When an opportunity is knocking on your door - GRAB IT!! - Don't miss this!! Rabbi Alon Anava

Happy to be. What a special day. One of the most powerful days on the calendar. I hope you are taking advantage of it till now. But if not, then now you'll hear a few h important words. Hopefully that will encourage you to take advantage of this day. Once you understand really the power and the significance of this day you don't understand that it's not going to help you. But just that you know that we chose a very very powerful day for us. We're still in two. A lot of people who are watching online they're already in Australia Israel that's it. know the day is over but that still applies but for us very exciting to be here in Vegas third time in a row right third year in a row every year until now everything works amazing and we're starting our tour here in Vegas we have an amazing lecture amazing night I'm going to get straight to the point uh since we don't have much time before we start a uh if you don't mind putting your phones on silent uh If you don't mind also hold your questions. I'm not going to answer questions while I speak. We're going to do questions after the lecture. Uh towards 8 we're going to finish the lecture. H So please stay with us whoever didn't pray and after that we will have some time maybe do some questions and answers. We can smoo you have here you have me here for a little bit more then I'm flying out to Denver. So please no phones no questions and uh pay attention and I thank you all for joining. I want to also thank a special thanks to Rakami for organizing helping running the show and of course to the Haruni family for also organizing getting everything ready running the show and the man who likes to stay in the shadow. Where is he? Orin always likes to hide behind something. But thank you for everything, all the organizations, phone calls, text messages. If you would know what it takes to make a tour, to make one lecture, you would probably appreciate much more the time that you're sitting here and the and the words that come out. And there's always a few smart people who ignite the engine and fuel the engine to make events like this happen which is important for you to pay attention because at the end of the lecture I'm going to address a few things and one of them is how you can monopolize and capitalize on other mitzvot especially on a special day like today. Before we start, as usual, I want to share with you two and a half words of the journey that I had to go through to come here because I understand and I know by the challenges and the difficulties that I go through, how important is the task that I'm about to do. So if I need to go to sin right now, no traffic, everything is free, no lines to stand, nothing stops you. But when you're going to do something positive, so much more so a mitzvah or even more than that, to fulfill a major part of your purpose in your life, everything is going to go wrong. Everything that can stop you will stop you. Everything that can go wrong will go wrong. all your plans you can say goodbye to them and that's your gauge how much you're on the track and how much you're on the track that is the key of what you need to remember from this lecture. This lecture is going to be short, to the point, tons of content, and if you're smart, then you start with this lecture for the next month and a half with me on the tour till Shah and I will promise you that you're going to have next year a very good year if you follow the stuff the the the steps. So my gauge of how important what I need to do or if I'm doing the right thing is that the amount of difficulties that occur as I want to do that. Now I I must have heard that thousands of times from people saying ah Hashem give me a lot of money I'll give a lot of saddaka and then you don't get the money. If I would have just a dollar for all the people who told me, "Rabbi, give me a blessing for PNA and I will donate to your organization just from that dollar from each person who told me that I don't need donations." So, everybody's very generous before they got the money. Oh, if Hashem gave me $2 million, of course, I will donate. But when it comes to write the check, oh no, don't ask. I have a lot of responsibilities and I I can't I can't really give so much. Here's $20 for your for your effort. So, I know how important is what I'm about to do by the amount of challenges and the amount of steps that fail in order to go and do that. And then it just strengthened me that I'm going on the right way. So I'm already telling you whether it's this specific lecture or the entire tour I know it's going to be very powerful thousands of people will be affected change their life to a point that the Satan this time out went his way usually I missed one flight this time three flights usually it's a you know three a few hour delays today this time three day delay so I Understand that you know when you going to do something very important and very important is ma mainly that you need to do something that has to do with your tikun with your path with your purpose then everything will go wrong because I was I booked our flight to leave Israel a long time ago and I knew that Trump is very you know he's very moody today we're attacking the next day no No attacking. That's the next day. We're attacking. Somebody sent me a video clip which made me laugh about a certain individual who's investing in the stock market and then you see Trump saying WE'RE GOING TO ATTACK IRAN. So he goes and buys stocks and THEN THE NEXT DAY CEASEFIRE. SO HE GOES AND SELLS everything and he's going crazy just by the tweets of Trump. So I know that Trump can tweet whatever he wants. So I said I had to secure myself that if Shalom some missile is going the wrong way, I can leave Israel. They shut down all the flights. So, especially we went out of the way to get a certain flight with Al. We're loading the car to go to the airport and we're getting a text message that the flight is delayed. Here we go. I didn't even zip up the suitcases already. Give me like 40 miles to go out of the house. Then strike with the first. I'm I'm not even loading the car. Okay, I'm starting to calculate. We'll probably make it. We'll have to run. And we get to the airport, of course. And as we're doing the check-in, I get the next text message. The flight is delayed. And I'm like, that's it. The connection flight for sure we missed it. Sure enough, we missed the flight. We land in Greece and we're about to I'm dealing with the tickets to reschedu. And the lady tells me, "Uh, are you an American citizen?" I'm like, "No." She's like, "You have a green card?" I'm like, "No." She's like, "How are you traveling?" I said, "With a visa." She's like, "I need to see the visa." Oh, shoot. My visa is in Israel on the old passport. Oh, I'm starting to call now. Now I have to I I bring the the the red button. Now I have to get all my operators everywhere to start working. So one assistant is calling the embassy, the other assistant is calling Alal. I'm starting like, "Okay, panic mode. We're in the middle of Greece. NO VISA, NO FLIGHTS." OKAY. So I'm I'm looking to rent a car and I'm calling the the the the embassy and the embassy is telling me, "Send an email." An email? What do you mean an email? I'm at the airport. Long story short, I don't even know from where we find a flight that leaves two hours from that, goes to Israel, makes a U-turn come. So my my son flies back to Israel. That I never happened. That I never had. He flies back to Israel. We send an express car with a with a passport two three hours away. By the way, I don't live in the center. I live in the north to come with a passport. Two o'clock in the morning. My son lands 40 minutes, makes a U-turn, goes back, flies back to Greece. Okay, everything is squared up and we're ready to go. We're we're Okay, we're sitting in the lounge and we get a text message. Your flight is delayed. No, come on. Another flight is delayed. We'll make it. And then we get the next test text message. The flight is delayed. The the plane is taxed in a different terminal. They have to bring the plane. Well, what kind of a pilot parks the plane in the wrong terminal that I now have to be delayed? Sure enough, we I calculate the hours. We missed our connection flight here in America. And we were like this on the like border. But I have another problem. Two years ago, if you remember, I shared with you here in Vegas my personal story. Not about how I had a near-death experience, about how I was jailed, how I served time. you remember the whole thing. So I have a problem when I enter the United States. The second that I put my fingers on the the immigration then I see the facial expression changes and within 3 seconds four cops around me sir please come with us. And in the beginning I used to get alert. Now I'm already I am already coming. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know I'm going to the back room. They need to investigate. They call Interpol that I'm not wanted anywhere in the world. They call the Israeli FBI. I mean, I have to sit there. Sometimes it's 3 4 hours. Of course, they detain me as usual. 500 people in the room. Forget about the flight. Now, you know what the problem is? That I was supposed to land a day before tisha. You know when I landed? 