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we are lucky and have with us Sarah a
treatment that is really badass Sweetman
we have many many years we've been doing
this we've been blessed but we've done
the best it's an opportunity to hear
another opinion to hear another
perspective many times I hear questions
I hear discussions that your topics and
complaints and comments that I've always
had the right whistles wins
thank you peasant owners for many many
years hey Barbra Jean we've seen
tremendous success we'll try to get as
many as we could because we don't get to
all the answers but if you if he answers
five of the ten questions and the five
of them are good that you know the other
five is also answers and it's just a
matter of researching and asking and
thank you just go right into the
questions or should we talk a little bit
yeah okay there are there are three ways
to ask questions there's a thing called
questions there's a thing called
questioning there's a difference between
asking a question or questioning there
are also some questions that you're not
supposed to answer for example why do
good people suffer that's supposed to
answer that question
because whatever answer you give is an
insult because you're justifying their
suffering so the question is not a
question that needs an answer it's a
question that needs a change
like for example 6 million Jews died in
the Holocaust you want to know why what
do you gain what will you gain if you
know why the only thing that'll happen
is that you'll be more comfortable with
the fact that they died
is that a good thing do you want to be
more comfortable the only answer to 6
million people dying is that those six
million people should come back that's
the only answer because if I gave you a
good reason for them to die and you
accept my reason you've become an
anti-semite the death of Jews makes
sense only to an anti-semite so if I
gave you a good excuse or reason for
them to die and you accept it you say oh
ok ok
you're not the semi so the question of
why do bad things happen the question of
wider than the Shama come down into a
body these are not questions you want to
answer these are questions you want to
solve so make sure I've been who asked
after he went to party and party got
worse and made the slavery worse Myesha
asks neighbors Ted why did you make it
worse what is a bridge to say look I'm
taking them out ok they're coming out of
my side my she said ok that's what I
wanted to hear but don't give me a
lecture about how good it is to suffer
he didn't he didn't want that so it
seems like if you look at it just
superficially it seems like they burst
it didn't answer him maisha asked why do
people suffer and they be sure said I'll
take him Adam until I am
as if they're not communicating but the
truth is that's exactly what Moshe was
asking for not for an explanation on
suffering he was saying I'm not fall
ready so they'd be she said I agree I'll
take him out of Italian so my she said
okay that's what I wanted to hear okay
so there are three kinds of questions
there's a question there is questioning
and there is a question that doesn't
need an answer let's not get confused
somebody came I think to get a tableau
and that ever asked him you put on to
him this was right after the war and he
said no and they never said why not he
said because I have a kasha that nobody
can answer what the Kasia
why was there a Holocaust so they never
said them and that's why you don't put
on to him he says yeah so that episode
you see now I'm confused why was there a
Holocaust is your question or why was
there a Holocaust is your answer to why
you don't put on to him so is the
Holocaust your question or your answer
no wonder you can't get an answer it's
not a question anymore it has become
your answer why don't I put on trill why
am I not for him because there was a
Holocaust so what happened to the
question
see that's called questioning you're not
really asking a question you're simply
refusing the facts so some people they
question everything if you meet somebody
who questions everything you can't talk
to them because even when you give them
an answer they'll question that you give
them a better answer they'll question
that they're not asking they're
questioning that's their thing questions
is their thing if you give them a good
answer they're gonna hate you because
you took away their question
so there are people who are questioners
you can't argue with them the best thing
to say is fine so what do you want
I had this conversation with a guy a
student at the University he came over
he came to the Chabad House for Shabbos
and we're talking this that the other he
says oh wait a minute wait a min I don't
believe in God I said what he said I
don't believe in God I said I don't
understand what are you saying he said
well you think everybody believes in God
