DIVINE LOVE, Free Palestine, LGBTQB, Disgusting Guests, SEPHARDIC ASHKENAZI - Stump The Rabbi (157)

Tonight, hundreds of people from all over the world asking questions live questions about the weekly parad. How does it connect me to God? And even more so, what does it have to do with modesty? Do I really need to be modest even though it's not really so popular today? That's the question many ladies need to know the answer to. And even more so, how does this para connect to any average person out there when you're saying that the sages teach us that every single verse that's included in the entire Tanakh is something that's relevant to you today, this week, at this time? Why? How can this be proven? Even more so, certain people before they get me kicked offline and taken off the uh the uh the feed ask questions about Palestine LGBTQ bee. Have you ever heard of the bee before? You will tonight. And one guy gets a recommendation to dress up like Pikachu. You want to know why? Stay tuned. You'll be entertained. You'll laugh. And certainly you'll learn a little bit more about how to be holy. We're back here on our Wednesday night stump to rabbi series. Our longest standing series uh so far uh we're after some relevant things that are happening in the world. the things that are certainly happening in people's lives and of course the weekly para after that you guys can start asking us some questions and we'll do our best to uh earn giving us the answers. Uh so tonight's show is going to be for the forit lean bats rait benamit aim benri gabriel ben doris and all of am is all the righteous noah that continue to learn Torah with us get closer to publicize it support it and uh certainly change our lives. is boashm. So, uh, anyone that wants to, uh, support the channel, support the organization, Boashem, we're a continuously growing organization. We have stuff going on all over the world. They, uh, uh, channels, I think we have now uh, in 10 different languages and a lot of people are reaching out uh, now uh, you know, in in many different languages and, uh, we're certainly looking to uh, help as many people as possible with whatever tools Hashem gives us. So whatever help you give us is uh certainly going to uh help many many more people than ever before. You can go to uh the website bhour.org uh or you could donate on the app or you could donate on uh Facebook or you can even donate on uh YouTube uh by subscribing to the uh channel that has a special uh subscribe uh thing that um allows you to give money for it. Obviously, everybody gets the same thing in regards to the videos, but uh anyone that wants to donate through that terminal could uh donate through YouTube. Either way, the uh there's a lot of good stuff that uh is in the Torah tonight that as usual we're going to try to uncover. uh because when you first look at the um at this weekly para you're looking at this Torah portion you have uh this is a week where we have uh two parachut parachut you have and pic uh and uh really we're continuing what paratisa started talking about which is the tabernacle the mishkan and uh we see really that uh while the Torah tells us that everything is in the Torah and everything is relevant to us. Uh, a person that's new to learning Torah is going to be hardressed to find out how this is relevant to him. How is this relevant to her? You're learning about the Mishkan, the tabernacle of the desert. How could this possibly be relevant to you? Uh, you know, here in the year 2023 according to the Gregorian calendar, here in uh, you know, in the States, here in the uh, you know, in Europe, here in Israel, wherever here is for you. How could this possibly be relevant to me? And as we do uh in the way of kadusha each week in each lecture as we connect every single part of the Torah to our day-to-day lives to make uh people see how it's divine and not necess not a human suggestion. It's literally you have everything is in it. The Gar the Tamud Bavi uh also known as the Gar uh in the trackctate of Megillah says that Am is had uh 55 prophets mentioned in the Tanakh even though we had over 1.2 million prophets throughout the generations. And the reason why only 55 are mentioned in the Tanakh is because the prophecies of the 55 of which 48 with men and seven were women. Uh those prophecies are relevant to every single generation to every single person at any given time. Meaning the more you learn each verse any verse in a Torah the more you'll see how it's relevant to you to your life and even at that particular time. And in fact, one of the uh most wonderful ways, most wonderful gifts that Akadu gave me is the insight that you could actually check this out for yourself where each week you're supposed to learn the weekly Torah portion. And the beautiful part about the weekly Torah portion when you're reading it with commentary of the sages and actually understanding what's being said here is that the more you learn it, the more you will actually find solutions and different secrets relevant to your problems during that time. Meaning you could read this week's para study it not just read it like the idol worshippers uh and the heretics read it where they just read things literally. actually study the para study the commentary of the Jewish sages at the very least commentary by Rashi or Enkulos uh and you'll um uh and is considered a tarum even though at times it's really more of a commentary but needless to say a uh when you actually look at the para you study it you'll see that you'll find your issues your questions your doubts that you have at that time and then next year, you'll go over to the same exact para, but this time you'll see your issues at that time and your questions and your doubts during that time answered in that par as the says, delve into it and delve into it because everything is in it and literally everything. And so when a person actually goes into the Torah and finds solutions to their day-to-day problems, their business problems, marriage problems, uh you know, child rearing problems, uh whatever problems they have, and they find different solutions in there, uh that obviously uh not only shows that the Torah is divine, but also shows that a person is getting a divine gift from Hashem uh to find those problems. But if a person uh only has questions but no answers, it simply means that they're not studying, they're not learning. And many times people uh uh have a lot of questions uh that cause them to justify their actions. Uh but the reality is that is not going to be enough in the day of judgment because Hashem says, "Okay, I understand you had questions, but why didn't you go into my Torah and look for the answers?" And if the person says, "No, no, I read it. I read the uh you know the five books of Moses once. I read some parts of the Tanakh and I I I didn't get it. But no one ever said read like a story book. Hashem says study the Torah. Study the Torah means delve into it and go into the details and try to figure out what's actually being said and who it's being said by. No different than how you are studying your uh financial statement at this time of the year when you're about to pay taxes or receive a tax refund. No different than when you are reviewing an investment in real estate or in a stock or bitcoin or anything else. People do a lot of research today because there is a uh you know an endless amount of information in the world and uh therefore it's very easy access to information although there's a lot of falsehood and lies and uh and and corruption. Needless to say there's an endless amount of effort exerted into deciphering what's true and valuable versus what's false and useless uh and even dangerous at times. So, when you're about to make an investment to go buy a new home or buy a new investment property or you're about to even buy a new computer or a new phone or any new product, usually people spend a more time reviewing and and researching the product and sometimes even using the product. You know, you'll watch, you know, five 10 different videos about how a certain phone or how a certain motorcycle or how a certain product that you want to buy performs, even if it's as simple as a desk or or or a microphone. and uh you know, but the reality is that uh when it comes to the Torah, people think that it's supposed to be given to you on a silver platter as if it's an instant message. So again, Hashem is going to tell a person, if you really wanted the answer, then you would have delved into it no less than you delved into researching your desk and researching your monitor and researching your your house and the neighborhood and even researching the uh relationships that you had in the past 20 years ago when they're no longer relevant to you. So a person that invests a lot of time uh into the Torah is going to find the answers. A person that doesn't have answers, it simply means they have not invested a lot of time. So our holy Torah tells us that we had not only prophets, many of them, but we have specific ones that are mentioned in our Torah, 55 of them, where every single sentence is a prophecy. Every single sentence is relevant to you, to me, to to everybody out there if you simply delve into it. So, how could it be that this uh building of the Mishkan uh these really go into the details is relevant to us? We're going to go into some of those details before we go into the questions because I think that this teaching in itself is going to open up a whole new uh uh level of questions from some of you that are paying attention because you'll see that literally everything is in it. Now, of course, in the beginning, the pad talks about the Shabbat. It talks about the tabernacle's construction. And what you will notice is that in parhat when we learned about the uh you know the sin of the uh golden calf uh we see that the wicked uh uh false converts that uh that joined am uh ended up enticing am to be part of this uh golden calf which until this day we're suffering from uh there were three different levels of uh uh you know of worship or or problem or sins I should say. Uh one were you know some that actually worshiped the golden calf because it actually moved and spoke and even said I am God. So uh certainly a uh a pretty intimidating uh statue not like the ones you buy in the streets uh today. It had obviously a certain uh uh power that was instilled into it uh because of the mate that we spoke about last week that came from Moses with the name of God in it. Uh similar to the statue of uh Babel where they had uh uh Nebuan build a statue that floated in the air. Uh some say it was through magnets but it was an enormous statue and the statue spoke. So even if uh they used magnets to make it uh levitate in the air still that didn't explain how it spoke and said I am God. Uh so uh the uh Daniel the prophet discovered that it had the uh name of God uh you know honest tongue with through some type of uh uh mate there as well. And uh that's why he Daniel uh asked uh pretended like he's going to serve this idol also. and he asked Nebuchadnezzar to let him climb uh the statue and kiss it on the lips as a form of worship. Uh and of course Nebuchadnezzar was excited to as as could possibly be to have Daniel do this because Daniel in essence was actually uh someone that uh Nebuchadnezzar idolized also. So when when uh Daniel climbed this uh huge gigantic uh uh statue, he got up to the face and he took the uh the uh the name of God that was inside the mouth of the uh of the statue which silenced it and uh he ripped it out with his uh teeth and uh that obviously stopped the whole show. But interestingly enough, Nebuan uh decided to idolize Daniel uh as a as a result of this. But uh the point being is is that the idols when we mention idols uh in the Torah, don't think for a moment that all of the idols were the same thing like you buy statues at some sculpture store or or such. There are certain uh idols that are mentioned in the Torah actually did have certain powers that were instilled into it through different things. Sometimes through uh a uh um holy name uh that was in there and sometimes through tuma through impurity uh which can still be done to this day. Now the uh prophets tell us that uh everything is relevant to us including this whole para and yet when we look at the details of the golden calf we say okay it sounds stupid that they worship the golden calf when they have God speaking to them and they could not only hear but see the sound of his voice. It doesn't sound like a normal thing. And therefore, there were three types of sins there. One that actually served the idol because they were enamored by the fact that it spoke. Uh there was a uh a second type of sinner that uh actually uh didn't speak against it, just sat there silently. Uh which was a a problem of its own. Uh this is actually the majority of the people. uh there are some people that pretended to to serve it but really didn't. The point being is is that you have a uh a sin that everybody got uh in different levels but uh even though the majority of Amish is did not serve the idol uh and bow to it uh still everyone got uh punished uh some more than others. Some were killed on the spot. When Moshe Rabenu came down uh he started killing people, some people died uh through a plague and uh some people lived but they had to uh die in a desert uh as a result of this and other things that that happened during a desert. But the point being is is that you have uh everyone at fault to some capacity because they were part of it either for the reasons that I just mentioned to you or for the mainly the reason of contributing all of the gold that they gave for the statue. Now, if you notice in parisa, it says that the men ripped off the earrings out of their ears and, you know, threw it into the fire without considering anything. When was the last time you saw anybody start taking off all of their jewels and diamonds and and and and money out of their bank account just for the sake of donating it for any cause? Usually, it doesn't happen. Usually people are more careful. Usually people are uh you know slower to act. Again it all depends on for what. But the point is is that usually people don't just throw all their money into something. Usually people are you have to convince them sometimes. But here we see that after they hear and see the sound of God, they fall into this trap and they throw in a bunch of their gold. Their wives didn't. Hence the reason why until this day it's uh it's it's it says that the teachings are that the ultimate salvation of the Msiah will come due to the merit of the righteous women. Uh but the point being is that this still happened. But we don't know how much gold they put. We actually don't know the exact uh uh you know uh number that each and every single one gave in the written Torah. We have in the oral Torah talks about how the measurements there which Rabbi Fryman and I did a calculation on I believe it was a year ago and it ended up being the same exact uh number in the midash as what Haman uh gave the 10,000 to perhaps we'll talk about this at another time but the point is is that the renat doesn't specify the details but yet when it comes to the Mishkan the tabernacle We have a handful of parachut one after another giving us every little bit of detail about how much