THE WORST TALMIDIM IN THE WORLD - Jewish HaShkafa (41)

for [Music] we're back for another week starting our continuing our series of the uh Jewish ashfa based on the seph by the sh Shalom uh Jewish the Jewish ideology uh has been teaching us over these last several months uh how to think like a Jew uh which uh many times uh people uh believe they're Jewish they're born Jewish they practice Jewish things but do not know how to think like a Jew uh because their ashfa their ideology is quite frankly the opposite of what the tah commands us to and who better than a Kish to teach us what the Jewish ashfa is supposed to be uh you know surely a person wants to learn uh how to do something from an expert if you want to learn to be be a doctor you want to learn from the best if you want to be a lawyer you want to learn from the best if you want to be anything in the world you want to learn from the best and there is nobody better than the Jewish sages to teach us what the right ashfa is um tonight's will be for [Music] aana Talia SAR Ben Stefan Ben Karina David benri Doris Bora and also for a um of sha Ben faran benis gab benis elad benis David Bena um and also for uh Mara but Julie Isa B Mara Alexander Ben Mara Samuel Ben Mara Seas Ben Mara ruen Ben palel and Joshua Ben Noah and also a uh welcome back full welcome back to our very dear uh vies most of you did not Noti but because the operation continues and the Cur continues but our dear vesh has been in the hospital for a couple of weeks still doing K from there I think that uh if anything else uh this teaches us that if somebody really wants to help am they'll find a way from doing to do it even when they are in a uh in the hospital uh this uh I'm teaching not uh because he asked me to not because he even wants me to but because it's really M for the rest of us that have a lot of excuses of why we can't do more for the sake of am Isel uh why we can't share why we can't donate why we can't do learn why we can't teach why we can't do a lot of things when you really sit down and think about it and uh you know the the team AEM has uh between 50 and 60 different people between the volunteers and the employees and all the wonderful people that help us but uh managing uh the uh large group of them is our dear vesh and uh you know it's a the show doesn't start without him getting involved in everything and um the the one thing that uh was amazed me over these last few weeks is that he refused to stop doing kiru uh you know it's refused to stop uh helping am is see the Tor and many times when you ask people why don't you uh take some flyers and distribute in your community why don't you give a male from your salary why don't you give some time to share some things on YouTube or you know on your Facebook or on WhatsApp and so on and so forth forth and many times people say yeah yeah I'm going to do it and they really don't or otherwise they don't do as much as they could uh but every every one of us has an excuse of why we're not doing so we don't mean evil we don't mean bad but all of us have excuses but when you see somebody that's as dedicated as vies it reminds me of thear that says that when a person goes up to sh with his list of excuses already has the answers if a person says listen it was very hard for me to follow what you said in uh the this week's uh par where talks about all of the immorality crimes promiscuity being with a having girlfriends boyfriends things of that nature there's a PUK in this week's Paras that specifically forbids a person from uh from being with uh all types of people that uh he's not out to whether it's the uh common knowledge of ancestral relationships or also not so common knowledge of someone that's not your husband or someone that's not your wife I.E girlfriend and boyfriend where uh the uh Tora says in uh The Book of Leviticus chapter 18 verse number 19 that a person is not even allowed to come close to a woman even if she is his wife when she's uh the says that in that there was a that died young and uh the woman came and asked people in the and I think we talked about this last week and when elah Navi came to her seeing that she's genuinely looking for an answer and he asked her where your husband he uh touched you when you were Nida she said no he never touched me when I was Nida when I was uh bleeding he never touched me he said what about when you were counting the days right before you went to the mik she said yeah then you know we we slept in the same bed but we were never intimate even though we ate from the same plate and we uh uh we did uh uh you know hold hands but we never were intimate and says that he killed him why because he went against what T says how do he go against what T says T doesn't say don't be intimate with someone that nid it says don't even come close to her don't even come close to a woman that is nid and even though you were his wife he came close to you put himself close to a sin it's a it's a uh needless to say if someone is not your wife someone is not your husband uh and uh someone tells to Hashem listen Hashem it was very hard for me not to uh uh you know not have girlfriends or boyfriends Soh is going to show show them who it's going to show them yadik the most beautiful man that ever lived other than ad uh he was a very beautiful man and had the opportunity to be with one of the most beautiful women in history one of the four most beautiful women uh women in history Po's wife and still did not do it so Hashem says are uh you know the woman that you wanted to be with or the guy that you wanted to be with more beautiful than these to no but yet they overcame he overcame I meaning uh Yik overcame the obstacle so uh the actually mid says that even Po's wife really meant to do it for the sake of Heaven she saw in a dream that uh YF was going to bring a lot of Kusa to the world uh and she wanted to be a part of it but you know obviously she thought that she was going to be the one she didn't know that the daughter that she adopted osnat which was really dena's daughter was really the the one that was going to marry YF but the point being is is that a person is not have the excuse of I was too pretty and therefore I couldn't say no I was too good-looking and therefore I couldn't say no that's not going to be an excuse and someone's going to say yeah hasm listen how could I fulfill all of your mitv if you gave me so much money I was too busy to learn to running all these uh businesses that you gave me all these buildings that you gave me all of these uh insurance companies and hedge funds and real estate companies and uh and all types of uh things that you gave me I had to manage all of it I didn't have have time to learn T is going to bring him H H is going to bring him for the guy that doesn't have any money cuz H was the one that was as broke as could possibly be but still gave his last dime for the sake of learning to and when he didn't have that last dime he stood he laid down on the roof of the BET mid of while it was snowing and let the snow fall on top of him and the one that was rich RAR benia was so rich that he had literally cities cities full of goods that he had boats and uh and people and uh and all types of slaves but yet he had a extraordinary wealth and an extraordinary amount of T is not going to give the guy who didn't have money or the guy that had a lot of money any uh room uh for their excuses because he's going to give them different examples and my point of all of this and reminding all of you guys of these stories is that when it comes to kiru when it comes to kiru and all of us come to sh and hm is going to say what did you do for me if we say we learned Torah hasem says who says that you learned the right way first of all and second of all how much toah did you really learn were you rki were you the Sone his father were you no so how much to did you learn in reality all the Tora is for you anyway so what else did you do for me you going to say I did mitv the MIT you're commanded to do you're not doing it for me you're doing it for yourself say well uh what could I have done for you he said did you bring any Jews back to me did you bring any of my children back any of my daughters back to do mitvah to be modest to be uh to to keep Shabbat to stop wasting seat percu you do any of that ohem I don't I tried here and there I shared a lecture here and there you know I donated a few dollars here and there yeah you did that once in a while but did you make it your business like the says where if you want to be saved fromia from the birth pangs of mashia you have to and and there is no other greater than than helping people do do and then you going tell them yeah you know it was difficult because I didn't want to offend people and it was difficult because I was busy and it was difficult because I was under the circumstances I personally believe he's going to bring you VES he going to bring look at VES over here he was half dead in the hospital for two weeks still doing cure if nobody knew that he was even in the hospital and that was not the first time and not the second time and many many other times continues to help and if it wasn't for a rebuke for us I wouldn't even tell you the story as I haven't told anybody who's been in the hospital for all these weeks why because it's a it's a it's for the rest of us all of us that have excuses of why we're not doing more remember if you really want it it you would do it why does he do it you ask him to tell you this I can't live without helping am I can't live without doing k k is what saves me kiru is what saves me when a person sees kiru for what it is the Torah for what it is he understands that that's what's saving him and this is a uh is the right way of looking at things but now we want to go a little deeper a little deeper into what the k says where over these last several weeks the Kish has been shocking us week after week where we learned what is we learned what is which already from those first several lessons we learned that everything that we've learned our whole lives is simply wrong to believe that just hasem is just going to save you just because doesn't exactly work that way to believe that just because you believe God exists in the world that being amuna doesn't exactly mean it's not exactly true you know amuna means that you understand that hm is the creator of all creations he's monitoring every single little thing that you're doing in your life whether it's your di or you do or you want to do the b or you don't want to do the B whether you really mean it or you don't really mean it whether you're generous or you're just pretending whether you uh are uh learning tah for the sake of heaven or you're learning tah for the sake of your own honor and so on and so forth and the is is that you have complete knowledge that whatever hasem is putting in front of you whether it's somebody blessing you or somebody cursing you whether it's somebody giving you a job or firing you whether it's somebody telling you that you're the best or somebody telling you the worst that's all with permission from meaning don't be so uh uh um upset or happy and enamored by where this information came from as far as the human form that it came from why it's all coming from it's complete knowledge that everything you have in your life is coming from this is one of the difficult points for a lot of people but the has explained it to us thoroughly and he told us further after that that we must learn mus to in order for us to develop our character traits in order for us to open up our to build our and build but if we only learn without learning the we can become the worst possible people on Earth because m without Al is evil and now he's going to go deeper into that now he's going to go into in the third chapter 11th section he's going another paragraph deeper into what that actually means and I uh titled uh the the the worst talim in the world and I'm going to give you some personal stories of certain things that I've seen and encountered in my uh short seven-year career as a person that's teaching tah of different t from all over the world we have thousands upon thousands of people that we're in touch with on a regular basis and uh the reality is is that it's a uh if it was a bet midash that we have a physical bet midash to fit all of the students we'd need quite a few buildings or perhaps maybe the uh the Microsoft headquarters uh just because how many people are learning from us from all over the world but with that with all of that good there's surely going to be a bad apple in every tree so there's definitely a few bad apples that we've encountered maybe a little bit more than a few and we'll discuss them and really what is the common denominator what is the common denominator among all of the bad talim all of the bad student followers supporters whatever you want to call them what is the