The Divine Self-Help Book vs The Munchausen Proxy Rabbis PART 2 - MUSSAR Pirkei Avot (26)

[Music] n always great to be in Miami continuing our P series I believe today is number 25 no 26 uh yesterday sh we uh had somewhat like we called it the Divine self-help book because the previous mishna the peric BET um mishna gim was a uh really much like a self-help book the foundation of all self-help books are in order to improve yourself improve your life in essence really all of is about helping yourself but the mishna 13 in in Chapter 2 was uh specifically about how to live a good life so today we'll go into 14 mishna 14 which is uh the other half the other half of the in essence it's going to be the opposite of yesterday so we'll we'll go over some of those details and some new uh new updates also before we forget will be to may give also to my mom Doris David uh Leana SAR s Lana um and Mel Koto Yoshua Mikel Ben hadasa David Gamel Ben hadasa sah Batar AAR Balu ruin ysf Ben Rifka Adil magero Sarah lovi lovi lovsky this is a new one Glades Nunes Bill deutschman Josephina Matos and Jac roas may give them keep this one so we don't have to keep writing uh we have a all needs a lot of sometimes again it's the neish sometimes it's the Goof right now we have this ongoing War that's happening uh with a uh fighting Christianity fighting idol worship that's an assimilation that's infiltrating our Jewish communities and our Jewish Minds where we're having this whole balagan that's happening in b where the leadership there has decided to uh to bring a missionary to motivate the K uh in uh in different ways and we've been trying to do everything possible to shed light to the Ki itself to people around to is all over the world toor to everyone that this is aside from being a sin and against the Torah in many many different ways and being a uh but aside from all that it's just a really bad idea it's just a really really bad idea uh and uh yesterday was another way that uh we tried to unravel this rotten onion uh trying to figure out how could something like this happen like how can people that apparently have learned Torah most of their life make such a horrendous error where in essence you're inviting Hitler to a bar mitzvah and you're saying no he's just going to eat he's just going to eat here he's just here he's just here for he's just going to do a blessing like it's it's you know you can't say listen he's a missionary but today he's off duty he's only here to motivate us this just a really stupid idea like how can you make such a stupid idea and even a better questions how could such smart people it's not one or two or three or or four people it's a bunch of people there's the rabbi the head Rabbi there's the ones that are his little Minions that you know supposed to give him some uh some uh also see how could you know he made a mistake fine but he also has underlings how could they make mistakes and they have underlings how could they make mistakes and they're they Al they're all married usually you know the situation that you really really are based on your mirror but who's your mirror your spouse your spouse is your mirror not uh the real mirror and that's one of the things that people fail to understand is that this is not just one part of the chain of command failing this is multiple parts that are failing one after another and it's very very hard to understand is how can we make such a horrendous horrendous mistake now I don't know I'm no Prophet or anything even close to that but one thing I know is that apparently the one main thing we you know we failed at is that we failed at seeing the NAD seeing the outcome of our actions time and time again throughout all of history not just today this is not the first time and unfortunately probably not the last time where we do things based on thinking no no this is fine this is it's no big deal I'll just drive today on Shabbat but next week I'm going to go back to being a sh Shabbat I'll just eat this non kosher Burger today but tomorrow I'm back back to being kosher I'm just going to go out with one date with this non-jewish girl and next week I'm going to find a Jewish one everyone says this one time this one time and then I'm going to go back this one time this one little sin and then I'm going to be kosher again I'm going to do this again we failed to see that the sayings of the of the sages the teachings of the s come true on a regular basis and they say that one leads to another Mitzvah and one sin leads to another one and we fail to realize that our actions have consequences there's no such thing as one date means stolen water or sweeter meaning in a hypothetical sense if you have two bottles of water here two bottles of water they're both water they're both exactly the same thing they're both Fiji or spring water or whatever it is they're both same thing but one of them tell you no this one I actually stole it from the store your is going to tell you that the stolen one that's the one you should drink sweeter tastes better it's the same water but your yet and tell you no the stallen one that's better so sometimes we think listen the Torah yeah we learned it already in school we went to Yesa we watched the F shim online we go to besset a few times a week we hear Thea of the rabbi but we never hear a Christian speak they're smart too right you know this it even says if if there's if someone tells you that the have wisdom you can believe it but if they they tell you the go no Torah you're not allowed to believe that now the one thing that that's what a lot of people are saying listen so so what if he's a uh non-jew why can't you learn from him two reasons number one it's not a matter of being Jewish and non-jewish the said says wisdom in the non-jews it referred to it referred to people that are still worshiping hasem not some Idol not meim are Idol worshippers and Heretics so first and foremost if someone that's a Ben Noah someone that's a righteous Gentile says listen I know I have the wisdom of architecture I have the wisdom of math I have wisdom of all types of wisdom that they have you're allowed to believe that he has this wisdom but if he is an idol worshipper you're not even allowed to be within four am of him within six feet of him you're not allowed to stand if he's an idol worshipper that's to that extent K was very very critical of this but even so even so even if you're talking about let's say you say listen they have a non-jewish you know a a gentile Einstein there's plenty of non-jewish [Music] geniuses didn't say go and learn they said if they say that this guy knows architecture you can believe him if they say this guy is a guru in whatever subject you're allowed to believe that he has this wisdom but it doesn't say listen go over there and go learn from him they say listen leave your Rabbi leave the Su leave everything and go learn there or bring him better yet bring him to no I never said that says if they say that they have some type of wisdom it's fine as long as they don't tell you they know Torah because Torah is only am allowed to learn but even so even if he's a genius even if he's not Idol worshipper even if he's a righteous Gentile didn't say go out and chase him for his knowledge so that's the one thing that we keep failing to understand and the problem with this is that it seems like the of the the wisdom of theim it seems like it's more interesting seems like it's more taboo seems like it's ah wow it's more exciting I hear the rabbi all the time let me go hear some non-jew teach but the sad reality is that most of us fail to understand that anything that's any good anything that's any good in this world whether it's all types of wisdom all types of beauty all types of everything that's any good in this world must have a source in the toah meaning you don't have to go out and look for it it's here already just look for it in our books look for it from our teachers where you want motivation you want to learn about love you want to learn about how to have a fulfilling life you want to learn about happiness you want to learn about connection to Hashem you want to learn about business you want to learn about Law whatever you want to learn it's already in the Torah just have to know which book to look and this is the reason why they say you're allowed to believe that the go possess wisdom but it didn't say go chase it and find out what they're saying just say okay if they say they have it fine if they happen to you know you they have a service you they provide and you wanna use them you're allowed to use them as long as it's not a mean as long as it's not an idol worshipper or someone that goes against the to on a regular basis and unfortunately someone that's an idol worshipper is an enemy of hasem it's not a it's not my definition it's the Torah definition now this means that there are a lot of enemies of hem some of them are doing it electively some are doing it not on purpose now a person that was born Christian is whole life was taught Christianity that's the only thing he ever knew and he thinks that uh Jesus is the Messiah that's not necessarily uh a mean to the same extent as this Matthew Kelly Catholic missionary why because the poor little kid that grew up and became an adult only believing that there's some typee of uh you know that Jesus is a messiah he's obviously misled he's obviously wrong he's obviously completely off but that's all he ever was taught and he just believe he's a he's a messiah just unfortunately just like some Jews believe that their Rabbi is a messiah both are wrong but he's not actively looking to go take Jews and bring them to idol worship he's not saying that Jesus Is God even though technically his book says it he's not going out there and trying to recruit other people that are going to be missionaries themselves and go recruit other people to idol worship and that's the that's the biggest problem of all when someone is a missionary there's no one worse than him no one worse than him and the reason why is because their number one target are not the Arabs even though there's two billion Arabs in the world no one's trying to missione Arabs if you ever everyone anybody noticed there's really no like you know recruit centers and Arab Villages oh let's try to recruit the Arabs and make them into into into Christians no it just doesn't happen there are some Arabs that are Christians but it's not because of missionaries they're not going into China and like actively missionizing even though there's a billion and a half to two billion people there where do they spend most of their resources what's the number one biggest fish the Jews the Jews that's it that's it's the Jews so unless we look at the past we're never going to be able to clearly see what the future is going to hold now unfortunately many of us and I see this online and I myself was foolish enough to celebrate this holiday that they had yesterday umm means disgusting to Hashem called Valentine's day yesterday that Valentine's Day many many Jews believe you know it's go it's a it's a holiday of Love even in Israel they promote that it's a holiday of Love uh and some people celebrate it's just an excuse to go buy chocolates and teddy bears and go have fun with your girlfriend wife or both um and people think it's a harmless holiday what's the big deal the only way we can realize what's the big deal is number one by looking at history if you rewind approximately 700 years to 1349 you see that something horrendous happened during that time now anti-Semitism is already was created in par over 3,300 years ago where said let's fool them let's fool these Israelites before they fool us before they overcome us and join one of our enemies so anti-Semitism has already been around over 3,000 years but 700 years ago anti-Semitism took another turn once again and because the Jews were not allowed to celebrate freely learn freely we already living a secluded life but to make our life even more miserable they wouldn't even allow us to have normal jobs the only job they allowed us to have throughout Europe was to be lenders lend money bankers and in so many words we were only allowed to lend money now back then they thought that's like you know it's you're lending money you don't actually do anything you just lend money it's like a crappy job in reality if you fast forward you realize that's the best job in the world you actually don't have to do much you lend money you get paid for extra of R it's a good job as a matter of fact eventually you get to a point where your money works for you so much that you control the economy you control the market you control everything cuz everyone owes you money this is also the reason why I always told my clients and anyone that ever asked when people would be scared about the relationship between the United United States and China ever breaking where they were saying listen you know uh maybe the United States is not going to do trades anymore with China because they're you know stealing their brands they're stealing their goods there's hundreds of billions of dollars worth of copyrights and all types of patents that are stolen by the Chinese every single year you know and we have to fight back and you know now Trump is there and Trump is like anti import export practically now espec especially with China he's going to tax it he's going to do this he's going to do that let me fast forward really quick for everyone it's all bogus it's all nonsense it will never happen the relationship between America and and China will always be and the reason why is because China is the bank China lent the United States an extraordinary amount of money but it's not like if I ask you listen can you lend me 20 bucks and I just take the $20 and you know I could easily forget about it and you know and you'd ask me a few months later I ah you know I don't remember do you have I don't remember you gave me this $20 difference is with China is they bought t- bills they in essence have a control of a large part of the debt market for the United States and even if they wanted to get out of it they'd have to go into the open market they can't just like you know send an email to the to the United States and say cash this one out for me they have to go into the open market which means that as they start selling it you know initially they sell the first few billion dollars it doesn't really make a difference but once they start going into larger numbers 25 50 hundred billion dollars the market will notice that the market will start crashing which means that two things will happen the United States will lose because