Scary Truth Measure For Measure - MUSSAR Pirkei Avot (100)

[Music] very good to uh be here this is uh going to be our last uh in aventur for some time uh next week bem I'm going to be in New York uh doing some lectures over there um we have uh four lectures already set up and maybe a few others during the afternoon we'll try to uh put things live uh or at least online right away so you guys don't miss out and uh anyone that wants to uh sponsor the lectures or anything like that I made some posts uh online for anyone that wants to uh get involved in uh via sponsor because obviously we do everything for free but it's not free um as far as uh Tonight Tonight is a uh special mishna because just like the mishna we talked about uh I guess what is make a couple of months ago few months ago two three months ago about G where there's no way that you could Escape it um because that's pretty much what the mishna talks about in essence this mishna and actually the next couple of M also talk about some scary things it's not going to be a sure about G but uh it is going to be a little scary uh a scary reality it is going to be a scary reality it's not going to be the gruesome details of what we talked about in regards to Gom or anything like that but anyone that understands what I'm about to say uh and what the mishna says uh should be scared if not it just means that you're you're spiritually dead that's that's all all means that you're that you know if let's say for example you know you pinch your friend and he doesn't feel it you know you take a little pin and you stick him with it if he still doesn't feel it just most likely means he's dead that's that's all it means uh if he doesn't feel it at that point it means his body is has has left the world um but unfortunately most people are not going to be scared of this one most people are not going to be scared of this one at all um and the reason is is because we are unfortunately uh spiritually distant from reality and unless Hashem makes it real for many of us myself included it's very hard for us to feel it's very hard for us to feel what the Torah says uh aside from that after uh we'll talk about the schedule after the end of the sh but uh aside from that this is the m number 100 number 100 uh this Series has been going on already for a year and a half or so maybe two years almost and we still have a lot to go because these next uh chapter and a half that we have uh is very very dense each one of the Mish as you've noticed is a few sh the first uh the first four chapters we had usually it was one mishna per per uh these this this mishna Which chapter five that we're in in chapter six is even more dense than chapter five uh it's uh so deep and so many details in each one that uh I believe that every single one of them is going to be at least two sh and in some cases three four five shs all depends on how deep we want to get into it and since we're not in a race uh to finish we're in a race to CH instead you know we're not trying to hurry up we're trying to actually get uh you know get to the bottom line get to the bottom line so uh also sh today will be for a to Leana s Lana Ben Leana David benri Doris B um Judith schnug uh Lindsay mister Gilbert Isaiah Batista um uh but Mercedes elisheva K but Sarah uh B Rifka uh raim benit um and all of will have the M you know to be honest with you learning this mishna it's a uh it's it's amazing I can't say any other word other than to say it's amazing how Hashem does what he does how hasem is AEM everything is so precise and that don't just necessarily mean oh the Apple always tastes like an apple or the uh you know the uh nature does what it does I mean things that if you actually pay attention to them you'll see that how the measure for measure system that Hashem operates on is so precise to every single detail that it's both scary and amazing at the same time but we have no idea just how amazing and how scary it really is so this m is going to help us a little bit a couple of the students of rant they he made a deal they always heard their whole life from the rebi thead the the depth of the de the depth of the Judgment the measure for measure system that Hashem runs the world on is beyond human comprehension the things that you would never think matter matter the smallest things to such an extent that when the raban uh of the um Shalom his wife when she passed away he cried hysterically he cried hysterically for three days and everyone knew obviously since his wife for many many years she was a uh KES kashim his partner and everything he said all the to is hers no but still I mean it's not wasn't necessarily a uh such a huge surprise and it wasn't as if anyone was worried that she wasn't in a better place to be the wife that was there from the beginning of the journey before anyone knew there was going to be a journey all the way until the end of living the life of the the ra of the I mean what are you worried about what are you crying about so even the sons asked ABA you haven't stopped crying it's three days what happened why I mean we saw you love her but it's a little bit too much he continued crying and asked him again ABA no tell us no why why what happened he says you have no idea what omad is you have no idea the depth of judgment and how she's judged right now what do you mean she's the wife of the she's the one that was under the table you know feeding the kids in hiding when the when their whole house was just one room one room the whole house no bathroom no bedroom no kitchen just the whole house is for walls he had to have a meeting with somebody to learn Tor with him came to the house and started learning Tor the the actual the guy that learned with him said the story himself he said that's came to visit he told me I had a question I knew he was a before he became the famous and everything I knew he was I wanted to ask him a question I came we started learning together and after a little while maybe an hour into it I started hearing a baby crying I look there's nothing there's only walls little do I know that the wife and children are under the table while we're studying tah not making a beep so a wife like this what are you worried about omad if you worried omad the depth of judgment for why what about us it's exactly what it that's exactly the point that's exactly the point we have no idea what really is the smallest tiniest things that we think of nothing can make a world of difference both in the good and the bad side the of is made a deal with each other after years and years of learning M working on their mid and literally becoming Angels walking on Earth they said to each other whoever dies first come back to the uh one that's still alive as soon as possible to at least let the other one know how they're judging over there like if we still have time we still have listen if it's uh if we're doing something wrong at least give me a chance whoever survives gives the one that surv wives a chance to do chuva what chuva what chuva the Angels these people but they understood so after some time one of them dies but he doesn't come back to him in a dream not for a month not for two months not for three months almost a year passes 11 months exactly pass and he comes to him in a dream immediately said no why why take you so long goes I couldn't come why why you couldn't come go I've been in I've been in trial trial there a person that's he says I've been on trial I couldn't leave the trial so so tell me what happened tell me the bottom line says I'm not allowed to say much to you not allowed to say much to you doing good but it's one thing I'm allowed to tell you what we have no idea what omad is we have no idea how How deep the Judgment really is what the measure for measure is and how in sh they literally look at even a basic conversation between you and your wife of how many words you use to tell her to go buy something from the store even story listen you know we have to for Shabbat by this by this by this we sometimes have a half hour conversation for some that takes five words he says even that they look at in sh this is so the the depth of judgment is something that you know we hear about a lot we hear measure for measure we hear about it in the we hear about it in different sh we see it in different books but the details the details are hard hard for for anyone to get into because it really requires you to do because the few things that we're going to talk about today not even going to think are sins the few things we're going to talk about today most of us don't even think our sins so the mishna this is chapter 5 mishna 10 now technically this mishna is broken up into two this this way that they broke up this uh this SED they broke up this specific mishna into two Mish so it says seven types of punishment come to the world and this mishna has three and the next mishna has four so tonight will do three meaning the first mishna of the two when we come back we'll do the rest so it says seven types of punishment come to the world for seven kinds of transgressions really that it uses in Hebrew Rashi says the literal translation of it is not transgressions but rather severe sins seven types of punishment come to the world for seven types of severe sins so what are you thinking immediately you think all those big things they're in there they're in here but the initial ones you're never going to think are in here so these are the first three of those sins that bring disaster to the world a first one if some people give M and some people don't famine is caused by lack of rain and lack of rain ensues some go hungry and some are satisfied we see here the mid mid the measure for measure some people give M the tithe and some people don't this causes famine to the extent where the rain is disproportionate some people have Pala and some people don't have Pala is a class Warfare you're either rich or poor there's no middle class in so many words we'll go into the details of what all of this means B second one if all decided not to give Mel everyone decides not just some everyone say n it's not you know you don't have to do it anymore everyone decides not to tithe General famine is caused by armed bands and drought and SS meaning the famine now hits everyone everyone is starving everyone is hungry everyone is in trouble if it got worse now we go to see what's the third one if not only they stopped giv but they also decided not to separate the Kal no Kal meaning somebody makes a Kala you make five kilograms of Kala you have to take a little piece as the Mitzvah of Kal and the people decide no you don't need to do it anymore it's not relevant to us anymore or as it says a uh will actually make dka make a little bit less than the obligated amount just so they don't have to fulfill the mitvah they don't give or they dka make slightly less than the amount that would obligate you to give theah so if they decide not to separate the Kal famine caused by fatal drought ensues meaning the type of drought that many many died not just starve not just trouble not just a few people are sick a few kids are hungry at night death now let me ask you guys a question before I continue I mentioned and I mentioned does anyone here honestly be intellectually honest don't pretend like you're is anyone here even consider it a sin not to to give not to do theah exactly based on based on but we didn't think it's to such an extent that's going to bring drought to the whole world it's gonna people gonna die okay hem take it easy why you so uptight to know what's going on here why is such a big deal and that's why M is so critical for each one of us to learn on a day-to-day basis especially the root of it because the only way we're going to have even a remote chance of understanding what measure for measure really means the the rovic used to come to the he was young and was already the was do and he was much older than him he used to come to visit him all the time especially would come back from trips to raise money for theot tell the how he succeeded how if he didn't succeed Whatever Happened One time the ROV comes to visit the uh the after one of his trips that he came back from South Africa he tells him you know he uh got this he did this and he's surprised when tell asks him a question you would never think would come out of his mouth he says how are the black people over there how