After Hours with Rabbi Yaron Reuven (15)

[Music] any questions you sent me a question what was the question cashs yeah if you buy cashews you're buying them in a box usually the Box have a kosher sign on it which you can rely on because it's a uh the the fruit doesn't have things it doesn't have little holes on it that the bugs can be on bag most of the bags of these cashews have kosher signs on them which you could rely on which you could rely on again be one of the greatest Minds ever in the beginning of a simple a simple story okay so the uh beginning of your gar every gar that you have it's a it's a tradition they tell you that you should do these one prayer before you study and one prayer after you finish studying you know those prayers so it says so here it says may may be your will ofm my God that a mishap not come about through me and may I not stumble in a matter of law because you're learning in essence the root of the law in your and cause my colleagues colleagues to Rejoice over me meaning other people making fun of you you don't want to be a center of attention of people making fun of and may I not say regarding something which is T that it's to meaning you don't want to be wrong with your conclusion and may I not uh and regarding something which is tall it's to man not the opposite and may my colleagues not stumble in a matter of Law and I Rejoice over them and also you don't want the tables to be turned because the world is round and could be that your colleagues are wrong and you're making fun of them you don't want to be that type of rash for hem grants wisdom and then it starts the sources of everything that it says so the first one is page 28b it says for hasem Grants wisdom from his mouth come knowledge and understanding of God so first here we learned from this blessing this very simple blessing that you do in a million and a half times probably when you learn we notice that this actually these blessings have sources from Proverbs from Psalms and so on and one of the most important parts to understand you learn is that AEM grants knowledge hem grants knowledge meaning page 60 3 says says I think it's the end of 62 beginning 63 says that someone that wants to learn Torah has to be willing to die for it from him we learn he was a famous B Chua and from here we learn that in order for a person to learn Tor they have to be willing to sacrifice sacrifice and in his in depending on the level that you want to reach he says you should be willing to sacrifice M your life for learning t for the sake of T but here at the beginning of the it says wait a minute but hem gives knowledge so why should I sacrifice if Hashem is giving knowledge shouldn't I stay there and just wait stay there and wait until gives me a knowledge ah so the understanding here is actually from your story from from the story of R AA the reason why kazal tell us the story of R AKA where he first started going to a kindergarten cuz he didn't even know alive bet and he quit because people made fun of him but then one day he was sitting by the river and he saw that one of the big rocks had a hole in it and he asked the people where how did this how' you make the hole so we didn't make the hole how how did The Rock have such a big hole well actually the water made the hole and RAB a did a on his own he did a needless to say on his own conclusion on his own he concluded on his own where he said if the water that's soft the water that's soft can make a hole in a rock in a boulder that's hard with enough pressure with enough persistence then obviously my brain which is soft my brain which is soft will be penetrated eventually with the Torah that's fire so that's hard so the point is is that hasem grants knowledge meaning that what we're responsible to do is we're responsible to make our effort once our effort reaches a certain level our our sacrifice reaches a certain level Hashem opens up your brain to get more than what you actually studied meaning Torah is not like learning secular knowledge so for example if you learn an hour of secular knowledge an hour of math an hour hour of History an hour of English or whatever other thing that's secular knowledge then what you're going to get is an hour of knowledge but if you learn an hour of Tor and hasem saw that that hour really was for you because you had a stomach ache you had a headache kids were screaming in the background it was tough for you to learn it was tough for you to sit I know whatever you had a difficulty sitting but you did it you achieved it you study for a full hour Hashem could very well gift you with five hours worth of nothing knowledge even though you studied for an hour he'll give you five hours worth of knowledge you studied for a week it give you a month worth of knowledge so for example in it also says which said earlier in the also connects to it is that it says that some of the in the times of the would meditate for an hour before they prayed pray for an hour and then meditate another hour after prayer so the sages ask if they did this with every prayer that means that they prayed for nine hours a day an hour before prayer an hour after prayer that's two hours an Hour of Prayer that's three hours three times a day three times three is nine hours so the gar says when they have time to study if they're praying for nine hours a day they're eating they're drinking they're with their family they work a few hours when have time to study shouldn't they actually use that time to study and actually thear answers K answers that with that level of prayer they would actually benefit from that prayer in a sense that they would get more material gifted to them through with less studying meaning they would get more information with less time so they could get uh you know six months or a year worth of information through one hour of studying why because of their high level of prayer so we're obviously not at that level not only not to get six months worth of information in one hour but also to actually meditate for n hours a day I don't think it's possible for anybody but the point being is that there's something called and there are different reasons of why a person would get in their life first and foremost you should pray for it you should pray for you should pray for hem to gift you knowledge second of