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Shiur Torah #76 Okay You Left Wall Street For Torah, But WHY Do KIRUV?? (JACLA Los Angeles)
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we're here thank you for having
me um you know wanted to cover a lot of
different things we don't have that much
time but uh I guess we'll Bree through
some of my personal story what got me
here you know it's the uh most people
know the first part of the story or at
least the people that know me know the
first part of the story which is what
got me to leave Wall
Street uh but most people don't truly
understand what got me to do this
uh you know leaving Wall Street is one
thing but uh leaving the business world
and going from a business that you can
make millions to in essence in so many
words working for free uh when you don't
have any more money is Not Unusual it's
not a usual thing so um we'll go over
some of that and then then we'll go from
there and if you have any questions
along the way by all means I'll try to
leave some time for the end uh so uh to
start off my uh my story starts you know
we came to the United States from Israel
when I was 10 years old uh and the uh
first thing that my dad told us is when
we were kids when we were mature enough
to understand what uh you know what the
world was about uh is that uh you can
make money in two ways you can make it
the legitimate way and you can make it
the not legitimate way legitimate way
will take you more time but you'll
survive longer not legitimate way you'll
make a lot of money really quickly but
you won't survive uh so we always chose
the legitimate way way uh and worked
really hard you know so during high
school I had a few jobs I delivered
newspapers I worked at clothing stores I
uh uh what else I uh fixed computers
sold computers pretty much did
everything and anything we can do to to
make money while still going to school
uh and helping the family so when I was
18 years old um I you know and got into
I I left College after a year and um I
decided even though I had a you know was
a good student I was an honor student
and had uh 3.9 GPA
I saw it as a waste of time because most
kids were just you know hanging out and
partying and uh for the most part for me
I was already used to making money so
it's not you know so so for me I didn't
necessarily need the uh the help to uh
to know what I wanted to do I just
wanted to go into the business world
just had no clue how to get there um for
most people college is good if they
don't know what they want to do
especially at 18 years old again I had a
I had a head start starting you know
working at 10 years old
um so uh at 18 years old I had a couple
of different jobs and eventually
somebody told me about the stock market
business you know in those days you
didn't necessarily need to be a Harvard
graduate to get into the industry uh so
I got into uh I got into the business
worked for a couple of different places
uh just to uh get an idea of what it is
and um eventually went to uh a company
called Raymond James and uh you know
after getting screwed around for a
little while this decided you know it's
time for me to uh start my own book of
business and you know and hopefully uh
things work
out I was a hard worker and uh I you
know at at that time in my life I uh
knew that the only way for me to catch
up to all these old men was to outwork
them because you know each guy was in
the business 15 years 20 years 30 years
you know how is this 20-year-old kid
going to uh reach my experience so I
figured okay so they work eight hours a
day I can work 17 or 18 and and you know
in no time I'll catch up that was you
know kind of A Simple Theory but uh in
practice it's a little more difficult uh
but that's what I did you know when
you're a young kid you don't really have
any
responsibilities uh you know I was
already living on my own but I didn't
have wife and kids and so on so uh
that's what I did I worked really
hard um but when I first started uh
building my book uh my my client base uh
was an interesting time September 11th
just happened so it wasn't necessarily
an ideal time to get clients because
most people think thought the world was
going to
end
um shortly
after I uh got to a point where I was
$35 away from being
homeless uh because I just started my
business started you know working for
this company but you know there was no
salary or anything like that so I uh and
I was too proud to tell am ABA and IMA
that I don't have any money uh so I uh
you know went through some serious
struggle borrowed a dollar from this guy
Demitri every every single day uh just
to eat a dut and coffee and
uh just put my head down and worked
early 2002 I finally around March or so
of 2002 when you know struggled for a
few months and uh really uh uh went
through uh you know I guess uh some
difficult mental and uh mental battle um
finally made $1,000 which to me was all
the money in the
world a month later I made $5,000 a
month later I made another $7,000 and
things started flowing in by November of
2002 I made $117,000 in one month and
then after that everything changed one
of the positions that we invested in
worked out really well uh and uh clients
started flowing in obviously I didn't
really connect all this to God at the
time I connected it to my genius ability
to pick stocks
Nextel Nextel was $4 it went to 20
and uh you know everybody the Market's
down I think it was 26% that year and we
were up 70 or 80% so you know when
you're up and the Market's down you're a
genius uh but everything started
everything that would touch turned to
Gold Nextel then Nextel partners then
Price Line you know just the list went
on and every stock we would pick just
worked out didn't matter what the market
was
doing um and I was uh I got to a point
where I was just printing money you know
it went from you know struggling to make
$5,000 a month uh to A bad month would
be1 or $200,000 a month I left framing
James in 2003 as the third largest
producing broker in the country for them
uh started my own firm and uh again the
money just continued flowing in you're
making a few million dollars a year and
young and uh very very ambitious
but don't actually have any direction as
far as the ultimate purpose just the
direction of as far as making money I
thought that God brought me to this
world I believed in God and I actually
did Chua the first time when I was
17 kept shabat for about a year and a
half uh but then after you know I
stopped learning I stopped uh uh doing
uh so little by little you go off and
off and off and further and further from
Hashem further and further from the
basics and uh once I started making some
money I realized that uh you know maybe
that's why hasm brought me to this world
to make money so I could donate a lot CU
I like donating I don't really care for
money that much I just like making it I
like the
challenge uh and a lot of the money that
I had I would give people you know
people in need family friends you know
Charities and so
on instant analysis is Ron ruven he's an
independent Trader president of ruven
Enterprises and Ron uh we were hoping
you'd come in because you had some
interesting analysis on this whole
Howard Stern versus Oprah situation but
let's just start with XM or serus once
that subscription runs out they're not
renewing it so some of these sub fiber
growth numbers could be pretty pie in
the sky well that's proven by the churn
rate and the churn rate is the uh number
that's uh you know the loss of customers
and their churn rate was only
1.5% if you look at similar industries
that need subscribers like cell phones
for example the average turn rate is
over
4.5% this industry only has 1.5% for
serus and a little bit over that for XM
you did a breakdown of the you compared
the cost of Oprah and Howard Stern and
uh you did it a little differently than
most people but what did you find
explain it to us well the thing is
though is that Wall Street has made
every analyst have their own proprietary
way of analyzing things which is very
complicated for the individual investor
to understand these cash flow analysis
the PE ratios everything that the
average investor out there whether they
have money or not can't understand we
did it the simple way you know howt
Stern has approximately a 4-Hour show
just on one of his stations not
including the second one per day 5 days
a week which is about 1,040 hours a year
year right he's getting paid $100
million a year for him and his crew
which is about $93,000 an hour granted
it's a lot of money okay it's obviously
a lot of money but because of his
tracker H in the past because he's
already brought in at least a million
subscribers that pays for it now Oprah
on the other hand is getting paid $55
million for 3 years which is about $18.3
million a year okay now she's only going
to do a 30 minute show per week that's
it oh I don't really think that anybody
