The Secret To Staying Righteous In The Business World - MUSSAR Pirkei Avot (14)

[Music] n good to be at the breast center in aventur thank you for coming we had a lot of uh distractions right before the sh so this is a good sign that the sh will actually be interesting so we had an amazing trip in New York met a lot of people some old people that we've met in the past some new people that have been following us online learning T doing we had to the privilege of being part of another conversion increased by another one last week it was such a pleasure to see the diim impressed with a student where they continued asking questions saying listen we don't really need to know all this stuff that you we're asking you but we're so impressed with how much you know that we you just want to know where it stops so it turned from being like a 5 10 minute session to an hour and a half maybe almost two hours of questioning just to see where the limit is like is learning T and you uh you get to see when someone is really serious about t when someone is really serious about about the honor of hem when someone is serious about fulfilling what Hashem said there's no limit in a matter of months somebody can turn from nothing into something major the problem is with most of us is that when we see a project we look at it the wrong way first and foremost we think that the project and the outcome of the project is our responsibility that's the first mistake your responsibility is to do what happens it's aem's business your responsibility to give somebody a CD cost you $1 you give him the CD if he listens to it doesn't listens to it if he agrees with it doesn't agree with it do that's not your business but one time I heard a famous actor Johnny Depp you know in the days I was secular I used to watch TV once in a while and he was on a talk show and uh the guy David Letterman asked them so um did you watch this uh movie before it came out meaning his own movie and he says no goes what do you mean you didn't watch your own movie he goes I never watched any of my own movies he says what do you mean you're an actor why don't you watch your own movies and he says something that stuck with me and it's a relevant to us now he says it's none of my business now I know days no one understood the crowd laughed what a Corky strange guy but even the can have some that they can say whether it's intentional not intentional is irrelevant the point is that when credit uh you know someone deserves credit you give them credit and the reality of it is that it really in life the outcome of all of your projects is none of your business especially when it comes to the honor of hem especially when it comes to the servicing of hem whether someone is going to listen to the CD that you made or the CD that you sponsored or the CD that you gave and delivered whether someone's going to show up to the lecture that you invited them to all of that is none of your business what's your business is 150% effort all the time whether you are going to succeed in your business or not has nothing to do with you Hashem will decide if he wants to give you money he'll give you money if he doesn't want to give you money there's nothing you can do to override hashem's decree with the exception of one thing that may give you the ability to over write aem's decree which we'll talk about later today but it's something that you're all familiar with now when we're looking at things in that particular perspective Everything Changes why because all of a sudden the project looks smaller all of a sudden it's like wait a minute I'm only responsible to go to work how beautiful the building ends up being whether someone's going to actually show up and rent the office there or not whether people going to come not going to come whe we're going to have a candle fall right five minutes before the lecture and delay the lecture by another half hour it's not my business my business is to show up to do my best effort that's my business so already the project just got smaller and it looks like it's much more attainable I could do this I could show up to a lecture I could give somebody a CD telling them what's on a CD explain to them what he said the guy came came from Wall Street he got sick he got married he got this he got that that's hard but give him a CD I can give him a dollar I can sponsor that's easy gets to bigger things oh it's too much for me Hashem it's your business so already you know 90% of the job is not yours your job is showing up that's the same goes with everyday really which we'll go over in a second now at the end of Every mishna Which we finished the uh per Al we finished the first chapter if you will of aot in New York and at the end of every chapter you say the same thing the same thing that you say at the end of every the son of akashia his father's name was akashia says the Holy One blessed is he wished to confirm Merit upon Israel therefore he gave them Torah and MIT in abundance as it is said Hashem desired for the sake of it of Israel's righteousness that the Tor be made great and glorious so here we say this at the end of sh we say this at the end of finishing a or finishing a chapter you say this very very often is a that says that the reason why we mention is because he didn't have the Merit of having children or bringing children to the world but he was such a holy man that in his Merit the Torah that we're learning is in essence one of his a you know partly his his uh his result his child you learn Tora you produce good you produce Angels you produce more you bring more good to the world that may have a good outcome that you see and you have the Merit to see in your own life but in reality the biggest thing that's going to happen is going to be down the road what you do today you may have the benefit and the Merit to see the result and the outcome of what you do today but in reality you're going to know what's going to happen and how big it was 100 years from now 200 years from now like for example a little over 200 years ago when a uh guy that called himself a rabbi said you know what I think it's a good idea for our children to go to secular University and learn learn things like the go you know they can learn Tora but keep that at home be a Jew at home outside be a human be like everybody else and we should send them to secular University send him to Harvard send them to Yale send him to this send him to that and I think that's what we should do with our kids this obviously was not D this is not an opinion of the Torah an opinion of the Torah is the purpose of why you came to this world is to learn Torah to fulfill it and not necessarily to put yourself In Harm's Way where you are in essence going to steer away from it especially as a young person that doesn't necessarily have a strong spine yet if it's someone that's already married kids is already has a personality developed where he could in essence choose for himself based on his own opinion and not necessarily based on peer pressure you may have something to talk about but if it's somebody that's 16 17 18 years old is very very easily influenced very naive it's not usually the best idea to send him to the wolves and say oh listen survive good luck well this Rabbi said okay nothing bad's going to happen out of it or as you would see he actually had the Merit to see what happened in his life but we have the unfortunate Merit to see what happened 250 years later his Merit is seven out of his eight kids married go he had eight kids seven of them married go seven of them inter married and became go themselves and 250 years later approximately the rabbis that follow his way are now given Bar Mitzvah to dogs a little bit far off the original Orthodox path that we started at 250 years ago today it's called reform today it's called reform some call it conservative some even call it a uh open Orthodox it's a new thing that started about 20 years ago but it's getting popular now they call it open Orthodox they like the Orthodox name but they added something to it a little bit of little bit of change what's the little remix what's the little Remix They said open Orthodox what does it mean open Orthodox orox meaning that we're open to new ideas so if the rabbi is a woman we're open to that if the rabbi is homosexual we're open to that if there is any new ideas we're open to all of it but we're Orthodox what keeps them Orthodox I don't know but we're open to it so when people make a joke out of something unfortunately the honor of hem is lost and one of the main excuses that people use as oh listen the Torah is too difficult it's not relevant it's too difficult for our generation it's to this it's to that is actually answered by it's actually something that if you go to be on a regular basis or you learn to on a regular basis you'll hear the actual answer on a regular basis but you'll forget that you're actually hearing the answer you're not going to pay attention to it cuz sometimes the answer and what you're looking for the treasure could be right in front of your eyes but you can't see it like haal haal was with was kicked out by abrah ainu AR a son she left him she left Ishmael alone to die and say she distanced herself the distance of an arrow what does it mean an arrow meaning that isma really wanted to kill her and he was a sharpshooter so she distanced herself farther than what he could shoot an arrow mother was scared of her son but anyway she prayed to Hashem hasem sent her a are next thing you know there's a well in the middle of the desert why there was no well before no the well was there she just didn't see it sometimes the treasure is right in front of you but you have to have the Merit to see it so I've heard this many many times but until I really learned it I never understood what's the what's the what are we hearing this for hasem the Holy One blessed is he wanted to give is a merit so he gave them more if you think about it wait a minute if you really wanted to give us a merit if he really want if he really really loved us give us one mitvah one mitvah you go to keep Shabbat keep kosher say that's it we go to go to GED doesn't that mean he doesn't that show that he loves us more makes it easy for us to get to ganeden you would think yes no who agrees okay we have one Brave person that says yes the rest of you are still in denial I heard it I agreed until you understand the purpose of the mitv each and every single mitvah that you do is another way for you to connect to Hashem now Hashem being the source of all good the foundation of good all the only reason why he created you is not because he needs you but rather to give you good but there has to be a system of justice meaning that there has to be a reason to give you good because just give you good without you earning it eventually you're going to hate the good this is the kazal explains to us that before the souls came to this world Hashem gave us all the goodness and after a while we felt like we don't deserve it so we started hating it we started suffering from the good what is it like if let's say for example your favorite food is steak favorite food is steak now the reason why your favorite food is steak is because you probably eat it you know once a day three times a week but if I said listen from now on that's the only thing you're going to eat no rice no potatoes no candy no milk no nothing all you do from morning to night you're eating steak breakfast steak lunch steak dinner Steak lunch again steak midnight snack steak what kind of steak steak kind of steak do you want the steak one okay so we'll have steak now after a day or two yeah you're not that excited about a steak but you're eating it after a week you don't really like it that much after two weeks you hate it after a month just the word Stak makes you want to vomit but it's good it was good a month ago nothing changed the flavor is still the same is that unless something is given to you with care and with tact it gets to a point where it becomes disgusting this is also one one of the many many reasons why family Purity is very very important to a family where hasem says for approximately half the month a little less than half the month a man and his wife have to be separated they're not allowed to be intimate after a wife has a period she has to wait and then she has to count seven clean days and then eventually she's able to go to the mikve and then she's able to be with a husband during approximately half the month or maybe 18 days out of the month approximately give or take again different women have different times but nonetheless I I say on the average it's 12 days off 18 days on that's what it usually is sometimes more sometimes less now in a secular mindset this seems terrible secular mindset is wa wait a minute I'm 25 years old I just got married I want my wife all the time not sometimes all the time excited I'm this I'm that all the time why should Hashem limit me if he already created her and created me and we got married we had a we had kushim we had this we that let us be together because the point is not to just be together now the point is to be together forever and because Hashem knows that part of our way part of Mankind's way of showing love his affection his intimacy he wants the intimacy that you have when you first got married to be the same 60 years later in fact if you actually follow family Purity the way it's supped supposed to be your intimacy will actually increase in pleasure over 50 years over 60 years and the only people that could understand what I'm saying here is someone that actually did it seems like they're trying to cook me here so if anybody could give me the um extra hand go it's a little hot so the key is to understand that there is a benefit of doing every one of the mitv huh yeah unless you want me to melt by the end of the yeah be good um at some point I think I start getting shorter I don't have that much height to work with guys so I'll me out so now hasem is telling us listen I want to give you good all of these mitv are to your Merit all these MIT are to your benefit you will benefit out of all of these mitv because each time you do a Mitzvah you'll connect to me now if you're just doing a Mitzvah like a robot then you're not connecting to hem then you're just a robot but if you start learning the foundation behind each and every single mitzah it starts earning a meaning all of a sudden you start feeling something when you pray if you just read the words and you don't understand a word that you're saying you're just a robot you start learning what the words say and you see that most prayer is from it's from Psalms and if you actually understand one Psalm one that said and you don't cry you should question whether you have a heart if you actually understand what David was experiencing behind each and every single Psalm he'd cry easily and most of the prayers are from Psalms oh I'm going to survive