The COVID19 Crisis Risk After Sukkot? - STUMP THE RABBI (66)

[Music] is we're back everybody hopefully you had a productive Y where you're able to uh pray to hem cry to hem do chuva most importantly um now the uh next holiday is just a couple of days away we have sukot uh will speak briefly about it and um more opportunities to more opportunities to get to a place where we need to be all year today will be for a for Mara Julie sha Ben fan Ben abam Talia Sarah bis gab Boris elad Boris David benri and also for for David Boris ra raan s an ran Leana Sarah talar Jonas Ben Sher Haley ysep Ben B roel Stefan Ben Katarina m s sarit Bana Mercedes es and all of will have and a very special thank you to all of the people that donated and are continuing to donate um for the campaigns we had recently whether it's to uh feed the poor in is or it's the r campaign or the Yip Campaign which also went to the poor get a message today from uh one of the uh people that we have um managing the area of yavel um it's just a simply an area full of poor one after another one tragic story after another and um it's you know many of them you know we've helped already uh in the last uh year or so you know and uh but um because it was you know the the demand was growing because of what's going on in Isel they're shutting down the country and so on uh it got to a point where you know the the person himself that that's running it decided not to tell anybody until last minute you know pretty much to tell people just come come pick up their basket or to uh ask them you know go and drop off the basket at their house with the food uh with some other areas like NATA and other plac in yush and other areas that we did in Israel uh they gave food in other places they um gave them a card with money in it to go shopping like a supermarket card but in this particular area yel this tadik and her tadik husband they go and uh um order the food and uh the meat and all the different things and the chicken and the food for the house and so on and so forth and they make you know huge boxes of beautiful amazing food now over the last uh few times that we've done it uh you see the people were so happy excited to get it and so on uh many people that were having schom bite problems uh you know because of financial reasons bashem got to uh you know get SCH they were able to make peace uh you know kids that were having difficulties in in different areas now uh just a little bit of uh food and sustenance and just simply seeing that is watching and answering prayers helped them a lot but this time she decided not to tell them just simply because uh it's a uh she wanted to make sure that we have enough for everybody and and so on so anyway so she told everybody last minute and uh she sent me I can't even hear the whole thing it's just it's hard it's too hard to to for me to to hear it and she I don't know apparently in Israel I don't know if it's uh like that in other countries but in Israel the phones over there automatically every phone has like every call is recorded like here I can't even get an app that records a call without making that stupid beep sound beep beep be every two seconds who wants that uh so uh you know it's like you I'm not on the phone that much but anyway I I want want to have that feature but it's not possible in Israel it's standard apparently that all phones are automatically recorded so she has all these recordings of the phone call and she sent me like a compilation of the calls and when she tells the people Hey listen we got you food for the for this for that and he just starts hearing people cry like yeah it's happen happiness but I mean it's extraordinary happiness people were two days away from the and they didn't haven't eaten in a day or two they started fasting already for uh you know so unbelievable you hear people crying you hear people happy and uh you know it gives you a little bit of a different perspective on life and on how the uh the times are different for different people you know it's a uh you know right now you could say yeah the whole world is suffering with Corona it's not really true it's not really true with all due respect to everybody here none of you are suffering okay I'm not suffering either from this Corona in fact I think my life has improved since this Corona virus is improved why are we reaching a lot more people the amount of kiru that we're doing has at least doubled if not quadrupled you know amount of work has increased drastically and I'm dying slowly but it's a different story it's my own issue uh but you know that but in other parts of the world specifically in Israel you're seeing certain people certain areas many of them are in other parts even of of the Us and other places where the effect is very different very very different it reminds me of a story of one time went uh to go raise money and um in the uh came to one of the people that uh he knows well it's a rich guy that always donates good guy and uh you know when you're raising money in the old days it's very different than raising money today you know and today you want to raise money pretty much all you need is you need a you know a few people that know people you know perhaps hire a uh one of these companies that uh does the marketing for you maybe use one of these campaigns softwar that they have to to uh encourage online donors and so on you see you have a campaign you see these campaigns you know raising 20 you know a million dollar in 24 hours oh bonus round million and a half and they ra i they have how they do it's amazing um and you see people are raising a lot of money very very easily and uh places that in many places were not known until the campaign like no one even knew this place existed until they donated part of the million dollars to it and people are raising money and they're they're having a uh successful time raising money how many people are actually getting closer to Hashem doing chuva as a result of all of this money that's only who knows but uh the point being is that money raising today is you know more or less very very different than it was in the past this also opens up the door to a lot of fraud as I've told you guys in the past there's a lot of donor fraud lot of it that's why I generally don't recommend anybody anymore people tell oh listen my my my rabbi's co is raising money my col my this I thank you you know you could recommend it I'm not a marketing company you know we have our own issues our own problems and I also can't trust you but I don't want to tell you that cuz you want to get offended so you know we have to raise our own money generally speaking I don't help I don't help anybody anymore just because I've seen too much ugly things uh in the last few years uh with donor fraud where you see campaigns that are just outright fake you know one woman uh is uh raising money just a few months ago raising money oh yeah my my my husband he's in a uh he got into a sick and he's dying and he's this and we have these kids and that and they and okay great so she has a campaign on some you know one of these websites and someone one of my students calls me goes listen Rabbi do you see this I said yeah it's one of the million things being publicized today what's the problem he goes it's fake I said why it's fake go I know the woman I know the woman and she's not exactly all there but anyway just to make sure that you know other people I talk to we called the husband the husband left her he's in Florida he's having a good time and he says listen she's a liar I'm very well I'm perfectly healthy she just wants to make some money that's it no the first story I got got countless stories like this this why I always tell people if you're going to donate money you have to look at it as an investment just like if you would buy a house you would do comps you know comps comparables you would look at other houses what this one sold what that one sold you get an A adjuster you'd get a appraiser you get all types of people to give you second opinions this is worth it to to donate it was a group of over here in Florida they said they were raising $2 million for a child that was sick it came out they the uh the insurance company paid for the claim insurance company paid for the claim they raised over $2 million raised over $2 million and but the insurance company paid for it how many people got the $2 million back all I maybe maybe a few maybe may I would say at best maybe 1% of the people got the money back that they donated for $2 million why because they didn't make a public publication for it it's like you have to find out from somebody who found out that was posted somewhere in some like Odd Place who kept the money the rabbis the three people that are you know said oh no we're going to start a new Foundation to help people with this disease that only six people in the world have yeah okay buddy and your kitchen two you're going to help and and another car another this another that a lot of donor fraud a lot of donor fraud but there are a lot of really good places that are raising money and are taking advantage of the recent system that's uh been developed in the world and you know they're getting to people that would never get to otherwise but that wasn't always the case at the time of none of these computers and Technologies were were there in fact raising money was a very very difficult thing to do needless to say it's always difficult but uh it's even more difficult back then because you had to literally go door too and you have to travel you have to leave your family and your kids and your students and everybody and go to different countries and yes hello yeah I'm raising money for is she what you never heard of you're never going to benefit from because I live in a completely different country but I'm the rabbi of this and that and hopefully this Jew will care enough about you that he's going to give you a few dollars and I know from uh one of the biggest rabbis in the world today raidon Ben Moshe is the head Rabbi of J he's told us some stories he came a few times he comes to America every year and uh to raise some money he still raises the old the oldfashioned way and a few years ago he came and he uh somebody told him listen why don't you go to this guy he's extremely rich he has you know hundreds of millions of dollars and the dies get go to him big rabbis usually get easier to raise money you think so he goes to this guy okay listen what do you do he start telling him this that half hour 40 minutes after 40 minutes from one of the not coming to you right especially if you have the money no after 40 minutes you go the guy says very good he uh goes under his desk he open something what was it little refrigerator refrigerator bottle of water he gives him he goes give him that and a dollar $1 now from our perspective I mean you could laugh you can cry you can do a lot of things but the G know that that person is going to get for that embarrassment of a that of the T it's not going to be a laughing manner but unfortunately in raising money there's a lot of b a lot of Biz lot of lot of embarrassment lot of a uh horrible things that a person has to go through in order to you know get through the of the person and get to the uh people have asked me several times well you know he used to raise $10 million a month from clients for Investments so obviously you could do this why don't you call people and say I'll never do it I'm not going to do it I haven't done it I'm not going to do it why because I know myself I know my and I also know what's what's what's really on the line if I start talking to people about money like seriously I start telling listen send money this amount of money that amount of like I used to do in the business world that's pretty much the last day that that person is ever going to listen to my Torah why from that point on it becomes business I'm already uncomfortable talking about it as it is some people that donate from time to time and some of them donate decent amount of money and you know they they say oh listen right Rabbi listen I just sent you another few thousand I tell them first thing I tell him why do you always call me you send me money why do you send me like shabbat shalom or a problem or something why is it always when you send money why always like they're well that's good news yeah right you sent the money why you think it's going to come it's not going to come if you didn't send it it's going to come in one way or the other but call other times too not because it's just money don't make it a money relationship why I don't know it's a it's a problem when it becomes money based and a few times we had to reject money we had to do certain things why because I know there's a certain test and part of the test for myself is is the whole money situation can we raise a lot more money sure but it requires us to change and that's not something we're willing to do um but at the time uh desperate times there's Desperate Measures you know there's certain times that a person needs to do certain things that he wouldn't do ordinarily and many times the uh whether it was the pic or or many of the Giants Giants of Torah that alv alv would just be a a dust under one of their shoes uh you know as they would leave their Torah they would leave their they would leave their families and they would go to different foreign places to go and raise money why because they got out to a point where they realize that right now there's no food there's no food for the kids there's no food food for the tal there's simply you know no electric there's nothing so it's either we're going to die or uh you know we go raise money so that's what they would do and that's how they build empires of Torah with one time a rich person came to rovic that uh you know was saying listen you should uh donate x amount of money to toov had four 5,000 students in his Yesa I think it at the time or maybe even until today the biggest Yeshiva in the world uh and the rich guy says why should I make such a big sacrifice I worked hard for my money why should I make such a big sacrifice so says to him says you think you're making a big sacrifice cuz you well you're writing a check and you works out for your money said I made a much bigger sacrifice than you and I continued to make a much bigger sacrifice than you gu says how I work all day I make this money all you you think making $100 million easy $500 million easy you make money you don't make money decided to give it to you said I gave up my life because when I was young already when I was a teenager they told me you're going to be the next told me told me you're going to be lead after me already when I was young young boy you're going to be I gave all of that up to go raise money so I could feed these kids so they continue learning toah meaning I can't learn T when I'm raising money I can't learn T when I see kids hungry I see kid has Hess in his pants I can't I can't do all that so all day all night I'm raising