is going to to subscribe to just you
know a little bit extra if they're a big
fanatic of Oprah just for that extra 30
minutes and when you do the math 30
minutes a week is 26 hours a year which
is about
$75,000 an hour if it was a if she was
spending just as much time on XM as how
it turn is then uh har contract will be
worth about $3.7
billion okay now this is not to say that
the contract is a bad contract it's
going to give them obviously a lot of
publicity but the reality days look to
see that the howt stern contract
technically is not as expensive as some
people may pretend for it quickly as
things continue to progress you know my
personality is you know when you're
young your personality continues to
develop and I realize that I'm one of
these people that needs to bring Justice
to the world at least that's what I
thought I I can't I despise
dishonesty I uh I can't stand people
that are fake and um in the in in the
money world it's a a overwhelming supply
of
it so when I would see things in you
know on on Wall Street happening I would
say something and that's not usually the
best idea when you're a small company so
uh for example one of the things that uh
led to a lot of
problems is uh I saw that uh the head of
finra the uh or you know the head
regulatory body for The Brokerage
business um was leaving
and uh after the crisis and going to the
SEC that's fine people change jobs only
problem was that her pay package her
parachute was $15
million now for all these years finra
told us that they are not a government
body they're owned by the firms now if
you're owned by the
firms then that means that I should
decide I should vote for it whether I
want to give this former CEO that
screwed up everything
$15 million to leave now if you're not a
government
body and you're owned by us you should
give us a vote if you are a government
body then how come you're making so much
more money than the president of the
United States he makes 400,000 so I
wrote an article about
this and just asking that clear question
which was very logical that wasn't a
very good idea because from the minute I
wrote that article I went on their radar
and they pretty much spent the next
several years trying to torture me so
you know if you have a big company like
a Goldman Sachs they always have
somebody from the regulator in their
office but usually it's one audit at a
time two audits at a time I had six
audits at a time six simultaneous audits
for you know 10 15 man firm with 10
assistants we never did anything wrong
we didn't sell any private deals we
didn't do any IPOs we just did clean
business we never stole any money we
never churn we never we never there was
never anything wrong no one sued us
there was nothing to look for but when
you have Regulators sitting on your head
every single day it makes it very
difficult to work in general uh it's
like going to a bar and you're
surrounded by cops naturally you're not
going to want to
drink so this was one of the beginning
you know this is the beginning of the
tests and uh again business was fine I
was making money but uh little by little
problems started happening but I
wouldn't notice the
signs uh a little bit before this uh
this article that I wrote and other
articles that I wrote were that were
relatively controversial because if it
wasn't controversial I wasn't interested
in it um where it was calling uh you
know investors in Gold fools because
they're valuing it based on something
that doesn't exist or any you know
people that are uh you know fans of
mergers and and uh you know and stock
splits different things and I would have
usually a unique way of looking at
things uh nonetheless I uh saw that
things were getting a little bit more
difficult but didn't pay attention that
all of it is coming from Hashem started
losing a little bit of
money which is usually a sign that
Hashem is giving you a uh you know one
of these final warnings before he starts
affecting you in a harder way uh in
thear it says that money is D money is
Bloods which means that when someone
loses a lot of money it's in replacement
of their
life so anytime you lose a lot of money
you should actually thank God at the
time obviously I wasn't
thankful um so started losing some money
some friends turned into enemies but
things kept going going in uh at the end
of
2006 I had an elective
surgery pretty much a surgery I didn't
really need to
have that I could choose not to have and
it would really wouldn't change my life
but but I decided that I wanted to
perfect everything and uh including my
own body and I said okay you know what
how much does it cost oh it's few th000
fine how many days out of work do I have
he says uh probably you'll be
uncomfortable that's how doctors call it
uncomfortable they don't call it pain no
doctor in the world ever tells you
you're going to have pain so you're
going to be uncomfortable it's going be
a little discomfort for the next couple
of days but you're back to work on
Monday said all right a couple of days
vacation is not the worst thing in the
world that didn't work out I woke up out
of the surgery I started
screaming and screaming and screaming
and screaming and the drugs they gave me
didn't work and since I never took drugs
in my
life um I didn't know what should should
work what impact I'm supposed to have or
not all I knew is that I felt like
someone was taking a knife and cutting
my body open over and over again and it
just wouldn't stop so I asked my wife to
kill me and she didn't listen I asked my
mom to do the same she also didn't
listen and eventually the amount of
morphing they gave me they said was the
most amount of legal Al allowed and
eventually calm me down and they
released me the same day which was
foolish and I went home and I ate a
sandwich I told everybody okay the hell
is
over I'm going to sleep I woke up 45
minutes
later and I started screaming again
worse than what I was in the hospital
only this time I didn't stop for 62
days so for 62 days the most amount of
consecutive sleep that I got was 15
minutes which when that happens you
start dying your body starts failing so
you start peeing blood blood comes out
of your eyes infections
hell after a couple of
months life started becoming somewhat
normal which means that I was pain all
the time but not to that level of pain
so I only need to get about 20 or 25
pain kills in my system and I was
perfectly
normal and to go from here to let's say
the end of the room would take me
somewhere in a neighborhood of about a
half hour 35 minutes so I was a uh
instead of a young 20s something year
old guy was walking like this and saying
ow every single moment but for me it was
perfect because 62 days I had wasn't
exactly
Pleasant so I thought things were going
to get
better and Hashem sent me this uh you
know this interesting screw up that
happened I thought medically again I
still didn't blame Hashem yet I just
figured that the doctor screwed up and I
had all the money in the world so I
could fix
it 9 months later I had a complication I
had an infection with something
completely not connected to it that was
worse than the first surgery in this
case I was an intensive care unit for 10
days pretty much surrounded by a bunch
of people that are
dying 3 months later another
surgery 4 months later another surgery
and it just continued over and over
again for the next seven
years the next seven years I went to
over 50
doctors of every type of practice
whether it's holistic or
traditional just to figure out what
happened just diagnose it don't fix it
you can't fix it I'll give you a million
dollars if you can fix it but just tell
me what happened it got to a point where
some extreme you know big professionals
that were in the business for you know
medicine medical world for 20 25 years
wouldn't even want to touch me they were
just tell me listen I can't see you
because I'm afraid I'm going to make it
worse and my body continued failing I
got to a point where I couldn't walk for
a little while I walked with a cane for
about a year I was in pain 24 hours a
day from my neck down all the way to the
bottom of my feet my legs doubled in
size they also they kind of uh I want
the first diagnosis was on the feet part
on the legs doubling in size was maybe
it's the
heat that wasn't uh wasn't the best
diagnosis um so again all this time I'm
trying to figure
out how am I going to get out of this
hole but at the same token I'm still
trying to run this business
hi Ron nice to meet you and Welcome to
our showet thank you I would like you to
introduce yourself first I am uh Ron
ruven just a regular like everyone else
but I try to do things a little bit
differently uh I have been in the
financial services business for 12 years
now uh my main focus has been in the
investment World from doing uh Financial
uh investments in the stock markets to
uh fixed income life insurance and uh
about a year ago uh we started doing
International insurance for
