pace I know it's good I know I know it's good I know yeah yeah Shabbat is good I know's good is good it's just that I do things in my own pace my own pace I didn't want to say this but everyone has to ask themselves this question what makes you think you little tiny kpan that you are that your own pace is in the same pace of hem what makes you think that God's GNA wait for you what makes you think he's gonna wait for you oh no no I'm going to do my own pace I'm G to keep mitah when I my own pace when I'm ready I'm G to start learning to when I'm ready a person doesn't make time to learn to every day has NOA NOA doesn't make time to learn T basic basic not talking about learning T all day 9 hours 10 hours a day basic time to learn T every day learns to every day no why there's no way he keep MIT there's no way he could be a Kos Jew there's no way he's not going he's going to avoid making coret sins every day every day no I keep I'm religious my whole life yeah you're doing correct sins every day you don't even realize it you know how many Yeshiva guys came to me didn't realize that wasting seed is the worst sin in the Torah Yeshiva guys Yeshiva guys 20 years in Yeshiva didn't realize wasting seed is the worst thing they could possibly do to themselves spiritually physically and everything in between but Yesa you didn't learn it you don't know it so the thing is though is that when you have Tor hem is giving you a Lifeline every day gives you a chance when you say no I do things at my own pace not only are you a sinner you're also you're an arrogant sinner why telling God how to run his world let him wait for me then wait for me so one of the things we learned from Noah that eventually says time's up time's up finished done time's up now we just had an extraordinary holiday season all of us made big promises if you know what to do during the holidays that's what you're supposed to do supposed to talk to hasem if you can't cry even if it's alligated to and that real still better than nothing most people don't cry most people are too focused on the other guy's watch I can't believe he's wearing a $25,000 watch this guy must be doing wellet beet they worry about the other guy's watch or they saw the guy just parked 100 $1,000 car $150,000 car wow the gold business must be doing good stock market must be doing good real estate wow where you living in Florida no no I got two houses oh really the whole is killing himself because this guy says he has two houses he's not doing heu you gave him two houses me only one you made a sinem the angry they gave two houses we go to beet worried but worried about the wrong thing worried about somebody else's watch somebody else's car somebody else's house somebody else's wife all types of horrible things so to answer your question at the end of times one of the one of the prophecies is that the around the world their K whether it be in physical form or spiritual form most likely spiritual that sounds more realistic but again End of Time doesn't have to be realistic supposed to go and have a stone of some kind in uh in you know implanted in the bet mikdash now what about all of the that are not so much more like a pub people come and show and tell the newest suit the newest Armani uh suit the newest uh uh uh fendy watch the newest I don't know whatever whatever Styles there are in the world that's what they it's a show and tell so like I said to you earlier the pertains to not the pubs pubs don't go to mikash pubs go to a different place called G but however few there are in the world that are still koser yes they will have big marriage they're the ones that actually going to bring them so the tell us something scary conversation between RAB that's rabos and a student RAB AKA Raba ask his teacher and he says when is the mhia going to come finally says when there's one when there's oneit with one Min one Min is 10 people one bit one Min where everybody agrees one bit one Min everybody agrees on what everything on T everybody agrees this is as scary as can be and the reason why if you understand is that today's world it's kind it's easy to be a Jew as much as the world hates us like always that's all instilled by hasem it's technically easy to be a Jew today very very easy to be a Jew in comparison to what happened a few hundred years ago even what happened 70 years ago even more so 2,000 years ago it's easy to be a Jew there's a some communities in America in Europe all over the world where you literally have a besset in every corner Corner not one every corner you have the difficult part is not opening a the difficult part is getting a kosher Min you have people showing up to but unfortunately not all of them can be counted for one of those people is aen that's what's aen that's is aen that makes sins on a regular basis not a sin once in a while if a quan for example or anybody made a sin I don't know he ate non kosher meat today he likes McDonald's non kosher McDonald's and he made a ate McDonald's today not every day today made out okay he's still kosher made a sin but he's still kosher but if this Ken shaves with a razor on a regular basis he's because he goes against on a regular basis why regular basis because you shavee on a regular basis even more so if he's married to a non-jew once a is married to a non-jew then he's not only not allowed to say the you're actually not allowed to count them in Manan you're not allowed to count them Manan if you have nine people and a person that's that are awake and a 10th person is sleeping he kosher but he's sleeping he's sleep sleeping like I was almost half asleep uh during uh after the 9h hour lecture I was like half asleep you couldn't really like be sure if I was there or not after nine hours of talking you get tired a little bit so you can still count me aan why I try to be kosher but a Coen he can know the entire Torah by heart he's married to Aya cannot be counted a cannot be counted a he's not considered part of so this is a person that not only are you not allowed to count the minan you're not allowed to show him honor the same Rabbi of says that showing up such a person honor is a sin from the Torah to sin against hem not allowed to show a person like that a wicked person like that that sins regularly uh any honor whatsoever any Cod whatsoever it doesn't mean you start beating him up in the middle of the street doesn't mean you start cursing him out or anything but showing honor and and and and uh and dishonor is two different things honor is giving him the ability to do honor is giving him the ability to be thean honor is to give him to be the B which by the way happened when did it happen just a couple of years ago when I first moved to boka I saw there's a guy that reached the to in I was going to and you know in the beginning I try to stay out of everybody's business I go I pray I leave but you could do that for so long eventually start getting to know people get to know things about different people and I find out that the guy that's the B every week not just once in a while but the every single week he's a Coen and he's married to a Goya he's a Coen and he's married to a Goya not like he's dating and today married for years to a Goya and he's the meaning he reads from Tor for the entire so how I mean this I verify double checked triple checked quadruple checked every check you could possibly get you guys might have got got a check in the mail for it every check you could get the guy not only I asked my Rabbi I'm like we need he said what do you mean this is really this is really what's happening I said yeah so we had a formal answer written because I went to the rabbi told him Rabbi of the he's like no listen we're MIM we have leniencies so you have lenen so I went to my RAB is this such a thing as a leniency he says not only is there no such thing as a leniency for such a thing he's not allowed to be counted for a minan you can as a matter of fact you're not allowed to have him in your you have to kick him out you have to kick him out because he's a on purpose he knows what's going on if he knows how to read from the Tor and he's still going out he's still married to a Goya this is a a if throw him out of theet put him on so we have this uh response maybe four or five page response that uh myav put with I don't think any less than 50 different sources we sent to the rabbi of the K this is M over a four Monon period I'm begging the rabbi of the K to get this guy to stop reading at the very least okay whatever you want to include him in your man good luck to you what can I tell you I'm not telling you to kick the guy out but get him to stop reading from the uh T why because now every time now that I know I have to leave theet every time he goes to I have to leave theet you know how annoying that is I'm praying I'm praying I'm praying this guy goes okay bye guys what do you mean he was just the middle middle of we're finishing amid no I got to go I got to leave I have to leave theet I cannot be inside the this guy's on on a I cannot I have to leave the as soon as they he B over there they give him honor I have to leave the Beet no I finished already is already it's the it's the it's the review of the uh of the amid it's the review of the amida how many years was he doing years he's there I was there for only a few months at that point I was there for I don't know maybe six months eight months or whatever let him go they are the ones that put him up there he can have money don't make a difference whatever was no he was he didn't have that much money he didn't have that much money it's just that anyway long story short we have a answer we call the answer and this answer answer was published uh on our new website which I'm very happy to announce is launched as of now anyone that goes to be.org we have our new website and the new website has some articles one of the articles is by Rabbi eim is the answer to this specific issue an answer that he's responding to these rabbis to a Dian to a rabbi to this so-called big people explain to them how you're not allowed not only have him as a not to have him in eventually they took him out but at that point I realized there's something not wrong with the guy there's something wrong with the rabbi because the rabbi knew the whole