Shiur Torah #49 Special Rabbi, Torah, Science & Musar at AUR Torah (Staten Island New York)

We Stand Out Where it All Began uh it's interesting I always say if you watch any of the shiron we have on YouTube I I always say that the um one of the best proofs that the Torah is not a newspaper or a uh a book like Harry Potter it's something Divine is that if you study each week's par you'll actually find something that specific speically indivi you know pertaining to you that week meaning you know you read each par each week every year it's the same thing over and over again in the old days they used to read the uh entire uh over three years now we do it every year but either way the Miracles still work now which means that every week if you actually study the Pasha really carefully you'll find something that's not only pertaining to what's going on in the world at that particular time in your life but also something that's specifically specific to you so one of the that I got for myself from this week was that's very very interesting is that this week's par we get the mitvah the 613th Mitzvah and if anyone knows what the 613 Mitzvah is the last Mitzvah it's the WR Tora [Music] almost 10 years ago I was here with all of you and many other people as well giving my that was the beginning of the whole CH process so it's very interesting that 10 years later I'm giving my first year at theet that I did a so first of all is somebody very special if you look at all of my shim it's very rare that I actually give a compliment to a rabbi because unfortunately in our gener ation many rabbis are very concerned about people's feelings so much so that they are scared of telling people the truth and in essence what happens in this generation is that the rabbis end up making the decision for people where they say listen maybe if I tell them what the other half of the Torah says you know one half that says all the blessings all the good things that are going to happen if you do the right thing and there's one half that says say all the bad things that happen if you don't do it no one really wants to talk about the bad things so everyone lives an illusion that there's only going to be good things and sometimes when you when you learn from some people you see that they only talk about the good things so people that don't learn often you know where they only learn let's say once a week or even once a month or perhaps even once a year they they hear raship and they only hear good things they honestly think that that's every Jew has is guaranteed ganeden and it's not true not according to the torat there's obviously a responsibility that all Jews have you can't just be a King Without a responsibility you can't just be a prince and act like you know however you want you know if there was a king and he had a prince and the prince decided that Hey listen I don't want to be a prince I want to go hang out with my friends at the clubs and I want to wear shorts and I want to wear a tank top every day and I want to go out with a different girl every night the king is not exactly going to be too excited about this uh this Prince why cuz the prince had a certain obligation he didn't choose to be a prince no one asked him if he's going to be the prince or not but he's the prince prince has certain privileges but he also has certain responsibilities unfortunately in this generation sometimes we have so many people so concerned about getting people to come and show up and givea and donations and donations and donations we forget about the we forget about why we even here what's the donation for so you see a lot of that are very very big but unfortunately there's not enough Tora in there and this since the beginning since has come here also Everything Has Changed drastically and the main reason is because he's honest with the Torah but we still have a big difficult I remember for myself so no one take anything that I say personally I'm talking mostly to myself and reminding myself of how I was I remember 10 years ago before the Torah had a uh big part of my life I would hear rev say something and to be honest with you I didn't understand most of what he said and I thought it was his fault I thought that hey maybe he should uh speak clearer maybe you should do this maybe he should I I thought about a bunch of suggestions of how he should do things not me I didn't look at myself that I should learn I thought he has to do something like he owes me something little did I know that the problem was with me because 10 years later I've benefited in learning a little bit of Tor and every single word that he says I understand now still the same person but somehow something changed in last week's it says it talks about ch anyone that's looking for a source of CH in the Torah it comes from comes from other places as well but talks about the concept of chuv because Chua technically is not logical it's against all human logic doing chuva does not make sense to a human being because technically it's like saying you go to a bank you rob a bank they catch you you go to the judge and a judge says do you feel bad about it yeah I feel bad I feel really really bad will you do it again no okay you know what go ahead keep the $100 million just don't do it again that's chuba makes no sense whatsoever but that shows you also the mercy of Hashem in last week's par Hashem says listen if you don't do what I say there a bunch of problems are going to happen that was also in the previous pal we're not going to go over that anyone that wants to know the details there sh number 45 on my web on my YouTube goes over a lot of details Danny saw it a few other people here saw it it's a pretty hard sh but it's going to touch your heart my goal in every sh is to touch your heart if I didn't affect your heart in one way or another I wasted your time and I'm sorry so after we found out about all the bad things Hashem says if you do if you come back to me chuva is coming back if you come back to me then you have nothing to worry about I'm going to bless you and everything will be fine but one thing that he mentions that's very very interesting it says your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your Offspring to love hasm your God with all your heart and with all your soul that you may live what do you mean circumcise your heart last time I checked we don't circumcise a heart any of the guys had a different circumcision I had a circumcision of somewhere else it wasn't the heart so what does it mean circumcise the heart when you have a circumcision you're taking off a piece that's called the Allah is the piece that you take off when you actually have a circumcision as a boy but that's not what we're talking about the reason why you take off the Allah is because the Allah has t you're born imperfect hasem makes you imperfect so you could take off Thea in order for you to become perfect so then you're asking yourself well how could it be how hasem is he's perfect how could he create something that's not perfect he's intentionally creating something that's not perfect to get the Jews to be involved with his creation get the prince to get a job he's G you know the king obviously is doing everything he doesn't really need the king's the the prince's help but he's saying you know if I don't give the prince to anything to do he's uh you know he's going to feel bad about himself no one wants to only get get get everyone wants to be involved in something imagine going to somebody's house and every day he's feeding you he's he's giving you everything you never do anything eventually after a while after this vacation eventually you're going to feel bad and say you know what let me throw out the garbage let me wash the dishes let me do something you want to contribute so hasm created us imperfect he created us with AA so we have an eighth day we have a circumcision and we take out this to T and the Jew becomes perfect but here we're not talking about that here we're talking about the of the heart the the heart is made up of the same thing it's also made of Tuma but this tum this impurity is made up of our sins a 8year old a 8 day old baby didn't make any sins not yet at least not in this life but a 20 25 35 55 75y old person made some sins so hasem says that before you did