YITRO: CONVERTS THE SKIN DISEASE OF ISRAEL - Stump The Rabbi (190)

We are back here on our Wednesday night stop the rabbi. We're after some you guys will ask some questions will give us the answers and we'll get closer and closer to Tonight's certainly going to be one that's going to shake up some people especially those that are still on the uh fence of whether to uh do chuva or not do chuva to convert to Judaism or not to convert to Judaism. This is all intended for all of you and certainly for those people that are already religious but are one foot in the secular world and one foot in the uh religious world. Uh because this is and it speaks about everything we just mentioned. Tonight's show is going to be for the forit bin Sana and all of Am and all the righteous Noahides that continue to support our organization and help us reach more and more people to get them to do Chuva, get them to closer to and of all of those wonderful people that want to convert to Judaism genuinely. Uh this is certainly going to be one that's going to help many of them at least make the decision uh of what they need to do. Now, uh just as a uh update, some service, you know, public service announcements. Uh first and foremost, uh for those of you that have not ordered the free books that we have on our in our Kiru store, I have no idea what you're waiting for. Uh literally, you have a easy cheap to the extent of free opportunity to help people do chuvi get them to and get yourself there as well uh by simply going to the kiru store kutore.org or get yourself some of this new book that we have that's both in English and Hebrew. Uh if you have a Hebrew community, uh then this book is the best of the best. It has all of the uh necessary pieces for a person to get a clear idea of uh how to serve a when it comes to rebuke, when it comes to reward and punishment, who comes to converts, when it comes to business, and also where was God during the Holocaust. These couple of books and a few other things as as far as the uh uh Kiru store are perfect tools to help Am do Chuva. Uh if you haven't ordered it already, like I said, it's free. So uh it's just mindboggling to me that there's still books left in our warehouse even though we had a huge amount of inventory leave probably almost half of it left in the last few days but still I think even that is too much. Uh so that's one. Get yourself some of this stuff. You'll help your community. Second thing, many of you have been asking me for months now about because we've had a back order. There's been a shortage of in the market, especially high quality. We got our order of both uh Rashi and Rabenam. And we have even some Ashkinazim that all arrived. We don't have many of any of them. Uh but uh we have a few. You know, usually when we get them in, you know, it's first come, first serve. Uh you can go on the website and order them. They of course all come in a you know, beautiful packaging with some bzem propaganda on the back to remind you where you got them. But the feline are beautiful. Some of them come also with the uh um silver or gold casing. Bottom line is they're the best of the best. I don't know of anybody else that sells these uh this high quality level of in the United States at least. Uh but uh we got them. They're in anyone that wants it. Of course, if your are still from the bar mitzvah uh then and you're in your 20s, 30s or 40s, there's something wrong with you. Uh same thing goes for those people that are married and uh have already been in the uh chuva world and uh have been fume already for at least three four five years. What are you waiting for? Rabenuam is uh certainly a necessary uh tool for your everyday prayer. Shalom was very particular about making sure that every Jew puts on a not only the Rashid but also the Benutam uh if they're married. Uh and uh for those of you that don't have it, not really sure why, but this is certainly something you need to have. Uh but of course feline just like meot as we've talked spoken about in the past is not something that you buy uh you know from just anybody. If you don't know who wrote them, who's responsible for them, who's vouching for them, uh then you don't buy them no matter what the price is, whether it's free or it's a million dollars, you simply just don't do it. Just the same thing of how you should not do that with a uh just the same thing like you wouldn't do with a wife or a husband. If you don't have anybody that's going to vouch for uh for for them, then uh you know, how do you know they're not going to go crazy on you? So, these are some of the things that people have to consider. But, we did all of the work for you. And we've never had uh anybody have an issue within. They've all been more than happy when they got them. Uh and even the one time we had a uh someone that was uh uh somewhat shaky about it nearly two and a half years later uh when we you know we sent him a uh replacement but he actually said you know what I I [laughter] my my uh uh my concerns were just the yet I don't need a new one and he sent them back. Uh so point being is that uh when you deal with high level highquality uh meuzot uh pretty much uh you don't have to worry about uh any issues. Uh now as far as the prices, the prices as of now stayed the same. Uh but already the vendors have already told me, meaning the sadikim have told me that the price of everything has gone up drastically, meaning by 40 to 60% unless the prices change uh in the next 6 months or so. Uh most likely we're going to have to adjust as well. But at least for now, everything is asis. But the price increase has been ridiculous. Uh but we're trying to do whatever we can. So with that being said, we have an extraordinary par as we talked about it yesterday. Anyone that hasn't watched the lecture from yesterday, you should simply stop your life tomorrow and go watch the lecture from yesterday. Why? because as a part of it that's regarding this week's Palasha about Mount Sai what actually transpired over there that is certainly uh not just an inspiration but also a clarification and an enlightenment for anyone that watches it who does not really know what really transpired over there. So watch that lecture yes uh uh from yesterday that's part of the um Jewish intimacy series but needless to say the Torah always connects to everything. So, of course, what if we already talked about, you know, this week's para yesterday, what are we going to talk about today? The same exact thing, but just new things. Why? Because Torah is endless. Endless. But, uh, as we've done at times during our teachings as well as during our studying, sometimes the best way to get to the point is by actually starting at the end and then working ourselves backwards. So of course we see the last couple of in the parasa paras the parasa where we are introduced to several different things. We're introduced to it the ultimate convert. We're also introduced to the legal system that's still being implemented until this day. Not only in the Jewish world but in even in the secular world where it's the different levels of court system. But we're also introduced to the ten commandments. We're introduced to the strictness of the law and akad gives us an example of this for anyone that hasn't read the paran just simply wants a little tidbit of how critical morality is to akadosh. We see even that beta mikdash of the desert that we had. Needless to say, the bet mdash that was in Jerusalem. Uh the first one for 410 years, the second one for 420 years. Even those had the same exact thing which is the consideration of morality. What consideration says that the uh the uh ramp to go up to the misbeh. Why? You shall not ascend my misb on steps says so that your nakedness will not be uncovered upon it. Meaning so that the ground does not see the nakedness of the cohen going up to the misbeh. Obviously we're not going to go into the details of all of this. It's self-explanatory. But more than anything else, it shows us how is particular about everything. for all of those heretics that have decided to start YouTube channels, uh, talking about their life, talking about their abandonment of God, talking about their so-called belief in God, but not actually doing what he says. Apparently, there's a bunch of Jewish people that have decided that they're going to put their day job aside and become YouTubers. And they all started some type of podcast because they think they're going to be the next Joe Rogan and make millions. Little do they know, it'd be surprising if they could even pay their rent from their nonsense. But the point is is that many of them are either themselves or they're bringing guests that are so-called religious or used to be religious Jews that are just spewing spiritual vomit by desecrating God's name on a regular basis. Just letting people know how much they dislike this, they disagree with this. uh you know and and unfortunately you know people send me this stuff. I get to see some of this uh uh nonsense uh because it just gives me an idea of where we stand. But unfortunately it's something that has become a lot more popular over the uh you know last couple of years. And uh for those people that say, "Well, I don't really think that God really cares about whether I uh eat milk and meat together or whether I uh turn on the electricity on Shabbat or whether my wife has uh the uh you know, a blood stain on the uh on the bed cloth or not and all types of other things that they just simply don't think that God cares about these so-called small things." Well, my dear friend, my dear brother and sister, apparently a kadoshbah cares enough about morality, about his law, about his Torah to such an extent that even the way to get to the misbeh. So needless to say, your wife has to be modest, you have to be modest, everybody has to be modest. And if a person knows enough Torah, they know that there is uh certainly an answer for every single question. If you still have a question, that means you haven't asked the right people or you simply did not ask anybody. You just left it in your head because you're trying to justify your heresy. Now we have a holy Torah that tells us at the end of it how important morality is, how important modesty is both for men and for women. And of course we have the ten commandments. Now, in the Ten Commandments, we have some of the most important