I don't believe in God I said I hear
what you're saying I don't understand he
says what don't you understand I said I
don't understand what God is
what's God he says I don't know this so
what don't you what don't you believe
him so when he said I don't believe in
God he really meant I have no idea what
that is so how can you say you don't
believe it when you don't even know what
it is how confused people get and he was
so proud of the fact that he doesn't
believe in God because it seemed like
that made him intelligent but it's not
there's nothing intelligent about it so
he said ok fine you tell me what's God I
said ok now you're asking a decent
question
by the way do you believe in ghosts you
don't believe in ghosts I don't know
which is worse if you do believe we
don't believe if you do believe in
ghosts you're a little weird if you
don't believe in ghosts you have no
excuse
why would anybody not believe in ghosts
why no one ever saw one
okay so it's it's past history but you
don't believe in ghosts why not oh I can
I can introduce you to some people
there's a Chabad House where is this and
in in Philadelphia someplace or outside
of Philadelphia they bought the house
for nothing because nobody wanted it it
was haunted they saw I don't want to
convince you that there were ghosts they
set up the table cups napkins plates and
and and they moved no no this place was
officially I don't know neglected and
unwanted because it was haunted and when
the Habad house bought it it was in all
the newspapers they became famous
immediately group a religious group buys
haunted house is not afraid and it
became the conversation of town anyway
here's the here's my point if I asked
you do you believe in ghosts your
response should be what's a ghost
before you say I do believe I don't
believe shouldn't we first know what
we're talking about what's a ghost right
so the first thing we know is right the
first thing we know is a ghost is not a
demon don't get your ghosts confused
they are the good ghosts the bad ghosts
all right so there's ghosts and their
spirits they're not the same thing all
right so a ghost is the presence of
someone's existence that is left where
after the person dies it's not the soul
it's the effect that he had on the place
so a Marshall if these walls if these
walls could speak they would tell you
everything that happened in this room
who was here what they did so when you
come into a haunted house and I think
that's the case with this Habad house in
Philadelphia somebody was murdered there
it was a tavern and there was a fight
and somebody got murdered that event is
still you can feel it when you walk into
the place
because the walls absorbed that event or
that that horror and you can actually
feel it when you walk in if you're
sensitive so what is a ghost the memory
of an event or if a person in a room in
a place in a so if you ask me do I
believe that I can't say no cuz I don't
know and I can't say yes but to say I
don't believe it I can't say I don't
believe it I can tell what I can't say
no that's not possible it's not possible
of course it's possible so the person
who says no I don't believe in ghosts
why why cuz you never saw one well well
Josh em you never saw one that doesn't
hint so here's my point there's a
difference between an intelligent person
who loves to learn new things and an
insecure person who was afraid of making
a mistake
usually an atheist is a person who's
afraid of making a mistake
say he doesn't want to believe because
what if he's wrong and then it'll be so
embarrassing that he was naive and they
you know they tricked them and they so
to be safe he refuses to believe I don't
believe in ghosts I don't believe in God
that don't believe in tell you that I
don't believe in heaven I don't believe
in Hell why because because what if not
then I'll be the fool
an intelligent person on the other hand
if he hears something he never heard
before he gets excited no what are the
different between a guy who says wow I
never heard that versus a guy who says
no I never heard that what's the
difference so who's more intelligent
because he's using his intelligence the
guy who doesn't want to accept it is is
emotional he's afraid no no you're not
gonna convince me of that
why not because you're intelligent
so let me give you this quick example
you can use it and many a guy is an
explorer and he went to Australia first
guy went down down to Australia and he
comes back and he tells you that there's
an animal there that carries its baby in
a pocket and you say oh come on you
think I'm so stupid that I gotta believe
that I'm too intelligent to believe that
are you intelligent close-minded imagine
you say to the to the Explorer you say
oh come on I never heard of such a thing
what would the explorer thing
the Explorer would say and I'm an
explorer you know what an explorer does