chuva you couldn't even understand a big giant like Rabbi Z you couldn't understand him because you had so much T covering your heart you can't understand the purity of the Torah he can speak to you in every language you want Spanish in Hebrew in English in whatever language you want you still w't understand it it's your problem not his because you have so much Tuma on your heart so hasem says but if you really really want to come back and you really show me sincerity not like just say oh yeah I'm going to do Chua and the next day you're you know going to the beach on Shabbat really you know you're doing something that shows that you're sincere you really want to do Chu then hasm says okay then I'm going to start peeling whatever mitvah you're going to do I'm going to peel off a piece of this Ola I'm going to peel off a piece of this Tuma off of your heart and then you're going to start understanding and one of the things we have to realize is that instead of looking at the world around us we'd always have to look at our ourselves first it's one of the most important things in the world because every time someone has a problem it's very easy to point somewhere else I used to do it a lot it's very easy to point somewhere else which reminds me of a story there was one time a Jew that had a little boy and he told his wife listen I want to send my boy to Yeshiva but in those days he used to send the boy you know far away the boy would go away for 20 years come back as a grown man but Torah scholar the mom said listen it's my only boy I can't I can't do it it's it's going to break my heart I've been waiting for him my whole life let's go ask the rabbi they go to the rabbi and the Rabbi says listen your wife is right he your only son you have extra money you're in a jewelry business hire a rabbi to come to your house every day teach your son tah and those days they respected the rabbi so he said what he did what the rabbi said hired a rabbi Rabbi comes to the house and starts teaching the boy every day 20 years later that Rabbi goes to the father and he says even though it's going to hurt my P I can't teach your son anything 20 years I'm teaching him he knows everything I know and probably even more if I come here one more day you're just wasting your money so thank you very much for being honest the rabbi leaves the son is very excited this is the first time he gets to get out of the house 20 years he's only learning T it wasn't like today where the kids are constantly outside back then they would stay inside a little bit and learn some TOA so 20 years he's learning to and that's all he did first time he wants to go outside says ABA I want to go to the shook I want to go to the market go ahead son so the kid goes to the market he has no concept of what the world is like he goes to the market he sees a lemonade stand he says can I have a lemonade I says sure he gives him a lemonade he goes five L goes five l i don't have five lers but I'll give you T I'll give you you know some about t the guy snatches the lemonade from me goes you and your get out of here either five five l or nothing the kid gets so upset he runs to the house he takes his hat he takes his keep off he throws it in the house he goes what 20 years I spent and I wasted studying this toah and I can't even get a cup of lemonade can't even get a cup of lemonade with this tah ABA no more t for me this ABA was pretty smart so he said okay son what do you want to do he goes I want to be like you I want to sell diamonds he goes okay ABA goes to the safe he opens the safe if he goes son this is my most expensive diamond don't sell it go to the same shook go to the same market and get me three prices he's so excited takes this big diamond runs to the market first guy says 250 L second guy says 500 the third guy is up to a th000 comes to the house he ABA I think we got him ABA the guy wants to give me a thousand four times what the first guy wanted to give we should really sell it ABA we shouldn't wait says hold on one second go to a different trick maybe maybe just maybe we can get a better price he sends him to a different Market first guy says 50,000 second guy says 250,000 and the last guy says a half a million the kid doesn't know what to do with himself how could it be yesterday was a th000 was the best thing I could get today 500,000 what can happen in one day he goes back to the ABA he says ABA what happened I if you're not going to sell it for 500,000 I don't know what you're going to sell it for but anyway what happened how could it be because the first Market you went to was a market for lemonade they were selling fruits vegetables they don't know anything about diamonds so they said it's a rock it's a nice rock it's pretty they'll give you a thousand the second Market those are diamond dealers they know what the diamond is they they're paying you full price the First Market you went to they didn't know anything about Torah so they say it's not even worth to them it's not even worth to Lemonade but if you go to the right crowd people that actually know what to is half a million would just be the starting price and that's the thing we have to understand is that t is not something it's not like math it's not like science it's not like any other subject it's something extraordinary when someone has Torah they have everything Rabbi Z has a lot of T and I didn't come here to just talk about him but I'm trying to explain to you guys what you actually have because it's not common I I'm part of a very big Sho in Florida there's some good rabbis there as well I've seen some other rabbis I've met some other ones but what you have here is very unique the problem is that we don't know that we have a diamond I know I didn't know when I was here what else is the problem with today's age is not just the rabis it's just it's not just that we don't know what T Li is it's that you have pretty much if you're not religious if you're not keeping Shabbat you're not keeping you're not keeping kosher if you're not doing what Hashem says then you're one of two people either you don't believe you don't believe in anything or you don't know meaning that you believe in something but you don't really know the significance of everything there's a lot of people that I meet during these shes online and the places that we have the shures and You' be surprised at how little people actually know people don't really know they know the famous stories they saw a movie about Moses one day so they know about Moses they saw a recent movie about Noah they think that the movie is actually a real representation of Noah even though it had nothing to do with the story other than having the same name Noah it had nothing to do with the story people saw a movie so they think that's the torat very few people actually know about torat and that's part of the reason why if you don't know you can't really be at fault for not doing you know for doing something wrong the problem is that we all have we all we all have a brain we could all read we could all all write we're not in a third world country where there's no books available if you want to in our generation it's only a click of a button just as easy as it is to click on ESPN you can get a Torah lecture it's all a matter of will you want to learn you can learn it's just a matter of will it's a matter of overcoming the so what happens with the people that don't believe to them I talk about Torah proofs which we'll go over a few of them today the people that don't know to them I go over some of the details of what they should know as far as Torah proof some of the things that people have a problem with with the written Torah is the fact that it was written 3,300 years ago a little over 3,300 years ago so how could a book that was written over 3,000 years ago be relevant to my life today how is it possible how could it be anything more than just a Harry Potter book how could it be anything that's anything related to this modern world with iPhones and iPads and airplanes and Googles how could it be the amazing part of the T is I said earlier you could find something relevant to your life in every single par the second thing about the Torah that's very different than any other book you will ever find is that it actually has information