Rabbi YY With Teenagers: Ask Tough Questions; Get Real Answers - Coronavirus: Teenager's Program #1

Good evening body. I want to welcome all of the precious teenagers who are joining us here literally from the whole world. We have teenagers joining us from all parts of the United States of America. I know there's a large group joining us from Australia. Welcome Australians. In Israel, it's a little late now. They'll probably watch the replay. But I do know a few people who are joining us even from Israel and other parts of Europe despite the late hour. I guess some of you are not going to sleep too early these days. I don't know how you do it all year but these days I know lots of you are not going to sleep very early. And I want to welcome you wherever you are. I am so thrilled to be with you here at this first of a kind. It's the first time I'm doing this live online uh a program, a special gathering and encounter with uh our future with our future leaders with the future of the Jewish people. And thank you so much for being here. And we're taking all of your questions live. You can text them to 845777-4747. I see that around 50 questions came in already. Approximately 50 questions came in. You can text your questions. I won't be able to get to all of them, but I'm going to try to deal with as many as I can. 845774747. I see we are now up to Wow. Okay. Yes. 40 48 49 50. Oh, okay. I'm behind. Oh my god. Oh, whoa. Whoa. I thought we're up to 50 questions, but I see we are up to 80 questions. Okay, 78 questions we have. Now, if any one of you want to ask your question live, not through a text, you want to ask your question live, you want to come up to the program and ask your question live, we can see you, we can hear you, please feel free to do that. When you text your question, just add that you would like to be heard and seen live. and I'd love to meet you and Shoo is with you right here on the screen. So again, you can just text your questions to 845777-4747. But if you want to be seen and heard live, we have special technology for it. And when you text your question, just say I want to come on live and we will choose a few people. I don't think we'll be able to choose everybody. will be able to choose a few people during the span of our program and uh I hope to be able to hear you and see you live and everybody will be able to hear you and see you live. You can do it from wherever you are in the world. When you text your question and you say I want to be live, you will get instructions from our dear web master and technology director. And this is the first time we're doing it, so I hope it works. But we anyway regardless we have already uh we have 82 questions coming in. Wow. Coming in by the minute. Okay. By the second, not by the minute. I'm really so happy very very happy to be with all of you. Um as you know this is these are not regular times. Um you will be sharing with your grandchildren one day the stories of the corona virus that broke out just around Purim time 2020 tu 5780 a pesak like no other pesak in your lifetimes in my lifetimes in most of our lifetimes unprecedented uh very unique a very difficult time for so many I believe most Most of you know somebody who passed away as a result of the corona virus or associated illnesses. Uh many of you know people who are ill. Some of you have lost people in your own family or your own community, neighbors, relatives, friends, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents. It's a difficult time. Uh quarantine uh for some people is a great blessing and some people see it as a great challenge and and a great curse. But you can ask questions about whatever you want about the Corona virus, about any subject under the sun and above the sun. And with Hashem's help, I'm going to try to address whatever I can. 8457774747. And you can also when you text a question, you could sign up to our email. You can sign up to our WhatsApp. I send out a daily WhatsApp message for yourself or your parents. You could sign up to our email and get our weekly emails with the essays and schedule of programs and so on and so forth. Okay, I see we're close to 87 87 questions. 86 questions came in. 8457774747. If anybody wants to go live with their question, just text I want to go live and you will be sent a link. You'll press on that link. You'll click on that link and you will be able to show up here on our screens and everybody will be able to see you and hear you Omar. Just text in your question that you would like to go live and we will choose a few people hashem. Let me begin with a story. Before we go to the questions, I want to begin with a uh a story which for me is a very telling story during these times. The story takes us back to July 1982. Okay, quite a few years ago. I was a child at the time. I assume those who are present here with me were not born yet if you are entitled to the title teenager. It was July 9th, 1982, summer toughen membally challenged individual, a man by the name of Michael Fagan, broke into the Buckingham Palace in London and he managed to get into the private bedroom of her majesty, the Queen of England, Elizabeth 2. She was now forced to spend time with this man. He basically abducted her. He kidnapped her in her own private bedroom. He evaded all the security guards, all the guardsmen, all the servants, all the cameras, all the electric devices, all the policemen, all the guards to reach the royal bedroom. And now he had her majesty the queen of Great Britain in captivity. This was something you know out of out of fiction out of fiction books. The queen displayed regal presence under this crazy pressure. They say it would have impressed even her great great grandmother Victoria. As she was talking to this man who held her in captivity, Michael Fagan, she managed to p to uh telephone the pal the palace police switchboard twice, but due to his threats, she made sure to speak in a very calm voice. But yet she tried to hint them to hint to them that she needs help. Nobody came to the rescue because they simply did not realize what is going on. She seemed so calm even though these