The Emunah of A Tzadik PART 2 - MUSSAR Pirkei Avot (126)

[Music] good to be back we're in aventur the breast center we have a we have a lot of uh news today uh we have uh it's been a very very good day lots of uh big things happened lots of big announcements uh would have loved to see more of you guys in front of me but I'm sure some of you guys are going to come late but uh today Shure before I forget because I always uh forget these things today sh will be for a uhon Beno uh mayem raises higher and higher in ganeden uh also for a to um debie but yafa Leana but Sarah Sarah but Lana oad Ben Lana Aviva but Sarah Doris Bora David benri Assaf Ben aaham rudland Ben benf [Music] all of have So today we're going to continue the uh lecture that uh the same is that we started last week the M um uh 522 about how to be theik theik is a little bit more uh uh difficult to attain than uh we thought it's not just about believing believing believing and everything is going to be okay uh but before that wanted to give you guys some uh some updates some big updates bem uh first off as you see in your uh tables there is a uh the number two in Alon KES uh just came out today bem the first one was a big hit last week uh this uh today came out with number two we have some more uh uh some more of the stuff that I wrote some raim YSI also raim the in in New York um and some some so a lot of interesting things most of it is in Hebrew with the exception of my of my article but is going to be a little bit more English in the future uh will uh apparently a lot of with this uh with this alone it got a lot of feedback and uh last week it went out to maybe about 30,000 people in in Israel and probably 100,000 or so some other in other places and it got the attention of some big rabbis got the attention of some big they liked it uh one uh one particular Rabbi made me laugh um he uh he asked brother frim how come you didn't ask me to uh to write something in Alon in a newsletter uh this was a specific Rabbi that uh no need to mention his name it's a rabbi that uh didn't wasn't there for us when we needed him put it that way so told him listen you know we're doing something else the the door and everything else but apparently the point I'm trying to tell you is that uh uh I don't know there's so many newsletters out there there's so many uh so many different things written writing on the internet and subscribers and everybody has a newsletter today but apparently this one has a lot of so the second one came out today uh you'll see my my uh writing uh was uh you know it's going to be multi-art just like our lectures uh talking about this the first one is a little a little bit of a reality check for every one of us every one of us that is looking for happiness uh as that's the common denominator on every human being on Earth we're all looking to attain happiness some believe that they can attain it through money some think they can attain it through different types of success some through marriage some through children some through different types of adrenaline rushes or drugs and so on and so forth but the reality is the more you delve into The Root of Happiness the more you realize that people are looking for the right thing but in the wrong address uh so uh the first part is to uh get us to think a little bit get us to think about where we stand where do we stand where do we doing um because if you're already in this world 20 30 40 50 60 70 years and uh when you say in the morning you say thank youm for bringing my back you don't really mean it you're just doing it because the rabbi said it's you're supposed to then there's a problem if you're not excite excited to be alive there's a problem now of course you're going to tell me and you're going to tell yourself yeah but I have a lot of problems that's the point of that article to talk about your problems and if you read it you'll see what we think about those problems what does the Tora think about those problems and with different Torah sources the next alone hopefully with is going to give us the ability to do it next week so we'll see we'll see so that's the first thing so the Alon AES which for anyone who doesn't know there's Alon AES alone means newsletter uh but AES means holy but Alon also sounds like Aron Aron means the ark so the holy Ark kind of coin a you know clever name Alona KES so we'll have other rabbis we already have another Rabbi that um is going to be a nice surprise next time uh but we'll have we'll have some other ones different types of writings different types of things also another raban uh is going to be added to it we're not adding just anyone that wants to write so if you write don't ask me can you add me I'm not that's I only if I know you if I know you and I know you really really well and meaning that I could vouch for you that if we go to bed and say can you be a witness for him I say yes so if I don't know you like that don't ask me can you add me to my the alone don't ask me I don't I don't want to be put in an uncomfortable situation uh to tell you no it's not it's not it's not that type of newsletter I'm not just adding people just because I'm looking to build a newspaper or something uh it's a it's people that I know that have that I know that uh they teach and they and they know what they're talking about um there's already me there so already we we're already at uh we're capped at people who don't know what they're talking about uh but anyway uh so that's one of the big news uh the other big news we get every day hasm gives us some kuk every DayM gives us kuk different people from around the world send uh mail text phone calls all types of things telling us uh they did CH because of the so one of the people that uh I sent him this one of my students who is in Yesa in for the last couple couple of months uh told me you don't you wouldn't believe what you just did what a big mitvah you just did I said I don't know what I did I just sent you an alone sent you a newsletter on a text message I didn't really think it's such a big MAA but thank you and then later on he tells me you don't understand I was really having a tough day I was thinking about sinning kind of sins he says when I got to my weakest moment that's when you sent it to me at work and it's nice to be the messenger it's nice to be the messenger he says as soon as I got the message all the nerves caled ran away he went to the different town and again so it's good it's good it's good to get news like that following that I got probably one of the nicest messages in the uh the last couple of weeks at least uh about a person that uh discovered our teachings and uh decided that he wants to uh he's in the process of converting already and his mom turned to no hide now why what is what makes this one any more special than the hundreds of others that tell me they want to convert or they did convert and so on so this one is actually a Muslim this one was born Muslim this was born this guy young young guy was born in Egypt now uh anyone that's in the in the Torah world will tell you that the rarest thing you're ever going to find is a Muslim that converts to Judaism the rarest thing because even if they believe it still they know that if their friends their family their Community knew about it they killed them like you can't convert to Judaism in Iran or in a or in uh Egypt or in Saudi Arabia or any of these places they'll kill you so when you hear that people are learning T and they're willing to put their life on the line he lives in in the United States now and he's able to convert they already met with the rabbis and so on but it's beautiful it's beautiful how somebody could turn on looking for the truth and Hashem provided him on a silver platter you know and uh he uh watched a few of my shim in one of the shim he says that I uh mentioned the video by ra ysep mizaki the Torah and science he watched that and after that that sealed any doubt that was remaining he showed it to his mom his mom she said I'm on board also and that's it they're in the process of converting so the see that the the the is coming out is amazing now this too what I just said to you is also in a to what I just said to you is also in the Tor where in in in PSM 85 verse 12 hem says so hasem says in number8 5 verse 12 the emit the truth will Sprout from the earth and righteousness will peer from heaven now what is a truth is a flower seed what do you mean why why why is the truth have to sprout from the earth shouldn't they should say the truth came from the books the truth came from Mount sa Tha it's not on the ground tha tha Mount Si even though it was the lowest Mountain a humble Mountain Still it's much higher than we are just say the came from Mount the comes from Heaven the comes from the I don't know some the last thing you would think ised is coming from the ground what does it meaned coming from the ground is giving us a is giving us a prophecy of what's goingon to happen at the end of times page 49b says that before mashia comes is going to be an extraordinary amount of rudeness and there's going to people are going to hate the emit people going to hate it they're going to hate the truth the says all that's going to happen but there's good news no matter how much you try to bury the Amit with your falsehoods with all the false teachings and all the nonsense that's in the world no matter what in the end eventually going to come out what for who for the person that's looking for it for the person that's looking for it and this week's parem continues or begins this NE who is it who does it come to in chapter four of this week's hasem says from there you will seek hasem your God and you will find him if you search for him with all of your heart and all of your soul when you are in distress and all the things have be calling you at the end of days so this week's Paras as usual always talks about our life today every week she talks about our life today and Hashem says if you look for me you'll find me but only if you look for me with all of your heart and all of your soul so what about if all the rabbis that I know of are liars all they ask for is money but to give me the Amit not so much they want to call me a sadik even though they know I drive on Shabbat they call me they call me sadik even though my uh non-jewish wife or husband is right next to me sadik sadik yeah yeah come sadik sadik you built a or put your name on there yeah but you're intermarried he stealing in your business you're doing all types of things they not allowed how you call him a sadik no it's uh GI it's good like one one one Rabbi in New York told me calls himself a rabbi he says the only mitvah this generation has to do is give I said what does it say in the Torah goes no no the rebbi said it I said no he didn't was aad don't say things in his name a lot of people say things in the Reb's name or's name all types of rabbis names don't believe any of it only believe what's in a book if it's in a book then you have something and even then you have to double check even then you have to double check there's a lot of books today that are full lies that's why the told his students listen if you take one of my Kim if you take one of my Kim that I wrote and you put your name on it it's okay don't worry I don't take offense to it if you take one of my I wrote and you put your name on it it's okay it's okay I forgive you just make sure you don't put my name on your though don't put my name on your why I know they're right it doesn't make a difference if people know I wrote it or you wrote it or somebody El I know it's right why I toil and toil in the T until until I made sure it's right but I don't know don't put my name on it so says the is going to come out the is going to come out no matter how much you spend no matter how much effort you exert to bury the eventually it's going to come out now if that wasn't enough amazing news after almost two years two years of working two years of by team uh honestly it's the biggest thing we've done I've been doing this for about four or five years it's the biggest project has ever done I can't believe it actually it's happening but after two years of working and M going back and forth and redoing and breaking and changing and everything else our official app is launched it's out it's out it's extraordinary you can go to the app store right now and download it please do it's better than going to anywhere else if you want to watch our shim it's better than going to anywhere else if you want to watch Tora for several reasons I'm going to give you a little bit of a uh thing about it well first and foremost you don't have to worry about all the uh disgusting things that unfortunately get recommended on YouTube as much as we uh appreciate that we have our sh on YouTube and almost a million people have watched our shim on YouTube over the last few years the reality is is that still many people that watch the shim they have recommendations on the side or a commercial or something else and sometimes those commercials or those recommendations are not s they're not modest so the last thing we want somebody to do is to watch a and then see something IM but it's not up to us uh so same thing with Facebook the same thing with uh anything else now uh the reality is is that the only way that we could do it is by developing our own app but developing your own app is not so simple even though people say no no few months you're finished if you want to develop a real app something that works something that's up to date something that will actually uh will encourage you guys to continue coming back it takes a while it's a huge investment and it's out uh it's going to have a lot of updates also coming soon we'll do a lot of interesting things few features about the app that are my favorite uh first of all it's very fast it's very fast you don't you're not feeding off of YouTube initially that's what was the original idea was to feed off of YouTube so in essence really all it was was just a place that you can just click on a link and it's that it feeds off of YouTube the problem with that is that if your Internet is slow or your internet has problems then you can't watch anything and it's it's just it's a a middleman so when you feed off of YouTube or any other feed it's usually not fast so this doesn't feed off of YouTube number two you can download the lecture if you want you can download the lecture number three you could download just the audio you don't need to watch it you don't have to uh watch my uh my beard every week you could just listen to the words that's all that matters you could even pretend I'm somebody else if you don't like me just pretended I'm saying somebody else but it's the same T so you could just download the a you could or better yet the best part of the entire app in my opinion is the fact that you could listen to the app you could listen to the audio while using your phone so if you're doing your job or you're talking to somebody or you need to do other stuff you you don't have like in YouTube or uh or other places what happens is you're listening to a then you have to do something else somebody texts you somebody calls you somebody this something happens you have to shut off the app go there and you know Satan already oh you opened me a little that's it I'm taking over the whole building that's what said to you don't do CH now for this miserable that you just gave me leaving an opening to the Satan you leave an opening for him he's going to take over the whole house eventually so here we're not giving the Satan in the opening you want to listen to the app while you do your other job your other work your other stuff you continue listening to it all day wherever you are yeah Android is coming out in about two months three months uh we're working on that it's a different platform but since it's already ready it take a lot less time also you have uh my my lectures you have F's lectures you have Hebrew you have English you're also going to have Alona KES there the the newsletter is there it's also going to be a place where you're going to be able to ask questions a lot of you ask me questions on WhatsApp and on the email and so on this is we're going to try to transition with all the questions are going to be on on this app and the reason why and also it's going to go to the to the website the reason why is because we're going to publicize the actual questions and the answers so that way a lot of times I get asked the same question 900 times now it takes now you don't know I that I answered it 900 times so you ask the question so