TO BE CHAREDI - ERA OF MASHIACH (26)

for [Music] we are um back here on our Tuesday night sh with the uh based on the by Shalom uh tonight's you will be for a for M tal s Sarah Stefan Ben Katarina Jonas Ben Sher Haley David Ben and all of and also for for Mar but Julie and her dear daughter Mar and sha benan also gab benav and also our new Jew that was added to the land to the to the people uh to [Music] of kanuka will not only be uh with them for this but also for the rest of the year so uh as I said another Jew was added to the people in the last uh 24 hours one of our dear students bem just completed their uh conversion um and uh you know one day you're uh Harold and the next day you're uzia aadya and the Beautiful part is is that Harold is no more in the world uh all it is is a distant memory that will become more and more distant over time whereas is going to be a creating memories each and every single day and such as the way of the uh converts the righteous converts the people that uh make the uh sacrifice to uh not only uh learn Torah but make the life changes that are necessary in order to uh do what's necessary to become a Jew uh next week we have a another couple that's going to the bedin and then actually after that we have another family that's going to the bed so quite a bit it's happening with team we have uhm quite a few people about almost 60 families that uh were working on uh working with uh in the process of their conversion some are uh in the latter stages of their conversion some are in the earlier stages but needless to say the only ones that survive the only ones that actually succeed getting to where they need to be are the ones that uh are willing to make all of the necessary changes learn all of the necessary things and I'd say that uh learning is usually the easy part for most people because in order to be a Jew you don't necessarily need to uh remember remember the whole sh by heart the whole Kash by heart you don't need to remember every single thing in the world you need to know some basics of how to be a Jew and most of the learning you're going to do is going to be during your life after conversion the biggest part is really the life changes the the necessary changes that a person needs to have which is to uh live in a Jewish Community Live a Jewish life uh if you're a woman become very modest cover your hair if you're married if you're a man modest obviously sh bit uh learns to every day uh in you know in addition to your regular job and all the other things that you're doing which again many people love the learning uh but the life changes is really where uh where uh the Satan gets more people but anyone that's in the path right now and feels like they've uh been doing it for way too long and haven't succeeded don't feel so bad for yourself because many people uh have not succeeded even if they were born Jewish uh but that doesn't mean that you should stay that way you know there's a lot of people that watch our sh each and every week we have new people that are uh newly observant or or have been observant their whole life but they start watching our shim and realize that they have a lot of work to do they have a lot of work to do in order to uh get to where they really need to be not because I said it but because our our sages May their memory be blessed uh taught us all of the different things that a demands of us not just wants from us but demands of us because the Torah unlike what some people think today is not a suggestion book it's not advice it's a guidance for the things that you're obligated to do and uh one of the main things that uh people uh forget is that if you're not going to follow this instructions if you're a Jew then you're in very serious trouble uh and there's really no way out of it if you're a non-jew if you can't follow the Torah it's better off to you stay a non-jew and just be a righteous noahide but uh the part part for some people that uh they really enjoy keeps them in which many times is the holidays you know the the Jewish holidays kanuka pu RK PES all of these holidays these uh amazing days are times that many non-jews want to celebrate and the reality is is that unless you're a Jew you're not allowed to celebrate these holidays uh for the most part they're uh most of them are unique covenants or gifts that aadh gave to the nation of Israel and uh by uh taking on these holidays for example a non-jew that decides that he wants to observe Shabbat like a Jew or he wants to observe PES like a Jew Not only would that non-jew uh that noahide that is trying to be righteous not only will he not be viewed as righteous but in fact they'll be viewed as wicked Thief uh because these are gifts that gave to the people of of Israel now if you want to celebrate the holidays then you have to celebrate the entire Torah meaning you have to convert to Judaism now the key is is that it's a uh you know it's the battle that you're dealing with right now uh whether it's to move to a Jewish Community or it's to eat kosher or marriage thing any type of things are not unique to you they're not unique to you you're not the only one that's dealing with problems and I can tell you from my experience with many many converts bem that I've dealt with many that we've taken to the bed itself and the list continues to grow or others that we've simply just guided throughout the way that uh not only is the battle not unique to you but for the most part I would tell you that I have converts that have made much bigger sacrifices than most people are willing to make uh you know whether it's getting a divorce from a very long marriage that uh you know that was good for a time being until the ideology of the of the couple became so different they could no longer stay married uh so to uh to give up a marriage of 10 20 30 years for the sake of God is not an easy thing that uh that uh to say the least and your difficulty of let's say monetary or or otherwise is usually not as difficult as such sacrifice that a person is willing to make there's a very famous uh story about theed at the time of the G was a ises righteous convert to say the least uh that became an enormous but uh is known today because even though there are many con throughout the years that became became righteous not all of them are remembered but AB will forever be remembered why for the sacrifice that he made for the toraat to the point where he died for it when theim came and told him listen you have to abandon Judaism and go back to the IDE idolatry of Christianity and so on he rejected it and they said if you don't do it we'll kill you in public and he was willing to do it and that's and what ended up happening now don't worry about AB he's in geden with AB andov but the point being here is that the sacrifice of a convert is uh is nothing new is nothing new needless to say this is also expected from am Isel this is also expected from am is that's why thear says that the righteous converts are like a skin disease for am like a skin disease so say why would righteous converts be why would the convert be a skin disease for is if they're Wicked converts then they become the if they Wicked converts then they become the they become the the problematic part of our people and uh unfortunately you can see some people today they call themselves rabbis but all day they desecrate the Torah all day they go against theim they insult theim and they're on YouTube with tens of thousands of views of people that are just as wicked as them or in essence many times naive or even more naive than you could imagine watching them thinking oh yes see he's a convert so therefore he should know so when he's insulting the rabbis that are good people not the bad ones he must know better than everybody else and there are unfortunately many Wicked many Wicked converts that have uh that have crossed our path and uh the is 100% right when it says that there a skin disease why skin disease for anyone who doesn't know a skin disease is is it's it's not only painful it is annoying it is annoying if you had psoriasis you had any type of shingles we've merited to have both all these types of skin diseases I can tell you they're not only painful they are annoying because there's almost nothing you can do about them there's almost nothing you can do about them because this is in essence the tun this is the tun for different reasons that brings and these Wicked converts have been with us since the time of mosenu since the time of mosenu these Wicked Egyptians came and joined the the people not because they liked theem or they like the toah but they saw we were the winning team we beat the biggest civilization the world they wanted to join us so the wicked converts are like a skin disease but the also doesn't say Wicked converts are skin disease says converts are skin disease so why would the righteous converts be a skin disease for is said says the righteous converts are a skin disease because they make the US the ones that are naturally born Jewish feel bad about ourselves if we're not serving asem like them because when you see a righteous convert serve AEM it's m a sight to see it's beautiful the way they pray the way they learn tah the way they love hem the way they make sacrifice for hem without speaking a word the way they're willing to dedicate their whole life to it's a sight to see some of the most beautiful experiences I've had in my life not just one my life is Ser just relationships that I've had and conversations that I've had with righteous converts unbelievable unbelievable so it's a for for any one of us that's still not up to par with our servitude of hem that righteous convert is an example it's an example for us to say listen if he can do it if he can come from from Jose and become if he could come from from Yos and become Abraham if he could come from Buddha and become a he can become a sadik like this surely I can surely I can so this is amazing when you have more righteous convert added to the people it's much very very beautiful it's a huge Kem but also it's a rebuke it's a rebuke for all of us that are not doing enough not doing enough enough now don't worry that rebuke will be there even if they weren't added the fact that there's more K in is an addition to but in essence each one of us has to work on ourselves to serve Hashem even better every single day if we don't there's a case against us and a side note for all of the people that can convert they can convert but they choose to delay it for different reasons like some somebody told me recently listen Rabbi I like Judaism I learned everything according to the list that you gave me I score myself at 10 for 10 I have all the knowledge and everything else but I think I'm going to delay it a little bit oh why are you going to delay it all I think maybe I'm going to make a little bit more money so I can buy a house in a Jewish community and then instead of renting so I don't want to waste money so then then I'm going to move just so you know for those few words and that delay you're going to get punished severely punished severely why because the creator of all creations may his name be blessed is going to to look at you at the Judgment of heaven after you've lived the Jewish life assuming you actually succeed in converting he's going to look at you and he's going to grab you and say wait a minute you knew that I was the king of kings on this day yes you can't lie over there so you knew I was the king of kings on this day yes but you delayed to serve me at the highest level for what because you wanted to get a better job because because you want to have a bigger bank account because uh you just felt maybe let me just delay what a judgment they would get and this is I'm talking about the righteous ones needless to say the wicked so it's very important to note is not our friend is Our Father in heaven for the converts is their father and their mother but is an judge he's a judge of of of of of so it's it's not a walk in the park each and every single one of us has to make sure when we show up to heaven does that we don't leave anything anything unanswered we have to make sure we do everything and every anything possible to serve AEM at the highest level in essence this is one of the this is part of the topic of of today that we read in the letter of the um wasman and in essence the title that I chose uh for now is to be you know today it's say the different names uh or if you want to call it sect within Judaism uh you know every day there's something new I mean it used to be either you're religious or you're not religious Jew you know you're either an observant Jew or you're not an observant Jew but over the last few hundred years we've had many many different uh sects perk out of um obviously you've had you know different parts where some people were more connected Ed to over the last few hundred years some were more connected to obviously asazi and are you know thousands of years old uh surely no one thinks that mosu was AI so obviously everything started with