all gift you knowledge for a reason what are you going to do with this knowledge you going to teach it or you just going to you know keep it for yourself second of all there's certain things you can do to be gifted knowledge the biggest thing you can do to be gifted knowledge is and the reason why is because when you do kiru you're in essence taking your Torah time and you're spending it on other people so when you finally study Hashem will give you knowledge so as strange as it sounds I mean I've said this before but people still fail to believe me uh people always ask me oh which Yesa you go to how many decades are you learning and so on and so forth and you know when I tell them the amount of time and so on it doesn't really make sense it doesn't make rational sense for someone that did chuva not too long ago to be teaching with a new sh every week couple times a week for three four hours with new information every single time it doesn't make sense there are rabbis that listen to my there are people that that say they get for me so obviously this has nothing to do with me this is all AEM but the point being is that all the information that I learn I use it for Zim I lose it to to teach people I'm not using it for uh my own uh you know pleasure only I'm using it to teach people I'm using it to get people to do chat to get closer to Hashem to sanctify hm's name so in order for Hashem to get his name Sanctified he has to give more information because if I give you guys the same lecture every single time you can stop coming and the people on Facebook stop watching so of course I have to study a lot but the point is is that if you compare the amount of studying that I did in my life versus the amount of content that we produced in our life it doesn't make sense doesn't make sense you understand so that's the biggest thing that you can do as far as to be gifted knowledge but at the end of the day the the biggest thing that you have to get used to if you want to be gifted knowledge is sacrifice at the end of the this series we're going to get to chapter six of aot it says there are 48 different sacrifices that a person has to make in order to be gifted toah so all of it have to do with physicality materialism and so on uh the things that we talked about today are just the beginning of it a person needs to in order for them to be gifted to they have to literally remove themselves from the mundane they have to turn themselves into someone that's glued to AEM Glu to Hashem where literally you wake up hashem's on your mind you go to sleep hashem's on your mind during the day hm's on your mind you're always thinking about hem you're always doing something for hem you're connecting everything to Hashem you see the sky you think about hem you see a bug you think about hem you go to the bathroom you think about hm after you leave the bathroom because allowed you to go to the bathroom you ate you think about hm you said hello you think about everything you do you think about hem in some way or another you connect hem to everything and you glue yourself to hem you turn yourself into is kados and it also talks about how to get to a high level how to get toes and so on and this is a one of the key requirements is to glue yourself to hasem obviously if you do yourself to hem you're going to be gifted toorah knowledge well yeah but the thing is though is that like I said earlier is that sometimes the information that you see or the information that you hear is something you already know so for example in the beginning of the book path of the just the RA in the introduction says to the people I'm only here to remind you of things you already know the reality of it is that most of the information he says we don't know but anyway he him and his humility says that he's reminding us of things that we know and the reason why he says because when things are very simple and very common sense it's even more of a reason for people to abandon them it's even more of a reason reason for people to not study them and go into depth with them because it's obvious because it's common because it makes sense so for example all of mus all of musar from beginning to end of M is all common sense really but you don't think about it why because unless you have a personality trait that likes to dig deep down into yourself to get yourself into a point of becoming holy to get yourself into a point of perfecting yourself based on the description of hasem not based on the description of society today that's rotten then you'll see that all of it is common sense but the reality of it is that since it's Common Sense most people think it's not a high level of wisdom which is quite the opposite so people like to learn things like or different in the which is like different things that cause mental stimulation and uh things that are like a uh uh tongue twisters of and such things that are difficult and and for the purpose of mental stimulation because they think that things that are mentally stimulating are going to make you more holy it's actually quite the opposite it's actually quite the opposite it's the things that make you holy are perfecting your midot it's the basics that actually make you holy not the things that are complicated so unfortunately people you know are either misled or confused or whatever it is misguided uh the point being is that even though it all made sense and The Rock you know and the story from an outside pect perspective made sense to you from where you are right now to him it didn't just like I could tell you something that could make sense to you and it could change your life but to another person it's just I knew it different people have different visuals you could we could both look at the same page of G and get different understandings from it we could get theat of the same we both get the basic meaning of whatever or whatever in the T we both understand it we both see what Rashi says both see what the Torah means but then you can potentially get a out of that P that's different than mine so I'll give you an example some months ago maybe six or eight months ago I had a k about this week's Paras even though it wasn't the Paras I had a about this par so for example there's a uh when um when uh yov goes to to get the blessing now he's pretending in essence to