the market will start crashing and China will lose because the value of the existing debt they have will also go down so let's say they have a trillion dollars worth of debt they sold the first after they sold the first 100 billion sounds great let's say they sold it for par they sold it for 100 billion problem is by the time everyone finds out they sold $100 billion worth of debt the remaining 900 billion will go down by 50% okay so they got their money back for 100 but the other 400 they just lost instantly as soon as the market realizes they're about to sell a trillion dollars worth of debt everyone's selling everything which is in essence called murder suicide so this is a unhappy marriage but the reality of it is they're going to suffer together forever unless one of them is willing to just you know pretty much commit Mur you know do murder suicide you know in Ence destroy their own economy and you know rebuild it from scratch very very rare thing to happen so China is going to stay China America's going to stay America but everyone's going to talk big and promise a lot of big things but in reality none of that stuff is going to happen now in the 1300s the Jews were in control of the debt Market in different parts of Europe and a place called Strasburg the go started realizing that these Jews that were supposed to be no one's were supposed to be practically borderline slaves actually have a whole of the market and they didn't like it too much so they decided that hey you know not only do they have a control of the market that we don't want them to have but on top of it they are very arrogant right now they feel very confident and on top of it we really can't say much because we're the ones that owe them the money so unlike today when you owe money to the credit card then really the biggest thing they could possibly do is send you a million half notices back then you could do something what did they do they decid to murder all of them they overran the government and a few people that were trying to protect the Jews they threw them out all protection laws for the Jews were dismissed and they had a massacre on February 14th 1349 and killed hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Jews and burned them alive and today Jews are the world celebrate this February 14th this Valentine's Day oh yeah I love my girlfriend yeah but you realize that your great great great great great grandfather was burned alive you still going to send a box of chocolates where was the place at Strasburg in Europe Strasburg so and this was in different places in Europe but the biggest Massacre happened there nonetheless people need to understand that the only way we're going to have even a chance of surviving in the future is by looking at our past the only way we could survive anything that's happening right now in the times we live in which we call the end of days is by having some type of connection to our past if we see the past we saw that for the last 2,000 years the Christians and Catholics Chase Jews in every way shape or form whoever was not willing to uh convert to Christianity most times they murder them today we're not in that situation no Christian or Catholic is openly murdering any Jews that's good but unfortunately they're doing something worse they're convincing many weak Jews many naive Jews to instead of just killing their body which I'm not trying to discount but it's still according to our Torah the body is not worth as much as the soul it's much better to die as far as in flesh than to have a soul rotten health forever and that's actually what's happening where many Jews are getting to a point where they're taking the offer from the Christians because of poverty lack ofuna and different reasons and that's why the Christians spend hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars in Israel and probably billions of dollars in the rest of the world especially the United States to do everything and any anything possible to recruit Jews to join Christian Christianity and that's why every time you see any type of Jews for Jesus commercial or any times you uh see any type of Christian commercial usually the speakers are Jewish the speakers are Jewish why because saying look they know it's true cuz we're you know we're the Banner Child we're we're the ones that are testing that Hashem gave the Torah in Mount Si so that one that says that we got the Torah and sin is now saying that the was also an extension to the story called the New Testament it's the best verification in the world so obviously this is horrendous and they're killing and destroying thousands of souls every week so to now bring them into our house like they're doing it already on their own they're chasing us they're finding us under every single crack you're going to find something Ty of missionary people think that the AA meetings you know Alcoholics Anonymous are like you know they're good they help people but in reality it's the best recruiting centers for missionaries most of the meetings are held in churches they have everyone pray as if it's like Kumbaya and everyone is at peace and everyone's uh happy but in reality what is it it's a church and they're trying to have there's always a missionary that used to be an alcoholic or still is perhaps but Jesus helped them or something else helped it's a great recruiting Agency for them and many other things like this it's a very very sneaky conniving way of doing things but that's just a reality and unless the Jew is bright and starts looking at his past he's not going to survive the future he's just not going to survive and this is exactly what's happening with some of our leaders that have become so weak and in some cases so spinless that for a little bit of money for a little bit of funding for their Organization for their synagogue for their cause they're selling Jewish Souls yeah listen you know donate a million dollars to our organization we'll let one of your uh motivational speakers come to our event in reality it's missionaries Anonymous it's not a motivational speaker but that's what happens when we close one eye close one eye because why we said no no but with the million dollars I'm going to build a bigger shoe we'll fit more Jews problem is with the million dollars by the time you actually build that CH there will be no Jews left there's not going to be anyone left you keep letting the missionaries in and that's what people just they don't see the NAD they don't see the outcome of their actions foundational reason of all of it lack of lack of fear of hem lack of connection to real connection to Hashem where you don't ask yourself what does God think about this you ask what does my banker think about it what does my neighbor think about it what does my editor and publicist think about it is this going to sell books is this going to be marketable is this going to make me liked and this is why sometimes you have people completely go off and write books like kosher Jesus like this that he is used to call him he call himself a rabbi still this day the guy's a k why he made it seem as if like it's okay to believe in JC Penney now if a Christian wrote Such a book who cares they wrote a million books already no one ever pays attention to their books that has any any knowledge problem is when a Jew writes it's the worst thing in the world it's almost like they look at it it's like Moses wrote it wow that's the Viewpoint that's also why a Jew is always highlighted in the news anytime he does anything bad it's true anytime he does anything bad everyone is highlights him you have a uh a few Christian people catch a big uh white shark it's like wow let's put that on Discovery Channel you a few hindos Hindus catch a great white shark like wow take some pictures put it on Facebook you have a couple of Jews catch a great white shark like look these animals are going to be sck because of these Jews and all of a sudden it becomes different all of a sudden the excuse changes everyone else does something it's would Jews do it ah it's just a reality it's just a reality of life so to go and and invite them into our house I mean are you is something wrong with you and I I just don't understand how blind we really are now maybe somebody is just blind but you know you give one proof and another proof and another proof and another proof how many proof you want you have a month worth of proofs every single day we've had another proof every day we've had another proof every day we're publishing more proofs even got to the point where it was even their own words no one wants to listen so far so we're going to continue doing as much as we possibly can at some point Hashem will just have to take over completely now he's making it seem like we're doing something in reality he's doing everything at some point we're going to run out of option you're just going to have to do everything because there's nothing else we can do but the foundational reason of all of this stuff is that apparently they skipped last night's Mish which is someone who considers the outcome of his action any Jew that celebrates any of these non-jewish holidays obviously has not read history because the overwhelming majority of them if not all of them are based on some type of paganism some type of idol worship and usually throughout history those specific holidays one of the ways they would celebrate them was not just by putting little uh you know a uh lights on the tree do put body parts on the tree they would put Jewish people on the tree it was a holiday where they would use that holiday to kill Jews that's just a reality you could check history so I'm not making this up so again the people today didn't kill them but the point is that at the very least let's be you know let's not celebrate the holiday so today's mishna is in Ence the opposite of last night with a few twists we see that last night's mishna told us of a way to live the good life how what is the best direction to take in your life in order to be on a proper path meaning a path that has that you'll feel fulfillment a path that you'll have success a path that you will overall feel that your life has some type of meaning and you'll succeed in it today is coming back to his students and he's saying the opposite translation he said to them meaning ranan said to his students go out and discern which is the evil path from which a man should distance himself RAR which is referring toos says an evil eye Rua says a wicked friend rosi says a wicked neighbor Rish Shimon says one who borrows and does not repay one who borrows from a man is like one who borrows from the omnipresent as it says the wicked one borrows and does not pay while the righteous one is gracious and gives Psalm 37:21 rabar says a wicked heart he meaning ran Yan said to them I prefer the words of elazar to your words for your words are included in his words so as you'll notice from last night we had a chance to watch last night's year you'll see that in essence almost everything is the opposite of yesterday yesterday asked the sages go out there and tell us what is the best path to take in life and R said the one major mid the one major character trait that one could use as a foundation to build on is to have to have a good eye to look at everything in a positive way you see your friend just W the lot be happy for him don't be jealous you see your friend got a new job be happy for him you see your friend got married be happy for him have a good eye today says the opposite what's a bad way a bad eye so we'll understand what that means in a moment Rua said have a and be be a good friend and have a good friend why because having a good friend is what's not good friend going to give you a ride to the airport cuz Uber can do that also for 25 bucks doesn't make him your friend what is it have a friend that's going to tell you the truth he says Hey listen you know what you're not being a good father you know what you're not being a good husband you know what you're not being an honest employee you're not being a good boss you're not being a good servant of Hashem driving on shabat eating non kosher doing all these sins you're not you know you got tell you the truth the strength of your relationship with your friends is based on how easily you could criticize each other without being offended if you have to walk on eggshells every time with your friends and you're like scared to tell them the truth you're scared to tell me listen by the way I saw that you yelled at all the employees about something they didn't even do and you're scared to tell them about that your friendship is really not that strong if you're scared to tell your friend the truth it's not really your friend he's an acquaintance an acquaintance but Everyone likes to call every oh no that's my best friend oh this guy yeah I know him for 30 years my best friend oh so why don't you tell stop driving on no no no I don't want to disturb him it's not my business what do you mean it's not your business you said it's your best friend said it's your best friend so at the very least you should tell them listen don't uh don't drive in shab because eventually that car is is going to lead you to Gom what kind of friend are you knowing that your friend is going to go to Gom you're not going to tell them anything you're not a friend you're an enemy friends like you who needs enemies so that's the thing so R said be a good friend and find a good friend be the one that tells people the truth and find someone that's willing to tell you the truth that's why many of the sages would actually even pay they're like their number two person or a good friend of theirs to actually pay them to tell them the truth because just in case they were uncomfortable to tell them the truth because maybe they were a student of theirs or maybe they were just family friend or anything like that he said listen now that I'm paying you have to do because or else you'll be judged not only for not telling me the truth you'll be judged for stealing cuz I'm paying you I'm paying you for a service I'm paying you to tell me the truth so now you not telling me the truth if I'm making a sin if I'm doing something against hem now you're also stealing wow no one wants to be a thief so says be a good neighbor and have a good neighbor why a good neighbor and a good neighbor is someone that's closer than even a friend a friend is going to see you once in a while a neighbor is going to see you pretty much on a regular basis because of he lives next to you so a neighbor is much more likely to influence you directly and indirectly he could influence you