Mouth of Prophets - Jewish HaShkafa (128)

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given to the sh and the Katan the people that are uh you know uh mentally unstable or young kids uh gives that gave them the uh whatever prophecy still left in this world uh will be transmitted to such people now why would Hashem do such a thing why would Hashem give the uh prophecy uh to uh to crazy people uh for lack of a better word uh and uh for young kids you know many times we hear stories of young kids that have uh different dreams where they see sikim or they see the future uh and uh and we see we see that this some of these dreams actually come true now please do not send me a whole Milla about the dreams that your killed uh your kids had in the last week or the last month or even in their lifetime I'm not a dream interpreter uh nor can I do anything about it uh even if the dream is true but the point being is is that uh sometimes kids have dreams that actually have a bit of Prophecy in them uh and uh why would Hashem do that why would Hashem give prophecy to a child why would Hashem give prophecy to an autistic person uh it's a something that uh perhaps we should have asked many times before and the answer is as explained to me is that took this gift away he took the gift of Prophecy away uh you know over the last couple of thousand years but he didn't once AEM gives you know something to the world he doesn't take it away officially so what what happens if it has to remain in the world if you will it has to remain in the world and therefore he gave it to them why give it to them why not give it to uh I don't know to anything else very simple no one will pay attention to them if a kid tells you listen there's going to be a war starting or there's going to be a terrorist attack in uh three weeks in this and such place n out of 10 people are not even going to pay attention to uh to that kid even completing the story and the last 10 will say oh wow wow and then go back to their life no one will take it to heart and that's actually a reality the same concept is with people that have uh you know issues that are you know uh uh mental issues no one is going to take them seriously uh soos made sure that prophecy remains in the world but yet it is not something that uh is um something that people pay attention to now I have to say also that there are sometimes people that are an exception what's an exception sometimes a person has a dream uh or a near-death experience or some type of uh a combination thereof and uhh wants to give them uh a bit of Prophecy as the sages say that uh you know while most dreams are full of nonsense that are the imagination of a person things that you you saw in your life things that you saw that week you know things that you saw that year you went to the zoo and uh decided to buy a hot dog there so you have a dream about you know elephants walking around while they're eating hot dogs you know people have all types of dreams but sometimes the says the dream will have 160th of a prophecy it's not a full prophecy per se but it's 160th of a prophecy and something like this actually happened recently uh just in the last couple of months there was a uh older woman in is that uh had a some type of dream uh where uh she actually told her family that there's going to be a attack on Tel Aviv uh by uh a couple of uh terrorists uh that are going to try to cause major damage uh and uh once uh we heard this let me know and he said okay we have to do a special mission in Tel Aviv stop everything else that we're doing in is we're giving a distribution of books in uh in jush and uh in other places in uh in Israel stop it we have to go do some distribution in Tel Aviv and uh at least try to bring more merits to the place and we did it and uh whether it was uh because of that or uh helped with it is irrelevant we saw that there was a attempt of a terrorist attack on Tel Aviv on the exact day that this woman said it was going to happen uh but it was stopped it was stopped so again everyone can take that and uh decide what they want to uh uh understand from it the point being is is that we're not supposed to uh take these uh prophecies and make uh you know our lives revolve around them uh say way that we don't uh watch the news in any way shape or form and even if you happen to be one of the unfortunate ones that uh watched the news and got depressed for the day as a result of the news that you watched and uh absorbed all of the Tuma that they deliver and the lies uh that come along with it uh you don't make your life revolve around the news why because the news if you've watched it for the last 50 years or 500 years has always been the same it's full of things to cause you to be upset to cause you to fear to cause you to uh worry why because that's what gets people to watch again if you ever see a news station discuss any type of good news let's say somebody I don't know uh got uh you know miraculously uh saved from something or they won the lotto or whatever good story is that story will appear for just a few seconds once and never again but if somebody got shot somebody got murdered somebody got raped somebody uh you know got caught conspiring to do something evil somebody is uh you know wants to say things that are evil they will high highlight them in every Network multiple times a day until you're bleeding from your ears why because that's what the news does but yet people don't want to listen to me so they continue watching the news and wasting their life away needless to say the Satan will tell you that this is good why because you need to know what's going on you need to know what's going on as if it's going to help you now if you were at the time of the prophets and you listen to the prophets that's good news why because even though the prophets brought bad news it's good news why because you can do something about it they're telling you the warnings of God in order for you to be able to do something about it but unfortunately what many people don't realize is that even though the prophets did not succeed in getting am to do Chu in time the are still here in order to get is to do Chu in time they G say wait what's the connection between the the uh the scholars and the prophets as the says is better than AI to be a Torah scholar is even greater than than being a na'vi why because a na'vi a prophet is only a prophet when Hashem allows him to be a prophet allows her to be a prophet meaning it's not 24 hours a day they can't just receive prophecy whenever they want AEM has to decide to give it to them at a specific time requires specific preparation it's a whole thing it could be a prophecy today and nothing for several years it could be a prophecy today and nothing ever again so just because someone gets a prophecy doesn't mean that they're a prophet all the time and uh but on the other hand and someone is a someone is a Torah scholar so long as they continue remaining dedicated to the Torah they're always a Torah scholar and they could always tell you the words of God and what he told us in the Torah regardless of what time of the day it is so we have to understand that while we are not prophets while we are uh not necessarily even in the uh close to being prophets we could still act as if we are children of prophets because we all are the children of prophets that's we call am all the children of the ones that came out of Egypt and all of them were prophets but at the same token we have to understand what prophecy is who what when how the says that had 1.2 million prophets but yet only 55 were selected to be quoted in the tanak the Eternal book why only 55 out of 1.2 million because those 55 had prophecies that were relevant to every single generation while the others the rest of the 1.2 million had prophecies that were only relevant to their generation to their people at the time and therefore they don't belong to the Eternal book doesn't mean they weren't righteous it doesn't mean that they wer good it doesn't mean that their prophecies were false quite the opposite but rather was only relevant to a specific time but this this actually impresses upon us the fact that every single verse in the tah in the tan is actually relevant to us as individuals as well as a nation every single day of our life we just need to know how to learn it we just need to know to understand it but the verse regardless of what verse you pick is relevant to each and every single one of us now the Kish wants to let us know about these prophets what were they like what were they like how are they how did they get to be prophets did they fill out some type of job application uh mail yes uh you know married yes uh you know Jewish yes uh do they fill an application looking for salary willing to work for free yes okay uh you know what what do you get what how do you get to be a prophet what would they like in fact what most most people don't know about prophets is that some of them were also many of them uh were called The Crazy Ones like Jeremiah for example and others were called The Crazy Ones why Crazy Ones because when they would receive prophecy their bodies were not normal anymore and this is not anything that the movies could ever portray because their bodies were no longer normal and I don't mean their bodies started becoming some light and they started