Shiur Torah #90 The Secret to The Blessings In Scary Parashat Bechukotai

great to be back another this week's is very very difficult most people don't like to even hear it because this par even though it starts with a lot of blessings it starts with a lot of blessings it also is one of the two most difficult the entire Tor that talks about the curses but there's also a lot of good in this par a lot of good to know at this time of the year but before we start also want to dois B Mel kotes Gia Ando b b IL ma gerero Cesar Jimenez JN Bella blor B civia Hanah Vasquez Jessica Putney Putney Putney Karina Vasquez Jorge Hernandez Isabel Perez Josephina Matos marel matut Yan me Jose Antonio Aila guo Solano Claus May Suarez and ruven Pablos may give all of them we have so many different things today and is suffering in so many ways you have sicknesses poverties problems with the government every day there's something new and hasm is telling us that the way to get to him is through difficulty if you're having a easy time in life then usually means I added I add uh if you're having an easy time in life usually that means that you're going You're disconnecting from Hashem if everything is going fine job is paying on time you got a brand new car every other uh you know year everything seems fine then usually means that you're actually spiritually you're in trouble why because AEM has shown us time and time again throughout the Torah whether it was abrah ainuu mosavo anyone that you want to mention anyone of the sages any one of the forefathers anyone that's really close to Hashem with they're in this generation all the way to the creation every one of them had difficulty but that's what made them who they are now this is not necessarily something that we yearn for we don't want to necessarily pray for difficulty but to give you an understanding of the difference between this generation and let's say the generation of the gar 2,000 years ago when it's sikim would see that things are going to smoothly everything is going fine no problems for 40 days straight they didn't see they have any T any everything is going fine they start going in the middle of the stream start picking up big rocks and moving them just making their life more difficult than what it needs to be why because they were scared if something is not difficult maybe hasm is giving up on me and these are sadim isn't these people learning T all day and they're scared oh maybe hasem is upset with me so that's why he's giving me all my reward in this world they were scared of getting any reward in this world for us in this generation we want all of the reward in this world and we want a guarantee that the next World's even better and we want but on top of that we're not willing to do anything hem says keep Shabbat I'll keep half Shabbat kosher okay at the house modesty H you know maybe when they uh I go to beet I'll be modest but maybe when I go to the wedding that's when you know when a woman is modest a woman that's modest is how she shows up to weddings because at home you know when no one sees her she'll do everything she'll cover her hair she'll cover it doesn't matter to her nobody sees her but when she goes to the wedding that's when everybody she wants to show off to everyone so that's why you see sometimes women even religious women they cover their hair with the scarf whole week all year except when there's a wedding or bar mitzvah she shows up with a wig cuz she wants to yeah she wants to look good it's a problem it's a problem and that's unfortunately one of the difficult see work with the Satan you have to be prepared this already happened to me a few times with this new camera these were brand new batteries they just died in 5 minutes Satan doesn't like so going to have a very good Sher so uh the thing is though with with with modesty with mitv with with closeness to Hashem you have to constantly remind yourself that Hashem is watching all the time there was one time a woman came to AR and uh you know she's talking to a few things and you know she's modest he says listen just want to let you know don't look at me like right now like I'm really modest I just covered my hair for you but when I'm at work I don't cover my hair he says why not he goes ah you know it's not uh it's not uh really um in fashion now it's not exactly uh what we do he says so why you C from me then says no I want to respect you he says well you know what you really should respect theem more than you respect me she go no no I respect AEM he goes so but so this is what you could do only we the wherever hasem is if he's not somewhere then don't cover it she went home and she started thinking you know sometimes takes a few minutes for someone to realize what you're saying she went home she started thinking about it she said where hasem is all day I ask Hashem for help I askem to give me Health ask hasem to save my kids askm to give me a good marriage all day I'm asking him for things but at the same time I'm being ungrateful by not doing what he says not fair that's not a fair relationship she called and she said I'm taking it on me I'm married woman I have to cover my hair all the time CU hm is everywhere she took it sometimes the most logical statement can get to someone but sometimes you have to be clever because people will rationalize everything now in this week's par we have a lot to learn we did a lot last night we had a sh last night we covered a lot of the parts of the curses and the difficulties and the we'll cover a few of them today but today I want to cover a few other things before that uh really want to talk more about number one sh which is coming up and two a little more about the blessings curses we talk about all the time so let's talk about the blessings a little more so first off we have shat coming up now anyone that's uh listening to the Daily K that I do the audio we did a k I think about a week or two ago that's still you know very relevant today we just had not too long ago we had PES and then now we have shavat PES is a reminder of The Exodus when Hashem made Miracle after Miracle after Miracle every single day there was miracles to destroy the biggest civilization in history most powerful civilization in history because they had control of everything the entire world was paying Egypt taxes it was a very large Nation one of the midashim says they had at least 900 million people some say even more very rich very powerful and took these powerful nation and made them beg their slaves to leave this is the first and last time something like this ever happened in essence the slaves which is am turned into the master they gave them gold they gave them money just go away just go go so Hashem wants us to be reminded of something like this every year is one of the of the Tora someone violates P it's like violating Shabbat big big holiday he wants us to be reminded of all the time every day we have to be reminded we have to say twice a day and then before before we go to sleep so technically three times a day but the major obligation is twice a day and he wants us to be reminded of something like this why because it was completely unnatural there's no way to explain it in a natural way anyone that has read the story listened to the story and actually believes the story there's no way to explain such a thing in a natural way it has to be it has to be help from hasem 100% from Hashem so when someone realizes that Hashem did so much for us obviously this is a big deal then we have 50 days later from the second day of PES all the way until sh we have sh what's sh sh is the day we actually receive the Torah this is in essence the most important day in history it's even more important than creation itself because the Torah was brought was created by hem 974 Generations before the world was created which means it's Superior it's more important in the world and actually the uh the holy books the zad says that before this world when they ask what happened before this world actually hasem had six other worlds six other civilizations before this this is the seventh and last World so we already know the Torah was already around before us and the day we got it in essence is gave this world a meaning before this world without a Torah Torah you know the world has no purpose so we went from happiness to happiness Exodus to actually receiving the purpose of the world we receive him in the Torah but in the middle we have disaster in the middle we have the all that we count from PES to uh to uh sh but the first 34 days we're not exactly happy why cuz those 34 days is a memorial for the 24,000 students that R AKA had and they died almost every day 700 students died so I thought I thought to myself why why would AEM connect okay so we have happiness great we have another happiness great but why have misery in the middle what's the connection everything has to have a meaning Hashem could have could have made this happen in any month of the year and if they were sinning then they were probably sinning right before they probably would sin right after so why make it happen right here what's the connection so I thought in this an interesting thought now to give you an understanding of students it says the least of them out of the 24,000 the least one the worst student that I've everyone had enough Kus and wisdom of Tor to to revive the dead it's the least of them in essence this one person this one t had more Torah in him than the entire world we have today combined including all the all theik all the whoever is around everyone combined is not equivalent to one to the least of them not even the most of them so in essence if you guys remember couple years ago R passed away they say that almost a million people if not more showed up to his funeral it was the biggest funeral since mosenu in 3,300 years there's never been a funeral like this even the go showed up people that not Jewish would showed up because they had respect for him even enemies would show up everyone respected him he was giant of Giants and he wasn't just a giant of this past generation he was giant for Generations imagine one of the this is but it's still R if you compare R to one of the you can't compare it's two different worlds even if you compare the rambam the rambam that lived 800 years ago the most important poc in history and one that he explained all of the rules that we have today all of the mitzvot that we got eventually from in got it from the ra he took it where from the from the oral Tora the ra all the Safar call themselves Safar because of the rambam not because the rambam was safarik not because the rambam was Spanish he wasn't Spanish but because at a large part of his life he lived in Spain so due to that we all the Safar call themselves Safari because that's where he lived where his Torah from there that's even though he lived a part of his life in Egypt as well a lot of Safar think that their origin is originally from Spain it's not some yes some no but anyway the rambam as great as he was and he talked he put interpretations about the entire Tor all the everything everything you can imagine he