Work For God Or Man? - MUSSAR Pirkei Avot (38)

[Music] good to be back we did a sh here a few weeks ago and it's been very very successful a lot of people have told me it's one of the better shes so the good news is it has nothing to do with me all has to do with the Hem gives me certain words to say based on the crowd if the crowd has Merit then hem gives me good words to say if the crowd doesn't have Merit then I could sound like a fool so the crowd here has Merit every time you're in Miami already for the last couple years together and uh today I know with the amount of uh tests that we had to overcome just to get here today I know it's going to be a good Che so before I forget let's do the this sh also go to moto ow B ruven Joseph Ben Rifka SAR Lea Batar Gladis Nunes Ed magero Josephina Matos Esperanza Aila ra Sandler and Monty Sandler lard Reni Yeshua Mikel Ben hadasa David Gamel Ben hadasa nany DEA DEA Patricia valman Sonia Suarez Nicole valman Aus Hernandez Jorge Hernandez Isabel bet banov I wasn't even close Liliana anti bonil uh Gilberto menesses jaini roas Roger PR Orga Hernandez Joseline Mor David Ben nria Doris Bora o Doris Leana s Lana and all of will have and the good news is with this list is that I see that the old names almost half of them a gun so it's good everybody got been doing for them for over a year already they got but now we have a new list unfortunately we have another half of the list of new names so they're going to have also it's uh the greatest thing you can do for someone is contribute Torah for their name you know when people make donations they uh or they do any type of uh event they usually want to do it for or to raise the soul of uh of someone that's passed on and uh it's interesting is that in today's generation unfortunately we have a lot of ignorance so sometimes you're going to see events that are against theem but they're trying to raise the Soul at the same time so they're going to have like for example there was one time a uh soccer match on Shabbat they said we are going to win this match for the benefit for of some player that died on Shabbat but we're going to have this event that's you know a party with uh all types of things that are against what Hashem dictated for the Merit of this person and the reality of it is that if anyone was able to hear this sh do please please do me don't do me any favors no no nothing you're making my my situation worse so the greatest thing you can do for somebody is to bring him the most pure thing in the world which is the Torah the purpose of creation Now last night we got a lot of good feedback out of it from the crowd that attended I don't know if we published it yet online or not but uh we have the um Facebook live and uh uh YouTube and also our website bash.org but there's also something I'd like to tell everyone about anyone that is passionate about kiru has to go to a website called tank.com tabbank.com is a new Innovative website and it's m 100% of how they came up with this idea and actually were able to implement it without being a multi-billion dollar company this uh group of sikim came together and they uh decided that they want to help us do K but not only by helping us by publishing the the lectures on Facebook and all these different places but actually by encouraging people to actually do kiru now how do you encourage somebody to do something in life one way is you pay them now what if you don't have any money you have to make them passionate how do you make somebody passionate by showing him there's result there's an outcome even the greatest salesman in the world if he eventually finds out that what he's selling is garbage he's going to lose all of his passion even if he's making a lot of money as long as he's a normal person if he's a criminal he's a criminal but if he's a normal person and he finds out that what he's selling is garbage he's not going to want to sell it anymore but if what he's selling is the greatest thing in the world he's going to want to sell it if he sees that this product actually has results even more so well how do you show this guy sale how do you guys show this guy uh results usually when it's in business it's money now in the Torah World usually it's when you see actually people do chv you see oh listen this guy was a Shabbat now he's keeping Shabbat it's great results this guy is a uh was not wearing a TI now he's wearing a TI this guy was not eating kosher now he's eating kosher the problem is that from point A to point B can take a while to go from can take a while to go from eating to eating can take a while so how do you keep the guy that's doing K that's sending lectures to his friends motivated by showing them that actually people are watching and that's what Torah Bank did Torah Bank created a system that's similar to multi-level marketing where when you actually go to that website and you sign up and you create a profile they have the lectures of myself ra mrai and Raa and you're able to take our lectures take the link and send it to whever you want and anyone that watched it is actually going to show up on your profile oh you sent it to Steve Steve watched it for 16 minutes Joe watched it for 45 minutes watched it for 2 hours and 20 minutes so on and so forth watched for 5 hours and you start seeing how much Torah you personally are bringing to the world so when you show up to sh it's not going to be a surprise you understand so this is something that's M amazing it's an amazing invention they're gonna have a lot of and anyone that's passionate about doing kir should definitely sign up it's free and uh listen if you're already going to send a lecture might as well know if anybody watched it cuz sometimes to get the guy that watched it a lot of people say listen I sent my your lecture your personal story or other lectures to a bunch of people and not everybody responded but then they called me a year or later like oh this guy did Chua I'm like why he just did Chua overnight no it took a year just that it started a year ago you just never knew he watched it now you know who to follow up with you see that you sent it to 10 people six of them watched it four didn't watch it you don't see them on the screen so what do you do you call those guys back tell them Hey listen you watch that oh I didn't get a chance to oh okay don't tell them I know you didn't watch it tell why you watched it take a look at it and follow up with these people go ahead they have to make a profile for you to be aware that they viewed it or does it just link to whatever uh if do they have to make a profile themselves I'm assuming they do but I'm not sure I'm assuming they do but it's simple just uh they make it simple name you know name and email I think it's not like uh you have to put your credit card in or anything like that uh so it makes it very makes things very very simple uh I think you're the one as as the sender I think you're the one that may have to put their name in there I'm not 100% sure just log on you'll see it but it's it's amazing how you're able to see who saw it how much time they actually saw it for uh and it's uh it's extraordinary idea highly recommended for anyone that's passionate about kiru and that's also one of the things that we learn about often is that if you're not passionate about CU then you don't know what it means because to be pass about Q should be a given to all of us because that means that you love hem and you're interested in making him Happy by bringing back his kids you know for the last few months we've been looking for a house ever since the whole debacle with the batone synagogue happened and we decided that it's not the right Community for us there's obviously some good people in the community and some people that perhaps need to get uh some more but overall for me we decided that for us we need a change so we've been looking for a house and um incidentally as AEM would have it raim has also been looking for a house for the last month and a half in Jerusalem so both of you know we're looking this place that place you see different options and both of us learned musar from it what's the M it's not easy to find a house because it's not just finding a four walls and a door you have to find a community you have to find the right synagogue you have to find the right people that you know like-minded it's not that easy as a Jew as a you know you're trying to find a good place so then we learned look at it this way hem has been looking for a house for 2,000 years 2,000 years has been crying because he himself destroyed his own house and he can't build a new house why because the community is not ready yet so imagine we're going through a difficulty for a couple of months and how much we uh act like we're suffering oh listen it's hard you don't have a house you know feel comfortable where you are hasem has not been comfortable for over 2,000 years why don't we cry for him so the least we can do is say you know what hasm I understand you're not ready to build your house yet the mashia is not ready to come here you're not ready to send them but you know what why you not ready CU not enough people in a community so let's bring them back Let's help people do chuv let's get them to keep Shabbat let's let them to lay let's the get the women to become modest it's not that hard what's the cure the Cure is telling them the truth treating people like adults and letting them make the decision for themselves if the guy wants the truth he's going to take the truth as it is if he doesn't want it doesn't matter for all of those people that are worried about listen if I tell them that I'm is putting his Judaism on suspension according to the rambam he's considered an idol worshipper he's going to be offended he's going to be this if I tell her that you know as long as she's not modest and she's wearing our tank up and our mini skirts anytime she prays it's the doors are closed in shamim she's going to be offended she's going to cry listen if you don't tell them they're not going to change ever they're never going to change you're not giving him a chance if you tell them the worst case scenario if they get upset so what the best case scenario you just save their life not about the life here talk about eternal life so to not tell them the truth is M like hating them it's like knowing that your friend has a train coming at them and I them to move out of the way and that's one of the things that we as Jews as the Sons and Daughters of as I have to take into account you love hm you want to say you everybody says I love hm I love hm everybody loves hm okay so how come you don't care about his kids why don't you care about his kids why don't you say something so telling people the truth is the least you can do why do I mention this now aside from everything we've mentioned so far is because the biggest reason of why I'm in this house now is because I listened to kazal and I told the owner of this house the truth which hurt a lot what was the truth almost 10 years ago they did a conversion converted to Judaism but through a conservative sh through a conservative bed now according to Al doing a conversion to a reform or a conservative or renewal type of bed is worth zero you go into the mikve non-jew you come out of the mikve non-jew why if you take a look at the procedure itself for the conservative rabbis generally it's the same the same it's three people asking you questions reformed they usually have women sometimes non-jews even asking questions so forget about them conservative at this point are still keeping it somewhat the same sometimes the rabbi is gay but let's say he's straight no it's it's it's what happens the rabbis are sometimes gay not not making just making fun of it it's a it's a reality they also announced recently that as of now conservative shs are accepting Go 100% without need of conversion ever so this is not like something I'm just doing to to jab at anybody this is you go to their website you find this out so now in a conservative bed five 10 years ago the procedure was in essence the same three people asking questions you answer the questions right they say you accept on yourself the mitv you say yes you go into a mik you dip into the mik you know you say the and everything is good the process itself in essence is the same so why is the bed of the conservative not Kosher and the B of the Orthodox kosher why because the bedin of the conservative also teaches that it's okay for you to drive on Shabbat the B of the conservative also teaches that you don't have to be modest the B of the conservative teaches you things that are against the Torah including that parts of the oral Torah are not 100% true are not Divine once someone says that there's parts of the that are not from hasem they're no longer part of is they're no longer considered a they're no longer considered fair and righteous enough to judge or even be a witness in any ceremony whatsoever that's Jewish so needless to say they cannot be a judge to decide who's going to be a part of am and who's not so the procedure the picture looks the same but the outcome is different so now I had to tell this wonderful person that yes I understand you've been living a Jewish life for 10 years but I'm sorry to tell you that you're not Jewish and in order for you to be Jewish you have to go to a formal conversion you have to learn certain things and da da and obviously this was a lot of tears and a lot of difficulties but because this person was seriously looking for the truth they went through the whole process all over again making sacrifices I don't even want to speak about sacrifices that none of us including myself would make none of us would make it I don't need to know what's in your heart I know you're not going to make it no one I don't think anybody else would be able to make it that type of sacrifices to do it all over again and to become 100% F to become 100% Jewish so this when we go up to Sham they're ask how come you weren't religious oh it was difficult oh was it more difficult for you than them who are they going to bring they're going to bring the balab the Bal and show you an example why it was more difficult than her it's more difficult than her you made sacrifices like her what make what sacrifice did you make why you woke up at 6 o'cl in the morning to go to scho that's the sacrifice so this is something that teaches us M that it's time to wake up and stop making excuses because the ones that are fulfilling the prophecy that it says in page 3B and also 4 a which is that there's going to be a lot of converts at the end of time there's another in that talks about how the converts are like a skin disease for why is it like a skin disease for counts the converts greater than he does Natural Born Jews why are there a skin disease all of a sudden there skin disease because they're it's painful it's a painful reminder of how zealous you're supposed to be the the convert chose to be part of we were born Jews they're more zealous than us we're supposed to be more zealous than them they're reminding us we still walk while we're really supposed to be running to hem so when hem has been looking for a house for the last couple of thousand years the least we can do is start recruiting his children start recruiting the people that are looking for the truth some of those people went through bad conversions went through fake conversions and they don't even know it they went to the reform in the conservative and they thought this is Judaism what do they know they're not raban they're not you know reiton can't blame them can't be upset at them some people that go to even messianics which is 100% Christianity they call themselves Jews this new creation that's against AEM new form of abod has put us in a situation that's more dangerous than any other time in history any other time in history what is the situation that we're in right now the page 49 says there's going to be certain things that happen before mashia comes very difficult things we did a recent film about it different prophecies that are going to happen but in so many words to sum it up it says that the situation in the