After Hours with Rabbi Yaron Reuven (18)

[Music] any questions people have connection with Christians Christians who maybe they do business together maybe they have um professional relationship sometimes they share gifts if somebody receive anything from someone like that and and is he allowed to take it and put it into a midv wait they they made a business they have a business relationship is or is the person donating yeah know make a gift to the person okay so when it comes to receiving gifts receiving gifts from a idol worshipper um you're allowed to accept gifts technically you're allowed to accept gifts but you're not allowed to accept gift and charity are two different things gift and charity are two different things if let's say Idol worshipper gives you a gift technically if it's not in the name of his Idol if it's just because he likes you if it's not connected to idol worship anyway whatsoever because you're not alled to benefit from idol worship and he want he wants to uh give you a gift he wants to something there's leniencies out there where some people don't accept it anyway but nonetheless there's more leniencies there but as far as Charity is concerned you're not allowed to accept that you're not allowed to accept you're not allow there for example uh this is a problem that I deal with all the time because there are quite a few Christians that want to donate to us and uh one of them keep keeps emailing me asking me to explain to him the laws of tithe of of M so you can give me money I don't even respond I don't want it to give me anything why because I know it's coming in the name of his JC Penny so I I don't want it uh as much as we need money as much as we're struggling as much as we need help as much as doesn't make a difference God pays the bills so as far as receiving charity it's a problem this puts all of these big or Jewish organizations in a serious problem because a lot of them are funded by Christians a lot of them are funded by Christians they think that they're funded by Chris because it's a good thing I'm telling you it's not uh and the Torah is telling you it's not because ultimately their own Bible tells them that missionizing is part of their mission uh so as far as accepting gifts again there are certain leniencies as far as doing business with them there is definitely a leniency there but the says that you must refrain from doing anything with them three days before their holiday three days before their holiday so for example their holidays coming up uh what is it 25th 26th whatever it is you should refrain from doing anything with them 3 days before their holiday why because there's always a risk that the money that you're going to give them is going to be used directly for idol worship right now you do business with them for you do business with them you don't know what they're going to use the money for they could use it to eat they can use it to drink they can use it for whatever but if it's three days right before their their their uh holiday then they could literally say oh look I'm celebrating the holiday of my idol and that's why I got the money so in essence you become a partner to the you become a partner to so you have to refrain three days before three days after so there's a some do even more but point is is that there are certain laws when it comes to dealing with Idol worshippers you're allowed to deal with them but you need to know the uh you know the certain things you have to walk around uh as far as accepting I mean some of the uhad don't accept from non-jews at all period do a matter of fact I know from R Rim refuses to accept from someone that's not not doesn't keep Shabbat like sometimes people send uh send money to for that we fund and I'll send it and uh for for example if somebody sent specifically to him um he ask okay who's the person what's their name they keep Shabbat is ask if they don't don't even send them it doesn't make a difference there was a uh Sher that he did couple days ago and uh somebody died they invited him to do a sh or whatever and some of the people there were well Tod do had some money and uh not very big tadim but nonetheless they had money so a few of them really liked him likeed his you know his shoe and so on and so forth and one of them says yeah I like what you're saying this woman saying I like what you're saying I believe I believe I believe I believe okay great okay so what's the problem oh listen you talked about Shabbat and uh listen you have to understand I fund all of these I give money to this Rabbi and that Rabbi and this breast and this and this this one and this Rabbi and that Rabbi give all money to all these different people ton of money we get a certain amount of money ton of money we give to all these different places and um for whatever reason or another there's no blessing in the money though no blessing we're still struggling every month doesn't matter if I make a million I make a 100,000 I make whatever doesn't matter what it is still nothing left there's always I'm always over there's always a loan I have to take there's always I'm always behind the wheel so he says yeah it's uh I could tell you why he says why says cuz you work on Shabbat says yeah but no one else told me anything I gave it to this Rabbi and that Rabbi and this Rabbi and that Rabbi and this Rabbi and that Rabbi tell I don't know what you talked about I don't know who you talked about anything all I can tell you is you work on Shabbat you have no blessing in the money that's a guarantee the fact that you're alive is a miracle miracle M Miracle this yam and there you yam happened 3,000 years ago Miracle the fact that your life is a miracle she says okay listen let's get to business Israelis serious let's get the business I like what you say books this comes out of your mouth it's like M beautiful diamonds I like what you say all of the money all of the money that I give to this organization and that organization all of these organization we're talking about ton of money all of the money I'm going to give to you just give up on the Shabbat thing for me just pray for me on the shab just let just just pray for me that I succeed now raim goes to call from morning tonight morning tonight he learns before call after call during all of that for 400 bucks a month that's with gets four 500 bucks a month and he's a he's going to be so we want at this point gets 500 bucks a month five kids at home five can't survive on that you know here and there as miracles happen we survive every month but nonetheless if you think you have a test with your two three four 5 6 S8 n $10,000 a month like one of my students tells me oh it's so tough to be single with only $2,000 a month so if you think you're struggling with are few thousand a month that you can't even give $100 a month you can't even survive to uh learn T you can't even do all these different things you're struggling I tell people listen can you commit we have we're trying to raise money we give all these books for free CDs for free Q for free lectur for free me for free the kids for free the drawings for free everything is free every but it costs money it's not really free I give it for free but it it's not freeit somebody has to pay for it we're trying to raise money we we're trying to have or what's the money for all it's for bubblegum what's the money for it's for the books that you got for free it's for the CDs you got for free it's for the lectures we come for free the gas to come for free everything is free but it's not free cost money so can you commit to 150 bucks a month can you commit to 250 bucks a month can you commit yeah 250 bucks a month you make 5,000 you make 3,000 250 bucks a month it's your anyway it's not even M can you commit to 250 a month oh Rabbi it's a little hard hard I asked I'm telling you I never asked for money never asked for money but you have conversations