the safaries so for all of those people that love to hate The Joke is on You Because mosu was Safar and so was all of they weren't eating Gil fish but that does not mean that and all of the are any LOM this is just the point that sometimes we have not only baseless hatred but it's stupid hatred you hate yourself you hate your grandfather it's ridiculous point being we've hadim theim the Ethiopians uh the yemenites is what is uh but then we had you know so those different cultures but that's not what I'm really referring to what I'm referring to is that within Orthodoxy within Orthodoxy we had breakaways break ways that really mostly started over the last two to 300 years about 250 years when the Enlighten movement the theim uh in essence wanted to change the Torah change the Torah by doing something revolutionary in their eyes revolutionary what is this revolutionary these musculine these causes so much damage and still causes damage till this day even if they call themselves Orthodox but they in those days they also call themselves Orthodox but what do these musim do it says listen there's in essence there's three parts there's three parts that is connects to there's El is the god of Israel there's T is the Torah of Israel and then there's the land of Israel so let's forget the land of Israel we're all living in Europe we're living in Egypt we're living in Iraq we're living in uh all different places so let's forget about the land and let's forget you know the Torah we don't necessarily need to make such a big deal out of this Torah let's modernize it why we have some sophisticated people in our generation let's let's not so be so let's just focus on believing in God you know like some people say listen I'm more religious than you yeah but you don't keep Shabbat you don't keep Kash you don't you're married to a Goya you're married to how are you more religious because no no in my heart AEM God knows how much I love him in my heart you know people like that they they're religious in their heart one heart attack they're not religious anymore the reality is that was with the the wanted to remove the Tora they wanted to remove the uh the importance of the land of Israel they said no no we're just going to believe in God what happened to them disaster disaster they transformed into the reform movement into the conservative movement both movements were one disaster after another to the extent where their leaders are openly homosexual in many cases completely not Jewish At All by according to our Jewish ala uh you know inter marriage running rampant which we'll go over later on today complete an utter disaster complete and utter disaster and uh you know unfortunately is a the uh the numbers people are reporting that the numbers in the reform and the conservative movement have gone down the participation of Jewish people with reform and conservative have gone down precipitously over these last several years now people are saying yeah maybe the leaders are not interesting enough oh yeah maybe people are trying to become more religious it's neither this or that it's not that more people are trying to become religious and it's also not because the leaders are not interesting if you give a bar mitzvah to a dog some people will find it interesting on YouTube it's not that you know what it is is that statistically speaking they are going extinct what people believe happened to the dinosaurs is what's happening to the reform and conservative movement why because what ends up happening you are a Jew you marry a non-jewish woman your kids are not Jewish now you may say no no but according to reform and conservative they're Jewish okay you could consider whatever you want but reality is that those kids are going to grow up and most of them are not going to connect to this fake Judaism version that you've created and what ends up happening is that within one or two generations those kids are 100% green both Al culturally and everything in between so they're simply going extinct so these MIM these enlightenments movement this these sophisticated professors uh these people HDs that thought that they could trick God and trick the sages into a better version more modern version of Judaism didn't fa out so well by saying they're just going to comply with the Torah why because by going against believing in hem by going against the Torah that means that you're denying hasem by denying the the importance of the land of Israel you're denying hasem so the point being is those musim didn't faar out so well but then came the Zionist the Zionist the another group that R wman mentions time and time again all of these isms the socialism the nationalism the Zionism all of these isms are one disaster after another these Zionist had a slightly different plan different plan what do they say listen we don't need God we don't need the Torah we just need the land we just need the land you know there's three parts the the enlightenments they said we don't need the land and we don't need the toah we just need God the Zionist said okay that plan didn't work for them so what we're going to do we're going to change it no God and Noom but we're going to focus all of our attention on the land this is why wrote in his own journal that if the Jewish people are not going to support him in acquiring the land of Israel which at the time was called Palestine he's literally willing to kill every single one of them and in essence as we've reviewed over the last few months different books that have been written he in essence facilitated facilitated the hatred of Jewish people to the extent that some major have said he is one of the core reasons of why Hitler hated Jews and murdered six million of them in Cold Blood yet today people are so ignorant they're so ignorant about Zionism they're so ignorant about the founders of Z iism and even so ignorant about today's Zionism which in itself broke up into a million and a half different pieces the religious Zionist the the the Lefty liberal Zionist the the this Zion that all types of nonsense point being is they're all trying to start new religions they claim it's not religious but trust me when I tell you everyone in the world is religious there is no such thing as a non-religious person you're a religious Jew you're a religious Christian you're a religious Catholic you're a religious Buddhist you're a religious atheist you're a religious Lefty liberal hater of religion but that's a religion in itself and so everyone has a religion everyone has a belief system that they hold dear to them no different than how the uh the greatest sages in history held on to to a and the point is is that these Zionist wanted to remove God and His T from the equation and just focus on the land and what ended up happening complete and utter disaster now you say wait a minute but didn't they succeed because they got the land no they didn't get the land simply gave it to us he gave it to us a few thousand years ago in essence he gave it to us now but under different conditions but a lot of disasters happened during that time aside from the Holocaust aside from all those tragedies that happened also the fact that thousands upon thousands thousands upon thousands of yemenite and Moroccan kids were murdered in Cold Blood by the zionists till this day there are open cases in the Israeli court system trying to uncover the blood trying to uncover all of the blood all of the hands that were full of blood from these zionists that sold these children to for experiments sold these children for different people to do what they want with them some in cases adopted them as children and some did not do it for that kid the point being is these zionists expressed evil against theem and thereby ended up being evil to to man so here we see a very unique a very unique lesson that R has been repeating time and time again that the reason why is is suffering so dearly over the last few thousand years is not because the the go the other nations are so bad it's not because of that yes of course and is doesn't hate him any less but that's not the reason why because is simply turning on and off the button of hate from as and is they don't always hate us uh they don't always express that hate at least that's not the reason the reason why R was says is because of the Shepherds the leaders we follow and he calls all of these leaders prophets not prophets like the sikim we had Isaiah Jeremiah no not like such holy prophets that talk to hem but prophets because prophecy the the uh the word Prophet is Navi and Navi means someone that speaks those prophets are in essence the people that speak to the people the leaders of the people some of those prophets can be people like helel imim or Ben or all of the others in between them and even today's leaders these are in essence the false prophets the false prophets of the days that misled the people andman repeated time and time again that the reason why am is is suffering so dearly is because we listen to these false prophets rather than listening to the righteous prophets and now he continues he continues elaborating on this point he continues elaborating on this point where he says in the uh same section the uh the uh the rules of the uh Exile in the section L Al and 31 now if you have downloaded the uh as a side note if you've downloaded the from our website we discovered that this particular section is uh is actually missing you'll see Lam Al you'll see 31 in that letter on our website but it's not the same LED alif whatever reason the the printers uh skipped this paragraph either way we'll go over it and I'll translate it as we go along the situation of the Jewish people at this hour is the most tragic the most horrible that it's has been since the Exile began nearly 2,000 years ago now he's obviously talking about the time he lived which is during the time of World War II he himself was murdered among other by the Nazis imim but he's writing this several years before he got murdered several years before the concentration camps started murdering Millions by the uh by by by the week practically uh this is a time where he's saying already in his time needless to say our time he's saying that the situation is as horrific as it's ever been in the last 2,000 years why is he referring to the Nazis taking over communities turning him into ghettos that's not what he's talking about as we've already learned through this letter for the last almost 30 lectures that's not what we're talking about he's talking about the spiritual aspect of am that's leading to the physical suffering the strength that held the Jews together throughout all of the times was their connection to the Tor was their connection to the Tor that's what held is together how do we see this applied into today today you see you see today many Jews are living simply a non-jewish life but it's not just that they're not religious and they don't observe Shabbat whether they live in Russia or in Israel America the UK Australia wherever you're going to find Jews in the four corners of the world it's not just that they're not religious they have achieved they have achieved such a lowly level spiritually that they don't see any connection to the Torah and to the Jewish people they've gotten to the point some of them have got to the point where they've become what's called self-hating Jews they actually hate Jewish people I have some people that send me messages left and right about things that they disagree with what we've mentioned according to the like this one men that called me today and chewed my ear off despite me hanging up on him twice for nine minutes all just to Simply tell me how much he doesn't like me how many times he can insult me in a matter of one minute I think he was competing with himself and I the only reason why I even answered is because I was expecting a call from overseas and I thought that was it so I fell for the Trap twice point being is all he would doing I wanted to give the benefit of the doubt I wanted to see maybe I could reason with this rash but no way he was determined to insult me to call me all types of names and do all types of things that that's one level of rash now he considers himself religious for 40 years he considers himself religious for 40 years so when they cook him and G they're G to say religious hold on hold on your your keeper burned let us give you another keeper let us give us another y your keeper burned again oh give us you another keeper such a person considers himself religious but that's not in essence the self-hating Jews self-hating Jew is even worse the self-hating Jew is a Jew that doesn't just hate the tah no self-hating Jew hates the Jewish people he doesn't like Judaism he doesn't like anything to do with Judaism he actually wants to be like the Nations he wants to be German he wants to be American he wants to be Italian he wants to be anything but a Jew you tell them listen why don't you come to no no I don't have any connection to these old people with long beards I don't have a uh any