world is going to be unbearable unbearable to such an extent everyone is going to have to question themselves the guy with the hat and the beard and the guy that just put on a keep For the First Time The and the Jew the one that's looking for the truth the one that doesn't know what he's looking for everyone is going to have to question themselves it's going to be difficult to stay close to hashm because you're not going to know what's real and what's not now what's happening right now secretly but in plain sight is the most dangerous thing that ever happened in history and what it is is Messianic form of Christianity that calls itself Judaism to such an extent that if you ask them what are you they say we're Jews so for the first time ever for the first time in history you have the Christians now calling themselves Jews you now have people that call themselves Jews and you actually don't know if they're Jews or not this is a problem because in the past if you look at 2,000 years ago even though the Greeks and the Romans IM killed us tortured us they did us a favor why was the favor they only killed our flesh you want to convert no dead you wanna be a Roman no dead you want to be a Greek no dead they did us a favor because they only killed the body the soul geden but in today's world what they're trying to do in is they're trying to kill the soul they're trying to to tell you listen come to our synagogue our Messianic synagogue and go worship Yos JC Penney he's our Messiah he's our this he's our that but they don't tell you right away about JC Penney they tell you no we're Jews we're just we call we're a new tradition we're modern we're this we're that few weeks into it you realize it's not even Judaism but by then you're already stuck you're already friendly with a few people you already like the guy who calls a rabbi he wears a talit he wears a keep he doesn't look any different than me if anything he looks more hip looks more modern looks more with the times and yob already gave us the prophecy about this over 4,000 years ago when he said in to he cried out to hasem before he came and met with asav after running away from his for several decades he had to come back but the Book of Genesis chapter 32 verse 12 it says rescue me please he's talking to Hashem rescue me please from the hand of my brother from the hand of asav for I fear Him lest he come and strike me down mother and children so kazal asks wait a minute we know there's not even one extra letter let alone not one extra word in the entire Torah so what is yov doing here reminding us that is is his brother what hasm doesn't know okay you want Hashem rescue me from my brother we know you're talking about esab you only have one brother rescue me from es we know that's your brother so why does he say rescue me please from the hand of my brother from the hand of a there's a redundancy here there's a Superfluous word What's Happening Here gives us the and I learned this with r fry when I told him about what's happening he told me yeah of course this is already a prophecy of 4,000 years it's happening because we know the mashia is that much closer what is this prophecy says hem when is as we know he's as when is a we know he's a do why he's killing us when he's the Roman when he's the Greek when he's the Nazi we know it's him he's trying to kill us rescue me from that hand the problem is not when he's as the problem is when he plays like he's my brother and I don't know if he's a or not the problem is when he looks like me acts like me and thinks like me but not really and this is why in the verse it says rescue me from my brother brother and then from asav because my brother is much scarier than asav cuz I know who asav is I know who a is my brother I don't know I don't know now unless we tell people the truth whether they're already in the Messianic AB whether they're in conservative shoes and reformed shoes whether they are anywhere if we don't tell them how are they going to know so now it's a responsibility for us responsibility for us if we say everybody says here we love hem right you love hem love everybody loves hm right everybody claims to love hem everyone loves hem no one fears hm anymore but everybody loves hm so let's play that card even though yesterday we talked for 3 hours about how you can't love AEM without fearing let's skip it for a second hypothetically speaking if you love someone that means it's has to be very love because if it's for a price then it's not love then it's self-interest if you love your wife only because she does things for you then you don't really love her you love the things she does for you it's like the old question that kazal says does the fisherman love fish if he really loved fish why does he kill them no he loves the outcome of the fish he loves the way they taste you can't say you love food because then you wouldn't kill the animal that actually becomes that food you can't say you love your wife if the only time you love her is when she gives you stuff whether it be children food intimacy attention whatever Cav love has no price Love's free so if we really love hem that means we have to love him regardless of our life regardless of whether we're millionaires or broke we're sick or healthy everything is going good or everything is not going so good if we love AEM that means it doesn't really make a difference what happens because we love hem so the one simple test of whether we love hem just a little test if we love hem we want him to be happy how could he be happy if so many of his children don't know he exists how could he be happy if so many of his children are worshiping one of his Creations whether it be JC peny or it be some Abu in India or it be some other false prophet from Islam or some other form of aazar even in Judaism they've created aazar Unfortunately they made their rabbis into gods how could Hashem be happy with this if the first commandment out of the 10 is to remind us that he's the only one no middleman not even mosu not even mosenu can come between you and Hashem the prophet of all prophets if we needed him he'd still be here anyone that says that has a middleman that need that you need to connect to hem whether it be a rebi or it be a raban or it be some sadik or it be some other form of they created anyone that says this is leading you astray is leading you away from Hashem not towards Hashem so how could Hashem be happy if he not only doesn't have a house but even his children don't know he exists so the least we can do is tell the children hey by the way you know I know you prayed to this Yos guy the guy that died 2,000 years ago where it says in the Torah God can't die so he's not God God's not flesh we even learned it from he still knew God still spoke to God you're still a prophet he says God's not flesh and blood he doesn't change his mind you look at the New Testament the guy changes his mind every five minutes one minute he says he's God the next minute he curses a tree because it doesn't bear fruit what kind of God are you if the tree doesn't listen to you but then they change go you know what maybe the God thing doesn't work so he say okay no he's a mashiah mhia can't die lot of confusion now people that don't study to on a regular base they're not going to know this I'm is the firstborn son of doesn't know who God is because they think that as long as they kiss the muuza before they go to theame on Shabbat it's fine it's not fine Hashem says you're not allowed to light fire on Shabbat same goes with the rest of creation the other seven and a half billion people who don't know who their owner is so the least we can do is tell them without sugar coating without tainting the truth with our own personal opinion tell them the truth because if you do you have a chance to save their if we were politically correct and we were worried about people's feelings then at the very least would have less Jews today how do I know this house this house would not have more Jews if we didn't say anything which just no no it's not my business conservative reform it's not my business what do I care if I didn't care why would I tell them something that breaks their heart you understand so now we have to listen to Y and understand the situation is much more dangerous than we think much more dangerous than we think now the Mish that we're up to now continues with this thought process says if someone takes upon thems the Yoke of Torah the Yoke of government and the Yoke of worldly responsibilities are removed from him but if someone throws off the Yoke of Torah from himself then the Yoke of government and the Yoke of worldly responsibilities are actually placed upon Him explanation simple explanation here is that when someone wants to know their creator they only have one way to find out one way learn his Torah now you could know you could have your a creator that you have a Creator in multiple ways you could either learn through seminars to lectures like this or to slaps and punches from sham one way or another you're going to learn in the Book of Ezekiel hasem tells the prophet tell is that they will serve me whether they like it or not the r says in that everyone that survives the days of mashia will have done Chua but the important part of this Al that he mentions this is not some philosophical statement this is actual Al is whoever survives will have done Chua meaning not everyone will have the Merit to survive because in order to survive you would have had to have already started doing chuba you would have had to already know who your maker is and he explains in the midashim on this specific Ezekiel that when Hashem says you're going to serve me whether you like it or not it means that you're going to serve me either through a nice way where you're going to say oh wow that's the Love Letter hasem gave us great wonderful let me see what Hashem wrote for me he wrote it for me he wrote it for you he wrote you a personalized letter let me see what it says oh it's instructions of how to live how to be successful how to love how to not uh do make bad things and so on and so forth you could learn that way you could learn to sh you could learn two seminars or you could learn two disasters getting sick having sickness death money loss disasters one way or another you're going to find out who your maker is is telling you that if you actually find out during the first way there's a benefit to it there's an added benefit to finding out who your creator is by simply opening books watching the lectures having seminars has a benefit to it what's the benefit if you actually take this yoke upon yourself not just to find out your creators but actually see see what it says then world really responsibilities whether they're from government like problems lawsuits fines speeding tickets audits all of those things will be removed from you even the necessity to go work like everyone else will be removed from you you won't have to do it on the other hand if you already doing it but you decide you know what it's not for me it's not for me learning toah says well in the Book of Job the prophet tells us the Man was created to do something to work he has to have some type of responsibility something in their life they can't just sit there and do nothing so if you're not going to take the responsibility of toiling in Torah in the Book of Job chter 5:7 it says man must toil at something for man was born to toil so if it's not for Torah then he's going to toil for man you're not going to work for hasem then you work for man but you're definitely not going to do nothing that my friend is not an option so let's continue and understand what it actually means to really toil in Torah is studying 15 minutes a day toiling so first and foremost we have to understand what is all Tor all Torah means the Yoke of Torah and the rambam explained that just like a plowing animal is carrying the Yol under all circumstances you have the cow it's carrying everything on it the bull is carrying everything on it rain or shine it's carrying you're going from City to City it's carrying mud sleep dry wet doesn't matter keeps going under all conditions it's going ramb says that's what toiling Torah is regardless of what's happening in your life Torah is never a sacrifice Torah is never at risk it officially becomes the number one priority in your life there's five zillion priorities we all have Torah is number one everything else is as distant two three four five and 500 distant meaning you live your life with Torah as the purpose everything else around it now there's a couple of different types of people one is the the other one is the B the is easier to understand how he can toil in t this person wakes up in the morning he goes to the he studies t for morning tonight comes home spends a couple of hours with the family helps the wife with the kids and then if he's a he's gonna go back to studying T he's not going to watch TV he's not watching the game he comes home spends a few hours with the family takes care of the kids takes care of the wife whatever needs to take place in the house few hours he's finished studies Tora why because we learned yesterday from the rambam that the Torah you're going to learn at night is much more valuable much much more valuable you're going to study 10 hours from 9 to uh 7 let's say or even 9 to 5 you study eight hours let's say you have a break obviously and so on but let's say you studied eight hours during a day those two hours you're studying at night from 10 to 12 from 11: to 1 from 12 to 2 whatever those couple of hours that's where your is going to come that's where the is going to come you going to have real not that are this craziness that we have in this generation where everybody becomes Rashi and starts creating things that are contradicting the Torah talking about that agree with the Torah insights that agree with what K says so rambam says that you're going to study your main studying your main is going to come at night but why because of the Merit of you studying in a day it also says this in the page 12 says one who learns T at night hasem brings on him during the day instead of watching different movies on TV Netflix YouTube all this that people waste their life this nonsense that people waste their life doing nothing instead you open you open you open you open you open you open something that's going to wake up your n that's sleeping at night is telling you that my friend assures you that tomorrow in the morning during the day you're going to have peace of mind you're not going to have to worry about chasing customers you're not going to have to worry about chasing this chasing that why you did AEM and ser a service by serving him at Night by studying his T at Night by fulfilling his desire at night he's going to fulfill your desire in the morning you did by at night by you in the morning to such an extent that K says that someone that understands the significance of studying Torah like real Torah at night would never waste one night an entire year on anything else even including eating he wouldn't even eat at night lest he waste time from studying because the Torah is so valuable that kazal says the ones that really want the Torah know that even blinking their eyes is dangerous so is telling you there's a benefit there's a mystical benefit to doing all of this if you're a you have nothing to worry about you want proof there's over 100,000 different people learning to in different around the world you've never heard a story of this died from Hunger this died from starvation never hear that already told us in on I've been a young I've been old but I've never seen a righteous person starve or his kids looking for food they're not all living a high profile life in a on a 35th floor on Wall Street or anything most of them are living very very modest life to according to our standards is like poverty but to them it's fine they have food on the table they have kids that are eating they have clothes some are living higher life but the reality of it is that The Closer you are to Hashem the more disconnected you are to this world one of the great proofs that I heard was a