bad denominator that all of them have and it's not just for me it's for any Rabbi uh anybody that's teaching people uh they we all encounter the same thing if you have people that follow and listen to you and come and so on from time to time you're going to have some bad apples and the interesting thing that the K brings is that all of them have a common denominator all of the bad T have a common denominator now to uh throw you a little bit off I would say but yet this is going to create some value at the end I'm going to ask a couple of questions questions thatth you can think about and then we'll get the answers but it's not just an question that a person should say yes or no but rather understand why because to say yes or no even a uh you know a donkey can do he can KN his head we're not looking for yes or no knowing Al means that you know the reasons behind everything and it's important for every person to know these things simply because it's thinking like a Jew thinking like a Jew is one of the things that we're all trying to get to at this point that's the whole point of this series so one question is if let's say there was a person that went to the market to buy fish he went to the Jewish Market he uh saw there was one guy selling fish and he says yov I want the best fish that you have in honor of Shabbat okay most of you are probably thinking the famous story of uh ysf M Shabbat that's inab at the end of the of how he bought the big fish and in that fish there was a huge diamond that Hashem made sure that y m Shabbat found and he became the richest man of the land going from the poorest man of the land that honored chabbat this is a very similar story but a true story that happened more recently most is also a true story but happened many years ago this story happened more more recently a person goes to the market says I want to honor Shabbat Yakov the uh fisherman the uh I want wants you to give me the best fish you have he says this the fish this the fish I have big fish okay sounds good what's the price he gives him a price little expensive he said okay I'll take it cut it up for me and I'll take it home so Yakov takes out his tools takes out the scales cleans up the fish opens up the fish and his eyes light up when he sees a chain full of diamonds and jewels on it now the customer ofam as excited as can be I'm rich look at the look at the uh greatness of Hem of how he gifted me this golden chain just like in the story of Y Shabbat why honor the Shabbat I bought a fish that's you really beyond my budget but I bought it pay I'm going to pay for everything's good I ordered it hey no no no yob says it's not your Diamond don't start celebrating don't start it's my diamonds I didn't sell you diamonds I sold you a fish selling you a fish he goes no come on yob don't be like that don't be like that it's not nice it's my it's my diamond goes it's not your diamonds how could it not be your diamonds I bought the fish he says listen you didn't take the fish it's still in my Poss it's my fish he says yeah but you cut the fish for me you cut the fish for me he says yeah I cut the fish for you but you still didn't get it he says yeah but the says that you cut the fish you cut the fish and if I would have said listen you know what I don't like the way fish looks what would happen what's the me what's the I don't know what's the says if if you cut the fish and I say I don't want it you can obligate me to buy it so is it my fish or is not my fish that's question number one that's question number one question number two question number two we have a situation where someone leaves his car uh someone drives his car nice fancy schmancy car but car breaks down and he has to take it to the shop takes it to the shop the guy at the shop says like all guys at the shop say what an expense you have on yourself what do you mean with expense cuz you need to fix a few different pieces and they're expensive okay great so can can you uh how much and I'll get it he goes I'm sorry I don't have those pieces I don't have those pieces he goes can you order them he goes no no those pieces they don't I don't know who sells them I don't know who sells them you're going to have to get them from overseas I'm sorry so the guy now has a nice fancy car but that fancy car it useless right now he doesn't know what to do he walks down the road as you would have Ito he sees there's a car just like his parked walks by and he sees there is one or two Ines of dust on top of this car it's been abandoned apparently for a long time no one's droven it no one no one has driven it no one has washed it no one has done anything and if that doesn't make things uh U so apparent he sees there's a notice on the car warning from the city if you do not move this car from this spot on such and such date we're going to tow the car and take it to the junkyard and destroy it that's what the ru says what's the date 14 days from then so he says listen to take it right now I can't why cuz you know the guy could just take the car right now I wait a wait he waits 14 days on the day that this the tow truck supposed to come he sees nobody's picked up the car what does he do feels at home takes the pieces that he wants and yal it's my pieces the tow truck comes takes the car goes in the junkyard is destroyed at least he got his pieces he fixed his car right okay as you would have it comes from his long away you know long trip overseas sees that his car is missing looking for his car and he said anybody see my car and one of the neighbors says yeah I saw your car the tow trucks came it's been a long time you've been gone for a long time and they put a notice there nobody had the key nobody could help you nobody had contact with you and uh they took it I like oh wow okay he goes but listen I do have something for you that ruen ruen that lives down the street he did take a few pieces of your car CU took a pieces of my car doesn't the whole story ah okay at least I'm going to get some of my money back he goes knocks on move in hey y n come on pay up let's go what pay up for what who are you he tells him look you took the car he took the car pieces hey khabibi I don't owe you anything what do you mean you don't owe me anything you took my piece of my car I didn't give you permission you have to give it to my light no no no that car was F K that car was abandoned and I said what abandoned it's my car the tow truck didn't come yet until the tow truck comes tow truck comes okay it's my car it didn't come yet you didn't find it in the junkyard it's my car you have to pay me no both cases go to theed of and what is the answer we'll answer that at the end of the sh why the end of the sh because we have to know to answer a questions you have to have to answer to have the right requires meaning both feed off of each other and you'll see that our natural inclination is to rule based on our feelings based on our feelings that's really our natural inclination who's right based on our logic oh this is right that's right that's why I say don't just give the answer being being the right answer but why is it the right answer why is it the right answer so says the following people who have spent their time since youth perfecting their character traits by studying books that teach people how to do so meaning books whether it's the the or path of the just and countless other books that have been written by our sages to teach us diff how to develop our character traits but these people that have spent a lot of their time studying M many times they uh they're b or people that are just trying to improve themselves and so on they' have not learned the laws of judicial matters meaning they haven't learned Al and therefore have not acquired the love of justice so here he repeating same thing he said so far where somebody says Rabon I listen to every sh that you have good do you also learn Al no I learned from the okay that's good that you're learning from the sh if especially if it's in the beginning but after a little while you have to learn some along with my Sho not just my shoe my Sho by itself is not going to be enough to teach you everything everything you need to know how to keep Shabbat you have to learn the laws of Shabbat it's not going to teach you everything you need to know about the holidays you have to learn the laws of the holidays it's not going to teach you everything about K you have to learn the laws of K and so on and so forth m is going to teach you the right how to become a better human being a few here and there but you have to combine it with from books oh no no it's enough for me just your sh is just enough for me it may be enough for you because you think the sh is great and I appreciate that but I'm telling you as the one that's telling this you it's not enough why you have to learn if you don't Le the Shure is not going to be enough for you and the Kish gives us an atomic bomb an for people that only learn needless to say this is also for people that only learn if a person only learns Al he doesn't know how to apply the he also has the same results as what the kazon is saying here but nonetheless here the Kaz says people that spend all of their time learning mus no time learning Al therefore they have not acquired the love of justice and are more susceptible to moral illness of perversion of Justice than those simple people who have not studied the matters of the fear of God and the ways of perfecting one's traits at all clarification a person that only learns mus needless to say if he only learns Al only learns one of them is now more inclined to have this spiritual sickness that will make him a complete heretic make him completely horrible in the eyes of a why because he will pervert Justice he will pervert the AL why would he pervert the if he learned so much M if I worked on my anger shouldn't that make me a better servant of hem if I worked on my humility shouldn't I make me more humble like mosenu and therefore accept everything Hashem says if I worked on my generosity shouldn't that make me a better servant hm by giving and throwing my money around to all of the andot and the que of organizations so how could so much M be bad for me how continues it's not only bad but it actually is worse than if the person never learned it at all meaning a simple person never learned a little bit of M in his life he just knows a little bit of he learned in Yesa he learned at the localid and so on never learned mus that guy is less likely to have terrible traits and perversion of Justice than the guy that learned only mus even though m is a requirement so much so that R the the uh the father of all that all of complies with the he himself wrote that he got rebuked by the angel that he learned with that he has to learn more M every day he only learned two hours a day he had to learn three if he had to learn three we have to learn 3,000 but that's a different story point is is prerequisite for all of doesn't matter if you're the biggest Rabbi in the world or you're just a brand new person so how could it be that someone that learned only mus is worse off than someone that has never learned it at all K continues and there is no question about is the K right or wrong here this is the K this is says the following the the evil inclination has a way of placing undue pride and firmness of opinion and in the heart of a person who seeks Perfection by learning mus so that such a person looks at the messes from above in so many words he learns about musab he learns about perfecting his character traits he learns humility he learns anger and not allaha so he doesn't know when he's allowed to be proud he doesn't know when he supposed to be humble he doesn't know when generosity is a must he doesn't know when generosity is forbidden he doesn't know when is forbidden he doesn't know when is aah to say he doesn't know when to share the news he doesn't know with who to share the news with he doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut he doesn't know he just knows listen I should just be humble like mosu I should never be angry about anything and I should love everybody right that should make me a better person or better yet I'm going to be like P I'm going to hate everybody that is not aik or best yet I'm going to be generous with everyone that comes to me or better yet I'm not going to give to anyone cuz it must be that everybody's a criminal cuz they're all asking for money so they must be criminals in so many words he perverts Justice he goes go to the extreme on everything why he doesn't know when to apply the law he doesn't know when to apply these traits and that is one of the things that happens to a person that only learned M where he starts looking at everybody else in the world as if they are below him he feels much Superior to them and all his actions are in his eyes the most generous and perfect Deeds he has become