TETZAVEH: DANGEROUS FUTURE AHEAD - Stump The Rabbi (193)

We are back here on our Wednesday night and we missed you guys. We missed doing the shim with you. We weren't able to do the last couple of shim but gave us the to do tonight our longest standing series the stump the rabbi where afterm you guys will then ask some questions and will give us some answers. Tonight's Jew is going to be for the for Benitan Leavid and all of Isra and all the righteous Noah that continue to watch our shim learn together with us, grow together with us and uh share all of these lectures with as many people as possible so more people can get closer So we have of course many different technical difficulties but we'll do our best tom work through them. Uh but uh to give you guys uh some uh brief updates because there's a lot of material about and we're running behind already. Uh the uh special book that's in both English and Hebrew uh that you guys probably have seen the posters on is uh Hashem one of the uh most amazing uh things that we've seen where a lot of people are ordering this for their community and uh people are already coming for seconds. We have another um uh huge uh delivery coming Badm later this uh week in the next couple of days. But I believe everything that we've ordered is already gone and spoken for and we already have to place the uh next order for the next uh batch. So uh many of you will be getting the books next week and uh those of you that order today will probably get it within the next couple of weeks. But order fast because we're quickly running out. But uh the book is good for couples. It's good for young people. Uh it's good for old people. It's good for people that speak Hebrew. It's good for people that speak English. Uh, in so many words, it's good for the Jewish world. Uh, because it puts a very uh, beautiful perspective written by Rabbi Fry, our own very dear Rabime Kaklon and his Rabanit of Rabanit. uh and puts things in a very simple uh uh terms and uh really just beautiful language to give you uh some uh throughout the week, throughout your life and uh throughout the holidays as we have a very uh happy holiday coming up next month. But there's a small version of it uh and really uh in the next couple of days which is pulin katan. Uh but uh this uh book you can get a uh box of 20 for free. Uh and uh this is only for delivery in the United States. I know some of you uh have asked for delivery for different countries. Uh unless you're willing to pay for the shipping, which is very expensive. Uh you know, this is only for uh for us. Uh we have actually some in Israel. So, it's also in Israel, but other countries, we simply cannot uh afford to pay all of the delivery charges for all over the world already. The books themselves, 20 books already cost a few hundred. Uh there's just so much that we can do. But if you're willing to contribute, uh you know, then uh certainly would be happy to uh to do it. People that have asked me about uh you know, shipping these to uh you know, to different parts of Europe uh and other places uh and I told them they have to pay the shipping. and said, "Sure, why not? What is it, $20?" Like, "No, it's usually a few hundred. Uh, it's not uh it's not cheap because it's heavy." Uh, and then, you know, they don't want it bad enough in some cases. In other cases, they do. So, whoever wants it, whoever is able to do it, by all means, we happy we're happy to uh to help. Uh, also, for those of you that uh can't give them out because you're busy, because you got a lot going on, you can still contribute by going to that same website, the uh kovstore.org. k I ru v s t re uh.org and you could simply donate donate uh you know as much as your heart uh allows uh so that's certainly a way that you could contribute. Last but not least, remember we have the tikun shave. Tikunim uh is this auspicious time where opens up the gates of heaven. And uh those of us that uh take the initiative not only to do chuva for immorality of the past, whether it be wasting seed or adultery or uh promiscuity or uh LGBTQ or whatever it is that a person uh has uh as falling into and they want to fix it, they you know, you first start with the chuva, which we've discussed many times. Uh but of course if somebody wants to do a tikun this is the time to do it. Uh you can go to our uh site tikunit.live t i ku n h a b r i t uh li i and you could do your tikun. This is the last week meaning we only have a few more days uh before the end of the of what's called uh where says to us come back uh you know wayward children. This is the time to do it. Some of you have taken this extremely seriously and have uh have made uh some very big tunim for you know everybody in their own uh relative to them. Uh others uh you know really don't think it's a big deal. They think that Hashem is simply going to forget uh you know the the sins somehow just because you're keeping Shabbat or you're learning Torah or you are just a decent person that doesn't kill people uh and you think that Hashem just uh is going to eliminate it somehow. So that's why I highly recommend for people to watch the tikunablit film that we have uh because that puts things into perspective and also for those of you that are uh uh avid watchers of our shim and films and so on. I'm sure that you are very uh excited if you haven't already watched a new film that we released last night uh in only a 10-minute film uh but it was about some uh extraordinary proofs about reincarnation according to the holy Jewish Torah uh and uh not only talking about the parts of the Torah but actually showing some uh extraordinary real life examples uh that uh you It's just simply mind-boggling how beautiful and true the Torah is. So, with all of that being said, anyone that wants to do a tikun, like I said, go to tikunit.live. If you're having trouble donating over there, you could uh donate on one of our other websites, the Bashem website, on the app, you could send a check, whatever, you know, whatever is easier for you, that's fine. Uh, and uh, anyone that wants to get some free books, USBs, all that other stuff that we uh, give out for free, which is pretty much everything. Uh, you can go to the krooftore.org. Uh, so for those of you that sometimes ask, what do you do with the Tikun Bleet money kof store that Kiru store all the free USBs of Tikunit, which each one cost a ton of money each box it's, you know, that we send to people is literally hundreds and hundreds of dollars. That's where it goes. you're in essence each one of you that's donating is helping another person that's going to be distributing. It's uh it's a uh it's it's one one hand washes the other. So this is the beautiful thing that we have here at Bad. So with that being said, we have parhat really tells us about you know the is in obviously in ancient history just a few thousand years ago is in a desert and akadosh is having moheenu uh tell is the different uh steps to uh prepare for the mishkan prepare the mishkan uh and one of those steps that we begin the with uh is the uh different garments of the coen gadul which are eight different garments. The the garments of the regular coin or called coen ediot um and uh they have four garments uh the the uh the different cobot the oil. So a lot of interesting things and of course this is a uh a uh a lot of beautiful things that are happening in Torah. But if you are like me and you always want to learn from the Torah, not just what happened 3,300 years ago or uh or or any other time that we have throughout our history, but you actually want to know what can you do about it today. You know, especially if you're not a kuen, we don't have a beta mikdash. Uh unfortunately, not yet. uh and uh quite frankly you're not really sure what is the uh point of uh remembering the different names of these clothing uh of the ken or of these coenote. Uh so how can you apply all of this to your life today? And that's in essence our goal with every single sh to take the ancient and holy Torah, the divine words of a and show you how it applies to our lives today. Now many times and uh since I deal with a lot of different people from around the world that are going through different uh parts of their journey in life. Some are having difficulties in finances, others with marriage, children, moving from place to place uh you know sometimes they're uh you know at at the best times of their lives, sometimes unfortunately at the worst times of their lives. Some people are suffering because they're they found out that their partner uh has uh has has cheated on them whether in business or uh their marriage. Uh and uh there's a lot of different uh stories that come across our desk and many times when I see uh you know and I and I deal with different people that are depressed uh you know I I see that uh they have a common denominator which is that they are harping on the past. They're harping on the past. It's actually a similar uh behavior on people that are uh very arrogant. Uh also like to harp on the past uh you know because you know they've done a few things in the past and they want recognition for it even if 20 years have passed. You know it's like the celebrities of yester year that still want prime time uh attention today. you know, he was in a movie 25 years ago, but he still wants the world to uh to like him even though he's 25 years older, uglier, and uh certainly not as interesting. So many times you see this common denominator of people harping on their past. On the other hand, there are a uh you know, many of us that harp on the future. You know, harp on the future, the unknown future, the terrible future, the uh the uh all the different uh dangers that are out there. There's obviously war in the air uh everywhere whether it's the uh Ukraine uh and Russia or it's the potential what's going on with China, the Middle East. You know, there's so many different things going on. And anyone that waste even a minute of their day uh poisoning their mind with uh with the news is certainly to uh you know become scared and uh practically petrified uh you know of the future to the point where some people are scared to leave their house or their city uh you know because they're constantly expecting some atomic bomb to drop or or or some type of uh horrible thing to to happen. Now, of course, we all know that akados who already decides who's going to live and who's going to die, who's going to be rich and who's going to be poor, who's going to make money, who's going to lose money, who's going to get married, who's going to get divorced, who's going to have kids, who's not going to have kids. Uh all of these different things already decides on decree is already passed of what's going to happen to you. Meaning that whether you watch the news and prepare for the future or you don't, it's completely irrelevant because the news and the wars and the uh and all of the uh viruses and all the different things that are constantly thrown in people's face to create a uh certain level of fear. Uh so people can continue to tune in because that's, you know, part of the addiction is to get people to be afraid enough so they don't want to miss a show. So they don't want to miss a video. Uh and what ends up happening is that uh a person that is Torah observant, keeps Shabbat, keeps kosher, you know, if it's a woman, keeps modesty, if it's a man, protects their all of the good things could easily forget about being the one that decides who and what is going to happen. The only thing that we decide is whether we're going to serve him or not. That's what we decide whether we fear Hashem or we don't fear Hashem. Whether we're going to do the mitzvot, whether we don't do the mitzvot, that's the only thing that we can decide as far as the outcome of any action that you do is not within your hands. Even if a person is crazy enough to the point where they want to kill themselves, the so-called success in doing that is also determined by Hashem. As we saw several times with a uh first uh firsthand experience with people that we knew that tried to kill themselves and Hashem simply decided no. And in other cases, unfortunately, Hashem decided yes. Uh now of course if a person uh does do such a thing according to the Torah, it's a very big sin and is uh you know and the person is uh in so many words murdering themselves and will be uh punished for that uh severely. But the key is to know that instead of wasting our time on harping on the past or uh being addicted to the future, what our holy Torah does is that it takes the past lessons and has a clear understanding of what the future looks like based on what the past has taught us and then teaches us what to do with the present. We must live in the present. This is the reason why one should not uh spend too much time uh you know learning or or discussing the uh the Msiah and what's going to happen after he comes or the end of the world or what are you going to do in 20 years from now. Uh all of these different discussions of the future many times are detrimental to a person's uh mental health and and spiritual health because many times uh a person is going to you know try to prepare for a future that he may unfortunately not even see uh because not necessarily because he's not only going to live for it or live for it but also because so many things happen in the present that each and every one of those experiences is changes the potential outcome, changes the entire equation. The same exact thing goes with people that harp on the past. So many times people harp on the past that they literally, you know, make themselves disabled from acting on the present because they look at all of the past mistakes that they've made and they simply looks like such a big list that they figure that they can never fix it. they can never fix because every time they think again they figure out another mistake or people that have had success and are disabled by that because they're not having the same success currently. So they figure that you know they they must get to the root of it. And what they don't realize is that in the past when they succeeded it's because they were living in the present. Today when they're failing it's because they're living in the past. So what is the holy Torah going to teach us further in par? We're not going to a different paras. It's always in this week's par. It's always in the weekly paras that we have the lessons we need to learn. What is the holy Torah going to teach us about the past, about the future, and needless to say about what we need to do in the present. Now the paras starts in the book of Exodus chapter 27 verse number 20. It starts off with one of the most profound uh statements that uh is constantly used by our holy sages uh to uh as a symbolic form is where says now you shall command the children of Israel that They shall take for you a clear or pure olive oil crushed for illumination to kindle the lamp continually. So of course the basic uh statement here is talking about how is commanding Mosherenu to tell that when they make the oil for the lamp of the Mishkan and then later on the beta mikdash it must be uh from uh um done through a certain uh process. You can't just grind them because that's going to leave little pieces. You have to crush them. You have to crush those olives in order for the oil to be completely pure without anything uh that uh is in essence considered uh foreign. Now great unless you're in the oil business this is not going to affect you. But our holy sages teach us that is constantly comparing Israel to she to pure olive oil when we are fulfilling his will. When we're fulfilling a kadoo's will and by following the holy Torah we are in essence pure clear olive oil. Now, of course, our ultimate leader, the most pure of all, was Moshe Rabenu. Moshe Rabenu, our leader, is who Hashem is referring to. But interestingly