time it's not that you didn't it's not I didn't bring him a it's just that the rash has a friend that's a they're together it's like roommates so but he just assume no one's ever going to no no one's going to Care no one's no one said anything everybody else knew no one said anything there people are there for years already they're dealing with this they like the way he sounds they like his voice the way he reach page 16 says if a picks a Khan based on his voice but he's a rash meaning he's not a instead of bringing blessing to the K he brings everyone curses the whole K is cursed because of him and there's no one it specifically says in the there's no one in the world that hasem hates More Than This Khan so now this answered a few of your questions now so you have a yeah so answer the question so now we have a lot of promises that we made give me this give me everything okay we repeated we double down whatever we asked for we said you know what if I'm already asking let me ask for a little more if that wasn't enough AEM look it's really hard to be in a Suka it's really hard to be in a Suka it's so hot so okay you know what I'm G to do this with the and all the okay give me some more we ask for more stuff we keep asking for for stuff we give give give give give give n hours over here we're asking for more stuff no problem has no problem he wants to give it to you no problem but he asks you can I have something a little can I have a little something back little bit what is it Like Somebody went to the bank he says I want to borrow $10 million $10 million Bank says listen we're not going to lend you the money $10 million but there's a guy a rich guy he does Private lending to people like you you go to him he goes to the guy yes I'm looking for $10 million he says uh you what do you want to do with it he tells him listen I want to do this I want to do this I want to do this I want to do that say no problem you have any collateral you have something to back up the loan the $10 million wor the guy's a batlan doesn't do anything in his life he has nothing to back it up he has a uh $15 watch Casio watch he just bought from Amazon on discount for $5 that's all he has doesn't have anything nothing he has doesn't mean have a house and have a car does have nothing but the guy has a $10 million says you know what you look like a nice guy you a really nice guy you look you have some ambition I'm going to give it to you and you know $10 million just the interest the interest on $10 million is a half a million dollars a year the interest if you get a good deal it's $500,000 a year the interest if it's a if it's a good deal from a bank from a private lender minimum $1.5 million 15% minimum that's the interest on the $10 million per year per year he says but listen you don't really have any collateral do you have any way to pay me back no I give you the cash you watch what can I give you can't give you the 15 can't give you 10 million can't give you the $1.5 million in interest even if I pay out of the principle I'm not going to be able to use it go you know what I like you you're a nice guy you're asking for a lot seems like you have big dreams you're asking for a lot Big Dreams I like people like you I'm going to give it to you and all I want you to give me is $10 a month anybody doesn't want such a loan 10 bucks a month you could live 50,000 years you're still not paying it back but it's $10 a month do you care you live to be like a uh like done 1,500 years old you're still not paying back $10 a month you care what do you care he says there's only one requirement give me the checks every year ahead of time so I don't have to go waste 50 cents on the postage everything send you a bill give me 12 checks 10 bucks a month for 12 times every year that's it $120 fine or no know this Satan showed up at the sh so we we have to welcome him he's uh giv me technical problems on let's see trying to reconnect do to poor wireless connection in see got thrown off on a second has to show up so was a good story so you see you like the story second two rotate the phone I think I'm sideways but uh it's live yeah see what time does you wantu my uh train of thought so I have to rely on hasem because if it was up to me I'd ruin this the whole lecture already uh I think I'm sideways online but um what can we do see let's try this maybe okay here we go okay got good thank you okay so the guy likes you says you want $10 million Mr ambitious no problem interest on 10 million is 1.5 million you don't have that you don't have money for the interest you don't have money to pay back the loan you have money to be used for collateral for the loan but I'll give it to you anyway just give me 10 post-dated checks for 10 bucks a month 12 12 uh post dat the checks for 10 bucks a month who's not going to take the loan I'll tell him how many can I get can I get two so he gives you the loan first check after a month he deposits in the bank bounces maybe it's a mistake second check second month bounces don't go through is that not evil is that not Wicked is that not thoughtful and selfish the guy just gave you $10 million and all he asked for is 10 bucks a month and you give him $10 that's fake even though it's not going to pay the loan ever it's still you not even giving him that isn't that evil is that guy not unfortunately we have an we have a possibility Shalom possibility to be just like that guy how is it like we went to AEM we said we made all these sins we messed up we did this we did this we did this but we want to be in a book of but we wanted to be in a book with Noah no is we want to be in a book of want to be with no you saved the whole world for no I want to be in his book greatest person that lived in the generation I want to be the same book I want P not just P I don't want to just get buy a $30,000 a year like some uh mkin teacher I wantem $30,000 watch brand new car every six months I want the biggest house on the Block I want everyone to know who I am I want honor I want this I want respect hem you know what I want do I have to say what are you going to do back what are you going to do in return ask you during something what are you gonna do in return GNA go to late every day something I'm obligated to do anyway going to keep Shabbat I'm not going to sleep the whole Shabbat I'll study for 15 minutes I'll sleep for most of the Shabbat I I'm going to be nice to my wife and what happens we give him he says hm says you know what fine I'll give it to you you want P you want this you want that I'll give it to you what are you gonna give me back something you already obligated to give me anyway fine I'll do it no problem deal you going to come to M do yes yes I'll come to first week you miss messet first week you're not even you're not like the guy in the story that waited a whole month before the check bounced first week you miss Bess it first week you didn't doing one day first week you yelled at your wife first week you messed up on the minimal promise you made to Hashem for all the grand things that you asked for first week funny story but it's real that's us so now Hashem says at some point the patience Runs Out out not because Shalom lacks patience or is in is controlled by patience or has such a thing on nature as patience but at some point he has to deliver his promise in the tah which is to be a righteous judge at some point everyone has to pay the bill the generation of Noah became a corrupt people so corrupt that their sins led the actual animals to become Sinners the animals became Sinners the animals became homosexual the animals became went with different species the animals became Sinners what's yeah scient yes yes it's uh actually in there's a study that was done in San Francisco they say in San Francisco is the highest level of animal homosexuality in the world animal homosexuality and they're talking about Act ual animals they're not talking about people that act like animals the problem is that the people also act like animals and they also are a very high level of homosexuality there so this actually came true before it's coming true again and hasem says that this is a corrupt world the world became completely corrupt full of corruption meaning things went against their nature things went against their creator nothing made sense anymore and they lost their right to live and this is only 1600 years after creation this is only about 700 years after the person that spoke and was created by God directly was alive on Earth and most of these people that sinned no they weren't ignorant fools that didn't know that God exists they weren't Idol worshippers that bought a statue in uh Chinatown for $15 in start of praying to it they knew the truth they knew but they still went against it Hashem decided that when someone knows the significance of the sin when someone knows that there is a sin when someone knows you're not allowed to drive on Shabbat and he still drives on Shabbat at that very moment it's not just that their life is on the line it's that they are losing their right to live this is one of the sources for it because the neim and all of the people that lived here in this generation knew the difference between right and wrong and still chose wrong as we mentioned last week and maybe one other time before is only one person in the entire Tor the entire T 24 books one person has a verse about hasem says I hate him there plenty of evil people plenty of evil people in every generation as a matter of fact one of the original evil people in history is born during this par his name is nim nim the name comes from someone that's means is an enemy of God the name the root of the name Nim is being an enemy of God he's the original idol worshipper he made himself into God he told everybody to break to him and he became the enemy of abuu jumped into the into the fire which we'll learn about next week but is B born in this par in this par he's born evil people Shem says evil destroyed some of them let some of them live punish some of them but he never wrote that he hated anyone even the the the generation of the Maul he didn't say he hate them said they but he didn't hate them one person the entire T he says I hate him him I hate he names him by name who I loved but I hate him why I hate him