sometimes with people it's like they make it like to to commit to $200 $300 a month it's like a it's like they're giving you an organ so now they giv you a kid a kidney I'll give you a kidney I'll give you just not the 250 a month not the 500 a month not the th but you just told me you make a 100,000 we don't have to ask the point is that you think you have the test raim makes 500 bucks a month kids wife house everything you have someone just offered him I don't even know how much I know it's a lot more than anything that we can give and he says if it was my rule I do whatever you want it's not my rule it's not my rule rule the Shabbat is not my rule it's God you have to deal with I don't need your money I have plenty he says to her I have plenty of money how much does he have he has 500 bucks a month I have plenty of money Miss I have plenty of money I don't need your money I need you to keep Shabbat you understand why that's the truth the woman when she heard what he said he says if you ever saw a woman's you know a face mutate into something else that's what just happened she didn't know what to do with the response it was the last thing in our imagination was right after that one why because people don't answer like that why because everyone else says give me the money where do I make the check payable to I'll pray extra for you I'll give you g I'll give you a rubber band I'll give you a string I'll give you I'll make a new religion for you it's not our rules it's not our rules rabai it's not our rules you want to wear quarter wear quarterer you want to wear tank tops wear tank tops you want to wear skirts wear skirts you want to wear whatever you want you want to do whatever you want go to eat Kaz go eat pork on your do whatever you want it's not our rules though it's not our rules you want to put the A on your head go pray to hm with a go it's like going to your wife with your girlfriend hey honey meet my girlfriend hey wife the mother of my children here me my girlfriend you're going to God with on your head you want to pray to God you're you're wondering why you still have cancer why there's problems in the world why people are dying why your prayers are not being answered even to just get to work on time why everybody's surprised why is this happening Where's God you have on your head you have in your business you have in your overall life you're constantly running away from the truth constantly running away it's not our rules you want to make rules go all the way become a Greek already but just know you have to pay the bill just know you have to pay the bill so when it comes down to dealing with anyone anyone you always have to take this in consideration are you a Jew or you're a Greek that's what you have to take that's a that's there's a very very thin line between the two just an outfit change it's all it is when you want to be a Jew it's a tough decision why it's a constant sacrifice it's a constant test constant doesn't end someone told my wife a story of what he's dealing with and it's you see how the Satan comes in all shapes forms and sizes says I'm going to the store and uh I decide you know what I'm GNA go get something to uh I'm gonna get kanuka I'm gonna get kanuka fits and uh there's two options there a bunch of options there's two options he says it's on the road I can make a right and I go to this one place that's two minutes away less than two minutes away it's one place or I can make a left and it's 50 minutes away meaning two minutes back and forth so four minutes or a half hour out of my life logically which one do you pick you don't have to be logical four minutes you pick why unless you like to waste your time he says I chose the 15 the 30 minutes I chose to waste the half hour of my life why he says in the 4 minute option the two minutes plus times two I know for sure this what he says I know for sure that I'm going to see an immodest woman for sure on the 30 minute option it's a possibility now if you were telling me this is four minutes and this is four hours I'd say okay it's a different town so why why is four minutes for sure you're going to see modesty and a half hour possibility why it's not such a big difference you can't go to a different city in in that short of a period of time what's the difference he says in me Ates the restaurant over there the employees are all emodest so I know for sure I'm going to see an emodest woman over there the employees are regular and maybe there are people the customers are immodest but there's not always customers in the store so hopefully there's no customers so I took a half hour trip that's someone is trying to protect their eyes do you understand that's the test that's the test if you're willing to drive a half hour you pass the test you you're not you're still in infancy stages you're still in your infancy stages so when you pray to Hashem to give you XYZ and he doesn't answer or the answer is no don't be surprised why you're not willing to do anything for him you're not even willing to drive a half hour for him half hour you're not want to drive for him no no I'm not going to look I'm not going to look says anyone that goes in a place where he knows for sure there's going to be immodest women even if he closes his eyes he still considered R why why you giving yourself a test why you putting yourself in test who says you're going to pass it why you so confident understand next question know that there is aition um in the case of someone having you know part of a company and they decide to have you know Lune at a place together and he goes but he doesn't Fe okay so this is a very good question what happens if somebody has it works for a company and they're having an event they're having an event uh and uh he can eat but he chooses not to eat is it still okay okay so now you have to understand this question has multiple parts to it first and foremost is the place kosher the place not the food is the place kosher meaning you can sometimes have a meeting I remember in New York I had a uh I tried keeping kosher at least to my understanding even since I was a kid so I remember the first client meeting I ever had first client meeting I ever had was with the guy David Taylor from Texas and David Taylor came to visit me from Texas and he brought his Entourage with him David Taylor was a former Banker in bank one and and Bank of America and so on very very successful Guy and um really nice guy we did business for many years together and but the first time I ever met him he brought up people with him and uh he told me listen wherever we want to go we'll meet you so I wanted to go to a fancy fancy restaurant so I picked the fancy schy restaurant only problem is the fancy schy restaurant wasn't kosher now what did I do I had a little bit of money so I said to another fancy SMI restaurant that's actually kosher I said I want you to give me a steak to deliver it to my fancy schy restaurant and I told the fancy schy restaurant it'ser to accept the steak and serve it to me with them and I thought this was okay okay why they're giving me a plate everybody has their food they're ordering their steak with uh you know each steak is a zillion dollars and with the shrimp and with a G fish and I have a kosher steak and Tin for look like it's a lunch money like my my wife just made it for me but whatever I'm this young guy I think it's okay technically it's okay as far as I ate Kosher meat but it's not allowed why is it not allowed because the place is not Kosher now had I been a religious Jew at the time I would have known this why cuz any Jew walking out or in that sees me in the non kosha place by theault thinks that the place is kosher why because he's not going to look for signs oh where's the kosher sign where's the kosher sign he's not going to look for the kosher sign he says there's the kosher Jew there a kosher Jew inside a non kosher