that no human in the world could have ever written so I'll give you some examples to show you an understanding of how this cannot be a man-made creation a lot of people have a problem with keeping kosher they figure that if I go to the pizzeria that's not Kosher but it's cheese it's cheese not so bad it's not meat it's not meat it's cheese I'm not violating any rules anyone who doesn't know they are violating all of the rules not just from the cheese but the actual the actual sauce has meat in it every Pizzeria that's how you make a different sauce if you have three pizzerias that are not coer they're all using the same ingredients there's cheese there's bread there's sauce how is the flavor different because the flavor is different based on the meat that the sauce is cooked in and also the meat that's compr that's part of the cheese itself that's why it's not only a violation of kosher but it's also milk and meat but people have a problem with this why maybe these kosher rules Maybe not not really maybe it's some Rabbi made it up soem says in our Tor he says listen you're only allowed to eat a specific type of animal it has to have two signs split hoves and has to chew its cud fine there's about 10 animals that could do that in all of creation it's pretty interesting he listed those animals but the more interesting part is that he said said that out of all of creation which at this point we know there's approximately 2 million species there's 2 million species that we know that exist today there's Pro there's probably more but there's two million that we know of we have documented information about and he said out of all of those two million species only four will have one of the two signs the kosher ones will have two signs there's about 10 of them the non- kosher ones will have nothing no signs but there's four that will have one sign the rabbit the herrings which is similar to a rabbit the Pig and the camel now if this was a man-made book that let's say Moses wrote or Abraham wrote or Noah wrote or just some Rabbi a few thousand years ago wrote do you think that he's going to take a risk in writing something that's completely untrue because he he wants people to follow his religion if he's doing it for power or for money then he's going to try to make it as easy as possible to believe so he's not going to say listen I have a religion here and I have some proof that this book is divine if he tells you listen September 11th happened in the middle of Japan the towers dropped in the middle of Japan you're going to say oh there's a mistake in this book goes in the garbage right cuz September 11th happened in New York city so if he's telling you there's only four animals out of 2 million species 3,000 years ago well before humans knew about these two million species there something to it and the interesting part is until this day even including mutations even including with manipulations from scientists that tried to manipulate to disprove the Torah there's never been another animal with one sign other than those four another thing that we know is that the sea is the vast majority of the world 73% of the Globus is water which means that everything we have on land we have in the water and even more Hashem says you're only allowed to eat a certain type of fish it has to have fins and it has to have scales fine fins and scales everyone knows what fins and scales are fins are the little flippery things and the scales of the stuff stuff that you scratch off interesting but the Torah says that you will find a fish with just fins but you will never find a fish with just scales never so you look at the fish you say okay just fins I know there's a dolphin there's a shark and there's plenty of fish that have just fins just like the Torah says but then they're telling me that I never find a fish with no fins but just scales how could it be again 3,000 years later no one can find a fish with just scales Torah has many Prophecies of things that happened that were already written 3,000 years ago there's something called Torah codes which is a mathematical way of finding Secrets within the Torah we go over some of these things in the other to give you just a small taste of it everything that happened in the Holocaust is already talked about in the Torah and others has the names of Hitler all of his buddies concentration camps the locations all the details that didn't exist obviously when the Torah was written are in actually the Torah 911 also 911 is also there this conversation is also there we just need to know how to find it really it is everything is there okay everything everything everything in creation is in the Torah there actually a video that was uh done recently by uh Professor Shore it's a 17-minute video if anyone wants it just remind me after the sh and I'll send it to you it's a 17 minute video it talks about the the just the first just that first P just that first verse first verse of the Torah has more information in it then all of the intelligence that the world has all of it 17 minutes you'll understand mathematical information prophecy everything you want is in the first verse just one verse forget about just the rest of the toah which has 304,000 letters talking about first verse so next thing is people say okay you know what the Christians believe in the Old Testament they call the Torah Old Testament the Arabs believe in the Torah okay so I believe in it too fine it's a nice story never read it but I heard about it fine I'll believe in it but where do these mitv come from where do these all these rules Come From so you tell them well the mitvah technically all come from the oral from the written tah the source of them is from the written tah but the explanation of how to do them is from something called the oral Tor t so he say okay what is that is there another name for it yeah it's called and so on it's part lots of parts to all even books that are written today to explain certain things are also part of the old so if somebody opens the talud they see there's a bunch of rabbis arguing now they're not arguing of whether you should do it or not do it they're arguing about how to perfect doing the Mitzvah that's one of the mistakes that I made early on where I thought that is full of arguments of whether you should keep Shabbat or not keep Shabbat one Rabbi says you should keep Shabbat the other Rabbi says you shouldn't keep Shabbat that's completely not it that's not the argument the argument is how you should keep Shabbat the argument is not whether you should do or not it's whether you should do it at a specific time or not and is 15 which is like 30 pages because each D in the is two back and forth is 15 just talking about 15 minutes they're arguing about 15 minutes so it's not about whether you should do the Mitzvah or not it's about perfecting the Mitzvah so people say okay you know what this looks it's nice it's interesting great but who says this is divine okay I could see how the Torah has many things that are Divine the written one but how do I know that this oral one is divine looks like a bunch of of people wrote it the interesting part about the oral tah is that Shalom was ever in Jeopardy of having to give up one of the toras if an enemy Nation would say listen you have to give us one of them either written or or the oral most people would say give him the we don't need it but the reality of it is we have to give him the the written T the reason why is because without the T without the oral Tor there is no Judaism whereas without the written Tora we still have Judaism because Judaism is not a story Judaism is not a history lesson Judaism is a way to connect to Hashem you can't connect to hasem to just stories you have to connect to hm through actions you can't tell your wife you love her just by sending a card once every five years you have to show up once in a while you have to pay the bills you have to tell you love her you have to do a few things not not too different with hasem you have to show up once in a while more than a few I'm trying to be uh soft on you guys so they say how do I know okay so now you have this oral to what else makes it so special one thing that we know is that the that's behind me a few of them if you notice none of them have Nik you're not allowed