why why I hate as I had a today because we talked about this already said because as knew the truth he knew the truth why his brother was do he was the next big Rabbi in the world jakov his father bigger Rabbi his grandfather the big greatest Rabbi that ever lived Abu he knew he knew the truth said yeah tomorrow do CH tomorrow do CH tomorrow tomorrow I'm going to Nets tomorrow I'm GNA do tomorrow I'm GNA eat kosher tomorrow I'm gonna do all these different things and he didn't do it so hasem says him I hate him why empty promises so what was the today why makes I mean there's plenty of people that say I'm going to do it and don't do it it's plenty what hasm hates all of them there plenty of people say I'm GNA everybody makes promises what they're going to do on New Year's whether it's the SEC New Year or rash New Year whatever New Year you have whatever excuse you have to make promises we make promises all the time hem hates all the people break their promises says M whoever paid punishment to the generation of the flood and the generation of the Tower of Babel meaning God he will pay punishment to someone who doesn't stand stand by his word so hasem hates every single person that doesn't stand by his word he's going to just like he destroyed the generation of the Maul of Noah just like he destroyed the same par the generation of the Tower of Babel he hates them also he hates Everybody Breaks promises that's it why why does he hate somebody who breaks the promises so much the answer was the K today it connects to one of the things we learned just a couple of weeks ago and we said in the talks about all different types of all types different types of and the beauty of it is the more you learn about it the more you realize how relevant it is to today how relevant it is to yesterday how relevant it is to every day doesn't change nothing change nothing new Under the Sun just like hasm says says in the Book of Ecclesiastes Coit he says nothing new Under the Sun he mentions the sun everything being under the sun many many times throughout the Book of kit says nothing new Under the Sun nothing changed his generation previous generation generation of Noah generation of Adam generation of mosenu generation any gener nothing new nothing changed everything's the same just like hasem hated the people of generation no just like he hated the people of the generation of the Tower of Babel just 300 years later just like he hated another couple hundred years later just like all the other he hated them why why does he hate all of them because of this says a person that does something wrong but doesn't see anything wrong hasem hates him why he sees wrong in everyone else except himself everyone else is wrong oh he's rash he does this he's a rash he does this he does this you tell him yeah but you know by the way you're not allowed to do hey I'm okay I'm okay I'm okay I'm okay you know what I do you know what I do you know what I do you know how much how much money I donate you know how much I study Tor you know you worried by yourself but you me you just told me I I am worried by myself but I'm just letting you know that don't let me know nothing I know I'm okay a him I hate him why he sees nothing wrong with what he's doing he's making constant promises breaks them and doesn't think there's anything wrong with it honey honey I'll be there in 20 minutes shows up three hours later killed her day killed his day okay you ready what do you mean ready you said I'm gonna be in 20 minutes you showed up three hours later you killed my life you killed my day what do you mean are you ready what's the big deal why are you so uptight what do you mean you made a promise you had a word the check bounced the check bounc you sent me a check it bounc it was for $10 it was for $10 I lent you 10 million the check bounce you will have no word you I hate you why because not only did you do something wrong you don't see anything wrong with it you're never going to do chuva as long as you don't see anything wrong with it you're never going to do chuva you in essence are signing up to be in the team of I am going to be an enemy of hem forever there's no hope for you brother was father was grandfather couldn't get better family better pedigree still the there's no hope for somebody like that there's no hope why because he doesn't see anything wrong he makes a promise to go to be tomorrow doesn't show up yeah okay I'll show up the next day hem will wait for me I do things in my own pace I do things in my own pace take it EAS you worry about you you worry about you don't worry about me yeah the problem is you are affecting me why you sin I get punished too one more day the mashiach is not here one more day there's a terrorist attack one more day there's an inter marriage one more day there's a disaster in am why it's because of you violating Shabbat violating violating all these things what do you think it's because of all theim you think the happened because ofed no it happened because of but not just regular didn't want to do that's the problem that's the problem go ahead no the coat first of all is the coat of adish it's the clothing that gave to ad as a consolation gift for throwing him out of the ganeden which actually the question is why did he throw him out of ganeden Hashem told them you sinned I told you don't eat from the Tree of knowledge and you ate and then he says to the angels we have to throw him out before he eats from the Tree of Life but he didn't say Don't eat from the Tree of Life he never said it if you look at theim if you read if you read last week's par which uh is difficult because you have the you have the last then you have a lot of people miss the big points of this huge H by the way should you know used to read all year round why there's so many they read it all year you know in the old Generations they used to finish the book The Five Books of Moses not every year like we do used to finish it every three years every three years but that the ones that were the ones that would teach would actually go over all year other the also but specifically all year so many so first we see that says to ad don't eat from the Tree of knowledge he eats from a tree of knowledge regardless of what the reason is the wife's fault the snake's fault the tree's fault whatever's fault it is check was sent $10 didn't clear doesn't make a difference who wrote the check it didn't clear said okay you violated throw you out why so you don't eat from the tree of life but you didn't say Don't eat from the Tree of Life if you said if you said don't eat from the Tree of Life you should have said it in the beginning so what happened is this if you notice in the beginning of the par it talks about how made these trees it says in in chapter 2 verse says so it says a very interesting verse and Hashem caused to sprout from the ground every tree so you created all the trees every tree that was pleasing to the site and and good for food originally the trees by the way were supposed to be food themselves it's was supposed to be a plea so this you actually see in the um uh chapter 1 verse 11 a tree that uh makes seed but is itself a tree that makes fruit but is himself a fruit the tree itself was supposed to be a fruit instead of a tree that you make houses out of you were supposed to be able to eat the tree that was ganeden so here it says later on it says that Hashem made all these trees that were nice to look at and then it says and also the tree of life was in the midst of the garden meaning in the middle of the garden garden and the tree of knowledge good and bad it doesn't say where the tree of knowledge was it just says that the tree of life was in the middle of the garden somewhere in the garden but the tree of knowledge doesn't say where it was now we know that Adam and knew where the tree of knowledge was how do we know they ate from it it doesn't matter if it says where it is what's the interesting part here is that it actually says where the tree of life is it's in the middle of the of the garden so if was so smart was the perfect human being so perfect so big so beautiful so I mean it says that everything else looks like a monkey next to s menu the most beautiful person on earth looks like a monkey next to s menu and s menu looks like a monkey next to next to Eve and Eve look like a monkey next to ad something extraordinary so big so beautiful theim the Angels wanted to bout him they thought he was God in human form and that's when hasem put him to sleep to show him that he's not God because hem doesn't go to sleep that's Ina you read in prayer so has doesn't go to sleep doesn't take breaks no vacation no toiti so now if was so smart why didn't he just go and do exactly what you said go to the Tree of Life guarantee the L will win you're going to live forever so then you could eat the tree of knowledge until whenever you want he can't kill you you ate from the Tree of Life can't violate his own law what's the huh doesn't matter go intentionally be like who cares go eat if you already have a key says Tree of Life no he was put me doesn't does smart he was a genius didn't say he didn't say to eat from the the tree of life he said don't eat from the Tree of Knowledge Tree of Life didn't say nothing about it exactly so so smart how come you didn't go eat from the Tree of Life why this P that you missed from last week you were sleeping last week to from all the food we ate during the holidays this P gave you the answer what's the answer the the tree of life is inside the garden where inside the garden we don't know how can we find out it's a big Garden how can we find out you have to eat from the Tree of Life tree of knowledge why did he eat from a tree of knowledge why so I can find out where the tree of life is because I'm allowed to eat the Tree of Life why because I want to honor and sanctify shem's name forever so in order for me to live forever I have to eat from the Tree of of knowledge why to find out where the tree of life is so I can live forever so he used his own the problem with is that he used his own logic as genius as his plan was is wrong yes right but what day he didn't die after a day he lived 930 years Same Day live 930 years yeah you already know that you're going to die so known