are they doing he's looking around he's like am I talking to the right guy what does he care about the black people in Africa not like he's asking about you know how many do they have uh you know are they religious they keep Shabbat what is he he's asking about the black people live in South Africa what does the rav care about the black people that live in South Africa it's not what what's it to you so he was young he he says himself I honest I didn't know what to answer so I said for the why do you care about the black people in South Africa tells them no I heard they're mistreated over there and there's a lot of persecution against the black people in South Africa if it's true you should know this is a warning to why every single time something happens anywhere in the world whether it's an earthquake in India or a tsunami in Haiti or a uh some type of terrorist attack in America or anything that happens in the entire world it's a warning to to do CH what do you mean but it's happening to them it's not happening to us no it's a warning to us to show us this is what's going to happen to you if you don't do Chua every single thing that happens in the world hasem is talking to if they're persecuting them that means there's something wrong why not only they're mistreating the the creation of hem but also that means there's not enough Kus in the world there's not enough K over there there's not enough tah over there for such things to happen so the details that the sages thought about in regards to what's happening around the world is much more intense than we could ever imagine didn't ask about what's happening in the news because they cared about who won the election where the economy is going and who is the new billionaire in a Forbes 500 no for them they knew that everything connected to the bottom line what's the bottom line am SL and all of us that are sleeping while we're awake thinking that oh as long as I do chuva as long as I keep Shabbat as long as uh my wife is nice to me my husband's nice to me the kids go to school everything's okay everything's okay no my friends means everyone in Israel is responsible for each other but that also means responsible for each other in a sense that you let each other know what's happening everywhere hey over here in France we have some serious problems the Muslim have taken over they' pretty much become the majority let is know there's not enough to in the world what do you mean but it's you and France leave France go to England go to Israel go to America go to Australia go somewhere else no no no no you don't understand it has nothing to do with France it has nothing to do with England or with Europe or with America or with anything the fact that there is Jews suffering anywhere in the world that means Jews somewhere else are not doing good Jew somewhere else are not doing good it's not just them it's also Juice somewhere else so now that we understand that the world is not it's not just live live your life do your thing enjoy yourself and look forward for we realize that details are a little bit scarier than that a little scarier than that that so we call this in Judaism measure for measure mid mid and the way it works is that Hashem carefully analyzes each and every single act each and every single thing that we do and he matches it with a punishment or reward every single thing every single act receives either a reward or punishment and the reality is that anyone that's spiritually sensitive pays attention to the details around them can actually know for sure like with not a oh maybe looks like K oh he looked at this he went no no like with with no doubt in his mind of where he needs to do chuva why he looks at his life he looks at the world around him he looks at his own world his own sphere and he sees all the black spots okay yeah over here I'm not getting enough money okay that means I got to do this okay over here I still have a z okay I mean something okay over here I'm this he seees all the things that are missing in his life if he's spiritually sensitive meaning he's paying attention to what he's doing versus what he's supposed to be doing he could literally know what's expected from him in sham now the problem for most of us is that we don't view punishment as punishment we view it as nature most of the punishment that comes down to the world looks like nature it looks like it's something that's a happen stance it just happened to be that way it happened to be that in our neighborhood the imma showed up the hurricane it happened to be that the economy dropped 30% in our local community it happened to be that there was a missionary that came to the community it happened to be that the richest guy in the in town there used to be a big G and give to all of the uh you know all of the places all of a sudden decare bankruptcy everyone says yeah it happened to him andm will give another way but the reality is the says every single thing in your life everything is supposed to arouse you to do to do a self scrutiny in order to do Chua everything now this this can confuse us a little bit what I just said why because told abah ainu don't look for signs is not dependent on any type of Maz or signs in the reality is that people always look for signs just today on the way here I got an email someone asked me listen I have this thing it's a recurring theme I keep seeing the the number 15 15 here 15 there 15 15 15 a month ago somebody El told me yeah my daughter sees the number three number three here and the number three there three three three everywhere another one told me uh I see I saw a bird and it uh you know I never see this bird and everyone looks for all these unusual you know they see things and they they believe you know this has to mean something now technically everything means something but this is not what we mean by signs that are permissible what they're doing as far as the threes and the 15s and the birds and the cats and all of that stuff that's forbidden you're not allowed to look for signs like that oh the sky looked this way the sky looked that way those are signs that's magic tricks that's not what we're talking about we're talking about things that are obvious meaning things that are not oh maybe it means something or maybe it doesn't no what the sages are trying to explain to us is that there are things that are definitive meaning they happened a stock market crash happened a real estate crash happened a cryptocurrency uh you know crash happened all of these things happened whatever they happened someone died happened whatever event happened that you have to see what it means it's not up to the debate whether it happened or it didn't the crash happened the the loss happened the death happened the sickness happened the divorce happened the the kids off the death happened the you know whatever disaster whatever anything it happened it's a verifiable happening now you have to find out what it means how does it relate to you not listen the bird flew North instead of South what does it say in the to no no this is this is my this is things that you're looking for magic tricks magic tricks Las Vegas not here we are looking for things that are obvious you're not making enough money something's happening your wife all of a sudden doesn't want to pay attention to you something's happening even worse your wife tells you uh go fly a kite I don't want to talk to you how long the rest rest of the week something happened oh yeah it's because I wasn't Ni no no no that too but that's not the reason now the naysayers the Kim the Heretics theim the hate this type of Shield why because they believe in a carebear God not just Care Bear rabbis they believe in a carebear God that's not the god of Israel they believe that everything is good and nothing bad happens and anything that bad happens it's uh you know it's it's the Satan it's some outside force it's something else hem only gives good this by the way is this is heresy and this mishna that was put together by the holiest of holy are sages all the way from the first Mish in all the way to here these These are these are not like a local Rabbi that just got a three weeks ago these people were able to revive the dead this is a mishna this is precedes the this is our oral Torah so it's not an opinion it's facts and we'll provide you more information about it but here they're telling us something that all of the Kim the Heretics the and all the in the world hate to hear here things happen for a reason especially punishment if you see someone getting a divorce it's not just because they didn't get along if you see someone die it's not just because the guy was driving drunk if you see somebody lose all their money it's not just because it's a bad investment if you see there's a hurricane or some type of natural Des faster it's not just because nature did its thing in fact thinking any of that is 100% it's heresy and this Mish will tell us the details and that will support it and other things that we'll talk about will show you exactly what the Torah says not just that things happen because we don't need the toorah that tell us the things happen we just look at the world we see things happen it'll tell you exactly why exactly why these things happen so first it says these things that we don't even think are really big Sins Not only they big sins they're considered severe severe we start off with something that most of us don't even think is a sin which is to give M unfortunately the vast majority of people do not give M especially in this is very sad reality if you look statistically as a matter of fact this is one thing that the go actually have on us if you go to any religious Christian Catholic or Muslim it's not even a second thought for them to whether or not to give the money to Holy causes what they believe is Holy they're or whatever it is it's not a consideration even this uh Rabbi wrote a uh article maybe four or five years ago that I read he said he had a friend that was a uh pastor and uh he was telling him listen we have a uh problem in our synagogue the rabbi was telling the Orthodox Rabbi was telling the pastor you have a problem in the synagogue goes what's the problem he goes I have Financial issues goes ah it's no problem for you guys you'll fix it by the end of the month so he looked at his friend he writes this he looked at his friend he says you know something about my synagogue I don't know he goes well don't you get the tithe the m at the end of every month that's how we do it in my church in my church we get the tithe at the end of every month the whole Community gives the tithe he goes with you too also or you do more often you do more every week cuz what do you mean the the whole Community the rabbi writes this he says he asks the pastor the idol worshipper he asks him what do you mean your whole Community gives the tithe goes ah you know maybe one or two% don't give but the rest of them give most of them are good most of them give 99% of the Ki could say over my congregation gives the Mel and the rabbi wrote I don't know if he told his pastor friend or not because it would be a public but he wrote in the article he goes sadly in our community the numbers are the opposite in our community 2% if 2% of the community give we're doing great and 98% don't give this is a reality everywhere this is not just in his community or in different it's everywhere and in reality in most cases it's even worse numbers than that most people do not think that giving m is something that is you have to do maybe you should do it only when you're a millionaire maybe you should do when only you have extra money maybe you should do it if you're really a sadik maybe all these different reasons and when times are tough the first thing that we stop doing is we stop giving there were several people that didn't really like being Jewish that were coming up from Europe moving to America this is a few Generations ago and The Story Goes that uh on the way to uh to the United States there was a little bit of a uh wind turbulence in the ship and when they got to the United States the rabbi asked them what they don't havein in your country that you came from they don't have Tio they don't have keepa nothing you guys came all the way to America with nothing cuz no we had it we had it oh so why don't you bring it what you you didn't bring your luggage you didn't bring