be aav right he's pretending to be aav so says toov the voice is the voice of yov but the hand at the hands of as so theat is very simple that yov had a voice that was distinctly his that identified but the hands were as because he had his mom RKA put fur on his arms to make him seem like he's hairy like asav that's theat that's the basic meaning of the verse now you could have additional K on top of it my K was quite different my was in regards to both the fake rabbis and the missionaries of the world today applying it to today because both the fake rabbis and the missionaries the messianics of today both sound like yov they both sound like am they both sound like kosher rabbis they both sound like they're teaching Tor they both sound like they're trying to help people they both sound like but but really their actions are of you understand they all sound kosher the rabbi with a nice trimmed beard looks like a runway model sounds great sounds kosher the fact that he wants to bring the number one missionary in the world into a besset with a thousand families I don't know if he's asav or isav is coming I'm not really sure either way it's not Kosher you understand soob if you listen to this Rabbi he sounds perfectly kosher he sounds gra writes blogs everything sounds great sounds wonderful but in reality the actions the bottom line 100% 100% same thing with the other guy that I talk about all the time and I don't mention these names because it's just a waste of time and also I think it's like it's like Beetle Juice you bring them to your life when you say that name but the point is is that uh you know the uh the other guy with the long payers that reached the floor gu creating his own religion he sounds like a kosher Rabbi he sounds like a perfectly kosher Rabbi he doesn't sound like a rash ham he doesn't say uh he didn't write M like Hitler or anything like that he doesn't say he doesn't put his arm up or anything like that he sounds and looks like a kosher person but so did as he tells you he says he says he says he uses the same lingo I do he us the same lingo as any Rabbi really but in reality he's a in reality he's a liar in reality he's a filthy liar in reality he's a big sinner creates his own religion creates his new rules and so on and unfortunately there's many like it so that was my from that verse so you had theat which completely different then you had what I had is a from that verse you could look at that verse and it can mean something completely different to you why even it's the same six seven words your perspective and my perspective will never be the same we could agree that mine is right and yours is right even though they're different from each other but it doesn't necessarily need to be the same so you could look at the Rock now from the story perspective of Thea and say oh wow that makes perfect sense why didn't he know it because you're looking from an outside perspective it's much easier to see things clearer from an outside perspective than when you're actually in the fire yourself so for example it's much easier for me now to say that suffering is uh is good for you today when I'm not suffering like I did seven years ago or eight years ago 10 years ago when I had the surgery so again different perspectives different times of your life next he's continuing to sin no you can't no I mean the first the first the first stage is to stop sinning the first stage of chuva is to stop sinning If someone knows that they're sinning and says I'm going to continue sinning but I'll do chuva Tomorrow there's actually Mish about them so it says someone that says I'm going to sin and then do cha I'm GNA sin today and then do chuva tomorrow the punishment for such a person that makes a mockery of the system Mo mockery of hem says I'm gonna sin today and do chuva tomorrow like knowingly they're sinning and knowing with a plan to do chuva I'm gonna do a barbecue this Shabbat but then I'm gonna do cha on Sunday someone like that what's their punishment punishment is a specific Mish written about them someone like that hasem does not allow them to do Chua hem does not allow them to do Chua meaning they won't live long enough to do Chua kills them before they do Chua they won't allow them why because they made a uh they made a joke of the whole thing so someone that's still sinning it's better that they don't say anything at all than saying they're doing chuva because they're not you know first step of doing Chua is stopping the sin next so says that Shabbat is a it's a covenant between me and you because I created the world in six days and I rested on the seventh meaning says that anyone that wants to become a partner with hem keep Shabbat what does it mean becoming partners with hem now when you see that uh Hashem doesn't say I am the god that created the world for example when he says in theuh Ten Commandments he doesn't say believe in God because I'm the god that created the world doesn't say that he says I'm the god that took you out of Egypt right I'm the guy that took you out of Egypt why because you witnessed that you witnessed that I took you out of Egypt but in order to become a partner of mine in creation you have to in essence believe that I created everything so Shabbat is that Covenant that in essence stamps that you agree that I created the world in six days and I rested on the seventh meaning I stopped creating on the seventh for your purpose I didn't stop for the seventh day because needed rest doesn't sleep doesn't rest so in essence really created the world in a moment he didn't create the world in six days he created in a moment he put the pieces he slowed down creation and put the pieces in place so the sky the Sun the moon the dirt whatever all the pieces in place over six days so he created everything in a moment and then he put like a puzzle and then he put the pieces in place over six days and then on the seventh day he did the exact opposite of what he did during those six days which is he stopped creating he didn't do anything in essence he created Shabbat he created nothingness created resting from all of the activity that he did and uh not doing those me so why did he do that he did it because he says if I bring man into the world now every day and I tell him listen you have six days six days I uh I created you're