uh International organizations
governments uh as well as individuals uh
in the US as well as abroad and uh some
of the things that I try to do are to to
distinguish ourselves from some of the
larger firms right so we've built a um a
pretty unique firm that is uh has the
wherewithal and capabilities of the big
firms that you hear about all the time
but without the nonsense that you have
to deal with sometimes trying to run
this business only now I have many many
more enemies if you notice on uh you
know in the business world when you're
strong you have a lot of friends when
you're weak somehow it connects to
enemies so so now the uh The Regulators
continued torturing me but again they
never found anything because there was
nothing to find but they still wasted a
lot of my time until this day even
though I've been out of the business for
a while they still try to ask me
questions and just waste my life
um the people that I made Rich that used
to work for me suddenly they wanted to
sue me so it was an interesting
time and I got to a point where at one
point I didn't really want to be in this
world and the only reason I stayed and I
I say this all the time and remind
myself is for only two people one my
wife and the second one my mother even
though my father is amazing my brothers
are amazing uh everyone is amazing the
amount of tears those two women shed on
because of me I don't think anyone in uh
in history has has done more for anyone
else and I knew that yeah I can leave
this world but it'll ruin their life so
I kind of felt bad so so I continued
battling it and you know when you're
sick and you're in pain 24 hours a day
the pain you never NE necessarily get
used to
it but you just learn how to live with
it the mental battle is the worst
one especially when the only thing you
thought you had
is slowly but surely disappearing money
had tons of it and slowly but surely a
million here half a million there a guy
that was supposed to do a deal with me
to give me5 million ended up taking a
half a million dollars from me
everything that could go wrong went
wrong I used to turn dust into uh into
gold now the golden Platinum was turning
into something worse than dust
everything would just go wrong and again
for a while I just thought it was just
bad luck I thought it was a uh the tide
would change and never truly connected
it to
Hashem eventually I said you know what
okay maybe uh I'll spend some some of my
time doing other
things so I continued working but I
started going to sh I went to RAB
Pinto pentu in in uh in New York he used
to have a uh Yesa over there so I would
go there every Tuesday night
problem was that 5 minutes later I would
fall asleep uh so one of the things that
I learned later on is that in the
beginning when you first start learning
to the toah is very bitter it's very
hard to learn toah in the beginning and
that's because of all the sins you've
made has built some type of shell a kipa
around you that makes it very difficult
for the truth to actually uh come in so
in the beginning it was very very
difficult for me to learn anything so
but because I was a student and I uh you
know I uh I've studied a lot in my life
and uh on my own and
schools I knew that there has to be a
way so I forced myself to stay up by
bringing a notebook and writing down
every single thing he says but again it
was only once a week and you know little
by little you get a little stronger you
start keeping a few things here and
there and start caring a little bit say
that there's a God but again when you're
dealing with pain 20 TW pain 24 hours a
day you're going to surgeries every
other uh month it's kind of hard to
stick with it unless you're doing it on
a regular basis
eventually things got a little better
and then they got a little
worse and then the miracle
happened right at the time that it got
the worst right at the time that I was
pretty much over the whole concept of
sticking around just for my
wife and my
mom I decided that you know what maybe
it's time to uh be nice to everyone so I
could at least leave this work on a good
note so um I tried being more in touch
Than I Used to Be and uh one day um I
call my mom and uh she picks up the
phone hysterical CL and she keeps
telling me talk to him talk to him I
said who say the fry who's the fry just
please talk to me he can help you and I
have no idea what she's talking about
cuz she's already in the middle of the
story and I'm just getting into this
conversation so who is this a fry
my mom that day knew that I was in bad
shape as every mother knows her son
better than most people do and uh she
started calling rabbis around the world
trying to get a blessing for her sick
son and but that day when she was going
to her little phone book and calling
rabbis from everywhere no one would
answer eventually she reached the phone
number in Israel after about an hour an
hour and a half of dialing and uh she
spoke in Hebrew and you know asked for a
certain rabbi
and the woman on the other side of the
phone said that it's the wrong phone
number there's no such Rabbi in this
location and that was too much for my
mom to handle so she broke down she
started crying to this strange lady on
the
phone and then the lady says does which
is my mom's
name and my mom obviously is in shock go
who are you how do you know my name and
she goes well I'm your niece but I have
no idea how you reached me because we've
never spoken on the phone
before and she dialed the wrong phone
number in a different country and she
says well how did I get to you and she
says well I don't know how you got to me
but if you got to me obviously it's from
mem because Pina was part of the uh uh
religious part of the
family so she told her what happened my
son is sick I need help I need a
blessing from a rabbi and so on she says
well if you need a blessing why don't
you call my brother a he's a
big he studies in jerus JM you know he
studies with uh you know big rabbis over
there and he also lives next door to
Rabbi he's already written several books
in his
20s considered one of the people that uh
could one day be one of
is talk to
him so she calls him he's in the Calla
obviously and she talks to the
wife and uh he calls her back now when I
left
Israel Ephraim was a baby so I never
even knew he
existed he starts talking to my mom and
she tells him the story and a few
minutes later he just asks her he goes
to the bottom line he says well does he
speak Hebrew and she says yes can I talk
to him she says no he's probably never
going to talk to you doesn't talk to us
barely and at that very moment that's
when I called my mom and that's when she
was saying talk to him talk to him
because on the other line was a
fry so me not knowing what just happened
I only found this out later on uh months
later
um I said just fine whoever you want me
to talk to just tell him to call me and
I'll talk to them just stop crying so FR
calls me and uh I tell him a problem and
he shows me a source in the Torah I ask
him a question and he gives me the
source on the spot and that was the one
main thing that made me uh I guess or at
least gave me an excuse to stop being
religious after my first run at chuva
when I was
17 is that I assumed that every Rabbi
that was or at least anyone that called
themselves a rabbi or anyone that's even
religious is supposed to know everything
about everything so if I ask you a
question about dinosaurs and you tell me
they don't exist there's something wrong
with your religion not you or if I ask
another one if are there dinosaurs and
they tell me yes it's called
then one of you guys is
lying and I would ask other questions
and you would get different answers
because again the types of questions I
was asking were mostly scientific and
most rabbis don't usually learn science
Ina I just didn't know this so I use it
as an excuse to H something's wrong with
the religion something's wrong with the
people and then you hear the stories or
see the things you see people that say
they're
religious ask you know uh act even worse
than the biggest criminals and it just
gives you an excuse to just not be
religious it gives you an excuse to just
disconnect yourself from the
Creator this is what's happening to the
world every
day so when a frim started giving me
answers but not only giving me answers
and giving them to me on the spot but
giving me sources and I could open a
book and I would open the book and he
show me that exact verse and it would be
anything whether it was business related
health related science related anything
I've never met anybody like him not
before or after something
extraordinary he tells me years later he
told me that the first nine months of us
talking he would pray a special prayer
before our conversation to have the
answers and I said what do you mean you
know the answers why would you even
what's the big deal he goes no you don't
understand I didn't even know your