clothes goes no we brought the clothes so what happened because no there was a lot of turbulence on the way here and the captain of the ship said throw out all your extras throw out all your extras to save our lives so we thought it's p nees we thought it's p so we threw out our we threw out our we threw out a we throw out our books and the r said to them no my friends you didn't throw it out because of the wind you didn't throw it out because the captain said you didn't throw it out because of the turbulence you threw it out because simply you were looking for an excuse not to be Jewish you were looking for a reason the whole time and as soon as the door opened ah this works out for me this works out for me the whole time you were looking at to be Jewish why because the reality is why didn't you throw something else why didn't you throw out your clothes why don't you throw out your shoes why don't you throw out the all the other things you have why don't you throw out the gold bars Why th everything else why because you thought that everything else will save you while the Tora is holding you back but in reality the only thing that saved you is what you threw out and this is unfortunately in many cases you ask people how are they doing and they always complain regardless of how much money they make and the reason why is because if you come from a religious position they immediately think you want money and in many cases religious people do want money for their congregations for their yes for their books for different causes if they're not going to do it who's going to do it but immediately people complain and the reason why like n it's a tough year this year I'm not making enough money I only made a million dollars this year I only made a 100,000 this year I only made 30,000 this year I only made whatever I made everybody's only it's always only whatever the amount follows only a billion only a million only 10,000 only it's always only doesn't matter what the amount is it's it's like a given and and the reality is is that first thing that this only mentality does as soon as he feels this this this pressure that he's only making a certain amount the first thing he stops doing is he stops giving M he stops giving he stops giving what's not his to begin with why because he thinks that if I'm going to give myself then I'm going to have less than what I already have now how is that going to help hem doesn't want me to hurt myself it says he gave us the tat to live by it not to kill myself so he thinks that by not giving and by not giving he's helping his financial condition this only means he didn't learn Tor because the Tor says the exact opposite page s he says something that is extraordinary it says mean if a person sees that the his sustenance his living his money is not enough he doesn't have enough money all of a sudden his income dropped by 50% all of a sudden what he has in the bank is not enough to do what he needs to do he sees that his financial situation is not good thear thear that we have have already for a couple of thousand years that the source is Mount Si it's not some opinion thear says if he's in that situation where he sees in reality not like he feels he sees he has bills 5,000 he only has 2500 in the bank so you know it's not like an opinion a pressure he's nervous maybe he doesn't have enough money for retirement no no he sees 100% I don't have enough money to pay the bills what does thear say he sees he doesn't have it go give right wait hold on a second I already told you I don't have enough for the I already told you I don't have enough I don't have enough money to pay the bills the kids who knows I getting e last week this last week we just made it next week who knows how you want me to give now that's Tor says that's what the Torah says how does this make any sense this is the opposite of logic and that's what we're going to explain the writes a p on this specific that if a person understands it everything changes he says this mishna where it says to givea when you don't have enough money it makes absolutely no sense it's against logic I already don't have enough you're telling me to go give more I I have 5,000,000 bills a month my bank account shows 2500 Al 2500 it says 2500 I'm short 50% you're saying oh you're short good go give it doesn't make rational sense and says that's it that's the point because it doesn't make sense that's what makes sense when it comes to M when it comes to giving there's no logic that you use and you're not even allowed to use it you're not allowed to use your logic when you're giving or you're not allowed you're not permitted you have no permission you have no right to do forem and the reason why the says he heard from his that any time this is also confirmed in in a few other places anytime someone has any type type of confidence any type of in anything let's just say his money his bank account his uh stock portfolio his real estate portfolio his uh car portfolio whatever he has a stamp collection anytime he gives any any confidence whatsoever to anything of this world and saying oh my 401k that's that's my bailout plan my stock portfolio that's my retirement plan my real estate that's going to pay the kids wedding my this that's going to pay for just in case something happens my this account that's going to pay for the groceries this week even that any time he gives anything any confidence whatsoever that's of this world is Shalom giving that thing power what power power that's different from hasem in essence he's just turning into his bank account just turned into an idol his stock portfolio just turned into an idol it's as if he's saying the bank account that I have the stock portfolio that I made the money that I have all these things it's a power of its own having any any type of in them is like giving in independent power away from Hashem a power that's outside of Hashem as if it's not coming from Hashem as if your sustenance is not coming from Hashem as if the stock profolio doesn't exist or will continue to exist because of Hashem and giving it any type of power is the equivalent of idolatry this unfortunately is something we are all or were all guilty of at some point or still are because all we do is try to plan ahead people save people do people this now there's no specific prohibition of saving money or even of nice having nice things you can have a mansion you can have a nice car you can have a retirement plan there's no problem so long as it doesn't cause you to sin meaning so long as it does not cause you to do things that are the opposite of what Hashem wants you to do the problem is unless you learn M every day and other Torah as well every single day where Hashem becomes number one in your life all those things do is make you sin that's it they don't do anything good for you like meaning all the material things the house the car the the the the the whatever you bought a a universe somewhere whatever you bought unfortunately we don't know how to use it and all we all the results the outcome of those things are is sins so you're allowed to have them so long as they don't make you sin the problem is since we don't know how to use them all they do is make a sin and that's the problem you're allowed to have a big house enjoy re a kados had a giant mansion horses and people working for him and so on but at the end of his life he looked at sh and they wrote which means it's real he looked at sh and says hm you know I didn't enjoy any of the money you gave me even to the amount of my pinky yeah but you had a big house you had hundreds of horses you had servants you had everything was for hasem everything had a purpose to serve hem the house was to host guest lectures sh all types of things it wasn't just because I wanted to show hey look at my house look at my house oh yeah now we just finished remodeling the kitchen next week we're going to do remodel the living room yeah we just built this Kitchen last week but uh you know we don't like it so we're going to destroy it and do a new one I went to a house one time this rich people and uh religious religious and how is B very very nice house and uh I saw there some ladders and so on there was some other guests and people asked oh so what's happening goes oh no we're remodeling the house looked like it was mamash like it was brand who just came out of a box yeah we just redid we just redid the kitchen and the living room last year but I don't like it so we're just going to destroy all of it and we're going to rebuild this is this is a sin from the Tor and this is something that's strictly prohibited this is craziness so having a nice house enjoy your house so long as it's not causing you to sin if the people around you are all okay enjoy your money if the people around you are struggling where they don't have money to eat for Shabbat they don't have money for PES you have no right to go buy a $25,000 carpet that's the problem now when people first cut their expenses because they didn't listen to Hashem they uh start getting distant from him sometimes it's because they made a lot of money so they're more distant because they think that they made the money it's not Hashem gave them the money or sometimes Hashem is actually trying to wake them up and he's starting to take away some of the money so what happens they stop giving the tithe they stop giving the m so here mishna the first part says if some people if some people give M give the tithe and others don't meaning we're not so bad but some people are giving M and some people don't is that is that bad so bad that he says the measure for measure punishment from shamim is that this will cause a lack of rain where some people will be hungry and some people will be satisfied meaning this will create a class Warfare you'll have Rich and you'll have poor nothing in the middle now the mid says what does it mean when it says this you know this uh this big sin that Rashi says this is a giant Sins Not just uh you know it's a little sin that you made a mistake what does it mean the M says means that when people make these sins they're creating gim what gim they're creating bodies what bodies they're creating demons they're creating the bodies of evil angels that are coming into being and a going to prosecute them and are going to punish them and he actually says this is simply for ignoring hashem's will not even going against him just ignoring his will just not even considering him you bought a house you didn't even consider if it's close enough to the besset you cut your expenses you said okay immediately I'm going to cut this uh Foundation I'm going to cut this one and not the other one like you didn't even consider what's better for Hashem what's not just ignoring his opinion ignoring his desire that alone already creates these demons and so on now the says this is even worse why is it worse it says a private sin a private sin somebody makes a private sin whatever sin they made they looked somewhere they're not allowed to look they took something they're not allowed to take and so on okay that could simply be an aberration it could be something that happened once and he does chuva didn't mean to it's a private sin but this these sins that are enumerated here these seven sins starting with the Mel he saying these are considered entrenched transgressions what does it mean it means this is something that he's become used to meaning this became part of his goof part of him he's accepted that it's allowed not to do he's accepted it's allowed to do whatever it is he's accepted it as he's changed the al already in his mind it's allowed to drive on Shabbat not only allowed I'm driving to on Shabbat there's a few people that I remember a uh in bookon and I would see them in the besset and they looked like any normal Jew and then I would see uh you know would see them sometimes uh in prayer if if they were at nets at the early Manan something the different minim but then usually on Shabbat if I would go to Nets I would see them but if I go to the later Manan I would never see them they would always meaning these people always went to the early Manan six o'clock in the morning they going to the Manan now one time I come you know I'm going to the besset when they were leaving cuz they finished they went to the Nets and I was going to the 8:00 Manan and I see these people are leaving the besset and