an arrogant person and doesn't understand that his own perspective of himself is completely demented completely off and in fact his actions are despised by Hashem not loved by Hashem he will be amused to think that he is being suspected of robbery for he says for my Deeds are always beyond the letter of the law he thinks and are straight and good this person starts looking around and he says how could it be that anyone is questioning me what you're asking me when I showed up to the prayer I showed up don't worry yeah but you're you're late you're late every single day prayer starts at 700 you're showing up at uh 8 we're almost finished your question me don't you understand that I'm already doing all types of kavanot and stuff he starts thinking that how could anybody question him even in fact he goes to the BET mid and if he's a new he has a lot of especially during the first year or two where he's able to learn a lot of T A lot of T it's very common in B beginning you're able to learn a lot of Tor understand a lot of different things and you start looking around and you don't like what you're seeing wow these religious people wow they're really slacking goes to Mid and he sees the guys are learning all day once in a while the guy goes for a bathroom once in a while the guy takes a sip once in a while he discusses a few things they're not him like me they're not dedicated like me I learned eight hours straight these guys are nah we got to change things around here and he looks at the rabbi sees the rabbi's going in out in out once in a while he's answering the phone call he doesn't understand the rabbi's running the show has to raise money has to pay the bills has to run the operation no looks to Rabbi nah Rabbi soft even if it's the rabbi that helped him do cha in the first place Rabbi soft he's listen he's doing it already for 25 30 years already listen you need new blood in his place I could do this I could do this yeah guy he's still on his uh Chua diapers still hasn't completed a single in but he thinks he could do a better job than a rabbi why rabbi's Old rabbi's Slow he's not dedicated like me he's not learning as much to as me Rabbi maybe learning an hour or two hours a day I'm learning 12 hours straight I learned yesterday 12 hours straight he figures nobody here is like me I could run the show they should just give me the keys to this bet mid I'll turn it into what R AKA built he doesn't understand it's maybe after what when everybody got killed but that's a different story reality is is that the person looks at the religious world around him and he sees deficiencies everywhere nobody is good enough nobody's good enough I'm not talking about he finds deficiencies in the Heretics that are distorting the Torah and changing it and so on I'm talking about even in the good people the good places nah these people pray too fast Maybe may you pray too slow doesn't think that ah these people don't have kavana why don't have kavana how do you know they don't have kavana well you're in their brain no listen they finished amida in six seven minutes how could they have kavana in six seven minutes maybe they're like who prayed in less than five minutes Amid and still has more cavana than you would have in your entire life maybe never thought in your head nah there's no way there's no way no way you need at least 20 minutes 20 minutes am in order to have real kavana you need 20 minutes maybe maybe maybe they don't no I never thought that never thought that ah they're not really serious about their learning what what makes you think they're not serious about their learning ah they get up they get down oh maybe they have bathroom problems maybe they have stomach problems maybe they have financial problems how do you know everybody's story no listen I saw the guy playing with a phone yeah he was watching on a phone he was watching something and you never play with a phone you are BBA 6 months a year two years 3 years you don't have a phone you you don't have a uh issues you don't have a lot of pro no nothing you're perfect he says you questioning me you know what I do you know how I learn you know how much I do you know how dedicated I am there's no C that's the right fit for me he expects to walk into a Col and for the ocean to split for him like it did for is coming out of Egypt oh listen I need a call that's going to teach me but Teach Me in My Level oh what level I need to learn cabala oh cabala how many times you complete the excuse me what's that the how many times no no no I don't learn that type stuff I learned straight cabala I that's what I think I dream in my mind all know the and and this and and what what are you talking about what because you read a few RAB bre books and you read a few lines here and there you heard a few turns from cabal you think you're a cabalist no no no listen I want to learn all Z straight Z that's what I I go straight he's a baby not even in diapers yet he's pre- diapers and he thinks he goes to the highest level I want somebody to teach me already the mystical part of Judaism the highest part of mysticism little by little take a step at a time no no no I'm fastpaced I want to go straight to the sword course that and that's the reality the reality is you see people coming in and expecting the world around them to change because they came in why because they learned a little bit of M they think that they've become humble but in reality the M that they learned has made them more arrogant I've seen with this with my own eyes multiple times not too many times but nonetheless many times for in comparison to i' say what other people see where you see people learning M loving to learn about gay and Punishment and horrible things but you ask him a single Listen by the way what's uh what do you do what do you do if uh let's say you uh you notice that as soon as you leave your house there's a light coming on light coming on you forgot to turn it off what do you do what do you mean you keep going I gotta go to Sho oh really it's your light you keep going to Sho you keep turning the light turning off the light every single time oh no you don't go to sh oh so you don't go to sh you don't pray then oh what do you do wait but you learn Z how do you not know the simple what to do oh I didn't get to that yet oh you didn't get there yet but you already know the name the family name of Gabriel the Mal the angel and that's the reality people do not basic do not know basic basic of what to do and how to operate their Shabbat table but they want to Skyrocket to the upper Edge of of of cabala upper Eon hey Rabbi listen I love Judaism oh yeah you love Judaism is good what what do you love about it I love talking about the mystical part I like the you know we we learn about the we learn the what are you talking about what do you mean RAB you never you never learned the and the and the uh and all these other things and I'm looking at them do you know what you're talking about do you know what you're talking about you know what this G is that you yeah yeah it's the it's the it goes to the yes and goes to the Mal and the Mal is what makes me feel like that I said you need to go to an insane asylum with the and the and all the other things that you learned and take the guy that taught you all the stuff with you why it's not true it's true just not what's in your head you have no idea what you're doing it's like you taking the tools of an engineer that builds rockets and start working on your car with it doesn't work Habibi it doesn't work it's like you taking the tools that the surgeon operates on the eye and you use it to uh maybe fix your shoe it's not going to work you mentioning those terms doesn't mean you know what you're doing and unfortunately many times people go and they hear these different terms and fakers love to mention those terms fake speakers love to mention those terms because they know for sure that the crowd has no idea whatsoever what they're talking about but since everybody is self-conscious about their own knowledge no one wants to admit they have no idea what they're talking about and they know that their friends don't know what they're talking about but if they tell them these terms it'll sound like they know what they talk about and they become the smart person in the room but in reality nobody knows what they're talking about including the rabbi that's talking about it why cuz he did the same exact thing just did it 3 weeks ago and then he became a rabbi and that's the reality many people that you hear talking about these terms have no concept whatsoever of what what a is of what of what anything is why because this is not for babies this is not for little kids this is not for little children in fact this is not not for the vast majority of the population even some of the great sages that we had denied studying these issues did they know them or not we can never question their knowledge surely they knew a lot but did they teach it did they talk about it on a regular basis absolutely not but yet your average person starts talking about like he's RAB bre Jr why because he thinks that he read a few terms in a book and therefore he knows it and that is all Gava you see many times you have these different speakers where they have their uh whatever you call their sh they have and you see the comment of people you see the comments of people of different women saying yeah I love this guy shim I love this Rabbi shim he really helped me get my and you see the woman says well I wish he would have helped you get clothes because your profile picture would be more appropriate if you had clothes she thinks she got G from the guy she doesn't know what modesty laws are another guy says oh this guy is the best this guy is the best he's helping me get to my Mal your Mal why because now you think you're a king for Mal that just means you're arrogant that's all that means but yet you'll see time and time again people teach it people yearn for it and I've even seen with my own eyes one time I was in a Sho and uh this is probably maybe seven years ago six seven years ago and praying and they had some guest Rabbi that uh came to the sh and then uh the sh was not exactly full of let's just say that I knew everybody there there was one guy that was a uh really learned guy and there was the rabbi which I later found out was a clown and then there was the Kila which were just B that you know some of them kept Shabbat some of them not so much none of them were a scholar let's just say that but there was maybe like 4050 of them anytime the rabbi would ask him to learn a everybody would be checking their phones you know not really interested in Torah at all not on Shabbat not during the holiday not nothing that's just the way it was a tough Kila but anyway this guest Rabbi came and uh he says to everybody okay listen we're going to shimon's house to do a shield so people weren't really buying into it he goes no no 40 minutes strict Z all of a sudden it was oh oh oh like little mice like little mice little ducks everybody followed him like he is IM everybody except the and myself why first of all none of these people are qualified to learn Z number one two he's not teaching them zo three the whole scene was a joke but why do they run because stolen water are sweeter water whether you bought it or you stole it stay tastes the same but says when it's stolen meaning when it's forbidden water when it's water that's out of reach suddenly we want it and that's what happens a lot of times and sometimes speakers lower themselves to their crowd and in essence tell them that they're teaching them one thing when in reality they're not teaching them that one thing they're just telling them they're calling it something because they know they'll get more views or more people so they'll put on their flyer cabala secrets in reality the guy's teaching you Kash Rashi with maybe a little bit of ramban oh the secrets of the cabala in reality he's teaching you the mid of maybe the perhaps a few nothing else maybe a little bit of his opinion nothing else but he knows if he writes cabala or mysticism or something like that everybody jumps in now he may have good intentions the rabbi the problem is what the Kish is making is mentioning here is the student the student now he has attended she has attended several of these so-called shim learning about Mal and this ho and that ho and all types of things great and she now thinks she's a she thinks that she's the B but female version she thinks that she is the BTO but just is maybe Gil of his wife she is already thinking about everything but she doesn't even understand the basic law that requires her to cover her hair with a she doesn't know the basic law that requires that to cover arms she doesn't know the basic law that she has to be modest even with her speech and stop saying and stop laughing so loud and so on and so forth