statements that are relevant to all of the people that I spoke about already today, whether it be the people that are on the fence or the people that have broken the fence. And quite frankly, to everybody, people that ask questions and then say, "Listen, are you sure that uh once Mashiach comes there's no more chuva? Are you sure that a meal Shabbat is worse than a murderer? Are you sure that Ganam could be for eternity? Are you sure about the things you say? Isn't God the God of love? Well, according to the Christians, they say that, but at the same token, they teach about Ghanum themselves because they have plagiarized our parts of our Torah. Either way, everything that I say, I am 100% sure. Not because I am such a genius, but simply because it's written in endless amount of sources without debate. Now, one of the things that's critically uh important for people to understand is that has an extraordinary amount of mercy in this world. Once a person finishes their judgment in this world, their their life in this world, when the time of judgment comes, there's no mercy. There's just judgment. There's just judgment. And when a person wants to know whether God loves him or God hates him, he should also ask himself whether he is considered a lover of God himself or a hater of God. How would one know? Simple. Let's see what God has to say about it. In the Ten Commandments, chapter 20 tells us clearly, who are his enemies? Who are his friends? Who are his lovers? Who are these people? Chapter 20 verse number five who tells us because we're simply need to make up a lot of uh time here. We have to go a little quickly. I'm not going to read it in Hebrew. I'm just going to go straight to the English. who says, "For I am Hashem your God, a zealous God who assesses the sins of fathers to met out retribution upon their similarly rebellious children, upon the third generation, and even upon the fourth generation, for my enemies," that is when the sons continue to sin after their fathers. But who does kindness for thousands of generations to those who love me and those who observe my commandments? Here we see several different things. Number one, we see that the sin of the father can actually cause the children major harm if they continue the sins. If the father was a Shabbat, if the father was a heretic, if the father was an apicos, if the father was a thief and the son or daughter continues, they'll get punished severely. On the other hand, if they don't continue, they won't get punished for what their fathers did. And in fact, we'll find out later on today, they could actually even help their wicked father. Secondly, we learn there are people that himself calls my enemies. Who are those enemies? Those people that go against God. Those people that do not observe Shabbat. Those people that do not observe. Those people that are thieves, pedophiles, rapists, horrible people. Not just in the aspect of society, you know, between one person and another, but also between them and God. If God said do not lie and you lie. God said do not steal and you steal. God says be modest and you're not modest. God said keep Shabbat, you don't keep Shabbat. God said study Torah and you don't study Torah. God said don't desecrate my name and you desecrate his name. Don't worship an idol. You worship idols. any of these things that you make your life, you're in essence putting yourself in the caliber of being one of God's enemies. If there's the occasional sin and then you do chuva, you're an extraordinary, amazing, beautiful person. Why? Because the in countless other places says that people that do chuva are even better than people that haven't sinned. Why? He saw the taste of sin. He tasted the taste of sin and still returned to me. He's amazing. On the other hand, a person that lives a sinful life completely disregards the Torah, whether he has a hat and a beard or not is irrelevant. Bottom line is you live a sinful life, you're considered an enemy of God. Like this one character that was uh shown to me on a video just literally a day or two days ago, he claims to be an here in America. If he is the he should shut down all of the coloss and all the ishivot. Why? He's reading he's reading a gar he's reading a talmud smoking a cigarette which is not a problem but cursing using foul disgusting language in order to justify his point. Such a person says even if he had blessings decreed upon him for 70 years meaning his whole life just for those curses he lost all of them. Now the point is abai the reason why this is what it is is because God made the law not me. If it was up to me why would I care what you do? You don't affect me. But in in the world of God we all affect each other. A Jew that makes a sin in America could affect a Jew that is living in France that is living in England. A Jew that's making a sin in England could affect a Jew that's in Israel. A Jew that's in Israel that's making a sin over there could affect the Jews all over the world. The point being is according to God's system. We're all connected whether we like it or not. So when a kadoshb says he has enemies, he is talking about people that are causing harm to his children even though they themselves are his children. On the other hand, number three, we learned there are people that calls his lovers. Who are his lovers? He's very clear about it. Those who love me and those who observe my commandments. Meaning if you want to know whether a kadu considers you an enemy or a lover simple are you observing the Torah or not now you say no I'm observing it according to my understanding your understanding is worth zero literally zero if there was a way to make zero a negative we would do that too why because we have a we have a we have a tradition tradition and one of the main things that we learn from that very same tradition is that even if you are a ga a genius someone beyond our imagination let's just imagine for a moment that you are like the roach ga one of the greatest kabadnik that ever lived he was such a gaon literally if you did not know how to learn to at the highest level you wouldn't be able to understand In his speech, he wrote literally tens of thousands of chuvot for but writes in do not like the ga why he was a genius. Everyone agrees he's a genius. Everyone agrees tell me beyond our comprehension. But we don't ask like him. Why? because his way of passing al did not go based on the tradition that was accepted among all of the for the last 500 years and all the over the last 800 years and all over the last 2,000 years. Why did he do it? Because the way that he wrote literally was simply raam bottom line. But the way that the tradition is is that we have to not just use Rambam. We also have to see what the other pushim are doing. What are the rishim doing? The gonim are doing all of the different geniuses that have discussed this. How do we we can't just say this is what it is. We have to know what is the tradition. Who else spoke about this? We have to consider everything. Even if one is [snorts] following and there is a different opinion by one of the that you can do it in a different way there's a special mitzvah of honoring the Torah by honoring the by also doing if possible something that will also be in agreement with the other meaning the more you're in agreement with the better you're doing as a Jew the more of a lover of the Tawra you are the more of a lover of Hashem you So tells us exactly here, if you are religious according to your own opinion, you've modernized the Torah, you have minimized the Torah, you have deformed and reformed the Torah, you are considered an enemy of God. Now, one that is an enemy of God, they should know you're putting yourself in the same caliber as someone that is using a kadosh's name in vain. You are in essence putting a kadak's name in the same respect as you are putting your own honor. And in that particular case when it comes to most sins the page 39A says if a sinner repents if a sinner does a will forgive him without him having to suffer. But if a sinner if a sinner swears meaning they use name falsely even if he does will still have to give him suffering. That's how bad it is. Now that's assuming the person did chuva. But the point being here is we have an understanding that your father if he's righteous good for you. If he's wicked, that doesn't necessarily mean you have to be wicked. Also, if you are wicked and he was wicked, you're going to have double punishment. You have a very serious problem. Second, enemy of God, lover of God. We have a clear understanding of that, too. We got to keep going. Now, when it says that the fathers that are wicked, the fathers that are righteous, it affects the sons in a certain way. What about what about if the father is a Father is not Jewish and the son or the daughter converted. What about them inse writes that a convert that his biological father or mother have passed away even though they're spiritually no longer connected to him he could still say kadesh for them now this is not just for the sake of you know making them go from gay to to heaven. This is not the only purpose of kadesh. This is even for righteous people as the result teaches where even if you say kadesh for a righteous person, it's still good for them. Why? Because kadesh is not just for the sake of relieving them from the judgment during that first year after they die, but also even if they're actually in heaven, you saying kadesh on them can elevate them to even higher levels in heaven itself. So the point is is that when a person says kadesh, learns the laws of kadesh, the intricate details of kadesh, they'll know that there's a lot to it. There's a lot of value to it. In fact, even if somebody was a uh you know a Jew that was adopted, a Jew that was adopted by two Jewish parents and they have passed away, there actually is a obligation for them to honor those parents just like they would have to honor their biological parents. And when those parents pass away, they also have to say kadesh. They also have to say kadesh. This is part of the mitzvah of sometimes you see people that have been adopted have fantastic gratitude to their uh to their adoptive parents and sometimes you see literally the exact opposite ungratefulness to the highest extent. Unfortunately I've witnessed this one time and really I wanted to vomit uh with this particular situation but you