What Does Admiration Say About You? - ERA OF MASHIACH (31)

[Music] we are back in our Tuesday night series the era of mhia based on a cont written many years ago by tonight's will be for Lana raana AIG suria David benri Doris b mik b Stefan Ben Karina abah Talia Batar Saha and also for a for Mara juliea Mara Alexander Ben Mara Samuel Ben Mara sha Ben faran OSH benis Gabi benis elad benis David benri and also for a z for our dear friend MIM and the O our very very dear friend to him and to all of the wonderful people that watch our sh support our Tora support our CU work and tried to do whatever they can to bring mhia closer but uh the Jews even closer uh the um Series has been a major wakeup call uh to myself to I think the people that have been watching this series from the beginning uh as we see thatman practically uh gives us a prophecy of uh the news of today the things that are happening today not just of his day but of what we're living into today uh if you didn't know that who it was and you read what he uh wrote you would think that he's a current uh Rabbi that's uh simply talking about what's happening in the news today and uh one of the main things that's uh I believe that's happening in the uh in the series as it's developing we see that each time we go through the series each week that we go through it we go through another small paragraph in the series we're seeing more and more of what he's saying in line with what's actually happening um as we saw from uh this week's par despite his uh past some say that he was like a pope a idol worshipper but some say he was simply a very important person uh and a leader of uh you know of midan over there but needless to say he abandoned everything when he heard the uh extraordinary and awesome God of Israel and what he did for am Isel not just that he freed them from the Egyptians not just that he split yam for them not just those things not just even fighting Amal and winning despite being slaves for so many years and not really having the uh the knowledge of how to fight uh because had we had knowledge to fight maybe we would have fought the Egyptians and perhaps been freed earlier but not only that but rather how Hashem punished the wicked people how hasem punished the wicked Egyptians measure for measure and says when I heard all of this when I saw that hasem punished the Egyptians exactly in the way that they hurt am Isel I knew that there is no other God that's greater than him not that there is other gods theim said say but rather that even the false gods even the false gods that people worship no one ever said anything like that about them but then we see that had extraordinary good character traits extraordinary midot where initially he's standing there all day looking at what mosu is doing all day it says and only toward the end he says to mhe what is it that you're doing what is it that you're doing that uh with with the way you're judging people all by yourself there's a line from here until the end of the Exile you know you're it's not going to be good not for you not for them so he has an idea but he waits he waits to see his Rabbi complete his idea complete his mission complete his plan before he expresses his opinion unlike unfortunately many people today will simply judge a sh by the topic or will judge a book by its cover or will judge a uh you know a a rabbi by a single word that he said out of three 3,000 shim and simply said no no I don't like that Rabbi oh why don't you like that Rabbi oh he said such and such well is that what he said in every lecture in all the lectures no I just heard it once in a clip that was three or four or five minutes and after that I don't like him yeah but maybe you didn't like that one particular thing but had you heard the entire 2our Shure around the surface of what that single statement was maybe you actually would have actually agreed with him or perhaps even more so had you heard maybe 10 or 20 of his lectures read several of his books if he has and perhaps maybe you see that you're not so different after all and maybe you are in the wrong and he's in the right but no today the confused the generation to judge the righteous as wicked and to WR to judge the wicked as righteous now the question is is obviously this is not good but the point is the question is what is the consequence what is the consequence of such things somebody came with a question of what if a person wants to change his uh his uh the way he's serving hasem where he is Safari and he wants to become akazi now on a simple surface of things I mean is that allowed technically it's allowed Al it's allowed but should he do it could he do it that's a different question why because it all depends on whether he is doing it for the right reason so that's the question that you should before saying yes or no as a rabbi or as anybody you have to say why does he want to change from being Safari to ashkanazi or from ashkanazi to Safari and in this particular case this uh this person said well because he decided or he he's has the belief that um the uh the current people that he's with don't have the full story and they supported Trump when in reality the the the good winner the Biden uh which sounds very similar with bedin which was with judgment uh you know he is uh he's the right guy so he can't find anybody among his community to uh to agree with him so he figured so maybe he could change to a different Community pray from a different sidu you know uh don't eat a rice on PES or if he's going to go to ashkanazi or eat rice on PES even if he's and so on and so forth you know he's just going to change everything why because the social club that he calls synagogue doesn't agree with him doesn't agree with what he likes and therefore he figures that is uh maybe the other the other part of the Jewish people are going to agree with him now I know that the some of you that have been watching my shim you're laughing at this right now saying is this a real question it's % a real question and it's not one person or two people that three people that ask these types of questions countless people ask these types of questions because they lack learning they lack the understanding and I'm not even talking about necessarily always the questioner sometimes the questioner is asking for somebody uh so it's not necessarily always the question but the reality is this shows that the person that wants to change does not view the synagogue as a place to serve a but rather as a social club the person that that's asking this question that the person that wants to make this change does not view what Torah values are versus what his personal opinion is he thinks that his personal opinion is Torah values why because his hero is Joe Biden where the other people in his community's hero is Donald Trump now everybody knows that from day one I've never been a very a very big fan of any of these politicians whether it be Trump or Hillary or or whoever else ran whoever wants generally speaking I've always said this even before did me the or bringing me back in closer to him I've always said and I've always will say to be a politician you have to be a criminal simple the word politician comes from a Greek word of tick blood suckers and that's in fact literally from Hashem himself putting this in their in the people's head oh yeah you're going to call these people that run governments and make all the rules and and all that stuff you're going to call them after tick why cuz they're blood suckers and that's the reality when people admire politicians whether it be Trump or it be Biden or it be Osama or it be Obama or be whoever it's going to be the reality is is that you have to ask yourself what does your admiration of this person say about you and of course this is exactly what man is telling us today if I mean the person that asked this question 15 minutes ago didn't know about this Shield but now you're going to see how amazing Hashem Works how precise Hashem is that he literally created the whole world with this in mind now we see that has extraordinary midot despite his background of being extremely successful popular rich and everything else he sits there like a good little boy waiting for his Rabbi to finish the job so he can understand what it is before he expresses his opinion why because the rabbi obviously knows better than me after he sees everything done he says listen I have an idea I have an idea because what you're doing it's good I'm not saying it's bad Shalom and as you look at the commentaries that's exactly what he's saying he's not saying that what mhu is doing is bad it's good what you're doing but it could be done better how could it be done better if you have some helpers you delegate you delegate and you make the entire judicial system that we have today now sometimes people want to delegate things from the rabbis to themselves they figure that the rabbis don't know what they're talking about because figure the rabbis are learning they're learning they're learning what are the rabbis know about medicine what are the rabbis know about politics what do the rabbis know about business they don't know anything these rabbis they're just learning these These Old ancient books what do they know little do they know that what they're saying and what they're thinking is a desecration of a Torah first of all and second of all it's also wrong why everything is in it everything is in it says the mishna delve into it and delve into it because everything is in it all seven wisdoms that exist in the world are in the Torah mathematical knowledge business knowledge medical knowledge obviously alic historical everything and anything you could possibly want is inside the Torah and anyone that spends a little bit of time just learning about the sages not even talking about learning Tora just go pick yourself up the bio about was go go pick yourself up the bio about radya go even further go pick yourself up the bio about Rashi or the bio about the G Vila or go pick up yourself some of the stories that are told about our sages and what they did in their life the businesses they ran the the the empires they buildt the extraordinary communities they were a part of and built and so on and so forth and you tell me you think you're smarter than these people people obviously not but you think you're smarter than the local Rabbi because you figure yeah okay the if he was my Rabbi I would listen to him CU surely he knows more but this local guy that's only 20 30 40 50 something 60 something what does he know he's just like me puts his pants on one leg at a time he's just a Rabbi reads some old books this is as ridiculous as can be what makes it even more ridiculous is that you ask the guy okay so who do you admire who is your superhero and they start throwing you some names and the names get worse by the second first they tell you their favorite politician whether it be this one or that one like wait so so this guy's this guy he's your he's your superhero this Biden is your superhero so you know that you know who the person is by his the fruits that he produces right so you realize that his son is a pedophile you don't know that right it's not like a he's a pedophile that's like put and no one knows about him he's actually a pedophile that's very much involved in his father's whole Enterprise in fact he's very likely to run for president one day if everything goes as as as planned you realize that that's the fruit there is also similar sayings about the father but that's a different