restaurant that means the restaurant is kosher he's the certificate he's a certificate he doesn't know that I got a steak from different restaurant and it's in tint foil he doesn't know that stuff he's not looking at my plate and even if he looks at my plate you just think just maybe it's just something from the you know he doesn't know anything he doesn't know what I did so I become the kosher stamp that's a problem so if the place itself is not Kosher under no condition are you allowed to go in there even if you're not eating forget about eating e even if you bring your own sandwich you're not let to eat there not loud why because you become the koser certificate and you have to take on the burden that anyone that in essence looks at you you and decides to eat at that place not just that day any other time in their life 6 months later 5 years later they're going to eat at that place because they remember they saw bet eat here so it must be bet sadik who in their right mind is ever going to think bet is sitting in a not Kosher place bet certificate so now you have yourself a problem why every single time the guy eats there he thinks it's kosher his wife thinks it's kosher the kiss thinks it's kosher their friends now think it's kosher there's a whole Entourage of people that Satan brought to this restaurant because they saw bet in the restaurant 5 years ago you have a problem so already place not Kosher not allowed to enter that's one two if the place is kosher and the food is kosher second question is is the environment kosher meaning is this going to be an e modest place so now if let's say you have a brother sister cousin parent Uncle neighbor best friend boss whoever invites you to an event where there's going to be immodesty especially if there was going to be mixed dancing it's it's better you die and don't end up don't go there why because it's considered the same thing as actually being in in in intimate with these people why because that's what happens after the place you become a partner to it again some people don't like to hear this some people don't agree with it but that's what Al is what are they going to tell me no no but my Rabbi came to my uh my daughter's wedding and there was mix dancing there was break dancing mix dancing UND dancing the rabbi was there too he was sitting there with the other rabbis they were all on the same table they didn't dance but they were there so that means it's kosher no no it just means they're part of the sin all it means they're part of the sin that's all it means doesn't mean it's kosher so to go to a place where there's IM modesty you're not allow to go part three so this means that many of the people that call themselves religious before we go to part three many of the people that believe that they're religious that have these parties themselves forget about attending them there's some people that I know that consider themselves very religious the kids go to Yeshiva they learn tah every day the parents learn tah even we but when they go and they have the party of their own all of a sudden all bets are off all of a sudden the star the scarf is replaced by wig it's a party how could I show up to a party with a uh with a you know with with anything less than a 3 feet long wig come on everyone's going to make fun of me so AEM is in their life up to a point up to a point when there's an event hashem's not there at home in the laundromat at the supermarket he's there so we wear but at the party we put a wig on so already you see there's a problem then then you see oh no we believe in the Tora until comes to our own personal party how we going to have a party without dancing how we going to have a party with the wife and the the bride and groom not dancing everyone has to look at them how can we have a party without the father and the daughter dancing come on it's a it's a this is bigger than they start creating their own laws so unfortunately this brings a lot of a lot of disasters to you see that many people many people that had major disasters in their life unfortunately these things preceded it just a reality you want to go write blogs about me you want to hate me you want do whatever you I doesn't make a I didn't write the law you want to write go deal with God you want to go blame me for it Al that I was I was at fault for it so so that's the second thing in regards to modesty and where to attend where not to attend last but not least what's the point what is the point of you attending that's the point that's the third third is what is the outcome what is the point of you attending now if it's a business meal and it's just a corporate now if you don't attend if you don't attend are you going to lose your job if not then you have to evaluate what's the benefit of going cuz now there's no loss of not going what's the benefit of going are you going to get a raise no are you going to what what's going to happen out of it is that time the Hour 2 hours 3 hours 4 hours 5 hours 6 hours of wasting your life in this party eating with a bunch of people that you may or may not like wasting your lifetime your spiritual lifetime doing this is that worth it is you're going to go to all one day say hey hello how are you how are you how was everything okay this is the about you could have gotten this is what you got wait it's two different things oh yeah that's the six hours remember the six hours you spent once a month that's the difference that's the difference you remember used to six hours remember you used to go to a party job it was croser party it was coer people but that's a different it's different not saying G just saying it's different so what's the point of you going there is there a benefit is there a loss if there's a loss obviously that has to go into consideration if there is because it's again it becomes T it becomes you're wasting Torah time so you have to evaluate all these things assuming the first things are first two our pass assuming it's a kosher Place kosher food kosher environment and so on still you have to evaluate why why am I going there and I could tell you personally I mean I have many students that invite me to events and it's sad for me but I don't want to go so I try to be busy all the time cuz I always have an excuse I'm not lying I don't want to go to a wedding I don't want to go to a bar mitzah I don't want to go to any of these why it's not because I have anything against them specifically and I'm not even saying it's not a kosher party I'm sure if they're by students if they listen to anything I say it's going to be a kosher party but I don't want to go why I rather you even if it's a kosher event and a kosher food and a kosher everything I still don't want to go why i' rather spend time doing something else i' rather help come back to hem I rather learn Tora help my own I rather do other things than sit there you know like a you know nothing sitting there for 3 hours and I don't know looking at people not for me it's not my idea fun so if you like me don't invite me you could tell me listen you could come if you want to give the honor the respect whatever you want to do for your own uh conscience or something like that you don't have to even for that but you like me don't invite me what tell me you study oh you want invite me for I'll come for I'll give you sh at your wedding or your party or whatever you want but other than that I don't want to dance I don't want to party I want to get to struggling with that so spending the 3 six hours in uh in weddings and parties is not going to help me it's my opinion anything else anyone um Tor says that there's four animals that only have one sign mm and there's opinion that that two of them was the rabbit in the hair K but how they don't even have any of the signs they have one sign what's the sign they regur take their food chew their cut okay okay they chew their cut they don't have split