touched on whether it's mashiach or creation anything you want he has it the ramb was not even good enough to be a student of RAB AA that's how big RAB AA students were so imagine just like we have Rya that passed away a couple years ago imagine 700 of those every day by the time you finish crying for the first one you're already crying for 699 others by the time you finish crying for the second one you have to cry for another 700 so this is a big loss it's a big loss of Tor but how much T how much T is this lost so the in tract me says that in a t it mentions the names of 55 prophets there's 55 prophets 48 males and seven females seven females were prophets 48 males but Hashem told us in the same uh same part of the oral Tor it says how many prophets were there in history okay we know in the Tor it says names of 55 but there were any more Hashem says yes there were at least 1.2 million prophets throughout history 1.2 million people that had Direct connection with hem higher than any Sage can have Prophet Prophet is higher thanes so the sages ask okay hasem we're missing how come we don't have their Torah where's where's their Torah 55 is great we haveu which is the foundation of the Torah that's just that's five books we have 19 other books that's divided up the other uh 54 prophets but where's the other million million two the answer is their prophecies were only relevant to their generation meaning that anything that's written in the tanak whether it's the five books of Moses or it's you know Psalms or it's Kings or any Ecclesiastes anything you have in in t every verse you can find if you know how to do it if you study enough and you have a you can find relevance of that verse to you in this generation today every verse is eternal every verse every letter is eternal not one letter is extra not one letter is not needed okay so now we understand that all of this Torah technically it's more than what we have we have our Torah is only from 55 prophets now those 55 prophets gave all of the Torah to the 24,000 students of R AA but now RAB AA students died Anda had to start all over again with five new students Rud r r Shimon which is and RAB elazar Ben sh so these are the five students thata started all over again so six people inherited all the Torah that we have today now how much Torah do we have today there's a story there's a story about radya where there was this journalist that uh wrote an article without meeting without asking radya anything he uh wrote an article about Radia saying listen I don't know why everybody listens to him anymore he's old this is when R was probably in his 80s 82 84 he says I don't know why anyone listens to me he's already old he probably has bad memory maybe he says one thing today he says something else tomorrow why does anybody pay attention to this old man so ra who doesn't usually pay attention to these people paid attention to this and he invited this journalist to his house journalist said okay fine he comes to the house in Hal in Jerusalem and he says listen I saw you wrote an article about me and you have some facts about me you have some information about me I wasn't even aware of you say that I have a bad memory how do you know I have a bad memory cuz no I mean for the we all do respect you uh you're old I mean naturally people deteriorate over time someone that's 25 years old is going to have a sharper brain usually than someone that's 80 years old that by the way only works in a secular world in the Jewish World in the Torah world you only improve with age because the Torah improves you now this this this uh journalist secular Jour journalist didn't know any of this obviously so everybody says okay you know what let's test it out let's test out this memory that's bad I'm interested in finding out for myself he says okay go see my library he says yes it's a very respectable library and a journalist wrote there was at least 30,000 books 30,000 books and Ra's library in his house 30,000 not 3,000 not 300 if we know if we after we finish one book we get really excited tell me you know everybody gets a little excited after they finish one book you finish two books you finish a set of five books the five books of Moses we already think we're go you know he has 30,000 books in his Library okay but there a lot of people you go sometimes you go to people's houses they have big Library a lot of books but the guy is uh not exactly a genius so the books look good but he doesn't actually read them so everybody says listen pick any book you want it's a big Library a lot of books pick any book you want tell me the title of the book the name of the book open it anywhere you want and just tell me the first word first word anywhere you want come on this is I don't want I'm going to write another article about this I don't want to make the situ situation worse than what it is you're supposed to have some respect he goes no no come on what do you care just do I want to check my memory he goes no one can do what you're asking me to do goes just please pick any book you want so this journalist says you know what he wants to do it I'll make even a bigger article off of this why not so he goes and he climbs the ladder to go find something that he knows it's not a trick so he looks for something still Dusty you know no one even if you read all those books in your life which is a miracle of its own just to read them once even if you read them once still you couldn't read them all anytime soon probably 50 years ago so there probably some books that you haven't read in a long time climbs the library takes something all the way from the back has some dust on it says he says the name of the book opens the book anywhere he wanted he picks a page he says first word Raad tells him every single word that follows after it he recites the entire book by heart wow so the journalist is shocked this is not no it's probably a trickes tries again goes to another book opens the book open the page tells him a word gives him everything on that page by heart everything on the Page by heart and continues the power of Torah has no limits it's not a physical power it's a spiritual power for the first time in this journalist life he saw what that means he wrote an article again after that he says Not only was I wrong about his memory but I don't think anyone in history has a memory like him it's not human what he has to know 30,000 books by heart not just learn them you read them 50 years ago you read a book to know it by heart it's not normal and this is just the books he had in his house he had more books than that so now we already know that from RAB there was at least 30,000 books but obviously if you go to Hebrew books.com there's they have about 75,000 books for free for anyone that wants to download books for free in Hebrew and English holy books Hebrew books.com um they have about 75,000 books you go to other Publishers in so many words the Judaism and the Torah has tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of books and all of those books all of that wisdom all of the Torah even the books that some guy is writing right now the foundation of all of it is from those six people AB AKA and his five students hundreds of thousands of books is a Torah of just six people people so now imagine if one out of those 34 days hasem would have said you know what let's skip today let's not punish 700 students and let's leave them alive imagine you have the Torah of 76 how much Torah we would have or if it was 2 days, 146 all these books tens of thousands of books you have from just six people so now how does this connect to sh Hashem told us I took you out of Egypt for one purpose to give you the T anyone who did not want to receive the Tora as we said in previous did not survive hasem killed them whether it was 80% or 99% of the uh is irrelevant the point is whoever didn't want to do ch what hasem said you have no purpose in the world so in P we started that mission sh we achieved the mission we said we said we'll do and we'll listen but you fast forward 3,300 years this generation doesn't have much appreciation for Torah unless you're in the tor you're learning you know what it means most people don't actually have much of an appreciation to the Torah so when do you have appreciation for something when you know that you don't have it anymore someone that has a relationship problem and decides to break up when they're in a relationship and there's problems they don't care n I'm better off without her I'm better off without him I'll find this I'll do this or somebody says you know unhappy with their job no I'm going to quit and they're going to miss me but the same thing happens for everybody 48 hours after the breakup whether it's through the job or the relationship or anything else we already second guess ourself and think we made a mistake ah you know what maybe I should have just talked to the boss and asked for a raise in a nice way oh you know what maybe what he did wasn't so bad maybe I could have just had some patience for him or patience for her everybody regrets it why because they don't have it anymore we appreciate what we don't have and this is exactly what Hashem did in in the if we just gave us the Tor we have a bunch of books we have tens of thousands of books like okay it's 10 th 10,000 books 100,00 books a million books who cares I'm not going to read any of them that's what the average person going to say who cares but when you realize how much knowledge is in those books and it only came from six people and we technically had 24,000 of them and not only that those 24,000 got their books got their knowledge from just 55 prophets what if we had the Torah of the 1.2 million prophets W so that's why when someone asks what do you do in the answer is always the same you go and you learn Tah learn T why do you want to learn T don't you already know T you finish the once or twice that's it why you finish when you realize how much Tor there really is versus how much we have you realize oh you could learn Tor and connect to the Tor for eternity it's still not going to be enough still not going to be enough but obviously the highest the higher the level of Torah the uh more you enjoy it and the more you connect to it nonetheless this is exactly what hasem did to us on one end he punished us but just likea says at the end of the tracta of everything that the merciful one does everything that hasm does is always the best what do you mean always the best so hasem has an infinite amount of ways he's everything to get you from point A to point B there's no limits you can get there with a helicopter you can get there with a plane you can get there with a car you get there with a boat you can walk there you could limp you could there's infinite amount of ways to get you from point A to point B Every Time hasem makes a choice it's always the best possible Choice he never gets the second best choice so even the disaster we had of losing 24,000 students or perhaps not having the Torah of one .2 million prophets is also for the best how do we know because today we learn that all of this beauty of