floating in the air or anything what I'm talking about their bodies were receiving a prophecy and they were no longer able to handle this limited fashion that we have as human bodies and many of them had literally would riip their clothes off start you know their bodies would literally go wild and then the prophecy would come out whether they wanted to say it or didn't want to say it it didn't make a difference it came out it came out this by the way as a side note is the reason why yonah Yi ran away from Israel now you would ask yourself wait a minute what what do you think that Hashem can't just make you a prophet anywhere he want once you know cuz there are some that say wait there's no prophecy outside of is this is not true why number one we see that M obviously was a prophet outside of he was never in prophets outside of prophet outside of their sister a prophet outside of we also see some of the other prophets were outside of is so what's the point of running away y what's the point of running away from is because he didn't want to give the prophecy to the go because he knew that if the go do Chua it's going to be a prosecution against the Jews and perhaps hasm will punish the Jewish people of his brothers and sisters so you didn't want to do it fine you didn't want to do it but what's the point of running away why don't you just be quiet or perhaps I don't know go to the next uh you know I don't know go to sleep that's because you knew it's not a matter of whether Hashem can give him or not give him prophecy outside of because just like hasem made the rule that there's less prophecy outside of than there is inside is he could also break that rule he could change the rule he's the rules the reason why yonah ran away is because he knew that the prophecy can come out of his mouth at any given moment without his control and therefore he did not want to be next to those Gentiles that would hear the prophecy because again it's not that he didn't like theim but rather because he loved his brothers and sisters the Jewish people and he was afraid that if theim became more righteous than the Jews then Hashem would destroy the Jewish people or at the very least hurt them so obviously everyone knows how that story ends yah ends up getting a rebuke and a personal lesson from Hashem getting swallowed by a fish miraculously living inside that fish which of course we all realize how many miracles happened in that story because it's not enough that he got swallowed by a fish and lived it's that he lived inside the fish for several days and then miraculously was able to see through the fish's eyes one of the things that the fish showed them was a different openings opening to g a uh which is one of the three openings to Gom or Gates of Gom is in the ocean he showed them also the a nation of of of small people he showed them all types of extraordinary things he showed them even the latan the Lev that we will all eventually eat any one of us that's righteous and Will Survive the end of times he also showed himan so this was obviously one Miracle upon a miracle that y got to see and eventually got to uh bring the prophecy to the go but needless to say this is something that you not knew that was beyond his control so he tried to control the one thing he control which is where his legs are he could go wherever he wants to go but of course convinced him convinced him to come back so uh the uh the prophecy is a very interesting subject of course there are plenty of crazy people today that think they are prophets but usually you will see a significant difference in the behavior of the prophets of the Torah versus the crazy people of today or any other time and actually tonight is we're going to learn that lesson what is what's the difference how do I know this guy is not a prophet he says he talks to God I didn't see it I didn't hear it but how do I know he's a prophet how do I know he's not a prophet I didn't hear I didn't see maybe he is maybe he isn't how do I know you'll see simply by the behavior cuz there are certain requirements in order for hasm to select you as a prophet 1.2 million were prophets 55 were selected to be the Eternal prophets needless to say anyone that's a a prophet today is part of those 55 there'll be 56 57 58 and so on so how do we see all of it the Kish tells us that one should not ascribe to the Creator a voice like that of human beings but this voice is created for this particular Mo moment so that the ear of the Prophet can sense it sometimes prophecy comes into the heart of a human being and he pictures in his heart everything that the creator has awakened his spirit and his soul to do as the creator has command commanded him or to speak to whoever he has told the prophecy to he was told to prophecy to so we see from the tanak that tells the prophets messages to go bring to somebody else he told M to give messages to he told to give messages to he told different prophets messages who to give and when to give and every time we read it it is written in human format meaning that it sounds like a speaks to them like you and I are speaking today you hear my human voice you thereby agreed that I'm human this is a problem when you apply the same logic to God when the Torah says God spoke to Moshe God spoke to Aon to isah Isaiah toel Ezekiel it doesn't actually mean the same thing like your own spoke because the voice of God is not the same thing as the voice of man and I don't mean the tone is much deeper like the movies make some loud scary voice no it's simply not the same the message is written in such a way just like the rest of oura is written in such a way for the human ear to understand because we need something in order for us to digest it so AOS wrote the Tor in such a fashion that we would be able to understand it in our own way in our own dictionary that we have in our own vocabulary that we have in our own logic that we have based on the rules we're aware of if he told us what does an angel really look like look like or what is the voice of God really is we simply would not have anything to compare it to and therefore we would just simply not be able to understand anything so when it says the voice that was spoken to this uh Prophet don't understand it as some scary voice deep voice old man voice crying voice angry voice don't understand that as voice at all just understand that there was a communication there was a communication between God and the prophet and the prophet understood very well when God speaks to you there's no question if you ever have any dream Vision or some type of spiritual experience that sometimes people have through meditating or taking drugs or whatever it is that they do and you're thinking oh yeah I think God spoke to me it already you think you think it's not God the moment you think it's no longer God why if God speaks to you you know you know so here we see that the message or the form of communications that God has With His prophets is it's written as he spoke but not to understand it the same fashion this is very very important because the moment we start actually portraying God in human form we're starting to Veer away from God and we start going to Idol Tre so this is important that that's why the uh the Kish mentions it here now the second uh part of this chapter goes further into describing these prophets and K says as follows a prophetic connection between the Creator and his Creations is one of the foundations of the creation of the world such was the hashem's plan to create man to Grant him wisdom knowledge and understanding as well as the ability to hear the prophetic words of the creator for the purpose of man is his being created with two inclinations the good and the bad that is the natural inclination towards that which is immediately pleasurable and also a desire that comes from the intellect for wisdom Act of kindness and other good deeds so so far we're seeing that the master plan of a was not only to create a world for us to eat sleep procreate cause some trouble no no it was also to communicate with him it was also to communicate with him to speak to our creator and one of the things that we see here that seems initially like it doesn't fit is is it also mentions that this creation us has a good inclination and an evil inclination what does that have to do with the purpose of the world create man grant them wisdom knowledge understanding ability to understand or hear the prophetic words of the Creator so far so good but then the K goes into something that seems like it it's like a a square and a round hole where evil inclination good inclination natural inclination which is pleasurable desire to uh to that comes from intellect and wisdom and kindness what does it have to do with prophecy we'll see in a moment hashem's will was that man would scorn evil and choose good but not all of the good can be known by way of intellect rather rooted in him is the ability to choose to do good to the point that the person will be capable of achieving prophecy and then Hashem will command them regarding what is forbidden and should therefore be refrained from and the Good Deeds that he is obligated to do so here we see that while initially it seems like the good and the evil inclination didn't fit in in fact we see that this is what SEALs the deal of whether prophecy exists or doesn't