hooves but they chew their cud the uh Pig has one sign also it has split hooves but it doesn't chew its cud camel and the camel also one sign one sign he has one sign the the hair the uh rabbit the Pig and the um camel those are the four animals some like the throw other animals in there they start throwing kangaroos in there they start throwing other animals but then you see through uh research that uh it's all nonsense there's only four animals that's one of the proofs in the tah even though there is a Kel there's a heretic who calls himself a rabbi uh who wrote uh some book I think it's called zoology or zo something this guy um some that I forgot his name but he's a really really wicked guy and he pretty much says that uh there's plenty of animals that have more signs and this in essence he goes against all of the all of the scientific proofs he's the zoologist of rabbis but the good news is that he's there's a on him from all the major rabbis in the world all the major rabbis in the world put a on him it's not like me my opinion or rabi or all the major rabbis in the world as soon as he came out with his book they put a on him he's not allowed in any respectable Kila unless the rabbi of the Kila is also like him how the trying to find a mistake in the Tor no no trying to find a mistake in the Torah have fun you're never going to succeed enjoy trying to find a mistake in the Tora enjoy no problem you could do whatever you want but to claim as's a mistake when there isn't one meaning you've created a mistake from nothing then you have a problem because then you've changed the to so to say that no M's name was really Steven you have a problem you just change the Torah to say oh God uh really uh has a friend up there you have a problem you have a problem so change the toah this is the problem with all of the other religions the rambam says that you none of the uh only Jews are allowed to keep Shabbat and obligate to keep Shabbat but the righteous among the nations are not allowed to keep Shabbat so there's multiple reasons one reason is the fact that hasem gave Shabbat to the Jews as a gift as a gift the says that comes to he says tell I have a great gift for them in my treasure chest it's called shabat meaning that hem gave the present specifically to that's why it says in the p in the the the Covenant is between me and you me and you meansem and not you as the world it's it's very easy to prove now the rest of the world is not allowed to keep Shabbat they're allowed to celebrate they're allowed to take off of work they're allowed to have a nice meal they're allowed to do whatever they want they're just not allowed to specifically refrain from the 39 restrictions that we're not allowed to do on Shabbat because it's Shabbat they're allowed to not drive just because they don't feel like driving they're allowed not to cook just because they don't feel like cooking they're allowed to not light a fire because they don't feel like lighting a fire but they're not allowed to not do it because it's Shabbat why the rambam says because number one this is a violation of the seven laws of Noah why is it a violation of the seven laws of Noah it says Thou sh not steal you're stealing the present that hm gave you're stealing Shabbat Thief death penalty that's what it says someone violate someone that keeps Shabbat as a go a death penalty from from sham so that's number one number two rambam says is that anyone that keeps Shabbat when they're not Jewish is creating their own religion if you're a Jew you're obligated to keep Shabbat if you're not Jewish and you keep Shabbat that means that you're doing whatever it is that you're doing plus Shabbat you've created officially a new religion that is the universal problem with all of the other religions with Christianity with Islam with Buddhism aside from the idol worship aside from the idol worship which is a problem of its own even if they wasn't idol worship like for example in Islam most common belief is that it's not idol worship it's heresy it's stupidity but it's not idol worship even they have a problem why they created their own religion so now someone's going to come to me it's I say wait a minute but the rambam says that the best thing that hem could have done for the go was to create Christianity in Islam he did them a favor so how can you say that the same rambam says it's not good it's contradiction what's the answer the answer is it's not that it's good that it's not that ramb said that it's good good that there's Christianity or that there's Islam in the world it's not that it's good it's that it's the best possibility out of what was available it's the least of all evils in essence before Christianity there was only Judaism or idol worship outright idol worship they an idol they prayed to him cow or statue or whatever after Christianity 880,000 other religions were born Islam being one of them so now the reason why the rambam says that it's good for them that hem gave them the these two religions is because this at least made them believe that there is one God even though technically Christianity is for all intents and purpose is idol worship they don't believe it's idol worship like there's no Christian that believes it's he's praying to an idol there's no Christian that believes that his religion is idol worship so even though it is they don't know that they don't don't understand it so in essence when the mashia officially comes when Hashem discloses to the entire world the truth as it says by the prophets all 70 nations are going to come to the Jews the ones that survive the righteous among the nations are going to come to the Jews 10 representatives from each of the s0 nations are going to come for each corner of each C of every Jew meaning that every Jew is going to have 2800 700 700 700 700 2800 non-jews that are righteous are going to come to him going to say to him exactly what the prophet says what the prophet say Prophet says our fathers lied to us your God is the truth teach us in so many words so why is this happening why is this even being said the reason why is because these people did come from those religions they came from Islam or from Christianity or Catholicism or one of these places but they weren't officially Idol worshippers they weren't officially haters of AML and apparently they were righteous enough to survive righteous enough to survive there were no or something like that and they realized that the truth lays with Israel and that saved them and if they fulfilled their part of the Torah and that saved them and they did not fall for the Trap of creating a new religion they didn't like start becoming like this half a convert like there is a lot today there's a lot of people that just start you know they they want to convert but they can't so they start keeping half of Judaism say decide no no I'm a Jew I have a Jewish Soul Many people tell me I have a Jewish Soul like oh you have a Jewish there's no no place in the Tora it says there such a thing as a Jewish Soul if you're not a Jew but you have a Jewish Soul you have a new new new rule in the Torah everybody says I have a Jewish soul I have a Jewish Soul a Jew okay you have a Jewish Soul whatever you want what am I tell you no what I I tell you no but the reality is you have a Jewish Soul when you're a Jew if you're a Jew you're not a Jew become a Jew but you can't be 50/50 can't be 50/50 why because there's extra punishment for that so that's the thing that people need to understand listen it's not easy to convert especially in this politically correct world this the red tape and all the stuff that goes on with it with money and all this politics and nonsense it's not easy but if you really want to convert for the right reason it doesn't matter doesn't matter that it's difficult you're still going to do it you're still going to do it if you're not willing to do it then you