Shiur Torah #78 How To Build BitaChon (Confidence) In HaShem w/ 13 Principals of Faith

Thank you for having me again. [Music] This sh will also be for of Lordis Garzia Garcia Moshe Benim. Um, Adilna Goreo, Edilma, Adilma, Goreo, uh, Sarah Gutierrez, Sarah. But hello, Sarah. Sarah, uh, Michelle Cotton, uh, Aruro Cotton, Jorge Hernandez, Isabel Perez, Josephina Matsos, Angela Schiffman, and also Oshri, Ben Dis, Gabby, Benise, Elad Benise, uh, David Ben, Ben Bena, Volis, Bat Joa, and also uh, And will give them all. You know, we always need two forms of two forms of a of health. Mashem, health of the body, of course, it's the things that we always think about, but also health of the soul. Uh because sometimes you have a uh perfectly healthy body, but you're depressed. You you're angry. you have all types of bad feelings. You know, you wake up in the morning, it's like night all of a sudden nothing happened yet. You already have a bad mood. So, people need to understand that, you know, it's very very important for us to connect to Hashem in a very deep level, which we'll talk about today. Uh in order for us to wake up in a good mood, even just to start off the day in a good way, we need to be connected to Hashem. So that that is why it says in the uh save and will be save us and will be saved. Yeah. So yeah. Uh so the uh give you a small update on uh the last couple of weeks. We were in Los Angeles. A lot of lectures. We had lectures every single night. Uh I only recorded a few of them but uh one of the lectures which I wish I would have recorded. Uh I had a uh plan of what the shure that I was going to have was a uh private sh for one of these uh a really really nice family in uh Beverly Hills. And uh the the funny thing is that you know I tell this to myself all the time. Why do I even bother trying to prepare for anything? Because as soon as you get there, Hashem gives you the words. As soon as you get to a place, Hashem tells you what to say. So I at for the first time I actually prepared a shior. I said, "Oh, you know what? I'm going to have the shore. I'm going to, you know, it's going to be a really interesting topic." I get to the shore and uh they say, "Oh, you know, we have a few questions." So I start answering questions. Next thing you know, it's an hour into it already of answering questions. So and I still didn't record anything. So I said, "Okay, so I'm going to start recording now. We'll start the show." Like, "Oh, no. There's one more question. One more question." Another hour passes. Now I don't know. This the shore started about 8:00 or 7:30 at night. So I don't know how much time I have. You know, usually two hours is the maximum that people can handle. Oh, hash. Hashem gave me the strength. I could go for a while, but I don't know the crowd. People are tired and so on. So, uh, so at 2 hours, I said, "Ah, it's what I'm pressed the record button now. Probably have maybe 15 more minutes before we go home." Two and a half more hours. We had four and a half hour sh all questions and answers. All questions and answers. A really good sh uh had a lot of fun with it. really righteous family in Beverly Hills. Uh a lot of proofs, a lot of different uh things that are relevant to today. But well, all of these things we've answered in the past, we'll answer in the future. There's a lot of interesting topics to talk about. One of the most difficult things that uh we see today is people have a difficult time understanding Hashem. Understanding him. Of course, we cannot understand him like he really is. Because if we were able to understand them, just like the Rambam says, if I was able to understand Hashem, I would be him. But understanding Hashem through his work. Understanding Hashem through his Torah. We know what Hashem is based on his Torah. We know what he did. We know how he acts. We know that he has measure for measure. We know he's righteous. We know that he's kind. We know all of his midot based on what he's done. That's the history. And we also know based on what he says about himself. So when he says my thoughts are not your thoughts, we should never assume that we can think like he can. This is the reason why sometimes when we're looking for salvation from Hashem, we're looking for help from Hashem and we try to give Hashem ideas. Hashem, make me uh, you know, win the lotto and that's the way I'm going to solve my problems. Hashem, give me a uh this specific person as I and that's going to solve my problems. Hashem, give me a child to, you know, this year. You know, I love this when I hear people say, you know, may you have a kid this year. What? Whatever Hashem decides, he'll give you a kid. Not only that, I say, may you have a boy this year. Okay. Why? No good. Fine. Whatever Hashem wants, I'll give you. What are you demanding for? Who are you to demand? But that's the thing. That's it's a lack of understanding. It's nothing nothing bad about anybody. It's lack of understanding of the midot of Hashem. In order for us to understand the mid of Hashem, we truly have to dig deep down inside of Tawah and uh and truly understand what he's saying every single word. And uh that's one of the things that I saw in Los Angeles, a lot of people that are looking for uh you know the understanding. They're looking for answers because all of us have different problems whether it's health problems or money problems or marriage problems or any type of other problems that people have. And when you're not really making Hashem as a permanent part of your daytoday life, it is very very difficult and pretty much impossible to deal with those problems in a rational and positive way. It's impossible because what happens is that something happens and immediately they think it's bad luck or they immediately they think it's somebody else's fault. Immediately they look at everything else of what caused this problem instead of looking at Hashem and saying, "Oh, Hashem, you've sent me this for a reason." It's impossible to contribute anything to Hashem without Hashem being in your mind at all times. So this is one of the main reasons why studying a little bit of Torah every single day or a lot of Torah depending on how much somebody uh can do every day is necessary. It's food for the soul, but it's also keeps you connected to Hashem. As far as the ideas, I've said this joke before, but it's very it's it's funny, but it's also very relevant. There was one time a um you know the a person that was selling uh uh um alcohol, different types of alcohol, different types of liquor and uh hit hard times and uh his mom would pray for him every day. Said, "Hashem, I hear that lawyers make a lot of money. Make my son a lawyer. She's praying every day. Every day make my son a lawyer. you know, son's not going to wake up one day become a lawyer. One day he gets a letter from the IRS. They say, "Listen, if you don't come up with a, you know, certain amount of money within uh the next 30 days, that's it. We're uh taking you and all your family, we're arresting them." And in those days, they could even give you death penalty just for owing money to the government. It's not like today where the IRS sends you letters for 500 years before they even do anything. You know, back then, they had no mercy. So the mother is praying, praying, praying every day. Hashem, make my son a lawyer. Make my son a lawyer. Make my son a lawyer. A week, two weeks pass, nothing happens. So then she hears from her friends that doctors also make a lot of money. She says, Hashem, make my son a doctor. Maybe it's easier. Hashem, make my son a doctor. Every day pray from morning to night. She prays, "Hashem, make my son a doctor." That didn't happen either. One day, somebody shows up at the door and uh the person who answers the door, how can I help you? He says, "Dad, listen. I'm here from out of town. I heard that you're the one that makes uh beer and I want to buy some beer from you." He says, "I'm sorry, I don't have," you know, cuz he didn't have he didn't have any money to buy goods. Didn't have money to do anything. He goes, "Okay, okay. I know you Jews. Uh every time you say you don't have, that just means you want more money. Fine. I'll pay you $100 for the beer for a cup. I'm sorry. I don't have I don't have. Okay, fine. Why don't you say so? $300 for one cup. I don't have I don't have. I really don't have. Okay, $500 I'm giving to you right now. He starts taking the money out. He's counting the money. $500 for a cup. And this guy, this poor guy doesn't have any money. He's so excited about seeing this $500. He goes, I don't know. Maybe Hashem is going to have mercy on me. I don't know what to do. He takes the $500. He goes downstairs to his basement. And he sees the only thing he has is one of the u um uh things with, you know, with the uh with the wheat on on the bottom, the yeast on the bottom. And that's it. There's nothing. There's no nothing. All right. Let me take some of that. Put some water in it and give it to him. You know, maybe Hashem will have mercy on me. So that's what he does. takes a cup, puts a little wheat that he has on the bottom of the barrel, puts some water in it, regular water, and gives it to the guy. He takes it to the guy, and he's closing his eyes like this. The guy drinks it. Wow. Why didn't you say so? I knew you had it. I knew it. What? This is the best beer. I've traveled all over the world. Best beer I've ever had. This is amazing. He's complimenting him from here to Chicago. He says to him, "Listen, I'm a very wealthy businessman from a different city. I'm having a big party in three months. I want a,000 barrels Mhm. of this specific beer, and I'm willing to pay you even $1,000 for a cup if you give me all of that for each cup." So, each barrel is a lot of money, making the guy multi-millionaire overnight. He calls one of his servants, "Here, come." takes one of these uh bags, gives him a bag of uh of money, he goes, "Here's the deposit." So, obviously the guy pays the bill. But then the funny part of the story is that the the mother sees her son, everything got taken care of and she looks at Hashem, she goes, "You know what, Hashem? You did it this time. Even I didn't think about this this idea." And that's what happens sometimes. It's a uh we think that we can give Hashem ideas of how to save us. He doesn't think like us. If it's our thought, he's probably not going to use it. If especially if he wants to make sure that you know it's from him. So the salvation that we're looking for really we should focus on giving Hashem a reason of why to give us salvation. Doing mitzvah, doing something good, connecting to him more. But even more than that, praying for the salvation itself. Not praying for how you're going to do it. Oh, Hashem, do do this, this, and this for me and then I'll do what you want. No, just ask Hashem for help. The more tears the better and Hashem will help. And this is one of the things that we learn in this para that you have, you know, every parad has to be something relevant. Every para has to be something relevant. This entire para para is about making the special vestments, the special garments that they were making for the kohanim, for the kohad that had eight garments and for the regular kanim uh four garments. And it goes into the intricate details of how Hashem is commanding Mosheu to make these garments himself and not only make them but also dress the kanim. So imagine the biggest rabbi in history, the biggest prophet in history, most righteous person, the per the only person in history to ever speak to Hashem face to face is not only commanded to make these garments himself, but he's also commanded to actually put them on each one of these people. Of course, these people are his family, but still putting underwear on someone, putting the hat on someone, it's not usually what we would think of as a respectful job. But this also teaches us the uh the element of the characteristic of humility that Moshe had where for him if it made Hashem happy that's all he cared about. He didn't care about what would people think. I'm putting underwear on someone. I'm putting a hat on someone. I'm putting this thing on him. I'm making it instead of learning to making these garments. What people think of me. Some people say, you know, every time you do somebody a favor, maybe you should have done something else. You know, it's nonsense. The reality of it is that you have to think before you do anything. What is what is the will of Hashem? What's his will? And if you're doing his will, he will do your will. Just take care of whatnot says, make his will into your will and he will make your will into his will. And that's what we can learn from Mosheu where his his uh gava was non-existent. He was the humblest man of all time. No one was more humble than Moshe. No one ever will be more humble than Moshe. And at the very same time, he's the most significant person in history. So imagine that the most significant person in history thinks he's smaller than anything else. We regular people are the opposite. We think we're here and we're really here. So this is a very very good reminder for us to to learn from the Now one of the other things is that it says here we went over some of this last night but we'll go over some more details today. It says oh I'm sorry this is um So it says, "Now you shall command the children of Israel that they shall take for you clear olive oil crushed for illumination to kindle a lamp continually." So first and foremost is that he's telling Moshe Rabenu that uh to get very very pure, very clear olive oil. There cannot be any of the remnants of the olive because just like Am cannot mix with the goim. The oil cannot mix with anything that's not pure 100%. Has to be a very special oil. In this particular case, Kazal says since there was no olive trees in the middle of the desert, they actually had to use the olives that they had from Egypt. But during the times when they actually went to um uh into Israel and they had olives over the olive trees over there, they would use uh a purified olive oil. So this decree is in essence eternal. Anytime we have a uh tabernacle and a Mishkan and so on. After this hem is telling him in verse um 281 It says, "Now you," which is referring to Mosheu, "brr near to yourself, your brother, and his sons with him from among the children of Israel, Aon, Adav, and Duazal and the sons of Aon." So in essence what he's telling him is that in order for you to get closer to me this is bring near to yourself comes from the word which means closer. In order for you to bring yourselves as a nation and as individuals closer to me you have to do something. There's no such thing as being a righteous person in our heart. There's a Mishna that says it's there's no such thing as a righteous person that doesn't know Torah cannot cannot be this person that does not know Torah cannot be righteous impossible. So you could say no no but I have a friend he's such a kind person he's so nice he's so this yes that's the part you see there are probably many many things that he does or she does that's 100% against the Torah. So righteousness is not determined by our lo logic. It's determined by Hashem, the creator, the one that gave us the instructions. He determines what's righteous, what's not. But more most importantly in today's age, we see and we've talked about this before is that there are many people that uh unfortunately have an understanding that their logic is superior to Hashem's logic. And this is the reason why they choose that they're not going to follow what Hashem says. They're not going to do what the instructions say. They're uh they're going to uh use their logic and say, "If I'm a good person, I don't hurt anyone. I don't murder anyone. Why should anything bad happen to me?" Now, most pets also don't murder people, whether it's dogs or it's cats. Most pets also, you know, the fish you have in a tank, they also don't steal from people. They also don't do anything bad. So, you're saying that that's enough. That means that the fish, the pet fish that he bought for a dollar from the fish store should also have should also have a uh heaven. So, you and the fish are going to be in the same heaven. That's not logical. Sometimes people get to such a point where they're so