directly where he could talk to you just like a friend but he could do it indirectly because he's so close to you you'll see how he acts all the time you'll see how he handles his kids when they're yelling and screaming you'll see how he handles his wife when she's really upset at him you'll see how he handles his life when somebody just ran into his car you'll see all that stuff so if you see that as soon as someone smashed into his car while he was parked he's acting normal he's like oh listen what can we do hasem wanted me to have this so be it is the other driver okay he's okay that's insurance company's going to pay for it everything's going be fine if if another Jew sees that he says oh okay good that's that's a good Jew to emulate I want to be like him so life double so uh so the thing is though is that if a Jew sees another Jew that you know is is going through suffering but in essence is not crying over it not losing hope or anything like that then it's that's something to emulate that's something you want to be like on the other hand if he sees him you know completely being careless about the other driver being you know bleeding from his face and all he cares about is his brand new car being scratched who wants to be Jewish it's like you all you care about is his car being scratched the guy's bleeding from his eye you had a baby in the car you don't care about them I had a guy mkin mkin he's actually uh has has a very bad character trait he's very nice guy he's a very very bad character trait when it comes to money so attached to it like M he sees nothing when money comes everything else goes blank he says yeah listen one of my my employees just called me told me he's not uh showing up to work because he got hurt I'm like oh okay is he what's the natural question you would ask him is he okay what happened so that's what I asked like oh I don't care about him let him die for I it just to hopefully he doesn't sue me for uh for disability like oh man we have a lot to learn my friend we have a lot to learn but you know what the truth is many many bosses have the same mindset many many bosses have the same mindset it's not necessarily they're bad people is that you play with numbers so much that you become numb to people you become numb to people I can tell you about myself I could always help myself do by reminding myself of how I was we're trying to do TR WRAL to this day I had one time a uh employee probably shouldn't even tell you guys this but uh if you're going to learn out of it see we learn from it I had an employee one time and uh we're in you know stock market money and uh fastpac 500 miles an hour if you didn't do the job right I didn't want to look at you even um and it was you know if you were not the best I I couldn't I couldn't I just couldn't tolerate it and your time off your vacation your personal life all that stuff didn't really matter to me all I cared about is being the best and uh and that's what I would tell my employees if you're not going to be here at least making $400,000 a year or more you're better within two years of starting you're better off choosing a new career go be a teacher make $50,000 a year it's not worth it if you're not going to be a top guy where at the very least you'll make that much money at least I'm not talking about that shouldn't be your target that should be like where you should be within a couple years if you're not there pick a new career it's not worth it you have much easier life being a teacher being a bus driver it's not worth the headache the stress and everything else we were you know like I don't know athletes at top performers they go through a lot of suffering to be top performers the problem is when you're a top performer or you Tred to be a top performer it's very easy to lose grasp of reality so one time I had this employee this secretary and and um she uh uh comes to my and says listen I have to leave uh you know I'm going to a uh funeral and I said oh I'm you know what happened and she said oh no my distant aunt that she pretty much never ever spoke to in her life died and uh I'm going to you know for respect I'm going to give I'm going to go to the funeral so my response instead of saying I'm sorry or uh you know something anything or okay good luck I don't know say nothing it was better off to say nothing what did I say the idiot that I am said you're a die but why do I have to suffer meaning I'm not going to have an assistant today because you're aunt died that you never spoke to because I completely lost grasp of reality thinking that okay she died okay so let's move on with life like I didn't really value anything else and again didn't necessarily make me a evil person I mean uh I was generous with people I gave people staka and all of those things but the reality of it is that that's what we think makes us good we think that if we give people stuff that's what makes us good and one of the that I learned recently is that you know if you look at the Book of Daniel when Daniel came to who killed millions and millions and millions of Jews destroyed the bet mikash he asked him to translate his dream and he translated his dream he told me eventually you know eventually hasm is going to punish you for everything you're doing yes you're going to be the strongest leader ever until the mashia according to your dream but you also destroy the bet mdash andm is going to punish you but if you want to postpone the punishment give give it says your will save you from death not that it will save you from death like you'll never die or that you'll never get punished it'll postpone it it'll postpone your death if you decreed to die early this could postpone your death give you an opportunity to do Chua so sometimes you think you're good because you give staka sometimes you think you're good because you bought your wife a present sometimes you think you're good because you cooked for your husband but in reality that's just material the most valuable things cost nothing sometimes the the be doesn't really need your they need you to be show up for they need you to support the rabbi when he's having a tough day the wife doesn't care about the car you bought her why don't you buy flowers it's much cheaper every Shabbat on Friday bring a flowers $9.99 much more valuable than any car you could ever buy her she could still drive the 1989 Buick but with the 999 flower she'll be much happier your husband yes it's great you made him a nice meal and but if you're crying over it for the next 3 days cuz your hands don't work anymore because of how much you slaved over the food it's not worth it Go by go $1 buy a kosher meal it's finished just be normal don't kill yourself over making him food and complain about it on top of it too he doesn't want to come home say oh yeah I cooked for you but the attitude is I rather I bought the food 15 minutes I bought it but I'm happy when you got home so that's the thing so that's when you lose grasp of reality when you're so focused on certain things it's it could get really far and you can get as far as I did where I literally completely was Hashem forgive me I was completely unconcerned about somebody just died now I know it didn't really this woman didn't actually matter to her she didn't even know her so it's not like she was crying or anything it wasn't like obvious that this bothered her at all but it bothered me later on when I started realizing did I just really say that you question yourself once in a while but that's when you start realizing how disconnected you are from reality so when you have a listens to this he's gonna tell you listen by should have at the least said I'm sorry yeah or just don't say anything at all don't say what you just said if you have a you'd see how he reacts when something like that happens after that last night M said means that someone who SE the outcome of an action if I was able to see the outcome of my action I would have realized that shortly lately she would quit the job um but the point is is that it's a uh anyone that's is able to use foresight they'll be much more successful in life both in business spiritually and everything else um and that's also one of the things we're failing at today where we are so assimilated so far from foundational Torah that we don't want what we have we want what everyone else has now realizing that the outcome of that is more assimilation more secularization and more bad if you look at history the only times am was doing good is we were when we were close to hasem every time we went against them we lost anytime you pick whether it's during the Desert or it's during the bet mikdash or it's during the second bet mikdash or throughout the last couple thousand years but unfortunately for us to get close to Hashem hasem had to punish us first so events like this with what's happening with bone this is the type of stuffff that happens right before Hashem says okay you cross the line when the rash Mendelson a few hundred years ago decided to publicly announce that everyone should be a Jew at home and a person outside and we should start sending our kids to secular universities instead of sending them to yeshivas and and bet mid we should send them to universities to be like the go now he thought in innocently that this is the right way to be we're going to be like the go we're going to have peace they're not going to see us as so different from them anymore our kids will be smarter they'll have more career choices we'll go to university of here and University of there and the kid's going to be a doctor and another one's going to be a lawyer and another one's going to be an accountant another one's going to be a sports agent and a PR and it's going to be good what happened all of his kids converted to Christianity 10 kids every single one of them converted to Christianity and on top of it the reform movement began from what from someone just being blind to an outcome of their actions by wanting to be like theim momentarily one lifetime one generation we're not talking about like this happened over 500 generations and slowly but surely we died no this is one decision one guy said something everyone listened and lo and behold we have Jews giving Bar Mitzvah to dogs we have Jews that say you know what male and male they could be husband and wife even though it's against the Torah woman and woman they could be husband and wife even though it's against the tah driving on Shabbat yeah we should all do it because even though it's against the T it's more convenient and you start changing the Torah and eventually becomes a completely different religion What's Happening Here Bon people don't understand this is the same thing this is no different this is pretty much saying there's no Jewish motivational speaker on Earth that we can find apparently we have to bring someone that's not only that's not Jewish but on top of he's an idol worship Mission missionary and we think that somehow this is going to be good for us and the biggest problem of it all is that almost every single person that I've spoken to pretty much every single person I've spoken to actually except obviously the BRS management the synagogues management with the exception of them every single person I've spoken to Big Rabbi small Rabbi regular person religious not religious secular Jewish not Jewish everyone agre is a bad idea everyone agrees it's a really bad idea oh except there was a couple of missionaries says why what's the big deal oh yeah sure couple missionaries kind what's the big deal that a missionary is going to come to you why you guys so scared of what we're going to say said exactly exactly but everyone agrees it's a bad idea but very very few want to speak out very very few want to disturb their convenient life and say hey this is a really bad decision there's enough that are speaking out and causing a chaos over the last few weeks but it's not enough and we go to some big rabbis and every single big Rabbi we've spoken to every single one of them I agree with you 100% it didn't take any convincing I said listen a guy comes this is this this is this is you show them this is what it is you're not telling the story this is the proof this is what it says this is a video this is what he says about himself he calls himself a missionary he trains other missionaries he's an idol worshipper it's I didn't make this up it's not like a uh a some type of like uh conspiracy theory it's fact he has a Wikipedia profile that says he sold more books about Christianity than anyone else except the New Testament how much more do you want so he tell this is who they're bringing to a Sho says yeah it's a reform Shool though right everyone said this there was a initially the response for a lot of people this is a Orthodox Sho modern Orthodox sh and everyone's jaw dropped and I agree with you this shouldn't happen and this and that but no one wants to speak out everyone wants to do something uh yeah yeah I'll try to do something I'll make a phone call I'll send an email like yeah won you speak out no one wants bad press it's been very that's been the toughest battle for me toughest battle cuz in the Public's eye it almost seems like you're fighting alone you're like the only crazy person fighting even though there's plenty of people supporting it and saying and great idea and yeah you should do this but you feel like you're like alone you're like the only one speaking about it until R mrai jumped in and a couple of other people jumped in publicly but in reality it's like very very difficult but the best news that I have to offer today is that as I said yesterday right now we're in the process of getting a letter from we're finally taking an initiative and they're signing a letter saying this is 100% asso it's ass it's not allowed to have this event it's not allowed to attend this event it's not allowed to support this event it's not allowed to do anything relating to this event in any way shape or form that's positive um and this is not from like a local Rabbi that just doesn't like Goldberg or Shai or mosow this is and we've gotten some signatures already from some big ones but we'll publicize this letter when necessary hopefully hopefully I pray to Hashem really really hard hopefully this is enough honestly if it was a month ago I would have told you this should have been enough one one big giant Rabbi would have been enough to say okay this is a bad idea you want you don't want to listen to me cuz I'm a nobody fine but one big giant of says it's not good you should listen to him so a month ago I would have said to you yeah that would be enough problem is we did