logic hey that's the thing so is the thing so AEM it says also in t AEM a year a year for you is like a thousand years for us a year for you like a thousand years for us so even though what happened so adaran lived died the same day what's the same day a day for hasem a thousand years a thousand years minus 70 - 70 say that knew after he made a sin after he started doing he left his wife he did everything I'm still fasting nothing's happening how can I fix it how can I fix my sin says mhia has to come okay show me mashia he show we get DAV oh great he dies what do you mean he dies no he was a baby in the stomach look cute knew the whole Torah born dead still life baby why no he has no year no How am I'm I going to fix my sin you have to use your mind use your mind to make a sin okay give him seven years of my life give him seven years of my life so he lives a full life in his age seven years more than enough doesn't need to live 930 years give him seven years of my life so what is it a day for hem a thousand years minus 70 he gave him seven years of his life so now 930 but now that's how he got the 9 30 that's where he lived 930 years but now the thing is though is that he ate from the its to go eat from the its of Life the the tree of life and that's why as soon as he ate from the Tree of knowledge the first thing that happened after hasem told them you sinned and so on you get punished what he says to the angels I have we have to throw them out of the garden before they eat from the Tree of Life why cuz I never told them it's not allowed text technically it's still allowed right now for them to eat from the Tree of Life meaning to override my own decree they can over write it there's a rule in the world hasem istill the rule there's a rule in the world there's a tree of life you could live forever so now that he has the the knowledge he knows where the tree is now you can go find it now you go eat from it we throw him out of the garden that's why he threw them out of the garden that what about the coat so now you had a coat you had a coat eventually the coat changed from generation to generation went to eventually killed him and took the coat and eventually yov took the coat from and his uh and yov gave the coat to Yik no it's just a coat that God made doesn't make you never die I don't know where you got I'm familiar with that midash but uh I'm not familiar with that midash but I know that uh the coat is definitely uh doesn't make sense with the rest of what Torah says because if the coat would have given him an eternal life then ad didn't have to worry about the Tree of Life why you take it off he has it if he had it long enough to give it to nimod or to get stolen by n that means he had it why did he make him take it off could be for a different reason not to ruin it he couldn't be again I'd say maybe power but I don't think it's about eternal life whatever there's many M I haven't read all of them I get to that I haven't got to that yet so now if sinned but didn't sin what would happen says the biggest that he still saw in his generation is when one Jew sees another Jew sin and do nothing that's worry about Safari yemenite Lish this me that me that's not worrying about this one or that one that's not what's what's true true is seeing our brothers and sisters sin and doing nothing about it now we made plenty of promises to plenty of promises during the holidays and Hashem says if you're going to make those promises you're going to give me those 12 checks for $10 and they bounce you risk becoming hated you risk being like asav why because asab also made many promises asab also made promises now for all of those that don't understand yet let's go into this mishna and understand a little further will connect to the mishna so this is 4:14 the Shoemaker said every assembly that is dedicated for the sake of heaven will have an enduring effect but one that is not for the sake of heaven will not have an enduring effect so the first thing that we do in all the other Mish that we read as the way of our teachers are before we read the mishna we have to see who's talking why should we listen to him soand is an unusual name ran the Shoemaker why isn't it just ran why isn't it justan the Shoemaker so here we learn a lot from this name there's several times in the that you see that the sage is called Rabbi so and so and then they name his profession because first of all that's how he made his living he made his living by being a s by being a Sho maker but why the significance what's so what why do they have to mention it why do they have to mention that he was a Shoemaker or anything else that they do in in the uh it's to remind us to give us M just even before you start the mishna already learned you have no excuse why first he was a rabbi then he went into the business world so you see even from his name he's not called yand the rabbi or the sand Yan the rabbi first says RAB first is Rabbi first you need to make sure you connect to to learn T learn the basics yeah he's one of the students of RAB AKA one of the students of R AKA and it says that first you learn tah first you understand the foundation of all your de feelings Foundation of everything that you do has to be based on Torah then whatever your business is you want to be oil stocks jewelry shoes whatever you're going to do first Torah then your profession so anyone that says no no listen I can't really learn I gotta work I got a business I got a building I got buildings I got this to do I got this to do I got that to do nonsense you know one of the most important lessons that rant theal the one of the uh B musan movement just a couple hundred years ago one of the most important lessons that he learned that influenced him for his whole life was actually learned from a sandal was learned from a Shoemaker one day it's the middle of the night 1:30 in the morning he's coming back he's on the way back to the house after giving all the lectures 26 years of his life his last 26 years he went from town to town to do K he could have stayed in his Yesa in his betes could write books give speeches get honor get money what else you need what he do he went from town to town help people do chuva why says how could I live one minute when my father in heaven is crying cuz his children are going against them they're making themselves enemies every day without even knowing they're enemies of God they're making themselves enemies of God how could I live so he went from town to town one day he's coming back he sees there's a light in one of the houses in this town on still at 1:30 in the morning oh wow it's probably the rabbi of the city lives here let me go in if it's if the lights on it's not like today you leave your lights on regardless like my house is like Broadway my house lights on 24 hours a day you never know if I'm home not home it's always on Shabbat so not then back then you had a candle candle runs out it's finished if the light's on that means you're up you don't just waste candles everybody's poor back then a poor person today is Rich back then so he sees his a light on and he goes in and he sees his SHO maker working on shoes at 1:30 in the morning goes hey don't you have a family have stuff to do what are you doing go home because no I have one candle and as long as the lights still on there's still time to fix so took this to heart he says the light he was learning M from everything the light in the Torah is our soul and he tells tells himself and he runs to all of his students and he tells them I learned the most important m in my life from the shoe maker as long as the light is still on as long as you're still alive there's still time to fix there's still time to do chuva there's still something that you need to work on if you were perfect like you think you are you wouldn't be in this world if you were half as good as you think you are half is good you wouldn't be in this world will take you you're so good what are you doing here the angels are jealous of you they this guy's better than us he has no yet he killed it already he killed the cries when he sees him it's like gu look my law I miss it this guy think he's so good he's doesn't even go to his house anymore if you are half as good as you think you are says if the light's still on that means you still have a lot of work to do still have to work on your midot still have to work on your traits your character traits your anger your stinginess your uh whatever whatever bad midot you have whatever tun you have different people have different T some people unfortunately have a tun that's not understandable to another person that doesn't have a tun like that so for example some people their nature is to be very mellow very calm World War 7 can start like oh wowm it's going to be okay it's not because they're such perfect human beings it's just their nature hasem created them that way they could be burning inside but just their nature is very like low and mild and like you know it's like the tea that's like stays warm for like an extra hour for no reason whatsoever it's just strange but they're just like that they just like that the rest of the people are like there smoke coming out of their ears go oh wow Shucks you know like it's sh wow that's the one oh well tomorrow will be a better day that's not because they're really calm inside they could be burning but that's their nature so to a guy that's an angry guy that's like mamash like a hot pepper this guy is like this guy is like the Kryptonite just seeing him makes him angry seeing a guy like that makes him angry he's angry that the elevator didn't get there in time he's angry the elevator took an extra 30 seconds he sees this guy all common collected when the whole world is collapsing make drives him great he doesn't understand how is mid how his character trait could be so different from him another example would be stinginess some people have such a desire for money such a love for money thear says anyone that loves money will never have enough money guaranteed why what if you give them they want double you give them a 100 they want 200 give 100 they want 400 meaning if you want more money you love money unfortunately how much you love it is we'll see in Shem knows but if you are looking for money