not only that an explorer is somebody
who goes to places you didn't go so that
he can come back and tell you of things
you never saw so if you say oh I never
saw that exactly that's why I get the
big bucks that's why I'm going to
Explorer or if the person said oh I
don't believe that I never heard that of
course you've never heard that
I'm the Explorer I'm supposed to come
back and tell you things you've never
heard so that would previously yeah well
what if he's lying
what are you paranoid that's not an
intelligent reaction you have to have a
reason to suspect that he's lying he
can't just be paranoid but everybody
lies to you where did you grow up
so what reason would a person have to
say God gave the title on how seen Iron
Chef who is three thousand years ago I
don't believe that know why because you
aren't there yeah that's exactly why
people say oh and I never saw such a
thing right so if it's not in your
reality you're closed that's it
your reality is the only reality exactly
not the most intelligent just the safest
right so an intelligent person would say
really tell me more
what's God and what did he give and
where is harsh a night instead he says I
don't believe that what you don't even
know what I said yet
that's called a questioner not a
question and you know you really can't
answer somebody who's not asking a
question so asking a question is an
intelligent activity intelligence means
I want to know more but if you're saying
no I'm turned off to this okay then then
let's go do something else and it's not
a question anymore
that is just questioning so let's take a
look at some of these questions have you
read the entire shots no how do they
become at sadiq I don't know do you have
a hundred percent emunah
I don't think so you like these answers
I'm not finished
how to win the eights ahead and convert
it to do good I have no idea is it
better to stay severity or become a
llama richer
I don't know I'm not a smarty the never
said were the last generation of mushiya
why hasn't he come I don't know you know
why did we learn demoted if 70% of the
stuff is useless yeah who came up with
that number 70% maybe 80% huh so
mathematician worked this out what is
hell I know how should I know science
says the Earth revolves Tara says the
Sun revolves how does that work
everything's revolving what's the
problem yeah it all depends on where you
are if you're standing on the earth the
Sun is revolving around you if you were
standing on the Sun the earth would be
revolving around you it was like two
trains passing in the second who's
moving they're both moving right anyway
in other words I don't know it you can't
know who's moving when both are moving
should I live a simple nine-to-five job
or should I go for a riskier life
following my passion
what's a riskier job be a fireman an
explorer in Australia and if I
understand the question properly go with
the passion
if it's a job not just passion a job
that you're passionate about
definitely when and where should I look
for loving someone in your house don't
go looking for strangers to love you got
people right there in your house what's
wrong with having a friend that's a girl
now rabbis tell me because you're going
to come to do something wrong but I
don't think that's true
I don't want to speak to boys all day
and think of girls as zombies our girls
um bees do you believe in zombies yeah
there are definitely some zombies out
there so what's a zombie a Living Dead
really is that what it means actually
zombies zombies come from a religion
called Voodoo when people in that
religion go into a trance and they
became a little you know that's called
zombie so they think it's a good thing
everybody else thinks you're a zombie
let's let's get to the real question hey
these are the ones okay let's get
serious why do we davon if Hashem
doesn't answer
first of all in most cases he does
answer it's very easy to to be
discouraged when you ask for something
and it doesn't happen and then you
forget everything that is happening that
you didn't even ask for so you got to
keep a balance a lot of good things are
happening in your life because if that's
not true you're really in trouble your
life is great and you want something
more and it's not happening so that
means day broish that is not answering
so keep you know keep keep things in
balance secondly do we DA them in order
to get an answer from Hashem is da
Venegas preyere
like an ATM you're putting your card and
nothing comes out you're all upset I
don't I don't think that davon 8 3 times
a day is because you need something
three times a day every day you're
asking for something you're a nudnik
gimme gimme gimme gimme stop it right
the entitlement we don't we don't davon
because we need something LP tosia the
Mitzvah the ERISA the the Tyler Mitzvah
is if you need something ask the a
