Stop stepping on each other! The divine message from the disaster in Meron - Rabbi Alon Anava

After a very long break, uh Baruch Hashem, we're back online. The long break, I mean, for the ones online, it's a long break. You see me every day, but uh one long break in regards to the lectures going online and of course was because the fabulous YouTube and other platforms decided to block uh block my channel, remove videos, and censor what I had to say. And regard And besides that, a few other things. So, Baruch Hashem, it's all good now. I think we didn't try it that the block is over. We're going to try with this video to load it up and see what happens. And uh many want wanted to know how I'm doing. I mean, again, you see me every day. People online don't see me. They don't know what's going on. So, Baruch Hashem, I'm alive and well, and I'm not in some basement of the Shabak being tortured, why am I going against the government? So, it's all good, Baruch Hashem. And and I prepared a few lectures. I Of course, we're not going to do it all in one shot. Today, we're going to talk about one topic, but there's a few other topics that I've already prepared lectures that we're going to have to go through, which of course are all about current affairs and what's going on and what's the next move after all things are going on in the world, things are happening. And it's very important to to follow what's going on and to see what the Torah has to say about it. Today, specifically, I want to talk about the disaster that happened in Meron. And not because I wanted to talk about it, because after it happened, I think I got a few thousand emails and messages of people asking, "What do you think Why do you think it happened? What do you think is the message? What do we have to take from that?" Which I didn't really feel like giving my two cents of the matter, besides the fact that it was obvious, very obvious that it happened in a deliberate way. It wasn't an accident. It was pretty obvious, not pretty, very obvious that it was planned. And the plan, of course, was to get much more casualties, and there was a huge miracle and it was only a 45. That's number one. I'm going to talk about that right now. People get very touchy and upset when you talk about things like this, but the fact is it was planned. It wasn't a mistake. You clearly saw how the police stopped the pathways. The police removed all the cameras 2 days before that. Everything was planned, and it was planned to be a disaster. It was a disaster, but on a scale of thousands, and Baruch Hashem, there was a miracle and it was only 45. And but this it's less important why, because the after all, even if a um human being planned it, there was still the hand of God that allowed So, there's a very profound message. There's a lot of messages behind it, which we're going to kind of go through this today, but nevertheless, uh we also have to understand that Hashem is telling us something. And then, of course, right after that, uh there was the whole mini war right now in the riots in Israel and many other things that of course, everything is not happening by chance. Everything is planned. So, we're going to have to see what the holy Torah has to say about that and how is that to do with me, what I Where I'm coming into this picture. But before we start for at least for the viewers online, there's a few good news, happy news. We started working on our smartphone app, which was going to be a very very powerful app where all the videos, courses, lectures are all going to be there, plus many other things, amazing amazing things. So, anyone who's interested to see what's going on, when it's coming, especially to participate, then we're going to put underneath the video the link where you can visit it, which will probably be on itsmooth.org/app, but you can see everything that's going on. And it's going to be real special app. It will come in stages. It's not going to come in one shot, because we have to do one feature at a time. We're also going to start. This should be also good news for you. We're going to start a few very interesting courses that we were waiting for a while that will also be posted on itsmooth. And the first one is going to be the Gates of Reincarnation, Shaar Hagilgulim by the Ari Zal. The other one will be Shaarei Kedushah, Gates of Holiness. Two things we already started about Kochav Yaakov, Planet X, Nibiru. Here we already started another one with is the letters in the names. Some of it we already started, but Baruch Hashem, we're going to continue. And for the ones who are online, they can definitely join all these wonderful teachings. Now, as I said before, many things are happening lately, but specifically in the land of Israel. And like I said before, the incident in Meron, and after that, the riots and the barrage of rockets, and a few other things. And even though it's happening in the land of Israel, and it's important to understand land of Israel, I'm not talking about the country of Israel. Country and land is two different things. But since it's happening in the land of Israel, and the land of Israel is the center of the world, then this is not only for the Jews or for the residents of the lands of Israel to understand, it's for everybody. So, anything that has to do with Israel, of course, it's applying to all Jews around the world, which simultaneously many Jews around the world are experiencing a lot of anti-Semitism in New York and Los Angeles and many other places, in London, in Montreal. But when something happens in the land of Israel, it's for the whole world to understand that something's going on, because the land of Israel is the land of the Kadosh who doesn't belong to anybody. Doesn't belong not to the Israelis and not to the Palestinians. It's It belongs to the master of the universe, and he will decide who will inhabit and occupy it. Right now, it's we we are living here, but there's no question that the evil regime is controlling it. We're not controlled by Torah laws here. Till Mashiach is going to come, which is already a problem. But when things happen in the land of Israel, it's not only for us to take something for that, it's for the Jews all around the world, and it's for any human being around the world, Jews and non-Jews alike. So, even people who are not Jewish, this has to do with them, too. It's also a big part of it. And you know, we just went through a whole year, which for many people was a year full of fear and anxiety and uncertainty and with the plandemic and everything that has to do with that. And up until now, it doesn't matter where people are, there's still a lot of confusion and and fear and and as I said, uncertainty, because nobody knows what's going on. Amazingly, I don't know if you noticed that we had Corona for a year and a half, and then when the barrage of missiles started falling in Israel and riots, the Corona disappeared. Suddenly, I don't know, the Corona maybe is is um has a a weakness for missiles or whatever it is, but suddenly the Corona disappeared. For 15 days, we didn't hear about anything about the Corona. And miraculously, the 30 minutes after the so-called ceasefire was announced, the news are announcing 33 new Corona cases were found in Israel. So, the Corona is back in town, and every day they invent something new. So, we have to really focus on what's going on here and see what does Hashem want from us? Because I From when I talk to people here in Israel and outside of Israel, the main thing that people project is that this because of the uncertainty of what's going on, some type of fear. Fear or, you know, the word in Hebrew would be more precise to say charada, that that it's not just I'm afraid of something, it's more deeper. And when a person is is attacked by fear, fear from the future, fear what's going to happen, what's going to be in a month, what's going to be in a day, and so forth, then a person needs to meditate really what is the message behind it. And more than that, when Hashem puts some type of a problem on us, it's for me to really look at myself and to decide how can I better myself when and my behavior, but more than that, when we are attacked with fear, is a message from Hashem to tell me, "Look inside yourself how you can uproot hate and separation in your heart." And the sad reality is that even as much as people pretend that they don't, but we all have a lot of hate in us towards other people. And needless to say, with the hate comes a lot of separation. And I'm not talking about necessarily things that are on the surface, but we all carry within us a lot of hate. If whether it's Jews and non-Jews or in the the Jewish group, the religious and the non-religious, and in the religious