I'm not talking about ambition how do you know if you love money or you're ambitious there's a difference being ambitious is a normal positive character trait you need to be ambitious in everything you do if you're going to succeed in life if you want to Succeed in Business you can't just be one of these lethargic people that shows up to the office half asleep and waits for customers to come in oh it's a sales business oh they're not supposed to call me no you're supposed to call them oh why wouldn't they just call me because they don't know you exist but I'm such a nice guy and you look at the guy and something's wrong with him but in his mind nothing's wrong he's scared something people like this in the world you have to be ambitious you want to be succeed in business you have to make phone calls you have to chase it that's a healthy thing to do you want to be you have to make sure you already know you're gonna have to make S sacrifices at the end of the it talks about different character traits different sacrifices you're gonna have to make over 40 different things you're gonna have to do in order to become a not to learn T is different learn T anybody can learn to learn five minutes here five minutes there 10 minutes here 10 minutes there you could teach a monkey five minutes here five minutes what he's gonna retain is different story is something different successful businessman there's plenty in the world very few very few that's something special it says in Mish the six chapter of talks about what you're going to need to do in order to become it even says that you have to have less sex already 95% of the people are like okay I guess I'm not going to be less involvement with business okay that's the other four and a half perc you have half a percent possibilities less eating yeah there goes the other five less sleep all types of things so anyway you want you have to make certain sacrifice you have to be ambitious you have to chase T you have to fight for the Torah you don't have time you're busy you have balagan you have craziness you have to fight for the five minutes fight for 10 minutes fight for two hours fight for time fight to learn to fight Satan shows up okay wait one second Satan let me finish this mishna no no but I'm here to interrupt and rip your page of the mishna exact what rip it after I finish this Mish you have to fight fight for every you be but you have to be ambitious that's healthy that's necessary but when you love something like money that's not ambition how do you know the difference between ambition and Love of Money it all depends on how hard it is for you to give it away if you're ambitious for money then give giving money away for something that's a good cause doesn't affect you one bit in fact it makes you even more ambitious because you want to do more so you can give more not one of those people that says I'm gonna give more once I have more but for now I'm not going to give anything for now I make $10,000 a month I'm gonna give $5 but when I make a million I'm gonna give 500,000 why why can't it be the same percentage now no now I have to get the car and the house and a this and a that and that's a faker everybody says they're going to give more when they have more and they never do why because that's just life yet grows with the bank account so if you love money it's going to be very very hard for you to give it away very hard for you to give it away if you're ambitious giving it away will make it will make you even more ambitious so I'll give you an example of the two why guy says all the time to me all the time he has this he has this investment and that investment in this business and that business and very very successful I don't know how successful but according to him he's extremely successful and not only that not only is he successful but he's also a very very big fan of kiru why he knows that kiru is very necessary that's how he did chuva in his town he tries to help other people do chuva and great now you would think somebody that's extremely successful according to his estimates or whatever things that he says millionaire multi-millionaire you would think that at the very least he would donate I don't know five 10 $20,000 a month if you're making I don't know half a million a million dollars a year giving M giving 10% you're obligated to do anyway so you're m 500,000 should be 50,000 so that's $4,000 a month you I'm not I'm not saying you're you give 20% 10% $500,000 a year 50,000 a million dollar a year 100,000 right don't know so good so far so good not even 1% not even 1% not even 1% no but I love kiru I love this I love what happened no I'm fully invested and I'm fully this and I'm fully that that's somebody that's full of it not fully invested it's full of it why he loves money much more than he loves K another hand there's another guy we have an a program we have an a program you see it on our website now try to see if we can get more people involved in this program there different in sh but not just a regular guy each one of them is either a or on the way of being a like meaning he's in the last chapters of becoming a only top level of not uh just an average guy not anything wrong with them just we're going for best of breed we don't have that many but we try to send uh money there every single week every single month as much as possible but we're not sending this fake program that some people talk about where they think that they get half of their all of their MIT for like 500 bucks a month no one can survive in the world outside of a third world country for $500 a month no one you cannot survive for $500 a month with a wife and five six seven kids you can't just not in Israel not in America not in Europe nowhere I don't know maybe in some I don't know in like uh Bangladesh or something I don't know in some I don't know in some third world country maybe but not in the real world so our program is like a salary $2,600 a month is what it cost to for them to live which is still a decent uh it's a very modest life considering six seven kids you know eight member family talking about 10,000 shekels it's nothing so we're thinking that's an estimate $650 approximately per week um and that's what uh we try to sponsor each of you want a week worth of his learning $650 you want a month $2,600 but the T that these go through is very difficult why they get $500 a month from the K so they start already the month negative 2,000 and we're not talking about people that are living with fancy cars fancy watches fancy anything we're talking about people that are living a life that most of you including myself would not be willing to live and they have test of on a daily basis they can go get careers they can go make money and a million and a half other things but all they want to do they learn to for the of to sanctify hm's name and so on and so forth it's a very difficult life so anyway to make a long story short uh there's one guy that uh loves doesn't have much money though that's usually what happens the people that love to don't have much money the people that say they love Tor have a lot of money but don't give anything so one guy loves so I go to him I say listen heard a story today is is in a spiritual situation what he's in so much debt about 50,000 shekels which is like 12 13,000 not that much but in his world it is that the bank is not allowing him to use the card anymore the store is not giving him food anymore M has nothing nothing wife kids everything nothing he has and he says listen I have to leave the K I have to get a job you get a job be a programmer tomorrow he's actually very skilled in computers and different things he actually helped us a few times uh made the first opening for our shim and um so I'm going to have to leave the I'm going to go get a job and you know have job offers but now anyone that understands toah understands here we we could be potentially losing a genius mind that's willing to sacrifice everything willing to sacrifice $100,000 a year job you can get $100,000 of your job tomorrow he doesn't want $100,000 he just wants to survive for what there no money it's a very big test especially when you have kids you goes for me give me a piece of bread a week I don't care but I have kids so I go to this guy and I tell him listen there's this guy situation spiritual and he says okay I'll send him $2,000 $2,000 is like all the money in the world like oh you made a big deal goes no I have $3,000 in the bank and I have a bunch of things coming up a bunch of bills coming up I have bills for this or bills for this or bills for this expensive this expensive for this expensive for this but it's not here yet it's not now it's another time a week from now a year from now a month from now one it's not now but now as of now I have 3,000 I don't need the 3,000 I don't need 3,000 right now I don't need it he needs it give it to him just like hashm gave me the money when I needed it before I needed it they'll give it to me when I need it just like he gave it to me before I need it I'll give it to me when I need it that's someone who loves to doesn't love money you understand so and time after time he sees Miracles that Hashem gives him when he needs it but that's the thing the problem is if we had the opposite if we had the people that actually have 20,000 200,000 2 million 5 million act like this guy we'd have uh a million two million in the world yeah because yes to you don't just get to be an that collects a zillion MIT every second you live just like that you have to have Merit you have to have tests AB ainu did not become AB ainu just like that he had to jump into a fire he had to go to war had to go to another War had to put his son you know in a uh in Slaughter his son almost I do a lot of things you don't just become mosu just because your name is Moshe you have to go to test so that's that's one of the things we see here in this m first he's telling you you want to be anything first be a Ben first be a rabbi first be a Ben first understand Torah comes before your profession you want to be ambitious no problem but the ambition has to be a healthy ambition not a love for money not a love for money yeah sure right it's not necessarily that it's bad we're not saying it's bad we're saying we're