connection to these Jewish people he has no connection this is a tragedy a tragedy that we see growing unfortunately by the week although the access to the Torah and to information in general is more available today than any other time in history Unfortunately today we also have a tragedy among our our people where there are many Jewish people that have experienced some part of Judaism or in essence the Jewish people that has deterred them so much that they believe that those bad Jews that they gave them a bad experience in essence that's Judaism why because many times they had a bad experience with someone who looks religious the guy looks religious but yet he stole money from them so they figure oh so if these so-called religious Jews steal money who wants to be religious I hate religious Jews and I've told you guys the story several times but it's worth repeating of someone that's very very dear to me before he did chuva he said listen one of the things that was most shocking to me most shocking to me in my life that he says is that I used to have a card Club used to have a card Club don't ask me about the legality of it the point is he had a card club and people would come gamble play different games or whatever and uh as you would have it one day you saw a couple of uh religious guys come keep beard can sweep the floor the whole thing and they wanted to play cards now when you're running a card Club you don't necessarily care so much who your customer is he could be black white burgundy kidish doesn't make a difference all you care about is as long as this guy's money is green that's all that matters so he wants to play it doesn't look so good but that's not his business he's not here to judge or jury especially since he himself was not religious so he sees this guy sitting over there in the card club and he's playing with everybody and as you would have it a made his opposition take all of his money now instead of being a person that just walks away what does he do he opens his pocket he takes out an envelope opens up the envelope and starts taking out donation checks donation checks that people gave him for some cause that he was preaching donation check and said okay hey cash this check for me cast this check for me giving the house the checks that people donated for the sake of Tora for the sake of helping poor people for the sake of something good connected to T he gives them donation checks the person I know says to me at that point my eyes turned black my just everything turn I could not believe my eyes what I was seeing how could this be this is Judaism this is Judaism and sometime later he was able to see our and so on and realize this is not Judaism what we teach is Judaism what's in the toah is Judaism so sometimes I tell you just because someone is Jewish by birth or by looks or both doesn't necessarily mean they're always the best representation of Judaism if you want a representation of Judaism you have to look at a if you want to see it in human form you have to look at our rabbis that are accepted Maz the ram the ran all of the great sages that's Judaism don't judge Judaism by just Shmo that pretends to be a religious Jew you can't judge Judaism that way just like you can't judge other people just by some uh bad example you can't judge all cops for being evil just because a bunch of them like to beat up people for no reason surely there has to be somebody that's not a murderer over there I'm assuming hopefully but I'm kidding there has to be some decent people there surely there are some doctors that don't care just about money that care about people I'm assuming hope I'm kidding no there has to be some decent doctors the point is is that just because there are bad people doesn't mean that everybody is bad doesn't mean everybody's bad but unfortunately the yet is going to do that to you he's going to tell you no see that Jew is bad all of the Jews are bad and that's in essence what happened with Hitler imim where did he get most of his information about Jewish people he wasn't associated with Jewish people with the exception of the Jewish doctor that saved his life when he was a baby he wasn't involved with Jewish people's lives where do you read all of the information about Jewish people in the anti-semitic papers how would the anti-semitic papers know about Jewish people because those anti-semitic papers had articles by helel and his friends against the Jewish people yes those so-called zionists that said they love the Jews and they wanted to get a country they wrote articles in the anti-semitic papers talking about how the Jews are traitors and and bad people and therefore you should kick him out of the land because his strategy was that if anti-Semitism increases then the the Jewish people will support him and they'll be able to get the land of Israel ended up costing us Six Million Lives of course it was all the hand of hem but the point is is that the hand of hem used him and his Wicked friends anyway the key is that sometimes you have a Jew that disconnects he doesn't disconnect for no reason he disconnects because he had a bad experience with other Jews that look religious that look religious he went to a Jewish school like there was used to be a Jewish school where I used to where I grew up in Staton Island and over there the principal he hated spartic kids hated them anyone that was spartic or poor he hated them by default so what he would do he would constantly look for excuses to kick him out of the school and he kicked out at least two people that are very dear to me both of them to this day both of them to this day are struggling but one of them started CH about 6 months ago the other one up and down but for most of their lives almost 20 something years 25 years after they got kicked out went from keeping Shabbat keeping everything to keeping nothing why this Rashad didn't like that one of them was saric the other one wasn't very rich and in fact the opposite decided to kick him out of the school for no reason and guess what one of them at least developed a hatred towards religious people develop the hatred towards religious people why he said look all the experience I have with religious people between this uh former principle to other people that I had they all were bad to me why should I like religious why should I like the Torah I said that's not the Torah what they did is not the Torah and it's a lot of work to rewire somebody's brain so unfortunately all of these self-hating Jews didn't just become self-hating Jews for no reason something happened to them to their parents to their friends to somebody meaning that at some point some form of desecration of hashem's name and his tah caused caused this fire to already begin burning in this world and that's why says that is a sin that is not repairable in this world it's not repairable in this world in a natural way by simply suffering or giving or or saying I'm sorry desecration of hm's name is only repairable either after a person dies they have to go to gam for a really really long time or while they're alive they do Kem they sanctify aem's name aside from doing chew everything else they do Kem what's Kem there's many different ways to do K the highest level as we've learned in previous months the highest level as mentions it and also mentions it and many other places the highest level of K is to do K to help is do either by donating money to a kiru organization or speaking to people or bringing people to a lecture giving out CDs Flyers getting people to do CH return to hem do and so on and so forth that's K that's in essence sanctifying hashem's name making it even greater that's the only thing that you can do to repair while you're alive otherwise a person has to do it after he's died and I don't really recommend it the point is that these people that have become self-hating Jews became self-hating Jews because there was a reason something happened something happened and it's the the the onus is on us the owners on us to try to fix that how by spreading more to more light of T more into the world to show people more and more religious people more and more good religious people whether they're religious by birth or they're religious by chuva or religious as a result of conversion doesn't really make much of aition more more K as a result of the Tor more from the Tor and thereby showing them that this is the real version of Judaism this means you have to be honest in your business honest in your marriage honest in your day-to-day honest and Sh outside out of everywhere you have to sanctify she's name from the minute you're awake until you go to sleep every single day for the rest of your life no exceptions this obviously is not as hard as it seems all you need to do is just be willing to serve AEM now some people may think it's hard because they have lack of connection to hem lack of but the point being here is that we have instructions from one of the from the previous generation telling us that we are in a tragedy and if he's talking about his time being a tragedy we are living in a bigger tragedy the situation for is the worst it's been in 2,000 years of Exile because the only thing that held strength for is is their connection to the Torah this gave them spiritual power what do we need spiritual power for what are we going to split the ocean what are we going to Res resurrect the dead maybe but that's not necessarily why we need spiritual Powers what is the spiritual powers to withstand the pain of the exile to withstand all of the difficulties of life when we connect to the Tora we have the strength to withstand the whole week when a person sanctifies Shabbat not only keep Shabbat by not driving not only keep Shabbat by doing K not only keep Shabbat by being happy and learning tah but keeping Shabbat in accordance with what hasem says not in accordance with what some Dennis Prager type of character says what the says what the sages says and here you see when a person sanctify Shabbat the sages explain to us that he is given she is given strength for the whole week for the whole week when a person does does not sanctify Shabbat and I don't even mean they don't keep Shabbat let say if they don't keep Shabbat is obvious it's needless to say I'm talking about a person that just treat Shabbat like it's like okay so I can't drive okay so I can't go play basketball okay so I can't go on TV and I can't go on the internet all right whatever I'll just sleep all day oh you know what I'll talk business with my friends all day I'll PR shes I'll play uh all types of games I don't really care about learning to a person that does not sanctify Shabbat doesn't get get that spiritual strength for the whole week hence the reason why you see so many people on Prozac and other anti-depressants they don't have the strength the spiritual strength to withstand the problems of the weak the problems coming from the Exile the problems coming from Life they don't have they don't get it they don't feel re-energized they feel like G this Shabbat is like a burden and that's what happens when your Shabbat is a burden your weak is even worse your weak is even worse now of course each and every one of us has our ups has our Downs sometimes Shabbat is G it's a piece of sometimes you have big tests and you fail there's a altercation disagreement forgot to turn on the uh the the pl for the for the food to be hot so all weekend you're pretty much eating pieces of bread you know all types of things happen the key is is to use the Torah connect to the tor deep enough that it alone it and it alone will make your Shabbat holy the rest of it the K the kala the chant theil fish the the whatever you're eating and whatever company you have you don't that's all extra the Torah itself is supposed to be extraordinary enough deep enough within your veins during that Shabbat that it's still beautiful now of course we all have our ups and downs and we're all going to have some weeks that are good and some weeks not so good but that's the key that's the key that's the battle that's the battle every week prepare for that Shabbat the whole week because once Shabbat comes there's no questions there's no question you see somebody wants to argue not interest in arguing you want to argue argue with yourself I'm going to go learn some to I'll come back when you're finished sometimes you have some people they're in a bad mood they woke up on the left side of the bed they just want to argue for no reason argument only happens if it's two sides one wants to argue the other one wants to be smart walks away either walks away if that's not acceptable because let's say it's your spouse or it's somebody that's not going to accept you walking away something like that best thing to do quiet yeah but they're yelling at me let them yell you yeah but they're cursing me okay let them curse you why you so the big so not no one's allowed okay so they cursed you okay they yell to you I'm sure they're going to be sorry later on let them yell let them scream let them do