Pre-Shavuos Children's Program - Ask Rabbi YY Anything, Stories, Science, & Fun!

Welcome, welcome precious children from all over the world. Welcome for our prevous program. Let's begin with mosha kahilas [Music] yakov worship. [Applause] [Music] Hey hey hey [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hey my yeah I yeah I yeah I yeah I yeah I yeah I yeah I yeah I yeah I yeah I yeah I [Music] We know he [Music] I want to welcome all of our dear precious children for our prevous special special fun program. We are soon going to get to the questions where all the children can dial in and call in for their live questions. Those some already sent in questions. You can continue to send in questions. Here is the number where you can text a question to or WhatsApp a question to 718-9775279 718977-5279. You can ask any question you want. You can also go to the yeshiva.net thy shiva.net thy shiva.net net and over there you'll see on the homepage we have this program and you click on it and you can ask your question over there as well or 718-977-5279 and the second half of the program we will dedicate baser hashem to take all of your questions so this program like all of our children's program this year is dedicated generously by the very very special family from California the Taiishman family the Tishman family leishmas in loving memory of the father and the patriarch of the file family zman benimman benm known in the world as salman or salman whose yard site is on erves elo the 29th of passed away seven years ago in the year tshinas 2018 a great philanthropist somebody who founded many Jewish institutions and gave tremendous amounts of sodaka to help individuals and organizations s in need and was also one of the founders of one of the great schools of America, the Achbra Academy, the Tishman Family Torah Center in the valley in California in Los Angeles and Schlam was one of the founders and his family dedicates this program in his honor and his loving memory. I feel very privileged to be able to have this program right before the giving of the Torah because the Medish tells a story that when Hashem was about to give the Torah to the Jewish people, he asked them, "Who are going to be the guarantors that the Jewish people are going to celebrate and learn and observe all of the Tyra and the mitzvah? Who are going to be the guarantors?" And the Jewish people offered many different guaranurs, the elders and the prophets and others. And Hashem did not rely on them. Finally the med says when they said arenu our children will be the guarantor said ah now I can give you the tyra. So as we meet before before m with the guarantors those who guarantee the continuation of the love of tra the life of tra the beauty of tra the depth of tra to the next generation are the children. So how special is it that we could come together. I want to begin with a story and this is a story about the Balshv and I'm telling a story about the BM especially because the yard site of the Balv the Balshive passed away on Shabuas the Balivv whose name was Rab and it's known that it said they some of the great Rabbit Sadikim said that you know when somebody is not feeling well or they're in a faint one of the things you do is you whisper their name into their ear and it revives them sometimes you know ankle vay prince mut whatever the name is when the time of the balshv the Jewish people were in a faint spiritually they were like not feeling well there was a there was a deep sadness among the Jewish people a lot of people were let down the gulus was very long there were a lot of problems there was suffering there was challenges and the Jewish people needed a revival and Hashem whispered the name of the Jewish people into our ear how did he do that by sending to the world the soul the great holiness of the bal whose name is Israel. So his name is the name of the Jewish people. So his existence, his birth was like the whispering of Hashem, our name Israel, into the Jewish nama. And he woke up the Jewish people. He ignited that inner soul, that inner life in the long gulos. He started to give the Jewish people a taste of the energy of the gula, a little bit of the light of the gula the BMP took from the time of Mashiach and he planted it already in his generation and in our till our throughout our generations to prepare us for Mashiach to give the Jewish people already a taste of what redemption looks like, of what gula looks like, of what serenity looks like, what real joy, what real simka looks like, what real love living with an open heart looks Like that's the great legacy, the great teaching of the Band. I want to tell you a beautiful story about the Band was born on the 18th day of Elsash in the year. In the Hebrew calendar, it's called which means pleasure. Isakas means serenity, calmness, tranquility, right? That's what means. And uh he was born in that year in the English calendar was 1698. The balm passed away on of the year which would be 1760. So the BM lived for 62 years from 1698 till 1760. So his yard said so it's very appropriate to tell a story about the BMP. One of the greatest students of the Balsham was a man named Reb Vulvites. They call him Rebul Kitsus. His last name was called Kites. I guess he came from a town called Kits. And his first name was Vulf or Zulf Kitsus. He was a student of the BMPv. There's different stories about him and the BMPv. And he would also escort the BMP on a lot of his journeys. And he knew that sometimes he didn't understand things. Things looked a little strange, but he trusted that the BashMev knew what he was doing. And the BM knew what he was saying. Anyway, once the BMP needed to raise funds for a Jew who was in very difficult jeopard, very difficult situation and the BMP asked Vulovkites to go with him on the journey and they went and they came to a town and the BMP went to the home of a Jew who lived in that town. It was a small town and the Jew was a very very he was a poor Jew. He was poor and the Balshive was welcomed by him. was very happy to see the bosshumpt and the bos told him that I need from you saddaka I need from you a dedication a contribution of 18 rubble for a very very important cause of charity a very important cause of sedaka now 18 rubble doesn't sound a lot but for this Jew it was a enormous amount of money would be like going into a poor person who doesn't have you know food for supper and asking him for $18,000 like it's a lot a lot money. It's a lot of money. And the BM asked him for 18, which for him was a big big fund, was was a lot of money. He didn't have the money, but he knew who the BMPv was. He heard about the BMPv. And therefore, he decided that he's going to give the money to the BMP. And what did he do? He had a cow. He had a cow that he owned and he decided that he's going to sell the cow, but it still wasn't enough. So, he's going to sell a piece of furniture in his house. And when he sold both of these things, he managed to get 18 rubel and he gave it to the bosulkites could not understand what's happening from all people. Why would the bos pick on this poor Jew and take away from him his cow and his piece of furniture that he had in his house? Like what are you doing that there's other people you can go collect money for even if it's important, right? It was so strange. But he did not say a word. Okay. A few days pass and it was time for this man to pay his rent. He didn't own his house. He was renting his home from somebody. It was a small little home. In those days, people had very, very small homes. I once went with a class for my son. We went to the Amish uh we went to Pennsylvania to see how they lived in a city like uh like 200 years ago how people lived. It was like a town that's still left intact. And it was interesting to go into a home. I think the home had basically one bedroom and it was like one big bed. And they said 10 people would sleep on that bed. They wouldn't sleep in the length. They would sleep in the width and they were so tight so they would warm each other up in the winter, right? It was amazing. Amazing. It's hard for us to believe. Anyway, this was a small home and he had to pay rent. And a few days later came the time to pay rent and he didn't have the money. He didn't have the money. The last money that he got for his cow and his furniture he gave to the bos. So the landlord who wasn't Jewish said, "Out. You can't be here." And he threw him out of the house. He gave him a few days. Take your family. take everything and leave the house, go somewhere else. No, he's not going to sleep in the street with his kids. And he realized he has no future in this town. So what did he do? He decided that he's going to move somewhere else. He's going to try to find his masle somewhere else in another place. So he went to another town and he decides to rent. There was a pirates there, an overlord, like the mayor of the city, you know, the person in charge of this of the town and he decided to rent to him a very very small hut that was very very cheap rent. and he sold some more things that he could sell. He found some things to sell and he he bought another cow. The cow would be able to give milk so he would be able to drink milk and give his family milk and also sell some milk. And this gave him a little little parnasa, a little and he could pay the rent for his new little hut in this new town. Okay. Some time passes, months pass by and the pirates, the governor, the mayor of the city. He also had a cow and his cow fell ill. His cow was sick. We're soon going to learn about cows and milk. When a cow is sick, the milk is not good. The milk is not healthy and the cow can't give milk. So basically, the pirates who would drink every day the milk of the cow, he couldn't drink his cow's milk because his cow was sick. One of his servants knew that there was a Jew who was living in the town who had a cow and he would sell milk. So he right away went and he purchased milk from him for his master for the pirates. He brings it home and the pars the governor tastes the milk. And he tells his servant, "Wow, this is incredible milk. This is such delicious milk. I never tasted such gesta milk." He didn't say it in Yiddish. I never tasted such He probably said it in Polish. He I never tasted such such delicious pill milk. I want you to go to the owner of this cow and tell him that if I will be his only customer, I will pay him huge amounts of money for the milk. I don't