can't fix people. You could just simply teach and people will choose whether they want to use that as a cure or not. Now, of course, this is under the conditions where those uh you know, parents uh that adopted the child are normal, are reasonable, have done their best to to raise this child and not people that are abusive and and so on. Now furthermore, we have a uh also something that's very important to know in regards to saying kadesh for the parents that there is a tradition that uh some Ashkinazim follow which is to only say kadesh during the first 11 months after their parents died. uh because it said that the uh the judgment you know for the wicked is 12 months uh and many people misunderstand this what this actually means. We spoke about this extensively in the gay film, but either way they uh sparti Jews do not do this. Spharti Jews actually say kadesh for 12 months. After 11 months, they have a shield to in the honor of their parent that have that died, but then they uh they stop for a week and then they continue. In essence, you don't want to imply that your parents were uh one of among the wicked that have to be judged for 12 months. Now either way the uh for those that uh still keep on the tradition of only 11 months they should know that the z in uh uh in parat page 16b teaches that if it wasn't for the prayers of the deceased meaning the people that have passed on on behalf of those that are living in this world the world would not continue to exist for even a fraction of the day. Meaning that when you say kadesh for your loved ones that have passed away, it's of significant value because now you're in essence enticing them to pray for you. But on the other hand, what about this whole thing about this whole 12 months? Can we just assume that we don't need 12 months? Maybe 11, maybe less, maybe that in 56 number one writes that in our times no one can be sure that he will be relieved from gay even after 12 months. And vital taught us that although our sages taught that the wicked are punished in gum for 12 months, a soul might be sentenced to years of harsh punishment before it's even permitted to desend to gay. So here this whole notion of maximum punishment of 12 months first of all is talking about a completely different generation, different type of people. Second of all, it's talking about the wicked among is meaning people that are still considered part of is meaning they weren't Shabbat perhaps they uh you know they were nice they had bad character traits maybe they even stole something uh they hit somebody you know different types of sins they that made them wicked but they're still considered part of am because they didn't violate Shabbat or become an idol worshipper those people are not considered part of AmI they're you know their decree of punishment is forever But even here the is teaching us that in his generation needless to say ours don't have a right to assume anyone is going to be in gum for only 12 months. Why? Unfortunately it's something that doesn't need that much explanation. Now, furthermore, we see that a person can actually help those that have passed on with their actions. If you do, you learn to, you give, you do all of these actions and you do it in the name of someone that you care about that has passed away, that can certainly help that. We saw that Davidid was even able to help his son Abalom. Of course, no one in just generation is David. But the point being is we have documented proof that someone that has passed away can be helped even after they've passed away by the good actions of someone that's still living in this world. But what about a convert? What about someone that has converted to Judaism following but they have not only a wicked family but someone like let's just say meaning it doesn't get worse than that made every sin under the sun whether it was idolatry or LGBT BTQ or was destroying the beta mikdash literally the worst of the worst. Can somebody help somebody like him? Let's see now. Our holy Torah tells us that loves converts 36 different times. And then if you count other places in the Torah it's literally hundreds of times but 36 places in the Torah it talks about special protection and love of converts but yet the in multiple places including page 13b says that converts are a skin disease for Israel Someone abandoned their idolatry, abandoned their way of life, converted to Judaism, follows the one and only God of Israel, considered a skin disease. That doesn't sound like a compliment. That doesn't sound like the 36 expressions of love and protection that tells us in theat converts. So much so that the Rambam that a Jew has to love every other Jew that is obviously considered a lover of Hashem, someone that follows mitzvot. But if that Jew is a convert, he has to love that Jew even more than the other Jews. In fact, he has to love that Jew as much as he loves God. Now, this is unacceptable to some people that want to make their own rules. But this is what the law is. This is what Torah says. This what the Rambamask. So, how can you say that someone is so special is a skin disease? Skin disease doesn't sound good. Skin disease sounds terrible. Anyone that has experienced any type of skin disease doesn't look at skin disease as something favorable. So, how could this be? Now, of course, the heretics, especially those missionaries that try to distort the Torah, always look at things like this in order to capitalize on them and say, "Look, the Jewish people are bad because of all types of misunderstandings they have of the Talmud." One of the things for example that they uh they bring often is they say look the whole notion of having a rabbi is completely forbidden and that's why a Christian will never call any rabbi a rabbi they'll call them sir or they'll call them by their first name but they hate the whole title of rabbi because their false testament tells them you know rabbis are bad but even though the Torah says that we have our sages we have our don't go right or left say, "Yeah, no, no, that's only referring to the Levy tribe. If they're a Levy, then they're allowed to be the rabbis, the judges, and so on." Now, this would be nice if it was true, but unfortunately, their stupidity and ignorance is proven otherwise here in this para. In this para we have one of the most righteous converts that ever lived who not only here is glory and the extraordinary things that did as the par starts that heard he heard about the glory of God. He heard about God's reward and punishment against the Egyptians. He heard how God split the ocean for us. He heard all of these extraordinary things. And in chapter 12, uh, chapter 18 verse number 11 and 12, it does two extraordinary things. He says, "Now I know that Hashem is great and there is no god other than him." because in the way that the Egyptians had taught to punish Isa in exactly that way they themselves were punished. And then in 12 he talks about bringing a sacrifice in honor of God. So blessed and page 54 says that became like a skin disease to Isla I'm sorry page 94A you'll find something even more extraordinary. Not only did bless Akadosh's name, but even more so on the spot took a knife and gave himself a mah like Abrau took a knife, gave himself a mil circumcision. Why? He heard all he needed to hear. I want to be a Jew. I want to be a Jew. That's it. Not maybe if you guys convince me, if I have enough money, if uh this, if that, no conditions, I've heard enough. Blesses. Circumcises himself. It all converts to Judaism. It talk converts to Judaism. So why call him a skin disease? Doesn't sound good, does it? Ro doesn't finish there. It also gives Moshe Abenu some advice that ends up being the creation of the legal system in the world until this day. And for those heretics that come from the messianic Jews which are really Christians in disguise that say that only the levies can be the rabbis also disprove them. Why? Because it said that you have to have the leaders of thousands, the leaders of hundreds, the leaders of 50s and the leaders of the tens. And that's exactly what allowed to happen. And that's what Moshe Renu instituted. Now, the Torah tells us that there were 600,000 men between the ages of 20 and 60. It's needless to say there was at least that many women and certainly many more kids than that and obviously people older than 60. But 600,000 men, if that's what we base our number on, just the men, not the older ones, not the children, not the women, that means that we will have 78,61 judges. Leaders of thousands, 600,000. You need to have 600. Leaders of hundreds, 600,000. You need 6,000. leaders of 50s divide the 600,000 to 50 you get 12,000 and the leaders of 10 simply just remove one zero from the 600,000 you have 60,000 total of all of these leaders of these judges 78,61 now how does this disprove the whole notion that only the levies can be the judges or the rabbis or the leaders simple the Torah tells us repeatedly how many levies there were and there were only 22 2,000, which means that if we have 78,601, the levies are not enough to meet that number. And certainly there was more of the 78,000. But even if you're conservative and you only base it off of the 600,000, you still get us 78,000. This all came from it. It fought idolatry back then. It is still fighting idolatry today. came from Kam the son of Noah was the Egyptians but didn't wasn't really an Egyptian either way did not come from Arau yet he followed in the footsteps of Aramino and he gave himself brit's daughter married Mosher Rabenu It's other daughter married Aun. You have all types of wonderful things happening here. In fact, one of the greatest things that we have in the Torah is the story of it. Why? Because is in essence the best explanation of what the skin disease is. Because the Torah says did all these wonderful things after he blessed God. He was like a skin disease for Islam. Blessing God is a good thing. Instituting or at least giving the idea, having the merit to give the idea to the Jewish judicial system is a good thing. Giving is a good thing. Conversion to Judaism is a good thing. Why a skin disease? If a person learns Torah, they will find the answers to every single question that exists. And that's why the says if you toiled and you found the answer, I believe you. If you toiled, you didn't find the answer. I don't believe you. What do you mean