whatever they want when they see you not responding eventually they're going to stop why the second you start responding it's all over sometimes that's the only way you can deal with certain people other times you have to rationalize with them but you have to continue cool the point being is you're going to have test it's not easy Shabbat holidays all of these things they're not easy the Da comes to attack on Shabbat he'll leave you alone Monday Tuesday Wednesday he'll leave you alone the whole week I'll only show up at your door on Shabbat on Yip on on the holidays why the value of a holy Shabbat is so high he can't afford to leave you alone he's willing to leave you alone the whole week just to bother you on Shabbat which means that you have to sanctify the Shabbat even more work on it even more study the whole week prepare the whole week okay have a game plan just like somebody goes to war they don't just go to war with a bunch of guns and knives and I hope for the best no you have a battle plan okay at this time I'm going to pray at that time I'll be home to K at that time I'm gonna have a say a story at that time I'm gonna sing a song at that time they go to sleep at that time I'm gonna learn at that time I'm going to wake up at that time I'm going to eat at that time another story at that time sing a song at that time take a rest go for a walk say a few joke whatever have a game plan especially if your Shabbat is difficult now this is easier said than done but the point is they have to do something and most important of all pray for it pray for it pray for to have mercy on you and give you a good Shabbat pray for it there's no shame in praying for it I pray for it every week you have to pray for it why Satan shows up on Shabbat he does so now when we have the connection to shabbat when we have connection to the Tor we have the says the Torah showed them the way it gave them Comfort it gave them hope it elevated their Souls what does it mean it elevated their souls how do you elevate a soul I mean last time I checked I don't see a uh regular average Jew walking around with a soul right next to him usually it's still in the same place it's always been inside him and if it's not inside of him usually you have to say kadish what does it mean you elevated the soul what what does that really mean in page 38 says that the the the previous sages were also called suim what's suim suim is not always mean scribes Sim they were called because they used to count the letters they used to count the letters as a side note this means a lot of things it could also mean that all of the different Torah codes that people are discovering today with computers and so on the sages did all of it in their heart hence the reason why we have many codes and many things that are mentioned in thear without the uh the computers and so on for example where was says where's if everything's in the T where is it tells you exactly where's and say how do you see use Torah codes today with the computers you see 12,000 193 skips it spells M how do they know it they used to be S they used to count the letters but the here is the simple meaning is is that the the the early sages the early sages love the Tora so much they used to count the letters imagine somebody like a love has all types of precious jewels what does he do oh he has you know has money today money is digital but what does everybody do the more money you have the more times you look at the bank account oh let me check let me look up to my account see what happens what do you mean what could have happened in the last three hours oh I know maybe a check cleared okay so a check cleared a check this check that like is that when you love money you constantly look at oh let me check the account in the market what could have happened in the last few oh maybe the Stock's up Stock's out okay stock's up stock down can you do anything about it anyway why didn't to look at it 15 times a day constantly looking at your phone where's the stock market where's your why people love money they look at the bank account they look at their stock portfolio they call their broker they call their consultant they call this one they check that one they talk about it they talk shop and so on people love it they talk about it same thing with uh somebody has a lot of jewels that somebody in a jewelry business so on what do they do almost every day they review their inventory oh this is the package of the uh the diamonds that are square and he's a circle and this Marquee and this is the and this is that and that's how much gold and that's how much copper and that's how much this that's how constantly count constant inventory check even though not much has changed in the last 24 hour constantly why they love it they love their stuff same thing with anything else real estate so on and so forth guess what the the early sages love the so much they would count the letters oh look at that an Al yeah always been there was an there yesterday it's doesn't start with starts with a yeah but you see the word has an okay but it was the yesterday also yeah but I noticed that even more oh look at that yeah you know it always always had the yeah but today I see the and they count the letters and how many letters between this one and that one and this one and that and constantly showed their love and affection for the Tah now there are some things that when it comes to the Torah are good numbers to know they're good numbers to know that the sages discovered with their due to their love of the Torah but we computers so the some numbers to know the shortest shortest T portion in the Torah is has 30 verses alone the longest verse in a tanak is section uh um 119 in uh in Psalms has 176 verses from all five books of Moses the longest one is bit Genesis which has 1534 verses 20512 words and 78,3 letters from the ending letters in the Hebrew alphabet there is a handful of letters that change if they're used as an ending letter the letter me me the letter me appears in the tah the most amount of times 10,624 times whereas the f f is the least with 830 times that's the reason why the G says that one should use the uh word uh the letter face of feet as least as possible because it's a uh in essence anytime it appears in a Tora it's a not good news the par Torah portion that has the most amount of is 74 me 27 me positive 47 negative the longest word in the Tor has 11 letters longest 76 longest one is 176 Pages the which is a and b from the five books of Moses seph Leviticus is the shortest one the longest one is bit the shortest one is with 859 verses 1950 words and letters the letter that appears the most often in the Torah is the letter UD small letter UD 31,5 31 times the letter that appears the least amount of times in a Tor is the letter t only 184 times and the uh book in the Tor that has the most amount of mitv out of the five books of Moses is Leviticus 247 MIT so the same one the same book that's actually the shortest in the Torah also has the most amount of MIT 247 MIT 95 positive 52 negative so here there is some math also as far as the um amount of letters in the to 35,8 letters are in the tah now interestingly one of the previous gim I love Shalom one said there was never a time in his life that someone came to him asked him a question and he didn't give him an answer except one time his whole life someone would ask question on the spot he'd give him an answer except one time some swer guy that makes clothes or whatever decided to ask a question just uh you know like one of those questions where there's really no enough Kamina there's really no point of it but you just want to see that show somebody that oh see you don't really know that much if you don't know this that means that you don't know that much and if you don't know that much that means that everything else that you know maybe is not you know those types of people we have many names for them anyway one guy like this came toon and said how many letters are in tah and didn't know the answer he didn't know the answer but he said to him how many stitches did you sew today do you know that now this wasn't the answer obviously he was just trying to buy some more time because he was thinking thinking in his m in his head okay this verse has this many this verse had this many he was able to count in his head the verses and how many letter but it takes time to do the math cuz this question doesn't have any real substance alic substance of whether this many or that many so there was no real point for him to really know this answer of top of it says not today where you need to know specific letters to give Torah proofs and so on and so forth going had no no no need for this specific information and therefore he didn't never learned it but he was calculating in his head while the guy was thinking about the question how many stitches did he SE that day but also to show him that while you're trying to dis discredit me in reality you're a hypocrite anyway did not could not figure it out he got into all types of complications yet interfering so on and so forth he did what was called he prayed before he went to sleep and for hasem to give him the uh uh the answer in his dream and he got the answer in his dream exactly the number that we have today the point being is that the previous Sages was but even from the difference between him and the sages the T the zot and and the ones before those it was a world apart if you will why World apart because the says those those early sages those Z you know these these were people that were called suim because they loveed the toora so dearly it's not only they would just learn it they would count the letters like Precious diamonds nowman is telling us that when a person makes sacrifices for the Torah he falls in love with it he falls in love with it he's willing to make all sacrifices in the world for it when a person doesn't make sacrifices to unfortunately many times either he's nonchalant about it doesn't think of it good or bad can respect it but it's not going to really ever understand why we continue reading the same par every year we continue reading the same every year we continue reading everything over and over again every year like somebody asked today don't you ever get bored reading the every year that that comes from ignorance of of the value of T and how many Secrets endless amount of Secrets and lessons you can learn from the Tor even if you read it a million times but the point being is is that a person never sacrificed their uh their life for the Torah in the best case scenario they just wouldn't appreciate it in the worst case scenario they'll do exactly what the says that hated they hated the Torah they hated them and there wives hated them even more how much did they hate them the says the wives of these these ignoramuses hated the Tor so much hated the sages so much they even hated them more than as hates yob that's how much they hate him the ignoramuses can even get to a point of being worse than amalik why their starts rejecting everything connected the because it is so tight with the Satan himself with the with their desires and so on and so forth so this this elevation of the soul is what kept us going says the Jews knew throughout the generations that they're not alone as it says in the uh in the verse in uh Psalms 121:4 AEM is not a um uh sleeping he's and he's he's always the guardian of am Isel Shem doesn't sleep he doesn't rest sh doesn't rest or sleep as the verse says he is the guardian of is how often is he guard 24 hours a day so when we were connected to the Tora deeply we knew that no matter what was going on in the world we have something to rely on we have a to rely on he's here yeah but it's dark over there there's anti-Semitism over there there's hatred over there don't worry is there too is protecting us from this too this is actually one of the interesting things that we learn in in kanuka we say Hal every day right in Hal it says that the time is going to come mhia is going to come and then the go the nations in the world the the anti-semites are going to praise hem why would the go praise hem yeah the go are going to praise why are they going to praise hem why all of a sudden they're all going to do no they're going to praise hem at how much he protected am is shouldn't it be that the Jews praise hem for how much he protected is no says the opposite which is a verse from no no it's of course the Jews will praise Hem of how much he protected them but here it's specifically mentioned the that we read during the holidays and so on and so forth says that theim theim will actually praise for how much he protected am is why because only hasem knows how many times the Nations try to destroy am is and Hashem foiled the plans before they got even started only Hashem knows how many tunnels they built underground in order to attack the Jewish community and before they got to attack a single Jew simply made tunnel collapse on them buried them alive and no one even know what actually happened