Know Before Whom You Stand. - MUSSAR Pirkei Avot (31)

[Music] n great to be in Miami again it's a always the some of the great sh are here we have a lot of here and I know that right now sh is going to be good cuz we have already um satana is already interfering but uh also the uh sh will have for to moto AAR Ruben Joseph Ben Rifka SAR glad nun Ed magero Josephina Matos Esperanza Aila Anna chedo guo Solano Raquel Sandler laes Reni Yoshua Mikel Ben hadasa David Gamel Ben hadasa Nancy DEA OHA Dessa Patricia valman Sonia Suarez valman a Hernandez Hernandez Isabel betan metan banur Lana anti bonil Gilberto men menz menes see uh jacalin roas Josephine Pablo Lorenzo Olga Hernandez David benri Doris Bora Leana B SAR s all of if we could just have all of these people come at to be easier they all have and get closer and closer to hem and fulfill each one of our test each one of our obstacles and as we're going through all of it really understand that everything that the merciful one does is always for the best not just good but always the best you know I had after the sh last night I had a meeting with a nice couple young couple and uh you know new trying to do CH trying to get stronger they've been watching the shers for a couple of months trying starting to keep Shabbat stting to uh learn T every day so things are improving but I couldn't help myself to notice that there was a still a big thing that's missing not just from them but from lot of people that are going through difficulty which isuna the basic level ofuna is one of the most difficult things to attain in your life and I'm not talk about high level OFA to the point where you're willing to jump off a bridge knowing that hm's is going to catch you not saying that saying basic levela that hasem runs the world it it'll take care of you that's it I'll take care of you not only he runs the world and of course it's going to be gravity it's going to be oxygen there going to be I'm not talking about that that your monkey has also he doesn't need to create you in order for you to know that he exists talking about enough enough confidence inm just a little bit of confidence that you know what it's going to be okay it's going to be okay don't worry the p is going to come oh it didn't come this month it'll come next month it didn't come next month it'll come the month after you didn't get married this month you'll get married next month if it's not next month it's next next year whenever it's going to happen don't worry why you so worried what hasem forgot about you he runs the whole universe with no difficulty whatsoever but you he forgot so how do I know that people struggle with this because they do what I did a lot I'm trying to work on myself still means don't ever think that I'm talking just to you I'm talking to myself a lot of this time is that I remember the first serious m that I got from R frim and R frim is he has a way that's very different than mine I'm very blunt not too gentle he it's a gentle soul big he'll tell you something but you don't even know he told you until you're already doing it five times that's how good he is it's amazing um a little rough on the edges what could I do so fry was complaining about something I mean it wasn't complaining about nonsense it was complaining about you know the fact that I'm dying the fact that I'm sick uh you know there's blood coming out of different parts of my body I'm losing all my money I'm complaining about real things I'm not complaining Hey listen my team didn't win yeah I'm complaining about real things and for me for lack of a better word life sucked it was just horrible just I'm in pain all the time my money that I thought was my money at the time I didn't realize it was God's money so so it's running out the door faster than they came in people that I thought were my friends became worse than enemies because they're still smiling at me you know it's better if an enemy you know he's an enemy it's better than a friend that you think is a friend that he's really an enemy that's right so you know that's why they have this saying if with friends like this who needs enemies sometimes it's unfortunately we find out this out after the fact but anyway going through all the struggles and I just start complaining and complaining and complaining and complaining but not complaining like listen I have pain listen I have uh money lost I'm not complaining about that what I was complaining about was that I already started doing what I thought was chuva I started reading T non-stop I started learning t as much as I possibly could I started keeping MIT I mean I started changing my life but it was only really a matter of like a few months it wasn't like I was doing it for years already it was like whatever let's say a year is it everything working yeah perfect usually by the way just so you guys know every time we have a sh on Facebook live the Satan shows up also so he makes comments and he drives everyone crazy it's either Idol worshipper or a c well it's every day it's every time we do a shield there somebody that drives everyone crazy anyone that's watching it don't don't even uh respond to these people battery yeah yeah just ignore them it's the best thing you can do with any of these people but anyway um I'm having a really really tough time and I already did started doing Chua started keeping started keeping Shabbat and so on and nothing changed actually things got worse my health deteriorated so bad that I I started thinking like okay you know what probably don't have that much time left in this world if it's not him taking me I'm taking out myself I couldn't deal with it pain was unbelievable 24 hours a day in pain it's not like you have a break you know what you have pain for 2 hours 22 hours you're okay 24 hours a day of pain nonstop emotional pain physical pain it's just a nightmare and I'm thinking you I'm trying to pray I'm trying to learned some T but I can't even finish one verse without getting up sitting down getting up sitting down get it's struggle just to sit down just to just to function and I start complaining to ra I'm like why is God doing this to me I'm doing Chua why is he doing this to me why didn't he just fix it why he fix my health why don't he fix my job why don't he fix my marriage why don't he fix my this fix my that and for the first time ever you know all the time would tell me things with ease try to give me different find the answers to the Tora but this one particular time I get I went overboard to such an extent I started complaining against God to such an extent I was like what is he doing for me already I'm doing all this stuff for him I'm praying to him I'm learning I'm this I'm that and he finally gives me my first serious serious M lesson in just a few words go what makes you think that God owes you anything you guys ever think about that for a second who do you think you are that God owes you anything he's your God not the opposite he doesn't work for you he doesn't owe you anything he created you everything you do is for you you praying it's for you what do you do when you pray you ask God for Stuff God give me P give me a wife give me a husband give me kids give me this give me that what are you doing when you're praying you're not really praising him as much as you're really supposed to oh Hashem you're so amazing no no you're saying hasm you're amazing so give me a car Hashem you're wonderful so give me a house it's like you're trying to like you know finagle and and negotiate with him hasm you're amazing and do me a favor give me a million bucks it's like you're negotiating with hem like you're doing him a favor with your compliment in reality When you pray you're asking for stuff when you're studying when you study a little bit of tah you come to a sh you watch a sh online what are you doing you're learning who your boss is anyone that ever wanted to get a job serious job at my company or any real company first thing they do before they come to a job interview is find out as much information as they possibly can about the owner who's the owner let me know his history what's his background where did he learn this where did he learn that like do I have anything in common with him I'm going to meet the guy anytime anybody ever wanted to get a good customer what do they do they do research about the customer oh Mr Jones why I Read All About You in the paper you were in a paper 3 years ago about da da da da that you did wow it's genius invention why because first of all people like to hear about themselves so it's good for business reasons but second of all it's a show of Interest he's showing that you have interest in the other person and not just in what the other person has when you're learning to you're learning about your maker you're not doing it for him you're not doing him any favors so who do you think you are coming with so many complaints Hashem give me this Hashem give me that why why do you think he owes you all this stuff now he may or may not give it to you but the point is is that once you rewire your brain to stop thinking that Hashem owes you anything everything changes and the reason why it's okay it's okay don't worry about it and and the reason why is because when you go to somebody that owes you money someone owes you money you call the guy like Hey Joe I need the money you're not worrying about being so nice guy owes you a half a million bucks you lent to them for 90 days like the guy lent a half a million dollars to his great guy nice guy wonderful guy I lent him $500,000 it was supposed to be a loan for 90 days 90 days it's been slightly over 10 years I'm still waiting for the $500,000 but you call the guy he say Hey listen Pete I need the money I'm not worried about being nice to Pete just like if you lent your friend $500 same thing Joe listen I lent you the money for two months you're supposed to return it not worri about Hey Joe how you doing how's your family did that dog ever die at the end oh he's okay oh gr I was praying for your dog you're not worry about the the whole being nice the guy owes you money I want my money maybe you're going to be somewhat friendly or whatever you don't want to attack the guy but you're not worrying about like you know appeasing him if you will he owes you something it's not that you owe him money now when you call your landlord on the other hand because you don't have the money to pay the rent then you're nice you're like oh hey Mr Jones are you how's the family how's the kids oh the kids are oh you don't have any kids oh yeah but you know what if you would have had kids they would have been very happy I know because you're a nice guy Joe oh your Joe his name is not Joe it's Steve oh yeah Steve you know all