story I heard from R zamir Co recently of one of the presidents of his Yesa when he was a young uh student in P those two presidents one of them was and another one was David salav was a person that studied Tor with seriousness that you couldn't even measure dedication to Torah that was you would think it's the only thing he had in this world his life was as simple as he would ride on a bicycle in a street that's how he commuted from place to place on a bicycle no fancy cars bicycle some people thought they you need to give him because he looked so simple so modest they thought maybe he's an just give some what they didn't know is that he was a multi-billionaire mul multi-billionaire not billionaire multi there's rich and there's billionaire it's different different world but for him it meant nothing he gave a lot of there a whole nonprofit organization that he has or or charal organization that he has that supports many of these yeshivas to this day but his life was Torah and anyone that knows him says we never even saw him dealing with chasing money not just after he had money it's all life why because he toiled in Torah Shem said oh you to in T I wrote something in my Mish once you toil with t you take it ser that it's number one I'll do the rest of the toiling for you government responsibilities monetary responsibilities don't worry about it you have a tiny little business I'll make it a big business you have a tiny little little building I'll make it a big building you have a tiny little piece of land that nobody wants I'll make it into the most valuable property that everyone's ever imagined dka they want to build a World Trade Center on it daa they want to build a government building on it and they want to pay infinite amount of money for it why you made my Torah number one so for it's easy is already toiling T so you tell them listen just make sure they already you're learning T already make sure you're learning Tor don't just go to the call and smoke cigarettes all day don't just go to the call and every five minutes you go outside and on a phone what's going on what are you doing da don't go to the call and be like a fashion show oh wow wow your beard looks good oh wow your belt looks good oh wow you have nice shoes you know unfortunately in this generation sometimes you meet Yesa students what do they do between each other first thing they do they turn around the the uh the tie wow like what's the brand of your tie what do you kill a brand my tie is if it's this or if it's that is that going to make me better make me worse well you're not going to like me you're going to like me you're measure me based on my tie this is how far we are from where we're supposed to be now in the secular world it's obvious but in the religious world I see a few Yeshiva students talking to each other and they looking each other's shoes w f how do you even know F if how do you even know who f is I know cuz I was in that world most of my life what do you know you had the benefit of having from parents what do you know about F what do you know about Versace what do you know about why are you so addicted to this world if you're learning to what kind of T are you learning and then you start checking and they just attend Yeshiva they don't learn Torah because if they really learned Tor they wouldn't even know if they ate or not it's an amazing Story one of many many stories of about loved like no other one day someone asked a mysterious question about Al and he had to find out the answer but for him his humility caused them to make sure that he reviews every single possible opinion ever written about this answer including the opinion of simple that wrote a little a little notebook and published it no one knows who this is but he has access to it he wants to read his answer and he's going to write as part of his answer why he's right or why he's wrong why he discovered the truth or where he made his mistake he's going to review everyone's opinion so writing some of his answers took a long time one time someone asked him a question and he started learning and writing the chabat on Tuesday his son which is the now who told the story says ABA you know you have to eat with you have to sleep you have to rest was yeah yeah it's I'm almost finished ABA you've been working on this since Shabbat he goes yeah why it's not Shabbat no ABA it's Tuesday goes oh wow he goes what do you mean you telling me you haven't eaten or slept since Shabbat goes yeah I guess I forgot to sleep who forgets to sleep we forget sometimes to wake up who forgets to sleep he forgot to sleep that's the difference you understand when you have the Yoke of Torah and you know that it's the Yoke you know that it's the Torah you forget to sleep you forget that there's Brands you forget that there is anything in this world because it all becomes dust It all becomes meaningless people are so astounded by the fact that I left Wall Street I tell them it's they like what do you mean it's you probably have like $200 million in the bank no no I lost everything what do you mean everything like you probably have still a couple of million then like no no no like zero like every month is a miracle it's hard for people to believe because we live a very very normal life we have a car we have a house we have a this we have a that food is always in the house kids are healthy nothing's missing according to everybody else I still have millions in the bank no one wants to believe me but they asked me wait a minute why don't you just go back to Wall Street make a few million dollars and come back to doing kiru logically makes sense but that would mean I hate Hashem simply said that would mean I hate AEM because by doing that I would say that first of all I think I'm the one that's making the money not AEM and that the only way that I could have money is if I go make it and number two that means I just don't care about hm's children whe they're religious not religious they love him they hate him they connect him don't make a difference to me if I'm not going to do K who will no yes there's many kiru rabbis in the world but from my experience many do K how many actually succeed is a different story this is not to be a judge or jury to say I'm better than anyone or any of that garbage because I don't think I'm better than anything but the reality of it is that I see people that have been doing k for 20 years and still there's barely one Bala they could speak of and then I see emails every single day text messages every day phone calls every single day people tell me that they changed their life because they saw my story they saw my lecture they change they this they that like okay it's obviously working hasm wants it to work how could I go back to Wall Street but even more than all of this once you discover what the Torah is to my small level discover a little bit of what it is a little bit not ra not even 1% of 1% of him but just a little bit taste everything turns to dust all the money all the Wall Street all the fame all the this all the that all of it becomes mamash worthless it was never that meaningful to me in the first place now it's worthless it's just grinding water no matter how much you gr it's going to stay warm staying the same so when someone is an you have an opportunity to really truly toil in Torah and hasem says you do it you're not going to have to worry about bills either I'm going to give you rich family members rich friends Rich this Rich some way somehow the money is going to show up when I first learned this I didn't believe it I have to tell you the truth I didn't believe it because I said it's not possible but then I saw it I saw it first hand what was happening to RAB FR R FR explained to me the inner workings of an in Israel an makes 1,600 shekels per month he works a full-time at the K studying goes to K at 9:00 in the morning goes to pray at 8 let's say 9:00 in the morning he at the K he finishes around five some guys finish around seven they get home few hours they learn again at night sometimes night calls or they learn at home but in general they're most of the day they're in the call there's no time for a job you're studying all day just like you guys go to work all day they go to col all day and they get paid 1,600 checkel per month translation approximately $400 500 say tops now Israel is not exactly the middle of uh Africa where you live in Huts Israel is a modern beautiful country so that's not cheap many of these families have children three four five six eight nine children they have to eat they have to sleep they have to get clothes average expenses it's not going to be less than 8,000 shekels per month if not more 10 12,000 shekels okay but I'm starting the month with 1,600 assuming I came on time the whole month because if they're late they deduct it there's no joking around at the there no like oh no I'm going to show up at two they're still going to pay me my measly 500 bucks no no my friend you show up at two you're not getting paid so now you have 10,000 shekels of month in bills the maximum you're going to make from your job is 1,600 that means you're already in a negative 8,400 to start the month the only way you can do that is if this comes true the only way you can do this is if what says here in the mishna which we got a mount SA if this comes true that hasem takes oh you told him my tah okay the worldly responsibilities between your bank account I'll take care of that some have Rich family members some don't ra doesn't and R lives a life better than any of us when they go on Shabbat to go shopping they don't look at prices they don't look to save they don't even try to be frugal I went shopping with him a few times and I was certain he's got a million bucks in his pocket CU he started he said take a cart and he took a cart we don't really need that much food it's only us him and you know his few little kids and I pointed at like I don't know some thing he's like oh you like that like he takes it like this he doesn't grab one or two he's shopping like he's on one of those shows where you have like you know 10 minutes or two minutes to collect as much as you can you get to keep it that's how you shops he knows the kids like cheese he buys he buys every type of cheese he knows you like drinks he buys every type of drink you like that drink that drink that no I don't really like that one okay but you maybe you'll like it just in case you like it on Shabbat I'm like yeah but you don't need it no no hm's going to pay for it anyway he spent almost 1,500 checkel just on a Shabbat one Shabbat not every Shabbat and I felt bad like why you shopping all this from he goes for you no this every Shabbat so I was really worried I'm like starting to I have the money okay good I don't know if you have the money he doesn't have the money I have the money on me but maybe the million bucks is really in his pocket I'm not really sure all I know is that I'm nervous as it gets at the cashier cuz I have a full cart that's going becomes a mountain it became like a dump truck and he has a one that's bigger than mine we go to the thing shop everything is fine he gives them the card the card goes through everything is great after we leave he goes oh B see another miracle I'm like what What miracles oh I didn't know if there was any money in the card you understand I didn't know if there was any money in the card I didn't know if I didn't know if I had enough I didn't know if there was any money on a debit card know by B every Shabbat why says pays the bills for Shabbat pays the bills for hasem pays the bills for anything that you do to fulfill his will and the you're going to get is already decreed in so whether you work learning Tora or you work on Wall Street your p is already decreed in sh hasm wants you to be rich you can be rich with hasem wants you to be poor you can be poor on Wall Street he wanted the N the president of yes of David to be rich didn't mean that he had to stop learning toah became richer than our wildest dreams so here we learned something significant first type of person is the a don't worry about being an a you want to learn to full time take the Torah seriously just like the cow takes its Yol seriously and continue regardless of the difficulties because you have tests you're going to have tests you're going to have difficulties you're going to have times you don't know if there's money in the bank how do you know that it's going to be okay how do you know I don't have money in the bank I have to buy food for Shabbat how do I know I'm not supposed to leave the col you know because hm wants you to learn Torah but how do you know you're doing enough when the only thing you can think about is T if you're still thinking about the girls you're still thinking about the guys you're still thinking about baseball you're still thinking about the government you're still thinking about this world you're not learning enough you're not learning enough so you can't really be 100% sure that you're fulfilling your part so you can't be 100% sure that the other parts can be fulfilled but if you could fulfill your part you have nothing to worry about that's but what about a bab what about a business owner a worker a regular person not everybody can be a not everybody's necessarily meant to be a what about the rest of us this also applies to them interprets this as a reference to one who is legitimately exempt from the Yoke of Torah due to the preoccupation with his livelihood or government position and nonetheless assumes assumes it devoting himself to Torah study Beyond his apparent limitations and he's rewarded and kind translation someone that has a very very serious test he has a job that's consuming he has tests and difficulties in in his life that are taking up all of his time Shalom he has perhaps issues with kids marriage job money whatever says that person technically he can't really but if he fulfills his share and takes the Torah on him and makes the Torah number one well no matter what he still studies every day the reward will be just as kind so the B the business owner the worker is not exempt in reality he still has to fulfill his share now the question is when or why did say this it's always good to know the background of each one of these M because last night we learned that said that learning at night not wasting any time that's going to save your life or if you do the opposite you waste time you don't learn at night I mean you're putting your life at risk this is connecting to a new Mish that's telling you if you actually do what the r from yesterday said then you have nothing to worry about when did he say this he said this during the times of the Romans decreed you're not allowed to learn toah anymore that's when he said this Mish he said this mishna a couple of thousand years ago when the leaders the government the most powerful Nation at the time the evil Romans were trying to destroy am and they decreed anyone that learns Tora death penalty and here we see the at play here we see telling us not only do you not listen to them but if you listen to them that's the Cure if you listen to them you're going to live because one of the benefits one of the miraculous benefits okay it's okay one of the miraculous benefits one of the miraculous rewards of studying and toiling in Torah is that Hashem takes away not only the worldly responsibilities but also the Yoke of government the problems with government say what are you going to fight them with your Spears you're going to fight them with your guns you're going to fight them with the Iron Dome you're going to fight them with t with IDF what are you GNA fight them with they're bigger than you ad is bigger than you got 7 and a half billion people who you going to fight you don't have enough missiles if all the Arabs two and a half billion Arabs just spit on Israel they drown you don't have it you can fight them you couldn't fight them 2,000 years ago you can't fight them today okay so you you want to look like you're trying fine you're obligated to do great but in reality you really think you can fight them you can't fight them what's the fight is telling you