Transliteration, MONEY, Noah's Flood, BE YOU, Fake Convert, BEGINNER & UNDERDOG-STUMP THE RABBI (62)

[Music] is all of the new faces old faces we're back to our stump the rabbi Wednesday night in aventur Florida you guys will have some questions and will give us the answers we canar together uh tonight's sh will be for a foran David benis B raim benam raan anat ysep Ben ba roel Stefan Ben Karina Ben arah Talia Batar M Saha B Sarah Orit bana uh Jonas Ben Sherry Haley dor B Mercedes Esther Bora Shon Abraham Adel Shon and also for a for Ben Abraham sha Ben faran benis gab benis elad benis Mara B Julie Isa B Mara and uh Goldenberg and all of the uh donors supporters and even uh people that simply watch and learn with us bless you a thousandfold so we have lots of interesting things we learned a little bit today and uh lots of interesting things to talk about this week's par has an interesting stuff uh but I'm sure you guys also have some questions last week we got a combination of both we changed it up a little bit where we started with the questions and then we did some other stuff uh as a uh just a uh news announcement brief news announcement uh of of some updates anyone that uh uh follows us closely signed up to our website B a.org got a uh email today with some announcements which we usually do bash each week and today was another sepher a count published by ra our own dear ra another count it's a this SE relatively you know it's called cont because it's short but um it's about 40 pages or so and uh this whole book is is about the Mitzvah of rebuking people and whether it really is still an obligation for us to do in this generation and how can we understand the uh kazal that's have spoken about uh you know is there anybody really that's uh can rebuke in this generation because a lot of the people that are anti- rebuke and they want to tell the whole world that they're even if they're they'll tell you no listen there is a that says that you know you shouldn't rebuke because this SE destroys that argument simply by teaching how to read how to reach Pim how to understand it because I've told you guys many times anyone that says that you're not allowed to rebuke or you don't rebuke in in today's world unfortunately is considered a because that's one of the 13 one of the 13 principles of faith is that the Torah that we got at Mount Si will never change which which means that that Mitzvah that we have of rebuking was given to us 3,332 years ago it's still an obligation today now is that mean that everybody should rebuke anybody no and you know obviously you have to know who what when and how but the point being is that this is a very very sophisticated SE it's a uh uh highly anyone that speaks Hebrew highly recommended over time we'll also have it translated to English you know English transl ations are a lot more difficult than people would think uh simply because spes is not like uh translating a regular book Harry Potter from uh English to Hebrew which unfortunately was recently done uh you know it's a if you're going to translate you also have to be a little bit of a uh in order to know what is really being said here because you can use the translation but mistranslate it meaning you could translate the right word the right place but in the wrong place the the right way but in the wrong place you have to know a little bit it's a little difficult and also most importantly it has to be fluid has to be fluid so sometime you know we get some of our stuff translated but then uh it falls on uh on me many times uh to uh to edit everything because the way you uh write is not the way you speak the way you speak is not the way you write so sometimes it's a uh you know you you got it translated you get the job done overall it's good but to do the last batch of work takes sometimes just as long either way this is out if you could speak Hebrew and you understand it it also has Nik so you know uh which makes it even easier to read for some people um or anybody really so this was out today you can download it on our website bash.org on the ebook section there's this SE and all of the other by RIM uh and as well as some other that we have there so that's one number two I brought I brought you guys a little present that uh I um got from one of my dear students who is a uh uh somebody that is overcoming obstacles and test Like A Champion uh you know where uh you know he had a uh uh I generally don't recommend businesses I can tell you that I don't like to recommend businesses and uh for different reasons you know people say one thing they do another I've had business dealings with countless people in my life and uh I generally try not to recommend businesses simply because it's very difficult to vouch for somebody business-wise you know cuz he can tell you listen yeah I sell air conditioners and he sold it to you and he said oh can you like my page and can you recommend me he's like okay yeah so you recommend him and then 85 people come out hey yeah the guy says he sells air conditioners he's only lawn mower you know I paid for an air condition of I goty a lawn mower instead you oh what am I going to do so now I have to go call the guy and ask him to go give them the money back who needs this headache but because the moan the uh the one that you know the person that I deal with is very dear to me uh but also because it has to do witha and number three most important it has to do with uh really almost everybody in the uh in the english- speaking world today uh has a very difficult time when it comes to learning praying and so on simply because of the language many times people do not know how to read Hebrew uh they don't know how to pronunciate the right words uh and uh and even if they know how to pronunciate them they don't know what it actually says what it means you can read the words make the sounds but a monkey makes sounds also you both of you don't understand so what they've done here is uh they have a store where they sell regulares you know many other things at very good prices but aside from that the part that I think is most relevant is that uh they are the uh probably uh utmost experts utmost experts in transliteration and transliteration of different things mainly and uh uh all the different things that you need for prayer they have many many things they've done and uh not only have they transliterated it which means that they you know you have the Hebrew you have the English translation so you understand what you're actually saying but then you have the transliteration which is using the he the English alphabet to make the sounds of the Hebrew so now you not only know how to say it even if you don't know what an alif or a bet is now you know how to say that this Al and bet but on top of it you could also know what to say but what they've done differently than anything that I've ever seen is that that they uh really really invested an enormous amount of time developing this skill set to actually do a transliteration with the correct pronunciations many time you see transliterations but you know if your if your native Hebrew speaker is like that's not how you say it what are you saying what are you that's not how you say it oh I don't that's what my book says yeah it's good you get the point what he's saying but it's not the way you say it they've done a fantastic job and I've gotten several uh things from them to see their work over the last several months and today I got you guys a present uh a copy of the S of the sh sh is coming up uh so there's the the k for all the different things that you do for the Tam the different uh the K is not the same thing as you do for for Shabbat there's other things so they actually have um uh where you have the translation the transliteration tells you all the B tells you what to do before what to do after really really fantastic job uh anyone that wants to uh purchase this or or their other many many other works that they have you go to Ben Israel books.com Ben Israel books.com or perhaps if you want to deal directly with my uh my dear friend my dear talmid David yag you could just uh send me a text message give you his phone number and you could deal with him directly um and really really fantastic even being him and his B and his wife uh recently B had a kid so really really wonderful people he's not the founder of the organization but he's B uh doing amazing things there anyway the um they have this they have if you ever wanted to read T and actually not only understand what it says but pronunciate the words the right way every one of their books every one of their books has this a transliteration key in the beginning that tells you why they use this a and o and this and that and really wonderful things it's very different than anything I've ever seen very different I've seen other many other transliteration books wonderful wonderful work I brought some with me uh and I could give you to you guys uh after this I have it in the box right there okay so that's one so again again Ben Israel books.com uh they have really really good stuff regular also if you need to read you know all the other things they have a wonderful selection of books other thing is also I forgot to mention recently that uh since the amount of students that we have continues to grow from all over the world the amount of followers is in the tens of thousands I think combined is something like 60,000 people 60,000 th people that are following our sh avidly between all of the channels it's something I I wouldn't imagine in my wildest dreams uh you know you have 15,000 here but they're only YouTube people then you have another 30,000 over here and the Facebook and you have the WhatsApp groups I don't know every day there seems like there's another WhatsApp group and then there's Twitter and then there's this many many people and then there's tens of thousands of people on the email how do I know there's a lot of hours I can't sleep because the messages don't stop all hours of the day because they're all over the world so because of that we have to do more and more to try to help people not only with their uh you know their basic questions and uh guidance and things like that but even just simple things that you need uh for Judaism for day-to-day life like last week for example we talked about mot unfortunately I've heard too many horror stories too many horror stories about mot somebody would tell me listen can you check my mizza and okay I look at then I open it and I see a cross there's a cross and Yos his name's in there I said where did you buy this goes eBay I said okay you might as well buy it from a church same thing cuz the church made this Yos in there instead of H's name is or you have people that had some blind person write the m so you know it's it's writing a different par and what I showed you guys last week so from time to time we deal with M but like I told you guys we we deal with high quality M last week we uh placed a decent sized order from is to uh to order some more because a few people want uh we now have them uh on our website you know usually people would ask for they would just ask me personally but now you can actually buy them on the website directly it takes a little bit of time because again we're getting them from is but we're we're we just ordered a huge amount that hopefully uh we'll have a little bit of stock for a little while uh you know but depends maybe it'll go away in a week and we have to wor again but it takes time to write this stuff if it's good quality it takes time you want uh you want things that are overnight you know that's Amazon can't can't vouch for that one uh so uh anyway no no take the chair the other side thank you um I was doing it for myself not for you I knew you're going to do it but I have to do it for myself I have to fulfill the obligation uh so anyway um so that's one but then also once in a while we'll also deal with same thing I know I can't really give you the same type of example on because you have to open the and that's the whole process of itself and whole skill set of itself but unfortunately are even more problematic even more problematic I had a guy tell me listen can you give me somebody to check my I said okay how long do you have them he goes oh I have them for 10 years said you never checked them in 10 years go no I never checked I don't know I okay let's check all right send them to such and such person sadik over there cies and okay s okay you could even watch if you want if he has time to show it to you okay they sit there they open it guess what empty empty nothing there's nothing inside the Jack in a box 10 years laying zero nothing nothing inside nothing inside what is he putting on he's putting just plastic on leather on I put a Le leather jacket on for 10 years why you bought it again somebody doesn't know told listen it's a good price ,000 only you know people think that just because you pray a lot of money that means it's good a lot of money doesn't mean it's good who wrote it do you know him no I don't know the guy do you know the guy that sold it to you well yeah he comes to my Sho once in a while turn enough you you have to know you have to make sure the people you're dealing with from beginning to end have so we deal with but go because there is a constant message that we see in the Torah where K is tells us very very important very important for us to love his MIT it's very important for us to love his MIT we see in next week's uh where says that the punishment came because we did not serve him with happiness not only didn't serve him that's already bad says he didn't there's an additional punishment for not serving him with happiness and there's many that you're going to hear or read about in many about that that's a very big reason of why the came the famine and all that other horrible stuff because we didn't not only didn't serve him we didn't serve him with happiness meaning even if you serve them but you're not happy about it it's not a good thing so how do we show do we happy about it many many different ways one of the things one of the things is that we make his mitv beautiful