questions I never asked those questions
I just got the answer Satay at the
minute you asked me
after that first conversation we spoke
for an hour and 40 minutes a week later
he called me on a Thursday and we spoke
for three hours a week later we spoke
for about 5 hours a week later we spoke
for 7even hours and then every single
Thursday ever since we've spoken every
Thursday and obviously now much more
often than just Thursdays average of
about 7 hours worth of Torah sometimes
less depending on how busy but overall
very very long conversations full of
Torah and I got a lot of my answers got
a lot of my questions answered I got
everything that I wanted to answer but
little by
little things in the business world were
continuing to deteriorate even though I
was started to start keeping a few
things okay so maybe we'll take on
kosher a little more seriously maybe
that pizza from the non kosher store is
not exactly good because it has Pig in
it but it doesn't say on the menu that
has Pig in it it's just in the
cheese you it's one of the ingredients
if you look at uh for example u a uh non
kosher cheese non non kosher
cheese in the
supermarket kosher cheese you'll maybe
have five of them five different kosher
cheeses non kosher cheese in the
supermarket you probably see 100 or 150
different brands why was the rabbis are
so uh strict on uh cheese or they're
charging so much money that big
companies uh don't want to pay them no
it's just the non kosher cheeses willing
to use ingredients that Jews are not
willing to use which come out of the
stomach of pigs or other
animals
and when someone's eating pizza at Pizza
Hut or dominoes which seems like it's
perfectly fine because it's not meat not
only they violating the kosher laws but
they're also violating milk and
meat also the sauce if anyone knows how
to cook sauce usually the way it gets
flavoring is because of the meat that
it's cooked in not just because of
tomatoes are so delicious in one Petri
next to the other but this again you
didn't know I didn't know any of this
stuff no one ever told me I just figured
that if I'm not eating meat
outside I'm keeping kosher I'm a
sadic so I
continued learning more and more about
the stuff learning more and more about
how my entire world and everything that
I believed in was just up you know was
just
wrong I did business legitimately I
tried bringing Justice to Justice to the
world but the only place that I didn't
contribute enough time to is in my
soul I contribute in everybody else's
life except my own so I decided to
continue
learning and despite everything
continuing to
deteriorate for the first time in my
life I actually felt like I have someone
with
me I'm not
alone and actually wanted to
live pain
continued but it didn't matter as much
anymore later on as you can see me today
I'm much better today than I was in the
past uh no contribution by any doctor in
the world other than one
above as it says in our prayer every
morning
says I am Hashem your
doctor the type of disease that I had
was not something for a doctor to
fix it just took me a few years to
realize
it so when I found out that if you do
his will he does your will said okay
it's a good deal let's start doing it so
as things started you know continue to
deteriorate and I lost more and more
money eventually losing the
rest
um that more bad things happened or at
least seemed
bad the more reason I had to connect to
him and unfortunately
today that's the majority of the case in
most people of do Chua it's usually
because something bad
happens most people do Chua it's not
because one day they wake up it's like
oh you know what I love
Hashem most usually it's because
something bad happens you have a problem
at home you have problem with health you
lose money uh something happens
something has to drive you there in most
not all obviously but in some case in
most cases it's that for me that's what
it was it was losing everything that I
thought I had and gaining something I
didn't want which was the
illness
and but along the way as you know when
things got really really bad Hashem
delivered on on his promise which is
that he's not going to leave us
alone but that answers the first part of
the question which is why did I leave
Wall Street I left it because eventually
got to the point where even rebuilding I
had no interest in I lost and so on and
I could go somewhere and make money and
work for some big firm or start my own
thing and it's not you know once you
have the uh Talent or experience it's
never goes away it's not a cold and I
was on Wall Street for 16 years I was on
television I had some you know a decent
name I was on CNBC and Bloomberg and CNN
and all these things and I was a little
mini celebrity for a small
firm and you can use that Talent for
other things you know actually as a
matter of fact before things got really
bad um friends and family would
constantly ask me why don't you just
sell your firm or just go work for
Goldman Sachs in one of these big places
and my motto was that I rather die
fighting for my dream than living
somebody
else's and that was my
mentality still
is it's just that it's a different
business so when the situation came up
which is you know do you want to rebuild
do you want to start something
else I already got to a point where I
became addicted to this stuff I became
addicted to Torah you know spending any
time doing anything else became
painful and it's not necessarily that
should be the case for everyone I mean
people should live a normal life and
work regular jobs and you know but still
connect God to it somehow do something
with God in mind before you do a
business deal ask yourself what does God
think about how what I'm doing am I
mistreating this person am I doing
honest business because that's the first
question they ask us once we get up
there how did you how did you conduct
your business they don't ask you how'
you conduct yourself in synagogue
because in a synagogue it's very easy to
pretend to be
righteous in the business world most
people that's when they act like they
are you know a guy that's not that's not
honest he's going to act like he's
honest in the synagogue and dishonest in
business because that's where he makes
money
so the think for us to do is to live
normal lives but still ask ourselves
before we do anything what is God think
have develop it takes
time for me I know
that God gave me the ability to speak
for many years I thought that he gave me
the ability to speak so I could become
the next Bill Gates and later on I
realized that the story is somewhat
interesting and I have a interesting way
of looking at things so maybe I can
teach not making any money out of doing
it but nonetheless he still pays the
bill
somehow but getting to the point of
leaving became easier and easier because
rebuilding was just completely out of
the question as far as doing this as far
as getting to the point of actually
contributing something to
am and uh doing Zim that has more to do
with Torah than it does with money
actually has nothing to do with money
because money doesn't make any sense so
I go over a few things with you guys
that are more Torah related so you get
an understanding that it's still the
same mentality still the same investment
mentality just a different
investment everyone knows the uh saying
from the sages that
g the one who leads others to do
benefits more than the ones who actually
does someone who leads someone else to
do a Mitzvah benefits more in sh than
the ones that actually does a Mitzvah so
for example if you're doingin for
yourself you get obviously it's a big
Mitzvah it's one of the
covenants if you tell your friend family
or stranger to doin and they do
it you actually get even a bigger
benefit than he does it's even bigger
than you doing your owning obviously
have to do your ownin because you can't
be hypocrite because the Torah hates
Hypocrites but you actually get a bigger
benefit from him doingin or anything uh
because of you than even from
yourself one of the things
that kiru people understand or at least
one of the re one of the driving reasons
that they do it is because of this it's
because they know that obviously am
needs it but at the same token it's a
very very good
investment now in
AAR there was a rabbi by name of
RAB
Ria was got to such a level that the
sages say that he's the only one in
history including everyone from the
beginning of the world to the end of the
world the only one in history that after
he passed he was able to obviously were
able to communicate with them somehow
but he was the only one that was able to
roam around any one of the Chambers or
uh or Worlds Of Heaven you know usually
when people go
TOA you know if they want to go to a
different section there's angels that
take him to different
places could just roam around freely
anywhere he
wants my answer is why because he spent
his time doing doing K where he would go
instead of learning to and getting even