disconnected from Torah and I can remember this for myself that they start treating their pets like humans and even superior to humans. It's very easy to treat your dog better than people because in me in in many cases dogs are better than most people. But at the same token, your dog does not have a lot of your dog is not a righteous person. He's a dog. He's a servant of of man. You can use it for a lot of good things. You know, the the dog in in Hebrew it's it's called kev which um comes from the uh one of the things that it symbolizes in that word is kov kv meaning he's is the entire dog is heart because a dog is a very uh very um uh dedicated animal and a very loving animal. But again at the same token when people say no no I don't think there's that much I think that animals are better than humans. I actually heard this one time from a uh from someone. Uh he said, "No, you know what? I actually think that animals are uh you know, better than humans or at least the same." Now, at the time, I didn't really think about this, but later on uh I realized that there's no possible way that anyone in the world could actually think that. Even the person that says it, even people that work for these organizations where they spend their life and millions of dollars trying to do these campaigns to raise money for this to save a dolphin or to save a chimpanzee or to save this rare breed of some, you know, weird animal that uh they they like. And it's literally millions and millions. I get emails every single day from these campaigns. They want me to vote for this, vote for this, raise money for this, raise money for that. But none of it is for poor people. It's all for saving animals. Save the butterfly. Well, we ran out of people. We We can't can't help people. This is millions of dollars. But this is because people are very very distant from the instructions. And what ends up happening is that they start treating their pets better than humans. But in reality, there's no way for them to actually believe what they're saying. Why? Because you're never going to act like your pet. Your pet walks around naked. You're not going to walk around naked. Your pet eats from a bowl. You're not going to eat from a bowl from the floor. Your pet, you know, if you take your dog outside, if he sees a bone that somebody threw out in the middle of the street, he's going to start eating it. You're not going to do that. Why? You're the same. If you're the same, if you think that dogs are the same thing as humans, if you think that monkeys are the same thing as humans, why don't you act like them? Why don't you walk around naked, eat a banana, throw stuff around? Why? Oh, no, but I'm human. Oh, so obviously you see there's a difference, you may like him better than your friends. That means you should get better friends. It doesn't necessarily mean that he's the same as you. Going back to the issue at hand here is that in order for us to not get to that level of mentality where we're so far from the instructions, Hashem is giving us very very specific instructions of how to stay close. You have to do something. Bring it closer to you. Do something. Do something about it. You can't just say, "I believe Hashem in my heart and that's it." You have to do something. You know, if you really believe that Hashem is Hashem, meaning the same Hashem that's in the in in the Torah, then that means he's Hashem all the time. He's not Hashem sometimes. He's not God sometimes. If it's if it's the real God, he's God all the time. He's almighty. He was here before us. He's going to be here after us. He has no concept of time. He's not limited to time. He's not limited to space. He's above everything. So if you truly believe in the very same Hashem that's in a Torah, then that means that you should see what he says. And he says, "You have to do something in order to show that you believe in me." One of the most difficult things that we have today in dealing with the day-to-day problems and that all of us have is having confidence in Hashem. We are constantly just like this old lady was doubting Hashem. Maybe he's going to make the son a doctor. Maybe he's going to make him a lawyer. And to her surprise, Hashem didn't do either one of them and still gave better salvation than she could ever think. We do the same thing as her. So even though the story itself is funny, in reality we're the same thing. We're constantly doubting Hashem of whether he can do this or he can do that. If we didn't have any doubts in Hashem, we would never worry. We would never be upset. You never think, oh, I'm going to pay the rent this month. The the bank account has negative 100. The rent is positive 4,000. We have a difference of 4,100 here. You're never going to think about that. Why? Because it says in now I was young, I was old, now I'm old and I've never seen a righteous person, you know, begging. Now, if you're obviously if you believe in Hashem, then your main goal in life is to be a righteous person. Whether you're Jewish or you're a Noah highly irrelevant. You're complying with the Torah, that means that your main goal in life is to be a righteous person. Hashem is saying he's never going to let a righteous person starve and beg. So, so what's happening here? What's happening here? The problem is is that for most of us, we have doubts about Hashem. We have doubts of his capabilities. We have doubts of his abilities. And we have a very very difficult time to trust in what Hashem said and what uh what he can do. So, is a very very important thing that we that we need to develop. And there's a few things that the and a few other sources that we'll mention now talk about. The first Psalm one says one of the most righteous people in history. The one whose descendants is going to be the Mashiach himself. The Mashiach will uh by the way the uh secret part of the Torah says the Mashiach will have part of his soul is going to come from David and part of his soul is going to come from Mosherenu. It's going to be the ultimate being uh obviously other than Hashem but you know human being but the vid the righteous is saying praiseworthy you know how happy is the person who trust in Hashem how happy is he why why is he so happy because he's telling you here if the person got to a point already to a level where he already has bet in hem. He already has confidence in Hashem. That has to mean that he's connected to Hashem. Can't just have confidence in Hashem and not worry about pan, not worry about whether the kids are going to be in the right school, the wrong school or if the uh if it's the right uh partner, it's the wrong partner, it's the right deal, it's the wrong deal. You can't have that confidence in Hashem that he's doing all of this without being connected to him. And if you're connected to Hashem, then you're following exactly what this verse says. You're close to Hashem. Hashem is a permanent part of your life. You cannot build confidence in Hashem without those two steps. First, you have to do something about it. Then you have to make by doing something about you're making in essence as a result of that you're making Hashem a per permanent part of your life. And the outcome of it is that you could build beton. you could build confidence in Hashem. And David, the most righteous person in his generation and one of the most righteous in history, one that was glued to Hashem, he's telling you how happy, how happy is the person, how praiseworthy is the person that got to a point where he actually has he actually has the confidence in Hashem. In page 9b, it says something very interesting. It says, "Anyone who has confidence in Hashem will have protection both in this world and the next. So now, not only were you in a very good situation where the fact that you actually have confidence in Hashem gives you fulfillment, gives you happiness, gives you pretty much confidence to do whatever whatever needs to happen. You need to go buy groceries. You're not even looking how much money you have in the bank because you know that Hashem knows that it's Shabbat. You need to get food for your family. You're not worried about what what's in the bank. You're going, you're buying whatever you want, whatever your family desires. And you know that just as the says that Hashem provides your from that he gives you is not include the money that you're going to spend on and the money that you're going to spend on. This is both in and sh the they say that the the person is decided and determined on Shah until Shah but it does not include what he's going to spend on staka and what he's going to spend on holidays and Shabbat. So a smart person would say, "Wait a minute. So every time I spend money on Shabbat or every time I give, Hashem is telling me it's not included in the $100,000 that he guaranteed me this year. Already decided in in O decided that I'm going to get $100,000 this year. So if I spend $300 on Shabbat for Shabbat shopping, if I spend $1,000 for if I spend, you know, another couple of thousand preparing for for uh for the holidays, that's not included. that's not deducted from the $100,000. So, a smart person, a clever person, what do you would do? Give as much of it as possible. Give as much as possible. Obviously, logically, you know, there's also about how to give staka. You can't give it to people you don't know. You can't give it to just somebody just because they look righteous, you know, cuz even Osam Ban, you put a black hat on him and they suit, he also would look righteous. So, you have to know these people. You have to know what the money is going to. Just like you investigate an investment before you buy a building, before you buy a business, before you buy a stock, before you buy a currency, you investigate. You do research. You have to investigate these people. What are they doing with the money? And also, you're limited to a certain percentage of your income of how much you're allowed to give. Unless you have millions and millions of dollars, you're a normal person, normal income, you're limited to how much you can give. I believe it's 25% of your total uh that you're allowed to give. But in general the the recommended amount is to give ma which is 10% of your net income which is after expenses and staka is separate. But either way you have to investigate. But Hashem is telling you whatever you're going to spend on Shabbat don't uh worry whether you're going to get this brand of cookie or that brand of cookie or whether you're going to get the Gatorade or you're going to get the Coca-Cola that's on sale. Hashem's paying you back. He's guaranteeing to paying you back. One time the Balisento saw he's one of the most righteous people in the last few generations and he um he saw a worker carrying water laboring very very hot very you know very hot day and he sees him with a smile and he ask him how are you doing he says ohm everything is great happy, you know, he's doing his job. 20 years already, he works at this job. Very difficult job, but he's as happy as can be. Praises. Wow. The next day, the BF sees the same person. Same thing he's doing. Carrying the water. Same thing as he did the day before and for every day for the last 20 years. How are you doing? He goes, "Ah, you know, I don't know why Hashem gave me this punishment of a job that I have here for 20 years of carrying this water. It's so difficult and it's so hot outside and so much pressure and there's not enough panas. I don't know why Hashem did this to me. I don't know what kind of sins I made. So says, "Ah, now I understand." See so happy and he's happy at my misery. What's going on here? Why you so happy this? Ah, no, no, you actually helped me now finally understand something I didn't understand until today. in the and as we mentioned it says that Hashem judges us based on our actions on Shah and determines what we're going to get as a until next year until the next Shah but the Mishna which precedes which is before the says that Hashem judges us every day for upon so I always ask myself if Hashem already decided what he's going to give me on why does he have to judge me every day now I know it says that you know his thoughts are not our thoughts but it doesn't mean Hashem also says that he doesn't change his mind so what if uh if I did something bad to the $100,000 he guaranteed to me is not going to come no what happens now you finally help me. How how did how did I help you? He says, even though Hashem decides on what I'm going to get, he decide he looks at me and evaluates me every day based on my actions every day. How he's going to give me the money, the money, the amount of money is already determined, but how he's going to give me the money is determined based on my actions every day. If I had a good day full of mitzvot, full of good things, is gonna come easy. If I had a day full of problems and things that are not exactly what favorite in Hashem's eyes, panad come in a very difficult way. Yesterday your your pan came the same way. It came to 20 years. Yesterday you were very happy. Today you're not happy. Why? Because every day we go to sleep. And when we go to sleep, part of our soul goes to shine and hears the news. The soul is being judged in sham or it comes to sham and says, "What did you do today?" Not that they don't know, but they still what what did you do today? And the soul tells the judges what it did. They tell them, "Oh, based on what you did, tomorrow is not going to be a good day. Tomorrow the is not going to come uh as easy as yesterday. Yesterday you got a customer at 9:00 in the morning you already made $1,000. Tomorrow at the end of the day maybe you're going to get $10. This is the reason why sometimes we wake up happy mood and sometimes we wake up bad mood. Nothing happened yet. You just woke up but all the you just woke up. You're already mad at your wife. You just woke up. You're already upset with the kids. They didn't even do anything yet. They're still sleeping. They're still sleeping. The poor kids. You just woke up. You want to kick your dog. What do you do? The guy is sleeping. What does he want? You're already acting like it's night of a Why? Because your soul knows today is not going to be a good day. Your soul knows, oh, yesterday I got, you know, last night I got bad news. Today is not going to be an easy day. So, what does a clever person do once he knows this? when he wakes up with a bad mood, he has to decide, do I make this again tomorrow? Do I continue making more sins and don't do chuva and continue even another bad day tomorrow, another bad day the next day, and pretty much the rest of my life is or I do chuva today. Today, Hashem, I got the point. I'm in a bad mood. But today I'm going to do everything I can to not only accept what you give me with love, but also to gather the diamonds. Diamonds meet do as many as possible. Why? Cuz I want a good day tomorrow. So that's the m most important thing that we have to understand that we wake up in a certain way. It's not because you slept on the wrong side like people say you slept on the right side. I don't even know what's the wrong side or the wrong the right side. You slept with the right, you know. Left hand, right hand, all this. No, your soul knows. Your soul knows and it knows based on your actions previous is going to come one way or another. Whether you want or not, it was already decided. How you're going to get it is based on your actions. So going back to the issue of of beton by knowing all of this information knowing that in order for us to have beton we have to do something about it it's very very important to understand that there is a huge amount of reward for having this not only a reward where you have confidence that you know everything's going to be okay no matter what's happening that even the things that look like they're the worst disasters in the world are actually things you have to have confidence in Hashem in that it's actually for the best. By having that the says you get even an extra reward. What you get special protection from Hashem in this world and the next you have a special deal with them. You you develop a special account with Hashem. Everyone has a regular account. You because you have because you have the confidence that Hashem is who he says he is. As we've gone over, for