make is MIT beautiful make him different so for example one of the things that I learned is that you're supposed to have close only for Shabbat close only for Shabbat and yum only you're not using them the rest of the week so what are some people say okay so you know what I'll buy a $50 suit and I'll you know and then the $2,000 suit I wear it to the office but the $50 suit I wear for Shabbat why cuz I only wear once a week wrong $2,000 suit goes for Shabbat $50 goes to the office you could buy $2,000 for the rest of the office also but the point being is you have to have a special clothes for Shabbat special shoes just Shabbat special shirts just Shabbat special hat if you wear a hat just Shabbat why this is beautifying the Mitzvah sure I love you I love you I'm going to spend extra money just on this and said say and also that pays us already on he tells us what we're going to make but he pays us cash for the mitv meaning whatever money you spend on his mitv is not counted as part of the salary that decreed for you on so much so that says says to his kids you want to go spend money on Shabbat go borrow money and I'll pay you back borrow money for the sake of my Shabbat and I'll pay you back you grab a chair and sit over here anyway go borrow money if you have to why sanctify the Shabbat make the Shabbat beautiful make the Shabbat holy have a special suit have a special shoes have a special everything why shabbat Shabbat it's a big deal no you have to take the chair it's the women's section you got take the chair go to take the chair with you and just go you can sit next to the guys right yeah right see yeah here here whever you [Music] want says go borrow money and I'll pay you back why shabbat so Shabbat is a big deal we have to you know never ever be a cheap stake when it comes to shabbat don't look at Price oh this Kal is $3 this one is $5 I'm want to get that $3 wrong it's not a good way to look at things Shabbat big deal same thing with holidays a lot of holidays come up you have you have Yip you havek this the time it's the time this is what gives us money for he doesn't give you money so you can buy another fancy car he gives you money you get a fancy Suka you get your money you have a fancy K and so on and so forth and special things to be utilized for Shabbat but we also have the rest of the week what do we do we have different things what are the most common things that guys deal with every single many times guys they have a $10,000 watch but $500 it's much an embarrassment $10,000 watch $20,000 watch but Rabbi those $600 can you give it to me for500 said $600 that's for a beginner it's for a beginner if you're 13 years old yeah but you know makes $150,000 a year why you buying $600 F you 13 years old what are you doing oh no no oh you can't give me a discount then forget the discount why you buying $500 go go buy something like your watch you have $20,000 watch buy a nice tring people don't understand that if you could afford it you should buy it why buy something expensive why says this is my show me you love them so one of the things that we did recently to make the that we have not only the we just again placed another order in it will come soon takes a little time to to get them um unless they have to be ritten from scratch but one of the things we did is that all of the that uh we have already for the last few weeks so a couple of weeks that we doing it all of them come not only with the standard bite that you have the uh the the the black one the the packaging on theine Allin come with the black packaging on top the plastic that covers thein uh that comes with it already but we also got special covers now this in itself you have the silver and you have the gold now this is plastic no matter how you look at it it's plastic you have silver you like silver you get silver you like gold you like gold and you also have the just to remind you go to.com b.org app and everything but this plastic this is not holy it's not holy right now it's not holy you know what makes it holy when you use it for Mitzvah you put it on your because you want to show I love you I love you I want to make your beautiful so this I love it so much I got rims this is so nice I got AIC on Mondays and Thursdays I put the gold one on Tuesdays and and Wednesdays I put the uh the black one on Fridays I put what why I love you I love you bottom line This is a small tiny example of how to beautify mitvah so all of our that we get the ones from $900 and up they uh you know the ones not for kindergarten kids the the uh you know the uh they are for uh you know they're uh come with these now again I'm not mean to insult the the dup I only mean to insult the people that are cheap because sometimes people they're really really great people but they can't afford they can't afford those people if they're buying a because they simply can't afford anymore anymore not do it you're starting if you're just starting out you shouldn't buy two three $4,000 unless it's relative to you you you can do it but what happens is that sometimes people spend their money in the wrong places you spend their money in the wrong places their house million dollars you know the uh car $100,000 all of these other things they spend a lot of money on but when it comes to no so what are you going to do Fork oh I'm going to be at my friend's house what do you mean you're going to sleep at your friend's house for week no no I'm just going to go there for the K to eat what about Suka you going to build a Suka no no I'm just going to use his Suka why don't you get your own Suka what are you 14 years old get your own Suka ah it's expensive Rabbi went to thek website or to the guy he wanted $1,500 $2,000 that's cheap aush what do you mean $1,500 for something I use for only a week out of the year yeah it's nothing it's free if it's it's free it's nothing forv you know what you're going to get for no right why cuz he wants to save the money for vacation vacation is more important than vacation is more important than the people that are serious about they spend every single penny on it why that's what you have money for that's what you have money for but that's the problem sometimes people get the point sometimes they don't get the point we have to understand if we treat a like we don't want him there but we have to do what we got to do teach us like I don't really want you there but I got to do what I got to do cuz you're my son after all but if we're generous with we're generous with them we do what we need to do whether it's with whether it's with and so on and so forth says go even borrow money and I'll pay you for it and many many times people see open Miracles as a result of things like this so without further Ado you guys got the basic update uh who wants to start with questions good ah so there's a for the 17th because that was the day that the was was destroyed and for the T because those are the days when traged happen so why isn't there a fast day for the day when brought ah question is how come how come did not make a to uh to for the day memorize commemorating the destruction of the entire world well first and foremost the uh destruction of the whole world was not as tragic as the destruction of the bet mikdash for a few reasons number one it was before it was before chose us as his people it was before we got the tah uh and it was before became one with his Nation so although he loves all of his creation there is no comparison between hashem's love for his chosen people versus the love that he has for the rest of the Nations uh kazal even says that one of the things that uh will be difficult if you will can't really say difficult but for the to understand we use the word used the word difficult for hem at the end of days is going to be the fact that he has to destroy many of the go two-thirds of the world have to die and so on and so forth lots of really really bad problems why the idol worshippers they go against them and so on and so forth but even that will be difficult for him even that will be difficult for him why says that think of it as a parable where someone has someone has an ax and a horse and the uh the ax he's a little bit uh you know he's not as uh agile and uh quick as the horse and he's a little bit clumsy so one day the uh the ox Falls and you know injures himself he's in a uh can't work anymore so the B says okay you're uh you're on leave for a little while in the meanwhile he has his horse take his spot the horse Takes a spot of the horse of the of the ox now after a little while after a little while the AL is healthy again can I come home can I come home no so the B says yeah technically that was your spot but already for the last three four five six seven 100 years 2,000 years this horse has been here and uh he's filling up the spot it's like it's like his it's not really his it's yours it was always yours and since you are on leave but he got comfortable here he did some decent things here some bad stuff but you know he's here so it kind of pains me to get him out says that's who's attitude even towards the people that are not exactly uh servers of hem Idol worshippers why because says they're still my creation I don't want to destroy them I want them to do CH but if they don't I have to why there's a consequence it's a consequence it's a consequence for an action you put your hand into fire you get burned it's not the fire hates you it's not cursing you out it's not sending you hate mail and emails and text mails and all it's not it's not spamming you just that you put your hand in the fire it's going to burn you that's the consequence says you worship idols consequences you get punished but it still hurts a why he's like I created him not to be a you know a hater of me and an enemy of me I created him to do something but he didn't he chose not to so now I have to remove them to make room for my a to make room for am it still pains me so there's a very big difference between the love who has for his chosen people versus the love that he has for even the righteous no Heights he loves them he loves everybody that is serving him and even the ones that don't serve him he obviously allows them to live in order for them to do chuva generally speaking he wants everyone to do chuva but there are certain times where who punishes a person and says I'm not going to let you do cha or sometimes it's bad but not as bad where he says I'm not going to let you do until I punish you first so and there's a that talks about maybe we'll talk about lately today point being is there's a big difference there's a very very big difference between righteous Noah hide Wicked Noah hide a out right Idol worshipper a idol worshipper that's a Jew a righteous Jew and so on and so forth so but before these things didn't exist why all we had was no heids that's all we had we didn't have am we have so the damage that was made by the generation of Noah did not create as much damage if you will in heaven because they didn't have the Torah they weren't obligated to do as many things and therefore there's no connection between us is and the generation of the flood we're not mourning their loss they're not a loss to us they they weren't part of us they weren't part of but the destruction of the bet mikdash the attack and so on those are our brothers those are our grandparents and so on and so forth therefore we mourn them so that's it now we learn sh each week to you know from the time that you could read until the time until a person leaves this world you're always obligated to read the weekly par twice with uh and the third time with commentary but it's important to know that Noah is a critical par for every person to know back and forth back and forth why because who showed us there he doesn't need us he doesn't need us clearly anyone that tells you needs you well how come he didn't need the entire world at the time of Noah why we're better than them how they were more skilled they were bigger they were smarter there were a lot of things so what are you talking about doesn't need us and that's why we read in the uh uh in of right before the amid of uh Shabbat of Friday night says hasem sat while the entire flood was happening meaning he let the world be destroyed why I don't need it if you're not going to serve it there's no point so we learn a lot from no we also learn that a sadik A sadik can make a mistake that can change his entire Destiny he can change his entire reputation in a second how by doing the opposite of what he was supposed to do one example Shalom said in a lecture one time he says look at Noah the Torah calls no aad righteous person Tam complete with hem meaning what whatever hem does I'm going to do it whatever he says I'm going to do and I'm okay with it no I don't understand so maybe when I understand I'll do it oh you know what I'm gonna do it but I'm not happy about it oh listen everybody else is why should I be that sadik none of that stuff Noah despite the fact that everyone's stealing from each other eating each other alive robbing you know the cash ADV vent business all that stuff but massive everything people are destroying each other in the streets no says listen what they do it's their problem I'm with no matter what my bu's happening he's in a he for how long for a year imagine says no did not even close his eyes for complete year now you can be a superhero and try to do an all night the next day even if you pull the old nighter you're like half why you didn't sleep the says you want to be superhero you want to stay up for three nights in a row they hit you and force you to go to sleep they hit you and force you to go to sleep why relax but no stayed awake for a year why you didn't want to stay awake just that the animals it was all of the animals this one eats breakfast at 6:00 in the morning this one eats eats at 8:30 this one has coffee with sugar this one only has tea this one wants orange juice this one wants gilter fish this one wants sardines everyone has meals at different times at 12:00 at 2 o'clock in the morning everybody he's in Australian time he's in a New York time he's in a CNN everybody's in