burster when you have a need turn to me
God says that's not three times a day
every day
darling three times a day every day is
miserable none and it has a completely
different meaning it's not your needs
because you can't have that many needs
you davon Monica an hour later you have
more needs my life come on stop it the
reason for governing is first of all
because he wants to hear from you not
because you need it's a mitzvah like all
other mitzvahs a mitzvah means something
they wish they wants he wants to hear
from you
good news bad news what you need what
you don't need but you know check-in
it's also a reality check you know what
you're supposed to be you know how
you're supposed to serve Hashem are you
and if you're not don't avoid him now
you were supposed to do something for
your mother and you didn't do it so now
you're avoiding her don't do that if you
didn't do it go tell her that you didn't
do it don't ruin the relationship over
some incident or detail so darling means
come to the average that and say this is
me I didn't do it I did do it I'm good
I'm not good but I'm being honest here I
am this is me that is so healthy and
it's so important when you get caught up
in your guilt and you're ashamed to face
the abus then your life is messed up and
that shouldn't happen so it's actually
brave it takes courage stand in front of
the Ariston and and and be who you are
don't run and hide and what and they be
still loves that he's not gonna get
turned off he would much rather have you
come and say I'm failing I'm not
interested I didn't do it then to not
talk to him
somebody asked me a really really
interesting question and we were talking
about the fact that the a buster has
everything and we get whatever we have
from him so there's nothing we have that
he doesn't kind of make sense yet we're
the first halacha number
he is amita's he would say and
everything else comes from him so
somebody said really there's nothing we
have that he doesn't have can he do an
availa can he sin we can send that a
good question is that stupid yeah I
think it's a good question because
no that's a mitzvah can he can he do a
sin so how is it that we can do it if he
can't
those are mitzvahs where our Vedas does
either that's good if we do a Nevada he
feels guilty as if he did okay so listen
to this
what is unavailing and availa means you
did something that he doesn't want
that's an availa something against
Watson alien does he ever do anything
that he doesn't want for example yes
what else
you know we have this impression that
we're here fighting the battle we're
struggling through life and we've got
issues and we got and we win and we lose
and we and he's sitting there drinking
coke or something he doesn't have any
problems he doesn't really care he's not
affected by anything he's God if that
what you think
you have no idea it bothers him when he
punishes us what else let me give you
such a long list first of all in order
to create the world there had to be at
symptom he had to restrict himself it
goes against his will he doesn't want to
do that he hides from us why so that
we'll have free choice he doesn't want
to hide it's against his will
he sends the neshamah down from the
highest of high to the lowest of the low
a little piece of him he hates it he
created the Yates illusion he hates it
every day goes he hates it
even the eight of us would appear and
it's a task for you have gun they then
everything is perfect you have to put an
HR das in there to mess everything up he
hates it that's the next question we'll
get that we'll get the freedom of choice
in a second but first get to know the a
bursted a little bit
the ambush their sacrifices in order for
the world to exist because there are so
many things he really doesn't want like
even making the moon get smaller he
regrets it
having to throw other than I have a head
of gun Aiden he hated them that's all
part of you did this neshama
so dr. Deborah says and Tanya if you
stop and think how much he gives up in
order to have you you can't give up some
of your Tigers in order to have him so
now all of a sudden we're not so far
from the a brush there like you thought
it's not like we have all these issues
and we're facing real life and he's
sitting there like like on vacation now
it's the opposite the things that bother
us
that really hurt us how long is it gonna
hurt maximum 120 years something bothers
him it's forever it's infinite see
here's the point the physical is
insensitive that's what physical means
so if a physical human being can have a
little sensitivity you imagine what he
has because he's not physically so when
we get this impression that physical is
real and and and our course is not it's
the opposite the physical is barely real
thank you an example Davis that has an
arm it doesn't tell you the day burst
has an arm does he have an arm
no they brush this says I have a foot