the thing is though is that now we're going to have a terminal we're going to store all of these questions and people going to be able to see the answers for pretty much every question that they have whether it's a or it's asfa or whatever it is uh you could also put your Chua stories how' you get in uh there also going to be there's also a store you could uh buy you could sponsor CDs you can donate um you know another amazing thing that took us alone just this took us almost six or eight months is that you could actually donate through Apple pay so unlike uh any other app that I'm familiar with where if you want to donate let's say uh to Torah anytime or to uh I don't know kabad or a or any of these other places uh that you have you press there's a donate button on the app and it takes you to their website so then you have to fill out everything you know your name your address your this your that and everything else which is fine that's what people do here we're making it even easier for you to give us your money how just Apple pay why all you got to do is just you already have a credit card in your Apple machine so all you got to do is just decide how much money you want to donate for kiru so this is a a major feature believe it or not took a long time to get approved uh but it's a uh after everything that uh we uh try to do and did and everything else hasem told Apple Let it go Let it go Let My People Go so the the the app is out you can download it there's going to be other features coming in the future um things like augmented reality uh where you're going to be uh seeing different ways to do mitv but through I don't know how to explain a visual effect augmented reality it's different look it up it's it's a uh the developer is very passionate about it and I uh I would love to see it be used for tah and many many other things are coming but so far everything I just told you is already on it uh and there's going to be many many other things coming so we waited a long time to release it because we wanted to uh we wanted to to have a real app want to have something good so it takes more time takes more investment takes more effort takes more takes more begging forem to help us but we finally had the to have it released and it's very very exciting this will help each and every single one of you you know go straight to Torah without having the interfere there's playlists there is if you want to you know for example learn specifically about modesty there's a playlist for modesty you want to learn specifically about wasting seed there's a playlist for wasting seed uh playlist for uh there's a playlist for playlist for films the Torah films that we have you have that too and that's the next piece of news right now we have four ready films we have four films ready finished completed we got the approval we got everything else it's just really a matter of releasing them uh so the team has been working non-stop I don't think anybody sleeps on the team everybody's no one sleeps no one eats no one has any time to to do anything except bring give it seems like hem is using as a as a vehicle to to give because there's not not a day goes by before you know without getting Another Story Another the chuva Story another person doing chuva another person getting K another person you know taking on another Mitzvah getting married and so on and so forth every day it's something and to be honest with you part of what we're going to talk about in this mishna today it's actually that it's very necessary it's very necessary to be generous with your words money that's something that you have to work on Sometimes some people like their money more than they like their life but with words you have no excuse because words don't cost anything like my father says words don't cost anything that's why a lot of people talk a lot but they don't do much so with that being said as a uh as a uh a celebration for the enormous amount of kiru that's now going to be able to be done anywhere in the world anyone that wants this app can get it Australia a uh uh Israel wherever you could download it we're also going to be uh giving out whoever wants to become a distributor of our CDs to actually give them out we're going to be giving out uh another uh 10,000 CDs as a celebration for for this huge Monumental things that's happening at so each person that wants to get some CDs you could email me your name your address tell me a little bit about your community and we'll send you 100 CDs for free if you want more uh then uh you know if I know you and I know that you're reliable then you know most likely will give you more but if I don't know it's a new community then we'll start off with 100 for free see how you do with them and if you're able to give them out right away they we'll send you more we have no problem with sending you more it's just that I don't want to send sometimes I send people a CD and then I talk to them a year later and they still have the CDs you know no one's doing Chu the CDs are in my warehouse and it's definitely then definitely not doing chuva if it's in your house it's all people only doing chuva if those CDs are being distrib you take a box there 25 in there there's 50 in there you put it in your shoe you put it in the kosher market you put it in different places you have people take the CD to do cha so anyone that wants it if you watch the shoe up to now you already deserve a big thank you for watching us and uh just like this uh Steven from Australia Steve is the most recent signer for the monthly program uh he's all the way from Australia imagine somebody from Australia takes almost 25 hours to get there on a plane they want me to do a lecture in Australia and I looked at the flight it's 25 hours to get there to get just to get I'm not talking about like oh the time change and time difference I used to have clients in Australia nice place but to get to Australia it's 25 hours imagine Stephen over here is in Australia is in Australia and he's watching and he signed up to the monthly program program every month he wants to donate to K why because he knows it's not going to my pocket where is it going to it's going to people like him so people in Australia can watch do CH get closer to hasm and get to GED that's the point so people people that understand the mission people that understand what we're doing here they understand that the biggest investment should not be your stock portfolio should not be Bitcoins should not be your car or your house it should be because that's the only thing that's going to last the rest of it after you go they're going to sell it that big house you build you like it so much with the kitchen everything else fine enjoy your house but don't think it's going to last so no one's going to care about your house after you leave this world only going to care about how much it's worth you're going to sell it so if you can invest all your time and all your energy into these physical material assets at the very least you should consider investing some money in because that's the only thing you could take with you after you leave this world so I actually took special pleasure in uh hearing the story today from uh from uh Ahmed bin Muhammad Ahmed bin Muhammad is Bash gonna be a Jew soon imagine someone's relate to Muhammad is goingon to be a Jew imagine that the Quran says go kill Jews the Quran says you Muslim you Muslim the Jews be hiding behind the tree go kill him that's what it says in the Quran go kill him the Jew they call us pigs and monkeys in the Quran they say they say we're pigs and monkeys says the Jew is hiding behind the tree go kill him who's saying this the tree like the tree is talking to the Muslim what are they trying to say the tree and the Muslim have the same brain once in a while there's a diamond in the rough who Muhammad Muhammad's going to be a soon so you imagine somebody that wants the truth gets it this is the beauty this is the beauty the so with that intro behind us let's get into our sh so uh the mishna here says something extraordinary we'll go over briefly when we went over last week briefly and uh then we'll start delving into uh the second part of the mishna and most likely this will be a multi-art mishna we'll probably continue this mishna tomorrow and even next week possibly depending on how deep we go in into it so the says translation Whoever has the following three traits is among the Disciples of our forefather aam and whoever has the three different traits is among the Disciples of the wicked bam those who have a good eye a humble spirit and undemanding soul are the Disciples of our forefather Abraham those who have an evil eye an arrogant spirit and a greedy Soul are the Disciples of the wicked bam how are the Disciples of our forefather abam different from the Disciples of the wicked bam the Disciples of our forefather Abraham enjoy the fruits of their de good deeds in this world and inherit the world to come as it says in Proverbs 8:21 to cause those who love me to inherit an everlasting possession meaning ABA and I will fulfill their storehouses meaning in this world but the Disciples of the wicked bam inherit Gom and descend into The Well of Destruction as it is said in psalm 55:24 four and you oh God shall lower them into the well of Destruction men of Bloodshed and deceit shall not live out half their days but as for me I will trust in you so that's the entire mishna so far we only went over the first sentence and a half which went like this whoever was the following three traits is among the Disciples of and whoever has the three opposite traits different traits is among the Disciples of bam so we went compared and contrasted a little bit between what does it mean to be the talid of abam and what does it mean to be the T of bam who is AB who Isam we see that aam is very easy to describe because in essence Judaism began with him was a person that he sacrificed his life literally from the minute that he had Dot from the minute that he had the ability to think for himself and the M says that it was at three years old he already discovered god with no books his father was hiding him in a cave he came out of a cave one day he looked at the sun he thought the sun was God when the sun went down and the moon came came up he say oh the Moon is stronger he says oh so the Moon is God as time went by the sun came back oh so it can't be that the uh Moon Sun can't be either one of them so who's God and he kept looking but the fact that he was already three years old and thinking like this already shows us that he's not your three years old like today's three years old as much as I love my three-year-old daughter she's not abrah ainu why the brain of Abraham ainu at 3 years old was more complex more advanced more sophisticated than the smartest man on earth today adult can't compare the to and this is the reason that when he was looking for AEM asem peaked the mid says and said you looking for me you looking for me the homeowner the home owner peaked in says oh you're looking for me that's me so here we see that AB a already discovered God a three years old now God didn't speak to him fully at that moment like he did later on but nonetheless a understood that hem runs the world there are many people today that are 30 years old and 40 years old and 50 years old that still don't know whether God is real or not sometimes they're Jewish and sometimes they're not Jewish sometimes they're secular and sometimes they're religious believe it or not there are many religious people that don't believe in God but they do they act out on the religion because they grew up this way it became like a like a custom just like if you go to different parts of Africa if you go into the jungle you're going to see a bunch of people walking around underwears even if they if they're female they only have an underwear on why that's their Minag their Minag is to run around like uh an underwar that's it that's all they wear they just wear underwears and they still use Spears from the uh you know the uh the stone ages and they light fire with with rocks in a jungle B they still live like this and in order for them to get water they dig into the ground and even if you show them some modern technology some of them don't want it some of them don't want it why they like their minim they like their minim they like their Customs they're accustomed to it that the world exists for him is not supposed to just like the minim you're supposed to connect to them unfortunately some of us pressed stop at theim at the customs and we didn't ask any questions why do we do any of this stuff that's why a lot of times you're GNA see different Customs different that people do and they don't really know why like for example if you ever see a Jew wearing a red string on his arm ask him where'd you get that from I'll tell you what some one of these places uh I got I got it at this play that place I said okay so what is it it's it'sah it's a you don't understand oh it's show me show me what it says in the Tor everything you just said show me the source of this red string in the Torah oh I don't know I'll check for you okay check I'll wait call who gave it who sold to you call find it I'll give you a $1,000 if you find a source in the tah but I can't give you a source for it I can't give you a source for the red string where idol worship idol worship I give you a source give you 100 sources of idol worship for the red strings Judaism to zero doesn't exist but it's AAG it's a Jewish Minag it's not Jewish Minag people say it's Jewish why because they want to make some money yeah what about the religious guy selling it by the graves he's selling hundreds of them yeah he wants he likes money he likes money more than good so you have to ask questions you have to ask questions and I uh I see that a lot of times the people that have confusion whether it's because they you know grew up religious but then fell off or they were never religious and then went back in and back out and back in and back out usually it's as a result of them never really caring enough to know the truth they just decided they want to be atheists they decided they want to be secular they don't actually have any real proof like they'll tell yeah but proof to me that God exists I said proof to me doesn't proof to me doesn't oh it's different the reality is is that it takes a lot more faith to believe that everything in the world came from nothing than to believe that the Creator created all of it and runs all of it if you already believe that the Creator runs all of it and created all of it then why are you limiting him that he has to create it your way that the uh egg had to come before the the chicken and the chicken had to come before the egg like why does he have to be your if he's already big enough and strong enough to create all of it why does it have to be your way who are you your creation and those are the types of questions that the atheists don't ask they also don't ask if let's say for example we all came from a monkey why is the monkey still here minut what is he like a human being like what's the matter with him how come he didn't Advance with the rest of us what happened to him and what about the rest of the people in between you know there must have been at least five or six stages between the monkey and the human being according to these atheists like where's the rest of the people where are they like in like Arkansas or something like there's like a special place over there that they they hide all the people that are in the middle stages or maybe they put them in Africa in Chile in Chile maybe there's like a section or maybe Venezuela that's why they take off there's nothing you can't record you can't do anything in Venezuela anymore maybe that's because they're hiding all the people in the middle like where's the people in the middle see these types of questions they get you riled up but the reality is these are all common sense questions it's all common sense there's no genius here there no K but the atheist is never going to ask why is he not going to ask because he's not interesting in the answer he's not interested in the answer he's interested in justifying his behavior just like the secular person that says he loves God and he believes in God but he doesn't feel like being religious why it's not for me it's not for me at least from him it's a little bit of honesty he says he believes in God but he doesn't feel like being religious because he thinks it's optional so he never really delved into finding out who is this Gody that he believes in him so these are