I don't believe? I didn't find the answer. I know you didn't find the answer, but it's not because you toiled. It's because you didn't toil. I don't believe you toiled. If you didn't find the answer, but if you told me you toiled and you have an answer, I believe you. I believe you. So now skin disease, the holy says these converge are like a skin disease. Why? It's perfect example why could have been the worst person on planet earth. Could have been the pope. Could have been continue being the pope. He chose to abandon all of it. Abandon the money, the private jets, the big company, the big personality, the big YouTube channel, the the fame, the what? He abandoned everything. Why? Heard about the glory of God. He abandoned everything. lost everything but gained everything at the same time. He came and converted to Judaism, gave himself, followed the law, went back to his nation to convert the rest of his family and 40 years later arrived at Isel with over a 100,000 people and said, "I want to learn Torah." They said, "Yeah, but you are the father-in-law of Mosherenu. You could have the entire city of the best part of the land." He went to the best part of the land. He says, "Where's the Torah?" "No, no, no. We don't teach Torah. Here's vacation." He says, "I didn't come here for vacation. I didn't come here to for vacation. I want to learn Torah." So, you want to learn Torah, go to Midbar Ye. Go to the desert of Ye over there. They teach it and his whole family went to the desert, left vacation island, vacation resorts. Why? They want to go learn to outlived Mosherenu entered is but yet he's called skin disease. Why skin disease? It abandoned all the evil and became sadik. is named of the parad that we received the Torah blessed and this was a rebuke for Israel. Why says you have praised me, you have prayed to me for all of the things that I do. But when it came to the miracles that I performed in Egypt at Yamsu here in a desert bringing man from Shamim, none of you blessed me. You prayed. Yes. Praised. Yes. Blessed. You didn't bless. Blessed me. Instituted the law of blessing. when we receive a miracle and this was a rebuke for the rest of AmI that saw and heard much more than so everyone's like oh this convert he's so righteous he's making us look bad even though we're also righteous even though we're also religious says the these converts when they are righteous when they follow the Torah Ah, like they make the rest of the Jews not feel so good. Why? We've been Jews our whole life. You just became a Jew 5, 10 years ago and you're more religious than us. You're more committed to us. When someone tells us, listen, it's time to go pray. We're like, okay, we have to pray. Someone tells you it's time to pray. You start running to you're excited to pray. You're looking forward to talking to when someone says yeah this is okay we come to the but as soon as we arrive we see you're already there you've been learning for the shield before the sh already started the convert that's a righteous convert he's like a skin disease what if you're not really really glued to a kadosh like he is, he's going to make you feel bad about yourself. Why? He's a rebuke. How is it that this new convert 5 10 years is more religious than you? Is more committed to Hashem than you? How is it? On the other hand, says the the convert is a skin disease in an unfavorable way. You know when when this convert does not follow the Torah, he converted for the wrong reasons. He converted for a girl. She converted for a guy. They converted for money. They converted for all types of other wrong reasons. Or better yet, they converted for the right reasons, but they abandoned the way. She converted with the right intentions. But she forgot those intentions at the bed and she started walking around immodestly. She has clothes on but they're missing sleeves. She's wearing pants that's technically only belong to her husband. She thinks that the whole world needs to know the definition and shape of her body. She speaks like she's a truck driver on I95 yelling at somebody who cut him off. When she laughs, the whole community hears modesty. She doesn't even know what it means. Even though when she converted, she says, "I'm going to do it." When he converted and they told him you have to do, he said, "Yeah, sure. No problem. I'll cut off a piece of my body. No problem. As long as I don't feel it." But as time passed and less Torah was learned and the excitement dissipated, all of a sudden he's wasting seed. All of a sudden he's promiscuous. All of a sudden he's cheating on his wife. All of a sudden his girlfriend is a porno uh film. All of a sudden he's become a skin disease. It was better off you didn't convert. And many times these types of converts, the bad converts, the ones that don't follow Torah, they are the skin disease of Israel. Why? Because they end up being the worst type of people, the ones that become part of the ones that become the enemies of God as well as the nation of Israel. On one end we see that a convert can be skin disease in a positive way and another end skin disease in a negative way. Where are we going to be? Now what does it really take? What does it really take? The para starts with the word heard. What did he hear? He heard about the miracles. He heard about the wonders. He heard about all these wonderful things. And it was enough for him to change. It was enough him to abandon all of the evil, all of the falsehood. Now, why do I need to read about it today, 3,334 years later? Why do you need to read it 3,334 years later and again next year and the following year and the following year and the following year until Mashiach comes, whenever that may be. You had to read it last year and the year before and the year before and every year that you've been alive. Why do I need to know that? Okay, is great. But why do I need to hear this? Because just like it had the opportunity to hear to see the truth, so did you. You've watched my You've opened your eyes. You've seen how life works. Did you hear enough? Did you hear enough to be like? Well, let's see. Heard about what God did to the Egyptians. Heard what God did for the Jewish people. What about you that you're on the fence of whether you should do chuva or not? You're on the fence of whether it's time to convert or not. We're not trying to push anybody to do anything they don't want to do. The question is where do you see yourself if you compare yourself to it? it heard about what God said. You on the other hand, if you've watched enough of my films, you've watched Torah science and ancient wisdom and many other lectures where I discuss the scientific proof of God such as the page 32b says that tells us nearly a thousand years before telescopes were even a thought in anybody's mind. Needless to say, an invention. How many stars are in the universe? 10643400000000. In the year 2004, a supercomput in Australia discovered a number using supercomputers almost identical to what the Torah says as far as the number of stars in the universe. There are endless proofs of the scientific truth of the Torah and the creation of God. You heard it. You also heard the rational proofs in so many words. If I told you that the watch that's on your hand was somehow created by itself because a bunch of metal decided to gather together through some strong winds and over a long long period of time it became a watch. You obviously would not believe it. The same token if you bought a phone or whether you bought a microwave or refrigerator or any other device it came with instructions. And if millions of people told you that they witnessed the people that built this watch or this device that you bought, you'd believe them. Why? This is simply enough evidence. Here we see that who created the world that cannot create itself. While the watch is certainly a great invention, takes a lot of wisdom. So does a phone. So does a computer and a microwave and a refrigerator and an airplane. They all are nothing in comparison to the creation of even a flower. The creation of your eye and needless to say the creation of the world or the universe and how the world works. Everything is perfect. Obviously there has to be a creator to all of this. And this creator is certainly smarter than his creation. And if the creation knows to provide an instruction set for anything it creates, then the creator obviously also provides an instruction set. And if millions of people testify that they saw the words of God, they heard the words of God all at the same time, that's enough evidence to convince anyone that still considers themselves rational. If you look at archaeological proofs, whether you're looking at stories from the Torah or you're looking at different parts of the world, you can see endless amount of archaeological evidence of the Torah. Whether it's what happened in Jerusalem, the destruction of the beta mikdash, the time of King David, the coins of the TV of Noah, or even the Gegashites that ran away, one of the Canaanite nations that ran away from Yeshua Benoon when he arrived in Israel, where there's a museum in Holland over there where there's literally a tablet of some kind where the Gegosites are writing, "We all ran away from the evil Yeshua. and the Israelites. The enemy wrote about us and this is still available today. And there are endless archaeological evidence of the things that happened in the Torah. You heard this, right? There's also mathematical proofs whether it's the number pi or it's different types of numerical a uh calculations that are used in the world of science in the world of mathematics in physics there's a film called the mathematical proofs of god literally there's so much evidence in there mathematically you have to be stamped mentally challenged to not believe in god after watching in the film. Now at the same token you have evidence from bet stories where you see that there is divine providence in people's lives and of course even your own whether you've watched my film Hashem took back his millions and you see all of the extraordinary and amazing miracles that akadu gave us both on the painful side and on the pleasurable died or the different stories that I've told you over the years, things that happened to us where just years ago when after we lost everything, all of the financial windfall of being on Wall Street for nearly 20 years doing