different things Noah asked to feed them little by little here you go here you go here you go one time he was late with the lion the lion hit him and Noah suffered the entire year because of it agony for a year so imagine imagine what a sadik he was imagine there a in says you are sadik imagine [Applause] imagine I give up I retired guys I reti finished I'm finished I I achieved I achieved my life's goals there no there what are you talking about is there in theora says [Applause] that but then what do we see the says the Maul is named after Noah it's not called like in English it's called the flood it's not called the flood the but it's called what is that like like it's like saying the Holocaust and the Holocaust of Noah what I killed everybody what did I do I saved everybody I'm the reason why you guys are all alive why is it called after me meaning you Noah why why Noah first and foremost tells us because Noah did not rebuke the people he had to come back as a g says ASU had to come back in a g second no made a mistake what mistake did he make what's the whole point of everything I just said despite being a sadik despite being a tamim Noah made one mistake that a shows every first grader every year what after the is over what does no want peace of mind leave me alone I survived a year with all these animals a year with all these beasts a year with all the Barking a year with all the Peeping a year all the this cleaning up after every yeah let me have a drink let me have a little drink hey plant let me get some little bit of wine what's the problem k no says mistake why no why mistake for Noah if you have a drink for k no problem no gets drunk mistake why you are you were oh always complete with hasem never asking any questions never complaining never having anxiety never thinking oh I need a break I need a vacation you were always you always had your head straight the wine is the exact opposite of you why what does the wine do shake your mind up a little bit goes dancing a little bit looks over here looks over there sometimes at the same time sometimes at the same time it's not you Noah you're sadik you're sadik this is not you it's like somebody always says two all wonderful things all of a sudden says one of these cuss words aemo hey what happened now if you see a truck driver or somebody at the gas station or somebody at the store saying a few curses whatever it's like common language common language what a big deal but someone that has a pad he says something it shakes up the world why you're a it's not you it's not you to do it this is also why gets upset really really upset at but Isel you know why because he loves but is he loves that's his daughters and he says my dear daughter look look at your grandmother s menu s menu was so beautiful so beautiful her skin was shining to such an extent that the most beautiful gar says this most beautiful woman in the world that you could ever imagine looks like a monkey with hair on its face next to s menu next to s menu and Abraham did not even know how beautiful she was he didn't even know how beautiful she was until one time he saw her Shin one time they married already for 100 years but he just say oh wow you're beautiful thank you thank you for noticing 100 years later if I was say what's the matter with you you're missing out where are you going to marry me if you're not even going to look at me sah was so Beau for even didn't see mother she covers herself she because that's what is does that's your grandmother so says how can you be the opposite of your grandmother how can you be I have a p in this week's you you read every day you go to onat you hear what the rabes you uh get the the girls together to do everything great right you want to be but what do you do you have a week longer than the Exile your sleeves just went on vacation your dress is not even a dress in a previous generation it was considered underwear why you want to be cute like the say it's not you it's not you my daughter look all you do you do and you do K and you do the candles you but you forgot this P this P says will not see a shameful thing among you and turn away from behind you meaning the moment that you look IM you don't cover your hair you don't cover your body my dear daughter I simply cannot even be next to you tells his own daughter my dear daughter I love you I created you and I want to see you in ganeden but I cannot even stand next to you or even accept your prayers or even allow your husband you allow your husband to pray next to you when you're so IM modest like you are why can't be there IM modesty I run away from I put my back to it say I don't want to see it why it's my daughter dressing like uh sh ismo it's not you it's not you you're not acting like you Noah was not acting like him why no is what's to you and wine what are you doing walking around it's not you it simply doesn't belong and this is what we do mourn every day when our brothers and sisters don't act like they are and unfortunately there are many that are so far away that they become self-hating Jews self-hating Jews Jews that are anti-semitic Jews that are anti- Torah why they're acting not like themselves because they don't even know what they're supposed to act like no one apparently ever taught them or no one taught them the right way or they simply are so addicted to their sins that they forgot what a mitvah even looks like so that is what we do mourn because this is our brothers that perhaps are still living now are still Among Us now and our whole goal is to get them closer next question good question conver judis not conserv real conversion no and U he decides to once he's converted once he's a Jew he decides he wants to go back to his old way does he does he or his conversion or or he gets punished as a Jew ah very good question so if a if a GOI converts to Judaism a real authentic conversion and then after a certain amount of time he decides to go back to his idol worship does his conversion get cancelled the answer is no his conversion does not get cancels if at the time of his conversion he had legitimate intentions or she had legitimate intentions to keep Shabbat to keep to keep the laws of the Torah all the things that she knows all the things that they're going to supposed to learn they had the intentions to keep them that conversion is final that conversion is final it's only not final if it's a child that's below 13 for a boy and 12 for a girl if you convert a child that's let's say 5 6 7 years old then that child has to go back to the bed when they Bar Mitzvah or B Mitzvah age and the bed will ask him if they want to remain a Jew because that uh conversion was in essence a uh temp or something that's subjective to the follow-up meeting uh that will happen a later time when they become an adult a 13 for a boy and 12 for a girl and can choose for themselves if the boy or girl says no that's it they become a go instantly and if they they want to go back no no I didn't mean to oh you have to do conversion you have to do conversion like an adult so that's why the parents have to be very very serious about educating that kid T to get them to a point where they love the Torah by the time they get to and they they don't even see themselves as anything but a Jew it's not a question for them do I want to be a Jew and I want to be a Jew unfortunately this happens sometimes where kids are not educated the right way or they're brought up in a house where uh the parents are you know a little bit of religious Nazis where uh everything is a uh with the whip you know no stories no songs no fun everything is oh what you ate without okay he's eight years old he's 8 years old relax teach him no what happens parents do two stricks cause the kids to hate Judaism and it really has nothing to do with Judaism has to do with the parents they hate the parents but they express it by their hatred of Judaism and it's happens unfortunately now if a person is an adult and they convert it to Judaism and they decided to go back to their idolatry they are at that point considered a Jew that is sinning a Jew that is sinning and if they do not do chuva they will get themselves a very very warm and not so pleasant gift that's called Gom perhaps even kafak will be in the mix too and unfortunately it's not not a good idea and actually there people like that are really stupid why because had you stayed a you would actually have a chance of being at heaven with some of the things that you're doing not with idolatry idolatry anyone that's an idol worshipper Jew or Gentile everybody they go to Gom doesn't matter what you are but if let's say for example the person just decided that you know what I don't want to be religious anymore I want to drive on Shabbat now if you're a go you can drive on Shabbat you can fly on Shabbat You Can Dance on shabat you can do whatever you want on Shabbat it's not it's not not for you you don't have to keep anything but if you are now a Jew and you're violating Shabbat you have a very serious problem with why violating Shabbat says like denying AEM it's like denying exists it's equivalent to idolatry and such a person has no share of the world to come what does no share of the world to come mean permanent G permanent Gom horrible horrible things so such a person is a fool unfortunately one of the things that causes people to do such things I know a couple of stories like this where somebody told me listen I'm watching your sh I love them I need to do chva I said oh okay well you are about cha he goes no no actually I used to be religious oh what happened I married a guya wait hold on a second why why why did you marry non Jew if you religious well actually I uh converted to Judaism oh so you were sadik then yeah everything was going great yeah but my first marriage didn't go well so oh we got a divorce we got we we fulfilled the Mitzvah of get get mitvah also not not suggested to have one but you have to have to get a get get a get meaning divorce so first marriage didn't work out they ended up getting divorced he got a little lonely he met he found maybe his old girlfriend the Goya that he used to be in love with when he was a teenager now she's 35 or 40 she's cute he's cute everybody's cute and both them Ain G them what happens four kids later he's like oh I got to do chuva yeah but you have four kids with a non-jew and you're a Jew that's a very very difficult thing to fix it's fixable but very difficult to fix I have at least uh almost a handful of stories like this right now almost a handful of stories like this so this is a very serious problem why because he is now a Jew that is intermarried he's intermarried it's very very serious problem so again if it's an authentic conversion the conversion does not get canceled the only time that it does get canceled is if if it's right away meaning she converted and she decided the next day that she's going back to Yos that already shows that obviously the conversion was not authentic and they cancel it there's some SCH that say no even then she's considered as a Jew but many would simply void the uh uh the conversion since it's so it's right away it's a very complicated issue because again it's a uh you know it's you want them to go to heaven but the same token you can't just change the law for them can't just change the law for people so if you're going to convert you have to make sure that you want to do it you have to make sure that you want to do it one of the indications that you want to do it is you're never ever going to complain about the conversion process virtually every single person that I've dealt with right now we have in our group probably over 130 families that we're helping in the process of conversion virtually every person that complained to me about conversion most I would say almost every one of them never made it why they didn't understand what it means to be a Jew they didn't understand what it means to be a Jew oh how come it's taken so long well how long has it taken oh I'm already doing it for four years I only met you two months ago yeah but before you oh before me your world didn't exist I I can't convert you because you've been reading books for four years I can't take you I can't V for I don't know what you you could tell me four years it could be 4 days how do I know I have to make sure that you know what you're doing I have to make sure that I can put my on the line for you not going to put my on the line for you just because you like books and you like my le and you press like n bu a donate too don't donate them I put my alone for money what do you think I'm for sale what the matter with you no but it should be easier what do you think this is Christianity and why do you care that it's taking so long anyway everything you have to do conversion you have to do for the rest of your life anyway what difference does it make no then it becomes real it's real today it's real now but the problem is people want things their way they think that if they pay a certain price or they do a certain thing they could speed up the process and those people are usually terrible converts terrible and there's a special special section for those people what section is that I'm not talking about Gom you'll be surprised I'm not talking about G it's talking I'm talking about those people always are magnets to heretic rabbis they're heretic rabbis the rabbis that try to beat the system like one one heretic that lives here in Florida he does mass conversions I won't even mention his name simply because I don't want to make him any more popular than he is he's already causing enough damage he does mass conversions Mass conversion meaning just come to the beach boys and girls we're going to convert you who me Julio and Steve we're not even sure they're Jewish no no but we're going to do it we're going to do it according to the you converted by him you're still a let me tell you that why because no one in the world that has a little bit of would accept his conversions why he himself doesn't have he himself doesn't have he himself goes against the sages makes fun of the to on a regular basis but no no why is he going