all questions that each and every single one of us have to ask and the reason why you have to ask also the same questions even if you claim to believe in God is because if God is real and his your proof is his Torah then you better do what he says because in that same Tor he says if you don't do it and instead of not doing it you treating me with casualness you treat me like I'm one of your friends I will treat you with double casualness meaning there's double punishment and he goes through a list of different horrible punishment M that we went over many times in the past anyone that wants to know more details of it should listen to the about G if you're up to that stage but the point being if God is real we can't joke around this is the beginning Abu already discovered everything I just told you at three years old we're 30 already discovered it took us a little while longer but that we had the Merit to discover it at some point now what do we going to do with it bam on the other hand bam it says there wasn't another Prophet like mosu is in Israel why say is why say no Prophet like Moshe in isra because outside of isra the Other Nation there was a prophet like Moshe who Bam Bam actually had a power that even MOS raenu did not have bam was a genius bam had wisdom Superior to anything that we could imagine bam had powers Superior to anything that we could possibly imagine but says has no share of the world to come why because instead of taking all of this wisdom and all of the gifts that gave him and using it to become a big tadik using it to fulfill the will of hem bam used it to fulfill it own desires his own physical and material desires hasem says okay you'll live in one world you live in this world for a temporary amount of time and you'll forever be remembered as the biggest loser in history why you were given more gifts than any other human being on Earth but you're a loser and you're in Gom forever imagine you gifted you just won I don't know lav you you just won a uh the lotto $600 million I don't know whatever they what these days every Lotto winner is a half a billionaire until they become a millionaire until they go homeless they start as homeless they become a millionaire billionaire and then they become homeless again it's like a circle really fast almost 90% of them go broke no matter how much money they win but imagine let's say for example I don't know you bought a $1 ticket according to mosha Feinstein you're allowed to buy up to $1 the rest if you buy more than $1 it's gambling it's all those people that buy the scratch off tickets $5 $10 $20 no no it's a it's fine it's a game it's I'm just enjoying myself yeah you're you're also uh going against the Tora so you know you're gambling so anyway person just I don't know he takes one of these tickets $1 and uh he gets $500 million now everybody's wow wow already you're goodlooking already you're smart why you have $500 million of course you're smart of course you're good-looking of course you're everything you're tadik too now what about if you won the $500 million and you decide you know what 500 million maybe it's not going to be enough for retirement let me go make quick Buck why I'm gonna go to the casino put it all on red now after you lose it because they're gonna if you put 500 million gonna make sure you lose it after you lose the $500 million are you still smart are you still good-looking are you still all these wonderful things no you're exactly the opposite you are officially The Biggest Loser in the world why you had $500 million on your hand you're what are you doing gambling what are you doing put it on red what are you at least put it on black no why are you doing put it on red what are you doing what's the matter with you but the says no person ever dies with even half of what he wants why because if you don't control your desires even $500 million is not going to be enough why was he rash he never learned to control his desires he wanted he had a desire he went after it he had a sexual desire he went after it if he didn't have a woman he'd go with a donkey too he married the donkey that was his wife that's the difference between abam and both were given gifts but one is the other one is R so what's the difference now a we went over the first one the first sign of being the uh student of a the descendant of abam is to have a good eye what does it mean to have a good eye we went over this a little bit but first and foremost I told you guys having a good ey meaning that you're generous you're not spending all of your days counting other people's stuff Unfortunately today people love to count other people's money they talk about other people's money oh you hear what this guy makes you hear this house that he built you hear the contract that he just signed you hear this you hear that oh we talk about other people's money all day all night people watch the stock market all day just to find out how much other people made they don't have a dollar in the market but they're waiting for the news to say oh yeah you know Jamie Diamond just lost a billion dollars on Bank on on on JP Morgan because of such and such you hear J jamy diamond m m he lost that billion yeah he's $20 billion other what do you care what do you care that he lost or he made what do you care but there's an entire industry a multi-billion dollar industry built around us counting other people's money it's an entire industry they make movies about this they make programs about this there's a stock market Channel there's multiple of them all day you see the ticker trust me I know I spent 20 years doing this there's a Ticker on the bottom and every little point that it goes up or it goes down means billions of dollars now you're thinking oh billions I didn't make it so who did I didn't lose it so who did you're always look at who did who did you're waiting for especially when there's a big move when a stock went up 10 20 30% you're waiting for the story for the headlines to tell you who's the guy that made it who is the guy that owned it before all this stuff happened why ah wow you had you had G before it went up 30% wow is a ma what luck you have no nothing why he's a genius how you know he's a genius cuz [Music] n [Music] worked what if it went down 50% so there's an entire industry entire industry an entire Society of counting other people's money the problem is is counting other people's money is only half the problem the other half the more significant half is the poison that comes along with it when you count other people's stuff it creates a natural jealousy and jealousy is a spiritual cancer Shalom says that when a person does not have jealousy does not suffer from jealousy because he has a good eye he literally is curing himself of a spiritual cancer spiritual cancer no cure why because no matter how much you have you're always going to find somebody that has more if you're constantly going to look at the other side of the of of the field you look at the grass on your neighbor's side you're always going to find it Greener no matter even if it's black you're going to find it Greener that's what the Satan's job is to do as soon as you look at your neighbor's parking lot you're going to find something there that's better than yours a better car a better motorcycle a better boat a better garage door better kids better looking wife better looking husband something a flower something this is why you have many times the people that want to remodel their house before they remodel their house if they're smart they become very friendly with their neighbors why because in many parts of the world you need to get permission to remodel your house to expand your house build another floor uh you know take off trees build trees this all these different things now a lot of times these remodeling projects are halted why the neighbor doesn't want you to do it what does he care oh no he's blocking my vision what Vision you don't have a window you can't see anything no but in case I wanted to put a window in that wall he would be blocking my vision what Vision what do you care you care because you don't have it so this natural jealousy is a cancer it's a spiritual cancer that it's no wonder that the Torah says that a person that dies with this jealousy does not get resurrected with the dead it's such a mid it's such an evil inclination there's no way that you're able to be a sadik if you have this mid it's impossible all day you constantly eating yourself up and what happens is is that you start suffering seeing other people succeed you see the guy just got a new car like a gav what gav why is he Ste why he has a new car so he has to be a thief why why is he a thief ah where is he getting the money for this car he works well like why why does he have to be a thief to get this car why does he have to be a thief because to get this house why does he have to be a thief why does he have to be aash like why can't he just have success in life why why you're the only one that uh meaning what happens when you're jealous is the problem is that you're actually a Kel you're a Kel you're a heretic in Disguise why jealousy in essence is if you de deep down in it means that you think God made a mistake you think God made a mistake and he gave him and he gave her and he gave them and not you Shalom you think God made a mistake so the first thing the mishna says you want to be even considered to enter the school of abrah ainu remove this inclination from your mind stop looking at the other grass stop looking on CNBC stop looking at other people's houses and their cars stop talking about it stop thinking about it if someone says they they such and such something immediately even if you don't mean it say wow good for them even if you don't mean it why cuz eventually you're going to mean it but if every time you hear good news about somebody else you start suffering inside you're just killing yourself so the first thing is to be have a have when you hear good news the other thing also is that it means being generous when you're giving a person there's a lot of people in the world that unfortunately they're generous with other people's stuff the generous with other people's stuff I remember when I would send people to my my company I tell people listen uh if you guys want I'll buy lunch for everybody anytime I'm buying lunch for everybody everybody's getting staks every piece of me is 450 $60 a person $1,000 for lunch $2,000 for lunch whatever I said okay no problem but when they're buying when they're eating lunch rice and beans $5 why don't you buy steak with your money why is it only my money they're very generous with my money very generous with my stuff people are very generous with other people's stuff very generous with other people's stuff it's a horrible Mida it's a horrible thing to do you're not supposed to be jealous with you're not supposed to be generous with other people's stuff supposed to be generous with your stuff your stuff be generous with don't be one of these people that uh you know they for example I remember we had a uh a trade show one time for the hedge fund we ran and uh hedge funds by the way is for millionaires it's not for poor people you deal with millionaires you don't deal with the average Joe that's your customer your average customer is a millionaire your ideal customer is an institution means a billionaire so you would go to these trade shows to meet different Millionaires and billionaires and institutions and so on and so forth and you have a little booth and you're standing there you you have an assistant you have employees whatever it is and you have your presentation material plus everybody has Chach Keys you know everybody has like keychains and different little knickknacks that with your for marketing purposes for marketing purpose has your logo on it so next time he charges the phone he sees your logo on it and uh he says oh you know what let me call your own and invest $10 million with him because I have a $5 charger who knows oh oh mouse pad oh you going Mo in okay let me invest $10 million because I have a $3 mouse pad that's the thought behind marketing by the way the point is if you're in a business world is to get people to constantly think about you if you could somehow tattoo your brand into your their eyelids you would do it that's the point of of marketing if you're not marketing yourself while you in business go work for somebody else at least they're doing it so anyway when we go to these trade shows we'd have these little knickknacks and one time we had these iPhone chargers these iPhone chargers uh like uh car chargers I don't know each one cost five bucks $4 whatever it was at the time six whatever it was and you have you bring a bunch of them you invest the money as a company and you want each person comes to your table you give them one give him one Hi how are you T whatever it is now all of these people are millionaires billionaires that they're rich they don't need the $5 but what do they do you know how many times it happened to us they would come to the table then come 5 minutes later then come 5 minutes later then come 5 minutes later and say can I just have like whatever you have here it's $5 go by you're a billionaire go byy yourself no I want to give it out to people why you generous with my stuff why you generous with my stuff it's a terrible Mida it's a terrible character trait that a lot of people have and it has nothing to do with how much money you have has nothing to do with it it has to do with your midot your character trait if you have rotten character traits you will do such things you hate to see other people succeed because you feel like the world is limited and if they're succeeding it's taking away money from your pocket if they're succeeding it's taking away money from your pocket the same thing goes that sometimes you see how people talk and you see if you have a group of people there's always we've talked about this in the past there always a guy that likes to make sure that everybody listens to him he inter anybody starts talking he starts start interfering why because he also has that limited World mentality where he feels like if he says something then they're going to only like him they're only going to listen to him they're not going to listen to me anymore this limited mindset this limited World mentality destroys businesses destroys families destroys lives when you think that the world is limited you've already failed the most successful people in the world in the business world at the very least are people that don't have limits meaning they say how how much do you want to make everything how much is everything more than what it is now yeah but you already have a billion dollar company yeah it's not enough why it's not enough how is not they have a big mindset that doesn't mean that they have big eyes they just want it's not about greed it's about realizing that there's a potential is unlimited potential is unlimited now when you have a good eye you're going to help yourself succeed and the reason why is because already by having a good eye you're not having a restrictive belief system where you think that other people's success is your failure in fact you have the opposite when you see that when other people succeed that means you can succeed if he succeeded that means that there's an opportunity There's an opportunity you don't feel like you have to open next door to him like a lot of people feel like if he has a shirt store and I want to have a shirt store I have to open the shirt store right next to him why because he thinks that because he's successful in this shirt store it's because of the location of the shirt store not because of hasem it's because of the location of the shortt store that's why he succeeded people like that never succeed in fact even if they succeed it's only temporary I remember having a boss at one point and all he wanted to do was steal other people's ideas all you want to do is steal other people's ideas today unfortunately this is very normal people ask oh can can you uh show me the brochure for such and such place why you going there no I just want to see what they're doing why so I can do the same thing why don't you have your own ideas why do you only listen if it's once in a while you saw something happened to be you saw something and then you uh you think it's a good idea you do it too it's fine but if your entire Enterprise your entire life is based on stealing other people's stuff you have a problem you have a serious problem because there's no conviction behind your belief your only