does he have a foot it says a bridge
that has a mouth
there's no mouth right Davis to spoke
come on he doesn't speak they brush they
got angry he doesn't get angry he's a
Brewster
they burst at once it doesn't really
want doesn't matter to him he's a
Burstyn so almost anything to tell you
this says about the average that is not
true
is that is that how you how you were
taught which is all right so that so
everybody if you ask this question
everybody will tell you he doesn't have
an arm it's just a muscle wait a minute
if he right if I can have an arm he can
certainly have one right okay so what
does it mean don't take it literally you
were told not to take it literally
so does he really want don't take it
literally is he really angry don't take
it literally right right so if we're
created in His image and we have an arm
he must also have an arm spiritually so
now the question is which is real a
physical arm or a spiritual arm
so again a good example my granddaughter
was crying because her doll broke the
arm came off
so I sit down with her and I say oh I
can't imagine how much that hurt so she
starts to laugh says the nerd I said how
could it not hurt the arm came off
she said it's not a real arm I said how
do you know she says it's plastic see a
plastic arm is not a real arm it's just
plastic so what's a real arm my arm cuz
it has a bone really that makes it real
it's just a bone so that's already a
real arm you know what a real arm does
it splits a see that's a real arm my arm
can't split a see so it's not a real arm
it's a muscle on the real arm so should
I take when it says I'm tell you today
bridge that has an arm should I take it
literally
yes you mean his arm is real yes give me
like mine
no his is real so what does it mean
don't take it literally that's that's a
mistake
don't take it physically don't think his
arm is physical why not
cuz his arm is real physical is not a
real arm it's just a muscle so now when
the tailor calls my arm
Yod and his arm Yod is that not a little
confusing the answer is we're calling
your arm and arm because it's a muscle
it helps you understand a tiny little
bit about his arm but if he doesn't have
an arm and you're calling it an arm too
me understand helped me understand what
that he doesn't have an arm so now it
makes sense
calling my arm and arm gives me a little
bit of help in understanding his arm two
arms right side left side has said
Gordon so by being created in His image
helps me understand him a little bit now
let's apply it to feelings he gets angry
nah human beings get angry no he really
gets angry human beings just blow a fuse
lose control get bent out of shape so
who really gets angry who really speaks
a human being or he he said let there be
light and there was light you try it say
dark see if it helps okay so who really
speaks he speaks we we babble
so both his his Rutzen is real he really
wants or is that too human no he really
wants we don't really want because you
keep changing your mind
last year you wanted a bicycle now you
want a car or a motorcycle so so did you
really want a bicycle last year yeah
yeah but it went away it's not a real
need that's not forever the average that
is forever so if you go against his will
it hurts much more than if somebody goes
against your will because by him
everything is real by us it's all
temporary so why do we davon because he
needs to hear from you he really needs
to F yes he really needs everything
about him is real much more
so remember the deafening on yom kippur
we read about the ten larders yeah so
the angels came the angels came to god
were crying
they're killing rabba Kega what did they
burst to say remembering the dominie the
a burst s said be quiet
i'll turn the world back to mush how's
that for an answer so they stopped yeah
so they stopped complaining but what
kind of answer is that it really sounds
like bullying be quiet I'll turn the
world back to mush in the beginning the
world was tell the meaning of it is
really important than beautiful the a
burst is said to the Angels you're
crying you're hurting because Jews are
being tortured they're not your children
they're my children you didn't create
them I created them so if you can feel
the pain what do you think you have to
tell me that my pain is infinitely
greater than yours
so then you might say well if it hurts
you so much
stop it said a that says you know
what stop it means stop it means turn
the world back to mush not doing that in
other words the qivana for which the a
bridge that created the world is so
necessary he'll even do things that hurt
himself now imagine this is so important
to him and he's dependent on us to do it
how painful is that I need something
desperately and I depend on you to help
me right
it's a good question it's a good
question and really find an answer to
that question but the point is that when