7 minutes before the fast starts. And we're tired. We're sweaty. We're hungry. We're we're upset. We're angry. We miss three flights. We're carrying luggages. And this is just the tip of the iceberg of when something needs to go wrong. Everything goes wrong. And I'm telling you, everything that can go wrong went wrong to a point that when I came to rent the car, I already reserved the car. We prepaid everything. But because the car was a certain size, then she they they needed uh to see the return flight ticket. What? Where am I going to find you now? my return flight ticket. So, I look in my Gmail, I find all the 500 flights that I ever did in my life besides that flight. Sir, go to the back of the line. Listen, I'm hungry. I'm thirsty. I'm fasting. Give me my car. I want to go home already. And the story goes on and on and on and on. But how do you not get upset? How don't you lose your anger? How don't you lose your faith? new. It's not that I'm going now to rob a bank. I'm going now to do GOOD THINGS. YOU CAN'T make it simple. You can't make it smooth. I'm I'm going to do a a good deed. Why everything has to come with such a struggle? Why everything has to come with such a headache, loss of money, waste of money, waste of time, and hours of planning and all the hours of planning? Like, come on. Can't you give me a break? You know that if you give me more time, I'll do more mitzvot. All of us share the same common ground of what I just told you. Now, not necessarily you are in the level of missing three flights and running on my paste. I know I promised that in the previous uh uh tour. I didn't get ready enough to do it in this tour, so you'll have to forgive me. I promised in the previous tour that we're going to I'll have one of my kids film how does the behind the scenes of a tour with Rabba Anava looks like. We didn't get prepared to do that now cuz you know we need a lot of GoPros and cameras and a lot of editing and but if you would see how it looks behind the scenes and you would think that the ocean will just open for me and I will just go through and everything will work out, right? I'm going in the name of Hashem. I'm not coming here to do anything illegal, immoral, bad, wrong. I'm coming to do only positive, only good, good intentions. So why do I need to know through all these speed bumps that throw me off? Why do I need to deal with that? The question is not only me that we all deal with that. Each and every one of you in your in your world deal with some type of a roller coaster. that you 60 to 80% of it didn't plan and then all day long Hashem is keeping you occupied in nonsense. Now we have first we have to understand that I have to kind of break us into three groups. Group number one are the ones who are completely not observant, far away from the Torah, far away from Hashem. Whether they're on the beginning of their path or not, it's irrelevant. But they're very far away still from Hashem. That's group number one cuz the answers to why things like this happen to group number one will be different. Group number two are the ones who are kind of on the on board, but they're not 100%. They're halfway in. They know Hashem exists. They love Hashem. They do a few mitzvot. They participate here and there, but they're really halfway in. That's group number two. Group number three are the ones who are full way in or totally observant. Call them orthodox. It's irrelevant. I'm talking about a person who's a god-fearing individual. That is it's kind of like he has it the whole thing going on. This is group number three. Each group will get a completely different answer and a completely different outlook. But the reality is that we all share the same ground that we are constantly tested with any aspect in our life constantly from the second you wake up in the morning till you go to sleep 24/7 you are under a magnifying glass of Hashem testing you constantly testing you testing you testing you now I'm sure you heard that already once or twice The more interesting question is why does Hashem need to test me so much? You have my attention. I'm already observant. I I do the mitzvot. So if it's group number one, if you included in group number one that you're not connected to the Torah or to Hashem, then welcome aboard. And that's how Hashem gets your attention. You know, Hashem doesn't give you candy and that's how he entices you. He slaps you and then he throws you and he he wants you to be independent. So group number one, welcome to the club. Group number two and three, that's already more of a question. I mean, why do I need to constantly be tested? I'm already on board. You know, if you lay lay back, I will be more productive. You you would think, no, if I don't need to deal right now with so much headache, I will have more time to pray. I'll have more time to learn Torah. I'll have more time to spend with my kids. If I need to all day long deal with things, of course I'm going to be occupied. So the question is why does Hashem does these tests? And the reality everything that you go on in your life is a test. Everything is a test. There's not one aspect of your life that is not. Everything is a test. And mainly how you're going to react. Are you going to get angry? Are you going to get disappointed? Are you going to completely brush it off and move on? Are you going to throw the blame on somebody else? Are you going to take responsibility? Hashem just wants to see how you're going to react constantly. Hashem wants to test you. And the more you get closer, the more you get holier, the more you grow spiritually, the tests are greater. You think you're coming closer to Hashem and it appears that you're becoming even worse. Now the challenges are even worse. Now the challenge when I go through what I just told you for three days traveling there's no question here of amuna group number one they will doubt the abilities of hashem doubt the existence of hashem I don't have that you need to test me if I believe if you exist or not why do I need to be tested with but if you look in our history everybody was tested was greater than me and you together and he was tested in the hardest tests 10 tests everybody got tested and if you see that the more the person is a higher level closer to Hashem the tests become worse look at King David what tests he had you think you have tests his son his only son is trying to kill him the son that he loves is trying to kill him his father-in-law look at his entire So first we have to understand that everything that goes on in my life is a test. Every aspect, every step, every thought, every challenge, everything that happens in my life is Hashem testing me. What's the test right now? That's for you to figure it out. Tonight, we're not going to break that down. But you need to understand that Hashem is testing me. Why is he testing me? So in order for me to understand a little bit why he's testing me, we need to look a little bit in depth into the concept that is called anon. I'm sure you heard the the word nisson means a challenge or a test and the concept of the challenge started with the with creation. It started right from the beginning. I mean we're tested. Don't eat from the tree. First first test right away. I mean if Hashem wouldn't want this concept to be incorporated in this world then right away he wouldn't even tell Adam and oh don't eat from that one he just wouldn't put it there or he would cover it why create the curiosity why tell them oh that everything you can eat that one don't touch and you create the human nature with curiosity and you create the human nature with I want to see I'll do the opposite of what you you tell me. You can't sit here. Davka, I'll sit here. So, we see that we were introduced to the to the challenges of an of a test from day one from the first day. Interestingly, I saw something in the word. It's not so relevant to what I'm talking about there, but there is some wisdom behind it in Hebrew is written, right? If you break the word, you can read it as ness, which is a miracle. And the other three letters are yudun, which is yavan. Yavan is Greece. I'm not going to elaborate on that, but if you're interested in understanding the wisdom behind what I'm saying, I have a lecture online that about the time of Kanuka and it's talking about the war with Greece. And I explain the mystical meaning behind the the name the word yavan how it's a yud vavon small line middle line big line and a very deep explanation but yavan is the one of the major kipot a kipa is a husk spiritual negative energy that is surrounding physical objects can be also spiritual objects and yavan is one of the types of the kipot there's a kipata malik I'm sure you're all familiar with a Malik and there's many different types of kipot each kipa a negative energy or you can call it a negative entity has a certain aspect to it and it has a certain quality to it and it goes after a certain thing a malik comes to cool you down every kipah will do something else yavan is the kipah of the last materialism and in that lecture I explain how the entire concept yavan is greece how they brought the whole idea of worshiping the body, materialism, the the Olympics and so forth. Soon if you break the word is navan is if you're able to break the of yavan then you'll have a n you you'll have a miracle and that's the you understand the depth here of the kadb who is giving you a hard shell to crack but when you crack it you get the surprise inside like these eggs they have how do you call it the eggs they have a surprise inside >> Kinder eggs right No, we are introduced to the concept of a test right from the beginning. We see it with more than that. You read that every day in Shakar. God decided to test. What do you want from the guy? The guy's 100 years old dedicated his life to you and you still need to test him. But Abraham doesn't believe you exist. He doesn't believe in your powers. He doesn't. Imagine the person in the level of Hashem tells him meets from this son is going to be your lineage. The next day he tells him now go and kill him. The test was not to question but yesterday you told me. He didn't even Abraham didn't even say but yesterday you told me. Okay. Change of plans. Okay. Changing routes. Okay. Today we're killing him. Yesterday he was the the the how do you say the heir of the fortune the fortune of Abrainu today his barbecue that's the level that Abraham was tested that wasn't a doubt that today was like this and yesterday was like that the whole concept of the test since the the it's not really the root of the word but we see clearly the Word which is a miracle in the word which is means test n which is a miracle means to elevate. When some when a when a miracle happens to you that's when Hashem decided to elevate you. The nionote