I thought maybe getting punished Heavenly for ruining the candle or something I don't know soem is telling us here each time I give you a Mitzvah I'm giving you another opportunity what's the opportunity to to connect to hem now in our journey of doing chva each one of us starts in a different way sometimes people watch a Shure that motivates them and they start continuing to watch online sometimes people read a book motivates them they start reading more books sometimes they meet somebody that person motivates them and so on to get started is the hard part it's hard it's hard to get started but after you start it's over it's okay you started already page five hem is telling us that he created the created an evil inclination inside each one of us for someone that's not religious not connected to Hashem it sounds kind of silly to be honest with you before I actually really did Chua it sounded like a cartoon character to me you know you having a cartoon character you have like the red guy on the left shoulder and you know uh the angel white guy on the on on the you know right shoulder it's like this one says no go go and the other one says no stay here and the red guy kind of seems like he's more fun too that sound like a cartoon character to me until you actually start learning and you start seeing Oh wait not believing in the means I already lost the battle so the evil inclination is in each one of us it influences to do influences us to do everything that's the opposite of what we're supposed to do meaning you want to go to sh all of a sudden you're tired all of a sudden you get a phone call that's you've been waiting for all day all of a sudden somebody shows up at your house that's unannounced and wants your attention all of a sudden the kids's crying but if you say listen I want to go to the game nobody's in the way yeah honey go go enjoy your wife gives you a little lunch bag you're all excited to go to the game nobody gets in the way of you going to the game you want to go to Shield if can come to your house and stop you you would do it going to the doctor we're on time even though we know that the doctor is going to make us wait in the waiting room for an hour and a half still on time we even early 15 minutes the lawyer that charges three hour $300 $400 an hour just for his assistant to use his assistant it's $300 an hour to him6 7 $800 an hour maybe more to him he says meaning at 2:00 he go at 2:00 you're there already at 1:45 he's busy till 3: you're sitting standing over there like a little donkey he starts at 3:00 no complaints hey yeah thank you I know you're busy it's like you're giving them credit for being so busy for making you wait I understand I understand thank you and he's charging you for the 300 bucks for that for that hour that you waited in his you read his magazine it's worth something you go to sh doesn't start on time oh come on what kind of place it's not organized it's not professional making us wait 10 minutes makinging us wait an hour get all right gets into your mind convinces you to do the opposite of what you're supposed to do think the opposite of what you're supposed to think soem says that once in a while listen you're doing Chua yet is going to come to you all the time all the time every day you wake up in the morning yet is there like one time this tells his students like listen you have to come to sh every day we have at 6:00 in the morning after the f is over at approximately 7:15 we have a sh for a half hour to get the day started no come on time it's very hard for me to wake up in the morning yeah but you have to pray like okay okay no CU yeah I'm watching YouTube videoos at 1:00 in the morning so don't watch it at 1:00 in the morning watch it at eight yeah I'm in front of my pool at 8 8:00 okay so switch you don't have to be change your schedule why cuz you have to pray can't pray at noon okay tomorrow so the next morning f starts at 6 he's not there the sh starts at 7:15 he's not there at 10:00 he finally shows up Rabbi says no is very strong so beat him already no come on beat him you can do it okay okay fine tomorrow I'll be there I'll beat the next day he shows up at 12 worse than the other day no what happened today you never believe it I actually beat the today goes what do you mean it's 12:00 go no no no I actually woke up at 5: knowing that I have to be at 6 I woke up at 5: no I got dressed no everything was ready no 15 minutes before I leave yet shows up and what happened I started fighting him he told me to go back to sleep I said no he told me to go back to sleep I said no we're fighting we're fighting I'm punching he's punching this that the other thing I beat him at 6:00 I was ready know what happened I was dead tired I had to get some sleep saym is telling you is always going to be with you every day all the time now there's two different types of one is going to be on a regular basis ongoing basis every day all day waking up in the morning learning T here and there doing doing before you eat regular stuff every day every day evil inclination and then there's a different yet yet that's like an atomic bomb on your head you go to work all of a sudden they hire a new assistant at the office and this new assistant all of a sudden she wants your attention you're married though and all of a sudden she wants you to show her around cuz she just moved into the area and be friendly platonic relationship more like Atomic relationship atomic bomb because as soon as your wife realizes that you hung out with some girl from the office for an hour and a half after after work time or during work time or before work time or any time at all your marriage may be over but you're not thinking about that at that moment you're thinking about ah she's cute she likes me I'm helping her out at the end of the day I'm being such a nice guy I'm a sadik she's new in the area and she's a go perfect look it's K showing theim how nice Jews are all of the justification in the world is going to come to you he's going to tell you listen you should take her out show around maybe even pay for a rent for a month or two yet is going to tell you all these different things but this is atomic bomb page five says if the Satan comes to you this way with this atomic bomb then you do what we talked about in previous first then you learn some Tor and then you remind yourself of the day you're going to die simply explanation of all three he says first remind yourself there's a God sayem I remember there's a God it's watching me there's an eye that sees an ear that hears everything that we're doing is being written in a book it's previous week's last week's Mish last week's you we did in New York remind you there's a God that's watching you eventually going to have to pay the bill my friend maybe your wife's not going to find out but knows maybe your wife's not going to find out but the demons you're creating they also know the Mitzvah you're trying to make is no Mitzvah at all my friend you're destroying your eternity with this so say sometimes not enough though so that's not enough maybe somebody's connection to hasm is not that strong for him to even put him self in that situation already shows kma may not be enough he's not that strong he's very vulnerable he watches a few things with some immodesty on the internet so he always thought about this thing being you know exotic all the St in his head that show them in movies he wants to be like a character in a movie so K is not going to be enough him so go go go run go learn some Tora read something open a open open this is why every one of you should always have something some with you at all times and all times get ready Satan's coming read something what do you mean reading I can't focus all I could see is this blond hair blueeyed girl that wants my attention you want me to read T okay maybe that's not going to be enough for you so he says remind him of the day he's going to die why no one likes to think about death even though if you read the Torah whether you read the five books of Moses or you read or you read any of the sages books any of the prophets there's constant talk of death not because is a morbid Nation shalom it's not that we like death but we think of death as just a transition from from the world of lies to the world of Truth to position is not an end so if you think of it that way then your end is really only the beginning but a beginning of what is the question so when someone thinks oh wait a minute there going to be a day that I have to start paying the bill I'm I have to go before I start this eventual new beginning I have to pay the bill I have to go show up in front of the judge the king of kings things he's going to tell me about all the things that I did I don't have to tell him he already knows he's going to ask me did you conduct your business with faith did you have amuna in your business what do you mean to conduct your business with faith did you work on Shabbat sometimes oh that means you didn't really believe the palasa is for me you thought you were making the palasa did you work overtime yeah usually two three weeks out of the month oh so you thought that the money is coming from you that I don't have enough money money that you have to work extra time I spent all my money on creating the world and I ran out of money when it came to you did you overcharge people yeah sometimes when I had an opportunity why you thought the only way to get ahead is by taking advantage of innocent people I can't give you the money in an honest way did you gamble oh yeah you know sometimes I go you know play few Sports a few this a few that my friend won $70,000 last week I figured maybe I could do the same oh so you didn't read the AL that gambling is stealing it's gazel you didn't read that part okay first question we're in trouble second question did you make time to learn Torah now based on your response of the first question we already know the answer of the second one really we would think logically that the first question should be did you make time to learn T but here we learn it's not about just learning it's about doing you can learn all the Torah in the world but if you're not doing what it says it's worthless it says inat page 31 a says he defines different stages of the mishna six different parts of the mishna says if someone studies all of these throughout of his throughout his life he's in essence studying the Tora it's great he's in essence they're trying to Define somebody how does he achieve the ultimate goal so they say study Tor what's the oral Tor at this stage the mishna Mish came before the so he's defining he's describing each of the six parts of the [Music] mishna and he says but the verse that they're getting this from the this is from this yeah he says the fear of God is in his storehouses what does it mean the fear of God is in his storehouses says that even if someone studied all six orders of the mishna the most important thing in the eyes of the almighty is whether the mishna actually taught him anything meaning whether he's developed whether he's developed fear of hem meaning he could learn the Torah Know It All by heart great you have you're missing something so the rest of the gar explains it a little more detail so everybody understands it's not just me interpreting it Raa says when they escort a person to his final Heavenly judgment after after his death this is the same is we just talked about what they ask you the Heavenly tribunal says to him did you conduct your business transactions Faithfully did you set aside fixed time for Torah study did you engage in procreation bringing children to the world did you wait in Hope for the mashiah did you delve into wisdom you go deeper into you just came to once a week we watch YouTube what' you do when you learn Tor did you learn it deeply and infer one thing from the other did you do all these things but even so meaning even if you did all of this even if you answered yes to all the questions yes yes yes check check check check check check check check you don't even know what the question is you already put check check but even so if fear of God was in in was this person's Storehouse then yes his judgment is favorable El L but if not the know his judgment is not favorable meaning you could learn the entire Tora you don't have Foundation of it's all worthless and to final it off they give you a parable or analogy says what is this like one time a person goes to his boss he says well what could I do and the boss says bring me a coal of wheat go to the attic and put get some wheat put the organize the weed over there sure he goes he does what his boss says comes back and the boss asks him did you mix for me a cover of of Kumon did you mix with the wheat did you put some this chemical on it says no and the boss says it would have been better had you never brought up the wheed in the first place why because the chemical the extra thing was the preservative now that you put it all up there with no chemical it's all going to get ruined you learn the whole Tor you're going to forget all of it you learned the whole Tor you're not going to do any of it without your you have nothing nothing is going to convince you to wake up six o' in the morning the fact that you know the to do this to do that you know this G you know this it doesn't mean anything it doesn't mean anything and here it's telling us if you're not planning on working it's better off you don't do anything to that extent now the question you should all be asking yourself is now why isn't anybody teach why does everybody teach oh you know loving a being kind being this being that very very few actually teach or they missed this they forgot this page and the many many other pages that show it all the way from the five books of Moses to Mish which is Proverbs Ecclesiastes it's everywhere every book that you talk about M anything else talks about what happened why isn't anybody teaching it unfortunately this is the foundation is the foundation of M and and it takes guts to learn M meaning you have to want a change in order for you to learn about if you think you're perfect there's no reason for you to learn about it if you think you're doing fine why would you learn it why would you change why would you do anything now if you're interested in changing because you're interested in getting closer to Hashem then we have something to talk about so now the says in this big that you have this big where this woman comes or this thing comes or different types of yet some atomic bomb comes to your attention the way that you can overcome it ifma doesn't work if learning to doesn't work cuz you can't focus it's to think about the day you're going to die because that day you're going to die you're forced to have because you're forced to think of what's going to happen after I die am I going to turn into a tree or something happens but that's not actually the that we all deal