want him to distribute his milk to anybody else. I want all the milk that comes from this cow to go only to me. He could take for himself and his family, but no customers. I'm the only customer, and I will pay him more than all the customers pay him. and he's going to have only one person so he won't have to go and find and sell and shle and go here and go there. I'll pay for everything. Wow. The man comes back to the Jew and he gives him this offer. The Jew was amazing. He was astounded, right? What what a blessing. First of all, he has a guaranteed customer every day. Second of all, he doesn't have to shle. He doesn't have to say a stay a whole day. Doesn't have to look for customers. Doesn't have to go to anybody's house. It's incredible. And the man was paying him more than everybody else put together. So this really really helped his life. It elevated his income. He was now making much more money. And every single day he brought all the milk. You know, you milk a cow at least twice a day usually, sometimes three times a day. But all the milk he would milk the cow and he would bring it to the house of this pur who loved who loved the quality of this milk and the cheese and the butter and the yogurt and whatever they made from this milk. He started to meet the Jew and he took a liking to him. You know, he started to smoo with him because he would come every single day, maybe even twice a day to bring the milk and the pirates met him and he started to smoo with him and he started to ask him advice. He liked his and he ran a lot a lot of businesses. He had a lot of things going on in his town and in nearby towns. So he started to consult him about everything. He really appreciated him. He loved his brain. He loved his wisdom. He loved his heart. And he started to appoint him for different roles, for different missions, which he would pay him for. At some point they became such close friends. The pirates relied on him with closed eyes. Basically he just trusted him with everything. He just trusted him. He loved his way of doing things. He loved his advice. He loved his wisdom. And their bond grew stronger every single day. This parates never had children. He was married but he never had children. So he was always thinking who he's going to leave over all of his property to all of his estate. Who is he going to be to? because he doesn't have children. And what happened was he loved his Jew so much. He decided that he wants him to be the Yish. He's going to be the ear, the one the ear is the one who's going to inherit all of his property after he dies, including the town, including all the lands and the estates that he had in the town that he rented out, like this Jews hut and all the other estates, all the other properties and territory that he owned and he rented out. He's going to give it all to this person. Now, since he knew that he already had everything in good hands and somebody would run it, he decided he's going to take vacation and he left the town, he left the country, decided he wants to go for a while and relax and enjoy life while he gave this Jew temporary ownership to be able to govern and handle all of the issues. The besides the fact that after he would die, he would get everything. Years pass. Years pass and the BMP sends Kits one day to this town. He wants him to raise money for Jews who were in prison. There were Jews who were in prison in Eastern Europe and the Bash would raise saddaka for them to get them out. Big mitzvah. And he sent Kits to raise money. It was a lot of money. The Bashv needed 300 rubble. Earlier we spoke about 18 rubble but now the BJ needed 300 rubble. So the mash asked him to go around to Jews who were affluent and collect the money from them. Anyways comes to this town and he meets the RV of the town and the of the town is dressed up in festive clothes and kits tells him why he's there and he asked the why are you dressed up? It's a regular day and he says today we are going to meet somebody very very special. He said, "Who are you going to meet?" He said, "I'm taking a delegation from the city, from the Jewish leaders of the city. And there's a Jew who recently became the owner of this entire region. He inherited it from a Paris. It's a crazy story. And he became the owner. And he's very, very wealthy. And we're going to go visit him today and greet him. And he's a very, very good person. And you know what? I think you should come with us. You should come with us. He's a Jew and I'm sure he's going to be very happy to give for this cause of the BMP. Maybe you can get a lot of money from him to be able to cover the debt that the BashMev needs. Says, "Okay, the Bashv sent him here. Of course, he's going to go and he goes with the and the delegation to the town." And this Jew, who we know who he is, right? He inherited the entire estate from the pirates. He sees all these Jews and he greets them, but he takes this look at Kitsus and he can't take his eyes off it. You know, sometimes you see somebody and you're just like staring at them and he's just staring at them and he's looking at him and looking at him and there's something strange and after a few minutes he takes her vulkits aside and he says, "Do you remember me?" And he says, "No, how would I remember you?" He says, "You don't remember me? We've met a number of years ago. Do you remember?" And Abulkits says, "No, I don't remember you." And the Jew says, "Why are you here?" And he says, "The BMP have sent me. I need 300 rubble to raise for poor people." And without asking questions, this Jew takes out 300 rubble and he gives it to Kites and he says, "Go bring this back to the BMP and thank the BMP for what he did for me. Who are you? Who are you? Who are you? You don't remember me?" No. And he reminds him who he is. He is that Jew that the BMPv once came to see him and the BM asked him for 18 rubble and as a result of that he sold his cow and he sold his furniture and he couldn't pay the rent. and he was thrown out into the street and he went to this new town and he got this new house and he started to milk the cow and the purif liked the milk and he became friends with him and he got this whole estate I'm that manulkits comes back with the money to the bos and he shares the whole story with the bos and the bump turns to the kites and says and now you understand what happened now you understand what happened I want to explain to you something you were wondering why did I ask this poor Jew for his last money. Why would I do this to him? And a few days later, he was thrown out. Like, why would I do this to somebody? The guy has a couple of ruble. Leave it by him. I have to explain to you something. I realized and I saw that this is not the place where he's going to shine. This is not the place where he's going to be successful. This place is actually keeping him trapped. It's keeping him small. I realized that he has to leave other place. He's going to have much more maus. He's going to be able to be much more successful. This is simply not the place where his nama has to be. But I knew that he's not going to leave on his own because he's a poor person. He didn't have a lot of options. He didn't have relatives and friends and people who can, you know, set him up in other places. And I knew he's not going to leave on his own. So I was wondering, what can I do to help him? So I decided I'm going to take this money from him and he's not going to be able to pay rent and he's going to be thrown out of this place. He's going to go to a new place. New opportunities will open up for him. And that's why I did what I did. And now you know the rest of the story. Wow. When I read the story, I thought to myself, you know, sometimes in life, we're in a situation it looks like it's so difficult. Like things were stable, things were looking good, like everything could have gone this way. You know, I have my place, I have my friends, I have things that are working. And then sometimes things stop working for us. Things really stop working for us. They're like not working. Like this is not working. Like this breaks down, that breaks down, that breaks down, that breaks down. And we often wonder why is this happening? And we sometimes don't know. Maybe we'll never know. But very often when things start breaking down and we need to look for new opportunities for new situations for new realities that is sometimes the greatest greatest blessing. I know in my own life right sometimes I thought things are working very very well and I'm going to have success in this area and then things started not to work like failure after failure like things were breaking down and I was upsetting and I tried to fix it and fix it and fix it and fix it and was not working like in this story. And sometimes Hashem literally forces you out of your situation and puts you in a whole new situation and it challenges you. It's hard. It's hard. Like this Jew, he had to start all over again. But as he started all over again, new things opened up that he couldn't have imagined before that. He was just a very, very poor person and he had very little success. And now new things opened it up. So kind, why am I saying this to you? You know, sometimes in life, not everything is comfortable. We always want things to be comfortable and be easy. But sometimes I'm pushed a little bit. Sometimes you're in a new situation. It's a difficult situation. But when we challenge ourselves and we open ourselves up to it and you know that Hashem loves you and every single moment of life is planned exactly the way it is to bring us to the places we need to be to fulfill the mission for which our nishama came into this world then even if it's a difficult and challenging moment and it is and you have to be able to acknowledge that it's difficult and it's challenging and sometimes we need to cry and we need good friends and parents to be able to speak to or people that we trust we could speak to but also know deep down that every time we're being pushed it's literally challenging us to become a much much better person and ultimately to find our happiness. You know, it's like uh it's like if you have a personal trainer and you're lifting weights, right? How do you build muscles when you lift weights? So, when you lift weights, it hurts, right? If it's a heavy weight, it hurts. It actually tears the tissue of the muscle. And when it tears it, the muscle regrows new tissue, but this time it regrows much bigger