MATOT: Believe or Cleave to God? | STUMP THE RABBI (239)

We're back here on our Wednesday night stump the rabbi. We're after some you guys will then ask some questions and will give us some answers. Tonight's shoe is going to be for the and all of Isra and all the righteous nohides that continue to support the organization by donating and helping us do all the amazing things that the organization is doing. Anyone that uh took advantage of the opportunity we mentioned last night by going to the cube store did a wise thing because we literally had a massive amount of orders tonight uh in the last 24 hours. Uh lots of people ordered lots of things and we also added a few uh a few products that we ran out of stock of uh like my books and some CDs. I know some of you guys still like CDs and DVDs. We have those on the Kiru store right now that you can order. Uh and lots of people love the uh the book against manis freedman and also thear posters and the USB all this stuff is a uh thanks to that sends us people that are willing to support willing to donate so we could actually give all this stuff out for free despite the fact that it literally cost millions. Tonight we're uh going to delve into parat even though I'm well aware that it's mat and m this week because we're uh a relatively shorter sh uh you know because you have the questions after I wanted to really delve into a couple of topics uh tonight that uh will put some things into perspective. Now the Torah tells us in many places about knowing Hashem. Of course, everyone is aware of believing in Hashem. But there are a couple of places in the Torah where Moshe tells us to cleave to Hashem, to cleave to God. Parat begins with the matters of vows taking a vow and then after that we go into the war but it's not just any war this is the war against the enemies of God it's a vengeance against the enemies of God. Tonight, we're going to dig a little bit deeper into the holy words of the sages inside the oral Torah in order to understand the meaning of cleaving to God and how it connects to the wars of God. Mat starts off by telling us that if you're going to take a vow, if you're going to make a vow, you have to think twice. Because first and foremost, a Jew has to know and really every person must know that being honest is not necessarily just a good quality. It's an absolute necessity. If you want to have a relationship with Hashem, that's a positive one. Everything that comes out of his mouth, he shall do. But to make a vow and say that you're going to do something, you're going to do something. You're committed to it and you're even willing to swear perhaps in the name of God, perhaps just simply saying the word nil. And the Torah tells us that one of the biggest crimes that a person can make is by making a vow in the name of God and not fulfilling it. So much so that the says that a person that makes a vow and does not fulfill it, his wife will die. So this is not just a uh something that maybe the person will get punished for in the next world and uh then you have to learn about the next world. No no this is something that simply says don't do it unless you know what you're doing because the risks are extraordinary. Now before we go into the details of how does this apply to the everyday person that doesn't think that they make vows. They never even said the word. But yet the para was written for all of us. Wasn't written just for me. wasn't written just for a few of you. If you're watching this, that means that says it relates to you, too. Even if you get scared right now and turn off the video, it still relates to you. As I told a young ignorant kid today that uh started a conversation by telling me he has some questions about the cash advance business and I was happily willing to provide him all the information. The problem is he wasn't willing to learn. He was just simply telling me all types of ignorant statements of how he believes in his heart that I'm wrong and this is not the will of God. And I provided them the information. He says, "Yeah, but this information came from you, so I can't rely on it." They said, "Well, I didn't write the Rambam. I didn't write the rest of the PKI that I mentioned in the book." said, "Yeah, but I can interpret the Torah any way that I want also." Said, "I guess you you don't really understand how Torah works or how works. You're more comfortable maybe with videos." No, I just think that if it's a video, if it's anything, I'm not going to listen. Okay. So, what do you want from me exactly? And he just continued spewing all types of nonsense. And I told him, "At least you now know that you were informed. You choose to ignore the information. Don't cry when God punishes you in the future." And then he tells me something not really surprising, but surprising. No, what are you talking about? How could you say such a thing? God doesn't punish anyone. He loves everybody. I said, 'Well, once you start learning Torah, even though you claim to be a religious Jew, once you start learning Torah, you'll actually understand that not only does God punish, but it's one of our 13 principles of faith. There he was dumbfounded. He never heard of such a thing that God punishes. Many times, people simply interpret things the way they want to. And needless to say, this also happens with vows. Asim again shalom used to say in his lectures time and time again, only fools make vows. Why? Because it shows you don't know what you're talking about if you're making a vow. The sages tell us who is allowed to make a vow. Can anyone make a vow? I mean you have this world where people say we have freedom of speech. Does that mean you're allowed to say anything? Perhaps according to the law of the land, but the law of heaven says no. In fact, the midash says even if you are swearing truthfully, you're not permitted to swear by my name, meaning by the name of Hashem, unless you possess all of the following qualities. Before we go into the qualities already tells us you have to be ashamed to use God's name to swear for trivial matters like monetary disputes and therefore being permitted to take an oath with God's name. A person has to have an exalted character, which the Midrash is going to tell us. What does that actually mean? An exalted character. Does he just have to be a really nice guy, a really nice lady? She bakes kala for the neighbors once a month. First off, the sages are simply warning us. If you take vows lightly, if you take your words that come out of your mouth lightly, it's only a matter of time before you're going to make a sin that you're going to regret the day you were born for. So the sages teach us even if you're swearing about something truthfully, you're only allowed to do it if you possess the following qualities. with the verse in Deuteronomy chapter 20 verse chapter 10 verse 20 says Hashem your God shall you fear him shall you serve and to him shall you cleave and in his name shall you swear with the verses describing the qualities that a person must possess in order to swear using God's name first off starting off with Hashem your God you shall fear in order to teach us, says the Midrash, that the only ones that are permitted to swear are ones that have characters that fear God. But not just any fear. Say, "Oh, yeah, I'm afraid of going again." No, no, no. It's not the one we're talking about. Rather, they have to be like Abraham, Job, and Ysef. As it says in the book of Genesis 22:12, for now I know that you are a God-fearing man when it comes to Job in the book of Job 1:8, a wholesome and upright man who fears God or Sadik. from whom it's written I fear God he told Po he told his brothers this is why Hashem said Hashem your God you shall fear meaning that if you don't have fear of heaven already vows are a problem for you. Further, the Midrash says, "How do you actually see if somebody has fear of God?" It means that you free yourself from mundane matters in order to study Torah and engage in a performance of and you have no other occupation. In so many words, you're in a you're not working on Wall Street. You're not working on Main Street. your whole life you're dedicating to serving Hashem because even when you're involved in worldly matters that you need to you go to the store you do a deal in order to pay the bills whatever it is you're only doing that in order to preserve your strength so you could serve Hashem better everything is connected to Hashem that's a sign you have fear of God this quality of fear so already we see that when the young people call me or send me messages, tell me, "Rabbi, how can I nullify my vow?" Who told you to make a vow? No, I made a vow that I wasn't going to make this thing anymore. And and then I really want to do it now. The best part is when people tell me, I made a vow that I'm not going to make this sin, but I made it or I want to make it. The vow was not valid to begin with. You've already committed to Hashem not to make sins at Mount Si. But then sometimes people think that they could elevate themselves spiritually by saying I I that they vow to do such and such. And it's a very foolish thing to do because when you can't do it, you have a serious problem. Even more so when you vow under distress, somebody's sick, you have a major financial loss, and somebody says, "Listen, I, you know, the person says, I'll make a vow that if Hashem sees me here, I'll do such and such." And then they want to break it. There's no such thing as breaking such a vow. But what does it mean to cleave to Hashem? Because the verse said that taught us about what qualities we have to have when we make these vows. We have to fear God. That's fine. We understood it now. But we also have to cleave unto him. And the sages ask, can you possibly cleave to the divine presence? Is it not already stated in Deuteronomy 4:4, for Hashem your God is a consuming fire? How can you cleave on to consuming fire? Rather, it's to teach you that anyone who gives his daughter in marriage to a Torah scholar or He himself studies Torah and becomes a Torah scholar or he gives himself his daughter to a Torah scholar that learns the Torah, learns the Mishna. But if he can't do, if he's not a Torah scholar and he doesn't have a daughter to give to a Torah scholar, then he will engage in business on behalf of the scholar in order to give him the profits. or he was just simply give him out of his own dealings. That's what it means to cleave to Hashem in so many words. To cleave to Hashem is to cleave to by helping them learn more