enough, he doesn't say his name. This is because in next week's parasitis when Israel makes the sin of the golden calf, Hashem threatens to destroy them and says, "If you're going to destroy them, then erase me from your book." Because Hashem offered him to start a whole new nation from him since he was so pure and so good and so holy. Let me start a new nation with you. Mosheu says, "No, no, no, no. I don't want to be the leader that followed the patriarchs of Yakov, all of the holy people that have come throughout all the generations and I'm now the leader, but I'm the leader that got the nation destroyed. So if you're going to destroy them, remove me too. Remove me from the book. Now, of course, the teaches us that a righteous person when they curse someone, even if it's unintentionally, Hashem fulfills it. Hashem fulfills it. We see it from Yakovu as the prime example, the Zakad says. Yakinu when uh Lavan chased after him to see uh you know if he uh you know to to if he stole his uh his idols. Yakov did not know that his wife Rael stole her father's idols uh which actually uh were able to had a lot of tuma in them and were able to give uh Lavan a insight into the future and that's why he wanted them so much because if it was just simple statues that he could just make from some clay uh then he would just make new ones and not travel you know uh several days uh to go chase after a few statues. But these were statues that went to a uh a certain uh um ritual of of impurity and witchcraft that Lavan was the ultimate expert in. And uh because this is considered idolatry, did not want her father to continue with idolatry and she stole those statues and she did not tell her husband Yakov. So when Jacob said to Lavan, I worked for you for over two decades and never took anything from you. And in fact uh you know I worked through the night and the day where if somebody stole through the night one of the uh sheeps, one of the uh uh if one of them uh you know got killed by an animal, I would take out of my pocket and give you meaning that not only did I not steal, I ended up taking out of my own pocket just so you're always whole. You never had any loss. And now you're threaten you're you're you're accusing me of stealing. If you find that anything is stolen here from any anything of yours is here, that person shall die. Now, I gave a kus some years ago where I said that Jacob Ainu did not uh uh not only didn't know that it's his wife, but in essence, Yakov was just implementing the Noahide laws because according to the Noahide laws, unlike in uh you know the uh the Torah that's applied to the Jewish people where if a Jew steals and he gets caught, he has to pay double. And noahhide that steals, it's a heavenly death penalty. Uh so uh it's any violation of the seven noahide laws or a death penalty. So yakov was in essence since this is before uh matan even though he followed in he said that if somebody stole one of these uh uh uh servants that I have one you know that stole they'll get the death penalty because that's that's the decree that's the nohide laws. Now he didn't know that it's his wife that took it and uh shortly thereafter his wife Rael died. Now of course Yakov would have never said what he said had he known that his wife took it. But the says that sadikim the righteous people when they say something even if that something is negative Hashem fulfills it. So when Mosheu said, "Take me out of this book." Even though Hashem did not destroy Isashem, he still had to implement this because the midat the the uh the decree of of of judgment was constantly asking Hashem to implement the law as a was disclosing more and more of the Torah to Mosheu. the judgment, the decree of judgment was saying to Hashem, well, he's in his pal again. He's in his pal again. He's in his pal again. You said you're going to remove him from the book. You have to remove him at least one time. So we see that one of those removals was in the uh in but a question is asked that I heard a ask it which is again it's a very uh uh clever question that is removal of your name from something always punishment or sometimes punishment and sometimes not. It depends how you look at things. If a person obviously is a uh you know needs his name to be shown somewhere let's say for example he works for a company and he wants to uh you know his performance or her performance in the company is uh stellar and he wants that uh and and usually the company has a tradition of publicizing the top producers the best performers and all of a sudden this year they decided that uh they're not going to disclose the uh the names of the top performers. They're afraid of poaching. They're afraid of some competitor stealing their uh top performers or they're afraid of uh jealousy, whatever their, you know, excuse they come up with. Now, of course, the person that was a top performer is harmed by this uh not having his name or her name uh publicized because they want to be shown because if they're looking for, you know, a different job and they want more money, you know, this would be certainly uh a big uh a big plus for them to show that look, I was publicized in the uh you know, the annual uh shareholder uh uh letter as a top performer. You know, it's a made an impact on the entire company. But if the name is not there, you can't you could just tell people that and they can choose whether to believe you or not. So of course in that particular case, it's a punishment. On the other hand, if somebody decides to donate a large amount of money to beem organization and uh in order to help us bring am closer to a bahu in order to help us help more people that want to convert to Judaism like one of our dear talid uh just completed her conversion hashem uh just uh this week. Bo Hashem after a lot of effort and uh sacrifices big mazalto uh that she completed the conversion and in fact we this was one that uh we had a uh uh very uh uh high level of involvement in. We actually had another one that converted in Israel uh just yesterday as well. And a few different people converted. But the point is is that uh you have a uh person that wants to help us continue helping people that want to convert to Judaism, continue helping people that want to do chuva, that are Jews want to do chuva, continue helping people simply serve Hashem. And that person that donated that money for us to share the books for free and the USBs for free and all the lectures for free and everything that we do for free um and decide you know what I don't want the world to know that I donated like when I donate to the synagogue or I donate to other things. I actually want this donation to simply be anonymous. Now, of course, they could still put their name on the receipt for tax purposes, but they're not going to tell the whole world about their donation. They're not going to make a public announcement about it, shared on uh everybody's email box. them, you know, making their uh their donation in in essence uh relatively anonymous or completely anonymous is not only not a punishment but it's the highest gift that they can give themsel because there are levels of and the uh the highest level of is when you are giving but you don't know who the end receiver is. So for example, when somebody donates to our co or somebody donates to one of our camp campaigns to feed the poor people, you don't actually know the exact person that's receiving it and the person that's receiving it doesn't know exactly where this meal came from or this whatever you know they got came from. They know it came from our organization, but they don't necessarily know who's the one that's behind it. That's the highest level of taka. The donor doesn't know who the receiver is and the receiver doesn't know who the donor is, that's the highest level of taka. So when somebody keeps that anonymity to the point where pretty much the only one that knows is just you know the receipt that you have that you could report for tax purposes. Uh if you know it's a it's it's an extraordinary benefit. It's an extraordinary gift. Now, of course, even if you publicize it, it's not necessarily a sin unless you're publicizing it for the sake of, you know, getting honor because you donated. Uh, so sometimes it's actually good for a person to publicize that he's donating or she's donating because they're doing it for the sake of encouraging other people to donate. They have friends and they want their friends to donate, you know, so they tell them, listen, I also donated. And what ends up happening actually is that even though they're losing some of the merit of anonymity in uh by publicizing their donation, they'll gain a lot more from encouraging other people to donate than what their anonymity was actually worth. And that's why says the uh it's greater merit is given to the one that enables others to do good than the one that actually does good. Meaning the one that encourages other people to donate toem will actually get even more merits than the person that actually donates. If you convince your uncle, your dad, your friend, your partner, your boss to donate money to an organization, even if you donate exactly the same amount, you'll actually get even a bigger merit, a bigger reward for the donation that they made. you're still getting a marriage for yours but even more for his because you encouraged others. Now of course this does not necessarily absolve a person from a responsibility of of doing what they need to do for themsel but the point being is is that is the ultimate fair judge ultimate righteous judge and he's always looking to give us more and more merits. So on one end we saw that the removal of a name can be painful and can be a punishment and another end it can be a reward. It can be profitable I should say. Now, Moshe Rabenu's name was removed and at the surface of it, it looks like it was a punishment. But the truth is that Moshe Rabenu's name of how it usually appears in the Torah was removed. But the name that doesn't usually appear in a Torah was placed teach us that the Moshe if you spell out the letters of the name Moshe meaning the me is spelled if you spell the letter meme mem like as if for example in English if you want to spell the letter uh uh B then you would write B E or BE you know if you want to spell the uh the letter S then it's E S. So here if you spell the letters of the name Moshe which is me is me is and uh hey is al and you use the value of the letters that are added in essence to the name you'll get a total gimat value of 101 which is the exact number of verses that are in this parasa in so many words is the parasa itself so we See on one end he Hashem had to implement a decree by not having Mosherenu's name appear in the para but his dear love for for Mosherenuad's love for Mosherenu obviously had to have it in another way higher than another way now the examples of this we have in our uh in our uh history in different places where the says at a time where was the nasi nasi was in essence the the prince was considered in essence the the leader of am is and uh he was the ni and the yeshiva you know was had many many talmid the ain was the door was and they all came you know to the bet midash every day and uh and were very very close and uh they saw that uh Gamil is uh doing certain things they didn't like or he was a little bit too strict with certain things and in essence they kept their eye on him. And one day when uh saw that uh when he walks into the room, everybody rises like they're supposed to. But then when walks in, everybody rises again. And then when walks in, everybody rises again. He saw this as a minimization of the honor of the Torah for the position of Ni. So he said from now on you don't rise for uh you know you only rise for the Nasi. Now Kabime and Kabatan thought this is maybe you know foul play here. They didn't like it and uh they said you know what we got to get him out of this position. got to get him out of this position. And the says an extraordinary extraordinary story of what happened. Look at the politics and the the way sages fight. Now, for some people that are not familiar with the world of the sages and the holy, this will seem like petty. In reality, there's a lot more behind the scenes that many people don't understand. Honor of the Torah, honor of the a uh how to learn, who to learn from. There's a lot more details but the point is that and didn't like this final move that did and they said you know what we are going to going to conspire together to get out of here. Now he's the ni. Well, we have to the ni has to be also the biggest we're and uh we don't necessarily think that he knows more. So what do we do? How do we prove tomorrow when he gives his sh we're going to start asking questions about is the last in the Mishna. Few people study it. It's a very uh uh difficult uh subject. Plus, it's not something that's practiced on a day-to-day basis like many other other laws similar to our weekly para our weekly par. We're talking about the big the the garments of the all of the different eight garments for the co the garments for the coyote. Then we're talking about the you know the uh different parts of the Mishkan. None of this stuff anybody could apply today. So why do we study it? We'll get to that answer. But the was saying tomorrow we're going to ask him questions about in front of everyone. Everyone's going to see that he doesn't know. Now one of the one of the students heard this he said what they they had sadikim he's a sadik but uh we have a clear tora that tells us you can never embarrass another Jew in public if they're going to ask him questions about and he's not prepared he's going to be publicly ashamed and we know from Tamal the wife of of Yehuda one of the sons of Jacob that it's Better to jump into a burning fire than to ever embarrass anybody in public unless it's you have a permission to public to to embarrass them according to the Torah. So he said, "Well, I have to go tell the I have to go tell that tomorrow they're going to ask him about so he has to prepare." But then how could I go tell him? Then it's going to be embarrassing for him by me. Why? It's by me telling him go study. It's in essence me assuming he doesn't know it already. So that's going to be embarrassing. Maybe not in public, but in front of me I'll be embarrassed. So what do I do? So what did he do? He decided to go and to the house of stand outside of his window of where he usually studies and he himself started studying out loud. is studying his holy Torah and he's hearing the outside of his window studying and the nature of the of the sages was to always know that everything that happens in your life is constantly talking to you constantly talking to you missed an appointment who's talking to you he's giving you a message that it was better for you not to go to the appointment you got sick is talking you. He's telling you in essence that you had to fix something. So replaced that that thing that you had with sickness. Anything that happens in your life, you made money, you lost money, you uh got an appointment, you got a customer, you lost a customer, whatever it is that happens in our life, it's always talking to us. And it's now night and he hears outside of his house studying. He's like, "Hashem is talking to me." Apparently, Hashem wants me to study. So, he starts going over every with all of the developments, the commentaries, the midrashim, the the the the tot, everything. And obviously these things didn't exist yet uh written but everything all the knowledge was already there from the time of mount si and uh the whole night is studying because he took this as a divine intervention was telling him he has to learn this the next day and already guns slinging with the fiery questions. As soon as goes on the front, they start speaking. They start asking questions about they throw him a