to convert cuz he converts anybody you want to convert where do you live Oklahoma where's your next door neighbor 40 m away what about the synagogue 900 miles away okay you're qualified come to the beach we'll convert you how is this guy going to be a Jew in Oklahoma by himself how does he know how to do what watching your videos on the internet he's going to know how to do why you think just because he knows how to fast for 24 hours that makes him a Jew no it makes him know how to do a diet in order to be a Jew you have to live in a Jewish Community yeah but I can't move I can't afford it okay so it's not time to convert no but I want to okay I want to go to to the Mars does that mean I'm going to go if a wants you to convert guess what I'll open the gates of Heaven for you if he didn't that means he's not ready to accept you simple but what happens people try to beat the system beat the system no I'm going to go to the guy that does it for free I'm going to go to the guy that doesn't under the table I'm going to go to the guy that's uh no one knows I'm going to go to the guy that no one cares about I'm going to why why traditional way stick to the system stop trying to beat it because I promise you you can't beat you beat you may beat the rabbis you may beat the so-called systems but ultimately you'll end up losing lot of times people try to buy their conversions hey Rabbi how much can I convert well who wants to convert you you're Jewish no yeah no no my girl well what is she oh no she's she she's in the car what do you mean Shabbat yeah no you know but she wants to convert Rabbi she really likes Judaism but she's in a car in Shabbat you know she's actually not in the car right now she's in the mall well you want to see a rabbi well if she wants to convert don't I have to see her okay maybe she'll come next Shabbat after the mall you know she usually goes with the girls to the mall after the mall she'll come to you Rabbi how much is it going to cost to convert for her 25,000 the guy pays why the rabbi gives why because both of them are both of them are and some people do that they pay the rabbi you convert anybody convert a horse I know firsthand firsthand I know I know firsthand there was a guy living next door to me wanted to convert wanted to convert sadik his wife I think the Satan's wife is jealous of her she says W this woman she's better than me this woman was M like picture perfect of Gom nightmare I felt so bad for the guy they already had kids I would have tell him the divorce anyway long story short she cheats on him she cheats in the POS conversion want convert little kids cute little kids must precious I wanted to like adopt them so cute so what are you goingon to do it's it's a package deal one day he decides I'm leaving her why I'm leaving her oh she's cheating on me she's cheating on me with some guy I don't know who what when and how but I'm leaving you I said okay listen it's it's it's best for you so at least she won't convert right she never liked it she didn't want to keep nothing it's better that she doesn't convert thank God he comes back to me two weeks later he says Raba you're never going to believe it I said what I went to the bed and I told them I'm ready to do the conversion they told me listen we're not ready yet the guy is already at a level where he finished he finished everything he needed to learn for conversion he's already at a point where he's studying with several people he already started studying things that are you talk to the guys dedicated his life serious serious guy kids you would never think that they're not Jewish but the three four years later no we're not ready yet we're not ready yet we're not ready yet so said okay whatever this bed you know I wish you would have come with me I you know take your to normal bed de work he goes no that's not what I'm telling you says so what's the problem he says my wife my ex-wife she just converted yesterday I said you mean Satan's wife you mean your ex-wife you mean that one goes yeah yeah that one said how she she doesn't keep Shabbat he says Rabbi she doesn't know what m is I asked her after the conversion they asked you question she said no not really he says what are you going to do about M because she goes what's m after the conversion she doesn't know what it is I said what do you mean how how did they convert he said listen apparently the bedin is friends with her new boyfriend why they friends he's on the board of directors of the Sho he's on a board a Jew is already going with the Goya so the B said no come on let's convert it right away koser such a has to be destroyed I saw this with my eyes they convert that should not have any any connection whatsoever why cuz our boyfriend's on the board of directors of some big Sho but thead we're not ready for you we're not ready for you so this unfortunately happens this happens stuff like this happens all types of bad things happen which means what if you want to convert do what you're supposed to do follow the process difficult no difficult whatever it is keep going don't complain why when aadh is ready to say come my darling you are now part of my firstborn Nation don't worry he will tell you and no one can get in the way no one can get in the way all of these that delay and cause problems or give fake conversions for money this or for fame or to pretend like they're really nice people by converting the masses all that stuff that's not Hashem saying I love you that's not shame hasem saying I love you you'll know it you'll know it you don't need to be the system you don't need to beat the system when he's ready you will know clearly Hashem loves you Hashem wants you to be you don't need to beat the system just do what you're supposed to do follow what the Rabbi says follow what the says follow what theed obviously make sure it's a koser recognized by the know and so on and so forth and I said you'll be fine trying to beat the system it's not a good idea why it shows you don't really want Judaism you just want something it's like attaining some type of degree where if somebody told you listen we can give you your doctorate after one year in college who would say no who would say no one year in college you one month in college we'll give you a doctorate you can go to the hospital start giving surgery who would say no everybody say yes why first of all you save yourself a few hundred th000 second of all you save yourself a bunch of time third of all you could already get a job fourth of all who wants to go to school cool but what does that mean you don't actually care about the doctorate you don't care about you know the skill you just want the job like if somebody just told you listen forget school I'll give you a quar million dollars a year who wants to be a doctor anymore I just want to make money which means that if you just simply want to attain the degree regardless of whether you have to overcome any obstacles then you don't actually want to learn you just want a piece of paper if you just want a piece of paper in Judaism don't convert go to printer press you know type yourself dear write your name you are whatever you are in your mind signed yourself print it out and let it put on your wall and pretend like you're a Jew stop it it's not a piece of paper be serious go through the process be patient learn what you need to learn when is ready to tell you I love you he'll tell you I love you you're going to hear it loud and clear next question yes me and my friend were punching punching bag and my punch broke if you and your friend were punching a punching bag and it broke it did you break it on purpose no no no that's the punch harder I broke okay so you had a competition to punch a punching bag and the punching bag broke no you don't have it to pay for it because number one you didn't do it on purpose number two the UN essence you follow the instructions of what it has to do number three was there present so what you you you don't have to pay for it at all no uh I would recommend you don't have uh aggressive Hobbies because aggressive hobbies in general uh make you more aggressive people think like the psychiatrist I used to study psychology in school uh for a few years and um it's the opposite of what people tell you people tell you listen if you're upset punch a bag and that will relieve your anger it's the exact opposite it's the exact opposite the the more you express your anger physically the more Angry you become so by punching you're not relieving your anger you're not calming yourself down you're actually making yourself angrier you're making yourself more aggressive same thing you can see even without aggression you could see if somebody says something that's really annoying really annoying somebody said oh such and such person just said this about you now if you don't react you just simply sit there you'll see that that annoying feeling of perhaps even you know being angry goes away within a few seconds if you just simply don't react at all but the second you say a single word suddenly your anger Sparks up a second word it Sparks up higher a second third word Sparks higher high why now it became an argument you've reacted to it so reacting actually causes you to become angri punching being aggressive causes you to be angry it doesn't relieve any anger so if you want to contain contain your anger make yourself less angry make yourself less aggressive make yourself more righteous make yourself closer to hem you should not have any type of hobbies that are aggressive uh and even exercising by the way even exercising itself you should be careful with certain exercises because certain exercises are aggressive by their nature by their nature and there is a better way to uh to do it you could still get the same result but without necessarily the uh the same uh the same movements and and level of aggression so again it's I only say this because I believe it's page 108b says that anger being expressed physically is uh being compared to idol worship idol worship it's not a meaning so many words it's not good it's not a good thing at all so you have to do whatever you can to be extreme to the exact opposite of anger with everything else the ram right you should have a middle ground when it comes to gener generosity middle ground when it comes to uh being a uh uh uh you know any other type of character traits middle ground but when it comes to anger the ra right you have to be extreme extremely far away from it the further from it the better so when people have aggressive hobbies and and and exercise and things like that it actually makes them uh unfortunately angrier uh uh so it's and it happens and I I remember for my for myself in the past I used to exercise a lot and lift tons on over my head and it didn't make me uh uh less angry didn't work out so much made other people less angry but not me next question next question so in Genesis 22 tests and tells him to take for as an offering K but then the angel an angel came and stopped stopped him K so why an angel and why when he stopped it he spoke in the first person it says now I know that you fear hasem now I know that you fear hem as if the angel is God himself and he says me many right so a couple of things so why did why did use an angel to who's the angel because he came back a second time so he's like he's involved in a way so why did using an angel who is the Angel do we have his name and address maybe we go visit him for Shabbat and uh and uh and third uh why is he speaking in first person okay so the question really is why does even have angels to begin with because in reality is the one running the world he does not need any Angel he does not need any angels to do anything there are different angels that has that do different things there are certain angels that are created they say kados kados kados and then they destroys them and then new Angels created says kados kados kados and hasem destroys them again over and over again then there's theot different types of angels there's some uh some angels are literally the size of planets some angels are the size of light years length some angels are big some angels are tiny every little uhh grass every little strand of grass has an angel on top of it every single one of them not the whole grass not the whole lawn every single strand of grass has an individual angel angel standing on top of it saying to it grow that's it that's your job sit there grow just imagine how many angels has need that angel no doesn't need that doesn't need the Ang doesn't need anything is complete he's perfect so why does he have Angels why do he have those angels why do he have that angel the answer to both is the same it is the way of the king to have servants meaning it is not the way of a king to serve himself if Le there is a physical King flesh and blood king and he is on an island and he has nobody there he's by himself him the chimpanzees the giraffes you're not going to call him a king maybe you'll call him Tarzan make a movie about him but you're not going to call him a king why he has no servants who's a king the ones that has not only servants who's a bigger King the one that has more servants the more servants the more you know how great his Majesty is Hashem has an infinite amount of servants not because he needs the servants but rather because this is the way of a king okay this is the way of the king so that answers why you use an angel for that or for any other reason second thing is there is a role for every single Angel sometimes the angels are uh given a role to represent God as if they're in first person as if they're in first person as if the angel is AEM but it's not they speak as if they're AEM but it's not AEM why because Hashem is trying to give a certain message that is clearer than the typical rather than Hashem said such and such I'm saying such and such but obviously the viewer knows this is not AEM why to show you the degree of seriousness of the message degree of seriousness of the message soem uses certain Angel this is this is someone that's considered a mini God there's even says there's even an angel there even an