this tah that we have today is just from a few then makes us want the rest that's what hasm wants to remind us you left Egypt you're going to get to the Torah but before you get to the Torah don't wait till after before you get to the Torah think about how much you want the Torah start appreciating the Torah for what it really is if you start appreciating for what it is once you arrive at the Tora you're going to Value it you're going to read it you're going to learn it you're going to comply with it you're going to fulfill it but if you get there you don't really know what T is you're going to show up it's a lot of books okay I'm not really interested but if you think about what the significance of the is and you realize how much to there really is how significant it is how powerful it is that it can get uh someone that's in the middle of his 80s to memorize tens of thousands of books with not even a hiccup no human that's a scientist or a journalist or anything that's secular could even memorize 10% of that even the smartest guys can it's not possible even if you're talking about whoever Einstein it's not it's not a human thing so this is now to remind us that now we're going to arrive at tor something to think about once we're going to get sh ah you know what that's why sh one of the uh it's not a commandment you don't you're not obligated to do it but one of theim that they do is to uh the night of shat is to study all night study all night usually they do it at theet all the way to the morning you have a uh you know you study all the way till praying and then you go home it's a couple times a year we do that sh is the main day that people do that in essence to show how much we yearn for his T how much we want it but now that we know what we're missing makes us want it a little bit more so this is shat again it's a very special holiday it's in essence the most important day in creation because fulfills the day of the the it's not like y Kip we're constantly saying to hem we're sorry even though the says that shab is also Judgment Day it's also a day that we're judged but nonetheless it's not a day like a um Yip where it's a uh we have to fast I mean you eat you enjoy and as a matter of fact one of the reasons why you eat uh dairy products on sh is because when Moses came down from the mountain from Mount saai he came down with the Tor now Tor had all these rules one of the major rules is kosher how to slaughter Kosher meat now everyone that was anticipating Moses wanted to prepare a big party he's getting this toah we're going to party so they already preparing for millions of people you're not preparing for five people a barbecue you're preparing for millions of people takes time so what do they do they started slaughtering the animals before he came down they started slaughtering the animals so when he came down he says all of those animals that you slaughtered tens of thousands millions of animals you have to throw them out can't eat it why it doesn't follow the Tora Tora gives a law of how to slau are an animal so all these animals are not Kosher so in essence what everybody ended up eating was dairy products we couldn't eat meat not enough time to make another party so we at dairy products so that's the reason why in sh we eat dairy makes sense so now in this week's it starts off also something that connects us to the power of Tah it says so the first verse I actually read a little more I read the first two verses first verse is if you will follow my decrees and observe my Commandments and perform them then I will provide your Reigns in their time and the land will give you its produce and Hashem starts to give us a line of blessing if we fulfill his will if we do what he says and the first verse of this par is very special and should be studied cuz it separates the verse just like several times we've done in sometimes you have every verse is special every verse is extraordinary I'm in but once in a while it's you can see that the verse can be broken up into a few pieces and we'll give you a lot more clarity so sh first says if you will follow my decrees then it says and observe my Commandments in essence it kind of sounds like the same thing twice but it's not and perform them so this we explained last night first and foremost if you follow my decrees the says that this means if you study Torah with sacrifice meaning if you make sacrifice in order to study Torah what does it mean sacrifice meaning if someone is retired has nothing to do all day if he studies an hour two hours a day it's not a sacrifice someone Works a full day studies 15 minutes 20 minutes a day if he's already doing that for several years it's not sacrifice if he just started just started keeping Shabbat last week and he's first time he ever started to he's studing 15 minutes like I suggest to people to start with then obviously yes for him it's a sacrifice but someone that's already doing it for 5 10 years learning an hour or 50 minutes a day or something like that it's not a sacrifice what's a sacrifice what's doing it when it's most difficult at night when you're really really tired you want to go to sleep you want to get your eight hours no I have to learn some T commanded to us learn Tora I'm going to get seven hours of sleep instead of eight yes but I'm tired but you're obligated to comply with hashm to fulfill the purpose of this world in the morning I got to go to work work okay you got to go to work but you have to wake up a little extra early maybe you go if you're not going to if you know that you don't have time to study in the afternoon you have to make sure to study in the morning so maybe you have to wake up an extra half hour early to study the says that when someone arrives in the regular Torah that he had when everything was convenient it was on in the afternoon he was retired just studying an hour here hour there just for Le doesn't help him much what Torah helps him the one that he made the sacrifices for and he says that type of Torah is what hasm is commanding you here the Torah that's difficult to learn listen listening to sto you know reading stories of sikim is enjoyable but for men especially for men cuz they're the ones that are made mostly obligated for toah it's not enough what's it's the one that's difficult T it's it's Torah the makes you that's the difficult subjects not just stories stories are fun read them but that can't be all your Torah it has to be the difficult Parts the parts that are hard to understand the parts that make you think that's why I say when you once you get used to learning some toah and it's in part of your regular part of your life you have to learn after you've learned uh the five books of Moses with commentary you have to start learning gar why because the gar not only gets you closer to Hashem and is a difficult part of the to but it also improves your brain it literally improves your brain physically and spiritually I can tell you from my own experience in college I had a 3.9 GP which is almost the perfect GPA even though I only went for one year and high school I was a top student in uh the Wall Street days I had eight different licenses each license required like a 150 to 300 question test so you can say that I was a pretty good student comparing today to those days after a few years of Tor I honestly in myself I look at myself like I used to be a monkey not that I'm this big it's just that your brain changes so much that even for business even though I'm not involved in any business whatsoever even when people ask me all the time they ask me for business advice you know they ask me for marriage advice business advice this advice that advice so you help them with all things that you have but even to give business advice which used to be my profession and I'm not doing it already for years I'm better at it now why it's all power of T all power of T and the more you learn T you start seeing your brain improve it's amazing so says the more difficult your to is the more significant it is that's what you're going to have when you get to but this Tora is not just to learn it's not like history book or a math book or a science book is this tah why learn it so you observe my commands you learn what to do why why do you need to learn what to do the last step so you can perform them the Tora is not just to learn for intellectual reasons yes it's it's pleasing it's great it's amusing it's stimulating that's why some of the uh major scientists that started learning not only did CH and some of them actually were M atheists believed in nothing they started learning not only did they actually end up become doing Chua and some of them became big rabbis but they became much better at what they do they do it not just for the mitv they do it because it's it's they find it stimulating more than anything else but the key is to perform the Torah to put it into action this is why the beginning of the verse says it literally means if if starts with if you will follow my decrees but it's not really follow my decrees if you would walk with my decrees means walk why why didn't say if you would keep my decrees why does it say walk with my decrees keeping MIT even in religious communities it's not exactly the most difficult thing in the world if someone comes from a secular world yes of course it's very difficult it's very difficult someone is used to eating non kosher I mean uh he's eating used to eating on kosher dating a new girl every week he's used to the secular world then for him to even keep the smallest mitvah is already a big deal but I'm not talking about him we talk about him enough the religious World sometimes you see in the religious world people wearing black and white they have the Hat they have the beard they have the thing but theira theira level is literally less than someone that doesn't keep anything it happens when you see at theet they pray 2 minutes they're finished like robots they do the mitv like robots they became robot but as far as belief in hasem how do you know somebody's you see how they handle stress someone had short you know they're short on money if you if that guy is can't handle he's always angry about it he's always upset about it he's you know can't control himself then you realize you see that guy doesn't matter whether he's wearing a hat or he's not wearing a hat he has no because if he actually believed what tat says that everything everything that hasm does for the good and he knows that what happened to him is for the good okay it's a test but that's the point you got to test the test is to test your amuna if you're going through a test that means Hashem wants to bring you higher not because he just wants to torture you he wants to bring you higher if you're not getting a test that means that hasm gave up on you already which is not a good thing but you see sometimes somebody has all the uniform the outside but nothing inside no whatsoever and this is because it's easy to get used to things a monkey if you teach a monkey how to behave a certain way he'll do it that's why they have monkeys in a zoo the monkey can flip five times in a row he