over a billion dollars in business and all types of good stuff, all of it was lost. That in itself was a miracle. By the way, we literally got to a point where I arrived at a lecture in Canada one time and when somebody asked me if I'm doing all of this to make a lot of money, I showed them my bank account in front of hundreds of people, which showed something around $700. All of which I received that day from some anonymous donor. Meaning that I arrived to Canada with zero in my account. No one paid for my flight. No one paid for my ticket. No one paid for anything that time. But we still arrived. We still came. Why? Because our job in the world was not to make millions. It was to help people earn. But today decided to change things after we've passed a series of tests. And of course, we pray to that we continue passing them. We now run an organization with a monthly budget of nearly $200,000. Meaning, well, the average person out there is hustling and bustling and doing whatever they can to maybe hopefully make 50, 100, 200, $300,000. And they've been at the same career in the same field, in the same everything else. And Hashem blessed them with what he gave them. Hashem blessed us with what he gave us and now we have a couple hundred thousand every single month that we can use to help get close to give the books give the USBs give the lectures give endless amount of to poor people to have two calls all these wonderful things that simply decided to allow us to do and for all of those wonderful people that help us. Every single one of them knows that they've never received a phone call from me or anybody else from my organization asking them for money. Meaning that all of this comes simply because decides to make enough people smart each and every single month to decide to donate to beem and be partners with us in the kadashem that we're doing. So when you go from nothing to millions in the business world, people love the story. When you go for millions to nothing, people feel bad for the story. But when you go back up without even working in Wall Street, but rather working for and makes you a millionaire again, in essence, you're not using it for the same things, and I don't even pay my rent from the organization. It comes from my own personal pocket. But the point being is that showed us enough miracles for you to learn from, for you to benefit from. You saw it, you witnessed it. Baku also showed us enough teachings about reward and punishment to convince even the stones to scream even louder. Whether it's the countless sources we brought from the five books of Moses or theim or theim the writings and the prophets or it's the or other types of that have written Musar books and books. We've literally brought thousands upon thousands of sources over the years to prove how reward and punishment, one of the 13 principles of faith, is very much alive and well and applicable to our lives today, both in this world and the next. We've seen the righteous benefit and the wicked suffer. Not always in the timing that we thought, but doesn't ask us for permission or for what we think. He simply runs his world. All you need to do is give it time. And you'll see reward and punishment be implemented. You've seen reward and punishment in your own life. You've seen when you heard enough teachings about wasting seed and immorality and you still ignored it. The next day you lost money. You've seen when you've known enough about what Shabbat is and you decided that you don't care about it. You've lost blessings. You've seen that while in the beginning it seems like going against God seems good, everyone arrives at the same dead end. a dead end full of regrets. As the Gar says, the wicked people regret. They full live a life full of regret. So, you've seen reward and punishment. And if that wasn't enough to see life, we also showed you the endless proofs of the mystical aspects, the afterlife. Whether it's showing you proofs of life after death or gum and the different levels in it in the chambers and all of these extraordinary teachings that are unfortunately almost impossible to find in the English language. We've brought it to you on the big screen or a small screen. Always for free, always full of sources. Literally with hundreds and hundreds of sources. You've seen it. You've heard it. Akadosh provided us prophecy prophecy in the Torah of what will happen at the end of days is the or page 49 towards the end of the tells us all of the different things that will happen at the end of days and literally when we've read it with you and studied it with you multiple times it was like reading the news whether it was the news about your community or the news about the world at large and the global war that's going on. Whether it's the leaders that are going against their own people that vote them in power or even the daughter-in-law fighting with the mother-in-law, hyperinflation, desecration of a Torah and mockings of all of these different things, they're already prophesized in the Torah. You've heard it. You've seen it. You've studied it with us. And if that wasn't enough, also gave us clarifications about Msiah and how the Messiah is going to come and is going to bring salvation to those that have heard the word of God and have done chuva and have changed their life, have changed their ways. Whether it's David saying that the Goel, the um Messiah, the redeemer will come and save, bring salvation to those that used to be criminal, meaning those that have done chuva and have changed their ways or it's the countless promises in the different parts of the Torah like the ed which is in essence not only a promise that the goel will come. But that the goel will come after major disasters hit the world, a war, evil people. And some even say there could be a war of giant monsters of the sea. Some say these monsters are literally monsters. Some say these monsters are big ships full of weapons. Both are easy to believe these days. The point is that when the Msiah comes, there's not going to be any time for people to just discover God for the first time and change everything. Why? You have to do it now. Hence the reason why brought us the scientific proofs, rational proofs, archaeological proofs, mathematical proofs, the life proofs, the proofs, the reward and punishment proofs, the prophetic proofs, the mashiach proofs, and in so many words enough proofs that put you in a position where you have even more information to make an educated decision on than it had. And if that's not enough, what will be? What will be? Well, let's see. Rabai. If we're looking at the converts and we say, "Wait a minute. Maybe there's some wicked people that shouldn't convert, should convert, Bahu runs the world." Bahu runs the world. He lets certain people convert and certain people not, certain people for good, certain people for punishment, all types of things. We don't have to worry about who does what and when. We have to worry about ourselves. There are some people that come into the world of Judaism either as converts or new leuva and before they have even fixed 10% of themselves. They're already full of criticisms of the people that are part of oh nobody knows anything. Nobody praise you. Nobody this. Nobody that. Don't worry about nobody. worry about yourself. You've already been coming to to to to the synagogue for a few months. You have you have to pay your dues first. Don't worry about everybody. If you want to help everybody by providing them information, no problem. But criticizing everybody, you're not in the position to criticize anyone. Criticize yourself. Have you heard and changed like well you see the page 49b says that a gentile is not obligated to convert to Judaism he's not obligated but once he knows that Judaism is the truth once he knows that the isit he must attempt to convert immediately. No less than immediately. Meaning, you're living as a gentile. You're not even sure what's right and wrong. Your father told you some guy died for you. Your mother tells you that uh some guy pretended to speak to some uh prophet in the desert. another go person that's a relative of yours tells you there's some statue in China and he's somehow gonna help you and somebody else told you no no no you know who's going to help you with the idol of money the idol of gold all types of opinions so you're not even sure what's the truth you like the lectures you like the rabbi but you still have some doubts of who what when and how okay so you try to be a righteous nohide but if You're put in a position where you can go to a Jewish community. You can live a Jewish life. You know the truth and you choose otherwise. You have a problem. You have a problem. Now, I'm not saying go do what it did and they're going to convert you. It doesn't work that way. You have to go through the system. You have to have a sponsoring rabbi, make the necessary life changes, whether it's change your job, get a job, a go and live in a community full of Jewish people that you could obviously learn from, learn with, change your behavior, change your diet, learn the necessary laws, pray every day, all the things that are necessary. This is a process. Once you're in a process, once you're doing everything you can, you're in good shape. The day of conversion is going to decide. You don't have to worry so much about that. You just have to worry about your maximum effort. But if you've already known the truth for two, three, four, five years, and you're not even sure whether you're on the path of conversion or not, you're not even sure whether you're ready or not, you're not even sure if you want to or not, [snorts] you have a problem. Why? He heard a lot less than you and he already made all the changes. You know who else did it? Page 96B says Nevu Zardan the murderer murdered millions of Jews. was the general under realized the truth of God, realized the truth of the Torah, abandoned everything on the spot and converted to Judaism. The descendants of Cis which is Rabaka ended up teaching in Jerusalem. Descendants of Sarivan Talon converted to Judaism. Descendants of Haman which was balat converted to Judaism. Some of the greatest people that ever lived started from a bad past, a bad family, a bad start, a bad yeus. But that didn't stop them from going in the same path as who himself started in a horrible path. He was the pope, the chief idol