with every day that's the once in a while the that we deal with on an ongoing basis is what this mishna is about M 22 translation the son of says Torah study is acceptable together with an occupation all businessmen are going to like this mishna for exertion of them both makes sin forgotten all Torah study that is not joined with work will see in the end and lead to sin all those who are engaged in public service should exert themselves for the sake of Heaven for then the Merit of the Merit of their ancestors will assist them and their righteousness will endure forever and you the public servant will be fully rewarded for your efforts as though you have achieved that you what you wished okay so here ran gel the son of why does just say why say the son of RAB plenty of times in just says why does it say son of RAB he's telling you this is a very important Mish he's telling you listen you want to get to become adult you have to connect it to work also how do I know I did it that's what telling you already why cuz he's telling you listen my my whole family and all of us were very very busy too involved in politics involved in business Reby had a lot of money so we didn't just sit there and collect the reward all day we didn't win the lotto so I know what I'm talking about now he's saying here if you want to get to a point of becoming successful in tah you have to combine it with work because that will lead for your sins to be forgotten what does this mean you want to go learn Tor not everyone is going to have the Merit to be not everyone is even going to have the Merit to be a what's a is someone that you could ask him a question all different types of subjects and he can give you an answer that's that's We All Stride to be one day why are they called if he already knows all the answers talid means student if he already knows all the answers if he's giving shim if he's the head Rabbi of a city of a town of a country of a Nation why is was called also what you're a teacher no in order to really be great first you have to know you have to continue learning you're always a you're always learning someone that thinks that already knows enough you have a little run mold inside your system so now he's telling you here not everyone's necessarily going to have the Merit to be a but that doesn't excuse you from learning T you're still obligated to learn T but in order for you to learn T since you're not able to be you're not able to wake up in the morning learn T from morning till night until you pretty much can't see anymore aside from taking care of some personal things taking care of your marriage your kids some basic day-to-day chores and stuff like that in general you're spending 10 12 15 16 hours a day studying not everyone has the ability to do that it's a very very difficult thing to do people think that you know building buildings and fixing cars or lifting cars or whatever they all the manual labor is much harder than learning I bet every single one of them they can't survive one hour one hour of learning T unless they've trained themselves already over a long period of time to learn Torah they could read any book they could be a scholar in medicine they could be a doctorate in every single subject in the world if they've never studied Torah before they won't survive an hour of learning Torah without falling asleep completely different world but he's telling you here despite the fact that you're not able to learn all day you're still obligated to learn but in order for you to fill up the rest of your day okay so you learn let's say two hours in the morning two hours at night or maybe it's just wishful thinking an hour in the morning an hour at night hopefully that's not too much wishful thinking you're learning in the morning you're learning at night the rest of the day you have to do something he says get a job can't sit there doing nothing you can't sit there on your porch and thinking that ohm is going to send me my P for learning two hours of YouTube videos it's not happening my friend it may happen for a short period of time Shem will have mercy on you give you enough time to wake up give you enough time to get yourself together but unless you're studying full time there's absolutely no reason that you're giving AEM for him to just give you the ability to do nothing with the rest of your day why because you have to decide if you're going to be a that means you have to learn like a you have to learn all day you have to turn the Torah into your job your job is to learn Torah from morning toight that is your job your job is to publicize the Torah learn for the purpose of teaching as says I think it's in page 17 if I'm not mistaken someone who learns T without the intention of teaching it is like someone who doesn't have a god meaning you're not allowed to just learn to just to keep for yourself like said you don't have to be a big to teach you know teach you know a couple teach that you know Al teach that someone out there doesn't know Al someone out there doesn't know someone out there doesn't know go find that someone and teach them you're not to keep it to yourself especially in our weak generation when no one knows anything people think Noah was some movie character that came out a few years ago and they still are all like 100% sure that Moses was born 40 years ago in a movie 10 command people don't know anything I can tell you from my own personal experience I didn't know anything I knew the famous stories here there but once you go into the details you're like wow me and a donkey weren't too different you don't know anything you don't study it you don't know anything other subject I was considered a scholar I knew psychology I knew Psychiatry I knew biology I knew this I knew that a bunch of useless subjects for my life I knew a lot of it I was considered in nonsense and stuff that was useless to me anything I didn't know I just buy it I just hire the guy who knows it and he teach me but then you realize it's all worthless CU it doesn't affect your life most of the time and anything that's any good has a source in the toah so anybody that spends a lot of time listening to motivational speakers or listening to self-help books types of advice you should know that all of that is in the Torah all of it from A to Z all you gotta do is learn Tor you want motivation learn about the life of mosu survive that for a week not years the nation calls you a thief they call you a womanizer they accuse you of every single sin there is known to man The 250 biggest rabbis are going against you signing letters against you and in his humility mosu prays all night doesn't go to sleep prays all night just in case k has Merit that could override mosenu mosenu is not even sure about his level he's thinking that maybe K maybe right maybe even though hasem said listen hasem picked him you know knew that picked him but he said maybe Co despite him being Wicked maybe has a merit maybe hasem is going accept this which shows us that even we have to consider even a rash even a wicked person that prays to hem we have to be scared of so now you have yourself Giants MAV you learn their life it's as Mo big as much of a motivation as you ever going to need everything and anything you ever going to need is in this Torah if you're going to learn it from morning T night if you're not already you're on your way to becoming one but you have to teach it can't keep it to yourself you're surrounded by ignorant people who don't know anything don't know the purpose of life I deal with them on a daily basis unfortunately people have no idea why they're alive and it's very very difficult it's very difficult for them to deal with life's problems when they don't have an understanding of why they're even here in the first place they don't have an understanding of what hashem's power and Glory really is in the first place so you that learn a few pages of that learn a few pages of M Learn a few pages of learn a few pages of anything share that knowledge you know one story in your entire arsenal of story you know one story that's connected to Torah say that story 5,000 times until everybody says you know what I heard that story about 3,000 times can you give me a different one okay you know what I'm ready for a second one myself but spread it share it someone needs to know it Hashem gave you the knowledge for reason it's not just for you to keep it that's if you want to be you want to learn and teach but if you don't have the ability to do it you're a worker we need workers we need people to run the world we need people to finance Torah according to the ramb in he says any man who chose to learn Torah for a living meaning that's what he does become is considered KES and you know in those days ranam didn't just throw names like they do today Rabbi come to Town badik the guy does anybody know I'm not sadik another Rabbi sadik is the foundation of the world now the rabbi comes inik he's the right hand of hem everybody's sadik everybody's this everybody's that throwing names like it's a Tic Tacs Ram in his days didn't throw names at all especially the rambam especially the rambam to so much extent just to explain to you guys who the rambam was holy Rabbi giant one time he prayed to have the the fear of abem of the rambam at his most busy moment when when he's dealing with patients that are because the r was also a doctor so he said if I if I think about R fear of hem when he's praying that's too much too much for me if I think if R is learning different world if I think about the ra when he's helping Jews out no come on Jews is a children too much let's just think of R is just a doctor family doctor for the I want to have his when he's taking care of the for a day one day that's what he prayed for we pray for lottery he prayed for for a day a little bit of a difference between us so prayed to hm and hem gave him the Merit to have the r when he's taking care of go as patients and was not able to leave his bed or under his covers the entire day because he was so petrified petrified he wasn't able to leave his bed nothing that was the r at his busiest moment meaning his lowest level of so this same rambam is telling us someone someone that's helps the public to chv teaches KES kashim he's the holy of holies holy of holies that he's doing this and and the community is obligated to finance him not that it's nice if they give him someaka give him a a dollar in his pushka box no no no he's saying the community of community they're obligated to finance this unfortunately this mitvah is not so strong in this generation but he himself s should not spend any time collecting money we'll explain what that means in a moment so now if you have the ability to be a you have nothing to worry about is going to come you don't have to work if you don't have the ability to be a then you better get yourself a job you better get yourself a job because the combination of the two the mishna says the exertion of them both makes sin forgotten what is it mean make sin forgotten almost what does it mean make sin forgotten you forget the sin well one day because you got a job you're learning some Torah twice a day that's tell you forget all your sins you forget that you went with the Goya you forget that he went with the go you forget he ate pig last week forget that's it you think so gu what he means no right has to be something else s what does it mean you forget the sin we forget that we were just B CH five six months forget actually the more I do CH the more I realize how much of a I used to be I don't forget anything I actually start remembering I go I try to do my I try to do some prayers I try to learn some I start looking I look at I start seeing like oh I made this I made this I made I start crying I start crying what going start doing I naturally I you think I want to think about it I start looking I start looking start looking I made this I made this how it's so great that you're still letting me live I'm thinking I made so many sins I can't I actually remember him now more I remember I didn't think about it when I was I didn't think it was a sin so I didn't think about it now I'm trying to do some I start remembering all the bad things I did so what is it saying it's saying over the opposite it says if if you combine your Torah study with work you make the sin forgotten so what does it mean I already gave you guys the answer that's why I'm asking you the answer is what says says that hasm gave you a lot of mitv one of the reasons he gave you a lot of mitv is for your benefit what's that benefit you're gonna be so busy making mitv you're not gonna have enough time to sin now if you're not a you're not learning all day all night during the time you're learning of course you're not thinking about sinning you're learning after you finish learning you go to work you have to go make panasa you have to feed your kids you have to buy a car you have to buy a house you have to buy a plane whatever you have to buy you're working you're working you're not thinking about Sin you're thinking about work and as soon as you finish work you're already thinking wait a minute the only reason I'm working is so I'm able to have free time to learn T because the real purpose of this world is to not the work Hashem didn't bring me into the world to be a stock broker he didn't bring me into the world to be an engineer or a psychiatrist that's not the reason whym created the world M everything that for to be a psychiatrist no that's not why he created the world for me to be a psychiatrist he didn't create the whole world he didn't do this whole balagan with the trees and the wind and the oxygen and the atmosphere and this and the blood cells and HIV and homosexuality and the sins and the MIT and all this just for you to be a baseball player obviously no has to be more he says the reason for this world is to fulfill the tah that I created 974 Generations before I cre of the world fulfill this tah so the reason why I go to work is because I know that if I go to work I'll have money to eat and I could study in peace I can wake up in the morning I can study for a little bit of time I go to work make my living so I know that when I get home I'll have food to eat my wife will have food to eat my kids will have food to eat everybody's going to be fine of course we're going to have stresses life's problems all that stuff but doesn't matter why cuz all my answers for all of life problems are in the T I'm going to learn at night because that's where all the answers is that's where the source is so I have to go work to occupy myself to get to this tor later at night so in essence your schedule is not based on your job even though you spend more time working than you do learning you when you have the right mindset you see the work is for the purpose of freeing myself up mentally and physic physically for that 1 hour in the morning and 1 hour at night and because you're so busy