people, so the Ashkenazi and the Sephardi, and this group and that group, and and in communities and in shuls, everywhere there's all all the time this this hate. And the hate will always going to cause separation, which is our problem. Now, going back to the topic what we are going to cover today is about the disaster that happened in the the mountain of Meron on the very special day of Lag Baomer and even though some time already has passed almost a month but nevertheless it has to be understood what does Hashem want from us. Next class will be we will talk about how how could it be that we didn't even finish the morning of of the disaster of Meron and right away Israel is being attacked with barrage of barrage of missiles which we're not going to touch in this lecture if we really were attacked by barrage of missiles or it was maybe just one big show but this we're not going to talk about right now but we also experienced all the riots in Israel. We never had such a thing. We have many many times we were attacked by missiles by our enemies but riots inside of Israel that we never had in that scale. And and we have to see so we're going to break it into a few classes. So let's start with the class with Meron and this is a very deep and profound message. So 45 holy souls died I would like to say publicly murdered but that's what happened. They were murdered but 45 holy souls died. 45 is a very profound number. First of all it's a numerical value is the gematria of the word Adam and everything that happens to us as a personal individual or as a whole is one fraction of the rectification of the sin of Adam Harishon. It's called Tikun Tikun Hetz Etz HaDaat. Adam Harishon sinned and we have to correct it with many different ways. So already we see a first interesting digit that 45 could have been 46 and it could have been could have been 44. Why 45? Then we're going to find out many reasons why 45 and what are the messages here but the first thing that struck me at least is is first thing that struck me is that 45 is the numerical value of the word Geulah. Redemption. Hashem is telling us to buckle up the redemption is coming and it's not coming with with a silver platter and it's going to come nice. It's going to come with a lot of hardship. Second thing that I thought of was yeah 45 is the minyan of Adam. This is part of the Tikun of Adam Harishon. Now it happened in a chain of of of the parashot which I found very interesting. It happened in Parashat Emor which we're going to touch this in a second and right after that were another two parashot that were attached Behar Bechukotai. And right away I was like wow this is unbelievable because where did the whole thing happen? Behar Meron in the mountain of Meron. Har means a mountain. And right after that and attached in the same week is Parashat Bechukotai where we read about the 98 curses in the Torah that when you hear the curses it's very even hard to digest that why would the Torah explain to me that if I don't follow what Hashem says I mean the curses are like beyond what a human mind can understand. And this all happens in that time. Now really what was going on in Parashat Bechukotai? The majority I mean I would say the main theme of Parashat Bechukotai is a warning of Moshe Rabbeinu I mean Moshe Rabbeinu is the one who's talking. He's warning the nation of Israel what to do and what not to do before going into the land of Israel. And why is that so important? Because the land of Israel as I mentioned before first of all belongs to the master of the universe. It doesn't belong to anybody. Nobody can come and claim ownership on the land. And at this point not the Palestinians and not the Jews. The land belongs to God period. There's no way to argue with it and God will decide who he wants to give it to. If he wants to give it to the Jews that's his choice. But the land belongs to the master of the universe and more than that the land of Israel is like the the apple of the eye of Hashem. That's how it's called Mabat Ainayim. And where do we see it in the most profound way? Next week we're going to learn about the story with Shlach Lecha with Shlach with the sending of the of the spies which we talked about it not once and not twice that up until today that sin was never forgiven. And why was that sin never forgiven? Because the spies spoke lashon hara about the land of Israel. Speak lashon hara about anything else Hashem will forgive you but you speak lashon hara about the land of Israel then you're going to have a serious problem. And that sin the sin of the spies was never forgiven up until today because Hashem says there's certain things that I will oversee and certain things I won't and there's not going to be such easy way to do teshuvah. And in Parashat Bechukotai is when Moshe Rabbeinu is warning the nation if you're not going to listen then this is what's going to happen. And really when you're going through the 98 curses it's it's is a holocaust. He's he's predicting holocaust one after the other. And when? Right before you're going to into the land of Israel. So you have to be double careful when it has to do with the land of Israel. Now as I said before that many of our challenges is not only because our own sins but because we have to do a rectification to the sin of Adam Harishon. But more than that if I do a certain sin and I don't do teshuvah I don't repent and I don't do a rectification then I'm going to have a problem. Whether before I leave this world or after I leave this world. That's why it's extremely important for every individual to catch themselves and to say I don't know you know what I'm not going to live forever. One day I'm also going to be placed in the ground unless Mashiach comes tonight and now we're no more death. But a person has to do an account. Wait a minute I have 50 60 70 years of sins. Did I really do a Tikun for that? That fact that you grew a beard and you put a yarmulke on that's very nice of you. Who said you did a rectification for your sin? It's called a Tikun. Now Hashem is so kind that if a person did not do a Tikun a rectification to his sins that Hashem will do it for him and usually it will be done by death. That's how it usually is done. If you don't do it then Hakadosh Baruch Hu says okay I will kill you for that and sometimes the death is what's called mitah meshunah very weird death or has veshalom in a very um derogatory word where way but nevertheless if you don't do it then Hashem will do it for you. Now the biggest question that I had when I saw this disaster in Meron is why did they kill each other? You know what? They could have gone on a bus all these 45 souls and the bus would fall off the cliff has veshalom or explode or why they all killed each other. Nobody died by by by by falling by themselves or has veshalom a shot or they killed each other. They were standing on each other. Up until today I'm still trying to figure out beyond that. There are four types of deaths by the by the court and one of them is by suffocation. So for example if a person desecrates Shabbat then the death is by stoning and it doesn't have to be stones per se. You know in our generation the stoning can be like a car accident. That's what many great rabbis are saying that in our generation in Israel the deaths by car accidents is out of proportions because when you when the car rolls and the person gets hit from all directions and dies because of that it's like stoning. So I'm still trying to figure out what is the focus on the suffocation. But we'll put this aside for now. The question I want to ask is that's the question that I asked myself why did they kill each other? Can't you kill them in another way? There's no question that these four 45 souls were holy souls that you can't even imagine. You look at their faces you see these pure pure souls and half of them were kids. Of course they didn't have their own sins. You see on their faces they were holy. They obviously died for us. They obviously died as a atonement. But nevertheless why did they kill each other? Okay? Now so let's go back to the parasha that we talked about with all the curses and you might want to open a Chumash if not just follow later on you can open the Chumash and follow but if you do open the the the Chumash and follow the psukim the verses that we're going to be reading and and if you have it with a translation even better. For the ones who speak English I don't like the translations cuz the word in Hebrew make much more sense but we'll explain it all. So go to Parashat Bechukotai exactly where all the curses are which is chapter 26 and we're going to start with verse 37. Pasuk Lamed Zayin. But before we start this is where I want to focus on but before we start