question, complicated question. Knocks that question out of the park. Whoa. How do you know the answer to that one? That one is a Whoa. throws a question, complicated question. Breaks it down. Next ask another question. They keep firing questions one after another and he's breaking up every single question, answering every single one of them as literally as if the entire Torah is in front of him and everything is clear as day. After some time with asking all these questions, they finished all the questions. Then says to them, "Ah, you two tried to test mem that had mercy on me and I studied yesterday. Had I not studied last night, you would embarrass me in front of everyone out both of you. He kicked both of them out of the bet midrash. Both of them out of the bet midash. We're talking about the of and the kicked out of the bet midrash. Now person today gets kicked out of a synagogue. What do they do? They go home. They say, "Okay, I don't have to be religious anymore." Kid gets kicked out of yeshiva. What does he do? Unfortunately, many times goes off to why he thinks that. Okay, so it's not my fault anymore. They kicked me out. That loved the Torah. No, whether they kicked us out or they don't kick us out. We have to learn Torah. So what does do they have to learn to where we going to learn? go home now. This is where the Torah is. So what we're going to do, we're going to stand outside the window. We're going to hear we're going to hear talking from outside. We're going to hear the rest of the shield. We have to listen to his. So they're listening to his but of course these these are the greatest of we have questions. So he said something. They take a piece of paper of some kind and they write a question. They make it into a uh little airplane and throw it through the window. Somebody catches, opens up, sees the question by Oh. And he says, "Uh, Rabbi, uh, but what you said, it doesn't agree with what one of the said. So, how do you respond to that?" Addresses it. As he's addressing it, another little airplane comes in. Another question. and they ask another question. So in essence, the are asking questions. They're involved in issue and they keep throwing planes inside, keep throwing papers inside with more and more questions. That's how we learn. We learn from questions. The bigger the more sophisticated the questions are. They don't just ask questions for the sake of sounding smart. So they ask questions and the inside all the baffled by this whole scene that's happening here. And then they say to none of us are as smart as they are. Look at the questions they're asking. So how is it that the Torah is outside and we're here? How is the Torah outside? They're asking all the question. They know you're they're they're involved in your issue more than we are. So how is the Torah outside? Meaning the sages that they're the living Torah, but we are inside. Maybe the Ra can forgive them and let them back in. Van Gamlier says you can let them in but from now on as the ni passing a decree punishment a fine for what they did now on no one has to stand when they come in and when they say something you don't write their names anymore when say something you say it others say this why because one of's rabbis was so in essence anytime you see in where it says say that means of course there are times where it actually says said something but many times more times it says In regards to there are some that say meaning it's two in Hebrew it's completely different is meaning there are some people that say some sages that say and say there are others that say it doesn't really translate well to English but the point being is that he gave them two anonymous names two anonymous names now of course we know who they talks about it. But the uh the point being is is that we see here that the removal of the name was a punishment for a couple of the now of course wanted to make sure that we know it. Hence the reason why you have all the the story itself. What transpired? How could we find them anyway? where they say what they said does not miss out on rewarding anyone that's entitled to the reward whether it's a reward of notoriety or of money or whatever it is pays everybody. Now, we see that our holy Torah here teaches us a bunch of things that are for the average person that's looking at it superficially seem like they're not really relevant to your uh life in the year 2024 where you're, you know, young, single, looking to get married one day or or or you're married, newly wed, you have a couple of kids maybe, or you're older already, You're in your uh 40s. Your your life is relatively developed and you know you got a little business going. You got a position at some major company. What am I going to do with the clothing of the coin? What am I going to do with this? How could I apply the weekly to to my life? Some people don't know that. This is not a recommendation. This is not a suggestion. Every Jew must read the weekly twice. Twice twice you have to read the par and once with commentary meaning you have to go through the three times every week. Many times people do this on uh on on Friday or on Shabbat. They use one of the uh you know the time that the bal reads the Tawa is one of the times. they do the other times uh you know right uh right there and then uh after shul before during the week bottom line is just like you have to you know uh make a blessing on you wash your hands or you have to eat kosher food or anything else in it's that every Jew has to learn the weekly para twice and commentary the para once so even when it's a para where on the surface of things it doesn't look like it's relevant to your life. It doesn't look like it's relevant to your life. So, first you have to know that just because something doesn't look relevant doesn't mean it's not relevant. And since we're already on the train of stories, I'll tell you another story. But this story didn't happen 2,000 years ago. This story took place about 400 years ago. The door at the time was one of the toot was the extraordinary at the time. He was living in uh in I believe in Prague and uh he was extraordinarily uh successful in the world of Torah, major notoriety all over uh Europe. He was the biggest rabbi, you know, in the in the uh continent. He was uh one of the doadul. He was also extraordinarily successful financially. He had uh he was he's well off. Not as well off as the goim thought he was, but nonetheless, he was well off. Now the uh king Ferdinand II passed a decree that uh since there was a war at the time and they want to raise more money for the war. So of course the victim of all of the crimes of the uh of the enemies of the Jews are always you know going to uh uh they're going to make the Jews the victims even for their mistakes. So what happened? He wanted they wanted to tax or they taxed the you know the Jewish community in uh their $40,000 in so many words in today's in today's uh uh uh money. I don't know $40 million extraordinary amount of money or maybe more. Now of course the uh unlike today where each to their own mentality that people have this came to the Jewish community who has to deal with it the knew that you know the poor people in the community that are baking barely making ends meet they can't contribute much on the other hand there's a few rich people a few rich people within the Jewish community they have to contribute more. Why? They have more. Hashem blessed them with more. Therefore, they have a bigger responsibility. So, he ruled that the wealthier people in the community have to contribute a large chunk of this $40,000 that was due to the government. Now you would think, okay, these are all religious people. Keep Shabbat, keep the holidays, give taka, the biggest rabbi in the world, chief rabbi told you, this is what you have to do. You do it. Well, it didn't work out so well. All right. Shortly after he told them this, they didn't really like it. And they uh asked for a uh you know, a uh uh others to get involved. There was a meeting over it. They re-evaluated the whole thing and confirmed that what the rabbi said was fair according to Torah was 100% fair. Well, before they ever gave the money, all of a sudden, as of studying his holy Torah, he gets a knock on the door. It's one of the messengers of the uh king telling him there's a ruling where you are under arrest and you have to come to the castle. You have to come to the court. It's a big embarrassment. They arrest the biggest rabbi in the world. Treat him like a criminal without even telling him what the charges are. tell him that he did something against the kinghood. What did he do? Long story short, finally he gets they go to the court. They tell him the charges that he's under arrest. Why? Because in your books you wrote derogatory statements against the Christian people which is the people there that this is their country. You wrote derogatory things against the Christian people. You called us idolattors and uh according to uh to the law if proven guilty which we have proofs of it and even witnesses if proven guilty death penalty. Death penalty. He said what witnesses do you have? What are you talking about? What I said is no. He tries to defend himself like, "Nah, we're not buying it." He goes, "No, I wasn't talking about the Christians. I was talking about other Gentiles. We don't buy it. We don't buy it. What witnesses? Who who said? Who are you? You're relying on what your Christian scholars are telling you." And the court surprised them by telling them, "No, no, no. We have people from your community that came to us and told us that you are constantly talking against the Christian people and calling us idolattors. The pain of being in prison and being literally a stone throw away from getting the death penalty was big. But to hear that this all came from wicked Jews that pretend to be religious was the heartbreak of all heartbreaks. Now had a few friends, a few obviously many people loved him. They did whatever they could to help him improve the conditions at least until the trial. Long story short, one of the uh friends got him to be able to meet with the king, King Ferdinand himself. And uh King Ferdinand said, "Yeah, I know about your case and um but because of your friends and uh that are uh you know that are friends of mine, I'm willing to hear you out. What do you have to say about it?" And Rabella says, "Listen, uh your highness, uh this these are false charges. I didn't talk about uh you he says how but you're saying in your books you're saying that the uh uh Christians are idol worshippers. She goes, "No, no, no. If you notice in my books, I don't say the word Christian in my book. I say the word akum." And akum, your highness, means people that are worshiping foreign gods that are a uh, you know, that are Gentiles that are foreign, you know, that are worshiping other gods. It's not necessarily uh the uh the Christians. So, and he explains he tries to explain to this king how there's a difference between akum where they worship the stars and the moon and all types of idols and you know foreign things and really he's not referring to the Christians. Now, of course, according to to the Christianity is considered idolatry, but he's not telling him this. He needs to save his life. He's not uh obligated to tell him that uh really yes you you guys are the idol worshippers and uh please kill me. He's allowed to say no. We're saying akum akum is a uh ones that are um that are uh worship stars and other idols. Whereas you guys believe in a trinity which for us Jews is forbidden. But you're entitled to believe what you want. but you're not the same as the uh people that worshiped an actual statue or or prayed to the sun. So the king Ferdinand was a smart man and he said to them, "Wait a minute. How many of these akums how many of these are in uh Prague?" He said, "Uh, not many. When was the last time you saw one?" He says, "Your highness, I never saw one." He says, "How many of these are in Europe? People that are worshiping the stars that you've seen, that you know of your highness, I I don't know of any." He says, "So, how do you expect me to believe that you wrote in multiple books, multiple times about these idol worshippers that don't exist, and it's not really referring to us? Why would you ever write about something that doesn't exist? And the genius of says to the king that literally has his life in his hands, if you will, the flesh and blood allowed to kill him. Says to him, Johannes, you believe in our you believe in our holy tala. You believe in the Old Testament? Yes. So you know that in the Old Testament we have we have parad talks about the clothing of the gad we have par talks about the beta mikdash we have a par talks about all of the sacrifices and you know that us Jews we study those laws day in and day out every single day we study this even though our beta mikdash was destroyed even though we don't have a coaul even though In essence, you can't really implement all of these laws to our lives today. But yet, we still study them because we believe these are the words of the living God. This is what our our Torah is not about just what can I do today but rather we learn the entire body of the divine words of because all the words of au and all of it needs to be studied the things that are clearly something that you could apply to your life today and the things that are not necessarily something you could apply to your life today all of it must be studied. This is what saved his life. Even though the argument against him came from within came from within the Jewish community that nearly killed him to in essence show one example of why study some of these things that may at first look look like they are not relevant. Now furthermore, the um the closeni he aid or at least look like a kush that Islam is idol worship. Islam is idol worship. Now everyone is familiar with the of the Rambam that Christianity and Catholicism is idol worship but Islam is not idol worship. So when they people saw at first time what the closen rebi said and he was an extraordinary we're not talking about just a uh talking about one of the one of the giants one of the literally the the forefathers of of of our to in the world today in the last generation despite having his entire family murdered 11 kids murdered in the holocaust he built an empire of talah after the holocaust Despite literally surviving each day in the concentration camp by pure miracle, this did not discourage him or slow him down from building an empire of Tawra over the next several decades. So we're talking about an extraordinary that kept kosher even in the Holocaust. He says that Islam is idol worship. Some people look at well you know okay it's a kush but the raom says otherwise interestingly enough the roach who preceded the uh moments slightly he also says that Islam is idol worship but since he was a expert beyond the norm arm of the Rambam because all he studied was the Rambam and they asked him how can you pasin against your rabbi? How can you pos against the Rambam? The Rambam says that the uh Islam is not uh idol worship. The roach gives a genius response that's applicable to everything we're saying. He says, "No, no, you're not understanding. Of course, the Rambam is not going to say that Islam is actually idol worship. He lives in their country. If he would have said it, they would have killed him. So what benefit is it to him or to the Jewish world for him to die because he proved the point that they're idol worshippers. So he's going to say they're not idol worshippers, but really they're idol worshippers. They pray to all types of things that are in from the perspective of Judaism considered idolatry. But he's not going to write it same thing like 400 years after him. of Heller where in this literally life or death hearing said no no no the the idol worship of the Akum it's not