that already we got two ofed to sign a letter we had several other ones make phone calls nothing has been enough so now we have to literally go to the biggest and it's been a mission and it's been a mission but you do what you can and I'm hoping I'm hoping this is enough at the very least this is enough for the K to see that the leadership is wrong terribly and this is also enough to convince all 6 million Jews that live in America and any English-speaking Jew to realize under no condition does any real Rabbi ever recommend to bring a missionary to a so if they choose to continue and go against theor also there not much more you can do but at that very moment they'll be cutting themselves and becoming a new religion because no one no one that's serious about God or hem or Torah or anything is ever going to take any member of that sh serious again or their rabbis knowing that they went against so I'm hoping that everyone sees the NAD sees the outcome of if they go with it anyway after getting signatures from the and that's still not enough hopefully that's enough everyone realizes okay it's a mistake it was a bad idea even if we don't see that it's a bad idea enough people think it is a bad idea let's stop let's move on that's it listen plenty of people made mistakes that I just told you a very embarrassing mistake of my own you made a mistake that's it you move on the greater you are you know the more mistakes you're going to make on the way there yeah no such thing as a clear Coast to uh the promised land no such thing so the last part of last night's mishna was that razar said left of having a good heart having a good heart according to raanan was in essence encompassing all of the character traits that were mentioned by the other Sages is having a good heart will give you the ability to have a good eye will give you the ability to be a good friend will give you the ability to be a good neighbor will give you even the ability to see the outcome of certain things because you care so today they're saying the opposite today and to some extent where RAB elzar says an evil eye that's one of the things that you have to distance yourself from why is it that says that the one thing one thing that can literally destroy your life he's not just saying this is just something bad million and a half things you can mention that are bad anger is bad this cheap being cheap is bad this is a lot of things are bad but here they're saying not only not do it you see distance yourself from it be as far as you can from it just like the says about you're not even allowed to be within six feet of abar you're not even allowed to be within six feet of idol worship say z a v o d a h and then Zar z a r a h that's idol worship so is so dangerous you can't even be close to it the sages one time had a option there I mean there was two roads one road would take them across the path of a door to a church they wouldn't go into the church but they would pass it they pass next to it the other PA making a left would take them and they would cross the opening of a brothel prostitution house so one of the sages said listen let's just go next to the uh House of idol worship because the sages already prayed for idol worship to be a uh you know something that's our desire at least we won't be caught by any of these prostitutes and make a huge sin wasting seed being with a imish woman a prostitute and so on endless amount of sins so it's logical just pass by the church don't pay attention don't look that there's a cross over there just pass go get to where you need to be S said no it's better to go and take the chance of passing by the prostitution house instead of passing by the church that's how bad idol worship is wow that's how far you have to distance yourself from it so now is telling us this is are things you have to distance yourself from these are charact there certain character traits that you not only can't do it's not just about not doing it of course you don't have to do you don't need to tell you not to do it he's saying this is something you have to stay as far away as possible from because if you have it it'll destroy your life what does he choose bad eye bad eye evil eye why evil eye it's the opposite of what he said before having a good eye will give you good foundation for a good life he says the opposite a bad eye an evil eye will make your life miserable we covered this a little bit last night one of the foundational things that cause 99% of death according to kazal is evil eye so 99% of people die from evil eye 1% just run out of time now they lived 120 years they lived you know they you know the sin of the uh of the um tree of knowledge they die because of that eventually everybody has to die but in reality 99% of people die prematurely because of evil eye someone said Oh what a beautiful new car he has he complimenting him in reality he doesn't want to compliment him he says a what a beautiful car you has guy gets in the accident reminds me of a joke it's not really it's kind of funny but it's not but I get very happy about jokes cuz I don't remember jokes at all ever tell us us I heard I heard this joke two guys have evil eye both of them were like everyone knew these this one is Satan the other one is with their evil eye so one guy says oh wow look at that new bridge immediately the bridge collapsed the other one says wow what an amazing eye you have meaning amazing evil eye has his eye blew up man strange humor Israeli humor but nonetheless at least a joke add it to the uh add it to the five list of five jokes that I have I think uh but anyway evil eye why is evil eye so bad why is evil eye so bad cuz evil eye is going to make you miserable evil eye is going to make you constantly spend time looking at other people's Facebook profiles thinking they're Liv living a life that you want if you ever noticed people that spend any time on Facebook and on social media and they take pictures of their sandwiches and the restaurant and they went to the vacation and the kid that's playing with the toy and he looks cute and the cop that saved five ducks in the middle of the highway you know everybody publicizes like the nicest parts of their life so everyone looks at their Facebook profile like wow what a lucky guy what a lucky guy he has a wife he has kids they don't show you the guy just got arrested for drunk driving they don't show you that picture on Facebook they don't show you the picture that his wife just threw a pan at him because he didn't show up for two days they don't show you that picture they don't show you that he doesn't know how he's going to pay his bills because you just saw that his bank account has deficit balance they don't show you that picture they show you life is grand life is grand and if anyone ever sends like a puts like a bad picture like a woman says oh I'm so deped rest everyone unfriends her no one wants to be friends with a with a miserable person no or people try to make themselves feel good and say oh I'm sorry and then pretty much unfriend or after that like don't pay attention cuz you just want to see like fake life so first and foremost when you have a bad eye number one you're always going to look at other people's life thinking that their life is better than yours in reality it's all fake everyone has their trials their tribulations their difficulties their UPS their downs and looking at other people's life is definitely not going to make your life any better it's not in fact it's guaranteed to make your life worse because what they're showing you is not reality so people that watch shows where people are you know driving fancy cars and living in fancy houses and the wife is always beautiful and the husband is always handsome and the kids are always top students and they don't even have to try you know apparently no kid in history has ever studied on television you know they always know everything and they're always honor rooll and they're always rich and they don't no one has any problems ever except the boyfriend problem or a girlfriend problem once in a while that they cry over for 5 minutes like everyone's life is so Grand everyone that watches these shows is guaranteed to have a miserable life because what you're watching is a warped version of reality it's not real it's just not real so but by constantly watching it you're going to make yourself believe that it's possible it's possible for everything to be perfect and this is the reason why people spend pretty much their entire year savings they work the entire year like dogs night and day no family no kid kids no Torah no life no nothing for one vacation to Cancun or Australia or China wherever they're going to go with the family with the family what's the best part of the trip coming home it's the best part of the trip is coming home yeah okay it was fun to go on the slip and slide and it was water splashing yeah but they didn't show you the picture of how much of a nightmare it was to get to the park and stand online for 3 hours yeah it's great to see Mickey Mouse with the kids like six years later oh look it's little Stephanie with uh with Mickey Mouse but they don't tell you that you know she uh broke her finger 5 minutes later you know because she slipped and fell they don't show you that part of the picture it's not real it's like a fake part of life but all you're doing you're doing it for the pictures why because you need to put something on Facebook and you need the world to think that you have a great life so on one end you're living a fake life because you're looking at everybody else's life two you're obviously not managing your life in a appropriate way your entire work and life is just for this one big trip or two big trips a year which I never going to be enough you pretty much your entirety working for one week and three the worst part of all when you show everyone only good you're opening Double Wide Doors for evil eye everyone's going to look at you and say oh look how lucky he is he has a brand new car a brand new this and a brand new that and a brand new this and how much disaster that brings into your life this is why in general the most important thing anyone needs to understand in life is to be private don't spread your business to the world whether you're successful not successful be lowkey be low key you made you made money keep it to yourself you don't have to tell the world you made money you know not saying they you're not a allowed to enjoy your money you could build a house and all that stuff but don't get to a point where you know a uh there's TV shows calling you asking you uh how much money you spent on the house be modest you don't need to have a $300,000 car in the parking lot it could be $50,000 and still nice modesty is very very important but also getting if you're going to have kids making them think that $150,000 car is supposed to be you know a a car for an 18-year-old that's a warped version of reality the kid's going to grow up to be a loser Because unless he is going to somehow achieve his own success he's going to be very very miserable because no one wants live in in their father or mother Shadow so again this this this warped version of reality breeds more and more negativity more and more bad things and this is why we have some of the highest suicide rates you would think would come from the poor but if you actually look at the suicide rate in America it's approximately 4% 4% of Americans commit suicide interestingly enough the suicide rate in third world countries is not even close it's like 95% less you would think the poor would be much more likely to commit suicide but it's the opposite suicide is something only the rich do for the most part because we're constantly looking at everybody else's life and we realize that what we have is never enough it'll never will be enough even if you're on Forbes 500 list you're always going to look at who's 499 and if you're 499 who's 498 and if you're number three who's number two you're never going to be happy with what you have so in essence having this evil eye works both ways one is looking at things in a negative way two not being happy happy with what you have and three which is one of the worst of all is that you're ended up you're showing people a fake reality of your own life which welcomes the evil eye next thing after that is Rua Rua says worst thing that could serve as your the foundation of your character traits is to be a bad friend to be a bad friend now we we already talked about how being a good friend means not to give somebody a right to the airport not to give somebody a uh 20 bucks loan that's all nice that's fine and you know maybe you'll get a mitzvah for it but in reality that's does not make you a good friend makes you a good friend according to kazal is telling people the truth telling your friends listen I understand that you learn to but you're understanding is wrong why because you're using your own logic to understand it and your logic may sound logical but it's against what the sages said Rashi says the opposite of what you said tooot says the opposite of what you said and there's no way that you're going to be right and the sage is wrong never will happen never you think that Shabbat is no longer relevant to today that's it's not possible because that would make the Torah something temporary which is the opposite of what the Torah says about itself Hashem says Torah is eternal whatever rules they have all of them are applicable until today every single rule every single rule in the Torah 613 MIT are all applicable to today so the next question should be wait a minute but there are rules out of the 613 MIT that many of them that are for the mdash we don't have a bet mdash so how could it be applicable and we can't do it we don't have a mdash so just because we don't have a bet mdash doesn't mean it's not applicable it just means that we can't do it we're considered anim we're an we have no choice we don't have a choice to do if it was if the BET mikdash was here we would be obl to do everything that they did in the first place the the the everything the offerings everything that they were doing we'd be obligated to immediately do it right away there's actually a school of for kohanim in Israel that they started some years ago where they're actually training people that are kohanim to already be ready as soon as the bet mikdash is open that they're going to know what to do the theim is not like just regular uh religious people they have special different actual jobs physical jobs they have to do in a mikash so we can't just like say oh send us the mashia send us the