conviction is that you're going to succeed because you're going to steal from them now they actually have a conviction they're doing it for some other reason so if it fails and they believe it maybe it's temporary so they'll continue or if it fails they know it's a failure they're going to abandon ship they're going to know because they have a conviction behind it if you're just focusing on stealing you don't know what the conviction behind is so what happens if it fails and you according to them that have the original idea it's a bad idea you're still stuck on a ship you don't know it they abandon ship if if it's temporary failure or it's just going to take believe it's going to take more time to succeed you don't know that either you're going to abandon ship too fast so having this type of mindset with you're constantly looking at the other the other side of the field is a restrictive type of belief that causes you to suffer and everything that you do now this by itself is just when it has to do with money the more difficult part is when it has to do with talking people have a very hard time complimenting other people unless they want something from them you're going to tell somebody oh wow you look good today because you're about to ask him for a loan or something you can ask him for a ride you ask him for lunch you ask him for something very rarely does somebody actually give a compliment because they mean it there's always a bias there's always a reason behind it and the reason for that is because they don't have Tov they don't have a good eye in reality they're saying oh yeah no he's only succeed because he's good at marketing oh he's only succeeding because he's a good talker oh he's only succeeding because ah he's a good teacher oh always going to give an excuse of why somebody's succeeding it's never they worked hard it's never other thing it's always there's always an excuse for it to ruin it why there's no way that he did it and I didn't you know a few times because the whole thing of what we do Cube and everything else is 100% for hem if you're not doing it for hem you're not going to succeed in actually doing K you may succeed in getting fans but you're not going to succeed in getting people to do chuva so many times I see people that are passionate about kiru and they ask me what do you do how do you do and so on so I try to do my best to help them sometimes they join our team and and we help them uh teach them what we're doing sometimes they want to do their own thing so I tell them listen do this do this cut Clips do and more than a few times I would tell people to do certain things and a couple of times a couple of cases they would take all the advice the free advice that takes a lot of uh effort and Blood Sweat and Tears to get and it use it against you one particular case there was a guy taught him how to do kiru on the internet he knew nothing nothing about YouTube nothing about Facebook nothing about nothing no nothing but he said oh I see you're doing stuff can I do something I said sure I show them everything join the Go funny thing is he has a channel he a channel that he publishes he cuts clips from different lectures and he publishes them all over the Internet pretty much every single Rabbi except me everybody except me like even if you don't like my stuff isn't like an like some I don't know something I'm not a I mean I'm still speaking Torah but that's the thing people people hate it they hate to see other people succeed they hate to see other people succeed there's no and that's also why hasem has Mercy on us and he sends us good messages from time to time especially when we need it was difficult before nightmare a lot of different tests over the last couple of months lot of big tests wants to get us to get to the next grade so he gives us more tests so it was a very very tough time so to keep going hasem you need to have strength you need to have strength so what does he do he says look this guy's converting this guy did chuva this couple just got married this couple just had a baby all these different fantastic news it's like at least I know it's working at least I know I'm not just grinding water you know it's working this guy did CH that one CH there more people here more people there more people watching and so on and so forth you need it and I've heard brother also say it in lectures this is the stuff when you hear stories of people actually doing chuva and doing and and doing the will of hem and getting closer and tell yeah I saw this shoe I liked it it was good it helped me D whatever it is it gives you it's not that you're looking for a pat on the back like oh yeah great another guy watched my sh I have another one on my YouTube It's not that it's that you actually see this actually the all the work and everything else is it did it created something in the world cuz you're not doing it for money there's plenty of other things you could do for money plenty of other things you do for a lot more money there's no money here you're not doing it for cavod if you're doing what we're doing you get the opposite you don't get cavod instead you have people playing on on the phone the whole time you're talking or they're reading a book instead of watching The Shield they're reading a book or they're playing on the phone oh they're talking or the guy last uh last time we did in in Queens the whole time I'm talking the whole time and he's talking to somebody else the whole time why' you come to the if you're talking to somebody else Shabbat says a person does not see the obligation himself he's always looking no no somebody else doing it yeah but I'm talking to you though but they don't see it they don't see it why doesn't see it doesn't see wrong in himself he Sayes no no he's talking about bam still he's still talking about belam he's not talking about me so a person that does not have generosity does not have cannot be a of cannot be a ofah a why you have to be generous abah ainu if you remember when after he had the Brit it says that was in a lot of pain and the mid says what was he in pain for okay it was the third day after uh the but that's the reason he was in pain he says no what was the real pain that abah a was suffering he says it's the first time in his life he didn't have guests he didn't have guests he sent elazar he said go in the mountains go look for guests there's no way that a day will pass and I don't have guests you have to go get guests go get guests elazar went to the mountains looked he said came back said I'm sorry nobody here nobody inight the hottest day of the history it's 500 degrees outside no one's going to come no guests go you're not you're not loyal to me tell tells him you're not loyal to me I can't I can't do it starts looking he's in pain anguish imagine just had a bre I can't imagine I had it eight days old but other people had all day you're walking around with all the pain in the world for what forgets your suffering finally he sees three Arabs he sees three Arabs he goes please please I beg you please my master what my master you're you're the biggest guy you're the man of God what my master what Master he tells three Arabs that he it says the says he thought they were Idol worshippers why you saying that Master says please please let me let me let me let me give you something small to a little bread a little bread Little Bread okay okay do give us whatever you want F why he wants an opportunity to do wants an opportunity to give because all you have is what you're able to give if you can't give it you don't have it if you cannot give it you don't have it it's meaningless Shalom was the treasurer in Spain genius but also genius in other things the me in Spain said listen you're such a genius I want you to run the the Federal Reserve of Spain I want you to run all the money the treasury for the for the king everything run all the money of course success leads to haters leads to jealousy so the haters came to the King instead of chitchatting in his brain oh Al he's stealing money stealing money stealing money Jews stealing money Jews stealing money Jew Jew Jew steal money money money money money why they wanted the job but they didn't get the job got the job eventually the king said you know what let me check let me check if he's Ste stealing money so he he asked him how much money do you have how much money do you have says me I have uh 100,000 the King was so angry at this answer he threw him right in jail he says throw him in jail and take all of his belongings just his house is worth 2 million liar says he only has 100,000 lie to me 100,000 you say would you have just a house worth a million $2 millionar the car the the trees each tree is $10,000 he has all this stuff stock portfolio CH the Chipmunks the the fish that he has the uh monkeys the people the this he has all the stuff what are you talking about just the stock before in CNBC I saw TI I saw take what you talking about has so much money tell you $100,000 lying to me take all of his stuff after a few days the King was smart King was smart after a few days when the heat calmed down cuz all the haters they're happy now they're celebrating why he just took all of his stuff so now they're they're waiting for the job no he's going to pick me no he's going to pick me he's going to pick me he's going to pick me all of them are putting their best suit on cuz they're waiting to get the job off but during those three days the king calmed down he thought to himself eventually what we all supposed to do at some point is to think for ourselves that was the point of the article today have to think for yourself once in a while just quiet everything up quiet all the noise the outside noise think think for a second and the King thought and he said wait a minute the rabbi is a genius the rabbi is not only a genius in his religion and his God and His he's a genius in finance he's a genius with people he's a genius in Psychology he's the smartest man of the land of course he knows I'm the king and I'm going to find out if he's lying to me or not why would he tell me he only has a 100,000 if I know and every Joe knows that just his house is worth more than that why would he give me such an answer and it bothered the king he said you know I'm going to go ask him he goes to the cell and and he says can you please tell me why did you lie to me he says your highness I didn't lie to you you ask me how much I have said yes he said 100,000 said exactly because you're a liar goes no it's not a liar because what are you talking about just the house is two million the car H all that he goes no it's not mine goes what do you mean it's not yours he says look look just because I answer the question the way that was against your liking immediately you took it meaning it's not mine if you're able to take it so easily it's not mine what's mine what I gave I have a little book and I write how much I give I give $10 $100 $1,000 $200 $500 I have that I have that book I go up to sh and say this is what I have why it's the only thing that I gave it's the only thing I have everything else you took I don't have it then it's not really mine if you can take it it's not really mine if the IRS could repossess your assets if somebody can sue you and take it it's not yours meaning the only thing is yours RAB is what you gave a person that has a has a good eye has a much easier time giving because he knows that all he has is what he can give all he has is what he can share if you doesn't have money then he better have some good words you better have something else to offer because Hashem didn't put him into this world to be a tree stump you have to do something you have to contribute to society you can't be a nothing you can't be a nobody you have to do something contribute so far that's the intro now the next thing is to have a humble spirit this Rashi and ra explain Rai explain this exceptional humility this means exceptional humility modesty of spirit towards both God and man having we see Inu that he never expected anything from hasem and even when he was doing a mitvah like praying for other people he says I'm do like there's no like you don't have to answer my prayers you don't even have to talk to meem I'm not coming to you complaining to you I'm just pleading I'm pleading why because maybe and it would be awful for your name it would be awful for you that you would destroy a place where there's a tadik that was actually also the difference between him and Noah Noah never prayed for the people but you see this this humility that Abu had is what made Abu have a direct access to hasem the says that a person that has GA has a pride the opposite of humility is considered disgusting in the eyes of hem any person that is arrogant is considered disgusting in the eyes of hem the page 5 a says that every man who's prideful he thinks who he is he thinks he's better looking he thinks he's smarter he thinks he's more clever he thinks who he is whether compared to man or compared to godom whatever it is is like an Asher tree what's an Asher tree an Asher tree is one of the forms of idolatry that we have in the Torah what is the only mitvah that you can fulfill with the Asher trees destroy them a person that has Pride Hashem says there's only one mitvah that we can fulfill with this person destroy them it's disgusting to hem he says why you stole the robe of the king and you're pretending to be one you stole the ramban writes inan he writes to his son he goes why what are you going to be so proud about you stole the robe of the king you're pretending to be the king like what what are you so proud about thear continues in 47b that says that a prideful person gets to a point where he's even despised by his own family this is something that is very common today in in houses and homes that don't have schite homes that have kids that don't have a good relationship with the parents the number one reason is because somebody doesn't like when other people don't listen to them but of course no one likes when people disagree everyone wants everyone to agree with what they say but a prideful person cannot tolerate other people disagreeing with him other people disagreeing with her why I have an opinion my opinion is a fact my opinion like God said it kados they cannot tolerate somebody else's opinion sometimes they can't even tolerate somebody else's voice and they get to a point where even their own family hates them sometimes how do you know this sometimes you go to the different places and they give you a warning oh yeah my dad yeah yeah he's uh you know he says certain things but now he's just like that he's just like that what do you mean just like that meaning everybody else in the family is accepted this guy's intolerable what are you goingon to do you g to throw him in the garbage he's the father but he's intolerable yeah no he just says yeah he's just like that yeah no she yeah she's just like that you know that's the way she is what do you mean that's the way she is she doesn't a just like the rest of mankind when there's black you're black when there's white you're white when there's green there green you adjust to the environment that's where you're supposed to be you're supposed to adjust no no she's just like that meaning she's so convictions are so ingrained that she's not willing to adjust she's not willing and I'm not talking about belief systems I'm talking about simply thought simply just behavior and so on and it becomes detestable to the people around them to such an extent that literally even their own family hate them page the B Chua the historical B Chua says that a person that has this Pride will fall into G Source Proverbs 21:24 teaches this why would he fall into G just because he's simply arrogant because arrogance begins with man and ends with God arrogance simply means that you believe that your opinion your thoughts your mind your everything is the only thing that counts even if you're wrong you care less about the fact you don't let the fact get in the middle of your opinion now page 4 says in the name of any person who is arrogant who is hearty of spirit ultimately will fall into the sin of cohabiting with a married woman as it is written in proverb 626 as it stated in a married woman a precious soul and snares now the question is what does one thing have to do with the other why is just because he's an arrogant and he looks at himself for 15 minutes every 15 minutes on in the mirror and he wants to make sure that his hair is exactly lined up with the metric system and the this system and it's this way and and the clothes fit just right