worshipper before he became one of the greatest Jews that ever lived. But then we get to was an enemy of am. But yet his descendants wanted to convert to Judaism. And the came to and says, "How can you allow these descendants of the one who destroyed your house in the world come under the the become Jews? How could this be?" The angels couldn't deal with it said, "Leave them alone. If they succeed in converting, good. We welcome them. Even though they're descendants of the worst person on planet Earth, Nebuets, who murdered more people than Hitler did, will let them convert. And in fact, if they convert, they will be the tikun. for himself. Meaning the level of the conversion when it's for the right reasons is so valuable in Shamim that even the evil monster that destroyed the beta mikdash raped every king literally tortured people like it was nothing. had an idol fly in the air through magnets at the time of Daniel. This monster if his descendants would have converted to Judaism, it would have rectified his nama. Can you believe such a thing? The ministering angels said, "How how can this be?" Hashem said, "Leave them alone. If they succeed to overcome the obstacle, good. If not not, opportunity is available to all. They did not succeed. But at the very least, we learn from them how powerful it is to go and follow Hashem despite all the tests. Hence the reason why Ro is the ultimate convert where he tells you if you're going to live like me, if you're going to be a righteous convert, you are going to be something special. Not only to the people around you, not only to the people that learned from you, but even to people you care about that already left this world and weren't exactly on the good lovers list of Hashem. You could even help them. But if you are a wicked convert, there's simply nobody stupider and worse than you. Now, if you remember, I told you morality is very important to Hashem. So a converts the two combine bilad tries to curse Israel transfers his curses into blessings. Senadine Perelik page 105B gives us the behind the scenes of what happened. Bil wanted to curse. We know exactly what he wanted to do. Akad did not let it happen. So he put an angel inside his mouth. Why do you have to put an angel inside his mouth? just pretty much force the guy to say what you want to say or let him say what he wants to say and don't fulfill it [snorts] say if he would have said whatever he wanted to say to curse is it could have been why because he could curse Hashem does not fulfill it but people still hear what he said and years Later when Hashem punishes for different sins they've made and bad things happen to them, people say, "Oh, you see, maybe this is because of the curse of Bam." So, Hashem does not allow Bilam to even curse. But what did Bilam really want to say? He wanted to say, May their fragrance not waft. What does that mean? May the he says may the many mitzvot that they perform fail to entice other people fail to have a good reputation. What do you care about whether people like our mitzvot or not? Bil says, "The way I want to curse is I want Israel's mitzvot to look difficult to the non-Jews. So much so that nobody wants to convert. So much so that is has to depend on itself and nobody likes the Torah that's outside of am wanted to curse all of the converts to simply disappear and never exist. Hence the reason why could not allow him to say such a thing [snorts] gave us clear information to make a decision. Are you going to be the lover of God and follow all of his mitzvot? If you are already a Jew, simply become a religious orthodox Jew that follows all of the Torah. You're going to follow modesty. You're going to follow family purity. You're going to follow Shabbat, all of the different things, everything, you know, and continue to learn more. If you're a non-Jew that's been on the fence of whether to convert or not, if this wasn't enough, please stop watching our lectures because nothing else is going to help you. You should just simply decide that you're too spiritually dumb to ever do anything about it. But if this was enough, then it's time you do everything you need to do to at least get on the right path and do the best thing you can. where the destination ends up being. Whether it's next week, next month, next year, or 10 years from now, that's not up to you. What's up to you is your effort. Your effort just like's effort. You heard enough. the scientific proofs, the rational proofs, the logical proofs, archaeological proofs, mathematical proofs, amuna and proofs, proofs, practically every proof that exists even without being at Mount Si, at least not that you can remember. You've seen enough, you've heard enough, even more than now it's time to do enough. It may be Hashem's will that becomes your will and you are able to fulfill the entire Torah alongside all of Am to be able to sanctify Baku's name and say I want to be just like my forefathers and we all succeed in doing so. With that being said, you guys could start asking questions and will give us the answers. Can you say kadesh longer than 12 months? Yes, absolutely. You can say kadesh for, you know, all all the time. Now, women uh generally do not say kadesh on their uh parents. They usually hire somebody, a man, to say kadesh on their behalf. Uh they're not allowed to say kadesh in the beset. Um but uh there are times where if let's say a woman has a shor or a group of women that are uh saying taim in her house and uh then the woman can say kadesh on her uh on her parents. Uh but if uh and no one needs to protest but if it's at synagogue a woman does not say kadesh uh she has to uh give it to a man to do it for her whether it be her husband or uh uh to that uh she gives something to or whoever it is but somebody else has do for her but it certainly can and should be beyond the year. [snorts] Can you use digital thermometers on Shabbat if you're feeling sick? If you are meaning a person that's sick in a sense with it's a life risk, then certainly you can use everything you need to to to get yourself out of the risk. But if it's just simply some fever, you have a cold or something like that, then no, you cannot use the digital thermometer. [snorts] I've wanted to convert for years, but I don't live close enough to a synagogue. Okay, then make the changes and move to a Jewish community. I understand it's not easy. I understand it's not cheap, but uh you found ways to do other things that you want in your life. If you really want to become a Jew, then you'll find a way to do this, too. I plan to buy Jewish books and give to the Christian community to learn about the root of the Jewish religion. I would spend your energy and money on helping Jews become closer to Akadosh rather than uh using Jewish books to teach the Christians for many reasons. Number one, uh the Jews have a much bigger obligation to follow Judaism. And uh number two, there's a much bigger reward uh for you uh to uh to actually help a Jew than to help a non-Jew. Now, if you happen to run into somebody that's a friend, family, or somebody you know, uh that you want to share a lecture with them or something like that to help them, fine. But, uh if resources as far as money and things of that nature should be spent more on helping Jews become Jewish according to the Torah, uh then otherwise. But again, there's no uh no obligation to uh you could do what you want. I just um just giving you the uh the profit and loss statement of the future. Um your work is a blessing. You help me a lot. What is the thing about Mashiach killing evil people with his words or something? There's a verse in the says means with the the of his mouth he'll be able to kill the wicked. He won't have to use weapons or anything like that. Uh, how can someone who yearns to observe the mitzvah of honoring one's parents, if they're a convert, and two, they haven't spoken to their biological parents in many years due to disagreement, how can they keep the mitzvah? Well, number one, if they converted, once their parents uh pass away, they can say kadesh on them. Uh, secondly, even if their parents are alive, you could do vote on their behalf. Third, you can call them and uh talk to them and say, "Listen, I'm living this life." We could either uh you know, talk and have uh some type of uh healthy communications uh you know, about um you know, some type of uh neutral uh you know, ground and uh you know, without you trying to entice me to go back to your beliefs. Uh or we can continue now talking and I can assure you that you know vast majority of parents will be happy to hear from you. Um but uh more than anything else also you could do mitzvot on their behalf. Uh have some people that uh you know either uh you know they pray for their parents to do chuva and abandon idolatry. Some donate money on their behalf uh every month. Uh they have their uh their donation is uh and then they have the donation that they donate in essence on behalf of their parents. Um, so you know, different people do different things, but you could certainly do mitzvot and and help your parents. [sighs] Um, let's see. Are the lost tribes really lost in time? Not really sure what that means, lost in time. I mean, there's they're here in the world. It's just that we'll have to wait until Mashiach comes in order for him to uh unveil who's who, what tribe does each person belong to. And there's also a uh a teachings from the sages that uh the vast majority of the uh tribes of the Jewish tribes are not part of the so-called, you know, first world. They're living behind the mountains and they're going to be unveiled at the time of Mashiach. They're going to be warriors that uh that fight alongside Mashiach against the enemy. The tribe of Ruven, tribe of Shimon. These are some of the warriors that will come and uh destroy the enemy. Alongside Mashiach, there's going to be a war. First is going to be Mashiah Ben Ysef. Then Mashiah Ben Davided. Uh some of the warriors are going to be the lost tribes. What is a golem? I heard about it in a video and that it that it is talked about in the zor. What was it used for? A golem is not just talked about in the zor. But golem is also talked about in the uh the has multiple times where different sages uh create a golem which is in essence taking a earth and using different uh teachings from the sephria the uh the book of life that uh is uh said to