mikash as soon as it shows up no one knows what to do we're already getting training out so now telling somebody that you see doing something wrong the truth is what makes you a good friend now last night we talked about a disease called Munch housum Munch housum is a disease it's a syndrome that is unfortunate it's an Essence a um mental disorder where someone believes that they're sick even though they're not sick and then there's something called Munch Munch Housen proxy which is that they believe that someone else is sick and usually this happens with like a mother or a father and their son so the mom thinks and makes the kid believe that the kid is sick but not sick like once and you got a cold and then he takes a you know NyQuil and he's finished no sick forever like always like sick forever so there's actually a article that I read um where this one particular very very odd case because usually they found out about these cases you know earlier um but there was one case where the mom made the world including the kid uh herself believed that she was sick for 23 years 23 years and the only reason the world found out that the kid was not sick was because the mom died T that's it it's the only reason and everyone thought that the kid was a paraplegic but in reality she was perfectly able to walk everyone thought she had all types of bone issues no bone issues at all everyone thought that she had hearing problems no hearing problems at all like she this mom had a mental disorder with that she believed that the kid was sick and she in essence with all the medicine and all the treatment that she would in essence convince the doctors to give the kid she made the kid sick but the kid wasn't really sick and eventually when the kid stopped taking now became an adult stopped taking the medicine little by little she got back to normal and she lived a normal life well at least as normal as you can be when under the circum so in today's world we have the same disease in Judaism we actually have the same disease everywhere it's called political correctness when you're politically correct why are you politically correct because you think that everyone is sick you think that no one else can handle the truth so you start removing certain words from the English or Hebrew or any other language because they're no longer appropriate so for example one of the clips we cut out of uh last week's lecture uh you know I was very passionate and I was talking about something and long story short I was talking about this whole Idol worshiping situation that's going on with they bringing a missionary and uh at some point I used the word now can mean several different things it can mean that you're late it could mean that obviously someone has a mental deficiency it could just mean that you're behind but that entire clip was like 10 minutes 10 minutes 11 minutes it's a lot of words in 10 or 11 minutes a lot we actually did a uh somebody wants to write a book about my life story and they um they I told them I you know I want to write my my own book one day but it's just and cuz I like writing but it just takes a lot of time so he said what about if we just write the text to your personal story that you said in the lecture well start that as a foundation see maybe it's I don't know maybe it's going to be help you start it and everything so I said okay fine no problem go ahead and do it and to both of our surprise you know the lecture was 2 and 1/2 hours you would think okay 2 and 1 half hours I know you spoke 5,000 words 10,000 words maybe I think it was 40,000 words or something insane like that which was like 35% of a book in one lecture it was amazing so needless to say 11 minutes is a lot you could say a lot of words in 11 minutes especially if you have a little bit of a New Yorker and you're an Israeli at the same time you speak even faster so out of this entire 10 minutes this one guy that's looking for me that you know doesn't like me anyway he's on the BRS team uh he says oh you know you use very foul Lang very offensive language and I said what's what's offensive oh you know you use the word now anyone that listens to what I'm saying sees that first of all I'm not using it to make fun of anyone that's me defici Shalom or anything like that but we're so politically correct and we're looking we're looking Oh no you're using different grammar different words different this why because we have been trained to think that everyone is incapable everyone is not able everyone is just deficient everyone's sick so you can't use real language with them you can't talk to them straight up you have to like go through the corner go behind you know don't say to them send them a text oh no text is too up send them an email no but make sure don't use caps like if you know once in a while you forget the cap button on and you start typing and by the time you realize that everything is C you already typed the paragraph you don't want to retype the whole thing so you just press send so in this world like why are you yelling at me who's yelling at just use caps buddy fact I'm not yelling at you but that's the mentality we have and it's all bad training and the same thing as infested Judaism where for whatever reason or another somehow which is the mitvah of rebuking your brother rebuking your sister rebuking your nation for doing something that's against God in essence doing something against themselves they're drinking poison you're telling them hey don't drink poison you're driving on Shabbat don't drive on Shabbat why because then when you show up to Ala it's going to be a nuclear war site you're not going to have a good ala it's going to be a really really bad one hm's going to punish you you're going to lose p in this world you're going to lose life in this world there endless amount of punishments that you get in this world and the next if I just read you guys 25 things of what happens to one time you'd be scared to get out of the house I have a book that's 80 pages of different verses 80 pages of these different verses if you just read the first 25 of it's all list of punishments of what happens to shabbat if you just read the first 25 you'd be scared to get out of the house forget about driving on Shabbat scared scared to move of all the things that happens tobat so when he tells him Hey listen stop driving on Shabbat stop playing with your phone on Shabbat stop watching TV on stop going against hem and Len you're telling the guy hey that button it's a nuclear weapon and it's not going there it's going to you you're blowing yourself up that's what is that's what rebuking your brother is it means that you're going to give him constructive criticism to help him which is a law of course which is not it's a mitvah it's an obligation yeah but for whatever reason or another we've become so politically correct and so poisoned from these rabbis that have Munch house and proxy they believe that all of us is sick and we can't handle it and therefore we're not allowed to rebuke each other and this is one of the reasons not the only reason but one of the major reasons of why people can live a life where they go to beet for 25 years and still drive on Shabbat 25 years they're driving 25 years they still 25 years they still eat non kosher they eat kosher at home so they think they're okay but outside the house no no Kosher but they think it's okay as long as my house is kosher it's great as long as my Suka is the biggest on the Block I'm a sadik as long as I donate money to the Bess and you put my name on some you know list to tell the world that I donated $5,000 or 10,000 or 100,000 or a million dollars I feel great yeah but what about the fact that you're considered an enemy of hasem because of your behavior oh no no I tell them that he can't handle that he's in a weak generation so became a curse and one of the things that is the biggest and most misleading part of this entire equ equation is the false understanding of what we have today about people think means people that are always happy and only talk about positive things so there's two there's a few different types of but the two most popular ones today areab and breast obviously there are others also great also big and so on but the ones that are most popular at least amongst the secular world and breast live and people see different versions of them they see the kabad Niks driving during the holidays with a truck and a big sign on the back on the back of the picture of the rebi from rebi some even write mashia on it some say King some say this some say that which is a problem of its own but they're celebrating they invite everyone over for every Shabbat eat chant eat this eat that every Hanukkah party is a blast every porm is even a bigger blast similar with breast live you have some people that you know drive around the countries especially in Israel in Vans with you know club music on break dancing in the middle of the street in essence telling people that this is happiness one of the calls those uh those version real a real breast liver calls those breast liers the uh lost tribes of India that are somehow found themselves in in in Israel is you know this is not breast going around in Vans and break dancing learning T that's breast live working on your working on your working on your you know closeness to hem that's that's the but for whatever reason or another there's enough misunderstanding where when you start telling people Hey listen you have to change you have to improve like no no no that's not the typee of teaching that I'm looking for I'm looking for teaching that's always positive so I'm going to go to kabad I'm going to go to breasta because they're always positive rabman said be happy says be happy so I'm going to go there because they only talk about happiness if anyone ever actually spent any time whatsoever reading their books it's not quite that it's not quite that there's a couple of very interesting so first one we mentioned last night but this is in y by the P he says this this is a it's a it's a book but for in essence he says anyone who sees his friend making a sin and doesn't say anything anything doesn't warn him at all like he's supposed to according to the mitvah of mitvah of rebuking it is the same thing as if he murdered him he's not talking about he saw driving you know no no he's talking about any sin any sin you see one of your friends listen speak to the rabbi inappropriately speak to you know any you know doing something inappropriate doing something that's a sin he said Hey listen by the way you you know you really shouldn't have said that he shouldn't have done that he doesn't do it he says which is to one of the Giants he says You're a murderer You're a murderer didn't say oh be happy be happy he didn't say that in this book okay but this is say oh yeah but is not breast he's not okay so let's go let's continue of the from bre so this is in essence the foundation of breast it talks about so it talks about how the the rabbis being a rabbi in essence the position of being a rabbi he's burying himself by being a rabbi this job the ultimate outcome of his job he's in essence killing himself doing it why cuz he doesn't rebuke but if he rebukes the Sinners he saved himself at least wow that's at least he saved himself the rabbi is talking not talking about the Sinners only he's talking about the rabbi himself you want to be a rabbi okay be a rabbi but just make sure you realize if you don't rebuke your people you're taking on all of their sins and you're burying yourself it says if at least he warns them and rebukes them at least he does his part at least he does his job he does he fulfilled the job you told him don't you told him don't e you told them don't go with you told them don't do all these things you warned them what's going to happen you told them it's going to end and he told him this G he told them you did your part you did your part what happens if you did your part you saved your soul not that you say you told him he didn't say by you telling him you saved his soul no because maybe he's not going to listen to you but you saved yours but at least you saved yours why because if you didn't you take on a sin he goes with a married woman in you're going with a married woman this is to a rabbi this is to a rabbi and it uses the verse in and you warn the rash warned the wicked person and he did not do CH him he's going to die because of his sin he's going to die being a sinner but you at least saved your soul this Source Ezekiel chapter 3 where is that Ezekiel chapter 3 and the S this is all written in for breast chapter chapter one section n which is 56 paragraph uh 3 but if he doesn't Warn and or rebuke them the entire sin is on him he says just like it's written the raban the uh the being the rabinal position buries its owners buries the rabbis why because they didn't rebuke this is from breast live W he didn't talk about hey go don't rebuke don't where does it say that which part of the book doesn't say that and it continues you continue reading his his work doesn't say anything about this say stuff that people think it's not happy go happy no not exactly not exactly now one of the other things that we have a confusion about is that we think that as long as we do like this one thing everything's okay if you look at the Von he says that if you lived in this world and you didn't fix your midot would you live meaning there's no way that you have fulfilled your mission in life without correcting your bad traits there's no way so what' you waste your you you lived 80 years 100 years 120 years you still died an angry person you still died a cheap person you still died a liar what' you live for you wasted your life that's the from bre doesn't say anything different but he says something very very relevant to today you have many people that do these oneoff things where they won't really be religious the whole year but they'll definitely come to beet and pray nonstop on Yip and sometimes they're even going to wear white because they heard that it's aula or something it's always a full house on right so now you have some people say listen I'm not necessarily going to read all these books but what I'll do is I'll fast I'll fast once a year extra twice a year three times a year once a month even I'll go to the mikve some people want to go to mik a few times a week every day whatever so they'll do oneoff items but the foundational mitvah of learning and fulfilling the Tor not so much so says this it's a um first part uh chapter 10 guess paragraph four and he says this says this there are some people that are proud of