only who knows how many times they tried to poison our water only a who knows knows how many times they wanted to plant a bomb only who knows how many times they tried to rape somebody kill someone and so on and so forth it's a very famous story that happened in not too long ago where a uh Jewish a Jewish woman was walking around at night in and uh she hears this footsteps behind her and she she realizes some stranger and it's not a comfortable thing especially it's a night empty road and she sees that she starts hearing that the footsteps are getting faster and closer to her so she starts going faster and closer she's and it's a uh it's not it's not appropriate for a woman to run in the streets R again says that one time someone asked him if I'm late for the bus some woman asked him if I'm late for the bus can I run get the bus he says it's better if you to die than to go run after the bus in the street there's a Jewish woman crowd was shocked what better for better for her to die than to run after a bus if she's wa for the bus again says yes why say it's not modest for a Jewish woman for a is to run in the streets for you to run is IM modest why because the way your body's moving it's no different than dancing in the streets it's better for you to die than to actually show such immodesty in the streets such a holy to be so imod in the streets to start running better you the crowd understood today in a generation they'll probably rip you apart if we see it in the lecture let's see what they do with this clip anyway this woman and everything but it's night Road's empty and she's hearing footsteps and the footsteps are getting faster so she starts she can't run she knows she can't run but what she going to do so she starts walking a little faster a little faster suddenly she hears that the footsteps are slowing down and she continues she turns around the corner and eventually she loses track of where this person is and she gets to where she needs to be shortly later she gets knocks on our door yes police we need to ask you some questions we need to to come to the station okay what did I do no it's there was a crime that happened and want to ask you a question okay comes to the police station says do you know this face she's some Arab it's over there yeah looks uh familiar I saw him uh earlier tonight oh yeah what did you see him oh you think he was behind me I saw a face kind of looks like his yeah okay yeah he says he saw you and he described you and that's what we know and so on and so forth he said you went in some house okay all right well where are the two guys that you were with he couldn't figure that out she said well excuse me well he went and made a crime but he said that really he had a different plan when we started questioning him we had a different plan what was the plan he actually was F following this woman he's following this woman for a while he got her into go to a road that was really dark and he started he was about to attack and he said suddenly two big guys showed up two big guys showed up and that's it he knew that game's over so he said he knew exactly where you went but we looked in your house where are the big guys she says to the police I have no idea what you're talking about there is no big guys there is no big guys simply sends but is two big guys mik Gabriel they show up whenever they want couple of angels showed up when necessary this is something that a Jew depends on not just Ben depends on throughout all of our years in the Exile we depend on these Miracles we depend on these amazing protection that gives us in front of people's eyes out of their eyes all of these different things that's what we depend on as says in doesn't rest he doesn't sleep he's the guardian of is our Gless to the Torah gave us Comfort why we knew that no matter what was going on is with us he says in the previous generations in the recent Generations enlighteners came up and disconnected the Jewish people from the Torah as we said earlier and due to that the Jewish people started feeling alone without Direction without knowing where to go with no comfort with no hope as thear says tus was a famous heretic constantly would debate with RAB AKA T says to R AKA is one little sheep surrounded by 70 wolves how is it going to survive in essence this is a parable nation of Israel surrounded by 70 Nations that want to eat it up into make it into a stake just look at even literally today you have a little country of Israel surrounded by 40 somewhat Arab countries most of which hate us and would love for us to disappear from the world even the ones that just recently signed a peace treaty with us they all hate us it's in their jeans to hate us and it's not just them there plenty of other countries that hate us just as much there's some people right now that I know in the Netherlands where they're saying that anti-Semitism is now so apparent so open it's even on television on the internet in different shows on TV constantly openly anti-semitic Germany no different Netherlands in Italy in in America all over the world there's wolves trying to kill us says because that sheep has a reliable and very good shepherd you see when has the Tor we have everything we have a connection to Our Shepherd when was removed from a life of T by these enlighteners by these reformers by these zionists and everyone that was like them before and after it caused us to not only not have that comfort that we had in previous generation throughout the different difficulties but even worse we felt alone now many times people ask me especially the newly religious or the people that are only religious because their parents are forcing them to be religious so they don't really want to be religious they don't even know why they're religious and ask me and they in essence insinuate constantly that being religious is a burden they feel like they would have a better life if they were secular why because in their mind if they were they could just simply do whatever they want now think about this for a moment would your life be better without Shabbat would your life be better if you ate Pig every single morning for breakfast like the Nations bacon egg and cheese some of my former teammates on the football team in high school that's what they would eat every day bacon egg and cheese would your life be better better if you ate bacon egg and cheese every day would your life be better if you were just simply able to have a new wife every day like many people do every day they go to some nightclub or some this or some that and they have a new wife for the night would your life be better now initially the yet is saying yeah what what a fun I would have I go to the beach I go to the clubs I go boom doom doom with all the music most people most people even people that consider themselves religious will say yeah my life will be much better I would have this freedom from this burden that's the reason why in says that part of the reason why he punished us is because of the sin and part of the sin he punished us is because we didn't serve him with happiness meaning even if we served them if we served them as if the Torah was a burden we deserve a punishment for it a heavy punishment what kind of punishment the worst kind just go fast forward in the book of Deuteronomy or what horrible punishments brings us when we serve him as if the to is a burden but the reality is inside you you feel like that your life would be better if you were not religious what does that mean how can you feel that your life will be better if you now are religious it only means you don't know what the Torah is yet it only means you have not glued yourself to the Torah it only means you do not have any real comprehension of what you have why you're too busy looking at the grass on the other side of the street you're too busy looking at the sins of others and looking at how they're having fun making sins you're not looking at the consequences you're not looking at oh look this guy's dating every girl and married so young with this girl oh he gets to check this and check that yeah he also gets to check his blood every few months because he has AIDS so he gets to check that too and he also before he got AIDS he had to check himself a few other ways for other STDs and aside from that he had to check how many girls got pregnant despite the fact that he didn't want them to and he got to check those two but all you see is the fact that he gets to check out all those girls and you get to see oh look at that he's got a brand new car and he's going to brand new house and I'm living in this little average home because look he gets to live a life he's single and I'm married it's a burden opposite he's crying every single day he's crying every single day being miserable because he has no happiness whatsoever because he is alone that's why he keeps going to different girls that's why he goes and keeps buying new stuff that's why he's constantly consuming as much materialism as possible because there's a black hole inside his heart and he's trying to satiated only to realize it's not satiable it's not something you can fix with physicality with materialism but he wasn't taught to us he doesn't even know how to fix it so he gets another girl and another car or another house and another stock and another this and another that until he commits suicide or he simply loses all of his money or he loses his mind needless to say he's depressed now you don't have to listen to me even though I lived both lives and can tell you more information about both sides than anybody else can most likely but aside from that you could look at research there was a research done n some years ago on the life of religious people versus life of non-religious people now of course not all religious people are poor some are very rich and of course not all secular people are rich many of them are very poor so you can't say oh this one's richer than the other because it's simply not true at the same token you can't necessarily measure happiness because it's not like you could just measure Happiness by the size of a smile of people so they simply checked problems how many of them had major problems diseases all types of major crisis in their life they said statistically speaking there is no comparison the life of a secular person is drastically drastically much more miserable than the worst of the religious people religious people are having a much better life much healthier life much more productive life much more levity much more happy in every aspect even the ones that are not rich and so on just average person struggling still has a million times better life than your average Playboy that has a new girlfriend every week why they have a they're connected to the Good Shepherd when a person lives a secular life it's an illusion it's an illusion that he can do whatever he wants and you as a Torah observant Jew are restricted says it's the opposite it's the opposite you are not restricted you are connected he is is restricted you are connected to the Good Shepherd the one that only wants to give you good and gives you good he is restricted by what by his own addiction to his desires by the addiction to satiate the black hole in his soul because he has to do something because he feels miserable he doesn't know why but he wants to kill himself today he doesn't know why but there's no money that's enough in the world he doesn't know why but he can't find a girl even though he has a new girl every week he can't find a girl no one's good enough for him no one's good enough for her she can't be happy even though she has a whole collection of bags that you could literally feed a civilization with the money that it cost she can't find happiness even though she has more shoes than a shoe store ah I have to buy something new they're constantly trying to feed their soul with materialism they're addicted to that they're addicted to that desire they're constantly trying to get attention from the public she needs people to tell her she looks good she needs people to tell her that she is good she needs people to do this this and that she needs it why she has nothing else there's no connection to the shepherd there's no connection to there's no happiness so she figures oh so maybe if I wear less clothes more people will look at me and whistle at me just like they whistle at the dogs so maybe that's going to make me happiness so she walks around no arms no legs everybody whistles everybody's this she goes home and she cries herself to sleep why why can't I find somebody to love me what happened didn't you have Jose and all of his friends whistle at you from the construction company yeah but they don't love me they just love my body wasn't wait hold on wasn't that the plan when you walked around with no arms and no legs yeah but I thought I would do something different that's the reality when a girl is connected to the shepher when a boy is connected to the shepherd they connected to they're happy just to exist thank you for not