with chapter with the verse 37 go to verse 36. And what does it say there? It says there very clearly Hashem is explaining to us that if we do not observe Shabbat and we will not observe the sabbatical year then the land will will so to say throw us out and the result will be that we're going to be scattered among all the nations. Okay? And that's really what happened. There wasn't observance of the sabbatical year what's called Shmita wasn't observance of Shabbat and the result is that we were scattered and up until today amongst amongst all the nations. Now first of all it's very important that to understand that all these warnings that we're getting in this parashah, it's Moshe Rabbenu saying that. But, nevertheless, the warnings are coming from Hashem. And why is it important to to understand that it's coming from Moshe? Because if you flip the letters of Moshe, you read it Hashem. So, Moshe is speaking in the name of Hashem. Hashem is God, of course. But, not only that, the acronym of the word Moshe is a verse that I a lot, "Ma shehaya ushiye." This is a quoting Kohelet, what Hamelech says, "What was is what will be." So, what we what they experienced then, we're going to experience everything. The Midrash says, and many other sources says, that exactly what happened in the redemption of Egypt, we're going to have a carbon copy, exactly we're going to have it now. So, what does it says in verse 36? "Vehanish'arim bakhem" Uh "Vehanish'arim bakhem" the one will remain. And it says, "Vehavti morakh morakh bilvavam." Let me just read the verse in English, I think it will be easier. I will bring fear in their hearts. The ones who remain, I will bring fear in their hearts. And in the land and sorry, and the lands of their enemies and the sound of a rustling leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one flees from a sword. Okay, that's what the verse says. That Hashem will bring fear into their hearts. And the the the the instruction that he says, that, you know, when a leaf falls, it makes a noise, like, you know, you go walking in the forest, the leaves, I don't know how you say it, they hit each other or the wind, they make noise that a person will hear like something like a leaf and will be trembling from fear, like as if somebody's coming to kill them. Uh very few people can relate. But, you know, if if a person is in a very bad situation and he feels he's about to die. Imagine now, we saw all these riots. Imagine an individual standing and there's a mob of people coming to attacking him and that person starts getting attacked and beat up by the mob. Can you imagine what's going on in that person's mind right now? I'm being attacked. There's like 30 of them. And then he feels, of course, the pain of the attack. And then in his mind, can you imagine the fear that that person is going through? This is fear that is very hard to to to digest. It's because, you know, you have no chance. They they can kill you. Especially when they're, you know, starting attacking you with stones and bats or whatever it is. Just imagine try to get into that place of fear. So, Hashem says here that you're going to get to the same level of fear even just because you hear a sound of a leaf. Something that you're afraid of a leaf, but that will bring you the same level of fear. Now, it says a very interesting word, and it says in Hebrew, "Venaf'lu." And they will fall. So, already we see what was going on there in the in that very short narrow corridor, that how did it happen that the first line of people fell down from the pressure and then the rest started stepping over them. But, it says here in the in the verse in 36, "Venaf'lu and they will fall." Now, you continue to verse 37 and it says, "And they will fall, each man will stumble over his brother." Okay? So, again, if you want to read again, this is in chapter 26, verse 37. And what does it says? "And they will fall, each man will stumble over his brother." That's exactly what was going on there. And then it continues and it says, "You will not be able to stand up." A comma, which that's what happened. Can you imagine 1,500 people pushing one the other and the ones in the front, what happens? Can you imagine how it looks? Forget about how it feels. I mean, there's not a lot of footage with what what from what was going on. Because the police took care of it the two days prior to the event, they removed all the cameras from the run. And they took the consideration that most Haredi Orthodox Hasidic individuals that will come don't have smartphones to film what's going on. There's there's not a lot of footage of what what's going on there. But, for the ones who were there, you saw what was going on. I mean, I don't know who from you were there. The the the sight was not a normal sight. It didn't look normal at all. But, what was going on there that the first line of people got to the end, the police stopped them. And and they started like a pressure from all the people coming. And at some point, the ones in the front line fell down because can you imagine what pressure it is? I'm assuming here that you're talking here about 10, 15 tons of people, not tons, like tons of weight. People pushing and pushing and pushing, it's not normal pressure. So, the first ones fell, as it says, "And they will fall." And after that, what does the verse says? "Each man will stumble over his brother." Which exactly what happened. And then the verse continues, "You will not be able to stand up." Can you imagine you have 40 people on you? How can you stand up? You can't. But, if you continue listening to the reading the verse, it says something very interesting. "You will not be able to stand up against your enemies." So, if you put the comma, you will not be able to stand up because you have dozens of people over you. But, let's remove the comma for a second, against your enemies. This is the next thing we need to take, but fear we're just going to skip. Just remember the against your enemies. And this is the first hint that we have with what was going on there. Now, when you read the Torah, most people when they read, their commentary that they read is Rashi. That's the common commentator. But, the ones who are more interested to find more interpretations and commentary, then there are many other commentaries. One of them is called Kli Yakar. The ones who are reading what's called Mikraot Gedolot, as usually will come with either four commentaries or eight commentaries. One of them which is very very known is called Kli Yakar. Kli Yakar is a rabbi called Rabbi Ephraim. Lived about 450 years ago. And very very deep and profound commentary. And he says something very interesting. The verse says, "Vekash'lu ish be'akhiv." That's what the verse says. The translation, "Each man will stumble over his brother." That's the translation, but the translation is never good. The Hebrew means "Vekash'lu" and they failed, "ish be'akhiv" a person in his brother. Now, what does the Kli Yakar say? This is a commentary. "Kilo nizhar bekhvod akhiv." They are not cautious or they don't have the respect for the honor of his brother. Again, these are words that it's a little bit hard to translate, but the Hebrew, again, "Kilo nizhar bekhvod akhiv." That the one is not respectful enough to the honor of his brother. What is really that what it means? It's called Perud Levavot. That's what the Kli Yakar says. Perud Levavot is that the hearts are separated. So, we have here a commentary saying, "Why did they stand all over each other?" I mean, this is physically, because they don't give respect to each other. Now, very interestingly, I don't want to say the word ironic, but very interestingly, this is the day, the third the 33rd day of the Omer, is the day that the 24,000 students of Rabbi Akiva who did not give respect to each other, that's the day they died. They stopped dying. And the Kli Yakar says, "What does it mean that they that they and they will each one each man will stumble over his brother?" That they don't give respect to each other. That's very interesting what the Kli Yakar says. And that's the first the second big hint that we have here. Now, if you go three verses back to 33, which again, happened on the 33rd day of the Omer, unbelievable, but to the 33rd verse, it says as follows, "Ve" "Ve'etkhem azare bagoyim." That's what it says in the verse. And again, it says, "All the curses." The translation, "And I will scatter you among the nations." This is one of the punishments that Hashem says, "Yeah, you're not going to do what I tell you, specifically with observing Shabbat and the sabbatical year, I will scatter you all over the nations." Now, the word in Hebrew "azare" I mean, the translation means to scatter. But, the