the challenges is the tool so to say in order to elevate myself from one level to another. If you don't have any challenges, you don't have any tests, you means you're not growing. You're standing in the same place. And that's mainly group number one. Cuz group number one, they don't really know how to digest the challenges in many of the cases. That's why they're seeking answers. So if anybody here is in group number one, like I said, welcome aboard. You know, you have a long way to go. But the reality is that Hashem constantly wants to elevate you. Now you're lazy. you incompetent, you immature, you all these above. So, Hashem says, "You're not going to do it. I'll do it for you. I need to elevate you. I need to promote you." So, just remember that any challenge you go through is the steps for you to growing to the next level. If you run with momentum, you can probably jump three steps at a time, right? If you want to go quickly up the steps, you can go quickly up in your spiritual level. You just need to take momentum and you need to jump high. But the concept is that I want to every day move to the next level. Whether it's a 10 times a day, whether it's one time a day, I constantly needs to need to grow to the next level. The step that I will step on to grow to the next level is the challenge that Hashem will give to me. whatever type of type of challenge but the challenge is my step to grow higher. That's the concept of challenges is my ladder my steps to go to a higher spiritual level. If you do not understand what it means to go to a higher spiritual level then you need to take a stop go to YouTube put in the search Rabbi Lona and about 3,000 videos will pop up. Go watch half of them then come back. But you need to understand that if you are not constantly growing spiritually, you're not doing nothing in this world. You are you are a worthless individual. Sorry that I'm saying it in that way. You're wasting your time here. If you're not growing constantly growing spiritually, it means that you are developing. You're developing your m your intellectual part of your refining yourself. The major part of your growth is refining yourself. When I look in the mirror, how I looked 25 years ago was a different man. Different look. When I look in the mirror, I don't look an old I don't see an old man. I see refinement of 25 hard years and I can point on the places where the refinement was so great that it's like a different individual, different man. So when you're seeing it happen, you don't see the progress. When you're looking back, you're saying, "Wow, once I used to be like that." That's your spiritual growth. That's the level you want to grow. If you look back and you don't see any changes for the best and you can't point on yourself where you grew, then what did you do? What did you do in those 30, 40, 50, 60 years? You need to look back constantly and say, "Here are my stops and here are is my growth." Most people don't have that. We'll talk about this tonight. Most people don't even have the plan where am I going even they don't even there's no plan where how am I reaching my success. So the challenges is basically asem setting up my path to go on for my own benefit so I will reach my spiritual growth. Spiritual growth can also be explained if you taking now in modern examples is very easy with technology. It can be associated with what I'm saying now with a phone with memory cards to to cameras you know a memory card of a of a camera same size a little little box can hold in it 125 or 120 whatever gigabytes. This one holds 250 gigabytes. This one is 60 gigabytes. Same size. How come the same memory card is the same size? This one has 250 gigabytes and this one has 16. Can you give me a something explanation that makes sense? It's the same size. How has more capacity? The same concept. And you have it with phones. This phone has 60 gigabytes. This phone has 120. Same idea is in your spiritual level. When you grow spiritually, you enlarge your spiritual capacity. You suddenly become two terabytes, five terabytes, your spiritual capacity, which means that everything that you do is in a much larger scale in it much more magnitude and eventually getting you closer to Hashem. So if you are not aware of the concept that you have to constantly grow, that's already a problem because every day when you wake up in the morning, you need to tell yourself today has to be a better day than yesterday. And on that same day when you finish the day when you're sitting on the bed and you're saying you have to say summarize in your mind by saying okay how good was today compared to yesterday now tomorrow has to be better. That's it. That's that's how you need to go. And everything around you is just distractions. It's background noise. 90% of the distractions if you ignore it they just go with the with the view. you get overwhelmed with 90% of what Hashem is throwing in your direction. But if you focus on your target, you don't look to the sides to get overwhelmed with all the rest of the stuff. So it's what are you focusing on? Are you focusing on what you need to do or are you focusing on the background noise? No offense, you're all focusing on the background noise. You're not focusing on the target. If you would be focusing on the target, you wouldn't see anything as challenges. You would see it as a workout. It's like you go to the gym, then you have to work out. I don't know people who go to the gym and they just uh sit there, go on their phone, and after 15 minutes walk out. But you didn't do anything. Why did you come? Same thing with your spiritual or you didn't do nothing. So the tests are the ladder are the steps in order for me to be elevated to a higher spiritual level. And I want to go from one level to another level. And you can go sometimes 10 levels in one shot. Back home every Wednesday I teach from a very powerful book. It's called the gate of incarnations. Maybe some of you are members. You watch it online. I teach from the this book. Very very powerful book taught by the Rabbi compiled and written by his student Rabi Vital. And he explains there the idea of the nissayon and the concept of the spiritual growth in a much more indepth way and I would highly recommend if you're interested is to go and watch that series which will give you a much greater perspective because a lot of the things that you are challenged with in this world you're bringing it from a past has nothing to do with what you need to do right now. So you need to focus on instead of the background noise is to focus on the target. When you focus on the target, everything else becomes background noise. And like I said, that's what says everything that you do is your husband's reaction, your wife's reaction, the person who grabbed your parking when when you came to park. Every little thing is a test how you're going to react. Which means that if you are t if you are uh in your mind uh what's the word in Hebrew it's called d when you're like focused on when you focused on that this is what's going on that you're in the battlefield then you understand how everything is a potential h test and a potential step for me to grow to become to grow higher and higher. The problem is with the test that if you stand and you don't do anything spiritually, physically or emotionally then you failed. Then you failed the test. If you were able to overcome the challenge, then you got raised spiritually and you might not even notice that. Another aspect of understanding the spiritual raise is when you become observant, a certain mitzvah might be very difficult for you to do. When you are elevated hundreds or thousands of levels, then that mitzvah is not so difficult for you to do anymore. You're doing it like that. First time I ever put fillain on. I have actually have a picture of it. The talit is like like that. It looks like somebody threw something on me, you know? It's like falling here, falling here. The box of the fillain is here. Here it's like the boxes. I'm like I'm like that like that. first time after 20 years 2 and a half seconds the fillin is on the hand straight why because not only because I'm doing it for 20 years cuz spiritually I'm in a much higher level the mitzvah is more becoming one with me that fillain becomes part of me the leather feels different that's a spir another aspect of a spiritual elevation and then I'm giving you an example with fine this can be applied to everything now in order for us to understand a little bit in depth the idea because when I understand what I'm up against then it's easier for me to use practical tools. So we're going to go to the teachings of the lut from the bookim. I believe in English it's the righteous of the path, right? No, the path of righteous. Did I said it right? P righteous path. The path of the righteous. And he starts his book by saying something very very powerful that most people and don't be ashamed to raise your hand and say I'm one of them. Most people don't know. And he says that's how he starts his book by saying that every person you need to know your responsibility in this world and it's not really your maybe responsibility is a good word. It's more your path. You need to know what you what you have to do in this world. Hashem gave you a list of responsibilities to do when you get married. When I got married, my father, my rabbi came and gave me a list of responsibilities. You have to take care of your wife, to take care of kids, you have to work, you have to pay bills, you there's a list of responsibilities. Come with a job. So, Hashem gave you a list of responsibilities. And the explains, you need to know your responsibilities. Do you know your responsibilities in this world? Can you clearly say, "Oh, of course I know them." And if you're saying that then you either live in denial or you are in a very very high level. Maybe you went through so many challenges in your life that you're in such a high level to clearly and state I know my responsibility in this world. Whoa. Before you jump, you have to really figure it out