angel the Mal who actually used to be a human being called who Sanctified himself at the time before Noah and says he took him why he came with why he became too holy to be a human being and made him me is an acronym it's not really his name his real name we're not allowed to say why serious Angel but in sh they call him a mini God not that Shalom is God but he's the first person he's the vice president big deal this one this one's a big deal so will sometimes use this one as if it is him but it's not him and everyone know is not him but in Ence when he's there when he's talking to you it's pretty much you don't have to ask can you go back to hasm and ask no no no you can talk to me whatever you want you can talk to me so uses such angels and there's different levels of angels there's the Rafael which has to do with health and things of that nature there's Gabriel which has a certain role he was best friends with Danielle was best friends with the prophet Danielle best friends in book of Danielle see them talking to each other Mal Gabriel says to Danielle you gave meuk you gave meuk now imagine Angel comes to you Angel big Angel giant Angel knows the knows a lot of things knows the entire comes to you says you know what I like your sh give me today you're the best So Daniel the Prophet his best friend was was Gabriel then you have this is big deal and so on and so forth different angels has many many angels each one has different roles and so on now as far as as far as I'm talking to him first person we've answered as far as whyem has the Angels we've answered what is the third question why did he come back came back a second why he come back second time second time why did he come back the second time so there's a that is very difficult to believe if you understand it uh it's it's uh not difficult to believe it's difficult to understand um theat simple meaning of the AK is that Abu was standing over and thear says that the reason why it's called is because AKA is the way that he was tied way he was tied he was tied like an animal if you don't want an animal to move on Shabbat you can't just tie its four legs and uh and leave it that way because it'll suffer it'll suffer on the other hand you can not tie because it's going to run away so what do you do is certain tie that you tie a couple of its legs together where it could still be mobile but it can't run away so the says asked abam tie me like to tie the animals with my hands and behind my back and my legs behind my back and you tie to three of them three out of the four three out of the four limbs you tie them together so that way I could move a little bit but I can't run away and I can't hit you when push comes to sh you on top of with the iron if I get scared so that way that means that was tied like an animal and he stuck out of his neck why show I love this mitah why you said this is a mitvah you want us to do we're going to do it but what do we learn from the story theat is that never touched him never touched he didn't cut him but the says otherwise what does it say the reason why spoke to abah twice is because after told him don't touch him says a little bit we're already here we're already here we did everything already you're not going to have aan let's at least do something least do something let me do fulfill something you read about this by the way a little bit and your there's a whole whole thing about you read the story what was dealing with how she's crying you start crying start crying about what when you actually understand what actually happened there long story show the says that he actually did cut his neck he did cut his neck and took and put him in GED to heal him why did allow this the says because had a feminine feminine not that he was gay Shalom not that he was feminine Shalom but rather there's two parts to a and one is in essence represents the feminine side one represents the masculine side and in order to bring children to the world you have to have both because this was av's test he had to have his replaced this was the way to do it and because had he not done this he would have not been able to have children meaning Yakov would never come to the world so this is a very very high level Z cabala all types of mystical things again when I first heard this I got upset to be honest with you because it didn't make any sense to me it started I thought the guy was saying it was crazy but it's real it's true it's this and point being is is that there's a lot of things that are beyond the uh the theat there is different Secrets there's different mid there's different things point being is that there is every single letter in the Torah has a slew of explanations a slew of explanations of why this letter is this and that letter is that way why the nikud here why the sentence is here everything has explanations which makes anyone that's a uh deals with the public has to have a relatively uh endless patience endless patience why because many times people come to you listen uh I uh I looked at this and I couldn't find it anywhere in the tah do you know the answer and that by default means that the person didn't look anywhere why you're telling me you looked in the entire to you didn't find answer really you look in the the entire T do you even know what the entire T looks like you even know if you fill this room a million times with books it's not the entire Tor you tell me they looked at all those books so people say no I looked everywhere in the Torah and I can't find it it doesn't talk about this anywhere in the Torah that's a person that's spiritually lazy just wants a quick answer that's what he wants so every letter has an explanation every sentence has an explanation some of them your n will receive and accept with love some of them your Nish will reject not because it's false not because it's bad but rather because it's not ready for it it's not ready for it you have to be at a certain level to get certain things so that one particular midash I believe is a very high level midash and uh some people will reject it again I wouldn't recommend rejecting anything that we say because we're saying you think that in the Torah but nonetheless if you want to double check you could check yourself in that in it gives you details there's also several other places to talk about different parts of the there's an endless amount of books that talk about next question yes guys it's kind of a two- part question okay try one part so the first one is on Shabbat when you have theab is it for to keep it uh it's I mean it's again it's a uh having a Kala plate having a cover for the kala is uh symbolic of the Mana the Mana bread the Mana bread because did not want us to be disgusted by it plus he did not want it to get dirty uh and he wanted it to be protected so it had a certain tal a do a do that covered it from the bottom a do that covered it from the top and we would have to open the do and take and eat the Mana from it so the symbolic symbolic of the Mana that we ate in the desert for 40 years is we have something on the bottom of the kala there usually a plate of some kind and some type of cover fancy cover that or just cover that you like uh that's utilized for Shabbat that covers it in essence symbolic of what happened in the uh you know in the desert for 40 years so it's a it's not just a customary for Safar it's customary for all of but different people have different things different people have different things it's not like if somebody doesn't have a plate to have their H they're not going to G no or anything like that it's not a sin but you know it's a this is one of many many Customs that we have table rearrange the table the the the plate no the plate is not m m m is something that you would not normally use on Shabbat that's what m is m means something that you put aside so since we're forbidden from writing on Shabbat that makes the pen M because you're not allowed to use the pen on Shabbat therefore the pen is M uh uh you know rocks rocks are M why because in essence you're not allowed to build you're not allowed to destroy you're not allowed to use them to draw so a rock you're not allowed to throw a rock at anybody even a even a even a anything why it's m the rock is M so when anybody says oh yeah these religious people throwing rocks on Shabbat at cars they're not religious they just wear a costume because if they're picking up rocks on Shabbat they're making sins on shab they're violating about themselves if they're throwing it at other Jews they're even bigger Sinners they're called in fact according to the T taught us a rule the second you lift your hand in the air without hitting anybody just lift your hand to threaten somebody that hit him already calls you already throwing rocks at Jews you're now there's nothing religious about you so m in essence is things that are set aside that they're they don't belong in the Shabbat atmosphere and so on so a rock obviously doesn't unless you've decided to make this Rock part of Shabbat where this rock is going to be my door stopper or this Rock I'm going to use it for decoration if this rock you've decided before Shabbat this is going to be this is part of my you know beautifying of Shabbat uh honoring Shabbat that rock all of a sudden became not M became allowed you're allowed to pick it up you're allowed to throw from one in hand to hand no problem why because you've decided this is going to be part of your Shabbat but just go pick up a rock in the middle of the street no you can't decide in the future about the street so there's different things that you can make them not M even though they are by default M there's certain things you can't make M okay and there's certain things that are always going to be M okay now something that you use as a tool for Shabbat whether it be a dish plates or otherwise obviously they are not M because these are things you need for Shabbat you need these things for Shabbat you're allowed to lift them you're allowed to do whatever it is that you need to do with them no problem at all next question um somebody hasn't spoken yet in the back yeah um saying a blessing if you have the food in your hand but you also have something in your other hand when you're that blessing is it considered like it's an interruption if you have something in one hand and another hand so let's say I have an apple here and I have a uh what a phone in this one or cuz I'm not going to eat the phone like have chips this you also have chips in the other hand oh no I mean in essence I mean technically you don't even need to have it in your hand if you you know sometimes it's not possible to have it in your hand like for example if you're eating a dish of rice you don't need to lift the rice and say you don't need to do it you just look at it and or you know just think about the rice now if you uh want to pick it up because that's that's the way you eat the food it's a cookie it's a chip or something like that you could pick up one and say the the blessing you don't have an obligation to do it but if you're already going to pick it up pick it up with your right hand pick it up with your right hand uh but if you have something in your left hand it's irrelevant in that sence your main focus needs to be and what your blessing what your blessing and the best way to remind yourself to focus when you're making a blessing is to break up each blessing into three that's part one that's part two and then let's say it's so you broke up to say one blessing that's really most people say like you don't even know what the guy said you said you have no idea what he said the best way to do it I've learned is to break up your blessings into three that in essence forces you to have kavana Focus what you're blessing thaning uh admitting and recognizing his creation recognizing his significance recognizing his majesty and obviously knowing that you are not an animal recognizing you're not an animal because an animal doesn't bless animal doesn't bless he just eats next question yes uh so I heard something about it um what ways is it permitted and what ways is it not permitted to give s to H at night time uh some some say it's allowed for certain people what's the deal with that Saka orim or both Saka and okay with night okay so what what's the deal with st and at night time okay so the easy one is I mean you can give at any time you can give anytime you can givea you could even givea you could even givea on Shabbat not physically but make a promise to give it meaning you say you see let's say the besset or some organization a Jewish organization of some kind and they say listen we're raising money and they're raising money on Shabbat now they're not getting checks from people don't give them a check or cash at that moment that's not allowed but you can make a promise to give the money on Yip on Shabbat why because you're doing a Mitzvah and in essence you're not fulfilling the Mitzvah at that second you are planning the Mitzvah and planning a mitv is allowed on Shabbat allowed on on y okay so you're say like you can talk about let's say for example you want to build a synagogue or you want to have a party or or or something that's involves aah you can plan it on Shabbat you can PL it on Shabbat why because you're planning a mitvah mitvah you can do at all times now you're not giving them the actual money on Shabbat you're planning to give them I you know I promise I'm going to give you $220,000 but obviously not on Shabbat I'm going to give it to you Monday so that you're allowed to do anytime at night onip on Shabbat anytime whoever told you you can't give Sak at night is wrong the heal him on the other hand is a little bit more difficult why it has to do again you guys are all calist over here apparently has to do with the mystical part of Judaism now there is a um Concept in Judaism that's called the powers of impurity and the powers of Holiness Tuma is uh is impurity and Kusa is Holiness now after uh there's a certain time of the day that the powers that are in the world that are of Holiness have more significance and there are times of the day that they are powers of