that you have a special account in it says it says praiseworthy is the man who puts his confidence in Hashem. Now here we've gone even another level. We already know that praiseworthy is the man who puts confidence in hem from has confidence in hem. But he says not that has confidence in Hashem. But he puts his confidence in hem. Why? Where else could I put it? Put it in human beings. Put it in our in ourself. Put it in our boss. Put it in luck in the lotto. in the psychic, in the president, in the government, in the stock market. There's a million and a half places we can put our confidence in. Sometimes people are so proud that they think it's themselves. They develop such pride that they think it's their own brain and their own beauty and their own ability that actually got them the money. So he says, "Praiseworthy is the man who knows better and knows enough to put the confidence in Hashem." Why is he so praiseworthy? Why is he so praiseworthy? In the book of Jeremiah verse 175, thus said Hashem. A means a cursed which is the worst possible curse that's mentioned in the entire Torah. Who else got the word a named after them? Who else? I'll give you guys a couple of guesses. It's init. Who got punished in in the beginning of the Torah? Adam. Okay. But he still got uh lived 930 years and he still did the uh you know the father of mankind. There's another two characters kind. No, another two. Adam, Eve, Adam and the snake. Serpent. So Adam said when Hashem asked him what did you do? He says no no it's because of the wife you gave me and when he uh when he asked the wife when he asked why did you do no it's because of the serpent because of the snake. Now when he got to the snake he didn't even ask him. No he didn't even ask him what' you do. He said a cursed you are. You're cursed forever for eternity. You're always going to be cursed. He took away his, you know, the the uh the serpent actually was supposed to be the king of all the animals, not the lion. The serpent also walked like a human being in arms and legs was a very very beautiful animal. But he was also the the the satan in the living. Initially when Hashem created Adam and Adam and they didn't have yet the was outside but after the ish the the incident with the snake the became internal the the secret the mystical part of the mentions that the actually the uh the serpent actually raped and his seed went inside her and from there it stayed inside all of us in essence and that's how the became went inside human beings this is again as much as I know about the mystical part of the it sounds very strange but nonetheless it says it by very very holy people so we can rely on it it's not something I'm making up or anything uh but Hashem punished this serpent taking him from being the king taking him from being the animal that can talk, taking them from being something that's beautiful and he cursed them and he said it's a very very bad curse. There's also and mentions anyone that does the mitzvah of Hashem will get all of these different types of rewards, but anyone that goes against it will get all of this type of punishment. And the worst sins have this exact word called meaning that they're cursed. But we're cursed. Not cursed like someone you know has bad language like a truck driver but cursed from Hashem. Hashem himself is cursing that person. So in the book of Jeremiah verse 175 it says thus said Hashem is the man who trust in people and makes flesh and blood his strength and turns his heart away from Hashem. Unfortunately, at some point of our life, this verse applied to all of us. The key of all of our shim and learning to is for this to no longer apply to us. All of us depended on some person at some point. Whether it was our boss, whether it was even our husband or our wife for things or or or a uh child, all types of things that we had too much confidence in them. Oh, that's that's gonna be my salvation. This kid, he's going to put us in the map. You know, a lot of a lot of uh especially in America, a lot of parents, especially ones that come from like blueco collar jobs and places that are not exactly very wealthy, you know, they put all of their effort into one of their kids. It's an athlete. So, one day you can go into the NFL or the NBA or the Major League Baseball and become millionaire and that's going to be their salvation. He's going to bring in the money. He's going to take them out of the poor house and he's going to save us all. Well, many of them do, but at the end of the day, those careers, first of all, very, very short. And second of all, none of it came from the kid. It came from the creator. It's just that people put that credit, gave the kid the credit. Uh maybe that's the reason why over 80% of the athletes uh that are out there declare bankruptcy within four years of retirement. when I was in the financial business, I actually wrote an article about it where uh it's a very very horrific statistic that uh over 80% of the athletes in the NFL declare bankruptcy within a few years of retiring. And I'm not talking about people that just made $2 million. Okay, $2 million is easy to lose. You make a couple of bad deals, you bought a house, went foreclosed, you lost the money. Okay, you lost the money. talking about people that made over $100 million. The kind of money that even if you spend a few thousand every day, you still can't run out of it. But they go broke. Literally broke. Broke worse than they were before they got to the deed because now they have debt. They're in negative balance. Maybe that's the reason people put so much confidence in them. They put so much confidence in themselves. So much pride. Hashem tells us what he does to people that are proud. In Proverbs 29:23, Hashem says what he's going to do to proud people. The pride of man leads to his embarrassment. Someone is a very proud person, Hashem is giving him a special deal. Just like the person has confidence in Hashem, he has special protection. Someone has too much pride, he also has a special deal. It's just a bad one. What is it? Hashem is promising him to embarrass him. That his ultimate destiny will be embarrassment. It also good to know that uh a sign of gava, a sign of pride is when there is a place, there's a city or a town that has a lot of poverty. A place such as this, it says the sages say that's a place that has a lot that carries a lot of pride. There's a lot of pride in that area. You ask yourself, how could this be? If they're poor, what are they proud about? Things weren't always that way. So now on one hand we see from David that having he's praising David is praising whoever has confidence in Hashem on top of it the midash is telling us that someone that has confidence in Hashem he's on top of the world but not only because of the special deal that he has with Hashem but also by having confidence in Hashem He avoids the worst curse in the Torah of being called from hem. Not for me. Somebody said no one. I'm telling you it's telling you that's that's what's happening here. There's another midash on Psalm 141. King David says to Hashem, "I don't have any good deeds, but help me because I have confidence in you." In 141, this is what David says. I don't have any good deeds. But help me because I have confidence in you. Now, I just said it and all of us know one of the most righteous people in the world in history. Even the go are uh praising uh David. Everyone knows David was a righteous person. But he himself looked at himself like he's less than a worm. Except I'm not even a worm. A worm even did more for you than I did. So as you can see from fromu from the most significant people in history the more significant they were in every level not just not just the closest to Hashem. They had money they had power they had everything you could possibly want but they were glued to Hashem. The more significant they were, the more they viewed themselves as nothing because they realized as a result of them being glued to Hashem that it all came from him. Nothing, nothing, zero came from them. Nothing, nothing comes from us. This is a very very important for us lesson for us to know every single day. Hashem only allows us to go to work and feel like we're making money, feel like we're making the deal, feel like we're choosing the right partner, feel like we're doing anything in the world just to give us, you know, some some level of confidence, some level of independence. In reality, he's doing 100% of the job. You know, just like you had when you're trying to teach a baby how to walk. You know, you hold her up or you hold him up and you walk with him. The baby thinks they're really walking. They're so happy that, you know, but in reality, you're holding them up. This is Hashem. This is what Hashem is doing for us every single minute of our life. The more we realize that everything comes from him, the easier it is going to be for us to connect to him. The more we think it's coming from us, the more disconnected we are from him. So even is saying, "I don't have any good sins. What did I do? I did a few mitzvot. What did I do? I did a few mitzvah this that based if you compare what I did in order to I have to do it. I'm obligated anyway. I'm obligated to do all these mitzvah. Not like you could say I'm doing anything special. You tell me it's what you do. You're the creator of the world. You made the law. I have to do it. You're the real king. But even these mitzvot that I did that you're telling me you're going to give me a reward. If you really compare what I did in comparison to what you're doing for me and what you've done for me, what you're going to do for me, it's like I'm doing nothing. And this is David talking. But so why would you help me if I did nothing? He says only because I have confidence in you. It's not based on my deeds. It's not based on all the I did. One major mitzvah that I'm doing is I have confidence in you. For that you'll help me. This is very relevant to us because sometimes the tries to put himself in our brain and convince us that we're not nothing in a form of humility and nothing in a form of anything where we get tries to convince us that depression is the only way for us to go. It's very easy to become depressed in this world and I know that before chouba for me I suffered from depression many many years and you know have high highs and low lows and that was part part of the reason of why I spent so much time working it was escape from reality escape from reality listen all these problems all this ah really there's no purpose there's no this there's no that let me go to work spend 16 18 19 hours sometimes I'll spend even work for two two days straight without going to just to escape from reality. It's very easy to escape if you want to escape from reality. That's that's pretty much what most people are trying to do. They work really really hard so they can go away to some fantasy island and escape their reality. Why? Because their reality is terrible. Their reality is purposeless. The reality is a form of slavery to another man. has no meaning, has no significance, has no end, has no beginning. So you want to escape it. But when your reality is permanent connection to Hashem, permanent fulfillment with the creator, you never want to escape it. That's why you're never going to hear that a major rabbi went on vacation to the Bahamas. You're never going to hear Rabbi Muzah say, "Oh no, yeah, I just came back from a vacation to Tahiti. We had a lot of fun." It's there's no such thing. Every day is a vacation. Every day is great. That's what the secular people don't understand. When they look at a religious person, they say, "Oh, poor people, they uh they don't make as much money as us." Oh, some of them are actually some religious people are very rich. But you know, the average person, the average that makes $500 a month with eight kids at home, they look at them like, "Oh, poor people, what do they uh spend so much money on kosher food? They could buy non-coosher food for half the price. They spent all this money on these holidays for what? They could just skip it. You know, all these things. Look, I just came back. Look, I have a $37,000 watch. I have a $150,000 car in the garage. Another $200,000 one is on order. I have a house for $3 million. Look, I'm rich. In reality, who's really the rich one? That person is buying all of those things, not because he needs a $200,000 car. No one needs a $200,000 car. The same car, whether it's $200,000 or it's $20,000, it's just going to it's also it's going to get you from point A to point B. No one needs a $3 million house. Unless you have an enormous amount of guests every single day, you're doing a lot of bringing people from out of town at all times, fine. But if it's you, your wife, a dog, and and and two kids, you don't need 18 rooms. You don't You can only use two or three. You don't need 18 rooms for what? Okay, it's nice. This, but for what? After a while, you get bored of it. Oh, you want to move to another house? No, this house is not good enough for us. We're going to expand. We're going to get the $25 million house. Yeah, it has 87 rooms. For what? Why? Why do people do this? Why do people become so materialistic? Because they want to escape reality. Escape reality because reality, excuse my language, their reality sucks. It's terrible. Their reality is awful. It's purposeless. It has no beginning, has no end. Everyone that surrounds you want something from you. pretend like they like you, but they would stab you in the back as soon as they get an opportunity. And I'm telling you all of this, unlike many people that have taught this lesson a million and a half times over history. I'm telling you this from actual experience. Obviously, you guys know my personal story. If you don't, you should watch the lecture I did in Los Angeles. I had millions. I did all of that. I had all of those people that pretended like they liked me and the money and a $3 million apartment and all of that stuff. I'm telling you from experience, the only reason you do any of those things is not because of necessity. You do not need a $3 million apartment. You do not need fancy cars. You don't need any of that stuff. It's simply to escape reality. Why? Because reality is terrible. When you have no connection with Hashem, your reality is non-existent. Because happiness is a spiritual feeling. It's not a material feeling. In order for you to be happy, there's only one way. You have to do something spiritual. You can buy a car every single day for the rest of your life. You can make print money. Print money. You know, the the the US Congress decides, "Oh, we're going to take the printing machines, put it in your house. Print as much as you want freely. We like you so much." You're printing money. Food, you have the best chefs in the world now that you have so much money. women, if you don't want if you don't want to be with one woman, you have a new wife every day, every five minutes, within a week, you're you want to vomit from all of this stuff within a week, two weeks, if you're a psychopath, maybe. But in reality, this you don't need any of this stuff. How big of a house do you really need? Why do you do it? You do it to escape reality because when you have no connection with Hashem, you have no happiness. It's impossible to be happy. And as far as spirituality, we have an instruction set here given to us by the creator himself. He says this is the only way to be correct with the spirituality that you choose. It's not like someone can say, "Oh, yeah, I can be very I'm very spiritual person. I do yoga and I uh pray to uh you know, Buddha or I pray to uh JC Penney or I pray to uh Muhammad." Okay, you could pray to all those people, but you're still going to fall under probably, you know, the same caliber of those people that are unhappy. Why? Because you're doing what's supposed to be done, but just the wrong way. You're doing what's supposed to be done. It's just the wrong way. Is it one a single instruction set that Hashem gave us? There's no two choices. One one choice. Here's the Torah. No religion in the world says that Tawat was not given to Mount to Is and Mount Si. Everyone agrees whether they're Christians, Catholics, all the denominations within them. Islam, the Sunnis, the