the one can explain it in Hebrew with the word "afazer" that I will take and separate. And you know, this word is used when a farmer takes the seeds and throws them like that, then you spread the seeds. You don't want them all in one place. You want the seeds to spread all over the place and then they grow in different places. This is the word that it's using. Now, the commentary says, "Kol echad dokhefet khavero." Now, when I have seeds in my hand and I throw them like that, then they when they bump each other, they go to different places. Right? That's physically what happens. So, what does he says here? Each one pushes his friend. And so, what does the clear cut says? How? How each one pushes his friend by Lashon Hara? With slander and gossip and so forth. Okay. So, here we have the first commentary that we read and another hint of what's going on. Now, it comes and says something very very interesting. We're going to quote two pages in the Gemara, one from tractate Shevuot and page 49A and the other Talmud is from the Talmud of Shabbat page 70. Interestingly, in tractate Shevuot, Shevuot means oaths. But, it's also sounds like Shavuot, the holiday of Shavuot, which again around the time of Shavuot. But, what does it say there? In page 39A, it says the Talmud is asking a question. Why doesn't it say mipnei achiv and it says be'achiv? Okay? That's the verse that we're that we're reading in in in the in the parashah. So, the Talmud says, and again, in English it's very hard to really translate it because there's a difference mipnei achiv because for his brother, but it says be'achiv, in his brother. And again, the translation doesn't sound so right, but it's a play of the words because in Hebrew sometimes you change one letter, it's a completely different meaning. Because what does the verse say? The verse says vekachlu ish be'achiv. The translation is each man will stumble over his brother. That's that's you know, very simple translation. Vekachlu ish be'achiv, they failed a man in his brother. So, the Talmud is asking, why is he saying in his brother? Be'achiv, it should say mipnei achiv that I'm failing by slandering my brother in in his face, mipnei. That's the question the Talmud is asking. So, there of course when the Talmud asks a question, it gives an answer. Be'avon achav be'avon achiv that the stumbling here is in the sin of the brother, not my sin. Biglal she'achiv asa avon. I get punished because of a sin you did. That's what the Talmud says. Be'achiv is that I get vekachlu, the translation may be it says here one man will stumble over the brother, but why they stumble? Because the other did the sin, not because I did the sin. I mean, these 45 men didn't do sins. At least how they look on their faces, they look like angels. But, why do they stumble? Because of sins of others. Now, why would I get punished because of your sin? So, the Talmud says something very interesting. Be'avon achiv in the sin of his brother biglal she'achiv asa avon because his brother, we're all brothers, did a sin, hemn naflu, then they fell. The Talmud is coming to tell me here that we're all are guarantors of each other. You know, it says kol Yisrael arevim zeh bazeh. We are guarantors of each other. But, what's the simple explanation of the of the we're guarantors? Then the Talmud says ki lo machu because there wasn't a protest. If somebody knows here a person talking slap bad about another person and the person who hears doesn't protest, he's just as guilty. Sometimes people sin and there's no protest. What is he saying here? But, there's no protest. Then when I see somebody doing something bad, I'm not protesting. Why are you saying that? Why are you doing that? Why are you behaving like that? Why are you desecrating Shabbat? Why are you stealing? Why are you slandering? This is the pshat. But, here comes something even more interesting. Uh a quick explanation. I mean, the Talmud comes to explain I'm saying what I'm saying now is a side note. The Talmud is coming to explain the Mishnah. The Mishnah was written by Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi. He compiled all the Mishnayot together and he made composed the the Mishnah. But, there are Mishnayot that came later on. They found, you know, papers like this. So, these are called Baraitot. These are the additions. So, it says in the Baraita of Masechet Shevuot and it says and what is it talking about in this specific Baraita? It's talking about the severity chumrat shevuat shav ker. The severity when you're lying under oath or basically saying when you're lying. And it says kol ha'averot shebatorah rak a choteh ne'enash. All the sins in the Torah, the one who sinned, he gets punished. Bishvuat shav ker, when you lie, kol hamishpacha ne'eneshet. The whole family gets punished. So, you lie and I get punished. So, please stop lying. That's what the Baraita says. I'm not saying that. Now, interestingly, then the Baraita quotes a verse from the Torah in the book of Devarim chapter 24 verse 16, lo yumtu avot al banim uvanim lo yumtu al avot. Translation, the fathers won't die over the sons and the sons won't die over the fathers. That's the translation. Ish becheto yamut. A person will die because of his own sins. But, when it comes to shevuat shav, lying, then fathers will die over the kids, which exactly what happened. Fathers were leaning over the kids to protect them and either the fathers or the kids will die over the fathers. This is this is unbelievable. This is exactly what was going on there. So, we have the first explanation that people mistreat each other and therefore they're all falling on each other. Step step standing over each other. Uh stamping over each other. How do you say stamping? Stumping? Stumping over each other. And here it takes us to another whole new way of looking at it. That's how much lying is going on. When it comes to lying, bishvuat shav ker, then you can lie and I get punished. So, here this is the first quote from the first Gemara. Then we have another Gemara. I'm not going to get too much into that into that story. It's long, but you can look at it. It's in tractate Shabbat page 60 and it's talking about that the Roman soldiers, they used to have sandals. And what did they do with the sandals? The sandal, the bottom was made out of wood and to connect the leather to the wood, they would take nails and bang the leather in the the nail through the leather through the wood. And then the soldiers would walk with those sandals and it had nails in it. So, if they would stand on somebody, that was another type of a weapon. Okay? This is called sandal hamisumar. The sandal that has nails stuck in it. Anyways, the story is that the the Romans came to attack and what happened is that a lot of the people that they were hiding in a cave and kind of like in today when there's missiles, where do you go? You go to the to a shelter. So, then there wasn't missiles, maybe there was arrows. So, they all went into a cave and when they heard the Romans coming, from the fear, the ones in the out outside of the cave pushed everybody in and killed the ones that are inside and they stepped over them. And what does the Talmud says? Veyahargu zeh et zeh and they killed each other. I'm talking about the Jews that were hiding in the in the cave, which is already, you know, you see all these connections because in in Meron is there's a cave there. And it says veyahargu zeh et zeh and they killed each other yoter mimah shehargu bahem oyveihem. More than what the enemy actually killed them. They killed each other. Now, here comes another hint. How many people died in Meron? 