bigger in than he was he would go to
different places different you know
areas and
Villages looking for people that are
completely ignorant children that are
completely ignorant children that no
one's willing to teach people that are
completely clueless and he would teach
them tah he would actually go through a
whole process where he would actually
write
a and he would teach them and then he
would teach the older ones
Mish to make sure that there's
regardless of what Wars the nation of
Israel goes into regardless of what
disasters the world goes into is always
going to be a jeice somewhere that knows
toah
now
his Rabbi was Rabbi RAB
Udi
Rudi the sages say that if anyone
deserved to be the Messiah he
did not only was he a giant sadik and
but the only reason why we have today is
because of him you know for many years
we weren't allowed to write the oral
Torah we got it in AR we weren't allowed
to write the Torah but he realized that
we're slowly but surely deteriorating
during the generations that he that we
have to make a decree to write it so he
decided to write the mishna and from
there we wrote the this is the you know
the uh the
Cornerstone of the oral Tora which is
pretty much where we know all the MIT
people that don't believe for example in
the old T which is commonly
viewed as a bunch of rabbis arguing
which is what I used to think it's like
why would I want to learn this it's just
a bunch of rabbis arguing why would I
care uh first of all I didn't realize
what they're arguing about you know it's
not arguing about whether you keep
Shabbat or not keep Shabbat it's about
perfecting how to do it it's not about
whether you should do kma or not do kma
it's about what exact time you should do
it and they spend pages and pages and
Pages arguing about 15 minutes
so much they cared so much about Hashem
and servicing him and serving him that
they would literally debate for years in
some cases for 15
minutes so when you're thinking it's yes
or no obviously it's very easy to be
misled but the easiest example for me to
believe in the OR tah and that the
apparently the go and the non-religious
don't know is that we without the oral
tah there wouldn't be tah
period because if you you know you went
to beet you see the scroll the scroll
doesn't have Nik the scroll is not
allowed to have the the dots those dots
are the vowel system in English the
equivalent of the vowel system so for
example every word in the English
language has one of these letters AE i o
u and sometimes y and in order for you
to be able to read any word it has to
have one of those letters so if I said
Moses but I remove the vowels then it
would become Miss it's a completely
different word could those dots are the
vowel system in Hebrew the scroll is not
allowed to have them so that's why every
time you go to B and they open a scroll
you see that there's no vowels so how do
we know how to read it that is a
critical part of the all
to called the Codex in English or or Kel
which means that without this Kel
without this codex we wouldn't know even
one sentence forget about knowing the
story knowing the MIT knowing the
secrets the prophecy the number of stars
in the universe that we already knew
3,000 years ago the fact that the sun
was in a shell that we only discovered
in the last few decades the the fact
that Germany and the whole uh uh
Holocaust was already prophesized 2,000
years ago
in we already know about all this m page
I believe six already says that Germany
is going to take over the world and it's
going to D try to destroy it and
actually says Germany doesn't say like
some code name that you could translate
as Germany Germany for anyone who
doesn't know didn't exist 2,000 years
ago if you look at the US archives
Germany was created as a combination of
300 barbaric Nations Barbarian Nations
that came together and tried to join
power about 800 years ago and later on
called themselves
Germany so at the time this gar that no
one wants to believe
in was written Germany didn't exist
when you don't know any of this stuff
it's easy to say oh not it's just a
bunch of rabbis
arguing and over and over again there's
endless amount of Prophecy and knowledge
that's not human there's no way that a
human could have known that the sun is
in a shell there's no way that a human
could have known that the number of
stars in the universe is one 6434 Z and
then 12 zeros after it because even
today we don't use such numbers it's 10
to the 18th power
there's no way a human could know that
there's no way that a human could know
the exact amount of
time of the minimum amount of time that
the moon would take to rotate around the
earth which is
29.5 you a few other numbers I think
5367 or something like that it's five
different
digits or six different digits which
again we only discovered
recently and it's over and over again
the GMA is full of this stuff the all to
is full of this
information
rebi is the one
that put this in a format ready for us
we can learn this stuff so obviously if
his generation is
saying that he should be the
Messiah and today we only know anything
about anything because of what he
started the mishna and later on thear
he's a big deal
right rebi says after he saw Rabia which
was actually his uh his
student if I'm not mistaken either his
student or his cousin I believe it was
his student yeah he was a
student that his student is getting to
such a high level that he became very
jealous and he started chasing people
looking for people to help them do chuva
he says the level that is getting to is
surpassing
mine surpassed them
already why because the level that the
amount of reward that someone that helps
somebody do Chua is is
extraordinary and what source did he
use he used Jeremiah
15:19 Jeremiah
15:19 it says
therefore thus said hasem if you repent
I'll bring you back let you stand before
me meaning if you do chuva I'll always
accept you everyone is able to do Chua
doesn't matter what you did obviously
there are certain things that you can
repent for in this world there are
certain things you can't repent for in
this
world but nonetheless chuv is available
for
allem created the concept of chuva
before he created the world because he
knew that we wouldn't survive without
it so if you want to do chuva you can
don't ever think that it's too
late but further it says if you bring
forth an honorable person from a glutton
meaning if you help somebody do
cha then you will be like my own
mouth what does it mean then you will be
like my own
mouth Rashi
says this means that the kiru person
whoever is helping somebody do cha like
Rabbi mrai Rabbi zamir Cohen Rabbi ala
many really you know there's a few
really really good rabbis out there that
are truly working and spending the last
20 or so years saving
Souls Rashi says that like my mouth you
will be means that the C
person would not only deliver the word
of
Hashem but could actually override
hashem's
decrees Hashem is
saying that if you're actually helping
my children not only will I take care of
your children but if I decrete something
for example someone someone to die or
Shalom someone to lose money or someone
to get sick or some some type of trouble
in the
world and that c of person truly prays
for it and wants Hashem to change it his
prayer will count more than anyone
else
inan it says that anyone that returns
one Jewish
soul is as if he created
him not as if not that we just a common
thing that we know anyone that returns a
Jewish soul is B himself a new world you
know it's like if you chase a uh Jew to
make him do chuva over 70 years you know
your your life was worth it your life
you bought yourself the next World here
he's saying it's even higher he's saying
it's as if you were God himself and
created that person and where is you get
it it's the same source which is from
this Jeremiah
the
midash on
um M inim
116 say says to
theim again this this this particular
verse K
PTA says I am the creator of the
worlds and bring back the
dead and you are the same
so much so that the zor says that if
Jews actually
knew the magnitude of making someone do
chuva they would run around in the
streets like crazy people just looking
for someone to help them do chuba they
would leave
everything and just look for someone to
help du chuba
in the Book of
Daniel it's a very very interesting
story in general but in the Book of
Daniel in verse
123 I think ever since the whole uh L
battle that happened a few months ago or
a month or so
ago I am trying extra to
uh use sources because people always
look for something wrong
so no one think that I'm actually making
this up or translating it as I as if I
want to translate it this way I'm not
that
smart sorry can I can I ask you said on
page six of of a mishna that they
mentioned
Germany country that's in no yes it's
actually here show it to you I actually
brought it
I'm sorry no it's okay I didn't get a
Jewish Education so what's no no it's