she doesn't know but she tells her friends and her girlfriends about the and the and all these different things and the reality is she makes a mockery of our Tor and this is no different with the guys I had one guy I met one time not too long ago he wanted to uh marry one of my students so my student asked me to speak to this person and I spoke to him and I said uh you what do you do keep this don't keep no no keep we keep him B you already for x amount of years and okay good who's your Rabbi N I haven't found a rabbi flag number one biggest flag of all how could you be a b Chua or a religious person altogether without a rabbi how how is that possible no listen I haven't found the right one cuz my Rabbi that was really good he moved to Israel I don't my Rabbi has always been in Israel he's still my Rabbi and I talk to him as often as I need to talk to him no you know I need to see him what do you looking for a girlfriend what do you mean you need to see him you have a question you send a letter you send an email you make a phone call that's it everybody has this thing about seeing the rabbi why do you need to see the rabbi do you think that every student that the R had he saw him the ram got a letter from some young student who asked him to to translate his M to Arabic he never saw him in his life but he did what he asked him to do and he translated the entire M which is amazing to Arabic did he see him no he didn't see him many times rabbis don't see their students but people have no I have to see him okay okay so you didn't see him so does nobody else good by where you live no you know they're all modern and they're very into theat flag number two what do you mean they're they're only into theat that's what we're supposed to learn theat the basic meaning of everything no no I'm already I'm above that oh you're above the you're higher than Rashi you're higher than Rashi come here I want to kiss your hand I want to you're higher than Rashi wow wow he's higher than Rashi I couldn't believe my I said thank you I didn't know I didn't know they going to give me the to speak to somebody that's higher than Rashi who's higher than theat this clown tells me no no I I learn I'm not's not for me oh yeah what's for you no I go straight to the Z cabala don't misunderstand this I love the it'ses but when somebody tells me they only study the Z I know without a shadow of a doubt that person is a clown that person has no idea what he's talking about it would be surprising if he knows the basic laws of of just praying forget about the laws of Shabbat or the laws of anything else just to pray the right way it would be surprising if he knows why anyone that understands how you're supposed to learn Basics what you're supposed to do Life as a Jew here somebody says I only learned the Z unless you are an extraordinary scholar that has already covered everything know everything you're one of these Geniuses that's KES kashim yourself you know the entire gar by heart you know all of the you're just something you're ra and now you've decided that okay I'm going to be rad and I'm going to focus on the on the Z for the next few years okay but who are you you're B cha for five years years 10 years and already you think that you know everything that's what happens I've even seen one guy claimed to be a rabbi came to visit the United States he was at a friend of mine's house and uh this guy dressed weird looked weird but you know I kept my mouth shut at those days it was still early on and uh we were hosted by my friend's uh by my friend and we're sitting there after the meal and the says to his uh helper go go get me the uh go get me the zor go get me I think it was the Z he said so the guy goes go hey hold on but make sure it has no commentary I don't need that stuff that was when I knew he's a joke he's a scammer he's a liar why the greatest sages in the world read with commentary why you double check who knows that you're actually know what you're talking about but he made sure to say it loud enough so the owner of the house hears wow this Rabbi is such a scholar he already doesn't need commentary anymore he already doesn't need commentary anymore if you're really that much of a scholar that you really didn't need commentary guess what you'd also be humble not to tell people about it but that's what happens in the world so now what ends up happening is that these types of people they are people that learn different things without completely learning what they're supposed to and in many cases a person could start learning M and think that that M by itself makes him better than everybody else makes him more humble than everybody else makes him more generous than everybody else makes him uh cleaner than everybody else holier than everybody else and in fact if you question him he mocks the fact that you're even questioning him because he is the the the mentality of you know what you're talking about about you know who you're talking to you know who did it and I've seen that too is one of these people that used to come to my sh and he was one of these people that if he did something he would make it seem as if nobody knows that he did it and he doesn't want to tell everybody who he did it but you'd make sure that you know he did it you guys notice all the coffee is there right yeah thanks thanks appreciate it you don't know who did it though right no but whoever did it thanks ah you don't know you don't know okay all right by the way you guys notice that the place clean right yeah yeah it's clean it's good clean lady came no no clean lady didn't come no cleaning here oh but it's clean though yeah it's not something you don't know who did it though right no we don't know who did it but weever did it thank you yeah you should thank him you should it's like one of these jokes like it's like okay buddy you want the credit what you want to take 75 bucks out and give it to you like what do you want some people like that who you know was like that was one of the kings that had who was an extraordinary Torah scholar thear says that he had 127 different insights about every single in the to have one insight about everything in the tah you're already the greatest of the greatest he to even know the entire tah 127 new insights about every aspect of the you could ask him but yet went to idolatry and led the rest of the people to idolatry led the rest of the people to idolatry was afraid the people going to go to bet mikdash afraid the people going to go he put idolatry in the way no no you don't need to go to mikdash you go pray to this and he became a he sinned and he led others to sin but he had Merit of a lot of Torah that he had a lot of T that he had that was ruined by his pride but yet says himself came to yam and told him come and do chuv and then you and I and Dav benai will be walking together in ganeden now if comes to me and he says do something and then you and I the end whatever you want where where where where where am I going forget you don't need the rest of the sentence anybody normal hasem says to you go do Chua go do whatever and then you and I will you don't need the rest of the sentence let's go that's any normal person was not exactly normal why he knew a lot of Torah and he says to hasem who's in the front who is walking in the head now say what do you mean hasem clearly said it he said you and I meaning that Hashem is going to be at the head yam is going to be second and then are going to walk together in GED in reality who cares that's what we're thinking but that's because we don't have the same test as yov but anyway you are inead you are second what difference is does it make y knew this cuz hem said it it's going to beem David so why did he ask he's a smart guy you know why he asked he knew hasem said that he's going to be ahead but he like to hear it he like to hear it so he wanted to hear it again you know what it's like wife makes good food and you have guests over and she wants to show off the food a little bit why she worked hard on it she worked hard in the food he you know the guests are coming everybody's eating like they've never eaten in their life wow oh this is good what' you say what' you say oh I say it's good oh okay it's good it's good okay good good oh you like it yeah yeah watch very good well okay and another guy says yeah it's delicious what' you say what' you say oh you like it yeah yeah I like you like it you really you like it yeah I love it oh why you asking so many times you deaf the guy is a half a foot away from you why why you asking again I want to hear it again I want to hear it again why I want to hear it again people like to hear compliments that's Gava that's pride and says finds people that have pride and Abomination disgusting and that's exactly what happened with when he got the opportunity of a lifetime and himself came to him and said to him if you do chuv I and you and Ben is which is will be walking in ganed meaning you're going to be AE but when y says well who's going to be ahead says benai is gonna be ahead why you were ahead but now that you're expressing still G with me you lost that right you'll still you can still do CH and you'll still come but doesn't have this Gava doesn't have this G but then there's other commentaries I learned today from he says that he didn't just ask who's ahead to hear that he is ahead but rather he was saying to why are you ahead ofm I should be meaning he wanted to be ahead of even AEM say you're humble is humble okay so I'll be ahead of you you can let me go what do you care if you're so humble what do you care if you're so humble this is a person that had an opportunity to be walking with AEM in ganeden instead he's walking in gay or rather yet being burned in Gom for now and forever as the says certain people that have lost their share of the world to come and have eternal punishment one of them is who had an opportunity multiple opportunities to utilize the T that he learned in order to get to the best possible heaven but instead that disgusting Pride turn to instead of the potion to life it turn into a potion of death says the Kish when a person has this Gava this pride and Views all of his actions as perfect and generous he's even amused to be suspected of any evil or robbery of some kind because says my Deeds are always beyond the letter of the law I'm stringent in everything I'm stringent in everything I only learn the the stringencies in reality anyone that's only strict on everything he just automatically goes to the strict s for sure is an idiot why it doesn't require a to know when to be strict a is one that knows when you should be strict and when you should be lenient that's what is but not should be stren and should be lenient based on feelings when it's allowed to be lenient and when you should be but someone says no I'm strict in everything because I learn the the highest above the letter of the law I learn the Z I learn the cabalistic books and so on this person is surely an idiot again I'm not talking about the real that are really and doing it I'm talking about your average person if you're talking about the obviously they're not really part of this conversation but I'm talking about your average person that thinks that he can be stringent with stringent without even having a rabbi without even knowing and which is to learn the multiple times to know it to know the PO scheme to know how to understand how to determine and so on and so forth but he strictly he wants to be strict without even understanding why he's strict these are people that usually T torture their families because nobody even knows what they're doing and why they're doing it and many times their kids go off the D many many times their kids end up hating the toah hating religion hating God because all they're learning is that you're not allowed to do anything and you don't really know why cuz the person that's telling you he himself doesn't know why but he tells you no no this is the way it's supposed to be done but in reality that's not sufficient for anybody else other than him so this is a uh another time I saw a person that was one of these uh one of these clowns that says that he uh only learns the uh cabalistic things and uh again like I said cabala is KES kashim but it's only for the few when a uh a new Bal cha 5year Bal cha 10 year B chat tells you that he's only learning cabala it's a uh it's multiple red flags to say the least but the best part is that one time I saw one guy who says that he doesn't learn Al he doesn't learn he doesn't have a rabbi he doesn't have anything but he is an expert in mystical teachings especially the Z and all of the rabbis in the world everybody's bad everybody's terrible somehow I haven't join that list and I'm sure if he's watching this year I will join that list but nonetheless he knows everything nobody's good enough all of the good people already died the only