they have their TT they have everything they just left they went to on Shabbat at 6:00 in the morning I was still in my third dream they were in praying right it's a great thing so I'm walking and they're walking the opposite way I'm going to theet they're going the other one and in between us there's a parking lot and I see that I'm going and I'm saying oh shabbat shalom and they say oh shabbat shalom and they take a heavy left to the parking lot to go get their car and drive out drive on Shabbat back home but they went to B on Shabbat at 6 o' in the morning but they went driving why in their mind it's allowed in their mind it's mitvah this is a this is something where somebody has literally accepted the law to such an extent accepted the the the sin to such an extent that it became the law it became part of them and unfortunately many many people in the United States are like this they go to biget driving and they don't have even the slightest remorse they go to beet on Shabbat driving they don't have the slightest remorse they'll put pull up right in front of the B they even say hello to the rabbi hello to everybody shabbat shalom Shabbat on Shabbat on yum doesn't make a difference you ask him why you driving you're not to drive what do you mean you know how far I live like they look at you like there's something wrong with you what do you mean how do you expect me to get here if I don't drive I live 20 minute drive from here don't come because what do you mean how I'm going to pray then pray at home move whatever do something you can't drive no no you're wrong you must must be something wrong with you do you ever read what you said what you no I didn't read it I just the rabbi never said anything to me so I figured it's allowed I've been doing it for 20 years already this is something that is very very difficult because once something becomes aof something becomes a part like bash part of the person established sin becomes a part of his lifestyle unless he does complete chuva he cannot do Chua at all meaning it's either he's going all the way to hasem and realize that his entire life is wrong or he's not going to do anything at all nothing in the middle it's either you're going all the way you're becoming little a little or you're staying you're staying you're staying whatever you are with the belief that you are Yu though and that's the problem that's a very very serious problem so now it says if some people give the and some don't there's going to be a very serious punishment so what's the details of this punishment he goes it's G to be class Warfare where there's going to be rain in some places and and not rain in other places so first and foremost it says Rashi says this means that there's going to be an enormous amount of inflation inflation meaning the price Rises everybody's feeling pressure but the poor feel much more suffering than the rich the r and say that this type of selective giving where some people they give some people don't give God will also respond with his own sporadic giving meaning to some people he's going to give to some people he's not going to give some of you give some of you don't give Hashem is some going to give some not going to give mid measure for measure some rain will fall in certain places and none will fall in other places and and the the says that as soon as people become tightfisted you know they hold their hand they hold their dollar to dear life Hashem responds unkind you're holding on to the dollar in dear life I'm also holding to the dollar and dear life you hold to yours I'll hold to mine let's see who whoes longer your dollar has to be spent at some point M have unlimited says everything is mine eventually you have to spend yours but since you're tight with [Applause] yours I'm going to be tight with mine now the gives us some more details of what it really means is is shocking to say the least they say the same thing as here but with more details as we always say that the uh the mishna is the basic thear interprets it gives the details it says the same thing so a lot of us think that certain things are simply not sins certain things that we can do or not do are just simply not sins at all andar says we have to think twice before we say such things this is no this is something else okay don't want to miss okay so first and foremost page 32A says that said what is the verse that Yu says I've been diminished by all of the kindnesses and by all the truth that you have done for your servant this is in the Book of Genesis 32:1 it's a very famous verse where Yu at while he's thinking Hashem for all the great things that he's giving him he's also asking him for help to protect him against against and so on but he says you know you've already done so much for me so the sages explain what does it actually mean it means that even yov yov knew fairly well that every single thing that you have in your life you have to be grateful for but at the same token you have to actually understand that there is a judgment in shamim of Merit versus punishment if you're getting [Applause] rewarded it could be because you're being rewarded for something good you reward for something good or it actually could be a punishment the reward could be a punishment where do we learn this from we talked about last week says though means hasem pays to his haters to to their face to destroy them so to explain this I one time said that money is like a battery it's like a battery a battery to do mitv battery to do mitv if you use it well Hashem recharges you gives you more he gave you x amount you use it for things that are pleasing him you give you do you know good deeds you're you're not wasting it on uh prostitutes and uh and gambling you're actually doing things that are good you're a good no problem he's going to recharge your battery on the other hand if you don't if instead of giving and going to beet and buying holy books and doing all the things you're supposed to do you're not doing good with it either you're holding it to yourself or you're simply spending it on nonsense you have two obvious options one option you all know what is he do he takes it back that's the obvious option you all knew many people lose their money every day that's not the says he pays his haters cast to their face meaning if you do bad he gives you more if you do bad he gives you a lot more why to destroy you what is that like to overcharge the battery to the point where it it's destroyed put enough voltage in that battery where it becomes dead it dies you can never use it again this is one of the scariest things in my personal opinion I've learned since I started doing chuba why because it's of reality everywhere most people think if I do good I get money if I don't do good I lose money they think the obvious choices never in their wildest dreams will they think if I do bad Hashem is g to give me more money no not only gives you more it gives you a lot more to destroy you why cuz he knows every dollar you get is another three sins so he's going to give you $10 more doll 30 more sins oh 30 more sins good I'll give you $100 more dollars 300 more sins oh good I'll give you $1,000 3,000 more sins why I hate you this is a disaster and the r calls it in as the worst possible punishment in the entire Tor very dangerous thing to live and if we don't pay attention we're not going to know whether we're being rewarded or punished andov yov yov was suspecting himself he's saying I've already got so much from hasem already protected me from is before he got protect me from Lavan he protected me so much if he does it again maybe it's a punishment now what good did I do in this world he's saying on himself is saying what good did I do that has even giv me any good us we say to hm hem what good I didn't do I did so much good how come you don't give me a billion dollars a week is saying what good did I do maybe he's taking away from my maybe it's a punishment what am I gonna doem I need your help but at the same time please tell me you're punishing me he's scared to death why because he's paying attention to the detail he says look you're giving me so much more then I deserve I have to I have to double check myself is it because you're just so so amazing and and you love me so much or is it because I've made so many sins that you're actually punishing me now we have to look at our life this way this is this is the mindset of someone that learns TOA you have to look at everything even the things that look good just one theato looks good could be poison just got a new contract looks good could be poison just lost money looks bad could be a reward why he's trying to save you from yourself this is how you have to look at things deep first we have to learn it then we have to do it we're starting with the learning now the says on page 30 this was on 32b continues in 32b it says some things that we don't even think are such big deal honestly we have to be honest with ourselves some things that we that it says over here that people do it's almost like become like a uh what's the big deal M what's the big deal what are you what are you uh stressing out over so firstan says that how could a person suffered the disaster of losing his wife and kids for something as simple as making a vow and not keeping it you made a promise hey yeah yeah I'm gonna donate $1,000 for for for for for the I'm gonna donate this month you'll get it you'll get it he doesn't do it he forgot forgot not his fault he didn't do it on purpose he didn't like say oh no no I'm not doing it forgot simply forgot well forgot you don't forget you guys always remember everything I forget you forget every forgets he says for that forgetfulness he could lose his wife for the forgetfulness why what'd you forget why' you forget it wasn't important enough for you if it wasn't important for you oh now remember something I'll remind you of something important and where did they get it from this is in Proverbs 22:27 do not allow your mouth to cause your flesh to sin taught us this so it's not like this is opinions of the this is all Source from the for simply making a vow and not keeping it you told somebody listen uh yeah what do you need you need a uh a partner okay I'm in and then a week later he comes to I need the money for the new the deal oh no no I uh I I'm not doing it what do you mean but you gave me your word I already started planning I already start planning based on your word that you're you're in no no no sorry got to find somebody else oh I find somebody else okay you'll have to find somebody else too you'll have to find a new wife you have to find new kids this not scary any mother any mother in that has a brain is right now starting to cry why she has to double check everything her husband says don't make promises you can't and if you make a promise deliver immediately Shalom you'll forget Shalom you'll forget what's the source told him yov when are you going to go back to see your father when what do you mean I'm hiding from asav I'm at Lan's place I'm doing you left your father's house good you got married good you came back good but now when you met as you said hello hello and then you left the same day you went somewhere else you didn't go directly to your father's house for a long time you went somewhere else if you don't deliver on the promise to go back to your father's house you're no different than asav he tells him you're no different than asav why he makes promises all the time and doesn't keep them tomorrow I'm gonna go to Manan he doesn't go tomorrow I'm gonna do chva he doesn't do tomorrow I'm going to give he doesn't give every day he does he makes promises that we call empty promises says for the sin of neglecting Torah St children can die instead of learning to a person decides no you know what I'll learn tomorrow tonight I'm going to watch the game serious problem now here something that most people don't even think is a sin everybody knows you have to learn tah everybody knows you can't just say things just because you feel like it everybody knows even just common etiquette anyone that's a grownup knows that you're not allowed to just promise things and not deliver it's wrong everyone knows that you can't make vows and and not keep them it's that's logic you don't even need to be religious to do that everyone knows that tah is the foundation of the world if you're even semi religious