it's not Christianity it's somebody else it's these other people that lived thousands of years ago so sometimes you have certain things in the Torah censored not because of a uh this is the uh the the bottom line but rather because there was life risk. There was life risk. So they had to say say certain things in order to not disclose the truth to the Gentiles. This is also one of the reasons why did not have the oral Torah given to us in written form on day one. It was thousands of years later before it became into written form. And even after it became into written form, it still requires an enormous amount of study and masit and tradition that's passed from generation to generation to actually understand the oral Torah. Why? Because there are many details within the oral Torah that the non-Jewish world will simply not understand because they are only looking at things from their perspective, not from the Jewish perspective, the Torah perspective, God's perspective. They're looking at things from their perspective. It's like when people look at the, you know, the and they look at certain statements in the and they immediately say, "Oh, look this uh how are they allowing something like this or how are they forbidding something like this?" All types of obviously uh ways that people like to uh make Judaism look bad. They usually highlight one specific statement that's obviously they don't have the ability and the tools to understand. But the point being is is that we see from here that just one you know example of how something like a par that we have right now that seems like it's not relevant literally saved the life of the saved the life of on the other hand we also see of how another giant told us yes this is the reason why this gdul why the Rambam said this it wasn't because that was really the bottom line he depended on our wisdom to know what's the truth. But he had to say something in order to save his life. Now lastly, what else can we see from this para? What else can we see from this para that we can apply to our life aside from everything we just learned? said that is when we are fulfilling the will of a we are like the she we are like the pure olive oil. What does it mean pure olive oil? Pure olive oil means that we are pure. We're pure in our behavior. not just pure in how we follow the laws of Shabbat and we are careful with what goes in our mouth to make sure it's kosher but we're also careful with what goes out of our mouth that it's not that it's not gossip that it's not lies we're not only you know very uh particular about the uh you making sure that we give our taka. We're also particular about how we make the money in order to have money for meaning that the way we make money is kosher. We're not only careful in learning the Torah in order to let's say one day become a rabbi in a dan. We're also even more careful that once we are rabbis or diane or any type of leader, we're actually fulfilling the obligation according to the not just to get the position but to actually fulfill the position properly. And when we do, we are we are the pure olive oil. When we don't have mercy on us says that when Israel does certain things can bring punishment to the world. Now the page 28b says that if it wasn't for the oral Torah telling us the details of the law, we would think that the punishments only applied to to men and not to women. But our oral Torah teaches us that Torah equated men and women regarding all punishments. meaning whether a man or a female. We know that everything applies to whether you're a man or a female. As far as the the punishments, as far as obligation, obviously the obligation is different, meaning a man is obligated to put on to fill in. A woman isn't. A man is uh obligated to try to have a boy and a girl children. A woman is not obligated to have children. A man is obligated to pray three times a day. A woman is not obligated to pray three times a day. She has to pray once and so on and so forth. But when it comes to punishment with things that are forbidden, it's forbidden to steal, it's forbidden to lie, it's forbidden to commit adultery, it's forbidden to be promiscuous, it's forbidden to violate Shabbat. All of these forbiddens that applies to both. Punishment is the same for both with the exception of the daughter of the Quran that commits adultery where she gets a special unique punishment that's different than the man. Other than that, everything else is the same. And for anyone that wants to know the whole but the woman that's a daughter of a that's in anyway the tells us that when we act a certain way as a people as individuals has to act has to act there's a cause and there's an effect. We do certain things. Has to bring certain things. Now, he doesn't always bring the decree right away. Sometimes he'll wait many years, sometimes even an entire generation. But nonetheless, there's no such thing as not noticing our mistakes, our sins. Now the says in Suk page 29 [snorts] that if the Jewish people have not enough respect for the sages for the when one of them dies they don't eulogize him properly. that could bring punishment to an entire community. If there is a woman that is engaged, a Jewish woman that's engaged and somebody rapes her and no one is uh helps her. The entire community can get punished for this. ent nation can be punished for this for this one single event of what happened to this woman. If somebody decides that the laws of Torah are not applicable to them and they decide to be LGBTQ and act on it, not just think it. The entire community can be punished for this. We're not talking about just a 5,000 or 5 million of them doing it. talking about one one person decides to be LGBTQ, the entire Jewish people can be punished for this and it gives other examples. One of the examples abut is when people that are supposed to be in charge of the Jewish law running a bedin they're dianem but they're corrupt either because of money or honor or other things that are motivating them and they corrupt the law. They corrupt the law not according to the Torah, but according to their likings, according to their benefit, they corrupt the law. Even though they studied for many years, even though they're presenting themselves as if they are Torah leaders, but instead of following the law, they corrupt the law. This can bring a tragedy to all of Israel. If you're hearing that there are Jewish soldiers being killed, being injured or both, you should know at the very least some of them are because of this, some of them are because of the other reasons that I mentioned to you. And of course there are other reasons. But the point being is is that tragedies that's happening to us right now is not for no reason. You say, "Wait, what are you talking about? Who's corrupting the law? These are you can't speak against rabbis." You're right. You can't speak against rabbis. But the Torah commands us to speak against wicked people that pretend to be rabbis. In my hand I have this write up that was shared with me different of a tragedy that's happening in the Jewish community where these couple of jokesters that are unfortunately in a position of power is diane Apparently they want to change the Torah. So they had a young man that is from Lakewood and known confirmed as a Cohen. His father's a coin. His grandfather's a Quinn. There's no doubt that he's a Quinn. and he wants to continue being a queen, but he happened to find a girl that was born not Jewish and converted to Judaism and he wanted to marry her. Now, we all know that a Cohen has unique rules. He can't marry certain people. Not just he can't marry converts, he also can't marry a divorcee. He can't marry a zona and so on. But this is not convenient for this uh cohen. It's not convenient for the girl. So they came to rabbis and they found a that's in a position of power that's willing to change the law. And he wrote, "Listen, yes, of course you're allowed to marry each other. You're perfect for each other. Why? Because of all types of convoluted arguments that he created that really your mom, she already converted conservative. And even though some you know the orthodox Judaism does not accept conservative as an actual conversion, maybe there is somebody that says it is valid and therefore you are born a Jew cuz she converted as conservative before you were born. So technically you're not a convert and therefore you're allowed to marry him. Now on the other hand he says he's a Qan his father's a great but we know that he had some relative in his lineage that's wasn't religious. So therefore we don't consider uh that is kuna really is 100% kuna completely new fabrication. Nobody's ever said such a thing. Whether you're religious or not religious, you're quaint. In so many words, this corruption happened and a few rabbis that found out about it obviously a screaming foul. This is a forbidden marriage. The two that are married are now not he can no longer be considered a kuhen. their children, whatever children they have are considered halal. And of course, the arguments that this rabbi brought were complete lies and fabrications. Number one, to say that the conservative conversion is valid, no one in the in their right mind in the Jewish world would ever accept. And furthermore, even if you wanted to say that there's somebody that would accept it, it still wouldn't accept their conversion. Why? because the mother was converted by two men and a woman. Two men and a woman. And the shukhan says that a woman cannot be a dian. Furthermore, the whole argument about the distant relative not being a co and so on. Even if you wanted to use that argument, that's assuming that the guy today doesn't want to be a coin anymore, but he wants to be a queen. He wants to give the uh be part of the blessing. In so many words, this group of rabbis are screaming foul of this distortion, this corruption of the law for the sake of reputation, money, whatever reason. Point I'm trying to make to you Abu Tai is that corruption of the law sometimes happens and the vast majority of the Jewish world doesn't even know it's happening. Now to say that there's corruption in the secular world is is is a waste of time. Why? Because every day there's corruption. It's standard there. We're talking about the Jewish world where it's not expected because we're expected to be the sheak. We're expected to be the pure oil, olive oil. So when you have a dan corrupting the law in such a horrible way, of course the ones that know about it are screaming foul of you. What are you doing? you're changing the Torah that you are. Now, this is unfortunately not the first time. Few years ago there was a story publicized where there was a convert that came before the bedin and uh said that uh they uh really they want to convert. They came in front of the bedin and bedin converted them. But then later on when they moved country they wanted to get married but uh they uh they didn't accept their conversion and uh the Ashkenazi bed said no no you have to convert again you have to convert again so they converted again shortly thereafter they met a coin and he wanted to get married but we know that a coin is not allowed to marry a queen. a coin is not allowed to marry a convert. So they started arguing, yeah, but maybe we're not really converts because really the mom is the one the parents that converted, you know, already in Morocco and by the time the kid was born, you know, they they they were already in essence Jewish and we only had to convert a second time because we moved country and they wanted us to convert again because they didn't want to rely on the original conversion. But in reality, the kid was already Jewish. We just did it to satisfy the uh the community over there. So the kid is already Jewish and if his kid's already Jewish then uh we can get married. She can marry the uh the queen. Now this sounded like a nice argument but that was handling this case says I don't understand why did the second bed reject your conversion. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know. We don't know. What do you mean you don't know? You did a conversion. No. No. We don't know. They maybe they don't like it. baby because they're a and he's a kazi. You know how they sometimes hate each other. The other people were ready to say you know what just let them go let them marry each other but extraordinary and he said you know what I have this is not a simple thing why if I let them get married and they're forbidden according to Hashem of getting married they're thinking that they're going to have kids and the kids are going to be kanim but in reality they're not kanim this creates a problem for all of our is you have to track them know who what when how he reaches out to the Ysef Ysef gets this question literally as soon as he sees the question he jumps out of his chair. Of course they're not allowed to get married. How? Usually you're you're lenient on things. Why? Why? Why? No. I know why the second bed I know why the second bed did not accept the conversion. Because the bet that was over there, the original Betin was a rabbi that was that I went against him for many years. And when I was the head rabbi of Tel Aviv, I passed the decree. No one is allowed to accept his conversions ever again. He's a wicked person. But apparently through the years, people forgot what I talked about many years ago. So this is what happened. But they're not allowed to get married. Why? The original conversion was not valid. they had to convert a second time because the original conversion was not a conversion and literally if it wasn't for to doublech check you could have people that are forbidden to be married and thinking everything's okay tragedy can come to is and no one knows why so the tells us that when people that are in a position of power manipulate the law. It brings tragedy to all of us. Now don't think for a second that this is only a problem in the rabbitical world because it's not because the same says when Jewish people go into the business of lending money with interest it brings tragedy to it's not talking about lending money with interest to to Jews that's a bad generally speaking speaking Jewish people going into the business of lending money with interest it brings tragedy to Is and unfortunately I don't have to tell you if unless you just a new person you haven't watched my shim for the last several years one of the major disasters that's happening in the Jewish world today especially here in America is that many wicked people some of which pretend to be religious Jews have built literally an empire of wickedness in the cash advance business. merchant cash advance business which is not only lending money but lending money with predatory high interest which our own dear wrote a whole cha on that simply shows not only is it forbidden not only is it evil it is one of the primary causes of a horrible decree from heaven which includes anti-semitism ism. And unfortunately, Abu Thai, this is one of the major businesses right now that a lot of young people are being misled into. You finished learning in yeshiva. You don't you don't have any technological skills. You don't have any degrees. You're not a doctor or a lawyer, but you want to make a lot of money because being Jewish is not cheap. We got a job for you. Come call Mr. Jones and Mr. Smith and Mr. whoever. that's applying for a loan and process the loan for them. Tell them that uh they could borrow their $100,000. All they have to do is just make sure to pay 80, 100, 200, 400, 500%, a,000% interest. In so many words, they have to win the lotto twice just to make sure that they'll ever settle this loan. And unfortunately, this predatory business has become a major disaster. And it's not the first time. We've had this throughout our history. We've had this before the Holocaust. We had this before the destruction of the beta