of a sudden you're trying to be so friendly why because you owe the guy money and you don't have it so you're extra extra nice why do we act like that with humans which makes sense by the way but with God it's the opposite it with God we call God every day like he owes us something God why is my boyfriend not returning my call on time God why is uh my boss not giving me a raise God why didn't I get a flat tire why do you keep doing this to me God can't you just fix it and we come to AEM with constant complaints like he owes us something now if we could just switch switch a little bit like said to his students in when he was on his deathbed his students asked him for a blessing and he said to them the greatest blessing I can give you is May you have fear of hem at least as much as you have of mankind said maybe you made a mistake you dying no no no no no may you have fear as from from hem at least as much as you have from man we're not understanding what do you mean teach us what does that even mean what do you mean fear AEM like Men supposed to be the opposite give the rabbi respect like you give AEM or something or not even but this doesn't make any sense cuz even though in reality you're supposed to fear hem more than anything else in reality you don't you don't how do we know anytime you make a sin accidental sin not on purpose on purpose you have a serious problem you're driving on Shabbat knowing that you're not have to drive on Shabbat you have a mental problem you're pretty much saying okay I want to go to Gom forever drive on Shabbat to to the store to anywhere you turn on the gas just just because you want to hear music you're telling Hem Hem thank you very much for reserving a room called VI in G forever for me stupid if you actually know what Shabbat is worth to and you still violated you're crazy so I'm not talking about that type of sin I'm talking about someone accidental sin they just started keeping Shabbat trying to do chuva you know what by ref even if they're from from birth accidentally they turn on the light you know sometimes you go into the bathroom and your natural reflexes turn on light or when you leave the bathroom your natural reflexes to turn on off the light naturally it's not like something you think about too much doesn't require much brain space but then as soon as you shut it off you turn it on it's like oh it's Shabbat now in the beginning when you first start keeping Shabbat that's what you do oh it's Shabbat a little while longer a few months like oh chabbat couple years like oh Shabbat after you get a little more numb cuz you get used to shabbat oh what's a score today by the way stop caring you stop caring you become comfortably numb and it's okay he just s it was accident it was accident so hasm is gonna understand it was an accident hashem's GNA understand it's an accident in the days of the bet mikdash that accidental sin you would have to bring a giant cow as a Corban now the fact that you lived in Tiberia or you lived anywhere else that it would take you 3 days to get to Jerusalem it didn't matter the fact that you're going to miss out on two weeks worth of work just to bring this one Corban you have to get there you have to stay there you have to wait online do the Corban and event you come back by the time you come back you're off of work for two weeks it's a big big money loss for one accidental sin accidental on purpose on purpose to give you death penalty there's no there's noban there's no Chua for purp um a sin that's on purpose if it's accident you bring aan sacrifice if it's on purpose they say kadish so for accident you go bring aan today we make S like going to understand it's accident it's accident but if you finish your lecture at 3:00 in the morning and you're driving 100 million miles an hour to get home as soon as possible CU you don't really feel like being outside and uh you know at 3:00 in the morning you want to get home already so you're driving 150 M an hour and a cop turns on the light right behind you what happens immediately your heart drops immediately your SK caught me oh I going to get a ticket oh $300 $400 they take my license you start saying you start repeating all of a sudden you became you became the best in the world all of a sudden all the that you've ever learned you remember them now why cuz it's a little side a little light chasing you now and that's what was saying you make sins with hem you get used to it you're not really scared of him but you see the cop with his little lights he just turned you don't even know if it's of you you don't even know if he's actually stopping you yet just the fact that you saw the light you already got a heart attack may you fear hasem as much as you fear man and that's us when we question hasem and act towards him like he owes us something it's even worse because we're putting ourselves in a scenario that it's m the opposite the same hand that feeds us we're complaining to it so now if we switched we did chuva just by now thinking about it a little differently say you know what let me thank AEM let me start thanking him instead of complaining to him let me start being more grateful instead of being ungrateful everything changes and the reason why is because the next time you pray to Hashem you're not going to come with like one of these little complainers saym why this why that why this why this why this I did this for you I did this for you no all of a sudden you're like look how many things you've done for me already thank the conversation changes tones because now you're calling the landlord now you're calling the boss now when you learn toys like I'm doing what I'm supposed to because I want to get the job I'm learning to us so I know who my maker is I'm praying to him because I want to have a conversation with them everything changes completely your entire life changes completely once you realize Hashem does not owe you anything brother FR said a good story in a short K he gave a couple of days ago he said a woman came to and came to him and cried to him that she hasn't been able to have kids for 20 years 20 years she's trying to have children unfortunately no success now was soft heart a loving amazing Soul huge giant and he says you know he cried with her he felt her he understood the pain she's dealing with that was one of the amazing traits of the is that they could use they could connect to people not just by words but much with feelings you cry they cry even though they've never met you in their life you know how many stories I've heard about and of the other start hysterical crying with complete strangers we barely are able to cry with family they're crying with strangers why because another Jew is suffering for them that's painful so he started crying with her but then at the end he said to her you know Hashem doesn't really owe you anything he doesn't owe you a child he structured the World in a way where nature looks like it's taking its course things look natural even though hasem himself is nature and that's why the word Elohim with a he has the same numerical value ASA which means the nature in Hebrew both equal 86 telling you I am nature but in hiding and he operates the world in a natural way but nonetheless there are certain things he says listen this person will have 10 kids this person won't have any this person will be rich this person will be poor this person will have a husband this person won't this person will have a wife that's loving and caring this person will have the Satan's ex-wife cuz even he couldn't deal with her as a wife you understand the point is is that Hashem decrees all these things based on our actions based on all different all different types of accounting and calculations that Only hashm Knows nonetheless Hashem runs the world the way he wants to run the world it's not according to our tune what he wants to do he'll do tells everything that you're doing you're saying you're doing you're modest you keep Shabbat you keep you're wonderful amazing person that's all you're really supposed to do everything that you're doing keeping all the you keep kosher you tell people that Hashem is great you pray you cry when you pray all of those things that you're doing you're supposed to do anyway is no extra credit for coming to work on time you're supposed to come on time there's no extra credit for completing your job you're supposed to if you don't you get fired now we have an understanding of this most of us that are logical human beings with our job but we have a misunderstanding of it with God we think that every time we learn something that's connected to hasem we're supposed to get like the lot minimum minimum we win the lot if we read CH so in essence first thing we have to understand is that there are things we're supposed to do we get rewarded for them but nonetheless we're supposed to do them meaning that even if there was no reward we'd still have to do them why hasem said so this is how this week's par begins after mosenu spends 40 days and 40 nights in Mount saai now I'm sure he saw some amazing things the says that he saw every generation that ever lived before before and after he saw he saw creation he saw Noah he saw Abu yov he saw the forefathers the 12 tribes everything that happened before him and he saw everything that's going to happen after him when he saw he asked theem if you have somebody like this that's going to come to the world why are you giving me the Torah he's such a giant he saw the end he saw the Messiah this is just one of the things he saw when Hashem said I'm going to give you the Torah the Angels Came to hashm and said why are you giving him the Torah Flesh and Blood why they're going to disgrace the Torah they're going to sin these people why would you give them the Tor give to us hasem says to Moses answer them and Moses in his fear he says th fire then burn me these angels each one of these angels is larger than the world and it's all fire you want me Flesh and Blood to answer them I'm scared they're going to burn me hasem says to him hold on to my to my holy chair my holy Throne hold on to it I'll protect you answer them says well the Torah says honor your mother and your father do you have a mother and a father no so obviously the Mitzvah wasn't meant for you says honor the Shabbat do K you do K obviously it's for mankind and he goes through this list what every mitvah says look each one of these MIT that's in this Torah was created for men not for angels and the angels accepted his rebuttal and each one of them gave him a present including the Mal even the Mal came and gave mosu a present so now you have such an amazing gift that we got in Mount saai he saw these amazing things comes down from the mountain and you