story you admire that guy you admire the guy that has been caught lying on camera more times than he was caught saying the truth that's the the guy you admire you admire the guy that just a week ago was on tape recorded recorded signing a document while he's saying I don't know what I'm signing and that's the guy you admire that's your hero okay no problem no oh no what you admire Trump I don't admire Trump either what the womanizer the adulterer The Arrogant person that celebrated firing people and embarrassing them in public no we don't admire him either but just again we're not comparing him to him We're comparing who you admire and what you admire and you're admiring these politicians okay so now okay forget about politicians Rabbi I also admire big businessmen all right so tell me which big businessman you admire or I admire Warren Buffett ah Warren Buffett why you admire Warren Buffett oh cuz Warren Buffett made a lot of money now let me ask you a question after he dies how much of that money can he take with him well nothing Rabbi he can't take nothing with him well okay so what can he take with him well nothing what's left of him well his name what is his name is his name Burk sh hawick that's the name of the company it's not his name yeah but it'll always be connected to him wrong it will not always be connected to him it will be connected to whoever is running the company and trust me when I tell you as soon as the rich guy that built the building and put his name on the building dies somebody else with a bigger ego puts his name on the building as if he built it same thing with the company now you're going to be say what else did he do well you look at his family life his kids barely even know who he is his wife left him his his his his billions and billions of dollars are literally sitting in some bank account in stocks and bonds while he still eats the same one1 to2 breakfast every single day that's what you admire okay well I also admire you know I admire a let's see uh the guy from Amazon he's the richest guy in the world I mean he built a great company you're right Jeff Bezos did build a great company that I use every single day in fact I like Amazon so much sometimes if I have absolutely nothing to do and I'm in a place that I can't learn you know what I do I go to Amazon just to look for something it's a fantastic company but it doesn't mean you should admire the person why cuz he's also known if you read his bio you read the stories about him it's not the same as our sages why what do they say about Jeff Bezos they say that he's such a vicious person every single day people leave the meetings with him crying hysterical that's who you admire you admire a person like that you admire a person that supports liberalism that's anti- Tor that's who you admire I'm not saying don't use the product we're talking about the person no no no I actually admire my iPhone producer the the guy jobs oh The Atheist you admire an atheist you admire a person that thinks we came from nothing and we end up being nothing but yet right three seconds before he died he says maybe I should have looked at this a little further maybe I should have looked at this whole God thing a little further so in essence admitting that his entire life was a mistake that's who you admire fire and also had a reputation for destroying people's lives and so on and stealing and so on and so forth now the point is that people admire the results people have in something they want but yet they think that makes those people admirable they admire Messi because he can kick a ball really really good they admire Michael Jacks because he can sing and dance you're not looking at the person you're looking at certain things they did and unfortunately you're not noticing it and you start celebrating these people I saw this uh you know his mini documentary about some guy that uh is a businessman seems like a very nice fellow poor guy will do chuva he is he claims that his biggest success in life was that after Kobe Bryant the basketball player that cheated on his wife and got caught but then to say save his marriage bought his wife a multi-million ring that guy after he died tragically with his daughter he wanted to celebrate his name what did he do he got a car with his face on it and his daughter's face on it and that's how he got his big high five from the entire Los Angeles community and anybody likes the the LA Lakers basketball team he thinks that's his biggest success in life I mean the reality is the same guy that did it in 5 10 20 years from now is going to cry Tears of Blood of how how stupid what he did was how much money he wasted how much time he wasted and in reality how stupid what he did was why you admired a person that had a horrific horrific personal life because he knows how to shoot a ball you admire a person that got to become president as a result of different types of scams that he did because of that but not because of the other things you're admiring people for the wrong reason is the point and unfortunately you're not alone almost everybody does it people admire soccer players and baseball players and celebrities and rich people and people on TV you know people admire all these rich hedge fund managers I myself always looked up to some of these hedge fund managers for their career never admired them as people I read about them I know about them some of them at least about their personal lives and some of them are quite interesting people but the reality is people that admire those people people they're not admiring them for the right reasons why you're admiring them for what they have not who they are and that is a very big mistake why because when you realize what they what they are and not what they have you realize that what they have is not worth it as if that's what makes you who you are you see this type of stuff is what kills the Jewish people generation after generation it's what kills Society generation after generation we admire the wrong people for the wrong reasons and unfortunately this is happening now and I thank AEM that uh Trump has left office not because I think Biden will be good I actually think Biden will be terrible for everybody but I think the fact that so many Jewish people admired him almost to the extent of thinking of him as a messiah I think it's good that hasem believed us of this sin of idolatry of how much admiration he got now again that that does that mean good for the Jewish people or at least means less sins doesn't necessarily mean good why because the guy that's there now is not exactly the most pro-jewish person on planet Earth if we could say now the reality is is that if we continue admiring these people the local guy that's the rich guy and he comes to bitet once a year and he donates a half a million and everybody says as we heard last week in a story about yob n who his community found the SE t seph t in the bathroom and started crying over it and he says to them what did you forget that when that that heretic Rich Jew came to the community you celebrated his coming by taking out the out of thees in his honor so that's it what hasem is telling you is that you took in his honor this AOS this enemy of hasem you took the in his honor it's better that they go in the bathroom instead of going to his honor why are you so surprised we admire people that for the wrong reasons we admire what they have but we make it into who they are because we assume that because they have it therefore they are something else a guy like Michael Jackson people admired him and stilled this day admire this pedophile a guy that literally has damaged more young children than probably anybody else during his era but yet people still admire him because he could dance and he turned his skin into a different color and he can make a ton of money and pretend like he's Disneyland this is a guy people admired back then but even worse they admire him after was confirmed he was a pedophile what does that say what does that say about us when we admire such people this is what is going to answer tonight it is era of Masia where he told us about all of the bad Shepherds that we've had throughout the history and will have at the time before mashia all of the bad Shepherds all of the bad leaders that will lead us astray either the politicians or the rabbis or the uh different Community leaders wherever they are is going to be many of them and as specifies in the name of shim that the vast majority of rabbis at the last generation will be means enemy of is enemy of the mashia they're going to fight the mashia now don't worry your Rabbi may not be but he may be who knows the key is to know that there is signs indications who's who's not there's indications what's right what's wrong there's actual Clarity who's what's right what's wrong but we have to learn toer that has told us that there's going to be many bad Shepherds that lead us astray in our day just like there was in his day and he blames the all the fault on those bad leaders taking the rest of the nation the sheep that follow them follow the bad leaders for the wrong reasons follow them because of what they have and not what they are follow them and that let us let the whole flock of sheep off the cliff one after another generation after generation and unfortunately won't be so different today during the time of mashia unless people do Chu and every single day we get more and more messages of more people doing chuva but no matter how many we get it's still not enough if it's five if it's 10 if it's 5,000 or 10,000 it still won't be enough until every single Jew comes back to because the reality is the more you deal with the more you feel bad for them and for that this person if he doesn't do Chu he's doomed there is no Chua after mashia comes if mashia shows up and this person has not started keeping Shabbat and doing chat has not stopped wasting seed has not stopped being an adulterer has not stopped doing all the things that are forbidden according to the Torah he will not see anything good and you have to feel bad for that he has such a son that he has such a daughter that he has such a people that do not know right or left because they're too busy admiring politicians Superstars celebrities and bunch of other so much so that this has infected this epidemic that has lasted for thousands of years of admiring the wrong people has hurt us for generations and unfortunately has even infected rabbis this is why says to M if you're going to pick judges to run this new Judicial System make sure these people know Tor have and do not care for money not saying they're homeless on the street but money is not their God because if money is their God they can be bought their judgment can be bought and unfortunately there wasn't enough people that were able to be judges that hated money and hence we see later on in the Torah that the same judges that mhu put in power 250 judges that he put in power all of them went against MH by joining and killed every single one of them why they could have all the knowledge in the world they could have all of the money in the world they could have all of the opinions of the world they could have all of the reputation in the world and they will never be able to change a single UD a single letter in the Holy Torah the second they went against the Torah by going against mosenu they already signed their own death penalty and that's what's going to happen to every single person who does not do this is not the scare you this is to