we davon it's because it's his Mitzvah
we're doing it for him
sometimes I don't feel like deafening
and that's what I should tell him when
you're Davin and you don't feel like
governing that's what you should say
today Richmond Here I am I don't feel
like darling but I'll say the words
because you enjoy it that's a reality
check you're being honest
so somebody once asked as much piya I
tried to Davin I try to feel something
and I never do so the mushy I said
that's a good Davin Inc that was that
was a reality check
that's what Davin is supposed to do
remind you of where you are and what
your are what your
what's going on with you so if Davin Inc
reminds you that you don't feel anything
godly that's that's good
how can total no better than science a
scientist actually has real data Toyota
is just a book written by a rabbi that
never went into a real lab I have some
good news and bad news
a couple of weeks ago doctors discovered
a part of the body they never knew
existed do you believe this the human
body they found something in the human
body they never knew yep there's there's
a layer of skin between parts organs
whatever that carry a fluid it's like
it's like two layers and there's a fluid
that flows throughout the entire body in
that in that tube the reason they never
saw it is because how do doctors learn
what the body is they open up a dead
body a dead body has lost its fluid so
they never saw that skin full filled
with fluid they thought it was just a
piece of skin that skin but whatever it
is they're a membrane now they're there
thinking that that fluid that flows
through that membrane could actually
control cancer a cube believes that
first of all it's very good news
they found it the bad news is scary
you mean doctors still don't even know
what the body looks like this more to
discover in that in a human body there
is more science has not medicine has not
completely understood the
like for example the genetic code still
don't know as soon as we figure out the
genetic code we will be able to cure
everything a guy gets his arm cut off he
can grow another one so eventually we
are going to discover what controls the
genetic code see right that was it its
genetic that's it
wait a minute if you have a genetic flaw
what caused that well its genetic hey so
why do you have that genetic abnormality
what controls your genes right now they
think genes controls everything yeah
what controls your genes so even a
genetic illness should be able to be
cured figure out what controls the genes
so there's there's still so much more
that we need to figure out the Cohanim
not today's ha ha yep the real ha ha men
knew the body better because they knew
why the body is the way it is if you
start off in ruthless and it all comes
down say the dystocia Alice that the arm
is hesed and the other arm is grulla and
your kidneys are whatever and you're you
know the blueprint the ha ha Meem knew
the body because they looked at the
blueprint the doctor study the body as
the body is if they're very a very very
powerful argument we had a terrible
accident in Minnesota a kid was crossing
the street from Hayden he was hit by a
mail a mail truck and he was in a coma
and the doctors said that he's brain
dead and they should unplug everything
and just let him and the father said no
keep him alive and the doctor said but
he's not alive he's brain dead so the
father said and he's not the biggest
genius in the world he said had he the
father but you know a father's devotion
he suddenly become brilliant he said to
the doctor how do you know he's brain
dead
the guy said look look at the monitor
there's no activity he said ten years
from now will you have a better more
sophisticated monitor the guy said
probably he says so you're telling me my
child is dead because your monitor is
old-fashioned you're telling me that the
monitor can be improved on so 10 years
from now we'll have a monitor that can
pick up brain waves better than this
machine so you're gonna kill my kid
because your machine is old that's why
the tailor says brain dead is not
acceptable because you have no idea
what's going on in the brain your
machine is old-fashioned but if the kid
if the person is not breathing then he's
dead
ah yeah
so the point is this technology is
fascinating and really impressive but
only up to a point it's just a machine
who made this machine a guy didn't get a
smarter guy he'll make a better machine
that's the nature of science there's
always room for improvement if there's
no more room for improvement you're not
a scientist anymore it's become your
religion so the scientist is the one who
turns to the ambassador for guidance
more than the non scientist more than
the non doctor because the doctor knows
exactly what his limits are the
scientist understands his limits that's
what makes him a scientist but the