could do headstands he could you know peel the banana and it was same way that you wanted to peel you can do whatever you want he's a monkey if you tell the monkey listen every day stand up straight for a few minutes and then I'll give you a cookie he'll do it if you tell the monkey to sway a few times he'll do it if you tell the monkey go wash your hands before you eat he'll do it it's not really a big deal so what's the difference between us and the monkey if we have NOA nothing someone has NOA and they go and they sway when they go to be they sway way but in reality they're thinking about the job they're thinking about they saying yes thank you Hashem for doing this and what I thinking about actually this guy screwed me I can't believe it he's not thinking about Hashem in the middle of prayer he's thinking about the guy that screwed him he's thinking about the girl that he saw that's pretty he's thinking about it he's thinking about everything else except hem he's praying though he's saying the words even if he says that I'm loud out loud but he's thinking about something else he's somewhere else why is NOA so someone like that and the monkey no difference but this is this is many of us though so this is why hasem says you have to work on your you have to not only learn this tor fulfill it and perform it but you have to perform it out of love lived about 300 years ago you know what I I learned once that uh a monkey got a offended CU they compare him with their human being in today's generation it's possible yeah it is possible yeah so lived about 300 years ago a lot of the mid that we read we talk about comes from him major major Sage knew the entire T like an angel but his Torah in those days is no phone there's no internet so and people didn't know what other people look like so his Torah became very famous worldwide he was the the biggest of his generation his Torah books became very very popular but people didn't know what he looked like it's not like they drew him on the book so sometimes as I said in the beginning of the sh sometimes the sages when they see that life is too easy they take something on themselves to make life difficult but in other cases sometimes when the sages get a message from shamim that there is a there's a decree from sh is is made a sin one of the sins that we learned about in the last few weeks and hasem says in this par if you do these sins I'm going to punish you and he tells about all these punishments one punishment after another after another after another there's five levels of punishment from taking all of your money all the way to the end of eating your children parents would have to eat their children this is actually if anyone if anyone checks out history this what happened in bet mikdash yeah bet mikdash was surrounded by the enemy for three years so no food can come in and out no food come in and out for three years eventually they ran out of food and that's what parents actually had to do and there's other disasters in this par anyone that wants to develop go and watch the shoe we did last night we're going to post it later today it's very important to read this para very very important to read this because as difficult as it is to read it's required because it's it's in in order for you to develop your so now all heard from sh today is a decree against am is he says I'm going to take it on me instead of you punishing all of am is punish me so what I'm going to do I'm going to go in Exile I'm going to leave the Homeland I'm go in Exile when no one knows me so in essence Wherever I Go people think I'm some homeless guy they don't give me any respect they don't know who I am they don't I'm pretty much homeless so this is what he did he went to one of the far countries where no one knew him and he arrived in this community of where they had actually their uh their Rabbi over there was a very very holy man that once in a while would get actual uh Torah from sham they would disclose Torah to him from sham they would tell him certain things that are in the to that he didn't learn himself someone else taught it but in somewhere else somewhere some Far Away place it's a form ofes and so on so goes to the synagogue but nobody pays attention him he's like this homeless guy that's what that's what they think so he listens to uh this is now Thursday the Rabbi says last night I had a dream and disclosed to me 14 interpretations about the first uh first verse of 14 interpretations that came from the they disclos me what he taught the world 14 different understandings of this particular verse and I'm going to tell you so when he he gave a bunch of when he said the name of all he said his full name which is rabim Ben R Ben so when people heard R Ben like you know everybody was very excited this is the giant of the generation but then they have this what they think is this homeless man saying no no he's not kados he's not nothing he's just he's nice I know him people start what start yelling at this homeless guy how dare you insulted sadik this is do this is the biggest giant of the generation how dare you say call him a regular name like that he's like I know him I know him he's not a big deal he's not kados he's not holy he's not nothing so the people want to beat him up Rabbi calmed him down and he taught them the 14 Verses first 14 interpretations of this verse the next day Friday night the Rabbi says again I had a dream last night and from shamim again they gave me interpretations new interpretations now we have 28 oh my of the first verse of this Paras that came from then he starts giving a bunch of compliments he's sadik he's kados he's this he's that he's G he's a and everybody's cheering and happy and then you have this homeless guy again no he's nothing again I keep telling you he's not kados he's not holy he's not nothing he's I know him he's just K everybody wants to beat this guy up against come on how dare dare you again go against the rabis a sadik how can you say that you rude person you're you're the type of person that's just here to make everyone angry go against the Torah you know in those days they respect the Torah it's not like uh today where some people do things specifically against the Torah like I have this uh this I found this guy on the internet he makes videos makes videos terrible he makes videos specifically to convince people to leave Judaism and he's Jewish not only Jewish he's Israeli and he makes Hebrew videos to convince people to leave Judaism and become not religious that's all he does video after video after video after video so it's not like that person that RHA which we actually learned last night in the people always ask me come on you know you know sometimes you say things that are a little extreme someone that violates Shabbat has NeverEnding suffering where does it say it in the T it actually says it in the Tor says it in page 17 we went over it last night there's certain types of people that Hashem says even after I shut down Gom their Gom is going to be separate it's going to continue and one of them is someone like that someone makes other people sin that's that's his Focus other people are people that are Heretics or mock the Torah and so on anyway so they get angry at this guy but the rabbi is kados he calms everyone down again okay Saturday morning you know usually Saturday after the you learn after you pray you have a Sher so the Rabbi says I had a dream they gave me from sh 14 new interpretations of the first verse of now we have 42 interpretations of this and each one of them they all match it's not like different interpretations one contradicts the other it's different understandings that all build on each other just to show you how significant the Tora is of the one verse they make 42 different books you could write on on one verse 14 new interpretations of the first P of this came that was taught by and everyone's cheering and then this homeless guy again no he's not a sadik he's not a kados he's nothing he's just a he's not not a big deal he's not even a this time everyone wanted to really beat him up and even the rabbi got upset have to even the rabbi said couldn't take it anymore in those days the synagogues were a little different than today outside of many synagogues there used to be a cell a jail cell where someone that went against the rabbis they would put him in that cell and where would that cell be right next to the door so everyone that would walk in to uh the synagogue would spit on him and insult him why because those people that are put in that cell are people that went against theim in those days they respected the T you can't go against sikim go against sikim it's could be death penalty even so the Rabbi says put him in the cell we'll deal with him and give him punishment after Shabbat so they put him in a cell after they finished that's were about to do they finished they want to do all of a sudden they hear earthquakes outside there's thunder lightning the whole world is shaking and everyone gets M scared there like wind it's just it's like something unnatural everybody becomes very scared all this noise uh uh uh all strange noises outside and all of a sudden they have a knock on the door a smash on the door and the rabbi goes to the door he opens the door and he sees a giant demon huge giant bad Angel obviously he's scared what are you doing here what what's this isn't and the angel tells them you should be ashamed of yourself says why what did I do says I am the angel that is in charge of lighting Gom after Shabbat because in Shabbat for anyone that kept Shabbat throughout their life but still ended up in for different reasons they don't suffer on Shabbat the fire on Shabbat is shut off he says I am the one that's in charge of lighting it back on but they told me in sh I'm not allowed to light get know back on until does and you have him in jail you should be ashamed of yourself the rabbi collapsed in fear ran toim begging him for forgiveness I didn't know I didn't know I didn't know of course he didn't know this is part of my mission so they gave him he did the demon left and life went back to what it was but this is to give us an understanding of who is so when he says something we should pay attention so says means it's learning Torah with difficulty if you have an easy time learning to you learned 15 minutes and you don't feel like anything changed you didn't learn enough if you learned for an hour nothing changed you didn't learn enough if you got tired that's when you push yourself that's when it counts that's what all is saying here that's the Torah that's going to get you to the difficult Torah because that's when you show to Hashem I love the Torah more than I love my body I'm sacrificing my body for the Torah and this is something I heard this story actually from R FR FR k i study with from Jerusalem anyone that speaks Hebrew that doesn't listen to his lectures as M missing a piece of the world to come it's every one of his lectures or teachings is like out of this world it's all he never repeats the same thing twice he doesn't have 30,000 books he has 3,000 books in his Library