warn you simple there's a stop sign not to scare you to warn you if you blow the stop sign you can get killed simple you don't believe it go ahead try your luck the traffic sign has red has yellow has green the green tells you go do what you got to do yellow is a warning don't get in TR don't go too fast you have to slow down why cuz red is coming red is not a warning red is simply instruction stop or you're going to die this is what this is it's simply telling people to wake up from their own Slumber of admiring Wicked people pedophiles admiring people that care less about you admire these rich people as if they're Heroes little do you know they're the very same people that are operating against your average investor your average entrepreneur because they can manipulating markets manipulating governments trust me I was in a business business for 20 years I was in the market business I know all about it I know about the politicians that take advantage of Insider information policies the government has in order to benefit themselves it's not a surprise to me that your average politician that makes $150,000 a year lives in a 10 20 $30 million house mathematically it should never work why even if you worked in politics for a thousand years he still wouldn't be able to afford that house but yet they each do why because they do things for themselves by taking advantage of things that you can't you would go to jail for the things that they do but they're allowed to do it same thing with other rich people you think that oh this guy's a superhero he's telling us about his new idea that he's investing in his fund how gracious of him how nice of him no he's just promoting his own investment and you're the fool that's following simple he just wants to make money you if you want to follow it because it's a good idea go for it but don't think that makes him a good person that just makes him a good marketer but that's the reality people admire people for the wrong reasons and says here what that tells about us what does that tell about us he says the following he brings a PUK he brings a PUK from The Book of Proverbs Book of Proverbs CH 27: 2 one that says says it said in the Book of Proverbs the refining pot is for silver and the furnace is for gold and a man is Tried by his praise what does this mean when a person wants to is jewelry business and he wants to know whether what this customer is giving him is real silver he has to put it in the refining pot to see what percentage of this metal that he's giving him is real silver versus nothing versus something that's worthless why he's not going to pay you 27 25 20 whatever the price is of silver is he's not going to pay you that price for the the whole piece of metal you're giving him he's only going to pay you that price for the actual silver part so he has to refine it same thing with gold you go take your piece of jewelry that you paid 51 $20,000 for to Your Jeweler to your pawn shop to somebody that's going to buy gold which there's plenty of Jews in that business and if they're honest it's good for them it's a good business if they're not honest is mayem save them from their own sins point being is you're going to take that piece of gold jewelry and say listen I want to sell it I bought this jewelry for 10 20 $30,000 because it says Louis vuan it says uh I don't know what whatever other names are in a jewelry business this uh these different designers oh you know Jacob the Jeweler designed it for me I I want you to pay me that go Hey listen I'm sorry it doesn't say Jacob it doesn't say Jeweler it doesn't say Tiffany it doesn't say biffany doesn't say nothing all says to me 18 Carriage uh 14 carage 24 that's all it says to me it doesn't say to me nothing why that I'm buying the gold I don't care how much you paid for the gold I don't care how much you pay for the jewelry I'm buying whatever is here is gold that's what I'm paying for net net weight why because I'm going to take this jewelry that means so much to you at a certain point in your life and doesn't mean so much to you today I'm going to take it I'm going to melt it but remember this piece of jewelry that you have already the brand name unless it's a very very fancy brand name is worthless and 9 out of 10 times they are worthless and second of all it's not all gold part of it is some waste of time metal that is needed in order to harden the metal in order to have the metal do what it's doing bend a certain way look a certain way and so on and so forth so what is he going to do he's going to take your gold and put it in a furnace now that's a sight to be seen you put this gold in the furnace and you see it all turn to Lava it's unbel it's a beautiful sight this be seen and then you see your piece of jewelry and a turn into a little piece of liquid over there he said okay listen you have this gold over here but before he puts it into the furnace he uh he tested and so on and so forth in the end he's going to tell you and again if you're in a jewelry business don't rip my head apart if I'm not doing your exact process of how you're refining jewelry point being is he tell you listen this piece of gold you it's weighing let's say I don't know uh uh 2 ounces big piece of jewelry good out of the 2 ounces only one ounce is actual gold the other ounce is nothing so I'm going to pay you one ounce of gold one ounce of gold right now is I don't know whatever it is it's a $1,500 $2,000 whatever it is today that's what I'm going to pay you you're going to look hold on a sec what do you mean I paid $155,000 for this you going to pay me $1,500 goes yeah and I'm giving you top dollar I'm giving you uh 90% of the money what 90% I just lost 90% goes no no no khabibi listen your gold is only worth your your jewelry is only worth its weight in gold your jewelry is only worth its weight in Silver not the brand name and not the other extra fluff that's on top of it all I'm looking for is the actual met precious metal itself whatever you paid for it is not my business the only thing that's of value here is the actual metal itself the precious metal itself you have here 1 oz of gold you have here 10 oz of silver you have here a few hundred or a few thousand at best or you can go to my friend next door or 500,000 other people on 47 Street and other places around the world that will pay you the same thing more or less what would you want I have somebody waiting behind you and that's what it is and the guy finds out this piece of jewelry that he thought he's going to pay $18 mortgages with can't even pay a single monthly payment for tuition why cuz that's all it's worth that's what schl is saying in the first part and he says a person a person what is he worth what is a person worth is is a person worth what forb says his net worth is or what is bank statement say what a stock portfolio says how many good stocks he picked how many piece of real estate he bought part that went up how many communities he developed and and and built buildings what is he worth how nice is talit is how shiny his keep is how long is bearded what is he worth says a person is worth his value is based on who he values why because who he values who his hero is who he Myers that tells us everything about him what about the money that he made worthless what about the the the people that uh he did business with worthless what about nothing who does he admire who does she admire who's your superhero young woman calls into R fr's live shoe just uh a day or two ago and asks him Rabbi can I admire this famous uh non-jewish singer and he says to her why why would you admire and she says well he's he sings so good and he dances and he does this and he does that and he says this guy's an adulterer this guy is a promiscuous person this guy sings about all types of filthy things all day this guy's a wicked person why would you admire such a person the poor girl got doesn't even know what hit her she she felt like he just cursed her father out oh how could you say that he's my hero I love him I would marry him you would marry this no this adulterer this this this filthy person you would marry this person you know what kind of miserable life you would be you would have you would marry this person but that's what happens AB because we put ourselves in the wrong tune is a your mind is supposed to be tun to the rules ofm T instead it was tuned to instead of T it's so instead of admiring who people are we admire what they have and unfortunately that leads us to many bad marriages many bad business relationships many bad relationships period says you can tell everybody this simple rule just like your piece of jewelry its value is based on how much gold has its value is based on how much silver it has your weight your your value is based on who you admire who you praise and continues and he says how shall man be tried in order that his inner self may be known meaning how do you get to know how do you know the inside of a person he can say whatever he wants to say but if he acts differently then what he says it's like the P that Isaiah said in the name of in their mouth and their lips they honored me but their hearts were far away from me some people say one thing but they do something else unfortunately we see this all over the world in the business world in the rabinal world the guy says yeah I love hm I love hem while he's a uh raping little children he says I I love people I love people I love people while he has businesses that are hurting people we see this all the time people that are simply Hypocrites but they're Hypocrites with strategy they tell you they love you while they stab you in the back just to make sure that by the time you heard their completion of the sentence you already died because too late for you to feel the pain now is bringing us and all of what he's saying today this entire paragraph is in the name ofu one of the one of the earlier sages that was a of the family of the ran that wrote and he writes the following he says how how should man be tried in order that his inner self be known through Those whom he Praises we must see those whom he Praises if he always Praises good people it's a sign that he too is basically good if this guy always says listen Rabbi this guy is a good guy why is he a good guy oh he does good things he gives he's generous he serves hem he keeps Shabbat he's a if he's not Jewish he's a righteous noahide and so on and so forth well how much money does he have I don't know how much money did he donate to you I don't know what does he do for a living I don't know oh so you're judging him based on the things that he actually does and not necessarily what he has not his bankroll okay so you're judging people that are good constantly you're constantly looking up to people that are good why why they're good no you praise people that are good on a regular basis that means that you're good that means that the inside you are pure you're good because that's who you admire you admire people that you want to be like and if you want to be like the good people that shows a lot about yourself if it is his bent to praise Wicked people evil doers it shows that he too is to be counted among them if your superhero are a bunch of wicked people what does that say says and in his name it says that you are wicked and you're going to say wait a minute why just because I admir Kobe Bryant LeBron James and Michael Jackson and Donald Trump and and and Joe Biden and Osama bin Laden and Obama and all these people makes me a wicked person yes yeah makes