scientist who thinks he knows everything
is not a scientist anymore he's
practicing a religion called scientism
for Judaism
of course we don't have those kinds of
common many more somebody in the garage
on one of the tan William said I can
estimate how many drops of water there
are in the ocean pretty impressive young
so double who is very good at math lab
Yale asks what's the big deal you figure
out how big the ocean is you figure out
how much do it
you figure it out what's for this you
have to be a talent and his answer is of
course you can figure it out if you take
measurements the time they was able to
tell you how many drops of water there
are in the ocean without measuring yeah
yeah like what exactly is a drop the
point is he knew what an ocean was cuz
he knew where it comes from lamella in
other words he read the blueprint he
doesn't have to measure
one more question how much time do we
have huh okay well then I want to go
back to the zombie girls I think that's
a very important question many mad
Russian contradict each other how can
they all be true is the whole title true
see the whole Tyler is true and also
everything is in the Taoiseach and
that's why you have what looks like
contradictory because everything in the
world including the contradictory stuff
is all begins in taejun if we really
understood Tyler properly we would see
how it's all one idea just like the
scientist the greatest scientist is the
one who can see that all the laws of
nature are really just one law like
Einstein it bothered him that there are
so many laws there can be so many laws
there has to be one law that controls
everything and that's his theory of
relativity so certainly it's true of
Tyler if it's true of the world all
right what's wrong with having a friend
that's a girl
if she's just a friend like a boy so
what's the difference to you if she's a
person then why do you have to have a
girlfriend
she's just a person on the other hand if
you think girls are zombies and that's
why you're interested in having a friend
that's a girl then she's not just a
person she's a zombie that's not nice
so if there's a girl that you look at as
a human being
just a person then because until hate
say good morning like a minge talk to
her like a mensch not like a zombie but
if you think other she's not a person
she's a girl
then do her a favor and stay away from
her because you're nasty the girls from
they certificate once asked me how come
you can't talk to boys I said that's a
very good question what is what boys you
can't talk to them they're crazy
a girl tries to talk to a boy it and it
it's not normal it's like too excited to
calm down I just want to talk to you you
can't just talk to a boy because to them
we're the zombies so you got two zombies
trying to be friends it just doesn't
work so here's the point if you're a
mensch and you look at a girl like a
mensch then what's the problem if all of
a sudden it's a girlfriend stop it it's
not nice
there's a Mishnah the Mishna says alt
are basica my OSHA what does that mean
don't overly converse with women how
much is overly how about one cent
how about one sentence yeah right okay
so when the Mishna says overly was I
mean any more than necessary so somebody
said to that mayor's wife somebody said
to her good morning to you and she said
that you didn't have to say to you is
that what it means
I count your words and don't say that's
weird
ah what does it mean I'll tire basis on
that Harvey don't create conversation
just because she's a woman
which is a very common thing you have a
guy sitting on the plane next to another
guy for eight hours they never say a
word to each other why I got nothing to
say the same guy is sitting next to a
woman on the plane all of a sudden he's
got so much to say he must know what the
weather is or what time it is why you're
not treating her like a person if she
was a person and you have nothing to say
you wouldn't say anything why are you
creating a conversation yes meiyan cuz
she's a woman then don't do that talk to
her like a mensch
which means if you have something to say
you say it you don't have anything to
say don't say it so now the question is
why can't I speak to a girl all day
that's right so if you're looking at the
girl not as a zombie but as a person
then you're a mensch so if you have
something to say you'll say it if she
has something to say you'll hear it but
don't create zombies
this a mother tells me she's all upset
she can't believe it she sewed because
her son came home and said that he has a
girlfriend
you sure behind she doesn't know what to
do a girlfriend so what should she do
she should ask him what does she like
let me see your taste and girls what do
you like about her what's good about her
know that curious in other words if you
do have a girlfriend so are you being a
mensch about it are you a zombie you're