giving me problems that other people have aser Shalom says what is what is self sacrifice what is self self sacrifice because the reality self-sacrifice is something that's viewed as extraordinary by everybody in the world not just by the Jewish people Hitler he wanted to make sure to eliminate the positive perception of Jewish people by everybody how did he do it first and foremost when he got into Power he removed all the Jewish people that were enlisted as soldiers and commanders and any association whatsoever to the German Army even though there were all veterans that fought for Germany in World War I many of them were injured many of them were had stars and so on he said you're not allowed to be in the Army why we're willing to die for Germany we love Germany they said no no no we don't want any Jews in in a German Army why he wanted to make sure no one views the Jewish people in a positive way he doesn't want anyone to have the Jews viewed as someone that was willing to sacrifice themselves for for Germany why because sacrif is a big deal according to everybody's standard says what's a real sacrifice that a Jew can do what's a real sacrifice he says love now love AEM is a big thing everybody thinks they love AEM says listen let me tell you how to love AEM let me tell you there's a says you love with all your body with all of your soul with all of your money now to accomplish all of it we're actually obligated to do but let just start small start your day by loving AEM why say thank yous thank you for not giving me an eye surgery today what why IE surgery you know how many people have to have eye surgery he says you know how many people have to suffer with ie surgery surgery they have to block their eyes for a few weeks I have actually a dear friend he's aan for over 40 years I actually have him on my channel for anyone that wants to hear him speak May is fantastic human being one day he used to work out he used to be a bodybuilder when he was younger but he's a religious Jew anyway one day he's working out and all a he feels like a little pinch in his eye all of a sudden when he gets in the car everything's blurry not really sure what's going on figured oh maybe I'll go away the next day next day gets even worse next day gets even worse can't even see from his eye now the look of it there's no blood there's no nothing he saw me he said I can't see from my eye I said I don't know just a few days already he said no it's already a few weeks can't see nothing got to go to the doctor goes to the doctor looks perfect looks normal you can't tell doctor looks he says I'm sorry you ripped your eye apart excuse me you ripped your eye apart you have to have an urgent surgery should have come early we're not even sure we could save your eye he did a surgery we had to actually raise money to help him come up with some money had surgery thought everything's going to be all good covered eye horrible so on comes back after the surgery can't see a single thing doctor says no no it's going to take time to heal this that the other thing okay how much time a few months oh okay a few months a few months pass a few months more a few months pass a few months more nothing changes goes back to the doctor doctor says listen it looks okay but I don't know what's going on he goes to the second doctor second doctor says this is horrible I don't know what the other guy was doing maybe was a shoe maker but you have to have another surgery he has another surgery we come with with more money another surgery still can't see to date he's probably had a dozen surgeries a dozen surgeries and he still barely can see he probably spent a quarter million dollars on surgeries on what something that just happened he didn't nothing hit his eye nothing did nothing he's perfectly healthy guy decided to give him some says thank you for not giving me an eye surgery why because eye surgeries hurt eye surgeries are difficult that's loving hem that's loving AEM but if that's not enough says if that's not enough you go on through your day what are you GNA do you're GNA walk somewhere right at that moment at that moment you you should be in love with love with him just because I'm walking yeah why thank you a for not breaking my legs thank you thank you breaking my legs why would he break my legs why would my legs have to be broken says do you know how many people break their legs every single day and that didn't happen to you I have another story for you guys a few years ago more than a few years ago maybe something like almost say uh 15 years ago a little less 14 years ago something like that I had a guy that I knew used to work for me he used to get high he used to go crazy once in a blue moon and do stupid things one day he gets high and uh long and behold somebody knocks on the door maybe he was making noise maybe not not really sure exactly what happened it wasn't there but what I do know is that when someone was knocking on the door when he was high he felt like oh it must be the police they're here to kill me everything got in his head what did he do open the window jumped out jumped out from the seventh floor the only thing that he was fortunate enough is that there was a balcony on the fifth floor so he dropped two floors you think oh what's the big deal of dropping two floors a lot why you drop two floors you land on your legs P his shin was literally crumbled to nothing when I went to visit him in the in the hospital first of all he looked like death second of all they showed me an X-ray of his leg he had more metal in his leg than a tank has they had to replace the whole thing and he suffered for years for something that took two minutes people break bones all the time says you want to love AEM you don't have to go so far thank that today you have legs and they didn't break they didn't break this is small little expressions of loving Hashem small little Expressions because what do we usually do we usually look to love AEM for good things that he does for us such as he gave you money he gave you a job he gave you a new wife a new husband a new child he gave you something and what ends up happening is that we forget that the gift the gift of no suffering is greater than any gift you can possibly get when a person suffers he's willing to give everything he has he's willing to give his house he's willing to give his car he's willing to give everything he has just to stop suffering trust me I know it from experience when a person is suffering he willing to give everything yet the rest of us walk around complaining to AEM oh how come you didn't give me a job oh how come you didn't give me more money oh how come I'm still single or how come this and how come that how come you don't say thank you for giving me legs that are not broken thank you for giving me ears that still work and the eard drum didn't pop out for no reason thank thank you for giving me teeth that are still there thank you for giving me eyes that I could actually see thank you for give me a voice that people can hear thank you for allowing this heart to pump just by itself without being connected to electricity thank you for making sure that all of the veins that you can't even see with the naked eye in my brain continue to function and there's no clot of blood for a little second why cuz had there been a clot of blood just a little bit of blood just decide you know what I'm not going to work today I'm going to stay over here guess what that brain stops functioning that person most likely is going to die thank you for telling all that blood to continue going thank you that even when there's an infection sometimes I don't even know about it why because the white blood cells that you already put in my body already took care of that problem for me thank you forgive me fingers that actually work that I could do work with since the time of Noah why because the previous generation didn't have fingers they had this what they had they had hands like ducks made it much more difficult I wouldn't be able to type on Facebook how much I love Rabbi ruven thank you for allowing me to have a brain that functions and can hear the emit thank you for allowing me to live and breathe because I remember that one time I was underwater when my friend drowned me like a joke I felt like I was going to die thank you for giving me all of that breath that I have for free without charging me even a toll thank you for allowing me to reproduce because there are so many people dying to have kids but they can't thank you for allowing all of the good things that you allow me to eat to literally go through my system taste delicious and anything that's not good for me exits my body by itself thank you for allowing me to have special little hairs call the eyebrows protect my eyes from having water even coming from my own sweat go into my eyes and disturb my vision thank you for having these little hairs in my nose protect me from all types of different things that I don't want in there thank you for allowing me to have so many amazing things inside my body that I don't even know they exist thank you for allowing me to have a soul that could actually experience pleasure thank you for giving me the Torah to give me the instructions for everything I just learned you see all of these things are free Pleasures free Pleasures when you count all of the free pleasures and what I mention is not 1% of 1% of 1% of the free Pleasures that who gives each and every single one of us every single day when you calculate just the fle pre pleasures and presents that gives you every single day not only do you fall in love with thank you if I could see I give you a kiss not only that but on top of it you start looking at yourself how dare I complain to him because I feel pain how dare I feel anything against AEM because something is not working according to my plan how dare I do anything that's against him he gave me so much what am I the most ungrateful piece of in the world no way it's not possible I'm not gonna be that guy I love hem you see you don't need to give you a lot in order to love a you just need to be able to appreciate the free gifts he gave you but unfortunately we don't see it always that way why we're too busy looking at his life we're too busy looking at am Malik's life looking at him on his boat looking at him on his Ferrari looking at him celebrating life and pretending to be happy a month or two before he commits suicide we look at that instead of looking at ourselves instead of looking at our Torah that's the problem you see all of this has always been around all of the sins all all of the possibilities all of the ungratefulness has always been around but the thing that constantly brought us back to gratefulness to hem was always the Torah but what happened over 200 years ago changed everything why because we had our own people say you know what maybe you don't need the Torah you know what maybe you don't even need the land you know what maybe you don't even need God you could rely on professors you could admire Einstein you could admire all typ of people that are sophisticated and Jewish but they're not religious see when we think the Judaism is a culture or a tradition and not a connection to the shepherd not a connection to the Creator not a connection to the one who loves us more than anyone else could even imagine when we don't understand that we're simply self-destructing but we don't even realize we're doing that why because we're doing it in such a way that it doesn't even look like it's self-destructive we're saying look I like Jewish people I like Einstein I like Jewish people I like Seinfeld I like Jewish people I like such and such person that's a successful Jewish person I connect to Jewish people I even go to Third Avenue Delhi and eat the food over there sometimes kosher sometimes not Kosher but I like to eat hot dogs and I like to eat CH I like to eat that I like the culture yeah what about Shabbat no Shabbat is not for me what about tat no I don't have time for Tat yeah but that's what makes you Jewish maybe that's what makes you Jewish they say but for me I'm Jewish enough you see when we remove the Tor we're simply self-destructing but we don't even realize it now something fantastic that I saw in was one of the one of the ad in the previous generation he was in America and he was an is something special inph called he says one of the things that we learn in kanuka is that you light the candles but to specifically tells you theim specifically tell you you light the candles but you're not allowed to use them for anything else now surely looking at the candles is not using them but how can we understand this Mitzvah he says the following let's compare it to a different let's compare it to if you see a if you see a you see a great Rabbi shows up someone that's a known someone that's a known walks into and you see him you have to make a blessing what's the blessing blessed is he who has shared his knowledge with those who fear Him that's the blessing that's the blessing you see a to