to put Nik inside the SE if there's Nik it's violate seph it's not allowed to use it even if there's one letter missing in a seph it's not considered a seph that's how by the way they ship it from Israel you notice Falls in people have to fast but when they ship it from Israel they put in a suitcase and they throw it in there like it's nothing how could it be CU a few letters missing even if there's one letter missing it's not considered a SE because if it's missing one letter it's no longer Divine it's human Divine means it's perfect as long as there something missing it's not perfect every letter matters there's never an extra letter there's never an extra verse but now how do we know how to read the SE because technically Nik to people that speak English like us it's not just dots Nik is V is vowelization it's having vowels like for example in English you have a e i o u and sometimes why those are the foundational letters that are in every word in the English language without one of these five letters you canot make up a word a e i o u so for example if you want to say Moses Moses Moses is a very important character in The tah right now if I took out the vowels in English so you take your m is good o no good it's one of the vowels gets thrown out s is fine e no good got thrown out and then s again so what do you have MSS do you know how to read MSS if anything maybe it's Miss it's a woman has nothing to do with Moses without the vows you can't read the word same thing with Nik without knowing where the Nik is you can't read the can't read the words the reason why the holy Rabbi knows how to read the to because he knows where it is he read the one with the Nik and how do we know where the Nik is where the Nik belongs there's something called codex in seph CeX or in Hebrew it's called K seph that was the source that had a scroll but with Nik and every copy every every tanak that you see that's the original Source without that we wouldn't know how to read the Tor you wouldn't even been able to read one sentence the Torah always be would be completely illegible so that's one one part of the or to us so when the Christians or the non-believers in Jewish religion or even the Arabs say no this oral Torah it's not real it's nonsense because technically without the oral Torah without this CeX which is just one small part of the old T there is no written T which means there is no Christianity there is no Islam and of course there isn't any Judaism because we wouldn't know how to read this book it would just be a bunch of letters the second thing that makes it very interesting as far as the or tah is that there's a lot of Secrets within the oral T that cannot come from a human so for example there's the number of stars number of stars in the universe back when the Torah was written we obviously didn't have telescopes telescopes only started in the 1600s by Galileo galile before Galo gal came to the world we only thought that there's somewhere in a neighborhood of 6,000 stars because that's what we were able to see you look go on the top of a mountain no pollution you see 6,000 maybe 8,000 Stars Torah wrote an exact number page 32 uh DB Hashem is telling us this formula of exactly how to calculate the number of stars the nation of Israel complains about how the BET mikdash was destroyed and they feel like Hashem forgot about them but they say it in the Mas they say hasem even when a when a husband leaves his wife and divorces her many years down the road you ask him do you remember the wife you used to have and he still remembers her of course he had a wife even if it was 30 years ago you Hashem did you forget us because they feel like he destroyed the BET mikdash and Hashem says something very interesting he says that I built the uh I built the Galaxy or the uh entire uh Universe based on 12 Parts 12 constellations he calls it which is the 12 um maim you know maim is in maot in in English how do you say horoscope science horoscope horoscope there you go yeah horoscope so 12 constellations that comes from Judaism by the way so there's 12 sections to the entire universe and each one of those 12 sections has 30 Army commanders and each one of those 30 30 Army commanders has 30 Legions and each one of those 30 Legions has 30 Ron and each one of those 30 Ron have 30 Kon and each one of these 30 Kon has 30 G and each one of these 30 G have 365,000 * 10,000 which is 3.65 million stars if you do the math 30 * 30 * 30 * 30 * 30 * 12 * 365,000 or 3.65 million you get an exact number 1064 340 and then 12 zeros after it it's one to the 18th power almost a little more than that that's the number of stars not in today's age and not 3,000 years ago and not 2,000 years ago when this was written did we have a calculator to come up with that many numbers 10 to the 18 pow is beyond human capacity so when we told this to the go they laughed in our face 8,000 Stars you're saying this crazy number come on be serious what is this number in 1994 NASA came up with a research they connected a computer a supercomputer to a telescope this is almost 400,000 400 years after Galileo galile came up with the original telescope the original telescope said that there's well wrong there's not 6,000 Stars there's probably a few million so already we jumped you fast forward to 1994 and NASA came up with a estimate of 10 to the 17th power fast forward another 10 years University in Australia came up with 10 to estimate of 10 to the 19th power so little by little they're getting to the truth but the interesting part is that they need a supercomputer we didn't have one back then meaning that the only thing that could have given this information is that one the one that put it there another thing about kosher is that a lot of people think that you know I remember when I was a kid I would have some friends make fun of kosher so they say listen you know come eat McDonald's eat this eat that I'll bless it for you I'll bless it for you I'm sure all of you guys have heard it at some point somebody say come on I'll bless it for you they thought that some Rabbi blesses the food they don't realize that the animals that hasem picked are specifically unique unique in creation one of the most important things that of course RAB Z could explain to you because he's a he knows all of this and many other things he knows is that there's something unique about the kosher animals one of the things that's important about kosher Slaughter is that the animal can never suffer now if you look at the traditional way of killing an animal you take a gun you shoot it shoot it in the head you think oh it's looks like it's suffering but I don't know it's dead after a few seconds maybe a minute two minutes or they electrocute him sometimes a lot of vicious things that they do but still all of those people think that the slaughter of cutting the neck of the cow or the Sheep is much worse of course he's suffering this is where science comes in science has shown us a lot of interesting things a lot of people think that science goes against religion goes against the Torah but science is little by little proving the Torah in order for anyone to die it's not the heart it's the brain as soon as the brain stops getting blood you're officially dead if the the heart stops working you're still alive you can still get the the heart to come back to life because the brain is still functioning but as soon as there's no more blood going to the brain that's it that's clinical death and if it continues obviously then it's official death so anytime that they they announce anyone's death they announce it based on when the brain waves stop working that's how we know that the person or animal or whatever species it is is no longer with us that's also how we know if the animal is suffering so we know that in order for us to stop this suffering oh we have some background music with the it's good there's some background music so at least it's not me with my phone so so now you have a uh all of the animals you have a pig for example if you slaughter a pig a pig or a horse or a camel or any non- kosher animal if you Slaughter it the kosher way it's still not Kosher even without the signs even if it had the two signs it still cannot be killed in a Kosher Way why because you can't kill the pig without