money raising money so yeah he learns T but not t like the uh like he can I gave up my entire life for this did you give up your whole life for this money no people don't understand they think that you know because of the many unfortunate bad stories of Rabbi Steels or a guy that calls himself a rabbi steals or the embezzlement or the scam or the tax evasion unfortunately every other day there's another horror with with you know a someone that calls thems a rabbi or religious figure and money tied to it every other day there's another horrible story and of course the the ones that hate the T they make sure to publicize it even if it's three years after the fact why to make sure everybody knows but unfortunately it comes out they don't even need to republish it because there's new stories all the time there's new stories all the time and it's sad it's sad because that is what people think the Torah world is when they're not close to the Torah World they think that that's what it is they think that these Rim that are embezzling money stealing money and doing all types of things that are uh you know immoral with the money they think that oh see so what why should I donate the money to this guy you know let me donate to the Red Cross as if the Red Cross is any better person that did an analysis on the uh big nonprofit organizations uh found that on the average we're not talking about Jewish organizations you just did an average on the big ones the Red Cross the Blue Cross the uh all these organizations that have billions of dollar so between 98 to 99 Cents out of every single dollar that's donated goes to the people running the organization meaning only one penny to two pennies actually goes to the cause itself all these causes yeah they have you see there their their financial statement they're public see the financials yeah we raised this year $100 million $500 million a billion dollar this and that see how much money went at the actual cause it's a tragedy a tragedy and many many there's many frauds in the in the donation well but unfortunately it's not just in a secular world it's not just in a Christian world it's also in a Jewish World quite a few stories in just the last year of different people that uh were involved in all types of uh illegal activities with donations money uh unfortunately some very big names some people that even got recently uh uh popular for for bad reasons but nonetheless uh you know we're trying to make good out of it only to find out that in reality they were really bad people they were doing bad things with their money and unfortunately this is happening all over the place either way you do not judge Judaism based on individual Jews you judge Judaism based on the Torah itself what does the Torah say if this person follows what the Torah say says he's a good Jew if he doesn't then he's not a good Jew that's it simple simple if the rabbi is making big SS of he's not a rabbi you can't say oh this religious guy or this religious Rabbi he uh he stole all this money he's not religious and he's not a rabbi if he stole like you're saying he did and if he did all these immoral things not only he's not he's not a rabbi he's not religious why because the Torah which is what makes you religious says not to do it so if he himself is not following the Torah that he says he's preaching then he's not I and if he's not religious obviously he's not a rabbi unless he's reformed which it's a different religion so in the old days it was very different in the old days theim would go and raise money when it was desperate times and one time went to one of his journeys to raise money and he got to a place he went to one of his donors that's a rich person and um when the uh the guy uh got there it was snowstorm usually snowstorm you stay home when lives are on the line there's no uh staying home there's no calling in sick oh Rabbi listen I uh I have a headache I'm not going to come today okay okay I have a headache come snowstorm they went if it was for a million dollars you'd go million dollars you'd go it doesn't matter if you have a headache but that's the difference different you know people's priorities are different listen I'm sneezing a little today so I'm not going to come for the shoe for a week okay no problem but if it was a million dollars every shoe you'd come come snowstorm while the snow is going on top of it it's freezing weather of Europe Russia sh it's like you know the Gom has you know the hot place and the cold place I believe that the cold place is in Russia it's very cold over there apparently so anyway is there he gets to the rich person's house knocks on the door the butler opens the door come come come come in no no please I want to talk to Mr such and such okay but come in no no no right here just please tell him to come I need to talk to him something very important the butler runs sir sir and he's here again he wants to talk to you tell him to come in he goes he doesn't want to come in doesn't want to come in what do you mean he doesn't want to come in I don't know I asked him he doesn't want to come in go he runs over his door he goes for come come come goes no no no I need to talk to you okay you want come in no I need to talk to you right now okay so they're both outside now the the the owner he's like at the doorstep but is outside the co the snow coming down on him it's freezing it's freezing and he starts talking he says you know why I'm here no for tell me says the kids the kids at the in bonovich in banovich they don't have any food we are now sharing a meal for three for one for for a meal for one person between three four people and top of it some of them their shoes not shoes any sandals and top of it this and goes come here no no no I need to tell you hold on one second I need to tell you also the clothes they're growing the kids are growing the kids are growing they not going the ti because they can't eat that much but the the clothes is shrinking and it's holes and he starts telling them all the details of the agony and pain of the 400 students that he has and you know wasn't one of these people that would preach and do something different if there wasn't this family said ABA uh we have uh can we get chicken no why why why can't we get chicken Because unless we have chicken for all 400 of my kids we're not going to eat chicken at home we're not going to eat chicken at home his own kids his own kids which some of them became they said if there wasn't food in the Yesa exactly like we have at home not eating if they're not eating we're not eating so starts telling this Bal all of the different issues the shoes are now sandals the the the jackets are no longer fit the shirts have holes in them the food is being split among several kids and so on and so forth 20 minutes 20 minutes of details in the freezing cold the guy is freezing wman is free everybody is freezing he's going on and on after 20 minutes he says so what do you think are you going to be able to help this year the says for the of course I'm going to help okay he comes into the house the guy is catching his breath cuz it's so cold and after a few minutes of you know catching himself he says I don't understand every you you come to me I I try to give but I just don't understand why couldn't you just tell me everything you just said for the last 20 minutes inside next to the fire where it's warm and everything says the the does not feel the pain of the an the rich does not feel the pain of the of the poor doesn't feel the pain of the poor say he's hungry would do you know what hungry feels like you ate your third meal by 12:00 what what what do you know about hungry cold what cold do you know it's 500° in your house if you want it to be you have enough fires in every room to build to build a whole Factory what do you know about it the does not feel the pain of the I wanted you to feel the pain of these little boys I wanted you to feel what they're feeling a little for 20 minutes not all day because blessed you but I wanted you to feel a little bit 20 minutes of what they deal with 24 hours a day before you decide what you're going to give and that's the reality sometimes people ask me listen I want to get better and I was on the way of getting better I started reading I started learning I started doing Yip arrived arrived I did all types of things but and I thought I was going in the right track I was getting better and everything was going good and I started becoming modest and I started this and I started that and I started doing MIT I started feeling like a little Benish I started feeling like a little babaali I was all good everything happen everything was fantastic Rabbi but then all of a sudden the holiday came out or Shabbat came out or something happened and boom I exploded on my wife I exploded on my husband I exploded on my kids I exploded on my boss on my employee started yelling at them things that I haven't said in years came out of my mouth all types of vile words and language I got so angry I almost wanted to kill the person I didn't even know why I was so angry and I felt like everything I built went to the garbage and I can't get myself back I can't get myself back to be the little B that I thought I was what do I do how do I get back it wasn't normal for me to act this way cuz I changed already but apparently not enough so what do I do to get back sometimes the Satan waits for a person around the corner and lets him lets her build themselves for a while without bothering them what you want to do cha go Kap go ahead what you want to do you want to read go go read I'll give you the K I'll pay for it all of a sudden money shows up in your account 40 bucks art Kash where did I get this money for I I didn't have any money okay so I guess at the end I'll buy it Amazon art.com all of a sudden you got these books this that you want to read all of a sudden you don't need to sleep at night anymore all of a son you could do all these mitv you know what RAB you have a t okay I'll put a t oh T this that all a it's good and Satan's looking he's like it's cute this kid's cute look at him he's reading the Kash look at his cutie he's reading the Kash look at that he's coming to shoe he's watching the shoe two hours a day he watches his shoe Rabbi Rabbi yeah yeah yeah r he's on the WhatsApp group look at that look at that look look at this kid look at he brings all of his student the Satan brings the student say look at this kid he's look's he's a now this guy he tells everybody list like his Rabbi yeah's like his Rabbi look at this kid starts telling everybody no yesterday was but today oh look at this kid look at how cute he is he brings all of the demons the kid created brings them all goes can we get him no no no don't touch them Satan says don't touch him why not wait wait leave him alone don't touch him but why he used to be with us don't worry he still with us he's still with us don't worry let him build let him build let him read the let him learn M let him do it let him think he's Babas give him six months free give him a year free give him five years free let him think he's good until he puts his guard down and then we take everything and as Satan shows up with all of those unfixed unfixed sins and attacks and makes the person act like a worse an animal than he was before he did Chua waits for him around the corner let him build why because Satan when you're making sins that's hisa but it's likea like collecting takaka it's a dollar it's $10 it's $100 it's 50 it's a thaka money it's not like not getting rich off of it but Satan wants something big he like I want a building how could I get a building this guy's homeless all day okay wa seed okay wa seed I'm tired of it already no give me something else okay so he's okay said up said he's little s he's used to your sins already say I need something else I need a building from this how G I get a building from this guy how can I get a building from this woman ah let them build on kadus let them start learning let them start doing MIT let them start becoming a little andik and then I'll take it all of them why because the K is worth billions more than the tum that a person creates and that's the explanation for anyone who ever asked the question how could it be that in history we've had a few people not many a few people that were for 80 years a for 80 years went off the D the rabbi of went off the many people always ask how could it be this guy knew a lot of Tor how could it be and there's other few others not many but there's a few others big how because sometimes Satan waits for people around the corner especially people that are have a lot of potential and he doesn't bother them and he waits for them to put their guard down to think that they're fine to think that they're good and then he goes for the whole bank because the amount of P that he gets during that one day is enough to feed several lifetimes and this is one of the most dangerous things that can happen to a person that does not put their guard up at all times you are always at war with the Satan always and I know a lady that from the day that I met her she always says that's the one thing she's always scared of say I'm going to build build build build build but one day I'm going to forget what I'm doing and uh Satan's going to get me I said okay if you keep building you keep reminding yourself of this you're going to be okay very scary why because you see sometimes even in recent past a few big rabbis that were doing a lot of really good things one day start going crazy start doing strange things start doing things that are against al start doing things that are against the uh the Tora start doing things that are against theem and it's like where did this come from how how could it be this is one of those things this is one of those weapons that the Satan doesn't use often but nonetheless when it uses it it's very very strange and very difficult to deal with for everyone around who doesn't know why it's happening but this is also so one of the things that a person doesn't have to deal with this problem but still could apply this particular thing for any problem is that you built yourself you buildt yourself you built yourself and all of a sudden you did something something awful and you feel like you can't get yourself back up so as we know Hashem runs the world with certain principles that he gave for himself certain rules that he gave for himself one of them is measure for measure and he rewards measure for measure he punishes measure for measure if you steal from somebody someone will steal from you at some other point down the road not because that's the only way that has can take away the money from you but also because there's a certain pain that a person feels when someone betrays them when someone violates their privacy and takes their stuff and anything that happens in the world we have a principle in the Torah no one gets punished no one gets hurt even in their finger even in their finger without