one that's left that's any good is him and best yet he's so good that he feels perfectly fine to go send a threatening letter to a rabbi that was uh not of his opinion about this whole vaccine situation not of his opinion he had an opinion that I think you shouldn't take the vaccine the rabbi said that you should take the vaccine or that you could take the vaccine whatever it was and he copied me in the email threatening the rabbi listen if you don't change your mind you don't do it you're probably getting paid by the vaccine companies and if you don't do it I'm going to expose you and is a like to me you know I just deleted the email it's a complete joke and I I assume that the other Rabbi that was that was got this letter probably deleted it also but it's a complete joke of how much a person's ego grows with every word that he reads without even understanding what that word is without even understanding that what that word is I even had one guy a guy that was coming to my shim and I tried to help him he was uh not really keeping very much when I first met him and he started keeping Shabbat started keeping other things started keeping the ble and so on and so forth but then at some point things turned completely off where he started using his sem that he was not sinning with certain sins anymore as a way to you know view himself as better than everybody else and he would just simply shout and insult anybody else that wasn't in sight including me including me listen RAB I don't agree with you in this one what do you mean you don't agree with me in this one I just told you what yeah but I don't think you're reading it right do you know how to read that you're telling me I don't know if I don't know what I'm reading do you know how to read do you even have this book I just don't think that you're saying the whole thing I think that you're short changing me of what the other opinions are the guy was a and probably eating five six months before I met him and now he's telling me that maybe I'm not really maybe I really don't know what I'm talking about why because sometimes when you only learn one aspect of the Torah and you're not willing to commit yourself to learning the of to know when to apply what to apply and how to apply what ends up happening is that people end up using this m this new teachings just to inflate their ego and it actually makes them worse people not better people becomes very dangerous and again it's the same concept with Al I've met several people that all they learn is Al I've gone to synagogues we see the guy every single day after prayer him and every day they learn Al for an hour two hours they know a bunch of different things the rabbi squeaks every time I would go to that Sho the rabbi squeaked on one of them always said ah Rabbi but you do know that there is an opinion that says a little bit different than what you're saying okay but I'm not this is not a sh about all the different opinions that ever existed about this I'm just telling you guys what to do okay but I'm just telling you there is an opinion and he would distract and he would embarrass the rabbi and he would embarrass everybody else everybody else why you want to make sure that you knew that he knew something else exist existed in the world that's a person not only is this Torah poisonous but he will have a very hard time ever gaining the that he's lost multiple times back because of how many times he embarrassed people in public needless to say oh the wife that he has which was like uh Medusa of how many people she embarrassed in public how many people this woman embarrassed in public with embarrassing people in public on a regular basis right they feel they're the most righteous people in the world sometimes if a person does not have a rabbi that's going to tell him the truth of how to behave or he doesn't accept his Rabbi which means he doesn't have a rabbi or better yet he's only learning just Al or just mus that other part that he's not learning that will complete that person to make him better actually destroys him it actually destroys him and that's also one of the reasons why the says is either it's either potion for life or potion for death this is when a Torah can become potion for death spiritual death of course so now continues this person who doesn't think that there's anything wrong in himself all of his deeds are good says that when he talks about he talk about oh listen how come you're not coming to pray how come you're uh not contributing to community how come you're not uh part of the community how come you're not doing any of these things no the need to observe the law does not apply to me he thinks it's meant for people who love themselves whose Deeds are imperfect and who lust for money it's not meant for those who possess the fear of God and have perfected themselves like me this this is what such a person thinks a person thinks that he is the one that has why he sees that everybody else has you know their hands are in something that's not so clean why oh you see that guy yeah he's uh what is he he's religious but you know five years ago he was married to a non-jew right okay but he's not married to a now anymore yeah but I'm just letting you know just so you know if you never know maybe he's going to go back to that okay but you realize that's right now is only if I'm not trying to protect you and I'll start to manipulate the world and in order to justify him saying that's do or another way Andy listen H I saw that you have a picture on your profile from 13 years ago where you were laying on the beach without a shirt you think maybe uh you want to take that picture off maybe cuz you don't know who know who's looking at your profile what 13 years ago I have a picture of me with a shirt off and you how do you know about no I was just you know I was just surfing and I was looking to help people on the internet do chuba and I just so happen I ran into the pictures that you have and I went back 13 years of comments and I saw that there's a picture of you without a shirt on and maybe I thought you know you probably want to know that maybe you want to take it off cuz maybe if I saw it maybe somebody else will see it too honestly I don't think anybody else would see it because nobody else has no life like you to go look at the person's profile from 13 years ago but since you say so yeah I'm going to go take it off and that's what happens why he is looking to perfect the world instead of himself cuz he thinks he's already perfect she thinks she's already perfect Rabbi listen uh what do you think of a woman that's uh not modest I don't think of a woman is not modest no no I mean like what where is she going gay hopefully she does Chua no but if she doesn't do cha she goes to Gom which chamber she goes to and Gom uh she goes to a really bad part hopefully she does Chua that's the whole point of what we're doing why why are you asking this question are you the not modest woman Noom modest I did I'm this I'm that okay so no just this woman that I saw at the supermarket and she wasn't really modest and she wore a wig and I thought maybe I should tell her that she's going to go to the fifth level of gain no maybe even the seventh and maybe this and maybe that and I'm thinking to myself why don't you just tell her listen here's a t here's a CD here's a flyer good luck to you what are you worrying about her gnome why are you worrying about everybody else's gome you're judging everybody this that why don't you go help them why don't you go help them no maybe she doesn't want the help so I need to why do you need to know where she's going why don't you worry about whether you're going to go to Gom and that's what happens many times people focus on everybody else why because they view themselves it's perfect it's not for me it's for the people that are imperfect it's for the people that don't have like me it's for the people that don't learn M like me have not perfected themselves like me and that's what the k says a person only looks at the outside world and not at himself why is G is in the middle his pride is in the middle his pride is in the middle RAB and it simply makes it impossible for him to learn toah the right way and even more so the K continues anyone who suspects him that he's even doing anything wrong is considered by him to be showing disrespect to Torah Scholars and desecrating the honor of hem this is one of the biggest jokes in the world why you go to a person and you hear him making a comment and you see he's wrong simply he's wrong he made a comment he says that if somebody is such and such you're not allowed to help him you're not this you're not that tell them listen no it's not true you are allowed you should and so on and so forth what you're saying doesn't pertain to such a person and instead of saying oh you know what maybe I'll check into it how do you know can you give a source anything like that they answer with oh hold on a second you do realize that someone thear says that someone that is suspecting their Rabbi is like he's suspecting AEM and you're thinking to yourself who said you're my Rabbi who said you're my Rabbi who's suspecting you I'm just telling you that you're wrong maybe you should check yourself oh so now you're saying oh now ah so in reality what you're doing is you're embarrassing a now he thinks he's a and you're embarrassing oh what you're doing is and that's what happens sometimes sometimes you'll have people with such arrogance such a big chip on their shoulder that you can't even talk to them you simply can't talk to them a normal conversation with them you can't question anything you can't say anything you can't peep nothing and it's not because they're such great Scholars usually it's the opposite usually it's the opposite and when what ends up happening AB is that these people that have arrogance what the gar really says is that a person that's arrogant even his own family ends up hating him and I had one time a woman call me crying asking me if I could help with her marriage and I said oh well maybe your husband can do chv learn some of our sh she said Rabbi I need a different solution said why he he observant goes no he's very observant he even as a speaker so what do you mean a speaker go he speaks locally to a lot of different people said wait he's a rabbi I don't know if he a RAB but he speaks to a lot of people everybody knows him say oh so maybe he probably talks about Al maybe he should talk a little bit mus she said I've told him that already maybe you should learn M and his response was I've read 45 different musar books nobody can teach me anything he read 45 musar books and he feels nobody can teach him anything why because he read all the books the fact that he's still beating his wife and kids he doesn't think that's such a problem the fact that his wife is is considering suicide doesn't think such a problem right he read 45 books and no one can teach him anything anyone that says no one can teach him anything surely is a arrogant person why because even David says whatever says was always the right thing it was always the was what said not because he said it but because he was so uh such a scholar in Tora that he always got theit always got theit but even says I learned from everybody I learned from all of my students any what eight-year-old tell me I want to hear it 15year old just finished finished the want to teach me something no problem the rabbi 50 years older than me wants to teach something no problem anybody wants to teach me T I'm listening I can learn from everybody if that always got the says I learned from everybody you little chup Chi little cockroach that think that you read 40 books or whatever you read you nobody can teach you anything obviously there's something wrong there obviously there's something wrong there and many times a person ends up spitting on the hands that feeds them ends up going against his Rabbi going against his family his supporters and eventually against hem just like Y where all the Torah that they learn end up becoming a potion of death now a person can say yeah but maybe there is another opinion to it in the mystical teachings of the cabala and so on okay so let's go there who better than can tell us what Rim meant in the cabala in the Z which for all who do not know the difference between the Jewish uh teachings in the Jewish text versus the other religions and other teachings in the world is that there is no such thing as brand new in the Torah world meaning that every book every book that's a real seph that has real Torah in it has to be based on the teachings of something or some things before it meaning you write a book you can just write a book based purely on your ideas cannot be has to be sourced whether it's the gar that you want to use or the mishna or the Kash or the midash or the Z or there is no something from nothing only hem can