themselves because they fast an extra one two three four five or 10 times a month they fast oh yeah yeah I can't talk today why why can't you talk I'm fasting today it's not the no no it's not no no it's not no no I'm fasting because I'm uh for my bre for my this for my that why don't you just learn T like a normal person what do you need to fast for somebody does hasem add me to for you only what are you fasting for now if you're already at a high level like for example I have a friend RAB Rafael heik him whatever he does to me in my opinion he's amazing he's a very very serious breast liver very serious person very serious breast liver honest amazing very zealous serious person in my opinion the best breast liver I've ever met in my I met that many but he's but then you have some people that are like not only new to breast live they're new to religion they're new to Judaism they just did chv a few months ago six months ago a year ago they're brand new they barely even know you know what how to read a they started and already they're starting to take on fasts already they're wearing white on y already they have like this whole like outside exterior all worked up you if you look at them from the outside and you don't know what you're doing either you think this guy was born with the beard he was already born breast in his hand he took the he took the book from inside the uterus he was still already reading every one of us was in a uterus he was in a mik wow you think this guy's wow this guy was AE this guy's amazing he like hey just did you why you fasting uh why you fasting today why you fasting this month it's no fast no no I'm fasting I'm working on myself working yourself why don't you working yourself in uh work on your midot you don't need to fast to work on your mid why you work on yourself and like I don't spend the whole day reading why don't you do that because fasting is much easier it's one day working on your midot is every day learning Torah is every day being holy is every day fasting it's one day okay so you don't eat big deal big deal you didn't eat you didn't drink oh in reality most serious serious people don't eat that much to begin with you don't have time you're busy but people think no no I'm going to fast today I'm going to wear white today I'm going to extend my beard I'm going to do this I'm going to do that Everything Exterior while the interior is empty so already from hundreds of years ago already told us there are some people that are proud of themselves they're pridefully proud of their of their fasts the fast that they're doing the fast that they're adding to the vi that we have to do every day but they still didn't break their bad habits they still didn't break they're doing fasts that are extra above and beyond but they still didn't even break and fix one of their midot what are they like he says they're exactly the same as a sack that's full but has holes in it you're filling it up with gold coins cuz you think it's gold coins but by the time you get to the destination you arrive with an empty sack your fast theoretically is good theoretically is good but if there's no Torah to supplement it it's worthless you just didn't eat you just didn't eat fasting and not eating is two different things the point of the fast is to make make you holy but to be holy you don't have to fast so again you see when you actually read these holy sages work it's so far from the reality that you think like today's and there's two different things like so the one question I have is like anyone that wants to call themselves a I'd one guy tell me I said listen why don't you come to the sh no no I'm uh learning about and I tell him yeah we learned M there's a m series we started a few months ago go no no no I want to learn about and I'm thinking to myself what do you think is like what version of reality do you have what do you think is it's doing above and beyond first you have to be an expert in the basic the basics is meaning that by the time you are going to be learning that means you've excelled in all of your you still have amuna problems 5 minutes into the conversation you already telling me Oh I'm not really sure I'm going to make it this month you ate yesterday you ate today what you worried about tomorrow for says in anyone that ate today and is worried about tomorrow has no Ima if Hashem worried about you today why is he not going to worry about you tomorrow you already ate today what are you worry about tomorrow so everyone wants to be a cuz that's like you know it's like Nike it's like a brand but in reality if you actually read the work of the real it's not quite what we're being taught so that's another thing that a good friend and a good neighbor is going to tell you Rua says a bad friend and a bad neighbor will do the opposite Rua says being a bad friend I'm not going to rebuke I'm going to see my friend violating Shabbat no no I don't want to disturb him I don't want to tell him he's going to learn on his own what do you mean learn on his own 20 years he's going to synagogue he still hasn't learned 20 years he's using you as the excuse of why he hasn't learned he says look my friend is a rabbi he never told me once I don't have to uh I have to keep Shabbat he's a rabbi he's a religious guy 20 years I'm going to his house with the car on Shabbat to eat to have K you never told me don't drive so he's using you as the crutch same exact thing of what's going to happen Shalom if this event with Bon happens it's not just about the Thousand families that could potentially be poisoned by this mission it's about the millions of Jews that live in America they're going to say oh the DI from Florida brought a missionary motivational speaker to sh let's bring also motivational speaker that happens to be missionary to our Sho eventually we're just going to bring the missionary with no motivation and eventually they what they're going to do they're going to take the sign instead of being Orthodox sh they're going to say Orthodox Church oh and that's what's going to happen this is not an exaggeration or a being fanatic this is reality this is this is where it gets to it doesn't get better doesn't get better so without being a good friend there's no way that your your surroundings and even yourself are going to have a good life everyone will suffer as a result of you not rebuking every you will suffer because you're taking on everyone's sins and they're suffering because they have zero chance of getting to a gooda zero and if you're their neighbor you're close to them it's even worse if you don't have the gods to tell them yourself by being a good friend at the very least why don't you act like a human being why don't you tell him Hey listen this is what we do on Friday night we have kidou we don't go to the club we don't go to the restaurant on Friday night we have k at the house we don't have arguments publicly in a supermarket with our spouses we don't you know many plenty of times you see people either in person or on the phone yelling and cursing each other I want you feel like whoa they're connected these people they want to kill each other and they're public and sometimes you get even proud of it like the guy thinks he's like in a movie like he's funny so like you know like make fun of his wife really really loud and look around like anybody hear how funny that joke was like he thinks he's a comedian or the wife will do it to the husband like they think it's like it's the most embarrassing thing in the world normally that happens on the checkout line so you've seen it yeah so being a sh meaning that not only are you not rebuking you're showing them yourself you're showing bad behavior yourself you're the one that's yelling at the wife at the checkout line you're the one that's yelling at the other person on the other line you're yelling at customer service the guy is poor little guy in Indonesia or in India or something he's trying to help you with your computer you're yelling at him like he broke it what did he do to you everyone is a hero on their computer or on their phone everyone's a superhero you have an article you publish an article and it's not exactly their cup of tea everyone all of a sudden became cisal and Ebert they comment oh you know you should have said this and you know you should have said that you know that word and that this everyone's a commentator all of a sudden okay you give the Le I'll come to you everyone wants to give you criticism they don't give compliments they give criticism because everyone wants to be a criticizer but to their friend next door Shabbat nothing but computer everyone's a superhero superhero criticize it they make everything in the world this is what we need to start applying to our life next point [Applause] so here we see that this is different than means someone who sees the outcome of a deed but here he talking about something completely different here he says someone who borrows but doesn't pay back what is someone borrowing and doesn't pay back have anything to do how is that the opposite so first and foremost they give us a little bit of P here where they tell us that someone that's borrowing from a man is like someone that borrows from God as it says the wicked one borrows and does not pay while the righteous one is gracious and gives so first and foremost someone that's borrowing especially in Judaism it's very very different than borrowing in any any in the secular world or in the um non-jewish world because we have we have laws when it comes to lent to loans first and foremost most you're never allowed to charge a Jew interest someone that charges another Jew interest has no share of the world to come to that extent it's a horrible horrible sin a there's one exception there's only one time that you are not only allowed but according Toad and the rest of kazal to talk about this specific issue you're actually obligated you should charge interest another Jew when when he's why ra says you charge him interest because he's not considered Jewish anymore it's like it going and a non-jew you have to charge him interest can't just give them money for no reason you have to charge them interest it's a business with a Jew your ntion is doing a it's actually a bigger to lend another Jew money than to give and the reason why is because when you give there's always an element of Shame the person that receives is is ashamed of receiving it's not fun to receive regardless of whether it's $20 or $20 million there's a little bit of element of Shame if you have you know just have shame you're collecting someone that comes to the he's not hey guys I'm here to collect he says you know has the and he's asking for the it's not you know it's not something that anyone's proud of so there's a element of Shame with but borrowing money nobody's embarrassed to it it's a business transaction hey you just uh made your new deal great congratulations can I buy $5,000 oh you just oh yeah I remember you told me that you got that did you get that deal yeah great can I borrow 10,000 I need to pay this and that all a sudden you have all these bills you heard your friend made money you need you want to borrow money but you feel 100% comfortable asking for money why it's a business transaction no one's ashamed to borrow money but getting everybody's ashamed which is the reason why it's a mitvah a bigger Mitzvah to lend money and the reason why is because you don't have to put them to shame the second thing is is that also you become a partner with Hashem both in both cases you become a partner with Hashem but with a uh with um with lending it's even a bigger partner with hem that nonetheless it's when you're lending money to another Jew you're not allowed to charge interest but if that Jew is aat or does any other sin that cuts him out of the nation not only can you charge him interest you you should charge him interest unless this Jew is expected to do chuva and then you may have a problem and this is the reason why really religious Jews try to stay away from lending money to non-religious Jews it's not because they don't like non-religious Jews it's because they're scared they're going to have to pay them back the interest so the guy he borrowed $400,000 from you he charge them interest you charge them 10 points charge them 10 thou you know 10% 30,000 a year the guy borrowed money over the next 5 years you collected $150,000 from the guy all of a sudden 4 and a half years into it you just found out this guy became a mini Rabbi he walks in paying you the check the monthly check but he's got a beard a hat and he's a what do you do then you have to pay him back the money you have to give them back the money you charge them interest you have to pay the interest back wow it's not a fun it's not a fun situation yeah so a lot of lot of religious people don't like to lend money with interest to nonreligious people CU it create problems um but there are some religious people or they call themselves religious that lend money to other religious people and some sometimes to non-religious people but they still charge them interest in most cases in some cases it's allowed in most cases it's not allowed and it's calleda means that in Ence you're not really lending them money but actually you're investing in the business you're investing in the Enterprise now if let's say for example you came and you said listen I want to borrow $300,000 um you have to give me collateral so let's say for example you said I'm going to borrow $300,000 to buy this house you buy I give you $300,000 and you know you I give you $300,000 but in essence if you don't pay me back the money I take the house that's what mortgage is right okay so in essence when you are borrowing there is collateral so I protect my downside as the lender but if you're investing into a business there's really limited protection because if you invest let's say into my business also $300,000 but the business goes bust the product that we made is unwelcomed in the market the patent failed something it didn't work out really all you have left is you know some proceeds from you know whatever assets you have you have some printer some computers some desks I don't know a uh a few uh a few cars let's say that the company owned you have a few assets the $300,000 you know you have $115,000 left so in essence you lost 90% of the M over 90% of the money 95% of the money so you have a downside a very very big downside so what some people do is they do something called Aisa which is partial loan partial investment where part of the money they are lending you and part of the money they're investing which