the pig not suffering if you cut the throat of the pig it has two veins so imagine this is for example it's in the picture of the book but you won't see it from far away so let's say this is the head of the pig so the pig has two veins this is the brain and he has one vein here on top one Vein on the bottom if you cut the bottom there's still going to be blood coming from the top so until that blood comes out from the bottom the pig's still alive if he's alive he's still suffering meaning you cannot kill a pig or a horse or any non- kosher animal that does not have those two signs in a Kosher Way impossible okay what about the kosher animals the kosher animals the ones that have those two signs are the only species in creation that also have another sign but a sign that we needed signs to find out those animals also have the two veins but the interesting part about them is that right before they go to the brain they connect and become one vein so when the when the slaughterer cuts that vein he's only cutting one vein which means it's instant disconnect from the brain by the time the the little bit of blood that's left at the end of that vein reaches the brain the animal is already passed out and dead which means that in less than a millisecond the animal is no longer with us it cannot suffer so you ask yourself so how is it that the legs still move for a little bit or the uh Wing moves the nerves exactly there's nerves so it's just like for example if you put your uh if there's an electric outlet even though you uh sometimes you'll take out the uh an equipment out of it if sometimes you'll touch the equipment you still get zapped there's still a little bit of electricity left same thing with nerves same concept another interesting things that the oral toah have is something about outer space in it says that AEM made a separation between the water that we have here in this world and the water above the water below the heaven the water above the heaven but the water above the heaven is much more significant than the water below the heaven so now when scientists and Scholars and Greeks and Romans saw this they said I don't see any water and not only is this tah saying that there's more water over there they're saying that it's it's more important for our world to exist than the water we have here now we know we have 73% of the world is water so it has to be a lot more than this we fast forward CU I want to talk about a few other proofs CU I don't think I have two hours but we'll see sometimes you see a shooting star what's called a shooting star meteor right see a meteor you see there's a it leaves a trail for a long time we thought there was a broken star star that broke and it's falling you know like when you were a kid you make the uh you you press on The Brak and you make a big skid on the on the floor like that we thought the star is broken it's making a skid in the sky fast forward with the whole telescope thing Galileo galile helped us a little bit NASA helped a little bit Australia helped a little bit and next thing you know we see it's not so much a broken star it's not even a star it's a comet what's a comet it's a big ball of ice that's all it is it's a giant ball of ice 30,000 tons of ice and the reason it's making this skid mark this white Mark that you see in the sky that makes it look like a shooting star is because it's Crossing in direct reflection to the Sun so it's it's melting much faster than it usually does so you see there's a lot of water coming out of it what size it's water so now we already know that there is water in outer space use a b bit a better telescope and you see that the entire surface of outer space is one big piece of ice and these meteors are small pieces that break off of it if you took all of that ice you could fill up the Earth thousands and thousands and thousands of times another thing that again a human being could never know another thing that we have is something that we only discovered recently meaning in the last maybe 30 or 40 years obviously we know that the sun is very very important for existence if we didn't have the sun we couldn't exist plants couldn't exist humans couldn't exist nothing could exist one thing also that's interesting is that if you look at the Milky Way and you look at Earth where it is technically all of the planets are shaped in a banana except one planet except you look at a banana and there's this one planet it's a little bit off the mark kind of makes it not a banana that's Earth if Earth was one degree closer which means closer to the Sun everything would burn one degree if it was one degree further everything would freeze so this little imperfect banana is kind of perfect but the sun also has something kazal says the sages say inav writes that at the end of times hashm is going to unwrap the sun he's going to take off the cover of the Sun and expose the real Sun that's how the people that areash are going to be punished one of the many ways it's going to expose the Sun and then theim will be able to enjoy the sun though so the sadim don't get burned by the sun do but he said something very inter he said that the the son has a shell last time you looked at the sun you remember seeing a shell you don't remember seeing a shell right can't even look at it right there was one one rash in the used to bother the the rabbis used to used to bother the rabbis all the time always ask him stupid questions so one day he says you know what Rabbi I want to see God if you show me God I'll do whatever you want I'll convert to Jew Judaism I'll do I do I do whatever you want they didn't have driving by then but I'm sure he would have stopped driving on Shabbat too first Rabbi didn't care for him left send him another Rabbi Rabbi says you want to see God say yeah okay I'll show you god wow show me God yeah show you God but it's a it's like a ticket to get in you know you have to you want you want to go to a club you have a little ticket same thing VIP you have to buy a few bottles what's the ticket you see the sun goes yeah you have to look at the Sun for one day one straight day you look at the sun if you look at the Sun for one straight day God will appear to you I promise you as you promise I promise you the guy starts looking at the sun about 40 seconds later he's crying his eyes out he can't at the sun he calls the rabbi that walked away a little bit he's like Rabbi I can't do this CU what do you mean you can't do you have to look at the Sun a whole day you only look for 40 seconds goes I can't it's I'm going to go blind he goes you can't look at God's one of his smallest angels and you want to look at God that's the sun we can't look at the Sun but with special technology we can they took an x-ray of the Sun and fused a few other interesting techn ologies and they found out something very interesting DAV 3,000 years ago was right the sun actually has a shell not only does it have a shell but if the shell didn't exist nothing would exist the inner part is 15 million de C but because of the shell it goes down to 6,000 6,000 is all we can handle from that far away so if we took out the shell be an interesting short shell shorter than the sh for show nice to it's a nice shell the was uh was right old man another thing says is that there's a lot of things that we get uh fascinated by in today's age that are not so fascinating if I was a PhD in medicine and I gave a lecture to a university regardless of what I said regardless of whether I made sense or not everyone would say look at my degree they would look at my business go say whatever he says Kad no one debates with the uh with the lecturer PhD if I talk to them about science of course he's right how could he not be even though it's a theory to us theories are facts no one argues with theories I had an argument with a few people over the years but for some reason or another people forgot the English language even though that's their first language and only language and they believe that theories are facts even though by definition a theory is an idea but if a scientist says a theory people say no come on well of course he thought of everything can't debate him if I was a doctor and I said listen you have to the way you have to operate on this person you have to go to the right