calls were not part of the routine. The queen then did something very clever. She called and told the security officer and she said, "I don't need fire for my morning cigarette." You know why? I already have fire in my room. She thought that the policeman would understand the subtle message and rush to eliminate the fire. I have fire in my room. Nobody understood the message. Not one person came to the rescue of the Queen of England. He of course was armed and she knew that a wrong move can cost her her life and therefore she complied. But this clever move of saying that there's fire in my room was ineffective. Yes, the policeman was a little uh flabbergasted. He was he was perplexed by this strange statement, I don't need fire. I have fire in my room. Okay. But he let it go, hung up the phone, and the queen remained in captivity. She was finally saved when a maid, not a security guard, but a maid entered her bedroom and took a stunned glance at this visitor and blurted, "Bloody hell, ma'am. What is going on here?" It just came out of her mouth. The maid went and called the police. The queen was saved. One of the police officers who received her call was a celebrated hero in Great Britain. Yet from World War II as a very young soldier, he was in charge of security positions for many decades. And he was finally promoted to the highest position to safeguard her majesty, the monarch of the British Commonwealth. After this incident, he was dismissed from duty. And I once saw a very powerful comment of a historian. And the historian said as follows. All of this man's training for over 50 years was essentially for this very moment when the queen would call to say that she does not need fire for her morning cigarette. But when that moment came, the most defining moment of his career, he failed. Imagine the irony. Your entire life, you're trained to be able to be ready for a single moment and act accordingly. You go through years and years of training. You go through wars and battles and engagements and conflicts. You see casualties and you observe blood. And it's all a preparation for this moment when you from all people was chosen to be the person who could get that subtle message and allow all your inner alarm systems to go off and say, "Oh my god, the queen needs help." Nobody knows when that moment will come, but we know that it might come. And yet, when it happened, this man was out for lunch. What a lesson in life, my dearest friends, teenagers from the whole world. And you know why I share with you this story? Cuz that's how I feel now. I feel I said it yesterday by the Schweki concert that we had yesterday. a Sunday, second day of PE, Sunday afternoon. I feel that everything I have learned, everything we have learned our entire life was a preparation for this moment in history. And I want you to know as the future of our people, the future leaders, the future mothers and fathers, the future guides and mentors, you are our Jewish tomorrow. you are our Jewish future. That everything you have learned throughout your entire life, everything you experienced throughout your entire life, everything you worked on through your entire life was a buildup. It was a preparation for this moment. You are watching a moment in history that changed the world and is going to change the world. This is your moment to shine. This is our moment to shine. Yes, there are challenges. Yes, there are difficulties. But if we are not ready this moment to live our lives to the fullest to bring out the best and deepest resources within us, it may have all been in vain. So be strong, be courageous. This is the time when you have the God-given gift to really rise to the occasion. Figure out who you are and dedicate your lives to become ambassadors. Ambassadors of love, ambassadors of light, ambassadors of hope, divine ambassadors of healing, of wisdom, and of redemption. You know, the world is going through a transformation. Not only on a physical level, but on an emotional level, on a mental level, and a spiritual level. When this madness is over, there's going to be a new dawn. Nothing will go back to normal. Let's hope it just doesn't go back to normal. this time in quarantine watching the whole world, every person, 7.7 billion people grappling with the same crisis and the same tragedy. Everybody is inculcating within us a lot of perspective, a lot of wisdom, a lot of humility. Humanity is ready for a transformation. But let me say it bluntly. Older people are more stuck in their habits, in their comfort zones. It's hard for them to get out of their comfort zones. You can adopt. You can embrace the new reality. Your brains are fresh. Your souls are pliable. You're flexible. You're searching. You're yearning. You're on a path to discovery, to deeper enlightenment, to more truth, to more honesty. You are the ones who are most equipped to lead a new world, a new era, to welcome a new dawn. You are the most equipped to rise to the occasion and seize the moment where the world is transforming itself by you transforming yourself into the greatest people you can become. The youth have the power of creativity. You have guts. You're not afraid to grow. You're not afraid to shed old habits and old routines. You have the gift that you can recreate yourself. May we all remain young in spirit. And those who are ready to recreate themselves remain young. They say there has two types of people who fail. People who don't have a plan and people who stick to their plan. People who don't have a plan fail because they don't have a plan. People who stick to their plan fail because sometimes you got to take your plan and throw it into the garbage. Basically, all of our plans were thrown into the dust bin by God. Our world has to create a new plan and you are the ones at the forefront of this new plan of this new consciousness. So gird your girdle your seat belts and your soul as it says byp place a belt on your loins shoes on your feet and your staff in your hand as the world is ready for to go out of mitz of our limitations of our pettiness of our selfishness of our greed of our small-mindedness of our phobias of our bigotry of our jealousy of our hatred of our racism as we're ready to embrace a new consciousness of gula, a consciousness of oneness, a consciousness of holiness, a consciousness of goodness. Who are the best equipped to embrace such a world and to stand as leaders in such a world? It's you. And this is the moment all of us and you have been training for. Don't forfeit the opportunity. Don't be like that policeman, that security guard on Buckingham Palace, July 9th, 1982. 