shouldn't do it anyway if it's if you're complaining about how difficult it is then you shouldn't convert because to be difficulty is part of being a Jew so that's the uh that's the thing when it comes down to all of these other religions they're going to be able to say your God Is Right our forefathers lied to us why because at the very least the good thing that hasm the that hasm did to them is at least he made them believe that there is one God so the transition from falsehood the truth is simpler if it was they were Buddhists they prayed to some statue you buy in Chinatown for 20 bucks and I tell them no the god of Israel is God it's a big transition last week I thought it was a statue this week it's the god of Israel it's a big transition they're not going to survive they're not going to survive it's too much of a transition nothing to everything too much but if you believe that you already praying to God you called them Allah or you believe you prayed to God but there was some other middleman in between you believed but you were wrong it's not so much of a transition cuz in essence you believed until this point that you were doing the same thing anyway you just found out that you were doing it a little wrong it's like you were laying your whole life but you put the one on the head on the arm and the one on the arm on the head so if I told you listen you correct it put the one on the arm on the arm and the one on the head on the head oh okay that's easy but if I told you you were putting uh you know instead of doing that instead you were putting rocks you're putting tying rocks to yourself and I told you no no you have to put that's a big transition it's too big it's too too big difference so that's the that the rambam was referring to where it's good that hasem created Christianity in Islam it's not that it's good for the world it's not that it's good in essence that it's these are good religions there still sins against hem but it's the least of all evils it's an opportunity for some people to be saved from within those Nations without necessarily being Jews next question great great Mar he's praying to's he's giving the P the commentary on the uh prophets yeah as then they allowed him but when he because a way to find the exact time that the mashia is going to come exactly now if that's the case which I believe it is 100% does that translate into the possibility of the people now who are involved in using um gatria to determine what's happening in the world right now what's to come and so on and so forth does that translate into the possibility that some point they can stumble upon no two different things it's two different things gatria existed already at the times of the gar you'll actually see it in a different gar I believe it's in aatan Katan it says there were certain rabbis that were counters of letters counters of letters meaning they did the same thing that people do gatria and doing codes Torah codes same thing uh um but it's two different things from what was saying was finding the secrets beyond the gatria beyond the uh codes and so on um he was looking into things that were and things that are above and Above This World um and through his commentary and through the things that he was giving he was literally able to find secrets of the future with Torah codes for example which is what you're referring to uh with Torah codes they could uh generally they're not going to be able to find the future and the reason why is because with Torah codes you have to know what you're looking for you have to know what you're looking for so for example all the Torah codes that we have that are substantial Torah codes are based on past based on things that already happened so you could find for example Obama or you can find amalik or you could find uh Hitler or you can find find whatever you want to find in there find Pinocchio if you want find whatever you want to find in there but it's already after you knew the name Obama it's already after you knew the name Amal it's already after you knew all these different things or you knew Nazi Germany and so on and so forth so when someone is looking for example the exact time of the mashiah or who Gog is out of go Magog or which country it's going to be he's just guessing he's just creating names because of the possibilities that he knows of today he knows that Iran hates us he knows that North Korea hates us he knows that all the Arabs hate us and so on and so forth so the last thing that he's ever going to think of is usually the answer why because says I don't think like you so what we're looking for are the possibilities that we know of butm doesn't think like that what ends up happening is usually the opposite of what we can conjure up so for example the best friends best friends of the Jews best friends were the Germans best friends we live there we prospered there we ran the country we ran the economy uh I mean we were rocking and rolling over there it was fantastic until they started killing all of us understand we liked it so much we started marrying them even though they weren't Jewish we' actually convert to them we started becoming Catholics and Christian Chris and so on it was it was America of its day until they started killing all of us so the last thing anyone would have thought is that this is also amalik because it's not logical CU you are a human being and you think logically you think rationally you think like a human you don't think hey by the way my wife is going to eventually tell this guy Hitler to kill me the same wife that has uh kids with me and loves me and says and all that things she's going to go tell Hitler go kill me does not goes against your logic you're not going to think like that so you're not going to look in a code for that answer say so if I told you somebody from America is go to you like ah come on no you crazy it's not even logical they're our best friends you just told Us's our capital thank you we sld we sent him a thank you letter he it's not logical for you to think that if I told you that it's I don't know some Island that no one even heard of yet it's some Island that exists everyone knows it exists it's on the map somewhere but it's somehow it's going to become the strongest Island the most powerful it's going to kill everyone that's goog you say no come on you I think you're becoming too calistic already I think you're you're in M yourself already you're over there you're not going to think why CU it's not logical you're thinking Iran you're thinking North Korea you're thinking China you're thinking The Logical choices that's why toor codes can't tell the future they try and it's cute it's cute but the said you should not deal with any of those things that predict the future you should not even learn or spend any time talking about what's going to happen when the mashiah comes why because you can't arrive at an answer anyway we're only going to know once it happens and that type of learning is not going to help you earn either or meaning nothing good will come out of it you're just wasting your time I know people like to talk about mhia mhia mhia great there's certain subjects about mashia you should talk about the fact that he's coming the fact that we have to do chuva the urgency aspect of it sure that if that gets you to do chuva sure but as far as what's going to happen after you know like a lot of people I don't know I don't know if they're joking or they're serious but they always you know people send me these strange mails or and and and emails and uh you know naturally you have to read things at some point so I read like oh when's the mashiach's going to come oh it's uh December 12th uh 8 15 like you actually expect an answer like that when is he coming how come he hasn't come yet oh like silly silly question so one guy sends me uh questions like oh what's going to happen once the mhia comes like