learn toru told us how did he fight and win all of his battles every thousand soldiers also had a th studying for them a thousand people with Spears and swords a thousand people with K why because the guy with the sword needs AEM to make sure the sword actually works how do we convince hm to make sure the sword works if the guy with the k M actually reads and toils in Torah it's the only way to win a war so is telling us this m not at a time that is living a pleasant life we're in a situation where the evil Romans are telling us that if we see you with a Kash we're killing you on the spot we see you teaching will kill you in public like they did with the 10 Martyrs one of them being abaka they killed them in public tortured them but even that was a favor in comparison to what these messianics are doing to us today by fooling our nation to believe that we're supposed to worship some guy whether it be Yos or some Reby or some other middleman between us and only answer to our prayers is Torah only way we can survive Torah but not Torah likeif once in a while when I have a chance I'll learn five minutes here five minutes there I'll watch a video for a few minutes it's nice it's got special effects yeah all that stuff is good along the day you know instead of smoking a cigarette and looking into the abyss okay so you watch a five minute quick video fine instead of sitting there eating your burger and imagining how the fries are going to taste as soon as they arrive at your table you put a Sher on you listen to it instead of talking about basketball you have a book in front of you that you're going to read youim fine but that's not your main learning that's just to get to the day to survive to feed your n not just your body the stuff that's going to keep you alive at the end of times for eternity keep you on the right that's the real tah that's the Fulfillment of actually learning toah in morning and at night you go to work at 8 wake up a little extra early learn a half hour learn 20 minutes learn an hour if you can you get home spend some time with the family don't go to sleep without learning to a lot of people learned different parts of mystical parts of Judaism people love the mystical parts of Judaism but in reality most people have learned the mystical part of Judaism don't really know the basis behind any of them because many of them are not so mystical like for example anyone heard of reading before you go to sleep you guys all heard about it right what do most people believe about why do you read why no no you read it tomor in the morning but you have to also read it before you go to sleep why why do you read I know you know right why okay both of your answers were mystical answers to be saved from some impurities to make sure your kipa is okay to be safe from the Satan's wife these are very very mystical holy type of answers question is why does it work why work basic question this is like Al bit why does is actually work to protect you against the Satan's wife to protect you against wasting seed to prot protect you against all of these mystical crazy things that we can't see can't hear and can't think of why dedicating to what why why notem do me a favor tell not to come that's the clear reminder of Covenant there a million and a half other covenants that you can be reminded of why does it say Okay AEM put on my Armine on my uh hand on my head that's also Covenant ohm what about the that's a covenant you have two other covenants why you mentioning is why is it the prayer of is why why don't you say Ten Commandments say the Ten Commandments I got ten commandments the first one say Ten Commandments there one God the end why is the whole thing it's long it's long why have to long I want to go to sleep go to sleep say I know went to Egypt go to sleep in you don't wake up okay so you do the V okay you're in the right direction but it's not it yet simple answer ABC answer no what's the answer because is is actual verses from the Tor that's it is works because the Satan is scared of the Tor when you're saying Essence you're reading verses from as soon as the demons the shim the Satan the whoever hears this stuff they run away they he's a she they learn right now at 12:00 at night I'm they running away from here simple my friend you need you don't how need to go to the Z for ABC it's because you're reciting and you are obligate to say some before you go to sleep for protection ideally you would actually learn something you'd open you'd open something and actually learn some Torah before you go to sleep but since not all of us that learn at 2 o00 in the morning at least say because is actual verses from the that's what it works there also if you look another another another way to see how things could easily when you're not studying the basics you could very very easily run away and go into some mystical world that you don't need to go into I'm not saying it's not real it's real but the problem is that if we spend so much time with mystical stuff we can get lost we can get lost in this mystical world and start worrying about the when we still don't know we're worrying about different images and features that are beyond our ability to even think about when the basics we don't know we don't even know when to pray in the morning so it's very important to keep Basics now anyone that's uh has y y is the all the are difficult for most people to understand so son wrote Y and this is specifically I mean it's really confused by both safaris and and ashkanazi but I think that uh Safari people tend to uh get closer to this than uh than asazi because asazi have other uh and they rely on but he actually talks about both safaris and ashkanazi here like if the asazi a different he mentions it and vice versa but anyway in uh this series he in Ence took everything and he modernized it in a way where where he showed you how it's applicable to today so obviously we're not all grabbing a few rocks and lighting fire in a street for fire we have microwaves we have ovens we have uh all types of boilers and so on and so forth back then didn't have telephones today we have telephones back didn't have electricity today we have electricity different things so he shows you how it's applicable to today and this is one of the books that was actually also translated from Hebrew to English and also Spanish and a few other languages it's very very successful collection all Jews should have it it's a it's not a completed collection yet as far as the uh Hebrew version is obviously completed but the English translation is not completed yet there's only about I think 15 out of 30 books or 16 out of 30 books something like that but anyway in the Shabbat section which is three books three books this is one of them in the end of the first book the San 300 he talks about the AL of the fourth meal of Shabbat now we all know about the first meal is on Friday night second meal is Saturday morning the third meal is between and but here he's telling it's it's an obligation to have a fourth meal when it's not like a it's you have to do it now anyone that knows about the fourth meal very easily says yes it says that anyone that eats the fourth meal is going to be saved goog is going to have uh the uh the bone that a uh that's in the back of their neck gets its resources from the fourth meal it's the only meal that it gets its resources from mystical stuff question is why why do we have a fourth meal whyem couldn't feed our bone in the back of our neck any other way why so now in the page page 30b it says a story of DAV asking God when am I going to die Hashem says I can't tell you say Okay can can you at least tell me the day I'm going to die day of the week it's one out of seven so Shem says you're going to die on Shabbat Shabbat ohem can't you kill me on Friday he goes no that would make you study Tor one less day and one day of your Torah one day of your Torah is worth to me more more than all of the that your son is going to bring to me you know how many brought just an inauguration of the BET mikdash mrai did the math on the inauguration of the BET mikdash approximately $150 Million worth of were spent just on the grand opening of the BET mdash Hashem says one day of your Torah is worth more than all of those Kut so I can't take you from the world on Friday instead of it on Saturday because that means you would study to one less day okay take me on Sunday no no no no King can be a king at a time that another king is supposed to have his kinghood meaning you can't be a king for one more day because that day the next day on Sunday your son scho is supposed to start his leadership you can't go into his time there's your time there's his time okay knew a secret he knew that the Satan is the and the is also this is page 16 says Satan first is the nice one he convinces you that doing an doing some sin is good for you hm doesn't mind no no it's okay drive to sh you're making a Mitzvah drive to sh on shab you're making a mitvah he convinces you you're making a mitvah even though it's an it's nice shees a smile sometimes got long hair sometimes short hair sometimes heels all types of nice ways he comes to you and he convinces you that your is a after he convinced you he's the Satan what's the Satan he goes up to Sham look look look what he did look what he did look he just drove on Shabbat you said somebody drives on Shabbat M you he goes tells on you after that says okay no that's what I said that's what I what does he do he sends him becomes he's the one that's has the job of taking the soul out but this very same he knew that in we find out that hasem created the Satan with a nature that's scared of Torah scared of Torah so said okay so what I'm going to do every Shabbat as long as I'm studying Torah he can't kill me so David would start studying on Friday night and he wouldn't stop studying he wouldn't stop learning Tor when we're sleeping five minutes after we eat the k or two minutes after we eat chant was studying to because he knew that his life was depending on it and he studied and studied and studied and when Shabbat ended he'd have like almost the sadik said he'd have a celebration the fourth meal what's the fourth meal he didn't worry about resurrection of the dead he didn't worry about the bone in the back of his neck what did he worry about honoring hem for keeping me alive for another Shabbat kept me alive because you fulfilled this promise if I learn Torah I put the Yoke of Torah on myself I don't have to worry about anything even my life and he studied to and one of his ways of celebrating it was be having the fourth meal so now how did he die inar Shabbat page 30 it talks about how the Satan had his permission to take's life but he saw that he's learning to how could I kill him if he was learning to I can't kill him so what did he do he made some noise outside outside of his window the treat got up off his chair to go see what it is and for a moment he wasn't thinking about Torah because he slipped and fell for that moment that he wasn't thinking about Tor the Satan took his life so now asks a question in page 13 says that someone that is learn in the middle of learning Tor and gets up to go doot to go do nothing to go check who's outside to go watch the game to go do something that's not Torah they take hot coals that never get cool which they call and they feed it to him as a punishment in for taking time away from the holy Tora and going wasting it on something nonsense so obviously knew this so how could who get up from the middle of learning to go CH who's on a tree why you didn't know this no anybody almost you may have an answer woman screaming let her scream what's his business he's learning to what no Michael you had something I have a question so is it more so the evil inclination prompts you to deviate from the path in which you're on or it actually manifest itself as a Temptation out there so which which is the you're learning to someone is learning T they hear a phone they go pick up the phone you have a problem learning to they hear the game they want to they go get up and see who's winning but is it my desire to go look or is irrelevant you get up you go check you got a problem got a problem why you just took holy of holies and treated like it's worth less than the nonsense that's in this world I'm asking is it an in discipline thing or is it of course you have to Value toah once you value to you're not going to do it but it takes time yeah of course takes discipline around me of course it takes takes time to discipline yourself absolutely but let's stay on the subject at hand how could DAV make such a simple error as we see it right now because we don't know the answer and get up to go check who's outside on a tree he fell down that stairs okay fell down why is he getting up he's learning T he knows that if he stops learning t for a moment he stops learning to off for a moment Satan can take his takes his life so not only that he knows about this that there's a punishment in heaven for taking and treating it like it's not worth much it's not only that punishment let's say that's in the back of the Mind the actual front of the mind is thinking the only reason I'm studying nonstop is because I know that if I stop is showing up at my door so how could make this decision no question you guys are typical Jews you ask you answer a question with a question don't know no there's no dumb question uh uh David W we know that I mean what if he would have taken Tak SE with him taking seph with him is not learning he there is there is a uh there is um uh saying we haven't found a source for it yet there is a saying that if someone is carrying a holy book it gives them protection there's a is a known saying about it but unfortunately we don't have a source in about it there's a joke it's a story that was uh that's kind of funny it's a real story actually kind of funny I heard from FR so there was one time a guy that uh was very very arrogant and uh he studied some T but he considered himself much more than what he was he considered himself a he decided to write a book today anybody with a beard can write a book sometimes without a beard they can write a book too so he wrote a book and he thought that this book was like holy of holies the real said this is you they said what theim sometimes say which is that by writing this book you made a sin of what's you wasted something you not all to waste stuff you can't if you have let's say for example a lot of food you don't eat all of it you're not let to just throw out food if it's still good you have to use it if you have uh certain things that can be used or gifted to somebody you have to gift them you can't just throw things you can't be just treating things with uh disrespect so he said by him writing this book he fulfilled he made a sin of B on the paper and the ink meaning he wasted his time by writing this book so one day he's at uh this house and uh it's at night and he says somebody gonna you know maybe uh walk with me at night because uh nobody was able to go with him oh you know what I'm gon to take a copy of my book I'll take a copy of my book so one of the uh Wise Guys over there said oh take a book it's a good idea it's a good idea if you take your book because oh you know that saying also that if you take a holy book it protects you at night goes no no I know that if you take your book then the demons are going to come they're going to see what's in the book and they're going know for sure you're not there's nothing to mess with you they're going to go somewhere else so now back to our question think I because as far as I know D asked has what time he didn't the time right right gave him a day so he knows he knows this is the day he knows this is the day he Takes a Minute of T show up how could do this why that really question says that person person protected when he's not learning he learned he's not proted because it also says that if you're in the middle of learning and you haven't finished your learning started and he started and he stopped in the middle without stopping he wasn't stopping learning he was stopping to go check what's outside what's