tissue because it wants to be able to prepare for this weight. So, when you're lifting all these heavy weights, right, it's tearing your muscle tissue. like what are you doing? You're like destroying yourself. But really, it's getting ready to rebuild new tissue that's going to be much more powerful so that you become your muscles are much stronger and you're much more you're much more of a powerful powerful person. Let's now go to, you know, let's do one more story. I'm going to tell you one more story about the Basham and then we're going to go to our science section. Great. Okay. Let's do one more story about the bash in honor of Shivas. Okay, this the second story has a lot a lot of details to it. I'm going to do a brief version of the story. It happened many many years ago. The BMP told a story to his students to his students. They once asked him they once asked him reb could you tell us who was your nishama before? You know many of our nishes come down a second time or a third time. The souls were here before in previous bodies. And then after an passes away, sometimes it comes down again in a new body. It's called Gilgal, reincarnation. So they asked the they asked the BM, who were you before before in your previous Gilgal, who was your and the BMT told a story? And the story is as follows. He said in the city of maybe some of you were invas. It's a beautiful, beautiful city. And that's the city where great great satikim and lived like these who wrote the car the al-ikos many other great sadikim who lived in anyway there was a Jew who lived in and he was a very simple Jew he wasn't a big or a big scholar a big sadik he was a simple Jew he was a shamim he was a god-fearing Jew and he wasn't blessed with like a very big mind or exceptional talents he served Hashem with a sincere heart and a humble spirit, with a pashus, with a sincerity, with a simplicity. The Bash says, "Late one night there was a knock on his door and he opens the door and he sees an elderly man with a long white beard and he has a countenance as radiant as the heavens. This man's face is shining so beautifully like a most beautiful star at night. Something special about his face." And he tells this simple Jew living invasing Jew, he says, "You know who I am?" He says, "No." He says, "I am Elio Hanovi. I am Elijah the prophet." And you know why I'm here? I've come to open your mind and heart and teach you the deepest secrets of Tyra and the deepest secrets of creation. Wow, what an offer. It's called an offer you can't refuse. But he says, "I want to make a deal with you." And Alanovi tells this Jew, "On the day of your ba mitzvah, I know that you did an unbelievable amazing mitzvah. The mitzvah was so powerful that an impact of that mitzvah reverberated through all of the universes." Which means the mitzvah had such a hashbah. It's had such an impact that it had a major impact on the entire world, on all of the worlds, this world, the next world, the spiritual worlds, all of the worlds. Not only that, all the malim, all the angels and all the namis, all the souls were wondering what did this person do that flooded the heavens with such light, with such joy, with such an amazing an amazing flow of braha, of blessing and radiance, something that they haven't seen in many generations. Hashem himself was celebrating your mitzvah, but your mitzvah was too powerful for us to see. We did not know what it is. We were wondering what is it that you did on the day of your bitzvah. Elioanovi says, "Please tell me what you did on the day of your bitzvah. And as a reward, I will reveal you the greatest secrets of the Tyra and the greatest secrets of creation. Usually things that only great namas know. That's my deal." The man looked at Alawa and he said, "What I did on the day of my mitzvah, I did only for Hashem, for nobody else. I did not do it for the knowledge of any creature, no human being, no angel, not even you, Elio Hanavi. This is none of your business. This I did only for Hashem." Elio Hanovi was shocked. He pleaded with him. He said, "I will give you even greater spiritual gifts." He promised him so many amazing things if he would tell him what he did on the day of his mamitzvah. But the person said, "No, I did it only for me and Hashem to know. This is for nobody in the world to ever find out." And Leo Hanovi leave his left his house emptyhanded. And the balshv looked at his students and he said in my previous life I was that person. I was that person. That's the story. And I want to explain to you the story for a minute. What the way I understand it. What's the connection to the balshv? One of the biggest things that the bump taught was that the deepest most richest part of your life is inside your heart. The part that nobody knows and nobody has to know. You are amazing as you are. Your soul, every one of you, every one of your children, every one of you children, your soul and your body is a gift. It's beautiful. It's full of light. It's full of love. It's full of the most beautiful godly energy in the world. Like the Tanya says, every one of our souls is aim. It's like a piece of Hashem. Mamesh is a piece of Hashem. It's not just you're connected to Hashem. It's not just that Hashem created you that too. But your nashem is like mish like a piece. It's like a continuum of Hashem himself and it's inside of you and your body also. The Tanya says when it says that Hashem chose us from all the nations of the world which happened at Matra what did he chose? Choose not only our nishas also our bodies because the nama is initially something completely higher and different. You don't have to choose it. The gof the body is like everybody else's body. So over there you have to choose. You can only choose two things that are similar. And you choose one from the other. Like if there's two bottles of water, I could choose one bottle from another bottle. But if I want to drink water and not drink or and not eat an orange, I don't have to choose water from an orange. If you want water, you want water. If you want an orange, you want an orange. The nisham of the Jewish people is so different. You don't have to choose it. It's the goof that's similar to every other goof. Every other body, that's what Hashem chose. So in your in your essence, you are as beautiful and holy as is. And when you go into that space, you could do something. You don't need anybody to know it. You don't need anybody in the world to find out. There was somebody who once said, he said a funny statement. He said, "The greatest feeling in the world is to do something anonymously and then have somebody find out about it." But really, when you go to your deepest place, you don't need anybody to find out. It's actually a distraction if somebody finds out because you don't need anybody's validation. Only Hashem. Hashem knows what you did. He knows who you are and you know who you are. Ultimately people will find out whatever Hashem wants they should find out. But this was what taught that when we live the greatest place we could live from is inside. When you do things and you know that you're living with your nama you're living with your truth. You're living with your authenticity. You're never here to please anybody. You're never here to get compliments. Of course it's nice to get compliments from people. But really really the biggest compliment you could get is from yourself from your own knowing that you're doing doing the right thing. This is what the bump always taught. and he said this was the person who he is. Okay. So now my dearest kind let's go over to the next stage of the program. I want to say a special with you two for our brothers init our brothers in who are still in a big war. All of the hostages 58 hostages in Gaza. All of the soldiers all of the families of the soldiers. All of the wounded. All of the families of the wounded. The families of those who died al killed aldeshm all the families of the hostages. all of our brothers and sisters in the whole world. Let's say for our brothers and sisters in our brothers and sisters in the whole world and for our families and ourselves. And since today is B, you know what happened B? It's the Gmorrah says that on the second day of Sivven, Hashem gave a message to the Jewish people and he told them, "You're going to be for me a kingdom of princes and a holy nation." This is in the sh it's in par is on they came to mounti and we all rested against the mountain near the mountain like one person with one heart and today on the second day of hashem told Mosha to tell the Jewish people you are going to be forever a kingdom of princes and a holy nation forever you're going to be a holy nation I once saw a letter that somebody wrote to the labb from Israel and he wrote that I'm a kilon means I'm secular. I'm a secular Jew. So the Reb wrote back that the word comes from the word like there's holy and there's unholy mundane. It's not holy. And he said since Hashem told the Jewish people that every single Jewish every Jew is going to be a kingdom of princes and a holy nation, there's no such a thing as a real Jew who's a who's mundane because every single Jew is sacred and beautiful and godly and divine and holy. So on this special day, let's say twoaphilm. You have it here in the Hebrew and you have it here in the English. Please say along with me. You have it here on the screens or you could open up aim which is today's those who say there are those who say the every month they say every day a few chapters and they finish every month 150 chapters. So today B we say from Yud till Zion through Zion. So we say also these two Yud and I want you always to understand that you're saying I put it also in English. So if you go to the screen whether on your on the yeshiva.net or YouTube um wherever you're listening you see it on the screen. Okay, let's say together. Foreign speech. Foreign speech. Foreign speech. for I want to read with you the English so we Understand what we said is for the choir master for the one conducting the symphony because these poems were sung also with music for the conductor on the schmminis on the eighth day or connected to the eighth day. It's a song for David and he says hashem help me you know why it's so hard to find in the world a pious kind person. Sometimes you look at the world there's so much corruption. Hashem I need your help. You know why? He says the loyals, the loyal ones have vanished. Sometimes you look around and