there being a sin attached to it whether it's in this life or the previous life is irrelevant bottom line is no one in the world gets hurt even in their finger without there being a bed of sh saying this person deserves it this deserves it see why this big Rabbi deserves it yes not because I said so said so maybe not during his life maybe this discarnation he was a complete sad but apparently there was still an unpaid bill from a previous life oh this baby deserves what did he do there's no such thing as baby in Judaism there's the we all here in Mount sa meaning everybody here is at least 3,000 years old that's a reality few few brand new exist in the world and they're very very rare according to the so but the point being is is that no one gets hurt for any reason other than a sin that's attached to it whether it's in this life or previous life nonetheless everybody gets in essence what Hashem has connected to their name for one reason or another so sometimes a person is building themselves is fixing the past and he's doing good but all of a sudden what are you going to do he fell he fell he saw something his his mind went to left field he saw something on a on a billboard on a billboard you didn't even go you just saw something on a billboard next thing you know he's in theill he's uh he's in Cloud n all the Departments doesn't care about the he knows about all of them it's not he doesn't believe in God he believ in God 100% he give you a sh about God give you sure give you give you SE everything but that moment he saw that thing that's it his mind is in kafak she loves AEM loves her husband loves her kids everything she loves but I don't know what happened she went to the store she saw somebody from her previous life the next thing you know she finds herself in some place that she shouldn't be as a married woman oh you're a married woman four kids what are you doing and what what is this you have I don't know I don't know what I don't know how it happened I don't know how it happened I don't know how was I don't know I don't know but what do I do now I can't it's done it's done what do I do now a person can fall for a big trap without realizing it until they've already done what do you do then because runs the world with measure for measure and he's the ultimate Mercy he wants our chuba if you're still alive he wants your chuva but in order for you to LEAP from the hole that you're in it can't be a standard leap like in the past it needs to be more more than normal more than usual in the past you're able to let's say study an hour a day now now day is not enough why you want to get back to where you were right an hour day is not going to get you back to where you were not why cuz you're in a deficit now you're negative you're in a negative balance you could an hour is not going to get you there you have to do pretty much as much as possible until you collapse two three four hours yeah it's too much right okay stay in the hold it what are you want to tell you as much as you can you can't do for hour okay knows what you can do you know maybe more or less that you can do an hour cuz you've done it you don't know how much more you can do cuz you never really tried try more you give myale once a year out of one of your checks so in reality is M only one month a year not 12 months it's hard for you to give 12 months a year hard for you to give every week why because you like money and you don't have enough and you think that if you're going to give you're not going to have anything left and so on the same story that everybody else has and they already have and somebody else is going to give and all that stuff hard for you to give hard for you to give you give once a year you give during you you never really do the calculation but you more or less believe that you give enough but in reality if anybody did your spiritual accounting they would see that you in a deficit but that's only between you and hem now you want to get out of the hole you want to get out of the hole you have to give a lot more not a little more not 20% more a lot more than what you give normally why you're in a deficit if you already gotten yourself acclimated to giving $1,000 $1,000 will not do how much will do only knows but it has to hurt meaning that sometimes even if you give 2,000 not going to be enough like it depends depends on it depends on the sin it depends on on really what your capability is it depends on what asking for you I don't there's no specific number all I can tell you is it has to be a lot more a lot more sometimes wants a lot more from us to get us to where we need to be you did Chua you started wearing modest clothes you married a nice ashkanazi boy from y everything's good you kept all of his everything's good your Kos your kids are in yes so what else can you do is you made a big you made a big sin what else can you do you ate nonos one of your girlfriends you cursed you did this you did you all types of things horrible things and you want to get back to the spiritual how you were feeling before you have to do something big for a woman modesty is usually the one main thing that wants even though you're an ashkanazi and your husband is ashkanazi start wearing a just like many in asazi world have done throughout the years and still do to this day not everybody wears a wig yeah but everybody's GNA okay so stay in the hold then yeah but everybody okay well all the things that you're saying you're right you have this excuse and that excuse because the standard is for you to wear a wig and forget about the all argument of India and idol worship and all put that aside for a second everyone knows everyone knows that a is more more modest than a wig everybody knows that nobody nobody in their right mind actually believes like with their real genuine heart that a wig is more modest than nobody believes that now of course some will say you know false words in the name of theab no the was against complete nonsense I have letters from the it says that he's for that's a different story the point being is everyone knows just anyone that has eyes you have eyes that's all you you don't have to be Jewish even you have eyes you know a woman with a is more mod than a woman with a wig why number one with a wig many times you don't even know it's a wig number two hair no no hair do I need to explain further everybody knows now you say yeah but according to they were right for their time and didn't know about the idolatry of the world of today and so on we're allowed to wear a a uh wig you're right although those did not approve the wig of today needless to say you're piggy backing off of them and the other rabbis of today they say okay fine no problem but you're in a hole now and you want to get out of that hole you have to do more yeah but what about my mom's going to bother me that every time she's me what about my girlfriends that every time they see me they're going to S me why why you look like an old lady what about my neighbor that says this all of them you have to ignore from now on and simply make commitment to hem from now on I for how long permanently now if you do it like a joke you do no no I'm going to do from now on I'm going to do it at in the house in the house when no one sees me I'm going to put a but anytime I go out to a wedding or Mitzvah something I put that's a joke it's a complete joke no it's better than nothing but it's still a joke why it's not going to elevate you you have to make a commitment in front of people how do where do we know this from during the time that we were in Egypt slaves no one came to save is until mosu asked how let stay in Egypt for 210 years why didn't he send somebody sooner answer says because no one was willing to sacrifice their life for is until M okay so we know that mosu is the one and only messenger that was able to take is out of Egypt but what Merit did Amel have it says oh they didn't change their tongue their language their clothing okay fine they were still modest they still made sins but still connected so how come it didn't happen right away how come he just didn't show up okay we're out of here no it had to go through a whole transition say oh yeah because want to show his glory he want to bring the blood and the frogs and the animals and this okay great but then there was a hiccup at the end strange thing happen says to he says to M go tell is to go each one of them gets a goat tied the goat to the bed for a few days alive not dead don't kill it alive let it scream for a few days and after after a few days Slaughter it and cook it whole make sure you don't break a bone you break a bone you have to do the whole thing all over again how am I going to go tell to go do this the you know that the goat is the Egyptian how is am is going to take the Egyptian God not only kill it but actually taunt taunt the Egyptians by keeping it alive by tying it to their beds it's going to scream for four days the def are going to hear the goat because everyone's going to have their own goat one goat everyone's going to have a goat you know how many goats there thousands millions of goats goats one goat have one goat in your living room how you sleep for that night put a goat in your living room test it out see test it at home show me your video tape if you want see how it works out we'll have a little bit of a feeling maybe for preparation for p millions of people are having to go tight to their bed for a few days and the Egyptians are not going to say anything of course Egyptians going to come they're going to kill everybody I'm going to go tell I'm to commit suicide the mid says said to I swear on my name that if they don't do this they will never leave Egypt never never ever they will stay in Egypt for eternity now say we have to read everyone has to finish the okay I understand that everyone has to learn T I understand that everyone has we made this and that and this I I understand that but the goat ties some goat and then Slaughter it and make sure make sure it's when you cook it it's complete why because you don't know you don't want anyone to think that when you're cooking it it's anything other than a goat you don't want them to think oh maybe it's a chicken or it's a big turkey or it's a rat no no no you want it to be complete why when you see the whole sh sh you see all of the bones a skeleton for sure it's a goat and you want to make sure the Egyptians see it why either you go and publicize your belief in a or I don't want it either you go and become the most proud Jew in the planet the most proud person on the planet that you believe in The One and Only God or who says I don't want it you will stay in Egypt for eternity you as a is you're you're embarrassed of being a you like so you go to a wedding with a wig why you're embarrassed to be a Jew you're embarrassed to look likeu you as a Jewish boy you have a little keeper a little quarter people mistake it they go you have something on your head no it's my keeper oh that's a keeper oh sorry sorry whoa I just thought something fell on your head canopy what do you have on your head what is that why is it called colorful what's going on over there why you embarrassed why you so embarrassed says until you publicize my name everywhere I don't want it I don't want it so when a person is embarrassed of their beliefs in says you embarrassed of me I don't want your belief altogether and that's one of the things that a person needs to do when they want to climb up when they want to climb up on a spiritual ladder they have to do something that's above and beyond their Norm because just like their sin was above and beyond the norm their Mitzvah their Kem their sanctification of hem has to be above the norm they have to do something that's beyond them if they only learn for an hour a day they have to learn a lot more if they only give a thousand they have to give a lot more if they only do a mitvah that's acceptable by some people they have to do mitvah acceptable by everybody a lot more how much a lot more all depends on your sin how you going to know you did enough starts hurting it's hard for you if it's easy for you it's not enough not enough not enough and that's one of the things that a person needs to test themselves I can tell you for myself one time we did a uh gave something to someone to help some people and uh I like to help people my whole life I liked helping people I think that's really the only reason to have money is to help you need it's a tool one time it was a lot more than normal and I told my R I said this is all it's about says what do you mean said I don't know I feel like I'm working working working all the money I don't I don't get to keep it I give everything away just gave all this I worked for all this for x amount of time and so g i it hurts I don't mind I like helping these people it's great but I don't know it's kind of like is it right my Rabbi says I said why he says until now you gave you gave you gave you gave I was suspectful suspecting that maybe you just be a bban you're like a uh someone that's splurging everywhere you don't really care you don't value money at all so it doesn't affect you you give a thousand you give a million it's the same thing to you and that's not a good trait the fact that I know it hurts you now it's to me now it's aah that's how it is that's how it is the mitvah in order for it to give you the pleasure it has to hurt a little bit has to hurt a little bit if it's easy for you and you want to climb you have to do more you want to stay exactly where you are keep doing the easy keep doing the easy you know it's like somebody wants to get uh you know wants to play a game you want to stay exactly where you're at you play with kids that are your age or younger you want to get better you have to play with older kids why cuz it's harder same concept in life you want to get better at work you want to get better at business you have to be surrounding yourself with people that are better than you needless to say says runs the world like a business this is one of the places that you could see it you want to get better you have to do things that are beyond the norm beyond your own norm and get yourself to higher levels with that being said there's a lot of other things that I want to say but this came out I don't want to take all the time I'm sure you guys have some questions who wants to start off with questions all of them no brief ones brief ones andot okay first you have to have a su if you are a guy you have to have a Suka you need to sleep in your Suka a woman does not need to sleep in a Suka but men have to sleep in a Suka now if it's raining or it's just completely like a nightmare to be in your Suka um because it's hot or bugs and and in essence it's causing you anguish and sadness then you're P You're un from that Mitzvah now you should not cheer if that happens if you that happens then it's not it's not a good thing because the whole goal of of Suk it's the only it's the only holiday where it says