impurity gives them their time that they have more presence more power if you will that time is at night but not the whole night from the time of until until the middle of the night the middle of the night doesn't literally mean 12:00 a.m. all the time it depends where you are in the world and it depends when it is during the year cuz the Jewish clock is not exactly the same as the secular clock yes you can download an app called uh calj CJ on your phone it tells you times of when to pray in the morning what's the middle of the uh night uh the uh if you do today or not when the holidays are and so on calj you can download it on the uh uh stores or whatever the uh the phone stores um app stores uh anyway now from the time of till the time of that's when the powers of impurity have more significance have more presence in the world if you will or in essence are given a permission to do more so because of that because of thatal said that said actually that you should not simply read read the written Torah during that time because it bothers them and can create problems for you if you will now this only applies to Simply reading it not studying it like for example if you just feel like reading to heal him just because you feel like reading something don't do it during that time let's say if is 8:00 P.M and midnight is the middle of the night during those four hours don't do it if you just feel like reading the just reading it superficially reading it don't do it between that time why it's there's other things you can learn there's other things to do it can create different problems in your life now studying and praying you could do anytime what's the difference reading the parasha let's say reading the Paras is just simply saying okay uh says and you shall have a shovel in addition to your weapons that's reading you just read what the PUK says that's it studying means oh this way it says oh let's see what the commentary says oh the commentary says such and such Rashi says this the ran says this that's studying that you could do anytime anytime you could do that reading don't do it during that small window of time why again like I said there's a whole concept of impur powers now as far Asim is concerned if you're just simply going to be reading it for the sake of reading it it's better for you to go learn a or something else but if you're going to be in a time where it's either you read or you're going to go hang out with your friends and and do waste your time go read why because the amount of demons you'll create from hanging out with your friends is much worse than you know bothering them a little bit with reading needless to say if you're not going to do anything at all it's better to read so and if you need to pray for somebody somebody sick Shalom or something like that that you could do it anytime that can do at any time so it's again it's important to understand that there's a difference between superficially reading things studying them praying and so on usually most people are utilizing the Torah for a real reason either to pray or to study but the uh uh sages were very very conscious of things were not aware of and can't even see with the naked eye most of the time um and uh they were cautious on certain things but again if they were alive in this generation I uh I would dare to say that maybe they would not have told us to do it uh this particular teaching simply because if people are not doing something that's connected to to this generation most of the time they're causing trouble and making sins so uh it's that's why I say if and I ask I verify this with my if somebody's either gonna read to heal him with their uh you know or they're going to go hang out with their friends have a beer tell him to R him until his face turns blue why it's much better to go R him than to go waste your time and do other things but if you have other options you can watch a t you could attend a t you could read you could read something like that then you should do those things during that time do those things next question how how did the FV very so the said the question is how did the fish survive the flood if the water was very hot so there's two exp there's a few explanations in mid one is that did not intend to kill the fish the fish did not die because the fish did not sin so he did a couple of things first and foremost not all of the water was boiling only a certain part of the water was boiling only a certain part of the surface some say it was only the top of the water some say it was only a part of the ocean that was applicable to affect the people that were needed to be punished then there's other St that say that only uh you know there were certain parts of the world that simply were not affected you know the ocean was not affected at all not relevant at all and there even a that says that there's actually a place in the world that even the raindrops did not go there where y there's no flood in y there was no flood in y so with all of those different explanation we see that could have let's say for example endless amount of explanation but in just in these few quick ones you have the fish obviously they don't need to go to the top and breathe they don't need to do that that's just us when we act like fish and go to the so fish can go into the ocean hang out in the bottom with some mermaids too if they want and have a good time they don't need to uh oh wait there's mermaids yeah says there's mermaids just little for you guys says there is mermaids they it she says mermaids oh why you guys are yeah there mermaids mermaid why you didn't see one you didn't see the mermaid stories there mermaids mermaid is there there says that there is a a creature that looks half human half half fish Rashi talks about other can talk about it of course the Heretics make fun of it but the point being is there's a lot of strange creatures a lot of strange creatures in the world some we see some we don't see but point being is is that the fish can go into the depths of the ocean uh and uh and if Hashem wants they uh he could have unique protection for certain creatures in different ways but the fish did not sin like the other creatures uh and therefore they did not get punished how did the other creatures sin the other creatures sinned by cohabiting with opposite uh with uh different species meaning the giraffe wanted to dance with the lion and the Sheep wanted to go hang out with the alligator this is defying nature since they defied nature they went against their nature they lost their right to exist the only ones that survived are the few that did not sin meaning the lion that survived that all the lions in the world come from today he didn't sin like the rest of his friends that were Lions the giraffe that survived that uh all the giraffes of today came from she did not go hang out with the sheep and the uh and and the alligators she was sadik she was giraffe and that's that's the uh story there yes uh in the back I'll give you a follow someone who who's a level of learning gar right and comes a night after work in a mood of going deep and you know breaking yourself right he doesn't want to break his head he wants Coast if someone is at the level of of a uh of uh learning tough tah and uh he doesn't feel like it he wants to learn something simpler uh and he learns that considered it could be in it could not be it depends really what level he is versus what level um you know uh he thinks he is you know most people by you know by their nature think that they are much greater than they are and they think that some things are too are beneath them like they think that K is beneath them this is a very big mistake by the way anyone that wants even a remote chance like an inkling of a chance like a micro micro microscopic chance of being AAL has to be an expert an expert in expert there is no a real that does not know why is the foundation everything you learn and so on has to come from so people that you know insult oh you're only learning oh yeah one day you'll learn such a person he's not he's an if he has an attitude like that towards so that's one thing also has endless amount of and Les that you can learn that that are beyond beyond difficult you could literally break your head 500 times and not understand why this PUK says this and not this and so so Kash is not as easy as people think it is that's number one two is the only thing that you are obligated to learn every single week where the says you're obligated to read you have to read the weekly no matter if you're the biggest in the world you're the you wrote 500 books doesn't make a difference you have to read the same K just like the first grader just like the first grader so that's so first the person needs to know is that K is not like some little first grader stuff K is a big deal very very big deal you think it's not a big deal you're an idiot at best at best you're an idiot why because it's a big deal this is the Torah now some people say yeah but I heard a certain R that's that say yeah but if this guy learns he's that so what does that really mean if someone is a serious he knows he knows he's somebody that you could do some big deals with is a big deal guy and that guy already did his already did everything he's knows what he's talking about but he know it says listen you we got our Duff we got our thing we got to learn no no I'm going to read some uh stories I don't feel like it if there's a reason potentially it's not a problem but if he one one off two off he does this not a problem but if that's all he does he has the mind of the but he wants to read 24 hours a day all the time yeah that's but if it's a one off situation is not a big deal it's not off it's not a big deal many many say that for example on Friday night Friday night you get a lot of a lot of reward for for learning T but many had the the the custom to read easier parts of Torah on Shabbat on Friday night then during the week why to do more to to toil to toh to be able to accomplish more why because the more you strain yourself the more difficult is to do it the whole night if you want to do a whole nighter so sometimes they'll do easier meaning they'll read the perhaps versus the that perhaps you have to work on one for n hours you could just you know read something for several hours and uh you know without breaking your head so many had the custom to read easier parts of T but again all depends on the level of the person to Simply say a one siiz fits all anyone that reads A K uh when he can learn that's whoever said that he's an he doesn't know what he's talking about and he's a very arrogant person he thinks he's a but according to the Tora he's not even close to it not even close to it why because in today's world in today's world any Torah you learn is a big deal in today's world anything you learn is a big deal why look how far we are look how far we are look how most people to get them to you got to beg them and their mother just to get them to come to the shoe to get a guy to learn you're going to tell the guy no no no I don't want that's arrogance one time they came to I think I told you guys this story but it's worth repeating they came to raash and told there's this company this publisher called Art scroll and they want to publish a gamar with the commentaries in uh in English and in Hebrew and uh where everything's going to be on one page where you're not really going to have to toil to figure out the basic and we and they want to publish this and we want the rav we want the to go against it because if they publish this art scroll people are not going to toil over to anymore because it's going to be easy for them says not only am I not going to go against it I'm going to support it they thought he they thought didn't understand him this is his own family was saying no no no for the people no no you don't understand you think I don't you don't understand what they're trying to do is increase the Torah in the world that's what they're trying to do so people can understand the basic of the gar and therefore be encouraged to continue reading more this will increase the Torah in the world and if you're so worried about people not toiling then that means you haven't toiled enough why because you don't even start toiling until you understand the basics and if you don't understand the basics you're toiling over a mistake anyway what's the point of toiling not only am I not going to go against it I'm going to support it and many supported art scr and he was 100% right like a navi like a prophet look what happened since they started publishing their books over the last few decades the amount of Torah that's being studied by the englishspeaking world and other parts of the world has magnified tremendously why because finally people have a easier clearer understanding to get the basics and people that are against it are not only completely disconnected from society but many of them have such arrogance you shouldn't be in the same room as them shouldn't be in same room as them that's that's M that's that's the reality so again if a person is a serious T and he just decides to always read easy stuff and that's it yes that is a problem but if he's tired and he knows that if he opens the G he's going to fall asleep in 3 seconds if he opens the if he opens the mid he'll be able to study for an hour what's better that hour learn that hour but if it's oneoff situation but if it's all the time he's never studying to obviously he has to study more difficult stuff this also opens up to a uh a really interesting subject of why should a person I'm going to ask you guys a question why should a person study difficult to why shouldn't I just study easy stuff no you asked the question let's see what kind of answer you have why why do need to break my why can't I just Coast why can't I just read stories for sin you want to repent for a Wast of seed you have to break you know you got to sweat and what else good what else learn about yourself while you're the in page 20b says that there are certain people that are called and criminals and traitors or betrayers says what are these people and