going to create six days so in essence every day is the same nothing ever changes on the other hand if I stop creating on the seventh day then that one day is different there's one day that's significantly different from the rest because there one day that I'm not creating so in order to give man the state of mind or feeling that Hashem had if you will on the seventh day of not creating Hashem says you also have to not create because you create throughout the whole week you have business you write you you know you do all these different things that throughout the you know you do the mundane for six days of week so if you did it seven days a week then there would be no difference every day will be the same so if you stop creating in essence you're doing the same thing that I did when I created the world so you'll have your human version of the feeling that I had on the seventh day so he did it for us he didn't do it for himself he did it for us in in essence to make us feel like we're part of Creation in order to make us feel like we are partners with him so now when someone did all the work paid for everything built everything created everything did everything and then he says hey by the way we'll be 50-50 Partners I did everything I paid for everything I invested all the money I designed everything I hired a team I uh advertised it I marked it I did the everything I did but by the way me and bet 50-50 Partners if betel says Nah I don't feel like it it can't be more insulting than that and not only if he says no I don't feel like it but he takes the water and he spills it in my face I don't have any water left so I can't spill it in his face but in case he spills it in my face no not only I don't want to be partners with you but he spills the water in my face it's not nice right it's very mean cuz I paid for everything I I marketed everything I invested everything at the very least you say yes say thank you but not only is he not saying thank you he's spilling the water in my face in essence when someone desecrates Shabbat that's what they're doing to Hashem because hem created everything did everything and even rested just for you to feel like him and instead of saying thank you for giving me a vacation thank you for giving me a feeling like you thank you for making me a partner in creation like you instead of saying thank you we take the water and spill it in his face it can't be worse than that so that's at least one explanation of why second explanation is that in essence the theat is that Hashem says I created the world in six days and rested on the seventh if you're a partner of mine that means you are in essence a witness to Creation it's as if you were there when I created the world which means that if you are not keeping Shabbat you are acting as if you are witness that I didn't create the world meaning you're denying that Hashem is the creator of the world you're denying that hm is the creator of the world meaning that you're saying that not you but someone that's not keeping Shabbat is saying that hasem is not the only God there is another God so that's why the uh in seven different places including uh says that if a Shabbat Slaughters an animal in the most kosher way possible he's a professional professional Slaughter in a kosher way he Slaughters a cow you're not allowed to eat it why because he's considered 100% an idol worshipper even though his father's a rabbi his grandfather even though his uh AB ainu is his father ainu is his brother is a son doesn't make a difference if he's he's considered he's considered an idol worshiper so you're not allowed to eat a even so why because he's denying creation he's denying that is the only God yeah right being in essence being a glutton being a Glutton is really what asav was asav was a glutton meaning that everything that he liked if he liked food he had to have it he couldn't restrain himself if he saw a woman he had to have her didn't matter that she was married if he uh saw gold he had to have it even though it belonged to someone else he was a glutton and unfortunately gluttony is a very very very horrible sin very horrible sin um that's why it's a for example when uh in the book of Jeremiah uh the um it says if you bring a precious person from a glutton you will be like my mouth so in essence here this is the blessing for anyone that does K says if you make people do Chua then you'll your whatever you say will come true meaning that even if Hashem decrees for someone to die if you pray that person that does CU prays for them he could potentially undo that decree but the the point of why I'm trying to mention this is that the definition of someone that needs to do chuva is a glutton z z means Glutton so it says if you turn a glutton into someone precious you'll be like my mouth meaning that the worst possible thing you can be is a glutton so people that can't control their food every time they see food the whole world stops they have to eat as much they can grab it's like they grab it like they've never eaten in their life it's like everything is Chinese food kosher but anyway the thing is though is that people that are gluttons Unfortunately they get to be a glutton in everything if they're Glutton in Food they'll be a glutton with money there'll be a glutton with women there'll be a glutton with everything else and unfortunately that this is a person that's putting themselves in a scenario where they'll never be happy with what they have as a is a you know the person that's Happy you learn in the Mish a person that's Happy is a person that's happy with a share that doesn't mean that he's happy because he's homeless if he's happy because he's homeless he's just a fool meaning happy with his share is that he knows that whatever he has AEM knows for sure this is what he deserves this is what he needs this is what this is it this is great this is wonderful this is the best you could possibly do but you could always pray for more a person that's a glutton meaning that it doesn't matter how much he has whether it's a little or a lot it's never enough for them such a person will never be happy will'll never be happy so you can give that person a $100 it's the same as you give them a million dollars they'll never be happy you give them one car it's the same as thing as you give them