gonna zombie out together and that's
true of everything we can't listen to
this the worst thing in the world is to
walk around with guilt that you can't do
anything about it's horrible
the alter Deborah says and Tania if
you're upset because you did a Nevada
cut it out
that's not true ver being upset that you
did unavailable is part of the evader so
not only did you do a Nevada and now
you're miserable - just making it worse
our our response because we're Habad our
response to a Nevada is a mitzvah not
leave a I did a Nevada
I just heard this joke a guy I'm a
snagit of rumors nugget was captured by
by the enemy and they're gonna kill him
he makes a bracha varaha Tosh Emily Cain
Amell Ohio Amish shake each Alabama
trace of its even though I'll miss it as
nefesh and the guy who was gonna kill
him suddenly says you're weird and he
walks away from the snag it says no love
at all
you gotta kill me
I made a blow her the answer to a Nevada
is a mitzvah not cracking you see if if
you're afraid of an evasion then the
eight Sahara has already won the battle
he got you if you're upset over your
availa but of course you continue to do
it that's not true ver stop being upset
we're not afraid of evaders we're
excited about mitzvahs so some guy came
for a weekend many years ago from some
campus and after Shabbos he was going
back to the campus and they got they got
to go into your fitness serenity a
fitness and the rubber set then when you
get back to campus remind your friends
to put on to him he said Lebon I don't
put Huntsville that ever said so
so because you're doing a Nevada that's
why nobody should do the Mitzvah that
doesn't make sense but shouldn't he fix
himself first before he fixes others no
yes
so what's better to be a hypocrite and
help people or to be a hypocrite and not
help people you're not
ah that's a different story you're not
the best person the least you can do is
help somebody put on film like Ashley
has said to me they were actually a for
about seventeen years is that I have to
quit I have to quit
I said why he said I can't stand that
I'm such a hypocrite I'm telling
everybody else what to do and I don't do
what I'm supposed to do as I said to him
and you think when they represent us
with us he didn't know you were a
hypocrite when the devil sent you on
schrieffer's it was something like this
that episode hypocrite come in you want
to do something useful go ash with us he
didn't say first stop being a hypocrite
then come back I'll test you to see if
you're still a hypocrite and if you're
not I'll send you ash with us no he
called them over as a hypocrite you're
wasting your time you want to do
something good or the same thing like
should we be at Sadiq or a Russia who
cares
be at Sadiq be a Russia do something
good
that's that's the the approach that we
should have we have to do good you also
did a Nevada
brush yourself off and go back to doing
good only now do more good so but that's
hypocrisy yes but I said I said to this
guy he wants to quit because he's being
a hypocrite I said so if you quit with
us you won't be a hypocrite that's it
not then now you're an honest person no
you're still a hypocrite and you're
wasting your time yeah you say taschlin
to do children not to get into a bad
mood some somebody once said why is God
so harsh
is he harsh
look if you were in my house he came to
my house and I welcomed you you're Mike
you're a guest in my house and I said to
you I have 613 conditions for your
staying in my house 613 conditions for
staying in my house if you violate 20 of
them you're gonna have to leave is that
is that harsh what what is what is high
of Mesa what is Mesa Mesa means I don't
like to run my house anymore how many of
the 613 mitzvot are punishable by
missing 20 30 50 even a hundred so what
does that mean it means you can do 513
things I don't like and you can still
stay in my house that's harsh yeah I
mean if you sell if you start selling my
furniture get out of my house
if you light a fire in the living room
get out of my house I'm not gonna wait
until you do other things that's bad
enough right but there are 513 things
that I really don't like and you can
still stay in my house that's not harsh
brilliant right that's the other thing
even if you burn my house down if it was
by accident you can come back to my new
house it's not harsh for certain for
certain things how many how many how
many our Vedas are high of missing of a
deserter of a Shabbos murder you have to
bring a card you get mochas mm-hmm
fine noise you have to undo the damage
but you don't have to leave the house
right right if I know you burnt down my
house but there aren't two witnesses I
won't throw you out
kind of strange anyway it's been a
pleasure the point the point of the
story is that if you ask a good question
you'll probably get a good answer
yeah a bad question gets a bad answer it
matches