perfect we'll show show it to you here
this is what it says what is the
m meaning it's one of the tractates of
the gar of the of the oral tah and yes
is a tud is another name for the Tam
it's
synonymous and um this one is uh on page
six it
uh it's talking about in essence a story
of how uh Jacob is praying to Hashem and
I'll read you the language it says Jacob
said before the Holy One blessed is he
Master of the Universe do not Grant asav
the Wicked the desire of his
heart do not
remove his nose ring so this is one of
the verses in the Torah which is isav is
in essence Edom he's the nation that's
been trying to destroy am
forever and he says even though I know
that you're going to use
Edom to punish the Jews when they're not
righteous and to pretty much also uh as
one of your
tools do not Grant asav the Wicked the
desire of his heart meaning don't give
him full power treat him like a bull
that has a nose ring why a bull that has
a nose ring because a bull as strong as
he is if you pulled the nose ring that
he has he can't do anything about it you
can control the bull by the nose
ring so this refers to so here it
continues to say this this verse they're
quoting from the Torah what is they're
actually saying what is it referring to
what bull why we care about a
bull so they're saying here in the this
refers to gmania a royal province of
Edom gmania in Hebrew means
Germany who if they would but go forth
would destroy the entire
world 7 years ago they tried to do that
didn't
they and they tried to save Europe
stupid 70
and said continues this so how do we
know it's the same Germany I could just
say German Germania it's a coincidence
maybe there was a town named Germania
2,000 years AG how do we know it's the
same
one gives us more details about this
Germany says this Germany this Germania
there are 300 Crown princes in gmania of
AD and there are 365 chieftain in
Rome and every day one group Goes Forth
to encounter the other group and one of
them is killed and they would then have
the trouble of appointing a new ruler
instead if you remember I just told you
the US
archives told us what is the foundation
or if you go even to Germany's history
you look it up yourself as far as the
history of Germany what's the uh where
do they
start and and you'll see that Germany
started from exactly
300 barbaric
Nations 300 princes like it's mentioning
I'm German so I can't and uh in uh
there's a lot of uh uh Germans in the
world it's say say uh you could testify
to this stuff it's not a it's not
something I'm making up but um even more
than
that the reason why they lost power
wasn't necessarily just because the US
decided to jump into battle was because
they also had leadership problems as a
matter of fact if it wasn't for a bad
decision by
England to uh give
Czechoslovakia to uh to Hitler to avoid
war there would have never
been a second world war because we found
out from the trials later on from the
Germans themselves was say that the day
that you called Hitler to make peace and
give Czechoslovakia pretty much give
almost half of Czechoslovakia to to uh
to us the other leaders of Germany were
discussing when we should kill Hitler
because he's causing us so much
trouble but obviously after you gave
them uh pretty much exactly what we
wanted he went to even higher power than
he had before and that's it so we see
that this is again another one of if
Hashem wants something to happen it'll
happen in so many words but nonetheless
again this is just one of the many
sources that you have as far as the the
stars is in another tractate of the all
the things I can show you after all the
sources for all of them um in the Book
of Daniel it
says in verse
123 the wise will
shine like the radiance of the firmament
and those who teach righteousness to the
multitude will shine like the stars
forever and ever so in essence the
people that learn tah which is he calls
hasem is calling
wise they're uh you know they're going
to shine like uh the sky going to have
Radiance they're going to have you know
good place to be after this
world but those that teach
righteousness to the multitudes meaning
to the general public not the ones not
to the wise those that do kiru those
that people help people do chuba
will shine like the
stars
so the one of the mid
called
in says why is it comparing the sky to
the Stars what's the comparison between
the sky and the
Stars just like the stars are much
higher than the sky that's the people
that are making people do chuva in
comparison to somebody that's just
learning toah
further It also
says that the highest level
of is to do K
what's if anyone that learned a little
bit about the end of times the Messianic
times the sages say that there's only
two things that are going to save us our
money is not going to save us our
brain's not going to save us our friends
and family are not going to save
us only two things are going to save us
at the end of times Torah and
Torah is obviously learning toah and
putting it into our life not just being
a scholar that knows a lot of things but
does
nothing and means kindness but kindness
that requires effort you know
there is just giving someone money
someone needs money you just give the
money kindness means that you not only
giving him money or sometimes don't give
him money but you give your time which
is more important so instead of going
out there and telling guy Listen by the
way you should listen to so and so Rabbi
I think he's good you actually give the
guy the dis or you give him the link
make his life easier by doing part of
the work for him or instead of let's say
for example telling the guy directions
actually take him there that's
kindness so the highest level of
kindness is kiru highest level of
kindness is actually helping somebody do
CH there's a point to all this at the
end by the way
and as far as another thing is that's
relevant really relevant to our times
and especially the last couple of
months is that there's a lot of people
today in the Jewish world that uh feel
the
need
to I guess call
out Justice their own version of justice
and make comments or videos against
rabbis uh especially ones that are
actually helping Jews and are telling
people the truth that is not very common
most rabbis don't have the
Comfort I don't really want to say the
desire but the Comfort to tell people
the full truth of what the Torah says
because the full truth is not all
Rosy it's not all fun you know it's nice
to hear about Moses it's not nice to
hear about Jacob it's nice to hear about
the 12 tribes it's not nice to hear that
if you're not keeping Shabbat you're not
considered Jewish
it's not nice to hear that someone that
died and his family is a bunch of people
that are not keeping Shabbat if they say
kadish about him it actually makes his
situation worse rather than
better it's not nice it's not
politically correct no one really wants
to say it and there's very few that
do and there as many people
that use their time instead of trying to
become better trying to get closer to
Hashem they go against those very few
people that are actually saying the
truth
so before anyone decides to write
comments negative comments about anybody
else or make blogs and all of this other
stuff they should know that even though
these kiru people are stars that look
very very small from
far the midash is also explaining is
they only look small but in reality
they're very very very big and in so
many words not worthy to mess around
with because someone that goes against
someone that's doing
kiru is in essence turning himself into
which is the opposite of it's instead of
helping people
dovah you're actually helping people do
sins and someone that's helping people
do
sins has no share of the world to come
and a lot of other interesting
punishments that we're not going to get
into one time there was a
uh a k person that came to
RAB to visit him RAB was known to not
only be a
huge pretty much
the or not pretty much
but and loved by
all
rabbiya loved am is like no other and he
paid special attention to anyone any Jew
whether he knew him or didn't know him
if he was across the world or wasn't it
was right next to him he pay special
attention to people but he was also very
very precise with his time because he
had to dedicate enough time to to
Torah so one time a kiru person came to
him about a half hour before they were
doing
M so he sat with him and started talking
to him and then his assistant came to
him and said listen you know a few
minutes away we have hundreds of people
waiting at the Beet for you to pray he
just ignored them which was unlike the
rabbi 10 more minutes it's 2:00 which is
when they start praying he's still not
coming
2 10 to 15 to 20 and each time somebody
comes he's completely ignoring
them at 220 had to respond finally to
his assistant telling him listen
according to the Torah this person
that's helping he never said who the
person is so I don't know who it is but