45. It says veyahargu zeh et zeh and they killed each other yoter, more, mi from what? Mimah. Mah is mem hey, 45. And the whole story here, a bunch of people standing in a in a narrow corridor in a cave and they're all pushing each other and they killed each other. But, what says yoter mimah, this is not like proper Hebrew, by the way. And a hint here, mimah, what's mimah? Mem hey is 45. So, we have two Gemarot, two places in the Talmud talking about this. Now, let's see where it takes us. Just remember these two Gemarot, okay? Now, it says in the Zohar, I mean, after all, what are we what are we celebrating on Lag BaOmer? The the the the the completion of the cycle of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai who wrote the Zohar and it says in the book of Shemot page 36. No, 6 15B. This is as in the Zohar, let milta derimza be'oraita. Every word that is written in the Torah has a hint for something that is going to happen. There's no such a word, even if the word says ma, there's a hint for it for something that's going to happen. There's the Torah is like a The whole Torah is prophecies of what's going to happen. So, let's go now focus on the parashah exactly when Lag B'Omer happened, which is parashat Emor, right? Go to book of Vayikra. This is in parashat Emor, chapter 4 and 24, verse 19. And it says as follows, "Ve'ish ki'iten mum ba'amito." And a man who inflicts an injury upon his fellow man. "When ka'asher asa, ken ya'aseh lo." Just as he did, so shall will be done to him. You step on somebody else, you'll be stepped on. That's how it works. So, what does it says here? "And a man who inflicts an injury upon his fellow." How do they die? Because they were standing on each other. This is really not an injury. This is really death. But this is what it says in the parashah when the whole thing happened, "V'chi iten ish mum ba'amito." And again, I don't like the translation. I never liked the translation. Because "V'chi iten mum ba'am ish iten mum ba'amito" is that when I Mum is a is a blemish. Here it says inflicts. It's a blemish. If I punch somebody, I make a blemish. It's a mum. "Ka'asher when what I do, it will come back to me." That's how it is. What How do you say in English? What comes around goes around or goes around comes around? That's it. What you do to others is what's going to happen to you. And what's what's going to happen here? That there are people standing on each other. That's really what's going on here. The Torah is coming and telling me, "Everybody's standing on each other's honor, their respect." And in Hebrew, of course, it sounds much more accurate. "Dochim echad al hashani." That's what happens. Nobody cares about the honor and the respect of others. But very interestingly, if you're taking the words in this verse, "Ki ve'ish ki'iten mum ba'amito ka'asher" when a man And a man who inflicts an injury upon his fellow, go to the last letter of each one of these words. This is called sofei otiot. And you get the word Meron. Ki, you have the yud. Iten, you have the nun. Mum, you have the mem. Ba'amito, you have the vav. Ka'asher, you have the resh. Meron. Now, there's no coincidences or flukes. So, the Torah The Zohar says every word in the Torah has a hint. So, there we have a hint. When you're stepping on each other, when you have zero tolerance and respect to others, and you're stepping upon each other, and you're putting a blemish in If I go and slander you, that's a pretty pretty big blemish that I do to you. Maybe not physically, but there's a blemish. Or inflicts an injury. Injury doesn't have to be necessarily physical. That's That's what happens. And the same way that you treat others, that's what's going to what's going to happen to you at the end of days. So, again, we have another hint. Let's continue. No one that's class to be too long. The point is just to get the point. If we're going back to parashat Bechukotai, chapter 26, verse 37, lamed zayin. And it says as follows, "Ve'lo tihiyeh lachem tekumah." Translation, you will not be able to stand up. And that's exactly what was going on there. When people had 40, 50, 60 people standing on them, they won't be able to stand up. But if you're taking the word in Hebrew tekumah, which again, the translation stand up, tekumah means to be able to stand up, then break the word into the first three letters. So, you have taf, kuf, vav. And then you have again the word ma. Which ma is the numerical value of 45. And the taf, kuf, vav is the what's called teko. Is what we cannot grasp. Because people were asking, "Why did this happen? What did these 45 holy souls did? Why is the Shem doing this to us?" People were going banging their head at the wall for a whole week. Why? Why? Why? This is what we can't understand. So, the word kumah you have the teku ma. And you're not going to understand why Shem took 45. This is for Shem to understand. But very, very interestingly here, if you're focusing on these verses, and at home later on, read all the verses from 33, go till at least to like 42, 43, 45. Just read it. But if you're going from that place, 99 letters, you jump from 99 letters. This is called when people want to see hints in the Torah, this is what we just said now, sofei otiot, the last letter of every word. There's rashei otiot, the last the first letter of every word. But there's also what's called dilug otiot. A lot of people who look in the Torah codes, there's a rabbi, I think his name is uh Glazerson. Glazerson, thank you. He does online the Torah codes, and you see he has a software, and you see sometimes a hint when there's what's called the dilug otiot, that you find a word when you're jumping the same amount of words. Okay? So, if you're jumping 99 letters, this is what you get. If you're going to This you can do later. Don't look at it right now. Chapter 26 in parashat Bechukotai, from uh verse mem. And it says, "Vehitvadu et avonam." That's where it starts. What does it say What does it mean? "They will then confess their iniquity." Remember we spoke about on Shabbat how important it is to confess? Be a man, just confess. Don't start pretending it wasn't me. It was wasn't my fault. I was under pressure. Excuse my language. Shut up and just confess for what you did. Just step forward and say, "I I'm guilty." Who are you kidding? But see, here he says something very interesting. Because it says, "Ve'et avon avotam bema'alam." "Halchu imi bekeri." I mean, this is the end of the verse. Read the whole verse. What does it says there? That they had to confess their iniquity, but the sins of their fathers, and at the end, "Halchu imi bekeri." I mean, the transla- I don't even read the translation cuz it's The translation doesn't make sense. "Halchu it bekeri." Keri comes from the word in Hebrew mikreh. Mikreh means by chance. There's no hand of God happened here. This what it means "Halchu imi bekeri." That people say, "No, no, no. There's no divine intervention here. It's a It was a a coincidence. It just happened to be." Shem says, "You're telling me that something is a coincidence or it happened by mistake? That's "Halachti tik bekeri." Don't say it's a mistake. It was the hand of God that did that. And Hashem doesn't like that. Now, it says here, "Ma'alu bi." They went against me. This is what's called their betrayal. "Ma'alu bi ve'af." This is where you have to follow the the verses. We're going to try maybe on the editing to put all the verses. But for you, if you're following the text, so if you're starting to jump 99 letters, and I'll tell you from which letters. This is just a hint. That How did we Why 99? Because first of all, we have 98 curses, so we have one over the curses. But in the ver- in the words where it says their betrayal, because Hashem says you're saying it was not the hand of God, you're going against me. How can you go against me? I'm Shem I can't go against Hashem, not against me. So, the words "Ma'alu bi ve'af." If you take the words bi, in me, ve'af, and the anger of Hashem, gives you the number of 99. So, now we're going to start jumping 99 letters. So, you can follow in the in the in the verses. In the words kumah, this is where we start counting. "Lachem tekumah." You're not going to be able to stand up. From the letter mem, count 99 letters, you're going to get to the word "Et avonam." To their sin. So, they're confessing to their sin. So, the 99th letter is the ayin of avonam. And count another 99 letters, and you get to the word "Ve'az yiratzu" or "Az yiratzu." So, the resh of ritzu, then they will ask or request. And go another 99 letters, and the word is "Mehem be'ashmatam mehem." Then you get the word "Me'arah." In the cave. Mem, ayin, yud Sorry, mem, ayin, resh, and heh. And why is it so important dafka the word me'arah? Because exactly what happened in the in Meron, with the cave of Meron, is what happened in tractate Shabbat that I told you. They were all squished into a cave. So, there's nowhere to go. Not to the left, not to the right, and not forward. So, the ones who are coming in are pushing every This is exactly what happened in Meron. It looked a little bit different if you looked from above. But it's the same idea. What's interesting here is the numerical value of is the numerical value of the word "Yig'alena." Will be redeemed or will redeem. And like I told you that 45 is the numerical value of geulah, of redemption. So, the hint that we're getting here, "Lo yet kumah." The person will not be able to stand up. Can you imagine the person who's on the ground and he wants to get up, wants to save himself and there's so much people on top of them and they can't get up. You can't move. Can you imagine the frustration? Imagine the anxiety. You can't breathe and you you can't even move. The people people were piled on top of each other. Wasn't it somebody just fell? People were piled on