Torah, publicize more Torah because they are cleaving to Hashem. So you are indirectly doing the same thing because a person that's constantly engaged in Torah is clinging himself to the and the Midrash is telling us that by you enabling that person to cleave to Hashem because you're eliminating his financial pressure you are clinging to Hashem. Now what happened to people that took vows lightly? not took vows lightly like they made a vow and didn't fulfill it but rather they did not fit the character didn't fit the character of someone that fears God. The Midra says it occurred to King Yanai that at one point had 2,000 cities, all of which ended up being destroyed due to truthful vows. How a person would say to his friend, I swear that I shall go to and eat such and such food in such and such place and drink such and such beverage at such and such place. And even though they would go and fulfill that oath, nonetheless, 2,000 cities were all destroyed. And the Midrash concludes and says, "If such befalls a person who swears truthfully, how much more so regarding one that swears falsely?" Now before we go into the part of the war, we have to see how does this relate to a person that does not take a vow. Many times people they have excitement. They have excitement and they watch and they want to donate. Rabbi, you're Mashiach. Rabbi, you save my life. Okay, great. Listen, I promise this year I'm going to donate X amount of money. Okay, fine. Just let Jimmy fulfill it. Only problem is if you don't fulfill it, you're bringing tragedy on yourself. Or people buy aliot at the basin during the high holidays or they say to the organization, listen, give me the blessing and I'll pay the uh I'll pay for the donation soon throughout this year. And they don't they don't realize they just made a vow. They don't you don't need to say the word in order to make a vow. And I could tell you from things I saw with my own eyes how literally a person starts off by making a decision to do something good because they want Hashem to bless them with more. When they did not fulfill their end, instead of bringing themselves blessings, they brought themselves disaster. In one case, a person made a vow. Didn't say the word vow, but said, "Rabbi, I'm gonna donate x amount of money this year. No problem." He didn't. Eight months later, Rabbi, I need you to pray for me. My business is not working. What do you mean? You were doing okay in the beginning. So much so that you were already committing to giving X amount. Yeah, it was doing good in the beginning but now it's not good. Oh, so Hashem did start blessing you but you did not fulfill your vow. You delayed it. Started taking the blessing. Another case person decided that he wants to donate but in payments no problem. But as you know the Satan also has payments. So the Satan says listen why don't you pay for vacation and why don't you pay for tuition and why don't you pay for this investment business and why don't you pay for you you have to invest in your company you have to start another company. So instead of making the payments that they were supposed to make for the commitment, the so-called vow, the donation, they made payments for other things. So they ran out of money, but they figured they're going to make money again. But to their dismay, Hashem did not continue the blessing when he saw that they're liars. So literally years passed and the person never recovered. Instead of getting that blessing to continue, he started looking for a hole to come out of just to to be able to peek in. And the worst case that I've seen and I've seen some bad ones is a person started doing good. Hashem blessed this person literally made their business grow from them making a couple hundred,000 to making over $4 million in a matter of one year, one and a half years. something that even in their wildest dreams they didn't think was possible. And when they were getting the blessing, they said, "Listen, Rabbi, soon as I make this amount of money, look at buy the building. We're going to build that yeshiva." Okay, I'm in Hashem. I'll pray for you every day. Well, guess what? They made the money. But instead of doing what they said, they decided to become a Gil to start distributing to everywhere else, even buying a building for somebody else because they were more convincing and more local and more on their head and more of conniving and kiss up. And even though it's great, there's more to in the world theoretically speaking, you realize that it wasn't the will of Hashem when surely thereafter, faster than the amount of time that it took them to make the $4 million, they lost all of it. The business collapsed 90%. They went back to the beginning. One of the masters of had somebody come to him one time, young man, and uh ask him for a blessing for Panasa. And he said, "You're going to have you're going to be blessed with Panasa. Just make sure that you continue to donate, give when I send you this different messengers because there's a need. Make sure you answer. Sure. Sure, Rabbi. Of course. If I become wealthy, I'm going to help more. Well, the blessing was fulfilled. Within a short period of time, the young man started succeeding more and more by the day. And he would send donations and the money continued increasing. And it became a little more difficult for him to donate the larger amount of money. But he tried more and more and more. And he became very wealthy. And one day the rabbi sent him a messenger that there's a very big need and he needs help. He needs his donation. And he told him the amount that he needs. When the now rich businessman looked at it, said, "What? What was this rabbi thinks he is? He's just sending me people. He just thinks I'm just going to give. Give. Come on. Enough is enough. I gave a lot already." Came to the rabbi and said, "Listen, Rabbi, I don't know how to tell you, but he didn't speak so well. He didn't speak so well. He He didn't want to give. The rest said, "Oh, he didn't want to give." Okay, just let him know that if he doesn't want to give, we'll have to find somebody that will go all the way back to him to tell. Yes. Yes. He goes back, you know, in those days traveling from city to city is not so simple. Not like today you can get on a plane, on a train, in a car. In a short period of time, you're in a different city. Comes back to the businessman said, "Just wanted to let you know again. You I told you no, no, no, no, no. I'm not asking for more. I told the rabbi and the rabbi said, okay, you don't want to give, fine, we'll just have to find somebody else that will." Yeah, that's what you came for to tell me that. Yes. Yeah, obviously. Sure. Go. Okay. Take care. It wasn't too long before this businessman started making deals where one deal after another started going sour. People were cheating him. Money was being lost. boats sinking in the ocean. And literally within a short period of time, he lost all of his money, everything to the point where he literally became barely able to survive himself. His empire collapsed. Tens of millions of dollars gone. At that point he realized he remembered oh that's what the rabbi meant when he sent the messenger said I'll have to find somebody else that will I lost the blessing I to me let me go back to the rabbi of course he goes back on is for calling to the rabbi oh rabbi please I'm sorry I you know I made a mistake the rabbi says No, no problem. I already told you. If you don't want to give, we'll just have to find somebody that will. I guess, yeah, why? I know. I understand. What does that mean, Rabbi? And the rabbi tells him, "Listen, when my came down to earth told me, you're going to have a blessing of enormous panel, but it's going to distract you in serving me." So I said to Hashem, "Hashem, I don't want it. Can I give it to somebody?" He said, "Of course, you can give it to somebody." So all this time I was looking for somebody to give the blessing that I had. So when you came to me years ago asking for a blessing, I said, "Oh, perfect. Somebody wants let me give you this blessing of why you became very wealthy. It wasn't your blessing. It was what Hashem told me I'm going to get. So, I gave it to you because I didn't want to be distracted serving Hashem. And as long as you kept giving, I said, "No problem. You're you're a good partner to have. I do what's necessary. You do what's necessary." But the moment you didn't want to do your part, I said, "Oh, if you don't want to do your part with this money, then we'll have to find somebody else to give it to to get the money from." Meaning, I took back the blessing. Oh, Rabbi, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I promise I won't do it again. Please, Rabbi, bless me. I'm sorry. I already gave it to somebody else. What a lot of people don't realize is that will sometimes give you a blessing and all of a sudden you go from being a average Joe to having a lot of success and you think it's because you're smart or you had good timing or you had good mazal or or whatever other reason you think you made all that money. What you don't realize that gave you a responsibility. I gave you all of this so you can publicize more Torah. No, not so you can buy another five houses. Not so you can, you know, have a savings for retirement you may never see. Funniest thing is when people tell me, "Listen, I'm saving for my retirement." How old are you? 55, 60. No, no, I'm only 25, 30 years old. You're saving for retirement? who promised you retirement. But people are deliluding themselves and they don't realize that they have an opportunity of a lifetime. When au gives them a blessing, which means he gives them a responsibility. And if they lose it, if they lose that blessing, it's very very hard to get it back and in some cases impossible. If you are looking for blessings, you have to cleave to Hashem. You want to have more panas so you could do more good. That means you need to do as much good with what you have now. Invest as much as you can into Kiru, into Torah now. So could see, oh, he's a good partner. She's a good partner. I see she's continuously investing at least 10 or 20% of our money of our income into the right places into Torah. So if she likes to do this, she wants to be my partner, I'll give her more. Now she's able to instead of affording $500 a month, she all of a sudden she can afford a,000 a month and 2,000 a month and 5,000 a month. And as long as you continue doing what the partnership is supposed to be will just simply give you endless amount says all