make something from nothing nobody else can so if you have a real book a real seph that has Torah in it it must contain sources and the more sources usually the better the more of a seph it is that's why the responses the the the uh the the questions and answers of the sages are very critical teachings because not only are they giving you the question and the answer but they're showing you all of the countless different sources that they covered in order to arrive at that answer and in order to consider other answers but needless to say if a person wants to be a scholar he has to be a scholar in those types of teachings and the Z itself while many are ignorant about it think that it's not real or it's a uh it's it's something that uh people made up or somebody didn't write it after many many uh many have studied it extensively and have uh verified that it's 100% and so on there is no question about its legitimacy its extraordinary Kusa that's in it and teachings that are in it but what a lot of people don't know is that R Shimon did not invent any of this teaching it's not like he just came up with it out of thin air his own teachings in AAR is based on over 60 cabalistic books that were written before for him yes over 60 cabalistic books that were written before shim even at a time where the oral Torah was not written there were certain things that were written in the cabalistic world for example the SE is one of the many sources that Rim brings up has a some of it is mentioned in there the uh teachings of Shem the teachings of a uh of some of the greatest that live before him that wrote different books different things were mentioned in the Z it's not just the Z is Rish shimon's invention from nothing but again if you ask your average person that thinks he learned Z he doesn't even know any of this stuff but yet he thinks he's a Torah scholar so the one that really did teach us did bring light to the world uh as far as explaining what the zor really says the cabalistic teachings in it is the had a uh had a who known as the he wrote a lot of the teachings of what the said and a called in it's also in the if you look at the if you have a um uh if you have a uh um what's it called a mishna if you have then usually you have in it in 571 same thing is mentioned over there so the says in the name of the that that know this makes a statement know this that when a wicked person learns Torah thinking that he's adding kadus this Torah is not only not doing so not adding this Kusha but rather the Torah that he's learning is giving even more strength to the kipa as it is said in Psalm 50 verse 16 Hashem says to the wicked but to the wicked God said to what purpose do you recount my decrees and bear my Covenant upon your lips so here the giant of all Giants that teach that taught am brought light to the meaning of cabala and z and so on saying if a person is arrogant person is wicked and he thinks that learning more learning the Torah because he's going to learn more Z or he's going to learn more he's going to learn more mus but that's not going to be something that's going to he's going to applied to himself to change himself and become a better quality human being but rather it's going to be more things that he could just tell people that he knows it's going to be more things that he could just show off with it's going to be more things that he could make fun of people with and so on and so forth says this Tory that he's learning not only is it not making him more holy it's actually giving more strength to the kipa which is the the other side giving more strength to the Satan in so many words giving more strength to the Satan more reasons of why he's going to be punished this person more difficulties of him to do CH in the first place why he's learning t for the wrong reason and a lot of times people do things for the wrong reason but if they have a love that they listen to that love can protect them but if they don't have a r or they don't listen to the r that they do which really is the same thing or almost the same thing then unfortunately trouble is ahead well many times a person can ask you a question you give him an answer and Rabbi maybe there's a different opinion wait you asked me a question yes I said what I said yes do you think I just invented the answer no what do you think I did you probably looked it up or you asked your Rabbi or somebody so I didn't just invented right doesn't matter how I got it I got it from I got it from a book got it from uh in a dream I got it from somewhere I didn't invent the answer right I gave you an I give you a source right I gave you an answer right I said no I said yes I said maybe I said whatever I said that's what I said right yes so why are you asking a follow-up question well I don't know you said I was hoping you'd say yes but you said no so I was maybe trying to see maybe there's another opinion in essence what you're saying is you're asking me a question with already a decision if you will that it doesn't really matter what I say unless what I say is what you want me to say do me a favor don't ask any questions like that why because you're just getting yourself in trouble you're just getting yourself in trouble and you're wasting my time and unfortunately many times it happens and it's not necessarily always with big things sometimes it's with small things sometimes it's with big things but usually it's something that the person doesn't want to do and you in essence confirmed that they have to do it or vice versa now one time somebody came Toom was one of the was and was KES kashim anyone that uh saw the uh the book that we have in our kiru package it's a it has a section in there that talks about The Hil the uh the aura of a person or of a person this one person uh is a design is a inventor an engineer he invented a machine that in essence test the aura uh or use this machine in a unique way to to show what the aura of a person is after they do MIT and after if if they make a sin and so on and one time part of his research he went to and he asked the I want to see what your aura looks like if you put on thein says I'm sorry it's going to takes me too long to doin because of all the that I do takes too long let's just do it something easier put a talit on now a person's uh natural state is somewhere in yellow but if he's doing a Mitzvah like putting on the fill in he's putting on the fill in it's usually purple which means it's it's higher Holier and so on babies usually have this uh almost natural state of of purple and interestingly enough the natural state of without anything without praying without nothing was purple which is unbelievable after he put his talit on he was white practically a Mal an angel something that the average person can't even get to even if they put three feeling on but nonetheless this sadik one time one of the asked the rav if he should Now put on toin in the morning and leave them on the whole day while he's learning because that is the way of many of the especially in previous generations they would have they would have theing on said one time that if he walked uh for which is six feet without filling on it would be like which is somebody in his status and many other would always have to filling on that's not necessarily the norm anymore there are some that always have or at least a big part of the day have that to fill in on many of have them when they're learning but it's not necessarily common it's not a must it's not a obligation and generally speaking it's not even recommended for most people but this young T asked the rabbi oh can I put the theill on while I learn now you would think sure you want to be Holier you want to put the filling on leave it all day while you're learning in a sure right says to this young please do not put it to fill in on and leave it on your head the whole day use it when you pray take it off when you finish and study like everybody else L the rest of us start looking to you like criminals what what don't put the The Filling on because if you do it is only a matter of time before the rest of us that don't have our to filling on the whole day like you Mr cabis Ben isai L you sadik you little mini version of you you have aing on but the rest of us don't and even though we know Tor we learn Torah we teach T but we're not like you suddenly we're all going to look like criminals to you and that's what happens many times don't don't put it on why that that you're going to do is going to turn you into and that's also another time another another came to came to him and told him can I start keeping Shabbat an extra hour early and says to him let me ask you something when you do keep Shabbat an hour early what do you think about all of those people that are driving to sh but on the normal times meaning they're not driving on Shabbat they're driving you know 20 minutes before Shabbat comes in a half hour before Shabbat comes in but for you since you already start you started Shabbat an hour early it's technically Shabbat for you what do you think about those people he's like you want to know the truth Rabbi I think they're uh slacking a little bit he says you you feel like they're violating Shabbat really goes honestly Rabbi I love the Shabbat so much it really does feel like they're violating Shabbat says to him I commend you to stop keeping Shabbat an hour early because your Mitzvah is turning everybody else even though they're not they're keeping Shabbat normally you decided to add a stringency to your life but you obviously can't handle it because that stringency is making you arrogant and it's turning all of the other decent righteous people into in your eyes this is not good you have to stop right away you have to stop right away this is the difference between somebody who not only has the right asfa the right ideology by learning m but also knowing how to apply it by knowing the right amount of Al but unfortunately many times people want to skip a step they want to skip a step not realizing that the yet is what's fueling them it's not AEM they're learning of Torah they're learning about G they're learning about kafak all of the punishments and so on it's no longer what Hashem wants him to do there are some people all they want to learn about is about Gom kaf the horrible things and surely we do mention Gom kaf and so on and so forth practically in every sh but it's not the entire sh it's not the entire subject it's not every sh just about it we mention it in every sh to make sure there is reward and Punishment and it's generally relevant to every sh but some people all they want is to learn about gay and the punishment and the horrible things and so on and so forth many times those people end up becoming completely horrible people that violate the entire Torah but at the same time feel righteous because they see everybody else as they see everybody else as and many times you see those people hate everybody they have animosity with everybody they have no love for everybody else they judge everybody else they say wait a minute Rabbi aren't you judging everybody else I don't judge a single person I tell you what is right I tell you what is wrong if there's a person that is misleading people yes we tell people that that person is misleading people we tell people that person is misleading people in order to warn them but if a person that's completely secular atheist hates everything contacts us we welcome him with open arm and try to help him if a person that's religious FR from birth kidish Lish ashkanazi Safari whatever he is comes needs help we welcome him with open arms we try to help everybody we're not judge of jury we simply tell you what the law is but the reality is that many people they see see things from their own perspective and in essence think that they could do their own thing by with with their own life not realizing that there's a difference between a teaching and actual practice and unfortunately many times this creates a instead of having a person that's going to advertise the good that you're doing the good Torah that you're teaching the good Torah that's available in the world and they turn the Torah into something ugly and many times you'll see these people be very very aggressive with somebody that just squeaks the wrong way squeaks the wrong way they automatically take this person and tear him up into 1,500 pieces without even knowing whether they're allowed to do it or not allowed to do it and unfortunately many times a person could literally lose theira just by simply not knowing how to practice the law there was one time a person found out that this one guy cheated on his wife and he decided that his friend told him this this guy cheated on his wife that's it we got to tell this guy we got to war warn all the ladies don't talk to this guy don't do anything and he publicized all over the place that this guy's an adulterer a