have this it says Moses assembles the entire nation and instead of telling them hey guys listen the stuff I saw up there is amazing I saw angels I saw the future I saw the past by the way Noah was a good-look guy and you start telling him stories and what you saw and what you want you saw 40 days 40 nights of everything it's the greatest thing in the world what did he say no he doesn't say any of that he doesn't even stop by his house to say hello to chora his wife he doesn't stop by his parents say hey AB IMA how are you guys haven't seen you in a month and a half it's a long time you guys okay everything okay how about you feeling okay he doesn't do that he doesn't come and pick up his kids hold them kiss them nothing what does he do comes down from the mountain he says these are the things that hasem commanded why because that's much more important than what I saw it's what you need to do to survive the first and most important thing is what you need to do just to fulfill your part of the deal so he's going to go and start telling them of we have to do all these things this par happens to be another one of the par that talks about the construction of the Tabernacle but before he goes into the Tabernacle he says Hey first things first on six days work may be done but the seventh day shall be holy for you a day of complete rest for Hashem whoever does work on it shall be put to death you shall not Kindle Fire in any of your dwellings on the Shabbat day before we even talk about the house of Hashem the construction of the House of Hashem before we talk about eating kosher before we talk about before we talk talk about any of the including building the house of God on Earth which you would think naturally is that's the number one no no no my friend first you have to admit that hasem created the world in six days and rested on the seventh just for you how do you do how do you admit that how do you announce that how do you live with that by fulfilling the Shabbat observing the Shabbat once a person violates Shabbat he is denying AEM created the world in six days and rested on the seventh whether he's violating the Shabbat because he doesn't havea about money or he's violating the Shabbat because he just doesn't feel like it or he's violating the Shabbat because he doesn't know so much it doesn't matter you're still violating the Shabbat you're still violating the beginning and this is why explains to us in and and several other holy books Shabbat is like all of the MIT this is why my friends I tell you that anyone that's serious about chva anyone that's serious about converting anyone that's serious about connecting to hem must understand these things because hasem doesn't owe you anything so first thing is if anybody thinks about converting the first thing they have to understand do I have the ability both physically and mentally to observe Shabbat if the answer is I'm not sure don't convert because the knowledge is not too difficult to attain I mean you learn a few basic things about Judaism koser basic shabat some holidays some basic things you convert you could not that difficult to pass the test the tough part is the lifestyle change and the first and most important one is observing Shabbat if you're not able to live in a Jewish Community you can't observe Shabbat to the full extent and the reason why is because number one you're not going to know what to do number two you can't go to be part of any K you're by yourself you're not really supposed to be a Jew by yourself in the beginning even though it's not an obligation to go to synagogue the reality it is if you're brand new where you going to go how do you know what you're doing is right you have to be part of a Jewish community and if you want to live six miles away from the synagogue because the house is are cheaper over there that's wonderful but the problem is that you still can't go to Sho why because you probably don't have anyu you can't walk six miles on Shabbat unless there's any roof unless you're inside this hypothetical Circle if you will so again living in a Jewish Community has a lot more to a lot more than just being part of a synagogue there's a lot more to it the point being is that mosu instead of telling us about all the wonderful things that he saw he's saying listen first things first Shabbat Shabbat is not just a day of rest Shabbat is not just a day to eat it's not just a day to learn to even though the Torah you learn on Shabbat is worth a a thousand times more than Tor you learned during the week Shabbat is the day that you scream out to the world I believe that Hashem created the world in six days and rested on the seventh I believe in the creation I believe in a toah from beginning to end and not just believe in your heart but believe in your actions so now when we look at it the world in a way as if hasem owes us something keeping Shabbat we start acting like we're doing him a favor ohem I've been keeping Shabbat for five years and we expect to get like a extra credit for it no my friend even though the Torah says you'll get all your heart's desires if you really truly honor Shabbat technically even if hasem didn't put that verse in the toah you still have to keep Shabbat just simply because that is showing that you believe believe in God so now once we realize that we're obligated to do it then we're like okay you know what if I'm already obligated to let me find a way to enjoy it then Shabbat starts becoming fun then Shabbat is no longer something that I'm doing as if I'm doing somebody a favor then it's something I have to do anyway so let me find a way to do what I have to do but enjoy it it's like somebody say listen I already have this job I don't really like the job that much but at least let me make the best of it until I find a better circumstance now no one can find a better circumstance in Shabbat especially once they know what Shabbat is but you understand my point so this woman in the original story that we started with was telling him I doing this I'm doing this I'm keeping Shabbat I'm keeping this I'm keeping this says listen everything you're doing you have to anyway and Hashem doesn't owe you anything in return anything he gives you is a bonus but that doesn't mean that sh that the the the Gates of Heaven are closed what it means is that the basic level entry you're getting what you're supposed to in a natural way you want something more you want something more than what Hashem naturally decreed for you you have to start doing more meaning you have to start doing things beyond your obligation you're obligated to keep Shabbat you're obligated to keep Kos you're obligated to be modest you're obligated to do all of these basic level MIT there's certain things you're not obligated to do you're not obligated to do K if you see another Jew that's not keeping anything you should obviously tell them but you're not obligated to spend every minute of extra time that you have aside from learning Torah to go look for Jews and bring them back to hasem you're not obligated to go out there and say you know what guys every week we're going to get 50 60 70 people from the community together we're going to bring some speaker and he's going to speak to us some you're not obligated to organize this event you're not obligated to have this headache in your life you're not obligated to do that but if if you show hasem that I'm willing to do something that's beyond my obligation and it's something that Hashem wants you to do obviously hasm wants you to bring his children back then you're giving Hashem a reason to do something beyond what he naturally decreed and this is exactly what the woman did she decided to open an organization to help sick people to help different Jews in a time of need and she started a small organization little by little build it a bigger and bigger and today it's a very big organization and along the way hasem gave her not one not two but not three blessings gave her multiple blessings of multiple kids even though she didn't have kids for 20 years but decided that she did Beyond her nature and therefore he did beyond what nature was supposed to be for her again this is again this is when we re wire our brain with truth now in the book of Samuel you learned something very very interesting Sam what Samuel 1 Samuel 1 1 first verse of Samuel 1 so there was a certain man from time he says his name was El we find out this El wasn't exactly a big or anything he wasn't a uh the most righteous man that ever lived but we find out that receives the Merit from to be the father of Samuel Samuel the prophet which the gar says was the equivalent ofu and a together in his generation in his generation he was the equivalent of both of them in the P you're going to read different things in the beginning you're going to read about a dinner a dinner a PES dinner a p seder that was held ata's house and each one of them is going to say each one of the guests each one of the sages is going to say some and one of them is and he was the president of Am is first in command when did he become first when did he become when did he become number one at the age of 18 years old so this 18y old in our eyes kid that became number one when you have people people much much older than him 70 80 90 years old they made him president why because he knew more Torah than everybody but this is not natural if you have somebody you have even a one of the head not even talking about just one of the head Dian in Jerusalem let's say and you compare him to even a genius 18 year old kid today you can't compare he's been learning Torah for 67 years he's been learning t for 15 years you can't compare his Torah and his Torah even if the 18-year-old is a genius he's got 67 years on him even more so in the days of the BET mikash even more so in the days of the so how could they all choose this 18y old to be their president to be the and the reason why is because as he says in the you'll see he says in my 70 years in seven I am I am like I'm 70 in the seven years I've never seen anyone speak about the Exodus at night but we just learned he's 18 what's 70 and kazal explains to us that razar was really the Gil The Reincarnation of Sam the prophet who died at the age of 52 and razar remembered his previous Gul he remembered being Samuel so in his mind in his life in his reality he's really been around for 70 years and he wasn't just some guy for 52 years he was Samuel the prophet that's why they made him but the question Still Remains Samuel had his merits his mom prayed for him non-stop she cried she prayed I mean he went through his own thing but what was the Merit of his ABA what was the Merit of el to Father such a child listen this hasem has many many options he