the money is mine. But when a person forsakes that partnership, then what ends up happening is that says, "Oh, you don't want to be my partner anymore? Fine, I'll have to give it to somebody else." Sometimes he'll leave them with the money, but no longer with the blessing, meaning they won't be able to enjoy the money anymore. Sometimes they'll take the blessing and the money. Now when a person invests into the Torah, that means that they are cleaving to Hashem. The more you cleave, the more the blessing. And people sometimes said, "Yeah, well listen, I I did some things and then uh it didn't work." Yeah. What did you do for six months, for a year? Would you think Hashem works on your uh your schedule? Trust me, the Torah promised that means that promises that he'll give it to you. You just have to continue. And usually you find out that those that didn't get the blessing, it's because they didn't really do it, didn't do it for long enough, they gave up too early, or they did some things that ruined the blessings. whether it be wasting seedbat, dishonest business and so on. Now what does that have to do with the next part of where tells there's a new commandment a timely commandment a commandment to go to war. It says in chapter 31, Hashem spoke to Moshe saying, "Take vengeance for the children of Israel against the Midionites. Afterwards, you will be gathered unto your people." So here we see that Hashem is commanding Moshe to go take vengeance against the Midianites because of what they did to Is that Mosher Abenu fights? Because after that he'll die. Why does the Torah have to remind us that Musher Rabenu is gonna die after this war? in order to show us how much followed the word of Hashem to the extent where the Midash says since the Torah wrote that after the war Moshe will die. That means that Moshe could have decided to never die or to delay his death for another 20, 30, 50, 100 years because the Torah already concluded only after this war will you die. And Mashe could have said, "Okay, well, he didn't tell me I have to go to war right now or next week or next year." Just like talk with au didn't tell go and circumcise your son tomorrow but yet he told him to uh to bring your son as a sacrifice tomorrow but yet it said that he woke up babok he woke up early early in the morning the next morning 4:00 in the morning he woke up already taking his son to go bring him as a sacrifice this is the way of and says says, "Mosheu said to himself, "Shall Israel's vengeance be delayed just so I can live a little longer? Certainly not." And therefore, Moshe spoke to the people, saying, "Armen among yourselves for allegiance." Meaning, we're going to war right now. No time wasted. But the war that Hashem said was a vengeance against Midian, a vengeance for the children of Israel. But when Mosherenu tells the people says Moshe said this is Hashem's vengeance against Midian. Why is it Hashem's vengeance? Why are you changing the words? Hashem said take vengeance for the children of Israel. What they did to you. They didn't do anything to me. they did to you. Moshe says, "If we were uncircumcised people, idol worshippers or heretics that deny the validity of the Torah and then the Midianites would have not hated us. But the only reason why they persecute us is because of the Torah, is because of the mitzvot. the mitzvah that you gave, the Torah that you gave. And therefore, this vengeance is actually your vengeance. And Moshe says to inflict Hashem's vengeance against Midian. Moshe goes to war with Israel against Midyan. But this is not a simple war. Why is it not a simple war? Because Bam is there. Bilam is there to collect his money for being responsible for the death of 24,000 Jews after they fell for the trap of immorality. Mushe says to Pinas, Pinas, you started this mitzvah by killing Zimry and Cosby and stopping the plague. You now have to be the one that leads this war. In the past with the war against Amalik, Masherenu designated Yeshua Benoon to lead the war. But this war if you see from the verses is the one is the one that leads dual. Why? Why is it you started this mitzvah? You have to complete this mitzvah. And I'm going to tell you a few things. One, you're going to go to this war with the entire garments of the Coen Gad. You're cog. You have to wear everything not for show. You're going to need it because over there says the Midrash, we're aware that this Rasha, this villain Bam who practices sorcery, he's going to fly in the air. And the way to bring him down is by showing him the seats, the head plate of the quad that says once he falls down then you kill him. So Am is goes and attacks Midian. And at that time Bilam is there and actually five kings are there. As soon as Bilam sees that this is happening, he starts performing sorcery. And the kings were like, "Yeah, yeah, we're going to do it too with you." They start doing sorcery, but they realize that this is not going to work unless you up the game. So as my dear sons of and the told me they found in one of their books that brought one of them bam not only flew in the air because he know that is also has kadusha they can also fly in the air. So bil opened the sky, put the five kings in there and also himself went into the sky and then closed the sky. For those that have watched movies, this is like going to a different dimension. To his dismay, all the tuma that he had that gave him extraordinary abilities and powers is nothing in comparison to the kaduca of Isbaz also flew in the air with the seats and opened the heavens brought all of them out of where they were hiding. and killed every single one of them with the sword. And the Torah tells us, it's very important to know that Pinas killed Bil with the sword. Killed the kings with the sword. Why? Why do we need to know that he killed them with the sword? We don't know how they killed and and a lot of other that went against but here the Torah specifies that in verse number eight in chapter 31 that B the son of B they slew with the sword sword. Why do we need to know that he killed him with the sword? Rashi says on the spot one of the cabalistic teachings which is why the Arizal says if you look at Rashi's commentary you'll find a lot of cabala in there also. He says, "The sages teach us that just like Yakovu was blessed by its so was Asav. Yakov was blessed to have a holy mouth, a mouth of prayer, a mouth of prophecy. a mouth that can do extraordinary things, literally change nature. And Asav was blessed to be the most powerful with the sword. Bil knew this. And he says in order to defeat Yakov, it's not enough to use the sword. You got to use the mouth. And that's why Bilam came to curse him. That's why Balak hired Bil because they knew that the only way to defeat Amish is with the mouth. Just like they have Mosheu that prophecies, that teaches Torah, that prays, that gives blessings, let's do the opposite. So they brought Bam. So Bam tried to destroy Am with the mouth. And because of that, the way to destroy Bil had to have been with his tool, which is the sword. He used Bilam tried to use the blessing of Yakov to kill Yakov to kill AI is. The way to destroy Bil who was blessed with the tools of Asav is with the tools of Asav is with the sword. We see here that the war was not like the wars today that the Israeli lefty liberal government fights where they're scared to use weapons. So much so that literally even in the news they are telling them that having soldiers walking around with guns is a waste when they're not allowed to use the guns because the one time a soldier used the gun against a terrorist who killed somebody. They arrested the soldier, the Israeli soldier and put him in jail for a few years. One says maybe they want to give them water guns, but make sure to give them also a towel so people don't get too wet and make sure it's not the war the water is not too hot so people don't get burned by the water. You see how the wars are? They're so scared they send notices to the enemy. We're about to bomb you. Don't stay here. They're afraid of what the media says. So why do you let the media in into a battle zone? Why do you let the media in into a battle zone if you're scared of what they're going to say? Either way, they're going to go against you. If the war that's mentioned in this para happened today, no one would say anything. Why? Because you see this is a nation that's not following the laws of lefty liberalism, modernization. Look at what this war is. Tells them kill everybody. Mushenu tells them no mercy. The only ones to leave are women that are specific types of women and children. When Amad goes to war, destroys the enemy, but then brings back all the women and children gets angry at them. What are you doing? How could you bring all these women? Don't you understand that these are the women that brought the plague? Also, what did Hashem bring the plague for? Because Midian sent their women to cause the Jewish people to sin with them. And therefore, this war of vengeance was not a vengeance that they stole money from us. Was not a vengeance because they stole a piece of land from us. It's not a vengeance because of honor. No, they caused us to separate ourselves even momentarily from a to violate his law. There's no one worse than that. Asai says, "Someone that causes people to sin is worse than a murderer." So now you're bringing me the women that causes sin. What do you think Am did? This is after the war. All the men gone in the world today. Okay. Well, the war is done. That's it. Just, you know, leave the women alone, right? This is the war that a kadeshu commanded, not the war that Netanyahu commanded or Donald Trump. Every single one of those women that caused the Jewish people to sin had to be removed from the world. And you would think, okay, so maybe it was five, 10, 20 women. The only ones that were allowed to remain were the ones that did not cause to sin. Meaning they were never been with a man, never been married, no boyfriend, girlfriend. How many were left after destroying all the men and all of the women that caused the sin which were thousand tens of thousands still after that what was left which was a minority chapter 31 verse1 15 and human beings the women who had not known lying with the male all the souls 32,000 32,000 left became the slaves in the world today it's slave is like a is like a vulgar word but in the world of the Torah whatever it says in the Torah is the word of Hashem now what did Mosheenu do after we removed the enemy, the male enemy, the