this and how much that and the measurement of this and the measurement of that. Now if a person is looking at dua as someone new then they have no idea how this is relevant to their life. Why do I need to know the measurements of the kodes? Why do I need to know the measurements of the rooms, the measurements and the quantity of all the different things that cover the tabernacle? I mean, what do I need to know all this for? I'm not going to build another one. And anyway, there was the first beta mikdash that was already made of stone and the second beta mikdash. So, why do I need to know all these details? How is this relevant to my life? one of the great of the previous generations from the uh um Rabenu Zalman Sodski. He actually gives an extraordinary insight into this as well as into human psychology. And he says when a person wants to make a sin, wants to open up a church for idolatry, wants to run a church, wants to start a uh pornography website or in or company, wants to steal money, wants to do something that takes advantage of people. Not only will you find that there are always people that are interested in collaborating with this person and take advantage of others just like unfortunately is happening in the world today. But you'll see that no one questions them until it's too late. You know, everything looked good until the bank declared bankruptcy in 48 hours. Everything looked great until the energy company declared bankruptcy in literally a few a few minutes. Everything looked great until you realize it was all fake. And it wasn't didn't become fake that day. It didn't become fake even that week. It was fake all along. whether it was the Ponzi scheme of the maid offs and the uh the people that do the same thing he does or it's the other types of corrupt uh you know uh cryptocurrency exchanges and cryptocurrency itself that were fake from the beginning or it's all of these gurus that pretend like they're going to teach you how to be a millionaire in how to be a billionaire even though they themselves have never become a millionaire or billionaire from the ideas they preach to people they're only becoming millionaire millionaires because of selling people the idea that you could become a millionaire, but in reality that they're becoming a millionaire by teaching something they don't know themselves. But so in essence, the corruption was already from the beginning. No one asked this 20, 25 year old, did you ever check if what you're saying actually works and make millions from it before you start telling us you have a new way to teach? Did you ever consider having a legitimate exchange and not using it as your own personal piggy bank to fund different lefty liberal activities you were in a fan of? Did you ever have an interest in actually investing people's money instead of it being a Ponzi scheme? Did you have an have an interest in actually being honest or did you just simply accept the fact that you're a liar and you want it to be that way? And the truth is is that many of the scandals started as a scandal, ended as a scandal. And at times you have certain people started in the right way and then turn it into a scandal. But the one common denominator is that all of the evil was unquestioned. NO ONE QUESTIONED IT UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE. The pornography company, the bank robber, the the the the thief, NO ONE QUESTIONS IT. But yet, if you have someone that is interested in doing the exact opposite, they want to sanctify and glorify the name of God, the real God of Israel, not some madeup name that people are doing for business, not some madeup name and madeup belief that people do for some type of idolatry that will justify their sins. But someone wants to build a Torah organization to sanctify Hashem's need, to get people closer to Hashem, to get people to serve Hashem. And not to serve a person, not to serve a thing, but to serve Hashem. All of a sudden, people become critics and auditors. Everyone all of a sudden has an opinion. Oh, are you sure that uh there's a interest for uh this kind of book? Are you sure that you're not speaking a little too strong to people? Because you know people are weak. So perhaps you have to be a little softer on them. Who asked you for guidance or advice about how I should speak or how I should write? Did I ask you? Did I send you a personalized private uh h exclusive request perhaps maybe with a check asking you, "Dear so and so, I truly need your guidance and advice of how to speak to the world because surely you must be a master of words even though you've never given a single speech or a single teachings and in fact don't even know what you're talking about even for yourself. But I need it. Did I DO IT? NO. BUT YET, YOU SEE, every average person that feels they have a thing or two to say that their two cents are perhaps not really two cents, but really they're a two billion cents. They're very valuable and they have an opinion. And you know, Rabbi, I think you should teach this. You know, Rabbi, I think you should give a lecture about this. You know, Rabbi, I think you're too strong on this. You know, I disagree with what you said about this. Wait, did I ask you? Did I ask you how and who and for training or anything? No. And this is not just for me. This is this is a common denominator throughout all of history where anyone that wants to go and sanctify Hashem's name, you will see the critics suddenly come out of the ground like worms and they all have an opinion. Wait, you have an opinion about our how we run our organization? What? You think we're giving too much money out to help the poor? We should keep some money for oursel. Oh, I should buy a house because I rent my house and therefore you think I should own a house and instead of me renting a house, I should just take people's donations, pretend like I'm giving it to poor people, and then do what you said, buy a house because it's a good investment. Oh, wow. You're a thief and you want me to be a thief like you? Ah, okay. I GOT YOU. NO, NO, WE'RE NOT. OH, so wait. At which point during this day did I ask you to come tell me how to run our organization and in fact at which point during your lifetime did you come up with the idea that you are qualified to give this type of idea. Do you run an organization? Do you have any experience running organizations helping people? Do you even care about anybody other than yourself? And generally speaking, you know, the conversation ends pretty quickly because the answers are usually they have no idea what they're talking about. But nonetheless, this is what happens in the world. Anytime you want to help sanctify Hashem's name, do something good for the sake of goodness, critics show up. The thief, no one criticizes. The corrupt politician, no one even looks at the corrupt company. No one even imagines they COULD EVER EVEN THROW a banana outside of a garbage pale. Everything they must be doing is good because they're successful. So, it must be good. And the reality is people all of a sudden do another role which is also become an auditor. What auditor they start telling you, listen, I think that uh really um there's some mistake going on. Oh, well, what's what's the mistake? Well, you said that you're going to donate uh $250,000 on Pesak uh to these people, right? But you showed a receipt that showed $248,990. So what happened to the other like you know $1,000 approximately? Well, I actually have the right I have the exact number if you if you really if I could show you. No, I can do the math. It's okay. I don't need you to show me the number. What happened with the $1,000? Yeah. Like did you guys did you just keep that for yourself? Is that like how how you make a living? Cuz you know, you don't work like a regular job, right? So, is that how you make your money? Like you you you got that $1,000 for yourself or did that just not go somewhere and you think to yourself like, "Wait a minute." SO YOU HAVE 24 HOURS IN a day and you've decided to allocate I don't know probably a certain amount of time a half hour an hour to think about this question to analyze these numbers in order to go and ask me this very important question of how come we advertise 250,000 that's being given to poor people and the receipt that we showed out of our own simply uh uh uh interest of showing it, not necessarily anybody requested, showed that it's a $1,000 short or to be exact, a,0 maybe that's how I that's how I live in a mansion and I have Ferraris and and and you know all all the billions that I have stored in and in in in my storage house next to the horses and the uh and the gold bars. That's how that's how I got it from that thousand. Yes, dude. When did you become an auditor? And this is coming and SAYS WHY DON'T they ask the Enrons the Worldcoms the Global Crossings which for some some of you are probably foreign names but these are multi-billion dollar companies that cheated their investors, their customers and anyone in between for years without anyone even beeping at them until it was too late. Why didn't anybody ask them questions? Why didn't anybody ask the major banking companies that suddenly from one day to the next, one day they told you everything is great, the next day they told you wait uh we have some material uh uh issues with our financial reporting for the last two years which uh could very well uh deem the organization worthless. Excuse me. You have something in what? Why didn't you tell this two years ago? Where were how did this all happen? No one asked them. major companies, Jewish or otherwise. They've done studies on companies and nonprofit organizations where they literally there's reports out there you can find, I believe, for free that show that your average multi-billion dollar nonprofit organization that pays millions of dollars to the executives running it. Nearly 90 cents out of every dollar is actually given to people that have nothing to do with the cause. Meaning you donate $100 at best $10 actually goes to the cause while the other 90 goes to line people's pockets. But nobody questions them. No one stops donating to them. But yet if a person is trying to build a yeshiva or trying to build a something to sanctify Hashem's name, you see that many people all of a sudden have a question, a lot of questions of how this and how that. Now, of course, to answer that first question that I mentioned before with the $250,000 and $1,000, of course, there was a following receipt that we also had and showed that even more than what uh we collected, we ended up giving. So this satisfied this uh this auditor which was really not an auditor was just an annoying person that didn't even donate but nonetheless these types of things happen. Why do they happen? Sayski that if you have bad on your mind, evil on your mind, then the the evil inclination is your partner. And he's going to help you by simply blinding everybody else's eyes from seeing what you're doing. in fact even give you some partners and co-conspirators to help you to help your cause to cheat to defraud to lie to create a bigger havoc and damage in the world. But if you're pro probably trying to do your best to do good in the world and sanctify Hashem's name, then of course this is the atomic bomb against the against the Satan and he's going to do everything possible to stop you to put something in your way to discourage you to weaken you. So he's going to send you a bunch of people to just annoy you, get in your way, slow you down. And this is actually one of the things we learn from this para. Why? Because we see that the golden calf idolatry no one questions. Christianity people simply accept the lie to be true. Everyone knows that there are literal mistakes in the New Testament. But yet 2.8 8 billion people accept it as if it's true. Over 30% of world population follows Christianity in some form or another more than any other religion even more than Islam. Despite the fact that even Christian scholars admit the fact that there are serious mistakes that are simply unanswerable such as wrong addresses, wrong dates, wrong names. But yet over 30% of of the world accepts this to be true. You have the in the wrong place which you can verify with your own eyes because it still exists. You have problems with verses. You have proven corruption of the actual scripture itself. But yet people accept it. You have archaeological evidence that shows you it's false, but yet people believe it to be true. It's not very different than Islam, which has obviously, as I've mentioned before, many mistakes in it as well. things that could have never happened such as the fact of saying that Jesus was the uh uh nephew of Moses even though there was a thousand years apart and Miriam the uh mother of Jesus was not sister of Moshe. They lived again a thousand years apart. Miriam died in the desert along with Aon and uh and Moshe. But yet over two billion people believe the Quran as if it's the word of God. Even though it has mistakes that are simply unanswerable. You don't need there to be any more mistakes for you to simply throw the whole thing into Never Neverland. You don't need to find a mistake in every page even though you can. You don't need to. Why? Once you have a single mistake, it's no longer divine. Now, of course, people say, "Yeah, but the Torah is also has mistakes." No, Torah doesn't have mistakes. In fact, the Torah cannot have mistakes and it actually proving any other religion to be true. Meaning, the only hope that a person can have if they're trying to go against the Torah is by saying, "Okay, the Torah would have a mistake and therefore there is no God." But that's obviously stupid and easily provable to be otherwise because the God of Israel is very much real and you could literally see it in the creation. But needless to say, a person is going to question Judaism but not Islam. Question Judaism but not Christianity. Why? Because the lie is like garbage. And the garbage attracts all the flies, attracts all the things that want easy. So a person that doesn't study, person that's not willing to change their life, a person that's not willing to be a servant of God is going to be like a fly to falsehood. A person that wants to serve God is going to have a much harder time at first. Why? because they're climbing a mountain and there's constantly going to be different messengers of the Satan. They're going to try to slow him down, slow her down. Oh, don't do this and don't do that. So, here we see that if you're planning on being a servant of God and you're planning on living in heaven forever and you only want good forever, don't expect it to be easy. It won't. It's not supposed to be. Now, on the other hand, if somebody else's evil path seems to be easy, don't believe the hype. He's stealing. He's in a cash advance business, robbing people of highinterest loans, taking advantage of all types of corrupt legal policies, taking advantage of the weakness of of society, of people's ignorance, people stealing, people committing adultery, people are portraying themselves as if they are servants of God even though they're preaching idolatry and in reality they don't even care about the idolatry. They care about all the money that comes along with it. And instead of publicizing even their false cause, all they do is simply publicize