you're looking for loyal people, for real people, for honest people and you don't find them. So realize also dealt with that. And that's why he turns to Hashem and he says, "I know you're here for me." And then he starts speaking about the lies that exist in the world because it's important to know what type of lies we could sometimes come across when we grow up and sometimes even inside of ourselves. These things exist and we have to always ask Hashem's help to be able to remain pure with clean energy and a pure heart. So you start saying you know people speak lies to each other. People lie to each other. Their speech is smooth but they talk with a double heart like they speak they speak smooth words like it sounds nice but val they have two hearts. They say one thing and they mean another thing. What an expression. They speak with two hearts. delay. They don't speak with one heart. People are not always honest. And he says, "Let Hashem cut down all the lips that are flattering. They say nice things, but they really they really don't mean well. Tongues that speak with arrogance because they said that we we will use our tongues to prevail. With our lips, we own our life. Who can master us?" They don't believe that there's a master. They don't believe that they have to be loyal to somebody. With their lips, they think they could control everything. This is what David Malik says. And you know what? Because of the groans of the plundered, poor and needy. They steal from the needy. I will now act, says Hashem. I will give help. Hashem says, and David says, the words of Hashem are pure words. They're not lies. They're not dishonest. There's silver purged in an earn crucible refined sevenfold. When you take silver, it's so beautiful. When you take silver, it gets dirty. It's dirty. It's from the earth. So you have to put it in a crucible in fire and you refine it and then all the dirt leaves and the silver remains refined. So he says Hashem's words are pure words. It's silver that's purified. It's purged in an earn crucible and it's refined sevenfold times. Which means when you when you when you find Hashem's words, they're pure. They're beautiful. And our words can be those words, but they have to be refined. Sometimes in life we get refined in a crucible. So our words become pure words. And he says you Hashem will guard them. Guard each of them. Guard each of them from this generation where you have these this corruption because the wicked people roam on every side and they are sometimes exalted by people. People sometimes pick up liars like they get honor. So therefore, Hashem make sure you help me. This is B. Now let's do [Music] Let's do the English for the leader for the choir master. Again, a song for David. Hashem, how long are you going to forget me? Are you going to forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long will I have questions in my soul, grief in my heart all day? How long will my enemy have the upper hand? Amel was a man who suffered a lot. And he's telling us sometimes we have pain in our life. We don't have to run away from our pain. We don't have to bury our pain. We don't have to repress our pain. We could talk to Hashem about our pain. He says, "How long are you going to ignore me? How long are you going to forget me? How long are you going to hide your face from me? Look at me, Hashem. Look at me. I want you to look at me abita and answer me. Restore the light to my eyes. I want my light my I have to light I my light my eyes to have light. Lest I sleep the sleep of death. I want my eyes to light up before I'm taken. Lest my enemies say I have overcome him. My fo my foes exalt when I t. I don't want my enemies to say, "Wow, we won over him." And when he falls, they're going to celebrate. I don't want that that to happen. I trust in your kindness. My heart celebrates in your salvation. I know that you're going to help me and the world. I will sing to Hashem because he has been so good to me. That's what David Malik sings. May this prayer be answered. May we see complete victory. May we see complete redemption and may the light return to every one of your eyes and every one of the eyes of our brothers and sisters and good people around the world. Let's go on to the next part of our special program. And today in our science section, we are going to learn about cows and milk. And you know why we chose this, right? Shuis is coming. And the custom by Jews on shuis ease to eat milkix to eat dairy foods whether to drink a coffee to drink milk to eat [Music] cheesecake or to eat other foods that are made from milk from dairy products milk and cheese and yogurt and butter and all the good delicious foods that come from milk. Most of our milk comes from where? From a cow. It's the cows that produce milk. You know how many cows there are in the world? 1 billion cows approximately, maybe a little more today, there are like 7 and a half billion people in the world. And there are like 1 billion cows in the world. And do you know that till a little while ago, till like 1850, like 150 years ago, a little more, every American family owned at least one cow. It was like everybody owned a cow. Today, everybody has a computer. Not everybody, but most people have a computer. Everybody had a cow. That's how precious it was. So we're going to learn today first of all about cows. They're amazing animals. They're called behemoths. A behemoth cattle. We have a cow. We have a bull. A bull is a male and a cow is a female. Before it has a baby, it's called a hepher. That's why the para duma is called a red cow. Really a red hepher. And once it has a calf, once it has a baby, a male or a female, that's when it's called a cow. A mother is called a cow. A beha. And only a mother, a cow can give milk. Just like by people, mothers nurse their babies, not fathers. So bulls don't give milk, but mother cows give milk. Now we know all milk that comes from a kosher animal is kosher. If it comes from a non-coosher animal, it's not kosher. That's why we have that of which means when a cow is being milked, we need supervision. We need somebody to supervise, to watch that it's being done from a cow, which is kosher. Because you can also get milk from a pig, right? Or from other mammals, mothers that nurse their babies, but it's not kosher milk. If it's milk that comes from a sheep, from a female sheep, from a female goat. I drank goat milk. You ever drank goat milk? You could drink goat milk. It's very or cow milk. Most of our milk comes from cow milk. We're going to learn about this cuz this is the milk and the cheese and the butter and the yogurt that probably you and your mothers and your fathers and your brothers and your sisters are going to use or you use already to bake the delicious delicious cheesecake or whatever else you're going to make for. Take a look at this video. [Music] Cows. There are 1 billion cows in the world. They live on every continent except Antarctica. Cows came to the United States in 1611 with the first settlers of James Town and have been so useful since that up until 1850, every family owned at least one cow. Cows are very social and just like humans, they like to spend time with their friends. They even like some cows more than others. Just like when we humans have best friends, cows say moo as a way to [Music] communicate. Cows weigh up to 1,600 lb and have 32 teeth. They live up to 25 [Music] years. Cows are herbivores, meaning they eat only plants. They eat 50 lbs of food per day and drink 35 gallons of water per day. Their stomachs have four compartments to help them digest all that food. Cows can walk upstairs, but their knees can't bend properly to walk back downstairs. Cows can run up to 35 mph, and when they're in deep mud, they can actually run faster than a horse could when in mud. Cow's spots are like human fingerprints. No two cows have the same spot pattern. We get most of our milk from cows, and some of that milk is used to make other dairy products like butter, cheese, and cream. Cows are very friendly and gentle. They spend 8 hours per day sleeping and 8 hours per day eating. They have an excellent sense of smell and can smell things up to 6 miles away. They can hear things both lower and higher than human ears can hear. Cows are awesome. What's your favorite thing about cows? Wow, it's so special to learn about Hashem's world and every animal and every animal has its own nature and every animal has its own unique needs. And Hashem designed and created every animal in perfect way that it should be able to survive and should be able to propagate, to be able to have children, a new generation, and to be able to help the world around it. Every animal contribute something to the world. Like it's amazing. A cow eats grass. And from this grass, there's like this huge factory inside the cow that we're going to learn about. It eats grass. It eats hay. You saw how much it eats, right? Crazy amount. 50 lbs of food a day. more than 30 gallons of water a day. It has to eat and drink. You know, they're big and moo and it eats this grass, it loves it. And from this grass, it's like this huge factory. So many amazing things come out. First of all, we have milk, all the milk that comes from this. And then you have all the meat that comes from this. It's all from the same grass. And then so many other things that come from cows like leather and many other things. Let's now learn about how cows make milk and how we get that milk. And what do we do with that milk? And what's the process of that milk? And just a sneak preview, as they eat this grass, all their food turns into blood. Now, you know why cows are kosher? We just learned cows have four stomachs. They don't just eat the grass and it goes down into the stomach like we eat. They have one stomach, they bring it back up, they comes back to a second stomach, back up, third stomach, fourth stomach. That's what it means that a cow chews its cud. One of the two signs that an animal is kosher is it has split hooves on its feet, on its legs, which cows have. Also, it chews its cud, which means it doesn't have one stomach. It has a few stomachs and it brings it back up and it chews it again and again and again. That's what allows it to digest it and it becomes blood and then it has a special section where the blood is converted into milk. It's a crazy miracle. Let's see about the cow making milk. [Music] Have you ever wondered how cows make milk? Welcome to Stio. [Music] Cows eat lots of grass and hay, which have special nutrients that help them make milk. These nutrients are like magic ingredients for making yummy milk. Imagine their tummies are like super milk factories. Cows have a special part inside them called an udder where milk is made. The udder is like a big milk bag. It's filled with tiny milk making [Music] cells. After the milk is made in the it travels through tubes to the cow's teeth. Teetss are like special little spouts. Farmers gently milk the cows to collect the milk. [Music] Cows need to be healthy and happy to make lots of [Music] milk. Farmers give them plenty of fresh water, food, and a clean place to [Music] live. Just like we need good care, so do our milk making friends. [Music] The collected milk is taken to a factory where it's cleaned and packaged. You can find milk in different forms like whole milk, skim milk, and even chocolate milk. [Music] Next time you enjoy a glass of milk, remember the amazing journey it took to get [Music] there. And then you come over here and feel how warm the milk is coming out there. [Music] Yeah. Say hello [Music] to Leo. [Music] A so [Music] nice. See how this one sitting right off the ground. See this right on the ground. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Now, if everyone wants to come around and give them a tattoo, you're more than welcome to just follow around. [Music] Is it warm? Uhhuh. Yeah. Wow. Look at this. Is it warm still? Huh? Wow. So, we should get about two buckets over here, guys. Wow. Wow. [Music] Fascinating. Wow. So, here's the big question. And right after this, we're going to go over to the questions of the children. And if you want to text in your question 718-977-5279 718-977-5279 that's 718977-5279. You can also put in your questions on the yeshiva.net. Ask your question. Go to the homepage the yeshiva.net and you can ask your question. We already have a lot of questions. So let's just talk about what we saw now. So you see how Hashem created this situation. The milk eat the cow eats grass and from this becomes blood and then it has the special udder literally like a factory and it makes it into milk and we milk it twice a day sometimes three times a day. And by the way cows love being milked. I've milked cows in the past. I enjoy doing it. You squeeze them over here. You see it today. They have a lot of machines but in the olden days and that's how I did it also. You squeeze and it's a place called the udder. The udder in Hebrew it's called the that's the udder where the milk is and from there we take out the milk and that's how we have so much milk so much so much milk. Now, of course, the reason they make this milk is for their own calves, for their own babies. But they have a lot of extra milk. A lot a lot of extra milk. And this is an incredible thing that Hashem made for mothers, humans and animals, that after they have a baby, their body creates milk and this is what the baby lives on. The baby doesn't need anything else. You know, when we get older, we can't just eat food. We also have to drink water. You can't just drink water. You also have to eat food. But when a baby is born, for the first period of its life, it just has milk and that's enough. It doesn't need any other food. It doesn't need any other drinks. It just has milk. And milk has the perfect nutrients. It has the perfect ingredients to be able to help a baby grow. And this is true for the whole animal world. All of them or many of them, most of them mammals, the mothers produce milk. And this is what we eat on sh. But why why do we do this on shu? So let's go through a few of the reasons, some of the interesting reasons. Some of you you may know and some of you you may not know and then we're going to get to the questions of the children. Okay, let's first do the very big re the famous famous reason of the Mishnaber the Mishnaber writes wrote the Mishnab and the laws of section 494 he quotes a he quotes a great they say that it was the I don't know he doesn't say a name but that's what I heard once and he gives a reason why is the custom by Jews to eat and he says as follows. When the Jewish people received the Tyra anus at that moment they became obligated to do all the mitzvah. One of the mitzvah of course is that you have to eat meat in a certain way. You can't just eat meat right? We have to have a kosher cow. We have to shed you have to have the right knife. You have to sh it the right way. If you sh it the wrong way it's not good. Somebody shoots the animal or somebody stabs the animal or somebody shaks it the wrong way in the wrong place. It's not good. Okay, that's not enough. You have to take out all of the parts that you're not let to eat. There's parts called different fats. It's called nikor. You have to pick poke pick out and extract and remove all those parts that you're not allowed to eat. Okay? It's not enough. It's still bloody. There's blood. We're not allowed to eat blood. So now we have to salt the meat cuz the salt takes out the blood. That's not enough. You have to now rinse it in water and keep put some time in the water so that all the blood is clean. But it's not enough. It's raw. It's all raw. You can't eat raw meat or at least it's very hard to eat raw meat. So what do you have to do now? You have to prepare it, right? You have to cook it. Either you cook it in a pot or you grill it on a barbecue, you sate it, whatever it is, but you have to cook it. Comes the Mishna and says the Jewish people receive the whole turbus. They now become they're Jewish. They're now obligated in mitzvah after matra tati. I want to eat. Mommy, I want to eat. I'm hungry. I'm hungry. I'm hungry. Oh, let's go have a big beautiful lunch in honor of Mat and Tyra. One second. But here's a problem. The meat that they had from yesterday is not kosher meat cuz they didn't have all the laws of kashras. They weren't obligated in all the laws of kashras. So the meat is not kosher meat that they had yesterday cuz the meat may have been eaten yesterday but they weren't obligated. So it wasn't kosher meat. Also the kale the meat vessels that they had had in it the flavor. If you have a kali that somebody used for khazer or for tray for meat I can't use that bowl. I can't use that pot cuz it has in the walls the flavor of the non-coosher meat. So what do we do now? Oh so let's she new animals. Also, you have to sh animals and you have to clean out the fat and you have to salt it and you have to rinse it and you have to cook it. Oh, the poor kids are going to be starving till then it's going to take so long. So, what do you do? What do you do? Ah, says the mish. I'll tell you what they did. They said, you know what? We're going to have a pizza party. We're going to eat milk. Milk is simple. You don't have to she anything. You milk a cow. Or you have milk even from yesterday. You have milk from yesterday, right? You could eat milk, it's fine. You could drink milk. You can eat dairy things. It's perfectly fine. It's not tra because milk is fine. And therefore, they ate milk. It's in the first others add one more thing. The garra says that happened on Shabas. The day that was given was on Shabas. on Shabas you're not allowed a sheh you're not allowed to slaughter an animal and you're not allowed to cook so they couldn't even do it it's not only that it took time they couldn't it was shabas how you're allowed to but the milk they can eat from yesterday that's the reason of the Mishna why they ate dairy on the first shis of history and that's why we still do it every single year now I'm going to give you another answer okay this answer comes from the rabbu Moha is who wrote a commentary on the and he says maybe one reason for it is because the time of the Bikdash they brought a special carbon on it was called two loaves of bread two loaves of bread they would bring they had two sheep they would lift up the two sheep with the two loaves of bread and this was known as in commemoration for that says we eat two meals we eat a milk with bread and then we eat a flesh meal with bread cuz you don't eat the same bread for two meals cuz you don't want them to mix. So that's a memory to have two meals like the two loaves of bread and each one you eat its own bread. So you have the lem for the milk and for the another reason the word for milk is lammed v every letter has a number. What's the numerical value of is 8. Lammed is 30. B is 2. That's 40. 30 + 8 is 38 + 2 is 40. So is the gamatri of 40. What does 40 remind us? Yes. 40 reminds us of the 40 days that mishabenu went up to mount si and he stayed on hari for 40 days and that's when he learned to the whole and he came down with the to teach it to the Jewish people. Then he broke the and then he went up for another 40 days and then he went up for another 40 days. So that's the number 40. What else? From Rabenu till Ashi were 40 generations. The Rambam writes that the first 40 generations of the Jewish people that's the generations in which the whole was given gave us the and then in every generation they passed on the shab and it was all written down in the gor and 40 generations after so it's 40 generations for the transmission of fromashi what else the first mishna of his brothers how does it begin with a me. How does the last Mishna endemic is with a everything is 40 40. So on we eat milk which is the gamatri of 40. And now I'm going to give you another reason. It's one of my favorite reasons. Okay. It's a great reason was born. When was Mosha born? The garra says he was born on the seventh day of. What happened when he was born? His mother hid him for 3 months, right? She hit him for three months, but then she couldn't hide him anymore and he was in danger of being taken by the Egyptians and thrown in Shalom into the Nile River and drowned. So what did she do? She took a little basket and she put baby mush into the basket and she put him by the Nile River right among the reeds of the Nile River. And then Batya, the daughter of Py, came to bathe and she saw this little basket and she stretched out her arm and she took the basket and she opened it up and she saw a baby crying and she knew he was a Jewish baby. And what happened? She took him home and she raised him as her son and she named him Mosha. But what happened before that? A little girl came over to her. Who was this girl? Miriam. Miriam was standing nearby and watching what's going to happen with her baby brother. And she came over