saying that it's it depends different people different things if someone is average they should do exactly what you're saying if someone's an average learner a uh in this world it's also very different than the times of why didn't need to commit their entire self to Torah in order to become a they could commit a quarter of the time that we do and become Giants of giants they was different levels of people today in order for you someone to become to even have a chance to become a Ben to that's true or at least a chance of being a it has to be fulltime has to be they have to have a lot of good M and a lot of other things but in order for them why because we're so far away from home that for someone to be a extraordinary businessman and is almost almost unfounded in this generation they exist obviously but it's almost unfounded so there's nothing wrong with working and learning nothing wrong with it you should work like you said t and the way of the world you should do both but for the most part if you have an exceptional Talent of learning or an exceptional Talent of making money you should do that whichever one it is if you have the ability to make millions of dollars and you're just a you're not as good of a learner as you are a money maker go make money give money to Torah Learners and learn on the side why that's your goal that's that's your purpose in the world you go make money but if you're a guy you still have to learn obviously but if you're a guy that has a brain that's M from a different generation you don't belong on Wall Street you don't belong on uh in some place you belong in the K if you're going to be the next danan in Ami said you have to be a de you don't have to go make programs making uh computer programs you have to be a de so again it depends the people that we're dealing with here these people are exceptional people these are exceptional people these are exceptional people that mamash are special and he can get a job he can get a lot of money but the types of jobs that he gets don't is not two hours 3 hours not enough they want everything cuz they want all of them and they want to pay for it but he's nothing to care about everything he cares about just T so again Hashem is going to find a way he always does he always has he always will the point is that he's going to continue having to go through tests just like ra goes through test just like I go through test just like went through test just like any single person that goes through the Torah world has to go to test same way that a guy that's in a business world has to go to test different test for different people one of the reasons whyem makes many aim poor is because he gives the rest of us the opportunity to get MIT we're not going to learn as much as them but we can get as much as much Merit as they do why by giving the money so a person that has money and doesn't give it is the biggest fool in the world if he knows that obviously this is you know Torah is valuable if he doesn't know then he's just then we have a different problem with him but anyway continues to answer our question here and he says every assembly that is dedicated for the sake of heaven will have an enduring effect if there's a meeting if there's an event if there is a some type of uh some type of a assembly and its purpose is to sanctify hashem's name it'll have an enduring effect meaning Hashem will help if there's if your Unity your that people always try to talk about oh let's love each other for no reason just like the sounds really easy in reality it's almost impossible for a generation that's so focused on for them to even know what the definition of is almost impossible but the point being is that if this Unity this organizations there's a lot of different organizations now Jewish organizations in the world today whether it's about Zionism or about different things of Israel or even religious organizations or what they call themselves religious organizations if the purpose of the organization is for Kem hasem will help this organization become Eternal just like his T just like hisim just like he himself you'll get why you have the right mind you have the right goal but if not if not it won't have an enduring effect it will not have this lasting effect so why doesn't it say that it won't have an effect at all why doesn't say that if it doesn't have if it's not for the sake of heaven then it should fail doesn't say that it says if it's not for the sake of Heaven the effect is not going to be enduring meaning it's not going to last forever it's eventually going to fail it's eventually going to die I doesn't say that it's GNA fail right away it's eventually GNA fail where is the answer also this week's Paras this week's par towards the end after Noah saves himself in the family Hashem gives him rules he tells him the seven laws of Noah six of them you already gave Adar then we have 300 years approximately later the generation of the Tower of Babel they knew one of Noah's children new shim so they knew someone that lived during the flood it's not like it was like uh something that happened 3,000 years ago they knew the guy was there but they said you know what maybe it was like a coincidence maybe Hashem destroys the world every 1600 years so why don't we build ourselves monetarily become really rich so we can build a big big building and in that big building we're going to fight God says let us build a city and a tower with its top in the heavens and let us make a name for ourselves this doesn't sound like evil people that are like n made themselves into Idols this doesn't sound like par that just wants to kill everyone that doesn't say he's God this actually sounds like a bunch of Wall Street Executives it says let's build a tower let's make a name for ourselves to says Hashem says they actually were United because they were United they had a common goal I think the fly from ri's lecture just finished this year he came here he came here from New York it's pretty fast so he says let's make a name for ourselves let's try using our own R our own bank accounts to fight God this happens every day most of these organizations so-called organizations fight God every single day they call themselves Jewish organizations but unfortunately they're nothing remotely close to Jewish you see pictures of some of their events you can't look at it for more than 5 seconds if you want to watch your eyes no woman is wearing clothes no man is even remotely close to what a is or even knows what it is and sometimes they call themselves rabbis some of these people it's m they call themselves Jewish organizations but they're not so Jewish there's not much Judaism about it it's a business it's money but Hashem still gives such organizations success why they have Unity they have Unity they said let's build a tower for what let's build ourselves a name let's make some money let's get some reputation let's get a million followers on Facebook let's get people to sign some petition let's make commercial let's do the Hashem will give them success why because they have un Unity Unity has so much power in hashem's view he will give it temporary success but that's the key word it's temporary he says if it's not eventually going to be for the purpose of sanctifying my name sanctifying my Tor if it's going to stay if it's going to stay for the purpose of just making yourself a name eventually I'm going to take it away and punish you for doing everything you can start a Mitzvah unintentionally you could do something where you don't really want to do what Hashem says you're really going into business for the purpose of making money you want to sell because you want to make money not because you want to help people do do uh CH hasm will let you succeed but if it stays that way and you start cheating a little bit Hashem will break it why it started the wrong way it stayed the wrong way I have to take it away it starts the wrong way but you go back and you start doing True by yourself then we have something then I'll let it last so the question that we have to ask ourselves is this we see that has a line has a line there a line that we can't cross there a there's a time we run out it's generation of Noah generation of Tower of Babel he let them build it build it build it build it he says okay eventually I give you enough time you're not doing Chua I'm going to have to destroy it but before I destroy it I have to destroy your Unity so then you don't have any more merits so you made them all speak different languages once they spoke different languages they couldn't communicate anymore once they couldn't communicate they weren't on the same page anymore there's no more unification anymore meaning that from here we learn that in order for you to have true Unity God must must help you in order for you to have unity in your marriage God must help you in order if you have unity in your success in life and anything God must help you must help you if you don't have you won't succeed in life so to finalize everything will finalize with these points we see that gave every single generation whether they Wicked or righteous a time a time frame he gave a time frame to do cha he gave Noah a time frame to do chuva himself and to help other people do chuva he gave the generation of the Tower of Babel time do Chua gave generation After Time du Chua even OG meash he gave the most amount of time to do Chua OG was originally alive at the time of the neim OG was alive Before the Flood meaning that even though it says thank you even though it says that the only human survivors were Noah his wife his three sons and their wives the midash the mid and I believe also the a few other places that I don't remember I haven't read um say there were other survivors that are not mentioned in the P one of them is OG OG was one of the survivors another Survivor was the the animal the the was a giant animal that looked like a bull and a mix between a bull and a deer but was the size of a dinosaur is that the it's called in the I don't know what it does but it's a huge huge animal it was bigger than the dinosaurs they have in movies when it was fully grown it was bigger than them and uh Noah tied them to the boat tied them to the boat and made a hole in the boat for him to breathe