themselves in every single paper in order for you to give them more money, buy them another plane. For some reason, they feel like they need five private jets because one is not enough. So a person that sees that don't believe that just because they're successful therefore they're going in the right path because first and foremost you should also always know that there is more behind the scenes that you don't see and number two always know that the Satan part of his job is to give the illusion that evil is good. The other thing that we learn in the para is divine love. What is divine love? Now, of course, we can go into a whole lecture about just this. We're going to try to cut it short. Maybe try to keep it to about 15 or 20 minutes before you guys start asking questions. Again, I will try. It may not succeed in only being 15 or 20 minutes. But we see that in chapter 38 of Vay in the book of Exodus, one of the tools that was used in the Mishkan and also in Mikdash was the kio. Where did this kio come from? Hashem says to Mosheu to make a lather of copper, a kio and this came from the mirrors of the women. Now this brings up multiple questions. First question is, if you notice, many of the things that were in this Mishkan, this tabernacle were gold, silver. Why is this copper? I mean, it wasn't like we had a shortage of gold. There was an abundance. Why not make it out of gold, too? Second question is, the donors to make this kio were women. Why did the men get involved? In fact, why did the fact that the women donate make it even more special? Last but not least, this enormous amount of copper that the women donated was made into a kio. Why weren't they, if they're already going to donate this, why not use it for something else? Make a table out of it. I don't know, something else. The Evanza says that the women when we were in Egypt would beautify themselves daily just like Ishmael does. Meaning just like the nations do. And the same case is until today. Women care about their looks and beautify themselves. And one of the things that they used is as a tool to help themselves beautify themselves is a mirror. But in those days didn't have the mirrors of today. They had these very very shiny pieces of copper that they used as mirrors. And of course this reflected gave them a clear uh image of themselves and they were able to fix themselves, fix their hat, fix their head covering, fix whatever makeup, whatever they needed to beautify themselves. Now since this type of thing, this type of tool, a mirror could easily lead to sins where a woman could beautify herself in a inappropriate way. Meaning instead of being attractive, she wants to be attracting. She doesn't just want to be h beautiful for her husband. She wants to be beautiful for the clerk at the supermarket and her co-workers and some of the customers and perhaps even her friend from high school that she still talks to from time to time and maybe even the neighbor. So this type of tool of a mirror was something that Moshe Rabenu hated. Why? because it could lead to immorality, could lead to adultery. And he wanted to reject this donation because all the women came and they started donating this one after another. And Hashem says to Moshe, "Accept it and build a kio out of it because this is my favorite out of all of the things that are in the tabernacle." All of the things that are in IN THE MISHKAN, THIS IS MY FAVORITE. Meaning this ke that you're going to make from the women's mirrors is more of my favorite than the cherabs, the kodesh, the altar, the manura. THIS KIO IS MY FAVORITE. HASHEM SAYS, "WHY? Why is this Hashem's favorite says the Evan Ezra?" Because the daughters of Israel use these mirrors not to be immoral and to be immodest, but the opposite. when we were suffering the Holocaust for over a century in Egypt, 116 years of hardcore slavery the world has never seen, not before or after. Many people lost their desire to live. Now, you could fight in multiple ways if you don't give up. fight by just staying alive or you could do what the women did. Fight by creating a life. And what the women would do is knowing that their husband came from a long endless day of slavery and of course does not have any interest or energy or anything in order to bring another child to the world needless to say to any type of physical activity. The women knew this, but they also knew that the way to win the war is by bringing more children to the world, keeping the Jewish people alive. So as soon as the husband would come home, he would see his wife all beautiful, all with makeup yet modest and prepared for him. And then she would show him himself in the mirror. And she would say to him, "Look at you. Look how much of a mess you look like, but then look at me and how beautiful I am. Oh, let's look at you again. Look, you're a mess, but I'm beautiful." And this was all with not an insulting manner, but rather to entice him to see how beautiful his modest wife is and create a desire for him to want to build a family. And Hashem says, "These righteous women brought many Jewish children to the world, even while they were in Egypt." And therefore, I want you to take these mirrors that they're donating because they realize that they no longer need to use this trick because now they're free. But yet, this is a major sacrifice for them that they're giving this Because this is going to be made into a kio. This kio is going to be used either to fix a marriage or end a life. Why? Because the water from this kio will be given to drink. But to any weward woman that suspected of cheating on her husband, of committing adultery, she has to drink the water from this. This water will also have the name of God in it as well because they're going to the Quran will write the name of God on there on a uh scroll and then dip it into the water. The ink will go into the water and this whole process that's mentioned in is what she has to drink. If she did not cheat, she did not lie to her husband, she did not commit adultery, she'll be blessed with children. If she already has children, she'll have even more. She'll have any good blessings she want. If she has ugly children, her new children will be beautiful. If she has stupid children, her children will be smart. Literally, everything that's negative in her life will turn into positive. But if she did cheat, she did lie, she did commit adultery, then as a result of drinking that water, she will blow up and die on the spot. And this will at least end that sin, and the marriage and sanctify God's name. So I want you to take this these mirrors and make this special kio out of it. the balot to him. It's a it's said that he wrote the ballot to him in a single night as a gift to his father because he was so poor that he did not have money to buy his father a mishut. So he wrote the Balim which is an extraordinary work of genius you can't even do with a computer needless to say in a single night or even in a single year but he did and he does something really extraordinary where he shows how every word that's repeated in the Torah in is connected to each other. meaning there's no way that Hashem used the same word more than once in a Tanakh for no reason. They're always connected. And he says what we see here is that Hashem calls the mirrors the the colorful mirrors. In the book of Genesis, it also says, but it says the it's same word, but what you see at night, the appearance of something that's at night. In the book of Ezekiel, by the way, this was in Genesis 6:2. Then in the book of Ezekiel chapter 8:3 and also chapter 40:2, Ezekiel says, the appearance of God. So the says this shows that as a result of abandoning these these mirrors because they could lead to immoral sins at night. Hashem gifted those women with the shina resting upon them because these women abandoned the desires of this world and gave their mirrors to the Mishkan and as a result the spirit of Hashem the rested upon them and as Robert Fry says they knew the secret of using beauty in a modest way in order to create kaduca in the home instead of using the beauty that Hashem gave them in an immodest way and creating sins and said to themselves that since we're out of Egypt, we don't need to use this trick anymore. It's best to simply give it to the Mishkan so we don't even think about sins because Hashem gifts beauty to women and they can use that beauty in a modest way or immodest way. If she takes the beauty that Hashem gave her and make sure that it's designated for her husband, her husband alone while she's at work, while she's in the streets, while she's shopping, she's always covered. She's again attractive but not attracting. She covers her body. She doesn't wear things that are tight. She doesn't wear things that define her body or give show the definition of her body. She covers herself. So people see a classy married woman. On the other hand, a woman can do the exact opposite and do what unfortunately many women do, which is the exact opposite. At home, she wears pajamas and perhaps looks like she just woke up 24 hours a day. But if she goes to the supermarket or work or some type of meeting, even if the meeting is with the gardener and the pool guy, suddenly she wears her most elaborate, fancy, and exotic uh wares. Why? Because she wants to be attracting. She wants the guy to remember her and think about her even if he's married and even if he's in a marriage act. This is a wicked woman. Now says these women brought sadikim to the world because as a result of having this gift, this divine love that they expressed to Hashem and Hashem giving back to them, they would go to the Mishkan. They would go to the opening of the Mishkan at the gate. They'd start praying to Hashem. And then when they would be with their husband, they would have children that would sadikim. The greatest sages of the generation came from these women. And the kio was the one thing in the tabernacle that did not have measurements. And the reason why is because Hashem knew that this is a big sacrifice for these women to give their beautiful mirrors. They still had mirrors. They still had things to use, but not this one. Not this expensive, beautiful one with a history. Why? because Hashem wanted to take all of them because he knew that it was a sacrifice and he did not want any woman that wants to already got to the point of making such a big sacrifice to be rejected. So he said there's no measurement for this kio as much as they give you that's how big you build it. Now, when it comes to modesty, many women that first hear about it, they say, "Well, that may be relevant 100 years ago, but it's not relevant today." That's a mistake to think number one that it's not relevant today. But it's even a bigger mistake to think that women only started becoming not modest today. In fact, immodesty has always been around since the beginning of time. Whether it's the parat that talks about the immorality of that day or Sodom and Gomorrah or the women of Egypt, the well known for their immodesty and needless to say for their lesbianism. Lesbianism was not a new creation either. LGBTQ is ancient. There's nothing new about it. In fact, there are even the uh from 900 years ago to talk about people that change their uh their sex organs already from 900 years ago. They wrote about do you treat him as a woman now because even though he's a man biologically because he did certain things to change his body, surgeries, hormones. Nothing new. LGBTQ has nothing new. I modesty. Need needless to say in the book of Isaiah, the prophet rebukes the women for walking around with a very high heels that have bells on them and also on top of certain uh uh per um things that were perfumes and stepping on these heels very hard as soon as they walked next to a man in order to get the man's attention because they wanted the man's attention. men that weren't their husband, men that weren't even Jewish, and the prophet rebukes them and eventually they get punished severely where all of that good smell that they tried to get people to notice them turn into bad smell and the most awful places, the most awful punishments that they got. Eventually, the most embarrassing things, the most horrific things happened to those women. Who were these women? These women were the wives of the leadership at that time and they would walk around in immodest high heels. Again, nothing new. This is over 2,000 years ago. So when a woman says, "Oh, immodesty that that's everybody's walks around like that. So therefore, it's okay. There's no such thing. Modesty will always be relevant. Immodesty will unfortunately is going to be around until the Mashiach comes and ends it. But until then, you have a choice. Either to be a lover of God and thereby accept the divine love you get in return or an enemy of God. Because if you walk around in an immodest way, that means that you're going to be a hazard for society. Every man is going to want to look at you. Even if his wife is right next to them, even if his wife just gave birth and she feels uh a little bit uh uh sub, you know, subconsciously she feels a little bit less confident, a little bit further from a husband and he cares less because he's looking at you. And all those husbands that think that perhaps they need to leave their wife because there are there is you and there's other people like you that they believe they can get. All of those sins and much more go to your account and you become an enemy of God. You become a hazard. So that's why the cabala responds to women who say, "Okay, fine. Maybe I won't walk around like some of these uh celebrity women. Uh but uh still, do you think God really cares about a few inches, few inches longer, a few inches shorter? I mean, he has such a big world. Do you really think he cares about these few inches? So the cabala says that the name Hashem uses for the issues of modesty is what is foundation. Anyone that has ever built anything even if it's Legos or a building or a house knows with the foundation you have to be more precise than anything else. because a foundation that has mistakes in it becomes a tragedy in the making. So yes, in the world of Torah, Hashem does care about every single inch that will either create or destroy modesty. The phono says that the tabernacle versus the first and the second beta mikdash was something very different as far as kaduca. Why? You would think that the first beta mikdash this is a huge building beautiful king salmon built it a lot of holiness in it. The came down in the appearance of a lion, but yet the tabernacle, Hashem was always there. Meaning he didn't have to come down. There was no like he was always there. He was there constantly. In fact, the holiness in the tabernacle that was much simpler. And of course, anyone that heard about the second bet mikdash that was renovated by Herod that the says anyone that didn't see the second beta mikdash never saw a beautiful building. That's how beautiful it was before it was destroyed. But yet the wasn't even there. 