membrane you have to go and use a special type of equipment and and everybody says wow he says right membrane that's big word for me sure he's right no one debates the doctor everyone thinks the doctor is right when was the last time you argu with a doctor doctor gave you antibiotics do you argue with him no doctor I don't think it's the right antibiotics most patients don't argue maybe today they do a little bit because we have Google but in general they don't argue with the uh with the doctor if someone has a degree no one argues everything he says kados Rabbi says Al is you can't drive on Shabbat no come on rabbi maybe he didn't have cars back then that's why I didn't write it Rabbi says you have to fast on Yip no Rabbi come on back then they were probably only eating uh bread didn't have McDonald's didn't have Subway didn't have my mom's schnitzel come on it's not relevant rabbi's 3,000 years ago Rabbi says anything about t no everybody debates everybody's a everybody all of a sudden became a big scholar they read three verses in the Tora that they remembered from Junior High School they were in four fourth grade they were in Yesa they remember three three verses they're debating with the rabbi any Rabbi not just this Rabbi any Rabbi you go to any lecture this is the quietest lecture in the world right now by the way I can't believe you guys are not debating yet till the end oh you waiting at least I'm getting some but you see people are constantly fighting against rabbis they're constantly fighting and they're saying no the rabbi's wrong the guy doesn't know anything about Tora he never read the K from beginning to end with basic translation but somehow he's debating a guy that's been studying for 30 years it's all over the world but if if the rabbi had a PhD and he talked about medicine no one's debating anything number one that's yet number two that's ignorance when we talk about things about the Tor people get very very impressed by doctors they make a lot of money in America they have all these procedures but if you notice every one of these procedures today requires something called anesthesia right need to go to sleep and doctors are pretty quick to put you to sleep they don't want to hear you at all even a dentist put you to sleep so we thought that ah you know what 300 years ago before this anesthesia really became something people suffered and died during surgery for these doctors right lot of great doctors yeah what a great doctor give them a of for their anesthesia such great doctors they invented this anesthesia problem is they didn't invent anything if you're reading thear and which is Again part of the all Tora not only do you see that anesthesia existed over 2,000 years ago but they actually show you that um one of the major stages one ofish shim son actually had a surgery he was very fat and he wanted to have lipos suction you want to remove fat from his body and they showed that they actually put him to to sleep and they put him on a table that was made of marble why marble they were just as smart as you at least 3,000 years ago almost 2500 years ago so they had a surgery and talks about the entire surgery it says that by the end of the surgery it took out a couple of buckets full of fat they had liposu not just anesthesia that lipos how come nobody gives them any credit how come nobody says wow rabbis know something these old men with beards and strange hats they know something everybody gives credit to the doctor that makes $800,000 a year used to be my client nobody gives credit to the doctor to the high rabbis you know why because nobody reads it nobody reads the Torah everybody just think it's an old book much better to read I don't know Harry Potter The Woman made a billion dollars off a fake story I never read it but I'm sure it's very interesting for someone has nothing to do with their life billion dollars interesting but the stories that actually changed life Changed History no one wants to read them another thing that we know from the oral Torah is that everything has nees everything has life one of the places in the Torah talks about how there's a screaming Rock last time you checked last time you picked up a rock did it scream then scream right absolutely so maybe there's a mistake in the tah maybe there's some guy wrote it and he just got lucky with a few a few things kazal tells us that everything has neish everything has some form of life so there's several parts of this so I'll be very long so I'll try to cut it short first and foremost there are actually rocks in the world in America as a matter of fact that they've recorded theyve recorded on camera that they move even though technically a rock is not supposed to move there are some rocks that move there's a theory behind the yes but because of water and because of the surface that it's on that only proves part of the theory doesn't prove the other rocks that move that's the ones in NADA or Arizona the rest of the Rocks the rest of the world doesn't prove so it's an interesting Theory but not a complete one say rocks that move the way that the uh secret part of the toala talks about it is that sometimes someone sins so much there such a rash that they've already come back to life a few times as a different person reincarnation came back didn't fixed themselves came back didn't fix themselves hasem says okay you're not going to come back as a human being and come back as an animal so he comes back as a dog as a cow or something else if it's a cow he's he has better chance of success because if a rabbi butchers him or Slaughters him the right way that's his tun if someone does a blessing that's his tun if he comes back if he still doesn't do it goes down another level becomes a plant or a vegetable there actually a famous story it happened maybe about 30 or 40 years ago I forget the rabbi's name woman comes to a rabbi very hysterical and she says Rabbi I just came back uh earlier earlier uh this week I went to the grocery store I bought some vegetables and later that night I ate the um cucumber and I didn't remember what the was so I said and I fell asleep later that night and some strange man came to me in my dream and he said to me thank you very much for helping me by doing a on the Cucumber because it's helping my but if you would have done the right it would have helped me a lot more so that's also a t but eventually the worst type of punishment is that it comes back as a rock sometimes somebody this is a little bit of scary but it's real so someone that doesn't learn Tor someone has all the time in the world which we all do we have 24 hours a day we find time to chase money we find time to watch sports we find time to read Harry Potter we find time to argue with people we find times to debate with the rabbi about something we have no clue about we don't find time to learn toah so somebody could come back to a tun as the wall of the OG yeah so as far as rocks they talk the second way that we know that there's there's neish in the Rock comes from something that Jonathan and I spoke about a couple days ago for about two hours Adams does everyone know what an Adam is Adam is at everything in the world as as the Einstein said is energy only only he wasn't the first one to say it but eal mc² was already written by the ran 800 years before him but nobody gives any credit to R he's an old man Einstein's much more recent he's cooler has nicer hair so now equals mc² we talk about energy or everything in the world has to have energy you are made of energy the wall is energy the world is energy everything is energy meaning that everything can be broken down into very very very small pieces that if you look up in a microscope a really special microscope you'll see there's two parts to this atom there's the electron and then there's the proton proton is here it's the middle the electron is somewhere else and it's spinning around it the interesting part of the atom is that the pro proton and the electron are there's a very big difference in size so much that it's the equivalent of us and the Sun the distance between them is like if we were to travel to the Sun it would be a very very long trip take us many years that's how the distance is between the electron and the proton which means that 99% of the atom is completely