be written by Arainu uh and uh using different uh cabalistic teachings kabalam seat uh that's in it to uh in in such a way that you can in essence bring life to this earth. Uh and it becomes a in essence a uh living being you know that has that looks like a regular human being. Uh the big difference is that that it can't speak. It could do whatever you tell it to do uh but uh it can't speak. Uh and there are times in the where it talks about uh you know this how do you use it? Can it be counted in minan? Uh you know which is the answer is no. Uh can uh can you you know you can use it to def you know to fight against the uh people that are trying to hurt the uh the Jewish people. Like for example one golem can pretty much do uh more than uh all of what the uh Israeli government is doing in Gaza over there. uh you know so he doesn't have to worry about dying and he certainly does not have to worry about politics or the uh contributions of any other country. So if they would have had a couple of golems they could pretty much finish Gaza within you know very short period of time but unfortunately we don't have a golem. Uh there were also the Maral Mra had a golem and other made golems. In fact, the uh the Gmi VNA uh I believe it's him below GI VNA says that he was in the process of making a golem when he was eight years old. He was already such a genius at that time that he was able to make a golem at 8 years old but the of the generation came to him and asked him to stop and he listened to the and did not continue with it. But there were times that the that different Jewish sages made golems in order to uh help us uh defend the Jewish people against uh the enemies. They would that would come and kidnap women and kids, kill people, you know, all types of things. Uh but this is not just in the Zah. This is also in the Babylonian Talmud, the uh Yalami Talmud as well as many many other to discuss different examples. The most famous one I would say is probably the golem of Prague. And if people only use that as an example, even though there's a place that says this is where he was, if you go to Prague today, you'll see it. Um, you know, there are people that say, "No, it didn't really happen. It didn't this." If people only use that as the example of a golem, then they're going to say, "Nah, it's not true." But then you see it in the so what the is not true either. uh one of the khakim sent his golem to the bet midrash uh to get uh something from uh one of his uh uh one of his uh friends and one of you know he he looks like a regular human being. So how did he know he's a golem? Because when he couldn't speak he realized oh you're a golem. No no no go back to your dust. I don't permit a golem to exist. And he said something and that golem became dust you know. So you know the world is very different today than it was at the time of the uh of the sages. But uh point being is that there is uh there is a way to do it. There is a way to do it. All right. Let's see. [sighs] See if Tik Tok has any I'm Jew. My grandparents are from Tripoli. Why is it forbidden to say the name of Hashem? Because it's one of the ten commandments says don't use his name in vain. He's not Yon. He's not Michael. He's not David. He's Hashem. And his name is too holy to be said. uh you know just uh without it being part of a verse or a prayer. Do I speak Hebrew? The question was whether I speak Hebrew. Um, let's see. I never understood the people that keep writing the same thing 500 times and it's usually not even a question. It's usually either a comment or some foolish statement. I don't really understand it. What do you think happens when you write the same thing 500 times? Like what's the uh what is the uh what is the point? I don't know. I don't understand it. Strange people. Maybe I'm strange for not understanding it. I just I don't get it. If anybody here understands why people write the same thing 50 times like for example, people say and they just keep writing it 50 different times. What happens? Like what do you think happens when you say that? If anybody understands that, please explain it to me. I I don't have the tools to understand it. I tried to do shidim and someone contacted me regarding a man aged 69 never married and he only wants to marry a woman not older than 43 because he wants children. What is the appropriate Torah response to him? Uh well if uh he is a Torah observant Jew, he follows the Torah. He follows the mitzvot. He has aid and you can try. You could certainly try. There's nothing wrong with what he's asking for. He's looking to have children. and he's looking to fulfill the mitzvot. Uh there's certainly no uh no point for him to marry a woman that's also 69 years old. Uh he needs to marry a younger woman. And many of the uh married uh a younger woman when it was their second marriage uh you know when their first wife died uh because they wanted to continue having kids with the new wife. There's no problem with a older man marrying a woman that is able to have kids even if she's 25 years or 30 years younger than him. Uh the the key is to make sure that he's doing it for the right reason. It's not just some sick old man that uh wants to have arm candy. But if he follows follows the mitzvot, it is perfectly appropriate for him to marry a younger woman if he can find somebody. Now, in a position that he has, I don't really believe that he will find a younger woman uh that's willing to marry him unless he's either an extraordinary like something beyond the norm or he's extraordinarily wealthy. Uh those are usually the only times that you're going to find such a uh situation. Uh hopefully it's the first, not the latter. But even if it's the latter, if he's 70 years old and he finds a girl that's willing to marry him that's younger and is able to bring kids to the world in relation to how and should we pray for assistance in our efforts such as asking Hashem for success in learning Torah or at work with our work ethic or work in general. Uh certainly you should ask Hashem to help you but of course you have to do your own effort. You can't ask Hashem to do it for you. He's not going to chew for you. Uh you know you have to do your own effort. But if a person tries, you have to say, "Hashem, help me, you know, understand the Torah that I'm learning. Hashem, make my work successful. Uh make my efforts, you know, bring fruit to the world." That there's no problem with that. But uh a person still has to exert their own effort. Um, see. Oh, you wondered about the same thing of why people write the same thing 50 times. Oh, so okay. So, it's I'm not alone. Other people also asking. So if you're one of the crazy people out there that's writing the same thing 50 times like Nakman 50 million times or I don't know the Al Jazzer 50 million times a terrorist 50 million times whatever you're writing 50 million times if you could explain it to us why you keep writing it 50 million times like what's the logic behind it because apparently there's a there's a bunch of you it's like a going thing it's like a it's like a thing to do. Uh let us know educate us with your wisdom. Uh what is the we answered this already [sighs] question answer these questions already? Oh no I answered that question also. Here we go. I discovered the truth. I hope I jumped again. It's so annoying this thing. Uh I discovered the truth a year and a half ago. I want to convert. I live far away from a Jewish community. I've been doing uh too many changes in my life like modesty, incorporating kash. I'm studying to fix character traits. I got a job to start my process. But with the new job I've got, I will have to work on Shabbat. I feel awful. Should I quit this job? Uh, is it okay to keep Shabbat when I have not made conversion yet? So, there's a conversion syllabus on our website and it's a interactive syllabus, meaning when you press the pictures, it gets you to different places. And one of the things is lectures. I have a whole playlist of lectures regarding conversion uh and what you need to do and how the process is. Now, of course, for you to ever succeed in conversion, you're not only going to not be able to work on Shabbat, but also you'll have to move to a Jewish community. Uh so, if you're not able to move to a Jewish community right now, um and then you're not really in a in a conversion process, then you could there's no problem with you working on Shabbat. You're not Jewish. Uh but if you want to change that, then you'll have to change those two things. Are we allowed to read taleim at night with the circumstances in Israel? I heard an old show that said at night is not allowed. I never said it's not allowed. I uh have a lecture that actually is specifically answering this question. Are you allowed to read taim at night? And if you hear it, you'll get the answer. If you're not Jewish yet, you aren't required. Okay, so you're answering for me. Thank you, Rabbi Posef. Okay, see I see I think I answered all the questions. I think I answer all I think I answer all the questions. See what is the plan you have in Israel. Oh, we have a distribution uh of books that we're doing in Israel next week. Uh we're gathering a team of uh guys that are going to help us distribute the book. This is for pay. Uh the first uh location is going to be in Tel Aviv. We're going to spend a day there and give the books out. We need uh as many guys as possible. We already have close to 20 guys, but if you want to join us, make a few dollars and also some mitzvot. You can contact me and uh we could add you to the team. We need serious workers, people that are not uh, you know, uh, spoiled and uh, fragile. We need people that are going to give out books. You don't need to speak to anybody. You just need to have arms and legs and use them. Uh, that's pretty much what you need. If you also are able to speak and smile, that's a plus. But arms and legs are fantastic. Uh, [sighs] What is Ben? Uh the uh the says Ben was actually the son of Jeremiah. Jeremiah the prophet that was uh brought to the world in a very unusual miraculous way. Uh and um and the the story goes where uh teach that uh his uh uh Jeremiah was being uh tortured by the Jewish people that he was rebuking and they forced seed to come out of his body. This is why Jeremiah, you'll see in the uh uh in his uh in his prophecy, one of the things he said that he cursed the day that