you a wicked person that's offensive Rabbi let it be offensive it's true why you admire Wicked people why because inside you are one simple well I didn't do I didn't do anything Wicked I didn't kill nobody you don't have to kill anybody to be Wicked you don't have to kill anybody to be Wicked killing somebody does make you Wicked but it's not the only thing that makes you Wicked it's not the only thing that makes you evil the local drug dealer doesn't think that he's a evil person he says no I'm not killing nobody I'm just giving them what they uh what they want I had a young Jewish kid I had a young Jewish kid who says he went to Yeshiva I don't really believe him but anyway he says he went to Yeshiva and I had after one of my talks in uh in this community after the year he says wait so according to you according to me like I made the rules like I was at Mount sa over there with and said Len meet here you go I'm going to give both to you the Torah like as if it's my rules he say so according to you Rabbi um you really can't sell drugs you're saying I said you mean like drugs that are illegal drugs said yeah whatever illegal or uh you know whatever you want to call I of course you're know why not I'm just providing a service this is what he said to me and I have a witness one of my I'm telling you there was a bunch of people next to us I couldn't believe my ey I wanted to start crying I wanted to start crying the little kid this little I know 14 15 year old kid this little peanut got the education of the malit his teacher may have been Hitler or something I don't know some some somebody taught this kid that providing people drugs is providing a service like right it's not my fault that they want to take it they want it I'm selling it I want to make money they want to take drugs it's their problem that's the mentality of a wicked person but not just Wicked evil evil of course that kid could do chva of course and other people that doing evil things can do chva everybody can change if they want to as one of my students recently wrote the choices that you make the the decision that you make are your choice meaning that whatever you decide not to change or the changes I'm sorry the changes that you make that's your choice meaning that if you want to make a change or you don't want to make a change you want to change for the good you want to change for the bad that's your free choice in Ence you can do it you can stay a murderer you could stay an evil person or you could be a good person depends you could still continue selling people products that are bad pretending that they're good you can still continue providing people people service that's going to destroy their business you can continue doing all types of wicked things or you could change now what does that have to do with the people that you admire because the people that you admire they do what you want to do you admire their life because of what they do and what they're doing for sure is wicked if they're Wicked people therefore you yourself are wicked by default now continues and he says if he praises the evildoers it shows that he too is to be counted among them when we hear whom these religion nationalists these um thei modern Orthodox type who they're praising as we learned in the previous shim they uh praise the Zionist leaders that hated the tah they praised these Zionist leaders that were helping the Christians recruit Jews to their uh to their uh idol worship they uh they praise all types of atheist missionaries and so on and so forth we see who they admire we can know their character meaning I don't need to get to know every single modern Orthodox person or the me person specific specifically of his day in order to know what the overall mentality is I don't need I'm S I don't need to know his personal what you see what the overall mentality is if you see that the entire Community is more inclined to celebrate a Super Bowl party more inclined to celebrate a NHL tournament some hockey tournament more inclined to celebrate a the debates among the uh presidential campaigns rather than a completion of the entire gar or r or any they're more excited more people showing up to watch the uh political debate in the synagogue more people are showing up to the charitable poker tournament in the synagogue more people are showing up to the Super Bowl party in a Thanksgiving party in the synagogue then they are showing up to a that shows you what the community is and also shows you what the leaders are the leaders that are catering to them are no different to them don't think for a second no he's only having the Super Bowl party and the and the chess party and the uh the the Thanksgiving party and the political party and all this party because he's cering to his community in hopes that in between the halftime show dancing and and pl and immorality and everything they're going to learn maybe a DA they're going to learn a little bit of a kabur they're going to learn a little bit of Torah together we have a rule in theor no Mitzvah is made in a way of sin no Mitzvah is made by way of sin he's having that party because he also wants to watch football he also wants to have Thanksgiving he also wants to play poker he also wants to be part of the whole thing he is just like them he's one of those Shepherds that unfortunately is misdirecting his community what if he doesn't have it they're not going to come don't come don't come well then he's going to have an empty Community who says you how did am survive for the last 3,000 years poker tournaments Super Bowl parties Thanksgiving dinners am is never had such things until the recent Generations am is survived because they ran away from such filth that's how survived you're only still a Jew in this world because of those Jews that ran away from that garbage all of those these these uh people that became Greeks in their mentality by watching sports and other waste of life admiring a bunch of uh uh Warriors instead of admiring the sages all of those people simply disappeared off the face of the earth now unfortunately you still have some of them today they're not related to the ones from 2,000 years ago they're unfortunately related to the ones of today generation two generations three generations that's it why the ones from 2,000 years ago a gun the ones from 500 years ago a gun the ones that are today that are admiring the your your your basketball players your football players your Wall Street Tycoon the all those people they're just from now they're from now and if they don't change if they don't do Chua if their kids don't start waking up and realizing T is the only thing to admire the sages are the only thing to admire the only thing to admire is the only thing to admire they too will be gone why because when you admire the wicked you become the wicked and when you are wicked eventually has to destroy the person and we'll see written written proof by the of this being exactly what I'm saying says that when we hear about who these modern Orthodox types of people are praising we know what their character is and it's clear the one who loves the Torah cannot love its enemies one who honors the Torah cannot honor those who degrade the Torah as says the honoring of the evildoers is just like job said in chapter 31:2 is a fire which completely destroys I honoring the wicked people is a fire that completely destroys now you have people that are going to disagree with every single word that I said just far so let's go to a little bit of sources sources that sources that is quoting one of them is third gate section 148 saying about 800 years ago those who belittle Torah scholar and his fear of hasem abgate this awareness and through their behavior they manifest the exact opposite of what they are supposed to be doing to serve asem as if they're declaring that serving AEM is not of primary importance that honor and Glory lie in the success found through worldly Affairs that there exists something fundamental aside from servicing of hem and they also desecrate the toah says the people that think that there is something more important in the world than serving hasem Jew or Gentile you think that there is something more important than doing everything Hashem says you think that the worldly effect money and otherwise is much more important it's of higher priority even if you say that listen this is important and this is important they're equal that type of mentality is a desecration of a says so what happens to such a person who desecrates that way consequently they will perish from the congregation and will be destroyed as a result of what they say for they serve AEM rft of Torah study he says he's not talking about secular people that are violating Shabbat marrying toim and so on no no he's talking about religious people he's talking about people within our communities that are keeping Shabbat keeping kosher they build a Suk they eat you know mat p and so on but they think that their business they think that the political situation they think that Corona virus knowledge they think that there's anything more important in serving and how do they rationalize it they rationalize by saying No this too is a way to serve AEM they rationalize it that in itself is an error in the fundamentals although you're allowed to make a living although you're allowed to be successful even no problem I always tell people if you're already going to work be the best of what you do make billions but don't make that your God don't make that your whole life work just enough to do what you need to do without disturbing the amount of Torah that you need to learn and practice but if you're going to make your business life your reputation your marketing all revolve around your aspirations for money and cavod and so on you are admiring something more than AEM and that can lead to destruction destruction is permanent then goes and elaborates further in same third gate but in section 187 in a section called cut the class of flatterers all of these so called rabbis and Community people that kiss up to the local rich people that show up to the besset once or twice a year or perhaps even every week driving on Shabbat but no one says a thing why because he donates a h 100,000 a year he donates a million dollars a year so why should I say anything like this young poor kid who didn't even know he's not Jewish told tells me one time listen I uh I just came back from the IDF I served in the Israeli Army I this I that so I talked to him for a little while and I said okay who's this who's that and I find out that his father converted his mother oh I said wow is a uh it's very interesting your father converted your mom converted okay that's good oh so your uh your your parents are very religious he goes well I mean they're not religious like you I said what do you mean she goes well I mean you know it's say you probably don't drive on Shabbat I said no OB obviously not no why well your father drives on Shabbat cuz yeah he drives to beet he does a few things but he doesn't work said wait so your father drives on Shabbat but your mom is a convert and he says yeah so what she did she drive on shabat also CU yeah she always drove so I'm looking at okay this already sounds like a fishy conversion so I don't tell him everything yet I'm just talking and talking to the kid and then little by little I find out that his mom converted and his his father is a Coen his father is a Coen a Coen is not allowed to marry a convert meaning the marriage is not allowed and his