420 years no first bet mdash had but even if you combine both of the first and the second betdash they don't compare to what had in the desert why because saw that is constantly doing chuva and therefore hem was in the tabernacle [clears throat] the Mishkan more than the first and a second bet mikdash combined because the way of hem is to put himself where people's hearts and actions are following him. If you want God to be a constant part of your life, not only are those inches relevant, but everything is relevant. The more of God you want in your life, the more precise you have to be with his laws. And that's why when King David heard from Hashem that he's going to die on a Shabbat, he pleaded with Hashem to give him another day to live so he could die on on Sunday and be buried on Sunday because you can't bury people on Shabbat. Hashem says, "No, on Sunday already is the time for your son Schlommo to become a king." And one king cannot go into the kinghood of a second of another. Even if it's your son, it's already precise from heaven. Okay? So, you know what? Take me out of the world early on Friday. Hashem says, "No, heaven forbid we do such a thing." Why? Because one day of your Torah is worth more to me than all of the all of the sacrifices that your son will make. You learning Torah is worth more than all the sacrifices because that learning Torah is the true servitude of Hashem. Sacrifices a person could make sometimes only because they have money. donations are not necessarily always a a a symbol of righteousness, but learning and following the Torah, there's no greater servitude than that. So to finalize the point for all of the people that are watching, both ladies and their husbands, if you choose to have more of God in your life, and therefore you know that modesty is a prerequisite, as Hashem says, a woman that's not modest, I run away from her. That's the puk. So I don't see a thing of nakedness among you meaning im modesty and run away from you. So a woman that's immodest, God runs away from you. You want God to be next to you. You want God to be a constant part of your life. Modesty is a prerequisite. But now you're going to say, "Yeah, but listen, being modest now in this society, in New York, in Brazil, in Australia, in England, in, you know, in London, in uh Montreal, in Israel, Natana, whatever, you know, all these different places, everyone says, "No, HERE IT'S DIFFERENT." TODAY IT'S DIFFERENT. And in fact, it's not only the location. Still me being modest, covering my body, I'm going to, you know, people are not going to think I'm pretty anymore. And I'm not going to find a husband or if I have a husband, he's going to want, he's going to leave me, and I'm going to be alone. I'm scared to be alone. And and you know, it's people going to make fun of me. These are all the words of the evil inclination, the Satan that's putting it into your mind that all of these horrible things will happen to you as a result of following the way of God. By being more modest, you think that no one's going to marry you. You think that, you know, no one's going to like you. You think that you're uh, you know, going to be made fun of. That's what the will tell you. The truth is the opposite. which is in fact modesty creates more beauty, shows more beauty. A woman that's modest is much more beautiful than a woman that's not modest. Same woman modest versus immodest. Yes, you may have people's sensual craziness in their mind thinking that oh this. No one wants to marry the woman that has no arms and no legs because she forgot to wear the sleeves. No one wants to marry the immodest woman. They may want to do all types of sins with them, but they don't want to marry them. Everyone wants to marry the princess that's wearing a gown. Everyone wants to have a family with the princess, with the queen that's wearing a gown. Everyone. That's a reality. So why? Because again in one place you see lust, sins, and the other place you see mitzvah, class, righteousness, preservation. So in fact, if you're worried about beauty, whether it's from your husband or from someone in the future, for sure you'll be much more beautiful with you being more modest. If you're worried that your husband is not going to accept you because he wants you to do this and he wants you to do that and he doesn't like your new modest clothes, stick with Hashem and you're never going to lose. Why? Because the truth is that once your husband sees that you're standing up for something and he's going to notice you more because you have this modest clothes as a result that will actually make your marriage more solid not less solid because when you're immodest he's constantly going to compare you to everybody else. Why? Because you're immodest. His secretary is immodest. His neighbor is immodest. His competition is imodest. Everyone's immodest. So unless you're going to become one of these Hollywood, the reality is you're constantly going to be in competition. But if you are modest, you're no longer in a competition. Why? You are one of a kind. And in his mind, he knows that only he has the rights to see what you look like, whereas everyone else, they're public property. Everyone gets to see Last but not least, if you're worried about finding a marriage and so on, one of the greatest gifts that Hashem gives women as a result of following his ways is children. Many women get married and think that children is a given. You have a husband, you have a wife, you have a desire to have kids. You figure you have kids. And many people wake up and realize, whoa, we've been together two, three, four, five years already. No kids. Maybe there's something wrong. They go to the doctor. Doctor says, no, nothing's wrong. So why is not happening? We don't know. Or something sometimes is wrong, but we're not really sure what it is. And year after year passes and everyone's getting older, everyone's getting sadder, everyone's getting more frustrated, everyone becoming more patient, more impatient. And she feels miserable and he feels miserable and the time is passing and no kids. Two years, four years, eight years, 10 years, no kids. I've had this literally proven in front of my own eyes countless times where I've advised women to take on modesty. Obviously, keep the mitzvot, keep Shabbat, keep kosher, keep the basics, but specifically make sure you take on modesty. Cover your hair with a hat or a scarf and be modest at all times. And I've seen this time and time again. Miracles happen. women that were told by doctors they will never have a baby because of this that or the other thing within nine months had a kid. I had a woman one time she was single. She told me, "Listen, I'm older. I don't know. I'm 40 years old already. Now you want me to be modest? How am I GOING TO FIND A HUSBAND? I haven't found a husband already. I'm 40 years old. Now you want me to be modest? I'm never going to find anybody." I told her if you listen to a human being then yeah you may be right you may be wrong but you're not listening to human being I'm telling you what Hashem says modesty is necessary you're doing good you're keeping Shabbat you're keeping you're giving taka you're wonderful person but you're going to gain home unless you become modest she got the point she became modest less than five years have passed she's married she has a couple of kids I believe another went on the way. 40 years she lived in this world. At least half of that time she was looking for husbands. Half of that time she wanted to have a kid. Literally it was one of her life's dreams to have a kid. Can't find a husband. Can't find nothing. What does she do? She listens to Hashem. She becomes modest. She was already keeping mit. She already did chubah started keep but modesty was tough. The modesty is the whole thing. It's not just the clothes, the way you behave and so on. Literally within less than five years, she found the husband. The marriage is amazing. They have kids. The doctors are shocked and they have no idea how such a thing could be because technically according to their calculations, this shouldn't be. That's why Hashem runs the world. And the says the greatest of doctors goes to gay because he thinks that he becomes a little god. So it's important to know that following the way of hashem is what amishkan. And if a person takes on the laws of the Torah, the written Torah, the oral Torah, and makes that priority number one in their life, you're guaranteeing yourself that you will win. Ultimately, you will win. That means that despite the difficulties, the ups and downs, the doubts, the confusions, the naysayers, the corruption that surround you, you are on a winning path. Young or old, married or single, doesn't make a difference. You follow the Tawra, you can guaranteed to win. You don't follow the Torah. You simply become part of the equation, part of the corruption, part of the lies, part of the adultery, part of the cheating, part of the illusion of the world that makes it seem as if it exists for all these people. All the while, Hashem says, "No, it's for my chosen people that follow my way." So this is some of the things that we learned from this week's para. There's a lot more we can say, but I know you guys have questions. So now we're going to have a quick drink and then you guys can start asking some questions. Okay, since we have been answering Facebook questions for several years now, we're going to start off and give some of the privileges to our uh friends on Tik Tok. Let's see. All right. When was Israel established as a state? If you're talking about the um modernday Israel, then that's 1948. If you're talking about the land of Israel and you know, Amis is the Jewish people, that was at Mount Si. At Mount Si, the Torah tells us, is when Hashem made us a people. Uh that's when Judaism began. Before that we were Hebrews. Uh Judaism was not a uh religion yet per se. Uh you know because the Torah is what made us uh Jewish people. Now at the same time that Hashem gave us the uh the Torah he also uh gave us told us about the promises that he made to us to our forefathers that preceded Mount Si. And one of those promises was the land of Israel. Which means that God that owns the world, which includes the Jewish people and the non-Jewish people and every single thing that's out there, he creates it. He owns it. He decided that out of the entire planet, there's a certain piece of land that belongs to his chosen people, and that's the Jewish people. So according to God, the owner of the world, that means that the land of Israel has always been the Jewish people's land. Now, you of course or anybody else out there can refute it, can reject it. You can do whatever you want. You can actually smash your head against the wall a few times. Perhaps your mind will change. But either way, it doesn't change the words of God. God doesn't change. He's not a human. Even Bil the prophet of the Gentiles that lived at the time of Moses says God is not a man that he would change his mind. He does not lie. So a person this is in paratalak you can look over there and uh and a key is to understand that if the creator of the world decided that the land of Israel belongs to the Jews and he doesn't change his mind and he never said that he took it uh and gave it to someone else that means that the land belongs to the Jews. Now you can continue asking the same question over and over again and expect a different result. But I could tell you that even in the world of science they would uh simply determine that you and your people are insane uh for thinking that it would change simply because doing the same thing over and over again expecting it to change is the definition of insanity. Now, I have told you guys multiple times that there's actually many Palestinians that uh actually say that the uh the Jewish people are not they're not necessarily their friends, but they're not their enemies like people think. In fact, the enemies are the Arab leaders. uh and in fact there was an article published just a few days ago where the people in Palestine are actually suing the leadership and uh actually uh in essence banned them or telling people to avoid them uh telling people to reject the leaders number one because the leaders have simply taken all of the money that the Palestinian people uh received from Israeli government, American government, uh you know other governments but in addition to that they are torturing their own people. Meaning the Arab leadership is the worst enemy of the Palestinian people. And the leadership doesn't actually live in Palestine. They already went to Turkey. They went to uh um Lebanon. They went to uh uh different countries in the Middle East. Some even went to uh to England. Uh but they still run the show. you know, it's like a mafia. So, they have a uh situation now where the people are revoling against their own Palestinian leaders. You can find this on the news. This is not a something I created out of thin air. And the reality is is that there is even a nonprofit organization run by a group of people that represent many, many people in the Palestinian community, people that actually live in Palestine. and they interviewed these people, but for the protection of their uh lives, uh they hid their identities to a certain extent. Either way, you can find this on the net uh and you could see these people complaining about not the Jewish people, not the Israeli people, but they're complaining about the horror treatment uh by the Arab terrorist leaders that they have. So you even have them make statements where they say even if the Israelis are not my friend when they were around us they never bothered us. Whereas Hamas is constantly torturing the people of Palestine, constantly beating them up, throwing up throwing them into jails for no reason, uh killing some of them, impoverishing them, uh literally destroying lives one after another, forcing people to live in a uh place where they've turned into some to look like barracks and and and and uh as if it's under war. uh shooting missiles a against the people of Israel and running away leaving the people that are living there uh in in jeopardy. Why? Because you know obviously there's going to be a uh uh you know missiles hit back hitting them back. So the point is is that the Arab leadership is the real enemy of the Palestinian people. Not just because I said it, but because this nonprofit organization that is very wellestablished, comprised of many people that actually still live in the area of the Palestinian people. They're not complaining about the Jewish people. Not even once. You can watch, I don't know, there's I don't they probably have 30, 40, 50 videos, however many videos they have. You can watch them on YouTube. You can watch them on their website. uh you'll see not a single time do they complain against Israel. Who do they complain against? The Arab leadership. So you are not aware of that because you either don't care about the truth or you don't actually live in the area in the first place. you're just one of these lefty liberal losers that likes to uh uh say things uh you know nothing about uh because it sounds right and it sounds liberal and it sounds righteous. Uh but you should know that the people that are actually living there are not crying foul against the Israelis but rather against the Arab leadership. So, educate yourself at least before you come with more questions and accusations because I will be here to make you look stupid every single time. for Next question. Uh, let's see. He dodges my questions. I don't know what your question is, so I'm not really sure what question I do. I usually