that one hour or two hours you study at night it's very very difficult it's not easy it's mentally stimulating but it's also mentally straining it's tough especially after a long day of work especially when the did not retire and he's promised not to retire until the mashia comes doesn't even have a retirement party planned so you have that's trying to make you tired you have that's trying to make you watch TV you have a that's trying to drive you crazy but you have a schedule I pray I learn I work I go home hang out with the family for a little bit act like a father act like a mother do what I'm supposed to do learn some T go to sleep says you don't have time to sin you don't have time to sin the one of the Holy sages we've had in previous generations in his last days his students brought him a book say say you know like you do every day do it every day no some do some Yes actually I actually uh and when I was in Israel in israelim also do V do every day in America not as much but nonetheless everyone knows that you're supposed to say V before you die if you know you're going to die say V meaning you're confessing your sins and saying I'm sorry I'm sorry a I made a sin I didn't even know it was a sin I'm sorry I made a sin I knew it was a sin I still did anyway I'm sorry I did a sin specifically to make you angry that's the first three sins and he's still letting us have the air to breathe to say the rest we're saying I'm sorry hasm wants our sorry all he want us to say I'm sorry K tells us that if Adam and Eve famous story if Adam would have just said I'm sorry Hashem wouldn't have banned him from geden the whole world would have stayed perfect just say I'm sorry that's how big one I'm sorry is only reason we're here is because somebody forgot to say I'm sorry what do he say oh it's the wife you gave me in essence what is he doing he blamed it on he blamed it on Eve you gave me this wife so technically it's also your fault Hashem cuz you gave me this woman if you didn't give it to me I wouldn't have sinned and that that says foolish man sins and then blames hem for punishing him so now we know before we die say have to say I'm sorry really since we don't know when we're going to die we say we do every day maybe today is the last day maybe tomorrow and nobody should be saying to you know the the uh spartic you say something not good he start spitting on the floor everywhere has to be once you start thinking about death as a transition if you're righteous you have nothing to worry about if you're rash then you have a lot to worry about if you're trying to be righteous you're good you succeed but nonetheless we know that death is not the end death is a transition so now the of giv him the say do before you you're dying you know you don't know today tomorrow it's your last days say do they weren't scared everyone knows death is a transition they're not like it's not like politically offensive Politically Incorrect everyone knows we're going to die so they're telling their we brought you the book Cas he forgot the words who knows the says no no no bring mear bring mear starts opening starts learning this he learned it how many times thousand times 2,000 times how many times he learned his again he's learning it say say sh says something he says I learned to my whole life to such an extent I didn't have enough time to even think about sinning to think think about Sin and didn't have time for not the sin sin sin I'm glued to AEM who has who wants to sin who wants to sin when you love and fear hem so much but he says I was so busy loving and fearing hem I didn't even have time to think about sinning like us two drops of water so AB the son of RB is telling you you want to succeed in your chuva make sure your time is busy you're busy learning you're busy working you're busy doing stuff why because sitting idle according to schl the smartest man that ever lived who wrote this in his books withes boredom leads to sin doing nothing leads to sin now doing nothing doesn't literally mean you just sit there and just looking at the uh mountains oh wow look at these mountains look at the beach look at the ocean that's not what he means boredom means you do something idle that's not mentally stimulating that's not changing and improving your mind you could do a perfectly normal activity and still be bor to death I know somebody that goes on vacation at least once a month at least once a no joke no exaggeration M at least once a month he goes on vacation on the way home from the vacation not even not even like he's back from the vacation settle down you know everybody goes back from vacation you come back from this place come back from that place first day you're happy to happy to be home everybody's always happy to be home you're away for a week you're away for a month you're happy to be home second day I can't believe I'm back second day it's like all over again why it's just started sh is coming no I just came back from vacation this place was good that place everybody has the second day third day it's like the third day of the biggest pain I can't believe I'm back what a life I have who this is what I live for I can't believe it the next vacation I could afford is not only for another five months 6 Months 8 months so people work their whole year they work overtime they work part-time they work two jobs six jobs eight jobs n jobs why for one vacation for a week if you just keep Shabbat you're vacation every week not just one week minimum 52 days a year vacation you have on top of that you have the another two months religious Jew you have somewhere around three and a half months off a year free free of charge you don't have to go anywhere so I know somebody has Financial ability and lifestyle to allow him to go on vacation literally every month sometimes it's big vacations like to Africa you know or I don't know some other place and some it's small vacation like I don't know a city next over to go skiing or something or whatever whatever people do always on Shabbat always on Shabbat unfortunately but already on the way home with all these vacations on the way home he's already telling me I'm so bored I'm so bored I can't believe I have to go back like already on the way home you just finished a vacation you were gone for a week you gone two weeks enjoy the moment relax this nothing already on the way home sometimes even during the vacation he's bored even during the vacation I'm bored what are you you're in Africa be be happy ah it's not a big deal not a big deal why because it's not mentally stimulating Okay so you saw a lion great 5 minutes later okay enough of the lion okay so you saw the mountain great all right few more minutes okay enough of the mountain you saw the mountain you saw the beach you saw this eventually everything looks the same so what happens you get bored get miserable get depressed this is the reason why one of the top professions to be in in places like New York City Los Angeles San Francisco places where there's a lot of celebrities is in mental health Miami is to be a Place Mental Health why because all of the people that have all the money in the world to go on vacation every day not just every month every day of the most miserable people on Earth because because all of it is not mentally stimulating all of it is just passing time and since you have the ability to you think you have the ability to do everything you want or you may even have the ability to do everything you want materially you always have to top the last experience you went to Cancun this time you have to go to I don't know somewhere else next time you went somewhere else next time you have to get directly to Gom the next time you went there you want to go to a different section you know every time it has to be better than the last you went to Atlantic City next time you have to go to Foxwood you went to Foxwood you have to go to Las Vegas you went to Las Vegas you have to go to China where they have the casinos like a city you finish with China you go to play Texas Holden with the Devil Himself every time it's a little over a little more and this is the reason why all of them come home miserable because it's not mentally stimulating it's not spiritually stimulating it's nothing it's boredom it's just a past time and I'm telling you this from experience I'm not one of these people that tells you oh money is the root of all evil and I never had a dollar in my life cuz if I was broke and I didn't really know I'm I hold this guy and I say listen yeah money's bad money's bad like how do you know money's bad you never had five bucks in your pocket I had it I had a few I know what it's like I know what the lifestyle is like it's complete nonsense now of course no one's ever going to listen to me they're still going to try it anyway they're still going to try to make money in the stock market they're still going to try to make money in this they're still going to try to make money in that that's why every week at least one or two people ask me questions what do you think of the stock market now can you give me some advice on the market I'm out of the business leave me alone I haven't watched the market in two years I don't watch it I don't know anything about it I haven't watched news news not news not TV nothing I don't know anything the only way I know anything of what's going on in the world for my students they tell me oh you know Trump's running I'm oh Donald Trump oh wow okay I remember him he's a business guy they tell me oh he won I'm like oh great well I care he won or he didn't win is he going to pay my bills is he going to help me learn by heart what is he going to do for me what's the what's he gonna do what's the point what am I going to go to Ala because Donald Trump won am I going to go ala because D Jones is 5,000 or 50,000 or whatever it is who cares what if I had a million dollars more a million dollars less going to change my nothing's going to change what's going to change okay so you have a I don't know a cool looking car okay congratulations you have a nice a car the wheels are bigger it's 20 in instead of 6 in who cares what is he going to do it's going to make your wife love you more no if you have a wife that loves you because of your car you should get divorced cuz she loves your car you just give her the car and say okay listen go I'll bring the rabbi the reformed Rabbi is going to do wedding between you and the car they probably do by now the dogs probably next level is cars why not one time a guy comes to a rabbi and he says to him listen my dog just died I want to give him a I want to say kadish you have somebody in do kadish on my dog no Shalom we're an orthodox Shalom we're never going to do kadish on a dog oh okay okay fine fine takes off the goes okay so I'll just write this check someone El what is that no it's just $100,000 check I was going to write to the vesset that's going to do kadish on my dog is oh why didn't you tell me he was Jewish what happens that's what happens when money becomes Our God El God of gold actually saw someone you marry his car marry his car ugly car are going to bring any kids was an ugly car wasn't even a nice car listen it says asks in the Mish we just learned in Shabbat said one of your responsibilities in life is to bring children to the world maybe he's going to bring little Mufflers what you to do people are stupid what can we do can't can't fix stupid can't fix it once it's stupid you can't fix it like broken broken you can takee back stupid you can't fix some wants to mar car I can't help somebody like that was possible to unfortunately we doing we're getting worse and worse we keep topping our previous stupidity even more but nonetheless what's happening here so now someone that understands the foundation of life Foundation of a good life to get you to a point where death is not something you fear but rather something that you know is a transition not saying anyone should look forward to it Shalom but you know that death is a transition death is a time where you know you're going to get to the real world death is when all of the work that you've done throughout your whole life finally pays off in order to get to that point you have to start with the first part of this mishna and say listen if you're already going to follow Tora make sure you keep yourself busy not busy with vacations to Cancun or sitting on your porch or watching YouTube videos of cops saving Ducks busy with your mind is occupied with as the rambam says someone that makes sins of sex crimes is only because his mind is empty his mind is empty what do you mean mind empty what just it's Hollow there's nothing there no he says because someone that learns T has has wisdom in it and someone that has even a little bit of in his mind that is constantly working oh I learned said this why did say this maybe it's because mhu said this few hundred years before oh maybe you're constantly thinking about why this why that why do we have to do in the morning why we have to after the bathroom why why you're constantly asking questions your mind is constantly working because you have wisdom you learned Al you learned Mish you learned something something's happening your brain is functioning when is it not functioning when is it because you have stupidity you watch uh the Kardashian family as your hobby you watch six hours of movies a day about I don't know aliens and uh and the mutants it's easy I remember I used to do it myself we start we never watch TV never had time for TV I worked so once in a while we'd rent a whole series a box set of some I don't know show I'd order the whole series and we'd watch it one after another for hours after hours from Friday until Sunday uh night we finished all series I don't know like 25 hours 30 hours of this stupid series and at the end of it it's like ah what's the next one why because it wasn't enough you don't get anything out of it just wasting time the rambam says you're one of those people of course you're going to sin of course you're going to waste seed of course you're going to make sex crimes why because you have nothing in your head you could be the smartest guy in the world no stocks no bonds no psychiat no biology no everything in the world but it's nothing comparison to T you're going to make sins nonstop and when you arrive at the day of judgment so now they're telling you keep your mind busy if you keep your mind busy your sins are going to be forgotten why because you're going to occupy your mind with so many so many new laws so many new things that's going to override all those pages will cover the the sins you made in the past not that you forgot about them you know that you violated chabbat 5 six seven eight years ago you know but you're so busy thinking about this new you just found out from the rabbi that's occupying your mind you're not thinking about oh I'm such a rash I did this I did that and get into depression