making noise it's the equivalent of let's say if at this point it's the equival because we don't understand what actually happened which I'll tell you in a minute but it's the equivalent of let's say we're learning right now and the phone rings we go pick it up so what does the say says an amazing of course knew this also knew much more than we could even imagine he knew the day he's going to die he knew that the minute he stops learning toab showing up he knew the scared of T but he also knew the basics the basics that we learned in last week's of the one of the 600 63 you must rebuke your brother he knew the basics says when he heard something on a tree he like wait it's Shabbat you're not allowed to climb a tree on Shabbat let me go stop them so they don't desecrate aem's name beat by climbing a tree on Shabbat so he didn't stop learning he went to fulfill a Mitzvah but the fact that the Satan had permission he was able to remove the stair and made him slip and made him stop thinking momentarily of Tor and that was the moment why because hm decreed it to be that moment it wasn't because he got up it wasn't because he made a sin the limitation is in our understanding not in not in our tah there's a decree in sh but the point here is that we see how zealous David was how honest he was just hearing some a possibility of somebody making a sin already made him made his heartbreak How could somebody sin against my father How could somebody go climb a tree onat how could it be today unfortunately we have people driving on Shabbat nobody says anything to them no one says anything no I don't know him well enough no I know him but I don't want to hurt him no I know him but but maybe he's going to stop on his own everybody has excuses of why they're not going to tell anybody anything DAV didn't have any excuses he heard something got up that's why he's David so the reason why we have the fourth is because of when he survived Shabbat he'd celebrate the Shabbat that he survived why does he deserve to have a meal after him because look at how zealous he was you be that zealous they'll have a meal for you too now to finish this Mish then go any questions that you guys have when someone is we already know they have an opportunity of a lifetime to fulfill the will of hem so someone a b they have the same exact responsibility they must learn T obviously they have to work they have to have their of working but it does not exclude them from T and the more they dedicate to Torah the less they're going to have to work why because is going to work for you now if somebody is foolish enough to leave the Torah it says here then you're gonna have something else to replace it if someone throws off the Yoke of Torah for himself then Hashem has to give him something to do so he says okay you can't just sit there and do nothing so I'm going to give you problems with the government what is it audit from the IRS investigations SEC finra FBI DEA all the these wonderful human beings showing up at 5:00 in the morning at your house that's problems with the government my friends if that's not enough oh by the way the worldly responsibilities they're going to consume your life you could work three jobs and still not enough not have enough money you ever see one of those people they have three jobs and they're still broke but you have one guy has a half a job and you're a millionaire how show degrees hasem decided he's going to be broke decided he's going to be rich even if the guy that has three jobs and works 90 hours a day not 24 hours somehow he invented another 66 hours in one day he works 90 hours a day he's still broke whyem says you want to spend all the time instead of learning T instead of connecting to me instead of honoring me instead of serving me you want to honor man you want to serve man you want to work for man you're going to do for 90 hours a day and you're still going to have nothing nothing in this world and nothing in the next World double punishment why because you took my gold you took my Priceless diamonds and you treat them like they were worthless and sometimes we see some of the punishments for this actually happen where you see people that have wasted their lives and they get older but they get older much faster sometimes you see sometimes a 70y old guy that never learned T in his life or 65y old already started to go scile already starting to lose his memory page 59a it says that idleness you know wasting your time doing nothing eventually leads to intellectual dullness and ultimately forms a uh forms of mental illness in essence if you're not going to use this brain and this that gave you to learn his Torah eventually it's just going to shut down it's going to die start having memory loss you're going to start acting like the baby you're seven years old but you're acting like the baby the ones that are you see them as they get older they get sharper you see when he was 90 years old sharper than the sharpest knife you can imagine any of the you see them sharp amazing ask him a question and give me an answer on the spot yeah their body is not necessarily a 20-year-old body but their mind sharp as it gets you see someone that's didn't learn to in his life at 7 years old who are you again what what do you want from me again oh Steve oh Steve what Steve Dan they forgot who you are they have no idea what's going on why here told you that boredom doesn't only lead to sin like schl told us in Proverbs but boredom also leads to stupidity and to mental illness something you see somebody talks a lot doesn't say anything he said 500 sentences you have no idea what he said this happens often unfortunately in this generation I remember used to have these guys try to come to work for my firm and you know people try to impress you which you know whatever it's I guess it's part of the gig everybody likes to impress people but sometimes people don't know where they stand so they try to play like they are more than what they really are so for example one of the two there's two ways they would do it one way is by faking their resume saying that they have much more skills than they really have so you look at the resume it's like some guy it's like a rocket scientist and I had one guy that had rocket scientist resume the guy had licenses in the Securities business was all these things amazing interview sounded fine I mean how much can you possibly find out in an interview interviewed the guy a few times he sounded fine spoke well spoke like Obama spoke well looked fine didn't look like a criminal or anything fine within two days on the job I found out he's the biggest idiot I've ever met in my life the whole thing was fake everything he said he knew he didn't know anything he didn't even know how to make a UPS slip remember I told you guys a story about him I couldn't get rid of him 29 days I had to suffer from him and after 29 days I fired him and he still collected unemployment for me for two years two and a half years collected unemployment he worked for 29 days ended up collecting unemployment for 2 and a half years he smart if you you know how to cheat the system doesn't make him smart it makes him a criminal that's one way that people do it another way that people do it is they use big words people love to sound like dictionaries they use big words they start using big words so I had a few guys come to me and they start talking and they start using these different words one guy I think it's whatever different words flabbergasted and exuberant and all these wonderful words that you read in books but you don't actually talk like that and why are they using these big words they're in reality trying to imply that they're more than what they really are but how do you know someone's really smart how do you know when they could explain something complex something difficult in a very simple way for a two-year-old to understand if your difficult thought process is something you can't explain to a four-year-old kid you don't know well enough right but if you're using big words and no one in the room understands it except you even if you are smart no one knows all they know is that you study the dictionary so you have to understand when you explain yourself tells us in a few that have to be careful with their words if you're really a you have to be very careful with the words you choose why because you have to make sure that whatever comes out of your mouth has to be understood by the public if no one understands it but you okay you're smart but no one knows it you know you study the dictionary so people that fake it usually they sound like that because people that actually know those words and they know what they mean they don't use them no no one uses 20 20 letter words in actual language unless you're like some doctor or scientist and you need to use it because it's the only word to describe something but in actual day-to-day language nobody uses some of these big words they're just part of the English language you have to be able to explain yourself in a very very simple way very easy way why because somebody that's not in front of you may be overhearing it and you may change his life you may change his life the six-year-old that's in the back you may change his life and I'll finish it with a story a story that's going to give us enough rebuke for a generation enough M for a generation because it's a real story I don't think I said it in the lecture before I think I've told it to one person brother fry she was uh born and raised in n in Israel in the neighbor of nat there was uh a very strange couple the father is an alcoholic drunk a little crazy not all there one time somebody got upset with him he got upset with him he bit him bit him like a dog bit him so he's not all there he's the father the mother and if it wasn't for mother FR I wouldn't believe the story the mother is approximately one and a2t Tall she's this big she says says she doesn't come up to his knee and R FR is slightly shorter than me smaller than P Ro is slightly shorter than me like maybe a couple inches shorter than me says the woman does not come up to his knee to his knee doesn't come up to says all the kids the little kids like my daughter or bigger than her make fun of her because she's smaller than the kids and when they were going to get married the initial raban didn't want to let it go through because said how you going to bring kids physically impossible this guy is a regularized guy this woman is compact like a CD you know how you going to make any kids they went to some which I don't know the name of the meal mbal said I promise I prayed for you you can have at least one son so let get married they got married and they actually had a son now when R FR finished the sh the first time he was still a young teenager Al violin he's finished the sh finished studying the entire for the first time as a young teenager and he every time he finishes the sh he has a party and one of his parties that he did later later on one of the many times that he finished the sh Ra's son ra David came to the party and made a uh speech at R fr's uh event went and said from now on you have to call him gaon not R gaon something special finish several years passed one day he gets a phone call it's a similar voice doesn't know hi for yes it's like I am formally inviting you to my party for finishing the sh for the first time goes thank you who are you and why do I get the honor of getting this invitation said because you are the one that encouraged me to finish the goes who are you he said I am the son of the little compact woman and the drunk I'm the teenage son of these two goes oh but I don't think we ever spoke how did I encourage you to do anything he says because the first time you finished the Shas I was only 10 years old and I saw you and how you finished the sh I saw how much respect everybody gave you said I want to do that and from that moment on all I did was get glued to the Tor and I started learning nonstop and today I finished the sh and you're the first phone call I have so if F says I'll be there F went to the party was an amazing event something that no one in their wildest dreams would ever think the Sun the byproduct of an alcoholic and someone that's physically deformed that everyone makes fun of is going to be a not regular person ra comes and makes an announcement soim talks to the mother this little woman and she gets so excited she starts hysterical crying the next day the calls her FR and he tells him listen you don't know what you did for my mom goes what you talking to her you have no idea what kind of impact it had on her it's the first time an adult spoke to her in years and to give her such cavod for having me as a son she never thought in the wildest dreams so this teach this story teaches a few things number one you never know who's watching brother FR as a little teenager finishing the sh who knew that this is going to influence a kid that was supposed to be the biggest loser in the world based on where he came from based on his nature and nurture both you're supposed to be the biggest loser in the world became a you never know who's watching and the second thing is when you give people honor you you give them respect you treat them like they're aem's children you have an impact on them but the biggest thing of all that we learned from this is you don't have any excuses is your mother double the size of this cup is your father an alcoholic are you mentally challenged are you physically deformed do you have a test bigger than he did well finished the story with this just this past P her friend went to visit Nat he comes during PES usually goes to visit his parents in Nat he lives in jush he went to visit his parents and he was sitting in the K over there learning to and all of a sudden he gets a tap on his shoulder he looks up and it's a tall handsome someone respectable wearing a jacket that the wear not just an average person but someone aan of like that's a known place but it's a familiar face he gets a little closer he says it's the boy that finished the sh so not only did he finish the sh once he actually became a an important in even more so a reminder that we don't have any excuses no questions this light is killing me yeah yeah the just suffered all his life wasn't he actually supposed to get all those blessings 10 times more than us he did get blessing I mean it doesn't necessarily say that you're going to be rich if you um if you do what hasem says it says that you'll have Merit for it the real the real is not even in this world as a matter of fact the rambam explains that anytime somebody gets anything in this world let's say for example somebody does a few mitm says okay you know what I'll give him a brand new car does a he gives him a house gives him a building gives him a wife gives him a kids all these things he says that's not even really the real that's not really the reward it's not the real reward because this reward that you get in this world it would be unfair it would be unfair for AEM to thank you it would be unfair forem to give you the reward in this world because you can't compare the greatest of treasures in this world to a second in so why does hem give you a reward here is to fulfill or every time you did a mitvah says oh you want to give donations okay I'll give you more money you give more donations you like do my MIT you give donations I'm going to give you more money you can make more donations what's the source of it we see it in it say Your Guardian Hashem is your guardian Hashem is your protective shade at your right hand now meansem is your guardian here it says the translation English is AEM is your protective shade but really means your Shadow he's the shadow of your right hand what do the shadow of your right hand means what you give you get back how do you say shadow like t z l so here we see that the reward this it called I mean I had it open but I had no idea was going to actually say think was there so that's I tell you guys I come to the has nothing to do with me so the uh you make me look knowledgeable but I have to remind you guys I know nothing everything is AEM hem