because your responsibility is your path. It's your purpose. And most people don't know their purpose either because they're misguided, either because they have all sorts of dreams that have nothing to do with the reality and mainly because they don't have the target. If you don't have the target, you're not going to get anywhere. You get into your car, you punching into your GPS destination. If you don't have a destination, the GPS will just be like, "Where do you want me to go?" You need a destination. So first of all says you need to know your obligation in this world. You need to know your obligation and your responsibility and your path. How we'll touch that. Once you understand that you need to understand that you were created to pleasure Hashem. I was created to pleasure unbelievable pleasure from Hashem. Now I don't know about you so far I also was created to pleasure on Hashem and I don't experience much pleasure I experience a lot of hardship I experience a lot of pain and a lot of difficulties I don't experience this pleasure you're talking about do you experience any pleasure when you put fill in when you bake hala when you do you fainting on the floor from pleasure No one volunteers to raise their hand. So I'm guessing I'm not the only one. I don't get any pleasure when I'm doing things. Do you get pleasure? I mean, you can kind of tightly title by say, "Yeah, of course I get pleasure when I help other people." No, no, no. I'm talking about that. I'm not talking about that pleasure. I'm talking about that you fainting on the floor from pleasure. You get that? No. You Oh, okay. >> Pleasure. very well. The pleasure that we're talking about is the world to come. Not talking about this world. Nevertheless, the ramal says even in this world. Even in this world, because you know what? When you are in a bind and when you're in a dead end and suddenly Hashem comes to the rescue with all flying colors and everything works to your benefit, then you're pleasuring on Hashem. You like you won the like the jackpot here in Vegas. When Hashem comes through, then you really have pleasure on Hashem. Ah, Hashem made it work. But the reality, the pleasuring of Hashem is for the world to come. It's not about here. This world is not uh about right now counting what I made. This word world is to work. The pleasure is in the world to come. And the more that I work in this world, the closer I am I'm going to be to Hashem. The more pleasure I'm going to get. Now, a lot of people might tell you or might say, "I'm not into the pleasure." No. When you go to a good restaurant, you're not into the pleasure. What are you in for? The background music. So, go eat some pa with the humumus if you're not in for the pleasure. So, why do you go to a fancy restaurant and eat steaks and sushi and whatever it is? And I'm not blaming you or saying anything is wrong, but at least be straight out and say, "Of course, I'm going for my pleasure. If not, if I wouldn't go for my pleasure, I would eat a sandwich with cream cheese." Why you don't need to go to a good restaurant and the food? It gives me pleasure. And same thing with nice clothes and same thing with a vacation and same thing with a car and same thing with everything. What motivates me in this world is pleasure, right? I do things because it pleasures me. Whether it's eating, it's fulfilling my my hunger, but it's also good food gives me pleasure. So, I'm really motivated by pleasure. That's for us to understand the idea of pleasure. We want we want everything to be for us is pleasure. You travel, you upgrade your seat so you'll be more comfortable. everything what drives me is I want to get to this place of pleasure of this tanug but this is materialist and listic I need to understand that the real pleasure we're talking here about is not a good meal or a comfortable seat it's way way be beyond that but when a person when a a person needs to understand that the the the I was created to pleasure on Hashem both in the world to come and in this world and that's the real tanug the real real pleasure we don't really feel pleasure when we do something that is called the mitzvah when you eat a good food you feel the taste buds when you're doing something that you like you feel the adrenaline the excitement you get that pleasure from whatever it is but when you do a certain mitzvah you don't experience that pleasure so we're going to have to bridge that so you start waking up the desire ire to have a spiritual pleasure not a physical pleasure. Now the reality is that I have to come to part of my purpose is to come to a level of what's called theun which in English will be called refinement. That's really the revolving door that I'm going into. I need to go in one way and come out refined. If I'm not refined, why'd you come here? And by the way, one day you will leave this world and your achievements in the world might not measure in the world above to what you will need. You might been a great businessman or a great wife or whatever it is, but it's not in the standards of what they're expecting you in the world above. You need to reach to bring yourself to a place of refinement. If you are not refined, then you are light years away from from where you need to go. when I'm looking at my chuva and we're going to talk a lot about that in the next month and a half because we're going to prepare for alul and prepare for shah and it's all about chuva and today we're starting that's the day to start and not only today I'll announce that at the end of the class but this year we're going to do uh like we did in previous years if some of you joined us in the chuba boot camp and the lul boot camp and all the whatever we did we're going to do that again this year because I see how most people they don't know the path they're going on. They don't know the purpose. They know they need to do chuva. They don't know how to do chuva. There's no yeshivbo to teach you how to do chuva. So, we're going to have to do it very thoroughly in the next month and a half. I'll invite you to that journey at the end of the lecture. But when you're looking at your life in chuva, it's not about how much mitzvot you're doing and if you are mastered all the sins and you don't do sins anymore. Is how much you refined yourself. You'll still do the same sins. If you have a certain inclination, you will do that sin probably till the day you die. The question is the refinement after the sin, before the sin, during the sin. The refinement is the key. Then you need to put as one of the lists of your targets is refinement. And every certain period you need to look back and see if you did if you really refined yourself and how much you refined yourself. And in the biblical term this is called from the word eden. Eden is pleasure. Gan eden. Once you get to uh this perfect refinement where you will receive this eternal pleasure that doesn't come for free. If you would have one second of a glimpse, a taste of then it would ruin the whole thing. Then you would be super Jew 24 hours a day. No uh nothing would stop you if you would spend one second put your head into out peek out. That's it. Because you would see what's coming. Then everything would be no no question, no challenge, no everything. I'll die just to get there. Therefore, it's concealed. So, we can't see. We don't know what hama is. And we don't know even what ama. We have a little glimpse of the concept of ganed and we have a little bit of the idea of yam mashia, the days of mashia, but nobody knows what it is, how it is, where it is. But imagine you would have a glimpse into you would be super Jew. Since we don't have glimpses into then you can't be super Jew. You have to fight. And that's what the says you have to toil to get that. You need to put a lot of effort. You need to work hard. You need to fail 100 times in order to succeed once. What do you think you're going to get it for free? You think Hashem is going to give you the keys to the castle without putting you into some type of challenges to see what you're worth? So you have to understand part of the path is I need to refine myself. I cannot refine myself with one action. I need to fail 100 times. I need to fail 500 times because the smartest person in the world says King Solomon says the wisest person is a person who has experience. Can you compare your experience when you're 60, 50, when you were 30? I'm looking at myself when I was in my 20s when I thought that I have the whole world wrapped around my finger. I'm looking at myself 30 years ago, fool. Now I'm uh like wine. You get wiser, you get smarter. The tests refine you. They they they make you much much more control of yourself is all your tests because you have what to lean on. You have a track what to lean on. You know that this reaction doesn't work. Just out there now, I was speaking with my kids and my older kids. I have two groups of kids. I have the older group and they're all older more than teenagers and then I have the younger group. In between I have a kids stuck in between. But but but but I have the older group, they're in their 20s and the younger ones. And so the older group told me, "Oh, with us you were much more strict." I said it I so I answer them. It's not that I was more strict with you. The methods of educating the younger generations are are much more refined. I already learned on you what works and what doesn't work. So it looks to you that I'm more strict with with you than them. No, I'm more smart with them. So the experience gives you 90% of all the keys that you need to use in order to open all the paths. without without toiling, you're not going to get nothing. And that's what I teach my kids in not even in that's what my father taught me as a young kid. You want something in this world, go and get it. Nobody will do it for you. When I was 12 years old, I wanted a bike. My father told me, "Here's the fence. Go and paint it." Paint it? I'm not a painter. Well, you want a bike? No. So, learn how to paint it. So my father told me from when since I was like 8 years old anything