doesn't have to give them to him could have made him moses' son could have made hima's son could have made him many other people's son that were much smarter much more well known in Torah world but he get to H why in The Book of Ezekiel you see that AEM is very stringent on a very unusual mitvah we talked about a few weeks ago he says that when you go to bet mikdash and you enter bet mikdash you're not allowed to leave from the same place you entered you're not allowed to leave from the same place you entered the explains why why is a big deal you I came in from the front door I'm going to leave from the front doorm will punish the person severely if they do that why explains because Shalom you'll get used to the BET mikdash like it's the walls of your house you enter and leave leave the bet mikdash just like you enter and leave the same entrance in your house you'll think that the bet mikdash is your house it's not your house it's the house of God don't feel too comfortable so I always wondered you know what this makes a lot of sense place of respect you have to honor it you know in a western World they have these different etiquette rules where if you go into a public building you're supposed to take off a hat I don't really understand the significance of it but nonetheless it's a rule that everyone knows you go into a courtroom you're supposed to take off your hat so meaning respect the place there's rules in the place respect it mdash even more so it's telling you you're coming to the house of God not some House of uh some judge of Flesh and Blood make sure you don't feel at home cuz it's not your house it's the holy EST place that ever existed what does this have to do with Al understood this mitvah to such an extent that he made sure that each time he takes he makes his pilgrimage to Jerusalem which he did four times a year throughout all of his life he made sure to take it in a different direction to get there in a different route not only not to enter the BET mikdash from the same entrance as he leaves but to not even get to bet mikdash from the same place he did Beyond his nature beyond what he was supposed to and because he did beyond what he was supposed to Hashem gave him another mitvah opportunity because mitvah one mitvah leads to another hasem says oh you like my mitah so much you're doing even more I'll give you another Mitzvah to do I'll give you another mitvah is writes in Psalms May these mitv chase me what do you mean chase me you're doing so many MIT is going to give you more you want all this to chase you these opportunities you if something's going to chase you in life it may may as well be may as well be good things not problems we have problems all day chasing us said listen something has to chase me at least let it be so understood this mitvah of never feeling too comfortable at the house of God so he was a he went different route altogether to even get to Jerusalem hasm said oh you like my MIT so much that you're not only going there one more time than you're supposed to you're supposed to go three times a year you're going four times but on top of it you're stopping your life you're stopping your job you're stopping everything just to come visit me and you're doing it to make sure that you don't get used to anything she give me some serious respect I'm going to give you extra Mitzvah each time you go you're going to collect more Jews that have never seen bet mikdash and I say hey where you going I'm going to bet mikdash oh I never knew you get the this way I always heard about it yeah yeah it's only 3 days that way okay I'm coming the next year hey where you going going to bet mdash oh I didn't know you got to bet mdash that way how is how far is it that's only a day and a half okay I'm going with you and it says that slowly but surely El can brought the entire nation of Israel to bet mikdash the entire nation of Israel he brought the BET mikdash and then I finally understood why he had a son like Samuel we do something that's beyond our nature Hashem will reward us for it this rabar is in our mishna is in our mishna we continue chapter 2 mishna 19 says translation says one of the students of ran also giving us the three critical pillars of Life we've already heard from a couple of the other students now we're hting from Ab he says these three things you have these three things as a foundation you have everything you can build everything on it you have a rotten Foundation you can't build anything on you could build whatever you want but it'll explode it'll collapse it may last a week a month a year five years but eventually it's all going to come crumbling down says be diligent in the study of Torah and know what to answer the heretic Theos know before whom you toil and know that your employer can be relied upon to pay you the wage of your labor simple translation of things is not too difficult first and foremost says study T this we've already heard many many times but he connects it to something new right next to it the rambam and also the um both agree that the reason why he connected these two things is because it's actually one thing he says be diligent in the study of Torah and know what to answer the heretic meaning that in order to answer the heretic and actually win the battle you could only do it with Torah don't try to use your own wisdom your own science your own medical degree knowing his book because unfortunately a lot of people what they try to do and it's not a good idea I think in our generation there's probably only one person that could actually do it but that's also because he knows more toah than most people and that's R um toia singer but a lot of people when they have debates with these Idol worshippers Christians Catholics what they do is they try to learn the New Testament and try to prove the Christian wrong through the New Testament and they fail miserably most of the time miserably they fail not because the New Testament has any validity to it but by the fact that you actually acknowledge the New Testament as an actual valid document you've already lost the argument this is the reason why the most famous debate in modern days that actually was between Jews and the Christians the most famous One the most successful one the one that has changed more lives than anyone else is the debate that had with the Christian Professor it wasn't because mrai started quoting verses from the New Testament and they went tit for tack with the New Testament it wasn't even necessarily because the other guy was quoting verses from the Old Testament to prove his case it wasn't because of that the reason why is because M did exactly what this Mish said to do you want to prove the heretic wrong you want to prove that the Torah is right do it through the Torah don't do it to anything else do it with Torah wisdom first thing the Torah tells us is that if anything contradicts the Torah it's false if your that you have you know everyone thinks they're Rashi these days they read Torah they read some commentary they learn for one or two years all of a sudden they're like no no listen they said that there's 70 faces to the Tora so that means that I can start adding commentary to the Torah every other day you have a new Junior Rabbi writing commentary in a to like uh there Raba problem here with this is that people yes even though there is 70 faces to the Tora and even though there is different opinions of certain things there's also a very big misunderstanding of what that means commentary and opinions and anything you got to do with the Torah if it's today if it's coming from today you have to understand one major thing if your opinion your commentary your thought your your anything contradicts previous generation you're wrong by default you're wrong it's not like maybe you're right there is no K if you don't agree with the rambam you are wrong rambam is never wrong and you're right if your K contradicts Rashi you are Wrong by default even if you're the biggest genius ever you're still wrong because you're not even equal to the Sho string of Rashi or r or tosot or evanel or k of course not AKA you can never be right and them wrong and that's what we fail to understand especially people that are new like oh listen I heard there different opinions so maybe it's uh everything is up for interpretation now this would be a contained problem and not such a big problem even worth mentioning if it was only a problem with the new people it's a problem let's say with the converts or it's a problem with let's say I don't know some it wouldn't really be that that big of a problem the serious problem here is that this is actually sometimes even a bigger problem in the FR world where you have these young guys going to religious schools sometimes they're not taught right whether it be a university that calls itself a Yeshiva also or it's a Yeshiva and they're not explained thoroughly to have serious honor for the Sages and they're taught or they misunderstand a teacher to the point where they think that their thought their could potentially contradict Rashi or tosot or rambam or anyone before them and they start telling people yeah but you know everything is up for interpretation everything is up for interpretation why do I mention this because in one of the debates that I watched there was a rabbi that didn't belong in a debate in the first place and that had a debate that was organized by a couple of Jews that were reform but they want to you know they disgrace jism they want to be open-minded and share their knowledge so they brought the of the generation some guy named uh Brown he's one of The Debaters for idolatry for Christianity and um they brought him and they brought this Rabbi to debate him I forget the rabbi's name the rabbi didn't know anything he Lov the bate before he started once he started the first five minutes of his of the debate he's complimenting the idol worshipper of how he has a PHD and he knows several different languages and this and all this the guy didn't belong in a debate and what happens he desecrated hashem's name this was a horrendous horrendous show obviously not because Judaism lost but because we made a foolish mistake of having a guy going to debate someone when he's not supposed to go debate so and the reason why he lost is because he wasn't using the Torah as the foundation he was using his knowledge is expertise and everything else but Torah trying to talk philosophy trying to talk Psychiatry and psychology trying to rationalize with people that's not how you win a debate the way that ra mrai want his debate is the first thing first was shown that the Torah is real everyone agrees including the idol worshippers okay Point number one achieved Target Two is the