some open question like that like are you really ask are you really asking for like a real answer like you want me to like what draw a world for you oh it's going to be you and your wife and you guys are GNA be on island enjoying and she's gonna be allowed to wear the wig and like what what are you want going to say like what you know leave me alone see that's why I don't want to go to weddings because this what people talk about over there something they're going to ask me what happens to mhia like I know so kir so happens in K people ask you silly questions so so the point is is that talking about what's going to happen to mashia G come waste of time talking about mashiah in general it's going to help you do chva it's coming go go it's going to help you get sure it's fine but even that limit even that limit and the reason why is because you regardless of whether the mashia is going to come tomorrow or next year or 10 years from now you still have to do chva today you're alive today do chat today how do you do chat today you need to know what to do if you only learn about mhia day you're not gonna have enough time to learn the of how to survive day to day so the mashia is gonna come to you and then arrive it's like wow you knew everything about me great you're still going to G on though why you didn't do anything about it but you knew everything you knew exactly the day that was going to come you knew the about the horses and the Chariots it's going to come from the sky and the left side and the crown and the glory and the days and you knew everything you had a whole drawing in your house and you had the names and you even guessed my name because the gave us several names and you put it together with the Torah codes and you said it's this and you said it's that you knew everything you even wrote a book about you're still going to get on why you didn't keep any all you did you you you create little Lego pieces that look like the mikash you put little Lego pieces that look like the mashia with some horses with some uh all different cartoon characters you didn't keep any that's the thing if we spend too much time it's not good we have to do that's wants you to spend all the time you have for t on everything but T everything but what you're supposed to do and I deal with this all the time all the time myself I battle with it myself I battle with it sometimes I have you know I feel bad people send me questions I try to answer them and even though I'm it's silly question still maybe for them it's important so I answer the question another question another question next thing you know you've answered questions for 3 hours that was the three-h hour window that I had to learn T now I'm dead tired and what happens I send all the answers 5 seconds later there's a there's a new list of three hours worth of questions what happened nothing nothing changed in the world all that changed I didn't learn toah that's all that changed so you understand so sometimes is going to just keep you busy that's his number one tool by the way is to keep you busy keep you busy with doing nothing go talk about mashia go talk what's going to happen talk about mosu Rising as if you're going to be next to him the rovic um met with the uh once was a and uh tells um come join our uh our Yesa we're starting a new Yesa for uh stting for because they're going to build a mdash is going to to build mikdash do you know what to do you know what to do you have to bring in sacrifices you have to do this all these different the fire the fire Al has to always be on I mean it's just to keep a fire on all the time it's a job and you have to wear certain clothes and it has to be clean and has to be pure you have to change shifts you have to know when How Who hat all these different a lot of laws certain tools you have to make certain tools you have to use a lot of different things to be a coin it's not a big deal it's not a small thing big thing you know how to do it andonovic was young at that time and was old already was in his later years he says no I'm not worried I know if once the bet mdash is built I'm just going to look at you I'm G to do whatever you do I'm G do whatever you do I see you do it I'm gonna do whatever I'm just going to follow what you're doing and then he tells his students many years later and he says silly young me silly naive me pich one of the Giants of the generation later on he was young at the time says what a silly me what a silly young naive person I was to think that I would have the Merit to even stand next to the when the mashia comes with his he would burn me in the real world in the real world I wouldn't be able to stand next to him I thought oh no I'm going to follow you as if I'm going to be be able to even stand next to you with and that's the thing when people start thinking about oh I'm going to see and and M and all these different things it's not so much like that it's not so much like that it's not it's it's it's very different the real world that's beyond this world is a very very different world um to imagine it we can't but it's definitely not like what we can you know people think that imagine so it's better we just focus on making it then thinking about what's going to happen there and who and what and when and what are you going to wear and is your hair going to be okay and the hats going to be okay are they going to like your hat they're going to like your shirt they're going to like the this not going to help you in life next yeah um like if you working in place like double their SI every year so if like they had the they want to meet their expectation where they didn't quite reach it and they stressing and they kind of making like Str decision that's making like everybody uncomfortable are you allowed to tell them that they didn't make that product because of Bas what all right if your question okay you're asking me are you allowed to tell your boss that the reason why not making money is because God runs the world are you allowed yes should you only if you want to get fired if you want to get fired send him an email send him a mail I'll sign it for you why because your boss he's in business he's not necessarily looking for M from you he's not looking for you to tell him God runs the world uh even if he's religious even if he's religious even if he's a religious Jew okay yes you're right God runs the world but I run your life when you work for me and you are the reason why I missed the quota God wanted to give it to me but mistakenly I made a mistake of hiring you instead of hiring somebody that could give me the real sale so it's not going to if you were working for me on Wall Street even after two I would have fired you for such a comment why because that's not that's ambition ambition and religion usually go head tohe and it's very very difficult it's very very difficult for someone to live both lives uh you know at all times so that doesn't necessarily mean that you have to be a non- kosher person if you're ambitious by definition you should be a kosher ambitious person you have to be ambitious ambitious for T ambitious for all things but but there's a time and a place for certain things this is common sense like a consultant for the person and somehow they're running the the office if you're consulted for religious advice yes if you have the type of relationship with him where it's open and you talk about religion anyway then yes but if you've never spoken religion to him before if you don't even know what his beliefs are if you don't even know if he's an atheist or a Jew or a Christian or whatever to go throw God at him as the reason of why he's not doing certain things you're asking for trouble you're asking for a new job pretty much uh it's just not it's not it's not uh it's not a thing I think you can do it but only under a very few circumstances where you have that type of relationship and