Shiites, whoever they are, the terrorists, the ones that like us, don't like us, doesn't make a difference. Everyone says yes, Amis is the one that got the Torah on Mount Si. No one says we didn't get it. The fact that they think that there's another book and that that continues this book is irrelevant. Point is, everyone agrees that the day before their religion was born, the day before Christianity was born, the day before Islam was born, all of them would tell you the only correct religion in the world, the only correct instruction set in the world was Judaism. No one doubts this. They can't. Why? Because they depend on the Torah as being the Old Testament, Torah, whatever they want to call it. And this single instruction set based on this logic is the only one that can be correct while everything else is wrong. It's not possible for the New Testament or the Quran to be right and the Torah be wrong because the second version cannot be right when it's depending on the first version while the first version is wrong. Then both of them are unreliable. This is something that's very very important for people to understand. But for some reason unfortunately many of us are fooled by the in one way or another. We're led astray and far far away from the instruction set. Why? Because this instruction set it says it says bring yourself near. You have to do something about it. The other instruction set the fake one say no you don't do anything. Why? You can kill people, do whatever you want. As long as you believe believe in some guy that died 2,000 years ago, whether he lived or not is questionable. But the bottom line is as long as you believe in him, everything's okay. Hitler, yeah. Yeah. He believed in JC. Oh, he goes to Ganedin. Well, he killed 50 million people. Yeah, but he believed in JC. According to that logic, he's in Geden. Same thing with Haman. Same thing with if they believed that anyone that believed in JC according to their logic, their book can do whatever they want. This doesn't make any sense to any person with a little bit of sense. Any person with a little bit of sense realize this doesn't make any sense. Here you have an instruction set. This instruction set tells you you have to do stuff. But unlike Islam, it tells you you have to do things with everyone around you in mind, not just you. You can't just go in the middle of 47th Street or Broadway when there's non-stop traffic and because you have 400 friends, stop traffic to pray. Go to the corner, go to the mosque, go somewhere else and pray. Do whatever you want. But you can't torture everyone else because you have to do something. Have you ever seen a Jew stop traffic to pray? Unfortunately, in today's age, we're so embarrassed of being Jewish sometimes that we don't even pray when we in the synagogue. Something you see somebody praying in the uh you know in the airport, but it's it's good. But even then, they're praying in the corner so no one sees them. They're embarrassed of what they're doing as if it's something bad. Muslims right in the check-in line. They'll pray in the middle of Starbucks if they want to. Doesn't matter. No. no shame. This is against the Torah. You can't do that. Also, you can't kill people because you think that you're right and they're wrong. So, a lot of their laws are against against the very Torah that they say is right. They say it's right. Not just me saying it's right. Not just Hashem saying it's right. They say it's right. They say it's correct. They say it's from God. So, you see there's a problem here. Why? No one wants to believe in this Torah or to follow this Torah. They say it's right, but they don't want to follow it. They have to come up with a new excuse. Why? Because this Torah obligates you. This Torah says you're not allowed to be prideful. You're not allowed to murder. You're not allowed to steal. You're not allowed to do a lot of different things. You have to act like a human being based on Hashem's description of what a human being is supposed to be. And this very same human being gets a significant reward just for having confidence in Hashem which can only be done if he's close to Hashem. One of the most interesting things about this specific issue of confidence that I uh learned is the mid from which is also a midash on uh on psalms on tim. It says says even the wicked will get salvation if they put their confidence in Hashem. Even if someone is planning to rob a bank and right before he pro, you know, he goes to rob a bank, he prays to Hashem and he actually believes that Hashem is going to help him rob the bank. Hashem makes sure that all of the bodyguards over there, all the guards over there are sleeping, make sure that all of the alarms don't work. Make sure that all he's actually believed that Hashem is going to help him. Here it says just because of this confidence, not because of his action. His action is wicked. He's going against the Torah. He's going to steal. He's going to murder. He's going to do a bunch of bad things. But the fact that he has confidence in Hashem is so significant that Hashem will actually help him. Absolutely. Absolutely. Hashem will actually help him. Hashem will help you in whichever direction you want to go. You want to be righteous, he's going to help you be righteous. You want to be wicked, he's going to help you be wicked. Now, Hashem surrounded by righteous people. This will give us a really, really good clarity. If Hashem is willing to help the wicked, for their wickedness, why do we have any problem and any doubt in Hashem helping us if all we're trying to do is things that are righteous? If I'm constantly trying to gather million carat diamonds full of, you know, that are mitzvot. If I'm constantly trying to do the will of Hashem, make his will into my will, why do you doubt his give you? Why do you think you need to work on Shabbat? Because six days is not enough. Why do you think that you're not going to be married ever and you're not going to find a ze? Why? Hashem ran out of people. You're the only one he's going to leave alone. Why do you think that you have to go spend millions of dollars on doctors just to have kids? What Hashem didn't make miracles with that happened before? But what do we need to do in order to get this miracle? First and foremost, we have to have confidence that he's going to help us. In order for us to have confidence, we have to do something about it. We have to get close to Hashem. close to if you get close to Hashem, confidence is an inevitable destiny. But if you have no confidence in Hashem, that means there's something missing in this equation. Cuz the wicked guy has confidence. Why shouldn't you? It says, "For one who trusts in Hashem, kindness surrounds him." Now, what is the main thing that we hear constantly today in the news is that there's a potential war. There's problems in the world. Things are heating up in the last week or so, even more than the last time I was here. Very easy to lose confidence. Very easy to lose ourselves in all of these disasters that's surrounding us. whether because a lot of is out of our control. Now you have Russia publicly warning the world that if anyone comes to Syria, it's going to start World War II, as if it didn't start already. And you have America responding that we have to send people there. You have a uh article that came out a day or two ago by this former FBI agent who's now a radio host with some very interesting information saying that World War III is inevitable and it's in his opinion. I don't hold him to his uh timing, but in his opinion, it's going to start in the next few weeks. Obviously only Hashem knows when any of these things are going to start. So don't put too much value on the timing. But he puts a lot of interesting information that normal people are not privy to. We already have discussed and know that we are we find ourselves in something that the Torah calls the end of days. Msiah is around the corner. could be here tomorrow, next week, five years from now. We don't know. But based on how everything is heating up, it's not too far. The only reason it's carrying any longer is because Hashem has mercy. That's it. Not because he wants it uh to uh last longer. Hashem has mercy because he sees a lot of people are doing cha right now. Millions of people are waking up right now. Both go and Jews. One thing I mentioned in the lecture, I think it was last night or night before, it's very interesting in case you don't watch it. I really want you guys to know it is that Hashem in the last uh month or two since the uh Shim have been uh publicized in a few different places that I have on Rab Misra's uh website and a few other places and also you know build a fan base over a couple of years that adds up over time but it really gets to a point day and night we don't have anymore it's non-stop emails questions compliments nice things everything it's never stops never ending amount of uh communications with new people from all over the world whether it's as far as Australia Norway Bulgaria or the United States as local as Florida helping somebody convert or people in New York or people in Chicago want me to go there constantly people reaching from all over the world they got connected to one of the shulim and it turned something on it turned something on and I'm not just talking about Jews I'm talking about a lot actually even more non-Jews than Jews. Mhm. Even more non-Jews than Jews are connecting to this stuff and saying, "Listen, something's missing in my life. Money. Yes, I have uh this. I have this. I have this. I have happiness. I don't have connection. I don't have something is missing. I watched you. It turned something on. Something switched on. You're seeing this not just because anybody who reads the Torah will get the same information. There's nothing special about me. Apparently, some people are not reading the entire Torah, so maybe they miss some parts. But the key here is that you're seeing the world wake up. And there's a story that's happening as we speak. And I know this firsthand information because the uh person is actually connected to my uh my that I learn with all the time. And uh he tells me that there is a country in Africa that the king has found the truth of Judaism, converted to Judaism. Now he's apparently the rest of the family is converting and he plans on converting the entire country but to orthodox Judaism, not uh orthodox Judaism. Now you're saying, "Okay, the entire country is probably a little town, poor people. They don't have any money. They walk around with underwear. That's what that's what we think in Africa, right?" No, they have money. They're fine. And it's between two to 300 million people. Wow. I just read uh recently article in which one of the rapper in New York he's uh doing alat to his uh yeah it's actually good black or something there's another uh rapper former rapper gangster really uh I forget Rabbi Nissim Rabbi Nissim he's uh was a rapper gangster from the street you know of I think Brooklyn and not only Did he convert? He actually became a big Tamit, a Kiru personality, makes people do Chuva, and he's a rabbi, like a legit rabbi. And he came out with a hit song recently with another famous uh singer that's religious. The world's waking up. People are not staying the same. People realize there's something going on over here. The key is for us to wake up. When we see that so much that's out of our control, we realize that Hashem is moving all of these pawns in a certain way to make sure that everyone has an opportunity to wake up. Everyone has an opportunity to look up and says, "Ah, yep. I forgot about you my whole life, but now I'm never going to forget." Every you tell me to pray every day, I'll pray every day. You want me to talk to you every day? I pro every day feeling I do feeling. When we keep Shabbat, I keep Shabbat. You I forgot about you for 40 years now. I'm not going to forget about you again. I'm sorry. Cha starts right away. Take a serious step of cha. Stop with the Shabbat. Stop with the eating. Stop with the nonsense with the women and the men and the new dates every other day. Stop. Enough. Running out of time. Everybody's waking up. But one of the main things the Torah itself says there are two things that are going to help us and save us at the hard times of Mashiach. The times of Mashiach eventually will be great. Whoever is saved has Allah is going to be in a phenomenal shape. But until we get to the end, till we get to the great times, let's not fool ourselves. If you read the book of Zachary chapter 14 doesn't say wonderful things about the end of times. You read the prophecies in the book of Daniel does not say wonderful things about the end of times. You read Ezekiel also one of the major prophets we have doesn't say wonderful things about the end of times. It's going to be very very hard times and it says only two things are going to save you. Only two things are going to save you at the end of times. Torah and Torah, which doesn't only mean, you know, reading the Torah or having a book of Torah on the shelf, collecting dust, doing nothing in the shelf. You know, there's a lot of people, they have a whole uh, you know, cabinet shelf full of holy books. They haven't opened one in 30 years. Somebody comes to their house. Wow. Wow. Big you are. What a sad. Look at all these books. At least $30,000 worth of books. The guy you ask him, so what are you up to? What what's a m what's what's a m what this week? What are we now? No. What are you talking about? It's it's already me. What better sheep? But you have all these books. Yeah. No, it looks nice though. Oh, doesn't mean just having the book in the shelf. Doesn't mean that. It means reading the Torah. Every week you read the para with the commentary. every every day you took, you know, put a CD in the car. Instead of listening to the junk music they have today, you listen to a good rabbi that has something you don't want, you don't have any CDs. Tell me, I'll give you a bunch of CDs. I'm getting new CDs from Rabbi Alonava soon. Rabbi Alon Nava has amazing lectures and he's sending me some CDs soon. So, I'll I'll give it to you guys. Uh so uh there's other should be very soon but also I'm going to get Rabbi Mizrai's new CD soon and a few others. Uh so you don't have CDs fine. You also have a phone. Your phone is a smartphone. They don't call it smartphone so we could look at baseball games or football games. Smartphone has YouTube. YouTube go to my channel. You have two 300 hours worth of lectures that are done. I'm sure not no you know no one's watched all of these hours. If you finish with mine or you have you're not interested go to other ones. Rabbi, there's many other ones. There's so much Torah available. Just press the button. That's what Torah means. Torah means learning Torah. By learning Torah, you're going to put it into your life. Because you can't be one of these people that just learns Torah, knows a lot of information, but does nothing. Learning Torah, by Torah, he means you're learning the Torah and you're actually implementing it into your life. But what's we've talked about this a little bit in the past. We said that is kindness but kindness that's not only money. Kindness that requires your time, your actual effort. Just like says in this to get close to me, you have to make you have to exert yourself and make an extra effort. It's the same thing but with mankind and with Hashem. How so? Yes. You give somebody taka, you give him $20, buy him a meal. That's nice. Mean you spent time with him. There was a uh one time the Moshe Feinstein obviously one of the very very busy man and uh you know is these these sadikim if you notice all of them were very very careful with their time they wouldn't waste any minute so in the morning one day he has some people waiting for him in the car they're going to some very very important meeting and right about before he came into the car a poor man came up to him asking puts the soinstein takes some money out. He gives him staka but the poor man insists on talking to Rabos Mosha Finstein. So he start talking and talking and talking in 1 minute, 2 minutes and 3 minutes. This is much longer than the amount of time that you're usually able to spend with such a big sadik. They're very