mdash. We've had this in Morocco. We've had this in Europe. We've had this this every time before a major tragedy. The predominant business was lending money with high interest. And the chuvad wrote includes some of the historical proofs. And the here says one of the things that brings tragedy to the Jewish people is when Jewish people get into this business. Now of course there are other examples but the point I'm trying to make to you is that sure we can learn a lot from the past but you have to choose what you're going to learn. You could learn the story. Story is important. But if you don't find the details in the story that you could apply to your life today in order to improve your servitude of Hashem, in order to improve your character, in order to become a better person, a better husband, a better wife, a better son, a better daughter, a better parent, a better employee, a better boss, a better part of the community, a better servant of Hashem. If you don't see part of the story that's going to help you, you missed the whole point of the story. If you're going to learn about the past, you have to also learn about what you can do in the present with that lesson. If you're going to focus on the future, you want to learn about all the things. Oh, this is going to happen in the future. All the prophecies and there's going to be these plagues and there's going to be this war and there's going to be all fine. How can you apply those future lessons [snorts] to your life today? To your life today. Instead of worrying about everyone that lived a few thousand years ago or a few hundred years ago or everyone that will live or die in the future or even everyone that's alive today, we must all make sure that we every single lesson that we get from the Torah or from life experiences We take them and we apply them to our life in order to make ourself and our self first and our self primarily into the she that's expected of us into that pure olive oil that's expected of us. Because if each one of us makes ourself into a pure olive oil, we'd all become pure olive oil. We'd all become holy. We'd all become a great representation of Judaism and be a light to the nations, be a sanctification of Hashem. But if each one of us is harping on the past without applying it to the present, harping on the future without really knowing what to do with it today, harping on everyone else instead of focusing on ourself, ignoring everyone else and simply focusing on ourselves, in so many words, if we don't internalize the Torah and make it actionable, we're not learning Torah. We're not learning Torah. We're not serving Hashem. And this is why is just as critical as every single other parah, your favorite one and your least favorite one. The ones that have the most amount of details of the story and the ones that have the least amount. is the words of the living God. And if we start treating every word of Torah of the written Torah and the oral Torah as the words of the living God that we must apply to our lives today, our future will be very very bright. But if we continue allowing people to manipulate the law, manipulate the Torah, allow people that it's okay to go against the Torah and act in all types of immoral, despicable ways, recommend or even sit silent while some of our brothers and sisters are literally part of destroying society with their behavior, whether it's their their their horrible business practices or immoral behavior or both or whatever it is. And we sit there quietly just caring less about the world except ourselves only. We're not applying the Tawra. So yes, part of becoming pure olive oil requires us to internalize the Torah, but part of internalizing the Torah requires us to care about whatever we have some type of connection to. Wherever we can say something, wherever we can do something, we must. And may be Hashem's will that each and every single one of us will stop living this fantasy thinking that the future is bright. Because unless we brighten ourselves and our actions as individuals and as a community, our holy Torah and the words of the living God has already told us what the future looks like. With that being said, you guys can start asking questions will give us the answers. Why is it that one should not study the until they become a Okay, so this is a question that I've actually answered in the past, but I'll answer it again. Theim is one of the books that the Rambam wrote. Uh that is in essence a philosophical book which has many different uh extraordinary and important lessons into but the way that the Rambam wrote is very different than the way he wrote everything else. Which means that if a person does not have the tools of foundational knowledge of an extraordinary amount of Torah meaning they have covered the entire shasi they have covered the they've covered they've covered you know an extraordinary amount of in so many words they've established themselves as a Torah scholar if they jump into they could easily become confused with some of the things that the Rambam says that could actually get them to a point of heresy. Uh so it's a it's not a book like any other book that you would uh read anywhere else. It was written in a certain way and it says certain things that uh that unfortunately if you don't have the mental prowess and experience and and knowledge of Torah as a good foundation, it could easily turn you into a heretic and getting you out of it is almost impossible. primary examples of it is some of the famous heretics of today uh that we've spoken against. They're avid readers of the Muim. They're avid readers of they they they in essence think the is like the most important book that the Rambam wrote which obviously is not the truth but nonetheless they are avid readers of it. Why? Because there are certain things that the Rambabam says that could easily be manipulated if you don't have the uh the right knowledge and and and the rightafa certain things that he says in there that could be misunderstood or even manipulated in such a fashion to make it into something that is against the Torah. Uh now the Rambam wrote it in a specific way for a specific reason and certainly the Rambam is uh and people that are that read it benefit from it tremendously but people that don't don't and they actually can get hurt from it. It's similar to Cabala in such a fashion where someone that gets into the world of Cabala before they're prepared not only can it turn them into uh problematic heretics but they'll even get punished for that. uh they even get punished for going into it uh when when they're not supposed to. So uh it's a uh of course I know that the people that don't have a rabbi or don't have or simply think that they know a lot more than what they really do. Everything I just said will actually make them even more inclined and more interested in reading the and all I can tell you is I'm not going to convince you otherwise. I'm only telling you your blood is in your hand. If you're that stupid to simply ignore the guidance of then you deserve whatever is going to happen to you this year would be great to post on a reform schul social media page. Anyone interested in doing it, you do it. Why asking anybody else to do it? Anyone that's going to do it, you do it. Whatever whatever idea a person has, Hashem gave it to them because it's for them to do. It's for them to do. And I can tell you how I learned it. Obviously, we get a lot of different messages and so on. And of you know, I I I ask Rab Fry everything everything. It's a from things that some people think are small to things that are, you know, beyond what people think is big. and I uh consult with them on a lot of different things and sometimes we'll get a message that somebody is contacting us for something that you know either I don't really want to do I don't have time to do or all types of things and uh but part of me says that you know what maybe I need to do it so I ask I ask for a frame and many times he's told me if it came to us that means it's our responsibility it's our responsibility and this is also part of the reason of why we've We've uh you know with our food distribution to help the poor. We helped specific communities. We helped specific people. We've done a lot of different things because those things came to us. It doesn't mean that we fix every single thing that comes to us and we uh we are able to deal with everything that comes to us. But the point being is is that uh if Hashem sent you something whether it's a specific question or a specific student or specific deal or whatever message it is even if he sent you a specific idea that means it's for you to do it not for you to uh uh to give it to other people. There are certain people and again I'm not saying about the person that I'm I read the question. I'm talking about in general there are certain people that they want to become righteous by making other people do mitzvot. Do you ever hear those people? They want they want to be righteous or at the very least they want to feel righteous or be perceived as righteous by making other people do mitzvot. Now initially I told you earlier that you know it's greater is the one that enables others to do than the one that does themselves. But this is not what I'm talking about. What I'm talking about is that some people are generous with other people's money with other people's things. So they'll say listen I uh what are you doing for Shabbat? Oh, you don't have a place. Don't worry about it. I got you. I got you. So, the person thinks, "Oh, so you invite me to your house?" "No, no, no. I don't have a job. But I'm gonna call my friend and I'm gonna send him I'm gonna get him to he's gonna host you." How do you know that your friend wants this person as a guest? Why are you pushing your friend's house and your friend's generosity on somebody else? Like, who gave you permission? Did your friend ask you to invite people to his house? And unfortunately, a lot of people do this. A lot of people do this. They invite people to somebody else's house without actually having a any permission or right to do it. Or they'll say, "Listen, what? You need a job? Don't worry about it. I'm going to bring you somewhere." And they bring somebody to somebody's office. Hey, listen. How are you? Listen, how would you do this weekend? How you doing? Listen, my friend over here, I brought him here because he needs a job. Why don't you talk to him? And you put the guy, the guy that runs the company or the manager or whatever the employees, you're putting him on the spot. First of all, how do you know he has job openings? Second of all, like why why didn't this guy just, you know, why don't you do this in a different way? Or you could say, give him a call, he'll call him, send a resume, something. You put the guy right in his face, you put him on the spot. It's very embarrassing. It's very uncomfortable. Unfortunately, a lot of people do that. Or they say, "Listen, you know, we're uh you know, we're uh uh uh we need to do certain things. We're going to need to raise money, so uh we're going to do all this stuff for you." Yeah. Yeah. They they in essence tell people they're going to help. And what do they do? Listen, what do you guys need? You guys need a million dollars. No problem. They call their friend. Hey, listen. You guys are a nonprofit, right? You guys raise money. Why don't you guys give us uh the phone numbers to some of your donors? Uh or better yet, why don't you call them so they could donate to this other cause? You're thinking you're doing a mitzvah, but you're not. Why? Because again, you're putting people on the spot. You're in essence, you volunteer to help. Don't volunteer to help by making somebody else do the job. If you have a mitzvah in your hand, you want to do it, go do it. If you don't have the ability to do it, don't do it. Unless somebody has made you into this messenger, they asked you to go and publicize that they have money, publicize that they have uh, you know, an opening in their company, an opening in their house. They want you to be their messenger to go and go collect mitzvot from them. Unless somebody did that, you have no business doing that. And a lot of people do that. A lot of people have this nature of in essence getting other people to do their mitzvot. Oh, yeah. You know those people? Yeah. Yeah. I I uh I fixed them together. Oh, really? You know both of them? No, it's just that what happened is I told this one and that one and this one. I said maybe you have this one. In so many words, they have nothing to do with it. They have nothing to do with it. But somehow they feel like they're responsible for a lot of things. It's important for a person to know if somebody wants to do a mitzvah, you have an opportunity to do a mitzvah, you have an opportunity to do a good deed, go do it. You can't do it, don't do it. But don't think that volunteering other people's property, other people's time, other people's stuff without their clear permission to go do it. It's not a mitzvah. Many times it's the opposite. Many times it's the opposite. Many times you put people in uncomfortable positions. In fact, there's a uh a couple of times that the talks about how a person has to be very very careful when he goes to somebody's house. I uh you know and uh and eating their food. Why? If the person didn't invite you to their house and you're there and uh you know if if they if they didn't know that you're coming unless you're sure that they have more than enough food, you're not allowed to eat their food. Why? Unless they give feel uncomfortable to the point of giving you their food or their children's food just so you have something but they end up suffering as a result. So it's a person has to know that you have an idea to do a mitzvah, you have the ability to do mitzvah, go do it. Volunteering other people's stuff only if you have permission. Only if you have permission. Now of course sharing ideas is good, but there's even a way to share ideas. Uh and I think that sharing ideas should also be done in a in a certain way. No different than how people share ideas in a uh in businesses. it has to be done under a certain format and so on. Uh but quite frankly there are certain ideas that uh don't need to be shared because you could just it's simple enough for you to do it. It's simple enough for you to do it. Uh so uh I I think it's a important for people to know this because there is uh this thing going on right now where a lot of people are doing this. A lot of people are doing this. I've heard this already a few times where uh there's uh all types of uh um I don't know how to explain like these uh people that are just volunteering other people's stuff uh and and making the you know the uh themselves feel righteous but in reality it's they're making other people uncomfortable and and in in some cases uh lose lose money, lose uh time, lose uh stuff. Okay, next question. Let's see. Uh, no, we're not inviting anybody to the life. No, [sighs] my husband and I, my husband and I hired a Jewish contractor to remodel our kitchen. We signed a contract, but the next day we got an estimate from a non-Jewish contract for half the price. uh we are allowed to cancel the contract within three days of signing. What is the on this? If the uh the non-Jew is literally half the price, then you're allowed to uh cancel the contract and go uh go with somebody else as long as the contract says you're allowed to cancel the contract within that time frame. But if the non-Jew is 16% or less more expensive, you have to stay with the Jew. Even if you're allowed to cancel, you need to stay with the Jew. Meaning, you have to pay to do business with a Jew, you have to pay up to a 16% premium. Uh so if he's more expensive than 16%, which in your case it seems like it is because you're saying he's double the price, then you're allowed to go with the