that type of relationship is usually not going to be you know uh go hand to hand with uh you being an employe an employee you being a friend if you're his friend he'll listen to it if you're an employee it's definitely not going to listen to it it's just not it's not the place you to want to hear it from it it's like it's just not it's like for I'll give you an example what is it like a woman a woman is very sensitive about her looks doesn't matter what woman doesn't matter if she's 20 doesn't matter if she's 900 she's sensitive about her looks She's sensitive about how she looks especially how she looks in front of her husband especially but the last place on Earth Last Place on Earth she wants to get a rebuke about her looks is from a husband even though he's the one that she cares about the most of what he thinks of her is the last place she wants to hear anything negative so if you want to be honest you want to be honest with your wife tell her honey I think you gained a little weight honey I think that you have on your arm your little zit that you have on your I think it's not good you put make up on it you could be honest you could be honest you also be divorced though you understand you can be honest there's a time to be honest you be honest but you be divorced so there's a time and a place for everything you have to you we have common sense is that you can be honest with the boss but you're also not going to have a job you know so that that's the thing so there's a time and a place for everything um and being honest is extremely important but also knowing when to use that Honesty you know so I think that with as far as when you're running business even if you believe that God runs the world you still believe you have something to do with it you still believe that you have to make your own efforts and your own efforts as an owner of a business are in essence running your ship so if I have a ship and one of my uh I don't know Shipmates one of my guys is a drunk even if I'm the nicest guy in the world I'm GNA fire him why because he's a drunk he's ruining my ship I'm not going to get to my destination not because I'm mean I'm not going to get to my destination because I'm too nice and I still hired him cuz he's a drunk so I don't care that everyone's not going to like me cuz I fired the drunk guy I don't care about that I don't care that it's a uh not going to be viewed well I don't care that he's not going to be able to feed his kids I don't care about any of those things why because I know that the ultimately more people lose as a result of him being drunk so as an owner of a business I have to think like a business owner and so if one of my Shipmates tells me hey by the way you're not getting to your destination because God decided that you're not going to get to your destination that's not that's not really going to help my cause I'm probably going to fire him with a drunk guy I'm not I'm being serious I'm just telling you just a from both a religious and and a non-religious perspective it's just a it's not um a friend different story friend tells you that that's a different story and even then it's tough for people to hear the truth people love the truth until it affects them so also remember that people love love the truth until it affects them so for example many women love the times that I talk about a um modesty in general many women love those clips about modesty about wigs in general many many women watch entire three hour sh just because they're waiting for me to talk about something some some new insight about modesty they love it but as soon as I say something that they don't like about something completely different it could be about Shabbat it could be about marriage it could be about how to raise kids it could be about money and stinginess something completely different as soon as I say something like that Hitler Nazi why I said something don't they love everything and six months in a row everything is great until you say one thing same thing with men oh great donate money as soon as I say something Nazi Germany you're you're all of a sudden what happened six months you love me a year you love me all of a sudden how could it be one day I turn I didn't even know about it he told me thank you what can I do so people love the truth until it affects home that's page 119 already said that so it's not nothing new Under the Sun so you have to understand that the to know what your tun in this world is you have to know that it's something that's the most difficult if it's easy for you it's not your T you didn't come to this world for that you have to do it but if keeping Shabbat is easy for you that's not the reason why you came to this world you still have to keep Shabbat obviously but that's not the reason why you came to this world why did you come to this world why were you reincarnated to comeing again what's difficult for you modesty that's why you came uh you know stinginess that's why you came schom that's why you whatever is the most difficult for you that's the reason you came so for all of those women men children and so on that are asking themselves why is God doing this to me when he's given them very very big tests why is God doing this to me why am I broke why is God doing this to me I can't find a wife why is God doing this to me I can't have kids why is God doing to me I can't do this and I can't do this and I can't do this or they swear to you tell them listen you have to be modest no I swear I can't do it I swear I could do everything else in the T I just can't be modest I can't wear uh skirts all the time or tell no no I can do everything in I just can't keep Shabbat I swear I can't they swear to you m they swear to you they'll sign up their name I swear I can't do it God understands God understand they'll give you a whole argument why God understands and understands and understands and understands the reality is when you're asking why is God doing this to me there's an answer answer immediate answer that should be text right back to you what's the answer he's trying to help you that's your cure he's doing it to you because that's your cure it's hard for you because he's trying to tell you that's your sickness that's what you have to fix you can't it's difficult for you kids are difficult for you wife is difficult for you shabbat is difficult for you learning is difficult for you whatever is difficult for you that's the difficulty that's what you have to fix that's six so unless you're a self-destructive type of person where you're just creating problems for yourself then it's a different story then it's your fault has nothing to do with God you just created problems for yourself like if somebody just like you know gambles all their life they can't say oh God why did you make me broke no you made you broke you're a fool you gambled all your all your money and uh that's why you're broke so again you can't blame God for everything you know there's certain things that are just purely our choices and hasm just is responsible for the outcome of our choices but nonetheless the uh the key is to know that when something is very difficult for you AEM is talking to you he's telling you that's why you're here anything else the question why okay popular question so I I was wondering from where did we learn this why do we do this to me we like learn question when we learn to question God no like it's okay it's perfectly that's one of the things that do nobody else does almost but it's what did we learn to ask why is God doing this to us why is guy do what do you mean I don't understand I'm I'm not following I'm not following that mentality yeah the mentality to ask where God is why is God doing this to me that specific question well I mean that's Al it's it's a great it's a it's it's part of the Greek mentality uh that removes God from where he is which is everywhere the Greek mentality