busy. Now his students that are with Rabbi Mosha Feinstein are, you know, noticing this. After it gets to about five minutes, they're insisting to the person, no, we need to go. The says, "No, no, we're talking." He tells his students to go away and let him continue talking with this poor homeless man. 6 minutes, 7 minutes, they talk for over 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, the says to the man, "It's very, very nice talking to you, but I must go now." That's it. And he leaves. Of course, one of the biggest suggestions the gimm says if someone wants to be righteous is not just learning to but connecting yourself and gluing yourself to sadik. Why? Because by gluing yourself to sadik, you're going to see how he acts and you can learn more from his actions than even from his Torah. Because if he's a sadik, then he's putting the Torah into life. He's implementing it. So of course his his students are not just there just because they want to honor the and help him. They also want to learn from him along doing this. So they ask, you know, 10 minutes with some guy you don't even know. Poor man. He goes, "Oh, he must be asking why." The money that I gave him was not really the stakad that he was looking for. What was more important to him was for me to talk to him and give him a feeling that he is important and that what he's saying is important. And for me, that was an obligation that I had to do in order to give staka. That was part of my it wasn't the money. Hashem is going to give money in a million different ways. He doesn't need me to give him the money. What Hashem wanted me to do there is to do make him feel like he's just as important as everybody else. That's spend your time. Somebody comes to your door asking for money, don't make him feel like a homeless person. If you know this person, it's if it's obviously you can't just let any strange man into your house. If this is a person that commonly comes to the neighborhood is just known as a poor person, make them, you know, come in, sit down, give them a sandwich or something. Five minutes you spend with them, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, not really the end of the world. This is But what's the ultimate? The ultimate especially in our generation is to do kir to help people do cha I'm not saying this for myself only this is the reason why I do what I do but I do it mostly I tell you because each and every single one of you every single person that's watching this you can be a kiru personality if you can't speak then you can give people CDs if you don't have the ability cuz you're so busy to give people see these you can sponsor you give money to the people that are involved with kiru help them out and they do kiru for you if you don't have any money you have internet right you live in the modern ages most people have internet in America okay find a link number 78 about kiru about amuna about uh take the link copy paste it put it on your Facebook put it on your Twitter give it to somebody else send it in an No, anyone that watches this even 5 minutes and it wakes them up. You've done an extraordinary amount of why? Cuz you've taken time out of your day. It's not always money. But you've helped somebody wake up and you could change their life for the smallest thing. Something a CD cost a dollar could change somebody's life. A link cost nothing other than a few seconds that it takes to make an email or a copy and paste in Facebook costs nothing. Change somebody's life. That's the ultimate and it costs nothing. So much so that to show you how significant helping somebody do chuba is everyone has heard even the non-religious have heard of he was the one of the most important rabbis in history a huge lover of Isl peace amongst even mafias Even mafia when they had actual turf wars in Israel, the two leading mafia bosses were killing each other every day and their people every day to the point where they start telling the ra there's murder in the streets. People civilians are getting hurt and says bring me the two heads of the families. Two leading gangsters in Israel. They come they even though they're gangsters they still respect the big Albanim. They came to Rabava, unlike other people, he saw the inside of you, not the outside. He tells all of his people to leave the room. He wants to stay with these two people that are murderers. They're not sadikim. I want to stay just with them. And he starts talking to them. He says, "Your grandparents, I know your grandparents. Your grandfather is so and so. Used to learn with him. Your grandparents were so and so. used to be a very righteous person and he tells them about their families. How could you go from this families to now you're killing each other? And he starts telling him the stories and he starts crying with them literally crying. You have mama something extraordinary. He starts to cry 10 minutes, 20 minutes, a half hour. is crying to the point where both of the head most tough guys, gangster criminals start begging the love to stop crying. We'll do whatever you want. Just stop crying. See a big love crying. It's heartbreaking. See, anybody crying, it's heartbreaking. Me person, I can't tolerate people crying. It's it's it's unbearable to me. I'll do whatever they want. It's my soft spot. I see my little daughter cry. Whatever you want. I'll stop this. No, I'll pick you up. Airplane this, that. Whatever you want. I can't tolerate crying. Of course, I felt you. Starts crying. He would cry for people he didn't even know. He heard if he heard someone in a different country, a Jew in a different country, was hurt in any way, having trouble in any way, he'd start crying. That's why at the end of his life they stopped letting the people come see him because every time people would you know the people would stand online to come see the ask for blessings they'll tell him about their trouble. You get to the point the would constantly cry all day. Said when he got to the when he got to be you know much older it was already hurting his health. It was too much. They stopped letting him see people. That's how much he loved is those two gangsters made peace on the spot. Soya has written some of the most important books we've ever had. Things that are relevant today, things we learn from today, things that we rely on today. His Torah was very, very important. He didn't waste even one second. But to give you guys an understanding of how important kiru is, how important it is to help a Jewish soul do chuba, it's an amazing story I heard recently from he says that uh before became I mean he's always been even since he was a teenager before he became the of you know the the head of of is and so on Every Shabbat he would go from he would eat very quickly and he would go from synagogue to synagogue to give Shuim. He would do six, seven shim. Every Shabbat, six, seven lectures every Shabbat non-stop. I barely struggle to do one a day. He's doing six, seven. I'm just on Shabbat. And he would go to the worst neighborhoods. He didn't go to the rich people. Oh yeah, I'm going to go to Beverly Hills because there's millionaires over there. Maybe they can give you some money. No, you go to the worst neighborhoods. Poor poor people. People have nothing. People have nothing. Also tend to have also a lot more crime over there. So there's a story one time they didn't mention the name of the person because uh you'll find out at the end why. But he went and gave a shoe in one of these areas in Israel, not exactly full of tadikim. And uh the kids outside, teenagers and young kids outside were mamas who called chakahim, you know, called like you know trouble kids. And instead of you know coming to the listening to sh what do they do? They start kicking the soccer ball against the wall in the window. So every word the says hem said p this p you know every word the the soccer ball will hit the wall. He can't even talk. So after a few minutes, the love stopped, walked out of the synagogue to go to the back to see where these kids are. As soon as he gets there, one of them, the tough guy of them, takes the ball, kicks it. I don't know if it was intentionally or not intentionally, kicks the ball, hits the right in the head. His hat falls, his glasses fall, everything is a mess. Now, already at this point, me personally, I would stop the story and just go tell you that, okay, I ended up in jail at the end of that day. But is our so what does he do? Collected come knows everything is from Hashem. Has hem connected to Hashem glued to him picks up the stuff very come here for a second. Why? What do you want? Come here for a second. The kid comes say listen I'm doing a and then I need quiet. If you stop with the ball and you make sure there's quiet, you come with me after the sh to my house, I'll spoil you. Give you food, presents, whatever you want. Yeah. This is a poor person. He says, "This is great." Yeah. Really? Yeah. Yeah. I'll give you Okay, you got a deal. Well, goes in now, gives the sh finish the sh comes out after the sh's waiting for him. He's like, "No, come come with me. come with me. He takes him to his house. You know, you know, these kids are not exactly, they're not dressed in a suit and pants. They're dressed with, you know, tank top, shorts, and flipflops. He takes him to his house. You know, the Rabanit sees him, she gets scared initially, but you know, Rob says, "Please give him food. You give a bunch of food." And is scared. Listen, if I let this kid go, he's probably going to go violate Shabbat now. You know, probably go do something, violate Shabbat. So, he tells the kid, listen, if you stay with me until the end of Shabbat, I'll give you a present, whatever you want. What do you want? He goes, I want to go to a movie. I want to see a movie. Okay, fine. So, the stopped his Torah. Imagine this is a person that would is there was no extra time. There was no I mean every single minute of his day was involved in Torah. Every second was calculated. He stopped his Torah to sit with this kid eat and drink and make sure he had fun until Shabbat ended. Why? Because he didn't want him to violate Shabbat. At the end of Shabbat, he says, "How much is a movie?" He says, "It's two L." So just by laser, you know how long ago this story is. He gives the kid two laser. He says, "Well, how are you going to get there?" Don't worry about I'm going to get there. No, no, no. Here's another two laser. Make sure you have money for the bus to get to the movie. Next week, same deal. Same deal? Really? Yeah. Yeah. Same deal. The next week, the Rav goes to the same place and the kids already waiting excited. He goes, "Pull everything is ready for you. It's quiet." Same deal. He goes to his house after they eat, they drink, laugh, enjoy. He does this for a couple of months with this kid. After a couple of months, the kid leaves his bad friends and goes to yeshiva. And today he's one of he's a he's a head judge in the Jewish court. One of the most important people we have in the world. They don't say his name because I guess maybe of embarrassment of his past possibly. But this gives you an idea of stopping his stopping everything. Why? To make one person to help one person, one Jew. Why? This is the ultimate. It doesn't get better than that. Sending giving somebody a link, giving somebody a CD, email, all of those things. You cannot do anything better than that. This will get you to a point of having the ultimate connection with Hashem. When you have the ultimate connection with Hashem, then the verse of will apply to you, but you would feel it. When says praiseworthy is the man who trusts in hem, you'll feel why why he said it. to give you an understanding of what true amun is inem was a story I read by lived a little over 100 years ago. Well, the story is from about 100 years ago. I think he died in uh 1933. Um and uh towards the end of his life, you know, he would travel, but it was obviously he wasn't the same, you know, physically as he was when he was younger. So one time he was going from war show to uh Reedo or just a different city. And they were going on a train. After a while they had to come back home and but the train home was a connecting train had to stop. They had to switch trains to go to a different train to go back home. So the you know went with his uh and you know as soon as they stopped in the first stop they said oh we have to go to the next train. But the guy realized that this train was late. So that means that we only have like 5 minutes to get to this next train. Walking slowly and the, you know, Tamit knows there's no chance in the world they're going to make it to the next train. Next train's like 15 minutes away. Especially with the way the office is is walking. There's no way they're going to make it. The train is going to leave in a few minutes. Says, "No, don't worry. Everything is from Hashem." No, it's not. It's not stress, not nothing. Everything is pleasant. It's not like today where there's a new train like the subway system in New York. You miss the train four minutes later is another one. You miss a train, you're going to stay there for a day or two. Everything is from Hashem. They walk out. As soon as they walk out, one of the Tomim looks behind them at the opposite side of the train, the other side. He sees that the train that's supposed to go somewhere else just changed their sign. And now it's saying that it's actually going to where they need to go. It's doesn't agree with the sign that it says on top, but the train itself changed. Oh, we don't have to go anywhere. It's right here. They're going to the train, but they notice the notice something very strange. No one else is on the train. Train starts going. A bunch of people are waving for it to stop. The train continues. Next stop, bunch of people wait for it to stop. Continues, continues all the way until it takes A couple of days later, one of the tambidim opens the uh newspaper and he sees that the train company writes a public apology. We're sorry, but two days ago, we made a mistake. One of the trains that was supposed to go to this area made a mistake and went to a different area and passed all of its passengers in their in their location. Didn't pick up anything. The knew it wasn't a mistake. The knew that Hashem with the confidence had made decide where the train goes. When you have confidence in Hashem to that level, miracles become your lifestyle. Mhm. So, as you can see, there's really nothing that is better than to get to a point of having and developing this confidence in Hashem. Our ultimate goal is to develop this confidence. Just like we talked about, that's what we talked about. that we talked about doing, but all of it starts with one thing. Whether it's developing, whether it's developing developing amuna and confidence in Hashem, whether it's getting to eventually the point of loving Hashem, all of them have the very same exact starting point. You have to do something about it. You're not born with it. You don't just one day wake up, oh, I have I love Hashem. You have to do something about it. This is one of the most important lessons we need to learn about everything. All the entire connection with Hashem requires us to do something about it. We are not a religion that says just because you're born a certain way or you believe in a certain thing everything will be fine. No. In order for you to get to a point of having miracles become part of your lifestyle, having happiness become a daytoday normal for you, having no concerns about anything, you have to do something about it. The mitzvot are a requirement keeps us occupied. Every day we read the 13 principles of faith or at least we're supposed to. So it's a big mitzvah to do it and it's also a very big reminder that we're obligated to do. Usually most people read it at the end of at the end of the morning prayer. Now the when he put these 13 principles of faith he said this is what makes us Jewish. Now when you read this and you breeze through it it's very easy to kind of lose the the meaning and the significance of it. And unfortunately, many people just don't read it at all because it's not a uh taught to the same level of significance to most people as let's say doing the prayer of and so on. But I personally highly recommend that we read this