you know the Torah is keeping the world alive so not studying is a very bad thing maybe you didn't realize that it's putting the kids at risk but nonetheless you knew it's bad but here is something that most people don't think it's even a sin what is it had a debate had a debate what's the debate what's worse what kills more kids what kills more people making a sin and having and not having a or making a sin and not wearing TI that's the debate most of us don't even think it's a sin to do either thing either one how many people are walking around with no how many people are walking or have houses they forgot to put double check that all the or even put a in every single place I have one did about a year ago and she realized I have to put m in the house so she got one mza she didn't realize she had to do mza in every door and then one of the sh we mentioned it she goes oh I have to buy some M so I got her a few M and she put the M up and our brother who's clueless to begin with what does he do he takes them off he takes them off the wall n we don't need too much we don't need to be too religious what do you care what do you care what do you care if it was putting a gold medallion on the wall you say oh wow it's a nice Medallion but M no would I need too much don't be too religious little does he know that that mizza may be protecting his life a person tell you yeah but listen theah is only if you have a clothing wearing Four Corners that's what the Torah says if you have clothing if you have a shirt that has four corners like which was the type of clothing that we used to wear in the days of thear you have to wearit if I don't have a clothing of Four Corners I don't have to do it I'm not obligated there's no Four Corners page 25 says otherwise he says you're right the whole year the whole year you're right under normal circumstances meaning under normal circumstances you're only obligated to wear if you have four corners unless it's is a decree sh thec sh to punish you're the first one that gets it why you have no protection at all is the to punish the nation why they're not giving they're not doing good things they're going to strip clubs they're killing people they're stealing they have Ponzi schemes all types of things sh eventually patience Runs Out hasem says okay I Gotta Give a Little earthquake there where oh his house why his house what did he do me he keep Shabbat he uh this he's that no no he doesn't wait what but he does everything else doesn't make a difference he has no protection but he doesn't have four corners doesn't make a difference first one the level of danger for something we don't even think is a sin and arguing which one's worse meaning we didn't even think it was a sin before this year we didn't think it was a sin not to have a in every room and not and not to where we don't even know it's a sin they're saying which one's worse why it causes death that's that's the depth of judgment continues thear says there's several things that cause death we obviously know we've been suffering for this this baseless hatred among each other asazi hates the Safari the Safari hates the askanazi the yite hates everyone the uh this one and that one everybody's Prejudice all those the stupid things people are not accepted the because of their background or because they uh mother where's this or where's that all types of nonsense that we have within our nation so we oh it's a sin he goes no no no you don't understand this sin causes things to happen what does it cause what does it cause it causes the person to have no schom bite causes fights in his house why he hates his neighbor so what he hates his neighbor and the neighbor he should have a fight with the neighbor no no no his wife hates him why does his wife hate him he hates the neighbor why why does his wife hate him that's what hasm causes you hate your neighbor your wife is going to hate you why why she likes the neighbor no she doesn't even know who the neighbor is but that's what happens why the demon that's created from that affects her that way what else does it do it says his wife gives birth to stillborn children and the men's sons and daughters die in their youth why he hates his neighbor he hates his neighbor this is it's not me not one word so far has been me this is you don't believe in you have a problem you're you don't believe in Judaism this isar me you have plenty of problems with me it's not going to be an end I'm sure I did a lot of things wrong butar it's not not me this what says now it goes even more and more details it says what about the sin of of of neglecting not giving not giving what's the what's the problem it says exactly what this mishna says the sky are disguise are withheld from pre from precipitating due and rain and th high prices inflation becomes the norm meaning everything all of a sudden is really expensive all of a sudden to get lunch cost $30 it's lunch it should be2 three to eat lunch just everybody need to eat lunch it should be cheap should be based on supply and demand there's a lot of demand there is a lot of Supply you should be the two should mat should be fine shouldn't C $30 to get a burger people don't give inflation becomes the norm Yeshiva Yeshiva shouldn't be more expensive than your mortgage it shouldn't be more expensive than your mortgage to send your kids to religious school if anything it should pay you in this world to send your K to Yesa is a why you're surrounded by you're surrounded by people don't believe in anything you are actually chose to be a Jew and send your kids to religious school they should reward you for it what people don't go to school why they don't have any money why cost $1,000 a month to go to decent Yesa and by decent I don't mean like the teachers are great AKA tosot no talking about decent but it has four walls and air conditioner four walls and air conditioner even if Amal is a teacher $1,000 a month and some of these places have am as a teacher they do all types of strange unusual things yes so now inflation becomes the norm as a punishment for not giving M next it says profits are lost you had x amount of money you made in your business and your portfolio into whatever you don't want to give okay no problem that profit that you had the million dollars you made last year okay next year you're not going to have it what do you mean but I already plan my life as if I'm G to have it forever all good for you you'll have debt now anyone that ever had any money knows how severe this punishment is if you never had that kind of money which means you never planned like that you never planned for a life that's always going to be rich you don't understand what I'm saying so far why because to say listen I'm used to being rich and now all of a sudden you're poor anyone that's ever lost money would say it was better off not to have be rich it was better off to never be rich than to be rich and lose it why because you've already planned your life mentally as if you're going to have it you've already planned your life mentally and financially as if you're going to have it the house the car the expenses the luxury the mindset the vacations the the the the type of clothes the kids wore the type of shoes you wore your expectations your life everything was in accordance to this lifestyle you had now you don't have it anymore what are you going to do this is why people kill themselves this is why people killed themselves because their life has turned upside down but if they learn Tor they realize that they don't need to uh lose their mind or lose their life all they need to do is Chua the next thing is for losing for not giving M it says people race after their livelihood but cannot attain one as it's stated in the Book of Job chapter 24: 19 the dry and warm season steal the Waters of the snowy season they have sinned to the depth so the so the Prophet job says that the water all the blessing we got from the winter the rain and so on when it became hot the summer it stole everything so that you would think that just means the weather changed no no no no he says this is caused by sin meaning it's a it's a uh it's uh it's not a literal sentence what he's saying all the blessings we had was taken away from our by our sins the blessing we had to all the rain all the extra money all of those things just leave it it's okay it's okay thank you all the rain all the rain all the extra bank accounts all the Bitcoins all the cars all the watches all of those things gone what happened made sins what sins he didn't give myself didn't give my what it's not even a sin it's not even a you don't even have to some the say it's according to them it's not according to according to M it's it's obligation so here we see the sin is is severe is severe severe now so the sages continue it says for the sin of robbery locust come forth and destroy crops for robbery so asks okay robbery okay what's robbery what's robbery robbery they're not talking about robbery like people go into Banks and they rob the bank robbery they're saying it's like the women of mza what's the women of mza the women of the mza were like cows what does it mean they were like cows they kept eating the money meaning they kept spending the money and there was never enough money for M they kept buying new dresses and going out to dinners and new house and new car and new this and new that there's never money for myale there was never money for the for the Yesa there was never money for for the kiru there was never money for the you know the the poor people but for their dress and for their dinners and for the house and for the jewelry and the other dress and all these things always have money but to give 10000 $500 for for something that's actually for hasem I don't have any money times are tough nothing new Under the Sun they call this in the women of who were those women those women they spent their husbands had money but they never had money they had money but they never had money why had a lot of money but the women spent everything the women spent everything and he calls this robbery that's what the calls he calls this robbery what's the punishment for those women of M you really want to know in it says there's several levels of punishment several levels of punishment for not listening to AEM the punishment for such things for overspending when you have when there's there's a decree from sh some decree comes goog Pam Inquisition Nazi sh all those things when that comes those people suffer the worst why they get the punishment [Applause] of he eats the left and is still not satisfied what does it mean he eats the left and is not satisfied he's so hungry he gets to such level of starvation that he then eats the Flesh of his own arm and eventually his own children why you didn't give M you bought a dress instead you went to dinner three times a week it's a simple thing we don't even think it's a sin we don't even think it's a sin to be honest with you I was reading this myself I've gone over this before still it's every time it's a new shock now sometimes you tell people these things and they're shocked I myself I read I can read this a thousand times I'll be shocked every time but I can tell you for sure that I'm more shocked every time than I was originally why because the more you learn the more the Torah affects your so says and always he says sometimes you tell people certain things tell them G you tell them fire you tell them punishment you tell them measure for measure like ah yeah yeah yeah it's good it's good it's interesting what do you mean why are you not crying why you not scared why you not doing Chua why you not having nightmares right now as we're speaking right now you're like half asleep how come you're not having a nightmare while you have as sleep why why you okay says they've made made so many sins that the kipa they have is like six feet thick meaning you can tell about Gom and everything else it still doesn't penetrate the N yet still doesn't penetrate the N yet the N can only absorb so much the more sins it has the less it could absorb meaning the more you do chuva the less kipa you have the less sins L of a of a shell that's covering your real n you have which means that the truth can hit more if you made a lot of sins and you haven't done CH for them you can have a bulldozzer come at you it won't affect you why you're you're you're still in the