can take away all the wisdom that I have in a second hasem can give me a lot of wisdom can take wealth give you wealth nothing to do with me nothing to do with me just tell you what he says parrot parrot parret um so as far as hem giving you reward why does he give you a reward he gives you the ability to fulfill on the other hand if someone makes a sense sometimes you see him as a building also so how does the guy drives to a Ferrari on Shabbat have a building how does he have two buildings this we learned from the last three verses hasem says I pay my lovers for thousands of generations I I give my lovers the ones that keep my for thousand Generations meaning forever right but I pay my haters to their face to eliminate them meaning you made a mitvah at some point you were 13 you did theing for the first time came to your to your job a few times you late feeling you're G to get paid for that you gave some you're GNA get paid for that you did a at some point you're going to get paid for that you made a few me directly indirectly at some point you're going to get paid for that but since you're since you're making certain sins that eliminate you froma I have to pay you now why I have to eliminate you because once you get to me there's no more it's over so as far as getting our reward here the rambam explains that yes you get a reward here but it's not the real reward the real reward is and this is also one of the things we're going to learn in the Mish also especially in chapter six the sixth part of the uh of a it talks about how you have to make sure you understand the real reward it's not here it's not here now as far as listen was a king has the uh thec the descendant of the Messi is coming from is one of the greatest human beings that ever lived if that's not a reward then what is they're not mentioning me in the toah so if that's not a reward what is yeah you question it's not even necessarily advance of them but at any point you have the opportunity to do everything you even if it's to cash you out at any point you can utilize that to bring about your own Redemption yes a lot of times you get caught up in W getting money so I must be doing the right thing 100% that's the test a has to give you a test there has to be an obstacle there was somebody that came to ra Shak one time was going to his sh and one day he didn't show up and said allun go no for the have to understand it was a socer game goes what soccer game what is that go no soccer you know what's that go you know no I don't know what is it because listen it's a two teams and each has a goal goal post and there one ball and each one the objective is for each one to kick the ball in the net he goes okay so want to just give each other the ball play nice and kick the ball net goes no the whole point is that they try to put the goal in each other's post was okay so why AR they play nice and let each other he kick it one time you kick it one time goes no no no there's a goalie there's a goalie there trying to stop the ball so tell the goalie to move he goes no if the goalie is not going to stop it there's no point goes ah your ear should listen to your foolish mouth if there's no one to stop you there's no point if the is not going to give you a socer game in your mind there's no point for your mitvah if you're not going to have the inclination to want to make money your Torah is not going to be worth anything if the girl that's dragging your eyes to her is not your wife what's the point if it's your wife then it's aah if it's not your wife it's an a life and death is a very thin line between them that's the point that's the point of that's the whole point of the game there's no there's no point no next um want to go a little bit back the beginning were talking about the conversions and yeah I hear from what is it what is a m mik yeah what is that so for us M when when did my my my my conversion they took me to a river okay that's consider K the uh the whole point of a mik is to make sure that it's natural water that the water came there in a natural way un unassisted so for example a pool cannot be a mik uh unless at least 40% of the pool came from rain um so if let's say for example a Jacuzzi you want to make your mik at home it can't be because it's assisted so if you see like a reg a regular mikve they usually have a tube that's connected to the roof or somewhere outside that moves the water into the mik and fills up at least 40% of the mik's water so a river is 100% rain so or ocean is also 100% natural as a matter of fact the highest level of mik is the ocean the most purifying mik is the ocean the problem is that most of the places that you could dip in the ocean there's a bunch of there's a buch of immodesty there so you're not allowed to go not only you're not allowed to go dip there in the water you're not even allowed to go there like if there's going to be people there not to go there if there's going to be women with immodesty it's not a mitvah it's not allow to go no no I'm going to go purify myself going to the ocean to dip in a mikve and I'm going to go back home I'm not going to look at the girls no my friend if the girls are there you're not allow to go there so the guys that do go to the uh there's a few people that I know that go to the ocean uh to dip in a mikve and they go at uh really really really early times like really really early in the morning when there's pretty much no one there and also they go to an exclusive part of the ocean where usually there's nobody there it's ugly there's no like pretty beach it's like rocks and they dip in the ocean they come out that's fine that's that's good but I mean you don't need to do that just go to mik there's plenty of mik we're not in a middle of Russia where the uh you and other Communists over there are killing people because you build a mik like Rabbi zilba wrote in his book RAB Z in his book to remain a Jew wrote that they killed several people because they had a mik we're not in that world right now made it very very easy to be a Jew very easy to be a Jew no more questions one thing I imagine I'm not the only person you said God takes care of your responsibilities K I guess I'm at that middle point where I don't check my bank account because more than likely it's going to be zero the car still works but I then still feel like there's got to be something more I should be doing to deserve like I end up getting this guilt like well okay you're studying enough maybe you should just still make that extra phone call work a little bit more you have to work as much as you're a meaning that yes you have to have isot you have to have effort but you can't overdose on effort but it's guilt ding it's not you know what I'm saying it's a lower no oh no I have these well I mean the good news is the good news is that in DAV taught us many many things in t uh in his uh Psalms and he says that hasem even pays reward and sustenance to a to Wicked person just because he believed that hasem should help him not because he deserves it so prays for hem to help him ra a bank hm will help him why because you believe that I'll help you I'll help you just that's enough of a reason for hem to help him he's still going to get punished for robbing the bank but hem will help him do it so if AEM is helping the rash it's it's needless to say that he's going to help somebody that's learning Tor but at the same token we have to do our we already know from that part of the curse of being in this world is that you have to sweat in this world but this is a curse working is a curse you don't overdose on curses you know you don't do too much of the curse you do enough just enough your how much do you work each person has to work based on their on their on their actual faith in hasem but also based on what you're doing with the rest of your time so if let's say for example you don't work you don't have a job you should be studying T all day like all day not like two hours a day like all day because you're not you're not allowed to just sit there do nothing if Hashem gave you the Leisure and the ability to sit there and live without actually working if you're not making your world a guned of Tora you'll have a g of it you'll get punished for all that waste of time and one of those punishments is that he's going to put you in a situation where you're going to have to deal with a lot of worldly problems so if you have an opportunity to study t uh uninterrupted you have to do it on the other hand if you're the average person in the world that has a job has a career and can't really study to all day this is really who this applies to most of the time then you obviously have to make time forah you have to make some time in the morning you have to make some time at night you have to make opportunity possibly can to learn T and in essence what we're trying to learn in this m and what is telling you and also from yesterday is telling you is that it's very very important for a person to manage their time properly because you're not allowed to to waste time because the time is not yours you don't know how much time you have even though everybody thinks they're going to live till a thousand the reality of it is that you don't know so when you show up to sh you want to have something to show for it and for the few people that think that because they gave a few a few dollars inak that's going to help them in sh then you have to understand that that is helping you more here than anything else so in the 150b it talks about how how is going to save you from death but also not only save you from death but also from Death itself and also from G and it says in this uh three things about the uh uh this um but in the 121 it says so when it says what's is where's a uh is saying where will my help come from my help will come from what in essence what he's trying to tell us here is that a person has to understand that in reality he's nothing but hasem there's nothing but hasem and his help is only going to come from Hashem only going to come from Hashem so if someone is going to take the role of being the person that gives they in essence need to understand that they have to do something that's going to be meaningful so if let's say somebody makes an announcement and tells you listen there's a woman that doesn't have what to eat and uh doesn't really have a job or not making enough money and she's about to give birth and we need to anyone that can contribute and you say oh yeah yeah great I want to contribute I'm GNA give $ five I'm GNA give five dollar if you actually think that's $5 and they get you to G Eden you have a serious problem because unless that's really like you're only $5 or like it's like significant amount of money for you which in today's world in America nobody value is $5 you can't even get coffee for $5 what's $5 going to do to do for a woman that doesn't have any any money to eat what's $5 going to do for her but the problem today is that we are confused we think that giving a dollar to the homeless guy is going to get us the G we think that giving $5 to a woman doesn't have money to eat is going to get us the G we think that giving $100 for some Hanukkah party or even $5,000 ,000 party is going to help us in any way shape or form so first and foremost a person that's going to be a worker first thing first is telling you remember you're going to work mind your voice where's the help really coming from hem all your money is coming from hem first thing first remember it's coming from hem but also remember that if you want the hand to Shadow yours you have to use it appropriately you have to actually pray to Hashem you have to have a separate prayer to AEM to actually fulfill aah because if you don't pray to hem to fulfill the mitvah who says you're going to get it maybe you're going to be the guy that gives the five thinking that it's really a big deal you actually have to have Merit to give even even if you give $5,000 if you don't have the Merit in sh it's going to go to pay for the toilet paper for the besset it's going to go to pay for some fake Rabbi that goes to casinos it's going to go for the Hanukkah party that nobody made a mitvah as a result of it instead people actually did a uh ate without saying thank you to hm without saying a if you don't have a merit in sh if you don't ask for hasem to do you a do your a favor give you the Merit to actually give even your work is a waste of time so first things first if you have the opportunity to learn toah obviously that's amazing but for most people this doesn't apply to them you're going to be in the business world you're going to be in the regular World fine remember you're still obligated to learn T and in order for your entire day to be meaningful because you're not going to spend the entire day learning to you're working how do you make your entire day meaningful how do you get a similar Merit not the same but a similar Merit like the guy that studied tah all day how you study two hours a day he study 10 hours a day how do you get there use the money that you made during that job to support theah because if you use the money that you made to support T that's $5 but use money to actually really support to you exert yourself to support to then it your job becomes a it counts as if your entire day now was like learning tah because now you took the money you obviously paid the necessary bills you have your rent your mortgage your whatever your uh bills whatever bills you are your electric your food paid for your kids education and so on but then you took some money and you went and you recruited some of hashem's children to come back to him you helped an a that doesn't have more than $400 a month to eat you helped to have some more comfort you made sure that he has money to eat and this also reminds me of something that a lot of people have a misunderstanding about there's a famous is agreement in in a Tor is had an agreement a famous agreement where one learned T the other one worked and the one that worked also learned T but not to the same extent but he made sure that he that he actually supported the one that learned T and today a lot of people think they have the same Arrangement they think they have the same Arrangement because they support an now in order for you to have agreement there's two opinions of how it can be one in order for it to truly be in order for you to truly have half to uh merits that he has so for example every minute of T he learns it's you want to have those mitv also so let's say for example he makes a half a million MIT a day you get a half a million also in order for it to be 5050 there's two opinions one opinion is you have to pay for all of his bills not 500 bucks a month all of his bills whatever his bills are you have to pay for all of them if it's 10,000 a month it's 10,000 a month if it's 5,000 a month it's 5,000 a month like a lot of people think if I paid $300 to this it's not oh I pay him $700 he only makes 400 bucks a month from the I pay him $700 but yeah but he needs 5,000 your 700 is helping him but you're not getting half of his mitv and everybody else that's helping him is not getting anything fre so right so you have to be the one that frees them from the responsibility of money so that's the first that's the first opinion first opinion is you have to pay for all of his bills second opinion is is you actually have to give him half of all your money meaning you make 10,000 a month 5,000 to him 5,000 to you you make 100,000 a month 50,000 to him 50,000 to you what billion to you billion to him that's second opinion most hold by the first opinion let's work on that first then you can only do one let's say someone supports someone makes 100 Grand a month he supports 10 of right mhm with giving each one a th a month that's pretty good in Israel no one gets th a month then if you have to give him half what you have you can only support one guy if he's a serious you don't need more than one guy support again I'm not telling you what to do I'm telling you what what what what the sages say what I'm saying to you is that the people that think that they are getting is by giving the guy $1,000 a month