female enemy. We took vengeance against all the people that cause us to sin without mercy, without sending them little notices to hide. What was next? Who tells Mosheu, "Give half to those soldiers that went and fought, the other half to those who didn't fight." Why didn't they fight? What? They didn't feel like fighting? No. [Applause] In order to win the war, for every thousand soldiers that had to be righteous, every thousand soldiers that went to war, there had to be a thousand that learned Torah. Why? Because those that are learning Torah are giving power to the one that has the gun. without the guy that's learning Torah, the guy with the gun has to use a uh witchcraft to to to do anything. He's not gonna survive. Why? They're much bigger people. They're much more people. They're much stronger. They're much more trained. You want to win the war, you need Hashem. Now, you can't say in the middle of a shooting battle. But can why? over there back home in the camp in the comfort in front of the Torah. He's praying for you. He's learning Torah for you. He's empowering you. Half the money goes to the soldier. Half the money goes to the what's left. You bring it to the You give it to Chapter 31 verse number 47. Moshe took from half of the children of Israel the one drawn from the 50 from the people and the animals and gave them to the levies the Levites the guardians of the charge of Hashem's tabernacle as Hashem has commanded Mushe and the Rambam writes a levie is not just someone that was born to the family of Levie a levie is someone that has committed himself to learning Torah as his vocation. That's all he does. He's serving Hashem. So we see that in the beginning of the parad tells us to be very careful with any promises with any words that come out of our mouth. Needless to say, not to make vows. But even when you say, "I promise to donate. I promise to pay back. I promise." You don't understand the significance of those words may not mean much to you but you are part of Yakov and therefore those words actually create something and if you do not fulfill that promise that something turns into an enemy into a destroyer. Now when you do what you say and you use that mouth to say the truth, when you actually use the blessing that Hashem gave you to invest more into the world of Torah and to more into help gives you more and guess what then you'll be able to fight the war and win. And at the end of that war, don't forget what brought you the blessing. Give more to the Levine. Why? They are the ones that empowered you to begin with. You won the war. You made the investment and it worked out. The business succeeded. The case was won. The patient survived. Whatever it was, don't forget about the cause of the blessing once you succeed. And this is that is as relevant today as it was when it was written 974 generations before the world was created. As the says, if we all just simply took not just the words of Hashem seriously, but even the words that come out of our mouth seriously, it certainly would change our lives. would improve them because that would mean that everything that comes out of our mouth that is what we'll do and we will succeed. >> You know, it took a lot of time and effort to study for this lecture and I really hope that you're enjoying it and really growing with every word cuz I did. If you liked it, if you're enjoying the constant challenge from the Torah, then please like, subscribe, and make sure to share with the people that you care about because you could end up changing their eternity. Thanks again for learning with me. And now back to the lecture. >> With that being said, you guys can ask some questions and will give us the answers. The violence is in a Torah. If you have problem with the violence that's in a Torah, then um you have a problem with God. He wrote the Torah, not me. I'm just reading it to you. You can buy yourself a Torah and read it yourself if you'd like. How to deal with former Orthodox Jew openly apostasizes on YouTube. How to deal with them? Run away from them. Don't listen to them. Don't watch their videos. Don't show any encouragement, any support. And even if you say, "No, I don't support him, but I still want to see what he says." No. Every time you watch their videos, you're in essence helping them indirectly because there's more views and therefore YouTube would decide to recommend it to more people. So if there's a heretic out there, stay away from them. They'll watch any of their videos. The only time we ever look at something is if it's absolute need because we need to know something. for example, for to warn people about, but you're not in that role. Uh, and therefore, you should not if somebody's a heretic, do not watch their videos, do not support them, do not attend their lectures. Uh, in so many words, run away from them. That's the way to deal with it. In this week's parad, does a man's vow become binding as soon as he is bar mitzvah age? Yes. As soon as a a Jew is bar mitzvah, that means he's considered a man. Rabbit, what exactly is an abomination? How are they created? What do they do in the world? Do they have specific rules like mumels? An abomination is toya toyva is considered disgusting in the eyes of hem. Meaning it's literally the opposite of the purpose. So the Torah calls several different things in a Torah an abomination. The rainbow people are considered an abomination. toa [Music] people that are uh marry animals also considered tova and uh these are people that are literally doing the opposite of what their purpose is and they're considered disgusting in the eyes of Hashem and they'll be punished severely. When are you going to do live shim again at some location? uh to do a live shure is not something that I'm uh against, but uh it has to be worth it. And uh so bunch of people have invited me, you know, over the years and even recently, whether it's to New York or to Los Angeles or even to other countries. But unfortunately none of them were willing to arrange the you know the necessary amount of people that they could guarantee that they would come. Uh you know if if I'm going to fly somewhere, I'm going to fly to LA or fly to New York or Panama or wherever it is that people want me to go to. You have to be uh you have to invest into the event to make sure there's going to be at least a few hundred people that show up. I'm not going to uh leave my family, leave my uh role, leave everything that I need to do every single day, 20 hours a day that I'm working and uh travel to some different state just in order to uh talk to 10 15 people or even 50 people. Um because if it's just going to be a small crowd, then I could just simply do online shoeing and uh get even more than that. Uh so if somebody's willing to invest into arranging an event uh that they're going to bring a lot of people uh then by all means I'm more than happy to uh to go. But to just go to a place uh to go see 10 or 20 people uh it's just uh unfortunately it's too much uh too much uh you know for me to do uh without enough uh without enough um you know extra benefit. I love everybody. I want to help people, but the reality is I could help you just as much by giving a lecture uh from my uh you know from my room here with all my books and bashm all the different tools that we have uh just as I can live and I understand that live lecture is a world of difference uh you know from an online lecture and I agree with that but it has to be worth it you know so people uh you know want me to come to different places but they have to arrange the they have to arrange the you know, so when someone is willing to arrange it, I'm more than happy to come. Uh, arranging it is not simple, but it's also not impossible. You know, you just like people have parties, they have birthday parties, they have Hanukkah parties, they have other events, they can get a few hundred people together to these things. Uh, sometimes it requires money, sometimes it requires a lot of phone calls, messages, flyers, a million different things. If somebody want to do that, they're more than happy to go wherever they want me to go. uh but um most people are not willing to do it uh or not able to do it or both. So for now, this is what it's going to be in regards to doing uh you know events in uh locally. I don't have uh you know I don't have my building yet. Uh so when decides to send us uh the building or the funds or both uh then we will have uh you know regular lectures over there. But until then uh you know it's a um I don't see that uh that happening. at least not not on a regular basis. We've had some events where I uh you know I uh you know we rented out a hall uh you know some type of uh place and uh had an event and those were very nice but they were very very expensive uh for the amount of people that came. So you know a uh let's say 100 people 100 so people came to the event but it cost me $15,000 $20,000 sometimes sometimes more. It's it's expensive to to do that. As much as it's nice to see people, especially people that are traveling from different parts of the country that really want to see me live, uh it's just too expensive to do that on a regular basis. Um and uh that's why uh you know that that had to stop also. Uh but like I said, you know, anyone that uh wants to arrange an event and they can guarantee that a certain amount of people going to come and they're going to invest into the event to market it and to do everything, I'm more than happy to come. Until then, we will do uh these lectures. Uh can you do private lesson? No, I'm sorry. I don't do private lessons. Uh what is the proper way to visit the grave of an ancestor? touch the grave, stay distance away, ask them to bring your prayers on your behalf or pray only to Hashem. Well, first off, always only pray to Hashem. Second off, it depends who the ancestor is. If the ancestor was a big sadik, then you pray to Hashem that he will consider the merits of the sadik uh to your favor as a result of you honoring the sadik by visiting his grave. Uh but uh if the ancestor is not a sadik uh you could visit the the grave if you want if you want to honor them you want to you know bring a candle or something uh but um certainly always pray to Hashem certainly always pray to Hashem I can a pray for a Jew especially someone sick absolutely Yes. I can I talk with you? Yeah. Speak. Go ahead. You have uh comments over here. just comments or can you answer my request? Not really understanding what your request is. Send a message and uh we'll go from