and OG was on top of the boat was on top of the Ark so they could survive no he was huge he was huge but so was the boat so was the ark but also one of the other things that I learned is that unlike what I thought most of my life and I'm sure most people still think now or at least maybe I'm the only fool not sure could be could be you're the only fool in the room it's possible the Maul wasn't worldwide most people myself included believe that the mabul the flood was mamash flooded the entire world everywhere every country every sea every ocean every river every land every island every everything that's natural if you look at the Abel if you look at the um uh some of the things that the uh I believe it was the um G me a few a few places um a few places it actually talks about why didn't Hashem make a different Miracle instead of making Noah build this big boat why don't he just take him to one of the islands that didn't have a flood meaning there are certain places in the world that didn't have a flood what's one of our sources that's easy as soon as the flood is over after a little while passes Noah sends the uh Dove to go see if there's anything and she comes back with a olive uh Leaf where did that come from if everything was destroyed where did it come from did not have the flood the land of Israel did not have the flood and also according to every place that did not have people every place in the world they did not have people did not have to get destroyed why destroy something that's didn't get ruined for what purpose it will serve no purpose to just destroy something for no reason so for example some people ask a very very smart question so well listen there is a midash that says that originally the entire uh all of the land was one piece and then after the flood it broke into seven pieces seven continents that we have and it's actually scientific proofs that they were all one piece at some point and according to the tah it actually agrees with it it used to be one piece After the flood it broke into seven pieces you look at the that's what it says so it has as a source for this that it broke into several pieces and so on okay fine but it says that Noah put all the animals in the ark if he put them in the ark they were on one land he gathered whatever animals from all over the world fine to put them in the ark is one thing but how do they after the world was destroyed and there was seven pieces now how did the lion go back to Africa how did the bear go back to Greenland how did this happen Antarctica wherever it is you know these different place how how how did they you know how did this happen so that's where the midash comes in it says not the entire world was destroyed only the places that they had people only the places that had people those places were destroyed so I thought I was the only one in the world that thought that the whole world was destroyed but apparently it doesn't seem like I was I'm not the only fool so thank you SC me so now excuse me so now we see that gave the generation of Noah a certain amount of time fixed themselves the generation of the of the uh Tower of Babel fixed themselves everybody had some time to fix themselves we've had 2,000 years to fix ourselves we've had 2,000 years to fix ourselves since the BET mikdash was destroyed and we still can't get it right we make a lot of promises to Hashem lot of promises with the request for every 100 requests there's one promise fine hasm says okay I'll give you the 10 million just give me 10 bucks a month give me 10 bucks a month you're never going to be able to pay me back but just just for a show of good faith and we can't do it why because the reality is most of us are not doing what we're doing for sh most of us are doing what we're doing because we're selfish that's what is telling us the reason why you're not succeeding is because your assembly with hem your promises to hem your MIT with hem you're learning with hem everything you're doing with hem you're not doing it for AEM you're doing it for you you're learning because it's interesting to you your mitv just because you don't to get fun you don't want to get fired from your job you don't want to get uh uh you know fined on the way to work from some cop you don't want to get punished in somewhere or another you're doing MIT not because of hem you're just scared of getting punished or you want hem to give you a million dollars you want hasm to find you the perfect soulmate you're not doing it for hem you're not doing it for hem you're not doing it for hem you're doing because you're selfish is telling you over here that connection you have that assembly you have with hem it's not it's not with hem it's with you yourself you're looking in the mirror that's why it's not succeeding you went you went to pray oh yeah yeah I go to Nets every day six o'clock in the morning you don't go at 6 o'clock in the morning because of Hashem you go because you want to give you a big contract to when you get to work at 8:30 and realistically if you're going to pray you have to pray at 6 o00 in the morning and you want work to work so you want to pray you're doing it because you want money because you love money not because you love hem you're nice to your wife because you wanted to have sex with you or you wanted to take care of your kids or you wanted to make you food not because you love her because you want something that's why it's not working that's why it's not working that's why it feels so heavy that's why the sack you're carrying up the mountain feels so heavy cuz you're not doing it for the right reason that's what is telling you that assembly you have that connection you have it's fake it's fake it's not for it's for you it's for your selfish reasons that's why it's not working that's why it feels so heavy that's why you don't like the mitv all the time that's why you're learning is like you're poking your eyes until you finish the learn One D you want to like faint oh learn you want to publicize to the whole neighborhood I finished Dai I finished D Yi okay can you repeat something oh no I forgot what do you mean you just finished I don't know I don't remember it so if you don't remember it why don't you why don't you go over it again no I already finished it I want to go on that stuff so did you learn it to learn it or did you learn it just to tell people you learned it if you're learning to tell people you're learning it you're not learning it forem if you're doing feel to tell people that that you're doing you're not doing forem if you're only religious at home but everyone else in the world thinks you're still secular you're not really religious you're a faker that's why it's not working out that's why it's not working out says every day we have three covenants Shabbat we can we have to exercise two at all times for men and six days a week since you cannot doin on Shabbat Shabbat takes the place of so you can still do two of the covenants so asks third section of T third book how could it be that someone that had these covenants on him how could someone lace all week become says because when someone really lays he gets used to that Covenant some protects his breit gets used to that Covenant it's very different than the Shabbat Covenant so when we heard about the first person that violated Shabbat mentioned in Tor this is a week after we got the Tor so says do you know why he violated Shabbat because he wasn't used to this New Covenant of Shabbat and that's why as soon as he violated Shabbat hasem knew we have to do something that will be physical material that we can carry on all the time to at least remind us of theine we have to lay tomorrow and the we laid yesterday that Covenant you have to keep the whole week and you can't do on Shabbat something that remind you of theine something to remind you you're still religious Shabbat is now you don't realize Shabbat is big deal sometimes so as soon as violated Shabbat what didm say says I give I give why to remind them that the they laid yesterday the they're going to lay tomorrow something physical that's where you we that's what you wait it actually has a connection with the first violator of Shabbat if you're only wearing your seed at home but not outside you're not doing it for you're not doing it forem if you're only keeping Shabbat because you like to have your friends over to show them how nice your house is and how good your your food is you're not doing it forem your assembly your connection your meeting with hem it's not working it's not going to last so how can you fix it yeah is there any difference no it's a more must to show it some have a me to not show it said it's perfectly fine for you to put it in your pockets or to not show it uh on the uh on the sapharic world in the ashkanazi world it's much more common for people to show it but in reality both have uh you know are perfectly valid the mitvah is not for you to show it the mitvah like a like a kanuka lamp like a you don't have to show it to the World the Mitzvah is for you to remember you're wearing it so if you're showing it to the world or not is irrelevant just the key is to make sure you remember you're wearing it every time you go to the bathroom you remember you're wearing a every time you uh take a shower you remember you're wearing every time you move really you remember you're wearing so that's important to know that you're wearing um for me personally I like to have uh um most of the time I have the ti inside but I like to have the thick tiot I like to thick and the reason why is because I could always feel them always reminds me wearing a some people like the thin because they don't want to feel them so it's e you to forget you wearing a the point of a is so you don't follow the things of your eyes and the things that are in your heart point of it is to remind you not to make sins so in order for me to be reminded and that make sense I need to be reminded what's to be reminded I need to wear T SE I need to have t SE that I know I'm wearing so that's why I do it but again everybody has it's perfectly fine if you have the small the key is to wear the key is to wear for the right reason the key is to be religious inside the house and outside the house if you're suffering through your MIT if every