mom is not a real convert and I tell him like by the way this is not allowed some of the things I give him a little insight he doesn't even know what's right or left so I'm trying to like plant some seeds here he says to me no come on listen my father may not be as religious as you but you know how much he donates said no I don't know how much he Don he goes listen him and Mr Goldenberg they are the biggest donors every they compete who's going to buy and and they're always my father's always at least 100,000 or more and then I find out who facilitated this entire of a Coen Marrying an illegitimate convert and a bunch of kids coming out of it that are illegitimate kids that are not supposed to even think that they're Jewish because they're not Jewish who is doing all this the rabbi the rabbi did all of this why did he do it because the is one of these flatterers that he didn't want to tell the guy the truth because the guy is giving him too much money and he's not the only one and he's not the first one and he's not unfortunately the last one already wrote about him and people like him 800 years ago asks how did how did kak convince 250 of the biggest rabbis in the world that M put into Power how did K convince all of them without exception to go against the same says money money they he bought their opinion with money but not all at once 100,000 here a million over there a building over here a over there and little by little his opinion becomes d t little by little his opinion becomes the opinion of a t in their mind and unfortunately this happens until today many many people claim to be rabbis but unfortunately they do not tell their Community Wicked people the truth because they're afraid of losing donations this is murder this is outright murder but it's not me saying laai is about to say it right now he already said it 800 years ago I'm just going to repeat it and section 187 in the third gate says the following the first category of is of flatterers because there are a uh nine categories of different types of flatterers it's flatterers who recognize or sees and knows that his fellow his hand is Tainted with sins with iniquity and yet he Embraces deceit despite it being a sin and this person that's knows that his friend is a sinner knows his friend is a thief knows his friend is a liar knows his friend is a Shabbat knows his friend is murdering people with his business and with his all types of behaviors he knows all of this but he smooth talks him with an evil tongue and says you've committed no wrong you're a sadik Mr Goldenberg you're a sadik Mr Smith you're a sadik Mr Shalom sadik the guy drove to SCH on Shabbat sadik the guy lent $5 million this week at an interest rate of 70 80% average how is that sadik sadik the guy just ordered 1020 Million worth of goods with an intention to never pay the supplier what kind of sadik you know all of this about him and he still saying sadik why because he gave some money to your synagogue or your Shiva that's called an evil tongue he knows he's committed wrong and he says no no you did nothing wrong just it's just go you're doing it to you know you could take ADV who says you could take advantage of go it's the opposite it's the opposite the r and many other poas we've discussed in the past say it's worse worse to steal from than it is to steal from Jews worse white it's also oh he said no but he didn't mean to what do you mean he didn't mean to his whole business practice is like that he charged people a bunch of retainer fees knowing he can't provide the service and you know all of this so then you're not continues saying not only has the flatterer this fake leader this fake Rabbi not only is the flatter or he could be even his fake friend he has a religious friend you know some of my uh some people that I know tell me listen you know I've always been religious but I got a couple of uh you know friends of mine in my office you know they're not so religious you know what do you mean they're not so religious yeah you know this guy is going out with a non-jew that girl she married to a non-jew this guy he's uh this he doesn't he eats uh you know a yum poo this guy this I said these are your friends or these people just work in your office go no no you know they're friends they come over for birthday parties they come over for for this kind of friends do you have why don't you tell them something no you know I don't want to ruin the friendship I don't want to tell them about Shabbat or this oh you know wait so you're telling me you're inviting them all over to shabbat every week on a regular basis for years already and you never told them not to drive on Shabbat they're coming to your house with a car they're leaving your house with a car on Shabbat and you don't say a word no no why is that something wrong yeah you're you're You're a murderer that's what's wrong what do you mean I didn't do nothing you did everything you have the knowledge because you're religious either you B CH or you grew up religious doesn't really make a difference you know that you're not let to drive on Shabbat and you're not even telling them this you're not telling them that they're going to destroy their lives your friend your brother your sister is married to a non-jew and you're not to them that they're literally in serious serious trouble their life is online you're not crying you're not you're not in a situation where you're literally just begging these people to at the very least watch a sh no I sent them a couple of sh but they didn't want to watch and they said stop sending it to me so I stopped sending it oh so it's okay they're committing suicide just because they said no that's it finished you're just going to let them commit suicide well I don't want to ruin the Friendship what's friendship who needs friends like you you're a flatterer you're a person tell me he's doing nothing wrong this is a sin it's a very big sin why is it a sin says not only has the flatterer committed the transgression of withholding the reproof the rebuke as the P says in Leviticus 197 reprove your fellow man and do not bear a sin because of him so not only did he violate this mitvah from the that you have to rebuke your brother not only that that's a sin itself but he furthers sins by saying you have not sinned this Faker knows that the guy is a criminal against AEM which is the biggest criminal you could possibly be to be a criminal against AEM it's much worse than being a criminal against another person he tells the guy no you're not a sinner you're a good guy I know your heart you mean well I know that you know the besset is is far from you because your your Mansion is 40 minutes away but you know what God's proud of you because you could be driving anywhere today you could be driving anywhere today but you chose to drive to Sho that shows what kind of great character you are you actually said this to people I read this somebody sent me an article that some I don't even know what to call him some Rabbi celebrated this he celebrated this he said he celebrated that he told one of his community people that drove to on Shabbat drove on Shabbat he tells him come on I'll give you an Aliyah and the guy says listen Raba you can't give me an Aliyah meaning the guy knows he can't get an alah can't go up to so RAB no no no everybody gets an alyah you get an alah no Rabbi I can't I can't why can't you everybody else getting Al why can't you get because listen Rabbi I drove here I drove here and this Faker says to him listen you could have driven everywh where on Shabbat you could have driven anywhere and you chose to drve drive to Shem knows your heart he wants you to get what a what a desecration of a name now does that mean that you don't give Al to anyone to drive on Shabbat no not necessarily not necessarily not necessarily what's the ruling ruling is you cannot give anyone one of the seven on Shabbat the seven now to give them if you want to maybe to bring the person closer and you don't want them to feel so different because he still doesn't realize that he has to keep Shabbat just like a cow keep Shabbat he has to keep Shabbat he has to realize he doesn't realize that yet but you don't want him to feel so you know as an outsider so what do you do what did some big did say listen one of the seven you're not going to give him why because it's forbidden from forbidden to give he says say am one says says you don't say Amen you're not to give an Aliyah but what are so how come some big rabbis gave Al they never gave them one of the seven never gave one of the what they give him they give him a m what's m that's like the eth n 10 15 20 they just add alot just for you know Community Unity that's it there's no obligation no one needs to say am in to Their Blessings no one should say Amen to Their Blessings the point being is they're not relieving anybody of obligations if you're going to give an that would be one of them but either way you don't celebrate this you don't say oh listen I give but this is what's happening today why flatterers not only did he not rebuke him withholding the rebuke but he told him he did nothing wrong you drove on Shabbat when you could have driven anywhere this is double S as the PUK says in Jeremiah 23:14 they have strengthened the hand of the wicked they have strengthened the way the hands of the evildoers this is a serious transgression in the hand of the foolish flatterer for he is not zealous for the truth but AB bets falsehood declaring evil to be good and making light Into Darkness he also places a pitfall before the sinner himself from two Vantage points meaning not only is it a sin for this fake Rabbi flatterer or friend whoever he is not only is it a sin for him but elaborates now and says no it's not only evil for him to do it from his own perspective against AEM it's evil for him to do it for the ual person he's doing it for like you think that you're giving this guy Cav by giving him an alyah or pretending like he's not driving to sh on Shabbat for the last 20 years you're acting as if he's religious calling him righteous sadik sadik you think you're doing him a favor wrong elaborates he says he hurts this person from two Vantage points first as a result of this flattery The Sinner does not regret the evil that he's doing meaning this guy is not even thinking about doing Chua he's not even thinking about doing chuva now anyone that saw my sh about Gom knows that GOM has seven Parts seven Chambers and each chamber has chambers within it there's one chamber called the seven chamber of G where whoever goes in there doesn't come out and it's mentioned it's mentioned and many many other places the ran and many other discuss this chamber of G where whoever goes in doesn't come out one of those people is someone that violates Shabbat and people know he's violating Shabbat he doesn't care goes to the seventh place in G forever doesn't come out of there gets permanently punished for eternity until the is destroyed and the the part of God if you will returns to God and that's it there is the part of him is gone there is no him there is no her anymore now if that person that violated Shabbat that violated Shabbat at some point regrets it says you know what I should have kept Shabbat and then he dies the next day without even keeping Shabbat yet he hasn't kept shat yet but he regrets it just a little bit say you know what I see how these religious people that ended up having a much more successful life than me I see how these people their kids are married to Jews this