means the kosher way to do it is that the part of the money that they're lending you if the business you're going to invest it let's say into some business Enterprise you want to borrow $300,000 and you want to invest it into a uh new business of some kind but let's say half the money you have to pay them back regardless whether the business works out or not it doesn't make a difference you have to pay that money back cuz that's a loan and it's non-interest loan don't charge your interest but the other part the other 100 let's say if it's 5050 the other $150,000 they could potentially lose that money but the upside on $150,000 is not just 5% or 10% it's usually a much higher percent as if they are a partner in the business so but that part they have a higher upside but also a much higher downside they could potentially lose the whole thing so the kosher way of doing it is exactly like I just told you guys where partial is a loan partial is a investment or the entire thing is an investment so they have 100% loss potential what some people do is a non where in essence they want to have 100% collateral and they want to get the interest anyway so in Ence they're telling you listen I'm going to lend you let's say I don't know $100,000 and you have to pay me back the $100,000 back no matter what plus you have to give me 10 20% on my money that is 100% sin on both ends it's a sin for the lender and it's a sin for the borrower too you're not allowed to borrow money on interest from another Jew both are sinners and what does the Torah say about those Sinners they're both guaranteed to lose the money at some point or another they're both guaranteed to lose the money and the blessing they have in the money at some point or another hasm will take all of that money there'll be no blessing in the Enterprise there'll be no blessing in the money they'll lose it maybe they won't lose it directly they'll lose it indirectly they'll make let's say $20,000 with this guy or they'll make their money back with this guy but they'll lose $500,000 somewhere else and I actually have a story like this where a couple years ago I had a call from a uh somebody he told me he had bunch of loans and this and that whole bunch of balagan his whole life went upside down he borrowed a bunch of money from a bunch of different people all of a sudden the found out that the investment that uh he made was some type of big piece of real estate the guy that he bought it from really wasn't the owner so in essence he cheated him out of I don't know like a million or2 million dollars it's like how could this be I did chuva I'm religious I'm this and I'm that and I'm thinking to myself not have or anything but I'm thinking how how could something like this be like you have to find out maybe maybe there is an explanation for something like this so I start asking more and more questions later on I found out I'm like where'd you get the money it's like oh I borrowed it from 30 people okay how' you borrow it and he starts telling me the deals I'm like oh not even one of these deals is allowed all of them are sins which means that you deserve to to lose the money and they all deserve to lose the money and it's actually the best thing that could have happened to you money went to drain wow now it's not exactly a fun thing to hear and i' said it a little softer than that but the point being is it's still true all of them are sinners all of them and everyone lost money so when someone is borrowing they have to know that there's rules and that's why it says when you borrow from a man you have to treat as if you're borrowing from God meaning that in essence you have to know that there's there's rules in the Torah in essence you are taking a uh a um advance from hasem hasm is going to give you the P anyway but you're taking an advance you're boring from one of his children according to his laws but someone that doesn't pay back why does it mention someone doesn't pay back he says if you want to have a good life you have to be the type of person that not only has a good eye not only is a good friend not only is a a good neighbor but you have to be the person that as soon as you have the ability to pay back Al loone you pay back immediately you don't worry about whether he needs the money or not oh he's already rich he doesn't need the $3,000 that I borrow from him that's not your business your business is you borrowed from God you followed law you follow the tah you borrowed money you must pay back as soon as you have the ability no but he already has plenty he doesn't care about the $3,000 or the $30,000 that I borrowed from him it's irrelevant it's irrelevant like some people say yeah well you know what at least he stole from the rich people what do you mean how does that make it any right like people you know admire Robin Hood you know they have a whole cartoon and shows legendary Story the guy's a thief oh yeah but he stole from the rich and why how does that make it any right like how does it make it correct that he stole from rich people he's still a thief he's still a thief so for some reason we've been taught that taking you know advantage of rich people is okay it's not so first and foremost when you borrow money you have to realize you have to pay back as soon as you can don't delay it's you're fulfilling a mitvah plus you are going to have a good life otherwise he says someone that is not doesn't pay I mean someone who borrow who's a uh you know consistently borrowing money without an intention of paying back or borrowing money knowing that he can't pay back he says you're guaranteed to have a bad path you're guaranteed to have a bad life cuz you're constantly going to have to run away from people you're constantly going to have to like lie you know what happens is they call your house they call your business somebody answers the phone you don't want to talk to them cuz you're dodging them so what happened you tell people no no tell them I'm not here so now not only have you turned this a uh this loan into theft because now you're not paying back but on top of it you're a liar too and lies is one of the things that hasem says stay away from lies not even not only don't lie stay away from a lie so now you've turned theft into lies also it's just the situation gets worse and worse so before you borrow money have in mind okay can I actually pay this back like do I have the ability to pay this back now of course if you're an entrepreneur if you're a businessman there are going to be times you have to take certain risks no one's telling you you can't take risks there's all types of risks there's all types of things you can do but it always has to be calculated don't just take the risk because it's other people's money don't just be one of these people that takes advantage of the stupid American system which is unlike any other system in the world which allows people to take advantage of the government very easily pretty much what people do is they borrow money from every single credit card they can they borrow money from every bank that recognizes their social security number they get all of these things and they have no intention whatsoever of paying this back they buy something they try to do a few things it eventually doesn't work out because they spend most of their money on shoes and you know and and suits and dresses and cars eventually all the money dies out so what do they do chapter 11 Chapter 7 bankruptcy bankruptcy restart you build your credit over the next several years let's start again but now bankruptcy by itself if the government allows it it doesn't necessarily make it illegal it's fine you can do it according even to Jewish law if you have no other option but if you're doing it just because it's available to you but in reality you don't need to declare bankruptcy you're a thief Tak Advantage you're taking advantage of a system you're a thief you're 100% Thief many people do this with real estate thinking they're they're and not only sikim they're Savvy like oh look I bought 10 pieces of property real estate market went down so I gave back eight of them and then I sold two to my brother to my sister to my this to my that and I declared bankruptcy and I don't have to pay any money back okay you're a thief you are a thief why because if you had enough money to pay for those two you should have actually use the proceeds to pay for the rest as much as you can can't just declare bankruptcy because you feel like it can't just they cost them money so this is when someone has when someone has fear of hem and they realize that every loan it's like they borrowed from God then loan changes then you're not worried about whether the loan says Bank of America or TD Bank or uh you know Steve Robertson doesn't make a difference where it's from you know it's from AEM it you have to comply with the law not the law just of of of the nation of the land butw of Shar says a wicked heart what's the bad trait that someone must stay away from he says stay away from having an evil heart says razar says says I prefer the words of of elazar to all of your words for his words include your words meaning that an evil a Wicked heart applies as all of those other things that each one of you mentioned he says said bad evil eye then you said a uh bad friend Bad Neighbor doesn't pay back loans all of these things are included in evil heart someone that has an evil heart he does all of those things in order to do any of those things you must have an evil heart so what is really an evil heart the says is in essence the one of the uh prophets said that at the end of times AEM is going to replace our heart made of stone with a heart made of Flesh what does it mean Heart Made of Stone anybody check usually the heart's not made out of stone meaning a Heart Made of Stone meaning that we have a we have a with an evil inclination and Hashem is going to replace our evil inclination with a good inclination meaning we're not going to have any enticement to sin anymore once the mashia comes but until then we have to deal with the yet and page 52b it says if the which is another name for the comes to you drag them to theid because in it says that if the comes to you you have an enticement to sin enticement to sin with a woman that's not yours enticement to go against hem in one way or another first thing you got to do is realize that hem created the and stronger than you he's bigger than you he's smarter than you he's more knowledgeable than you in every way shape or form he's stronger than you in every shape of way or form you can't beat him in reality you can't beat him so what are we doing here oh said I created the but I also created a potion that can beat him you can't beat him but the potion can what's the potion to to can beat him that's the potion so the says you have an inclination to sin came to you drag him to the drag him to Thea drag him to the be where you're going to be learning to because that's the that's the potion that's going to kill him it's the only thing that can beat him you by yourself you can't beat him you can't beat him don't even think no no no I can beat him you can't beat him it's impossible he's smarter he's stronger he's bigger he's faster he's everything only thing that can beat him is the Torah and not necessarily that the Torah by itself if you just say with the book of Torah no no it's it's not going to help you it's just going to be a heavy book of Torah meaning that as a result of you studying as a result of you obeying and complying the Torah that Hashem wrote hm says oh you like my Torah okay I'll go fight him for you Torah by itself can't do anything but hasem can oh you fulfilled my MIT oh you like learning my Torah okay okay go go sh sh away You're bigger than them but to me just little old angel she away from him he's a sadik she away from her she's a sadik look she covers her hair look she's modest she away from her she away and that's one of the main things that we need to understand first thing first is to know yet is much bigger than us much stronger than us much everything but we have a potion so when you don't learn t or you don't fulfill MIT you're already lost it's impossible for you to overcome your evil inclination meaning it's impossible for you to have a good heart you may may do some good things like I said before you may be a generous person you like to give that doesn't make you a good person though makes you generous but even abua was generous and he killed hundreds of millions of Jews not tens of millions not single Millions hundreds of millions hundreds of millions much much much bigger than the Holocaust and he gives the right in the Book of Daniel G the off does that make him good no just makes him give it the off so what give the it's not your money anyway hasem gave it to you can't take pride of giving something that's not really yours so without Torah you only are you're left with a stone heart it's impossible for you to have a heart of Flesh excuse me what is the other name for J he has seven different names one of them is uh that's what Moses called them how do you say like r a h I guess um also they call several different names for several different names for him um there is a talks about the there's seven different types of names for him one of them being raah that Moses called him and why did Moses choose to call him raah each one of the major forefathers had a different name for him and they explain why they called him that in one place they say in the that the Satan is like a fly on your heart fly your heart think he s fly your heart sense fly in your heart if you ever notice flies they never go away till you kill them they never go away you sh them 500 times she still cloes back yeah you just made yourself a nice dinner your wife slaved over the dinner everything fly on top of the steak Yeah 5 minutes ago he was on top of the dog poop outside now he's on top of your steak Yeah he was it's a reality yeah you shoot him goes back to the steak how annoying is this uh is this is his fly he just keeps going back until you kill him he's there he's not leaving it's the most annoying thing in the world he says the same thing says same thing with a fly the Satan the same thing like a fly on your heart no matter how many times you overcome him no matter how many times you beat him he keeps coming back oh you learned today okay so tomorrow I'm going to convince you not to learn oh you overcame the desire to you know with your eyes you didn't look at any emodest women okay tomorrow I'm going to come back I'm going to be a pretty woman oh today you were generous okay tomorrow I'm