it gives titles of different types of people and one of them is people that are born from a nid from a woman that were did not go to the mik and she had a she was intimate with a man whether it's a husband or otherwise uh boyfriend and a baby came out of it even though she didn't go to the mik she was the says those people they already come to the world criminals so you say oh this the is already coming to the world with their hands tied behind their back how is this guy ever going to be a sadik how is this guy this guy already came from Aid this guy already came with his into the world from a sin a big sin how is it hard does anybody why does even AEM allow these people to come to the world so the in writes based on commentary on theph the Book of Job chapter 14:4 he says in the story of abrah ainu one of the things that we learn is that abu's father was not only a rash before he did CH but also he was causing the people to sin why he was the Walmart of idolatry he not only served Idols himself but he sold Idols to people he was a causing the public to sin that's ab's father if that's not bad enough theel says that ter was with abu's mother while she was n and from that intimate Act abah ainu was born meaning abrah ainu himself was a product of nid now even though it wasn't mat yet wasn't a time of a Tor yet we know that had the entire Tor and so on but the point being is that it was a act that was not viewed favorably by meaning that that ainu fits this description before he became abah ainu that the says meaning his came to this world with its hands tied behind its back and then the the the elaborates he says from there we learn that when the N overcomes overcomes the obstacles by making itself Holy by sanctifying itself not only not only does it elevate itself to a higher level and fixes the deformity if you will that it has because of coming from a forbidden relation but if it elevates itself it also fixes those that came before it meaning abah ainu fixed the deformity of his father what do we learn from this so far the more righteous you are the more your parents will benefit even if your parents weren't exactly why the more you sanctify yourself that sort your you came from a you came from something bad and so on don't think for a second that that's a bad thing why you have an opportunity that others don't what's your opportunity you could elevate your to a point where you can not only make you higher but you can make the ones before you can fix the ones before you you can fix the ones before you as we learn he says from the PUK in the Book of Job chapter 14 verse number four who can produce Purity from impurity no one now the continues and says that where is our proof of this our proof is is that throughout history we see that many of theik came either from complete ignoramuses or outright green people people that weren't even Jewish Idol worshippers in some cases some [Applause] examples are several Generations before the rabbi of RAB AKA they were so extraordinary so holy literally the rules changed for them both of them were born go both of them were born gim became the biggest rabbis of their generation Giants came from go conversion R AKA conversion Ruth the moabit the grandmother of the mashiach converted herself the wife of yeshu Bon the wife of Yeshua Bon convert and many many other sikim throughout history not just at that time but even now you see that made these come from places that you would never imagine because our logic is wait e is a big Rabbi because his father was a big Rabbi and his grandfather was a big RAB all the way to not necessarily his father could potentially be a massive killer his father could be a mass murderer and he's why he chose to elevate his now the page 14b says thatu his tractate how how did he Elevate his to be so high studing a lot of T in the the son of no and Grandson of so is known for the of having guests and things like that but what did he do anytime he didn't have guest he studed T nonstop so page 14 says what kind of Torah did he study so you see how we have our tractate of has five has five sections Abu he had 400 sections meaning his tractate was bigger than that all of our put together that's so say wait what happened to all of it it's gone he had it we didn't have it the ad Mig ad Mig says something really interesting in on tra he gives a fantastic he says what does it mean had 400 sections to tracked where did it go what happened to it how come we don't have it how do we get this how do we lose 395 pieces says what do he really have says he reads from the commentary on the mid r on the song of songs chapter 6 verse number8 he said it says that there's 60 and 80 says this symbolizes the 60 symbolizes the 60 tractates of the and the 80 different ways to learn them the 80 different ways to learn them so he says what did he do you see we have what do we have we have five to the tra right if you want to be holy what do you do you not only learn it once you keep learning not only learned it he learned it 80 different ways there's 80 different 80 different strategies of how to learn the same exact thing he learned these five five sections 80 different ways what do you get 80 * 5 400 that's the 400 that he had the same but when you study it from this way from that way from this way from that way from this way from every single all different holy strategies you get to see the in a completely different way now the question is why would Abu do such a thing says that when a person wants to destroy a he has to learn T he has to learn the T just for the sake of learning not because I'm going to read this because I understand this because it's easy no no you're not studying because it's easy you're studying because this is what said to do yeah but I'm reading it 5 hours I don't understand why should I study it should I should I just study something more no no if you study the difficult that's to no no I'm only going to study it because I need it for a test that's not to I'm GNA study because I'm GNA write a book that's not to I'm GNA study because I can use this material to go show off to my friends that's not that's not to for the sake of Heaven t means T for the sake of Heaven no t for the sake of Heaven means you're studying it just because this will bring good no benefit not because there's more more this more that what's the benefit of doing things just because said so says that destroys it destroys idolatry this is why by the way what you said is 100% correct of when you study more difficult and different and things like that it rectifies the sin of wasting seed why difficult to is by definition difficult meaning the only way you can continuously sustain going back and breaking your head breaking your head breaking your head breaking your head is why because you love a because if it's just loving yourself you're going to go pick up one of these easy books read somebody's story oh yeah the rabbi went from this place that place 500 pages repeating the same exact thing yeah I'm going to read some Rabbi that wrote a book three years ago why don't you read one of the why don't you read one of the why don't you read something more difficult no no no I'm going to read something I want to read Harry Potter but the biblical version you want easy that's not the for the sake of Heaven you study the hard stuff why you love AEM yeah but it's hard that's the point that hard toah shows you love AEM and it has power what kind of power destroying idolatry destroying idolatry and wasting seed by the way thear says is considered as a form of idolatry a form of idolatry not idolatry but a form of idolatry that's why for example anyone knows a little bit about the crazy people that call themselves satanists or people that deal with uh with all types of Witchcraft whether it be uh uh you know witchcraft from the third world countries or wikka or uh all types of voodoo and things like that those people uh part of their uh witchcraft or or the likes has to do with uh seed wasting seed and blood and things of that nature why because that's the Tuma of Tuma so in order if a person fell for those types of things wants to fix himself he has to study t meaning that when abrah ainu studied the tractate of Abazar in 80 different ways that means he did the most difficult thing known to man it's not reading the same book 80 times it's reading it from a completely different and unique perspective every single whole time as if you've never read it before doing things the exact opposite that a normal person would look at 80 different ways why I love hem I do it this way because I want to bring to I want to show I love his Tor I'm going to look at it in every single possible way there is yeah but it's the most difficult why don't you go on vacation type of Torah no no no no I want the most difficult why I love AEM when a person studies to that way he destroys to such an extent that he's even fixing not just his own but the ones that came before him things that are around him it helps a lot of different things lots of different things it's not just a simple read a Harry Potter book and uh maybe you'll remember part of the story a few weeks down the road to tell your friend no it's this type of learning to sanctifies K Who's name with the amount of love that you have in Essence makes a makes a person's n elevated to a level that is like nothing else yes consider also yes every person at his level every person at his level so if a person is already learning tah like kki okay he already read the Shem only knows how many times he already completed the entire G entire sh I would estimate probably no less than 100 times uh more most likely much more than that okay he read more he reads more in one year than most people will ever do in several lifetimes not just one lifetime now if he reads the Kash basic commentary of Rashi for him obviously it's much easier than the other why he's done it many many times so for him it's much easier right right on the other hand if somebody's just starting out like imagine your own ruven 10 years ago 12 15 years ago whenever that was okay imagine me okay I was a little bit half why because I spent my whole life on Wall Street almost 20 years in a business I knew anything you could tell me about business I knew your business my business any business I was an expert in business I knew a little bit about people too I knew a little bit about Psychiatry I knew a little bit about art a lot of different things Torah not so much not so much so when I first started it's brand new to me everything was hard everything was hard I knew how to read I was I was always a reader but everything was new and when it's new it's hard so I didn't understand why does AEM have to put Noah in a why didn't he just protect him in a different way why put him in a boat you want to protect no tell him listen no Jerusalem is not going to have any rain go over there well save the animals I'll tell them all to come there why have them build this thing for 120 years again ask the same question why hav't build this thing for 120 years until he planted the tree until the tree grew and they all made fun of him and the Animals finally showed up and then he has to deal with the Cockroaches and then he has to deal with the mouse he has to deal with the line who wants to deal with all this you want to protect him tell him to go get himself a villa in on over there and have F what what what's the problem why a whole thing by God 100 years difficult for me to understand the thing why I started as an individual as you learn more and more Tor you start understanding why kadh loves his people so much and you realize there is no individual in Judaism it's all about the CL it's all about the CL told no yeah build this it's can take a 100 years why I want to give these people more time to do chuva I want to give you more time to do kiru you know no did not exactly fulfill the full job he didn't do enough kiru he stayed at his place he didn't travel he didn't rebuke that's why he had to come back in but he's still let's not discount it for a second but when it came to Unity it wasn't a complete tun but many others also failed with certain things you go into theim you go into theim you ask yourself hold on a second these 12 why did already tell us Listen by the way you're all going to be go to Egypt you're going to become slaves what do we do I didn't even make any crimes yet why do I need to go to be a slave if I did a crime I killed somebody okay make me a slave I didn't do anything yet several reasons one of them is that we are a if we're a stubborn Nation not stubborn just because we like our opinion and not anybody else's opinion even if our opinion are wrong and we know it we still like our opinion not just because of that but rather because when he created theim they were superum in comparison to the rest of people by default made them Superior to others kids Superior to others in so many words we were something in untolerable by the other nations in order to Humble us something had to happen why naturally we were better hasem had to Humble us that's one simple explanation the other one that's more I want to focus on is that you ever notice that it says that there was 12 tribes there was Ruben and Shimon andali and and Yuda and and Benyamin and uh y 12 tribes right and guess what each one of the tribes said yeah ysep here Shimon here yudah he's over there with Tam everybody everyone looked at themselves as individuals I got my show you got your show whenever you want to come visit let me know ahead of time like in America you ever want to you know you ever want to visit somebody you got to make an appointment 3 weeks in advance you know when I grew up with little kids people just show up at your house hey you home oh okay go let's have coffee in America it's very different you want to show up you want to can I come for coffee yeah 3 weeks from now at 2:00 make sure it's not 2:30 because I have another appointment he already made an appointment six months ago very different 12 tribes 12 everybody's different says I don't want a nation of 12 different sections I don't want aite