only target left what is it show the new testament's fake doesn't matter what it says once you show it's fake once you show it's man-made it's irrelevant what it says because even if it has 99% truth in it which it doesn't but even if it has 99% truth in it that 1% of falsehood makes the whole document false it's just like for example if we all in a desert and we finally get someplace and the guy says listen I have water for all of you I have water for all of you but just so you know two hours away there's a city you're going to get to the city but you have an option you could all make it there you could all make it to the city to another two hours you've already been walking in the desert for a while you have the energy I tested you I know for sure you can make it another two hours or you could just why struggle why suffer you could drink the water that I have right in front of you there only one problem out of the 100 cups that I have here they all look like water one of them has poison not all of them just one cup there's 100 cups one of them has poison raise your hand if you would drink the cup any of the cups why isn't anybody raising hand because logically you know there's a even if there's a 1% chance of you dying you're not going to drink it 1% poison makes all 100 cups poisonous 1% falsehood makes the entire document false correct because once you know there's one level of falsehood in it it's no longer reliable you don't know maybe there's something else too maybe it's 2% 3% 4 % maybe 50% the point is you found one thing that's wrong once there's something wrong it's man-made once it's man-made it's no longer Divine once it's no longer Divine it's not Torah once it's not Torah who cares what it is it's not worth anything and that's what m did when he showed them that Jacob it says in the Torah in a couple of plac places came down from Egypt came down from Canan to Egypt with 70 Souls with 70 people New Testament says 75 what God couldn't add up he forgot how to add there five mistake that's true when he said that the the is in the wrong address which you can verify today because it still exists it's in the wrong City it's another mistake and countless other errors point being is that he used this Mish like you're supposed to it doesn't just say go learn Tor it says go learn T so you can answer the heretic because if you actually want to have a chance to win you want to do a Kem you want to help people convert you want to help people stay away from it you could only do with Torah as a foundation once you use their document you're already lost not only because they're probably going to know it better than you but the fact that you're giving their document any recognition whatsoever means that there's a chance it's valid but we all know it's not so makes sense the sages dealt with Heretics for many many years and people don't when I say to people if there's anything any good in the world it must have a source in the Torah if there's anything that you need to learn it can be learned from Torah and people don't understand to what extent because obviously people today don't truly understand the significance and the breadth of Torah so here's an example says the following page 38b wherever the Heretics have used the verse in scripture to support their heresies the rebuttal to their challenge can be found in a nearby verse explanation because there's plent plenty of people that have been trying to go against the Torah one way or another on one end that Picos is one that is constantly trying to cool everyone off get them away from Torah he's one that says that the Torah is not Divine or he's one that says that the oral Torah is not divine and he interprets the Torah in a way that's not authentic Unfortunately today we have many of them and some of them even wear keepa anyone that starts translating to the Torah to his convenience and that convenience happens to contradict the sages is naos but the sages say listen you have to fight them but only if they're not Jewish only if they're not Jewish you have to go fight them argue debate them go do because if he's a Jew R says you arguing with him you're going to make him worse cuz he has a once he a to leave Judaism to become a to become a to become a denier of the Divinity of the Torah then it's an ego battle it's no longer a truth battle so even if you proved him listen I can prove to you the Torah scientifically I can prove to you the Torah rationally I can prove to you the Torah in any way you want you want to debate I'll show you facts it doesn't matter any anymore why because he's not looking for the truth he's looking to be right he's looking to win cuz he has something that the doesn't have he has a and that's why to convert someone after showing them the truth is much easier than to get somebody to do Chua much easier as strange as that sounds it's much much easier to convert someone from from idolatry from Christianity from Catholicism from Buddhism from whatever religion you want much easier than to get a Jew that left the to come again both are possible but it's much easier to convert someone why because listen I showed the guy that believes in Christianity Hey listen the book that you believe the book that you bow to the book that you praise and say truth look it has 1 2 3 4 5 S 800 mistakes just in the first chapter what say no it's not a mistake it's a mistake you you yourself agreed that the Old Testament AKA Torah is the truth right yes okay look at what the Torah says look what your new false Testament says what are you going to say no it's finished argument's over if he's looking for truth argument is the end beginning end that because many of them claim to know Torah so before you even start the sentence no I know I know but I haven't finished the sentence how do you know I'm going to say no no I know already I know what you're going to say I learned I went to Yesa how do you know what I'm going to say I haven't said it yet you I already know people like you how do you know what I'm like you don't even know my name yet you have a beard I know they're not interested in the truth they're interested in winning that's why I had this guy I talked about him in one of the lectures two weeks ago tries to debate me Online private messaging whatever scientific things and I mention it that's I told them within a few moments they told him listen you're not really looking for the truth you're just looking to disseminate information to disseminate your idea you're not even reading the material I'm providing you're not even listening you're not anything and he's all interested in science now we had the Merit to come out with part two of the Tor and science lecture that we had as a uh film it's very successful already thousands of views people are giving good feedback on it it's another 20p part section of you know putting a visual to the words that we said from the Torah so I figured you know what let me send it to the guy he likes science let me show him a visual of Toran science where when I talk about the different cures that the sages had from already 3,000 years ago different inventions we already had from 3,000 years ago showing wisdom showing proof showing that the Torah already knew over 3,300 years ago how many stars there are in the universe whereas modern science only started catching up in the last 10 years obviously we didn't have telescopes and supercomputers 3,000 years ago we had God so he told us point is this could only be from something a source that's Divine so I figured you know what let me send this to this guy cuz he likes science apparently or he claims to like science and he claims to want the truth so I give it I send it to him thinking oh you know press play like you press play watching the cup saving the uh the ducks in the middle of the highway you going to press play on something that says tan science what do you care you have nothing to do anyway what is he right to me why you sending to me why are you sending me this LOL hahaa why are you sending me this meaning I'm wasting my time cuz he's not interested in learning he's just interested in proving his point even if he knows his point is wrong that's right yeah so kazal told us that if it's a Jew don't even bother debating him if he's an AOS can I that's that question yeah okay what U the Jewish guy from the Jewish Family uhhuh he been practicing Judaism all that T and all that and and all of a sudden he leaves and he says I don't want this anymore and he Jews and all that he goes and die could they bury him with the Jewish burial or in the cemetery where the Jews are buried the burial of uh Jews that are notat it has to be and not all places keep it in Jerusalem they do in Jerusalem and some other parts of the world but mostly Jerusalem if the P if the Jews are not sh Shabbat they bury him in a different section of the cemetery they don't bury him next to the okay it's not bu with the same it's you could be in the same Cemetery but not in the same section okay as the shabat be they're saying they're saying that somebody leaves and they say I don't want nothing with J this anymore yeah yeah they're notat then they him separately but in they're in a separate place but most places around the world don't follow this they bury everyone together there's actually a funny uh joke about they say that um two people come to a uh cemetery and they want to you know buy their uh the plot their plot you know while they're still alive so the uh religious guy comes the first and he says how much is it he says oh it's $3,000 okay $3,000 not so bad takes the money out pays it the non-religious guy comes and says okay I want to do the same thing I want to buy next to him you know he's my friend okay $500,000 what $500,000 what is this discrimination why $500,000 $3,000 my friend right now two minutes he's right next to me why $500,000 oh because him he's renting mashia comes going to resurrect with the dead you're buying that's a good answer that is excellent answer you know so is telling us here I like that one that if you're going to debate the heretic first and foremost know that amen the heretic that we're talking about here that Picos that we're talking about here is the one that's not Jewish because with him you actually have a shot you actually have a chance to be him because he may be looking for the truth even though he's a missionary even though he goes and he tries to recruit Jews to Christianity if you show him the truth as a chance you can actually turn him around but if he's a Jew your chances are very very small and it could actually count be counterproductive so they said don't even bother but regardless of which which one it is make sure that the foundation of your argument is T