he was born. And this is why this is because the uh they forced them to in essence for seed to come out of his body. But because Jeremiah was so holy made this seed miraculously miraculously go uh apparently into the drain somehow and it actually entered the womb of his daughter uh and uh his daughter gave birth to Ben. Now of course this is not incest. This is all the you know the hands of Hashem did this. Point being is Ben S came from there. Now, Ben S was a very very wise wise man and he wrote a book of similar to proverbs uh and uh it was considered uh with a lot of wisdom it was considered being uh canonized and added to the Tanakh uh but because it was uh not uh divinely inspired. It was just his wisdom uh therefore it was not canonized. did not meet the requirements of being part of the 24 books of the Tanakh. They were all through prophecy and uh so the Ben has a lot of wisdom in it. Uh but it's not divinely inspired and therefore it was not canonized. Now as far as reading it uh some said that it's not allowed but then uh says that it is allowed to uh read it after a person have studied all of the other obviously writings and you know and teachings of the sages and they're not just reading this as their main uh Torah that you're allowed to read it. It's not considered a book of the which is a forbidden book. It's allowed to read it. It doesn't have uh things that are uh you know uh heretical or anything like that. It's just that it's not divinely inspired. It's it's a it's a uh uh has wisdom in it. Has you know a lot of proverbs in it that are you know wise and teachings that are wise but they're not divinely inspired which is a world of difference between that and something that's divinely inspired like proverbs by uh but there are other books that are called which are forbidden books. Uh this is not one of them. Uh either way, that's that's the uh uh short version of the story of Ben. [sighs] I want to become a Talmudic scholar, but I'm a new chuva. What should I do? Uh okay. So a uh someone that's a bal chuva needs to first know and learn how to be a Jew and not worry so much about titles and major achievements and also understand where they stand right now. Anyone that is truly a Tmudic scholar is someone that has studied for decades, not just a few years but decades. And it's something that continues to build. It's not just like one day you just become a scholar and that's it. You're finished. Torah is something that you learn your whole life and you keep growing and growing and growing. That's why you'll see some of the great throughout the generations that have published many works. You'll see that their the way that they write and how they write and even how they think can change over time uh becomes more developed. Sometimes they uh you know learn something new that they didn't know back then. 20, 30, 40 years ago when they first wrote the first book. So in their second book uh that they wrote at that time uh things change meaning that the Torah is something that you continue building on. It's not like uh many other subjects out there where you pretty much learn uh enough to be in essence considered a scholar, but there's not much more room for growth there unless you discover something new. The Torah has no end. There are no end to the sages and giant scholars that came before you and all of them spent their entire lives learning Torah. So for you to become a scholar, prepare yourself for a lifelong of learning and eventually uh you'll have the merit to and the persistence to succeed. But that should not be your main concern today. The main concern today is to learn to live like a Jew, which means learning Torah each and every single day. Even if you're working, even if you're married, even if you're depressed, even if you're sick, even if you're busy, even if you're this, even if you're that, learn Torah every day. Make time to learn Tawra every single day. Both from lectures like the one that you're listening to uh as well as from the books. The first thing that you should start learning is the uh as far as book is the five books of Moses. uh the uh read the weekly parasa twice and commentary on it once. This is something that you need to do every single year and it's certainly the first thing a person needs to read. Uh aside from that, start reading. uh if you're a safari Jew learn uh the laws uh of the which again modern day version of application of it would be in yut or uh uh you know the writings of the which again is the spearheaded by uh by his father but in English these is the best thing you can get the volume of these start learning a few alot every day uh start with the laws of then go to the laws of Shabbat and so on and so forth. Uh aside from that, learn Musar. Learn Mousar. You could either learn Mousar from lectures like mine. Uh or you could learn Mousar uh from books. uh you can learn uh Musar from different famous books of Musar from the previous generation whether it's the um the writings of uh uh Ravnisim uh or the writings of our Vik Miller uh or Ysef Mizrai you have uh you know previous generation as well you have uh all the way to the you have uh Shah Chuva uh if you want to go in between them, you can go to uh you know things there's there's many many different uh writings of sages of mus point being is learn mous each day learn each day learn each day after that uh you've done that for some time you can start learning uh depending on your age if you're very young you know if you're a little older than you know uh your mind is more developed, start learning this. If you're able to learn with a rabbi or a Torah scholar, that would be great. If not, then learn uh with art scroll and you could watch, you know, different lectures that people do on dafi on each stuff that you learn. It could help you. you learn it, you know, both what you read as well as what the rabbi on the screen is saying, and you'll have a better understanding not only of um what you're actually reading, but also you'll get a better understanding of how to learn. Point being is is that you have to learn all of these things and you have to start applying things to your life. Apply the laws that you learn to your life. So this is learning to be a Jew. And this is applicable to both a Jew that's starting to do chuva or a uh a non-Jew that's looking to convert and is just converted and so on. This is all necessary for everybody. This is the beginning. Learn how to be a Jew. Learn how to live like a Jew. Of course, if it's a woman, then you need to um uh learn the laws of modesty and and focus on the laws that are pertaining to uh to women. Uh but either way, it's a uh this is something that uh everybody must do. Now, if you want to become a Torah scholar, uh then that means you'll have to do a lot more than the norm. Meaning, if let's say the average person uh needs to learn two hours a day in order to at least cover all of his bases over uh you know, over time, uh he won't be a Torah scholar, won't be a Tommy Tam, but at least he'll be a kosher Jew. uh if you want to be a Torah scholar then you have to multiply that significantly you have to you know eight uh hours 10 hours uh you know or more perhaps over time you know once you've established uh yourself uh uh and you already start uh teaching and so on uh you may have uh less time to learn uh like you do when you're young but uh needless to say when you're first starting out you have to learn an enormous amount enormous amount but uh more than anything else that I just said. If you want to succeed at both or as either a Jew or as a uh Jew that's also a Torah scholar, you must make yourself a rabbi. A rabbi that you go to for guidance on everything, for learning, for ideology, uh for questions, someone that's going to guide you and um you know, that's very very important because if you do everything on your own, you're you know, you're bound to make major mistakes and not even realize it. So, you need somebody that knows a lot more than you to at least guide you. They don't necessarily need to learn with you every day and uh teach you how to read or anything, but uh at the very least they need you need to have somebody guide you of what to do and how to do it. And uh if you do that, you could certainly become a kosher Jew and you could certainly even become a Tom a Torah scholar over time. But uh many times people uh don't realize what a Tmudic scholar is, what a Torah scholar is. uh and uh they just uh they just want the end product. They don't realize that uh to even have a chance of becoming a um you're talking about decades decades of learning and dedication and sacrifices and maybe maybe you'll become you know a uh basic maybe it's not there's no guarantee that you'll become a even if you learn 50 years you'll become a kosher Jew but you know there's No guarantee of that. Shem has to give that to you after you've made pretty much every sacrifice under the sun. Many people, oh no, no, I want to I'm going to be a Torah scholar. I'm going to be a uh Okay, you don't understand what that means. You know people [snorts] people think that just uh if maybe you know a few books or you say a few things by heart that makes you doesn't make you doesn't make you are very very special people and uh they they go through uh a whole lot to get to where they are and uh it's not something that uh is easily attainable but it's certainly possible certainly possible. I'm not trying to discourage anybody, but I also want to make all of the people that uh think that it's like a one, two, three, you know, if you learned for three, four, five, six years, you're already you could uh already or something. No, it's not. Uh it's not quite. You could be learned enough to give a shor without being a uh but to be is it's a category of its own. It's a category of its own. It's it's very different. Um let's see. I'm intentionally not answering the reading tale at night question just because I have a short clip about it and I would like for you to watch it and other people to watch it as well. It's uh it's a common question. I want people to watch the clip so you can share it with other people also. Let's see. Uh any other questions or do we do everything already? Okay, no more from there. Okay, we've answered all the questions. Thank you very much for learning with me. Bless you. 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