whoever this person was that was in
front of him that's doing kiru he says
he's one of the
Stars which means he's worth more than
the rest of the people that are waiting
so let them wait
because he cares enough about the the
children of
Israel the children of of of Hashem
himself he deserves special
treatment it says that each of the
righteous
gets in the next world gets 310 worlds
something that's the good that we get in
the next world is not really
comprehensible for us
us we understood good here good
here unfortunately most of the things
that we think are good are usually not
good you know whether it's women or it's
sex or it's money or it's a lot of other
things most people don't usually use
those things or power for good they can
be used for good money can be used for
good and a woman can be used as a wife
and a husb and a man can be used as a
husband and so on and so forth
everything can be used for good the
internet can be used for good or it
could be used as the worst place on
Earth uh somebody told me that the
internet was founded uh originally
became public based on porography sites
I'm not really sure if that's true or
not but they said that the original
websites that became public were just
pornography sites again I don't know if
that's true or not I can't really quote
it but the fact that it's even a story
is enough to say what you know the
mindset is of Our Generation obviously
there's a lot of good you can do the
only reason why anyone in the world in
California or anywhere else knows that I
exist
is because of the internet so you can
use things for good but unfortunately
there's a lot of bad out there but the
good that the sages are telling us that
is promised to a righteous
person is 310
worlds in uh in in Judaism each one of
the letters that we have has a numerical
value you know so Olive has one bed has
two and so on and so forth It's called
gatria
the numerical value
of Zim which means benefiting the public
or doing kiru is
310 same thing as the 310
worlds It also says in Proverbs 8:21
where Hashem is promising us these 310
worlds is this is what it says I have
what to Beque to those who love me and I
shall fill their
storehouses the uh I have what to be
Beque in essence in in Hebrew it's
called
yesh and yesh the numerical value of yes
is
310 so again from all of this
we learned a little bit of an idea of
the significance
of so in one end why am I even telling
you all of this it's not necessarily for
for me to toot my own horn because it's
not exactly I'm doador or anything but
first of all is to understand that the
mentality is still the same it's still
an investment mentality it's just a
different
investment why is it relevant to you or
anyone that's watching is because
everyone could be a MIM just in
different ways
you don't have to be aan you don't have
to be someone that speaks to be to M to
do if you can't speak if you have money
contribute money buy a few of these
discs of people that are actually doing
it and give it to someone that's not
keeping anything or even if someone is
keeping but perhaps not
enough if you don't have money a lot of
the stuff is wor is available for free
get it you know get a link on the
internet of a gooda of a good lecture
and send it to a friend or a family hey
by the way look this Torah and sence by
RAB mrai is lifechanging it's four hours
you can cut it into three parts but it
change it'll change your
life this uh life after death movie that
he made is also amazing this uh
near-death experience that Rabbi Al Nava
made is also amazing you send people a
link on YouTube they watch it if they do
something about it after learning the
truth it changes their entire life and
all of what I said is if you just save
one person
which means that the 310 is just for one
person each person that you save is an
endless amount of benefit both in this
world and the next on my end I see the
benefits every single day mainly because
I see myself physically I see myself
mentally and obviously I'm living a life
where somehow the bills are being
paid I haven't worked in over a year I
can't tell you that I have millions in
the bank I don't have anything in the
bank but somehow the bills are being
paid
happy all the money in the world that I
had is not even worth an hour of
today not even an hour the best thing
that ever happened to me is that entire
disaster that I thought thought was a
disaster
healthwise listen I'm near
perfect especially if I compare myself
to where I was yes of course here and
there there's a few things but overall
the fact that I could speak in front of
you today is a miracle of its own so I
know it works
I'm the
example some people have different
stories some people died and came back
to life some people just woke up by
seeing something different people have
different stories my story is more
comprised of a combination
of millions of
dollars a medical mystery a
disaster and a bunch of Miracles after
it every single person will have their
own story and and like I said everyone
every single person can take advantage
of the one main
thing that'll get us saved at the end of
days that we find ourselves in
anti-Semitism is not exactly shrinking
if anything it's the worst it's been
since World War II we find ourselves in
a place where World War III began it's
just
quiet you know a lot of people don't
really want to believe it they don't
really want to believe that we're in a
big war right now but you don't really
need to look too far just pay attention
to the details you see that everyone is
saying this whole big deal that's
happening in Syria is about Isis fine if
you want to believe the media that's
fine I just don't understand why Russia
brought 200 Atomic bombss to fight
Isis before they brought the Army before
they brought the tanks before they
brought the planes before they brought
anything they sent a ship with 200
atomic
bombs for what
the most important reason they intervene
is to keep if it was just to keep
America out then it means it's not
necessarily just about Isis and if it
was just to keep America out they
wouldn't bring another submarine about a
month ago that has even more than the
first
one if it was just to keep America out
why is China getting
involved why is North Korea also getting
involved the world is heating up is what
you see the point is I'm trying to make
is that we don't really know exactly
what's happening on a based on the liit
lied amount of news that we have what we
do know is that the world is heating up
we're only 30 seconds away from somebody
stupid pressing a
button everyone wants to fight all of a
sudden and at the top of every headline
is the fact that Jews are trying to
defend themselves from terrorists but
somehow the Jews are wrong somehow
Israel is too aggressive when they're
killing a terrorist that just tried to
killing a bunch of people somehow
there's something wrong with this
everything is upside down everyone wants
to
fight and it fits the bill it fits
exactly what thear says at the end of
the last page of M which is one of the
tractates in
the it tells you what's going to happen
at the end of
times and when you read that page page
49 it's like reading the
newspaper people's faces uh people will
uh uh there will be hyperinflation you
know the price of things will be drastic
ially higher you know if you noticed
milk when I came to this country 26
years ago was about a dollar today if
you know if people were still making $5
an hour they wouldn't be able to afford
it even people that are making minimum
wage can't afford it there's a problem
it's not just here it's everywhere only
country in the world that has gasoline
at normal places is the United States
the rest of the world's paying $10 a
gallon you know you have the animosity
towards the leaders of the generation
the faces of men will look like faces of
dogs there's actually scientific proofs
of
it see I actually have a picture on my
phone if anybody wants to see they
compare dog owners to their to their
dogs is an unusual
resemblance it also means that people
will be uh very
rude
and countless other things that it says
in there that are not just general like
the ones that I mentioned to you things
that are very very specific to our
generation
the point I'm trying to make is that
everything seems like it
fits also according to the
prophecies even if we don't want to dis
even if we don't want to agree with
everything I just said it still says we
don't really have that much
time at the end of days it says the
Messiah will come before Shabbat but it
didn't mean like literally a day of the
week it meant that each one of the
thousand years is considered one day one
one day forem is the equivalent of a
thousand years according to the mid and
also in
Psalms so the Jewish calendar says we're
at
5,776 so 5,000 means that we've
completed 5 days the 776 means that it's
3/4 of the sixth day if you do the
math every hour is approximately 41