Moroccan this one that one his Shool three Jews 87 different shoes no I don't want that I want everybody to be my chosen people one nation so how could I make 12 unique powerful amazing righteous people become one ah what a solution let's make them slaves and they'll say to me we were slaves not I was slave in my section Shimon was slave no nobody said that what do we say in me time we were slaves we were tortured we all of a sudden we became a people we suffer together says sometimes I have to make you suffer together in order to make you realize you're Brothers in order to make you realize you're together so this in a beginning in my wildest dreams I wouldn't have arrived at this I wouldn't have arrived at this like figure everything was difficult so point being is to back to your question in the early stage is everything is good is good m is good everything is good grab as much as you can in fact specifically talk about when you're in your early stages you should only study the things you like what's considered the early stages early stages means as long as it's not sweet as long as the Torah is not sweet yet to you it's not delicious yet you're not necessarily always looking forward to it you're not always necessarily just oh I can't no like when it's not your number one in your life yet then it's still early stages that's not a problem doesn't make you a bad person makes you normal makes you normal during that time where you're normal anything you could possibly get your hands on that's kosher that's good m M just study as much as possible get it into your blood system get it into your DNA the more the better see how it's affecting you if you're not changing change up yourself make sure that it's uh you know you have to study if if you're seeing you're studying the same thing you study the same book you finish the whole book you still the same animal that you started there's something wrong with you either something wrong with you or something wrong with the book you have to know that the Torah that you learn is supposed to change you if it doesn't change you it's either something wrong with what you're reading or something wrong with you sometimes a combination of both point being is in the beginning anything as much as possible as much as possible as the Torah becomes sweeter to you then you graduate the higher levels when you first become graduate out of engineering school what did they give you he listen make me a little engine for what for a little fan for little fan that people are going to buy for $9.99 at the gas store yeah but I'm an engineer I went to school for 8 years yeah exactly that's why we gave you the job to make fans at the at the store after a few years okay make me a engine of what of this uh you know laund laundry laundry machine okay at least it's better than the fan after a few more years you get some more experience okay make me an engine what of a car oh okay fine car is fine I like cars okay do after a few years okay make me an engine what of a plane then of a jet then of a rock why more experience more this you are making yourself more acclimated more of a fit to higher things but you can't start at high levels this is why it's always always amazes me how people think they could just simply skip all of the basics and go to the highest level of t on day one oh I'm studying the Z did you finish the sh what's the shot oh okay fine good you're that one you're that guy oh I'm already studying cabala I go to cabala Center yeah you cabal cabala you're studying exactly you're you're cabalist already no no not yet that's next month okay after you pay the fee though right yeah you become cist for $1,500 yeah that's that's that's death me in sh and Sh in heaven they wrote $1,500 for perpetuity it's always going to stay the same price paid $1,500 just like you you're a cist no I'm a commentary I'm a commentary wait you keep Shabbat yeah no I keep it in a bag I keep it in what is it again what is it again I want to keep it what is it again Shabbat oh okay you wouldn't people want to become commentaries on day one I think this p means wait you think don't think learn don't think learn well AR we supposed to ask questions yeah after you know how to ask them first learn all of the possible and available answers then ask questions don't read and assume that your question even has any value first read all of the possible ansers meaning read what it says read the commentators especially Rashi if you're learning or if you're learning a uh Rashi you can't live without him if you're in you're at also the mar there's no page in without the you have to don't start asking questions until you have all of that covered no no but I have questions okay keep them deep down inside it'll come back later on why first learn what to ask learn what to ask then you can start becoming a little mini Rashi like you've been playing in your head why you need to know what you're talking about first but everybody wants to jump jump jump he wants to be he wants to already write a book wants to write a book oh Rabbi listen I'm working on a book what kind of book Harry Potter the new vire movie what kind of book no no I'm going to write my opinion of of of bit what I think happened you look at they're actually serious what they're saying actually serious this is what happens we have in the world we have in the world we have in the the world a lot of this so why because people don't have a concept of what a gador is what a giant in Tora is what T is so the Torah requires us to Humble ourselves know where we stand and it's very important for a person to know that in the beginning there's nothing embarrassing about being a beginner there's nothing embarrassing about being a beginner and fact himself says it where we have thees ones we have theim the cherubs right the cherubs are what two little babies two cute little babies right why pick two cute babies why didn't he pick's image 10 20 feet tall beat if I was obviously put two little babies why he says he says to us I love you when you act like little babies what kind of little babies the little babies that kind for yearning for more knowledge why I'm new yeah but you're learning to already five years exactly I'm new you're learning to already 15 years exact exactly I'm new I'm a beginner I want more more a kid what does a kid want more of what of anything yeah but it's not allowed but I want more of it but it's not allowed to go there I want more of it though not only only wants to I want more of it loves us when we're beginners we act like beginners we want more there's nothing embarrassment about being a beginner Al we all act as beginners even when we become much more why that's when loves us the most problem is many of us we want to be finishers already old men 16 years old he's an old man already 26 years old he's already a veteran no no I already know this I already know this Rabbi I covered it already covered covered go blanket maybe but that's the problem arrogance ruins people's lives the arrogance of a man is what a who will use to bring his downfall bring his downfall but unfortunately that downfall doesn't happen quick enough at certain times where a person has to cause a lot of damage for himself and others around him thinking that he knows more or she knows more and many times you see this in society today where people simply think that they're much better than what they are you know because they are they don't think that the basics are for them they already want to do the extras and this is a very very big mistake so finalize the question which I think is a fantastic and very very much necessary question is you know a difficulty beginner kumash all that stuff again it all depends on where you stand in your life if early stages anything that you like study it if you're in the process of conversion study what the syllabus says why these are the basic minimum requirements of what you need to know to be a Jew to just handle day-to-day job your abouta same thing study that same syllabus that we have you could download it on our website b.org you could just ask us for it email us whatever it is that syllabus is basic stuff that basic it sounds basic it sounds limited but it's a lot of material it's a lot of material people think they're just going to skip around no no I I I I read all those books okay buddy if you read all those books you be a teacher already problem is people this respect the basics why they think they're better than the basics truth is the basic level of Judaism will take you no less than 20 years to know unless you're something special basic level 20 years of learning straight why it's a lot of information lot of information not not talk about this basic that's just on our syllabus I'm talking about basic level of Judaism basic understanding of what Shabbat is basic understanding of what kosher is basic understanding but people want to skip why arrogance so there's nothing embarrassing about being at the basic level nothing that's why even the biggest Rabbi in the world is always called what's wise student why student why isn't he called a rabbi no no no he's a student the greater he is the more he understands how valuable it is to be a student so this gives us a little bit of a clear understanding of what we need to do to beginners or further along most important thing is to learn but learn kosher Torah furthermore make sure that you double check with your R certain things that you're right that you're wrong what you're studying what you're not studying don't study by yourself you know you have to obviously read commentaries you have to double check with your R if you can get a get a and so on it should always be a combination a combination of books books and in the beginning sometimes books are difficult for certain people because they've never read in their life so shim is all they're going to do that's fine too in the beginning you all just going to watch sh I just spoke to somebody today I told him listen you learning a sh every day for an hour is a big deal you learning a every day for an hour is huge why because right now you're doing zero so if you can get to a point where you can learn a every day for an hour that's huge I'm not even gonna ask you to read a book once you get the urge to see what the rabbi is saying in a book okay we could start that too but for now just get to the get it into your system an hour a day get it into your system as a person grows books start becoming a permanent fixture on his desk you have a mixture of both books and shim why books and shim book is going to teach you a certain subject the usually if it's a good quality is going to cover different subjects different books much more than you can read on your own so you have a mixture of both plus reading is different than hearing it and then little by little a person grows but remember if the Torah is not changing you there's something wrong something wrong because the Torah is powerful enough to not only change you but to change everything around you and everything that even came before you meaning it does doesn't exist anymore but you can change it with the toah which means that if you're not even changing yourself you're not becoming less angry you're not becoming less arrogant you're not becoming more generous you're not becoming more clear-minded you're not improving there's something wrong because your power of the Torah can not only improve you but improve the previous generation like AB fixed and if you're not even fixing yourself surely you're not fixing anything from before you because you're not even fixing yourself there's something wrong with that you have to double check most of the time arrogance is the reason most of the time from my experience most of the time arrogance is the reason you could have certain people learning books know the book read recite the book To You by heart but they're still the same animal that they started why all of these people we drop their names and we say these people have no share of the world to come what do you think they were stupid they were ignorant people each one of them KN knew more Torah than the entire world we have today combined that's how big they were all of them are in gay home to this day why arrogance that's how bad it is that's how bad that's how much of a poison arrogance is arrogance leads to anger arrogance leads to wasting seed arrogance leads to immorality arrogance leads to everything a person is not changed by the tah is a reason usually that's the reason usually that's the reason Tora supposed to soften you so it hopes hopefully hopefully this Touches at least my to work on myself and maybe you guys too anything else you guys are not arrogant I just have to work on myself last question back why did he give the presents to why did he give why did he give to prestar oh who who is maked the question is was why did he give toed after the whole issue with say Sodom and gorah why did he give it to why didn't he just use it for himself for why did he give it toed who's this maled who's maled ised was the that Abu was learning in was the Yesa of Shem and EV who Shem who took who who taught Shem no Noah taught him and before him he had met all the way to all the way to he was the he was who what else what else remained of uh of maled mashia comes from maled how do we know his daughter is Tamar Tamar married y y had two sons from them come M from par comes mashia so fromed which is sh comes mashia so that's why was a good investor don't worry [Applause] [Music] we're very excited to offer you the new app 3.0 it's a newer faster app full of Torah lots of Kusa by the shim that we do myself Rim raim uh where you'll have also newer features where you're able to use the app uh while you're using other applications on your phone you'll be able to share the uh the lectures directly from the app you'll be able to donate online and support our cuve and our Torah work that we're doing and the most exciting feature is that you'll be able to actually ask questions directly on the app and get answers from the rabbis directly 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