a million cars they'll never be happy they'll always want more and says you give a person a 100 he wants 200 you give him 200 he wants 400 that's the definition of a glutton so that's a very very bad Sin it's literally the definition of someone that needs needs to do Chua I mean obviously there's things that go off of it and so on but the point is that the Glutton is a bad place to be but unfortunately this is the as sub tra in all of us that all of us have some type of gluttonous trait in us whether it's for food or it's for buying material things or different things so the key is to understand what this mishna says first and foremost understand that only this life is is designated for you to do Chua only this life there's no other life for you to do chuva in there's no like second time or third time or fourth time you have to do chuva here there's no other opportunities a lot of people say no no but you can do get reincarnated yes you could get reincarnated but as a dog or as a plant or as a cow or as the wall or as a book I mean it doesn't necessarily there's no guarantee that you'll be reincarnated as a Jew there's no guarantee you'll be reincarnated as as a person depends what kind of sins you're making and also what if the Messiah comes there's no reincarnations anymore you understand what if that you ran out of chis what if you already reincarnated 50 times already like people want to you know think that reincarnation is like a a great thing it's not it's not it's not it's not you shouldn't look forward to it meaning your chance to do chuva is now you're brought to this world to do chuva now not tomorrow not next week not next year not next life not next Gil now today start now ready go what else yes the uh times that are published on websites and newspapers are times that to light candles for Shabbat but that's not the actual time that Shabbat starts the time that Shabbat starts is usually approximately 18 to 20 minutes after lighting candles so the tradition spartic is that you could actually elect mentally that even though you're lighting the Shabbat candles you're not accepting the Shabbat on yourself until the time Shabbat begins so let's say 18 to 20 minutes later askanazi don't have that leniency from my knowledge uh so as soon as they light the candles Shabbat begins so that's the the pusim rule that way but it's different with Safar and ashkanazi if you're ashkanazi you have to hold by the ashkanazi pusim if you're sapharic you have to hold by the spartic you can't do mix and match it's not a puzzle so as far as the people that are doing other things whether it be driving to besset after they light candles or it's a uh whatever whatever it is that they're doing after to light candles it's perfectly fine if they're spartic um but if they're ashkanazi and they already lit candles then they cannot do it but sometimes the wife will light candles but the husband didn't the husband already left that's fine too that's fine too death with worms meaning what we learned it in the Mna someone that is fat uh they potentially give more food to the worms when they die so your question is how do you avoid that why is that because event all it's it's a natural part because all of us at some point are going to have a separation between the body and soul the real you is your soul the body is like clothing So eventually the body stops working the soul leaves so that body has to go somewhere and that somewhere that Hashem decided is to become food for worms and maggots um the Soul on the other hand goes somewhere else so now as far as if somebody is fat in their life and they're fat because they're a glutton then this is one of the punishments for being a glutton but if they're fat for a result of Holiness like RAR Ben R Shimon RAR rimon uh then it's uh they they don't get eaten by the worms it depends why why they were fat for example rimon he was a Quin so he would eat an enormous amount of meat uh and he was huge he was so big that him and another one of theim at the time was so big that they would put their stomachs together and it was big enough for a bull to walk under them a bull a huge bull 2,600 PB bull would walk under both of their stomachs that's how big they were but he actually in wanted to see if his if he Sanctified his meat if he Sanctified his body as much as he Sanctified his soul so there's a says that he wanted to test it out so he had a very very complicated surgery which today we call liposuction already 2,500 years ago he had a liposuction surgery where they took out three barrels or three um um buckets three buckets full of fat from his body which according to medicine today according to doctors today that are experts in lipos suction they say it's not possible so apparently theim had more advanced technology 2,500 years ago than the doctors today so they took out three buckets full of fat from his body and then after he recovered from a uh the sum they gave him anesthesia to go to sleep so he doesn't feel the pain when he woke up recovered he put uh he took the three buckets and he left them outside in the heat during the uh summer now if you put a steak you take a piece of steak cooked or uncooked and you put it outside here in this Gom desert Florida that we live in 95 degrees every day of the year apparently you put it outside 15 minutes later you have maggots worms and their friends coming out of the steak doesn't matter if it's kosher steak non- kosher steak there's going to be worms and stuff coming out of it within minutes if it's a pork by the way you don't even need to put it outside just pork Coca-Cola on it put Coca-Cola on a piece of pork and worms and maggots come out of it they could never there's always worms and maggots in pork it's a filthy animal but anyway the uh so any piece of meat you put outside it stays out long enough and heat worms and maggots will come out of it so now Raz went outside put three buckets of fresh human fat outside at the very least you're expecting flies at the very least you're expecting a few worms at the very least you're expect it to smell bad he left it there for I believe it was weeks weeks came back looked at it not even one fly and that's when he was happy about himself and he says oh I Sanctified my body so I don't know if we can actually get to a point of being like