don't really dodge questions. Okay. Not seeing questions right now. See, we support Israel. Thank you. Okay. He thinks we're in Okay. No. Where's the question? a lot of support messages. Thank you very much. I appreciate all the support, but please um I like the likes and all the hearts and all the little things you guys send me. I It's wonderful, but I want questions. It's more helpful for people. Um support is okay. Support. Okay, I'm going have to There's this one guy that keeps saying that I don't answer his questions even though he's not asking a question. Oh, here we go. Does Judaism have any special praying methods like Islam? Uh, where do you think Islam learned every custom that they have? Judaism was born at Mount Sai 3,334 years ago approximately more precisely. Islam is a 1400 year old religion, which means it's approximate 2,000-year difference between the two. Now, the Jews and the Muslims have lived among each other uh since the beginning. And uh before Judaism, all of the Arab people were idol worshippers like the Egyptians. In fact, before Judaism, the only thing that existed was monotheism of the Hebrews, believing in a single God and whoever followed them and idolatry. And this is the way it was. It was after Judaism was born. There was Judaism and then you had idolatry. All forms of idolatry. idolatry from Egypt, idolatry from different parts of Asia, idolatry of uh all types of things. Now then you had Christianity, another form of idolatry but a an idolatry in disguise uh born which uh initially looked like Judaism. It looked like Judaism so much that uh many confused it with Judaism because at first the uh Christianity um was a uh started by Jews uh that went you know went against and uh then they obviously recruited a bunch of illiterate uh poor people that uh didn't know what to do and how to do it and they saw this as a system that uh works for them and they ended up recruiting a lot people that were destitute and illiterate and couldn't question the system that were gentiles and and built it up that way to uh you know to eventually become a significant but when it became uh what it became today is after the partnership with the Romans which were idoltors. Now either way at this this until Christianity comes along you only have idolatry of all kinds and then you have Judaism. Then you have Judaism, idolatry of all kinds and then the idolatry of Christianity which is the first 300 years of Christianity. There's a lot of changes uh a lot of significant changes. Then you have Islam coming along 600 years later. Islam being a monotheistic religion believing in a single god but yet believing in certain things that are heretical or against the Torah. Islam had to get a foundation. Where's this monotheistic foundation comes from? Even your Quran says it comes from the people of the book. Comes from the Torah. So much so that the Quran itself says that if you do not have uh you don't you don't know what the word of truth is, you don't know um you don't have access to uh what the what the truth is, what the uh uh Quran says, go to the Jews, go to the people of the book. So even the Quran testifies to the fact that the Quran relies on the Torah. Same thing with the New Testament where although there are parts of the New Testament that are anti-semitic where they're calling for the destruction of the Jews and they're calling them the the synagogue of Satan and they're also saying that there's only 144,000 Jews uh will survive the time of the Messiah. All this mumbo jumbo that the these idol worshipping leaders say. Still at some points you have a uh even Jesus himself saying that he's not here to change uh even a yud uh out of the Torah meaning that ude is the smallest letter you know uh physically smallest letter out of the entire Hebrew alphabet. It looks like comma looks like a comma. He says even a yud I won't change from the Torah. Meaning the Torah is perfect. Uh so the point being is is that there are parts of the New Testament that testify to the fact that uh the founders of Christianity were very fond of and very big advocates and believers of the Torah. Obviously things changed and they became enemies. But the point being is is that uh the customs and the cultures that you have in uh uh in both Christianity and uh Islam are many times they're similar to Judaism that existed before them. That that's where they in essence broke off of. They're not similar coincidentally. They're similar because that's the way that's where they got it from. So, I'll give you some examples. They uh one of the um things that they do in uh uh in in Islam is, you know, they pray five times a day. This started with the Jews praying three times a day. And since Islam leaders wanted to compete with the Jews, they wanted the Jews to convert. They wanted to show them that they're more righteous. So, they said, "Oh, you pray three times a day. We'll pray five. We have a uh uh a time during the year where we bow to Hashem during yum kipu by going all the way to the ground with the hand in the face all the way to the ground. This today is only done once a year. In the old days before Islam, this was done every day. But after Islam started doing it on a regular basis which created different types of problems, the Jewish leaders decided that it is no longer needed for uh uh uh to do it every single day in order to distinguish ourselves from the Muslim people so people don't think that we're the same. meaning that it is a constant uh effort by the Jewish people to distinguish themselves from the non-Jews that are constantly doing things to make themselves look like the Jews. It's not the opposite. Jews are never trying to look like the goim if they're trying to serve Hashem. The only times where Jews are looking to look like like goim, you which means the nations, not a derogatory word. Even the Jews are considered goim. They're considered nations. They're part of the nations. There's an it's Hashem calls everybody goim. But when I when I say goim, I'm referring to the nations. If I say Jews and then goim, I'm referring to there's the Jews and there's the rest of the nations. The point being is is that the uh uh the Jews are never looking to look like the rest of the nations, the rest of the goim. If they're serving Hashem, if they're serving themselves, they're looking to become, I don't know, like like the rest of the people, then obviously they're not serving Hashem. The point being is is that that uh uh bowing all the way to the floor that comes from Judaism doesn't come from Islam. Uh the uh slaughtering the animal that comes from Judaism doesn't come from Islam. Now the way we slaughter the animal is different than the way the Muslims slaughter the animal. So much so that the Jews if they slaughter the animal but according to our definition that animal does not fit the kosher standards either because there's something with the lung uh or because the uh the the the slaughter wasn't in a single act or other different types of precise instructions the butcher did not follow. Now, that animal can be eaten by a Christian that eats whatever moves and whatever doesn't move. But it can also be eaten by the Muslim that needs to also have what's called halal meat. Meaning that the kosher meat of the Jews is always halal. And in fact, even the non-coosher meat that was slaughtered by a Jew is considered halal. But the halal meat is never considered kosher for the Jew. So again, slaughtering comes from Judaism. Uh the uh uh that's another part of the religion that's again similar in uh in Christianity. There are similarities of course uh you know there is a thing that's called Ash Wednesday that the Christians have where a a bunch of them put some dirt on their forehead and they walk around and everyone that's not Christian uh you know thinks that they perhaps forgot something on their head and they want no let me take that off and uh you know looks a little funny and silly uh to people that are not familiar with it even though it's uh for them it's their religious servitude. Uh but the truth is that where do they get this from? This is again one of the things that the Jews do. As part of mourning, we put ashes on our forehead. As part of morning, we put ashes on our forehead. That's exactly what we do. So it's not a Christian creation. This is something that existed since, you know, Judaism existed. What part of morning is putting ashes on our forehead. Now again, you may not see it every day in the Jewish world because we don't have a special designated day of the year to put ashes on our head. That's one of the things that the Christians created in order to again use something uh they stole from us uh and uh you know plagiarize from us and in essence make it their own. Uh so so they have that and uh there are many many things in so many words I can tell you that a large part of the customs and uh even ways of uh uh servitude that the Christians and the Muslims have are things that are similar to Jewish uh um actions uh and you and usually stem from Jewish actions. I mean the whole confession, you know, people that go and confess to some priest. Where do you think that comes from? Comes from Judaism. We confess every single day to Hashem. Uh we confessed every day to Hashem that we made mistakes. Uh we'll do chuva. But since we believe that we have direct connection to Hashem while the Christian belief is that you cannot have a direct connection to God, you need somebody in the middle. You need Jesus, you need Mary, you need some priest, you need some pedophile, you need all types of things. We don't have middlemen. We could talk to Hashem whenever we feel like it. Uh so so again the confession part comes from Judaism. It's not a uh it's not something that the Christians created. Uh the um uh name a name a name a uh uh um something that the Muslims do or the Christians do and I could show you uh easily that uh this is something that comes from Judaism. Why? Because again Judaism preceded both of them. And in fact, even the founders of both religions um you know testify as such. Now again this does not mean that they are uh friends of ours or that they uh like us you know because usually it's just like uh somebody that uh you know works for you and you help them and you pay them and you feed them and you help them in every way. One day some, you know, they leave you and they start their own company. And uh even if they uh don't say anything against you while they work for you and while you're feeding them, while you're helping them, very often the people that leave end up having uh you know you as a uh primary target. They turn you into a enemy. They turn you into a competition. Even if you don't want to compete with them, they turn you into that. Why? That's the nature of people. Nature of people is to be ungrateful. The further a person is from Hashem, the more ungrateful they are. So this is the nature of people. And unfortunately, this is something that I've experienced quite a bit of in my life. Uh where people are naturally ungrateful all the way to the point where have uh already at this point I expect everyone to be ungrateful. Why? Because that's simply the majority of how people how they behave. They not are not necessarily ungrateful right from the start. Usually everything starts in the right path. But at some point or another, people will express their lack of gratitude. And if you ever uh want to do good for the sake of people, don't do good for the sake, you know, to help people. Uh if you want something in return, if you want something in return, don't do it. Why? Because it's it's not going to work. If you want to do good for the sake of doing good because this is part of your role in the world, this is part of serving Hashem, do it. But if you want to do good because you want people to give you credit, you want people to show gratitude, anything like that, don't do it. Why? You're not going to get thank yous. You're not going to get thank yous. You're not going to get uh initially people are going to give you all types of things and and they love you and I changed my life and all that stuff. But ultimately expect everything everybody is like on the um uh you know the the the sand clock. You know the little grains fall down there's a little clock and eventually all the sand comes out and you have to turn it around cuz time ran out. That's in essence most relationships are like that. Most relationships are like that. And in fact, one thing that you'll see with experience is that the ones you invest the most in are the ones you'll be hurt the most from. Now again, I'm I'm not trying to discourage you guys from developing relationships with students or teachers or people in general. I'm simply telling you things that you learn with time so you uh um have the right expectations at life and don't live through uh uh as great of a disappointment. Because if you have the right expectation then again you know it's never pleasant to be disappointed by people but it's it's not as painful when you already don't expect much in return. Now again there are certain people that are wonderful people nice people and so on but if you are helping people for the sake of a thank you for the sake of credit or things like that you're doing it for the wrong reason. uh you'll you know you're not doing it for the right reason and and you're you're going to end up living a very very uh painful life and again you could either listen to me and uh benefit from my uh pain or you could ignore it then suit yourself learn from your own pain by all means. So everybody has to obviously make their choices. All right next question. I'm a gay Jewish man attracted to trans men. I'm in between a rock and a hard place. What should I do? If you are looking to follow the ways of God, um that means that you have to stop acting on your homosexual desires because God says that it's forbidden. It's considered an abomination. And in fact, uh, it is considered no different than beastiality. That's why in the Torah, anytime you see the, uh, Torah mention LGBTQ types of behavior, you'll see that the Torah also mentions beastiality. Uh, so perhaps it should be LGBTQB because the Torah has the B next to it. Uh, and Hashem calls all of that an abomination, which means disgusting in the eyes of God. Now, if you want to serve your master, your creator, and eventually go to heaven, you must cease any type of LGBTQB type of behavior and simply find a female, if you're a male, male if you're a female, your opposite gender, as a person to marry and build a nice Jewish home. Because you have certain desires, it doesn't mean you need to follow them. And in fact, the average person that uh learns Torah is not necessarily always going to have a clear mind, but you at least know what's the right thing to do, what the wrong is to do. Now, once you decide that you want to do the right thing, you have to figure out how to do it. Now you can say listen I have uh these desires but I uh you know I um I want to follow the Torah. So if a person is the typical homosexual male that is attracted to another male then simply you have to find one common denominator in the males that you're attracted to typically in a female which let's say for example you're a feminine male and you want masculine men find a masculine female and there you