top of each other. If you see some of the footage, people were like pulled out. Can you imagine what's going on in the person's mind? The fear. The the the the you know in Hebrew it's called Khusron the the the you're helpless. And there's so much pressure on the lungs lungs. You can't even scream help, move, anything. Just imagine what's going on in those person's mind. Shem Yirachem. Now, interestingly here, this I'm going to just going to say it as a side note, but in the in in verse 22 it says "I will send the wild beasts of the field." Again, this is part of the curses. It says I will incite the wild beasts of the field. So I was thinking of, you know, wolves or I don't know, tigers, whatever it is. But the Talmud says in specifically in this case the Khayat Sade, the wild beasts, this is the Roma'im, the Romans. And how did the Talmud get to it? Because Esau who was the father of Edom, he was in the field and he's the the the head or the father of the Romans. And I'm not talking about the ones who live in Rome. I'm talking about the the real Romans that are our biggest enemy enemy right now. Then in our generation again, it's not the ones who serving pizza in Napoli. Talking about the Romans from the Vatican that are running the the the the entire world. So I'm just finding this is a is an interesting hint. We're not going to get into that, but for the ones who were at Meron at the night of Lag BaOmer and some of you probably saw it online, the whole place was full of the the the pyramids. I don't know if you saw it in the pictures or not. Everywhere you looked in Meron was the Illuminati's pyramids. Everywhere. And people took pictures of it. Why why is what is the pyramids got to do with Meron? Why? Because the Roma'im, the Illuminati, they control everything, especially the land of Israel. And they're running the show. So I just found it very I'll use now the word ironic. The the part of the Klalot is that the Shem says I will send to you the the the translation, the wild beasts of the field, but the Talmud says this is the Romans, not the animals. I'm going to send these individuals to be your enemy and they will bring you down. Which really, I know it's a lot of people don't like hearing it, but these are the ones who planned this whole thing. I told you this was planned and it was a murder. But anyways, let's go back to our verses. Very interestingly here again, another hint. And this is not chance and don't dare to say a chance because I just told you that the Shem says if you saying it's a chance, you're going with me be Keri, that's when I really lose it. The verse that we're reading is what verse? Lamed Gimel. 33. Woohoo. Don't say a chance. This is not by mistake that we're reading verse Lamed Gimel. In which chapter? 26. Now what's the significance of chapter 26? The whole day was to commemorate the passing of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, right? How many years did Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai learn in a cave? 13 years. Well, 12 then he went out, came back for another year. 13 is the numerical value of the word Ahava, love, which we all can apply a little bit more to our fellow friends. Another numerical value with the number 13 is Echad. Now when we say Shema Yisrael, what do we say? Ve'ahavta et Hashem Elokecha, right? You should love your God. And at the end, Hashem Echad. So Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, what he did with his deep profound meaning me teachings is to connect love with one. And this is a big problem that we have is that we are not one. We are very separated and there's no love. So you have 13 of the numerical value of love and 13 of the numerical value of Echad and you have 26. So in chapter 26, in verse 33, I don't know about you, I I see very clear hints here. But it's all about the connection and that's what Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai really did. This is called Yichuda Ila'ah, the connection a supreme or an exalted connection, connecting love and one. Or connected to be one through love. Now, interestingly here, just to conclude, um now all that we're focusing here is on the curses of the parasha, of the curses in the Torah. How many curses do you have? Quick test. How much? No, I said that the 15 minutes ago. How many curses we have? How much? 98. 98 is the numerical value of the word Chinam. Chinam, the translation is free, but what other connotation we have with the word Chinam? We have either Sinat Chinam or we have Ahavat Chinam. Sinat Chinam is a baseless hate. You have baseless hate, this is what we are experiencing, you're going to experience 98 curses. I rest my case. Shem is telling us in clear words you did it to yourself. I did it. I'm speaking now. I can't speak in the name of God, but I'm saying Shem says I did it. I run the show. Don't think for one second that this is a mistake, a chance, an accident. I allowed it to happen by the hands of who? The Khayat Sade, the the beast of the field, which are the Romans. I'll send them to bite you. They're going to bite you. But why? Because of Sinat Chinam. You have baseless hate, that's what you're going to get. It's very very simple. You step on each other, then you are going to stay in exile. Chas v'shalom. Now these 45 holy souls that were murdered, I don't think they had that problem. They just went as an atonement because if I lie, if I slander, if I cheat and steal and desecrate Shabbat and hate other people and can I be con- considered complete or whole? We spoke about it on Shabbat. It's called Tamim, right? I'm not. Half full of damages cuz I lie and I cheat and I slander and I hate and so forth. So I'm not whole. I'm not a perfect sacrifice. But these 45 holy souls were perfect sacrifices. It's called Olah Temimah. Olah means a sacrifice a korban but Tamim, it has to be perfect. So Shem chose 45 perfect souls that you see on their faces and if you read about them and learn about each and every one of them, rabbis, huge scholars, kids that were like angels. And Shem chose perfect ones. He could have chose also anyone. No, Shem says no no no no. If I'm taking sacrifices, they're going to be perfect. They didn't do anything wrong. We did something wrong. We lied, what the Talmud says, we lie, then they get punished. So the point that we need to take from that, it's our fault. And I don't like people who are brushing off responsibility. Oh, take responsibility. Ve'hitvadu al avonam, right? That's what they what the what it says in the in the in the verses that we're reading here. You have to to confess your sin. Who am I kidding? I CAN'T STAND YOU. Not you. But if I need to do a Cheshbon, an account with myself, sometimes I look at another person and in my heart I I can't stand this guy. Why? Cuz he's smarter. He's younger. He's handsome. He's rich. He's has a beautiful wife. I like his wife. So I can't stand him. I mean, let's cut to the chase here. Nobody can stand each other. That's the Sinat Chinam. Now the thing is that where does the lie come in? Because I hi, how are you? You look amazing. That's great. I I missed you SO MUCH. YOU LIAR. SAY it straight in the face. I can't stand you. Now I'm not telling you now to go in the street and start telling people I can't stand you. That will cause more Sinah. But who are you lying It says clearly and what I'm telling you right now, there's so much more hints in the text. I'm doing it short cuz I really want to make a kind of short class. There's so much more hints here. You can't even fathom how many hints are in all these parashot and the words and you can't even imagine. But I want to keep it simple. And that's why I quoted the the Talmud of Shavuot because it says you lie, your brother will get punished. So stop lying. Who are you kidding? You know who you're lying to? You're lying to yourself. Oh, I love everybody. No, you don't. You can't stand this guy cuz he has more money than you and you can't stand that guy because he's from a different religious group. And you can't stand this guy because he's Jewish or not Jewish or religious not religious. Ve'lo tisna et achicha bilvavecha. This is a direct commandment from God in the Torah. You should not hate your brother in your heart. So, Hashem is telling us very simple, the sinat chinam, you hate each other, you stepping all over each other, you don't care of the respect and the honor of others, and that's what you're going to get. You want geula, people screaming all day long, we want the Messiah. Well, let's see what you can do. And this is nothing to do right now, Jews, non-Jews, religious, non-religious, observant, because everybody kind of hates each other. Now, what's the solution? And some people tell me, "Should I not or hate