non-Jew and do business with him. Thank you for all the blessings. Okay. How do you know if you are currently wicked or righteous? Uh the Rambam writes about it. If a person should always look at themselves if they're doing their best to fulfill the will of Hashem, uh you know, meaning they're there's no clear sins that they're making. They're not uh you know, regularly violating Shabbat or wasting seed or uh committing adultery. There no there's no big sins that obviously it's clear that the person is wicked. If the person is doing one of the big sins on a regular basis or you know it's it's part of their life then obviously they're wicked. If they're beating up people on a regular basis or they're threatening people on a regular basis or they're stealing from people or they're cheating on their spouse or you know if something like that then obviously they're wicked. But if the person overall is you know doing good things is following the Torah is a uh not doing anything uh you know uh terrible on a regular basis then the Rambam says they should look themselves as in the middle meaning the next mitzvah or the next the next mitzvah or the next sin will turn you and the rest of the Jewish world to that side meaning if you do another mitzvah you and the rest of the Jewish world have are on the rightous side. You and the rest of the world are on the righteous side. But then of course you have to continue on that path. Why? Because there's somebody in the world that's making a sin that's balancing it out again. So if you continue doing you and the rest of the world are continuing to be on the righteous side. On the other hand, if he does a sin, then you are moving the entire yourself and the rest of the Jewish world to the wicked side. Meaning there's going to be punishment. So if you continue in that path, you continue getting worse. So you have to do chuva. You have to do a mitzvah. So persons should always look at themselves not only as in the middle where the next action, the next actor they do will change everything to the positive side, but also look at themselves from a national perspective. Meaning that they have an impact on the entire nation, the entire Jewish people. that their next act is responsible for the entire nation being judged as a righteous or shalom wicked because all of Israel are responsible for each other. Okay. See, in last week's Jew, you commented that the vid was a father of the kesh, but he did not have prophecy. So you had to turn to the prophet. What is the difference between and prophecy? Ah okay. So first off actually I have to correct something that I said last week where uh I said that um did not have prophecy even though that is the general opinion of that did not have prophecy. Uh there are some that say that he did have prophecy in certain parts of his uh life. Uh so uh I forgot to mention that extra part. Now as far as David having and having prophecy there's a very big difference between uh the two uh where in essence it's a uh Hashem is uh when somebody has wakesh obviously I'm minimizing it. They can't give you a whole sh about and and prophecy. Not only because it's a whole big sh but also it's something that requires a whole lot more uh preparation than just uh you know the the knowledge that I'm going to give you now. Uh but anyway prophecy is in essence Hashem is giving you a uh insight into uh something that he wants you to know a certain uh insight um a thought an idea. Uh in essence, Hashem is letting you into his mind for a certain thing. Uh that uh you need to do something. It's divine inspiration. Uh whether it's to go somewhere, do something uh and uh and in such a fashion where it's uh if it wasn't for that divine inspiration uh being so clear, no one in their right mind would ever do it. Uh so it's the is a it's it's when there the is in essence resting upon a person and in you know opening up a certain chamber of heaven and enlightening the person to know specific things. Uh prophecy on the other hand is Hashem is giving you not what the but it's actually giving you a vision of certain things. you actually you know you see certain things you see see the future you see certain things that happening in different parts of the world it's it's a vision it's not uh it's not a uh a thought uh or or an understanding of some kind it's an actual vision of something uh and in addition to thoughts and ideas and so on but it's it's a it's it's an actual vision of certain things that uh could be different part of the world could be a different parts of a kadosh's heavens meaning not even of this world could be something that's even happened you know many thousands of years ago could be something that's you know not going to happen for you know uh hundreds of years from now like for example Hashem showed Moshe Rabenu the future he showed him you know the am is he showed him a he showed him uh you know everything that's going to happen until the end of the the generations so there is a uh um literally a endless amount of things that can come to a person through prophecy. But uh it's important to know that prophecy is not something that the prophet chooses to do. Meaning that there is specific times that Hashem will allow a person to receive prophecy. Whereas generally speaking more frequent uh but whether prophet or someone that has wakes, it's not all the time. meaning even if someone is really really holy uh it doesn't mean that they always have Hashem is not always going to let them in uh the behind the scenes and the same concept with the prophets the prophets were not you know told all the time what's going to happen in the future or what to do you know this is obviously uh uh something that uh we could clearly see from that you know the uh the biggest prophet uh you know as far as prophecy is concerned uh aside from Mosher Abenu was the prophet Isaiah. The prophet Isaiah. But yet Isaiah could not, you know, Hashem did not allow him to see enough into the future to know how to uh escape his grandson for murdering him. Even though he was able to use uh Cababalama seat and change nature and go inside the uh the tree stump uh still his uh grandson was still able to discover that and chop down the tree with him in it and killed him uh you know minash. So point is is that if he was able to get prophecy all the time and see the future or the past or anything that he wanted all the time then obviously he would know where to be uh whenever he want to be. Uh but that does not that's not how prophecy works. Prophecy works at specific times with specific preparation uh and also specific permission that Hashem uh decides to give the person prophecy. Uh uh is uh certainly different. It doesn't require the same level of preparation. It's uh from my understanding it's it's it's a lot more frequent. uh and um there's a lot more people uh you know were are able to have throughout history than prophecy. Even though we've had over 1.2 million prophets throughout history, prophecy ended at the time of the destruction of the beta mdash. Whereas could still be attained even until this day. Certainly not easily attained. Uh certainly something that uh the overwhelming majority of people even if they're righteous will never have it. Uh but nonetheless, it's something that uh we have the instructions of how to get it. I actually have a couple of lectures about how to attain. What did a modern say about credit cards? Are they considered tools to weaken amuna and hashem? Uh not necessarily. I mean if a person is uh using credit cards or any other financial instrument uh they're using uh tools that they have. Question is how they're using it. You can use a hammer to build a house or fix something that's broken. You could also use a hammer to murder. Uh you can use a gun to protect. You can use a gun to kill. You can use a credit card to uh to do things that you need to do uh and that that are productive and that are good. And you can use a credit card for negative things like uh for sinful behavior, which also includes living above your means when you have no idea how you're ever going to pay it. meaning you uh take use your credit card to go buy a luxury bag or I don't know luxury item that you have no idea how you're ever going to pay back this credit card uh and you know that it's even likely that you may declare bankruptcy and never pay him back. So that's not a good idea. Uh so a person needs to know how to use whatever instrument Hashem gave him in a in a in a proper way. uh you know it's a uh it's certainly uh you know important to be responsible uh and not to live uh you know above above our means but it doesn't if a person uses credit cards it doesn't mean that they don't have a hashem if a person has loans has debt there's no it's it's permissible to have debt as long as you have some type of strategy to pay back uh and it's not like one of these things where you're borrowing $100,000 uh but in reality you know it's it's this $100,000 is going to be wasted. You know, you're planning on going to uh some vacation on it and you don't really have the means to pay back the $100,000. That's obviously irresponsible. It's even considered gazil uh from, you know, for to it's considered stealing. But if a person is going to use the $100,000 to start a business uh to to buy a house, to do whatever it is that they need to do, that's a good and they have some form of way of paying it back uh over time and and meet the uh obligations of the agreement, meaning there's a there's some type of uh uh debt agreement uh that the person has with the uh entity that lend them the money or the person that lend them money. As long as they're able to serve that uh that agreement and uh and and and meet the obligation, there's no problem of having debt. There's no problem of having debt. Rabbi, do you answer the questions on YouTube? Uh not as much because it's a much smaller screen currently. The YouTube setup, it's relatively new. I've only been doing YouTube live for the last uh I don't know, few weeks or month or so. Uh so I haven't really completed the setup for uh for YouTube. Uh so the screen that I have for YouTube is not on a big terminal like I see uh the uh the some of the other things. Uh so with YouTube also uh the um uh the questions flash on the screen that I'm looking at this tiny screen that I'm looking at and uh many times there's not enough time for it doesn't stay there. It goes away. So, while I'm answering somebody else, the uh I don't get chance to to read the questions and I just tried seeing if I could find the questions and I don't have time and I don't really want to uh make everybody wait while I try to figure it out. So, hopefully over time we'll uh be able to answer all the questions on YouTube as well. Uh especially as I see that there's a bunch of people that are watching each time. So, uh certainly we're inclined to do it. It's just that right now I don't have the ability. If somebody has a question, they could send it right now and I'll be looking at the screen and try to read it quick enough. If you're on YouTube, you could send the question now. I'll look at it and I'll wait for that. I know somebody sent before. So, you can just copy and paste what you sent before. I just saw there was like a little paragraph, but then by the time I got to read it, um, it went away already. You just copy and paste what you said and I'll uh I'll read it this time. I don't see it. Okay. Uh we're almost done. Is one allowed to work at a casino? Uh here we go. Which laws of the Rambam about health do we still follow today? There are many. Uh what do S. Paulo I I'm sorry the thing went away. Send the S. Apollo question again I didn't read the whole thing. Laws of the Rambam about how there are many that we follow. Uh you know the the laws of how of intimacy uh the how to go to the bathroom. There's a lot of different things that we still follow. I mean it's a the Rambam has 14 uh books in the uh and two books for the uh for the mitzvot. There's a lot of different laws. It's some are still very very applicable. Um, and some we can't do because it's just simply not possible or because a uh it's it's not the uh it's not the final. So, depends just so you you all know I'm not you know like I know you everyone sees me from their screen and I have multiple screens in front of me. I have a big screen and then I have a three smaller screens. So I'm constantly looking at different things to for the questions. Um so I'm not ignoring anyone on purpose. We're looking to be a convert. My wife is 99% Jew. What that means? We are trying to study in Singapore. Uh I don't believe that there is a bedin in Singapore. Uh you'll have to move to a country that has a bedin, a Jewish bed, a Jewish community. uh you'll have to either move to Israel or uh England uh America, you know, there Australia I believe has a bedin over there. You have to move to a Jewish community that has a bedin in order for you to convert something in Brazil. Yes, but I don't know what the question is. I saw S. Paulo. I know what S. Paulo is. I know what Brazil is, but I don't know what the question was. I didn't get to read it because the question went away. Dear Rabbi. Okay, thank you for the dear Rabbi. Just tell me what the question is. Nope. Nobody waits. I have a question. I Okay. What do we do when the community doesn't allow us to study with them? Ah, so you want to convert and the community doesn't welcome you, you have to find a different community according to no hide law. And that's it. Question went away. It's it's it stays on the screen for two three seconds and I have three questions. I didn't get to it. I heard somebody say according to law and then I didn't read what the rest of it says seems to imply. Okay. Not really sure what uh the question there was. Rest upon is not Islam. Why are you not answering me? Did you already answer my question? I don't know. I don't know. There's a lot of questions. I can't see. It's a small screen. God bless you. Don't be frustrated that I'm not answer. I'm not avoiding any question. There's no question that I'm avoiding. If I'm avoiding, I'll tell you I'm avoiding it. I'm not avoiding any question. If I didn't answer your question, it's because I didn't see it. So, if I didn't answer your question, answer again. Okay. There is community for you. Okay. Please answer me. Okay. So, now a bunch of you are just saying please answer me. My question is okay. Question is no. The question is what is a coll? That's your question. No, it's a different person I think. I think the other one was S. Paulo. No. Okay. I'll answer the what's the call in a minute. All right. You keep writing. My question is, but just tell me what the question is. Okay, another one say I'm confused about the I'll explain to a second. There's a law about to do not to do mixed planting. Is it forbidden to mix any fruit tree if you plant? Yeah, you can if you're a jun to mix uh the uh the um trees, but if a does it, you're allowed to eat it. Answer my question. I don't know what your question is. God bless you. You keep saying answer this but I don't know what the question is. K is somebody else is somebody else. What is the question? Why is there been an conversion in Argentina? Okay. Someone sponsor That means everyone was angry at me. This YouTube thing is terrible. We're still waiting for the one person to ask the question that said I'm asked the question. Okay. What is a Cole? A Cole is I'm going to ask somebody else's question because you're not asking your question. A co is a um a group of uh Jewish people that study Torah together under a certain environment, meaning they go to a synagogue or they go to a some type of building facility and uh they study Torah. But the difference between a coll and a yeshiva is that a yeshiva is for young people that are not married. Uh and a k is for married men. And usually the married