a we can sanctify our body to that extent but at the very least we should be uh very excited to sanctify our soul if we sanctify our soul I don't think you have anything to worry about as far as your body same price as is actually an angel that each and every single person has uh that teaches them the tah when they're in the uh in their in their mom's belly uh and this is the Z also talks about it in somewhere um and um when they are when they leave when it's time for them to be born the angel hits them on the lip one time and makes them forget everything but that's why sometimes you'll learn T and sometimes even though it's the first time you're learning something for some reason or another it makes more sense than it should meaning you understand it or you remember it from somewhere even though sometimes you've never learned it before everything everything everything that you're ever going to learn you already know that's how that's also n how hasem makes the knowledge that he gives you uh gifted to you you already know it it's just really a matter of him releasing it everything you could learn everything you want you could become you could do you could you could get to higher levels than you could even think imaginable you get to a point where the Torah can give you a physical reaction a lot of people don't know this but the Torah um could actually give a person a physical High a physical reaction not just a mental stimulation where you're happy about it and it's nice and wow I have a no no I actually mean a physical reaction a physical reaction where your whole body is buzzing your whole you feel like you're on cloud n you're in a different world like that a piece OFA you can get to that point so the amount of Torah you can get to is uh much much more than you can imagine at this stage point being that the the angel already taught you all this Torah now when you were born you were born with now isav like any other person in the world had inclinations he had a desire for certain things it's like you have a desire for certain things I have a certain desire for certain things a certain attractiveness that you have so for example some people are born with the attractiveness to blood attracted to blood blood sometimes skes people makes them disgusting or makes them you know afraid or sick but some people not only they they don't mind it they like it gives them a certain strange pleasure now that person that has this desire for blood can choose what he wants to do with his desire he can either choose to be a murderer so you can see a lot of blood before he goes to jail and they kill him or he could become a butcher or he can become a surgeon meaning everything that Hashem gives you as as a in as a desire as an inner desire that you're more inclined to do you can use for good and for bad so all of the character traits that asav had he was able to use for good or for bad that strength that he had he was actually able to fight evil better than yov was able to fight no you had he had an inclination he had an inclination towards a towards bad things doesn't necess mean that he was predestined no he was predestined he was predestined to have a certain desire for certain things some people have a desire for women some people have a desire for same sex some people have a desire for food some people have a desire for different things he had a desire for but it doesn't mean that you have to practice it he could potentially become an anti- missionary you understand with that same desire he can do a lot good and bad so there is for example some people like this rash named Michael Brown he's actually a Jew from from what I know he decided that his desire for a means that he has to practice a gets to practice idol worship so he's a missionary and he pretty much tries to recruit as many Jews as possible ble to go to to Christianity now another precious soul is Rabbi tovia singer who's a big sadik and he knows more than anybody including this Michael Brown Rasha about both Christianity and Judaism and he uses that knowledge and that skill set and that desire that he has to to to know the truth in order to be anti- missionary in then so you have similar if you will talents on both camps but one is using it for evil which is Michael Brown one's using it for good which is Rabbi toia singer you understand so every single person can use whatever hasem gifted them for good or bad that's where free choice comes in that's where comes in next at yeah yeah I mean people yeah yeah I mean people like that unfortunately are K and eventually they are going to um have to pay for their sins um put it this way there's nothing stupider there's nothing stupider than being a meaning being someone that causes other people to sin except one thing there's one thing that's stupider than causing other people to sin which is not only causing other people to sin but to stop other people from doing chuva so not only are you causing them to sin but now you're stopping them you're getting in the way of them doing chuva of them stopping the sin in essence you're double impacted you've you've put a uh baking egg and cheese on yum K so now some people are stupid enough to do this by going against kiru so they go against kiru rabbis that actually do real kiru and they call them out they make videos about them they uh uh you know do all types of things to discourage people from listening to them and there's nothing stupider than doing that now I can say it until I'm blue in the face and it's not going to stop there are plenty of rabbis here and overseas that take my CDs that I sent to people for free and they take them instead of letting people have them and listen to them they take them they steal them and then they throw them in the garbage so they rather steal something that doesn't belong to them steal my CDs that are full of Tor 76 hours worth of Torah they rather steal them and not allow people to listen to them and throw them in the garbage so they rather make a sin of theft than let people listen to them and do Chua and I'm not just talking about people in Florida like the place I lived in boaron it's not just the place it's also in other places in Florida also in New York also in Arizona also in overseas in Europe in Australia there's plenty of places where people told me I saw with