I told you in the last week's Shield it's unbelievable so he's something out of this world I think he was born in the wrong gener ation so anyway Hashem says if you do all of these things I'm going to give you all these blessings the rain will come on time which means that your parasa is going to come exactly when you need it not always when you want it but when you need it sometimes we have problems we have you know we have a little shortage in Pala we start questioning Hashem Hashem why did you do this why did you do this actually on the way here I probably make I probably made every single mistake on the RO on the road you can possibly make I wasn't really paying attention I was paying attention to something else and I made literally every single mistake getting a pass the highway and then I cost me like a half hour 40 minutes I'm thinking to myself why why did this happen finally when I got to the highway I realized that right on that exit was a fire truck putting out the fire of the accident and everyone behind it for miles are stuck Bumper to Bumper wanted me to show up here and not be stuck in traffic because it could have taken a lot more than just an hour late so you see when you have Hashem wants you to be somewhere sometimes you're going to go to difficulty if you believe in hashm it's easier it's still difficult but it's easier if you don't believe you don't follow you still suffer anyway it's much worse but at the end you see that he did it for you you know I was thinking myself 40 minutes I'm thinking why did I make this mistake then I made another mistake another mistake was literally like I I the navigation was taking me everywhere that I shouldn't be was unbelievable un usually it's you know it's easy to get here usually it's one road make a right make a left that's it it's done but today was a special Journey but now I know why at the end I found out why so now Hashem is telling us cuz hasem didn't made a GPS hasem is the GPS so now Hashem says that if you do all of these things you're going to get exactly when you need but you're also going to have Surplus now the part about the blessings is only about 10 verses the part about the curses is 30 verses it's three times more curses than blessings soel the izra says that people that have empty heads meaning that are uh have no uh no here not fr the ca I'm sorry go enjoy enjoy eat um it actually when you um chew stimulates the brain so someone ever has a tough time staying awake it's good to chew it's good also in the morning it's one of the things you do in the morning you chew the gum or chew something helps you wake up so uh I showed up an hour late so he's a little tired now so anyway so e e even Ezra says the people with empty heads meaning they have no brain think that just because there's less verses about blessings that mean that hasem has less blessing and more curses says it's the opposite he says that the blessings they're all so generic and open that there's not enough room to give all the blessings so he's giving you 10 really General blessings the rain can mean 500 different things the ways about the produce can mean another 500 different things there's no end to these uh blessings just like the Torah says that it's a uh for um the blessing is 500 fold of the punishment but in this case he says the punishment is very precise for two reasons number one because hasem wants to just limit it at that punishment even if it's a big punishment he wants to limit at that punishment but number two is because he wants people to know exactly what the punishment is going to be so they have so they fear him now we've been learning together for about a year I think together something like that a little less than a year maybe year and year and a half wow so very often we learn about which is opposite of this generation I spoke to some somebody today is interested in having us do a Shure also another place in Miami called the uh Light Tower Light Tower something like that Lighthouse Lighthouse they want me to come do a Sho over there maybe even do something more regularly um but uh What attracted him to my shoers what what's he said I agree with you he says to me like I made it like it's my interpretation that's not my interpretation I agree with you that Torah today Torah that's being taught today by the majority of the english- speaking world this is more of a problem in the English speaking world and it is in Hebrew it's still a problem in Hebrew but in English speaking world it's Mas a disaster that Torah has become like a subject it's like something to learn it's nice it's like Leisure it's like a someone wants to learn science they'll learn about science they want to learn about flowers they'll learn about you know they want to learn about butterflies don't learn about Torah became a subject but Torah is not a subject Torah is a way of life Tor is a part of you Torah is the purpose for this world but when you only teach about the nice things and nothing that obligate you then it's just a subject says you teach a lot about that's what we're looking for so you see that I can't believe it myself I mean the last few years we've been doing this two three years we've been doing the cuve the amount of people that this has reached from corners of the world it's hard for me to understand like logically I can't explain it I can't explain it why someone in Australia will sit down and listen to my sh for two hours I can't I can't explain it why someone in California will do chva start doing Shabbat get married do everything why CU he saw a few hours of I can't explain someone right now is finalizing our conversion one of my students in Florida actually finalizing our conversion next week she's coming with us to New York we're going to do our conversion can't explain things like that this is mamash if it's not for hasem you can't explain it in a natural way and we're talking about hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that connecting to the and changing their life because of it what's the difference there's many people that know a lot more to than I do they've been learning for a a lot longer learning for 20 years 50 years what's the difference why is that one Rabbi that knows you know a thousand times more Torah than I do he maybe gets 10 hits on YouTube or five people show up to his class but no one really changed their life and all of a sudden this guy that just did cha not too long ago is influencing people different teaching they may be saying stories but only stories we say stories and give it on the head a little bit too with the story it's what Hashem wants if Hashem did not want you to be scared he wouldn't put it in the Torah if you notice anyone that read psalms any Psalm you want you see that one of the major character traits thatav had is fear of hem in in we read you know most of the more than half about 65% 70% of the Psalms are uh are in our prayer Our Daily Prayer so in after we say the V we have uh number 25 Psalm 25 in Psalm 25 David starts with telling us telling fear you know uh asking for hem to lift him to that he trusts him not to let him get to a point of embarrassment and he's telling hm how much he believes in him but then he tells him a few things that are relevant to what we're talking about here he says Me In Your Truth why does it Lead Me In Your Truth there's only one truth not what people translate it to and interpret it to light Torah hard Torah no he's too hard he's too no he says you're 100% truth exactly what it says that's what I want Lead Me In Your Truth the one way you have and teach me for you are the god of my salvation David who had everything had power had money had anything you could possibly want all he wants you from Hashem is Give Me Your Truth as it is because that's the only way I'm going to get to my salvation being half religious you're not going to get to Salvation doing a few things that hasem said and a few things you don't feel like doing it you're not going to get there is telling you this later on he's saying he guides the humble in Justice and teaches the humble his way why humble if you notice in this this week's par there's five levels of punishment five separate levels of punishment five layers of punishment and to avoid repeating what we said last night and also get you interested to watch last night's year we'll go to the bottom line instead of going over each punishment also give you an easier time to go to sleep tonight you won't have to think about punishment but it's five different layers you don't do Chua more punishment coming after this you don't do Chua more punishment come again again hasem does it five different times on the fifth level he said that Hashem is in essence telling us the initial chuva that you're doing I'm not going to accept it like after I punished you four times and I started the fifth time and then in the middle of the fifth time you start doing chuva I'm not going to accept it not going to accept the chuva because you are so stubborn that after four punishments you still didn't do chuva I'm going to have to finish the fifth punishment before I start listening to your prayers why to eliminate your pride the fact that you had enough Pride to go against me despite the punishment why cuz you hasem says it specifically you treated me with casualness what does it mean treating me with casualness you treated my Torah like it's casual like you can keep this and not this keep this one but not this one keep Shabbat only halfway keep kosher only at home be modest only in front of the rabbi outside half naked you know people people make their own rules that's what people doem says you treated me with casualness I'm going to treat you with a fury of casualness this is in verse 2627 if despite this you will not heed me and you will behave toward me with casualness I will behave toward you with a fury of casualness now in verse 2640 he says then they will confess their sin and the sin of their forefathers they're finally they're doing Chua finally they're doing Chua for the treachery with which they betrayed me I gave them everything I gave them their eyes their hair their life their panasa their kids their buildings everything they have they treated me with treachery meaning were like going against me but to the point where hashash took it personally after they finally confessed their sins so now they started doing Chua so everybody says no except Chua Chua is good no and also for having behaved towards me with casualness so now going against theem is one level of going against him one sin that hasem already gave us five punishments for it but he says the treating me with casualness with picking and selecting what they want saying no this is not relevant to our generation separate going against me you're already in trouble but treating me with casualness you are on a different level my friend and this is why I too will behave toward them with casualness and I will bring them into the land of their enemies even after they started doing chuv instead of accepting them right away I'm going to actually put them in the land of their enemy perhaps then after