there. I can't promise that I'm going to uh do what you say without knowing what you're going to say. Oh, to invite you to life. No, absolutely not. I don't invite people life, especially people I don't know. For a nonjud to find a wife that isn't Christian or atheist. It seems difficult to find someone without being willing to travel and move. Any suggestion? Become willing to travel and move. Rabbi, can you share us gula or anything a mitzvah needed besides money for kiru that one can do to urgently save one's life or buy time to relocate to a safe place? The ultimate, the ultimate mitzvah that a person can do is kiru. So you don't necessarily always need money to do kiru. Uh or at least you don't need necessarily a lot of money. Uh number one, there is uh a way that a person could arrange a lecture, get a few hundred people together and uh that doesn't cost a lot of money. If a person already has a phone, has a contacts, has a community, has a rabbi that uh is going to, you know, help them uh arrange the event. Doesn't doesn't usually cost money. If that's too much for a person to do, uh they could uh you know, go to kirutore.org, or that's our store. Order a bunch of books and USBs and uh post the cards and distribute them in their community as often and as much as possible every day, 10 minutes, 20 minutes a day, an hour a day, two hours a day. We have people that uh do kov in different ways. Some people literally make uh you know a week out of it. Some people make, you know, an hour out of it. Some people make a trip out of it. I actually have some people uh just now I had uh someone send me pictures. He just a person just started a company. uh they do some type of uh uh I think construction of some kind or electrical work and um and uh he wanted to put the uh tikun bleet magnet on his car on his trucks and uh he got a bunch of them uh and he put them on his trucks and uh now every time his workers go to a job to fix something to build something he's also advertising ing the uh tikun blit. That's also a way to do kiru. Actually, just uh the other day I was out with the uh with my dear family and uh on the way back at the traffic light, some pickup truck pulls up next to me and starts saying, "Yeah, amazing. Good job. Yeah, this is great." Now, the guy is clearly an American, you know, white guy. He's not uh he does at least he doesn't look remotely Jewish. She looks like an American, nice guy. And he's saying, "Yeah, amazing. Amazing." And so I, you know, I lower the window. He's like, "You that movie? Amazing. Good job. Good job." Cuz I have the magnet on my car also. So what are the chances that that somebody uh that uh comes from a different background, different religion, different part of the world is going to uh watch the movie. You never know. You never know. So you put it there. you give people an opportunity and uh you help them. So you could do kiru for free, you could distribute books and USBs and different things for free. Uh it's not free for us cost us literally millions of dollars. Uh but if a person doesn't have money, they could uh still use their time, their ability. We also have volunteers, people that have abilities to uh to, you know, graphics or, you know, uh different technological knowledge that they want to volunteer and be part of our team to produce content, to fix things, to build things. If they could be reliable, they could be added to our team. Uh and as volunteers, some of the most valuable people uh that we've ever had in the organization for the last 10 years have been volunteers. uh some volunteers have turned into employees and some volunteers literally just state volunteers and still are volunteers uh and uh they don't even want the money for it and literally they sometimes some of the volunteers work more than employees that get a salary. So the the volunteer in my opinion volunteers are the best uh you know because they literally are 100% passionate about what we do. So if you have the ability to volunteer for organization that's an extraordinary way to to do kiru. So just here you see already a few examples of ways that you can bring an enormous amount of blessing into your life without money. Uh another way that you could bring uh you know a lot of blessing to your life as far as doing kiru is by getting other people to donate. So you may not have a lot of money to donate but I'm sure you know some people not even necessarily rich people. could just be the average person. He has a job, makes 50, 100, $200,000 a year here in America, which is pretty normal. And uh he donates anyway. Just tell him to donate to. And guess what? Kazal teaches us if you enable another person to donate, you'll get even a bigger reward for his donation that he donated due to you than what you'd get even for your own donation. So greater is the one that enables another than the one that actually does. So you could certainly do a lot of things without uh having uh you know to invest a lot of money assuming you don't have it. If you have it but you don't want to then that's usually a problem you have to fix first. Let me see. Rabbi, does Judaism allow abortion? Not elective abortion. Only abortion that is a uh issue of puish where there's a life risk where the it's either the mother is going to die or the uh or the uh uh the baby's going to die then uh then you're allowed to terminate the uh the pregnancy there uh because the the mother comes first. But uh as far as if somebody just uh doesn't want the baby because of all types of nonsensical reason that people have or because they were promiscuous, then uh that's more of a problem. There are certain exceptions uh to the rule during the early days, but I'm not really going to talk about those exceptions and uh because certain people that are not uh with enough shay and knowledge of Torah will misinterpret them into into some type of permission to to do whatever they want. So for that, if they have a situation, they could contact us privately. Why do Christians deny Rebecca's real age? I don't know why Christians do anything to you have to ask them. Why do they deny God? Why do they split them into three? Why do they uh think that they know more than the Jews about the Jewish Torah? You have to ask them these questions. I want to speak to you because you ignore my questions. I've just answered a bunch of questions. people are asking and uh not ignoring anybody's questions. I'm not really sure why why you think I'm ignoring you have lots of questions coming from four different screens. Uh ask the question making silly comments Rabbi, is it true that a rabbi defeated God in a one-on-one debate? No. Rabbi, I'm from Austria. I have a question about your tit. Why do you keep telling me about the question that you have? Just ask the question. I don't have time to wait for just your question. I have a bunch of questions. I don't understand people. What what is your interpretation of the age of Rivka? Christians claim she was 18. Um I don't have an interpretation but teaches us uh in the in the midrash uh that uh some say she was only three some say she was nine uh but uh she certainly was young younger than 18 uh but the as I've said in previous lectures uh that does not mean what people think meaning it wasn't an infant that was or a toddler three years old that still has a baby bottle and uh you know and needs to be told stories to go to sleep. Uh and uh it was it was a woman that was young in in in age as far as years but certainly as far as the build was like a mature uh adult. How do we know that? Because as soon as Elza came, she came to Alza. She told him, "I'm going to give you uh drinks and I'm also going to give all your camels." Now, Alza came with 10 camels. Now, you could look up online how much does a camel drink and you're going to be astonished at how much camels drink. Which means that if she brought enough water from the well for each one of the camels to drink to satiation, it's it's literally needs not just a an adult. You need a team of adults to do that. So, not only was she a uh uh uh not what people think like a three-year-old that uh you know still has a diaper, but she was literally a very very powerful human being. Uh and so a person has to understand that the Torah is not to be interpreted with your common sense. That's why we look into the oral Torah where the sages explain to us each and every single thing. In fact, talks about different people that uh were uh were young when they got married as far as or young when they're mentioned in the Torah that you'd be surprised. For example, uh the uh the mother of Mashiach, the wife of uh of David uh you know, Elishva uh she was a um the mother of of Schlommo or Bach. Bacha was a mother of Schlommo and uh she was uh uh seven or eight years old when she got married to David. That's what the Ga says and it proves it from the verses. Now again, a person today thinking seven, eight years old, they're thinking pedophilia. They're thinking a little kid that just a few years ago uh was uh was in diapers. They're thinking a person in third grade. They're thinking a person that uh needs to uh you know, sleep with the light on because they're scared of the dark. That's what a person is thinking about. But that's not the way things were. Not only because the times were different and people even your great-grandparents married much younger than people married today. I know my grandparents married when they were 12 years old, you know, and uh and I'm sure that people that are uh you know at my age uh you know they also their grandparents got married much younger. But the point is is that aside from the times changing, the culture changing, society changing drastically over the last hundred years to completely distort history on its face, the human body developed differently uh back then as it does now. You know, the tells us that the average person was able to see 10 miles with their naked eyes. Just with their eyes, 10 miles. Today even the person with the best vision that they call 2020 vision cannot see even one mile cannot even see one mile away. But in those days they were able to see much further. In those days they were able to they were much stronger. So the uh the body itself has changed drastically not because of evolution like these uh scientists theorize uh but rather because changed. We know that in the beginning of the Torah, there was giants. There were people that literally were absolutely enormous. The scientific world uh you know that that does not believe in the Torah, you