empty space it's nothing nothing so why does everything look solid why is this cup look solid why do you look solid why does the chair look solid it's the same thing like a fan you have a see a fan spins really fast and it looks like there's one blade if you press the button to slow it down and it looks like there's two blades you stop it completely you see oh it's an optical illusion there's four blades so wasn't went really really fast it looked like there was only one blade same thing with an atom because the electron is traveling so so so fast it looks like everything actually exists it looks like everything is solid but in reality 99% of everything is empty space so if anyone of wanted to prove God they would just ask themselves what keeps the elect spinning because if it stopped spinning what would happen the empty space would be exposed meaning that 99% of everything would be nothing everything would just disappear no earthquakes no Wars no hurricanes nothing everything would just disappear and the actual amount of material that's left in all of the universe can fit into a box of matches so who's keeping it spinning this is also where we have Hashem is telling us something very important in uh Jeremiah it says it says hasem says if my Covenant what the night and what the day would not be the laws of Heaven would cease to exist what's the Covenant the Covenant is Torah if one second the world stopped everyone stopped learning to off one second Hashem says the rules of the world would end he would destroy the world so when we think about a bad thing like Hashem destroying the world we're thinking about okay you know what destroying the world it's going to take him he's probably going to have to S some planes maybe some UFOs oh no wait he did it faster with Noah he sent Maul every Friday night he say we had the flood so it's going to take him a year like it took with Noah that's the misunderstanding if ever wanted to destroy all he has to do is stop thinking about about the atom and the atom stops spinning and everything just disappears this is also reminds us of how important to is whether it's learning it ourselves or supporting someone that is T is the most important thing in the world anyone that wants to have a chance seeing the mashia anyone that wants to have a chance of going to anyone that wants to have a chance of having a good life in this world they have to have t is part of their life I lived the big part of my life without Tah I made money I did this I did that I lived a fake life and people always ask me wait listen you were at the top at one point I'm sure some of you guys know my story you were at the top at one point A bad month would be $200,000 you had this you had that don't you miss it I can tell you explain it in a very simple way once you discover tah it's something very different than anything else it's something very different that money can't buy it's something very different that's something you can't get from anywhere else and if I took all the money that I ever made and all the good that I ever had and I times it by a thousand it's not worth one hour of today one hour one hour of learning one hour of learning one hour of learning anything relating to the T most of you if you're not learning toah probably don't understand what I'm saying think I'm probably delusional maybe I'm losing my mind but the reality of it is that once you spend a little bit of time learning some of the stuff we talked about you'll be amazed yourself it's the only way you could truly have happiness all of us are trying to get to a point of being happy a told us in last week's par how to do it he said he says see I have placed before you today life and the good and a death and the evil which I command you today to love AEM your God to walk in his way and observe his mitv his Commandments his decrees his ordinance and so on he's telling you I give you life and the good death and bad if you translate it literally then you say of course life is good and death is bad but that's not what hasem means life means do what he says there's rules in the Torah do it if you do it you have good here next World guaranteed good don't do it guaranteed bad most rabbis don't want to tell tell you about the bad part they want everyone to live an illusion that everyone will have good unfortunately it doesn't really work it used to work in the old days CU people all everyone knew the basics of tah so everyone knew that it's better to be stronger but there is a uh just a certain amount of sacrifice they're willing to make in our generation most people don't even know what to Li is so one of the main things that I tell you today and one of the main suggestions that I tell everyone today is that it's really really important to add some toah in our life because if we do we're guaranteed good if we don't you'll constantly be chasing your tail no amount of money you will ever make will be enough I'm sure a lot of people obviously in the world made a lot more money than I did but I don't know anyone that made more money than me personally doesn't make you happy at all has nothing to do with happiness nothing happiness money have nothing in common zero you could go make a million you can make 5 million you can make 500 million makes no no one happy someone someone an Israeli reporter actually asked Bill Gates Bill Gates should know about money he has like 70 or 80 or 100 billion however much he has after he gave a bunch of money away they ask him does money make you happy and he got really angry at the question he said they have nothing to do with each other all money does is help you have convenience but it has nothing to do with happiness nothing that's why sometimes you'll find some of the happiest people in the world are usually poor second thing we have to ask ourselves what we what we what brought us to this world why are we here for what someone has to ask themselves why did God bring if we already get to a point okay you know what today we had a few interesting proofs there may be something called a god with a few other interesting proofs this Torah stuff these books maybe they're not just fairy tales Maybe not maybe it's deserves at the very least deserves a second look so if there's a God and he wrote this Torah what does it say if you if really there's a God and it's the same God that's written in this Torah I should probably listen to him I don't think he brought me here to make money and the simple proof of that is that if life's goal was to make money why are there poor people what they have no purpose if life's goal was to go on vacation why some people can't afford to go on vacation why do some people have just T their whole life just miserable life what they have no purpose God made a mistake with them he built the Heaven and the Earth and know gave you the exact number of stars and made your perfect body all so much so that your perfect body has something called a protein fold protein fold is part of your cells you have trillions and trillions of proteins in your body if one protein in your body folded the wrong way one out of the trillions and trillions that you have that's disease that's not being able to walk that's not being able to see that's not being able to function that's not being able to breathe one protein you have trillions an endless amount of proteins one a scientist tried to figure out what are the chances that every protein with fold the right way in order for me to give you this sh right now and he said I have to connected to a computer a super computer the one that NASA has that calculated how many stars and he calculate it and he said it would take me 10 to the 127th power years to calculate it can't calculate how how perfect just your body is can't be an accident so this God in his Torah he said something what does he say what does he have to say about your life right now we have yum Kip coming up we we just had Judgment Day most people thought it was a party most of unfortunately thought that rosashana is Happy New Year like the Christians fireworks go toia have her barbecue give high fives hey happy fire it's Judgment Day in reality it's trial judge decides whether you live or die judge decides whether you going to have P you're going to have poverty judge decides whether you're