as a reminder every single day. Uh because again, this is this is the foundation of our connection to Hashem. This is the foundation. If you believe these things, you are connected to Hashem and you just got to build on top of it. If there are any doubts, then obviously you have something to work on, something very serious to work on. This part of the foundation is broken. This is actually the problem with conservative and reform sects of uh of Judaism is that they don't believe in the entire list of of uh the 13 principles of faith. So this is one of the reasons why for example when someone converts through conservative or reform the conversion even though technically the process especially with conservative the process of conversion is practic almost identical to the orthodox you go to mikv they ask you some questions before the mikv the process itself is is simple but it's not the process it's who's the dan it's who's the judges who's deciding If the judge is someone that's teaching openly to violate the Torah, that it's okay to drive on Shabbat, especially if you're going to besset, it's okay to eat at non-coosher places because the food is still healthy. It's okay, you know, if you're eating a salad at a non-coosher place, they say it's okay. Sometimes they even say not eating non- kosher meat's okay, too. I don't know to what what level it is. You're not even allowed to eat non-coosha salad, right? Why? Because you can't rely on the uh on the kitchen to clean all the worms and and bugs that are in it. And eating one bug is like it's six sins. It's worse than eating pig. Eating pig, which most Jews think, oh eating pig, I would never do that. Shabbat, no problem. Eating pig shalom. That's that's the I used to think like this also. It's not not a joke. You think the pig eat a pig? No, never eat pig. Go to the beach on Shabbat. Yeah, why not? What's the problem? Why does I'm relaxing on the beach? That's the mentality of a secular person. Eating pig is one sin. Eating a bug is six. So when you eat vegetables, you have to be very careful to wash them, to clean them. That's very, very important. And that's why you can't really eat salad in any non-coosher place because you cannot rely on them cleaning it because they don't have those laws in their, you know, in a department food of health or anything. When conservative and reform are teaching that it's okay to be openly gay, you just have, you know, you're accepted. and we love you as you are even though Hashem says that you're considered an animal to him because the sin is the same thing as beastiality and the violation and this is one of the biggest sins in the Torah. Again, you see the problem here. You see the problem here. So when the judge, the dian that's converting the conservative or the reformed is that he's teaching that or agrees with that, the Tawa says he's not reliable. He could be a huge very wise person, knows everything, knows verses by heart, knows the entire Torah by heart, knows this, knows that. If his teaching is such that it's against the Torah and he's a kufair, cannot be relied upon even if the process is identical to what is it like if we wanted to take a flight from here to Australia. I know from New York to Australia was 17 hours. I'm not sure how it is from Florida to Australia. It's probably similar. And for 16 hours and 59 minutes, the pilot m it's like you're praising Hashem for creating such a genius. What a great flight. Last minute, he falls asleep. Last minute. 1 minute. 16 hours 59 minutes. He's perfect. Last minute. He's about to land. Last he falls asleep. Is he a good pilot or is he is he a murderer? The fact that they know a lot of Torah and they remember books by heart and they quote this guy and quote that guy means nothing. What are you doing with it? That last minute of what you preach and how you live your life, that's everything. You tell people, listen, the Torah says this. Yeah, it's not Shabbat. That's not relevant to our generation. God didn't have cars back here. So, it's okay to drive. When they start making things that are against the Torah, that 16 hours and 59 minutes means nothing. It's all bub kiss. It's all worthless. That's why people that are misled, they pay a lot of money, spend a lot of time, they go through conversions. It's unfortunate that being misled, they find out one day, no, you're not even you're not considered Jewish. It's not it's not fair. It's not fair at all. This is this is creating a lot of problem in today's generation because unfortunately the conversion business is big money especially since so people so many people want to convert. The funny thing is that the righteous rabbis the ones that are really mushed on mitzvot and everything else it's a fraction of the cost of what it is for the people that's not even considered conversion. I have one one story I heard that's in uh it's unfortunately it's in Israel. This one wicked rabbi is trying to uh get people to convert but he wants each family each person. People are coming from poverty. They're not coming from a lot of money. Each person $10,000 which in Israel is an extraordinary amount of money. Even in America it's a lot of money for conversion. I can tell you the conversion $1,000 $1,500. righteous people that I know for sure. $1,500 you're finished with the conversion. Orthodox, legit, accepted all over the world. You see that again is very strong in our generation. Very very strong. So we have to make sure that we connect to hem and we have to have because that's the way we get the special protection like we mentioned. Now the 13 principles of faith is the difference between being Jewish and not being Jewish. Being close and connected to Hashem and not being close and connected to Hashem. And this is some of the things that you know we we read every single day. And I recommend that you spend some time on this every day when you read uh when you read it to think about what each one of these things mean. The first one first one says it's I hereby believe with perfect faith in the 13 principles of the Torah, the holy Torah. The first thing I believe that the holy one blessed is he exists and watches over us. This is exactly what we're talking about today, which is that Hashem is everywhere. There's no question about it. I'm not doubting whether he's here or whether he's not. Whether he cares that I do after the bathroom or I don't, whether he cares if I do at this time or that time. He cares about everything and he watches everything. In order for us to get to a point of understanding that the Tawa is kesh, the Torah is holy. The first thing we have to realize is that we have to follow what Hashem said. to par wicked par through Moshe. He says this in the uh inad verse 103. Moses and came to Po and said to him, "So Hashem said, uh, so Hashem, God of the Hebrew said, until when will you refuse to be humbled before me?" This is the first half of the verse. Which means here is that in order for us to have any type of connection to the Torah, first thing we have to do is we have to minimize oursel. We have to be humbled. We have to realize that Hashem is much greater than us, much greater than we could ever be. Our logic is not his logic. Our thoughts are not superior to his. We do not know a better way. Whatever he writes here is relevant forever. The fact that we understand it or don't understand it is irrelevant. You have to pretty much remove all pride from yourself and realize come to terms with the fact that Hashem whatever his word is written 3,000 years ago or written yesterday doesn't make a difference is superior to what our thoughts are. This will lead you to a point where you realize okay that Hashem this this this holy one he cares about everything. As we said, he watches over us. When we realize that he's watching over us, this brings us back to the sh we had a few weeks ago, which is how Hashem in this week's actually and also in throughout the entire Torah, Hashem constantly repeats his name. He says, "This is my name forever. I am Hashem. This is my name forever." He's constantly repeating himself. I am Hashem. I am Hashem. I am Hashem. I am Hashem. And here in in in in verse uh in Exodus uh 34 uh 3:15, the end of the verse, it's he's specifically mentioning to us something very very clear for anyone who thinks it's a second book, third book, fourth book, new opinion, relevant opinion, modernized, not modernized, nonsense. He says this is my name forever. Just like my name does not change, the Torah doesn't change. My opinion doesn't change. Nothing gets modernized. Nothing changes. Same Torah that I wrote stays the same. The next thing which is more relevant to non-Jews than it is to Jews or at least we hope so is that Hashem is one. This is the second thing, second part of the 13 principles of faith. you know, there's one God. Unfortunately, Christianity has uh gotten to the point where it's it's turned into complete idol worship uh where they've split God into three and um in essence believe that God is more than one. Some believe that this JC person is a Messiah and you know and the son of God. Others believe he is God. The interesting thing is that the vast majority of Christians, devout Christians actually pray to him which means that they believe he is God. Their book says he he is God. And Catholicism split this person into one of the pieces of God. This is against the foundation of the Torah. This is against the found the 13 principles of faith. And we have to understand that Hashem is just one. There's no there's no other pieces to it. One of the most important things that we realized that Hashem is one, as we've talked about before, is the importance of developing fear of this one. When you realize there's one, when you realize that Hashem is all knowing, almighty, all everything, he's in charge of everything, whether it's the cells in your body or it's the panad that you struggle for or the zoo that you want or anything. When you realize finally realize that Hashem is one, then you're paying attention. Just like we had in also in uh Exodus, we had the Egyptians when they got the plague of hell. We learned this that Moshe gave them a warning. Anyone that goes outside is going to die. Him and his animals. Anyone that stays inside will live. Simple. You've seen the frogs. You've seen the lice. You've seen the all different types of animals. You've seen blood. So on there's another plague. There's going to be hail, ice coming with lava inside it. The pretty much going against the laws of nature because Hashem is above nature. He is nature in essence or it's one of his tools actually better said. and he's going to give you a choice. If you want to fear him, you're going to be inside. So here it says, we learned here that those who feared uh it says here verse 920, whoever among the servants of par feared the word of Hashem chased his servants and his livestock to the houses. So whoever feared Hashem realize that Hashem is in charge of everything went inside whichever one of us that has any understanding of that Hashem is one and that despite being one he is everywhere at the same time. He's not like us one and we're just at one place. Despite being one he's everywhere at the same time. That's the beginning of if we that's that's what it's saying over here. It's those that paid attention. But what about the people don't have fear? Says no, it's no such thing as not having fear. It's whoever did not take the word of Hashem to heart. Whatever didn't pay attention in Hebrew is what you say. Whoever did not take the word of Hashem to heart, he left his servants and his livestock in the field and they died. There's no such thing as not having fear of Hashem. It's either you have fear of Hashem because you recognize his his significance and the fact that he is one or you're just not paying attention. You just think that you're God. You're in control of your own destiny. Because if you actually believe that Hashem is the same Hashem and the Torah, of course, you have fear. Which means that if we don't have fear, if you don't have a part of us, could be a small part, could be a big part. A part of us has doubts. Part of us has doubts if it's real. A part of us has doubts in a second principle of faith, which is whether God is one or not. A part of us, not saying all of us, part of us has doubts. If we have, if we if we're not scared of God, scared of what he thinks, scared of his opinion, a part of us doesn't believe. We have to work on that part. The next thing is he has no body nor the likeness of a body. This is why the whole concept of Christianity can never ever apply to a Jew. The whole New Testament, the whole concept of anything relevant to the New Testament or JC or any person that believes themselves to be a part of God, God himself, whoever they think they are. This is all nonsense because again they have humanized God. The the the cannot get any worse. People are constantly trying to humanize God. They're constantly trying to make God like us. He's not like us. He will never be like us. He's not coming here in human form. And he's telling you you himself, I have no body or even a likeness of a body. There's no image at all. There's nothing. He is everything. Doesn't have any. It's not like there's like a wind or like a spirit with some hands and like you know in the movies, hey Joseph, how are you? No, it's nothing. There's nothing. There's no like face in the sky that talks like in the movies. There's nothing. There's no image. There's no likeness of an image. There's no wind. There's no like lightning uh you know type of personality superhero nothing. You're not even allowed to think that there's an image. You're not even allowed to give yourself a picture of what you think God looks like. It violates the third principle of faith. Mhm. So when we pray if you're praying really hard, you want to think about something. You want to visualize something. You can't visualize the sky and you think God is just standing there and said, "Oh, it's good, my son. It's good, my son." You can't do that. There's no old man over there waiting for us. So what are you supposed to do? Look at the letters. Visualize the letters. Look deep into the Hebrew letters and look at the name of Hashem. Look at the name of Hashem. It's very, very holy. It'll get you even deeper into prayer. Don't look at some image, some picture, some nothing. Also, by the way, if if you ever pray somewhere and there's a picture of some rabbi, you're not allowed to look at him when you pray or even face him. Just so you know, this is very, very important. Prayer is very, very important. prayer as this week's para says is that when we don't have the we don't have mdas we can't do sacrifice anymore so what are we going to do for repenting for our sins prayer is very very important when we don't have sacrifices our words are what we use as sacrifices but not just say hashem forgive me that's not enough pray you know put exert some effort effort into it. There's an amazing story again by the Bal Shento. It was one time a uh young kid, you know, in those days, you know, you're already six years old, you're already working. Young six-year-old kid was a shepherd. Didn't know how to read, didn't know how to write. All he knew was his chickens and his sheep. That's it. And some other animals that he had. And that was his world. He didn't have any friends, nothing. He just had just him and his little animals. And all he knew is these little animals. That was his world. And you know, when you're a shepherd, you're alone a lot. Mushenu most important people in history have been shepherds. They spent a lot of a lot of time alone. When you have you're able and understand the significance of being alone, you connect to Hashem at a very deep level. A lot of people today have a very uh tough time being alone. They need action. They need something. They need to go places. They need to ski. They need to skydive. They need to go, I don't know, buy stuff. They need to go to the mall. They constantly have to do something. Why? Because again, there's emptiness. When there's emptiness, you have to make yourself do something. When there's significance, when there's connection to Hashem, being alone is the best thing in the world. Connect. It's me and Hashem. I'm