kids are married to Goyo ah you know what I should kept Shabbat he realized it and it gives him some sorrow and he says I'm sorry to hm a second just a v I'm sorry hasem just a little bit that in itself that in itself can take him out of the permanent Gom now he's still going to go to Gom for a very very long time but it may not it may not be permanent by you not rebuking him telling him that he's doing wrong and in fact being a flatterer telling him no everything you're doing is good you're a good guy says that's evil that's murder why is it murder because now he's never going to regret he's never going to regret which means you are putting him with your own hands inside Gom forever and that's only the first vantage point that it's evil second he repeats his foolishness to sinner the next day since the wicked flatterer praised him for it praised him in his heart's desire besides this he will bear punishment for the harm he caused to the person Whom The Sinner wronged by justifying the per the one who sinned against him and aside from that he be punished for his false words so here he's giving you a whole slew of sins that a flatterer gets he says first of all the guy is never going to reget it you put him in Gom surely you're going to Gom with him that's number one number two the guy is going to continue sinning why because you told him he's perfectly fine so he's not only he's not going to regret what he already did he's going to continue sinning because you telling him he's allowed to be in a Cas Advanced business you're telling him that he's allowed to be a profession that's forbidden he's allowed to do things that are forbidden according tell he's doing nothing good oh he's doing everything good so he's going to continue sinning and if that's not bad enough the flatterer will get punished because this guy will continue hurting people with his criminal behavior taking advantage of people cuz if he's not listening to Hashem surely he's not going to follow what people say either you cannot be moral on a regular basis without being moral with theem simply impossible we proved that already a few days ago with the recent lecture now and the people that get hurt his customers his family members his children anyone that's in his life that he's going to hurt they're all going to come and be prosecutors against that flatterer that did not rebuke him all the damage that he did to them will be on that flater's head be it a rabbi or otherwise and on top of that also there's an additional punishment the flatterer get for being a liar as the verse says in Psalms you will destroy speakers of Deceit will destroy liars and also in Proverbs 17:15 one who justifies an evildoer and he who condemns a righteous person both are an abomination of hem anyone that justifies the wicked people continuing their wickedness doesn't tell them to do chuva like somebody told me listen I asked uh listen you have your community how you've been here for a long time your your K to keep Shabbat yeah I think so I don't know what they do home but you know what do you mean you don't know what they do home you're their Rabbi for 30 years you don't know what they do home you don't know if they keep Shabbat how how do you not know how do you not know how do you not what do you know you know their bank accounts you know what they do for a living how do you not know if they keep shabat or not I'm not saying you need to know everything that's behind hidden hidden doors how he is and what he is behind it but at the very least you should know if he keep shab or not doesn't know if a person if a person justifies evildoers or condemns a a righteous person that's trying to help them do chva that's an Abomination to hasem this applies even more so says if the sin if the iniquity of these people is public knowledge for when the flatterer says to him before others you're pure without iniquity he has desecrated and demean both the law and Justice that he says this is already bad enough if you tell the guy that you know is a criminal in business a criminal against Hashem you know but you're telling them no you're pure you're a good guy you mean well you don't need a lot of money you know Hashem needs you all types of nonsense it's already bad enough that you're doing that now you're doing it and other people know about it they're actually even hearing this you calling this wicked person a tadik becomes even me magnified why cuz now they think hey I'm going to be like him I'm going to be like him is this is why unfortunately many times people that are rabbis you see sometimes their kids are not exactly religious to say they to say it politely now this of course there's unfortunately sometimes bad apples there's unfortunately sometimes the kid had a bad friend no one knew about and I got him off and so on and so forth yeah but if you see that you have a let's say I don't know five 10 kids and half of them can't stand the Torah it can't be that it's not your fault it can't be why because if you are so-called teaching tah you are publicizing tah you are have a community and so on but half your kids don't keep to there's something wrong with you why because your kids maybe not all of them but most of them will look up to their parents most kids normally look up to their parents and better they want to satisfy their parents they want to please their parents they want their parents to say you know I'm proud of you that's what that's what kids want especially as they're growing up so what do the kids do they notice everything that the parents do who they're friends with who they admire who they look up to and so on when a kid sees that every time a comes to the house you give him a lot of and so on you talk about him you read his Torah you learn about him what is that kid going to do he's going to want to be like that if he sees you're putting pictures ofik on your walls look that's the babali that's that's say that's you know all these what the kids say I want to be aik why my ABA my IMA they adik I want to be like them but if they see that the only people you admire are rich people religious or not the only people you admire are superstars the only people you admire on television the only people you admire are people of materialism guess what they're GNA say what do I need to be this Rabbi for why would I teach Tora like my ABA why would I uh keep T my father looks up to all these rich people I want to be like them so I want my father to look up to me hence that's what happens in one two three and unfortunately many many houses of religious people where the parents look up to rich people look up to politicians look up to all types of celebrities and then they're surprised that their kids don't want to live a Torah life what are you surprised for you made him you made him that way you admire the wicked people now he's going to become one you admired that Superstar the walks around half naked on a Runway now your daughter wants to be one you did it not her don't blame the kid the kid's not bad you are bad you did it why you admired them Miss religious Sarah over here miss religious Rifka over here miss religious lady over here she admires the celebrity girl she admires the Superstar and then she's surprised that 15-year-old but is has a boyfriend what are you surprised for you admire these people no I only like to listen to her sing what is she singing about being married to 15 men at the same time what is she singing about her looks what is she singing about you're admiring that what is she singing about promiscuity and this is what you're showing your kids this is who you admire everyone of your girlfriends shows up to your house half naked you don't say a single thing and then you're surprised your daughter is rolling up her her sleeves she doesn't want to wear sleeves anymore she doesn't want to wear a skirt anymore she wants to wear practically underwear you're surprise you did it you did it and this is happening abai everywhere I keep speaking against the wigs on a regular basis for the last four or 5 years because it source of my idolatry but greater than I could ever be didn't even care about the idolatry part of it I even heard with my own my own ears says what you want to say from idolatry not idolatry it doesn't matter it's from idolatry it's still not allowed these wigs why they are not allowed why they look like real hair and today Israel here it's attracting other men why is a average Jewish girl want to wear real hair in her head why because she saw the celebrities do it she saw the girls from France the put the the Priss girls of the runway do it she saw the model on the mey's post to do it she say she has a hairstyle like that so I want to have a hairstyle like that and then you're surprised that your daughter doesn't want to get married until she's in her 30s by the time she's already tried a few boyfriends then you're surprised that your daughter doesn't even want to be religious then you're surprised that his daughter opened a sex store and says on National Television her father is our motivation to open a sex store you're surprised at this when he's the rabbi to the pedophile of the century Michael Jackson he is the rabbi that desecrates aem's name on a regular basis he's the rabbi that says that homosexuality is not such a big deal after all he's the rabbi that talks about sex like it's literally a a computer printer writes a book with one of the most filthy human beings on planet Earth that caused more men to sin than probably anybody else in the last century writes a book with her motivated his daughter to O to write to open a store a sex store you're surprised at this and what you think your daughter is going to be any different when you admire people like that you admire rabbis like this you admire liberalism like this you admire celebrities like this you look like them yes it's not allowed to wear wig because of the idolatry but theim that came before us over 130 over the last 2,000 years have said wigs are forbidden even when they look like mops on your head they were forbidden and you're still wearing it why especially when it doesn't look like a mop you know why you're wearing it because you saw a celebrity wear it you saw a superstar wear it and you want to look like her you want to look like her that's your business but don't come crying to the rabbis don't come crying to when your daughter doesn't even want to be religious when your daughter wants to be the Superstar not just look like her don't come crying why that's what happens nobody didn't mean it that way mean it didn't mean it don't make a difference it doesn't make a difference and the rabbi that told you it's allowed and the people that told you it's okay to look like that to act like that to admire people like that they will get even more punishment than you why because they knew better then come section 193 of the third gate of R yes we're not finished section 193 a says the following the fourth category of flatterers is a person who Associates himself with an evil person meaning simply being friends with evil people not allowed evil doesn't mean murderer evil means R someone that desecrates the T someone makes fun of the Tora someone that's not keeping and you it's not that you know him and he just happens to be part of your family no you actually go out of your way to be friends with him without an intention to get him to do chuva without an intention to have him change anything or hard change anything no you just like to keep company with this person you want