buy you could have a very perfectly kosher relationship with a mascul masculine female and it really shouldn't ma matter to you what kind of equipment they have. Doesn't make a difference and then you could have a kosher relationship that is not an abomination in the eyes of God. You're a Jew, you go with a Jewish woman. You're a gentile, you go with a gentile woman. No problem. You want a fe feminine woman, find a feminine woman. You want a masculine woman, find a masculine woman. Now, the interesting thing here is that you're saying that you are a Jewish man and you're interested in men that pretend to be women, which in essence shows that there's a very good possibility that all of your LGBTQ desires are simply false desires to simply do what's wrong and rebellious rather than to do what you're actually attracted to. And I can assure you that just like multiple students that have helped uh with this, if you learn our lectures, especially the ones from and other Musar that we teach and simply make a commitment to follow the ways of God, not only will you eventually uh uh have a much easier time to abandon this confusion and these types of desires, but you will be like some of my students that tell me literally they no longer have the desires at all. They have perfectly normal desires uh where men have attraction to women, women have attraction to men and and and literally as if this virus uh this spiritual virus was removed from their mind. And the truth be told is that it's it's important for a person to know that if you are doing things that cause you to constantly express uh yourself in order to let other people know about what you're doing. Uh it's you have to ask yourself why why are why is the LGBTQ be society so motivated to let everyone in the world know about what's going on in their bedroom or car or garbage pail or whatever they're doing. Why do I need to know the average person's crazy desires when I didn't ask him about it? And this has nothing to do with you. has to do with just to show you the corruption within the mentality. Ah, look at that. They removed me. Every time you mention LGBTQ, the uh They remove you with your uh your uh thing. So anyway, if you notice that if I were here to express my uh or somebody was here to express their uh heterosexual relationship, no one would really care. Why? What do I care? Why do I need to know what you do with your husband, your wife? What difference does it make? But yet the LGBTQ be walk around with a flag to let the whole world know. Why do you need to missionize your beliefs? What do I care? Did I ask you? Why do I need to know about what you do? Do does it's it's just such a demented thing that's become part of acceptable as part of society that again you have to ask yourself who is behind all of this and I can tell you for sure it is the Satan himself because only the Satan will want people to accept what was frowned upon and hidden and uh really uh considered an abomination by the vast majority of society throughout all of generation and somehow has become normalized. Now again even if a person uh you know has strong desires they lose control of themselves that does not mean that you have to share those things uh and that experience and those decisions with the public. You know, your average person that is not LGBTQ does not go around and tell the whole world about every little banana peel he ever slips on, every single relationship he he starts or abandons. And quite frankly, if he did it, no one would care. So, the people that are part of this LGBTQ are trying to make the world care because they're another form of anti-God society. Uh they're another form of enemies of the Torah. They're another form of uh amale that is a uh uh uh trying to create confusion. And anyone that just delves into it and thinks about it long enough will see that regardless of where you stand as far as your feelings, the way that they're practiced doesn't make sense. The way that the society tells you to practice them doesn't make sense. No different than how the kamas terrorists tell their people to express their uh their uh you know fight for freedom by simply killing themsel. Uh you know so it's it's a it's important for a person to think deeper about why they do what they do and why they follow certain people that they follow and they'll see that the ways of Torah always make sense. If you delve into them, you're always going to find an answer. Whereas if you uh delve into other things, you're never going to find something that makes sense. You'll see one convoluted issue turn into a more convoluted issue and it'll turn into more confusion and you'll always going to see that there is no actual pattern uh of consistency in any of these false beliefs. The only patterns that you have in them is a pattern of lies. That's the only thing you have. the pattern, you know, the the the the Christian sages are mean nothing to the uh modern Christians of today. The uh the uh uh Islamic sages are virtually meaningless to the uh Muslims of today. The uh uh people that advocated for all types of LGBTQ types of uh uh beliefs are virtually meaningless to your average, you know, uh uh lust uh uh uh chaser out there. It's it's just not it's they don't have any lineage. They don't have any foundation. They don't have any history and nothing. They have no connection to the past. They everyone is simply uh looking to satisfy their own uh desires and and and uh and craziness. And the truth is that things like this that don't have longevity, don't have history, don't have longevity. So uh if a person wants to uh be something uh a part of something that has a consistent uh truth uh that uh creates consistent success. The only way is the way of God and not any god that people create but the god of Israel, the Torah, Judaism and not the uh the Judaism that people make up uh because uh they want to call themselves homosexual and Jewish or uh you know trans and Jewish or reform and Jewish. No, it's none of these things uh uh are Judaism. You could put a Jewish next to anything, it doesn't make it Jewish. You know, there was a person that uh gave a uh Jewish bar mitzvah to his dog. Just because he called a Jewish bar mitzvah uh doesn't mean or bark mitzvah doesn't mean that Judaism takes any part in this, you know, forsaken act. And if you want Judaism, you have to go with orthodox Judaism because that's in essence the uh foundation that we had for the last several thousand years continued. That's it. Orthodox Judaism. Now, there's obviously customs among Orthodox Jews, whether it be the uh uh the customs of the Safhari Jews from Syria or Safari Jews from Morocco or Safari Jews uh that are part of uh Bkar or Safari Jews that are part of uh Libya or Ashkanagi Ashkenazi Jews from Poland or from different parts of uh Europe uh or Argentina or different parts of uh you know the Germany there's There's a lots of different uh uh you know uh choices as far as customs. You have the Yemenite customs, Ethiopian customs, uh Italian customs, uh Indian customs, uh Babylonian customs, which is the Iraqi Jews, uh the Persian customs from Iran. You have Jews coming from all walks of life from all parts of the world. But the uh common denominator among all of them is that we all have the same exact foundation. The same shanuk, the same five books of Moses, the same gamarra and Mishna, the same the same foundation. Customs are, you know, the different parts of the culture of the surrounding areas that you live in. Whether you live next to uh Arabs or you live next to different uh uh gentile, you know, Gentiles from from Europe or or from Asia or whatever it is, that's that's that those are customs of how you're Americans, you know, these are customs. The the parts that are the most critical common denominator throughout the last 3,300 years is that the religion itself uh has a is the same no matter where you live. And that's why when many people immigrated to what's called modern day Israel today uh from different parts of the world, you saw that the tilin of Yemen was the same as what you had from Poland and the same as what you had uh from a uh uh um you know Usbekistan or or uh or Morocco or Syria or uh or Libya or Spain or different parts of the world. Everybody had the same tilin and the same tit and uh yes there were certain customary changes of how many uh loops you would have whether you use the shita of the ram or use the shita of different but all of us had the same number of strings the same number of corners it was all the same you know so so it's that's that's again let's see it's it's critical for a person to know that if you are part of orthodox Judaism you're going to have that common denominator that will obligate you to be modest and observe Shabbat and be kosher and uh and be honest and and so on. But uh if you're going to uh do things that are against that common denominator, that holy Torah that we have and just put Jewish next to whatever reformed uh mentality and behavior you have, whether that reformed is a reformed belief like Christianity and just call it Messianic Judaism or it's reformed like the reformed uh Jews that really have no connection to Judaism whatsoever. It's literally there's more reformed Jews that are not Jewish at all than there are Jewish reformed or you're going to be the uh you know the uh the uh conservative Jewish which is again in so many words means that you're going to simply uh be conservative with your investment into Judaism in so many words and just do only a few of the things that the Torah actually says and reject a lot of it. you know, s sort of like conservative investors in the stock market. Well, they have, you know, 90% of what their holdings are is in bonds, but, you know, they'll delve into uh 10 10% of the stocks. So, if the stocks were the uh uh you know, the Torah and then 90% will be the uh nonsense of uh of conservative because if that's really what it is, that's not Judaism. It's not Judaism. And unfortunately, it's the same concept with modern modern Jew, you know, modern orthodox. All that really means is that you've modernized the law. And in in so many words, pick and choose which one of the laws you simply don't want. Uh just like masi mas again used to say mas is masi. It comes from mas like a a um a saw. Mas is a saw as if you're cutting mitzvot. So it's same thing with modern orthodox. They decided that modesty is no longer an obligation. you know, uh, uh, rebuking, no longer obligation. Uh, you know, different Torah commandments are no longer obligatory and perhaps they're a choice. Uh, so again, if you want Judaism, you have to know the difference between what is the, you know, and what is the custom is not changeable. The from the Torah is not changeable. It's not something that you could simply just decide that you're not going to do it, but, you know, it's still Jewish. It's it's it's it's simply it's like saying this poisonous food, you know, it's well, it's still food. No, it's poison. It's not food. It's poison. So, it's a there's spiritual poison and there's uh other poison. Uh the spiritual poison is more dangerous. Okay. Next question. Uh could you please explain why the order of the construction of the Mishkan the built is different in these par than it was recorded in the par um not following I mean as far as far as the uh the Torah is not given in a um I spoke about this last week the Torah is not written in a uh uh order of things happening. uh so you know when when you expect you know you see something written that it happened at this time and then uh you know another thing happening uh let's say uh you know a paragraph later or a different para later it doesn't mean that that thing that was written later happened later many times it happened before so it's that's why it's important to read the commentary by Rashi uh and other because they explain all of the uh all of the things that uh could look like contradictions or need clarification and so on. Uh can noahhide eat a puffer fish that was prepared by an expert chef? Uh can they eat it? Uh yes, they can eat it, but uh should they eat it is a different story. Uh they uh there's no obligation for a uh um a noahide to observe kosher laws. And although I know that the uh uh this fish apparently is supposed to be something dangerous, uh if it's not prepared the right way, the person would die. Uh I don't believe that there is a noahhide law that forbids a noahhide from taking uh risks. Uh but that does not mean that they should do it. There is allowed, there's uh allowed and not recommended, and then there's forbidden. Uh so uh you know this would be in the allowed and not recommended and if a person uh simply treats their life as if it is uh unimportant and you know and take risks then Hashem may actually agree with them one day and say you know what since your life uh in your opinion is not important to the point where you're willing to risk your entire life just to tickle some taste buds on your tongue for a few seconds then perhaps you are unimportant and just simply remove a person from the world. So again, there's only a certain amount of stupidity that Hashem is willing to tolerate, whether it's from Jews or Gentiles. A person that's willing to risk their entire life, their their their relationship with their family, with their loved ones, their their their literally their eternity just for the sake of of a few taste buds on their on their tongue for for a few seconds. That's a very stupid person that probably doesn't have uh you know much uh value in the world in the first place. So I wouldn't doubt that this person would die young anyway even if it's not from the fish. Uh next. Can a noah hide man wear a yarmaka even though he will appear to be a Jew and will also be eating at non- kosher restaurants? Now, I'm not really sure if you're asking me these questions just because you're looking for every controversial answer or you're just looking to annoy me, uh, or you're simply bored out of your mind. But, uh, lying is not allowed for anybody. So, a Jew is not allowed to lie. A Gentile is also not allowed to lie. So a gentile that pretends to uh be Jewish by appearing Jewish is sinning against God and can create a lot of problems for himself uh and for Jewish people. So certainly that's not allowed. Certainly they shouldn't do it and uh again if they choose to be wicked then uh you know that that's they'll have to suffer the consequences. Uh question. I have a guest over for Shabas for years. He's now comfortable enough to just lift his leg and pass. We all pretended we heard nothing. And uh not to embarrass him, but to make matters worse, after the meal, when my uh wife went upstairs, my little son was on the couch and his back was facing him. He then said to me, "I got to Okay. All right. This is a really long question. It's very disgusting. Uh if you don't tell people the truth, they're simply never going to have a motivation to change or a reason to change. So, um, you have to pull this person aside. Uh, it's better for you to do it not on Shabbat. Do it, you know, before Shabbat and tell them, listen, what you're doing is not only uh disgusting uh and really should create, you know, should shouldn't be embarrassing for you to do it. Uh, but it's also forbidden uh to do it as a person is not supposed to be uh