beginning you're still you're still in the beginning so this is not this is not just an individual thing on one specific person or two or five or 10 this is on a nation why CU many people you tell them all these things and not only they're not scared they don't even care they don't they simply don't care like oh wow it sounds bad I think my Rabbi says something else I think my Rabbi I never heard this before I got to double check no I don't know yeah but it says I'm quoting I'm giving you page numbers go check it's not like a commentary of a commentary this is what it says literally no I I don't know I don't think I don't think it's right I don't think I don't think even if there's 1% chance for it to be right it's 100% but even if there's 1% chance of right that alone should give you a nightmare if there's 1% chance that anything I just said is right that alone should give you a nightmare if you're not getting a nightmare that means that you have to do serious CH much more than you thought before you watched this and the good news rabot is is that AEM says listen this this is simply a testament to whether you believe in me that's why I take it so personally because he says here in uh Prophet Malachi chapter 3 verse 10 it says in the prophet Malachi it says a says to uh to to the nation bring all of your tithes all of your into the storehouses meaning bring it to all of the organization bring all the no worries don't think about logically can you afford not afford do you have you don't have bring it bring it fast why bring it so that there may be food in my house for those who serve in the temple meaning so that the people that learning T are never lacking the people that need to do chuva always have the ability to do chva because there's videos made for them there's buildings built for them there's whatever is done there's no there's never a lacking in in the world go bring it all why test me now through this this is the only thing you're allowed to test god with only thing nothing else you're allowed to test them you're never allowed to say listen God if you're real uh make a I don't know a sign of some kind now make a earthquake kill this guy give me money you're never allowed to test God never he says here this is the only thing you actually not only allowed I'm encouraging you to test me test me now through this said Hashem master of Legions if I will not open for you the windows of the sky and pour out blessing for you without limit so the asks what does it mean what does it mean without limit what does AEM mean without limit says I'll give you so much in a reward that you'll say enough die die means enough at Bed die is like he's telling you if you actually test me and you passed the test not just one time you give M you expect to be a billionaire next week could be a year could be 10 years could be 20 years could be 20 months who knows whatever the test is HEM says you do it the reward for you in this world we're not talking about this world you're going to get so much you're G to say enough you gave me too much already you gave me too much already you gave me too much where else does it say die where else in thear does it say the word die enough in page 12a it says what happened before this world now the atheists and and and scientists and all those people would like to tell you about Big Bang we all came from monkeys maybe they did we didn't we came from human beings but they all think that the Big Bang is like a new Theory or it's a new belief or it's a new anything it's not I said this in a lecture a long time ago and maybe you guys know or don't know but page 12 a it says what was here before this world what was here we're not allowed to ask such questions of what's above us what's below us but there are certain things we are allowed to ask ask what was here before this world there was seven worlds and so on or six other worlds this is the seventh world so okay before that what happened it says originally there was only God originally there was only God and and he had to minimize himself in order to make space for anything else he wants to create so imagine a room is just as a room and that's it there but it's full to the capacity there's no chairs there's no libraries there's nothing just it's full to the max as if it's like foam imagine no you can imagine a mem I'm giving an illustration you understand what does it mean something is full now if let's say the whole room is full of foam and you want to fit something in you have to to take out the foam now you can't take out God he cannot be shared so what AEM had to minimize himself in order to make room for his creation and he created a DOT simple point that began all of it and then it described this dot which is the cosmos started expanding and expanding and expanding until God said die enough stop expanding and for that they call him El Shai that's where we get the name The God Who said die El Shai means The God Who said die what's die mean enough enough expanding this by the way is what the uh scientists say that they started with a point and expanded and so on and so for but they believe it's still expanding no no no it's not expanding why Hashem said die said enough Hashem said enough but there's nothing new Under the Sun there's no new theories there's no new nothing but the reality is it's all in the it's all in our Tor just people don't know where to look who what where and how it's all in our Torah if it's of any value if it's any good it must be in the Torah if it's not in a Torah it's of no value it's complete nonsense so now the same God this elai that says enough to the world stops all of creation enough expanding this is where I want it the planets are here the moons are here the sun is here the trees are here everything is here enough expanding now let this world operate he's the one that stopped it and it says that the creation was shivering from fear from hearing the word die from hasem fear from was expanding I thought I was doing good he said die okay I'm not gonna move not gonna move why it's AEM it's AEM I got to mess with hem so this same hasem is also telling you that same die is meant for you too it's meant for you to say Hashem die what die you tell me die why die hem stop giving you gave me so much you gave me so much money you gave me so many houses you gave me more than I need I don't need anymore enough why because you fulfilled my Mitzvah what mitzvah you fulfilled M so here you have hem is telling you listen on one end I'm I want to give you endless reward I want to give you a lot what do you do you limit me from giving you why because you think that you're the one that's making it you think that you're the one that's making this money and for that I have to punish you there is no other way I have to show you that you are not making it and this is a very very painful punishment now it continues here and it says if it gets worse and not only just a few give and most don't give but it gets to a point where people just don't give it's become unfortunate like today where it's almost almost almost no one gives M people give but they don't give M even rich people they give but they don't give M if the rich people didn't give and the poor people didn't give we wouldn't have any we wouldn't have any we wouldn't have any books we wouldn't have anything we wouldn't have a key would have anything but they're not fulfilling this Mitzvah on a large scope why because we would have a lot more we'd have a lot more now if it gets to such a point this mishna says if all decided not to give not to tithe a general famine caused by armed bands and drought ensues meaning the punishment goes from instead of being inflation and you know that's affecting everyone but also starvation affecting some people now it gets to a point where everyone suffers everyone is starting to get to a point where everyone rich or poor they all feel like they don't have enough the rich feel like they don't have enough and the poor feel like they they don't have enough meaning it's the Rashi explains this is actually a mental state of mind it's not just an actuality but it's a mental state of mind mind where people are constantly chasing their own their own wheel they're chasing their own tail constantly they're always chasing money chasing chasing chasing but nobody feels like he has enough sounds kind of like today doesn't it where do we get this from The Book of Leviticus chapter 26 verse 26 this is one of the punishments that Hashem says that a person will eat but never be satisfied never be satiated now if it continues to get worse and they get to a point where they start doing they start doing the said no listen I gave M it didn't work so I stopped giving you know they they they like you know they gave M three four five six seven eight times and they didn't become rich so they decided to stop and now they decide to stop everybody else also decided to stop all their friends decided to stop all their buddies decided to stop all the people in the K started so it got to a point where it became a norm no one wanted to do it and now it's saying listen now things even got worse now even if I wanted to give M I don't have the money I used to have so now I gotta start cutting expenses what should I cut oh you know what that mean let's just uh let's just not do it don't make the whole uh what you need for just cut off expenses cut off the money that we give for don't make as much don't do as much you stop fulfilling the and this gets to a point where it creates a famine famine meaning that it's not only a state of discomfort it's not only a mental state of mind it literally creates death death in the world when it becomes public policy not to give Kal which is money that goes to the leim the world will suffer devastating hunger and no rain will fall and Riv Rivers will dry up this terrible punishment is described where in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 28: 23 on the verse your Heavens over your head will be like copper and the land beneath you will be like iron so why does this why doesm take this to such an extent that he considers it even worse than M it's even worse me not giving is terrible most of us didn't even think it's a sin for sure we were all convinced it's not a sin why just don't make Kal go by if you don't make Kal then you don't have the mitah Kal is only when you actually are making your self you have to take a small portion of it and give it to leim today we don't have leim so we destroy it we burn it so just don't do it don't do the Mitzvah you won't have right that's the problem he says when people's minds get to that extent we say you know what I'm just not going to make it or better yet I'm gonna make but not enough that I have to give the they start doing they start doing accounting of sh of what to do what not to do I'll do this Mitzvah but not this one this mitvah not that one you have a serious problem in the beginning it was not giving M was because you had a problem with your friend you had a problem with the ISA you didn't want to give them because you thought they already had enough money you didn't want to give the Cure of organization because you thought somebody else was going to give it was a problem between you and men but now with this is a private sin no one knows that you're not giving Kal except God meaning now you have a problem with God and that's a serious problem why because Adar was made for mud was made for mud and AEM in essence he took a little piece of him made little piece of him made in essence the first was first was he was the first portion of the world took from the ground took from the mud took the took the uh portion of the ground made Adam from him he made meaning this was a continuous thing but only once he sinned once he sinned he got lowered in spirituality and he had to fix himself how does he fix himself God says you're going to have to you're G to have the power to produce life and you're GNA have to work hard to produce a livelihood meaning that him having descendants that make the Kal are fixing the original sin you stop making Kal because you're trying to save money trying to save time trying to save this trying to save that you're now going against you're now going You're Now destroying the world with something small that we don't think get a s before the sh so here we start seeing that the world is not we start