going to give you someone that you're going to question whether to give him or not he's going to constantly come back constantly come back he's going to be a fly on your heart he's never leaving so at least if we know we have a chance to beat him knowing he's not going away but at least we know that every time we got a little closer so and that's how we build a strong heart also in that same the way Page 52b in 52a it says that what it's a prophecy of what hasem promises all of theim of what's going to happen at the end of times after the mashia promises to take the take the Satan and Slaughter him in front of everyone now in front of theim the is going to look like a mountain big big mountain in front of the is going to look like small tiny little hair so first time I heard this I'm like what mountain hair what is this analogies symbolism like what does this even mean like what is slaughtering it's kind of sounds like a little bit of a offensive it sounds a little vicious like it were yeah Mountain why is it Sim having a mountain if anything they should have the hair so seems like here's the thing what does Kaz mean here the righteous they didn't just they weren't born righteous they became righteous mosenu wasn't born mosenu he became which is this week's he wasn't born that he was an idol worshipper he was the biggest Idol worshipper in history but he became a holy Jew and after this week's Paras when he comes and he says to Moshe I heard what your god did I heard what the god of Israel did and I want to be part of the nation now and he even gives mosenu advice of how to start a judicial system which we learned last year if you remember but after that you get something you learn something baffling comes to he says no don't go don't leave us stay with us where's he going you found out the truth you left all the idol worship you came you became a Jew you went through the whole conversion system with the recognized benine everything is good Orthodox conversion where you going what does he th say how could I have the truth and not telling my people wow all my people back in Midian the idol worshippers poor people I'm going to let them all stay Idol worshippers what kind of person you think I am think I'm an evil person selfish just worry about no I'm going to go back there go save my children my friends my neighbors I'm going to go do kiru and that's what he did and kazal says he succeeded and he converted everyone wow everyone converted to Judaism and eventually all of them came to they met up with took a while but he actually converted everyone wow didn't know that but he wasn't born he wasn't born with a par named after him he born Idol worshipper that's the difference and that's one of the things that the sadik they weren't born sikim they had to become sikim they had to overcome this fly on their heart every day every day this annoying fly on their heart every day this yet is on their heart every day the wants them to steal every day the wants them to cheat every day the wants them to lie every day the wants them to idol worship or invite a missionary because it sounds interesting and it sounds motivational every day the is there and the bigger you are in Torah the bigger your don't be confused it's not like the big has no no his is so much bigger than yours that yours looks like a next to his it's a different type of yet it's an evolved so they didn't become sikim overnight and that's why when finally when the mhia comes when hem Slaughters the they're going to say oh it's like a mountain to them because each day they overcame each day a little more each day a little more eventually when they finally got to see the mashia it was like finally this sh is gone but it's like it was being a big burden my whole life so looks it's a huge mountain that you overcame you f you climbing and climbing you don't look back you climbing you climb and you climb and you fall a little bit and you climb again and you climb and you climb and you climb and you climb eventually when you get to the top and you look back wow I really did all that that's going to be the sikim sikim are going to finally arri and see the mashia get slaughtered and say wow we're here we're here I have I have eternity what are the are going to say they're going to look at the Satan it's going to be like hair small tiny little hair and hasem is is going to tell them you didn't even try to overcome a of just day to day you didn't eat kosher once for the day you had an option go to McDonald's not Kosher or go to a kosher burger place eat the kosher chocolate or the non koser chocolate you had a choice every day it's not that it wasn't uh it was kosher chocolate was $5 and the non- kosher was a penny no this was five this was five it's the same thing but you intentionally didn't care you intentionally didn't try and that's why your is Tiny and look because of this tiny yet that you couldn't even overcome that you didn't even overcome that you didn't care enough to overcome you're just going to watch the get destroyed but you're going to the same place as him you're not going to enjoy this mashia but you're going to see that if you would have overcome something small you could have enjoyed it like theik you could have enjoyed it but you're not and that's one of the worst possible things that could happen to somebody at the end of days is to see that they were only a hair away from winning they're not like the sikim that had a mountain to overcome they had a hair a tiny little tun just don't eat e this burger just stop driving on Shabbat just learn Tora 15 minutes a day big deal just cover your hair with a scarf or with a hat just uninvite the missionary one tiny thing okay it's a little embarrassing at first okay it's a little uncomfortable at first but it's just a hair in comparison to the mountain of the sikim try how are you gon to face it when you realize there was only one hair away from winning the guy that's in last place who never even tried he's not as miserable as the guy that's in second place the guy that's in second place he's more miserable than everybody says I was one hair away from being first place no one ever rememb second place I know I don't know a month ago I don't know however long it was they had a a Super Bowl yeah they watch everybody watch Super Bowl and B we didn't but the people are competing fighting this that now of course I asked people who won the Super Bowl I'm sure everybody would know but if I asked you who was second place 5 years ago no one would remember cuz no one cares about second place but if I ask you who was the last place team a few years ago most people say oh yeah it was Detroit or whatever team was at that time was last place us people like yeah some team who cares they used to be a bad team now they're a good team now the bad team that the one that was last place they were last place they don't really care that much who's the most miserable second place second place yeah the one that made it to the Super Bowl but didn't win missed it for a hair the one that came to this world with everything you came as a Jew the it's already being a winner you came with a lotto ticket you came with a lotto ticket but you didn't scratch it so expired you had a winning lotto ticket you had a winning lotto ticket in your hand you were born a Jew you converted to Judaism you did something right in your life you got here you got the lotto ticket your ticket is definitely the winner it's not maybe the winner it's definitely the winner 7 and half billion people only 15 million or so are Jews out of the 15 or so million 3 million are religious you happen to be one of them you're guaranteed to be a winner you have the winning lot ticket but you decide to lend somebody money with interest and he was a Jew but he decided to be a rabbi buta but you brought a missionary though as a motivational speaker and a few people from the Kila converted to Christianity because of you or their kids did That's Heavy you're a rabbi you're toet you wrote articles you wrote books you had this you had everything but one Jew lost his because of you you had the winning L ticket you had it be all becomes past tense you had the winning lot of ticket you had it but it expired it expired worthless in the book of Samuel it says something very relevant or Samuel what Sam 1 2 verse 9 he guards the steps of his devout ones but the wicked are stilled in darkness for not through strength does man Prevail in so many words hasm says I'll give I'll give assistance from heaven for people that are devoted to him you try to do Chua you try to do the will of hem hasem says I'll take care of you but I need to see you try can't just say no no I put a keep on that's okay no that's not enough putting a keepa is nice congratulations you put a keep on but there's a lot more than just a keep oh no put okay there's a lot more than put all right grew a beard okay that's free also it's always the same joke but it's always funny because it's real but the thing is though it's one of the five but the thing is though is that it's not enough there's more there's more there's more but if you really devouted to Hashem devoted to Hashem hasem says I'll help you no problem but just like I help you will go the opposite end the they'll go to the bottom I'm going to take them down interestingly enough one of the prophecies is that at the end of times we're going to have a war there's going to be a go Mago War all of the nations are going to fight each other eventually fight isia is going to come but then there's going to be a different type of War it's also going to be a war against the mashia himself by who none other than Jews Jews are going to fight the mashia which Jews are these they're called the AR are going to fight the mashiah these are wicked Jews that sometimes pretend to be now here in this verse have a little bit of an interesting hint that sometimes the wicked are not who we think they are sometimes of course listen someone that goes against theem on a regular basis is not exactly friendly with AEM but sometimes we're surprised at who the wicked are when it says that the wicked ones hem is going to put them into darkness it's going to punish them the the first letter of each one of these three words is in in in Inu spelling Rabbi and this is one of the things that is makes this generation as confusing as can possibly be when sometimes you have people that in essence are supposed to be the leaders superheroes the most es he's the bigest biggest rash of all so this is very important for each of us to know that he also has a but we're still responsible to make decisions you can't just say oh no no he so he made a bad decision okay he made a bad decision that doesn't necess mean that I have to live with this bad decision I still have the responsibility of being having a good eye so I gave him cuot okay but he keeps making bad decisions okay I have a responsibility being a good friend okay so I have to tell him I have to rebuke him Hey listen you made a bad decision last week and you're making a bad decision this week after responsib being a good neighbor so I have a responsibility of seeing the the outcome seeing that if we continue making these bad decisions eventually consequences there's consequences yeah always always consequences we do and say this is an important thing for each and every single one of us to understand because at the root of everything each one of us has to take responsibility for self responsibilities for our nation as well you can't just like plead the fifth and say nothing oh no no I didn't see I didn't hear I didn't know you still have to take responsibility for your actions take responsibility for your community you have to take responsibility for your family you can't just let the Mas continue without being the MH on him too the MH also needs to have a MH everyone has to have a boss of some kind but once we see that someone's Rogue and someone just goes off and just start doing whatever they you can't conect you can't stay connected to it cannot stay connected to it so is saying the root of a good life is having a good heart you want to develop every good quality every good good quality has to start with a good heart meaning you have to love Hashem you have to love his Torah you have to want to have a purpose but the same token the root of every single bad character trait the root of every single problematic life is an evil heart when you have an evil heart you're going to be jealous in a very very bad way you're going to be envious in a horrendous way you're going to never rebuke anyone because you are just don't care enough about them you're never going to be the good neighbor because obviously if you don't care enough about people to rebuke them then you definitely don't care enough even about yourself to live a righteous life and this can lead you to more and more sins even to such an extent that you make such a simple sin like not paying people back which is relatively easy mitah you took a 100 give back a 100 you took a th000 give back a th obviously if you have no way of paying it back it's a different story it's not considered a sin if you have no way of paying it back it's out of your control and you you were careful but you made a mistake or something that just didn't work out and you can't pay back right now that's not a sin but if you knowingly borrowed and knowingly knowing you knew that you're not going to be able to pay back you're a thief and it's a relatively easy sin to not make just don't borrow but why why would you borrow because of the very same reason that we started because you're constantly looking at other other people's stuff you're seeing he has a brand new car so you want to have a brand new car but you can't afford the brand new car so what do you do you borrow money that you can't afford to buy a brand new car you saw him putting an extension to his house so you're putting an extension to your house but you can't afford that extension in your house yeah but everyone wants to catch up with the Joneses everyone wants to look like they have and they this and and everyone lives above their means and eventually declares bankruptcy why stop looking elsewhere look in the mirror the root of all these problems is a wicked heart not Wicked heart where someone is a murderer Wicked heart in a sense you're just steering the wrong way where you're allowing the yet to make the decisions for you yet is taking control over your heart and you're becoming pretty much everything's on autopilot only problem is the auto is the says you want to have a good life it all [Music] [Applause] [Music]