whether you will be chosen as a prophet or not chosen as a prophet where certainly there is good and evil certainly there is good that you can choose through your own wisdom your own intellect the tools that Hashem gave you but there are some things that are good that your intellect can never get to there are some things that are good that your wisdom can never get to You're simply not going to have that thought you're not going to have that understanding without prophecy without prophecy now how do you how do you get this how do you get this as a result of doing good the more a person perfects thems the more good they do as a result of their natural inclination as a use of their wisdom as a use of their intellect as a restriction of themselves from things that are forbidden that opens up that vessel that doesn't come to you naturally that opens up that vessel of Prophecy meaning that the good and the bad inclination are the door or I should say the lock on the door of whether one will receive prophecy or not and once they do open that door of Prophecy they get further instructions that are not available in any other way possible and K continues when ad was created he was created with the power of Prophecy then he was prophetically commanded to observe seven negative mitzvot that is seven things that in refraining from them man is refraining from Evil and other meot that are positive ones to be done actively the creator of revealed to him the truth of the secret of the world that there is a hidden Creator who created the entire world heavens and earth and all that they contain by the reality of his existence and his Providence is constant upon all that was created and this Creator commanded him to beware of even thinking of solutions other than the truth and of conjuring up various forms of idolatry directed at the heavenly host or of false Powers he also commanded to observe other practical mitv not to steal not to shed blood not to commit immorality not to eat meat from an animal that's still alive so ad was the first creation but also the first prophet and it's clear to see because the verse clearly says God spoke to him now this is what Adar was expected to do he was supposed to in essence fulfill the minimal amount of mitv primarily by not doing what God told him not to do there is the seven noahide laws but there were also other restrictions that God gave him in order for him to keep his status obviously the main one being don't eat from the Tree of knowledge now Adar although he had an extraordinary appearance he had all of theot within him he still failed at that test not because he committed immorality not because he uh violated Shabbat not because he ate Pig no rather because he broke the rule and simply did what was one of the things that hasem forbid him from doing that wasn't even part of the seven laws of Noah now this shows us that sometimes the simple the simple logic is not enough meaning that we have 613 seven are from the sages only seven now anyone that actually ever studied the 613 laws knows that more than half of them are not something that you can practice today because we don't have a bet mikdash we're also not all kohanim we're also not all men or all women and the point being is is that a very small percentage of of the 613 are something you can actually even do and in fact even the ones that you can do you can't do them every day PES is only once a year Shabbat is only once a week and so on and so forth so we see that while a person will think okay so as long as I focus on these 613 I should be a prophit not necessarily why because there are some unspoken laws what we call a these are laws that are not spoken of meaning they're not clarified they're not even detailed but they're known there's common sense that's expected of each one of us that is developed when a person learns Torah when a person goes through life when a person has certain experience is a certain amount of common sense that a expects us and he actually enforces that Common Sense law that hook no less than any of the others in fact sometimes more stringent as the says there was once a guy that uh took a likings to the rabbi's wife Rabbi was a young Rabbi married to a beautiful wife and this man liked this wife but she was married already so what could he do he figured maybe I'll say something maybe this maybe that but the wife was not having it one day this poor Rabbi needed to uh borrow some money needed to borrow some money to pay some bills to do what he needs to do and of course he went to this guy cuz this guy is close to the community he's fairly wealthy and he goes to him but he figured the best way to uh to go to him is by uh sending his wife and he sent his wife his wife sent she asked for some money he gave her the money she came home gave the money to her husband and this happened a couple of times but the day the day of judgment came up where the money was due and the rabbi didn't have the money didn't have the money to pay back he's like listen Rabbi I uh you need to pay me back you need to pay me back he's like uh listen I'm going to try you need to put some pressure on him okay well make sure you send some payments send your wife again to uh you know make these payments long story short one of these times that the wife went there she didn't come home she didn't come home now she didn't sin with this guy but she didn't come home the next day the rabbi asked the guy did uh you see my wife said yeah she came by and uh she left like she usually does gave her some money and uh she left that's it oh no but she didn't come home oh I don't know Rabbi listen I saw her talking to some guys I'm not really sure but uh if I were you I wouldn't trust such a woman I'd uh divorce right away cuz who knows what she did you really think so listen the way it looked like for me for sure it looked like that poor young Rabbi believed this guy thought he's out there to help him listen to him as soon as the wife came home the rabbi gave her a get that's it I'm finished you did something wrong you're out now this Rabbi still has this debt and he's trying to make en meet ultimately he gets to a point where he can't and the debt holder this guy the rich guy says to the rabbi listen uh I need my money one way or the other you got to pay I mean it's a uh doesn't the Torah say you know people always like to use the Torah when it's not really the ideal place to use it when it just fits their uh their agenda so the Rabbi says yeah but what can I do if I what can I do he said listen if you want you'll work for me sure okay I'll work for you until I pay you back so the rabbi starts working what can I do he goes oh you'll be my servant poor Rabbi becomes the servant so the rabbi becomes a servant he does all types of things and then one day the uh owner tells him listen I from now on I want you to bring some food to my room in the morning I want to you know want breakfast you uh I don't want I don't want my other uh people to do it you are you know about kosher so I want you to bring the food sure thank you boss at least I have a job he comes in he brings the plate in and he sees that next to this man is sending his new wife who was the rabbis EX ex-wife and then he understands what the whole plan was from the beginning why he lent him the money why he specifically asked him to send the Rabani to collect the money to give the money all that stuff and the whole story of how he told him that to divorce her but of course now it's too late he can't do anything about it but that Rabbi cried and the gar says that those couple of tears that came out of that rabbi rabbi's eyes were the final nail on the coffin when decided to destroy the world destroyed the BET mikdash and he nearly destroyed the entire world because of it now the says wait a minute but technically the guy didn't violate the law he never touched the woman while she was married she was with the guy she was with her husband he never touched her he didn't force the guy to divorce wife he just recommended it once she was free he was allowed to marry her you're right he didn't violate the per se he didn't go with a married woman he didn't uh you know do he didn't but he still violated the he still violated the and it with such a fashion to the point where wanted to destroy the entire world says if this is how you interpret the toat to be so evil like that might as well not have a world might as well not have a world so we see that sometimes there are certain rules that are not necessarily just uh written in stone there are certain rules that you have to understand certain logic unfortunately when a person does not understand where they stand they could easily put themselves in the wrong shoes and start challenging and even even Torah Giants start questioning the Torah Giants and it's funny to me that sometimes these people that are questioning the Torah Giants needless to say even their their of the community do not even know the proper blessing the proper blessing on what you eat on a small cracker with some fish what's the proper beginning blessing and ending blessing they won't even know if F told you right now what blessing do you make the first blessing and the last blessing on a small Ritz Ritz cracker Okay small Ritz cracker and a piece of fish what are the proper blessings for it unfortunately I know that