you want don't come and ask me and my father is very successful financially he's wealthy he never gave me anything when I was a kid I resented that I hated that I grew up in a fancy neighborhood all the kids have motorbikes and sports cars and my father tells me go and work so as a teenager I resented that as an as an adult he gave me the best tools I can ask for because he gave gave me the ability to go and get it myself and not to call my father when I'm 45 years old and tell him I need money for rent. You know what I mean? Not that I'm trying to insult anybody, but Hashem wants you to do it by yourself. Hashem wants you to earn it. He wants you to sweat. He wants you to toil and cry and and but you did it. And when you're going to get the tap on your back or whatever prize you how you put seat in your mind, you earned it. You did it to yourself. So without toiling, no pleasure. You're not going to get any pleasure. Unfortunately, since this is the name of the game, then Hashem puts throughout the way all the obstacles that will take you off your course. All the billboards, all the triggers to get you off your focus that Hashem does. It's not anything else. All these things that will not only take you off your path, move you away from Hashem. Challenges will make you doubt Hashem. Challenges, it will make you doubt your if your chuva was accepted. Hashem will put all the obstacles to make the the the the path very unclear to bring you down, to break you, to make you realize maybe you're not doing the right thing, to confuse you, everything. It's all Hashem's work. He's not going to give you any discount here. And by the way, the more Hashem thinks of you, the harder it will be. So if your life is a life is very chaotic, Hashem thinks very highly of you. So I can congratulate you that if your life is smooth, then Hashem doesn't think so highly of you because he doesn't think you can handle it. But if your life is a roller coaster, say thank you. Hashem thinks very highly of you. And he says, "You can handle what I'm going to dish out." How does Hashem create triggers to get you away from your focus? Desires, lusts, physical attrib. So that's another key for you to understand. When too much materialism is involved, know that it's all distractions. Don't don't look at the materialism. And materialism can be not that you want a nice car. I'm talking about that you have financial stress that you don't have the money that you need. You have all sorts of financial issues. Then the materialism is I need to make more money. You need to make more money. No, no, you need to go and pray. You need to go and learn Tawa. The money will come at the moment that you need to get it in the in the increment that you need to get it. You making more deals won't work. Won't make anything. And like I said in the beginning, we have to understand that we are in a in a mode of war. War mode like you have on your on your phone, airplane mode. We're in war mode because Mashiach is coming very soon. All these challenges is to make you prepared for the coming of Mashiach that you're going to have some type of merit. If not, you're not going to survive the coming of Mashiach. The purpose of the of the test is to make you forget that it came from Hashem. It's his fault. It's her fault. It's because of him. Just in the journey that I went here three days to come here, you know how many people I could have blamed? Because we were late because of you. You didn't do the No, the point of the test remember is to make you forget from where it came from. So if you blame anybody for anything, you failed. You didn't even start. You already failed. Nobody is to blame. Everybody's just emissaries. Everybody's just of the Hashem. Somebody pissed you off. Somebody made you angry. Somebody You have to understand, and I will say it a few more times, the purpose of the test is to make you forget that it came from Hashem. Next, if you failed the test, you didn't pass the test, you're going to have to do it again. You can't get rid of it. By the way, don't think that if you push it, it won't haunt you. There's a test you need to do. You're going to have to do that. You need to make a vessel to create a vessel to create the the tikun that you need to do. And I'll explain very soon soon what we need to do. When you're going through a certain challenge, it is directly connected to your path and to your tikun, to your rectification, to your to your purpose in this world. Something minor and something huge. That's why you need to pay attention because everything that you're going through, it's also hints like in a game that I used to play when I was a kid that you go to one place, you open something, you find a hint, go over there, three steps, turn to the right, and there would be another note. You know this game and same idea. Hashem is sending you all your hints to the path you need to walk on through all these challenges. You just need to know how to put it all together and to build your road map, not to get overwhelmed by the billboard to understand that's where I need to go. Hashem is kind of putting you on the path through the challenges that you need to go through, where you need to be, what you need to do. And the most important to remember is that we were compared, our sages compare the nation of Israel to olives. I'm sure you heard that a few times. An olive when you eat it raw, it's very bitter. But when you squeeze the olive and if you get pure olive oil, the quality of the olive oil is to light up. But how do you light up is you need to be crushed first. The idea is that we are in many aspects of our life are stuck in a kipa. Let's imagine it for a second like a bubble and you have many of these bubbles that you are stuck in a certain concept can be what you're thinking or some part of your life livelihood finding your other half whatever it is you're busy and occupied just imagine that every test every challenge in your life is an ison and let's bubble it for a second put it in a bubble and imagine like a lot of little bubbles around you this is the the livelihood and this is the educating my kid and this is a of a family member who's sick and all these problems that you have put them in these bubbles and the reason why I'm telling you to put it in these bubbles because it's hard to imagine a kipa if I tell you imagine your challenges wrapped with a kipa a little bit harder to imagine in your mind that's why I'm telling you imagine it's stuck in a bubble and imagine all little bubbles all your problems all your challenges are in bubbles that's the kipa that you need to break. And in order to release what's in the bubble, to release that light, then the kipah needs to break. Has to be an action that breaks the kipa. And the action that breaks the kipa is the challenge that you are going through. And when you passed the challenge, you broke the the kipa. The kipa is the the husk, the cover, the bubble popped and the light is now shining in the universe which is affecting you and all the rest of the world. So imagine now if you have all all your troubles in these bubbles, all you need to do is start poking these bubbles, right? That's all you need to note. That's the the kipa you need to break and it's designed for you. Your challenge is not my challenge. I'll tell you about my challenge. When I tell people when I I told somebody now about three-day journey, he's like, "Ah, piece of cake. I wouldn't care for you. You like being stuck in airports. For me, it's, you know, what's big for me is small for you. What's huge for you may be this like this for me. I'm climbing a different mountain than you're climbing. Different mountains here." And speaking of mountains, I had a great realization a while ago which I wanted to I kept I was like when can I share this realization? So a few months ago we went on a vacation uh to Elat and I was sitting wherever we stayed and you know I never go on vacations for me vacation I'm still my mind is working answering it's like it's no vacation I vacate when I sleep. uh but uh nevertheless so I'm sitting and beautiful view of the mountains that you see from Elat which are it is Jordan and I was looking at the mountains and how it's curved and you know you look at the creation of God you wow you marvel the greatness of Hashem but then I had like this spark because I was go I I have a certain uh challenge in my life I have a lot of challenges by the way don't look at me like as if I'm Peter Pan and I'm like you know I'm like flying standing here and doing a how do you say hula hoops I have trust me I have challenges more than you just have just having seven kids that's enough to to keep you busy and a wife you know that's full-time job so I have challenges from here till yin-yang I'm looking at the mountains and I have a few challenges in my life that Mom, I can't seem to break the kipa. I mean, I broke a lot of kipot in my life, in my chuva life. I know what it is to break a kipa and the light coming out. So, there's a few challenges that I'm dealing with for quite a while. And I'm also in my mind when can I when is this challenge over? How much do I need to to break? It doesn't seem to work. Then I was looking at the mountains and I was like, you know, life is like climbing a mountain. You climb, you rest, you climb, you rest, you climb, you rest. If you want to have it more as a visual, go now to a a a graph of stock market. You know, the stock goes up, it goes down a little bit, goes up, goes down a little bit, goes up, goes down a little bit, something crashes. That's your life. By the way, if you normal, then you go up like a normal stock. Goes up a little bit, goes down a little bit, goes up, goes. But you don't want to be kind of stock that crashes. taking it back to the mountain. I was looking and I suddenly understood because I'm dealing with some challenges in my life and it made me understand you might be on the last effort of the mountain. You looking back and saying I'm climbing this mountain for 10 years. I can't seem to reach to the end. There's no