years which means that right now it's
about
6:15 Friday
night average Shabbat comes in around
now
6:30 6:45 the point I'm trying to make
is that Shabbat doesn't come in at 10:00
at night we don't have 100 years we
don't have 200
years it's and according to the tah it
says it come mhia will come before
Shabbat you're not supposed to
necessarily put an exact time on it and
I'm not telling it's going to happen
today tomorrow or even next week or even
five years from now
but either way you see the things are
happening the world is
changing even the Prophecies of an
enormous amount of
converts is actually happening there's
actually a very interesting story that I
know
firsthand is that there's a uh guess you
call them a tribe but it's really a
country in Africa that their King found
the truth of Judaism and decided to
convert the next person in line in the
Royal Family
is also converted to Judaism they
actually met with the RAB mosha
Feinstein the king me met with him and
when rabie mhha Feinstein asked him are
you a real king he says what do you mean
can you kill someone if he wanted to
obviously the guy doesn't really know
why he would ask him such a question he
says yes I'm the king if I wanted to do
it I want I could kill someone and Rabbi
mosha Feinstein celebrated and actually
did did aanu uh uh prayer for a very
rare event because today we don't really
have real
Kings we have politicians we don't have
Kings the point is is that this
particular King wants to convert his
entire nation there's a m of whether
he's allowed to forcefully do it or not
because it's not really a normal thing
for Judaism but either way his country
is two to 300 million
people and they've been calling
themselves the tribe of man for years
that's the only reason they
converted supposedly they're one of the
Lost
tribes the tribe of man so these 15
million people were all arguing about
and whether they're lefty or righty or
agree or religious or
non-religious there's 200 million people
just from one place that are
interested and this is just a
beginning so you're seeing us all the
time and I have converts contacting me
from all over the world where they're
Bulgaria or Norway or Africa or Israel
or America and is you're seeing you're
seeing things
happening all I'm saying now is that if
we take advantage of some of the things
we learned that there is a
judge there is a
purpose and there's a ticket
out there's definitely a ticket out
there's definitely a ticket that get
guarantees
you every reward you could ever imagine
got a few minutes don't worry and it
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questions I'd actually like to spend
some time with you quality
time uh it's opened up first of all
you're very
likeable you know and uh I have a lot of
guests you know and there you that I
really just want to take out and sit
down and just B all means b means can't
talk with what are your plans after
after this right now I did uh lecture
every day this week uh since uh I came
here since Thursday so almost every day
we've done a
lecture uh tomorrow tomorrow I don't
have one um Saturday night I'm supposed
to have something uh but I'm going back
to uh Florida on uh Sunday what about
tonight like the rest of tonight uh
nothing planned stick around for a
little sure sure yeah I'll be happy to
uh I'll be happy do anyone has questions
you have questions sure you have some
questions drove all the way from Phoenix
to see me you have to have some
questions um I have one question yeah um
I always read in U in lectures all
around you have to do a complete chuba
what does that mean or what does it mean
for me as
a well actually this is a very God bless
you for actually asking the question
because it reminds me of something that
I wanted to mention that I forgot
and the messenger was sent me from
Phoenix to remind me um there was a uh I
guess I made a mistake and not
explaining this in the past where for
some reason people think that in order
to do chuva you have to get to the
highest level overnight and spend you
know be on the internet at 4:00 in the
morning posting videos and making
lectures and studying nonstop and that's
the minimum cuz I have a few people two
people just this week said you know what
listen I can see myself keeping Shabbat
I can see myself keeping kosher but I
can't be you man I can't you you don't
have to be me you don't have to do
anything why would you even compare
yourself and they actually told me that
for some reason or another yet convinced
them that I am the
minimum I hopefully I'm I'm even a
minimum but the point is is that no to
be CH to do chuva is does not require
you to do any of this what it requires
you to do is to keep the basics which is
keep Shabbat keep you know do every day
even if you can't stay for the whole
prayer and be there for you know for an
hour then 10
minutes you know is where you can get
started Shabbat it's not really a big
deal you're taking off of work it's not
you know even if you sleep all day it's
still better than driving to sh because
driving to sh negates the entire thing
as a matter of fact a lot this is a very
very big problem in America today where
for some reason some some places are
telling people that it's okay to drive
to sh on
Shabbat this is a pure contradiction to
the Tora because according to the sages
in it says that someone doesn't keep
Shabbat is considered a go it's
considered someone Idol worships so much
so that if they keep everything if
somehow they found a loophole in the
mitv they found a way to keep 612 mitv
you can't because most of them are not
relevant to everyone some are relevant
to women some are relevant to men some
are relevant to the BET mikdash and so
on but somehow you found out a way to do
612 MIT but you don't keep Shabbat it's
worthless so I don't know why people do
this but none you know the the point is
that a Shabbat has to be part of chat
there's no as CH without Shabbat even if
you sleep all day it's still fine
obviously it's better if you go to sh
you learn T you have K but if you can't
do any of those things at least you have
to do that you have to keep kosher and
you have to learn toah you have to if
you're married you have to have in the
house there's a few other basic things
that are smaller than and easier than
even the ones that I mentioned to you
it's cha it's not that difficult the
difficult part is sticking with it and
the only way you can stick with it is if
you acknowledge you have a
yet if you acknowledge that you have a
yet then you know that the only way to
beat them is with learning toah whether
you learn toah 5 minutes a day 15
minutes a day an hour a day that's going
to be up to you I started with 15
minutes a
day I do more now but a uh 15 minutes a
day was the only thing I could handle
that was the beginning 15 minutes a day
was already up to here I was like too
much you know other than be sh with my
very charismatic uh
cousin but uh 15 minutes every day is
better than 7 hours one day a week even
though technically 7 hours is more but
15 minutes feeds your soul every day why
15 minutes a day why not 7 hours because
just like you eat
food if I tell you
listen instead of eating every day I'll
give you a giant meal for 24 hours a day
you don't stop eating survive
you won't survive right all right same
thing with Torah your to won't your your
soul won't survive the whole week
without making some big sin so hasem
sometimes you know when you know in
Mount sa tell you know we were
scared when we so heard the voice of
Hashem um and one of the reasons that
hem Moses told us is that one of the
reasons he's doing this to test us is
because if we're scared of
him it'll stop us from sinning and which
is the reason why one of the most
important things in my opinion the most
important things that someone needs to
work on as far as chuva is developing
fear of the almighty
developing there's a concept of which is
loving AEM that is commonly thought
taught today the problem is that most
people don't know what that means you
cannot love AEM without fearing him
first it doesn't exist meaning that
the highest level of fear of hem which
is the most commonly thing mentioned in
the tah love of hasem is not mentioned
many times in the tah the highest level
of fearing hasem is just the
beginning of loving him which means that
most of us don't even have a concept of
what it really means to love
hem so when people are are teaching yeah
listen love hm love hm love hm and the
guy's not even keeping Shabbat yet it's
a little confusing so as far as Chua
Chua is not that difficult it should
developing some type of fear of
hem ask yourself what is he think before
you do whatever it is that you want to
do before you go on a date before you do
business before you uh you know learn
certain things before you do anything
ask yourself what does he think that's
the beginning and then over time you
gets even
better amen amen