to Batia, the daughter of Pare and she said, "Should I go get you a Jewish woman who could nurse the baby? What they call a wet nurse? A mommy who could nurse the baby. Should I go get you? Cuz the baby is crying. The baby wants to eat." She he was three months old. And Par's daughter says, "Yeah." And what does Miriam do? She runs. And who does she get? Her mommy. Mosha's mommy. And the daughter of Par gives the baby to his own mother to nurse him. And she even pays her for it. She pays Mosha's mother to take care of the baby. And then when he grows up, she adopts him. And he lives in the palace of Par. What a crazy crazy story. Par was trying to destroy the Jewish people and destroy the redeemer of the Jewish people. And here his own daughter goes and saves the Jewish baby who's going to liberate the Jewish people and crush down Par. And who raises him? The daughter of Pare. And who's nursing him? His own mother that comes around through his little sister Miriam. Now the gimal say she brings that really she tried having mosha get nursed by other women but Mosha would not nurse from any Egyptian woman because his mouth is going to speak to Hashem so his mouth had to have the purest purest purest of milk purest of milk so that's when Miriam came in and said should I get you a Jewish girl Jewish woman and she said yeah and that's when Mosha was given his mother's milk and which day would was this if he was born the seventh of other and she hid him for 3 months And after 3 months she put him into the basket. So this was 3 months later. So let's go Zen. A month after Zion is the Nissen and then year and then 3 months is V7us is 3 months after Mosher Rabenu's birth. And that's the day when this great miracle happened that Miriam got ye to give Mosher Rabenu her milk. And that's what saved Mosher Rabenu. And that's what made us become a people. And that's why we came out of mit and that's why we got the tra. So we commemorate that story by eating milk products every shu is to commemorate nursing the milk from his mother. I'm going to leave you with one last answer. You know what I'm going to leave you with? I'm going to leave you with two la two two last answers then we go to the questions. Okay. You know that there's that we're not allowed to eat a right. We're not allowed to eat. You're not allowed to take part of an animal. that's alive and eat it. It's called okay the Gmorrah says in fact is that even milk you're really not allowed to eat not allowed to drink because it comes from a living animal comes from a living animal so we're not allowed to drink milk but the says about that it's a land that flows with milk and honey that means you're allowed to drink milk so what's the day that the Jewish people were allowed to drink milk on cuz till they weren't allowed to drink it cuz it's a it's coming from a living animal you're not allowed to have But on truis the day of ma that's when it became permissible because that's the day they became Jews and that's the day that they became permissible with drinking milk because the Torah says that is a land that flows with milk and honey and it's the Jewish land. So for sure Jews are allowed to drink milk. So that's the day of matra [Music] that allowed Jews to drink milk. Now you're going to ask how can au feed his guests milk? The answer is because technically milk is not a it's not a limb from a living animal, right? It's just juice. So really they're not forbidden to eat milk. They're forbidden to take an organ from an animal like meat from an animal or a limb from an animal when it's alive and eat it. But milk is a liquid that comes from an animal. But nonetheless, the Jewish people were forbidden also in that because even the liquid that came from a living animal, they would not drink. So on matra that's when they started to drink milk because the satyra says that the land flows with milk and honey. One last final beautiful answer is as follows. How is milk made? The blood is changed into milk. What a miracle. You have blood and the blood becomes milk. That's one of the reasons we eat milk products on. What does blood represent? Blood represents your animal soul. The says Our soul is in our blood. Our blood keeps us alive. You know, your circulation of blood goes around and around and around and around. That's what keeps us alive. Our blood is our life force. It's our vitality. It's our passion. And that represents our nephesh Bahamas, our animal soul. And that's what it's about. It's about living and surviving. That's what your blood does. And it's an amazing amazing blessing and amazing amazing thing. What is milk? Milk is white. Milk is beautiful. Milk is clean. Milk is refined. And milk is the only food in the world that's created in order to give. The blood I have for myself, the milk that mothers create in their bodies is to give to somebody else. Milk is about giving. Not only that, milk is the only physical product in the world. The more you give, the more you get. When a cow makes milk and gives it to her calf, she makes more milk. When a mother nurses her babies, there's more milk. If I stop giving, I stop getting. Everything in the world, the more I give, the less I have. with milk. The more and more I give, the more and more and more I have. The purpose of mitzvah is to take our blood and to transform it into milk. This means to take, we all have an animal consciousness. And animal consciousness is focused only on my survival. I want to survive and that's why I sometimes get angry and that's why I sometimes get jealous and that's why I sometimes get anxious and that's why I get sometimes overwhelmed because I want to survive. It's my blood. But Tyra teaches us how could we refine our blood and remember that Hashem always loves you. You're safe. You could be regulated. And it teaches us how to live in a refined way, in a pure way to take our blood and turn it into milk. That's why ofu the first meal in the Tyra, he gives them milk. And that's why through mitzvah, we take our blood and we help it become milk. Which means we take our animal soul and we beautify it. We clean it up. that our blood instead of being focused only on our survival and becoming tough and often becoming negative, it could remain pure and beautiful and like milk loving and giving. Okay. So now you have all these reasons why we eat milk on. Let me just summarize it. You remember the reason for the Mishna because on that day they ate milk. They couldn't eat either because it was so much pork or because it was shabas. What was the second reason we gave for eating milk? The second reason was the rama because the two loaves of bread. The third reason was because the gamatri of 40. The fourth reason was because moherenu had his milk on shu is three months after his birth. The fifth reason was because that's the day they were allowed to start eating milk cuz till then it was and finally the last reason we gave was because the whole purpose of is to take our blood and refine it and turn it into beautiful white loving milk. Milk is the symbol of love. So as you eat your cheesecake on this or you eat your cheese on this foo, I hope you enjoy it very much. But as you eat it, have that little cavana that we all have the power to take our blood and turn it into milk. to take our animal soul, our animal consciousness, our anesha bahamus, which can sometimes be very very selfish and sometimes be very very angry and sometimes be very very arrogant and sometimes be very very tough and realize that what we really want is we want to be connected to ourself and to Hashem and that we are safe and we could be like milk. We can give and love with an open heart and live with an open heart and that's the best way of protecting ourselves as well. So we calm down our animal soul with the the divine soul with the godly soul the blood with the white milk. Question time. Let's go to the questions. I'm going to open up the document with all the questions everyone wants to ask questions. Please call in or text or WhatsApp 71897752797189775279 or you can ask your question on the yeshiva.net net t h e s h i va.net net and over there you'll go to the homepage you'll click the kids program and you can see ask a question and by the way we have also on top of the website kids section where we have all the programs that we did with the children already for a few years we started with corona and then we began again last year dedicated in honor of Sal Tishman by his family so you could see all the previous programs as well okay let's begin with the first question we know that we always have free choice We also know that Hashem knows everything we're going to do. If Hashem knows everything we're going to do, how can we decide what to do? Whatever we decide to do, he already decided and therefore we don't have free choice. This is a question that comes from Aaron Dubov. Beautiful, beautiful question, Aaron. This question has been asked by some of the great giants of Jewish history like the Rambam himself and the Rivid and other great people. And I'm going to give you one answer that's given by the medishm. I know it could be a complicated issue. So I'm going to try to do it brief because I want to get to the other questions as well. I'm going to give you one answer. Okay? But there's a lot more to discuss because it is a very deep question. And one basic answer for this is sometimes I may know what somebody is going to do tomorrow. You know why? Let's say somebody has a father or a mother or a teacher or a therapist who knows them very very very well. And I know what you're going to choose tomorrow. So the fact that I know what you're going to choose tomorrow doesn't force you to do it because I just know what you're going to do tomorrow cuz I know you and I know how you think and I know how you live and I know how you choose things. The fact that Hashem knows what we're going to do tomorrow is because Hashem knows what we're going to choose. Because he knows what we're going to choose, it doesn't force us to do that. He just knows what we're going to do because he knows it as though we did it already. Just like if I know what you did yesterday. It doesn't force you. You know why? Because I know about it after you did it. So it doesn't force you to do it that way cuz I know about it afterwards, not before. Hashem knows things before. Like we know them afterwards. But it's like you did it already. In Hashem's eyes, it's like you did it already. He