I'm not coming into any any solution here. Nothing's happening. And in your mind, you start developing. I'll give up. Maybe I'll fall to despair. Shalom. Maybe it's not for me. Maybe it's not meant to be done. But you invested already so long. Sometimes you're at the you you are about to break and all it takes is one more time. One of that challenge and you're done. And it made me realize in one of the challenges that I'm going through that the last 10 years of this challenge, maybe now it's the end. Now you want to give up. Now you want to turn around. Now you want to say it's it's maybe what it was wasn't meant to be. You're at the tip of the mountain. You climbed already a whole mountain. And it made me realize that's all of our challenges that you're like, it can be with the sickness a year, another year, another year. When is the healing coming? It can be with a couple can having kids, a person trying to make money, three years, 10 years, business not Hashem is stretching it and stretching it. How do you know when you're about to give up that it's not the you only need one more time, three more challenges. Can you imagine somebody would whisper from the back, you're going to need to repeat this challenge 20 times. Then you say, okay, I have 20 times. Let me take a deep breath. I have made 20 20 more rounds. But nobody whispers in your ear how many more rounds you're going to need to do with this challenge. You don't know where you are on the mountain, but you might be at the end. I do believe that all of us are at the end because Mashiach is coming. So we're it's just another push, another one, another challenge. The challenge is is how you crush the kipa and in the cabalistic term it's called an external kipa. Why? So the light will start shining. That's why we need to go through all these challenges is that's how you shine the light is the break of the kipa and sometimes it needs to be repeated 100 times 200 times 300 times not every time the first h attack works how many times you see like police coming to the door they're trying to break the door 20 times boom yeah but uh every time they hit it makes it a little bit closer So the problem that most people have is that everything that I just told you, you need to do by yourself. You need to bring yourself to repent. You need to bring yourself to come close to Hashem. You need to bring yourself to to refine yourself. But now comes the problem. If you don't do it by yourself, Hashem will do it for you. And that's different types of challenges. That's when life becomes much harder. Hashem says, "Do it by yourself or I'll do it to you." How do you do it the best on yourself is that you need to the the biblical term to that is that you have to bring the hardship on yourself through the Torah. You need to wake up in the morning early in the morning 4 in the morning go to a cold mik do everything to to bring this then Hashem will leave you alone. When you bring yourself to to the place of refinement Hashem leaves you alone. Then you'll see all the challenges diminish. When you don't bring yourself to the place of the challenge, Hashem is going to keep you on your toes in levels that you can't even imagine. If he wants you to pray, he will give you all the reasons why why you need to pray now because your business is not working or you can't find your other half or somebody's sick. So either you do it voluntarily, Hashem is going to make you do it. You need you you need to make the decision, but the action needs to be done. Hashem is going to make you do it. But if you're saying, "Well, I'll do it myself." So you the I'll tell you the term in Hebrew, then I'll try to to translate. In Hebrew is Torah. Kill yourself over the Torah. Make the Torah the challenge. Put Hashem number one. I spoke about that a million times. Most people, Hashem is number two. And the uh test to that is what what do you do first thing in the morning? Do you say the morning prayers and say or you check your messages on your phone? And if you check your messages on your phone, then Hashem is number two. That's already already 90% of your problem. Hashem has to be number one. Everything else is number two. And like I told you, if you don't remember to do it yourself, Hashem will remind you with all the challenges. And with the challenges, the power of the nishama is being revealed. Now, since we're short on time, let's wrap it up and see what we need to do. Because you all understood that we are up for challenges. The concept is because I need to create this closeness to Hashem. That's how I break the the clipot. I gave you a very quick rundown. The why. Now, we'll talk quickly about the how. Today is one of the most powerful days in the entire year. It's the 15th day of the month of Av. There are two holidays that start with the two bishvat and tav. Both days have the quality or the I would should say the power to flip something kind of like a purim but a purim is a different type. It's what's called a that's a different type of transformation. But two and two have the quality of transforming good to bad, dark to light. And we learn that based on the the the ham the energy of the month and I'll touch that in a second very briefly. Every moment, every second, every uh minute, every aspect of time has its own energy. Every minute has its own energy. Every week, I mean, I'm sure you feel that and I'm sure you're familiar with what I'm saying. But every second has its own energy, which means that every aspect of of time has its own energy and it's broken into fractions of seconds. And it can be a year, the energy of the year, the energy of the month, month of kisv, different energy from the month of Tamuz. And you can feel it if you are refined. I need to know how to tap into that energy. If I know how to tap into the energy of every moment, I have 90% of the challenges. I have the express lane, the one on the the HOV lane that you can just fly. I need to know how to tap into that energy. What's the perfect example that you are can relating with what I'm saying? Shabbat. Shabbat has a certain energy. If I tap myself into this energy, I benefit from the Shabbat. I don't tap myself into the energy. I don't benefit from the Shabbat. That's it. Very simple. And this is the same thing with PES. You got the idea. Most people I don't think get it. When I put all these videos online, today's pray this today's pray that I don't think that most people get what I'm trying to say. they maybe give a donation and read a few timing into that energy because when you tap into that energy of that moment that day then you can benefit from the quality of that day. So if today is the day that I can switch something, the Beneshai says I can sweeten judgments. Today is the day of switching judgments like Yonipuru. Like it says inact the best days for the nation of Israel. Yonipuru and Dub. Why? Because today you can sweeten judgments. Do you understand what that means? You don't understand. Today is an open checkbook. Just write whatever you want to be. Switch everything from bad to good. And it's only from bad to good, darkness to light, evil to pleasant, disaster to success. Because a has a quality that no month has have. I explain that many times in my classes. Every month has an energy and it depends on the combinations of the letters of Hashem's name. The combination yud and then avo everything is in order. Yud and a and a all the other months the order is different. When yud and a are together this represents mercy and kindness. When the he is before the vow it will represent dinim. The combination of hashem's name for the month of a is hey vav. We start with strong dinim. two destructions of the beta mikdash and all the disasters and ends with the yud kindness. So the first two weeks of a disastrous second two weeks of a everything is flipped and that's the only month that has this quality in the year. So as bad as the disasters were in the beginning of the month that's the quality that we have in the second month. But you need to tap into the switch. It's not going to work if you don't tap into the switch to the time. If you don't tap into the time. So the month of Av besides having the quality of what I just told you and by the way where do we learn this order this is from the teaching of the book of Kabala and every combination of the letters of Hashem is supported by a verse from the Torah. So the combination of the letters of Hashem for this month he vav is a acronym from the verse from the book of chapter 30 27 verse9 is het that's the is the that's the letter the the verse where the brings it from the translation pay attention And listen, O Israel, now here is where everything is lied. This is the the core of everything. Pay attention for the next 10 minutes and will wrap it up. Today is a new beginning. You can start a new beginning. Flip everything. Everything today everything can change. And when I'm saying change for the better, whether it's finding your other half, whether it's whatever it is, health issues, today is the root of this transformation. It doesn't happen overnight. It doesn't happen instant. You tap into the energy. The transformation takes time, but today is the root, which means that you're joining right away. Somebody will watch this video tomorrow on YouTube. Did they miss the train? They didn't miss the train. They were just late to the train. They're starting one day later. But the transformation can still be done. We have two weeks now to hop on the train. The train is now starting to get into motion. So really, you need to make the decision today, but you have two weeks to get into the program. But you need to tap into the root of the change of the transformation. It's very important. We have a month and a half now to focus. We need to focus on a few things. I will explain that at the end. But you can only do that if you understand the concept of the day. How is tav called? I'm sure all of you have heard that it's called the holiday of love. I will uh choose not to call it Valentine's because it's not a Valentine's