cheater a liar a thief or this or that whatever he is as you would have it a week passed by the guy is denying everything you don't know what you're talking about no one wants to hear a word and then the guy that told him the information says listen I think maybe you should stop what stop what stop what that that guy I got him no CU yeah yeah I think you should stop it what do you mean you think you should stop what's wrong well you know really I didn't really uh think that you're going to do everything you did and publicize all this stuff but by the I saw that you did it was kind of too late but I figured too late late is better than never what do you mean well uh he's not really an adulterer but you said he was yeah I was really mad at him because uh he didn't give me a job when I applied for a job in this company he didn't stick up for me and uh I kind of got annoyed and uh I just said something stupid and uh you took it a little too far wait so what you're saying is you lied about him yeah yeah okay so uh can I just say I'm sorry to him that person that just got his blood spilled all over the place with every single person that heard that he's an adulterer whatever damage that he caused first and foremost the person that the false news came on on most likely every sin that he has has been wiped out because of all these that don't know how to use don't know how to warn people uh by first getting proof and evidence and so on and talk to they just spill out whatever seems good for the betterment of mankind the guy that's the victim here most likely his sins are wiped out he's like a brand new baby the guy the other the guy that is the first guy and the second guy they're in very very serious trouble why because even if they apologize to the guy to the victim he doesn't actually have to forgive them he doesn't actually have to forgive them and as long as he doesn't forgive them they have a very very serious bill in sh better yet they have to make sure to go back to every single person that got this information from them and make sure that they spent all of the resources they can to publicize that they made a mistake this we learn from who wrote was one of the big rabbis that went against the rambam 800 plus years ago but then later on found found out that he's wrong and all of the rabbis that are going against the rambam are wrong and he spent the rest of his life the next SEC next several decades writing the book Shah Chua which is one of the foundations of all musar books talking about his own chuva and better yet publicizing his chuva and his mistake akes of going against the rambam from Community to community for the rest of his life why he knew the magnitude of making such a mistake and this is a giant this is a giant among giants a person that does not know how to apply the Torah the right way to his life and thinks that he could just learn M and that will make him better he thinks he could just learn ala and that would make him better he thinks he could just learn one facet of the Torah and that's enough not only is it not enough but it could actually make him worse a Torah is not a single facet Diamond Torah is something that has multiple facets and we need to learn each and every part of it now again in the beginning it seems like it's too much so I'm not saying you have to start with the entire all of the and so on on day one but you should stride for it just like a person that wants to be a CEO of a company that's already built is not going to go and ask for the CEO job on day one when the all his knowledge uh that he's acquired in his life is how to sweep but he should get the job sweep whatever he can sweep so he at least he works for the company and during the uh time that he has off he also learns how to do other tasks that he can contribute to the company and then after he's promoted learn other Tas task and little by little go up the lad and eventually you become the CEO same concept with Tora you start off with shim you watch shim on a regular basis you start dedicating time to watching them every single day again my recommendation is always to learn them on the app our app because that is a way that you have no distractions and anyone that's uh in the comments that's in the uh Facebook live that's watching it also watch it on the live but don't wait was your time on the comments going back and forth with each other just focus on a sh take down as much notes as you possibly can so you can commit the learning to your memory and even watch the sh multiple times and that way even if you're watching One sh a week but you've committed it to memory and you've taken notes and everything else you've spent several hours learning that sh that sh is going to help you it's something that you've studied multiple times you've committed it to your life but now that's going to help you want to learn get that that eagerness to want to learn a little bit more want so maybe you could increase the sh if you want a little learn more obviously get a book you can get a books from uh kosher Publishers like Arts school.com feldheim uh and some others MIM different Publishers that have good books good that you could learn you could get our package that has multiple books it's on our website you could just buy the books that's in it on your own whatever you want to do point is get yourself a k get yourself a different books to start learning I have a uh on the uh website we have a um a file called a um conversion or chuva syllabus which is in essence a uh a syllabus that shows different things that a person needs to learn whether they want to be a Jew uh by converting or they are doing cha which is in essence the same thing just without the bedine so what are the things that you need to learn has a different list has a bunch of recommendations of books you can get the uh uh books there one of the new things that we have on there that we've added recently is the new series of books that uh was translated to English by Shalom all series of books which is uh really all the M that you need in uh in one series of books that you could apply to uh the entire year there's M about Shabbat M about and other teachings about a uh all of the holidays PK and the mashia uh what is what does it mean dedication to Tor living Tora a life of Torah and so on and so forth a lot of amazing books that were recently translated to English that's a nice series to uh uh to read and I would say even to celebrate once you've completed reading the entire Series so that's one thing you can get as a starting collection and again add more and more over time but this is something that a person needs to do on top of the on top of theim not just this or just that you do on top you keep adding a little bit more you do a little bit in the morning a little bit at night and so on and so forth why because a person needs to have tah not just morning and night but also different parts of tah but many times a person thinks that he has learned enough to do Chua and what does he do he abandons or she abandons the shim and I've had this happen quite a few times where a person starts watching the shim that we have start doing chuat changing their life keeping Shabbat keeping this keeping that and then you see after however long they're watching your shim for a year two years three years and you see their comments once in a while and you see a text message once in a while all of a sudden they disappear off the face of the Earth and you don't hear from them uh unless it's an emergency for a year or two years and then finally after you hear from them hey oh how are you what's going on oh listen RAB I haven't talked to you in a long time and uh you know I just want to say hi okay what happened to you what you didn't something happened no no you know listen I learned a lot and uh you know I'm Advanced now I'm going into the uh Secret side of the Torah I'm more advanced so I'm going into a higher level of T what do you mean a higher level of T what higher level of T than what we teach in in no you know I don't want to offend yeah it's just you know I'm reading more of like the the cabala and the mystical part and the gar and this part unfortunately as funny as this sounds it's I've heard this quite a few times and uh it is it's it's it's sad but it's a sad reality people actually think that once they've watched a year or two years or 3 years work of sh that's it they know everything that the rabbi knows they know everything that the rabbi is going to teach they're now going to learn from a more advanced Source uh they're going to read from a book They're going to ready for a uh different teacher and so on and so forth now if we were teaching the same exact thing every single week and giving the same exact lecture about my personal story every single week or the same exact lecture about the weekly Torah portion or the same exact lecture about the same exact book every single week yeah then they would be right but the reality is that every single week every single lecture it's a different completely lecture and it's it's something that many are learning with us we have people that are Torah Scholars that watch our sh from all over the world from people that are great Giants that you've heard their names before and even seen some of their videos to other people that perhaps are less known but are extraordinary to average people to brand new people to people that are not Jewish but want to be Jewish and all people of all walks of life why because it's Torah and we need to learn it there is no like this is not enough or this is you've graduated this but what does it really mean when someone says that they they need something better it means that they watched your shim for ex amount of time and they didn't learn anything why because they remained arrogant they took all of the shim and instead of those shim making them better it actually made them a worse person it actually made them a worse person unfortunately and it's not necessarily the fault of the teacher but rather the fault of the person that does not apply the Torah to themselves the right way instead of learning the Torah in order to soften themselves they use the Torah in order to make themselves more arrogant than they already were in the first place and that's what the AR says here where he says that these people that are wicked arrogant people their learning of T is not the T that's going to make them Holier but rather it's a tah that's going to make their kipa even thicker making it even more difficult for them to do this is the reason why the in says that when a person has page 58 says say soon as you have to do something bad somebody tells you go to a nightclub watch a movie uh get drunk do drugs promiscuity all of these horrible things that you're not supposed to do as a Jew needless to say as a human being and uh person as a yet as an evil inclination pulling them to make a sin so the says why remind himself that hasm is watching if that's not enough he should learn T go deeper go learn pick a m book pick something something to learn T maybe you need more than just and if that doesn't work then think about the day that you're going to die because that everybody that knows what's geden what's G what's what's all of these different horrific situations for Sinners he going to not want to sin once he realizes that eventually he's going to have to pay the bill if he learned these if he learned these lessons he's that is going to be very meaningful at the time he wants to sin because he may not be thinking about what happens in the grave after he dies on a regular basis he may not be thinking about kaf on a regular basis he may not be thinking about G on a regular basis but at the moment of sin if he learned that subject and he learned this also the says specifically doesn't stop you from sinning and learning T doesn't stop you from sinning then you should remind yourself of what you learned about what happens after you die and if you don't know what happens after you die then go to RAB ruen Gom number 84 or t.org there plenty of sh that we have about the topic it'll give you a good understanding of what it means to sin but then there's another page 30 says that if the menal the Despicable comes to you him to the to learn so comes and he says wait a minute says if you have this P to the mid learn Tora that should be enough but said no no no no no doesn't work learn Tor doesn't work think about they going to die how come the other adds something before and something after whereas the first one says straight to the Torah how come because of what the says some people all they need is a little bit of Tor and they're going to stop sinning you sparked them up a little bit he doesn't want to sin anymore he wants to do Chu he wants to do she wants to do good things but some people they live a delusionary life they live a delusionary life they live a life where