it's not your logic it's not science it's not psychology it's not philosophy it's Torah so now 38b thear once again shows us the breath of knowledged by the sages and says listen we've had many debates with the go we've already know the questions they're going to ask you and there are debates and we already know their argument before they even bring it to you so to save you the time here's the answers because every one of their questions every one of their so-called claims because God wrote the Torah and not some guy like the New Testament he put every one of their questions that they have any verse that they have a question about he put the answer right next to it so it's not too far so it's not like saying listen they asked about Moses but you find out the answer init when Moses wasn't even alive yet or they asked about Adam but the answer is in the book of Samuel no no no my friend because God is the truth of all truth says you're going to have a question I'm not only going to give you the answer I'm going to put the answer right in front of you right next to it that meaning that if you're really looking for the truth you'll find it it's not too far away from you the Torah is not in heaven it's not in the sky it's right in front of you so Aban says the follow says these are a handful about a half a dozen different claims that the idol worshippers or all types of Heretics will claim against the Torah where we say the foundation of all Judaism Foundation of Torah is one God there a single God there's never been anything before him there will never be anything after him there isn't anything now other than him he was he is and he will be right that's it simple but the go say in the Book of Genesis 1 verse 26 it is written it is written let us make man in our image now let us make man in our image is plural so kazal says when Moses saw this when he wrote this told him what to write and Moses wrote it so God they're going to say there you're saying there's more than one God here the Heretics the K the they're going to go they're going to eat Us Alive with this verse if there's only a single God why you saying let us hasem said write it write it anyway why write it anyway because if they continue reading to the next verse from 26 you go to 27 it says the next verse says God created Man In His Image singular right he didn't say he didn't say right he didn't say we created him oh we or they or or they created him or what's we created him in our image the answer is singular he cre next also in the Book of Genesis 11: 7 in the uh the whole issue of the um uh of when they built the end of Noah the Tower of Babel and said let us descend and confuse their speech when hasem saw they building the Tower of Babel said let us come down there and confuse them and change speech and that's when he created 70 languages so they said look let us create let's confuse them this is all plural but if you go to two verses from it it says it says AEM descended singular to see the city and the tower again went from plural to singular continues again third case it says a um Jacob built an altar in betel because there uh because their God had appeared which seems like it's say there more than one God Shalom they God appeared to him it's in plural orig means it's like a plural so so it says the uh the answer is again four verses next to it Jacob went to betel to build the altar to God who answers me in the day of my distress so again going from plural to singular and this is again three other cases in the book of Samuel the book of Deuteronomy Book of Daniel Book of Daniel is one of the popular ones where it says uh uh it is written I Daniel Daniel is talking about himself I watched until Thrones were set up Thrones why if there's only a single God why are there multiple Thrones should be one throne but then it says but the verse continues in the ancient days God sat meaning only one God so now asks why why is he writing on one end plural but in the other end in the end the concluding end it's singular says let's create man in our image but the creation itself was in my image why we going what's the point and gives us the answer from here hasem is trying to teach us humility because in order for you to be the best teacher there ever is you have to teach by example who knows that more than God says I created man but I also created the Angels says the Holy One blessed his he does not do anything unless he first consults the Heavenly Court he goes to his Angel he says listen I created you and I don't really need your help but at the same token I want you to feel like you have significance you have a purpose in the world if hasem didn't want to share responsibility he would just stay by himself he doesn't need us he doesn't benefit out of us he doesn't need man to pray to him he doesn't need the angels to serve him he's perfect the whole point of creation was for good to create good the Angels want to have a purpose they want to have not just not just robots doing things so hasem says listen come what do you think about man we created in our image well we have we know the difference between right and wrong all right let's do it as if they're part of the decision but this is all theoretical this is not really how he doesn't need their decision the point being is that he's trying to teach us humility humility wow that even God ask for advice wow what is that Rabbi where is it this is Page 38b yes this is also sourced you could talk about it also in the R's book chapter 2 uh uh verse six and also Rashi talks about it what is the sanedrin at sanedrin 38b 38b okay it's in several different places point being is that here we see that hem gave the Cure before the illness before the before the Heretics before the came with their argument going against the you know saying the Torah because in their new testament they saying God is three yeah that called The Majestic The Majestic plural right it's what so the New Testament says that God is three shom says there a father son holy spirit all this nonsense so their main argument is to constantly say in order to validate the guy that died 2,000 years ago if he even lived is by validating the three the the the Trinity and how do they validate the Trinity they validate the Trinity by using these vers by saying look there's M more than one God look there's multiple Parts no no no my friend there's no multiple Parts God specifically told you right here every time you have the question the answer is right next to it so you can't even say it's not related or it's not connected it's right next to it the answer is right next to the question showing you that Hashem knows the answer before you even know you had a question and this is again one of the important things that a person needs to know when they're learning tah they need to understand understand that they if they're going to use if they're going to debate anybody they have to use the Torah as a foundation that's why it says in the 5 verse 26 um delve into it meaning the T and delve into it some more because everything is in it everything is in it so they once asked the ru of if heresy is so against theem why do hasem allow it why does hasem allow these Heretics these Kim these AOS aim why does he allow him to even exist they're saying God doesn't this God doesn't that why does he even let him exist andam of says something very interesting he says if it wasn't for Heretics no poor person would ever get any help meaning all of the homeless people always be homeless all of the poor people will start to death and ask him what does one thing have to do with the other because if everyone really had in hasem they know that everything comes from hasem comes from sh so when the poor man comes there and says oh give me some no no don't worry H's going to give you I have a is going to give you whatever you deserve is going to give you so since the rich man doesn't believe in God like that he says listen hm's not going to give you I'll give it to you I'll help you out I'll help you out since hasem is not helping you I'll help [Music] yous so after that it says and know before whom you toil and know that your employer can be relied upon and pays you the wage for your labor page 99 we mentioned a story a couple of weeks ago of how Ben one of the sages came to his teacher he told him for now that I've learned the entire Torah now I've learned the entire Tor everything I learned can I go learn some Greek knowledge some secular knowledge I learned it's not like I he's a fool he says now that I learned the entire Torah this is a sage is somebody is able to revive the dead it's not like just anybody I learned the entire can I go learn so says something to him it says in know before whom you toil meaning you're not learning tor because you're trying to become a big Rabbi you're not learning T including the facts that prove the Torah against the Heretics because one day you're going to be a big debater or that you're even ever going to debate you're not learning Torah because you're going to publicize it to the world and become some big Publishing House you're learning to because you're obligated to do pure and simple to such an extent that you even need to get to a level of learning Tor where you know so much Tor you can debate anyone if hem ever gave you the opportunity to do so and to get to that level to get to that level of knowledge of T you have to be what's called Shak means you have to be very very d ENT in your study of tah it can't be like you're studying on the side for a couple hours here a couple hours there it must fulfill your everything the way to identify whether someone is truly a or not the says that it's not the being diligent being Shak is not Define by how much time you spend studying to you can study to for 10 hours a day 15 hours a day 20 hours a day and still not be Shak still not be considered really diligent the says what it's really dependent on is if the person has made a commitment wholeheartedly to devote his entire personality to Torah has nothing to do with time you can study only two hours a day that's all you have you're studying you're working you have this job that requires x amount of hours there is no way around it you have responsibilities you have this but you have two solid hours that you could study that's it but you could still be counted as someone that's diligent why because even though you're not studying Torah the entire day hashem's on your mind all day when the minute you wake up to the minute you go to sleep every single act you do has AEM in mind oh wait I'm going to go get give this guy change let me make sure that I give him I count and calculate that it's honest change and I'm not cheating this guy right oh he forgot to give