but nevertheless it's the valent the Jewish Valentine. So everybody thinks that Dub is about praying and finding your other half which is not far from the truth. It's the best day probably to do that. But why is it called the holiday or the festival of love is for me to find my other half. I'm married already for 22 years. I found her. So what to renew the bells? How do you say what people do here in uh in Vegas? We're renowning our vows. No, you don't need to do that. Thea is not the love for me to my wife. It's to re release and to expose the love for me to Hashem. It's not about me and my wife or you and your husband. The love here is the love to God that you love him even though he slaps you on your face all day long. The first word in what what is the acronym of this hetma is pay attention listen most part people's problems because they don't know how to listen shut up know how to shut up and then when this hole is closed this hole is open and you can listen and actually maybe learn something most of your problems is your mouth by the way that's why the this verse, shut up. You guard your mouth and your tongue. You you you you you solved half your problems if not 90% of your problems. So you have to understand the concept of the schma, the paying attention, holding your mouth. Most people don't know how to hold your mouth. That's the first thing you need to work on is hashket. Stop. Pay attention. Listen. Listen to what Hashem is telling you. All the challenges that you have is Hashem talking to you. Shut up and listen to what Hashem is telling you. More than that, I need to develop a love to the most people don't have a love to Hashem. They're afraid of Hashem. They do things because they're afraid. But the first word is I have to develop a love and a connection to Hashem. That's today is the day. Today is the day that I can start developing. It's the root of the love that I have to Hashem. That's the day. And when I have great love to Hashem, I do things with love. I don't do things with fear. I love Hashem. I see the good that he does to me. I understand when he takes things away from me and I don't get upset. That's how powerful today. But more than that, we just commemorated two destructions of the temples that we will blame it on one sin. baseless hate. So everybody's very into and the fasting and have a meaningful fast. It's not meaningful if the next day you still hate me. If you hate another person, the fast didn't mean anything. The three weeks didn't mean anything. Everything that you did didn't mean anything. The fast is to bring you to realize that I don't need to hate any other person. And it kind of loops back to what I was saying before. It kind of looks back bloops back to what I was saying before is that if I hate another person for what he did to me, I failed the test miserably. I didn't get the test. If something happened in my life and I blame you and she did and he did and he said, "A, I failed the test. You didn't do nothing. You're standing on the on the spot." But more than that, that I I failed the test. What made me fail the test is the fact that theat is you do you can't do anything to me. You cannot do nothing to me. You can slander me. You can do whatever you want. Curse me. You can do something to me. You have the power to do something to me. Why would I hate you? Why would I resent you? You know the story with David and and Shim and G. The person comes and cursed King David. Hashem says to David says to his chief of staff, "Don't kill him. Hashem told him to curse." That's the level you need to start understanding. Listen, understand nobody does anything bad to you. Nobody can take your money. Nobody can take your space. Nobody can take your job. Nobody can do nothing to you. It's only Hashem. It's you and Hashem. That's why the holiday of love is start developing this connection with Hashem. When I'm firm with my kids because I need to educate them, they don't feel I don't love them. They understand, okay, Abba's now firm. When Hashem is slapping you across the your face, you feel Hashem is not loving you. He's not not loving you. He's just strict with you cuz you're new, not doing what you're supposed to do from the start. The holiday of love is for us to tap into the energy that I will have the true love to Hashem and true love to the creations. And if you ever receive the blessing from me because a lot of people stand in line and telling me gab give me a then I tell them I wish you to fight to have true love to Hashem and true love to the Torah and true love to other people. So today is the root. Do you understand what today? There's a huge significance of today because today we have 40 days till is the day the world was created because the six days of creation is the day that everything was started. Today is the root. Today you can tap in to the source of everything and just do a little alignment and in the next month and a half you will need to do a bunch of actions but you can reach to a place that on shah you set everything different everything will be different in the next coming year so what do you need to do to in order to achieve this and by the way what I'm saying tonight is the short version of a very long topic what I highly recommend I'm here on a tour in the United States for the next month and a half. Most of the lectures are going to be kind of same not same topic but supporting each other. All the lectures are going to be recorded broadcasted live you can follow but you need to do a bunch of a series of actions. The first thing that you need to do is you need to do chuva. You need to repent. You have to understand that where you are right now that's not where Hashem wants you. So he's not happy with what you're doing. If you're praying three times a day, he wants you in a minan. If you're already doing the minan, then he wants you to learn 15 minutes before then be the first one. Whatever you're doing in the eyes of Hashem is not enough. So he's pushing you to the corner and he's taking from you all your little treats, your lollipops. So you will be occupied. You have to be focused on your path. That's what I said before. You need to understand what is your responsibility in this world. Tonight, I'm not going to tell you how to find out your responsibility, your path, and your purpose. What I'm going to do is invite you for the next month and a half of lectures where I'm going to slowly slowly lay it out because you can't explain that in a lecture. So, we're going to start a very amazing uh journey tonight. You can join me if you want that for a month and a half because we have exactly a month and a half to Roshana. Roshana is the heart of everything, the Rosh, the head of everything. That's where we're going to set everything. If you're going to do the path I'm going to tell in the next month and a half, very good chance you're going to eliminate 90% of your challenges. You'll transform most of the negative into positive. You'll still have more challenges cuz that's the name of the game. It will be more extreme challenges, but you'll have the ability, the tools, and the knowledge how to kind of juggle the challenge and to understand it's part of the job. It's not about what I want. It's not about what I think. is what Hashem wants me to do. First thing you need to do today is chuva is repent is to take a piece of paper. I always say that it won't work any other way. And write on the right side on the column all the good things that you do that you love doing that you are good at that you are you know that they're good and on the left side all the bad things you need to get rid of the good things you need to see where you lacking in your aod and all the good things that you are already doing and you have to fill up the holes. You cannot do 600 mitzvot you can only do 613. The reason why I told you about the challenge I had coming here is because three days I'm asking from Hashem, what do you want? What what do I need to learn? I right away ask all the right questions. I mean, I long time ago stopped getting upset. I asked questions and I'm trying to figure out and then the last flight after my tongue is already out missing flight. The last flight that brought me to my destination, what was the number of the flight? >> 6:13. And I arrived at 3:00 in the morning in my Airbnb. And what's the code to get into the Airbnb? 6:13. And then we needed to buy some water and some drink. I go to the first gas station. And what is the gas? You know the prices? 613. Three times. is telling me in my level of chuva I must be missing something on my list tonight has to be some things that are missing that I'm not doing so on the right column add what you're not doing left column start removing now you can't remove everything in one shot so the first thing you're going to need to do tonight is chuba the second thing that you need to do is charity. I'll explain on that in a second because we need three concepts and right that's what we scream in repentance charity and and prayer removes the evil of the decree. So we need the chuva, we need the charity and we need the prayer for the chuva. I'll explain and elaborate more on that in the next month and a half. Don't get too overwhelmed that today make a decision to make today make a list and the decision is what am I adding and what am I removing now you're not going to remove everything we're going to take a challenge that we need to add a prayer now I'm not talking about if you're not doing that jump on board and I'm not talking about or we need to add another prayer to make A very long long story short without elaborating too much. The custom is that from tonight you read for 40 days. That's the prayer. That's the prayer. That's the praise and you're doing it for 40 consecutive days till we continue to sh. And if you can do it to but that's the first thing you take on yourself that you add on the long list you want to add. I know it takes time. I know it will take you 10 15 minutes but you go like this for 20 minutes so you measure what benefits better you need to take