men are studying a certain type of Torah uh either to become rabbis or even bigger to become danim which is Jewish judges. Um so that's that's a caller but that's for married men. Uh as far as what the is the is in essence how Hashem is uh representing himself or representing a certain facet of himself to us to communicate something to us. Um oh I see. Ah, I see a person that keeps saying, "My question is, my question is doesn't actually have a question. They're they're like a practical joker." Oh, wow. You're so funny. Thank you. Where do we send the check for the comedy? Where do we send the check for the comedy? Do we send it to your chamber in gay or do we send it to Kafka? Which one do you have a sweeter in? Let us know which one you Okay. Well, in the future, you'll have both until you do chuva for being annoying and uh wasting other people's time when we're trying to learn Torah. Uh if you have a guest that comes to your house during Shabbat, are you taking on this on his a if it's been more than three times and the guest came over? Okay. So in essence, you're saying that someone is coming over your house and is not just someone coming over your house, but if someone is driving to your house on Shabbat or is uh leaving your house by car, in essence, they're desecrating Shabbat as a result of coming to your house. Now, to invite that person once, twice uh to help them do chuva, yes, you can. Um but uh by the third time you have to tell him, listen, if you're going to come to my house on Shabbat, you have to stay there. Uh you know, you can't drive on Shabbat. Uh you know, and you say, "Well, it's it's my life. You're right. It's your life, but if you're driving to my house and driving, that means I'm enabling you. I'm enabling you to sin, and that I cannot do. That means I become a partner with your sin." So if a person continues to invite people that are driving on Shabbat to his house knowing that they know that they're not allowed to drive uh and uh they um you know they they they are in essence still inviting them then they're certainly a partner to the crime. They're certainly considered as if they drove on Shabbat themselves. Uh, anyone that wants to see uh, proof of it could look at the Shabbat. Uh, page 54B, I believe it is, is a, uh, a couple of examples, 54, 55, and 56. A few different examples. Shabbat. Uh one of them is Rabilia uh who was in essence judged in heaven as if he violated Shabbat because uh he did not uh tell his uh neighbor that was a widow that uh she has to uh remove the uh the burden that was on her cows. In essence, her cow was carrying bells on Shabbat. And he felt bad to rebuke her. He felt bad to tell her not to do it because she was a widow. Uh but uh he was judged as if he desecrated Shabbat. And when he found this out through uh he fasted for 19 years until all of his uh teeth turned black just to do for one time they didn't tell his neighbor to uh remove the burden from her cow. She herself wasn't carrying anything on Shabbat. Her cow was carrying something but it was considered as if was partners to that because he did not rebuke her. So, if you are knowingly inviting somebody to your house on Shabbat and that you know that they're going to drive on Shabbat, uh then uh and you know, you have to tell them they're not allowed to drive on Shabbat. And if they continue saying, "No, I'm going to come and I'm going to drive anyway," then you can't invite them anymore. Can one wear a necklace on Shabbat? Uh a necklace that has a star of David on it? Uh sure. There's no problem of you wearing a necklace. It's like a shirt. Uh it's like a shirt. Now, it's a if you're living in a place that does not have any hu uh then uh you don't have to worry about a a necklace because it's part of it's considered like clothing, but you do have to worry about carrying a key on Shabbat. You can't carry a key on Shabbat if you don't live in a Jewish community that has an uh and now putting the key on a necklace is also not allowed because not really it's not really a necklace. It's it's you carrying your key in a different way. This presented a very big problem in France many years ago. Uh up to until the point where one of the people in the community created a belt uh where the key became a clasp uh that they used to close the belt because to just put it in their pocket or put it on a chain or anything like that was not was still considered carrying and so long as they did not have any allowed to carry. Uh but when somebody uh made the uh clasp in the uh in the belt into uh that was an actual key but it was also a clasp then it was allowed to uh use that. Uh that's uh one of the sucks that Ra via uh uh publicized and worked on years ago. What is a sidu and why does it have a sidu is the Jewish prayer book. We have uh Jewish uh people have to pray every day. Uh men have to pray three times a day. Women have to pray once a day. And the prayer that's in our sidu was uh put together by the ankdah the men of the great assembly. It's 120 great sages. some of which were prophets at the time of the beta mikdash. And uh they use different parts of uh psalms and the uh c sections of the as well as specific prayers uh and can put them together after following the uh the tradition of yakov our forefathers Abraham uh Isaac and Jacob. Abraham instituted the prayer in the morning called shakit. Uh Jacob um his son instituted the prayer in the afternoon called ma and uh uh Jacob uh Jacob instituted the prayer in the evening called arvit. So they already had a certain tradition to pray uh during those times of the day and certain things to say. and the ankullah the men of the great assembly the Jewish uh sages and prophets of the uh great assembly at the time of the beta mdash they added to it other things that uh were also beneficial for is to do and to say uh which part of them are from psalms from king David's psalms part of them are from different parts of the oral tra and the reason why they chose every single thing that they chose is based on their knowledge knowled of which gates of heaven are opened at specific times during the day for specific words that are stated, specific prayers. And so many words, think of the heaven as a bunch of doors with combination locks. And the Jewish prayer book is not just the access to be in front of those doors, but even the combination two specific locks at specific times if done appropriately. What will be the punishment for person running Pornhub? uh the punishment for them is the seventh level of gay nom where they will go in and they will never come out. And if you want to know more details, you can watch my film uh about gay. Uh now since I was answering the question, I wasn't able to read the other question that somebody just posted. It seemed like a paragraph. Uh you could send it again. Please copy and paste. Now, the whole thing I said about the the France thing, uh, I'm not sure if that's still a problem today. This was an issue from 25, 30 years ago, maybe longer. Today, I'm assuming many of the Jewish communities in France have an uh, but back then they didn't. for mix planting trees. Is it forbidden? Yes, it's forbidden. It's considered says does not apply to a breast of person. No are for every Jewish person that's married. If you're a married Jewish, you have to not only put on and say the onashi, but you also need to put ofenutam without a blessing. We don't make a blessing on it elevates the level of kaduca. It elevates the uh the person to uh the it's it's uh very important to to put it on. Vada worked for many many years uh to uh to make sure that people knew the importance of for years people didn't even realize how critical was to the point where only would use them was that says when a woman has a doubt about her ancestors or both lines somebody asked a question and they're moving your question can't ask such big questions because it's not on the screen for long enough or uh you know other people ask questions so the question fly so give me the second half of the question I heard the first part of the question it says something about a woman and I someone not being sure about her ancestors unsure about the ancestors about what uh whether she's Jewish woman she needs to pass yes if she if somebody whether it's a male or woman a man or woman is not sure about whether they're Jewish or not they have to go through a conversion And it's called guil um uh guil which is the a a conversion in order to eliminate the safik in order to eliminate the doubt which means that if you really are Jewish then that conversion is means nothing means nothing. you just fulfilled the obligation uh of of eliminating the doubt and no one should doubt you anymore as far as to marry you or to uh uh you know any type of Jewish ceremony uh even inviting you for pes you know [clears throat] like for example we're not allowed to invite non-Jews to our Passover sedal uh so uh you could invite a non-Jew uh if you're going to teach him something uh during the rest of the year but uh pes is not a time to uh invite non-Jews. So if somebody's not inviting you to their house because they're not sure if you're Jewish, once you go through this process, you have no problem. If somebody's not marrying you because they're not sure if you're Jewish, now they don't have a problem. Now they can marry you. So in regards to um eliminating the doubt if you really were Jewish then you fulfill the obligation of eliminating the doubt and which means that you are fulfilling the mitzvah of to be clean in the eyes of Hashem and men. If on the other hand you weren't Jewish now you are. So now that you are Jewish uh you could uh continue uh uh living that Jewish life. But it's important for a person to not live uh in doubt. A few of you sent the questions while I was speaking. I can't uh read the tiny little screen and speak at the same time. As a gentile, can I grow your pot and beard if it's for the sake of looking Jewish? No. If it's for the sake of I don't know, you just want to grow your hair, grow your hair. No one could tell you anything. Technically, he has to wait for the to answer. Not allowed to speak for Foreign speech. Foreign speech. Foreign speech. Fore! Foreign! Foreign! soft. Can a gentile hire himself as a slave for a Jewish man? Is it possible? I'm sure somebody would want to hire you. I don't know if it necessarily must be a Jew. You can hire yourself to do whatever you want. uh you know but as far as uh slavery is usually not called slaver anymore. Usually slavery is called blueco collar work you know so you you get paid you get rights you get uh things but uh if you want to be somebody's servant by all means you can be okay one or two more questions and then we're done read this question already. I know it's a great mitzvah to host guests, especially on Shabbat. If it's a great physical hardship for a family, should we still have uh guests to acquire this mitzvah? The more difficulty, the more reward. Uh but if the difficulty creates uh you know schlumbite problems, then no. As long as you know the difficulty is a just uh you know making people uh you know I don't know comfortable and happy and you know that if that's the difficulty is fine but if it creates problems with in the marriage then absolutely not. Okay we finish all the questions there. tomorrow have an interview. Could you bless me and my family? This will allow us to do more bless you and all of the people that are learning with us tonight and at any time with a lot of a lot of success and all the good things that you do whether it's for the sake of you know making a living and be able to fulfill mitzvot or it's charitable causes or it's your Toro learning uh all the good that you do everyone will have a lot of successm any Jewish mysticism books that you recommend? I don't recommend uh Jewish mysticism books to anybody uh you know that I don't know. Isn't a person with status of impurity allowed to learn to love following opinion? If not, is it one of the reasons A person with Sagat is considered dead. As far as it doesn't really uh it's not something that we could remove. It's not something that happens really today. Uh there is a certain hospital for people that have it in in but once they go in they never leave. Uh generally people don't get anymore because we don't have a cure anymore. Uh you need the uh bet mikdash for that. As far as uh impurity, everyone has a uh tumat. Everyone has a the impurity and we're all going to stay impure until uh Msiah comes. Now, as far as uh cleanliness, for example, after somebody is uh intimate with his wife, uh certainly that person should shower uh before they learn Tawah and not go learn to right after doing that uh the act. But uh as far as um you know if they can't shower for example because it's Shabbat they still should you know clean themsel uh and then they can learn Torah. But as long as they don't have filth on their body uh whether that filth is feal manner or seed or whatever it is if they don't have it on them then they can study Torah. You know sweat is not considered filth. You know person's allowed to sweat. There's no problem. Um, but uh, you know, things that are considered uh disgusting are uh not allowed. Okay, I think I've answered all the questions, but even the ones that said, "Why aren't you answering my question?" I think I answered their questions, too. All right, here we go. Since people walk around almost half naked, too long of a question, by the time you go, you send a question other people sent. Uh, can the person running Pornhub ever repent? Can they? Sure. As long as they're alive, they could still do chuva. They could still repent. Uh will they repent? Obviously, that remains to be seen. Uh you know, is it going to be easy to repent? Absolutely not. Because they have to not only stop doing what they're doing, shut down the entire business, uh but they have to also help other people do chuva for pornography, which is certainly not an easy thing to do, but it's possible. Sure. If they're alive, anyone that's alive can still do chuva. Uh will they do chuva or not? Will they repent or not? You know, it's obviously it's still their free choice. But the bigger the sin, the more difficult it is to do chuva for it. If they do chuva, they can enter ganed. If they obviously don't do chuva, they can't. Do I have advice for quitting pornography? Yes. Uh there's a uh film called Tikun Bleet on my channel. Start by watching the Tikun Bleet film spelled T I K Ku N H A B R I T. Watch that. After that, there's a whole playlist of lectures that I have about wasting seed uh and everything that's connected to it, which obviously includes pornography. Watch all of those lectures. After you watch all of those uh lectures and you continue watching them on a regular basis, you know, different some of them are long, some of them are short, some of them are five minute clips, some of them are two-hour lectures. watch some of my other lectures uh about like this one that are general lectures that are simply going to help you become a more moral person that's following the uh the words of Torah. Uh the combination of uh both uh you'll be able to overcome pornography and all of the other things if you really take things take the words that uh are said to action. Uh as far as uh quitting, many many people that have watched my lectures over the years have quit and have become really righteous people. Some even became rabbism. I can't really tell you the rabbis names that have that are my students that have overcome this stuff uh because that would embarrass them. But the point is that some of the rabbis today that some of you listen to are uh started off by uh listening to our about this stuff. And some people that are rabbis even before uh that uh before I even did chuva did chuva as a result of our shim about the issues of wasting seed. They've helped a lot of