knows what you going to choose before you chose it. But he you're not doing it because he's forcing you. You're doing it because of your choice. I'll put it a little differently. Hashem is beyond time. He created time. So the past, the present, and the future are one by Hashem. So when he looks at you by him, it's already like the time went by already. The future is already here today. So that way, he already knows what you did as though you did it already, even though you didn't do it yet because we're limited in time, but he's not limited in time. This is one answer for your amazing question. Another question. This is a question from a 7-year-old girl. My parents are divorced. I'm going to be foris with my father. I really want to be with my mother. How can my heart be happy in a place when I feel sad? Well, I'm sorry. This is a sad question. It's going to make me cry a little bit. It's a sad question. And I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you feel you're going to have a sad choice. Yes, it's such a good question. It's such an important question. So, I'm going to suggest to you a few things, okay? Maybe talk with your mother about this. Like, what can you do to make it easier for you in your father's house so that you shouldn't have to be so sad? Speak to your mother. Ask your mother what she suggests. What could you do to make you happier in your father's house? Okay. Another thing may be speak to your mother about this. Maybe you could speak to your father about this. Maybe your father can do certain things in the house anus that would make you happier and less sad. So don't be embarrassed to talk to your mother about it, to talk to your father about it. And ask your mother what she thinks you can do and ask her maybe it's a good idea for you to talk to your father and speak to your father about what can be done in the house that would make it much much happier for you. speak to him and ask him and maybe he'll be able to help out and you'll be able to help out. That's number one. Number two, maybe you could take some things that would make you have a little more fun. Maybe you could take some things from your mother's house that you would like. Maybe some treats, maybe some games, maybe some books that you like, and that could make you at least a little happier in your father's house. Another thing, speak to your mother. Maybe there's someone who lives around your father's house that you could play with on and you can have a little fun. Maybe you can have a playd date. Maybe there's a friend there. Maybe there's a classmate and that could maybe also make your stay with your father much much happier. Finally, I want to tell you my dear precious girl and that is I want you to know that you are the most precious thing that you have in the world. You yourself like I said earlier. So sometimes when we're sad, it's an opportunity to make ourselves happy from inside. So I want you to do this. When you become sad in your father's house, maybe take a little break. Go to your room or go to your bed. Lie down. Okay? Close your eyes and breathe and imagine the beautiful, beautiful soul that you have. And imagine the beautiful body that you have and breathe into it. And imagine the color pink all around you. and that Hashem is hugging you. And then you hug yourself and call yourself by your name. Let's say your name is Kana, right? And say, "Kana, I love you." And Kana, I'm here for you. And Kana, you're such a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful girl. Talk to yourself. Give yourself love. Take in Hashem's love to you and calm yourself down. And even if you're sad about certain things, but remember that the love that Hashem has to you and the love that you have to yourself is the most powerful thing in the world. So do that in the middle of the day as many times as you need. And have a beautiful, beautiful Yamt. And I'm sending you my love and blessings. And I hope you're going to have a much happier Yamt. I hope some of the parents are listening to this as well because sometimes when parents go through these things, it is so so important to think about the bigger picture and think about our children and never allow our personal stuff to get in the way. Wow. Wow. Wow. I wish every parent would hear this. You realize even if there's issues and struggles, that's fine. Deal with that. But never ever allow your children to be used as missiles in any one of the conflicts. Everything should always be done in a way that the children can have the best life possible. And for this we compromise. Even if we have issues with our wives and our husbands, we compromise. I don't know this story, but I'm just mentioning generally it's so important for all of us. And I know there sometimes a lot of issues, but we have to men have to grow up and women sometimes have to grow up. We have to grow up. We have to see the big picture and not use our children as missiles in our conflicts. Why did did Hashem really ask the other nations if they wanted or is it just a cute story? And what's the point of it? Such a good question. Such a beautiful question. So I'm going to give you one of the answers that the labb once gave. Of course, Hashem asked the other nations this question. Now what does it exactly mean? What does it mean? and Hashem asked them. It means that Hashem went to the other nations. Doesn't mean he went to the to the Malik of the other nations. Every nation has a malik. Every nation has a sar. Did he go to certain people in the other nations? Every nation has a spirit and energy. Did he speak to the nama of that nation? I don't know exactly, but he went to the nations. What's the reason for this? One of the reasons is because this was a preparation that ultimately one day the whole world is going to absorb the Tyra. You know when I ask somebody to do something, even if they say no, there's already a connection, right? So by Hashem asking the other nations if they want the Tyra, there was already a connection made. Even if I say I don't want to be your friend, I don't want to eat this food, there's already a connection because the very fact that I have to say no means it's in my life and I have to say no. Right? If I don't know about something, I don't even say no. The very fact that you say no means that it's already something you're thinking about. A seed was planted. One day the gula is going to come and the Tyra is going to be something that the entire world accepts in their own way because everybody's going to accept one god from the Tyra. So already then Hashem wanted to prepare for that. So he asked the nations if they want the and by saying no they already created a connection with it and one day that connection gets stronger and and with each generation the connection gets stronger until Mashiach comes when the connection is complete. How do I serve Hashem with meaning and joy? Sometimes it seems like I'm just going through the actions and inside I feel so far from it, but deep down I want to get closer to Hashem. How can I make my ding exciting? It feels so repetitive. Wow, that's a beautiful, beautiful question. Yeah, I also can use advice in that. I think a lot of us can use advice in that. I think the best thing we can do is before we dav or before we do a mitzvah we should take a few minutes and really meditate a little bit like really think about it really stop feel ourselves and realize what we're about to do I am about to go davin which is an opportunity for me to get in touch with my deepest nishama I'm going to do a mitzvah which is an opportunity for me to connect with hashem himself hashem himself has put himself into every mitzvah and into his Tyra and into the Davening. And when I daven or I learn Tyra, I observe a mitzvah. I'm connecting with Hashem in his deepest purest essence. Is there anything greater than that? I am feeding the deepest part of my nishama. So I shouldn't just jump into it. I should take a few minutes, meditate on it, think about it, breathe about it, and then go into it. And this helps with the joy. And you know what? Sometimes we don't feel it fully and it's also fine. Don't worry, it's going to come back. Sometimes the heart closes and then it opens up a few hours later. Don't worry about it. You know, sometimes we feel that if I'm not feeling perfect, like everything is ruined. It's not. Our heart goes through a lot of stages. You know, sometimes I'm feeling a little down, but I could still be present and do the right thing as long as I understand what's happening and I see what's happening. And there's always an eye that can observe your emotions. Like if you're feeling down, there is a you that sees that you're feeling down, right? Like if I'm feeling sad or I'm feeling a little anxious, I know that I'm feeling anxious. So that means I am not my anxiety. I am watching my anxiety. Remember that's a very powerful tool. You are not your anxiety. You are not your sadness. You're watching your sadness. So that means there's something in you that's above your sadness. It's a very powerful thing to remember. And the sadness comes and goes. I'm in school. I'm learning parl. Why did Sar make hugger work more when she made fun of her? It says inarim that I think s wanted to refine hugger. Sometimes when people work hard, they get a little more aidal. They get a little more refined. You know, sometimes I know when I'm working very very hard, my body is in a better space and my soul is in a better space. Generally when people work very hard they become a little more refined. So I think Sor wanted to do that to hug her. I think the de Makim writes that question. Why did Hashem create evil in the world? Why did Hashem allow us to be in pain? Why does Hashem want us to dav take away the suffering when he gave us the suffering? What's the purpose of all this negativity in the world? H wow what a good question it's so interesting I I speak all over the place barak hashem I get a lot of questions but the children always have the best questions okay it's amazing question so you know I don't we don't have the full answer for everything that's happening in this world especially all the bad things and all the painful things and all the suffering that happens in the world there's no human being who has the full answer for that because the human brain is limited and the human brain was created by Hashem and therefore we don't have all the answers but some things we do know because the