my own eyes the rabbi the rabbi took the CDs and threw them in the garbage or hid them and then tried to throw them out plenty plenty somebody in this room right now that told me he saw with his own eyes it's not I'm not making this up plenty why because they because they know that if people listen to our Torah they'll actually do chuva and the first thing they do when they do chuva is leave their because their is full of they reform they conservative they're garbage first thing they do is leave them so they don't want them to leave they rather people not do chuva so now people like that are stupid and the reason why is because they could have easily been absolved of their sin by having the people leave quietly go to different besset or at least at the very least do chuva and they come to their and do chuva in their so at least they're not at fault for this person going to G but now they're getting the way so there's a few people I could tell you that have done it and I know the outcome already one guy went against chuva about two years ago about three and a half four months later he got cancer another guy did uh went against kiru about seven eight months later his son died another guy went against kiru and uh less than a year later I think it was maybe eight nine months later he had a kid born spent almost a year in the hospital and another one recent recent made a video about me going against K making fun of me and all types of wonderful things he just announced on Facebook that he's getting a divorce just announced that even though somebody made a comment on his channel saying wait a minute didn't you just post pictures of you and your wife being happily ever after and everything is wonderful and she has a and she has this she has sadik and everything why are you saying you're getting a divorce what happened so this same idiot continues to say about me continues to make a mistake and he still doesn't understand that that's the root of his problem he the stupidity of men will cause one to sin and then he gets mad at hem for you know for for punishing him and the idiot instead of seeing looking in the mirror and realizing he's the root of the problem what do he say oh I never really wanted to make fulfill this mitzvah but right now I have to fulfill the Mitzvah it's a Mitzvah nonetheless divorce is a Mitzvah nonetheless like he thinks he's doing a Mitzvah first of all you're publicizing something that's not good second of all you're embarrassing your ex-wife in public third of all it's it's it doesn't end the guy is just can't stop sinning and then not moments later he makes another video about me so I mean these people I mean it's just it doesn't doesn't get stupider like you can hit them in the face with a bat and they still won't get it they're just stupid they're just I mean I feel I feel bad for them I I really feel bad for them cuz to me it doesn't affect me I don't care he could do whatever he wants it gives me more it helps me it doesn't hurt me every mitvah he actually did by accident I get doesn't hurt me I don't care doesn't make a difference to me I'm not going to stop you know so it's not it's it's just it's just a silly thing a guy is just destroying his own and he keep he's getting punished now he's getting punished now and he still doesn't get it so him and other people that go against kiru they they're just i m i I feel bad for them honestly I really feel bad for people like that because just like it's like the guy is eating poison he expects the other guy to die he's like you know he's drinking poison like a milkshake but he's expecting the other guy to die I mean it's just it's look at the guy you want to like Biff him in the head like come on man at least if you're going to be a rash do it right be like is to something can't even be a good rash you get you you're not even good at that so you know people are stupid but I mean listen the thing is though is that sometimes hasem punishes people right away like the few that I mentioned here sometimes AEM takes a while you can wait 20 years to punish somebody 20 years wait for somebody to get and punish them 30 years 50 years you know it's not it's not not everybody just goes against kiru there because if that was the case you know how many people would be dead right now you know so whatever has patience hasem has patience but uh the the people that are calling themselves Rabbi not calling themselves Rabbi doesn't really make a difference the rabbi tle doesn't take change anything if they're saying things that are against the big if they're saying things that are against the tah if they're saying things that are unacceptable by Torah standards if they're going against the sages if they're going against different parts of the Torah there's nothing stupider than them because you know what the reality of it is that even a few let's say for example there's a few that like to go against the Z they like to go against the Z they say the zor is not authentic and there's enough evidence about it that say that didn't write it and and they go all through all this thing so you have one Camp a very very small camp of people say that it's not authentic and it's not this and it's not that and then you have the vast majority which not only say it's authentic but say that it's zad it's a holy book so now even if you're in a camp that doesn't want to accept the all if you're in a camp it doesn't accept it doesn't want to tolerate it doesn't like it whatever shut up fine okay you don't like it fine no problem you don't like cabala no problem the fact that the majority think it's holy the fact that the majority accept it as authentic what how is it affecting you how is it how is it changing your life in understand so that's the thing it's it's people are just silly their their ego is so big their ego is so big they can't even have enough room to be in a room with their own ego you know that's really what it comes down to it's just ego just ego that's really all it comes down to that's the thing that people can't fix they cannot fix their ego all of these people that bad mouth The Zo bad mouth cabala badmouth M bad mouth K rabbis just those types of people it's all because of their ego it's all the the root of the problem is their ego why they need to be the center of the attention they don't