that's what the Satan wants you to do no says be busy with be busy with doing oh wait somebody needs money oh I have an extra hundred bucks let me go give him so I can help him for Shabbat you're busy with making a you're busy learning you're busy doing something for for the honor of hem for the purpose of life you're constantly doing something your mind is constantly occupied with something that's that's that's useful for the world productive so it's not that you forget that you sinned and it's not that your sin is forgotten in sham either is that you're overriding it with so many different new that it goes into the you know the back like everybody has like a garage storage and they store all this stuff but it's a bunch of stuff that you're never ever going to use it's like no no I want this we'll put this in this department and like N9 years later like oh I don't remember that I actually had that yeah cuz it went to a department of never Neverland buddy like the whole concept of like storage spaces like people that buy storage there's a whole business around it of people that buy the storage when the guy that's paying for it for seven years realiz it's just a waste of money just gives up on it but he forgot what he has in it he forgot that he has a $99,000 painting in it the idiot so instead of going there and taking out the $9,000 painting he says Nah I don't feel like paying the $60 a month I don't feel like paying the $60 a month so these guys come they buy the whole storage thing for like I don't know $300 and they get this $99,000 painting it's whole business all industry based on stupidity people's stupidity people forget people's obsession with stuff they have so much stuff they forgot that they have it because instead of occupying Our lives our n and our brain with stuff that we can take somewhere called eternity we consume material stuff and this material stuff even we realize eventually that it's all useless doesn't matter what the price tag is so now the next part of the M says all Torah study that is not joined with work will cease in the end and lead to sin so on one end he's telling you if you combine Torah and work you'll eventually get to a point where you'd be too busy to sin but if you just learn T without working eventually you're going to be a bigger sinner than you were before you start learning T this kind of contradicts some of the things we just said we you said if somebody learns T all day it's calls him so how could it be somebody learns to without working is not says no no no we're not referring to the here we're referring to the guy that's just learning a couple hours a day but that's it the rest of the day he hangs out rest day looks the beach watch some TV maybe some Oprah Winfrey maybe she's giving away some stuff to people makes them feel good the crowd doesn't know that the company's pay for the stuff and it's not really Oprah giving anything and the company is a multi-billion dollar company that's also not using their own money because shareholders are paying for it and the shareholders don't even know that they're paying for it because they're actually B the money on margin so they're not even paying for it the bank's paying for it in the end these people are getting a bunch of stuff that nobody actually even pays for but there's a whole show this how it works I'm not making this up this how it works so now you have people say listen I did chuva I'm going to watch ra two hours I'm going to watch rabon's sh 5 hours or 3 hours sh whatever I have and that's it that's my day I'm going to learn four hours 5 hours a day rest of the day I'm going to hang out hang out I'm going to go to the beach go to Pizzeria hang out with some friends play a few video games who knew a few things says my friend this leads to sin but not normal sin this leads to you for you to be a bigger sinner than you were before you did Chua my friend why CU eventually reality checks in eventually the money runs out the money that you were getting every month from somewhere or the money that you had saved up somewhere eventually you got to go to work eventually the well dries and you have to go to work now if you already got yourself used to this comfortable lifestyle where money just shows up that's not really warranted because you're studying two hours a day but money just shows up and if the money stops coming in you're going to look around what do I do what do I do okay you go look for a job finding a job takes a while it's not two minutes takes a little while you go look for job you go look for job can't find a job all right you know what I'm going to borrow some money from this guy and that guy I'm going to start a business I'm going to start a business why not every Jew wants to what be entrepreneur we all want to start businesses nobody wants to work for anybody even the employee says he has a side business he only works here to help him Finance the real business that he has nobody wants to work for anybody Jews no no we already spend our time slavery in Egypt we didn't pay us at all we see we saw what happened when we work for somebody they don't pay you so we want to work for ourselves so now you want to go borrow some money what if the money doesn't come because you know what happens when you don't need money everyone wants to give you when you need money no one even knows you everyone wants to lend money to Bill Gates everyone wants to lend money to Bill Gates he doesn't need it but nobody wants to lend money to the guy just lost his job nobody wants to lend money to the guy starting a new company and he doesn't really have any credit or any history or any anything and sometimes even when you do it's not enough remember I told you guys a story one time I went to a bank I told him listen I want to expand my company I want to I want to borrow $10 million and I said okay no problem let's look let's review business plan I had a whole business plan da da da da da it's like yeah your business is uh not the ideal business that we that we work with we usually work with factories with this with that we don't usually deal with financial services companies because in essence we are a financial services company so it has kind of a competition not exact not direct competition but indirect comp competition but we're willing to work with you I said okay like all right so what you could do is you could use your own $10 million as collateral and you could borrow $10 million from us so I said wait hold on a second so the $10 million that I give you can I still use it like no it's collateral so I can only use the $10 million that you gave me yes exactly perfect so you understand so wait a minute so you're telling me have to the $10 million that I have I give you I can't do anything with it I don't even get paid for it I don't get paid interest I don't get paid nothing buus but your $10 million I have to pay you interest on it so in essence what you're telling me in so many words is that I have to pay interest on my own money she go oh yeah I guess you could look at it that way leave my office please so sometimes even because you have money doesn't necessarily mean that you can get it but now you're looking for a job you can't find a job you're looking to get financing for This brilliant new idea you have you may get it you may not get it let's say you get it to make more money from this new idea that you have takes time anyone that ever started even a uh a little table with lemonade knows that it takes time to make money start a business takes time but now you already got used to this comfortable a life got used to this comfortable life money comes your two hours a day of Torah is supporting it is telling you my friend it's going to lead you to sin why because when things get rough and the money stops coming in you're going to start thinking inappropriately first of all your Torah for two three hours a day is gone why because now you're saying listen hashm you put me in this situation where I don't have money anymore so now I have to work it's your fault tohm I have to work with those two three hours give me money then I won't work but until you give me money I'm not working like you're putting hasm on punishment no more two hours a day now when you don't have Torah you have nothing that's protecting you what happens now you're forgetting a lot of the stuff that got you to where you are in the first place so now I'm not going to wake up at 6:00 in the morning to pray I'll go wake up at 8:30 I'm not going to study today I'm busy I got to do work over over time I could overcharge this one client it's not really that big of a deal okay so I'm not going to pay this debt even though I have the money and you start making your own rules and little by little Hashem is telling you you have yourself a serious problem because now you put yourself into a bind and desperate times call for desperate measures this is why one time I had a few of my stud students do serious serious chva some converted some went to K some went to yes but it's not necessarily always advisable it's not a rule of thumb to send everybody to Yesa or everybody to convert or everyone to do something that's like the ultimate goal not necessarily advisable it's not a rule of thumb where you did CH go to yes go to no it's not advisible depends who the person is this is why we mentioned in the make yourself a rabbi why cuz the rabbi is going to know who you are what you can handle not what you can handle whether it's true or not but what you can handle as far as where your level is at you just started keeping Shabbat three months ago you discovered God four months ago it depends maybe yes maybe no to go to Yesa why because yes if you're single and you have nothing going for you yeah you should go but if you marri three kids you should not go to Yeshiva my friend because your wife's going to divorce you and then she's going to shoot me then you have two murders why because you're going to get off the de 3 months later you're going to run out of money so one time I had a student went from K one day he wanted to commit murder M murder not joking not exaggeration M wanted to commit murder I had to convince him otherwise without him knowing that I'm convincing him you have to be a little bit of have to be sneaky a little bit you can't sometimes you got to tell somebody to their face Hey listen you have tell people to their face sometimes but most of the time you got to convince them that it's their idea like it says sh chased peace how did he Chase peace two people argued two people argued but then he goes to one of he goes ah you wouldn't believe it what ruen I just saw him he's crying about the fight that you had with the things that he said he said he's so sorry but he's so embarrassed to say I'm sorry to you oh really yeah yeah you wouldn't believe it then he goes to Shimon Shimon you wouldn't I just came back from uh from him he's crying about what he said to you during the argument you wouldn't believe it really but these two guys they're friends they got into a fight their heart melts they go they hug each other oh listen I'm sorry I'm by the time they find out that none of this actually happened they're already back to being friends who cares Shalom he's creative sometimes for the truth for for for peace you're allowed to lie but only if you if you know exactly what you're doing you're not we're not you have to know exactly how to use it you have to have precise directions not just lie whenever you feel like it because it sounds good but nonetheless sometimes you have to convince people that it's their idea so guy wants to commit murder I have to convince him otherwise and convince him that it's his idea he does CH starts keeping Shabbat starts keeping MIT little by little gets stronger and stronger one day he tells me okay I decided I'm going to leave work I'm going to go to k I'm thinking to myself okay you're only about a year into your chuva you don't have okay so you're keeping Shabbat you're not murdering good great but to have high level to go be that makes $1,000 a month it's not easy you're married you got two kids three kids if you were single 18 19 20 22 years old 25 years old 30 years old in today's age everybody's 30 single but point is you're single you don't have anything you still live with your mom fine go to call him but if you have wife kids and everything and they're waiting for food every day and your wife is not bringing in any any P not enough you can't you can't you can't tell the guy no no that's the best thing for you to do unless the guy is like Ultra Ultra strong and the wife is even stronger and the kids are stronger there's little mashiah running around the house yeah maybe but it's not a rule of thumb to just send people to K cuz you have to have also to go to k in essence you're starting every month in negative in America you get paid approximately $1,000 a month in colos in Israel you get paid about 500 so imagine you have a family five six kids just the rent is $2,000 $1,800 $1,500 so already in the beginning of the month you're already in a negative 500 to $1,000 doesn't include food doesn't include electricity doesn't include clothing for the kids doesn't include anything doesn't Co even basic needs like toothbrush holds nothing just the so obviously you have to have of where this money is going to come from of how you know you have to it's not H it's not easy plus you cannot be a person that likes money if you like money too much you're never going to survive someone that likes money will not survive without money as a matter of fact someone that likes money will struggle because of his money for the rest of his life even if he has a lot of money because someone that likes money will never feel like he has enough of it because if you think money is good then you want more you never have enough this is why said this in last week's but it's still worth it to mention again in provers talking about who gets who gets the wisdom of the Torah who gets in essence eternity on a silver platter it says my child if you accept my words and treasure my Commandments with yourself to make your ears attentive to M to wisdom incline your hard to understanding for only if you call out to understanding and give forth your voice to discernment so here he's telling you if you do what hashem's will is if you value it that's a beginning but how do you get the Torah how do you get to a point of actually having this eternity how do you get to a point of having fulla how do you have this how do you get to a point of M feel like hasem is with you not watching you he's with you people a lot of people believe in Hashem yeah hasm cre a monkey believes also in hm you don't have to be much more than a monkey to believe in hm monkey believes in hm you can believe in hm we all know we didn't this candle didn't come from nothing somebody made it before I broke it twice somebody put it there I have to tell that