that one of the biggest obligations one of the biggest mitv to do during the entire sukot is to be happy the whole time and the AR says that anyone that is Happy from the beginning of sukot until the end of sukot it's a huge blessing that he will bring on himself or herself the whole year now it sounds easy yeah yeah I'm always a happy person yeah but to be happy during this time is not easy why because sometimes you have guests sometimes you have people that should have been guested sometimes you have you know people that you don't want them to be guests sometimes you have your own family that you hope you know kind of don't want them to be your family uh or you want them to be your family the whole time except during suot or sometimes the food you know kind of tastes like shoes sometimes the shoes look like food cuz the kids spill the food on them all types of things happen on all types of things why you're with people in a little area usually for for a week you know so all types of fun things happen during that time so it's easy to get upset and this and that I know one story where one time a guy said was trying to do Chua say I'm going to do you I'm gonna go to my brother's house oh you go to your brother's house you like your I love my brother okay after Su say no you're never going to believe it what happened I went oh you did you kept to yeah yeah I went you got to everything no what happened it didn't go so good why what happened I don't know we're there my parents were there my brothers were everything was there the food was there but then I don't know I haven't been around them for a while so I don't know I kind of I guess maybe I forgot how certain things are in my family and at one point my brother started like arguing with my mom and all of a sudden he started yelling at her started yelling at my mom and I just couldn't take it it was so annoy and so obnoxious and so rude that I took the whole table and I flipped the whole table on him said oh so didn't go that H that happens don't let that happen why you have to prepare something that certain things are going to happen obviously never yell at your mom never yell at anybody but the point being is C Satan tries extra hard to make you unhappy why because the biggest Mitzvah is to be happy B about to be happy so expect certain things to happen that are particularly annoying but don't blow up don't go don't lose your your head don't lose your cool uh especially you know some some of us are very quick-tempered it's very easy for us to get upset especially at small stupid things you have to do everything you possibly can to go swallow your lip bite your lip staple your lip do whatever you need to do smash against the wall a few times come back when you're ready don't get mad why if you're upset if you're angry if you start fighting the whole holidays in the garbage now what happens if you already did it got an argument already so what you stay angry the whole all day obviously not obviously not calm down make peace with your wife make peace with your husband make peace with whoever you got into a fight with and start all over again do over you know like in a computer press control all delete start over again same thing same thing start all over over again even if it's an hour left of the two days left of the whatever it is start all over again you have to why that's life that's life so biggest thing is to be happy second thing is also you have to build a Suka especially guys now when it comes to Suka if you're you know if if you're able to build your own Su if you're going to be hosted by somebody else that has a sukar that's also fine but that again means you need to sleep in the Suka uh number two you need to eat in the Suka anytime you eat bread anytime you eat bread you need to eat in a sukka now if uh you're not eating bread you're having a coffee you're having things that are non bread you can eat outside of a Suka but the reality is you should do everything possible to try to eat and do everything you can in the sukat that's the whole point you say wait it's not comfortable the whole point is for you to being a Suka not for you to go have you know 3 minute K Su to go back into your air conditioner that's not the point the whole point is to be in a sukka yes of course in certain places like G I mean uh Florida uh it's very very hot all year round so you have to try to make do now I can tell you personally since I moved to G I mean to Florida since I moved here I've been trying to get this air conditioner inside of Suka thing right I have yet to get it right every year I try every year it doesn't really get to it it just doesn't get to it I try and I don't know certain people tell me that they were able to succeed I I still don't know what their secret is a few uh people that told me their secrets are not allowed so that's I guess how they do it in secret if you cheat uh but uh to stay atically correct it's it's it's a lot harder it's a lot harder because you cannot put a ceiling can't put a ceiling on a Suka it has to be the you know which is something living uh or something that's from you know that's growing or whatever and uh so you can't put like a roof or or something like that so that's a problem why because even if you have nice wooden walls or PL whatever you're using as walls um the air is coming out so how do you keep it in and I tried I've had the styrofoam all over my walls and I've had this so this year I think I'm I'm not there but I think that will have better chances than previous years but it's if you're not going to make major sacrifices break your head toil and toil don't expect to enjoy Judaism not just I'm talking about if you're not going to break your head if you're not going to toil if you're not going to sweat if you're not going to exert every bit of ounce of energy Blood Sweat and Tears into the MIT do not expect to enjoy Judaism you will not enjoy Judaism in fact you will hate it because the only way to enjoy something is if you invest in it needless to say in your spirituality in Judaism itself in the Torah a lot of people say oh yeah I try to study Tor but I don't feel the sweetness of Tor where is the sweetness what do you mean TR why because you think that you're learning 10 15 minute videos here and there that's that sweetness of toan no you have to break your head you have to break your head you have to when you're tired when you're this when you're that when you're problem you have to break your head that's when you eventually get to sweetness same thing with sukot if you're not going to break your head to make your Suka the way that you always want it to be you're not going to enjoy it so that's why the uh the years that I've exerted myself the most even if it wasn't perfect it was still hot it was still this I still enjoy I still stayed in my Suka pretty much as much as I possibly could or needed to uh simply because this is this was my place and honestly it's in some sometimes I hated leaving it even though like I'm in it it's like a sauna it's 500 Degrees get I'm getting no Florida you guys know what I'm talking about uh you know so you're in it it's 500 Degrees in this thing it's it's actually colder outside of the Suka then is inside the Suka it's like maybe I should just leave this and rent it out as sauna it's unbel hard the thing is so and you have a fan and you have an air conditioner you have all these different things nothing's working it's like you're blowing back at the air conditioner maybe he's hot come on no not working so you try you try but you know what I still stayed in it sweating and everything's still white it's my baby and you have all the you know all the different things that you put on and the lights and the different things and it's yeah you put a lot into it if you put a lot into it you're going to enjoy you're going to like it you don't put a lot into it you're not going to enjoy if you put one of these little freaky things three things guess what you're not going to you're going to look forward to not being in it look forward why because you don't want it you don't want to be in it now in the beginning you don't know what you're doing first time you do it second time you do it you still don't know so in the beginning anything you do is good but as you grow into it you start doing it for longer you know see that you want to invest more into it why because in essence what it's really supposed to be it's supposed to be a replacement of your house for a week so that's really it's supposed to have everything you have in your house house everything you have in your house would literally have even a bathroom in it everything would be in it they wouldn't leave it for a week they wouldn't get go outside even they would pray in there they would learn there they would eat there go to the bathroom there everything there now under good conditions where wants our mitvah it's not going to rain at all it's not going to rain at all unfortunately this is the time during the year where normal nature normal nature like as if there's anything other than normal this is a rainy season everywhere in the world it's rainy season so we pray wants our it's not going to rain on us let it rain everywhere else there's not on us in our Suka uh and uh you know it's it's important that uh it doesn't rain at least during the first couple of nights uh when you're having K because if it rains and rain is going to go inside your Suka you can't enjoy it you can't eat in the Suka and thear says that if it rains during that uh during those uh that night um of the kou and it doesn't stop if it just rains for an hour or two and then it stops then you wait and you have the K but if it's getting to the point where it's raining raining and it's not planning it's not stopping already it's getting to the point where it's going into the next day you have to do the K inside the house and that's it and that's not a good sign if it's on the first night why it means that hm doesn't want your mitvah so you shouldn't pray sometimes you oh I can't hopefully it rains so we can eat at home it's much nicer in the house no no no don't pray for that it's a very bad s sign very bad sign um so thing is is that guys need to sleep in a Suka um now that's the second thing uh the happiness sleeping in a Suka third thing is you have to have theim you have to have theim the four minim uh I don't mean minim like you know miris uh mice fredman draso and Goldberg not for me for like you know love the uh so um cuz there's even more me than just for going do so anyway you have the now the I don't know how the situation is in other places but I know that the situation here in Florida for the AL where we are is atrocious um apparently we are like the garbage disposal of the rest of the market because the Stu that comes into the market here that I've seen for the last few years is always like second grade third grade like stuff that everybody else doesn't want uh and I've seen this already for several years that I've been here but it this way in in Florida I've seen many actually in America generally it's it's it's a lot of places and other places even complaining the same thing it to in general unless you're going to invest extra time and money to go buy a yemenite atog or anog that you know from Morocco or AOG that you know from a specific Market or something that's a unique you know for sure it's an very very high likelihood it's a lemon very high likelihood so that's a reality now if you haven't done it already by now you know it's kind of too late kind of too late so in in years past uh you know we would uh and from we have his brother gets it for us that's worked out this year two I didn't offer it to people number one because I didn't know if it was even going to be possible uh to do it this year because of everything that's going on with Corona it's very hard to do any shipments altogether right now number two you know the the amount of money that people are willing to spend on the stuff doesn't even pay for the shipping and people want to get you know top of the line and and this all for like you know 70 bu or 100 bucks maybe maybe in your dreams it cost a lot of money why cuz it does that's it people are there to make a living oh it's not fair okay so go buy lemons then we go to public go buy a lemon where you my life people think that everything is supposed to be because it's a mitvah it's supposed to be cheap everybody supposed to do for free who said who said who said that it's supposed to be uh supposed to be cheap like why why do people think like this I don't understand like in your business you feel perfectly normal charging the the person four 56 $110,000 for whatever nonsense you're selling him but you want everybody else to do everything for free why under the I don't understand that mentality but anyway I don't even offer a lot of this stuff you know because again I know people just have a warped mentality of what things are supposed to uh supposed to cost uh but also a uh you know if if a if somebody cares enough about this me well usually they make their own Arrangements they call they they maybe they get somebody to to send it them ahead of time point being is don't be disappointment if your L love is half the size of what it usually is because uh it seems like that's what the market is offering right now where the this year again 90% of the ones that I saw this year are literally half the size like you know love is supposed to be like you know nice size like a little little Bab like would you like break the one into two but this way like what happened to it not really sure even the guy that was selling the a couple places I went to the guy selling like listen I would tell you I said don't worry I already took care of it I ordered from I'm just you know this is going to be a toy I'm not going to use this H the quality of stuff is not the best you have to work on it a month in advance in order to get what you really want which means you have to put yourself a little reminder on your phone next year already start working on it a month in advance but either way either way get yourself because you don't know for sure it's a Limon so you still do whatever the Mitzvah you do uh you don't you know you don't have the best do what you can if you get better quality get better quality you can't get better quality you can't get better quality but the point being is you have to have the for the guys for the guys they need to shake them in the uh in the morning throughout the uh the uh and uh you and make sure that this is a mitvah that you fulfill every morning women do not need to fulfill this Mitzvah uh because it's a Time bound Mitzvah some say that they're allowed anyway some say that they're not point being is it's not an obligation for women for some reason or another there are certain women that da like the MIT of the men I don't really understand that but I guess that's the Apparently uh you know she lik to put on to fill in and do a shake a love but modesty