like to change they don't want to be told what to do because if they're wrong that means that they have to change their entire life you know and some of these people swear that they're posim they tell you oh yeah no I looked at I looked at the and I I I did aak this way what do you mean you did a Pak we haven't had a PK in 500 years what are you talking about Pak what did you do what we don't have today the BL 500 years ago what P did you do what are you talking about you Pak you a p who are you you little worm you little ant you're not even enough to be a green on the bottom of RF car's shoe what suck did you do who are you no I don't agree with Rashi over here I don't agree with rambam I don't agree with who are you what's wrong with you that's it's all ego it's all ego it's that people swear that they could be RAB AKA swear that mosu and them are boys swear that they could be potentially they're on the Messiah they look in the mirror and they pat themselves on the back I'm the Messiah M I'm telling you it's not just the crazy people that send me emails it's these people too people swear they're the Mah swear swear they are God's given uh you know God's gift to the world it's ego it's all ego sad because it's the first people that get punished the first people that that's actually in Proverbs Hashem specifically says the people that have ego he punishes them here and he's not going to forgive them specifically says an actual verse about it he's specifically not going to forgive them why because it's it's just it's disgusting when you have an ego that means you think that you're more than what you are meaning you you've made yourself into a God that's why hasm specifically says if he if he you know someone that has Gava him and I cannot be in the same room why he thinks he's God and I am God can't be two gods in one place so all of these people with ego problems they call themselves rabbis they could be this they could be that doesn't make a difference at the end of the day you got to look at what Hashem thinks and Hashem says that your ego has to disappear if to take it throw it in the garbage you still have an ego you still think that you could call everybody out and uh make fun of people make fun of the Holy sages you're a fool go against kiru you're a fool it's just it's just as simple as it gets there a lot of fools out there and that's that's by the way you should know people that make jokes people make jokes joke around especially during says sad for them says it's sad for those people that make FS why the beginning is suffering the end is destruction meaning hasem doesn't like it so much when people make jokes and to ruin a and so on or go against make fun of it comments online to get people's attention off of it and so on so much so that he says the beginning of their punishment is suffering the end of their punishment is total Destruction so I mean it's just all of this stuff is sourced in thear all of it is in the rambam and different places it's not made up it's not an opinion people that want to listen listen they'll do chv people that don't want to listen fine they they'll be proven the hard way it's no skin off my back at least you told them try you know you try to tell them we'd love everybody to do chuva but if somebody has a Heart of Stone they don't want to do chuva they deserve everything they're going to get everything they going to get that how come doesn't know because different people have different prophecy just like I get a in one p you get a different of a different purs just because not all prophecy is the same the uh rambam wrote uh in chapter 7 says that each one of the prophets had different levels of Prophecy based on their character traits so for example the things that mosenu wrote The Five Books of Moses are very clear and easy to understand relatively speaking the reason why is because he had the best he perfected his character traits and his prophecy was as clear as could ever be on the other hand the last prophet we had which is Ezekiel the prophecy that he gave at the end of times the BET mikdash and so on it's mystical it's great it's wonderful but it's virtually impossible to understand it's virtually impossible to understand Soom it's not to speak negatively about the prophet Ezekiel we cannot even be a fingernail on him but the point being is that you could clearly see what the rambam is saying here is that his level of Prophecy was much lower than the prophecy that mhu had so different prophecy different level uh different a uh prophets different prophecies also the prophecy that uh Ezekiel got about the end of times even though it's very similar time frame and prophecy than the prophecy that Isaiah got Isaiah's prophecy is clearer to understand it's clearer to understand why he was an earlier prophet and this is prophecy was clear so again sometimes we have the same event being prophesized to two different prophets but one prophet's prophecy is clearer than the other or one prophecy is says different details that weren't provided to the other so prophecy is not like a uh reading a verse in in a in a book where everyone would understand the same the the basic meaning of the verse prophecy is in essence a conversation with god through different mediums either through meditation or some type of uh epilepsy or something like that or some type of a uh dream uh with the C ofu which spoke to hem while he was awake like you and I speaking right now so different prophets different prophecies different level of Prophecy and by the way it all has according to the rim chapter 7 it all has to do with the level of their character traits their midot the more a person perfected their midot the better their prophecy was not the more gar they learned not the more Pim and mental stimulation they had not not the more knew the more they perfected their midot the more they perfected their character traits meaning the more they Glu themselves to through the more they Glu to with which of course means they knew of course they knew all these other things but the was applying all of these things to their character traits there's plenty of people that know but don't know how to behave I give you an example I went to a besset and uh two guys start arguing and um [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music]