and if it doesn't f just right then he's going to sue the dry cleaner and his mother and and and he make sure that the car doesn't even have a shadow on on the car and if the guy didn't wash it right then he listen it gives me a bad look what somebody's looking at your car people are too busy going to work they don't what cares about your car no I have to see my own reflection in the wheels and if he doesn't see the reflection in the wheels then he treats all the people that washed his car and slaved over his car like they're all like slaves in Egypt and every teller at any Bank or every teller at every supermarket has to feel like they're literally the size of a peanut next to this guy and they talk to them like they're all trash everybody's below him everybody's below her okay obnoxious disgusting intolerable but what does it have to do with a sex crime the Torah says here in the name of ranan Oran that a person that is hoty a person that's arrogant eventually will make the worst sex crime they could Poss possibly make what does one thing have to do with the other so the is says that just as humility is the sanctuary of Holiness arrogance is the sanctuary for Tuma for impurity whose principal thrust is to entice a person to sexual immorality where do we get this from if you remember I said it to you guys in a maybe on Sunday maybe two Sundays ago I'm not remember exactly the ask how is it that is worshiped Idols at bet mikdash how it possible I mean they saw a fire come down from heaven the mid says a fire come down from heaven in the image of a lion every day imagine fire of an image of a in the size of a city block coming down from heaven eating theot you worshiping an idol is something wrong with you you saw Miracles you saw people go to to to the mikdash they become at the end they do CH just by going there the amount of Miracles that you saw in bet mikdash you can't even imagine how how are you going to go worship idols what's the matter with you gives 63 says had nothing to do with Idols it had nothing to do with Idols am didn't believe the idols but they worshiped him yes they worshiped him but they didn't believe it so why did they do it why do they go why did they go why do they bring Buddha to their house why they bring JC Penny for for for for what's the matter why why you bring why you bringing this garbage to the house this don't bring idol worship into your house this type says TV is is idol worship don't bring it to your house what's the matter why you bringing this to your house says of course they didn't believe the idols did anything or were anything or are anything of course they didn't believe it but they knew that as soon as the rabbis and the rest of the Kila saw that they have an idol in their house they have a Buddha statue in the backyard they have a Buddha statue on the door they take off the muza they put the Buddha statue there says Ah he's he's secular he's nothing I don't want to talk to him don't count toan don't invite him to the bar mitzvah don't talk to them why would any Jew want such a thing why would any Jew want to be put on exile put on don't invite me tovah don't invite me to the wedding don't count on me y I'm eating what's the matter why would I you want this says because in reality all they wanted is to do sex crimes all they wanted to do is go have sex with the green all they wanted to do is have sex without being married all they wanted to do is do things of but they knew that as long as they were counted as a part of the Manan they can't do it it's embarrassing but as soon as they were considered Idol worshippers no one would pay attention to them so they go do whatever they want meaning it had nothing to do with the idol worship it was all about having sex it was all about it was all about wasting seed it was all about go let me do whatever I want where does it all come from it comes from arrogance it comes from arrogance why does it come from arrogance because arrogance is the root of this desire arrogance is the root of this horrible desire because you feel that you're supposed to get whatever you want you're entitled like this generation this lowly generation eration of entitled people that if you don't give them an answer within 30 seconds you're already late that if you don't write every single midash if you don't say every single word if you don't do every single thing according to that I don't think I don't think he knows what he's talking about if you don't give him the perfect product that they couldn't even imagine you don't surprise them with a big present maybe a k Why arrogance people feel that they're entitled and that entitlement has a horrible horrible end as the continues says an arrogant person is regarded as if he has cohabited with all of the foreign The Forbidden relations as it is written as it's written everyone that is arrogant has an arrogant heart is an Abomination to Hashem this is in Leviticus 18:27 for all of those AB Abominations have to do with forbidden relations it's not just the idolatry because if a person denies hashem's existence only intellectually let's say he just simply never learned anything he doesn't know God exists God doesn't exist Torah and science science Torah he doesn't know anything all his years he went to school the teacher told him he came from monkeys he told him that he was a monkey and now he's a human he told him that he was playing with the Dinosaurs three zillion years ago and now he's a human he told him that uh his ancestors used to light fire with rocks like uh like uh like they say in the movies that his other ancestor is the amiba you know that little the guy just spits something on the floor yeah that's a grandfather that's your grandfather Yeah right there you Smooch over there yeah that's your grandfather like the stupidest things in the world but that's what he learned M his whole life so he doesn't know so if he denies aem's EX existence only intellectually a powerful revelation of Divine Providence can shock this person into acknowledgement and belief meaning you show this guy a few Torah proofs he can do TR in a second why he was an empty vessel all you got to do is put something in there that's it he doesn't know he doesn't know anything which is the majority of people today majority of Jews today don't know anything I'm not talking about just people are secular I'm talking about everybody secular religious religious most people don't know anything that's why when I talked to the in I went there few years a two years ago maybe and we had a little little asked me to give a I said what am I going to teach you guys you guys learn T all day I'm going to teach you I barely know anything said no no you know Allah you got people do chv we didn't get people all these wonderful compliments I don't believe any of it but anyway I said okay I'll give you a show on something I know you don't know what what will I know that they don't know I said I know people and I know you don't know people why you're here you're in a four walls your whole life oh you have a oh you have a and you're assuming that the public at large the secular the other guys they also know Noah they also read they also know andu and you assume they all know this like why would you not knowu is the greatest of great how could you not knowu what' you do with your life you don't knowu what you do how' you go a day in your life without knowu my little three-year-old knows mhu how do you not knowu over a million kids in do not know a million people don't know anything I told them I know people and I know that you assume they know what you're talking about when you start so you are scared to give lectures why because you saying what can I say that they don't know you're assuming that in order for you to give a lecture you have to give a k you have to give some huge Insight that only maybe like ra Feinstein Shalom and maybe like a uh the STI They you know something that they said that's in one of their books and you found it it's in the middle it's in a small thing it's not really the big book it's a small book and you found and you're going to tell them this cuz you think that that's the stuff they don't know in reality they don't even know who Noah is most people found out about mosenu in a movie 50 60 years ago the go published a movie called The Ten Commandments that's how most people see mosu there's still statues till this day till this day being so in stores of mosenu an image of mosenu and they have horns on mosenu when we moved to America my mom got it was in one of the houses we had we moved into we rented and it was a statue that said Moses on it but I never understood why does he have horns what's the matter with these people years years later maybe 20 years later I realized why the statue had horns because these imbeciles that made the Statue don't know any Hebrew and it says that when mosenu when mosenu went down from from Mount sa he had Karen he had Karen meaning he had like The Shining sun he had like his his face was shining like the sun that's we have to put a mask on but these imiles translated Karen like horn because Karen also means horn so everyone thinks that M had horns most people think this you know how they found out about there was a movie with uh some other actor Russell Crow I think his name is came out five 10 years ago has nothing to do with Noah but some guy in a boat I didn't watch the movie I just saw the previews has nothing to do with Noah another guy made a movie about the world and everything else and how it started and everything else not the guy himself says no no I just the only thing we have in common is I said that was a initial youth there was a snake there's cool images and a lot of people use it for Torah movies today but in reality has nothing to do with the Torah but that's people's knowledge they get Torah Knowledge from movies it has nothing to do with it they get fiction books that some Christians wrote and they tell you that uh maybe was gay because there's a in the Tora he says that yatan loved him more than a woman or they tell you that he made a sin or they tell you that JC Penny is related to him all types of nonsense all types of St people people don't know anything people don't know anything nothing nothing I'm not talking about go only talking about Jews I'm talking about us we don't know anything you know how I know you know how I know I don't know anything when I started doing CH I thought I knew something why I used to debate other idiots I knew mosu I knew Noah I knew their stuff didn't make any sense so I would debate them constantly once I actually started really learning I realized how little I actually knew now I was considered smart according to teachers and grades and so on I was considered one of those people I realized I was a complete IMO when it came to Torah nothing I knew nothing and I said to myself wait a minute if I'm the one that knows nothing and all these people listen to me imagine how little they know people don't know anything and that was the lecture in almost two years ago several of them decided to start doing sh put it on YouTube some of them started giving some of them changed their style told them stop looking for stop looking for new insights even if you don't know how to talk do you know how to read read par sh with commentary by Rashi perfect sh read with commentary by Rashi nothing else don't add a single word read okay what does Rashi say over here ohash mentions who oh it's his father and so on and so forth that's it you don't have to what happens why is so many not this why is so many people confused even more sometimes because people have too much arrogance to just keep it at the knowledge of the sages they have to throw their own two Senses Into it if their own two senses agree with the Tor but if your two senses contradict the Tor you're an arrogant person your Tor is considered disgusting and to says that this person that has this arrogance his Torah is not from sh you're not allowed to learn from him so a person needs to know first and foremost if you're a teacher stop looking for complicated subjects teach Basics if you see anybody advertising cabala you should translate as do not enter it's not for you anyone that says I'm going to teach you cabala to you anyone that's listening and actually believes any word that I said in the last I don't know few years that we've been learning together anyone says I'm going to teach you cabala that should that the commentary on not from your own should be do not enter why it's nonsense it's nonsense number one if he really knew cabala he wouldn't be teaching you cabalist are very very holy people there's very few of them and they are not usually they're not usually people that do K with people public lectures and so on that's number one number two you don't teach the public cabala simply said who says it calist specifically says you now have to teach the public stuff like this why they don't even know no is they don't know you're not allowed to drive on Shabbat they don't know you're not they don't know anything you're teaching him cabala what cabala you imile what cabala they don't know anything they don't know mosu they don't know that had a couple of sons they don't know anything wait to teaching cabala somebody says I'm teaching cabala do not enter that's already red red flag red like fire the other thing is you have to understand you have to check stuff you have to check you can't just be spiritually lazy and think oh yeah he said it so therefore it's true check says a page check if he's not saying any sources ask him where' you get this stuff from because a lot of people are too arrogant too arrogant to actually use the tah as sources or sometimes what they do is they pervert the Torah they say something from the tah and then they completely pervert what it means to something completely different so if you're a student you're learning from people make sure you're learning from the right vessel from the right place if you're a teacher stop looking for different new insights you don't need to be Rashi if you really want to be a you want to do K just teach them Basics teach them the basics that's all they need to know teach them to keep shab teach them teach them koser teach them teach them how to be decent human beings because we only are trying we're only trying to get to ganed we don't need to be AB ainu but it all starts with having a humble Spirit understanding where we stand because if we don't understand where we stand if we are too prideful we cannot be descendant we cannot be a Protege we cannot be a student of ainu why wouldn't you want to be a prote of ainu who's better you or abah aam was humble why can't I why shouldn't I be like him and to specifically says that the opposite of humility is arrogance and arrogance leads to sex crimes leads to that because a person that's arrogant feels like there's no desire that he has that should not be met even if that desire is against the Torah and that's why the Torah says that it starts arrogance is considered disgusting in the eyes of hem because it starts with arrogance between you and another person but it ends with AEM it ends with AEM the next part and we'll finish here is is undemanding Soul what does it mean an undemanding soul and say that somebody that exercises restraint and self-control over forbidden physical desires or over other excessive luxuries again the are not connecting these words to what we would think like you would think undemanding soul would be something spiritual like oh you don't ask too many questions in a shield you don't uh I don't know you don't you know you'll expect certain things you're not expecting certain things it's more spiritual you would think say it's the exact opposite un demanding Soul meaning that you've perfected your soul you've made your soul you've Sanctified it to such an extent that you don't have these desires for materialism like other people do now some people try to go cold turkey I have a student God bless him he's a very extreme person and usually he does things before he tells me and then he hits a wall and then I have to try to help him fix it he means well God bless him he means well he's a good guy but being extreme is not smart being extreme is not smart especially when it comes to CH if you're extreme too fast that's aan Satan wants you to go overboard you are yesterday he wants you to be overnight why because he knows that after you realize you can never beovu in a week then you say you know what the heck with it I'm G to go back to being Amal again but that's not the way to do things there