some of you are also going to get it wrong but I could assure you that all of the people that go against are also going to get it wrong why it's not as simple as you think and if you can't even figure out the proper blessing for what I just said how are you going to challenge what ra said what the r said what any of did some you say well it's not so it's not so what's so difficult about it you do maybe it's just all of those things are wrong why the logic incorrect you didn't pay attention to the details now if you did get it right good for you but I can assure you it didn't come just because you studied a lot it also be came because you lowered yourself you humiliated yourself you've humbled yourself to become subservient to the Torah to the without that you're never going to know the answer not for that and certainly not for bigger things now the is telling us that when Adam was created he was given this power this power of Prophecy he was supposed to use this power to literally talk to Hashem whenever he wanted in fact at some point aadh showed Adar all of the future Generations he showed him the future he didn't just tell him about the end of days he showed them what's going to happen he showed them all of the that are within him who's going to come out of him this is the of this is the ofu this is the of this is the of when he got to DAV he said who who's that who's that tell me who's that who's that one I want to know more about that one how long what what's his life going to be hasem told him oh he's not going to have a life that's just the it's going to stay up in sh whoa why such a great why not he says he wasn't allowed at any years said I'll give him 70 of my years I'll give him 70 of my years let this beautiful let this beautiful n live hasem said deal tell us that as got to the end of his days he knew he was supposed to live a thousand years but since he gave 70 years to David he's only going to live 930 years and that's what he lived but he regretted he said AEM hasem give me my 70 years back I don't want to die yet I don't want to die it I want I want that 70 years back Hashem said no no no can't give it back to you no but come on get it from somewhere else but no no don't worry I'm not giving it back to you but don't worry Adam why that that that you give her life that's your tun you know that mistake that you made at ganeden when you were born that mistake that you made has to be rectified somehow the is the one to rectify because from him will come mashia ah okay so now I did that fine I can go now so we see that was literally unbelievable the says that one of the that measured different things went into the cave of in order to measure the different Graves of abah yov and he saw that was also there how did you see well first the says as he entered the place where no one is able to enter Because anyone that entered it died on the spot he was holy enough that he entered and lived Shalom also entered that place and live lived famous story that happened uh hundreds of years ago where the Turkish Sultan heard about the cave of M and came to visit it now he had a very fancy sword that was part of the family for many years and uh as soon as he came to the place you know they there's a place where it was locked off and he looked into it as he bent over the sword fell inside into the place where no one's allowed to go because that's where andov so everyone was scared but the sultan wasn't scared you know why cuz he wasn't going to go down there he said listen Soldier go Soldier went they heard screaming pulled up the Rope dead another Soldier go TI up go down screaming comes up dead body no blood nothing gory simple scream dead scream dead scream dead you know one after another until the commander said to the uh to the sultan your highness we're running out of soldiers why don't we send a Jew instead a yahood but they you have they're going to die too cuz no we here that they have some holy people bring them they came to the Jews said give us one of your holy people to go and get the sultan sword of course everyone knew that this is most likely a one-way trip unless the person is extraordinarily holy to the point where abah andov allow him and even want him to be there Shalom said I'll go he volunteered to go he did certain prayers certain preparation for it and the next day he went down he got the sword came back up everyone obviously was bewildered at how this all happened how this Jew this simple Jew survived what dozens of non-jewish soldiers were not able to survive for a second he was there for a while looking checking apparently talking and everything went well now of course the respect that he got at that point was very different and increased drastically after that but the gar says that at the time of the one of the went down there and he saw saw elzar elzar he was the guard over the gate his was a or actually his body because he's one of the 10 people that went to ganeden and never died without dying that hasm chose to go to ganeden without dying and Alazar was there apparently alzar was a giant says who are you say oh I'm here to see ab and yob to measure so who gave you permission to come here I see that you survived so you must must be holy but I have to ask aam if he's allowing you in to do this wait here elazar goes comes back say Okay AB says you're allowed to come says what is AB doing now said AR right now is alone with with sahu is Al with and went saw spoke eventually he wanted to go seear but he got a glimpse and before he went further he was stopped no no no you don't have permission over here that's already too much can't go see why not doesn't give permission no permission and he says the say says that I saw the only thing I saw is I saw the foot the back of the foot of ad it was more shiny than the sun more shiny than the Sun so we see from here however this obviously this language of thear is not necessarily uh always a in the same fashion as the rest of the Torah it's not always literal the point being is to inspire the message to give you an understanding that this is more than what we're used to this is much more than what we could even understand but needless to say it gives us some food for thought to put us where we are where we're supposed to be at least but what made these prophets not only chosen as prophets but also wide different levels of Prophecy so the rambam the rambam writes in his in chapter S it's actually a chapter about the prophets and he writes as follows this is almost 800 Years Ago by the ramban in many places in the mid and a including some passages quoted in the talmud it stated that there are prophets who see God concealed behind many veils and others who see him behind fewer veils the difference depends on the extent of their closeness to God and the elevated level of their prophecy thus it is said that Moshe saw God behind one clear and Shining transparent Veil this is what is meant by that expression so here the rambam is not only going to tell us about the prophets but is also going to show us explain to us how to understand these words what do you mean mhe saw God he doesn't have an image or likeness of an image so what does that actually mean and he saw him through glass like what's the glass this is what it's meant Moshe look through a brilliant Looking Glass is what the page 49b says the term Looking Glass refers to a lens made from a shining material like diamond or Crystal as mentioned in the conclusion of M the intent of this statement is that there are intellectual virtues and ethical virtues conversely there are intellectual shortcomings such as foolishness being naive difficulty in understanding and there are also ethical shortcomings such as gluttony Pride anger wrath brashness love of money and the like indeed there are many of these and we have mentioned the way to distinguish them in the previous chapter 4 all of these shortcomings meaning character traits he's everything that I'm referring to is all character traits either the positive character traits or character trait flaws all of the shortcomings the character trait shortcomings are veils that separate between man and God this was alluded to in the prophet statement in book of Isaiah chapter 59:2 where it says it's your sins that separate between you and your God your sins meaning the shortcomings mentioned are veils that separate between us and him so here when the Torah is telling us in the name of God your sins are separating you between you and God it's not always necessarily talking to just Wicked people that are violating Shabbat or eating pig or Idol worshipper some times it's actually talking to from God to A tadik A righteous person so what sins is the righteous person doing it's the character trait flaw or lack of perfection that is causing this separation that is causing the separation and therefore the rambam continues know that a prophet will not prophecy until he has acquired all of the intellectual virtues and most most including more form the more formidable of the ethical virtues meaning intellectually as far as knowledge of Torah he has to get to the highest possible level but as far as character traits he has to get to a very high level but not necessarily the highest in order for prophecy to go through him or her and this is implied by our sages statement inat page 92 where it says the