person cuz they broke their candle but nonetheless somebody put it there it didn't come from nothing if it did and that saves myself you know apology but I know somebody made it this m said somebody built it it's building somebody build it the cars on the road somebody build it everything came from somewhere that's somewhere is called Hashem so you don't have to be a genius to believe in God but to believe that Hashem is with you that he's not only watching over you but he's literally with you all the time that's to be glued to hem that's and that's not only have faith where hem is overseeing and you know that he's taking care of the world but you have the you have the confidence that he actually is going to take care of you specifically you that don't have P he's going to take care of you you that can't find a z he's going to take care of you you that have different things that are confusing you he's going to take care of you you that have issues with the kids with the husband with the this with the that he's going to take care of you how it's his problem not yours you just do your you do what you have to do how do you get there tells you if you seek it as if it were silver if you search for it as if it were Hidden Treasures then you will understand the fear of hem and discover the knowledge knowled of God if you search for it like silver but also the word for silver also means money KF means silver also means money if you chase my Torah my MIT my my honor you chase all the things that are the foundation of this world you chase it like you're chasing money then you'll know the truth you'll live the truth and you always feel like I'm next to you I'm with you but if you chase it like you know the pl a little plane you chase for like 2 seconds then you like leave N I don't feel like chasing anymore it's too much I'm tired it's hot hot outside I don't feel like chasing let's play inside Chase it like that you chase it like you're chasing money you have a future problem is that we're chasing money we're not chasing hem we took that verse just to chase we forgot the whole verse it just chase money three words you chase money we forgot the rest of it so now he's telling you here if you are righteous you're spending your time learning then your Torah will help you when it's combined with unless you're at a level where you could be on the other hand if you're not and you're also not working this will get you to a point where you have a serious serious problem you're going to fall off and one time when I when one of my told me that he wants to go to a I advised him against it now someone who doesn't know it would think that I'm a Kel think I'm a heretic tell him somebody not to go to the go learn to but I know he can't handle it why he just started doing CH he just was con vinced not to commit murder just a little while before that to go to Cola is a little bit of a push I'm not joking I'm not exaggerating but telling you this is a serious true story I know it's funny and it's I'm saying it in a funny way but it's m this is the type of stuff you deal with and uh I told him no I told him you shouldn't go and he did and he went anyway had a lot of serious problems why because eventually the savings that he had right out okay now what all a sudden wife's no good anymore why what' she do she was good this whole time why is she not good anymore the kids are no good anymore why the kids were perfect until now what happened all of a sudden this whole world went and collapsed why cuz he thought that you know he's going to go to k for six months going to become RAB AA takes a long time to become AB AA takes a lot of a lot of a lot of tests you have to earn your way you can't just become Raba even RAB AKA had to learn how to be RAB AKA first of all by making himself into nothing how he went to kindergarten learned Al which not only taught him Al but taught him how to eliminate his ego for the sake of hem for you want to learn Tor eliminate your ego if you're learning to to be some big special guy you're learning nothingi that Torah that's full of G that's full of all types of arrogance it's not from sham it's not from Heaven it's what hasm says Torah that's full of arrogance it's not for me it's not my same Torah something else so you have to understand that some people have a yes some people have a no some people have a check mark some people have an x mark next to them you have to graduate and get to different levels at a certain time this is why it's very very important to consult with someone that's gone through it that knows it that's your Rabbi have a rabbi that knows who you are just asking any general Rabbi hey Rabbi should I go to Yeshiva every Rabbi will tell yeah sure go to Yeshiva go to col go to Seminary go to Israel go do Aliyah go do this go of course yes to everything why not but if they knew that that yes meant it's going to be a divorce it's going to be this it's going to be that it's going to be all these problems with it who's going to tell you yes so when you have a r that's that knows the real details assuming you're telling them the truth because that's also another problem we deal with on a regular basis everyone pretends they give they come to the rabbi with a pretend story oh yeah you know I I have this problem with my wife I have this problem with my husband TA by why why why do you have a problem with this wife or husband oh I don't know I don't know they just pick on me oh they just pick on you just this innocent M this innocent victim you don't do anything yeah I don't know it's been like that for 5 years already always picks on me always this always that and all you know they tell you a story like wow this like husband is like Freddy Krueger it's like what kind of you knowa is this woman married to what kind of wicked witch is this guy married to me skin now when you find out the other side of the story you ask the husband or the wife he tells you the other part goes oh yeah by the way she cheated on me last month oh yeah by the way he cheated on me last month he who if I was him I would have killed you what this him yelling at you is actually he's giving you uh he's giving you the benefit of doubt you're worse than he is you're worse than even describing him you don't tell you that now everybody's sadik everybody they come to the rabbi no I'm a sadik I do this you know how much I give you know how much this you know how much that you how you know I prayed 6 o00 in the morning every day you don't need to pray 6 o00 in the morning you need to be a human being first you could pray late but be a human being so if you're telling this R the truth tell him the full story your full thought and not giving him like a uh where's Waldo puzzle you know where you give him you know one word like a code and he has to figure out what you're saying it's like I'm going where eight hours later I went where'd you go two by the end of the week you found out he went to besset on Monday like it's codes it's like different like you know they don't tell you the whole story just tell why are you making me ask you questions tell me the whole story from A to Z I'll help you but if you tell me little codes like I'm some detective most of the time eventually me personally eventually I just give up I don't even ask you okay you want good luck but you don't care where I went no I don't care if you care to tell me tell me I don't have time thousands of people team is reaching over 100,000 people a week 100,000 people a week 150,000 people a week think I have time to figure out what your story is tell me I'll help you you don't want to tell me good luck but this is very very important for people to understand you want help from somebody you have to be honest you have to be honest you have to be honest with yourself and know where you stand if you really want to be a and you're willing to chase the Torah like you other people yourself included in the past chased money go for it 100% as long as your life is able to handle it but don't say don't come to me and tell me no no no my wife is yet what do you mean she wants to eat no my my wife is yet she's not letting me go to k yeah no she not that she's yet she wants you to learn but she also wants to eat and if you don't go to work she and the three kids you have at home are not going to eat that's not yet that's Survival so you first start learning in the morning start learning in the afternoon during the break start learning at night become disciplined little by little you'll be learning a few hours a day little by little you'll gain more knowledge little by little you'll gain Merit little by little you'll help from hem that will give you the ability to learn even more why because you're chasing Torah like you're chasing money but if the only way you're going to learn is if you go to call all fulltime and put your family at risk then what are we doing here this will lead to sin now this also is referencing to according to it's not just referencing to the regular traditional people it's also referencing the people that are engaged in public service meaning people that are doing kiru people that are teaching to people that are trying to get people close to Hashem people that are rabbis of kot and he says if you treat your tah the way this mishna expresses it or explains it you'll be fine but if not you'll be in trouble how so the continuing uh the rest of this mishna says all of those who are engaged in public service me a rabbi of a or somebody that speaks or anything like that should exert themselves for the sake of Heaven meaning if you're already going to do K if you're already going to be a rabbi of a if you're going to you know give people different advice or everything like that you have to do it for hem for not for your money not for your pocket not because you're getting $115,000 of speech you have to do it for you have to do it for sh you have to do it for the sake of hem for for hm's Torah not because you're making money from it why the first reason ra says if you doing it forem sh you're doing it for the truth then you're going to help other people do CH forget their sin get over their sin get over the because you have hasm is going to help you he's going to give you things to say the right thing to say to the right person at the right time people tell me all the time they send me emails or texts or they tell me you know oh I love your sh I love this you said this you said that I mean has nothing to do with me only reason why hasem allowed me to St it is for you before I say it I didn't know myself that's why almost every single email that I start is cuz it has nothing to do with me if you're doing it for sh you're doing it for Hem Hem will give you the words to say and you'll help people forget their sins and forget all of their desires in the past but if not if you're doing it for money if you're doing it because you want to get Fame and Fortune then it's actually going to create sin how is it going to create sin in a few ways first of all you could turn yourself into one of these babot very easy to become a baba which is an outright criminal that is walking these people that tell you that they're M they're all these special holy people and if you donate $1,000 to them they'll give you this special weird water that you just filled up from the fountain by the way in this weird little bottle and your disease will go away or if you pay them $155,000 they'll give you a black book that you can't read because it's an Aramaic and no one speaks the language but that's going to take away your because is the problem it's not that you violate Shabbat as the problem is the problem and all these liars and thieves that fool people turning turning the servicing of hasem turning as T into into idol worship and who they do it with they do it with fools naive people people usually that are secular that don't keep anything they go to these people that look weird they have these weird clothes on and they always wear glasses even though it's the middle of the night and they have always like a few really really big books that no one ever opens and sometimes actually one guy said a story he said one time I actually opened the book it was Mickey Mouse it was a Disney book I told the guy you're not ashamed of yourself you have a Mickey Mouse book you're calling yourself M he kicked me out and he had the people almost beat me up cuz nobody ever touched the book before so people go to him they don't know anything they don't know Shabbat they don't know kosher they don't know they come to him with mini skirts and tank tops they say no I have problems oh you have you have oh yeah yeah of course yeah I have oh I'm really really sick yeah you have everybody has everybody has evil eye everybody everybody has evil eye evil eye I'm not saying evil eye is not right it's even says evil ey is real but there's a very cheap way of of dealing with it very cheap way say I am of the descendant of yadik that is above that's it finished learn Tora you finished with finished you don't need to do anything but is very much real even to such an extent that in the beginning of I think this series beginning of every one of the books the series of books very very one of the most successful series of all time he actually wrote there's these that have on me that trying to trying to take me down please protect me from them it's very much real it's not like it's not false but it's assuming you keep all the MIT if you're not keeping Shabbat iiz the least of your problems if you're Mar inter married is the least of your problems if you're not modest is the least of your problems doesn't matter to you because consid someone that's he considers their prayer disgusting you think that book the Disney book the guy's giving you that you're not going to read anyway is uh is going to help you keep Shabbat keep kosher keep something so now what happens people that are wicked that have their God's money they turn themselves into these weird looking Babas and they take advantage of people and there one poor woman few months ago I heard about this story from RAB zon he tells me this poor lady went doesn't know anything the woman is mamash half naked all the time doesn't matter if it's summer if it's winter it's it doesn't matter New York La doesn't make a difference the woman mamash doesn't know doesn't know that you're supposed to put clothes on she thinks her and a giraffe almost the same thing no clothes on no Shabbat no Kosher no nothing but she had a few difficulties whatever the difficulties were she went to this meal in Brooklyn everybody knows this meal in Brooklyn he tells her yeah you have buy this book and everything's going to be okay she bought the book for $155,000 $115,000 for a book I would told the guy listen do me a favor how about you keep the book I'll just take it to Staples make a few copies you keep the money I'll pay you 500 bucks for the copies $115,000 for the book she thinks