doing things like that in a place of worship. you know, your place where you're eating your Shabbat dinner. In essence, it's part of your servitude of Hashem. Uh you're not allowed to pray if a person flatulates. You're not allowed to uh uh have your toillin on. Uh you're not allowed to be next to anything that has a bad smell. You're not even allowed to think of God uh during such things. According to sages, some sages say that you're not allowed to say the the name of God or words of Tawra when there's bad smell. Uh but um uh certainly uh there there are some that believe it's even more you not only to think of God when there is a bad smell. Now again he could tell you no it doesn't smell it's just funny. Uh then they should tell him listen you know what then you belong in a zoo because in a zoo there is no uh uh um you know requirements for you to uh uh be classy or or behave like a human. Uh so you should go and move there. uh what they're doing is certainly disgusting and they should be told that this is disgusting and unacceptable and if they're not uh going to uh change then they're not welcome to come back even if it's your uh uh whoever it is doesn't make it who it is. It's it's certainly inappropriate and apparently they have no sense of right and wrong anymore uh because probably nobody has rebuked them in probably at least uh 20 30 years. So, uh, if you want to volunteer, you can do it. If you're uncomfortable doing it, then write them a letter. Write them a letter and, uh, that sometimes is easier. Um, let's see. If you eat something made with chicken broth or beef broth but has no other meat, you have to wait six hours uh before you eat uh dairy. Yeah. I mean, if it's broth, it was part of it has it's considered as if it has meat. I mean, unless it's just flavoring. Unless it's just flavoring. It's not actual. Didn't get it from the meat itself. It's just flavoring. Like they put certain uh flavoring that tastes like meat like they do with tofu. Uh you know if you eat tofu uh you know that it could taste like whatever you want. You could uh real tofu is tasteless but you can make it taste like whatever you want. You can make it taste like lobster. You can make it taste like uh uh you know steak. You can make it taste like whatever you want. That is not a problem for you to eat you know the tofu with taste of uh meat with cheese together. There's no problem. uh you know and thereby there's many kosher restaurants that sell this stuff sell you know the uh uh the soy burgers you know it's a soy uh but it's a burger but they put cheese on it and there's no problem with that as far as kashoot is concerned it's certainly not a good idea to train your kids to that this is acceptable uh because again they may think that you know the real one also is acceptable later on but the point being is as far as kosher is concerned it's perfectly allowed. Now, as far as if the uh what you have is just simply flavoring, there's no problem. But if it's actually coming from a chicken or from a uh uh a piece of meat, then of course it's considered meat 100%. Even if you don't have a uh you know, an ounce of meat in there, it doesn't make a difference. You still not still considered meat. Um what prayer and taim can a woman say during pregnancy? Uh during pregnancy you could say all taleim. There are uh taleim that uh a woman should say at specific times of her life. Uh you know specific ones uh if you're pregnant it depends on what stage of pregnancy you're at. If it's the early stages of of pregnancy or the later stages of pregnancy. If it's said by the husband or it's said by the wife. Uh there are some some sages uh specifically mikubalim uh designated specific ones at specific times. Uh but generally speaking you could always say all taim at any time uh and they're all acceptable. Uh if a person wants to be more specific uh because they have a very limited amount of time let's say they only have 10 minutes a day to to do it uh then they can be more specific. But if you know a woman has all day uh and uh then she should read the entire book of taleim or at least uh half of it or a quarter of it and you know starts with you know with number one gets to let's say number 30 then the next day from 31 to you know 60 and then from you know the next day from 61 to 90 and so on and so forth and finish the whole book of taleim at least once a week uh that would be fantastic or you know once a month even is is is is good is good also. But the point is that you could do this every day uh uh especially if you know average person that has more than just a few minutes. But if a person is very very specific and uh very particular or they have a very particular problem or they have very limited amount of time then they could uh you know use some of what the makubalim have taught which is to be specific with prayers. I've shown some people uh some of these prayers in the past, but again it's a uh this does not mean that uh they're the only taleim that are good. Similar to the tikunal tikunal many people are confused about tikunal that breast uh you know uh let the world know about as if tikunal is either the only out there or it's the actual chuva. Tikun is not the actual chuva. Tikun kali is some is a certain set of tim that are supposed to uh cause your heart to be inspired to do chuva. It's not chuva itself. It's supposed to encourage a person and and and and in essence a uh light up his soul to want to do chua which is the practical parts which is stop sinning, commit to not sinning, be remorseful, uh pass the test. That's chuva. Chuva is the same across the board. Those are supposed to inspire a person to do chuva. They're not actual chuva. Many people think that if they read the tuna kali or any other set of tilin, then they're fixed. No, you're not fixed. It's it's it's you know, you have to do the actual chuva. And a chuva is much more than just reading uh tim. you have to do uh the actual action itself of learning uh about what's right, what's wrong, what's allowed, what's not allowed, and so on and so forth. Uh question, would it be accurate to say that there are levels of immodesty for women? Is Hashem's equality upset at someone that is somewhat immodest than someone that looks like an outright psa? Uh well, I mean, they both go to gay. Whether they're somewhat emot, what division and what fire is used on them, you know, again, that's uh that's going to be decided in heaven. But, uh or gay. Uh but uh as far as uh if a woman, let's say, for example, she uh this is actually a common thing apparently. It's like a little it's like um skin disease among the people where women like the headscarves. They wear a headscarf which is biblical obligation. Fantastic. You covering your head with a with a scarf. Great job. Until you see the rest of this person, which is they're wearing a t-shirt, meaning they're not covering their arms, and they're wearing a short skirt. Now this woman thinks, "Oh yeah, I'm following the law. I'm covering my hair." Yes, you're covering your hair so your head will not be burned in gum. The rest of you will be. WHY? BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT MODEST. You're not modest. That's also a biblical obligation to walk around with a t-shirt or or tight skirt, tight pants, short skirt, short pants is forbidden according to all opinions. So as far as uh does she get credit for covering her hair? Yes. Yes, she definitely will get credit for covering her hair. Does that mean that she will go to heaven because of that? No. She will go to genom first uh because of what happened with the rest of her body. The head is connected to the rest of the body. Unless she wants to just simply chop off our head and just be like a little, you know, connected to like, you know, one of those like uh uh comic books fantasies where there's like a head connected to some type of chair like it's a robot, you know, it's like a robot head and it just walks around and it's covered but it's, you know, so there's no body, then perhaps the whole, you know, the whole head will go to heaven without going to Gando. Uh because, you know, the body that's not modest is not connected to her anymore. But if she wants her whole thing like the whole package to go to heaven uh then the rest the whole body has to be uh uh the whole body has to be modest. You know it's it's it's the opposite of what used to say to women. You know don't let the rabbis fool you about covering your head. You only have to cover your head if you have a head. But if you don't have a head you don't have to cover your head. So, so if a woman wants to uh uh have a head, she has to cover it if she's married. Uh but uh if she doesn't have a head, then she doesn't have to cover the head. Hashem doesn't obligate you to do things that you can't do. Again, we make light of it, but in reality, it's a very significant thing. So, somewhat immodest, I don't know what your definition of somewhat immodest is. I know that 99% truth is 100% lie. That does not mean that anytime someone is not 100% modest, we start beating them up with sticks and we hate them. No, we love everybody. We try to help everybody and we know that people sometimes will have to grow over time uh rather than just jump full board into becoming the most righteous person on day one. We're very well aware of it. We're very conscious of it. We lived it ourselves. And again, it's a process. But that does not mean that it's okay to be somewhat doing anything. The wrong, the sin is never right, is never allowed. It does not mean that everyone is either going to be all or nothing. No, they're going to do whatever they can and and you got to encourage them to continue growing, but always know that they have to grow and wherever they are right now is perhaps the best they can do. So, it's good, but you're not finished. You have to do more. It's never going to be okay for a married woman to walk around without covering her hair. It's never going to be okay for her to walk around immodest. It's never going to be okay for someone to eat non-cooser. It's never going to be okay to steal. It's never going to be okay to observe only part of Shabbat. That's never okay. Now, does that mean that it's either you do everything or don't do anything? No. Minimize the sins and grow. But the key is to never justify the wrong. Never just say, "Okay, you know what? Hashem is gonna understand me just the way I am." No, he's not gonna understand you the way you are. He's gonna punish you. He's he's giving you the time and his understanding of your weakness is continuing to give you life while you're not perfect, while you're not even trying to be perfect. So, he's understanding you while you're still alive. But if you think you're going to go up to uh the bed of heaven and simply just tell him, "Listen, ah, it's the best I can do. Just put me in heaven. Come on. I'm I'm a pretty nice guy. I'm a pretty nice lady. You know, I tried my best. And uh you know even though uh I could have done better this just just you know come on just give me a pass. No such thing. There is no such thing as give you a pass. Anyone that says that Hashem will just give you a pass gets a special punishment on top of whatever that punishment is which is intestinal problems and special session in gum where they cut them up into little pieces and you probably don't know when don't want to know that part but yeah so again it's reality is people will have to go through growing stages there are some people that I talked to and and and the in the beginning even putting on a keepa is difficult for them Even saying is difficult for them. Even uh praying every day is difficult for them. Does that mean we reject them? Does that mean we frown upon them? Does that mean we make fun of them? No, absolutely not. What do you think? I only talk to religious people. 90% of the people that I talk to are not religious at all. And I over time I get them there. You know, to the best of my ability, as long as they're willing to invest the time and the effort, they get there. But the point is is that at first people, you know, walk from all walks of life. they come and ask questions and you know if they're if they're really looking to change they eventually do but one thing that people know from day one is that you're always going to hear the same exact answer which is the truth allowed not allowed it's again even if you don't follow everything that does not mean that it's okay it doesn't mean that you should give up on everything but it doesn't mean that it's okay either you have to grow the same concept goes for everything else in life and I think that uh if you're consistent with the truth, people will be much more uh um uh conscious of it and uh they're also going to uh be much more uh you know likely to follow it because it's something that doesn't change. It's like uh uh evergreen, you know. Uh whereas if you customize things to different people and you change then in essence you change the Torah then you simply confuse people and and end up uh getting them to simply do do nothing or do less than what they would have done otherwise. So it's better not to do that. It's better to just simply tell people the truth and obviously work with uh what you have and little by little encourage them to continue growing and you succeed. Can you elaborate on the specifics of not being allowed to pray or learn Torah if you have to use the restroom and being unclean? And is the difference for Jews and non-Jews? Specifically, what's the what is the Hold on. What is the having to go? Okay. So, as far as the uh this is specifically for Jews. That's the is for Jews. is not for non-Jews. Certainly, it's good recommendation for non-Jews, but it's not obligation for non-Jews. Um, which is if a person has to go to the bathroom, whether it's number one or number two, uh, and they don't believe that they can contain themselves for longer than 72 minutes, which is an hour and 12 minutes. Uh, you know, meaning that they will have to go and relieve themselves within 72 minutes. that means that they're at that point uh forbidden from praying or or doing anything. They have to [clears throat] go to the bathroom. Now, the sages say you shouldn't even wait one minute. You should go right away. Uh one of the sages said that if I have to go, even if I'm in the middle of a speech and there's no way for me to go, I'll simply get one of my uh students to bring something to block me from the crowd and I'll literally uh you know uh uh urinate right there and there because you could uh create a major health problem if you contain yourself. Obviously today you don't need to do stuff like this but the point being is is that uh it's important for a person to know that uh especially when it comes to defecation uh if a person has to defecate uh usually it's not something that they could hold on uh you know for a long time for for hours usually it's something you need to do uh which means if you have the feeling you have to go you have to go uh now sometimes uh you know a person could hold themselves as far from urinating for you know for even uh you know more than an hour hours even uh but uh you know the other parts is usually more difficult either way it's never a good idea to to contain yourself. So if a person uh needs to go, they should go not contain themselves