make blessing blessed isem why he gave us people that he shared his knowledge with them shared knowledge with them why he share his knowledge because they fear Him you have to make a blessing now what about if you see a scholar among the Nations a little asav a little is that just I don't know build a rocket ship that can go back and forth to space also have to make a blessing yes you have to make a blessing what's the blessing blessed is he who has given his wisdom to Flesh and Blood this is all from page 58a so you see there's a little bit of a difference and one end it says for for Jewish you have to make a bless in that hasem shared his knowledge with flesh and blood with with I'm sorry with with those that fear him but if you see a non-jew that is smart I don't know like the guy from Tesla the guy from Amazon all of these smart people you want to make a blessing you see them make a blessing what's the blessing blessing is blessed is he who is given not shared GI given the wisdom to Flesh and Blood okay now here we see it's very nice Torah appreciates everybody the Jews the non-jews but that's not the lesson here R says R says here that's not the lesson why the is teaching us something even more significant first and foremost thear is saying that you only make a blessing if someone is a Torah scholar if he's Jewish not if he's not Jewish if that even exists not if he's not Jewish why says if the uh someone that's a uh if the say they have wisdom of the of regular things you can believe them they say they have wisdom of T don't believe them why not possible yeah but he read a lot of books and he read the tanak and he knows it by heart good for him still is not considered why that's a gift that gives to those who fear Him it's a gift it's not something that's learned it's a gift so here the says if a non-jew comes to you and says I'm I know the entire T by heart I even read the sh even though I'm not allowed to no blessing whatsoever okay fine so I'm not going to get a blessing ASAP says but whatever about if there's a Einstein a Jewish wise person but in the Sciences a philosopher someone that has written many books a Shakespeare if you will what if he comes along do I make a blessing because he's so wise in his secular subjects says no Hut says that's the biggest lesson out of the whole thing that's the biggest lesson out of the whole thing if a Jew is smart in anything else other than T no blessing he could be Einstein and Einstein's father no blessing why why now he goes into length explaining who what when and where but because of the for the sake of time and I give you simply the answer see for us Jewish people we don't just bless things because they exist we bless them if they're fulfilling their purpose for example if you have something that smells good something that smells good if that's the purpose if it's let's say an incense of some kind they use for aah then you make a blessing but if you're simply walking around you smell something and that's not necessarily its purpose to smell good it has a higher purpose you don't make any blessing whatsoever explains says you see although the Jew acquired wisdom in mathematics in science and philosophy and whatever it is he may be even leading a major company like Google and and and and and so on no blessing whatsoever why he may have a benefit like this thing has a good smell but that's not its purpose that's not the Jew's purpose to acquire the wisdom of the Sciences that's a byproduct that's just something that happens as a result but it's not the main purpose you see when we are glued to the Torah when we're glued to a understand that there are certain things that we'll get and We'll Inherit and we'll have and we'll benefit from but that's not the purpose the purpose for us in this world is to serve AEM says to us here that there came a time that we lost this connection why we followed bad Shepherds we followed false Shepherds false prophets which caused us to get to a point where we started feeling alone we forgot the way and he finishes this particular section says no no Comfort no hope and they don't even see any other way other than losing themselves they literally become lost completely self-hating Jews people that are religious without a purpose they don't even know why they do it they just put it on their head just because they just say it because just because and so on and he's not just talking about secular people here he's talking about all of us that are living a life purposelessly no point to why we pray no point to why we read no point to our holidays no point to everything we just simply become empty why did that happened because you followed a bad leader sometimes that bad leader is a PO ician sometimes that bad leader is a rabbi sometimes that bad leader is Satan himself either way it's a bad leader it's not a k and now to save ourselves to save ourselves the pain of secularism of heresy of of of the anguish of being in a situation we feel alone we don't feel like AEM is in our life a person has only only one option become what does it mean you have to start putting a stral on you have to long no means you have to glue yourself to chase in his Chase Chase the servitude of constantly look for more constantly look for more constantly look for more purpose in life Through The Eyes of the Torah not Through The Eyes of people why because when you do that you're going to put yourself in a situation where the world around you will change in accordance to the blessings that Hashem gives you rather than you having to change in accordance to the blessing that you're chasing one of the that we had about 450 years ago was hello was also known as he was not only very very short but he was a hunchback in both sides in so many words wasn't exactly a very good-looking man but yet who did he marry who did he marry the richest man in the city had only one daughter only one daughter surely he loved her who did he do with that he gave it to today somebody is not the same color as you not the same tradition as you not the same upbringing as you not the same Reby as you not the same eyes as you ears as you already no no no no no shake it shake it it's not for us not for what do you mean he a Jew she's a Jew no no no no no no it's not for us no they're B they B who what AC oh no the B no no people have no idea what they're looking for why they're judging the book not even by the cover by the review by the review of the review of the review of a different book that sounds similar that's what they do today to Y married a beautiful woman that was the daughter of the richest man in the land why he says look what is she marrying his body this is a living seph Tora that's all she's going to need in her life he's a living walking seph what else can you possibly want what else do you need what else leaves this world what do you think the The Hunchback goes to heaven that's just a body it's a piece of meat A shab that's it it goes in the garbage that is SE that's all you care about when we're glued to the T it becomes an easy decision when we're not GL to the Tora when we're Glu to the yet instead we're glued to the evil inclination we're glued to materialism we're glued to superficial stuff we're glued to politics we're Glu to the news we glue to the stock market we glue to all these other things it's impossible for you to ever make such a decision better yet it becomes impossible for you to even marry somebody for the right reason it becomes impossible for you to do business with somebody for the right reason it becomes impossible for you to have a relationship of any kind for the right reason why you don't know anything you just know things you feel you need there's no purpose that's the reason of why the suicide rate of people that are secular of people that are not Jewish is Worlds worlds apart from people that are Jewish and religious world's apart there is no comparison you can multiply the factor by a thousand and still not arrive at it why when you're connected to a you have all the reasons in the world to live when you're not connected to your whole life is purposeless you're just looking for it to end and since you don't want pain you figure okay let me just try to have as much fun while I'm here you see we have a a gift a gift from a gift from of the T but you're not going to be able to connect to the Torah without making sacrifices now as I said before for the guys around and the girls to make a sacrifice we have to find ways to appreciate AEM in every step one of the unique things that a woman can do in order to love hem is by listening to the instructions of the sages and understand that these instructions are not only warning they're also instructions of how to connect to a on a deeper level was an ises to say the least and the babaali said he was one of the 36 he was one of the 36 during the time of his life says that the world exists because of 36 during his life he was one of them Babas says and he writes the following it's hard for me to write at length about the terrible stumbling block of wearing short garments garments of Sodom unfortunately even among the observant Jews this stumbling block is common therefore before we begin to take Serious steps steps that I do not wish to take I have come to warn with severe warning that whoever calls himself a Jew must not wear such clothing and whoever does not whoever does wear these short garments meaning short sleeves short skirt short pants anything that shows your arms and legs anyone who does wear these short garments is separated and ostra from authentic religious Judaism who conduct thems in the ways of T and may protect us and send us blessing and success in all things one of the previous writes a heartfelt letter to all of he says I'm not just talking about the secular women that are dressing like Michelle Obama imim we're not talking about just the secular people no no no we're talking about even the religious Among Us people that call themselves religious all of a sudden have become even in this day we're talking about 80 years ago 100 years ago talking about a long time ago even in this day says look at this look at this people have become modern the girls are walking around with short sleeves the girls are walking around with short skirts he says you should know so as long as you walk around with short sleeves and short skirts you are not connected to is no but I feel Jewish you can feel all you want you can feel all you want am is connected to AEM how by following his to following his toah many ladies may be very nice may be very generous maybe very very very whatever you want to vary if you are not walking around modest you're not connected to you're not connected to am why because that's connected to AEM doesn't go against AEM doesn't go against the but what if a modern Orthodox she asks to answer that question we have to go to someone with Broad shoulders enough broadness that it could literally speak for the generation none other than again ra vido Miller in a tape 136 says the following some people many people find all their happiness in the company of other people like some reform rabbis and conservative rabbis and I'm afraid modern Orthodox rabbis too they tell their congregation when they come together they say it's togetherness that counts that's the word they like is togetherness so they're sitting together the ladies and the men which obviously is not allowed they're munching together the eating which is obviously you're not allow it's not appropriate you want to eat with your wife that's fine but for men and women to eat together in a uh synagogue and things of that nature not appropriate but the togetherness of modern Orthodox and reform and conservative which since he puts them all on the same P he says no no mitvah that's togetherness that's loving each other there's a church supper a synagogue supper they're enjoying themselves let's say in community aural community and they're all together and the rabbi speaks to them it's togetherness that counts but they're forgetting that you have to be together with that's what counts and the fact that they're leaning one on each on each other so it it means a time will come that they will all burn together they'll be together in to and it won't help it's not going to help there's no friend that will be able to help and put out the fire because when the time comes a man goes before the Judgment of aad all alone the is no togetherness you see when a person wants to be a part of he has to remember rule number One's number one rule number two don't forget rule number one this is the rule gave us rules and he also instilled power into the sages to give us an interpretation of different rules and even at times add rules in order to protect us from ourselves but instead of following what SES say sometimes we follow our feelings because our feelings tell us we should be together because the local kabad or the local church or the local reform or the local modern Orthodox or whatever it is they're telling us that togetherness