on yourself a certain prayer for 40 days I recommend song of songs doesn't take long eight chapters 15 minutes you'll knock it out you want to do tikun you want to do something else but you have to do it in a form of a prayer consecutive 40 days you cannot break if you're broke you do chuva you're right you wake up you go back Don't give up. And there's one thing that you need to take from the left side of the list that you're stopping. Doesn't matter what's going to happen. You're not failing in that specific sin and choose something easy. Don't choose now, you know, the hardest sin. And since today is the root of everything, that's then you you you're holding so to say the root of the change. Everything will come and evolve. So for chuva take a piece of paper write column all the good things that you do mitzvot good actions everything refinement I'm I'm I'm less angry everything and you see where you need to add in the mitzvot and on the left column you choose one thing you're getting rid of that you think is the the the the bone in the neck that's stopping you that's your cha for your of course I will encourage you to pray. Pray. We have to pray. You have to understand that eventually Hashem wants you to do all 613 mitzvot. So if you're only doing 200 of them, you have a long way to go. That's the the end. Hashem wants you to be equal to any other. It's not that don't look at me and saying, "Okay, the rabbis, they can learn a lot of Torah." No, no, you are equal to me. I need to eat kosher. You need to eat kosher. I need to observe Shabbat. You need to observe Shabbat. You're not different than me. And eventually the the end is you need to be fully observant. Shem is not going to let you go. Don't think he's going to let you go. He's going to constantly push you to become more and more and more. So for your prayer I recommend we've been doing it for years. We do it in minim. That's what I recommend. You can do you can read 10 chapters of tim but you have to do something in a form of a prayer and a prayers. That's why I think is the best. It will take you anywhere between 8 to 15 minutes depending how fast you read it. I recommend to read in Hebrew. If you can read in English, we have your chuva and we have your prayer. You need to create a vessel when every time you want to do chuva, you need to create a vessel. That's what says you have to apply some form of charity. Here we have to finish the lecture. We got to we got to pray now. Hopefully, we still have a few more minutes. Uh what I want to share with you is a quick opportunity that we have today and it's specifically designed for this day in the great things that my organization does. We do a lot of things but now we have a project that we are helping three people to get married. Two of them are orphan orphans and the other one orphan from one side but three weddings that out of nowhere came to us asking and seeking for help and I was like you know what this is going to be the opportunity this is going to be the opportunity to anyone who wants to make a vessel for what we're going to do in the next month and a half and we just started the lecture tonight all the lectures in this tour are going to be part of this journey starting. We're starting the 40-day journey. You're going to have to follow me on other besties, WhatsApp or all the social media. If you want to join, don't miss out. Today, I'm just giving you the concept. But today is important to reach to the source, to the uh uh root of everything. I I I know we're going to be able to help these three young individuals get their weddings. Tav has two aspects to it. One of them is Bmet finding other halves. The other one is splitting the sea. Every challenge you have all that today the day you can change it. So you can either choose the path of finding your other half or whatever success but you have to do all three that I said. So the chuva I'm going to guide you for the next month and a half for the start doing it for the you can choose wherever you give your charity. I'm giving you the opportunity tonight because we're really trying to fund a raise for this particular and dash here. Nobody came to me with an electricity bill in the last month. Weddings and the wedding is the most joyous occasion to be I just see that Hashem is dishing to us the opportunity to help and assist. So, since we want to finish, I'm going to advertise it in a different video, but we're going to have some special promotions for everyone who wants to participate, you can give a dollar, you can give whatever you want, but since we need a round number of 30,000, 10,000 per wedding, we're going to do a promotion that anyone who wants to support and participate in the in the increments of a thousand. We have a long list of goodies that we're going to give them. You're going to get some of my wine. you'll get an hour meeting with me whether on Zoom or personal because we really want it to happen. And when I'm thinking about it, all we need is 30 people. If every p one of the 30 gives a thousand, then that's it. We covered it. Not telling you to give a thousand. Give whatever you can, whatever you want. If you can go to the website, we'll have all the goodies for the ones who want to participate. I want to do it as fast as possible. And one of the things is what are we going to make? I in the next 40 days I pray we're going to do a lot of things but we're going to have for the ones who really supporting these weddings we're going to have the and the on their day of the weddings pray for you in the I have a lot of goodies for the ones who want to participate but the here is that it it happened on this day so we have two minutes to finish a person can win his entire like that in one second a person can make a quick decision that changes his entire path. Tonight you have the opportunity to make this quick decision. How to do it? Don't worry. We have a month and a half to sh and I'm going to do a lot of lectures and a lot of videos everything don't worry if you did it with me a few years ago. You you know it's organized and it's very very powerful. If you follow everything that I tell you in the next month and a half, I will dare to guarantee to you that you're gonna have a very successful year next year. But of you have to do everything that I say because I'm going to do it on myself. I have challenges. I have difficulties. I have things that I want to jump over. So, I'm doing it myself and inviting everybody to join. But you have to tap into it today. Five minutes. Sit with yourself. Make the decision. Understand that Hashem is not going to let you go. is not going to let you go to do to get whatever you want. That's it. No more freebies, anything that you want. Other half, health, money. Hashem won't let you. He won't will only give it to you when you do what you're supposed to do. What the says it's you. You have to know your responsibility. This I'll teach you in the ne next month and a half. But tonight, a decision you have to make. You want to make a decision that you're switching your path. Now, by the way, if you do everything that I tell you tonight, in the next month and a half, you're going to triple your challenges, by the way. Don't come and tell me, "Oh, now my challenges are triple." You will triple your challenges and they'll become worse, but at least you know that you were successful in what you did. You're walking on the right path. You want to get a lot of interest, then it has to be the challenges will, but you'll have the tools how to deal with the challenge and much more. So, I'm going to end up with blessing you all. I know a lot of people want but we're going to do a gentle ba that may you find today in the depth of your heart and the depth of your soul the point where you're going to grab the point of light that you're going to grab today and Hashem is just going to pull you just need to hold this light and today may Hashem bless you with happiness with peace in your heart true happiness service should be easy you should pass all your challenges. I'm not telling you not to have challenges. I'm telling you to pass them. You should grow. You should reach your potential. And Hashem should bless you with everything that you need spiritually, physically, emotionally. Hashem bless us all as a nation that we should apply the Israel that today is the root of everything looking back what we suffered. But if each and every one of us will perform this hashket, that's what you need to leave this door tonight. Hashket, be quiet. know when to shut up. You'll win most of the battles. Listen, Hashem is talking to you through all your challenges. That's Hashem telling you. And what is he says? You're going to be today means the day the Mashiach is going to come. So, I'm blessing you that Hashem should make you successful in everything that you need to do. Shem should bless you with an abundance. For all the ones of you who are participate in what we're the campaign we're doing, Hashem should bless you. I'm already thanking you. By the way, for the local ones, we have new wine from for you here from Israel. My new wine alcohol that I make, everything that I that we have is I make blessed by my cook ones online can order it online. We ship anywhere in the United States. But please do me the justice that when you walk out this door tonight, you take advantage of this night. You'll be able to change your life. Tonight I I just gave you the concept. Next few lectures I'll give you the nitty-gritty, the details. But I came a long way. Three days it took me to be in airports. My reward is that at least one or two or three or five of you take action. Don't let this powerful day pass. Don't let this opportunity and do the right thing, make the right decision and Hashem will bless you and light up your way and make you reach your purpose in the best way possible. Hashem, we should all meet very soon in with Mashiach. Thank you everybody for whoever participated to make this happen. We're going to pray now and continue later with a few questions and answers. I got the dail.