to go on vacation with them you want your kids to play together you want all that stuff even though his ideology and your ideology are enemies you don't care B says a person who Associates with evil people he's not only does not rebuke this wicked person with his mouth and does not keep him as a distance meaning not only you're not rebuking him not only you're not staying away from this person but actually he draws him near to him as a friend as the PUK says in Chronicles 20:37 because you have drawn near with hasem has foiled your actions but the righteous detest the wicked as the PUK says in T 154 a despicable person is detested in his eyes are sages in page 92b a SES said concerning this not for not does the Starling mingle with the Raven but because it is of the same species every bird dwells with its kind and a human with one who is like him moreover they said it's forbidden to look at the likeness of an evil person whoever looks at the likeness of a wicked person is eyesight dims as he ages as we learn from didn't know that was wicked his own son was wicked didn't know his own son is wicked why because his son was M soldier of the Satan knew how to fool his own father as righteous as he was knew how to fool he had huge potential as he could have been one of the Patriarchs he chose otherwise the ran said say fooled that's how smart he was and because looked at his own son he went blind later on in his life why looking at Wicked people weakens the eyes say weakens the eyes and they start failing and he says at the end of this particular section we've already clearly informed you of this matter for there are many Pathways toward which death await one who Associates himself with evil people so here we see that R did not hold any punches whatsoever as I've told you many times when I've quoted his sees brings countless sources and one of the sources that he just mentioned is the page 92 92b has a few other things to say that we'll elaborate on were learning different sayings different words of wisdom and where are they Source in the as we always know anything that's of any value anything that's any good has to have a source in the so Raba says to from where can we learn the source for the saying that it's a bad Palm that grows next to Barren trees bad Palm grow into bar trees meaning that the bad pom is uh obviously it's not it's not growing it's not bearing any food but it tends to be next to other bad trees which in essence is the saying that they typically that the uh uh someone that's a close friend to Wicked people he himself is empty himself he himself is empty so where do we learn this so he says to he says to Raa this thing is written in the Torah across the board meaning what you just said that you are who your friends are if you are friends with Wicked people that's because you yourself are empty you yourself are are are problematic he says we learn this in every single section of the tah we learn this in the written tah we learn this in the oral tah we learn this in the we learn it in the in the M we learn it everywhere and he starts bringing them the sources he says we learn this in the Torah as we see in the Book of Genesis Genesis 289 where it says that went to ish and took M the to of is as a wife for himself what does it mean came from his father was his grandfather he was a twin brother to came from the best in the history of mankind the best family in history but still chose evil so he is the bad pal is on the other hand is just a uh ishma is the um person that was simply Barren nothing empty why is although he was bad especially before he did chv is he didn't have any who his mother the the Egyptian he didn't have much yes his father was AB but he was associated with a bunch of wicked people and so on so when isav went to Ishmael why because the two saw a lot of aiking each other a lot of similar ities between each other they didn't just choose each other as friends just because they were part of the same family there was a lot of people in the world at the time he didn't go to yobu he didn't go to AB ainu he didn't go to maled he didn't go to any of theim that were in the generation he D went to is why because as it says the bad P grows next to the Barron trees and then also says in the prophets theim the in the uh the Book of Judges chapter 11 verse two verse three was a uh says that the borish men collected around and they ventured forth with him says that was connected to a bunch of wicked people why shows who he is and then a third time it's in the writings here they're mentioning the one of the writings uh from the son of Jeremiah son of Jeremiah was called Ben Ben he wrote a book similar to Proverbs and there's a lot of uh wisdom in it but one is uh not supposed to study it until he has become well versed in the rest of the Tora that he's obligated to learn but nonetheless there's a lot of wisdom in it that's quoted in the is quoted in the very interesting story of how he came to be and so on very mystical but the point is he has some wisdom in there and he says in in his book every bird dwells with its kind and a person with someone similar to him and we also learned it he says in the Mish itself in the in our oral Tora chapter 12 M number two what's the mishna that all that is connected to something that's impure T is itself T and all that is connected to something that's tall is tall whatever is pure it's connected to something pure whatever is impure is connected to something impure simple if something is connected to something impure that makes it impure if something is pure and it connects to something else that's impure makes it impure but if it's pure and it connects to Pure then it's both of them are pure point being is that you're always going to see that the t is connected to the and the pure is connected to the pure so that's in ourish if your few are wicked your friends are wicked you're T your friends are tame if you are good your friends are good you're pure your friends are pure and then he says we're even learning it in this m the quoted what's the what's the actually what's the name of says that it's not for nothing that the Starling which is a certain type of bird went next to the Raven but rather because the Raven is of its own species where all of these suggestions say are giving us the general idea that a person's bad friends are instructive regarding of who he is himself so now that we have all of that on the table every one of us knows we are who our friends are you you heard the saying now you have the source of so now say so what can I do about it what if I start rebuking people and they don't listen what if I do this what if I do that continues page 92b continues from where do we learn the source where people say if you called out to your fellow in order to rebuke him for something evil that he did and he didn't hear you he didn't even answer you lift up the wall and throw it on him what does it mean you tried rebuking your friend for something evil and he's not hearing you so throw the whole wall on him meaning that if you rebuke your friend and he doesn't want to hear doesn't want to hear the truth doesn't care about nothing then just let him go and let him ruin his own life wait hold on a second why we're just going to give him up we're tell him listen you should watch RAB Ruben it's going to change your life he presses play he presses stop three seconds later okay I tried giving to them that's it I'm finished right wrong why wrong because says no you have to go and send him sh and bring him to sh and invite him to sh and try to tell him the truth over and over again until he hits you and that's what the ra so so how could it be on one hand the says to us you tell him the truth he doesn't want to hear it let him you know suit himself let him drop in his own hole ruin his own life another part the says hold on a second you told him something he didn't hear you go again he didn't hear you go again he didn't hear you go again he didn't hear you go again again again again again until he hits you meaning till the end don't give up on him don't leave anybody behind so you have contradictions how can we solve this contradiction we can't solve the contradiction why we don't need to nor that we have the wisdom to but do to says the following he says if you go to your evil friend who violates Shabbat who's stealing from his customers who's cheating on his wife who's doing all these bad different things one of them all of them whatever it is you go to your friend you go to your girlfriend you tell you're doing all these evil things and she says yeah you know what you're right but I don't know I'm addicted to it I like it it's hard for me to change that one you don't ever give up on them you keep going you keep going you keep going why but she I told her already 500 times to keep Shabbat she's still not keeping Shabbat I told her 500 times to leave the non-jewish boyfriend she's still with them keep going why she's receptive and is acknowledging that she's wrong but she's unfortunately addicted to the desire but if you keep going eventually you'll get her to do Chua on the other hand if you tell her if you tell him keep Shabbat do mitv do this and he answers you like a Dennis Prager type of answer listen I keep Shabbat my way I drive on Shabbat but only to Affairs that have to do with Shabbat to the betet to to a Shabbat dinner yeah but you're not let to drive on Shabbat it's fire listen you have your sages I have myself I believe the driving on Shabbat is not fire because I don't see the fire says this AIC this a has rationalized and Justified the sin him you don't rebuke him anymore finished even after only one time why he is not only he's not receptive even if he is receptive he is Justified and rationalized the sin Let Him die in his own hole that he buries himself in that guy you leave him alone that girl you leave her alone but if they're receptive and still continue to sin they know it's a sin but they continue keep going keep rebuking keep doing but if they justify the sin and they say listen this is not a sin it's a Mitzvah I go to sh God wants me to go to sh yeah but you're driving on Shabbat God wants me to go to sh it's more important for me to go to sh than to not drive on Shabbat he justified the sin rationalized it that guy you do not rebuke him why he's an AIC and he has to get a personal rebuke from himself that's the only thing that's going to help him now comes a section that's even harsher than what I just said why because this needs to be said because we live in a generation that has a dumb mentality what's the mentality mentality is ah you only live once you only live once let me enjoy Let Me Marry whoever I want let me eat whatever I want let me do whatever I want this is not the only generation with such a stupid mentality the book of Isaiah chapter 22 verse 13 and says look behold there is joy and gladness slaying of cattle and slaughtering of sheep eating meat and drinking wine and saying eat and drink for tomorrow we die he says look despite all the disaster you're seeing people dying you're seeing people getting punished you're seeing people Corona virus you're seeing the whole system go upside down you're still having a good time let me eat let me drink let me have some more wine let me have a party let me this let me that as if everything is good why you have the mentality eat drink who knows tomorrow we could die you only live once comes the prophet Isaiah in the name of aad and says the following to continue this in