spirit of Prophecy will rest solely on a wise man who is Valiant and Wealthy what does it mean a valiant and Wealthy the term wise surely includes all of the intellectual virtues and the term wealthy includes all of the ethical virtues it's not talking about wealthy as far as money so wealthy as far as character traits meaning he's per is is is behavior is amazing as far as level of amazing that will distinguish between the lower prophet and the higher prophet and therefore our sages explain and they would say that they call a person who's uh uh who's uh who is Rich one who is happy with his portion what does that mean one who's happy with his portion this is chapter 4 first Mish one who is happy with what Fortune presents him and does not grieve over what Fortune does not present him so I'll skip around a little bit here to give you some other titbits of the rambam he says it's not necessary for a prophet to have mastered all of the ethical virtues to the point that he does not possess any shortcomings at all this is evidence by the fact that schl was a prophet which by the way is a correction to what I said a couple of weeks ago in stump the rabbi where I said that SCH was not a prophet because there is an opinion one of them being the rambam that he was a prophet not everybody agrees that he was a prophet but there is an opinion here clearly by the rambam that schl was a prophet and so was David so here he says that schl was a prophet as it says in the he brings a verse he brings a verse in a book of Kings chapter 3:5 at gon got appear to scho so this in essence is portraying schl as a prophet if he appeared to him now we're not in a level to disagree with the rambam we just know until you know we knew one of the opinions is a uh uh that SLA wasn't and we find explicit reference to his having ethical shortcomings meaning even though God appear appeared to him he had ethical shortcomings overindulgence where he had many wives uh the uh this uh he had many horses and so on similarly says the rambam David is father was a Prophet this is in the book of schel chapter 23:3 SCH B where it says God of Israel said to me the rock of Israel spoke meaning that David says that God spoke to directly so says that God spoke to him directly so obviously this shows that he was a prophet nevertheless we find that David was hard-hearted although he directed this quality against the Gentiles and killed those that denied God and he was merciful to Jews we nevertheless find that in the uh in the Chronicles that God did not find him fit to build the bet mikdash because of the many people that he killed so even though he killed him in the name of God again this was considered a flaw if you will in his level in order for him to be chosen as the highest level of Prophecy but the zor says that David was the highest level ofes M was the master of all prophets was the master of Alles similarly Eli Eli possessed the trait of anger although he directed it against the non-believers and the Sinners and he would focus his wrath on them the sages explained the page 113b that God removed him from the world telling him that a person with his degree of zealousness is not fit to live among people lest he caused them all to be destroyed meaning his zealousness was so high that literally he was Prosecuting against the people to the point where if hm would judge according to him at that moment he would destroy the whole world and just leave Eli alone that's not what hasem wanted even if he was right even IFI was right still it wasn't the will of hem this also teaches us that to be zealous also has to be at the right time and at the right place you can't just be zealous against everyone every time whenever you want you have to also know what is the will of hem sometimes the will of hem is not to be zealous at that particular moment but at a different moment and a person has to know how to choose their spots most importantly as I said in the previous lecture maybe about two months ago many times people make the mistake of being zealous against other people but Nots where to the point where they spend most of their energy criticizing everybody else except themselves they reached a certain level that they feel is sufficient and everyone else is insufficient perhaps because they view that everyone else is doing less than them the truth is that the rebuke from Heaven is usually higher on the person that's zealous and the person that is uh being zealous against being a uh a judged and the reason why is because if you're putting yourself in a position where you are rebuking others that means that you feel like you are higher than everybody else and if you don't really necessarily measure to the mark You're judged accordingly so if you're going to be zealous you have to constantly Elevate yourself and not just reach a certain Plateau You observe Shabbat you keep kosher you learn a little bit of to that's it you're fine mistake you're not fine you have to continuously get higher continuously get higher many times people don't understand that and it's a usually because they don't really have a real connection to a rabbi that's going to rebuke them or that they have an open relationship with where the rabbi is able to tell them the truth many times people only tell the rabbi the good news or the complaints they never tell them the real stuff that uh that happens in their life that would require a rebuke or if the rebuke comes they don't accept it so here we see that the extraordinary sedik David schoi all of them were at the highest possible level as far as intellect they were extraordinarily righteous as far as character traits but they still had flaws in their level we could wish to just be the grain of salt or something that they uh perhaps seasoned on one of their sandwiches we could be a grain of uh of of sand that they stepped on but the point being is is that in their level we see that even though they had imperfection they still received prophecy so here says the rambam despite their having these shortcomings the prophets mentioned above were able to convey God's word the undesirable attributes that they possess nevertheless were like veils for them whoever had two or three qualities that deviated from the mean would see God behind two or three veils now here it's a something that the rambam is using a language to make us understand but how do you understand it it it's as follows the more veils a person has between him and Hashem the more difficult it is for them to understand the message from Hashem what is that like if you look at the five books of Moses versus let's say you look at the prophecy of Isaiah prophecy of Ezekiel prophecy of any of the other prophets the five books of Moses are much easier to understand as far as the literal aspect of it not the endless messages that come from the five books of Moses that is never ending we're talking about just literally the message the story the uh the overall message what we call theat much easier to understand what's being communicated here versus any of the other prophets now even though the prophet Isaiah is considered the highest Prophet aside from mosenu it's almost impossible to understand the prophecy that was given to Isaiah when you compare it to the prophecy that was given to mosenu so we see that as great as Isaiah was you have to figure out you need special tools of wisdom and interpretations from the sages and our oral tradition in order to truly understand what the message says even the basic message needless to say the hidden message whereas the basic message that was told to Moshe is relatively understandable that you could understand it many times by reading the verses and understanding the language and other times just a little bit help from Rashi will give you some color to understand at least what's going on but yet there are times there are places in the book of Isaiah where literally you can't even understand why this word is in this sentence and you still haven't finished the sentence what this sentence is doing here what does it even mean meaning that without commentary you simply can't read it you can end up with a different religion like they do in Christianity so here we understand that the prophecy to Isaiah was a very high level the prophecy to Zacharia was very high level Ezekiel very high level but if you compare it to Moshe it's no comparison how can we see that the veil the veil is how clear the message is that was able to be conveyed to Moshe the message to Moshe is clear the message to Isaiah to Zacharia to any of the other prophets is not clear it's words you could read the words but it doesn't mean you're going to understand them and in fact this is why they say that mhe his he got to the highest level where the veil between him and hasem was like a glass window whereas the others the veil between them and Hashem was like a a a a um a wall from wood that you can hear but you can't see or perhaps even a wall that's even thicker wood or wall from a rock from some type of uh harder uh uh material where you could not even hear the message clearly you almost like hear have to hear Echo like a but and the bigger the Veil The more distant the voices the more difficult it is to decipher what the voice is saying whereas the level that mosenu got to it was as if he's talking to hasem and is really just a window