know, has a hard time believing such a thing. They have no problem believing in giant lizards. Uh you know, but they have a problem believing in giant people. You know, the Torah tells us that the whole world was destroyed from a uh you know, from God with the flood. The scientific world has a hard time believing that. Why? Because to them it's like, oh, it had to be a meteor and it had to be this and it had to be that. No, no. God simply made the a destroy the world. So scientific world has a lot hard time believing a lot of different things. And uh the the Torah tells us that there were still giants at the time of Mosherenu and were both giants. Uh and there were several other giants mentioned in the Torah. So the the Torah is full of things that contradict our so-called reality. Whether it be giants, whether it be Mosheu not being considered the giant but still being 15 to 20 feet tall depending on how you interpret amt based on or or other but was not considered a giant but he was a Libyan. Therefore, he was 15 to 20 feet tall which is 10 ammot. So to a person today say what 15 Men who was 20 feet tall that's a giant to you it's a giant in those days it wasn't why because the entire Levie tribe the entire Levie tribe were all 10 ammo tall because they had to carry the Aesh in order for the Aesh not to hit the floor because of the way that the Aesh as the mentions the way the kod kesh was designed in order for them to be able to carry the kesh on their shoulders without it hitting the floor they had to be 10 am tall which is again like I said 15 to 20 feet tall so when you say that in society today people have a hard time with it and including if you say it in a Christian church that the leim were 20 feet tall come on no that's crazy you tell them that flew in the airb flew in the air they're going to have a hard time believing it why because just like the scientific world is using false doctrine that they make up themselves. The church of Christianity also uses a false doctrine that they made themselves. They call it the New Testament. So if you want the truth, it has to be truth from beginning to end because 99% truth and 1% lie equals 100% lie. So the Torah is 100% emit the written Torah and the oral Torah. In order to understand the written Torah, you have to have the oral Torah. In order for you to have the truth, you have to have all of that. When you start throwing in all types of other nonsense into the mix, whether it's the Quran or it's the theory of uh of uh survival of the fittest, the Darwins, the uh the Christians, all you're you're in essence throwing a bunch of lies into the mix. You're bound to get confused. You're bound to get the false information. You're bound to simply worship the wrong god. in uh in so many words uh going the wrong direction. So if you want the truth, the truth has one address, not two addresses, not a uh you know one main address with a side complex. No, no, one address. It's called the Torah of AmI orthodox Judaism has the Torah. the the the people that call themselves reform or Messianic or conservative or Jews for Jesus or all types of other nonsensical names that people come up with, those are not Judaism. They are not related to Judaism. They're simply people that have added their own versions, their own lies, their own uh uh manipulations. No different than the church, no different than atheism, no different than uh Islam. They added their own lies. And that's why they keep running into a wall when they hear different historical facts from the Torah. And the way that they try to to uh to make sense out of things and say, "No, no, she really wasn't three." Uh they're just saying she was holy, but really she was 18. Why? Why? How did you come up with 18? How'd you come up with 18? Oh, well, it makes sense because my daughter is 18 and she's ready to get married. Oh, so your daughter is in the Torah. No, but you know because it makes sense that So that's the problem. Once you start making sense out of things from your own logic, it's no longer the Torah. So you want the Torah, Torah is available. You want lies, lies are also available elsewhere though. Here we have the Torah. Isn't that address Hashem? Well, the says that Hashem and his and are one, meaning that the Torah is what Hashem said. The Torah is the word of Hashem. What can I do to get the merit to be able to convert easily? I'm so excited to convert, but I see no way to be able to do it in my current position. I've never heard of an easy conversion. Conversion is supposed to be difficult. You want to join the chosen people, the people that have risk their lives uh in order to remain Jewish for the last 3,335 years. Uh you know, then you obviously have to uh pay the dues. And it's not pay the dues meaning money. You have to pay the dues meaning make the sacrifice so can choose you to be one of those special people. Uh, Yemenite Jews are descendants of ancient Israelites from the first temple period does not make them different from normal Jews from the second exile. Jews that came from Mount Si, whether they had customs that started at Mount Si or thereafter, they're all Jewish. Rabbit, what do you think about reincarnation? I think that I did several lectures about it. That's what I think. If you want to hear them, you could watch them. How to choose a synagogue that's best suited for family with children. It uh depends what's available to you. You know, it's it's not necessarily about how to choose a synagogue. It's uh how to choose a community. Choose a community. You have to make sure that first and foremost it's a community that has Torah, Torah learning, Torah teaching. and not just a place to pray where people go pray there but nothing else. So the synagogue should be a place that people also learn tra that there's uh and it's a place that uh there's constant action. There's constant Torah there. And of course once in a while they have little parties for the community. Uh you know different events that are kosher events that's not a problem. But if the events are the priority and the Torah is uh once in a while that's not the ideal place to go to. You want to go to a place that has a lot of Torah uh there both for adults and children. Once you find a place like that, it becomes a uh you know becomes easier to raise a Torah family. What do you think? I think may wake you up, open up your eyes, fix your vision and your brain and you survive. What's my opinion of the verse in Genesis? What difference does my opinion make? God wrote the Torah. He didn't ask me for my opinion of what I think. Oh, Yon, what do you think I should write over here? You think it's a good idea to write here? God didn't ask me what my opinion is, what I think. He said something, I'm doing it. That's it. My opinion is zero. If you think your opinion means anything more than zero, you have a mistake. Ark means box. It doesn't mean boat. Well, the Torah was not written in your English language. It's it was written in Okay. What's the deal with the emmonite weddings with the golden hats? That's different. Jews have different customs. Some have a custom to wear hats. Some have a custom to wear specific uh garments. Some have a custom specific music, specific food. Different customs there. Jews were when we were sent to the exile uh after the destruction of the beta mikdash. Then the Jews went to different parts of the world. Some Jews went to Poland. Some Jews went to Russia. Some Jews went to Yemen, Syria, Iran, Egypt, Morocco, Libya. Uh you know, uh there's countless places that the Jews were and uh in those different places they uh developed customs. Uh sometimes the customs were for the sake of uh uh you know preservation like the Ashkanazi custom of not eating uh kit came from the fact that they had to save money because they were only able to they had to reuse the sacks for wheat and for rice. So that's a custom that came became ala but uh it's it's something that they did uh as a result of the times and the place they lived in. This was not a problem uh in the uh in the Middle East where the Safhari Jews lived and therefore Safhari Jews for the most part uh eat kit. We don't have a problem with eating kit. Uh Moroccan Jews don't eat rice but uh that's a different custom. It's similar to uh the Ashkanazim but not exactly. I mean they don't eat rice. They don't eat rice but it's not for necessarily for the same exact reason. But uh the point is is that different Jews lived in different places. There were Jewish communities in China. Uh in fact, there was a Jewish community in China uh of nearly 5,000 people at one point. Uh when uh when World War II happened, uh the uh one of the uh Ishivat Ponovich escaped Europe and flee to Shangghai. And uh they didn't think there was going to be any Jews over there, but they ended up finding an entire bet midash shul that was built and really uh souped up beautiful uh where they were able to continue their yeshiva. And they found out that that some rich Jew that lived in the area at some point built this place hoping there's going to be a Jewish community there one day. There wasn't. But uh this was obviously Hashem preparing the uh the medicine before the ailment. Uh so there was uh Jewish communities in India. Until this day there's some Jews everywhere. There's Jews that contact me that live in uh in Pakistan in uh in different parts of Africa in a uh in Japan in uh um Australia uh India. There's plenty of Jews over there. Uh so there's Jews everywhere. And each one of them have uh you know different customs that are not just the safari Ashkanazi customs that are wellnown but sometimes there are specific customs that are particular to the place uh particular to the place and uh there's no problem as long as those customs do not violate the Torah. There's no problem. It's a perfectly we we love customs. Will the boundaries of Islc described in today stay the same when Mashia comes or will the size of the land expand? The uh the boundaries of Israel will be like they are in the Torah which is drastically bigger than what it is today. Plus the land would stretch like the skin of a deer when you uh when you kill a deer. Um, and after they skin them, the skin shrinks. But in reality, anyone that's familiar with the with the job knows that you could stretch and stretch the deer skin uh, you know, an enormous amount. And the sages compare the land of Israel after the time of Messiah to be like the skin of the skin of a deer that will stretch drastically more to fit uh, a lot more than