seeing that there things are much much thead the dep depth of the judgment is much more extensive than we thought now when people come to Hashem with their requests they don't forget what they want usually somebody goes to let's say they go to a grave they go to uh know any other caves any other place the holy places they'll forget their their uh their requests they don't have to even write them down why they just ask for everything give give me a more upon a sign some more upon a sign some more upon a sign if first three requests were not enough give me some more and give my kids uh good wives and good husbands and a bigger house and more cars and fancy this and bigger this and and I want to feel like I was when I was 20 and everybody asked for a lot of things they don't short change the request from Hashem why cuz he says he's unlimited so I'm going to ask for unlimited he's unlimited I'm going to ask for unlimited no problem but how come you're limited with him you're asking for unlimited but you're limited with him meaning that your request your request is not fair your request is unfair page 4 a says a few people asked Heaven asked for unfair things they asked for things that were unfair one of them was this war hero named um wanted to honor hasem and he used to have this uh the thear says he used to have this little sheep I believe it's this little sheep that would welcome him every time he would come back from a war it would welcome it would like run towards him like a dog so he Lov this sheep he loved this little sheep calf whatever it was animal he loved it but he was so happy so happy with the result of the war and everything that happened that he made a n he made a vow that whoever welcomes me I'm GNA give to God as a sacrifice whoever welcomes me I'm G to give to God as a sacrifice he made a vow made a n this is an unfair request in sham why you're assuming you know who's going to welcome you you're going assuming that the same sheep the same calf the same dog the same whatever same animal that kept welcoming you all the time is still alive is going to welcome you is the only one there that hashem's going to make it all work that it's only going to be you're in essence you're doing something that's illogical and for that he got punished what happened who welcomed him his daughter his daughter welcomed him problem is he made a n in those days they believed in even though he was he was a fool this guy he still he was scared of making a and not fulfilling it so what I'm gonna go sacrifice my daughter what am I going to do what this guy saying what am I going go sacrifice my daughter he had a serious dilemma he had to fulfill this n but at the same talk he doesn't want to kill his daughter there's no Mitzvah of killing your kids so what do I do ah there's somebody by the name of Pinas you guys remember p p qu go to him he he tell me my vow is cancel I'll cancel my vow I'll cancel my vow so he sends a message to Pinas I need to cancel my vow okay come P says come come I'll cancel The Vow this tble this idiot says why am I to come I'm the war hero I'm going to go come to the RAB you come to me I'm going to go come to the ra some war hero you want me to come to you are you kidding who's giving you who's giving you who's doing you come to me Pinas does not come to him Pinas does not come to him because of he says you cannot lower the Tor because people have no clue what's right or left this is pinhas pinhas Bazar bonen who saved the entire nation of Israel with his act in parat Bak when Z and Cosby was sinning with their modest act he killed them and Hashem stopped the plag that was going to wipe out the entire nation he saved the entire nation of Israel it's not like oh some guy P who thear says became P became some say he died and he came back ASI some say he just hasm just changed him into Nai he never died either way p is so this is a big deal says I'm not going to lower the Tor and lower my it's not my honor he's not looking for his own honor he says the Tor do does not come to some guy is inviting him to the house because he's going to donate $500 people think because they're going to donate you're going to come to their house you're not allowed to do such things it's not t right that's logically that's what we think right he's right P refused to come what happened to was punished and he died an unusual death he killed the daughter died and he himself was punished from sh and he was died in a very unusual death and he was cut into many many pieces and to such an extent that even his body did not get any honor and even the pieces of his body had to be buried in multiple places that's the level of punishment that he got why he didn't want to go see the rabbi to cancel The Vow because of an unfair request from Hashem so now you think oh good this proves that the Torah was right this proves that the that pinhas was right right he didn't go that means he was right no pinhas was also punished P was also punished a where it says hasem left him I'm not with you anymore he was punished why was he punished because I hasem was with him the whole time and says if I'm with you that mean means that you have to learn the first thing the first thing about me what's the first thing what's the number one mid that's as obvious as day about hem he gives if I'm with you all day and all night and you I made you I give you superpowers and your KES Kash at the very least you should know my number one mid which is giving at the very least you should emulate me you should be like me I give I give I give I give who do I give to everyone the theik to who's humbler than anyone AEM because even theim that curse him even theim that say he doesn't exist even the that go against them day and night he still gives them air in their lungs he still gives them Vision he still gives them the opportunity to do chuva he's humbler than all he's so humble that he says listen there's no over here they want to have a party against Hashem I'm going to go there why you going there hem they don't want you there I'm going to go maybe somebody's an ask for me what but they're having a party against theem they're having a party celebrating Satan it's some crazy people that celebrate Satan they're having a party with they're having a party worshiping Idols they don't want you AEM no I'm going to go there I'm going to go why are you going Hashem why maybe somebody's going to ask about me if that doesn't make you cry then you have no heart he goes everywhere why maybe somebody's gonna ask about me maybe maybe somebody's going to look for me it's 10,000 people maybe one he's humbler than all of creation he says if you are with me all these years P you're with me all the things at the very least you should be like me you should be humble okay you're right he you're he's supposed to come to you but still when you realized he was a fool is not coming you should be like me and you should go to him for that I left you why giving number one thing in your connection with hem you don't give you have no connection to Hashem you're greedy you have no connection to hasem you want everything for you you have no connection to hm you could pray until next year from here stop stop your life and pray till next year you have no connection to hm if you are a stingy person you are greedy person you want everything for you you don't want to share you have no connection to hm why the the basic level of understanding hasem is knowing all he does is give no one gives him anything and that's why he says in the Book of Job who gave before me now pay him back who gave before I gave who who gave before me I'm giving constantly what be like me when you don't give you have no connection to Hashem this is why the punishment is so severe you lived 70 80 90 years with no connection to hasem what was the point so I have to wake you up I can't let you live 70 years 80 years with no connection to me I got to wake you up so I'll take your money I'll give you too much money I'll make you sin I'll make you realize that your whole life is going to garbage I'll do all types of things people die people this all types of things happen in your life you start paying attention you realize listen my life sucks you start realizing oh my life is terrible I got to do something about it oh money is not solving it the girl's not solving it the guy's not solving it work is not solving it the Market's not solving it my life still is terrible what's happening only he could solve it only he can solve it how do you start you start realizing that you have to be like him have his nature and I tell you guys that the Miracles that we see don't end they don't end because I see not just my own but I see Miracles that happen in people's lives I'll give you a few stories a few real stories of people that are real not going to mention names but it's not necessary one guy he uh has been supporting us from day one always helping always trying always contributing and without I don't have to convince them I don't have to talk to him I get a chance to I talk to him but I don't it's not it's not much it's not like a deal listen you give me an extra Shure private and then I'll do this this and this no no conditions he tells me he goes listen I have to tell you something whatever I'm giving he's giving he's giving his M it's good I'm happy I'm giving but I'm telling you honestly I don't know how it's possible it doesn't make any sense I can't afford it I said what do you mean you can't afford it he said listen from the time that I started I don't know it's been I think three years or something like that he's been giving from the time that I started until now in reality the math doesn't make sense I don't make that kind of money but somehow every time time it comes to giving the M I always get the money to give you that extra money that I'm supposed to give like I'm always thinking I'm going to be short I'm going to be short because I'm G to give let's say made 10,000 he has to give a thousand but he has 10,000 in bills so he thinks I'm GNA be short if I give the, now I'm going to be short $1,000 right I have 10,000 income I have 10,000 bills if I give it $1,000 in bills $1,000 in myale then I'm going to be short $1,000 for bills right he says every single time for three years straight every single time it comes to give him your money shows up your money it's like it's your money has nothing to do with it's your money shows up gu and the money comes up that's how it works goes I don't I can't afford it but it comes why that's how it works he goes and since I started giving he goes I'm never short of money it doesn't make any sense it doesn't make any sense how I'm able to do all what I'm doing you know trying to contribute and so on for three years already I thought maybe I'll do one two three four times at a few good months I didn't think I was going to be able to do it for a few years never even calculated that far but he started seeing blessing in his money for the first time in over 60 years 60 years in this world more than 60 years in this world first time he has blessing in his money why every single dollar goes to C of it doesn't go to uh pay uh for for for ice cream another guy before I met him before I met him he was just one of these people that uh watches shim online many people watch shim online but I don't talk to all of them I mean some people I talk to some people don't some people send me emails requests so on and so forth conversations some people just I don't even know they watch I don't even know who they are there's enough time in the world to to to know everybody but one day this person that I don't even know sends me a message he says it's uh I've been watching your lectures for a while I don't know however long it was maybe a year or something like that or six months and uh he says it's time for me to partner up a lot of people say things like that okay yeah he goes there I want to send something said oh there's an address on the uh on uh on the website if you want we're trying to actually I think it was like the first CD I think it was the first CD we were coming out with we're trying to print a lot of CDs to give out we've given out I don't know a couple of hundred thousand CDs already for free all over the world and it costs money it's not free to the people getting it it's not free to print them so we were trying to raise money but