or a terrorist that is coming to kill me?" What's that got to do with it? That's the questions people tell me. Somebody got raped, should he not hate the rapist? I'm not talking about that. Of course, if somebody was raped, lo aleinu chas v'shalom, or molested, or I'm telling you to love that person. So, somebody else asked me the other day, cuz I told him the same thing, "How is about if I see somebody desecrating Shabbat, or they're not observant, should I hate them?" No, I didn't tell you to hate them. First of all, you have to rebuke them. That's what it says. Shalom ichu, remember I told you there was in a a protest. But, you have to do it with love. Don't throw a rocket at a car and scream shabbos. That's not how you protest. But, if I see somebody doing something bad, then go and protest, but in a in a way of love. Reach out to the person. And if you can, then stay back, but don't hate that person. You can hate the person's actions, but don't hate the person's soul. So, the first thing I want to conclude, cuz there's another thing I want you to take from this class, is that each and every one of us has to take some time to themselves and say, "Do I really, really have love to other people, unconditional love, or am I failing with sinat chinam?" And the majority of us are failing in sinat chinam. That's how it is. Sinat chinam means baseless hate, and I told you there's no there's not not by chance that there are 98 curses, cuz 98 is the numerical value of the word chinam. Chinam means free, but you can either have sinat chinam, and then you fail miserably, and then you bring on yourself these 98 curses, chas v'shalom, or you have ahavat chinam. I don't even know who you are. And you know what? You may be weren't there to see it. You know what ahavat chinam people had in that disaster? You know that people that live in Meron ripped their doors out of the hinges, so they can carry wounded people on the doors, because there wasn't even a pathway for the for the ambulances to come in? People were risking their lives jumping into the crowd to pull other people. People were carrying people on their on their own bodies. Then then you see ahavat chinam. The people don't know each other. They come to rescue and save other people. But, why do we have to wait for a disaster to behave like that? So, we need to take from that that first of all, don't think for one second accident, mistake. Hashem says, "Are you telling an accident? I'm telling you that I did this." Hashem says, "I do. Don't don't dare to say an accident." "Oh, what a horrible accident." No, it what it it is horrible. Don't take my words out of context, but Hashem says, "I did it. I designed it to show you how you look stepping all over each other. That's how you look." Can you imagine step aside and look at the crowd, and you see how people step all over each other? And this is a term, stepping all over each other, not talking physically. So, Hashem says, "Okay, you're doing it in a metaphorical way. Now, I'm going to show you how you do how you killing each other when you're physically stepping on each other." When I go and slander other people, yeah, I'm stepping all over their all over them, and that really kills them, and they completely It's like kills me. First lesson to continue to conclude from all this is that Hashem is telling us clearly, "You want the geula? You want redemption? In the same numerical value of 45? Then this cannot continue. This cannot continue, this baseless hate. This hate and resentment and slandering and gossiping and lying to each other and it has to stop. Lesson number one. Lesson number two is not going to be like now 1 hour. It will take me exactly 1 minute to explain to you. That was the first thing that struck me struck, strike me. How do you say strike, stroke? The first thing that hit me when I saw 45, because you know the the number of the dead was going up, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. It was just but it stopped at 45. And the first thing that came up to my mind, 45, the ones who learn a little bit of Kabbalah, is right away Shema, right? There are four ways how you can write Yud Ke Vav Ke, the name of Hashem, which is numerical value of 26, but if you write it in you spread the letters and you write the letters, then you get four combinations. Really, you can get 12. I told you already, I promised you many times we'll do a class about all 12 combinations, but Shema is the numerical value of 45. So, that first of all hit me. Now, where do you find the word ma in the Torah that is very, very powerful? Go to the book of Devarim, chapter 10, verse 12. And it says, "Ve'ata Yisrael, listen to me, oh Israel, ma ma Hashem Elohecha shoel mimacha." What is What does God want from you? "Ki im leyira et Hashem Elohecha." Fear God and only God. Book of Devarim, chapter 10, verse 12. Go read the whole verse, where Hashem tells you, "You know what I want from you? I want you to fear only me." Only fear the Lord your God. Don't fear other people. And of course, go in his path and let's do the mitzvot and so forth. And that's the problem that we have very obvious in the last year, that people fear a virus. People fear a government. People fear a 500 shekel fine. You're afraid of a half 500 shekel fine, cuz you didn't wear a diaper on your face. Well, luckily now, they're not bothering us with the diapers anymore. Now, they're announcing that's it. Their green passport is not going to have any any meaning, no more restrictions. I can't even imagine what they're cooking for us right now. But, the point is that in the last year and a half, all I saw with most people that they fear everything but God. And Hashem tells us with this incident, "Stop fearing governments. Stop fearing viruses, doctors, threats by authorities. Fear me and only me." That's what it says. Only to fear the Lord your God. Sorry to tell you, if you're afraid of the police, or the Department of Health, or the CDC, or the WHO, or whatever, who cares, then I'm sorry to tell you, that's that's a big slap to the face to the Master of the Universe. You fear God. And I know there'll be a lot of arguments, but you have to do an effort to protect yourself. I'm not talking about the efforts you need to do. I'm telling you to fear God, and that's the problem that most people don't have. They don't fear God. They're afraid. What is the What's going to happen? I'm going to get fired because I didn't take my shot. What, you afraid of a boss? Afraid of God. People lost their fear of God. So, we're not going to make a whole lecture out of that, but that's the first thing that I saw when I saw the 45, because it says clearly in the Torah, "Ve'ata Yisrael, listen to me, oh Israel, ma Hashem Elohecha shoel mimacha." What does Hashem ask from you? And that Shema is 45. Hashem says, "Yeah, I want you to fear me." And after you fear me, everything else becomes this big. Needless to say, people need to take precautions. You're not allowed to put yourself in a place of danger. There's a barrage of missiles, you're not standing in the street like this and saying, "I'm fearing Hashem." You go into a bomb shelter. But, that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about that you put all your fear to Hashem. I lie, you're going to get punished for that. I slander, there's going to be a reaction. I desecrate Shabbat, I don't eat kosher. Doesn't matter. You There's going to be a There's going to be a precaution. Do you think Hashem is just going to forget about it? So, we have two profound lessons to take from this incident, and I hope that people can not only internalize it, but also to to apply that. And to understand the the severity of sinat chinam, of this baseless hate, is what's killing us. The perud levavot, that the hearts are separated, that we're not united, and I told you that not once and not twice. It happened till about a year ago, the sinat chinam was if you're Sefardi or Ashkenazi, or if you're from this group or that group, or how you dressed. Now, the new sinat chinam is is if you're vaccinated or if you're not vaccinated, or if you're wearing a mask or you're not wearing Are you pro-vaccine or you're against Corona? That's the new sinat chinam. People hate each other because one is vaccinated while the other one is not. I don't agree. You don't have to agree with me. You know how many people hate me? You don't have to agree with me, but why do you hate me? I don't hate you. I don't agree with most people, but I don't hate them. I choose to disagree. The whole Torah is full of disagreements, but I don't hate you for that. I'm going to mock you. I'm going to ridicule you in public. This is a brand new sinat chinam that we have. So, first, internalize that if we are not going to be united, we're going to continue seeing another disaster and another disaster and another disaster, and it's all going to be done by hasadeh, by the way. Hashem says, I will send to you the the beast of the field, right? We become a sudden. So some might say, oh, Hashem didn't do it. They did it. No, no, no, no, no. Hashem released them. And the translation is the wild beast of the field, but the town would say no, no, no, no, these are the remain. And I'm not talking about the ones from Rome. Oh, well, they are in Rome in the Vatican, but I'm talking about the evil regime that are coming against you. Kill you. And the next like I told you, we have to have only fear from Hashem, and we have to have fear from Hashem. Forget about that's you know, let me separate it into two categories. First, you have to have fear from Hashem and not from people. But most people don't even have fear from Hashem. That's If you believe in God, this is a mind-boggling to me. If you believe in God and you hold yourself as an observant individual, Jew or non-Jew, doesn't matter. It's the same God. How can you sin? How can you sin if you fear God? So you don't fear God. You're not a God-fearing individual. Sometimes people tell me you're religious. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't call me names. I'm not religious. Religion is not a nice word. It's a man-made concept. I'm a God-fearing individual. God-fearing Jew, call me however you want. I need you to show mine. I fear God. Religion, that's a man-made thing. Men man invented religion. Judaism is not a religion. This is a way of life. I I serve the master of the universe. I don't like when people call me you're religious. I'm a God-fearing individual. At least I'm trying to be God-fearing. So most people are not God-fearing because if you do sins, how how how who are you fearing exactly? You don't fear God. The question is you know, the test is how you behave at home. Next to people you behave like a good kid or a good individual. At home, let's see how you behave. Closed doors where nobody sees you. Then that's the the God-fearing is tested there. So we'll break the the fear of fear of God is first fear God and not humans. Put all your trust in God and not in humans. That's mind-boggling mind-boggling to me. You put your trust you put your health in the hands of people. Put your trust in the hands of God. And I know that people will manipulate it say of course I trust in God, but I'm doing my effort and therefore I'm trusting in people. David says I will give her back by Adam. Right? David says in damn is the man who trusts in another man. You put the shame is your security. You believe in Hashem. And then of course you question yourself how how God-fearing are you? Are you really a God-fearing individual? Cuz when the storm is going to come very soon, what do we say every day? Hashem I am Hashem. I am. I am. That's not talking about today. I am. The translation is today. I am is the day that Hashem will reveal himself. The day. I am. So only if you're holding on means that you're glued. You know, holding Hashem like this, then you'll survive the storm and you'll be alive in that day. I am Hashem in the day that Hashem will reveal himself to the universe. But if you're not fearful from Hashem, who says you're going to survive? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have a guarantee? I don't know how many people will survive. The ones who are fearing Hashem. And if you really fear Hashem, then you don't lie and you don't slander and you don't gossip and you don't steal and you don't carry hate to other people and you follow the Torah tells you to the best of your abilities. I'm not expecting Hashem is not expecting robots. He knows we're going to fail, but to the best of your ability. Just be a mensch as they say. So I want to take this sad incident as a strong message that Hashem is giving to us. Clearly what we need to do in order to reach to a state of Allah. The numerical value of 45. Hashem says you want you want to be in a state of freedom, mental freedom, spiritual freedom, emotional freedom. Then get your act together and get it fast. Because we didn't even get up from people didn't get up from the Shiva of mourning the death. Boom, right away attack from our enemies. Barrages of missiles, riots everywhere. Now people saying, okay, that's Israel. No. It's not only Israel. It's very scary for the Jews in New York right now. And Johannesburg and in Montreal and Los Angeles. Yesterday I spoke with a good friend of mine. He told me, I don't care about the corona, the vaccines. That's not what worrying me. It's the anti-semitism that I'm worried about in New York. People are afraid to walk in the street with a yarmulke in New York. New York. Which as I said many times, that's what happened in Germany 85 years ago. 90 years ago, everybody walked in the street with yarmulke, yeshiva, kosher butchers, and got to a point that people didn't walk with yarmulkes in the streets of Frankfurt, Berlin, and who who dared to walk with a Jewish identity? And this dear friend of mine says, I'm afraid. Forget about the corona. I don't care about the corona. I care about the the the the anti-semitism. So it's everywhere. If it starts in Israel, it ripples to the world. So we need to get our act together very fast because now the waves are going to come much much faster. Can't even wait to see what's going to be next after this so-called ceasefire. Some ceasefire. So I take this message very very strong. I hope I was able to relay a little bit of the the importance of what we need to do. I know it sounds like a broken record, but nothing seems to change. So hopefully maybe now people will be able to apply that. The thing is that each and every one of you have to not look around what other people are doing. So close yourself in a room or better off to go to some big open field with no boundaries and to say to yourself, where am I failing? What can I do? And don't think that your change will not affect the entire world. One person can affect the entire world. When I take on myself to really respect others. I don't agree with you. I respect you. I will not ridicule you. I will not mock you. And then needless to say not going to go and slander your name and gossip about you. I don't have to agree with you. As they say the famous quote in English, let's agree to disagree. That's it. Don't have to agree. Just today somebody told me we were talking about the new app that we're doing and I said there's going to be a a on the app. And then till Messiah is going to come, we still have no and no Ashkenaz. So we're going to have to have two for the Ashkenazim and the Sephardim. And this person says, why do you have to have two why can we all have one do? So I said, okay, that's what's going to happen in Messiah is going to come. But there's a reason why there's Sephardi and Ashkenaz. And one of the many reasons is that let's see how you can respect each other even though you're serving the same God in different paths. So what if you read in this type and I read in that type? That shouldn't bring us to hate each other. Never. You teach me, I'll teach you. Let's join together. So I'm hoping that the words were a little bit clearer. I This is I mean this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are so many other hints and and messages, but I think this is pretty clear, pretty loud. Hopefully we'll be able to do some type of a change and this change starts within you. Not to look around at others. It's what do I can do to change it? I guarantee to you that if you do the change, by default it will affect other people. Because the positive power of your change will affect positive other people. And needless to say that you spreading love and unity and light in the world then by default it will diminish the darkness in the world that is taking over. And we can experience the redemption but with kindness and with love and compassion and not with disasters. So I will bless you all including myself that we should have real real fear of God. Real love to others in quotations even if I don't agree with them. And we will be able to do serious for our sins so to be able to rectify that and to change the world and make the world a much better place with me spreading unity and love and light and applying what the Torah says because before all the curses that we read in this look at all the beautiful blessings if we go in the path of God. So now Hashem is telling us Jews and non-Jews do. Go in the path of God cuz that's the only way to bring unity, love, and needless to say to bring the redemption. With kindness and with love and we should experience this very soon in our days.