it's really only is if ,000 a month is all of his bills and I don't know anybody that on hashem's Green Earth is living off $1,000 a month with five kids not in Israel not in America I don't think really in anywhere in the world except you know third world countries you know so yes you're getting me it's 100% for supporting an for $500 a month or $100 a month or 5,000 it's all MIT but it's not we have to put ourselves Where We Belong put ourselves Where We Belong let's not think that we're going to ganed but in reality there's a if we're even going to enter it you know we don't that's also the thing if you don't have the Merit of having some go up to sh tell oh listen I gave a lot of no you didn't give any what did you give No No I gave 5,000 to the to the Hanukkah party that's Nota I gave a card to the rabbi every year that's a Griff that's Nota maybe but it's not I gave uh $30,000 to the reformed sh that's actually a sin uh I gave uh you know a uh I gave $5 to to the woman that was pregnant okay yeah yeah it's like okay so you have $5 so here we're going to give you back to $5 go to the vending machine you can buy whatever you want before you enter Gom that's what you're going to have if you have this $5 you understand what's happening here go to the vending machine buy a Coca-Cola or a Pepsi before you go to Gom you have something to drink that's what you're going to get you have to have Merit to give Saka my friends you have to have Merit and that's the people people don't understand this people think that if they give $100 to any guy with a beard it's no my friends you have to have married you have to you know really you have to give supports has to support to if it's not supporting T it's if it's even a mitvah unless it's you know poor people and you know people don't have money to eat and so on but if you're giving it to some Hanukkah party or poring party or any party it's not uh it's Nota it's a gift it's Nota no next question finished all yesterday I shut off the tape you guys talked to me for two more hours it was better than the lecture okay I'm going to pretend like I shut off the camera well I got you no no come on first time I heard this what's up well actually two I've heard an assimilationist now and reconstruction Heretics I'm ask my Rabbi I want to see what she thinks I was like Heretics reform she goes no no reconstruction yeah same thing there's actually there's actually a unfortunately is also someone something called a renewal and uh they call themselves Orthodox but in reality they're reform and it was actually started by someone that used to be in kabad used to be in kabad and then he went off the deep end he created a talit that's uh rainbow color oh yeah uh which became very popular amongst the reformed people and uh he um he's you know going to suffer for a long time for it but um anyway there's a lot of different sects of uh of um going against hem unfortunately and very few that are going with Hashem so we have to try to be on the good side the way to ree I mean is it place to yeah I'm going to example um originally I first start arriv one day I went to the beach okay a couple people there look and I just zoned out I did it enjoy the water I think I'm doing a great thing prayed in the beach D that's what you did tell I'm trying to understand what you're saying the beach okay guys very very spiritual uh feeling feeling right I didn't know fair enough okay but I sent a picture to the rabbi while I was there okay and he said you should post that on Facebook and I and I thought about it I'm like I'm not going to do that because like the picture I showed him you know I don't have a shirt on I'm just talking goes what are you doing he said go to the beach for the mix so I sent him the picture but then I thought about it's one of a handful of things that he's told me to do that blatantly would have been blasphemy to the biggest degree and look so badly on me what's the appropriate thing to do about that get a new Rabbi for sure but I mean do we have a o do that Rabbi from continuing if he's a ldan if he's someone that learned T and he's considered a I guess to some extent somebody that's at least to some extent knows some T you can't really rebuke him uh the way you would rebuke somebody that's uh doesn't know anything you still have to give him some type of Honor because he has some Torah that he possesses uh but you could do it in different ways you could do it with an anonymous letter you could do it in a uh asking them oh listen I heard this one Rabbi mentioned this thing about something similar to a story that what you just told me but obviously don't mention it's your story what do you think of it he said he said it's not allowed what do you think and you know you could in essence uh give him the rebuke indirectly you must rebuke your brother but not come to sin as a result of it meaning yes you have to rebuke your brother but don't be a guy that's crossing the line and and ends up embarrassing him in public not free for all you understand so there's a way to rebuke different people in general you should focus on people that are your circle uh unless it's if it's a community leader if it's a rabbi then usually what you would want to do is you want to have another Rabbi approach him want to have another Rabbi ask him a question or give him a message in the name of another Rabbi uh rather than you saying listen I don't think what you're doing is right because number one he's probably not going to listen to you um number two he's going to find you like a hpan he's going to find you very rude um and number three it's not necessarily appropriate for a student to rebuke his teacher even if he was only your teacher for a day so there's a way to do things you have to be very careful with rebuke there's a way I mean listen problem in today is that we got so careful that no one rebukes so we can't go to that extent but uh there's a way to do it there's a way to do it there a there's a way to fulfill the Mitzvah you're obligated to do it it's one of the 63 MIT uh but um in general one of the things that uh I think is uh very very important to say is uh yesterday I mentioned when somebody as asked me a question last night I got home there was already a question on the email that was relevant to the sure there was one from San Francisco and she sent me a question I haven't had a chance to respond so I'll respond to her now because I think somebody else maybe is asking the same question it's good for a clip anyway um for people to know now yesterday we mentioned that when someone doesn't have a r someone doesn't have a rabbi there are some of there are some sages that say even in our generation if you don't have a rabbi you don't make yourself a rabbi it's better you didn't even do CH because at least you're going to be ignorant you're GNA make sins out of ignorance whereas if you did CH but you don't have a rabbi you can become a walking you don't have anybody leading you in the right direction you're going to start deciding what this Al means to you you're going to decide what this specific thing means to you which is a problem it's a very very serious problem and this is what happened with the renewal Guy this is what happened with the reformed people this is what happened with modern Orthodox this is or open Orthodox this is what's happening with a lot of different people are just not following rabbis they just become their own rabbis and this is a very serious problem and to such an extent that you sometime you every time see every time you see somebody getting off the deep end they start saying things it's because their opinion not their rabbis they don't have a rabbi or they're not listening to it so some people are saying that it's better off you didn't even do cha than actually do cha without a rabbi now what if the only available Rabbi you have locally is a reformed Rabbi or a conservative Rabbi or renewal what if that's the only Rabbi you have locally then what no one says that your Rabbi has to be local no one says your rabbi has to be local your Rabbi does not have to be local your synagogue doesn't have to be local if the only sh you have locally is reform constructionist Reconstructionist Transformer not Transformer all the toot that people create create that are against theem the only thing that's next to you is something that's against hasem don't go not allowed to go it's better you die and not go to one of these synagogues die not just not go die and not go to one of these synagogues you understand what I'm saying here so if the rabbi there is not really Rabbi it's some or some Goya or some uh you know dog that's a rabbi in the Sho and that's the only local Rabbi he's not a rabbi don't have him as Rabbi find a new Rabbi if there's nobody local then find somebody that's distant my Rabbi is in Israel what you think I go to Israel every time have a question no had mercy on us he created phones he created Skype he created text messaging created email it's a million ways to communicate today no one says your Rabbi has to be local so you can have a rabbi that's distance Rabbi you have a question you call the rabbi you text the rabbi you email the rabbi that's it but in reality you should move you should move to a place where it has Orthodox SH now your local Rabbi doesn't necessarily need to be your only Rabbi most people throughout their religious life are going to have multiple rabbis you going to have one Rabbi that's going to be your Rabbi that is going to teach you m one Rabbi is going to teach you one Rabbi is going to teach you uh you know family Purity or or orom another Rabbi is going to be your go-to guy when you another Rabbi is going to be like your friendly Rabbi your guy that's going to answer the phone at 3:00 in the morning when you're down and you're not sure if you want to jump off the bridge or not you need that Rabbi too so you're going to have different rabbis the one thing I would recommend men though that I see happening constantly is creating a problem for a lot of rabbis more than it list for people is that many rabbis are making the mistake of befriending their students becoming friends with their students as a leader it's the biggest mistake you can possibly make if you want to be somebody's Rabbi you cannot be their friend doesn't necessarily mean that you can't be friendly you can be friendly you can invite invite them to dinner you can invite them to an event we can't be friends you can't go on vacation together can't say hey what's up buddy oh nothing what's going on bro no that's not that's not how you talk to a rabbi can't go out for a beer with your Rabbi you want to be a friend be a friend and the reason why is because once you're friends the respect changes respect changes we learned this from also I think a few weeks ago we learned about this but also we learned this all the way back from the father of Shu he used to go to the um do the sacrifices four times a year and each time he would go in a different direction same place same location but he were going in a different direction and we see from the prophet also that one of the very big MIT that had at the time of the bet mikdash is that you were not allowed to leave the BET mikdash from the same place you entered you entered front door you leave in the back you entered from the back you leave from the front you're never allowed to enter and leave from the same exit reason why so the walls of the BET mikdash don't start looking like the walls of your house translation don't get used to it don't get used to the bet mikdash the holy of holies the house of a like you got used to your house you could buy a multi-million dollar mansion but after a few months you're used to it it's your house it's not your Mansion it's your house it just becomes regular you're used to it bet mdash is not your house it's not your house your rabbi don't get used to him as soon as you start teaching treating him like a friend he's not your Rabbi anymore this is one of the biggest mistakes that I see today with young rabbis and uh and young students of theirs they want to play basketball with them they want to kick it with them they want to say what's up to them they want to be friendly with them they want to seem cool like them and that's fine you could be a mentor but you're not going to be their Rabbi Mentor is fine it's just not their rabbi Mentor is a leader it's just not that Rabbi why because a rabbi according to kazal is someone you have to the students have to feel like they fear God meaning he says they do he says not allow they don't say no but why no there no why no why I said no no the end this seems to our generation like some type of authoritarian type of mentality Hitler SL Iran no no my friends this is respect and honor of honor of is all fire fire you don't see it surrounded by fire can't touch him you respecting a rabbi I'm assuming your Rabbi is if your Rabbi is a then he's not your Rabbi really in understand of course you're going to be scared of him he says yes you say yes he says no you say no you have debate you're not looking for a rabbi you're looking for a friend and this happened to me with a student that I knew wasn't really a student but nonetheless he uh he's one unfortunately one of the unfortunate victims of this book that came out and this teaching that came out that I mentioned to you guys yesterday where they tell people that aim that they're allowed to keep Shabbat even though rambam says a non-jew that keep Shabbat gets death penalty Heavenly death penalty non-jew is not allowed to keep Shabbat why because it's a breit hem says it's a covenant between me and you not me and everyone not me and all the nations not me and the Jews and the noahides No No me and you you being I'm is it's the only verse you need there's many other proofs it's the only verse you need that the Covenant is only between hasem and no one's allowed to keep Shabbat unless they're a Jew so when someone says who calls themselves a rabbi or a couple of people call themselves rabbis and they tell people no no no rambam was wrong or you misunderstood the rambam and you misunderstood this one and everyone misunderstood except us in this generation the year 2017 according to the Christians we understood no one else understood before us we gave a to the world RAB AKA didn't understand RAB AKA that went up to sh went up to Sham and saw what happens there he saw angels He Saw what's going on he saw how things look he didn't understand but you you too you saw it you understood rambam that was able to go from place to place without cars houses planes or anything country to Country just through cabala and one of the stories in the book of R Maz that came out recently is a cabala it says he went from Egypt to a different country and back in three minutes you're saying he didn't understand but you understood from this generation you understood he was wrong you're right let's when we get out of that dream we realize it's a problem but now they wrote a book that this book is saying that anyone can keep Shabbat you could do this you could do that and unfortunately what's happening is that many of these people that are supposed to convert and become Jewish eventually decide wait a minute if I could just keep whatever I want what I need to convert for let me just stay and keep whatever I want and not get punished if I don't keep it so I get to win either way so what happens one one of the things that a non-jew is not allowed to do unless he's in the process of converting he's not allowed to learn the oral Torah he's not allowed to learn the not allowed not allowed but they said these two rabbis say he's allowed so what is he doing he's learning man so now he comes to me he says listen I have he's a nice kid too but he's making a very big mistake comes to me he says listen I've been learning and uh and it says in the notes I think it was page 59 there's a note number 10 it says that if the noahide is learning uh but he's uh it's only a problem if a uh if he's learning because he's trying to confuse the public confuse am I said no no no if you actually look at the actual itself says a that learns