I'm not really good at raising money because it's just not my thing um but anyway a guy sends me a message at 3:00 in the morning says all it's time I want to contribute okay fine contribute is the address I don't know I'm thinking the guy's going to send out like everyone else 50 bucks 100 bucks whatever it is a few days later I forgot about this conversation few days later the biggest check the company has ever gotten from at that point huge contribution not just for us but also for him like who's this guy why is he even give like I never talk to him never nothing no communication not like we knew we like buddies like the guy comes to the sh we talk for three hours every week nothing like nothing no nothing apparently motivated Enough by the that he wanted to M be a partner with it but partner even Beyond his own Norm so I send an email I said thank you very much so on thank you very much for contributing and then from that point on we started talking a little bit but never like that much and then I started realizing oh he says uh yeah I've I've always loved Judaism I've always studied I've been trying to convert for 14 years been trying to convert for 14 years 14 years I'm trying to convert and every single time I've always had a hurdle it was the wife it was the kid it was the job it was the money it was this it was that always something for 14 years never had permission from sh to go convert never and I said oh listen you know it's it's not it's not so difficult it's not about difficulty it's just always something happening with my life always a problem with this always a problem with that I said listen you know most important thing is for you to learn he goes I learn already I learn every day so second thing is to do the will of hasem goes I'm trying third thing is do K like you just did okay so he started contributing and as you as AEM would have it apparently that was the key apparently that was the token that was the code for him 14 years waiting to convert within one year one year of that time a year no a little more than a year 15 months 15 months from the time that we actually started the communication and so on not only did he complete his conversion Orthodox conversion but he also completely got married new house and everything has changed drastically why he did more than he's able to do hem did more than he he's able to do sometimes hasem wants you to see how much you want wants to see how much you believe in him simply put he's not telling you listen go uh sell your house sell your car sell everything and go homeless in the street and don't eat don't don't drink don't do nothing no one's saying that but if you're going to start doing accounting for every single penny that that leaves your bank when it comes to toor but you're not doing the same accounting for everything else you're not doing the same accounting for the sandwiches you're not doing same accounting for the uh fridge that you bought the extra nice fridge with two three four doors you're not doing the same accounting for the navigation system you're not doing the same navig you know accounting for for everything else that you're doing you're only doing accounting when it comes to Hashem that means you don't believe in him at all and that's a serious problem and that's why the punishment is so severe that's why the punishment is so severe now the mishna continues with the four other things but we're not going to do that tonight but I could tell you one one major story that uh actually said in Raba the chapter 12 it says there were 70,000 of The Tribe of Benjamin that died that were killed murdered after they made a sin with a woman a Jewish woman they were rebuked by the people they went to war in the beginning they were winning all the battles but eventually they were all they were all killed so thei says who fault is all of this naturally all of us would use our logic just like we use our logic with we don't have to wear because we don't have four corners we don't have to give Mas because some people say uh we don't have to worry about the words that are coming out because it's just words it's not action all the things that we use our Logic for Eli says whose fault is this our logic would tell us it's The Tribe of Benjamin uh uh fault why they made the sin what they did to this poor woman caused a lot of problems woman ended up dying our husband ended up killing her and so on and so forth I mean it's their fault they died they went to war they caused the problems that's who's the fault right no Eli says whose fault is all of this who got punished for all of this the who the the seven one most righteous people of the entire generation they were at fault why when they came to they all went to their towns and they said whoever wants judgment come to us you have a problem come to my office you need to learn something come I'll teach you you need uh come you need mza come you need this come you need come come come come comei says that's why it's their fault why they were waiting for everybody else to come they were waiting for the Tribe of Benjamin to come to go learn from them and Tribe of Benjamin never came because they didn't come they didn't learn M because they learn M they made a sin because they made a sin the woman died and everything happened and 70,000 people died meaning you have tah you have to travel you have tah you have to travel why they don't know M over there they don't know M over there they don't know M over there and if they continue not knowing and you were able to go there there it's your fault it's your fault and this is not this is against our logic but that's why we have to learn M and understand our logic is useless our logic is useless it's against the Torah we have to use God's Logic we use we have to use the torah's logic the torah's logic is straight because the torah's logic thinks measure for measure you want AEM to go above and beyond the norm for you you have to do the above and beyond the norm for you also you want hem to give you you have to give you want Hashem to do something good for you you have to do something good and so on and so forth that's how it works it's measure for measure something bad's happening to your life don't start blaming your wife and your husband and your kids and the economy and your boss and your job and your everyone else blame the only person you see in the mirror it's your your fault and it's time to do chuva that's the point that's what measure measure for measure means measure for measure means that anytime something happens it's your fault it's not the economy it's not the boss it's not your wife it's not the kids it's not anyone it's you and Hashem is talking to you in a very clear language and he's telling you my son my daughter it's time to do chuva if you have cancer it's not because of the doctors it's not because of anyone else other than you you have to do chuva you have to change you don't change you stay the same you're G to have the disease and it gets worse over time for all of those people that are so sensitive and saying oh it's so insensitive that's the point that's what the Torah is saying stop being sensitive and start looking what to is saying your sensitivity is blinding you your sensitivity is blinding you stop being blind there's a reality here doesn't you don't like it you have a problem with God not with me me you can have problem with me the the next week I care less your problem is much bigger than me much bigger than I could ever be if you have problems in your life if you have sadness if you have anything wrong with your life Hashem is talking to you he's telling you my son my daughter something is lacking on your end fix it I'll fix it you fix it and I'll fix it that's the deal that's the deal you have something lacking that's because you're lacking it's not your fa it's not your father's fault your mother's fault oh I grew up in a a religious house I grew up in a two religious house I'm tall I'm short I'm ugly I'm pretty I'm this all that stuff is nonsense all of that stuff is nonsense rabotai that's what hem is trying to tell you and that's what was telling us in the beginning of the the minute you give any power to anything other than hasem you've made yourself an idol you give power to your money you've made yourself an idol you give power to the money you don't have or the money you do have that's an idol you give power to your looks that you have or you don't have that's an idol you give power to anything other than God you have an idol and you have a serious problem measure for measure works like that the depth of judgment is much much higher than what we can comprehend this is why we're obligated to learn M and understand at least to the best of our ability the depth of judgment and realize how far it is from our logic once you realize that it's far from your logic you start realizing that learning tah is not something you should do it's survival breathing is not something you should do it's for survival eating is not something you should do it's for survival learning T learning it's not something you should do it's for survival once you realize and you treat it like it's survival then you'll understand what said in a person needs to learn to to the extent where he's willing to sacrifice his life what does it mean sacrifice his life he realizes that if he doesn't learn his life is done why he's going to constantly get punished he's going to constantly fail at everything why there's no way for him to have his own judgment be right be straight without Torah because naturally our our mind our thoughts our direction is opposite of Torah why because it's influenced by the will always give you in a different direction right direction is right yet says left right direction is to give yet says no don't give give next week right direction is uh don't look says no no look only one yet doesn't tell you listen go uh become a Christian overnight he just tells you in the beginning listen listen just look at the girl on TV it's not even a real girl it's on TV it's digital it's digital it's a big deal no look at the girl no okay so you look at the girl the next week he comes to you goes okay so you look at the girl look at two girls the next week he says okay you look at two girls you look at uh this look at that steal here steal there he comes to you with small little sins by the time he's finished with you the says by the time he's finished with you you're asking him where's the I need to worship it because you started becoming acclimated to the to the to the sins to such an extent that it became part of guo part of your body part of your being you got used to it you got used to not being generous you got used to being stingy you got used to being mean you got used to being angry you got used to doing all these things that are against hem and that's a serious problem to have so this will give us a little bit of a opportunity to do some self-reflection over these next few weeks before P because just like we have the mitvah of getting rid of our on the outside you know all of the unle you know unleavened bread all of the uh all the things that we're not allowed to eat if you're asazi then you're not allowed to eat rice even though technically it's not but it's based on a that's already 400 years old that's considered kot if you're not ashkanazi if you're Safari then you are allowed to eat uh uh uh rice uh andot unless you're Moroccan so each person needs to know the basics of their own and also their own so you have a couple of weeks to do that you you uh it's not so difficult it's not impossible we're going to do some shim in in uh in New York but most of the stuff we're going to talk about is the m aspect of it each sh is going to be different it's not going to be the same sh each time hasm will give us different words each time uh last but not least the um uh this year Tuesday sh we're going to take a break from for a little while until I come back from California which is about a month from now uh a little over a month uh but we will have one uh in Florida before the uh long trip which is probably going to be at the Hollywood year on Sunday not this Sunday the following Sunday that'll be the last year in Florida for a little while so definitely try not to miss it either way online is always available but there's never uh it's never as good as in person [Music] [Applause] [Music]