are certain things that you have to be extreme with like when it comes to humility you have to be as humble as possible but that can cannot happen overnight when it comes to good mid do you have to excel in them you have to do but that cannot happen overnight when it comes to anger you have to literally remove it from your heart remove that Stone from your heart that you can never get angry but that's not going to happen overnight You're Still Human you have to train yourself you have to fix it but there are certain things that if you go and you you can do overnight but if you do you will fail but you won't fail right away for example people that try to eliminate technology in today's world technology is a source of all evil and all good at the same time the very same iPhone the very same Android the very same uh whatever phones exist in the world to give you you could be reading right now ales you could be right now clicking on app and learning how to become a decent human being or you could what you can do with this phone you could see all of the filth of the world in front of your eyes in a second for free the worst filth that you can't even imagine you could see in a second you could literally take the connection there's a spiritual connection between you and hem like you you have to let's say imagine something imagine a rope imagine a rope with a rope a rope a rope around around of the Rope for example like the the ropes for the ships the big ship the anchors the Rope it's not just a single rope it's not like a little string it's a rope another rope another rope another rope and they'll make it into one rope and then you know becomes much stronger that way so imagine you have this type of rope connecting you to connecting you to heaven now when you turn on app you're strengthening that rope you're strengthening it you're using that rope you're pressing the go button and you're you're getting and receiving you're receiving and delivering good things on this rope on this vessel on the other hand you go to the garbage you go to some uh movie rated PG-13 today the kids movies have more nudity than the adult movies sometimes yeah see all these little people half naked on the beach or even worse naked on your phone same phone it's not that you're weakening it you're not weakening it you're not weakening the Rope what are you doing you take it's like somebody like you just took the Mal takes his machete cut it off you finished it you just destroy the Rope destroy the Rope now what happens something has to happen who you connected to Satan you now you connected to the Satan Satan sends you all of his soldiers what do the soldiers tell you Hey listen you got to do something about it look what you saw you have to act what you do you start acting start acting so we see here that Hashem gave you same technology same tool to bring you to bring you Tuma when they asked in the past how could it be that Hashem is going to publicize wheni comes it says in the book of Zacharia is's going to publicize to the world that in three days mashia will arrive how how is this news going to arrive in the world is it going to be like Mount saai that H's words are going to be inscripted into the into the heavens it's going to be this today we don't even ask that question why if you breathe the wrong way or you help a duck cross the street it goes to the rest of the world in two seconds on one of these channels on the internet in two seconds it's all over the world everybody's a cameraman you can't hide anything in two seconds you can publicize your message right now this this sh is going all over the world all over the world there's more people on online right now watching this Shu than many more than you guys meaning that the message literally reaches live it doesn't have to wait for the next day live it goes somewhere else so hasem gave us the opportunity to deliver good or bad instantaneously in this generation now of course a person that wants to limit their exposure Ure to bad things is going to want to put restrictions on these tools now if he puts different sensors like uh these uh watch your eyes guard your eyes apps that you put that block certain things on your phone on your internet on your computer so you don't even get the opportunity to see the commercials and suggestions on the sidebars you don't even get the opportunity to be allowed to go to certain websites that you know are complet complely full of garbage and so on and so forth you can use those apps those are good it can help yourself but the reality is there's nothing better than a strong willpower if you don't have a strong willpower you'll fail anyway it's only a matter of time so guard your eyes will guard your eyes exactly when your willpower is not being used at all because you don't have a real need you don't have the desire you're guarding your eyes that that don't need to be guarded when is guarding your eyes not going to work when the Satan shows up he says you know the code for this guard your eyes you know the code for this other app you know this code for this website just press the press the little password and all of a sudden unguarded unguarded everything goes to the garbage oh no no I give it to my wife okay you'll convince your wife to give it to you too by mistake by this by that trust me the Satan has very clever ways very clever ways there's nothing better than a strong willpower so if a person goes extreme he says you know what I know I can't I don't have a strong willpower so what I'm gonna do I'm gonna throw out my phone I'm gonna throw out my computer I'm gonna throw out everything I'm not going to associate it with the rest of the world I'm G to go into a cave and that's it it's not going to work that's also not going to work for most people it's not going to work work if you grew up like me with technology in your life and you try to do that you Tred to pretty much go cold turkey no phone no computer no this no that no nothing overnight you will fail it's just going to take some time a month two months six months a year eventually you're going to fail but when people like that fail they fail miserably they don't fail by using a phone they fail by all of a sudden they don't want to be religious anymore in one day all of a sudden their new hangout Club his uh prostitution house why last week he wasn't using a phone he wasn't using a computer he wasn't using this yes but it wasn't because of Willow he didn't teach himself he didn't create an a spiritual antibiotic the keyot is to develop a spiritual antibiotic because even though the antibiotic it makes you sick a little bit in the beginning when you go to the doctor is a little baby they give you medicine the medicine they give you the shots they give you they make you sick they make the kid sick why because they want the kids immune system to develop antibiotics to develop these different things within the body they going to be able to fight the sickness just like la de just like we do it physically we have to do it spiritually you cannot just say I'm never going to use a phone ever again you're going to use a phone you live in the world buddy you live in the world you're going to use a phone I'm never going to use a a computer ever again you're going to use a computer if you work for anybody they're going to expect you to use a computer unless they're still using typewriters from 1960s unless you're going to go work in a library that's going out of business any day because the government sees it's a complete waste of money no one reads books anymore in these libraries you're going to work over there and just like you know just grind wall all day oh yeah oh nobody came today oh wow this is the third month in a row nobody showed up the only one that borrows books from the libraryies the guy that works there so the reality is you cannot go cold turkey like that why because eventually you're going to break you're going to have to you're going to use it why you have a job you have a something you have to make a phone call you have to do something so what happens since you never built an spiritual immune system the minute you see this phone again the minute you see this computer again you're gonna lose it because there's no there's no immune system so what happens oh wow I got half hour with this phone I'm doing everything I'm ordering everything on eBay everything on Amazon everything on this one I'm ordering the whole world why I only have a half hour half hour to go crazy and that's what people do because they don't develop a spiritual immune system they don't develop good midot they don't develop a good reason of why it's you're not supposed to to do it you're not supposed to look at this disgusting stuff why because Hashem said so page 25 says that says a person should never say I don't want to eat milk and meat or wear shates it's not true it's delicious what should he say he should say I am I want to eat milk and meat I want to wear Shotz but what can I do that my father in Heaven said no I want to sin but what can I do that my father in Heaven said no he said no so I can't do it it's not because I don't want to do it it's because he said no and I want to be connected to him and I know that if I do it I'm going to be disconnected from and I can't tolerate that I can't tolerate being disconnected from hasem I love him I fear Him I need him how could I do something against him but if you're going to think oh no all of a sudden I'm going to become all of a sudden I'm going to stop everything he didn't grow up that way if you grew up that way and you never saw a computer in your life you never saw a phone in your life if such people still exist in the world fine then you don't know what you're missing that even in the most religious neighborhoods in the world people use technology to Simply say I'm going to avoid it for the rest of my life that may apply to you but it's not going to apply to your kids it's still not a good idea it's still not good a good idea to say no no I'm good okay let's say let's say you're so strong you're so good you're so holy you're are not going to use a phone you're not going to use a computer fine what about your kids no my kids are going to do what I want yes as long as they're living with you eventually they're going to move out eventually they're going to go somewhere they're gonna get married they what are they gonna do they don't have or 18 years they grew up they don't know they don't know what a phone is all of a sudden they wake up 2040 there's ships flying in the air so I say oh wow like what are they they're gonna look at you like ABA you're a liar you told me that there's no there's nothing there's ships flying in the air there's people talking through their like the stuff like what happened like they feel like they they rediscovered the world and that's why people go crazy they don't go off the they go off the mountain they go off the mountain why because do they don't have a spiritual immune system you need a spiritual immune system you need to learn how to not want it you need to learn how to realize that this is bad for you it's poison and in order to do that we have to work on our midot we have to work on our character Tres we have to realize what is the root of me wanting this thing when it comes to sexual desires the root is arrogance that's what the says you're arrogant eventually you're G to go with is why because an arrogant person believes that all of his desires need to be fulfilled they must be fulfilled meaning this generation of Millennials and so on it's not nothing new Under the Sun it wasn't created now it's already been around since the beginning of time this UND demand mentality has always been around a person needs to know that arrogance is not just about thinking who you are arrogance is also operating as if the world needs to revolve around your tune now also continu says that a person that is overly materialistic constantly wants to buy new cars and watches and so on and so forth is going to have a sick Soul not an undemanding Soul because unfortunately you give a person a 100 he wants 200 you give him 200 he wants 400 you give him 400 he wants 800 is's never going to want enough the more he fulfills his desires the more he's going to want so a person that actually contains himself that has self-control that develops this spiritual immune system over excessive luxuries will enjoy a spiritually healthy Soul without desire for lust or sin at all says by minimizing your materialism you're actually fixing your soul that's it's not just oh listen I'm gonna not get this watch because uh you know I don't need a I already have a watch no no no literally by understanding why why there's no purpose for this watch you already have one why there's no purpose for this car you can get something cheaper by lowering the material just getting what you need not what you want you may want a 19 bedroom house and you may be able to afford a 19 bedroom house but for what do you have 19 people in your house no it's you and a a dog and a dog's 16 he's dying any day what are you going to do with 19 rooms what are you going to do with eight rooms most people have so much more than what they need they kill themselves spiritually you look at every you walk in Jewish neighborhoods you look at any neighborhood you see people have two three four five $6,000 a month in payments just in their parking lot just in their garage $5,000 a month $4,000 a month when car that's three people in the house 17 cars why why do you have so many what do you need all this stuff why do you need to get the most expensive Mercedes why it drives like you need to what what what does it do what does it do what does it fly it still has four wheels just like the Hyundai does why do you need to spend $1,500 a month on one car for what you know how much stuff you can do with that extra money you know how many people you could save you know how much valuable things you can do now you're not gonna think no no I could do that and that because I'm doing good okay what about if you don't do good you know how hard it is to undo expenses that was that's the reason why failure causes people to commit suicide by the way from personal experience I could tell you that at one point we got to $185,000 a month in expenses $185,000 a month in expenses business personal and so on now when you're making on a bad month 200,000 you're still okay you're still making a profit on a good month you make a half a million you're doing all right $180,000 a month in expense is not the end of the world what if you're not making it then but if you're not making a half a million what if one month you got sick and you didn't go to work and you made zero okay so now you have $185,000 a month in expenses and zero income so now what does that mean you lost $185,000 okay one month no big deal you still made plenty of money before what about two months what three months four five 6 Seven 8 n a year okay now you just lost $2 million but why don't you just stop the expenses it's not so easy you can't just stop all the expenses you can't just gohe Mercedes listen that $1,500 a month lease I don't feel like having it anymore take the car back yeah all right take it the bar you take you signed you signed your soul we're not taking it back unless you give us x amount of money it's very hard to undo oh yeah listen Mr uh building owner yeah that $25,000 a month that I'm paying you in rent I can't pay for it anymore we don't care you sign a 10 year lease 10 year lease $25,000 a month $30,000 a month has to show up on the first of the month like clockwork we care less that you're sick we care less but thank you for calling thank you for letting us know like you can't just undo it so all of these people that build them eles up and they get all these expenses it's also a reason why people commit suicide because they realize that the life that they build themselves up assumed that they're going to continue succeeding forever just like I thought just like everybody else thinks no one ever thinks they're going to fail so that's why if you ever fail if you have a hiccup if you have a problem it's very hard to undo all this stuff and then you're in a situation where you have a lot more money coming out than coming in and you don't know what to do no one cares by the way the lawyers don't care the doctors don't care the vendors don't care the mortgage doesn't care the IRS definitely doesn't care no one cares in fact every single one of them is going to fight for every little Penny you have left because they know you're about to hit broke so they're about