oral not allowed that's what says forget the notes says was able to revive the dead but even before that before I gave him the actual answer he told me I'm studying Tor I'm studying this I'm doing all this so I said I asked them are you looking for an answer or are you looking for validation because if you were looking for an answer you already got the answer from all my lectures or M's lectures you're not allowed to learn but it sounds like you are looking for validation you're looking to get permission to learn to and obviously you don't have permission because we already said it and the source that you're providing is wrong you're wrong about the source and I explain to him the source so what does he do he debates me that's not a student nice kid God bless him hopefully he does chba hopefully he converts at the end but that's the difference between someone who's a student and someone who's a friend he enjoys my lectures I enjoy the fact that he gave out a few CDs nice people but the reality of it is when you have a r he says yes you say yes he says jump you say how high that's a r I didn't ask to be anybody's R but you're understanding my point here there many times that I had to do things I didn't really want to do due to this arrangement of having a r so the only thing I can suggest to you guys if you're going to pick somebody to be a RV your local R your YouTube R your this r or your that R whoever your R is going to be get used to it get used to saying yes because that's the only way he's going to actually be able to help you as soon as you start debating him he's not your love anymore next no uh uh say going yes it's one of them it's one of them I mean know you stand in front of us meaning know it's actually one of the it's one of the m is that um you have to know who you're dealing with you have to know who so this is actually a verse that verse is actually comes from the mishna uh you have to know that standing in front of hem which is technically you're standing in front of Hashem at all times which is actually part of the reason of why you're not allowed to be a drunk or high uh because in essence you're not allowed you have to realize that Hashem is next to you so how could you be next to the King of Kings all drunk in a mess even more so if you're in AET even more so in a place that's holy that's a mini bet mikdash you're not allowed to pray if you're drunk you're not allowed to to pray if you're high you're not allow to pray after you smoked weed you know you're not allowed to pray after you took a pill of ecstasy even though you feel really spiritual not allow to pray your your your spiritual State of Mind is meaning disgusting to hem to such an extent that he killed two people because of it who are those two people and a Aaron's sons Aaron's sons according to kazal had potential greater than Aaron and Moses but they came in front of hem in an inappropriate way hasem killed them so needless to say us coming in front of hm in a after we just smoked a joint after we just had a couple of drinks so this is something that we need to know you have to you know when you go in front of hasem know where you're standing from yeah what's that makes me think of like you know when you go they what when they like a what's a for bring drink and to explain so you have if you go to get together yeah the you know they're discussing Torah they're sharing thoughts philosophy telling stories singing and they say it's get drunk while you're there get drunk drunk learning no you're not allowed no such thing you're not allowed to do it having a drink having a cup of drink it's very different than getting drunk getting drunk you're not learning to it's better off you don't do it how do they justify people you have to again people do it as an excuse to drunk even listen in reality you learn to you're supposed to do as little as possible other than learning to because when you're really really learning T you have to be focused on the gold and diamonds that are in front of you not the peanuts and the bambba and the uh arak and the scotch and the girl and the guy and this and that all that stuff it's not that's not what you're there for you're not there to to it's not a social event there also when someone is toiling with Torah this is what we talked about in a if someone is go to a you know Sho or to a k or Yeshiva and they're just hanging out with their friends that's not toiling in Torah that's just whatever there Torah in the background it's like background music like an elevator whatever it's nice but it's not it's not you're not going to become a that way so those events that they have and they have a couple of drinks to get people to come I guess that's their own kiru strategy um of getting people to come learn but if they're not directing them in the right way once they're there then they become part of the sin so I mean listen people are using different ways of how to uh get attract people to uh the Torah unfortunately um no one really wants to use the way that Hashem used what does hasem do scared us to death that's what works you know if you look at a uh if you look at um this book that we talked about yesterday also uh is uh actually found another couple of copies by the way he was wrong where the the the guy that said it yesterday that this is being published again he's not it's not being published he meant the Hebrew version is being published yeah the Hebrew version you can get for $10 but the English version is no longer in publication of this book by it's no longer in publication uh but you can get it secondhand from a few places one guy was selling for $500 on eBay I found a couple of copies online for uh like4 something dollars uh so I ordered them um and um so anyone that wants it I could uh you know you can give me the money I'll give it to you um but I figured it's like a rare event it's like finding a uh T from 3,000 years ago but anyway here says something interesting in page 66 he says the following it's imperative that a person cleanse himself of corrupt character traits and sanctify himself from the body's impurities this can be achieved solely by observing the Torah and MIT okay only in this manner can one Truly Come to comprehend his great Majesty and tremble in awe over his glorious Splendor so first things first we're seeing here that in order for us to even get to a point of of honoring his glory we already read yesterday first stage you have to be scared to death then you going be punished if you don't do it you get punished second step is start KN who you're standing in front of like Roger said and you start honoring hashem's Majesty after that then you can begin loving hasem but how do you get to all of that how do you get to a point of being scared of sinning of showing that you're scared of sinning he said in this sentence in the very simple words said start doing by actually doing MIT you're showing you're scared because if I don't do the then obviously I'm not scared if I don't lay then I don't think I'm going to get punished for it if I don't keep Shabbat then I don't think I'm going get to punished for it so in essence what we're seeing here is something very very important is that the foundation of connection to hasem is fear you must be scared if you're not scared you have a different God because my God sced scary he runs everything and when you run everything that means I depend on you when I depend on you of course I'm I'm going to fear you because you could just pull the plug whenever you feel like it people are scared of a cop giving him a ticket people are scared of the IRS possibly auditing them people are scared that their boss is going to fire them or their friend is going to yell at them you're scared of people but you're not scared of the creator if you're not scared of the Creator you don't believe in one you believe in something else you have a different God you your God's like a Smurf or something it's Papa Smurf it's not God it's not God it's not scary so the strategy of K you have to scare people Source in the hasem himself gave us the Commandments first commandment we all died second then he revived us resurrected the dead for the first time second commanded we all died again revive this again then we all told mosenu you go talk to him and we'll sit in listen we'll just do whatever he wants why if he continues talking we're all going to die M who says no no no don't worry don't be so scared hasem is just scaring you so you don't sin meaning even hasem himself that wrote the book he's the the one that wrote the book not me I didn't write the book he didn't ask for permission to write the book he wrote the book he says you need fear in order for you not to sin love will not make you not sin fear will cause you not to sin and the foundation of connecting with me first stop sinning stop desecrating my name stop telling me it's okay to late without my shirt on on the beach it's not okay stop sinning and then we can start talking then you can say okay I believe then you can say oh maybe I'm going to love you one day but don't tell me you believe in me you love me and you don't even you're not even scared of me it's impossible impossible yeah it I heard I didn't read was people of Israel yeah yeah I just said that yeah they all died they died their n actually came out their everybody's n was not at a level that they were able to hear aem's voice only mosu was able to hear his voice so everyone died everyone died now also one of the things that's uh interesting is that inab page 88 uh it says that when am came to mount sa even though they were all by the time they got to mount sa which is shavat that's coming up shat coming up is when we got the Torah now we just came out of Egypt we were on a 49th level of impurity by the time we got to mount saai we were actually in the 49th level of Purity we were at the highest level possible everyone became a prophet the entire nation became a prophet so we were all excited to get the Torah so kazal asked fine if everybody was so excited to get the Torah then why did hasem threaten them by taking the mountain and bending it in a way where it covered the entire nation where the written says that am was under the mountain not next to the mountain why were they Under the Mountain Hashem bent the mountain and made it like a or like a over and then he accept to them the following if you accept my Torah good but if you don't this is where you're going to die because if you w accept it will destroy the world in essence what he's telling them is that not only do you have to accept the Torah because if you don't I'm going to destroy the world but without my Torah you can't live anyway you can't fulfill your purpose anyway you're already considered Dead So Not only would he destroy the world forget about that because he could easily pick another Nation 70 Nations he can pick another one but the reality is that without the Torah you're already considered dead what are you living for for the money you can't take it with you what are you living for the house that stays here the wife eventually your body goes in one uh grave her body goes on another grave your kids after they get married they're probably not even going to call you anymore your friends find a good friend find a real one what are you living for for what for what for the money for the fame what what are you going to live for you don't have Torah you don't have you don't have connection to Hashem you don't have connection to your purpose Hashem already considers you dead so he says if you're not going to accept my Torah you're already dead anyway so tosot so tosot says why did theem threaten them that's not a real question it's not a real question why did hasm threaten them why is it not a question TOS says the following tosot says what did you think he was going to leave the world's destiny to chance you was going to leave whether the world was going to continue existing or not based on whether they want to or not what kind of God would that be that's a human mind thinks like that oh if you want to come you don't want to don't come oh you should come to this je but if you don't want to you don't have to that's a human being mentality that's not God my friends the Commandments are not a choice the Torah is not a choice it's not a choice you have to get rewarded if you do but it's punish if you don't once you realize that one of the foundational principles of Faith one of the 13 principles of faith is that there is reward and Punishment you understand that there's no such thing as free choice we have Choice which is a limited choice we do good we get reward Ed we do bad we get punished free choice means you could do whatever you want like the hippies one day she's your wife the next day somebody else's your wife that's not Torah that's Sodom and Gomorrah so tosot says to leave it up to free choice that's not God so you had to make sure they understood number one it's not really up to you number two even if it was up to you you can't survive anyway without my Torah you already considered that anyway so that's the also connects with this Mish is that when someone toils in Torah Hashem takes away the worldly responsibilities but when someone doesn't Hashem gives them even more worldly responsibilities and the reason why is because they have to do something they have to do something to fulfill some type of purpose in their life so Le at least if they're going to have worldly responsibilities they're going to have some money hopefully they'll still have a chance of supporting Torah but if you don't do this and you don't do that you're already consider dead nothing's going to help you next so finish it off with last thing uh last announcement we're thinking about this just just want to get some feedback from the crowd uh everyone that's watching watching online watching uh now watching YouTube all these different channels we have a lot of different places that are giving out the CDs people are watching the sh but it seems like the amount of questions that I get every day is getting to a point where it's very very difficult to maintain and it seems like a lot of these questions people want to hear it actually not just written but they want to hear me say it so we're actually thinking about starting a uh a live uh broadcasting of just questions and answers like going on I don't know Facebook live or some other vual try to actually just have I don't know half hour an hour session session once twice a week we'll see what happens but any session at all even if it's once a week where it's just questions and answers you could write your questions you could send me your uh questions live online and uh I'll answer them on the spot I may do it with uh FR together if we could figure out how to figure out the whole camera situation being in Israel and America I could do with uh someone else but the point being is that I want to see if there's really a market for it if people really want cuz it seems like the questions and answers are what people are mostly interested in um so if there will be something like that do people want it it's question number one and number two what is the uh if we were to do it it probably be sometimes in uh I would say in the afternoon which is a time where everybody works so is this even possible so anyone that's interested or has any ideas about it can email me uh and uh tell me what they think and uh anything else comes up ISM will succeed also any communities that are looking to help their uh congregation to um we got a shim of 50,000 CDs recently he's a double CD CD number one CD number two in the uh package anyone is looking to sponsor them sponsor them them if you don't have anybody to sponsor them just call me I'll send them to you for free we just got to get people to do that's really it's not a moneymaking situation you want to sponsor you help us do help people do CH you don't have any money but you have ambition you want to help people do CH contact me we'll send you for free just help people do cha just don't have them sitting on a shelf doing nothing so anything else [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music]