it's literally fantasy they have no real perception of Life of who they are and where they stand and where everybody else is so first you have to remind them bring yourself back to Earth say that doesn't work learn some turn on turn on the press play Anywhere go go go go go but sometime it doesn't work so you have to go to a specific sh named named and press play and increase the volume just for yourself not for the whole world CU you're the only one that needs it at that point put the headphones in and blast it in your head until you feel like you're in the movie and everything is happening to you why because you my friend have a very serious problem the Torah is not working for you what works for you scaring you to death that's what works for you why CU you use the Torah to unfortunately become arrogant not to become better this is the reason why it's very important for a person to know both Al and the actual M of went to apply it a person tells you listen it's important for me to go to the grave of theik to go see on and I've had this happen a woman calls me crying telling me that her husband wants to go to the grave site of Shalom and she doesn't want her husband to go and I said okay so he's not allowed to go says but can you talk him what's what doesn't what doesn't he understand about he's not allowed to go no he say it's the biggest in the so did he ever learn you look you'll see what you're also going to find it in the and it says simple in you go to and it says says there are some that have the custom custom to go to the mik on the eve of and there are some that have the custom not not obligation the custom to go to the grave sites of the righteous and to pray over there and if you look at thetive thetive over there says the grave sides of the it's the of the is a holy and holy and pure place and over there the uh the prayer is uh uh could be accepted can be accepted more likely to be accepted he says but a person should not put his Reliance on thead whether be bre or the orim or anybody should never pray to the rather ask to have mercy on him due to the Merit of the sadik that's buried here why should he do it due to the Merit of the sadik that's buried there because if he's a sadik he has extra merits and if you're going to learn his Torah and do mitat in his name in essence it's like he's going to be like a lawyer for you an attorney for you fighting your case because you're doing good for him and by learning his to gives him more merits so he's going to fight your case but you never pray to the sadik never ever pray to theik but unfortunately many times people pray to theik or worse yet they turn to the mystical world without knowing what's right and what's left and the rash says in a response of the rash he says that well obviously he's talking about fake M people that don't know what what they're doing are worse than Idol worshiping Christians because they turn God into 10 rather than the Christians turning him into three what is the rash saying here he says when you learn you're going to go delve into the cabala world you have to understand how to learn it where cabala the whole mystical teaching it's all Parables it's all parables and you can't understand it literally you have to understand the parable you have to understand the analogies you have to understand how did the there's a Mas and a there's a story and there's a lesson from the story and you can't just read things literally but the says that some people early in their life where they have not learned enough Al enough M enough enough posim and but they just delve into the cabalistic world already become these MIM and what ends up happening is they don't actually know how to learn cabala and they understand what it says literally and they take the 10 aspects of God which are 10 traits that Hashem has and turn it into 10 different parts of godom as if God has parts s and he says those people are worse than Idol worshiping Christians they have a long beard they have a keep but they're worse than Idol worshippers why because they are turning God into pieces the Christians turn him into three they turn him into 10 and that's why you see many people that don't know themselves right or left automatically hate the cabala world automatically hate the mystical world because they think oh yeah look over there it says that God has 10 pieces no only idiots think that and you learn from idiots you learn from people that shouldn't have been learning themselves instead of learning from those people spend your time learning what you're supposed to be learning and you'll be much better off but that is sometimes too much to ask for some people why because they're too focused on proving everybody wrong and not learning what is right and what is wrong so we see here that without the right type of teaching and a rabbi to show you the way and you listen to that Rabbi regardless of whether he says right or left a person is simply doomed and I've seen this time and time again with different people that did not want to take the answer of what the Torah says and what the rabi says and simply go in a wrong direction and get more wrong by time but the ego continues to stop the person from turning back around and unfortunately this happens a little bit too often but that's just is what it is there's nothing you can do about it if hadem come to him and ask him plead with him to come back and he didn't obviously you see the power of the ego there and unfortunately many people do not have even a fraction of the Torah that Yad had but yet have even a bigger ego than he did now to go back to our original questions we had two questions where a guy asked for fish I'm going to buy this fish give me the fish and the and the uh Market owner got the fish told them this is X price very expensive he said I agree I want the fish says okay cut it open for me so I could uh it's ready for me no problem he cuts open the fish and he finds a chain full of diamonds and jewels in it question is who does the diamonds and jewels belong to the fisherman believes that it's his the the the guy that's buying the fish obviously believes it's his because he bought the fish and whatever is in the fish is his especially since he says if I asked you to open the fish and you open the fish and I decided that I don't want the fish anymore says that I'm obligated to pay for the fish whether I take it or not it's my problem but but I'm obligated to pay for the fish so surely that is considered as if I own the fish second question is with the guy that took the parts out of the car that wasn't his because the car was going to be towed away and thrown in a junkyard so to answer the first question our natural inclination especially if you know the story of ysep M Shabbat the sadik ysep that was honoring the Shabbat spending all of his money for the honor of Shabbat and one day bought a very expensive fish with his last bit of money and Hashem blessed him to have a huge diamond in that fish that some uh wealthy uh uh Gentile lost and he ended up becoming the richest man in the land so if you know that story automatically you think this guy from our story today it's the modern-day version of that story surely the diamond ring the diamond necklace and The Jewels all belong to him he bought the fish especially since you're even giving me a clue which is that he can't not pay for the fish because if he says no I don't want the fish after the guy cut it which he did cut it then he has to pay for it anyway which means he owns the fish so our natural inclination will say yes he owns the fish but that would be wrong why is it wrong because in the Tor according to there has to be a step taken in order to acquire something either a person pays for it the money has been exchanged or he lifts it in this case he did not lift it why because the guy took the fish showed him the fish I told you all the steps showed him the fish said you want the fish he said yes how much he told him the price he said yes to us in the secular world that's buying something in the Torah world that's not buying something saying I'll pay x amount of money for that fish for that house for that thing it's not buying it why there has to be a step taken in order to actually make that ownership real saying I'm going to buy and agreeing to a price that's not taking control of it so what happens is he now took the fish agreed to the price says cut the fish he cuts the fish and now the second he cut the fish technically the guy that ask him to cut the fish has to pay for it so you would think naturally that that means he bought the fish still no why no because Thea is it's not that he acquired the fish and therefore he has to pay for it it's that because he asked for the fish to be cut and his his decision not to take the fish would cause the owner of the fish a loss because he cut the fish already and he may not have a buyer for this fish that would create a loss that is the reason why he would have to pay for it if he rejected the fish it's not that he owns it it's rather because his decision would cause a loss to another Jew and therefore he has to pay for the fish that way but it does not make him an owner and in reality is the guy that is holding the fish the guy that is cutting the fish he is the rightful owner of the fish and everything that's in it at that moment and therefore it is not exactly like the story of ysep M Shabbat because in this case the fisherman owns the fish if he would have given him the fish in his hands he took it everything that fish and everything in it belongs to him but as long as it's in the possession of the fisherman it's still his it's still his this is again intricate little details of of how M again is not enough sometimes it's not enough because our inclination oh you should be right you should do this you should do that it's not necessarily always the case same goes with the guy that took the parts our inclination is going to say listen the guy left his car there left his car there but but it's still his car it's still his car the fact that the city left him a notice left him a notice there that uh he's going to lose his car in x amount of days if he doesn't move it still his car technically until they take it and they destroy it the other guy that took Parts out of that car and made him his it's not is he can't just take his property according to the rule of the land if you do that in America you do in other places most like you're right in a Torah you'll be wrong why 23 says that if a person is walking and suddenly his a wind comes and his hat flies off of his head and as much as you would try unfortunately he won't catch it because the the Hat flies into the river and the river is going to go down and he's never going to be able to get it while at the same time someone is swimming in the river someone is swimming in the river and he's able to grab the hat and he does grab the Hat what is the obligation of the person that grabbed the Hat even if he sees the guy that lost the Hat he's on top of the uh Bridge he's on the bottom of the bridge with the hat the guy that's on top of the bridge lost the Hat it fell down it's going to go down the river and he's going to lose it forever the other guy swimming over there got the Hat aren't clation if you just learned M you have to be nice to people go return the hat is wrong why because thear says if the hat is already a situation where it's already at a point where he can never get it back there is no possible way for him to get it back at this point there's no possible way for getting it back automatically it becomes Hef Hef means public property in so many words the guy that found it does not have to return it to him he can keep it for himself this is applied to our story the guy that left the car there the guy that left the car there although he owned the car for all of that time the time that the uh car was there and it was the last day or last few hours before the city came to tow the car that means that there was no chance for the guy that owned it to actually get possession of his car and save his car why he was still in a different country there was no way for him to save his car which means that at that moment that car became public property anybody could have taken it the guy that took it did not steal from him why it was public property at that point because there was no way for him to save that car so he was allowed to take that those pieces of the car and use it for himself now if someone wants to do which is do something Above the Law which is to be more righteous he should return the hand hat he should pay a little bit money for the hat and pay a little bit of money for the uh equipment or different parts of the car that he took but he doesn't have to doesn't have to he can he should but he doesn't have to and this is how a person needs to 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