they need to get their money they care less that's that's that's that's the world that's the world if you build yourself up that way you're building yourself up for failure because bumps will happen failure will happen every successful story has quite a few failures on the way you only have to succeed once but failing you could fail 100 times on the way to success you could fail a hundred times on the way to success most failures are self-inflicted both in life whether it be business or it be spirituality so a person the to is teaching us something that's valuable for all aspects of Life Jew or non-jew is telling you something if you contain yourself you contain these desires you stop yourself from wasting so much money on all this nonsense not only will you protect yourself from failure materially but also you'll protect yourself from failure spiritually because you will not have the bigger desires if you don't meet the smaller desires if you don't buy the 700 or $800 a month car you're never going to have the desire to buy the $2,000 a month car why because you're still stuck with $300 a month you're not no logical person goes from $300 a month to $2,000 a month how you going to go to $2,000 a month if you upgrade to 800 for no reason you upgrade to $800 a month after six months you don't really like it anymore what do you want you want the $1,500 a month you get the $1,500 a month ah $1,500 it's for it's for newbies I need the $2,000 a month I need the bigger house I need the bigger this I need so what happens every time you meet this desire it's a self-inflicted wound so this NE this undemanding Soul says one of the ways to express it is by being happy with our share and the mid says that a man's animalistic element seeks to be the most prominent part of his life and decisions so when a man diminishes its prominence and his decisions he possesses an undemanding soul to such an extent that the says as I mentioned before that a person that has these traits has a good ey is humble and most importantly is a has an undemanding Soul could have both freedom of spirituality as well as physicality why when you have an undemanding Soul you're not going to feel like you have to do anything other than your Basics and the other demanding Soul theid yavid says Needs little for himself and is able to devote himself to the spiritual welfare of others always seeking to influence them towards the meritorious existence a person that focuses on spending all of their energy working on arote fixing their arote lowering their material intake is going to leave room for his spirituality to grow to such an extent that he's going to want to exert it in a different he's going to want to exert that energy in a different way how by fulfilling MIT by actually helping others then you could finally become someone that's contributed to contributing to society your car is not contributing to society your house is not contributing to society your materialism is not contributing to society your actions are so all of this these are just simple things simple things just to sign up for the school ofo these are things that even if we attained one of them if we attained one of them we've already achieved a certain level of spiritual success now there's a lot more obviously on the other side but we'll continue that tomorrow any questions same price okay turn off the camera 500 questions there's a lot more but has to do with par and so on another three hours you guys are tired us that how is it a pleasurable thing to do what Hashem wants from us always theual so if you fulfill aem's will there is a a physical pleasure as well as a spiritual pleasure if you see there's a picture of a um um uh the current um ofi of is a picture of him moments after he started learning and you see happiness from this picture now to us we don't really know much about much it looks like the old man's smiling but anyone that knows a little bit of Tora and knows and has reached certain levels knows that when you attain a certain level of spiritual success you actually get a physical pleasure from it in fact there are certain levels that you could attain spiritually that it will give you a physical pleasure that's greater than any High you could ever imagine so first thing I answer that because I don't want you to think that Judaism and tah is just about reading books consuming knowledge and then eventually dying that's not it the there is a physical aspect to it second thing is is that when you're fulfilling MIT you're constantly physical you're constantly physical you put on you pray you talk you learn you uh you uh you're with your wife you're uh you know you're you're teaching you're learning you're constantly physical and and these things have a much greater impact on a person than any physical because physical for example if you call it intimacy or if you call it I don't know playing some type of sport or I don't know working or whatever it is the physical pleasures of a person have a very very shortl lasting effect so even if you go to the ultimate to the ultimate physical pleasure the Ecstasy of intimacy that physical aspect at most well last moments the meet the greet the dinner the the conversation all that other stuff doesn't actually give the person any physical pleasure whatsoever in reality in the secular world most people care less about it if they could just go straight to the end they're happy that's why there a whole industry based around it and people are willing to give their lives away just for this moment of pleasure unfortunately what happen happens is that they when they constantly allow themselves to destroy themselves by meeting this moment of pleasure eventually that pleasure is no longer pleasurable it's like as if you loved steak so much that uh you ate it for breakfast lunch and dinner breakfast lunch and dinner breakfast lunch and dinner after a week you don't really like steak that much so you're always just going to eat it for breakfast and after two weeks you don't even want it for breakfast after 3 weeks because you continue to you're forced be feeding yourself to eat steak for breakfast lunch and dinner after a month just hearing the word steak wants you know makes you want to vomit so what happens with physical pleasure when you're simply meeting that physical pleasure eventually gives you a disgusting feeling it doesn't give you that same pleasure it initially did so then you're looking for Desires in a different way then it's not enough anymore then you have have to change person then you have to change way andv says that a person that meets their sexual desires in a regular basis and waste seed and then eventually goes with women and meets every single one of his desires he meets him eventually will become a homosexual why because eventually women are not enough all of these celebrities that came out of the closet they weren't in the closet until they made themselves go in there because they literally met every single physical desire they had they destroyed themselves and eventually one woman wasn't enough five women weren't enough one marriage wasn't enough five marriages weren't enough one male one this one that that's why there's a whole industry of people that literally have gone to such a low level they literally married to animals there are three million people just in the United States alone why because they constantly meet this physical pleasure because the physical pleasure is limited the enjoyment from it is limited but you still want you still remember that original Russian you want it again you just don't know that you can't get it on the other hand with spiritual pleasure it's not as easy to attain you cannot get it in two seconds in fact it's drastically harder to attain pleasure from your prayer pleasure from your learning pleasure from any other aspect of of of Torah it's much much more difficult to attain but I can tell you from experience that the effect lasts for a very long time very very long time both physical intellectual and so on the effect of spirituality will affect you in a much much more impactful way to such an extent that it could literally make you turn tides in your life it could take you from the bottom of the barrel to feeling like you're in ganeden in moments but it's a lot harder to get it's much much harder to get so I give you an example in a writing articles for me is difficult not because I uh don't know how to write I know how to write I've written many articles in the business world and and so on whoever is there can you what is that whatever that is stop it um the writing an article takes a while takes a while now if I say a while I tell you listen to take one page will take an hour that's not really a while but if I tell you that taking writing one page can take me 36 hours that's a while 36 hours of work on one page it's a lot it's a long time a long time sometimes it takes that much sometimes it takes much less sometimes takes uh an hour but I can tell you that one of the articles that I wrote that literally took me 36 hours to write less than two pages but it was a Torah article a Torah T the high that I got from it at the end with the completion and knowing that it's a good product and the pre feedback that I got from people probably last for weeks no physical pleasure could ever even can meet that for a second exactly you invested a lot of time well that's the thing if you're if you're if you're in if you're doing Torah it's it's never wrong you're doing if you're if you're a religious person that believes in God then fulfilling the will of hem by doing his MIT by learning his T by educating yourself about hem and so on in essence what it means is that you're doing the best thing you can possibly do now the reason why some people don't feel that pleasure most people don't feel that pleasure is in reality they don't really believe it they have a safek they have a doubt in their belief is God really listening to me I mean he's kind of busy is he listening to so the way to believe it is by taking C certain actions on ourselves by making certain changes in ourselves by for example looking at what the tah commands of us not just of the but the root of the mitvah why who what when and the most important thing is learning the type of Tor that's going to lead us to change our Behavior if the Tora that's teaching that that we're learning is only going to change stuff we do like you're gonna learn okay you have to buy an for good for you okay so you're gonna eat mat for p okay good for you most people are not going to get physical pleasure from eating mat or from buying an or from a or from fast on the stuff that we do exterior wise doesn't change doesn't do anything for us the stuff that does do something for us is achieving things that require us to change our character traits so for example if you're only able to listen and learn tah let's say for 15 minutes straight push yourself to a half hour you'll get a little bit of pleasure from the half hour not a lot you're gonna get a little more pleasure from half hour now if you saw that half hour has become easy to you study for an hour straight without talking without uh every two seconds going a smoke break without every two seconds take check in your phone then you'll see then you do it for two hours do it for two hours without talking without chitchatting only do it for two hours if you do that you'll feel you're you're in Cloud Nine now you want to feel like you're in GED now do it for 90 days straight with learning to for 90 days straight for two hours after 90 days after 90 days not only are you on cloud n but if you want a miracle to happen in your life you'll see it 90 days straight no breaks even Yip the type of pleasure that you will get from learning Torah is nothing there's nothing that's going to compare to it why because if you're learning real tah you're thinking about things it leads you to change certain actions that you do you're not just learning about M oh he's the humblest guy of all time wow what a good guy I wish he was my friend no no you're learning oh so what made him humble why is he humble how can I do it can I do it why do I do why don't I do it what's how why why am I why would I be the opposite of Moshe you start delving into things and seeing the positive things in the Tora the to has it in there because we're supposed to emulate it we're supposed to do that Tor tells you that abrah ainu cried a little bit whenu died the love of his life love of his life died he cried a little bit it says has a small and teaches us why does it have a small the says has a small unusual small because it's trying to tell us that even over crying over his the love of his life he cried a little bit why he contained himself you're allowed to be sad but only a little bit only a little bit so we learned something from there so so here we have to learn oh I can learn a lot from this guy I can learn a lot from this thing that I'm allowed to be sad but only a little bit but on the other hand it also has stories about why is have stories about bam because we're all supposed to learn not what not to do bam was bam because all the power and the gifts that gave him he wasted it why on his physical desires so what do I learn from there I can't do that so what physical desires do I have that I'm addicted to am I addicted to checking my phone every two seconds yes am I addicted to smoking cigarettes no am I addicted to uh this am I addicted all the different things a person needs to check themselves how am I not Beam not how am IAM everybody takes the ab how am I not beam how am I not beam start looking at to the to has these stories wait just fairy tales to is teaching you how what is check yourself check yourself once you start checking yourself once you start looking into what do I do what do I not do and you start taking things on yourself oh you know what I'm really addicted to this phone oh you know what I'm really addicted to this internet oh you know what I'm really addicted to this money I'm really addict I have all these bad things I can't fix all of them let me pick one pick one pick one and you'll see the beginning it's tough beginning you may even start hating yourself a little bit because it's so difficult but then once you pass a week you haven't wasted a seed for a week you haven't looked in the internet and disgusting things for a week you whatever things that you're working on for a week already you feel like wow I'm like sadik walk around with like I'm sadik yeah you see is looking down upon me he says why you feel strong because you have a spiritual pleasure don't let her get to your head which we'll talk about tomorrow but the point is is that you'll get a physical you'll get a physical pleasure from the spiritual pleasure but only if you take on things if you do things not just perform like a robot so so the closer you get to Hashem the more you'll start changing your life your behavior the things you say the things you don't say the things you think about the things you don't think about and so on and so forth it'll lead you to a point where you literally feel God you don't need to believe in him anymore you feel him you feel him constantly you see him everywhere you see God everywhere constantly in everything there's no place that's why the the were asked what's the T mitzvah some of them have said the same thing they have is not talking about t in the bathroom not talking about it's the toughest me for them thinking you're allowed to think about hm it's not possible not to think about hm if you're sad it's not possible not to think about AEM but you're not allowed to think about Tora meaning to start doing and this and that is this somebody send you a text am I allowed to uh eat on uh pork you not say no why it's not to answer now answer but to think about hem it's not possible not to think about hm why because your whole life is hm but that's already you have a lot of T in you if you're not if you're not thinking about hem in the bathroom if you're not thinking about hm during the day if you have to be forced to think about hem and you only think about him during the bathroom then obviously we have to work hard but the point is is that all of these things require a person to change once you change you get the pleasure you get the benefit you get the Miracles and so on and so forth but without changing the road unfortunately is straight down very very good question why do we say we are the lowest generation if uh all the uh horrible things happened in the past as says in Ecclesiastes nothing new Under the Sun seven times in Ecclesiastes