time you give it's like you feel like you just gave a kidney your assembly with hasem is not going to last if every time you're learning Torah you feel like you just climbed Mount vvus Your assembly with hem is not going to last if every time you wear Kip you feel like you just did your connection with hm is not not going to last it's not going to last it's not going to last what does it mean not going to last it's either only a matter of time before you fall off completely you're chva goes into the garbage or you'll be one of the many theim that are in the world that are infesting the world what's it the it's a secular person that looks religious it's a secular person that keeps Shabbat you're living a double life no robot is is an upgrade from there robot is an upgrade from there it's a person that calls themselves Jewish but doesn't really believe in God it's a person that believes and God created the world but he ran out of money your assembly is not going to last what can we do about it the V Shalom someone came to him and told him listen there's no there's no but I have an I have normal year it's average atog this year since I'm the only one that has an atog it's a special atog I'm willing to sell it to you I buy it what's your price youra V not not me and you that we have on the spot go says deal for deal after come to him his come to him come to him teach us if you don't have it you don't have nobody has you give you a day after it's worthless as a matter of fact the if it's you still use it on the second day first day you can't use it second day third day four you can use it Pur you can still use it first day you can't use it give you for that teach us what's what's the says why you do all the why you do why you keep Shabbat why are you keeping why you put SE on for what for yourself for reward for it's not g to last you won't survive one day you're gonna get a test you're gonna fail it's not going to last if you're doing it fora if you're not going to last if you're looking for millions of dollars it's not going to last if you're looking for a good life for Wonderful Life full of greatness it's not going to last why the minute hasm gives you a test you're going to fail you're going to break like little pieces a little Lego you're not going to last if you're looking for everything to be grand why we do mitv forem does it make a difference if I get or not I'm doing it forem and the same AEM that I'm doing it for if he wants me to have Al I'll givea that's V go what about us we can't sell their talk there's no V the we have we have we have a deal we have a deal we spoke about briefly you have to ask yourself a few questions one does everybody here believe in the 13 principles of Faith everybody believes in 13 principles of Faith they believe yeah yeah show of hand anybody doesn't believe in 13 principles of Faith okay okay one of the 13 principles of faith is that there's going to be reward and Punishment Hashem will reward the righteous Hashem will punish the wicked right is everybody believe in that principle you believe you said before you believe in all 13 I'm going to ask again you believe that there's reward and Punishment because if you don't believe in there's a reward and Punishment you're you have no we have to have a different sh for you anyone who doesn't believe there is reward and Punishment in this world and next has no is considered a you believe there reward and Punishment okay so I'm G to ask you the third the third and last question how many of you are okay with the fact that many of your brothers and sisters are going to get punished which one of you is okay with it that your brother is going to go to gay home no raise your hand which one wants his brother to go to gay home which one wants his sister to go to Gom not for like a week like a vacation tahi but a bad one where the airplane doesn't work really good you have to go by boat no nice nice long three four six seven eight n, years who who ra show of hands who online is happy with their family friends and all their loved ones going to G for ever which one anybody okay so any normal human being was not going to raise their hand so if you believe in the 13 principles of faith and you believe that one of them says there's reward and Punishment and you believe that you don't want any of your friends family neighbors Loved Ones members of am members of the civilization to not go to the punished part that's your ticket that's your only way to show whether what you're doing is forem sh or for yourself only way if you're just doing the Mitzvah because you want a good life for you it won't last your chv can never be complete why you have a bunch of people you know and you say you care about that you're lying to their face every day by telling them you love them you're lying to their face every day why because you know that they're sinning and eventually they're going to get punished by the same things you just said you believe in you believe there's reward and Punishment they're violating Shabbat they will be punished they're going with non-jews they're going to be punished they nonha they're going to be punished you believe this you're not doing anything about it what you're doing is not for hem it's for yourself but if you're doing it for hem that means that you care about hem if you care about hem then you care about what he cares about if you care about what he cares about then you care about what he cares about most and what he cares about most according to him him is his children and when his children ran away from home and they don't realize that they're missing when his children are constantly sinning but they're not realizing that they're sinning when his children are constantly going against him and making him an enemy without even realizing that they're doing something wrong they're sending him a $10 check that bounces after you gave them a $10 million loan and they don't see anything wrong with it but you not doing anything about it you're no different than them and that's why thebat says also and a few other places a person that sees another person sins and doesn't do anything about it it's the same thing as if they sin says had a neighbor that had a uh cow that carried things cows not allowed to carry extra things you're allowed to only she's only allowed to wear things that help you move her from one place to another pull her from one place to another but she's not allowed to wear like extra bells or whistles things that are not necessary so if you're cow is wearing that the cow is violating Shabbat and thereby the owner is violating Shabbat so thear says that rabar aar's cow violated Shabbat then asks wait had only one cow no he had plenty of cows is a billionaire his M was 120,000 cows per year so why is he only why are you only mentioning this one cow says because it really wasn't this cow it was his neighbor's cow his neighbor was a nice little lady who didn't know anything about Shabbat didn't know anything about the rules and her cow would violate Shabbat would carry these things and RAR they didn't say anything didn't say anything to her didn't rebuke her he said so just because she VI her cow violated Shabbat he didn't say anything it's like and because of that he fasted when he learned about this from the he fasted for the rest of his life to the point where all of his teeth became black for one violating one violation of Shabbat not about she violated Shabbat his whole life one violation of Shabbat once he fasted for the rest of his life why he didn't want to be a he didn't want got to hate him so we cannot be the guy we cannot be V what we can be is we can show hasem that we're not so selfish we're doing what we're doing because we love him if the diamond is heavy that's because you don't know it's a diamond if the mitv are heavy it's because you don't know their mitv if it's hard for you to wear keepa that means you don't understand what you're doing if it's hard for you to be religious outside of the house that means you don't real you you're not really you're not really religious yet if you don't care about doing if that's not your number one priority what are you doing it for why are you religious at all then because if it's not for loving hasem it's not going to last that's what we learn from the from the M from the uh different types of we see from that he gives us a lot of time gives us a lot of time he gave the d a lot of time to do chva they didn't do chva everybody worried about themselves eventually destroyed all of them why says if it's not for sh it will eventually end the time will eventually run out D thought they're gonna live forever average guy was alive 900 years when your best friend died young at 350 years old you're not so worried about dying everyone thought they're going to live forever today somebody came to me and says oh you know what modern Med within the next couple of uh decades people are going to live forever said yes if they were God they would but as long as there's a God Like there always has been and there always will be all that's just for commercial purpos nothing means nothing medicine this medicine that medicine it's all nonsense number one thing you have to understand is Hashem runs the world if Hashem runs the world and and you agree you believe you have to start getting on the right page if you want your Chua to last if you want your connection to to grow you have to start picking it up those promises you made during the these big days that we just passed the holidays it's time to deliver on that promise it's time to upgrade just doing the basic minimum just because you want hm to give you money or a bunch of other things is not enough you have to give him something you have to give him something in return you have to get involved with K you have to help other people do chva you have to get people to come to sh you have to get people to keep Shabbat you have to show hasm you're not just doing it for the extt for the $10 million he gave you because in reality the deal is unfair he gave you 10 million he's asking you for $10 back it's not a fair deal everything you're asking for it's not fair what you're giving him back you got to upgrade you got to upgrade [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music]