not so much very strange but anyway you know it's a the love is a is an obligation and so on and as I'm sure you could you know hear myself and countless other speakers give you 500 about why do love why they and so on and so so I'm not going to spend any time doing that now uh there the same thing the the is like your heart and you know so on different types of juice okay um aside from that you have the k k at night uh it's k y you also have to light a yov candle uh k y you have to do also K the next morning during the and there's no for guys you don't put on um it's a uh uh easy not to do a Mitzvah because a lot of us say oh yeah I can save my some time no it doesn't necessarily save you time because you have to have a long prayer But Here Comes the in my opinion the most if not the second most difficult Mitzvah of this holiday most if not second most not for me because of what I do for a living but for if I wasn't doing this for a living and I was still on Wall Street this would be a difficult Mitzvah what's the Mitzvah you're not allowed to work on you're not allowed to work on yes everybody knows you're not allow to work on the first couple days of of number one it's Shabbat number two even if it wasn't Shabbat it's everybody knows you're all to work on that thinking that you're allowed to go to work on wrong the says anyone that goes back to work and works on like they do on a regular day loses their share of the world to come it's a big deal wait so how come how come the supermarket still working how come this is still working that's still working ah then there's a different then you have an explanation what's the explanation number one if there is a job that's necessary necessary for the the needs of the holiday like food stores and so on they're needed for the they're needed for the holiday so that's a perfectly fine to work in the food store and the supermarket and things like that that's number one second if your job itself is a Mitzvah you're a uh you know teaching Torah you're doing K things like that that's a Mitzvah that's allowed all year round all year round to do K all even you're allowed to do K all the time you do K there's no such thing as not not uh not learning tah not publicizing tah so that's the second thing third thing is if if there's a threat that you will lose as a result of not working now this this is the misconception that people have people think that not making money is equals a loss that's not true not making money means not making money meaning you did not generate a profit that's not equal to a loss a loss is whatever you have goes down in value I.E now you have a job boss says if you don't show up doing you're fired you don't have a job anymore that's a loss that's a loss or you have a trade that you want to make and uh to make a profit not but if you don't sell you could potentially lose money okay that you can do that you can do why because it's a threat of a loss so the threat of a loss you're allowed to work on that but as far as the generated Prophet you now let the generated Prophet okay now if in the process of protecting for a loss you end up generating a profit that's again there's leniencies there but the point is you should not be going to work to go generate profits if your job is a lawyer doctor uh uh and things of that nature again you have to speak to your r that knows your business knows you knows what the ins and outs of certain things but you should not work during if you don't need to uh you know again unless you're in a field of Torah you're in a field of mitvah you're and so on and so forth and this is very important because people get very worried about losing parasa oh listen if I don't work for a week you know how I'm going to pay the bills don't worry about that stuff we just went to on already decided how much you're going to make it doesn't matter if you work in or not whatever you're supposed to make K decided already you decided how much how much you're going to make doesn't make a difference if you work you don't work already decided for you you're not going to lose a penny by not working when Hashem says don't work you're not going to lose a penny by doing what hasm says say Hashem already decided how much you going to make so if a person has a difficult time havinga this is the time to get it this is the time to get it oh what I'm going to tell my boss I don't know maybe he's going to get mad let him get mad let him get mad listen let him get mad yeah but maybe he's going to fire me is he for sure going to fire you no I don't know if he's for sure going to find okay so as to take off yeah but I just took off for the okay so what you have to do this this is the wants that's what he wants I know it's not easy especially in the beginning but this is what wants surely when he gave us this holiday and he told us the rules he knew that you're going to have a job he knew that you're going to have a certain boss he knew you're going to have certain annoying customers he knew all this stuff he knew he knew all this and he took it all into account and he still did it which means that he's expecting us to pass the test so if you do not need to work don't work if your work is just simply about generating a salary and uh generating a profit you are not allowed to work on not allowed to work there's a difference of shouldn't work and not allowed to work generally speaking you you shouldn't work period as far as during even if there is a threat of a loss but if there's no threat of a loss you're not allowed to work not allowed to work uh so that's really the biggest thing aside from that spend some time with the family learn some Torah try to learn as much Torah inside the Suka as you possibly can if you um uh again if you don't have a Suka of your own you have so you know make sure to eat in the Suka make sure to spend as much time as you can in the Suka uh make sure to be as uh happy as you possibly can uh spend some time with the family this is the time where Many religious people usually go to uh you know have a uh you know uh go to the parks and things like that with their family I highly doubt people are going to do much of that this year because of this uh virus uh scare that's out there but the point being is that this is really you know in a in a uh in a small little box this is in essence the the holiday this is really the holiday there's of course surely other rules there's the rules of the there's the rules of this one other thing that I'll tell you since there's still time that you could still do something about it is that I've said this before and it gets certain people angry and I don't really care uh it's just because this is what the Ala is now the popup suas that you see as the vast majority of the market popup suas are in so many words they get you these uh you know these beams metal beams right and they put this uh fabric around it and then you put this the mat on top of it the mat is a kosher mat no problem that's good but the Suk is not a Suka why because it's supposed to be according to you can see you see most there are only a few that are lenient in regards to this and they're only lenient if it follows all the rules the walls of the Suka are supposed to be like the walls of your house meaning they're not supposed to move if they're standard wind they're not supposed to move so that fabric that you have around that Suka surely it moves you go like that to it and it moves you put a little fan next to it it moves that means it's not a wall that means you don't have a Suka you don't have a Suka the you're making is it's a sin so if your whole Suka is this this this fabric around it it's not a Suka get now they're going to say to you yeah no no we're not using that wall as the uh as the wall those that fabric as the wall we're using those strings using those strings strings I've used those strings in early earlier times and I can tell you from experience they're not reliable the strings are not reliable simply because unless you continuously tighten them throughout the holiday they're going to loosen up and start moving a little bit second they move you don't have a Suka you don't have a Suka so why play with fire here you already taught to build this this this little Empire of yours why get yourself some walls go to Home Depot go to Lowe's go to I don't know to to the the wood shop or something go somewhere get yourself some pieces of wood you can either get the fences 3et tall 3 feet tall like you got your Suka your whole Suka is made of that uh those fences put it around the three walls you got a Suka it doesn't have to go all the way to the ceiling doesn't have to go all the way to the ceiling just about 3 ft from the ground from the ground 3 ft now if you want if you're handy and uh perhaps they ran out of a u they ran out of those fences because everybody hears my sh and you're going to see you know Walmart and Costco and everybody run out of fences and everything say you don't ring said fences that's it sold out okay so after everybody slds out what do you do get yourself either a uh 2x4s or something metal beam or even a uh a wire but you have to have a um three of them and has to be a separation separation between them that's a uh what is it less than two something like that I give you the exact measurements I don't remember the measur on top of my head uh between them where if there's a one one one I think it's 80 cm uh between them if the separation is below that then it's that empty space that's between them is not considered empty space considered as if it's a wall that's in essence what those strings are relying on that there is a space between them but it has to be something solid that's my my point same thing as those strings those pop-up suas have same thing same concept three strings but not strings something solid a piece of metal a 2x4 a plastic two whatever something something but not strings cuz those strings those ropes whatever they are they move they move and then your whole Suka is useless so invest a little bit of time I know it's a little bit of a headache last minute and so on but what can you do uh that's another thing another thing on the Suka is again like I said before it has to be like your house meaning if you if you have a fancy house your sua B better be fancy better be fancy so how much time do you have not much you have tonight after the year and you have tomorrow uh to fancy up your Suka uh you know all these different things put whatever you want it put a couch in it if you want put uh you know bells and whistles put whatever you want point is make it a nice place make it a place you want to be in make it a place that you want to be in don't make it like one of those places where you can't get can't wait to get out of it so that means that you have to spend a little bit more money on this than you would typically expect when uh when when a person thinks that uh you know getting uh deals on the holidays is is the most important thing surely their Suka is going to be like a toilet you know this is not a time to get deals it's a time to use the money that gave you to spend it on the mitzvah spend it on a Mitzvah if you're not going to spend money on mitv what are you going to spend it on yeah isn't it supposed to remind us of the tents in the desert supposed to remind you tent what do you think the tents in the desert were suffering when they I wish I lived in a tent of the desert I wish we lived in a tent of the desert tent of the desert tent of the desert imagine now I'm not going to ask you any personal question like how many times you take a shower and how many times you wash your clothes but imagine you didn't have to take a shower for 40 years but you were always clean imagine you never had to go to the bathroom once for 40 years cuz you always clean imagine imagine you never had to cook because the food arrived at your house right at your door and it was always exactly the best possible flavor that you were thinking of at all times imagine life was so comfortable your feet never hit the ground because you were on a cloud you're on a cloud for 40 years imagine you didn't have to change your CL for 40 years but it was always pristine clean pristine clean meaning it was washed while it's on you while it's on you yeah but you're a little boy then you're going to be a big boy how it's growing with you the desert don't make don't make anybody fool you the desert was not the desert of today there scorpions and snakes and is if you're going to make it it's hot the desert was gun Eden geden lived in geden for 40 years geden for 40 years only reason why put it in a desert and not let's say in t AV or in some other place like that is because he wanted us removed from the whole world in order for us to focus on toah for 40 years focus on toah so the tents that we had the places that we had in the desert were very nice very comfortable not hot at all and beautiful nice I wish I live there right now so imagine not having to go to The Battle Before just that alone is enough but the thing is so again it's far as the the the Suka yes it's in memory of of the tents and so on but not in a negative sense not in a negative sense but rather in a positive sense where it's outside of the norm we're separating from our Norm from our mundan okay to go Focus only on hem for a week because during the week week okay so you have Shabbat great but six days a week hopefully it's only six days a week you know you're thinking about I have the work and I have this and I have that have responsibilities and have bills and how much time you have left to think about how much so all we supposed to be you and hasem why getting out of the mundane leave your house go to the little house of Hashem for a week it's not supposed to be uncomfortable I actually have some uh pictures and videos that I've seen throughout the years people make their Suka like better than house they have couches and refrigerators and and and ovens all got house unbelievable unbelievable and it's beautiful I'm thinking to myself like one guy had a waterfall he had a waterfall inside a su I wish I was handy to do that but people really invest their time and energy into their Suk if they when they understand the value of a Mitzvah of course it takes time it takes money it takes effort and that's my whole point the more you invest into the MIT the more you're going to enjoy them the less you invest the less you're G to enjoy them uh in a little box this is in essence the uh sukot I'm sure there's many a million other rules that I'm not mentioning but this is it if there's anything specific you guys have asked about it that we go over it but I think it's enough about the topic anything else I'm missing is the biggest obligation you have to be happy in the holiday that's the biggest thing also um if you're going to go and eat surely you guys only eat kosher and one that's watching only eats kosher so you don't have to worry about if it's a kosher place you're going to eat at