they're scared to death they're surrounded by Nazis they're surrounded by Arabs they're surrounded by ISIS then they're not going to depend on uh IDF or on the US Army or on mosad or on some Ally that's not real in Ally why are they going to do perhaps then their unfeeling heart the heart that pretty much didn't have any connection with me will be humbled then they going to stop saying no we won the sixth day war because our army is strong no we defended ourselves against terrorists because we have good technology no we're good today because we have we're allies with America nonsense 4,000 missiles were shot at us not too long ago one casualty if that much what our weapons didn't work against it even the millions and millions of dollars they had on the on their weapons the the missiles still landed but they missed that's not up to us that's not up to IDF that's not because of the US that's not because of Any allies that's 100% 100% from hem but you see any army leaders saying oh no you see uh Benjamin saying a special prayer to hm oh yeah thank God no he always started the lesson but that's also what benon did but benon was a big K this the thing he says that's why there chva after you are so proud of yourself of your army of your power of your allies of your money of your technology I'm still not going to accept your cha why cuz you still have some pride left I'm only going to accept it after more punishment's going to come and you're going to be humbled meaning you have no choice and that's why the rambam says in he says those that survive the end of days whoever survives not everyone's going to survive goog we already talked about it two3 of the world gets eliminated and whoever's left not all everyone's going to survive but he says those that do survive everyone will do chuva either by force or by Will It also says that his source is from uh um Ezekiel either you're going to be forced to do chva or you're going to do it because you want to this is an essence of hashm is telling us here says okay you started but you still have a little bit of Pride you still think that it's your wisdom that uh won the last we you're still living in the past you think that maybe you can do it all over [Music] again after to take out every little bit of pride in you in your in your in your n remove it you have no reason to be prideful whether you're Bill Gates or you're some basketball star or some guy that opened a new business is no one even if you're big even if you're a giant Sage you have not one ounce of reason to ever be proud you have nothing to be proud about nothing is from you this is what David is telling us those that are humble already hasem teaches his way to them he connects because they're already humble not humble then we go back to the parha [Applause] I hope I hope you don't get the the translation was I hope you don't get well what's the translation just tell the translation I hope you don't get him so now so now yeah because it's something yeah but it's don't wor what it is I'm going to ask my wife my wife speaks Spanish she's going to get translation so now how do we get to this Torah that we talked about from gets to a point of 42 translations for one verse how do we get to that how do we get to that type of connection with hem that type of Knowledge from Hashem It also says it in the same T David says s of The Secret of hem he discloses to those that fear him he doesn't tell his secrets to those that kiss the muuza 500 times a day unless they fear him if they kiss the muuza on the way to going out with their uh you know their non-jewish boyfriend or girlfriend or they're on their way to go on a barbecue on Shabbat or they're on the way to doing something that's against hem they can kiss it a million times it's still not going to help them why because the secrets he only gives it to the ones that truly fear Him not talking about loving him fearing him fearing comes before love now in every one of these curses stages of the curses every time Hashem goes to the next step he says if you don't do chuva then I'll do this this this and this but he doesn't actually say if you don't do chuva what is he [Applause] saying but if you will not listen to me and you will not perform all of these Commandments this is the beginning you're going to get all these different this is the first stage now after the second stage after you already gave the punishment the punishment is not given because he likes to torture us punishment against us to help us do Chua so the second stage he says if despite this despite the punishment you do not heed me I'll punish you further meaning if despite all of this he's still not scared of me I'm going to punish you more and the same thing he starts off the third one you're not scared of me again the fourth one if despite all of this you will not be chastised towards me and you'll behave casually with me still you still have no more the fifth curse the worst one if despite this you will not heed me again it says the same thing if every single time it says if you don't have so here we have two opposite extremes on one end is telling us you want to know hashem's Secrets like did you want to get all those blessings that it said for the first 10 verses of this one thing you need to do have fear of hem if you have fear of hem he wrote it here if you wrote it here it's relevant for all generations he wrote it here the secrets of hem he gives to the ones who fear Him but really fear Him not fear him like they're hiding behind a uh couch but they're eating a cheeseburger really fear Him they act with fear towards him all the time not just sometimes you want the secrets like all had fear AEM but on the other hand if you don't fear hasem you would think naturally okay so I fear Him I get Secrets I don't fear Him nothing happens this is the mistake of this generation people consistently think that we have free choice to do whatever we want this is 100% wrong we do not have free choice we have choice not free choice and we learn it from this par and this T because the choice is to fear Hashem or not fear Hashem if you fear hasem it says you will get the secrets you'll get all the blessings you'll have ultimate connection with Hashem that Hashem will send a special Angel just to make sure to help you that's how much is worth in sh but on the other hand not having he says when you don't have you have all of the worst possible punishments come to that person that's not free choice that's choice if it was free choice then that would mean if I do it I get something I don't do it I get nothing if I go to work I get $100 I don't go to work I get zero that's free choice that people think they have that's not what we have what we have is if I go to work I get $100 I don't go to work they come to my house and they beat the hell out of me and I end up going to the hospital instead that's what we actually have that's choice there's a consequence and that's what hasm is telling you but it's two very very opposite extremes so only a fool will go against it and this is what we're dealing with today now the parat talks a lot about all of these different punishments and as a matter of fact anyone that goes into the words can see that many of these things if not pretty much every one of them actually happened to throughout history as recent as the Holocaust one of the things that it says is that 10 women will be in front of just one oven and whatever food someone eat it's not going to be enough this exactly what happened in the Holocaust people would beg to get what little bread for the whole day and still not never being enough that's why you see all those those poor people even ones the ones that survived see them they all terrible terrible thing but we can't deny the fact that this is all done by hasem no one performed anything against hasem Hitler is not more powerful than Hashem Hitler is a messenger of Hashem even though he has a special place in Gom the point is is that he is the tool anti-Semitism as despicable as it is as horrific as it is as much damage as it's brought to Jewish people for thousands of years is the most effective tool that Hashem has why because if we do everything that he wants us to do we get all the blessings we never have War everyone's scared of us everything is fantastic nothing's going to happen we don't do it what end up happening is that people like I did when I first came to America I was 10 years old and I looked up to all the Americans they all spoke so nicely this language I couldn't understand and they all looked smarter and they all looked cooler and next you know I wanted to be like them I didn't want to be Jewish had no interest in being Jewish wanted to be like them and this is where we're in today many Jews are in a position where they want to be like the go where if you ask a young kid that's 17 18 years old that's going to public school what's the difference between you and the rest of the people in your school he'll either say nothing or actually say they're much better I'm not saying that the non-jews are not good but someone that's born Jewish or converts to Judaism and is doing the will of Hashem is officially part of the chosen people is officially supposed to be the light to the nation light to the Nations so if instead of being the light to the Nations you're viewing yourself as part of the Nations we have oursel a problem if you think the nations are the light and you're the darkness that needs it it's even a worse problem and that's where I was and that's where I see a lot of people do and that's why I keep telling people education is very very important people don't think it's a big deal no no he's going to go to a Jewish study after school after he goes to public school he's going to go to Jewish studies it's not good why because most of the days around different people that are not going to do it and if you look at today's environment it's getting worse and worse they passed the law recently that boys and girls have to use the same bathroom yeah or wherever they feel comfortable I mean I don't know I think I told you guys this last time I was here prophecy that sexual crimes are going to increase drastically I mean this is not really this not doesn't doesn't need to be a prophecy this is M this is just pure logic today I don't know much about it but a high University had a shooting and I don't know how many people he killed but this has become normal normal normal in America you don't hear about this in Israel you don't hear about this in like religious neighborhoods quite frankly you don't really hear about this most places in the world unless it's coming from specifically from terrorists you don't you don't hear about stories of some 16-year-old kid flipping out and killing as everyone in school you just don't hear about it this is in America and we've become so numb because it's happened so many times that when it happen like oh okay flip the channel to the next Channel let me hear better news you completely disregard that 30 people just died by a teenager that had all his whole life ahead of him because I don't know maybe his girlfriend