between them or even if you talk to your friend and let's say you're talking to your friend or your wife or your husband through a door you could clearly understand what what you're saying to each other it's not perfect like you're right next to each other but it's near perfect it's as close to perfect it's going to get but if there was a door closed if it's a wooden door much harder to understand what she's saying there's going to be a few more what what' you say huh there's G to be a few of those if there's a wall it's even more so if that Wall's from sheetrock if that wall is from cement if that wall is enclosed in so many different ways it's almost impossible to decipher the message so since our sages knew says the rambam since mosenu our teacher knew that there was no Veil remaining that he had not rent and that he had already acquired all of the ethical and intellectual virtues he sought to comprehend God and the truth of his being for no hindrance remained and he asked them Show Me Your Glory but God said that it was impossible for mosenu to get any higher and still be contained in a material body as he said no living man will see me meaning that mosenu not only perfect his intellect to the highest level even higher than schl but his character traits were perfected at the highest possible level hence the reason why he's constantly mentioned in to that he was the humblest man that ever lived the low the the more humble a person is the more perfect of a character he is but only if it's real humility because there is a fake humility that's actually the highest level of arrogance unfortunately I've been prived to meet a few of these people where the person pretends to be humble meaning they pretend oh yeah yeah no you know I don't know anything no no you're like one of those people yeah what do we care what do we know who what what are we what are this but in reality the second you say something to him that he doesn't like the second you figuratively speaking step on his toe oh how can you do it I don't like it H wait I thought that you were nothing I thought that you're like uh you know sand we can walk on thought you were nothing all of a sudden you're uh not only not nothing you're like a tower Tower of Babel this is fake humility and fake humility as I learned from my dear R fake humility is the highest form of arrogance fake humility is the highest form of arrogance pretend to be humble but in reality it's just fake it's the highest form of arrogance and that's what the sages teach us now mosenu was real humble find any humble man on planet Earth mosu was more humble than him even though he was much smarter than him even though he was much stronger than him even though he was much richer than him even though he had literally an infinite amount of reasons to be more confident and more arrogant than him he was more more humble than him now humble doesn't mean self-conscious humble means you know where you come from Humble means that you have a direct understanding a clear understanding of the source of every single thing that you have and you know that it's not due to you it's not your idea it's not your money it's not your nothing and he completely absolved his own self-interest and replaced it with the will of God so mhu knew that he got to the highest level and that's why he had the confidence to ask Hashem let me see you meaning he knew where he stood but that was due to his humility and Hashem says you've reached the highest possible level that a human being can reach you've reached the highest possible level that's why the message to you is the five books of Moses it's that's clear as day anyone that read reads it will understand at least part of the message even if they're not a prophet even if they're not a prophet they'll understand part of the message don't understand meaning hasem created the world don't understand hasm created the world believe not believe all that stuff is a different story but as far as understand what it says you'll understand part of the message sure now since our sages knew that these shortcomings two shortcomings the ethical and intellectual failings separate man from God and at this distinguishes the prophets the sages said in the page 28 and also page 134a that with regards to some of their colleagues whose wisdom and ethical development they saw they are fit for the divine presence to rest upon them as it rested upon mosenu he said don't make the mistake and think that they by the sages comparing their colleagues with mosenu that they're comparing them literally to mosenu but rather says the rambam they are saying that in regards to their character traits they have perfected this particular character trait in a way like mosu perfected his in his level so that's why just like hasem rested his onu he should rest In This Magnificent sadik that's next to us so this is one of the clearest message about prophecy and who Hashem chose to be prophets this also tells us who Hashem cannot and will not choose as prophets because the people that many times claim to be prophets have literally the the exact opposite traits they're arrogant they're obnoxious they think that they are a big deal because they are prophets but of course you're going to say yeah but look Bam Bam was bam was even married to a donkey so how how is he a prophet right bam was a r you're right and the asked the same question and the rambam says he was wasn't a prophet Ram says he was a wizard he was a wizard he got some messages from God but he wasn't really a prophet per se either way thear says in the case that he was a prophet there's a way to understand it why the Torah calls bam the man with one eye why with one eye because he had one eye and the other socket that's supposed to be a eye was a hole he had a hole in his head and therefore he did not sin with this hole he can't do anything with it and that's where that's the vessel that hasem used in order to bring him prophecy the only part of his body that he didn't sin there he can give him prophecy the rest of his body was full of Tuma so here we see that if you look at the verses you look at what the sages explain and you'll understand a whole lot more now of course of course none of us are prophets or sons of prophets we're descendants of prophets perhaps but not sons of prophets but yet we have the same tool as them number one we have the Torah number two we have the number one most important tool that the prophet has which is their mouth now if a person uses their mouth for foul language for for uh Gossip for lies for cheating then in essence they're not only violating the Torah by making those specific sins but they're also desecrating the holy tool that gave them now the ramb writes in in chapter one number three and number four which the brings in his introduction that the blessings that uh gave us as far as from the Tora itself is but yet the sages instituted blessings for everything else for food for drink for anything that you benefit from this world but yet it's still considered as if you're following the word of God why the rambam writes as follows he says there are three categories of blessings blessings for partaking in physical Pleasures blessings for performing mitv and blessings for thanking Hashem the last category is to praise AEM acknowledge acknowledge uh him and request things from him but ultimately what is the purpose of all blessings the ultimate purpose says the rambam of all of the blessings is that we're constantly aware of God and fear Him this is why thear says that if a person consumes benefits from this world without blessing hem they're considered like y why because yat disconnected from their creator by putting two golden calves in the way of going to the BET mikdash therefore they didn't go when a person blesses Hashem they're in essence recognizing Hashem they're showing that they fear AEM so by not blessing it's the opposite effect and therefore the r teaches that the fundamental purpose of the blessings is to promote to promote fear of hem andar shalom in his called he says that besides being an expression that blessings are an expression of thank you for the food that uh that he's eating or reciting a blessing that uh declares that uh uh that he's he's grateful for hasem a blessing itself is declaring that you are aware that Hashem is the creator the one and only creator that you're declaring that God is the one who brought this bread from the ground and created the fruits and the uh of ground uh that he created the fruits of the ground and the plants and the trees and each blessing that you make raises us another notch of our awareness that Hashem created everything in the world in so many words it's not just fear of punishment but rather it's fear of his majesty now what's fear of his majesty first and foremost you have to recognize that his majesty exist now you can't just say oh the Majesty is some big Castle in the Sky no Majesty's here when a person says that blessed you hasem our god king of the world there are some fools out there that say yeah he's king of the world but not me king of the world but not me meaning he's allowed to say he's going to say the blessing on food on bread on drinks or whatever yeah you know he's going to say on a lot of things king of the world on a lot of things but when it comes to him doing something specific