never alone. So this little boy is with his animals. He prays to Hashem in his words. He doesn't know but you know you know he heard one day you know in those days they would make the bell sound is yon kipool it's coming. So he went to synagogue but he sees every other little boy is with his father and they're praying and they're praying. They're all reading from a sidulu from sidu and he doesn't know how to read. He doesn't know what they're reading. He doesn't know how to read. He doesn't know what to do. But he knows this is yum kipoo. I have to pray to hashem. What do I do? What do I do? And he gets into the prayer and into the prayer. He doesn't know what to do. And it's burning his heart and it's burning his heart. What do I do? What do I do? How do I pray to Hashem? How do I pray to Hashem? How do I pray to Hashem? And he says all of a sudden, it comes out of him, forgive us. All of a sudden, all of the people in the Ka saying, "Who's violating the prayer and disgracing our prayer?" Saying like a chicken, like a rooster. He didn't know how to pray. But the big rabbi in the synagogue was the Baltov. And Baltov calmed everyone down. And at that moment, the Baltov says, "I knew that the sky, the heavens were opened because of that boy's prayer." Cuz that boy's prayer, it wasn't the words, it was the heart. The heart opened. The boy's prayer opened the heavens and Hashem forgave all of Islam because of that boy. So when we pray, we have to make sure we have to use as much of our heart as we can. I know we're in a hurry. I know we have life. I know we have appointments and this and that and everything. But you have to make time to pray. If your prayer is not that good, you have to make sure that the next one is better. You have to spend some time with Hashem. The next thing is also this is something for all of these science people that he precedes all the ancients. He's before everything. There is nothing before him. A lot of people come, you know, that they they have doubts and they want a uh proofs and so on, you know, but in reality, they're not looking for proofs. They're looking for excuses, excuses not to do something, excuses not to do mitzvot. So, yeah, but this God of yours, what became, what came here, what was there before God? This is a non-starter question. It's what's called a non-starter question, a nonsensical question. Because if he's God, there is nothing before him. If he's the creator, he cannot have a creator himself because then the creator would be the the creator's creator would be the creator. He's not bound to time. So this is a non-start. This is nonsense. But again this is also mentioned here in a uh when Hashem says in uh Schmut in Exodus uh uh 3:15 again it says this is my name forever and this is my remembrance from generation to generation. So when he said that, we already knew that there's nothing going to be after him. But on verse 14, he said, God answered Moses, I shall be as I shall be. And he said, so shall you say to the children of Israel, I shall be sent you to me. God said forth further to Moses, so shall you say to the children of Israel, Hashem, the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, the God of the God of Yakov, has dispatched me to you. This is my name forever and this is my remembrance from generation to generation. So the combination of all of everything they say here we learn one of the names of Hashem and you see the the famous name the most well-known name that we see in a we see in prayer is the hud ven from those letters and from the language that he uses here he's telling you that there is he is the past he's the present and he's the future there's nothing before him there's nothing other than him here now and there's nothing ever going to be beyond him. So anyone that asks one of these silly questions should really ask themselves a better question which is are you interested in the truth or are you interested in excuses? Excuses. You don't need a rabbi for that. You don't need Torah for that. You can make up excuses for the rest of your life to live a nonchalant, non-obligated type of life. And obviously when you find out that you're wrong, it's already going to be too late and you won't be able to fix it. The suffering will be eternal. Obviously, if you don't believe it right now, you know, eventually the person will find out. On the other hand, if there's a 1% chance that we're right and the Torah is right, even if there's a 1% chance, why would you want to take that risk? So you have to really ask yourself, do I want to be uh proven that there is a significance to my existence? There is a purpose to life and do I want actually proofs or do I want more excuses? The next thing is there is no worship to any other besides him. This is again also a lot of these things are as you noticed are being violated by the other religions especially the idol worship from Christianity and Catholicism because one of the main things they do is even the ones that don't say what the beginning of their New Testament says which is that uh you know JC is a part of God and so on or son of God or is God or whatever nonsense that they're making up over there. the people of today, if you notice, a lot of Christians, what I've noticed is many Christians have pretty much made their own version of what they believe. Very rarely will you find a Christian that actually believes what's in the book because the book contradicts itself. On one end, it says JC is God. On another end, it says he's the Mashiach. When it shows you the lineage of the human father who's not really his father, it's just a person, Joseph the carpenter. It says Joseph the carpenter is somehow connected through his descendants to David. There's 25 in one page and there's another 25 another page, but 20 the two 25 sets are don't match and it's a contradiction of its own. Regardless of that, those people are saying he's the Messiah. But wait, the same book said he is God. So which one is it? And then so you see a lot of people today, they're following the instructions of that false book and they're making their own belief. They say, "No, no, he wasn't God and he's not the Messiah. He was just a rabbi. He was a really righteous person." And another person would say, "No, no, he was a prophet." So they're just continuing this convoluted story because pretty much the book itself is convoluted. So why not just make a new one? There's already 200,000 versions of the New Testament. Why not make 200,000 in one and two and three and four and five? All of these beliefs, all of them are false. And a form of idol worship. Why? Because of this specific principle of faith says that you're not allowed to worship anyone aides from God. So, anyone that worships JC or even anyone that worships a rabbi, unfortunately, there's a lot of people, foolish people today that have turned their rabbi into an idol. Yeah. They've prayed to him. They feel like they need him in order to get to God. They have to go to these far places to go pray there specifically because they need to pray to that sadik. And I can tell you based on the Torah that Sadik is very very unhappy with these foolish students of his. You're not allowed to pray to a person. It doesn't matter how righteous he was or who he was. The only person you're allow the only thing you're allowed to pray to is God. The next thing is something that is very important for us to understand is he meaning Hashem knows the thoughts of man. He knows what you're thinking. Even when you're trying to hide it from your family and friends what you're thinking and you're trying to hide your feelings because you want to show like you're strong and tough and so on. The reality of it is Hashem knows what you're thinking. If you're thinking wicked thoughts, he knows what you're thinking. If you're thinking good thoughts, he knows what you're thinking. This is very important for men and for women to understand in regards to modesty. Women do not understand that one of the biggest disasters they could bring into their life and into their family in regards to marriage is a television. A television set is the worst thing that you could bring into your house. Especially if that television set is used on a regular basis where the husband gets home from work and he watches television and he watches these shows and another show and another show and a sports and a show. Why? Why is this bad? Because if you've ever noticed what's on television in my past, I used to watch television and I could tell you that I don't think anything changed. No one's ugly. None of the women on television are ugly. They're all very, very pretty. Why on God's green earth would you want your husband to constantly look at other women that are pretty? Because you know that when he gets home at 9:00 at night from work, he worked in the garage. He picked up some uh construction material. He helped some do some some patients. He's got blood all over him. You know, he's a mess. You finished a long day of work. You finished a long day of work. Whether it's a professional career or it's chasing the kids around, whatever it is, you finished a long day. You're not looking your best at 9:00 at night. By the way, usually 9:00 at night, you're putting pajamas on, you're putting comfortable clothes. You ready to go to sleep soon? So he's home and he looks at the TV and he has a movie star in front of him that's half naked. Most of the time people are naked, but sometimes they actually have clothes on. And he looks at her looking her best and he looks at you looking tab [Laughter] and he looks at her like, "Wow." And look at this one. And what what does he do next? Why, Hashem? Why? Why don't I have this one? Worst possible thing a woman can do is bring a television to our house. Why? She's bringing another woman. She's bringing another woman. What do you think? He's watching the television set because he really cares what this woman says or this guy says and who he's going to kill and who's not. Everyone knows how the series is going to end. The good guys are going to win. The bad guys are going to die. Every series ends the same thing. Why do you want him to watch other women? No, it's nice. We watch the shows together. Oh, yeah. You're watching the show. He's watching women. Women have to understand that guys do not think like you. This is why it's very critical for a woman to be modest. She's not modest because it's just what Hashem said and there's no rational reason for it despite the fact that that's enough of a reason anyway to do it. It's because Hashem created man with a different mindset, a different brain, a different soul. What ends up happening with a man is that when he looks at a woman, he immediately thinks with his brain of how she looks naked. woman's old, young, when he has no Torah in his life, that's the first thought. That's just the way that's that's real talk. That's the real language. It's what every guy is at some point or another. If you have no Torah in your life, that's the way you think. That's the way it is. It's reality. Women need to understand that. So, when you're making the job easier by pretty much wearing clothes that's so tight that he pretty or not wearing any clothes at all that he pretty much doesn't need to think about you naked, he already sees you naked. What ends up happening is that person is going to continue thinking like that even when he's with his wife. And according to some of Kazal, those thoughts of a different woman at the time he's intimate with his wife could even get to a point where in Sham they considered the the child coming out of it a mam. Not really her child, not really his child. This is a problem. Hashem knows your thoughts. Clean the garbage out. Best way to clean the garbage out. Enough with the television. Enough with all of that stuff. I know it's a difficult change. It's one of the most difficult for most people. But if you want a happy marriage, first place you should remove the television from is your bedroom. If you can't move it, if you can't remove it from the living room because the kids and this and that and whatever, fine. bedroom. Should never have a television set ever. What does a woman say? No, no, no. I would like to watch my sports before I go to sleep. Okay, so you can watch it alone and I'm going to divorce you because you have a television set. Okay. Okay, please. Where do you want me to move this? A woman knows how to get what she wants. You want a good marriage? No television at all. Why? Because you're giving you're giving you're putting the test in front of him. You're putting the prey in front of the lion and you're tying the tying the the prey for what? Guys don't think like women and Hashem knows what you're thinking. When you're thinking when you're watching all this TV, watching all this women and everything else and you're praying in reality, you're praying, you're saying the words, "Yeah, Hashem, thank you. Hashem, thank you." But you're thinking about the uh of what you saw on TV last night. It's not really a good prayer. It's not really a good prayer. The next one says the prophecy of Moshe our teacher peace be upon him is true. This is critical to understand because when we read the Torah we have to understand we have to believe it believe it in its entirety. There's no one part we can't believe. Every word in the Torah has just as much significance as another word. Every same thing as the next one. Even though some you don't even understand. Why did Hashem mention all the descendants of Asav? All the descendants of Abel. According to the which is where we've learned much of the secret part of the Torah, he says that the biggest secrets in a Torah are in those places. Well, you see this? Why are you even mentioning this? Okay, what do I care if he gave a son to two Balkan and two Balkan did this? Why do I care what their names are? They're not. They're not anyone I can learn anything good from. What do I need to know who their names are when he gave he had children with this one and he had children with that one and this? What? Alisa says those specific places what he what he's seen from himself is where he discovered the most amount of secrets. This is to give us an understanding that the Tawat Moshe is complete. There's nothing there's nothing more significant than the other. There's no beginning. There's no end. It's something that's uh extraordinary. Also going back to the issue we talked about in the beginning, why did Moshe get pretty much the most important creation named after him, the Torah, because of his humility. How do we know when came complaining to Moshe about food? What are you complaining to me? What are we? We're nothing. What do you mean you're nothing? You're the leader of you just performed a bunch of miracles in in Egypt. You talk to God on a regular basis like you and I are talking. You don't even need to text. are you available? He's already available to you whenever you want. He said, "No, we're nothing. We're nothing." That's why because he realized that in comparison to everything which is Hashem, he's nothing. He got everything. The name of the Torah is five books of Moses. It's not five books of Yon. It's not five books of Joey. It's five books of Moses. When you minimize yourself, Hashem gives you everything. But really minimize yourself. Not minimize yourself like you tell people, "No, no, no, no. I'm nothing. I'm nothing. I'm nothing." And you're just looking, seeing, did they realize one of these guys, one of these people, that's fake, fake, humble person. It was a uh an Arab person came into the town of the Rambam and he was publicized. This is the most humble man in history. most humble man in history. So he let me let me meet this person. He sees that everything this guy does, he follows him. He sees he's really humble. But theam says it's not possible to have humility without impossible. Why? Because you don't know the truth. You don't know everything which is Hashem. So without knowing Hashem, there's no way that you would think of yourself as nothing. So without Torah there can you cannot be humble but he sees this is an Arab person no Torah no nothing but he's doing all the things that make him seem like he's humble one day two days one week two weeks time goes on at the end of the