going to be sick or you're going to be healthy judge decides whether you're going to suffer or you're going to have a pleasant life judge decides if you're going to find a z or you're going to end up being single for another year it's a big day when we get a parking ticket we go to the judge we're scared but against God not so much that was the trial we don't know how well we did we don't know if we passed we don't know that's what Hashem says that's what you have yumol yumol is the appeal that's you have a second chance if you're screwed up on the first one I'm giving you a second chance you have to appeal you have to appeal just like you lose a case in the court the judge says oh you sped fine $800 ticket 12 points take care you're not going to take it you're going to say I'm going to hire a lawyer I don't want to lose my license going to appeal it going to fight it Gods says you don't have to hire a lawyer I already did it for you you have an appeal you have 10 days you don't have just yuny pool it's not just YY po that's a misunderstanding everyone thinks it's just yum Kip that we do nothing for 10 days and wait for yum Kip and yum we show up no 10 days Hashem says okay why should I listen to you why should I give you P why should I give you Z why should I even give you life if you ask most people that believe in God why should God give you life for even another year most people can't answer you why should God give you life life forget forget everything else you guys notice when we pray every day now during these days it's an interesting prayer that we add after you guys read this stuff we sinned fine so we're admitting we sinned it's a good good start you're asking Hashem for have a good year okay it's not a bad it's not unreasonable you're asking Hashem to take away all harsh and evil decrees okay that's not so bad okay we no one wants any bad things but then you fast forward a little bit because it's two pages of requests from Hashem and then we say Hashem not only give us good life put us in scribe us in a book of good life but judge us and inscribe Us in the book of the righteous put us with the the next one says put us with the upright never made a sin put us in the same book as them give us P put us in the book that you talk about P people become rich what Us in that book too forgive everything we did we asking for a lot what do we have to show for it reminds me of a good story we talked about this weekend there was a little girl 7-year-old go girl goes into a jewelry store and she asked the balab and she says sir I want that chain say which chain there's a $1,000 chain over there balab see a seven-year-old girl says wants a $1,000 chain is a little bit aoi strange okay little girl you have money goes yeah she takes out a little Barbie wallet and she starts taking out quar and pennies a dollar bill is a $5 bill somewhere in there crunched up little G you know little Barbie thing he's C7 and the guy doesn't want to make fun of her you know he likes little kids he starts counting the money $14.27 we're short a little bit she says honey who are you buying this chain for I'm buying it for my sister my sister's 18 years old and she's my mother and father goes what do you mean she's your mother and father CU my father and mother they died they went to ganeden so my sister takes care of me and my eight brothers and sisters she doesn't have any friends she doesn't have any time for herself and all of our time is just for us and last year on I saw how hard she prayed and I said you know what I'm going to buy her a present so all year I've been saving money to get her this present and I saw this chain I want to buy it for her so the balab says well you're you're right in time because you have exactly how much money you need and he gives her the chain $1,000 chain for $14.27 she goes home her sister sees the chain she almost gets a heart attack she thinks the girl stole this chain she runs to the jewelry store she says by I'm sorry I'm sorry she told no no why are you sorry she bought she paid full price and he says to her she paid full price she goes what do you mean she has $1,000 she goes no listen I've been doing this for 35 years some people pay me cash some people pay by credit card some people pay by check but in 35 years this is the first time somebody paid with a full heart that's the Mas the is us we come to Hashem asking not for a $1,000 chain we're asking for the entire jewelry store we're asking for a chain of jewelry stores but we have $14.27 a and a Barbie B what what do we do what do we do if you honestly look at yourself what do we do really okay so we go to beess sometimes we do sometimes we give some sometimes but then we give the right amount or the amount that was didn't hurt us did we give the 10% that hem said or did we give you know I give half of a tenth of a percent because I needed the money for the vacation for the expansion and for the car and for the Barbie bag for the seven-year-old kid too did we pray when we prayed do we have any kavana or it was like can't wait till this is over can this Rabbi read faster when we did feeling do we think that we're actually this is the breit between me and hasem this is what makes me Jewish I we say it's an interesting box I can't believe I spent $1,500 on this thing when we bought a mu did we ask the rabbi Rabbi it's $100 for the M do you have something for 30 something that protects our life but the navigation system we didn't ask do you have something for 30 we say what it's 300 fine add it no big deal navigation system you have for free on your phone but if it's at the car add if for 3,000 if it's more than 60 bucks we only have $ 14,27 gentlemen all we have is our heart we're asking for the world it's the only only shot we have we have y we have a time to do cha this is the time of Chua you want what you're asking for you want a good life you want you want you don't want to have t you don't want to have bad times you want to have a connection with God you want to have happiness you want to have Z you want to have good children you want to have any good CH it's very simple the book is real if you want more proofs I'll sit with you till 5:00 in the morning if you want I'll give you more and more proofs we just don't have much time the book is real I've checked it I was the most spe skeptical person in the world I checked everything many books and more books and lectures and more books I've studied many topics I've studied physics I've studied science of different I've studied Psychiatry I've studied uh Finance anything you want I've looked into it at some point or another in my life the book is real you don't want to take my word I'll sit with you every day till 5:00 in the morning until we confirm that it's real probably if you're a smart person it'll probably take about 3 hours not so smart maybe a few days but I'll still sit with you the book is real God is real what about you what are you going to do last lecture that we did lecture number 45 that we talk about at the end of the lecture I asked everybody the same question what are you doing to get these that you ask for every day in you can't somebody can't just change their life over night say from one day they're not keeping anything the next day they're going to be RAB AKA can't it's too much you got to do something got to show you're sincere one guy said you know what from now I'm going to do never did in his life another guy says you know what I've been doing for a while I've been doing for a while I'm going up I'm going to upgrade I'm going for Shabbat I'm going to keep Shabbat another guy said I'm going to learn Tora every day 15 minutes a day another guy said that he's going to leave his goest girlfriend another woman said that she's going to become more modest AEM hates Z he hates people that are promiscuous and think that their body is property of the public so people took something on themselves they all wrote a note if anyone is interested in doing that doesn't cost any money but it shows sincerity you want to write it on a note write on a note I'm collecting those notes will get you special blessing from Jerusalem will give you a big sh will prepare you for the appeal any questions concerns concerns thank you very much for having me and may all of you have