that God said he won't do it she won't do it why king of the world but uh you know it's hard for me what do you mean hard for me so he's king of the world but not you so that's what sh here is emphasizing fear of hem is not just fear of some figure in the sky fear of hem is understanding and fearing is Majesty here in your world here in your life in your every single seg that you think now when we thank for everything the says this in itself being careful with blessings and using our mouth for blessings and not for profane things will automatically help us control our desires each time you make a blessing it helps you with controlling your desires if you see a person that does Whatever Whenever you could be sure that person doesn't make any blessings if you see a person that says he makes blessings it even sounds like they make blessings but they also don't control themselves very well pay attention to the way they say Their Blessings you'll notice that many times Their Blessings are a bunch of uh words that are squashed together they don't really even make any sense in fact one of the uh from the world of was not only he a and a but he was married to a big sadika and the raban saw one time one of theim pick up a piece of cake and Mumble a blessing quickly just to get to eat it she approached them the raban rebuking you it's even worse than the rabbi rebuking you sometimes s she says to him let's think about what just happened here this cake is made of wheat flow now when these wheat flowers wheat kernels were growing in the field they prayed constantly to to allow them to grow sufficiently and that they're not cut down before they have a CH a chance to ripen properly and in response commanded the guardian angels to protect them and help them grow as there's an angel above every single wheat kernel every single leaf every single uh uh grass piece every single thing there's an angel there either protecting them or removed from them so they get destroyed that's what the said thousand years ago each body part that we have has Angels when hasem wants to rebuke a person he simply removes some of these angels from those body parts and all of a sudden you start feeling pain all of a sudden you have bleeding from strange places you do chuva Hashem says to the angel go back and all of a sudden the angel comes back and you feel perfect this by the way is the clear and outright explanation for medical Miracles where you see somebody sick and the next moment the tumor is gone the cancer is gone the uh things are gone how he did chuv she did chuv decided to make a miracle how's the miracle it wasn't changing nature it was simply returning nature to how he created it what happened was the person made sins wanted to get his attention so he told the Angels leave leave that liver let let the rest of the take over the liver let the rest of the take over the lungs take over the brain all of a sudden the person's bleeding all person start losing their Vision they're hearing they're on their deathbed Rabbi come says listen take on yourself chuva complete chuva your wife chuva your kids chuva kids going to synagogue they going TOA your wife is only going to be modest no more games okay okay Rabbi I'll do do it next day the guy's walking out of a hospital how simple returned the Angels he returned the angels to the body parts the body part the body came back to what what it was beforehand that's why I always tell people tell me listen can you pray for my such and such my son my cousin my brother my mother they're sick I always tell me they have to take on MIT it's good if you take something on yourself whatever you take on yourself give a lot of sta in there on their behalf uh you know learn more T do more MIT if you're a woman be more modest whatever it is but especially the things that you're obligated to do but there's nothing better than the person themselves taking something upon themselves to such an extent that anything that you do for them is almost powerless almost powerless in comparison to what they do fors now of course you can help a person like we saw in the story of the Babas last week but didn't make those uh didn't make that miracle for not because he knew that once he once those two women did chuva the husband had to do Chu's well either way the rebbit s from BS saw that this young casid ate the cake without really seeing a proper blessing and she says when those wheat kernels when those wheat kernels were growing they were praying to Hashem to allow them to grow completely and not be cut off and therefore commanded the angels that are supervising them to protect them and then those wheat kernels prayed again that when they grow that a Jew takes them why because a Jew can say a blessing over them and help them complete their a Jew can eat them and say a blessing and after a Jew purchased this weak Kel each colel prayed that it should not become lost during the threshing and the milling and then after they did that and it became flower the flower prayed that it should bake well and not burn and finally the cake the cake wanted to be blessed upon so it completes this entire path from being this little weakling uh seed in the you know bottom of the ground under the sand under all the dirt and finally got to be the cake in the hand of a Jew all it needed is one more thing one more blessing and it completes his tun and she says instead of it bringing honor to God that it was looking forward to through your blessing you burst its bubble by reciting a bless blessing hastily without even thinking of what the words even mean that's what happened here I don't think that that ever made the same type of blessing again and neither will we this shows us a little bit a little bit of the power of the mouth but if that's not enough we'll finalize with one last point the Ben that's brought here by and is he says that is compared to a worm am is compared to a worm by the prophet Isaiah in chap 41:14 where it says do not fear worm of Yakov why is Isaiah the prophet comparing is which is yov to a worm our sages explained that a worm is a weak creature but despite being weak despite being fragile it has a mouth and that mouth if it's used the proper way can break through and penetrate the hardest substance out there that's how am is is am is is not known as the strongest people but yet using its mouth says the benishai it could achieve the greatest accomplishment we affect the world immeasurably through our Torah study and through eating and drinking in the proper manner and our prayers also depend on our mouth in recognition of these Powers the prophet Isaiah called our nation the worm of yov here we see that a person can think of a worm only in a negative way until they hear the words of the sages and then realize wow look at the significant powers that gave the worm the other hand if a person doesn't use their mouth in a proper fashion there was a sadik named lived about 600 years ago or more actually and almost 800 years ago around the time of the Crusaders Crusaders even though the historians like to portray them as righteous people they were some of the most evil people that ever existed since the world was created they would literally go from Jewish Community to Jewish community and Massacre thousands of them in the most heinous ways unless they converted to to uh Christianity to their idolatry they literally would go to different places different cities in Poland and all over Europe with Warriors some of which were literally like Giants and just kill people by the masses they would gather them up in a square in the middle of the town and then line them up do you accept Christianity or no no chop off their head next guy comes chop off their head literally no there was no discussions they didn't it wasn't even like like like Nazi Germany it was worse and these Crusaders did this in the name of Christianity which baffles my mind when the more I learn about this and think at the same time of some of the so-called Orthodox Jews and Orthodox rabbis that have suddenly forgotten I'm not saying to go and fight against the Christians but at the same token how are you welcoming them into the synagogue did you forget maybe uh Biden is reminding Us by telling us about uh how he told BB that it's time for him to meet Jesus like he did a couple of weeks ago twice anyway this sadik was born around that same time and in fact now I'm remembering at the time of the Crusades people were asking questions why did Hashem allow this there was literally attacks there was a they were just going to a town 6,000 Jews in there 6,000 Jews died another town 8,000 they killed everybody literally was Massacre upon Massacre horrible you know the the historians portray it's the war of the Christians versus the Muslims they forget to mention the biggest victim being the Jews anyway people ask questions about 600 years ago y one of theim in that time and throughout history said the reason he wrote clearly a whole chuva about this that the reason why hasem allowed that particular Massacre that took place at that time was because the Jews were talking in shul now many people oh how can you say say but it wasn't really a in fact preceded him by 200 years and wrote the same exact thing where he says talking and frivolous Behavior are forbidden in a synagogue where we are standing before our King