what it can fit today. Is it okay for a non-Jew to give Kiru packages to or in Orthodox synagogues? Yes, absolutely. We have plenty of uh non-Jews that uh make Kiru one of their weekly if not daily uh uh things that they do. uh some volunteer on our team uh you know do uh you know uh uh help us publish videos posters all types of uh skills coding you know different technological stuff. Some of them are uh distributors of uh the material on a regular basis. On a regular basis literally they uh they go from uh one synagogue to another, one shopping center to another, one Jewish community to another. Uh some of them do it literally every week. Some of them do it uh every month. Some of them do it every few months. But uh yeah, we have plenty of uh uh non-Jews that love the Torah, that want more Torah in the world, want more of to do Chuva, and therefore uh they uh they distribute the material, and they they see a lot of blessing in their life. There's a lot of tests, but there's a lot of blessings. There's a lot of blessings that it brings to a person's life, whether they're Jewish or not Jewish. Doing Kiru is literally the oneway guarantee to uh to having more blessings in your life. Okay, let's see what's the question. You guys said that you asked a question, but all I see is uh Palestinian flags. More of this terrorist flag. Let's see. Do Muslims and Jews worship the same God? According to the Rambam, they do uh worship the same God. But the uh unfortunately the way that the Muslims uh worship their god is against the Torah because their Quran tells them that the Jews are the enemies and at the end of days the uh they're they're going to have to destroy the Jews and even the rock and the tree is going to help them destroy the Jews. Uh so there's a lot of problems with their uh understanding and that's why uh when Muhammad came to the Jewish sages to try to convince them uh to uh follow him and follow his Quran and they rejected him. Uh he massacred all of them. He killed all of them. Uh so Muhammad was not a very big fan of the Jews. Let's just say it that way. Uh neither are uh neither is the Quran. The Quran is anti-Semitic. Uh but as far as uh the the God that's mentioned in the Torah and the God that's mentioned in the Quran are generally one and the same. It's just that the uh manipulation by the uh Muhammad and his followers uh of uh of what they think God said uh has caused endless amount of blood to be shed. Now, there are there are certain uh Torah scholars that believe it's a different God because they believe that there's a form of idolatry in Islam. But that's not the common opinion. The common opinion is that it's the same God. Um but it's a uh remember that the uh Islam was you know the the uh the predecessor to Islam was idolatry. It's not it wasn't exact they weren't wasn't Islam at Mount Sai. Mashenu was not Muslim. Islam only started 1400 years ago which is 2,000 years after we got the Torah. Do we worship the same as the Muslims? No. Like I just explained, the uh the way that uh the way that uh the Muslims worship their god is uh polar opposites to the way that the Jews worship the god. The Torah promotes peace. the pro Torah promotes life and unfortunately that's not necessarily what's uh promoted by the Quran. Um and uh you could see that for yourself from society. Now, as far as if you compare that to Christianity, no, according to uh the Torah as well as according to the uh scholars of Islam, not that we count them, but needless to say, there's an agreement there's one agreement between the Muslims and the Jews uh is that the New Testament or the Christianity is idolatry. The problem though uh and the reason why the uh the Muslim opinion is confusing uh or or hypocritical is that while the uh Islam says that Christianity is idolatry, they still praise Jesus which is the the hero of the New Testament. They still mention him in in positive uh in positive ways in the Quran. So on one hand they say Christianity is idol worship. On another end they say that uh Jesus was a good guy. So it doesn't make any sense. Now I understand that the Quran says that he was just a guy. He wasn't uh you know he wasn't uh what uh the Christians say but the only place that mentions uh the uh Jesus in a in in a favorable way is the New Testament which means that the Quran got their information of Jesus from the New Testament. So, you can't just go to the New Testament people and tell them, "Oh, you we know more about the New Testament than you do, and therefore, we're going to interpret that uh your your your Jesus guy was a good guy." Uh, and he was not a, you know, a part of God that they say the idolatry. So, it's a it's the problem with lies of Christianity and lies of Islam is that when you actually investigate and put them up to the test, you see that none of them make sense. Christianity doesn't make sense, Islam doesn't make sense. And just like the Kuzari uh king said to Alvie that uh there's only one truth which is the Torah. And uh and the easiest way to start the journey of investigating the Torah and comparing it to the Torah and New Testament is by simply understanding first and foremost that the Torah preceded the came before the New Testament by 1500 years. and the uh Quran by 2,000 years. And both the New Testament and the Quran say that the Torah is true. And both the New Testament and the Quran uh say that the uh the Torah they need the oral Torah even though they despise the oral Torah. Why? Because you need the oral Torah in order to understand how to read the written Torah. But needless to say, the uh the anyone that has some uh you know brain cells left will understand that if both the Quran and the New Testament say that the Torah is true, then that means that statistically speaking, even the scholars of the Quran and the New Testament would agree to the fact that the Torah can be true while they are false while both the Quran and the New Testament are false. But it's never going to be possible for the Torah to be false and anything else be true. So when you actually investigate the Torah, you'll see that it's very very easy to see the truth there. And in fact, it's very from the Torah, it's very easy to understand how much falsehood is in the New Testament and the uh and the Quran. Uh so yes there is similarities but all the similarities uh are not similarities because of similar cultures or similar prophets but rather because the both the New Testament and the Quran plagiarized different information from the Torah and claimed ownership to it. So anything that's true in the Quran or the New Testament they simply plagiarized and copied from the Torah. Anything that's false is is theirs. They made themselves because you're not going to find anything false in the Torah. Not because I'm saying it, because you could literally check every fact in the Torah. The Quran is complete. We don't take anything from other religions. You don't even know your own Quran. Literally, you're you're you're you're making an embarrassment to your own people by making such a statement. You should be ashamed of yourself. I actually think that if you go to your imam and tell him this statement, he'll slap you in the face because you are making a mockery of your own people by making such a foolish statement. Did you actually ever read the Quran from beginning to end? Did you know that your Quran says that if if there's any mistakes or you don't know what the truth is, go to the people of the book. Go to the Jewish people because they have the Torah. Do you know that says in your Quran? You don't know that because you never read your Quran. You're just one of those, you know, apes that uh just decides to follow without actually investigating. You are an embarrassment to your own people. How can I contact you or get in touch? You could send messages. I don't answer phone calls or have meetings. You could send messages either via email or you can send a text message or WhatsApp message. Usually WhatsApp messages are the best, but phone calls and uh meetings are uh not possible. How can I learn more about the Rambam? Well, there's literally endless amount of books about the Rambam. If you want to learn about his life, there's even a uh children's film that's very educational that's on YouTube for free. Just type the word Rambam. And uh there's many many books and there's also the books of the Rambam. But Samson beat Goyat one-on-one. Of course, Samson Shimon Gib, he had the on him at all time. He killed tens of thousands of pleim by himself, including giant pleim. So, uh, Goyat was not the only giant. There was many others. And, uh, Goyat was one of the, uh, leaders of the police team. one of the leaders of Pim and Goyat was defeated by David Melik which was not a giant. In fact, he was also beat up by Shaik uh after uh the uh one of the wars that uh at the time of Elien uh where his two sons uh were were wicked. So Hashem punished Amis is where they lost the war to the police uh and ended up the police team ended up uh stealing the Kurdish from the Jewish people. And that uh and that army was led by Goyat and Goyat wanted to uh take the uh open the take the ten commandments uh out of it for himself. When uh Shaul, which was still a young man before he became king, I heard that the uh uh that the Honoresh was stolen, uh he literally got superpowers where he started, you know, running towards the uh pleim camp by himself. And uh as soon as he saw Goyat hovering over the oneesh looking to take out the uh the ten commandments um now they opened the oneesh he was looking to take him out. He yelled at him telling him take your hands off of uh don't touch the uh ten commandments. And uh when Goyad turned around uh the Midash says that Sha jumped in the air, kicked Goyat with both of his feet in the air, grabbed the Goyat, fell grabbed the uh two and started running with them and they were massive. The Midrash says that they were over 600 lb. He grabbed both of them and started running superhuman speed. Obviously, who gave him superpowers in order to do this and he ran all the way back to uh to uh the Mishkan to Namishkan to the tab the where Aliyah Quinn was uh but alien already died by then. Uh because when he found out that the uh uh that the uh Kesh was uh was stolen, he fell from his chair. He was already in his 90s. Fell from his chair and died, broke his neck. But the point is is that Goyat was the one that was leading that army uh already uh for a while and he was not only you know eventually killed by Davidid he was also beat up by Sha and uh Shimon was uh a massive powerhouse not because of his own physical power but because of the being on him. So, so who was a prophet uh and uh was someone that killed literally tens of thousands of plein by himself. In one of his first battles, he killed over 3,000 plein by himself. 