verse 14 that this sin will never be atoned for that attitude that we only live once that mentality that let me just have a good time ah come on will understand me that type of mentality the prophet says will never be forgiven will never be atoned for until you die says hem the master of Legions why it's when you say I'm going to sin and I'll just deal with it later because anywh you only live once that now becomes at the end of the says someone that desecrates A's name cannot fix that sin until he dies is everything else you can fix while you're alive you cannot fix until you die come and give us a pocket of of of of Mercy says can fix it but you can't do can't can't joke around with the system it's always an opening to hm always leaves the back door open to get us out of the garbage that we got ourselves in but if a person continues to say I only live once tomorrow we're going to die the prophet says in the name of this sin will never be atoned for until you die just the mentality is already a sin of now the prophet Amos the prophet Amos 5 verse 10-13 says one of the scariest things I've ever written in the Torah he says despise you despise or they despise the one who rebukes them who admonishes them by the gate and the one who speaks purely they detest him says there was a rabbi there was a prophet there was someone good that cared that came and rebuked you told you you have to do chva stop desecrating hashem's name instead of listening to him you hate him instead of listening to her you hate her you detest her ah she's here again oh he's here again this religious fanatic ah this speaker I can't stand him he he's too crazy the prophet amamos says K gave me a message for you personally not you 3,000 years ago you today you that are watching whenever that time may be he gave me a personal message for you in an envelope this is what the message is you despise those who admonish the one who speak purely for I know your transgressions are many and the sins are substantial or oppressors of the sadik I know you have many sins I know you have many many transgressions you you those that go against the sadik who's the sadik the person that's trying to help you do Chua whether male or female the person that's trying to save your Nish that's full of Filth of sins you not only against them you detest them you hate them you send him emails cursing him out you I know how many sins you have you oppressor of the sadik therefore The Prudent man keep silent at that time for it is a time of evil now you have no idea what he just said I'm going to tell you comes the and says on this verse from the prophet Amos okay we got the first part hating The rebuker Hating the truth I got it making fun of the I got it what is the whole last part saying about stay quiet because this a time of evil comes the and says when even rejects the rebers who say the truth then they leave AEM no choice but to turn it into a time of evil IE Holocaust the elaborates saying the difference between and the bad time and the evil time is a difference between them what's the difference because you can still cry and pray to it's a bad time Corona other bad times we had it's a bad time it's not an evil time why but when Shalom sees that we're going against the rebers we're not supporting Torah values in fact we're going against them we're admiring celebrities politicians businessmen tycoons and not the people that are real superheroes the real superheroes that are helping your community do chuva whether they be male or female whether they be rich or poor whether they be tall or short whether they be a convert or natural born Jew the one that's telling the truth to the people you do not support them in fact you go against them Shalom you're forcing into a into a into a into a time of evil as the prophet said in this time of evil there's nothing that can be done because gave control to the to do as he pleases Holocaust you could have prayed a thousand times it didn't help too late we are in a situation today where we are in a we're in a we're in a time we can cry we're a time we can pray we have to do everything possible to make sure that it doesn't turn Shalom into a time of evil that prayer doesn't matter anymore you see told us time and time again that fighting for the truth is not something that's just simply recommended it's the lifeblood of Judaism of sonfield Shalom was Rabbi of and at that time there was a politician that was dis discovered by the community this politician his wife was a promiscuous woman and was cheating on him but he didn't care so the bed says she's forbidden to be with him why she is considered a zon prostitute now this politician didn't care about t didn't care about t values didn't care about the rebers didn't care about nothing so what did he do he went to the secular Court the secular Nazi mentality Court who says anyone that makes fun of this politician's wife gets a fine from the government of 50,000 shekels as soon as he heard what the secular Court did how it ruled against the bed it ruled against the Torah publicly he went he counted exactly how much money he had and he arranged a meeting for all everybody to show up all the everybody to come including politicians everyone to come the is about to make a speech everyone got there he shows up and he says this woman is a Zona she's forbidden to husband she's not allowed to be with him he's not allowed to be with her takes the money 50,000 again I repeat he says this woman is a zon she's forbidden to be with him he's forbidden to be with her here's another 50,000 all of his money every penny he had he put on a line why to make sure our Torah doesn't get desecrated that's a person it's not just a sadik because of the Torah that he learned but the that he stood for you see instead of admiring the wicked people he followed exactly what the Torah says we hate those that hate you we hate those that desecrate you today people are living a fantasy because they have not only ignorance but ignorance facilitated by an environment of flatterers to tell them otherwise just today young man calls into the live sh by and he says on a live he says Rabbi so I'm not going to get punished is a captured baby where in the old days these Christians used to take Jewish babies steal them from the parent the Jewish parents and raise them as their own so the kid would never know that he's Jew today they don't steal them as babies they steal them as adults because of ignorance but nonetheless this kid who was a that was kidnapped from his parents doesn't know he's a Jew so he's not judged the same stringency as let's say someone who knows he's a Jew knows about Shabbat and so on so some would say okay listen some people that grew up in secular houses they're we've already answered this whole sug of who's a who's not the the overwhelming majority of the in recent Generations in past Generations say anyone that knows that he's a Jew knows that Shabbat exists he's no longer he's no longer a captured baby even if he grew up surrounded by secularism he's not a captured baby but nonetheless this young kid is not the only one not the first one not the last one it says listen I'm Not Gon to get punished says them hold on a second why you I'm going to free you why are you captured why because of your your why goes I don't know anybody religious he goes yeah you're listening to a right now you're listening to a right now I'm freeing you from your uh from your uh capture that's it you're no longer n finished and anyway where did you learn this term obviously it's not the first you ever heard but somebody fed this kid the idea that if you didn't grow up religious you can stay a you could stay an ignoramus you can stay homeless when it comes to to and still go to heaven somebody told him this that's the saddest part this kid is going to start keeping Shabbat and everything else and join the enormous list of new people that are keeping Shabbat in the last month and a half we have nearly a thousand people nearly a thousand people that have signed up to keep Shabbat from now on we I think somewhere around 900 and change unbelievable amount of people are now learning what it means to keep Shabbat anyone that is not keeping Shabbat currently a Judah not keeping Shabbat currently once to start taking on Shabbat from now on not a one Shabbat per year from now on wants to take it you send me your name We'll add you to the list and we'll have somebody sent to the the Western Wall pray for you pray for all the prayers that you need just tell us you're going to keep shab from now on if you already keep Shabbat get somebody else to keep Shabbat and we'll put both of your names on the list of people that we pray for the Western Wall we have to fight for the truth if we don't fight for the truth the lies will kill us the lies will kill us has they have been killing us already for Generation after generation you see the truth is out there the truth has always been out there but unfortunately sometimes the truth is Tainted with desires with people that have their own desires and they make you part of their acquisition of desires don't let the world destroy you don't let the flatterers destroy you just like you've spent a lot of time and effort to learn to be good at whatever it is that you do learn how to be a good Jew learn how to be a person that serves hem and fulfills his purpose learn how to get to a point where your children admire the greatest there is admire Torah Scholars we'll finish off with a story I've told once before but it's worth a million times to be told Shalom had a righteous student who was very wealthy that he went to visit him from time to time when he wanted to collect money for the Yesa baranovich and one time he came to him in the dead of winter dead of winter lots of snow snow after a little while turns into mud and so on so when R Westman arrived at this person's house he saw himself he always full of mud and his shoes and he knew that his student very wealthy and had very fancy Persian carpets Persian rugs in the front and he didn't want to ruin them so you know that there's a small entrance in the back to the kitchen so the Westman went around the house and went to the back and knocked on the door to open his student his righteous student opened the door with great disappointment said rebi rebi what are you doing he says I'm here to visit you to talk to you he says no no I know but why are you here coming from the back what what's going on so just looks at himself he has mud on his legs and his feet he says rebi why are you ruining my education for my kids why why because you know I have fancy expensive rugs in the front so now my kids that I keep telling them to admire the to admire Torah Scholars to admire and anyone that's going to follow his Torah now they're going to think that my my rugs are more important than the please rabi I beg you I beg you please go back around the house and enter from the front and make sure to have all of the mud inside my house on my carpets making stains so my kids can see that the mud from the's feet is worth more than a million rugs the mud from the's feet is worth more than a million rugs that's that is how you educate your children admire the not for what they have as far as material possession but for who they are as a result of the Torah that they toil for the Torah that they live for that's admirable that's an admiration worth having this two will be a lesson for each and every single one of us to 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