people. So highly recommend people watch them. If someone found a national treasure while doing an outdoor activity, is it finders keepers or they have to report it to the government? Depends. It's a where you live, Jewish, not Jewish. Um, there's a lot of different factors. Uh, usually, you know, it's a uh the law of the land has a uh certain restrictions more in one place over the other. Uh, but as far as Allah is concerned, you don't have to uh tell anybody about it. But again, it depends. Depends. You don't want to get yourself in trouble. Uh, why is it that men that live with their mommies after the age of 50 think it's completely normal to have their figured wives move? their figured wives move in with them and their mommy. What is the priority? Uh well, listen, if somebody's been living with their mother for 50 years and they just met a woman and they want to marry them, um it's going to be very difficult for them to leave their mother's house. Uh because just because they met the woman now and the woman now is a wonderful woman or she seems wonderful and they want to build a house with them, it doesn't mean they're just going to abandon what they've been uh uh used to, accustomed to, and even enjoy until now. It's not a especially at the age of 50, their mother is probably older. They don't want to leave her. She's, you know, she's probably a widow. Uh so uh if a person is living with his mother still at the age of 50, most likely he's never going to leave his mother's house and whoever wants to marry that person should expect that and not even try to get them to leave their mother's house because it's an unreasonable request. If somebody's still living with their mother at the age of 50, that's part of the package. If you're coming in to try to change the package, that means you want a different package. You want a different person. A person that's living with their mother at the age of 50 is doing it as part of their that's part of who they are. They have made a life decision that this is the best thing for them. Whether it is or it isn't the best thing for them. Obviously, you have to know the person to know whether it's the best thing for them or not. But for a woman to come in and think that uh they're going to change this person's life at this stage of their life is uh arrogant and inconsiderate. uh person that's living with his mother for that long, it's a uh it's unreasonable to ask them to leave their mother's house uh for many different reasons. And quite frankly, it's a uh uh it's it's it's right for them to stay with their mother at this stage because if they leave their mother's house at this stage of their life, number one, it's going to be a huge difficulty for their mother to adjust at such an age. their mother's at least 75, 70, 80 years old. Very difficult for them to to adjust. Number two, he is making their mom suffer this very difficult uh adjustment uh for a woman that uh he doesn't even know yet. He doesn't know if it's going to work out. So, what if it doesn't work out with this new woman? Even if the new woman says, "I want to marry you." If you know, again, usually people don't get married after a week. Usually people, you know, get to know each other for a little while and uh he doesn't know if it's going to work out or not and they're really going to be happily ever after, especially when people get married at that age. So, for him to move out of his mother's house, I don't think it's a uh a reality. And I think that any woman that meets a guy that still lives with his mother should in essence assume that this is what it is. If she's not interested in it, then she should not ask the person uh to go on a date with her or accept an offer to go on a date with him. She should simply just say not for me and move on to somebody else. Just say uh that's it. Uh I can tell you the the uh you know the uh the perspective of the Torah is that a woman should uh and a man should not leave their parents house until they're married. So if a woman is looking at things from the perspective of the Torah, if let's say for example the man is still living with his parents and he's uh and he's single, he's technically doing the right thing according to the Tawra, there's no reason for him to live by uh by himself. It's a problem for him to live by himself. He can make more sins. Uh on the other hand, a woman that's a uh living by herself and she's not married, it is problematic according to the Torah. Why? Because that could lead to promiscuity. It could lead to problems against the Tawa. she should still be living with, you know, in our father in our mother's house. But again, this is obviously we're talking to people that are, you know, people that have done chuva later on in their life or uh people that uh did not know this until now. So of course there is a understanding of of reality. But point being is that just like we are expecting the world of Torah and of course to understand our limited circumstances and our misdecisions and mistakes uh in life and accept our chuva. We have to also be accepting and understanding of other people and their decisions and not try to adjust the world to our liking. This is one of the primary problems in the world of relationships, especially marriages today, where people are looking for uh for for for a partner based on, you know, somebody that fits them. Meaning, I want, you know, I I I'm going to I'm going to marry somebody that meets my uh meets my criteria. You know, a woman has a criteria. A man has a criteria. She has to be this tall, this short, this weight. this bank account, this color hair, uh this accent, this uh understanding, and she has also, you know, a list. He has to be this tall, this skinny, this fat, this family, this amount of knowledge, this job, this uh salary, this bank account, this understanding. And this is why people get divorced. Why? because they're coming into a relationship based on a shopping list, like as if they're going into a supermarket to buy stuff. They're coming into a relationship looking for someone to fit their description and their needs. They're not coming into a relationship in order to fit somebody else's need. They're not coming into a relationship to give. They're coming into a relationship to take. I'll, you know, I'll take it if he is that tall. I'll take it if he is that uh rich. I'll take it. If he is that uh you know uh uh that uh skill, I'll take it. Why? Because he meets my shopping list requirement. He meets my to-do list. I could put a check mark next to the to-do list. That's a to-do list that's bound to get a divorce or be miserable throughout their entire life. If a person wants to have a successful marriage, they have to go into relationship with a priority of giving of yourself to help the other person, to help your partner in any way that you can and not necessarily only looking to accept. And you say, "Oh, but what about me?" Well, guess what? If all you focus on is giving, then guess what? A normal partner will reciprocate. They also give. They'll also give. So when you focus on taking, they also focus on taking. And guess what? Nobody has anything in the end. Everybody's miserable. Why? Because I want this, but you didn't give it to me. I want that. You didn't give it to me, though. Yeah, but I want that. You didn't give it to me. But I want that. You didn't give it to me. So what happens? They fight about what this one didn't give the other. And nobody gives anybody anything except once they don't have a choice or they simply just have had it to fighting and they just give whatever they take. But that's a miserable life. You want to have a happy life, you have to focus priority number one, two, and three is give. Give give of yourself. That means that if you have uh something that you want to do, but your husband wants to do something else, you want to sit on the couch and watch a movie, your husband wants to go learn Tawra or he wants to uh you know watch or he wants to um go walk outside. Go. Unless he wants to do something bad, go with him. Yeah, but I want to just uh you know, I want to watch uh you know, I know you want to watch, but if you want a happy life, you're not going to fight for everything that you want. And that's the problem. People are fighting constantly for what they want. They look at relationship like a shopping list. And very rarely do people think of relationship as a opportunity to give. Constantly give. If you look at any successful relationship, you'll see people that are giving constantly, giving constantly, but also receiving, but they receive without asking. Why they receive without asking? Because they're focused so focused on giving that there's no time to ask. So how do they get what they want? Because when you are with a normal decent human being and you're giving that normal decent human being, then guess what? They're going going want naturally going to want to give it back. They want to give you more. They want to give you of themsel. But you have to have the right perspective of relationships. If you're coming into a relationship looking to change the uh person, their wardrobe, their house, their you know ideas, their look, that means you want somebody else. That means you want somebody else and you have to you know find somebody else you know. But if if you're going into a relationship where you are looking at it as how could I meet his uh his needs, not just the sensual needs, not just the financial needs, not just the uh I don't know uh boredom needs, but you know, life life you know there there's there are certain things that a person finds really really important. It's really important to them. And if you also view it important, not because you like it, not because you even agree it's important, but it's important for you because it's important to them, that means that you are giving. But if it's only important to you because you agree that it's important, then that means you're not giving. That means that you you're still living a shopping list life. So it's important for a person to know if they want to succeed in relationships, give, give and give. And if you want rule number four, I'll even give you rule number four. Since I give you three for the pri same price, I'm going to give you rule number four. Rule number four is don't forget the first three rules. Give, give, give. You do that, you're going to be a happy person. Okay, we learned. We I think progressed a little bit. We have some tools that we could apply. Uh we even have some people that like to mess with us a little bit and that's also good because if the doesn't interfere that means that you're doing something wrong. So if he's interfering, that means that you're bothering him, which means you're helping people do cha. So that's a good thing. We uh we're moving. We're making some progress. Each and every single person takes these things, applies them to their life or at least as much of it as possible. Uh for those of you that want to help us, if you have the resources, please donate on the websites either.org or bhour.org or send a check or the many other different ways that you could donate. For those of you that want to distribute some of our USBs or books in your communities, Jewish communities, you can go to the website kubstore.org and you can order the stuff there for free and we even pay for shipping. Um, and uh, for those of you that want to help us in other ways, you have technological skills, you have rich friends and family that you want to whatever you want to do to help us, by all means, we welcome it. Thank you very much for learning with me. bless each and every single one of us that's learning to and bless all of andem will win all the wars that are against us whether as the ones from the outside from the enemies of the outside or even the enemies within call to and Shabbat shalom [music] asked him, "What can we do to protect ourselves from Mashia?" He says, "Even if somebody does a nice thing or learns [music] a lot or anything like that, it's never compared to bringing one of Hashem's lost kids that's been lost for the last 3,000 years back home." One of the beautiful things that we have in our organization is that we have both Torah and Ziku [music] because we have our coals, we have our and we also have our that we do around the world. Our lectures reach every corner of the world in multiple languages but of course we always want to do [music] even more. [music] Florida. Islam. who do not while we have cure work that we've done throughout the whole year, we also have the Torah that we're constantly producing more and more of. And last but not least, the uh to feed the poor people in Israel. A very special thank you to all our amazing guests who [music] show will about Islam by taking the time out of their busy schedule and sharing their ups and downs with us all for the sake of one of the big things that we have aside from this campaign. You probably see this poster or something similar to it is also we publish some of the recent results that we have or at least up to now of the organization. And one of the reasons why we do this each year is because we want to make sure that our partners, our donors, our Tommy Dean [music] know where their money is going. Unlike everybody else that you know uh says a lot, does a lot. We want to show you what these results are. I could tell you from my experience and a little bit of knowledge about the whole Torah world. I don't know of anybody else uh any other organization on planet earth that produces dollar for dollar what we've produced over these last few years. This is nothing to be arrogant about. It's simply who helped us. We made every sacrifice that we can possibly make in order to h to make it happen. Producing nearly 300 films, publishing 32 books, our own books, giving out 154,000 books for free. Giving out 154,000 books is not a cheap endeavor. Anyone that wants to do such a thing has to be [music] completely committed to a kadosh to his children and most importantly to have inad we also have fed over 160,000 people over these last several years each year during pesak the high holidays throughout the year we help a lot of people eat help make sure that they have groceries food all types of things and you guys have seen many of the videos that are uh that we've produced over the years to actually show you the people that are getting this food you have here 160,000 people have eaten nearly 300 Torah films and then on top of all of it we have 1.4 million USB CDs and cards [music] that have been given out for free. All of the work that we've done over the last 10 years on these USBs given out for free. Last but not least, 12,000 video and audio lectures available online [music] in about 14 different languages for the world to watch for free. Amen. [music] foreign. Oh yes. [music] Come here. [music] [music] say, "Oh, what's up Foreign speech. Foreign speech. Foreign speech. [music] This [music] after somebody dies their naturally feels like it needs to be clean and like it needs to go to get home to clean itself so it could feel better after. And one of the reasons [music] why we do this, why we show these numbers is because we want to show everyone what we've done to give you an indication an indication of what we can do [music] in the future. So, this is a time where we need as much of your help as possible to push yourself more than you typically do. If you typically donate a couple hundred, donate a,000. If you uh if you can afford uh the uh uh 8,000 15,000 50,000 whatever you can afford, this is the time to do it because this is going to be the help that [music] we have to help all of these to feed these people and perhaps one day to get that building that we've been wanting to to build here in the United States to build a community. But the all of these things require millions of dollars. If not now, then when?