usually the kosher places if they're open uh they have little sukot that you could eat in their places so uh many of them have little sukot so you could eat in those places but if there's no if you're not eating bread then you don't need to eat the sugar don't e theg next um if someone de um okay let's they job you know you fire and the person be like okay I'll be I rather spend and say say are be fired or they actually rely on Asam to do a miracle be like be F and find another job and everything okay though they have the leny to still they could go get that question is not a one oneid fits all uh he's asking if a boss is telling an employee that if you miss out this week you're going fired and a person says okay I rather be fired and have inem that he'll give me another job a better job um now should he take advantage of that uh opportunity that allows him to work because technically if he's going to get fired that's loss so he should go back to work or should he not work should he not work relying on his relying on his that hm is going to provide one way or the other now that the the reason why I said the answer is not a one size because it all depends on a person's it depends on a person's what is it like somebody came to and it says Rabbi pray for me to win the lot and the Rabbi says uh how much is a lot he says it's a million million uh rubles so okay if you do this this this and this y guaranteed to win a million rues so the guy says so how do I do because you have to have a you have to have AA that hm's going to give you the million rubles okay so the guy bought the ticket and is praying and he's doing all types of things and he's waiting for the uh for the day now a day before since he already quit his job he says he believes he quit his job he quit everything says he believes that you know says if I do ABC I'm going to win a million Rubles so what do I need to work for so he tells his wife I quit my job and the wife says okay so we don't have any money to pay the rent you want to sell he goes yeah just sell whatever we have we're going to buy new stuff he's already prepared for to buy himself a little castle already cuz even though he doesn't have the money yet cuz he has a ticket in his hand so a day before the uh Lotto drawing comes to the rabbi he says Rabbi it's the big day big day is tomorrow what's happening tomorrow it's the big day they're going to tell me I'm you know million dollars million million Rubles and Rabbi says to them and you believe you're going to win sure Rabbi said if I I'm going to win right he said yeah you're right so you believe yeah 100% I believe 100% you believe wow what you have say you know what I just thought I just thought why take the risk why take the risk let's share the risk what do you mean how about this you have a ticket on you goes yeah it's right here oh Show the ticket oh how about this let's share the risk I'll give you a half a million Rubles right now and you give me the ticket you don't have to take any of risk what do you think he says RAB you do it for me sure what you you want to do it or know he says 100% right now here Rabbi Rabbi said say go back to work go go go go back to work go back to work why Rabbi why he says if you really had a that you had a million dollars in your pocket you would not sell it for a half a million so youra is fake you just don't want to worka is like yeah you want to believe but you don't really believe so that's the that's the answer the answer is not if we believe hashem's gonna help or this or that do you really believe do you really believe and that's something that you're only going to learn on your you know on your own skin now sometimes a person is unhappy with their job so in reality they can't wait to get fired but they want to say no no no I'm going to get fir for the sake of hasm I'm going to get fir for the sake of my marriage I'm going to get fir for the sake of Buddy relax you don't want to work there anymore no who are you kidding has knows knows what's in your heart sometimes the the guy really has the woman really has belief in and I do it there it's it's not an easy test I say that you know if a person truly has 100% amuna not at that moment but he's already exemplified living with thatuna or near it for at least a little bit of time he's had some big tests and he's passed she's had some big tests and she's passed already for a period of time time you know close to this time and you want to elevate yourself even further okay I'm never going to tell you not to S you know go and do a for go go for it but to try you know your your whole thing out you know day one now it's not a good idea it's not a good idea because what ends up happening is that a person tries out these big big steps puts on these big boots on day one and he slips and he falls on his face and and then he ends up hating God for it as if God did it to him no God knew that you were just a joker he knew you didn't have auna he just wanted a different job and uh you ruined your own your own thing so that's not a good idea so you have to you know use the Torah as the Torah tells you to use it and you have to also be realistic with yourself you can't pretend that you are mosu when you're not even a shoe yet you can't pretend that you'rea when you still don't know how to spell yet you can't you have to be realistic with yourself and you know that's that's the thing but again if you want to elevate yourself it's necessary to take these big steps from time to time when you're ready to take those big steps if you know for sure that you're not going to question anything meaning you're going to quit or you're going to say listen I'm not going and if they fire you you're not going to care for a second it's not going to change your mood for the because if to change your mood for the it's not worth it okay that's one step number two after they tell you you're fired you have to visualize all this in your head after they tell you you're fired you still Happ like this happy happy happy right the whole and top of it after you go back into the market after the everybody says no jobs you get a report in a news networks no jobs unemployment skyrockets nothing you pretty much your job was the last job on Earth there's no other jobs in the world you're not going to be unhappy you're not going to have you're not going to have any questions for you're going to be okay okay go for it go for it but how many Among Us can do that we have to be realistic so again if you believe in a 100% will make make make it so that you're going to you know do well but again it's it's a you have to be realistic with yourself you have to push when it's necessary to push personally I don't think that it's necessary for most people uh to push that far because most people don't have such jobs where they'll get fired in today's world especially in America uh where the jobs will fire them for not showing up for a religious holiday and one of the reasons is because every job is scared of uh of being sued for religious persecution you know especially in America they're very very scared of of of being sued so because if you if your name instead of instead of elhanan instead of David instead of Moshe your your name was Mustafa Muhammad or Ahmed and he told him listen I have my Ramadan and I'm I'm going to fast for 40 days and I'm not going to work and I'm not going to do anything and bring my carpet in the middle of your of your boardroom of you and pray every day they're not going to tell you a word why because they're scared of uh you know religious persecution so that's the thing most jobs most companies are not going to be uh take the risk of firing you it's not like the it was 70 80 years ago when people get fired every week for not working on Shabbat but again it's a uh is HEM going to ask you to take certain steps sure but again only take those steps if it's absolutely necessary only take those steps if you know that you can handle it don't uh don't push too far and uh put yourself in a situation where okay you want to do something for hem but you ended up becoming uh miserable depressed and anxious the whole holiday you know because you know you're you're you're you're losing more than you're winning you're losing more than you're winning if you're going to you know find out you're fired but then and then the whole holiday you're going to be anxious and and and uh and and depressed what are we get out of this it's not a mitvah anymore you understand so that's the thing uh you know it's again it's a uh Case by case basis Case by case basis can't be a one siiz fits all answer on this one tough one next yes is there any willing allows us to convert is there any that forids like to be vegan tostain ah uh so as far as eating meat eating uh in Judaism poultry and meat are in essence in the same in the same basket uh they're both considered I know that you know in the uh regular world people think the chicken or believe the chicken is different than meat and that's fine uh for you but in Judaism in essence they're both put in the same basket meat and chicken is in essence the same thing but there is a specific emphasis on eating meat during yum during Shabbat and drinking wine not to the point of uh intoxication and uh and obnoxiousness but nonetheless because thear says that uh you know a person you know because the body had was was created with certain needs uh person in order to elevate to to a higher level of happiness has to enjoy meat has to enjoy a little bit of wine so there is a uh Mitzvah to drink wine and eat meat on yomtov which is the holidays and on Shabbat uh so that's the times where you need to do it second thing is if a person is wants to be vegetarian or vegan uh uh I'm not really sure what much of the difference is between the two I think vegetarian you're still technically uh what you're eating fish still and you're just not eating you're just not eating meat whereas V vegan you're not even eating eggs you know you're pretty much you're just you're eating off trees practically right okay God bless you uh so anyway somebody wants to eat trees somebody that wants to do that that's fine uh you're going have probably a very difficult life uh but uh you you're probably going to look healthy uh listen it's a um if you're doing it for health reasons if you're doing for health reasons meaning you have a specific allergy for to meet you have a specific uh I don't know it causes you major problems things like that that's one uh that's a specific issue that has to be uh you know evaluated individually if you're doing it because you're merciful on animals it's completely forbidden forbidden for you to be a vegan or vegetarian or anything because you're merciful on animals why because you do not have more Mercy than God if God instilled a rule into the world that the animals are to be eaten if they're kosher and eaten if they're not Kosher by non-jews uh and that's the rule of the world and you think that that's mean then you are insane and you're going against God why because God created the world where the animals are created for you they're created for you and the truth be told you cannot live without animals you cannot live without animals you know all these people that fantasize and pretend like they're they're not benefiting out of the uh out of animals because they're not eating the cow okay you may not be eating the cow but you're still using animals why you have furniture what do you think the furniture is only wood furniture has certain pieces that come from animals you have hairbrush where do you think the brush where do you think the hair from the brush comes from where do you think it comes from you where you okay you have shampoo where do you think the shampoo comes from where you think the shampoo go where you think the soap comes from okay you have shoes where you going shoes from the tree where you went to the palm tree made yourself shoes likeu what you what you going to do shoes from you have a leather jacket you have clothes you have belts you have animals animals you there's no way to avoid it okay you may not want to ingest them but you're still using them nonetheless and guess what when they're slaughtered by by a rabbi it's much better way for them to die than when they're slaughtered or killed or shot or electrocuted for your shoes or your jacket so enough with the nonsense if you're doing it for Mercy it's wrong it's heresy heresy health reasons has to be evaluated Case by casee basis and again even in the health cases you should still have some for the sake of the mitvah during those specific times for example myself at some point during my life as my body was you know changing uh for some reason or another decided that me and alcohol are not friends anymore not that I was ever a big drinker but a few times a year I used to I used to drink Scotch my Scotch was Johnny WKA BL I would drink it I don't know three four times a year that's it and uh for some reason or another as my body was changing I started detesting all alcohol to the point where much of it gives me an allergic attack and I never had allergies growing I never had allergies but I would have certain alcohol somebody would give me I don't know wine and all of a sudden my face started having an allergy attack I have scotch all of a sudden allergy strange out of nowhere what decided so what do I do now that means that wine for me is no no I don't I don't get along with mine I don't get along with any alcohol but I have certain MIT I have certain times during the year that let's say pulim or other place where I need to have a drink or even for K so I have a little bit I have a little bit if I could tolerate it but not as as as much as I as little as I could get away with if you will if I simply can't take it I'll have grape juice grape juice still fulfills the obligation I'm done uh many times it's if I couldn't handle it at all I wouldn't even have that I wouldn't even have that why because it actually caused me physical pain so if it caused you physical pain it's a different story different story right but again you should still try to fulfill the obligation if you can if you simply can't because it creates major problems then again you'll have a uh you'll have a reason not to but it shouldn't be a uh a new new thing definitely shouldn't be for the sake of saving money it definitely shouldn't be for the sake of Mercy it definitely shouldn't be for any of those other reasons really the only reason not to eat meat is either uh or really for health reasons bottom line that's really it or you just you know person is that poor they can't afford it it's a different story but generally speaking uh it's I think most people in today's world can afford it to some extent again you don't need to eat meat all week no one says you have to eat meat all week no one say you have to eat in fact the more righteous people among us they eat meat usually once a week Shabbat they don't eat meat every day I know like Americans you know they they