broke up with him or something I don't know what happened to this kid this is the environment we live in why because we're constantly getting further from Hashem to such an extent that we want to be the other nations it's not that we don't see a difference between us and them you want to be like them and that's why you see how people dress how they act what they do there's this thing that uh people do they have uh give her some water give some water uh they have they celebrate the holidays that they find fun but they also celebrate Jewish and non-jewish holidays so you have Jewish people give give usy there's another there's another one right there one thank you you have people that so far off the that they want to celebrate Hanukah cuz they like the you know the light candles thank but they also want to put a what they call a hanuka tree yeah it's a Christmas tree but they call the hanuka tree this is mentioned in the toai in the book of Jeremiah as well as in um uh this next book that we're actually going to learn we're finish a book is the last book in um we're going into numbers it's in there we'll learn about how we're not allowed to have trees but people are so far that they actually have a Christmas tree in their house they're thinking no I'm being good for my kids I'm teaching them both giving them an option they think that they're doing good but the kid grows up and he's confused and he becomes a disaster and he's lives amongst the generation where shooting in a high level school that you pay $50,000 a year to go to to attend the school I mean you figure you pay $50,000 a year not get paid 50,000 you pay 50,000 to get it you figure at least your life is okay maybe I'll even get some books maybe I'll even get some uh degree or something the last thing on your mind is that I'm going to pay $50,000 and my life's going to be at risk if I need my life to be at risk I just go to the Army and they get paid they pay me instead and I learned the same thing anyway who's who thinks about I'm going to send my kid to college and his life's going to be at risk for some psychopath failed a test or something or I don't know whatever whatever could possibly happen in an 18-year-old kid's life and he decides to kill everyone and this is normal now it happens in Colorado it happens in everywhere it's happening everywhere all over the country and they still don't want to call [Music] terrorism and Hashem is telling us here you want to avoid all of that chaos just do what I said that's it not asking you for too much what is it like I heard this story from RAB again he says imagine there was a king and a king had most precious daughter had one daughter give her anything but one day the daughter had to get married so the daughter chose this young guy didn't really have much wasn't anything special but the king says listen I'm going to give you the most precious thing that I have I'm going to give you my daughter it's all I have I don't have anything else I just have my daughter and on top of that I'll give you all the amount of money in the world whatever you want I'll give you I only ask you for one thing just one thing everywhere you go travel in the world everywhere you go just give me a small little room small tiny little room for me to stay to live with you that's it I'm paying for every I'm paying for the big mansion I'm paying for the plane I'm paying for the land I'm paying for everything all I want is a tiny tiny little room that's it sounds like a good deal right that's God God says I'm giving you my daughter what's my daughter my Torah I can't disconnect from my Torah the holy books say that the Torah is actually a piece of hm himself I can't disconnect from a Torah so wherever she goes I have to be there but I'm giving it to you all I want you to do is give me a little bit of room that's all I'm asking you for just read it a little bit once in a while you can't you haven't started you never learned to in your life 15 minutes a day start with 15 minutes a day you can't read a book watch a sh you can't watch something listen to it whatever there's a million ways to learn to you cannot show up in shamay with an excuse there's no excuse there is no excuse no one can show up in shamim with an excuse saying oh no I didn't know no such thing cannot show up I didn't know and this is one of the most important things we have to realize Hashem is not asking for much we're the ones that non-stop asking we're the ones that non-stop asking and even after we get we still complain what is he's giving us everything we have giving us pan he's giving us marriage he's giving us tah he's giving us what don't you have if someone lost their eye someone lost their eye they'd pay an infinite amount of money to get a new eye when Steve Jobs the guy that made the iPhones and Apple computer computers or the CEO of the company brain behind it when he got sick he had to get a new liver and to get a new liver is not easy not easy you have a list of people waiting to get a new liver but when somebody's worth six or 7 billion dollars they don't have to wait online so he didn't have to wait online and he got delivered pretty quickly but what so they chy yeah so they chy and so there many other rich people but the point is is that how much did it cost it doesn't matter he would give any he would give all six billion that he has for that liver that all of us have for free you for free you pay $6 billion for your liver you didn't pay any $6 billion right I didn't pay 6 billion for my liver he would pay every every single scent that he has for that liver we have it for free so you already know you have $6 billion so anyone ask you you rich I'm a billionaire why not not only Rich if only we value what he gave us but this is where comes in because we have to in order to get to that point we have to realize that everything that he does is for the good did I tell you guys the story that about the bmov and the guy that carries water tell you guys about the story so the B one day sees guy carrying water he carrying water you ask him how are you doing and he says to them everything's okay good the next day he sees the same guy again carrying water it's just the same just as hot as it was the day before nothing changed same guy same water same weight same heat yes while sh ask him how are you ah you know very tired this job is so difficult I don't know why Hashem is doing this to me 20 years I'm carrying this water for what I don't have anything to show for it so the answers he goes why am I getting a blessing he says you help me understand the question that I've been asking for many years in the Tor T how does my difficulty have anything to do with Tor he says in the mishna in the mishna which came before the it says that AEM judges us once a year from to meaning on he decides whether someone is going to live or die whether someone's going to have how much they're going to have whe they going to have health whatever he's judging us is Judgment Day it's not y like a lot of people think it's actually so if someone is going to get P for the year and how much they going to get hem decides on so if let's say someone's going to get $50,000 for the year that's decided on says but the which came after says something different it says he judges us every day so I always ask myself why does AEM need to judge us every day for our if he already judged us in the beginning of the year you already made a decision hasm doesn't change his mind he says my thoughts are not my thoughts he doesn't change his mind like us doesn't change his opinion it's the same thing so why would you bother changing your mind or or or or doing it again if you already did it once hasem does one thing he created the world you didn't need to create another world created you once he doesn't have to create you again that's it he says the B says finally after seeing you in the last two days I finally understood decides how much P you're going to get but every day based on your actions he decides how you're going to get it so if decides okay this guy is going to get $100,000 this year but then the next day gets fired from his job so how is he going to get $100,000 because on day 350 where he was struggling the whole time he wins a uh some type of uh deal or perhaps Shalom he gets into a car accident or something happens where decides that's you're going to get your P one day doesn't have doesn't have to be through your job it can be through your job but it doesn't necessarily have to be it's all based on your action so I saw yesterday he said yesterday when I asked you how how are you doing you were very happy you've been doing this job for 20 years but you were still very happy today you're not so happy and I can tell you why yesterday you did the day uh you did good things or actually the day before yesterday you did good things and where you when you went to sleep your went up to sh and they told you ah good job you did good today so tomorrow you're going to have a good day you're going to have things are going to go smoothly for you your p is going to come very smooth you don't have to worry the water that you're carrying will feel a little lighter your roads will be a little smoother your horses are not going to give you any problems everything's going to be fine so when you finally arve to my door you were a smile everything was good cuz your already knew you have good news but during that day that you had good news you didn't exactly do good things you made some type of sin you did something so when you went to sleep again your went back up he told you oh you made a big sin no good tomorrow is going to be a difficult day tomorrow you're going to get the palasa same Pala same water but it's going to be much more difficult your horse is going to give you problems your roads are going to have curves it's going to be traffic your water is going to feel extra heavy because your shoulder is going to hurt e oh so now the P you're going to get anyway hasem said you're going to get it you're going to get it don't worry about it how you're going to get it is up to you how hasem is going to feed you is up to you if you do his will he already told you he promises you he promised you you're going to get all the blessings work is going to be easy everything's going to be easy but if you're seeing that there's problems in your life you problems with schom hm is talking to you you have problems with panasa the waters a little heavier Shem is talking to you your foot started hurting but you're not really sure what it is Hashem is talking to you anything is not going right Hashem is talking to you he's telling you I don't want you to get to stage one and two and three and four and five of the curses I want to tell you now so you could do chva now before it's too late cuz once I get put the decree that's it I put the decree and that's one of the most important things we have to understand will one day be like it used to be it used to be when people would read they would read it extra loud they would scream this this Paras why because the why the reason why hasem put this Paras in the Tor and the same