Torah teaches us things and Hashem teaches us things so some things we do know and that is that all the negativity that we experience in the world all the bad that Hashem creates in the world ultimately ultimately it's here to be able to give us free choice and the ability to transform our bad into good. Now, sometimes it's very, very painful and it's hard to know what's the reason for it. But here's the fact. When we have pain in our life, it's not here to destroy us and to crush us. It's here to help us become the people that we're supposed to become. Do you remember in a previous children's program, I think the last one or maybe two programs ago, we spoke about how pearls are formed in the ocean, in the sea. You remember there's an oyster and the oyster gets pain and an ulcer and therefore she has to secrete a special a special liquid a special growth that protects her and that's how a pearl is formed. The most beautiful beautiful pearls in the world. Some of the most expensive pearls in the world are formed from the oysters pain from the oysters ulcer. It teaches us something and that is when we have pain, we have an opportunity to go in deeper to ourselves to become the person we're supposed to become. So you say, "But who needs it all?" It's a good question. I'm not Hashem. I don't know the answer. But I do know that whenever we feel suffering in ourselves or in our loved ones, it's not here to destroy us. And even if we don't know the exact reason, we need to get support. We need to be able to breathe into it. And then we need to be able to ask Hashem and dav to Hashem that we have the wisdom and the courage and the opportunity to be able to do with the pain what we have to do. So yes, he wants us to dav even though he gives us the pain because the pain is not here just to stay. The pain is here to help us grow. The pain is here to give us choice. The pain is here to help us choose to trust. You see, when the soul is in heaven before we're born, we don't have to trust. We're one with Hashem. When we come down here and we feel separated, it's here that we need to be able to trust. And here we can choose our trust. We have choice. We can choose our trust. Like we spoke before that everybody has choice. And that choice can only happen because there's darkness in the world, because there's negativity in the world, because there's bad. And I choose. I could choose every moment. Am I going to live with Hashem or am I going to live with my ego? Am I going to live with my blood or with my milk? Am I going to live selfishly or am I going to live with love? Am I going to live trusting Hashem in a regulated place or am I just going to go crazy and be overwhelmed? These are my choices and your choices that we make every moment including right now. Beautiful question. My name is Zam and I am 5 years old in Parak. Did NY have any helpers to build a ta? It's so big there is no way he did it himself. What a brilliant question. And in fact, that's why it took him 120 years. Noak built a table of 120 years. You know why? Cuz Hashem told him do it yourself. So it took him 120 years. In fact, it's surprising. Maybe it should have even taken him longer. But now we understand why it took him 120 years. Cuz he did it all by himself. And Rashi says that he did it basically to arouse the whole world to do Chuva because they watched him do it and they're like, "What are you doing for 120 years? He did it himself." Amazing question. Question. What is the your favorite thing to listen to during long car rides? Oh wow. My favorite thing to listen to during long car rides is I sometimes love to listen to music but the re real what what I actually listen to a lot in long car rides is I listen to Fabangans of my Reb of the Labavereb. The Reb became a Reb in 1950 and they recorded almost all of his public talks. So there are thousands and thousands and thousands of hours of the labans and myim and talks and they were amazing. I was there at a lot of them but not their early years before I was born. So I actually love listening to them and actually a lot of my talks and my speeches and myim are based on them. So that's what I do among other things I listen to. Question coming from Esther Basia. I see girls on a daily basis and they aren't so careful with theiras. They also aren't careful with their use of words. How can I be friendly with them but not get influenced by them? I want to be friendly with them but I'm afraid not to be influenced by them. Wow, what a beautiful question, Esther. The answer to your question is that it's very very important for you to know your boundaries. What I mean by that is sometimes if I cannot be friends with somebody because I'm going to be influenced negatively. So maybe I have to be careful and choose who my friends are. Like sometimes I need boundaries, right? For example, if I have a cold and I'm going to go outside without a coat, it's not good. I have to stay in a warm place because I have a cold. I'm very sensitive. I get colds very fast. So if I go out to a cold place without and I'm not dressed, I get a cold. Sometimes it's also true spiritually. If we go into a cold place and we're not dressed warmly, it can it can affect us. So you have to know where you belong and where you don't belong. With whom you should be friends and with whom you shouldn't be maybe best friends. That's number one. Number two, unless you know how to dress up with a warm coat, which means if you could find more strength in yourself and know that you're going to be friends with these girls, but instead of being influenced by them, you want to influence them, then that's amazing. That's amazing. So, you have to ask yourself and maybe speak to your mother about this or speak to your father about this or speak to your older sister about this or speak to people that you really trust in your life. Do you have the strength to be able to influence them and not to be influenced by them? Cuz if you do, that would be an incredible incredible thing to be able to be their friends and hang out with them and play with them and still not have them influence how you speak and how you dress. On the contrary, you should be able to influence them. For that you need to be able to find your own inner strength. Next question. This question comes from Ellie Melik. My Rebi told us about the famous question of the Minra. Why we say the time of the giving of our Torah? It seems like the Torah was given on the seventh day of Sivon and not on the sixth day of Siv. So how can we say it's the time of the giving of our Torah? Do you know of a good meaningful answer that I will be able to understand? Wow, it's a beautiful question of the m of one simple answer is that we don't say we say right, we don't say it's the day of the giving of the Torah. We say it's the time of the giving of the Torah because this was the time when we were getting ready for the giving of the Torah. This was the time the Jewish people were preparing for the giving of the Torah. So even if it's not the day of the giving of the Torah, it's still the time of the giving of the Torah. That's one answer. Another answer that I saw is that there's two things. There's the giving of the Torah and there's the receiving of the Torah. There's matan Tyra and there's Kabala. On the sixth day of Sivan, Hashem was ready to give the Tyra. It's the time that he gives the Tyra. And then the Jewish people to receive the Tyra wanted an extra day to be able to receive the Tyra. And there are other answers given to this beautiful question of the mug of of the mug of Ram. Okay, let's see more questions here. Beautiful, beautiful questions. Is it an important thing for children to come hear the asser the ten commandments? Is it an important thing? Wow. I am so so happy. I'm so so happy to address this. So I want to tell you something. I want to tell you something very special. I grew up by the Reba and every year or almost every year before he would always suggest and ask that we should try that every single Jewish child in the whole world should come listen to the ten commandments of sadas on the first day of shu and I'll tell you why the medish says that Hashem said that if even one Jew was missing by mra he would not give the tra every Jew had to be there for the terra to be given because every single Jewish soul is an indispensable note is necessary and vital for the giving of the Torah to the entire Jewish people and the medish also says that Hashem says that every when we read when we read the schul it's like Hashem giving the Torah again and therefore it is such a special thing to have every Jew there every man every woman every child the Reb would even ask that they should bring infants even babies that were newborn if it's health if it's not a danger of of course to be able to to bring them to schul just to listen to the to be there just like by the first m they were there. In fact, I had some nephews and in fact I had a baby a boy that was born 20 years ago Maz Gar he was born right after my father passed away and we named him after my father and six days later five days later was and we took him to sh to hear. So this is a very special thing. I want to ask all of the children who are listening and anybody who's listening to try to come yourself and your f bring your family and influence your friends that every Jewish child from anywhere over the world should come the first day of shu for which is during the reading and middle of the reading of the Torah the ten commandments and that is an amazing an amazing amazing thing as we reexperience once again will give us the Jewish people his greatest gift in the world his own essence his own wisdom his own soul. Once again, this is um for us and for all of the Jewish people to be able to absorb the TRA, to be able to learn the TRA, to be able to teach the TA and to be able to fill the entire world with the light of TRA. May Hashem allow us to be able to experience this gift in the most amazing amazing beautiful way to be able to fill our lives with love, with joy, with wisdom, with truth, with authenticity. And we should see already before is a complete victory and a complete redemption. And let us go to the final song, my dear. Oh. Oh, my dear boys, let us go to the final song. I'm just looking. Okay. And good y Yeah. [Music] Heat. Yeah. [Music] Heat. Yeah. [Music] Heat. Yeah. Heat. Yeah. [Music] Heat. Yeah. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music]