eat like you know a cow just for breakfast and a pig on top of it and doesn't really work that way you know like you know you know most most you know really you know don't eat meat until the until Shabbat you know so uh you could eat meat if you want you want to eat a steak for breakfast enjoy but it's not normal not normal I know in America it's like having like a you know couple donkeys on your plate for breakfast with eggs on them that's like uh oh breakfast here bed and breakfast you ate the cow that you ate is the size of a bed next again what's the consisten I feel like up consistency [Music] um says that a person cannot acquire Torah unless he's willing to sacrifice his life for it that's what says and as I was saying today the only way that a person can enjoy the sweetness of tah the sweetness of a Mitzvah or Judaism altogether is if they're consistently making sacrifices and exerting effort to fulfill their obligation and not just trying to get by like if you're just trying to get by by just praying right before it's like the cut off time by learning just enough that you fulfilled okay I learned a little bit by doing the Mitzvah just enough to just say okay I did it I'm not a rash that you'll never enjoy it in fact it'll be more miserable for you than a secular person CU at least the secular person is getting to live his desires whereas you're just trying to get away with this and that in that's you're trying to live in both worlds now the problem is that many people want to live in both worlds they want to live in a secular world and they want to live in a religious World they want to be secular religious secular religious that's what whole modern Orthodoxy is all about it's secular but with a keep on secular but puts Onin secular you know but he keeps Shabbat to the best of his ability whenever he doesn't have other stuff that sounds better to him you know and that's that's the reality so what happens is is that the first moment the first moment the Satan shows up and says you know what what is it Shabbat you're still keeping you with this Judaism stuff Shabbat how about this I'll introduce you to somebody it's going to give you a million dollars a year I'll introduce to somebody it's going to give you a lot of desires fulfilled but the cost is going to be Shabbat guess what the first chance Shabbat in the garbage why cuz they were never fully in were never fully committed Shabbat was never there never required it and the same thing goes for all of the other MIT now I didn't know how it was going to Connected too but with your question we'll connect it this is a part I didn't really want to say this is like one of those things where you wish you didn't have to say it but apparently who wants us to say it I learned this today from my and it's one of those things where it's well you know it's if you understand what I'm going to say good but it's not going to make you feel so happy if you don't understand you're in trouble the world today is full of people that are trying to get away with the minimum of minimum like I don't want to necessarily be uh anti-god atheist Lefty liberal M shab no I want to be religious I want to have my keep on I want to have my on my dress on and everything but I want to modernize it a little bit and this is modernization is happening everywhere it's not just modern Orthodox I don't think I'm just picking on Modern Orthodox I know people in the kidish world which is supposed to be the the most from in the world that in the world that are doing things that even secular people don't do I don't want to tell you the details of how how gross that is the problems are everywhere we have everywhere and we have not so much everywhere it's a reality that's why I always tell people everyone needs everyone needs to do cha myself included first the problem is everywhere one of the biggest issues is that we're constantly thinking like or at least we're operating our life as if we're doing God of favor with our MIT like I'm learning God you should pay me for that I'm doing you should pay me for that like as if he needs us because we have speakers in the world that have long beards and stupid words come out of their mouth telling people that God needs us so we have a society at large that thinks that God needs us and therefore we are live in a world where we're just doing doing just the basic minimum to get away with it now with this world with this world with this mentality with this generation of just getting through things I'll wear a dress but it'll be technically no different than the secular women look because it's going to be short enough we going to pretty much see most of my leg so she thinks that it's kosher because it's a dress not realizing that it was actually better off she wore pants or Sack or just stay at home then wear that short dress people for some reason think that just anything that's a dress or a skirt is kosher by default no if it does not cover 2third of your leg it's not Kosher and even if it does cover you're entire leg but it's tight to the point where we can see the measurements of your body shape of your body it's not Kosher you are supposed to as aight supposed to be modest meaning leave everything to the imagination the only one that should know is your husband not married good make sure nobody knows then easier you don't have to change your clothes inside outside should be the same but that's the problem so many people they have you know part of the equipment but not all of it same thing with guys guys say no no I keep Shabbat okay when you learn toah on Shabbat what about the other six days no I'm working during the six days like they think that just because they're learning a lot on Shabbat or they're keeping Shabbat like it's enough if you don't learn toat every single day there's no chance in the world there's no chance in the world you're going to be righteous why you're not going to know enough you're not going to know enough in order to get the GED but people think we're just going to get away with this and get away with this and make up for different things so this is the generation we live in today with that type of generation we have now something that's never happened before we just had a yum where more or less no betet was normal around the world everywhere in the world was either shut down or was such a small Manan of 10 or 20 people that you couldn't even tell it was Yip countless people myself included prayed alone at home never in history has such a thing happened even during the Holocaust even during the Holocaust even during the Holocaust Ian found ways to pray on people but now decreed the situation to be such that whether you say it's conspiracy or not conspiracy it's a real virus not a real virus it doesn't make a difference the effects are very much real on the Jewish world where we cannot operate in function normally now if we want to blame the government want to blame BB Netanyahu and Donald Trump and whoever else good luck with that good luck smashing your head against the wall with that one it's not going to get you anywhere you have to blame yourself I have to blame myself why because that's the reason it's happening did something to us right now that if you don't understand what's happening you are in deeper trouble than you actually are and this is what we're going to discuss to finish off and again I don't want to make you guys unhappy but it has to be said the ad um P the uh uh he wrote different and including the that he had inside the concentration camps we think we're doing God a favor by coming to a nice air conditioned room a few times a week maybe we're going to learn a little bit teach a little bit said a little bit he was teaching daily inside the concentration camps what do you teach people that just came from slavery of 20 hours straight and having eaten for 3 days that weigh 60 lb not because they're on a diet by choice but rather because of starvation what do you teach people that are being swallowed up by lice and all types of other bugs because they're not allowed to bathe what do you teach people that are being murdered right in front of their families right in front of their kids what do you teach them what do you teach those people the said the following in his SE called eses which was that he had during the Holocaust later on he he hid it and later on it was found in a section called second day of sukot he had a based on psalm 16 verse 2 where it says you have said to AEM you are my master I have no claim to your benefit that's what he based the on what does it mean page 538 says came to you should give us Merit should give us reward because we publicize your name your name responds to say Noe not going to give you any reward because really you're like a cliche you're like a second CLE the real publication the real publicity was made BYOB so all the publicity credit goes to them doesn't go to you let go to you so now that Mo says so who's the first one that publici what's the first one page seven says the first one to call Master but then is a m in section 174 says really was tasked by to name all of Creation The Bear came up to says your name is going to be Dove from now on everyone going to call you Dove a bear is dove in Hebrew horse came up to says your name is going to be Seuss from now on everybody call you Seuss lion came now on your name is where you get these names why just a a Rolodex of names what's going on with this gave wisdom unlike any other where he was able to tell tell the essence of the creation he looked at the Seuss he looked at the horse he says this Seuss he likes War he likes War he likes to run into war Mo the rest of animals run away from war but the with the horse is a unique animal that runs into war likes battle so that comes from the word SAS so because you your horse you're running into war your name is going to be sus to signify what your essence is and the same thing is with the with the uh with the other animals for example the dog came up to him he says your name is Kev why because a dog he's all heart and every animal that we have in the Hebrew language thees it's not like English just somebody decided it's going to be dog or somebody's going decide it's going to be cat like why is it cat what does cat mean what does dog mean why do you spell night with n and sometimes with a K like why there's no reason no Rhyman reason makes no sense whatsoever but in Hebrew is Notting when was tked with this test he gave each creation a name based on its Essence so then mid continues came to and said what would you name me what would you name me says to him you are going to you you're name would be Amai ad Master because you are the master of all creation so now says hold on a second you said in was the first one to call my master but the mid over here says the opposite it says what does it say says that called master so is it this is what he's teaching inside the Holocaust what's the Naina what do we care he did it he did what they having a contest that wrestling in sham what do we care what do we care I got it I got it what's what do we care that Mo says to the people that weigh 60 lbs at best being tortured being murdered suffering to no end this why did you pick thiso why did you pick this he says to them see when did abah call my master inph chapter 15 verse number8 says to How will I know that I was rewarded I was gifted all how do I know all this at the same time shows him your descendants are going to be slaves in Egypt for 400 years meaning at the time that abah ainu sees Darkness everywhere he says to how do I know I'm rewarded but how does he say how do I know how does he say it says says he meaning abah said my Lord hasem whereby shall I know that I am to inherit it when did he make A's Master when he saw the darkness to the darkness is when he realize is the master while the and the weak abandon because they saw some Darkness he lost $200,000 in the stock market so he wants to go back to India where you were living in is why you going back to India I don't know maybe I'll make uh money over there what you live in you're Liv Ines to go what stupid are you crazy I'm going to go I'm going to go why ah my wife wants to leave me what is your wife having wanting to leave you have anything to do with violating Shabbat I'm going to go to clubs why why you going to clubs why it's not allowed to go to clubs I don't know listen it's tough to be religious what is what does have anything to do with that what what are you talking about the moment people have suffering the moment people see darkness in their life what do they do first thing they do is throw out AEM what made Abu he saw the darkness for 400 years and he says you're my master and this is why thear says was the first one to make a his master why it's easy for to call Master it's easy why he's get G you're in G what are you what's your what's the tough life what do you have what the the fox took time to come to you to give him a name the lion was sleeping a little long what was tough for you g what was difficult for you what wasn't pretty enough what what happened over there nothing so Darkness that's when you made aosh your master that's what a wants so the ad says to his people the people that are PBS the people that used to be multi-millionaires but now don't have bread to eat he says to them we are in Darkness right now we are in darkness and this is the time where we say you are Master now we say we love you now now it's difficult now we say it now the problem is is the world today is not going in the right direction because what's happening is is given us a plague to wake us up and page 60 says when there's Dev when there's a plague a person shouldn't go to sh if the Satan is in essence killing people he's using the as a place where he has his tools there meaning you see people go to beet the guy goes to he doesn't come home cuz he's dying don't go to be stay home now the rambam writes something very scary the main point of everything that I'm saying the rambam writes we have a Psalm Psalm 119 verse 126 that says that there is a time to do the will of AEM but Kaz says that there's a time from here we learn that there's a time to do the will of hem but there's also a time that you can't do the will of hem is what they call it you wanted to build a Suka you build a Suka but it rained you can't s in the Su you can't do the why it's raining it's going to cause you suffering if you sitting there with the rain dripping on your face right so you don't have you wanted to do K but you don't have any food you don't have Kal you don't have you don't have wine you don't have nothing you wanted to make a you didn't feel good you feel good an an can't do it's against she will meaning it's not like you don't want to do it it's it's something that's beyond your control so the ra writes in his his commentary says that there is a concept where says there's a time where you serve AEM but a time that you simply can't right simply can't do it because it's