is what counts and togetherness even though half the people don't even keep Shabbat the other half don't even know how to keep Shabbat and and whoever else has come and doesn't know what it is you see that's not togetherness togetherness only is valuable if it's togetherness with hem because when we're together with hem we have results here are some of the results you see there was a uh researcher by the name of Anthony Gordon along with Richard harowitz called will your grandchild be Jewish in their research they did a 4generation research of the effects of in marriage as well as the effects of your practice of how you practice your Judaism what did they what did they uh analyze they analyzed four generations of secular Jews four generations of people that were reformed four generations of conservative four generations of Centrist Orthodox which is similar to like modern Orthodox or a little bit more perhaps and last but not least four generations of Orthodox like cish or people that are all the way 100% no exceptions Yesa Orthodox they call it also what do we have after four generations they started with a 100 Jews in each basket five different basket 100 secular 100 reform 100 conservative 100 Centrist Orthodox and 100 what kind of results will we have for Generations now of course any civilization that has an interest in continuing to exist must understand that after four generations the number 100 must be you have to have more than 100 has to grow why if you're not growing after four generations there's a very serious problem you're on your way to Dinosaur Land you're on the way to Extinction so but even that it's not just any growth you have to grow at a certain ratio for example they did some research some years ago and they discovered that if an average family an average country that does not have a average family have at least 2.6 children per family that Civilization that country is on its way to Extinction on its way to Extinction if all you have is one kid and a dog or two dogs and a kid or two kids and a dog something like that that country is on its way out why you have to have 2.6 kids per family now what happens if your heart tells you listen I'm secular maybe I'm going to have kids Maybe not maybe I'm stay single maybe I'm not maybe this maybe that maybe I'll have kids with a bunch of girls maybe I have kids with a bunch of guy well just do whatever I want secular I'm a free bird I'm a d i do whatever I want okay let's see what happens after four generations what if somebody says you know what God he's he's pretty cool I like him he's but I don't believe that he wrote the Torah and I don't believe that there's an oral Torah and I don't really believe that the written Torah is from God either I just believe that there is a Creator sometimes that's called reform conservative says no no we're not just as bad as the reform we are you know we believe that God created the world but we don't necessarily agree with the written toah 100% nor the oral tah at all so much so head Rabbi in Jerusalem and conservative openly homosexual okay that's third basket Centrist or Orthodox you could say modern Orthodox give or take sometimes religious good sometimes the rabbi and his wife are walking around with a skirt you know it's you never really know what you're going to get sometimes sometimes half the other half is driving on Shabbat to you're not really sure okay what are we going to have lastly you have some of them some of them are struggling to make ends meat but nonetheless they're all observing the to full force surely you have mistakes surely you have issues surely you have a few that go astray but nonetheless the community as a whole Go full force with AEM yeah but there's a holocaust full force with hem yeah but there's tough times full force with hem yeah but there's Corona full force with hasem good bad no problem full force what do you have according to science scientific research what do you have with the four generations the ones that follow theem 100% the 100 people grew to 3,398 extraordinary growth into marriage of 0% and the average number of children per woman 6.45 Centrist Orthodox 100 grew to 337 10% % of what the have every normal civilization only wants to grow so when you're fellow Jew grew 10 times more than you after four generations it's not exactly ideal you see oh what's going on we want to grow just as much 10 times more that's a huge difference why inter marriage although was relatively low at only 2% at the time but because of their modernizing mentality they had less kids how many kids 2.96 kids still growing still good but half the kids that half the kids after four generations makes 10 times the difference what about a conservative 100 people after four generations left with tragic 50% decline or 48% decline to be exact after four generations instead of growing to be several thousand or at the very least several hundred they dropped by nearly a half why into marriage 24% which again is not even that high all of will have only 24% right now we have over 80% into marriage across Judaism in America there's some place over 90% even in is there's a 12% into marriage in Europe there's over 70% 24% is not even that bad yet 24% into marriage and a modern type of mentality that allows him only to feel okay with 1.82 kids after four generations as I said once it's less than 2.6 the civilization starts going bye-bye into marriage alongside modernizing 52 people left which means they are one gener eration away from being zero reform people are asking how come there's less people going to reform it's not because it's not interesting it's not because people want to become more religious it's simply they are going in the way of the dinosaurs 100 people want to believe that homosexuality is a mitvah want to believe that you could be a Jew and a at the same time want to believe whatever they want to believe after four generations 100 form left with 13 13 an 87% decline why mentality that buildings are more important than children money is more important than God means that they only can have 1.73 kids and more interestingly since you can marry gim among the reform 79% intermarriage which means that the 21% the 21% said that actually married Jews was not even intentional it just simply happened that he happened and happened and happened hasm had mercy to leave some of them but still they are literally less than a generation away from being extinct like the people of the Maul so you would say Okay conservative I can understand why they're going down reform I can understand why they're going down what about secular I mean there's a bunch of secular people they still go to you know once or twice a year like I used to still keep here and there sometimes maybe sometimes yet keep kosher in the house but not so much outside you know what's left of them surprisingly the worst numbers are with the secular 100 people after four generations all that was left was four people four people that's it a 96% decline virtually complete Annihilation with 85% intermarriage worse than reform and only 1.45 kids why they're too busy making money too busy building buildings too busy selling T-shirts too busy selling diamonds not busy serving a and therefore destroys everything that does not serve a purpose you see it's no longer are you reform are you conservative are you secular are you relig no no it's no longer that the question is are you interested in surviving are you interested in having grandkids that can say you are their grandparent that's the question if you are the only way legitimately is to become part of the to become part of the to become part of the people that are glued to hasem why that's the only way you have an assurance in this world and the next next everything else is questionable because even the ones even the ones that were religious Orthodox the inter marriage rate is no longer 2% the inter marriage rate unfortunately is much higher is much higher right now we're in a situation where inter marriage is so high that we don't necessarily need we don't necessarily need the Messiah to distinguish between the Wicked and the righteous why simply eliminating them they're eliminating themselves with their own hands now surely along the way they're going to cause a lot of problems a lot of headaches and that's obviously part of the message of the last generation but the biggest thing that we have to understand is that we've had some difficult times in the past we've had difficult times in recent history as a who says to inik this week's that when the Salvation came to that when a Salvation arrived for YF to come out of the prison they hurried him out of the hole they hurried him out of the of the um jail why he was not going to suffer one extra minute that 12 years he was there that was the test that's it it ends at that moment and we'll finish off with this there is a where says in Psalm one verse number six knows the way of the and The Way of the Wicked will be lost will be destroyed debate okay surely knows the way of the he's the one that in essence gave it to them and the their way is going to be destroyed but what is what's the purpose of this verse so one of theim that lived through the Holocaust and survived to tell the story and not only tell the story but speak about his own Survival as well as many other jews' survival and write inside the Holocaust shalom in his respons he writes the following as commentary to this verse in6 he says the following I saw in the Holocaust that all Jews that were glued with survived and thrived as a result of it they were glued to him with to before the Holocaust they were Glu with and during the Holocaust during the tragedies during the death during the the murders during the horrible worst possible thing you could imagine during G in this world they had they not only survived says but they Thrive they thrived they became even Holier they got the higher levels they got closer to hasem as a result a lot of people think that a lot of people became not religious because of the Holocaust opposite the ones that were already glued to hem got even more religious got even closer to hasem one person comes to misel he says no no I'm not religious anymore why you not religious I'm not religious look what happened it's a murders the rape this what the Nazis did wait so hold on a second so your Rabbi is Hitler then huh goes no no why why you say my Rabbi is Hitler because because you say all you're mentioning is the murder and the rape and the this and all the horrible things in the world and therefore you don't want to serve God so all the only person who does such things is Hitler and he also does doesn't follow God so that's your Rabbi then huh that's what you're going to follow anyone that had that was that was with says they not only survived they thrived they thrived but those who without were eliminated were eliminated he says I don't know who had and what happened here and there but surely who the were that's what the verse means it's not just that the will be disappear says hem knows who the real sikim are what their way is not just the way they walk to sh and just the way they look and how long their is and how big their is and how much they don't no knows what's in their heart he knows the he knows who has real in him he knows and those are the ones that He blesses those are the ones that he protects those are the ones that thrived despite the difficulty that's what the is saying to us that saw the Holocaust says that's what that's what is saying to us who theik knows who theik he knows their way not just what you and I see he sees what's inside their heart you see it's going to come a time where each and every single one of us will have different obstacles different tests those tests that is giving us our gifts from sh to test us and prepare us for even bigger test for even bigger missions because is trying to throw us in the water and make us into despite our will despite our desire why he wants us to survive he wants us to thrive so sometimes they'll have to give us test in order to exercise our exercise our if we're glued to in his Tora we'll survive and we'll Thrive if we don't Shalom we already saw what the numbers look like those people that were half religious relig sometimes during the holidays maybe yes maybe no were even in worse situation the people that were partially religious the secular people the Lefty the liberal the reformed the conservative all of those people literally are on the way to Extinction whereas the people that were the people that were glued to hem are the only reason why there are Jews in the world today please do yourself a favor get closer to Hashem and start with something simple thank him for all all the things that are not happening to you and forget about all the things that you want why by the time you finish thanking him for all the things that are not happening to you that could be bad trust me when I tell you you're not going to want anything else anyway amen amen [Music] in [Music] w [Music]