uh he gave me too much even a mistake everything the point being is that Hashem is on your mind at all times when my ra told me this for the first time that mosu had a Shem on his mind at all times said spoke to God all the time yes but you know what even the sages mention they SP they talked they uh thought about God not just sometimes all the time first time I heard I'm like how is that possible I mean I can understand thinking about hem When you pray I can understand thinking about hem when you're studying but all the time meaning that when you open your eyes you're thinking about hem you get out of the bathroom you're thinking about hm you're about to breathe breathe breathe in I'm not talking about like Brea I'm not talking about eat and you're doing a blessing you just breathe you're thanking hasem for giving you air you breathe out thinking hm that it came out you see you think hasm that gave you Vision like literally thinking about hem all the time was impossible for me to understand not that I got to that level but I finally have a small understanding of what it means only after I started learning to that it is possible how if you m study Tor and you devote your life to Torah it's very much possible to think about hasm all the time even in this generation you don't need to be yeah so but it's exactly like said you have to devote everything to it it's not just the learning to but it's also the it's everything that you do so so when B came to to he said can I go learn secular studies he says and you got to it meaning the Torah day and night so if you can find a time that's not day and it's not night that you can actually study secular studies but anytime that's day or night can you're obligated to learn to that was a great answer so when someone understands this they start getting closer and closer to the truth of where they need to be but even when someone tries tries to do cha tries to fulfill the will of hem I have Many religious people that come to me even some of them they tell me they havea issues they know everything I'm telling they know they learned to they've been going to Yesa for their whole life but when it comes to something specific most of the time it's pal sometimes it's Z sometimes it's Health different issues for different people but usually the common problem when it comes to money people start questioning God it's like he spent all of his money on creation he ran out of money what gives someone that knows t somewh know Tor someone doesn't know if hem is really real or not in the first place it's understandable why they wouldn't believe that ignorant fool that is trying to spread his heresy with his uh atheism to the world that I debated or he wanted to debate me but was just a waste of time there's nothing there's no a uh there's nothing to argue here he doesn't believe in anything he believes that once he dies he becomes a tree so he'll become a tree and probably the cut the tree make it into a book hopefully it's but the point is it's a there's nothing to argue with a guy like this cuz he doesn't know anything he doesn't know there's a difference between him and the monkey to him it's the same thing but the guy that went to Yesa the guy that wears the big hat the guy that has the long beard the PS the guy that has the peirs that look beautiful the guy that has the everything how does he have any questions how does he have any questions the answer is was given by of K of K and he says really what this mishna is trying to tell us that yes you have to be diligent in your Torah studies because you're going to have to answer the heretic you're going to have to answer the Cel but who is the biggest K in the world the biggest in the world is inside you it's that's trying to constantly trying to say no listen hm doesn't care about you Hashem may be left Hashem cares about everybody except you Hashem is too busy for you maybe Hashem is not really here anymore he's trying to convince you nonstop nonstop of something against the Torah and he's inside you yes he's inside you says to us I create the he's bigger smarter stronger than you but there's only one cure I gave it to you also Torah so that's why is saying first and foremost study Tor because that heretic the one we've been talking about for the last two hours is actually inside you he's not the guy that's in a church he's not the guy that's in a reformed shoe he's inside you you're the one that doesn't want to wake up on time you want to sleep a little extra and then little by little you stop going to Sho all together and little by little you don't keep kosher anymore and little by little you start driving on Shabbat that's all coming from that K inside you yes it's all coming from him we're not talking about a stranger talking about the guy in the mirror that's why you need to learn Torah and that's why you have to be diligent with it because if you take it 50/50 he's going to take over why cuz he already had he's already paying rent he's already inside the house you just don't notice cuz you're thinking you're a sadik you're thinking oh look in the Mir look I have a keep on I have this everybody thinks they're okay everyone thinks they're okay little do they know the C's inside he's relaxing he's just waiting for you around the corner he's waiting for the minute you slip up he's waiting for the second hasem gives you a test and that's when he gives you all the whole the whole deck the whole deck he's giving see I told you this I told you this I told you he has a whole book of against hem already ready for you every single Pro he's already ready he's got the whole book so unless you have serious Torah inside you you already lost the battle unless you have proofs inside you from the T you were diligent about you already lost the battle cuz he's ready he's been waiting for you he's waiting for you for days for hours for months it could even be for years there's one huge huge Rabbi huge Rabbi made many people do chuba many people do chuba mamash went crazy lost his mind started doing things that are just I can't even explain it I will not even mention a name it's not for me to mention anybody's name point being is that you can't even judge him do you know why because his yet left 40 years ago he was so strong his tah was so strong yet was like I can't bother with this guy I got to get stronger so the yet has been working out for 40 years 40 years he's working out and the guy got used to no the big Rabbi got used to know next thing you know he left the door open the came in and destroyed the entire house and now many people are saying he's lost case cuz his was waiting for him around the corner the biggest is inside you don't think we're talking about some missionary really in reality I'm talking about us I'm talking about the guy in the camera wow [Music] so if we take this into account we start understanding things a little differently the they want to put together the he was at such a level 500 years ago approximately he was at such a level he'd have an angel angel come to him every day teach him Torah every day Angel come to him teach him tah we can't even draw an angel he has an angel coming to his house teach him toorah one day he's studying but he has his on you know in those days they used to keep on most of the day especially there's still some people like that today but not for the most part nothing and all of a sudden this fine on the of the head rip and fall on the floor anyone knows but if yourin hits the floor if it's inside the Box still it's different to lesser extent but if it's the actual fall and hit the floor then you either have to fast or you have to give in replacement of a fast and obviously picked them up and kissed them but one day are on everything is fine thank you everything is fine the rip and fall on the floor imately picks him up kisses it sadik it's not like uh one of us sadik for him to rip fall on the floor it's a big deal he actually understood the significance of this he's very sorry he's trying to figure out the chuv has to do all of a sudden the angel comes up he goes I did it my friend my angel why' you do it because for a moment for a moment we're not talk about for an hour We're talk about for a day we're not talking about for a year for a moment you didn't think about god wow that's heavy for a moment you didn't think about God and because you at your level you didn't think about God for a moment you have no idea how many heavenly world you destroyed because you didn't think about god wow the bmov heard the story and he had a nice K on Psalm 32 verse two the psalm itself says praiseworthy is the man whom Hashem does not ascribe iniquity and whose Spirit there is no deceit so the literal translation is what I just said but then if you break down the word words into three parts which is what the B said praiseworthy is the man who didn't think about God and for that it's considered a sin for him meaning meaning praiseworthy is the man that it's such a high level that for him not to think about God for him that's a sin because the rest of us are struggling much bigger sins right so that's where R got to R got to such a high level that for him not to think about God for a moment was much more significant than we could even imagine now the mishna ends with know that your employeer can be relied upon to pay you the wage of your labor now once a person truly understands that really their whole purpose is to battle the inner inside them the only way they're going to win is if toil with Tor for the sake of Torah not for the sake of anything else if there's any other benefits there's benefits the only way they can get to that point is if they realize that really the boss is a but since we have such a big the Mish finishes off with something too he says remember that that you have to do everything for regardless regardless of whether you say you're going to get reward or not you got to do regardless of anything got to do it he's so good that he's actually going to reward you for it you have to do it anyway but he's so good you can rely on him to pay your wage meaning you can rely that everything you do even though you have to do it you'll get rewarded for it one way is to understand it is that that we're going to get rewarded for it but even more so that if he obviously is happy with your work you have no reason to havea issues you have no reason to worry about parasa he wants you to survive doesn't he you're fulfilling his will yeah you're one of the very few people that's actually learning to in the world you have 7.4 B million people in the world approximately there's a uh thing a clock of some kind a counter that shows how many people are in the world approximately of course they don't know an exact