tripam says wow maybe I made a mistake I don't know how is it possible there has to be something I'm missing over here at the end this Arab comes to me goes to to uh to Rambam and says See, isn't it true that I'm the most humble person? And says, "Ah, I knew there wasn't a mistake." The guy is a fake. He's just a good actor. If you run away from pride like we're supposed to, Hashem will give you everything. But if you run away from pride, but you look back to see if the pride is chasing you, then you have a problem. Then you're not really humble. And Moses is the greatest of all prophets. This is critical to know because again there are many prophets that came after Mosheu. People that are not learning Torah will sometimes mistransate some of the prophecies they have in different books especially from you know Christian sources and so on. This is already a guarantee from a Torah. There's no such thing as someone bigger than Moshe. This is already several verses in a Torah that says that no prophet will ever be bigger than Moshe. We've talked about this many times. Why do we mention this? Because as big as Moshe was, that he was the go that took us out of Egypt. That a part of his soul is going to be part of the Mashiach. that he received the Torah, that he speaks to Hashem, that he gave us all the prophecies, that the Torah is named after him, as big as he was, Hashem almost killed him when in the beginning of the Exodus verse 4:24, it says, "It was on the way in the lodging when Mosherenu pretty much when he left the house of to go to Egypt. He had a newborn son that was just born and it was time to do the Milah. We already had the laws of Milah before we got the Torah on Mount Si. The mah was already since Abraham. So on the eighth day, you have to give a boy unless he's sick. Moses knew that in the desert to give a brea is dangerous. This is the reason why is during the 40 years they were in the desert did not do all the all of them did once they went to Israel there was a huge mountain of that was a lot of tum but was did uh that Joshua made everyone do which we'll go over another time but nonetheless Moses we haven't gotten to yet technically Moses just got this position he doesn't really But according to Hashem, he's going to be remembered and believed in forever. Hashem has given him a guarantee that they're going to believe in you forever. They're going to believe in me and you. It's putting him putting him in the same sentence. But here Moses made the mistake of delaying the saying Maybe we'll do the brick once we get to Egypt instead of on the way. It was on the way in the lodging. They got to the hotel and and Moshe instead of doing the brick in the lodging in the hotel, he decided that no, we're going to do it once we get to Egypt. We're going to delay it a day or two. That the sheman counted him and sought to kill him. This is not a commentary. This is an actual verse in the Torah. He sought to kill him. Why? So Tipah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to his feet and she said, "You caused my bride's groom bloodshed. So you released him." Then she said, "A bridegroom bloodshed was because of circumcision." So the most significant person in history, the one that the only reason we have this, you know, this Torah we got from him, Hashem did not have mercy to say, "No, it's okay for you to delay this mitzvah. No big deal. I don't care. Violate Shabbat, no big deal. Don't do me on the eighth day even though you can, no big deal. Want to eat nonosha? No big deal. Want to walk around like a prostitute? No big deal." He didn't say any of that. if he didn't give even the most significant person in history even before we got the Torah an extra day an extra hour to do Milah what makes us think that Hashem is just going to say nah no big deal you can do whatever you want this is very important to know when we realize that Moses was the most significant of all the Nim all of the prophets what it should remind us of is that Even he was subject to judgment, reward and punishment. Everyone's the same that Hashem gave us Torah. Torah was given from God. It wasn't written by Moses. It wasn't written by uh anyone after. It wasn't written by the rabbis. Torah is from God. This is important to know because again a lot of when you don't know Torah it's very easy to think that somebody else wrote it. But if you spend just a couple of hours watching the uh movie the purpose of life by Rab Misrai the most recent one or perhaps one that uh I like even more that's the new one. If I like even more, I like the old one which is four hours. Has three parts which is Torah and science. Has the same information just even more. You spend four hours and you arrive at a indisputable understanding that the Torah could only be given from God. There's no way that any human being could have written it. One of the best examples I think that's you know very rational for the rational thinkers is that the first thing they had that Moses had to do as soon as he came down is let people know that the uh uh the laws and one of the laws meant that you know a person cannot marry his aunt. His parents were married. She was his aunt. His father was the nephew of his mother which means that Moses had to tell his parents to get divorced. Now, if some if Moses wrote the Torah, he would want to make his life easier and that the worst thing he could possibly do is tell his parents to get divorced. Why would he want to tell his parents to get divorced if he wrote the Torah? The second thing is on for the rational people is that the very same people that the Torah is written about are the very same ones that are getting the Torah. Which means that if anything that was written in the Torah didn't happen, one of them would say so. It says in the Torah that is saw the words of God. They saw the sounds, saw it, not heard it, saw the words of God and heard the words of God. So if one of the millions of people that were there did not see something or did not hear the words of God, you would say, "Hey, Moshe, you wrote this in the Torah that I heard the God talking to you. I didn't hear anything. Torah is canceled. If somebody disagreed, that's it. This is it cannot be. So for those that are rational, you look at the rational points. For those that are scientific want proofs, there's countless things we've gone over in previous videos and and also in Torah and science. It says it even much more to much more extensive. There's countless prophecies and promises within the Torah that cannot have been for mankind. like that you will ne you know you'll have fish with scales but no with um fins but no scales but you'll never have a fish with just scales but no fins. In order for anyone to know such a thing they would have had to know all of the cre creatures and creations which at this point we know of over two million creatures all over two million species. So this also includes mutations and so on. There's never been a fish with just scales. A snake is not a fish. For anyone that thinks a snake is a fish, it's not a fish. The next thing that's important, we're almost done. The Torah will never change. For anyone that thinks they supposed to modernize the Torah, it does not change. That's why the uh Hashem calls this is a covenant forever. Forever means forever, eternity. Doesn't change because it's 2016 in secular years. It doesn't change because we have cars. It doesn't change because we have planes. It doesn't change because you don't feel like it. It doesn't change because it's tough. Doesn't change. This is one of the foundations of being Jewish. understanding and believing full faith. The Torah will never change that Hashem blessed is he punishes the wicked and grants good reward to the righteous. This is critical to understand because unfortunately in today, especially in America, we've talked about this many times. The whole concept of reward and punishment is no longer being taught to the mass public. I don't know what's happening. The is getting stronger and stronger, but for some reason, people are led to believe that they can do whatever they want and every every Jew has a share of the world to come because they read it in the prayer on Shabbat. That's only a 10% or 5% of a Mishna where it says every Jew has a share of the world to come. The other 95% of that Mishna says and this is a kushin and these are the Jews that do not have a share of the world to come and it lists a list of sins. One of them obviously being and so on. So that Mishna doesn't mention the whole Mishna because it takes several pages. But for some reason, people don't learn Taw to which again I spent most of my life not learning Tawra. You know, you would it's easy for us to believe, especially if a rabbi says it or a guy says he's a rabbi. No, no, don't worry about just givea. Don't worry about it. Oh, yeah. Shabbat. No big deal. No big deal. Don't worry about it. When when we're not when we're not taught about reward and punishment, unfortunately, we are not very different from the Christians. We're not very different from uh the Muslims. They're not very different from, you know, pretty much idol words, idol worshippers. Uh why? Because that's the life they live. No, there's no uh reward and punishment. It's all karma and good good luck and fortune and nonsense. Hashem is specifically telling you there is reward to the righteous. There's punishment to the wicked. Day of judgment will come and we better have a collection of diamonds of mitzvot by the time we get toem. Next thing is what we've talked about several times in the past which is that the mashiach will come. We're all supposed to believe and uh understand that the mashiach will come very very soon. Personally, I hope that he takes a little bit of time, but I know he's going to come very soon just because we want to help more people do chuva. Um, this is the a um resurrection of the dead. Someone that wants to convert and does not believe even something like this that sounds mystical that the Hashem will revive the dead cannot convert. So why do people have a problem believing that Hashem will resurrect the dead? Because they're thinking with their flawed human mind. They're thinking that, you know, someone's dead, they can't come back to life. What they should actually think before that is that actually resurrecting the dead should be easier than anything else God has ever done. Because the fact that you're here is a bigger miracle than him resurrecting the dead. Because what does a person come to? Come from comes from nothing. Comes from a put seed. Out of 300 million seeds that leave the male body, only one tiny tiny little one that you can't even see with the naked eye. You need a microscope to see. And the chances of that seed succeeding by itself is something of an anomaly to go with the egg. Actually, this putrid little seed turns into this whole human being giving you a lecture today. Comes from nothing and you have everything. So what? We're resurrecting the dead. You have the bones. The bones don't disintegrate. So you already have half the job done. What's so hard to believe? And again, if it's the same God that's written in the Torah, it's so hard to believe. These are the 13 principles of faith that we must understand. And also keep in mind in regards to the resurrection of the dead, Hashem has done it several times in the Torah. We did it twice when we received the Torah, when we uh got ten commandments. As remember, I told you in last time I was here, I think each time Hashem spoke one of the commandments, all of Am died. They couldn't handle it. They died. Hashem brought them back to life. Said the second commandment, they died. And then Hashem uh, you know, then they, you know, uh, pleaded with Moshe, stop uh, stop him from talking. Please, you go talk to him. We'll do whatever he says or else we'll die. Uh the second time that Hashem did it is actually during one of the um in a neim and during the pro the books of the prophets where uh he revived the tribe of afflime tribe of left mit before the rest of Isra because they thought that the uh time for exile was then they were wrong about timing and they were all massacred by the philistines the Philistines. So uh hundreds of years later, I think it was around 800 years later, Hashem brought the prophet over there and uh I think it's uh called dry bones. And uh he says, "What do you think of these dry bones? Can they be brought back?" And he said, "Only you know, Hashem." What does it mean only you know? Only you you know their deeds because if those if these people were people that were jealous, they can't be revived. Hashem will not revive them. If these people are wicked, he's not going to revive them. Only you know. Not because only these say only you know because only you know if you can do it. Of course he can do it. That wasn't the question. He said only you know because only you know if they're worthy enough of being revived. So he's he also did it. Hundreds of people came back to life then. So this happened many many times. to finalize and summarize everything. Ultimately, what this para in the beginning and all of it is telling us as far as learning about all of these garments is that we have to be very very precise and as precise as possible with our uh work of Hashem's Torah, work of Hashem's. We have to try as hard as possible. Hashem shows you here that he cares. He cares about every single part. He cares that you try as hard as possible. He doesn't necessarily judge you based on your execution. He judges you based on your effort. If your effort is 100%, Hashem already knows what you're able to and what he's going to allow you to do. He judges you based on your effort. If he knows you truly tried 100% to do a certain mitzvah, he reward you as if he did it. If you want to do a mitzvah but you become a noose for example you want to go and a uh you know give a shield to somewhere but something happens and you can't give the shield to something beyond your your uh your ability or if you want to donate money you have money set aside to donate discs as soon as it comes time to pay for the dish you go oh somebody stole the money but you you're ready to do the mitzvah Hashem considers as if you did the mitzvah 100%. If you're really going to, you know, ready to study Torah, something happened, something serious, not like a customer called, something serious happened, health issue, some type of crisis happened, you can't study this hour that you're supposed to study, and you really are somebody that studies every day. Hashem counts it as if you study at the highest level during that that hour. So he's not judging you based on your uh execution. He's judging you based on your effort. So if we exert our effort then we can build our beton. If we build our then we're connected to Hashem on a very very deep level. We get special protection. We have the special protection. It becomes very very easy for us to have these 13 principles of faith become part of our life. A permanent part of our life or Hashem is on our mind at all times. If these 13 principles of faith are permanent part of our life, it's very very easy for us to live a righteous life. And the last thing that you want to think about is what said says reflect on three things and you will not come to the heads of a transgression to the hands of a transgression. Know from where you came, where you're going, and before who you are destined to give a judgment and accounting. From where you came from putrid drop where you're going to a place of dust, maggots, and worms, and before whom you're destined to give a judgment, an accounting before the supreme king of kings, the holy one. Blessed is he. If we realize that we came from nothing, we're going to nothing and we're going to be in front of Hashem. Ultimately, this is not to depress us. This is to make us realize that this life, we're here to work. We're here to collect diamonds. We're here to collect mitzvot because the real life that's waiting for us is eternal. And it's up to our work here whether that eternal is going to be eternal good or not. All of these teachings will give to all of all of the people we mentioned all of you and uh little by little we're all getting closer and closer to Hashem. Any questions? Amen. Amen.