3,000 by himself. In another battle, he built he killed 30,000 by himself. So, as strong as Goyat was, he wasn't stronger than 3,000. needless to say 30,000. Uh so Shimon was had uh superhuman strength that was all given to him by uh in one of the cases he killed uh the pleim with a the jaw of a donkey. So, you know, the more the more you uh learn about the different parts of the Torah, not only do you have answers to your questions, but also you have answers to things you didn't realize you had questions about. Like for example, where do these Hollywood producers get their ideas for for uh for superheroes or for different uh characters in their films? Whether it's Arthur uh that was plagiarized for Mosher Rabenu uh or it was a uh uh the uh Incredible Hulk that's plagiarized from Yuda or it's a uh a lot of the other superheroes out there. all the you have to know that the people that wrote these superhero stories were Jewish people that uh left the yeshiva and knew a lot of Torah and took parts of the midrash and wrote them as their own stories and made money out of it. you know the uh the the guy that started the whole Marvel he was a former yeshiva obviously but the point is that that's all these superhero stories come from all these superhero stories come from a lot of the stories how is Arthur uh plagiarism of Moshe uh there's a there's a story that uh in the uh Midrash that Musher Rabenu took out the staff out of the uh out of the ground when it was stuck there for many many years. Uh when he came to the house of Vro uh the house of they had the uh the staff uh that Hashem gave to initially to Adam. Uh that staff transferred from generation to generation. Noah had it also and eventually the staff was stuck in the ground and uh had it in his land and he made a uh a bounty where uh or a ward for uh anyone that's able to take out the staff out of the ground would marry any one of his daughters that he wants and was in essence at that point he was considered the most elite the most successful the most holy and so on even though at that point he was an idol worship before before he converted to Judaism. So when Mosher Rabenu uh was uh was came to Midian uh initially uh it arrested him and put him in jail for 10 years uh because he found out that Musher Rabenu killed the Egyptian and uh it was a judge and uh it is Jethro and uh he put him in jail for 10 years and in essence trying to kill uh by not feeding him. But uh it's daughter, who eventually becomes Moshe Rabenu's wife, she would bring Moshe food and water to keep him alive. And 10 years later, she told her father, "Why don't you uh see what happened to that uh to that Jewish prisoner?" He said, "No, he must have died. I haven't fed him." So, let's see. Anyway, and he when he saw that Mosher Raen was still alive and well, he realized that God is with him. So he told him, "Okay, fine. I'll let you out." He came out and on the way as he was following, they passed by where the staff was stuck to the ground. And uh Moshe did not know anything about this bounty or anything else. He just saw the staff and he saw that this is something uh that's from this was something different and he just simply decided to grab the staff and take it out and it came out of the ground easily. And when it saw this he knew for sure this is a man of God because the biggest warriors and even groups of warriors in Midian and other countries came to try to take this staff out of the ground and couldn't. So Mosha was able to take it out with ease. Why? because that's obviously Hashem gave it to him. Uh as a side note, the uh Miam Loyes says that the staff was uh red stone and uh I believe was the calculation was that it was 670 667 pounds according to scientific uh calculation of the midlash, meaning the amount of stone, the size, and so on. They did a calculation that's that's approximately what it weighed. So 667 pound staff. Moshe Abenu is 15 to 20 feet tall uh and very very powerful. And he takes out the staff out of the ground like it's as if it's a uh you know a uh coming uh you know a little hair coming out of milk. Now, the Arthur and all these uh stories that they have even to this day, different versions of it that they have in movies where they take out some sword out of a rock or some type of stick out of the ground. All of that comes from that story from all of that comes from that's the original story. That's where it comes from. So the the more a person learns Torah, the more they see the Torah everywhere and they also see how this is a world of lies where people steal stories from the Torah and claim them to be them their own. Okay, I'll take maybe one or two more questions. Why do the sages believe that the sun created the world in futi? No idea what you're talking about. Who created the world? No one else created the world. read surah ala verse 53. Uh I'm not Muslim. I'm not interested in your uh in your religion. I don't know if you noticed but I have a keepa. I'm teaching Torah. If you want to know different things that uh we discussed about the Quran and all the hypocrisy and the lies in it, I have lectures about that uh on my channel you can watch. But um to join your uh foolishness is never happening. Oh, so now you think I'm not truthful. Okay, fine. So don't watch. No one is uh forcing you to be here. You don't see me go to your house and your lectures and your uh mosque and knocking on a door and say, "Oh, uh I want you guys to listen to me." Not forcing you to be here. Go listen to one of your uh one of your uh leaders tell you about how much uh you know, how many virgins you're going to get after being a terrorist. The book of Daniel is Torah, right? Uh yes, there's different levels. The uh highest level is the five books of Moses. Then after the five books of Moses, you have the writings and the prophets. among them includes Daniel. Now we don't conclude laws uh from the writings of the prophets. We only conclude laws from the five books of Moses because that was given from God directly to Moshe is uh whereas the uh the writings and the prophets were not given in the same way. They were given through different for level of prophecy. Now that's in essence all considered the the written Torah the main written Torah is the five books of Moses. After that you have the writings of the prophets but that's a different level much lower level but still obviously very holy and very high. Then you have the oral Torah. The oral Torah is endless. the the foundation of the oral Torah is the Mishna. Uh which is then discussed by the uh then you have the uh different the all the books responses and so on. But as far as the uh the written Torah is defined, the oral Torah is endless as far as the number of books because even something that is uh one of the laws that's in a Torah is applied to the world today uh you know it has to be interpreted. So for example, when it says no fire, it doesn't just mean on Shabbat, it doesn't just mean don't light fire and some wood fire. We don't really use that in the world today uh in uh in in in the cities of today. Uh so it's not really relevant but it also was interpreted as don't turn on and off the electricity the microwave uh you know and so on. So you may not consider uh the microwave fire or you may not consider your light bulb fire but according to the consider it fire. Uh point being is that uh that that ruling by the you know modern day sages about 100 years ago or so is considered a part of the oral Torah and many many other things that uh that that come out every day. There's more and more more clarity of the existing rules as they apply to today. There's no issuance of new rules. There's no issuance of new rules. All of the rules that we have today, all of the laws that we have today are off of the original rules. It's the same exact thing. It's just applied to different circumstances of today. There's no new rules. There's no new laws. I want to know more about the midash. Me, too. Want to know more about every part of the Torah. Ra, I want to take on one more mitzvah, but I don't know which one. Any suggestions on how to choose and which one? Yes, take on more cube. Do more cube. help more people do cha or support Kiru, meaning help more people donate to Kiru and Okay, let's see what is the message of the Torah. God gave the Torah with laws of how to live, how to serve him, and how to receive the reward. Those that follow will be rewarded. Those that don't will be punished. What's our website?org. B E Z R A T H Am.org R. Yes, over there you can donate. Over there you could um sign up and become a uh get the um weekly newsletter and stuff like that. Where can I find more commentary on the Torah? I often have questions about verses. Uh well there's different there's different midashim if you want extensive commentary uh in a story format they is very good uh wrote it about 300 years ago but he didn't write the commentary on the entire uh he wrote it on um gen ones and on Genesis and Exodus uh the rest of it was written by other but it's all very good it's just that there is a big difference between the first two and the rest but it has a lot of commentary. Uh you also have the midrasha uh it's also uh very very good. Uh you have the ramad has commentary on every uh verse practically. uh later on once you've done all of those and and much more even you could maybe go into also uh oh you could also go into the uh um Malbeim uh there's endless commentary literally there's a lot of commentary there's tanum uh but the first few that I mentioned to you uh are uh are the best way to start the first thing I started with was uh mam Can non-Jews benefit from praying at non-Jews can benefit from praying at any time if they pray to Hashem. But if you're asking about the, you know, has no relevance to non-Jews. Can the husband eliminate all the vows of his wife at once? I mean, usually the vows of a woman are not made all at once. Um, is a person obligated to fulfill their word when the person who asked for something has already broken the agreement? Depends. depends what they uh what they committed to and what it would mean for them to break it. It's not a one-sizefits-all. 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