thing with the same thing with pretty much half the Torah that talks about punishment or Consequences is to help us develop if we don't fear him we won't do what he says that's just human nature he created us he knows so they used to be in previous generations and our grandparents and our great grandparents' uh generation they would scream this par much louder than normal par why because they wanted everybody do CH in today's generation many butet they read it extra quiet they whisper they don't want to hear it it's the opposite of our grandparents instead of helping people do chuva they whisper it no no so because no one wants the you know how everybody fights to go on have an Aliah on Shabbat no I want the Aliah no I want the Aliah I'll donate more money everybody fights to have the Aliah for this week's pay attention to sh no one wants the Aliah usually the Kazan stays by himself no one wants the Aliah because they think it's bad in reality it's actually a big it's a good thing to have the AL of this par that means you're closer to hasem to finalize things I'll give you a good story I heard also from RAB f we did a sh in Israel and he said this in one of about Ki is obviously one of the great figures in history started as a man became a prophet and ultimately became one of hashem's personal Angels you mention and and even asazi shs it's a big deal especially in Safar shs but most people don't really learn his work what he wrote his Torah there's a relatively unknown book among the nonreligious world called T the teachings of the teachings of Elijah the prophet he actually has his own book that he wrote and many of the things that he T are also in thear they're also in the oral so says different stories and one of these stories one of the sages asks him tell me something that I don't know about the times of when Joshua was alive Yeshua Joshua was theor after mosu says hasem said to Joshua you told the nation of Israel that I am a jealous God and I don't forgive why did you do such a thing when they sinned against me in Egypt I forgave when they sinned against me with the man I forgave when they sin against me with the meat they want extra meat I forgave they sin against me even with the golden calf I forgave they sin against me with the midianites I forgave so why are you saying that I don't forgive saying about me hasem is saying this to Yeshua Ben Yeshua benon says hasem I didn't do it for me I did it for you I wanted to scare them so they do what you say Andi says this is I don't know how to understand this that Hashem was so thrilled and excited about this answer that that Yeshua benon gave him that Joshua gave him that he kissed him on his forehead and in his hands he kissed he kissed Joshua for doing this so when you teach that's how you get to when you teach everything else without you're teaching nothing this is what we need in our generation and this is why hasem is M helping us so much for right now we have the CD drive coming out with our own CDs it's going to eat CD is going to be 30 hours of shim both long and short some uh shim that are the lectures like we have here some of the sh that we have uh the just audio like 15 minute Clips called The Daily very popular on the internet so the CDs are going to have a combination of both so someone doesn't have time to listen to a two-hour lecture they don't have any excuses anymore listen to a 5 minute listen to a 5 minute Sher you have 5 minutes you 10 minutes you're 15 minutes everybody has 5 10 minutes I think the CD is going to be very very popular and our plan is to excuse me come out with new CDs every every month every month and a half all the next week we're going to be in New York there's lectures every night I actually have to change my flight to add more sh we're going to be doing a on Sunday we're going to be doing a sh in ston Island uh next day in Brooklyn next day we're doing a in ra m we're doing it together uh and the next day again there's a lot of lot of lectures uh and it's a lot of Torah in the world right now and people need it people need this Torah so anyone that wants to um give out CDs it's only a dollar a CD give out as many as you want uh this is not a money maker this is nonprofit organization this is just to give out the CDs giv away just like we give the books out and the books but this is one of the ways we taught yesterday yesterday one of the ways that someone can limit the amount of tests that they have in their life every one of us has the every one of us sometimes gets big test it's hard to pass whether it's money or it's this or it's that so in Hashem is teaching us something very very important we mentioned this before in previous sh but it's worth it to say it once again just to understand the power of K in the in K it says that RAB AKA similar stories about both R AKA and Ral both of them were giant sages a lot of Torah but one day both of them almost fell almost fell for the same sake sin and the last minute which was a woman a pretty woman but in the last woman in the last minute this pretty woman turned back to what she really was and it was actually the Satan himself it was actually the yet turned into a woman to entice them to show them that they're actually virtually Sinners technically but why did he show them in the last minute Satan says if you if I didn't hear in sh he said the same thing about both R and Raba if I didn't hear in sh that the Torah of r or in the case OFA the Torah of R AKA is very important be very careful of R be very careful of R AKA if I didn't hear this in sham I would Slaughter you right now now and cut you in half for being the sinner that you are almost sinned now when this happens to a regular guy today he sees a pretty woman hasem doesn't send any Messengers to stop him all the time he sees a pretty woman he can't control his he falls and makes endless sins so how come get and we don't get it what is the difference they did something that all of us can do for a lot cheaper they did it with a lot of Tor they sacrificed their life they knew a lot of Torah they learned a lot of Tor they connected to hem in the highest possible level we can do it with a dollar $1 what is it doing K where because it's their teaching in the mishna chapter 5 verse uh section Mish 21 it says whoever influences the masses to become meritorious influences the masses to do chva shall not be the cause of sin someone that's involved with kiru whether it's giving lectures or it's giving CDs or it's putting links on the Internet or sending text messages of different that are motivating anything that you do that's something that's part of your life not you're doing it once a week something that's an everyday thing 5 minutes a day 10 minutes a day whatever you contribute if you can't contribute time you contribute money but it should be both or at least the time but to get people to do chuva why because that's in essence helping Hashem fulfill the world fulfill the mission of the world how do we know cu the rest of this m says which is talking about see Satan doesn't like this so he interrupts this is an alarm it's not even a phone call says mosu why was he such why would he have such a special deal with Hashem because he was righteous he had merits and he influenced the masses to be righteous so the Merit of the masses was to his credit everyone did chva because of mosenu everyone of their also went to his account every time you give somebody a CD they do chuva cost you $1 the CD or you got it for free or you just sent a link for a sh whatever you did somebody did chuva from that moment on every single mitvah that they do also goes into your account it goes into your account and their account a mitvah is like fire people think no wait a wait a minute if somebody does a mitvah how could it be two so it be 50/50 so if he does 10 mitv I get five he gets five no that's not how it works mitvah works like fire just like when you want to Light One Candle it lights a second candle the second candle has nothing the first candle has the light the fire when you light the second candle it has light but the first candle stays the same doesn't change that's a Mitzvah so you help somebody do a Mitzvah you help somebody do chuva every single mitvah that he does or he ends up influencing somebody else to do goes into your account this is why if someone helps somebody do chuva that person helps his wife or his H or her husband do chuva they're going to have kids all those kids are going to grow up little now you have instead of one person you have six people all doing mitv for the rest of their life go into your account that's from one CD you give a th CDs by yourself the next World and this is why we started the with him we'll finish the sh with him Raad said when someone is a sadik according to the Tora someone sadik born a sadik did M learned Tora his whole life when they finish this world and they get to the real world they get to the highest level which is next to the angels of God they get to write where they are someone that's a true sad get to that level we're already thinking wow that's not I'm not a complete sadik hopefully I even get to forget about getting to the highest level that's what any normal person with no Pride thinks people that have that don't do anything and have pride they think they're already in no about now but someone that's is trying to do aem's will is hoping he just gets and says the one that's really really righteous he gets to right next to the angels of God because there's only one level higher which is where God himself is to be next to God and only one type of person can go there who someone that does K someone that helps people do Chua you help somebody do CH you go to a level higher than higher than the angel of God you're going to be right next to God himself source for that in the book of Jeremiah so a CD or a link or a text message can get you an infinite amount of reward that in reality we can't learn as much to as Raba we can't learn as much to Li as but we don't need need to we need to learn some Tor we need to do hashem's will we also have to do hashem's will with some action that's why I say what every lecture it's five minutes everyone take on themselves five minutes a day to do K five minutes a day whatever way you can five minutes a day do something give a CD out give a link out give a text out five minutes a day publicize hm's T if you could do more do more at least 5 minutes a day make it a permanent part of your life every day every day you know it doesn't matter I'm not going to sleep I'm not going to function until there 5 minutes that I do for hasem to bring back his people whether it's the righteous Gentiles or it's the Jews that have no clue regardless bring him back to hem as it says in the book of Jeremiah you'll be like my mouth just like I say something and it happens he said and he created the world from his words he created the world means you'll be like my mouth you'll say something you'll pray for something and it'll happen so it also happens with your prayers your prayers get to First Class treatment any questions amen yeah press the red button yeah