and not contain themselves because that uh it's not just physical filth, it's spiritual filth that needs to be relieved because a person needs to uh you know uh be clean. Uh now there are sometimes people that have uh intestinal issues uh and different types of uh digestive issues and this different types of problems where they have to they have something like Crohn's or they have um some type of malabsorption or they have some type of condition where they have to go to the bathroom constantly. This can be a very difficult uh problem uh not just because of the obvious inconvenience and uh headache and pain and agony uh but also they have to also make sure that they're uh uh more careful with cleanliness uh than the average person. So they have to you know uh be very careful with you know making sure that they're never abandoning themselves to the point where they care less whether they are clean or not. uh so you know it's it's a little bit uh uh more difficult or a lot more difficult and that's why the says one of the people that uh gets their suffering in this world and doesn't suffer the punishment of gay is a person with intestinal problems uh and in you know interestingly enough many great sages and sadikim had intestinal problems uh now intestinal problems doesn't mean uh that a person is righteous it just there's a very common denominator among Sadikim that they had intestinal issues like uh was very well known and other had intestinal issues. Is it permitted to subscribe to a product on Amazon in order to get a 5% discount and then cancel the subscription after it comes without any actual intention to keep the subscription? Uh I mean as far as the uh you know the terms and conditions allow you to do this meaning that Amazon is already taking into account that some people will do just that uh that they will uh uh buy something uh in a form of subscribing to it in order to save some money but will cancel the subscription along the way and not be the ideal customer that stays with the subscription for, you know, a long period of time. So, they're already taking that into account and they're willing to take that risk. Uh, and I can assure you that they're making that money back up, uh, you know, many times fold in different ways. Uh, so yes, you can do it without a problem. Uh, because again, they are, uh, allowing it to happen. Uh, they're not forcing anyone to uh, commit to a year subscription or something like that. So, you're allowed to do it. Uh but when it comes to people, uh don't think that you're allowed to do similar things with people. Meaning that you tell somebody, listen, if you give me a discount on this purchase, uh let's say you he sells you, I don't know, a car. Uh you say, listen, if you give me a discount on a car, then I'll come back to you next week and or next month and I'll buy two more cars from you. And you know, you're not going to buy two more cars. You don't even have anybody to buy two more cars for or the money to buy two more cars. that you're not allowed to do. That's called ginadva is stealing somebody's mind. So, you're not allowed to do things like that. Uh but uh as far as with things like Amazon where the terms and the conditions are, you know, public knowledge and it's they are taking that into account, there's no problem with it whatsoever. Is it permitted for a Jew to change their minhag? So if a safhari wants to be akinazi, uh can they switch and vice versa? Uh so as far as changing a minhag, a person should not change their minhag if it's really a minag that they already their parents had. Uh the there's a verse in the Torah uh that says uh um uh here uh uh my son the uh the the teachings of your father and uh uh um don't forsake the teachings of your mother. So the sages say that you know this is also referring to the customs. A person should not abandon the customs. uh you know of of his forefathers. So if you grew up in a uh Jewish household that uh you know was a let's say for example uh you know dressed a certain way or acted a certain way or did certain things uh you know then again if it's something superficial such as you know they wear a certain hat or they wear a certain shoes or they uh have a certain food in their house on uh on on this particular day. Those things are not uh something you're obligated to uh uh you know to to observe if you don't like it or if it's uh bad for you or something like that. But something like the actual entire traditions of being safari or Ashkanazi that obviously is much much more significant because that has major ramifications as far as alas there's specific differences uh in for for Ashkenazi and Safari when you know where for one uh you know could could be eating something that it's 100% kosher whereas the other one according to them it's death penalty uh you know so so it's a very big difference in some cases like the issues biggest iss issues I would say is enduring pes. So a person should not abandon uh their tradition if they have a tradition. But if a person is uh you know comes from a uh you know a family that was completely secular already for their whole life and even before them couple of generations meaning they really don't have a tradition. You know their parents were secular Jews their grandparents were secular. They're already you know been secular. There's there has been no tradition. No one has been connected. they're the first person to be connected to Judaism in probably 50 100 years if not more then that person certainly has much easier time uh changing something as significant as going from being Ashkenazi to being safari or vice versa and we've advised certain people to do just that where I have certain students that uh were born one way but were more inclined to be the other usually it was akinazim that were more inclined and interested in being safarim. Uh it happened otherwise also but uh but much more less frequent. So this does happen and it's allowed as long as the person number one again doesn't come from a uh you know long-standing traditions that actually uh and two this is a one-time thing meaning they're not allowed to go back and forth. So even if somebody uh takes advantage of the of the leniency that allows them to go from being let's say Ashkenazi to safari uh they can't go back to being Ashkenazi you know they can't go back and forth you can't be let's say for example you know Ashkenazi the whole year except pes that's not allowed that page 14 says is wicked wicked such a person the the beta. If he looks for the leniencies of both and he's considered wicked personage 14a. So that's not allowed. But if it's a once in a-lifetime thing then again there's there's more uh more a person can can do. Is it better to use handmade matzas or square uh machinemade matzas on pesak? Um I worked in aidish matzah bakery years ago. I can testify it's not meal line uh people think. Uh again different people different things. Uh not all companies are the same. Uh, you can't say that just because you worked for one company that was not good that makes everybody else not good or just because you worked for one company that is good doesn't make everybody else not good. That's uh a lot of people and can get you into a lot of trouble. Uh, generally speaking, it's uh certainly better to get the things that are more uh this is uh for multiple reasons. Many khakim say that the uh uh uh machine matzah is not even considered matzah. Uh and and in fact uh many make their own matzah. Uh you know there's a mitzvah to make matzah on the day of pes uh to fulfill the mitzvah. But either way there's many don't even consider the square matzah as even matzah. It's kosher pesa but it's not matzah. So uh so it's certainly better to have the meudal matzah uh you know which uh again there are also different types of meudal if you have lost all of your faith in the uh uh meudar matzah uh that's the circle matzah uh then instead of going to the for the sedar itself I still would not uh say that you should go to the machine matzah but rather either get uh a different mud D matzah that's a circle or just go to what's called the ferra is a soft matzah from the yeites and I believe there is no one on earth today that will dispute that that's the best matzah as far as kashut is concerned according to all opinions even though it's literally uh if you make it the right way it's almost like having pa uh as far as matzah is concerned it's the most kosher matzah it's the most uh you know if it's a uh it's not easy to get. It's not cheap either. Uh and not everybody, you know, even someone knows how to make it doesn't necessarily mean that they know how to make it where it could taste good. But if you have uh one from like the one that Gidon Moshe makes in Israel, uh it's uh you know, it's very unique. Whereas other ones I've had a lot of difficulties with with that matzah. I give up on it. But I still again as far as kashut is concerned, the ammonite matzah is by far the uh the best one. Uh as far as a uh um you know taste, everybody has their own different taste. Uh but uh I would not go to machine matzah for the sedil. For the rest of pes, you can have whatever you want. Uh the machine matzah, the circle matzah, the whatever you want. But for the sed itself uh which uh for the you know for everyone around the world it's two days uh except Israel uh that's uh that you should have a um you should have a something much more and don't cancel out everybody just because you had a bad experience with one company. It's just simply bad uh way to look at things. Am I familiar with the Israelite board of rabbis? Israelite board of rabbis? No, I'm not familiar with the Israelite board of rabbis. Um, no. Is it permitted for a man to wear a wedding ring or is it a woman's garment? Uh, it's allowed for a man to wear a woman to to wear a ring, but it's not something that is um, you know, recommended. Allowed, but not recommended. You're not going to find a big uh wearing a wedding ring. It's it's really more of a uh American thing, not not among the Torah scholars, among just regular people. It's not it's not something that uh do. So, if a person is trying to emulate uh uh they're not going to wear a wedding ring. If they're trying to emulate the Gim and be like, I don't know uh somebody that's uh could blend into uh you know any society, then yeah, they may very well wear a wedding ring and and do all types of things. What if you have to use the bathroom in the morning but have to do? Do you wash your hands without blessing first? If you must go then you go to the go you relieve yourself first and then you wash your hands after you relieve yourself. Uh see there's only one question left uh regarding eliminating the bad immediately and doing uh good slowly. How can a person do all the steps of chuva for all the sins at the same time? It's not possible for a person to do all the steps of cha all at the same time because it requires knowledge and knowledge is not something that they could acquire in one second. Uh it's something that you acquire over time. So that takes time. Uh can a person become a nazir today? Can they become a nazil today? Yeah, they could also become a Pikachu today. They could become uh a lot of things today. Today a person can uh do whatever they want. They could tell you, listen, I was born a man, but I decided that I'm a woman. I was born a woman, I decided that I'm a man. A person could, you know, today a person can decide that he's a wall or a table or a microphone. You know, he can decide whatever he wants. But as far as if you're talking about if a person that's uh trying to get connect to Hashem, uh can they become an Azil? Why? For what? How is he how is he going to get out of it without a beta mdash? So, no. So that's not something that a person can do. Uh but if a person wants to simply do something that looks cool, uh you know that he's going to tell people, yo, I'm a Nazir man, you know, then that then you could I would I would recommend for him to wear a different costume. My personal recommendation, he should go online and buy Pikachu custom and just wear it every day. He could be yellow Pikachu all year round and he could even put payouts on it if he wants to look Jewish. So, he's already pretending. Might as well pretend, you know, pretend all the way. Pikachu had powers, you know. He's like, uh, from what I hear, he's he's he beats people up. He's he's good. So, I don't hear about any of his ears beating people up. So, since you're already pretending, pretend the whole way. But if he's looking to serve Hashem, what does he need to be in for? Be righteous. Learn, learn the uh, you know, the the learn. What's people always about the exterior exterior? They want to do this, want to do that. Who needs that stuff? Just do what says do what is say. Do you see any uh do it you see any the the uh uh you know the m or the from from any of the major or any of the sphartic orazi becoming nazir anywhere? No. Only cuckoo on the internet do stuff like that. Follow great sages of don't follow uh what sounds cool. [sighs] Okay. See. All right. Or all modern weapons considered a a men's garment. Can women learn to use a gun if she lives alone? [sighs and gasps] Should um Who's going to teach how to use a gun? Another woman or another man? Uh so that's uh that's the question. Number two, she should get married. Uh and uh number three, it's uh I don't think that uh gun is the right approach. I think amuna is the right approach. Praying to Hashem is the right approach. Can a woman shoot a gun? Yeah, a woman can shoot a gun. A woman can uh kill if she has to. We have several women that are uh you know used weapons in order to uh save am. you have Yael uh that uh killed uh Cis in a horrific way uh you know so obviously they didn't kill him with poison they killed him with swords you know they chopped his head off and this happened multiple times throughout history so yeah women can uh use a weapon if it's to protect oursel um but uh you know as far as to get training and things like that you have to be careful that you're not being trained by another man you're not doing things that are immodest. Uh but as far as to train to save your life, sure. Sure. But you know, bigger question is why do you live in a place that you think you need to have a gun? You know, perhaps you should move move to a different place. Uh there's a rabbi in uh in Israel that like I said, don't listen to individual crazy people. There's everywhere is not not now and not not any time in recent history. Crazy people. There's always been crazy people. You could go look at the um um A little crossing me spot. He it goes into the uh details of what's a crazy person drunk. So I could assure you that person fits the description perfect. especially um that so-called rabbi will fit the description of a crazy person perfectly like a glove. Okay. Hashem bless you with all of the blessings of the Torah to give you the strength and the wherewithal to fulfill the entire Torah to help us publicize the Torah in every corner of the world to continue fighting the that's out there whether it's on the online or face to face to bring light of a to the world and uh for anyone that is uh interested and able to help us uh not just by donating money but also with their skills. 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