number and it continues going Higher and Higher and Higher and Higher by tens and hundreds per second and right now the last time I looked at it was almost 7.4 billion people out of the 7.4 billion people there are approximately 20 million Jews some say there's 15 some say there's more point is let's say 20 million out of the 20 million Jews there's approximately let's say 3 million religious 3 million religious meaning 3 million Shabbat out of the 3 million religious not everybody learns TOA let's just be generous and say that 20% learned toah 600,000 600,000 out of the 600,000 of course not all 600,000 are studying at the same time some it's different time zones when it's 8:00 in the morning in Israel it's 1 a.m. in America when it's 8:00 in the morning in America it's a uh 17 hours later I believe in Australia so it's different time zones but in the book of Jeremiah Hashem makes a promise he says and he says to us if not for my Covenant day and night the rules of the world will cease to exist meaning that if there isn't someone in the world at all times learning tah the N the nature what you call nature that keeps the world intact gravity oxygen rotation everything we see cease to exist immediately which means every person that's learning Torah is partly responsible for the rotation of the world for the oxygen that we breathe for the gravity we rely on for the atoms continuing to spin meaning that every single one of us that's learning tah is responsible for a part of the population that still exist exists so if you have 7 and2 billion people let's say you have 50,000 people learning to that means that they're in charge of a couple of hundred thousand people being alive right the second meaning that if they stop they just say you know what instead of learning the I'm going to close the book I'm going to watch baseball basketball I don't know American Idol some other I'm going to go watch something else instead of learning T in essence unless someone hasem puts somebody else to replace you Hashem has the right according to his law to wipe out 200,000 people how about the 36 the 36 sikim the 36 sikim give a reason to continue the world all together all together all together there has to be 36 sedim in every generation but again we rely on them a lot we don't know who they are but we rely on them a lot but the point is is that each one of us contrib is a very much a promise that said is that the only only reason why I created this world is for the Torah that I created even before the world 974 Generations before hasem put this world together he already wrote the Torah with black fire on White Fire so this is one of the most important things that a person needs to understand that when they question they have to understand who they're questioning are they questioning someone that owes them are they questioning someone that they owe everything to once you correct your thoughts you're never going to havea issues once you realize you're the one in debt you're never going to have any problems in regards to it's going to be very easy to believe that Hashem is running the world and it's also going to be very easy to live with less stress because if hashem's running the world he knows what he's doing of course if he knows what he's doing what are you so worried about and if you're one of the few that's responsible for a couple of hundred thousand people being alive right in the second why would he starve you why would he hurt the one that's keeping the 200,000 alive does it make any sense yeah that's the point so when you learn a is telling your employer you can rely on him he's going to pay your wage not only because he's so amazing but you're also keeping if you will his creation Alive by learning his Torah by fulfilling his Torah so as I mentioned to you guys and I mentioned to everyone in regards to doing Chua in regards to converting it's not so hard you just got to take god seriously once you take him seriously your life becomes G you're already living in yes you're going to have difficulties you're going to have tests you going have headaches you going have little kids being awake till 6:00 in the morning you're going to have a uh you know you know missing shoes here and there you can have your boss firing you hiring you customers yelling you have all the basic tests of life it's normal but as long as you know that there's an eye that's watching that's like ABA you watching you got this you know what's going on all right you got it I don't know what you're doing but as long as I know you have it I'm fine as long as you know he's there everything changes but if you're alone if you are the K if you let in this kof that's inside you out you let him go partying and start drinking you have no hope you have no hope you're already in Gom the Gom sh that everybody keeps asking me to have you're already living G without you don't need to know about the G what actually happens in the physical Gom you're already living it with no what are you life for how you surviving the weak honestly I look at my life previous to Old chai and everything else honestly I don't know how I survived even before the sickness even before the sickness such a stressful nightmarish life every day a problem every day this and you have no idea how to fix any of it why because it's all in your hands your hands can't do anything so the more you minimize yourself the more you make room for God the more you give God room to do his will the more you can sit back and relax and enjoy the show and this is the reason why I tell you anyone that's looking to convert make sure you're converting 100% because just going to the bed passing the test anybody can do that but if you're going to be aat a week later a month later a year later five years later you're the biggest fool in the world cuz right now you're allowed to do it you're allowed to drive on Shabbat you're allowed to do whatever you want eat whatever you want as long as it's not a moving you know living organism you don't even have to have a formal wedding ceremony you could marry whoever you want divorce from the next day you're not obligated to learn to all day and night you just need to be a moral person a moral decent person comply with approximately 60 different laws because the seven laws of Noah break up into approximately 60 different laws which are mostly ethical logical laws respect your parents be an honest person and so on and so forth that's it it's very very simple and you'll have a share of the world to come do whatever you want on Shabbat Drive don't drive eat don't eat it's up to you but don't come tell me listen I'm going to stand no high but I'm going to keep Shabbat like some people are doing now you have a lot of crazies in the world now where Unfortunately they listen to this kofer this guy that actually claims to be a rabbi but he's really a kofer he's confusing everyone he says no listen I have a he has a nobody he thought about it in 3,000 years we all waited for him what even theim can keep Shabbat R was wrong this one was wrong that everyone was wrong until we got to him this is exactly what I mean when I talk about a k this is someone that thinks that he can interpret the Torah so he says go can keep the uh Shabbat and it wasn't referring to them that they can't keep Shabbat this one verse as he said just like every time someone will bring a question Hashem make sure to give the answer right next to it if you look at Shabbat the Mitzvah of Shabbat what's right next to it hasem says this Covenant is between me and you not me and everyone no it's a pack between me and you I'm is yeah that's right why would AEM spend any word any letter any time saying specifically that the Covenant is between him and if really everyone's allowed to keep Shabbat ah if you would have wrote that in this book no one would have bought it because the book is not valid then you understand but to write mistakes is easy cuz it serves our ego and also makes money point being here guys is that if you're going to follow AEM law follow aem's law not the inside us not the heretic that's inside us that's constantly trying to convince us to do something that's different than what God said that's different than what the sages said don't make your own laws you want to convert convert you want to do chuva do chuva you want to be righteous be righteous but don't be 50/50 there's no time for 5050 mashia comes mashia comes it says specifically he won't give you a trial he won't ask you Hey listen do you keep Shabbat you keep you kept koser or you went to you went there he's not going to do that he's going to smell your sins and destroy you with the words coming out of his mouth the righteous get rewarded and saved whereas the wicked get destroyed by the words of the mashia words not actions not he's not hitting you with a stick no guns no planes no bombs nothing words after smelling the sins of the wicked so this is why it's such a big choice if you're going to do anything do it right you're going to convert make sure you're ready to keep everything because it's too expensive not to keep it better off stay not Jewish be nohide if you're going to do cha do it 100% don't be 50% and the reason why is because the fact that you already know and you're going against God anyway makes you worse than some Jew that lives in the middle of Africa never heard about Torah he's anus you're not the point being here is when we know in front of whom we toil when we know who are in front of when we know that everything we're doing is for not only is it easier for us to just ify the hard work it requires but also easier for us to beat the heretic inside us because we know we're getting paid for this anyway any questions yeah yeah umus Ander what's is say synonym or same thing Aus was actually a um named by MAV MAV says it was named after a Greek philosopher oim 400 years before the destruction of the bet mikdash he was a Greek philosopher that constantly preached beliefs against God uh pretty much saying uh that uh God created the world but then he left so they called it it became like synonymous with uh being a heretic um it's uh just like for example when somebody talks about if they uh you know if they if somebody stole their money so now unfortunately it's B but nonetheless it's true they say oh the guy was a ma off like burned made off that stole billions of dollars from people so he's become synonymous with stealing or for example when the guy the Italian guy that almost 100 years ago cheated a bunch of people his name was Charles Ponzi P so anytime somebody cheats something it's called a Ponzi scheme so P was also got his name about 2004 100 years ago next amen amen amen amen amen [Music] [Applause] [Music] la [Music] a [Music]