is not atheist the Greek mentality is they believe that a Creator created the world they just believe that he left and one of their rationale one of their way that they justify their belief is that why would such and such happen if God was still running the wall World why would the Holocaust happen if God was still running the world why would evil people happen if God still running the world no he just left see it makes sense because bad things happen therefore it justifies that God left that's the Greek mentality even more so on an individualistic basis you know someone says how could God be there if he's letting all these bad things happen to me and I can tell you for myself that at some point I was extremely upset at Hashem stupidly but nonetheless I was upset I'm like why why is God doing this to me I give plenty of money for I help anyone that asks pretty much I uh I'm a really nice guy I'm this I gave all the compliments in the world to myself why would God hurt someone like me like I thought was like a little mosu you know K maybe but anyway that's I I you know I thought why would God do this to me little do I know is that God's trying to save me little do I know that he's trying to save me through the sickness through the pain through the difficulty through the hardship through all of that he's trying to save me so the problem with us is that we think that what we see that the wall in front of us is everything it's the entire picture the problem is is that it's not even close to being the entire picture it's just what's in front of us it's just one ver version of it the picture is four-dimensional there's what we see there's the side there's the other side there's the behind there's the top there's what it affects in the future what it affects in uh you know immediately right after it's the effect on other people the effect on bystanders and so on and so forth the impact of the event that's in front of you is insurmountable in your mind you cannot even calculate it even if you triy it all your life to just calculate the outcome of you simply going to the store and buying candy you think I bought candy $1 used to be my age it used to be 25 cents when I was a kid now it's a dollar for everything whatever fine you buy a dollar you bought a little uh candy for a dollar and you think I bought candy big deal if you actually thought about the transaction and what happens around the world what hasem moves all the different pieces that hasem moves for that to happen before after during your brain will blow up the amount of people that had to work on that candy arriving at that moment at that place that you bought it thousands thousands of people had to work first they had to get the whatever ingredients were there was some wheat you know how many people had to work to get this wheat and then crush it and then put it together and and then after that put sell to some place that's going to resell that's going to sell to let's say uh you know some company the same company that's going to sell to the company that's going to make the chocolate and then the chocolate somebody else in a different country had to get the chocolate from these people don't speak any other language none of them speak common language people from thousands of different places thousands of people from different places had to speak a universal language of capitalism okay none of them spoke the same language as far as English speaking all but they all spoke capitalism they all Wanted come interest but hasm had to run all of that with people that made the rapper people that made the ingredients for the candy the people that bought it from for the store that bought it for the chain and so on and so forth and now you bought the candy now that's transaction one transaction one transaction two is now you gave a dollar a dollar came out of your hand what's going to happen with that dollar and where it's going to end up it's beyond even the first part you can conjure up to some extent how many companies have to be involved but what happens to that dollar in the effect it has on the world it's going your brain's going to blow up why dollar is going to exchange hands the dollar could have a stain on it that could be used for as a DNA for some murder weapon or some murder this or it could be uh you know a dollar that's used for one final transaction that starts a war a one final transaction that starts a marriage a one final transaction does something that dollar could represent something extraordinary or something horrible or so on and so forth but that's just for that one guy that got the dollar but what about the next guy that gets the dollar and and so on and so forth and then what about the camera that saw you being the one that gave the dollar and then the guy that behind you that got the change is the dollar the point I'm trying to tell you is that if one tried to understand the impact of a single simple event simple event in his life he would not be able to do it simple event if you try to just simply imagine what does a drop you you know you open a fountain a fountain you wash your hands now sometimes you close the fountain and you don't close it all the way so sometimes a few extra drops come out if you could imagine what hap what's the destination of that drop that came out an extra drop that you didn't care about that you don't think is a big deal cuz it just drops a million drops that extra drop if you just if you could somehow follow that single drop throughout its lifetime for a week not know forever just a week your BL your brain will blow up it's not possible so Hashem runs that world his thoughts are not like our thoughts why it's not possible for us to even imagine the single action of just one of the things just a single drop if I told you that it's scient ific Al proven that every single snowflake every single snowflake every single drop of water not just snowflake every single drop of water has its own fingerprint meaning there's no two single drops of water from the same from the same little thing no two single drops of water are ever the same they're in the same cup but they're not the same drop they're not the same thing there's nothing the same about them other than the fact they water or whatever you're you're drinking there's no two single uh you know snowflakes that have the same identical design no that's not possible for us to imagine it's not possible for us it's nice to talk about it sounds cool but you really can't comprehend such a thing you could comprehend up to a limit you could comprehend okay there's probably 50 there's probably 50 or maybe there's probably 500 different types of snowflakes it's 500 500 I can imagine I can imagine 500 you know you know what you're really smart you're like Einstein 5,000 I can imagine 5,000 or maybe you're this artist this designer this whoever this guy is that that Drew this maybe the ape in this drawing or maybe you're well the guy that Drew this other thing that makes you makes us think that you're an ape whatever it is this guy point is maybe he get maybe he thinks that there is 50,000 50,000 different types of snowflakes that's not even a snowball 50,000 snowflakes is not even a snowball that you throw at somebody in New York right now cuz there's snow there it's not even a snowball do you understand so a snow storm can't a human can't think like that that's God so when you ask God this simple question of why you doing this to me you're trying to humanize God it's not a good idea not a good idea he's doing if you simply because he's trying to help you how you'll know in time tomorrow night we have another more questions more answers more subjects no idea what it's going to be about yet but hopefully I'll have to come up with another clever idea to tell you guys maybe it has to do with this picture about apes [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music]