lord of the entire world woe to the wicked who act silly and do not feel any awe of the Almighty and who do not take an example from the Pagan Nations just travel the sea to the far away islands where there still are people who worship idols there there you will see Kings bowing down before their gods standing in their temples in awe reverence and trembling they spread out their hands and prayer to man-made statues that could neither see nor hear we who who stand before the King of Kings the Holy One Blessed Be he the living and enduring God exalted and uplifted to whom all glory and Praises are due surely must approach him with awe and reverence fear and trembling now you may Wonder oh here so up to this point he's talking about how you talking sh you're worse than an idol worshipper why because at least the idol worshipper actually respects is Idol whereas you're not even respecting the real king of kings the real one and only God so thisai is a rebuke of all rebukes to anybody that uses the synagogue as a socializing place and it's not only during prayer that just makes it worse calls somebody that talks during prayer as a sin that's too big to imagine the sin is that's the only only thing in the Torah that he writes this about it's too big now even if it's not during prayer and you're socializing in synagogue it's also not not allowed it's also not allowed you made the uh synagogue into some type of hangout not allowed writes harshly against it writes harshly against it and many speak against it but unfortunately many people don't realize until disaster strikes but furthermore the there's a point here that we see here how the same mouth that can Elevate itself through prayers through Torah study through positive speaking through teaching could also lower itself to being literally a weapon against its own people a weapon against its own people where they speak heresy or lies or cheat or speak in SHO things that are not supposed to be in a these are turning the gift that hasem gave you into a curse into a weapon meaning the same tool that could Elevate itself to the point of receiving prophecy could bring disaster now he elaborates further about speech and uh what about people that don't speak properly not because uh intentionally but rather because they have a stammer or a uh or a um a stutter he says don't be confused about this our creator knows the heart and he only asked the person to be sincere and if someone cannot speak properly Hashem counts it as the most beautiful recitation so here for a person who doesn't know how to speak proper Hebrew if your heart is proper then don't worry those words are arriving to Hashem proper on the other hand if your words are proper but your heart isn't he says as follows people who lift their heads and eyes towards the ceiling in show of piety are ridiculed by the Angels who called them Blockheads meaning you're looking at the sky while you're praying you're pretending to be righteous you're pretending to be you know a sadik but in reality Hashem knows what's in your heart the Angels know what's in your heart instead of bringing your prayer to hm they make fun of them and they even have even gives them names Blockheads apparently the prayers are mocked so the says what does AOS want he wants our hearts he wants our hearts when we give a our hearts just like our says love hem with all of your heart when we give hem all of our hearts we could literally Elevate our speech to only saying good things that are truthful and not good things to just pacify people we can Elevate our speech to teach Torah we can Elevate our speech to create schom we could Elevate our speech to pray to in a sincere way we could Elevate our speech to the point where kadh can make it prophecy now even if we don't get to the level of Prophecy with our speech the path there is full of joy for the one who's doing it as well as the world that's around him that's able to hear and enjoy those holy words that are coming out of his or her mouth so even if you don't become a prophet and I don't become a prophet acting in the ways of the prophets certainly is not just the worthy cause but rather it's the purpose of life that's why gave us all the details about those prophets more than any of the others because because they perfected themselves at the highest possible level and even if we can't get to their level even get to the level of the Dust under their feet we still have knowledge of what they did and we could do the best we can to reach it that's what the rambam writes where the difference between mosenu and Isaiah was enormous but Isaiah still reaches full potential and still became the greatest Prophet aside from M let's all take upon ourselves to start using our mouth only to do the will of Hashem only to tell the truth only to say what's permissible to say if you simply do that I could guarantee that you're at least on the path that the prophets also took because it'll eliminate all all lying all deception in fact all evil from your life thank you very much for learning with me bless each and every one of us to continue getting closer to and His prophets and his sages and most importantly to follow his T regardless of what the tells us because through thick and thin hasem is with us and we should always be with him anyone that wants to support all the amazing things that the organization is doing please donate on BH tor.org orem.org or the porm campaign BHP pm.org in so many words a lot of different websites that we have and different avenues for you guys to be able to fulfill mitv and to join us and partner with us in all the things that we're doing together call to [Music] asked him what can we do to protect ourselves from he says even if somebody does a nice thing or learns a lot or anything like that it's never compared to bringing one of aem's lost kids that's been lost for the last 3,000 years back home one of the beautiful things that we have in our organization is that we have both Torah and because we have our we have our and we also have our that we do around the world our lectures reach every corner of the world multiple languages but of course we always want to do even more El while we have Cur of work that we've done throughout the whole year we also have the Torah that we're constantly producing more and more of and last but not least the to feed the poor people in Israel a very special thank you to all our amazing guests who show real by taking the time out of their business schedule and sharing their ups and downs with us all for the sake of our one of the big things that we have aside from this campaign you we see this poster or something similar to it is also we published some of the recent results that we have or at least up to now of the organization and one of the reasons why we do this each year is because we want to make sure that our partners our donors our T know where their money is going unlike everybody else that you know uh says a lot does a lot we want to show you what these results are I could tell you from my experience and a little bit of knowledge about the whole Torah world I don't know of anybody else uh any other organization on planet Earth that produces dollar for dollar what we've produced over these last few years this is nothing to be arrogant about it's simply who helped us we made every sacrifice that we can possibly make in order to to make it happen producing nearly 300 films publishing 32 books our own books giving out 154,000 books for free giving out 154,000 books is not a cheap Endeavor anyone that wants to do such a thing has to be completely committed to to his children and most importantly to have be we also have fed over 160,000 people over these last several years each year in PES the high holidays throughout the year we help a lot of people eat make sure that they have groceries food all types of things and you guys have seen many of the videos that are uh that we've produced over the years to actually show you the people that are getting this food you have here 160,000 people have eaten nearly 300 Torah films and then on top of all of it we have 1.4 million USB CDs and cars that have been giving out for free all of the work that we've done over the last 10 years on these USBS given out for free last but not least 12,000 video and audio lectures a very ailable online in about 14 different languages for the world to watch for free [Music] for for [Music] z [Music] foron this for after somebody dies their n naturally feels like it needs to be clean and like it needs to go to get home to go clean itself so it could feel better after and one of the reasons why we do this why we show these numbers is because we want to show everyone what we've done to give you an indication an indication of what we can do in the future so this is the time where we need as much of your help as possible to push yourself more than you typically do if you typically donate a couple hundred donate a th000 if you uh if you could afford uh the uh uh 8,000 15,000 50, whatever you could afford this is the time to do it because this is going to be the help that we have to help all of these to feed these people and perhaps one day to get that building that we've been wanting to to build here in the United States to build a community but the all of these things require millions of dollars if not now then when