that's going to solve our problems soab tells listen did he tell you about keeping Shabbat no he tell you about modesty goes no he said right next to him somebody M would not even allow a woman to sit next to him when she looks like that sit sit in the same room as him but what happen she doesn't know anything she thinks that you know Judaism is some type of cult of weird things and people are making all of these weird strange things as if they're part of Judaism they're not part of of Judaism Judaism is based on T and there's a few here and there that you can do but in general none of those are going to work for you if you're not considered part of you could read all the in the world you could wear all the red strings and the white strings and the blue strings and all those stupid strings that people buy for a lot of money and you could buy all the books in the world you could have a whole Shelf full ofes if you don't read them and say what say and do what they say it's all worthless a book is only holy once you read it otherwise it's just paper but people are turning Judaism into some form of idol worship where they say no no no I'm going to read T six times a week I'm going to read this te and that te and that te everything's going to be fine okay what about Shabbat what about family Purity what about working on your midot your character traits what about kosher what about all those other you know basic level Judaism Judaism one what about that no just the is going to save you where does it say that what source says that who said that nonsense so first and foremost you have to understand none of those skot whether they're real or not real and many of them are not real by the way many of them have no Source in the tah if it doesn't have Source in the tah it's nonsense whatever Gul you're going to have first of all if you're ever going to do it you should only do it after you're already fulfilling the entire Torah where you're comfortable with everything that you know maybe maybe you don't know the entire but everything that you know you're already doing that's number one number two there's a source for this Gul it's not that you heard from this guy who heard from this guy who said that rabian said it or that R said it or some other guy said it no you have a source there's a source it's somewhere in the T somewhere in the somewhere in the somewhere somewhere not like you heard even the things that they say about rabman or they say about the the AR all these things a lot of the things are not real they say that RAB nakan said that uh anyone that wears the uh you know payers and you know has the whole uniform of the he's going to take him out of G the problem is they forgot the rest of what he said what was the rest of what he says only if he follows the entire meaning only if he follows the all of the mitv of Judaism but he made a few sins because there's no such thing as someone that's righteous without sins you make a few sins those few sins you have to clean them up if you don't suffer in this world you have to suffer in the next world he says if he fulfilled the entire Torah but he made a few sins because of the extra Merit that he has I'll pull him out early that has something in it but to say that just because you have some peirs you're not going to go to Gom and what what he really said it's a pretty far distance or saying that the I heard this also about a week or two ago somebody said this to me um she says that uh yeah this guy told me that whoever goes to the mik of theal which is freezing cold is going to ganed not going to be in G because he's going to do chuva what AR really say what do he actually really say if you go to my mik and you follow the entire then I'll give you the meaning the inclination the feeling the desire to do full Chua I'll give you the desire to do full Chua but desire to do full Chua and getting out of Gom and going to GED guaranteed is it's a big pretty long distance it's from here tomorrow is back times so that's the thing people are making up things also last but not least these red strings these red strings I've talked about this in the past but for some reason people still wear them people wear them for a year two years oh I've been showering with it for three years people don't understand the the only source in the Torah that talks about red strings is is when it talks about idol worship that's where the idol worship is if you talk about Judaism with strings it's white it's not red and even the ones that maybe or maybe not mention red strings it's in gabala which most people don't even understand let alone do so it's more likely connected to idol worship than is connected to Judaism so people before you do any of these things you have to ask somebody who knows you have to verify don't just be a you know some fool naive person just thinks just because you're wearing a string everything's going to be okay or just because you spend $15,000 on a book everything's going to be okay you have to follow what Torah says it's not a it's not a uh get rich quick scheme takes time so now is telling you here even if you're one of those people that teaches other people don't put yourself in a situation that's not good meaning don't put yourself in a situation where you're trying to make money out of this Torah because if you're trying to make money out of this Torah if you're trying if you're turning this Torah that you learned into a business where that's your primary goal you're only going to go give a lecture because they're paying you not because you're helping them do Chua not because you even care if they do Chua you're not going to do the shabbaton because hopefully you're going to save a few marriages you're doing the shabbaton because they're going to pay you $5 $20,000 you wrote a book you want a few people to buy it you want this you're trying to make money out of your Torah then Ru says then you're going to end up accepting gifts from the wicked people and you're going to end up flattering the wicked in order to carry favor with them meaning then you're going to turn into a worse rash than them why because what are you going to do you're going to sell your soul for money you're going to start accepting money from Wicked people but call themad yeah sikik you give $155,000 doesn't matter you murdered 18 people this week you financed our building we have a family ofik what sikim his guy rash he has a pornographic company he has you know clubs he has this he causes is to you call him a sadik what sadik he's a rash gu's financing pornography the guy is financing people going in into these nightclubs the guy financing all the things that are against the you call him a sadik why you call him a sadik cuz money is your god money is your god not God and not my friend he's telling you when you turn the Torah into business all it's going to do it's going to turn your whole operation to it's going to create sins because anyone that is going to be a public servant has to do it for the sake of Heaven meaning you have to have a real desire to help people if you're doing it for the sake of Heaven if you're doing it for you're doing it for the honor of hem for the Fulfillment of the Torah then you're going to have then the Merit of the Merit of their ancestors will assist them and their righteousness will endure forever meaning if you're really doing it for shma you doing really for sh then any success you're going to have you have success you're going to say the right thing at the right time you're going to say the right thing to the right person you're not going to say the wrong thing to the wrong person and so on and so forth but by the way don't think it's your Merit it's not your Merit it's their Merit don't even take even though you're doing it for Hashem he reminding you it's M for the speaker even though you're doing it for Hashem you're going to give a lecture two hours away from your house you're doing it for hasm you're not asking for money everything is kosher the fact that hasem gives you the things to say the fact that people will do chuva the fact that people will start getting stronger and closer to Hashem it has nothing to do with you even though you're doing it for hem who's it for it has to do with them it's their Merit why they had the Merit to being to wanting to bring the truth they had the Merit to welcoming the truth they had the Merit to accepting the truth when they finally heard it and doing chuva and doing listening to it's their Merit not yours my friend so yeah you have a nice interesting story from Wall Street to the Western Wall but it's still not your Merit it's just an interesting story reason why you're getting is because the people in the crowd they have a married their ancestors they're the they're the descendants of abah and yob maybe they also have a grandfather or grandmother that's a sadik sadik and the fact that they're even welcoming listening and obeying the truth it's their Merit so even the credit for your big mitvah you're not even allowed to take and you public servant okay so what do I get at the end guy wants to do K guy wants to do for free do this do that till finally somebody donates your soul comes out of your body so what do you do he says a new public servant will be fully rewarded for your efforts as though you achieved what you wished don't worry Hashem is doing everything but I'll pay you like you did it I know you wanted them to do Chua I know you wanted to teach them I know you want to do all those things you really didn't do it because in reality the Torah that you have I gave you the wisdom you had I gave you the air in your lungs I gave you the effort you had came from the Torah that I gave you everything I gave you but because you had the desire and you had the right decide whether to fear the almighty or not whether to honor the almighty or not I'll pay you as if you did all of it even though in reality Hashem did everything so this is one of the things that someone needs to understand is that when you're doing kiru it applies to all of us not just to speaker why because when you're doing kiru you have a special Merit that no one else has the rambam and Mii both say the same thing based on the it says God rewards those who toil for the benefit of the community even for that they fail to fulfill meaning even let's say for example you wanted to have on Shabbat wanted to enjoy Shabbat but what happen somebody knocks on your door in the afternoon Shabbat listen I want to get a divorce you stop your Shabbat you try to help them not to get a divorce you want to have on Shabbat I want to have an abortion you stop your shabat you try to convince him not to have an abortion not to commit murder you want to have on Shabbat somebody else knocks oh can you give us a sh I'm dead tied right now what sh you stop your Shabbat you give him a what are you going to do you want to fulfill this mitvah on Shabbat but you can't why because you're doing you're serving the community you want to fulfill of learning 10 hours a day but you can because you're giving shim and you can't learn during that time and you necessarily will you're not able to learn what you want to learn you have to learn what you need to learn so if you're doing it for the community even for the mitv that you fail to fulfill hem will give it to you even though there's a general rule in the Torah there's a rule of thumb in the Tor that contradicts all of this honest love meaning one who does not perform a mitvah due to some type of circumstance be Beyond his own control cannot be credited with performing it meaning if let's say for example you want to go to besset in the morning you want to go to Nets and uh you got a flat tire got a flat tire in a way you figured okay hasm is going to pay me I wanted to go to B but it's not my fault that I got a flat tirei says no you're not getting mitzvah you're not getting mvah you didn't go to B you're not getting paid okay but I want to do this Mitzvah you're not getting paid it's rule of thumb except if you are a public servant except if you care about and he try to help them do CH what about effort congratulations you got paid for effort but for the execution of the Mitzvah you didn't get you get paid for effort but you don't get paid for execution of the mitzvah so yes you get partial but not full so just like a lawyer that lost the case you still pay him $50,000 because he charges you by the hour but if you would have won the case you would have paid him 400,000 but here he's telling you here if you try but you failed okay you'll get paid for the effort but you didn't actually get to besset you're not getting paid for going to besset but if you make it an issue in your life life to do K to support K to be part of K then my friend you have a different then you have a different account in shamay the Prophet Daniel in chapter 12:3 says this the wise will shine like the radiance of the firmament and those who teach righteousness to the multitudes will shine like the stars forever and ever if you're a righteous person you learn T and you are you're going to shine you get to after we finish our job in this world you shine like the heavens but if you teach righteousness you help other people do chuva you give them a CD you teach them you bring them over to your Shabbat to help them out in any way you can you bring them to if you're involved constantly with doing Q 5 minutes a day a half hour a day an hour a day whatever you can do but it's on a regular basis you will shine like the stars forever and ever why is the stars because the stars are higher than the heavens you'll be separate amongst all you'll be separated from everyone else to such an extent that you cannot even compare a person that's involved in to the rest of the world page n a the sages say the one that inspires others to do good and to fulfill their duties has even a greater Merit than one who does the same good on his own resources meaning even if you're righteous you learn Torah you do this you write a book you you know you write your own little Journal everything else okay but helping one guy at Shabbat lean and watching his bed to his life on a permanent basis different world different level it's much more valuable than you doing the mitv by yourself even why theid from kit from kits said what is this like what is it such a big deal for hem that one Jew helps another Jew do chuva he says the king certainly deres more pleasure from something done for his child than from something done for his own behalf so one that's involved with the community for the sake of Heaven is thereby taking care of the kid of the King's children so for example if you have a king and you say okay listen it's the King's Birthday King's birthday you know King already has everything okay you're going to buy him a present you're going to buy him I don't know tickets to sh Show you're going to buy him AAR you're going to buy him something nice you're going