he says this why so how could we be the lowest generation if all the sins we're making today whether they be sex crimes or idolatry or Shabbat all of it existed in the past so why why are we the worst generation because the generation of knowledge at Mount sa had a lot more Tora than we did had a lot closer relationship with hem than we do same thing with the relationship that am had a better the first one the second one and even the previous generation from us you didn't have to teach people an enormous amount of 150 years ago 200 years ago most people had it most people that committed sin it wasn't because they had no was simply because that their desires and they wanted to meet their desires today you tell people yeah like yeah what is that is that a new phone what is is that a new app what is this you keep talking about it's fear of hem why should I be scared of hem why should I be scared ofm he's my friend I love him that's when a person doesn't understand that they're obligated to actually fear hem then literally they don't understand hm they don't understand anything that's why it's one of the that's why it's one of the MIT in the Tor that hasem tells us even in this in this says in SE the book of Deuteronomy chapter 4 uh verse [Applause] m so says to that Hashem told them let them hear my words so that they shall learn to fear me all the days of their life on Earth and they shall teach their children doesn't say they should teach all the kids to love me does say you should teach all the kids teach yourself to love me doesn't say that one word teach What Fear me why beginning of wisdom is fear of hem if you don't fear hem you have no connection to him so what about all those people that say I love hem I love hem I love hem but I don't fear Him they have a different AEM why because the real hem runs the world that means he's running the cosmos he's running the 1700 miles an hour approximately spinning speed of Earth where if it would stop for a second we have a serious problem the spinning atoms that are make up everything including us and everything in between the P the the kids the education the the world the atomic bombs the Palestinians the terrorists the friends the enemies the food whether you're going to live tomorrow whether you're going to this whether you everything he controls everything if you don't fear that then you're simply crazy you don't have to you're crazy crazy put you in a crazy house in L they put you there to do finished that was place for you free government for it but that's the thing that is the foundation of the beginning of our relationship with hem eventually our goal is to get to loving hem and so on and so forth but ideally for we need to know that we need to fear him we need that's how we start our relationship with him we know we're dealing with yeah what exactly means to fear he asked me the question for a second so M answers that question too if you continue forward he says this in verse 23 same chapter 4 15 15 verses forward he says so the verse says the following he says beware for yourselves lest you forget the Covenant the breit of hem your God and that he has sealed with you that he has sealed with you and you make for yourselves a carved image the likeness of anything as hem your God has commanded you for Hashem your God he is a consuming fire a jealous God now a consuming fire doesn't sound like something I shouldn't be scared of say that the English or the English beware for yourselves lest you forget the Covenant of Hashem your God that he has sealed with you and you make for yourselves a carved image a likeness of anything as Hashem your God has commanded you for hem your God he is a consuming fire a jealous God now here we see literally mosenu explaining to am hem is not your buddy hem is not somebody you should mess with he's a consuming fire consuming fire is enough imagery enough of a description to realize it's scary scary if if would have said listen hasem he's like a care Bearer you know you hug him he's like one of the Pillsbury door boy and you could like you know he so cute no he doesn't say that what did he say consuming fire why because fire is scary even for the blind are scared of fire even the crazy are scared of fire everyone's scared of fire why cuz fire is scary he's a consuming fire what's it mean is consuming fire means the fire eats people you play with fire he's going to eat you so obviously this literally means we're supposed to be scared of him now what is this scary what is this scary is to answer your question the beginning of is fear of punishment T bottom line fear that that he will punish you that's the beginning what kind of punishment number one punishment in this world person is scared that if he does such and such he's GNA fall and die he's gonna fall and break a leg he's gonna get sick he's gonna have some huge cancer coming out of his head he's going to get into a car accident his wife's going to leave him is is the kids are gonna turn out homosexuals his job's GNA fire him all the horrible things that happen in life all the horrible things that happen to life he's scared of all that stuff that's fear fear of punishment the other fear of punishment is fear of G now most people unfortunately don't know about Gom unless they've attended my shim and they hear from other rabbis said no no it's not such a bad place it's like a it's like a washing machine sounds like pleasure sounds like fun I want to go there I want this washing machine to keep talking about I want to go there because according to the Gom that I read about it's no washing machine there's nothing washing about it as you guys attended I think all of you guys with the exception of you attended it's as scary as scary can be and by the way I didn't tell you 1% of what it really is like you guys are all scared there thousands of people have done Chu because of that Shield thousands have done Chu probably the number one Shield we have thousands of people have done Che because of this sh why it's like OHA it's not a washing machine it's not a washing machine there's no washing here it's fire so now being scared of Gom but most people don't know and they go to they hear other rabbis talk about Gom and it's complete lies those people have a separate place in Gom the people that teach such things so that's that's the first level of fear is fear of punishment in this world and fear of punishment in the next World now once a person develops a solid relationship with hem he wants to do his will number one because he doesn't want to get punished number two because once he starts doing it he starts feeling pleasure as a result of doing it he sees that his life is working out he sees that all of a sudden things make sense that even if he has problems he knows there's a reason for it he knows that someone is running the show he knows that at the end it's going going to work out because AB sh is taking care of things and even though I don't have any money in the bank right now somehow at the end of the month I'm G to have it because Hashem has to pay the bills and even though I can't have a kid right now I know that hashm is miraculously bring one and even though I'm single right now eventually hm is going to send me when it's exactly the right time to get married and so on and so forth he knows that hm runs the show when he does his mitzvot he's connected to hm he knows hm runs the show he starts wanting to do the mitzvot he does the MIT number one because he doesn't want to get punished number two because he starts feeling pleasure out of doing it eventually as he continues to learn about and he continues to develop his midot and so on and so forth he starts develop in a very close relationship with hasem but now he feels such pleasure as a result of this relationship with hasem that he's scared of losing it it's not so much scared of punishment well he's always scared of punishment every normal human being is scared of punishment you don't drive really fast in the highway because you're scared of losing your license you don't punch uh people in the face randomly just because you feel like it because you're scared of going to jail we don't do a lot of things because we're scared same thing with Hashem but that's not the real reason that's not really your Mo motor opanda that's not really the reason why you're doing it why you don't want to hurt the relationship a husband or a wife they don't not yell at each other and treat each other with respect and so on because they're scared of each other they're scared of hurting each other and you get to that level of fear you get to a fear that you're afraid of hurting AEM if I do something against him he's going to take offense to it why he gave me a wife he gave me a kid he gave me another kid he gave me a house he gave me food he gave me oxygen he gave me this he gave me so much I didn't give him nothing so at the very the least I can do is not go against him I'm giving him nothing yeah by the way none of you are giving me neither nobody's giving anything he has everything says everything is mine all you can give him is Jews give him more Jews to do chva more of his kids come back home it's the only thing you give hm everything else you give yourself so now we're saying to oh he's giv me everything and I'm going to go against them no so at least I'm not going to go against them so now when a person develops this relationship with hm that he's close to hm he doesn't want to hurt it he doesn't want to hurt that relationship that's that is fear of hurting the relationship fear of his majesty not fear of him hitting you fear of hurting This Magic Magical relation you have with them it's like a husband and a wife and that explained is the beginning of loving him meaning the lowest level of fear is fear of pure punishment the highest level of fear is fear of hurting the relationship and that highest level of fear is the beginning of loving hasem it's the beginning of loving him meaning that all of those people that say they love hem or they want to teach about loving hasem if they have the highest level of fear of hm good for the most part they don't why why do I think they don't it's not that I think says it in he says loving AEM is not relevant to most people in the generation he was talking about his generation and he goes and I'm talking about he's not talking about there's no around them he don't hang out with hang out with people walking around with hookas talking about say says look look at it he says loving AEM is not relevant to most people all you got to teach them all you got to tell them all they should expect is fear hasem that's it in his generation what about us so to answer your question in regards to why are we called why why is why why is this generation the worst generation if all the sins happen in the past it's because we don't have the same Torah as they did we don't have the same as they did so even though the actions that we have the sins we have today are no different than the sins we have back then we don't have the same measure of Holiness that they did so it's not as balanced but that's also why if a person does a Mitzvah today it counts drastically more than a person doing a Mitzvah in the past because a person that doesn't Mitzvah today it's like a candle in a completely dark cave whereas in the past it wasn't a dark cave it was relatively light so if you let a candle okay we see you good job hi nice but it wasn't such a big deal you did a Mitzvah what was a big deal if you're t t you're a big deal you're a regular guy did okay good job finished but if okay big deal today you don't need to be Big T you be a Big Basics keep Basics you get the mashia don't keep Basics you get the G finished no oh okay I said you don't need to be in order to be great you could just be an average person saying the average person can be a giant in the average person could be an amazing amazing person an average person could reach their own full potential you're not paid a reward for being M you paid a reward for being the full potential of you where do we learn this from RI was one of the greatest in his generation a person that never spent a second being unhappy a person that was completely glued to Hashem and they one of it one day Wasim asked him what are you scared of he said I'm scared of not being zusa he said what do you mean not to be zusa what does that mean he says because I know that when I go up to sh they're not going to ask me why weren't you mosu they're not going to ask me why weren't you like RAB AKA they're not going to ask me that what they going to ask me they ask me how come you were in zusa meaning we gave you we gave you a certain gave you a certain amount of wisdom a certain amount of kadus a certain amount of good midot a certain amount of a certain amount of a certain 20 pounds of this 20 pounds of this 20 pounds of this why didn't you use all of it why' you only use the bad stuff why' you only use half of it why' you waste all of it meaning I'm only worried about not being the full potential of me and the full potential of me can be zusa so until each one of us reaches the full potential of us unfortunately we're lacking so you can be a big sadik in your level I can be a big sadik in My Level she can be big sadik in her level and so on and so forth no one should start looking oh R AKA I'm not gonna be happy until I become him you can't be Raba even if you wanted to even if you lived in his generation why you're Nota but you can be Jacob you could be this you could be that you could be you every person is paid a handsome reward for being the full potential of them so if your capacity is to let's say absorb 10 pounds of toah a day that's what you need that's what's expected of you that's what's expected of you not a pound more not a pound less so if you're expect if you're able to consume 10 pounds of Tora but you only consume half a pound then sh say you wasted your life you wasted life you gave you the ability to consume 10 pounds of Tora you consumed a half a pound what' you do why' you come to the world waste of life waste of life that's why the G says a person needs to understand that his midot is everything if he doesn't fixes midot why' you come to the world for what what' you live for if you didn't fix your midot there's no point to your life you're no different than a cow says what's the difference between a human being and a cow Tor so if there's no Tor there's no mid if there's no mid you're cow as a matter of fact the cow is better and that's why the says page 49a says that if you do not fix yourid you don't learn T you're not allowed to eat meat why the meat's better than you it's a cow does really good what are you doing what are you doing nothing there's no purpose there's no purpose for a person if he doesn't fix himself that's why a person needs understand stop looking at mhu as if you're going to beu stop looking at r as if you're going to be R be you least be the best version of you what's the best version of you start working on the things that are hard for you to do it's hard for you to get over a certain desire that's the one you need to work on work on it work on it work on it until you get to a point where you're disgusted by the sin once you got to a point be disgusted by the sin already you're good you're good continue working on it forever but already you're good you've done serious Chua on that obviously start taking other things on you have certain addictions you have certain desires you have certain things you have to start taking these things on why because each one of them is a diamond each one of them imagine for example you have let's say 10 diamonds each diamond is a character trait that's expected of you to fix in sh gave you okay I gave you all these tools I gave you 100 pound worth of tools th 100 pounds is supposed to fix all 10 of these character flaws so you fix one there's a diamond there you fix the other there's a diamond there each time you have a diamond you go up to sh and say wow you're rich oh we rich I have no money oh look you have diamonds you fix those midot but if you go up there and you didn't fix anything and tell you there's the bum there's the bum wa need no up here go back and get go collect some money so that's the thing a person needs to needs to understand the spirituality is a lot more fulfilling because it requires a lot more work but it also has a lot more pleasure has a lot more pleasure next tomorrow night we're gonna have another continue this mishna there's a lot more to go there there's the Mish 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