against it's difficult right but then he says something extremely scary he says sometimes is upset with us because he sees when we go to sh all we do is we speak to each other instead of speak to when we go to the instead of listening to sh we play with our phone the whole time when we go business instead of doing kosher business all we do is cheat and lie when we meet with our friends all we do is say when we do all the things that in essence he allows us to do in order to do we don't do it so the r writes there are certain times where says the act the time is not the time to not do the will of hasem but rather is the time that will create a problem that will make you an and not be able to do the Mitzvah why would do such a thing why would not want you to doah why would a not want you to live in a for a week why would not want us to go to the and pray to him and cry why would not want us to see our friends and say like normal people why why not the ra writes one of the scariest things I've ever heard in my life and he writes this he says sometimes a simply has had it with us you make so many sins so much so much so much stealing so much robbing so much garbage guess what I don't want your mitv yeah but isn't the mitv what you want us to do to get back home goes no no what I want what I want he says I want to punish you that's what I want the will of at that moment is to punish us that's what the r says but he cannot punish us just like that why the the Torah protects us he has a rule in the world Torah protects us says so what I'm going to do I'm not going to allow you to fulfill the Torah how about that the r writes I'm going to stop you from fulfilling the Torah you can't show up why you have a headache flat tire speaker can't show up you don't feel like it because your wife is annoying you all types of reasons of why you can't show up so you figure oh listen I already get the Mitzvah I get the mitvah why if there's a concept in the says if you're if it's against your your ability it's not you don't want to do it you want to do it but you can't do you still get the reward the rambam writes listen listen listen listen very carefully be very careful to use this excuse during this time right now why there is a time where kadh says I want to punish you because I've had it with you and the only thing that's protecting you is the Torah that you are learning the MIT that you're doing so what I'll do in order to free free my ability to Punisher is not allow you to fulfill the Torah because there a says there's a Dev there's a in the world don't go to sh she said I don't have to go to says it Raam says don't listen to it why is telling you he has a Target on your head and the only thing that's protecting you is the Tora and if you use this excuse yeah in essence you think you you're going to be okay it's not going to be okay it's not going to be okay at all it's the opposite at this time that is making it difficult and almost impossible for you to learn T to fulfill the to pray with a to do or all the different reasons that you have at this time you have to listen to a different it says what if you want to acquire you have to be willing to die for it why because if not you're going to die anyway just not in a good way this is the times don't look for excuses not to do this is the time where you have to be sacrifice to learn more sacrifice to push more sacrifice to do more whatever you did until now do more why two reasons number one you want to get to a better level because you said that you're up and down up and down right you want to get up up and stay up you have to increase anyway number two a decree on the entire world right now in essence is giving us simply a world where it's difficult to do and we can simply say listen we're excused we're excused from going to sh we're excuse from going to sh we're excuse from this excuse from that you know what's going to prepar a holocaust that's what's prepared how do you stop it whatever you're doing do more a lot more yeah it's hard exactly exactly that's that's the point it's hard that's the point that's what Ram is trying to tell us it's very hard now that's why the ramb writes in his in Chapter One Number Eight every Jewish man is obligated to study Torah whether he's poor or he's rich or he's healthy or and he has a complete body or he has sicknesses and difficulties and he's Afflicted with disease whether he's young or he's old whether he has strength or his strength have diminished even if he's a poor person who derives his livelihood from charity and begs door too even if he is a husband and a father of children he must establish a fixed time for learning tah during the day and during the night as it says in Yeshua 1 verse number8 you shall think about it day and night this is not a simple of a suggestion the Raam writes you want to stay alive eternally you have to fulfill this yeah but it's hard exactly right now it's harder perfect because if you're going to use every excuse not to learn every excuse not to do the mitv in essence you're preparing yourself for doom and this is in essence what the Ado was telling his people inside the Concentration Camp while they're getting tortured while they're getting killed by the dozens by hundreds of thousand millions of them says right now it's difficult that's what wants wants us to fulfill the entire Torah as best we possibly can here we're not in Holocaust right now we cannot even think or imagine that we can understand the difficulty and the turmoil that our ancestors went through that our brothers and sisters went through throughout the the years more or less most people are living in luxury today and even the ones that are not in luxury they're not doing so horrendous in Western Society in America in is it's a lot more difficult there's a much bigger gap between the rich and the poor they've shut down the entire country and they're planning on shutting it down some even say until the end of the year talking about a few more months meaning that if you are already struggling You're simply going to be inside a ghetto because that's what your house is going to turn into it's not an easy situation for those of us that have an easy time time eating drinking working we have a little bit of money in the bank and so on you have to do double triple quadruple what you were doing until now why it's easy for you those that are struggling still have to do more why you can still do it because right now is obviously not happy anyone that tells you that the situation in the world is not such a big deal and things will eventually go back to normal is simply a liar a liar the world will never go back to what it used to be it will never go back to normal this scar is always going to be there now things may change of how we react to it how we treat it how we deal with it but this is never going away some big in the world say it's simply this is the new reality this is a new reality so that means that a is setting up the world in a certain way where some of us have easy choices to make some of us have harder choices to make but needless to say every one of us has to make choices and we have to make it quick you can't waste any more time there's no more time to be in the Middle Ground anymore there's no more time to be a little bit secular a little bit religious why cuz if you're not at that point right now where is pressing you to the point where you have no money in the bank you have no idea how you're going to eat you're not at that stage you're okay you're okay you're still working maybe or you still have some money in the bank you're still okay and you're not taking advantage of that opportunity to get closer to hasem you're missing an opportunity of a lifetime you're never gonna have again if you're already at that stage where you're being pressed guess what those people expects more for you too everyone is expected to do more everyone everyone has problems everyone has to deal with this thing in different ways but the ones that are here and in different places around the world that still have the luxury and freedom that they had before we and I'm talking to myself more than you guys better start pushing ourselves whatever you think that you're doing apparently it's not enough it's not it's not enough whatever you're learning it's not enough whatever meets what you're doing is not enough why if it was enough the world would be different yeah Me by myself yeah you by yourself you by yourself is not happy with the situation today people that tell no no everything's going be okay okay buddy okay I'm not afraid of this nonsense of Corona of the Mask I think the whole thing is ridiculous but the effects the effects on the world are very much real the atmosphere is very much real the Wrath is very much there it's there anyone that has eyes sees it sees the world will never be the same again how much more time we have I have no idea could be a year a month 100 I have no no idea no idea I'm not God nor do I have any any uh any connection all I know is you can see you can smell the smoke you can still you can see what's going on in the world you see that not enough people changed not enough people did cha not enough people have changed their life a lot have it's good but not enough how do I know it's still going and it's getting worse so you see that the request from is increasing he's upping the anti which means we have to do our part each person it's not enough for you to just do what you were doing until now you have to do more and like we said earlier it's not enough for you to just be religious privately you have to be religious publicly you have to be proud that you're a Jew you have to be proud that you're religious you have to be proud of all the MIT that you're doing proud why that's what requested from us before he allowed us allowed us to leave Egypt where he told mosu unless they're going to make this sacrifice this major Kem of taking these false gods these goats and tying them to the beds let them scream for a few days let the Egyptians see it and hear it and slaughter them right in front of their eyes publicizing their belief in publicizing their that we are going to stay with hem we're not afraid of you publicize their religiosity publicizing their being happy about it says unless they do it they will never leave Egypt and he swore on his name I didn't hear any prophecy of Hashem telling me get people to tie some goats but I don't need to you see you have a ramban you have a you have experience with mosenu you don't need to hear the prophecy to know what wants right now most of us not only are not doing enough many of us are ashamed of what we're doing are embarrassed of what we're doing how do we know we don't preach it we don't go out there and say you should be Jewish to the non-jew you should be religious to the secular gu guy you should do CH to somebody that's looks religious more or less but doesn't act like it we don't go screaming saying to people a we don't do it why like I'm going to do my thing he's going to do his thing what about if he looks at you doing your thing oh no no no he's not going to see me do it oh what are you doing Friday night no no I'm with my family you want to come to the movies no no with my family one another time why don't you tell them no I can't go to the movies because a Jew doesn't go to the movies needless to say a Jew doesn't go to the movies on Shabbat why don't you tell him that why why don't you give him that answer ah cuz you don't want him to know that you keep Shabbat cuz you're embarrassed a little bit cuz you want to think that you're like a half a go that's the problem says I don't want these that we're doing embarrassed where we still want to live a half a Jew life says I don't want those so I'm going to make those MIT not possible meaning if you're fulfilling a mitvah today it's because you want it because you're making sacrifices for it that's going to make you not only only fulfill the mitvah wants but also enjoy the Mitzvah because why would you invest into it and make sacrifices for it if you're not liking it you see is trying to help us using the tools that he has the infinite amount of tools now those tools may not sit well with our stupid mind cuz we think oh maybe he should just cure everything and make everything Dandy and then we'll do chva after we see a miracle that's our stupidity talking we think that we would do Chua if everything turned out okay guess what everything used to be okay a day before it wasn't and we didn't do chuba so it didn't work and everything hasn't been okay for a while now and we still haven't done Chua so obviously has to continue this nightmare until we change stop being Pretenders stop being people that we think that we're doing him a favor because according to the ra according to the that was living inside G in this world is preparing the world for a time like no other and this is the time we have to take advantage of when it says that means that even after you've learned whatever knowledge you've learned today that may not sit well with your good mood you have to be happy how you now a privy to information the vast majority of the population is denying you now have information that can help you what you do with it is up to you but you have information today that can help you change improve get better and as a result improve the world around you we use this we use this holiday as another another stepping stone to where we need to be but this time we should do it different when you dovah go all out do K pretend like you're talking to not your wife when you do that pretend like hasm is watching and he's counting one two three one two three when you cut the bread pretend it's the Mana when you eat the meal pretend like this is the best food in the world when you're doing the MIT invest as much as you possibly can in them because if you do that that's a mitvah that's welcom by now the next time you have an opportunity to learn which is maybe is later tonight or tomorrow pretend like you want to and not like you just have to because if you pretend for long enough you'll actually want it you'll actually want it and eventually you'll learn enough to remove all the kip that's on your soul that's causing you to hate the Torah causing you to not want it causing you to just want quick answers and not toil to find the answer causing you to disagree with the sages and not just accept what they said because you're a donkey next to them causing you to Simply say yes thank you to good and bad start doing that start taking advantage of all of that and then if you really want to make happy do it proudly so proud you become contagious that everyone around you also wants to do it everyone around you also wants to be religious everyone now around you knows that you believe in hasem you do that not only will you be happy on this H but you'll make happy we succeed and becoming happy and bringing happiness to like no other 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