to do something nice throw him a party but he already has everything whatever you going to do it for the cavod you going to say thank you but if you save his child from murderers rapers and pedophiles and bring him back home you my friend might as will already become the next king that's how much he loves you cuz you just saved this kid now you don't have to necessarily be a professional speaker to do this if you could speak speak if you can't speak then do everything you can to get involved with it give CDs out post the videos make videos whatever you can as a million and a half ways which we talked about in the past of how you can do Zim because the Merit the the the significance of it is so big that the zor says anyone who knows the the significance of helping somebody else do chuva will literally stop doing everything that they're doing and start running around crazy in the streets looking for people to help them do Chua now of course you can only do it as far as if you're speaking or if you're trying to encourage other people to do technically you can do it under all conditions but in reality people only going to receive what you're saying if you're doing it yourself meaning if you you can't really tell people listen you should keep Shabbat because in essence what you're saying is that the Torah is a joke and everyone else has to listen to it except you so obviously first you have to understand that you have have to follow the beginning of the mishna you have to follow the Tora you have to keep yourself occupied doing MIT and then you're going to get to to influence other people but if you're going to do it just for the purpose of kav to tell people what to do you know some people like that some people like to just boss people around usually people love to do it on the phone with customer service ever noticed that everybody's a hero with customer service guy wants to to buy a computer the computer's not on time he yells at the guy he doesn't even know from India what do you mean what terrible service you have you should be ashamed of yourself if the guy was next to you you wouldn't say it to him or everybody gets gets upset at the people at the counter or the waiter ah could you cook a steak like this what an embar start embarrassing the guy like he cooked a steak on purpose just to make you upset people always Heroes against people that are providing them a service no need to do that no need to run people and treat them like slaves they're not your slaves the key here is to understand that if you're going to do it for sh most important part is to think about honor of hm your representative of hem and you're not doing it for any major respect or honor or benefit other than that to such an extent that in page 10 A and B decided that he's going to help a few rabbis few rabbis a few a few that knew a lot of Torah and many of them were very poor he said let me help them give them big positions to help them financially and also to spread their Torah make them famous so he reached out to rabar kasma and raban geda he reached out to both of them and he said I want to make you two big rabbis and they rejected it now who were these two rabbis their wisdom thear says was to such an extent that they could tell you how many drops of water are in the ocean anybody here know how many drops are in just a cup they knew how many drops of water are in the ocean to think about it already I'm getting tired just to think about what they knew I'm already tired from using my entire brain cells that wisdom was different world we can't even think about what they can think about but they didn't have even bread to eat or clothing to where that poor we say today ah this guy is poor I mean poor like he has a Honda Accord in a house that's worth $150,000 that's poor that poor we say here no the guy's uh homeless he doesn't have uh you know any food to eat meaning that he ate like three hours ago he ate McDonald's he didn't have like a four course meal he didn't eat he didn't eat in a long time what 5 hours ago he didn't eat dollar menu no in this time there's actually people in the world still today that M don't have food to eat a lot of the have this extra extra test in life of poverty which is unbelievable it's already difficult enough to learn T but they're at such a high level that AEM even increases their test by giving them an additional test of panasa but also giving the rest of us an opportunity to have the Merit of helping them of fulfilling theah ra said or financing them like the person I talked about in a couple of lectures I said there a huge and several of them there one particular guy that we've been trying to help M got to a point where they shut off his electricity his daughter was walking around the street with ripped clothes and his wife got into such a depression she doesn't want to leave the house and this guy is such that my which is like I don't know his wisdom is uh I know he was born in the wrong generation he's something special something much special he calls him a gone he says this guy's a g genius so this guy is such a high level but he doesn't have food to eat so actually somebody you know a few people have chipped in and they're trying to help we're trying to send him some money but it exists but even then it's not the same level as these two rabbis why cuz here he's saying they didn't even have clothes to wear they had to stay at home cuz they had only one thing to wear and you know if you wear different things all time you go out and about you ruin it and even have bread to eat and still raan is offering them a job where they're going to make a lot of money they going make a lot of money be a rabbi you learned to all your whole life you know how many jobs of water in the ocean uses T to teach they say no no no we don't want the job so who himself was a giant oh you rejecting it because you're scared that if you get the job people going to give you too much honor that your Kem is going to go down that you're going to get too much respect from the public and that may create GAA in your heart you going you know have arrogance not to worry the job I'm giving you is not a job of Pride but a job of slavery working as a rabbi for the for the public is outright slavery gel is saying this all day give people give you headaches all day they complain you say this they complain you say that they complain you give them the answer they complain you don't give them the answer they complain goes what are you worried about Pride for helping the Community Helping the public has to be for because if it's not for money there's no other benefit out of it other than other than so to finish the off page 37a uses is the book of Deuteronomy it says chapter 4 verse4 mosenu says isem commanded me at that time to teach you the decrees and ordinances that you shall perform them in the land to which you cross to possess it so thear explains that what is the meaning behind this I mean of course we know that mosu was commanded to teach them but here mosenu is tell them listen did I charge you $1,000 for each class did I uh Force you people to uh buy me houses and cars no I taught you for free because that's what hasm commanded me you must teach for free because that's what hasm commanded you so when you're doing Zim the last and final question is how are you going to survive how do you survive now all of you know I've told you already I retired from Wall Street I don't I retired out of business I don't work how does ra survive how do I survive how do people survive when they do this if they're not doing it for money if you're not charging for lecture if you're not that so first and foremost as the rambam said the community is has to finance them soem sends us different people that help us different different ways sends different different messagers to help people that understand this they fulfill it but on the other hand it said don't do it for money didn't mean don't do it for money meaning that you're not allowed to eat it meant that if you're spending your entire time doing kiru and you're going to use the money for k then every single thing that you do is a Mitzvah but if you're doing it if you're developing relationships with with different Wicked people and you're telling them that sadik even though they're violating the Tor left and right but you're only saying they're because they're going to donate $100,000 they're going to don't $10,000 they're going to build you a new kitchen you know you're developing relationship you go oh no this guy yeah he's going to be building a new kitchen I'm going to tell him he's a sadik this guy is going to do the remodeling of the of the living room I'm going to call him a sadik too this guy oh yeah he's going to give me a discount on the carard that I want that guy's going to pay for the discount you develop relationships with people just for money purposes it's not mitv it's it's a sin but if you actually are going to use this money used staka for the purpose of rebuking those people there's no problem with it meaning if you get staka and it causes you to not rebuke people then like the says the day that the uh Torah went bankrupt is when the rich people started giving money to rabbis which increased and no one was able to rebuke them meaning the rich people started giving money to rabbis and the rabbis became scared of telling listen you're making sins so what happened so these rich people started running the show they started becoming the board of directors at schuls they started telling the rabbi listen you can't say this you can't say that you can't bring this guy you can't bring that guy they started running the show so what happens increased and no one was able to tell them anything says that's when the Torah declared bankruptcy meaning no one's there to rebuke them because they're not using the money for they're using the money to build bigger synagogues they using money to build bigger houses for themselves bigger kitchens bigger this bigger that but not one person did youy their in 25 years but if you're going to get money from the public in order for you to rebuke them and remind them listen you're already given donations so that means you know the truth if you know the truth that means you have to follow the truth and you're obviously helping those very same people do CH and use that money to help other people do the calls you so each and every single one of you has an opportunity to be involved in this in one way or another if you're able to speak you have speaking skills get yourself a group of people get three four 5 10 people 50 people as you can see not every Sher has a lot of people sometimes I have shers in New York 40 50 60 people sometimes it's 500 people sometimes you have three people doesn't make a difference why cuz it goes on the internet once you go on the internet will send it in different places people from Australia people from Middle East people from Africa people from uh all over the US Canada anywhere you want six continents six continents we've been in already either they have CDs or they watch videos even I think Tahiti has CDs it's unbelievable you put it on YouTube you get the people and we have different people that are volunteering at a time they're helping us make movies to to appeal to people and uh uh about Torah or they're helping us with different types of videos uh publicizing the Torah on the Internet it's one sadik joined the team just yesterday or the day before he's in the advertising business and he says listen the kiru movie you made the 14-minute movie he says it really touched me I want to budget it I want to spend money to get this movie to hit at least 1 million people whatever it costs I'll do it he's going to is's going to run this uh video and perhaps a few other ones to get this video in front of many many more people which costs money it's not always free to get it we're doing it for free we're getting a certain amount of people but he wants to get it to many many more people much much faster which requires money but that's the each one of you can have a share in the world to come not only through your own marriage but also through getting other people to do it you have CDs sponsor CDs you can't sponsor CDs I'll give them to you for free give them out to people but don't take 500 CDs 300 CDs 100 CDs or even 50 CDs they just going to stay in your car for 5 years if you you know if you if you have these go go to the supermarket put 25 there put 50 there depending on the size of the supermarket put 100 there people are taking it put it there don't keep them for reserves there's always more you know it's it's it's not it's not it's not a Mitzvah to keep it in your house to keep them in your car it's a mitv to give them to people oh you always have a few left but in general the large quantities give them out get into people's hands you don't have money to do it again like I told you I'll give you CDs if you have money then help if you have people that you need need more than just a CD in a whole package you could sponsor a key roof package like we talked about in the past if you don't have whatever we'll find a way we'll get it to them either way there's a lot of different ways that you could get get K done another thing is set up sh get a group of people get 10 50 100 200 people together in one place we'll come we'll do a sh it's a lot of different things you can do to do kiru because again you AR the sh 50 people show up to the sh three people start keeping Shabbat at the end of sh who's better than you and that's the thing it's it's easy it's easy mitv the problem is that every one of us got used to the giant diamonds that are walking around us that we think it's just glass so nobody's picking it up there's a bunch of diamonds to pick up everywhere there's a bunch of Jews that don't know anything you just show them one CD One video One lecture they'll start keeping Shabbat because in generally most Jews are not not keeping on purpose they're not keeping it because they don't know but get it to them but don't get to a point where it's making you fall meaning don't go to the clubs to go find balicha you're not at that level don't go to the club say no no I'm going to go find all these people all this uh Israeli party for Hanukah I'm going to go go there and I give him CDs in the club we're not at that level there was a rabbi that's at that level we're not at his level we have to do simple give CDs give lectures arrange lectures of normal places don't make a sin in order to make a mitvah because remember we have to listen to this whole Mish complete we have to make sure that our mind is constantly occupied with constantly occupied with we're constantly chasing off the with our Tor we're constantly chasing the and little by little we're earning our way TOA that looks good any questions I know as soon as I turn off the tape there's at least 500 questions so Adon amen amen [Music] [Applause] [Music]