50 years he trained and then when the moment came, he lost it. We can't afford to be that way. When this moment comes, and it has come, this is the time, my dearest, dearest teenagers, to not only be strong, but realize your infinite value and realize how precious your lives are and realize that each and every single one of you was sent down here to the world because of a mission that you and only you can accomplish. And I love you so much. And tonight I give each of you my dear blessings, my deepest blessings that you should rise to this occasion. Maximize your potential. May this memory of these times only be positive. May all those who need a recovery have a recovery. May all those who lost loved ones have the strength and the solith to deal with it in the best way possible. May all of us experience healing. And may all of us welcome a new era of more understanding and more warmth and more truthfulness and more honesty in which our truth comes out. And what is our truth? The truth is that the whole physical world is a manifestation of divine energy. The entire physical universe is really divine energy expressed in the physical and we are the ambassadors to reveal it. The says who is like your nation. It's literally it means a unique nation on earth one a special nation on earth but the gave a different interpretation or a deeper interpretation. Who is like your nation? We are the the nation that reveals. We reveal the oneness in the earth. We are the nation that was destined and given the mission to be able to be ambassadors of infinity to reveal that the whole world is really one. That humanity is really one. That everything is really one because everything is a manifestation of divine energy of infinity. We are the ones who look at a world that seems so split, so fragmented, so splintered, where selfishness seems to be the normal way of life. And yet I'm quoting the words of the Balatana. Even in the earth, in the physical world, in our physical bodies, we don't detach from oneness. We're aware of oneness. We live with oneness. Oneness within ourselves. Realizing that your body and your soul are really one. your mind, your brain, your psyche, your physical self, your nish, it's all one. Realizing that all of our people are one. Realizing that the whole world is one. This is our unique mission throughout history. And never have the stakes been so high and the world so receptive to hear this message. But it begins always inside of me and inside of you. The great founder of the Musa movement, his name was Rabis Lipkin once said at the end of his life, he says, you know, when I was young, I thought to myself, I'm going to change the world. I want to change the world. And then I got a little older and I realized I can't change the world. But you know what? I'm going to change everybody in my country. And then I got a little older and I realized I can't change people in my country, but I'm going to change everybody in my city. And then I got older and I said, "Eh, that's not going to work, but I'm going to change my whole community." Then I got much older and more mature and I said, "No, it's not going to work, but I'm going to change my family." He says, "Today I know there's only one person I can change and that's me." And then he added, "And if I would have realized this when I was young, by now I would have changed the world." Because it's like when you throw a rock into the river, into the sea, there is a ripple effect that goes very, very far, but it always begins from the very place where the rock falls. I can't have an impact on the distant if I'm not changed within myself. And that's sometimes the hardest person to change. So when I talk about transformation, a new consciousness rising to the occasion, it starts inside you in a venic in your heart, in your mind, in your soul. May we be worthy of this gift despite a gift that comes in a way that we didn't want it or expect it with so many challenges and so much pain and so much sadness. Let's go to the questions. Dearest teenagers, 8457774747. And I want you to know that if you want to go live, you don't want to just text your questions even though we have already more than 100 questions. If you want to go live, you can please feel free to do that. write in your text that you want to go live and hopefully the technology will work and we will be able to arrange that so we'll be able to see you and hear you. But let's in the meantime go to the questions that have come in. I am just looking how many questions we have that I can deal with. I see 20 pages of questions. Wow, whoa, whoa. Okay, I thought we have 100 questions, but I see we have now 117 questions. 118 questions. Okay. Kufu. 118 questions. Wow. We're almost holding Kufuess. Ku test. Okay. That's the longest capital into. And again, if you want to ask, you can text 845777-4747. 845777-4747. and you can go live. We can see you and hear you. Again, text that you want to go live and we will do that for you. We're going to have need somebody who has a little guts and doesn't mind if we see your face and hear your beautiful, beautiful voice. So, let me begin. And I'm going to try to before I begin, let me try I'm going to try to give brief answers. The reason I'm going to try to give brief answers is because I want to cover as many as I can. I know I will not be able to cover 120 questions and I assume in a few minutes there will be 150 and 200 questions and I'm so happy you're asking your questions. So here's the deal. Okay, first of all, you can email me. If you have a private question you don't want to post or you feel the answer was not adequate or it's a question that I couldn't address, you can email me. Rabbi ytheoshiva.net. It's confidential. Rabbi y rabbi ythey yeshiva.net t h e s h i vap.net ne and bleeder. You have to give me some time. I will try to respond to your email if you find these answers not sufficient because I'm going to try to be brief or we did not get to your question. But I am so happy. You can ask any question you want. Okay, let's go. Let's go to the questions. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. You guys are good. You guys are good. Huh? Okay. Okay. I'm going to go right away to six. Six of you asked at least six of you asked this question. I think maybe even more, but I see at least six of you asked this question. So, I am going to address it first and I'm going to read verbatim the question that I received. This is from a few of the teenagers. What's wrong with talking to the opposite gender? If I am a boy, can I speak to a girl? If I'm a girl, can I speak to a boy? I'm not asking for myself. I'm asking for a friend. Of course, I wouldn't suspect you. I know you're asking for a friend. You can always ask for a friend. Can you please discuss the whole topic of relationships between girls and boys? It seems that when our parents were our age or our grandparents, it was considered normal to hang out and chill. Now, it's considered against Jewish law. I understand the is about being in one room. I understand is about touching, but I don't have clear guidance. Some teenagers don't really care about this. It doesn't bother them, which is wonderful. But some of us do care. And for some of us, this is completely healthy. We want to meet the other side of our soul. Especially now, it's a very difficult time. It could be an outlet for other things, but it can also be a result of regular teenage hormones. What is your advice for teenagers who are having difficulties when it comes to this issue? Thank you very much. I am very happy you're bringing up this topic and I'm going to be brief but I think give you a very honest and a very good answer. And I'll explain to you the Jewish perspective. And the Jewish perspective is Jewish lawite doesn't want to spoil the fun of people's lives or the joy of people's lives. Hashem created you in love. He conceived you in love. He loves you unconditionally. Like the BMP said, "Hashem loves every Jew more than parents love an only child who was born at a time when they didn't expect they would ever have a child again." You can imagine the depth of that love. And he says, "Hashem's love to every Jew is infinitely greater than that." It says in Shim said that if a person would be aware of how much Hashem loves him or her, you would run after Hashem faster and with more ferociousness than a lion is running after her prey in the jungle. I don't know if you ever saw a video, a documentary, maybe you were in Krueger's Krueger's National Park or another jungle and you saw a lion is running after her prey. You didn't want to get in between her and her prey. And he says you would run after Hashem with much more might and ferociousness and elacrity and stamina faster than a lion if you would be aware of how deep that love is. So when someone loves you and loves you infinitely because Hashem is infinite so the love is infinite. Why would he want to spoil your fun and your excitement and as you say you want to have fun and you want to spend time with the opposite gender. It's really the other way around. Yiddish and is trying to give you the best life possible not only in the next world but also in this world not only spiritually but also physically not only a good life for your nishama and ganed but also a good life for your hormones in this world. You see the way Hashem made the system of human beings and it's not just human beings it's also animals is that there is a very deep attraction between the male and the female between the female and the male that's that's healthy. It's a normal thing. It's very very deep. There is powerful electricity there. And it should be that way. When somebody doesn't have that electricity, doesn't have that passion, it doesn't mean that they're very holy and good. Sometimes it actually means that they're missing a major important component of life. There are many different natures and many different dispositions, but healthy men and healthy women have a very powerful attraction. And because of that, the creator of mankind, the one who created our brains, who created our nature, wanted to make sure that we live a life that is healthy physically, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually in this world, and the next world, and that we suck the marrow out of life, and that we maximize our potential. Now when you have two teenagers of opposite genders who start connecting as 99% or 95% of those who do it will tell you it becomes very very intense. It becomes very very overwhelming. I taught in yeshiva for many many years 17 year olds 16 year olds 18 year olds 19 year olds 20 year olds 14 year olds. I still teach and I saw immediately when there were boys who were involved in this because I saw they were up at night, they were thinking about it all day. With girls, it's even more because they're sometimes much more emotional and it becomes an overwhelming relationship and it usually distracts you from living a productive, meaningful life. And it becomes frustrating because you can't even go all the way cuz you're not ready for marriage. So when you're actually ready for marriage, in other words, you're ready to culminate the relationship and finalize it, then it's beautiful. But until you're ready for marriage, just to hang out and chill, if you're a normal person, it's usually going to develop or at least very very often in most cases, probably 95% of the cases, it's not going to remain uh platanic. It's not going to remain cerebral. It's going to develop into something very, very electrifying, very, very intense, very, very powerful. It's not going to let him live a normal life. It's not going to let her live a normal life. And then after a year or two, when they decide to separate cuz they want to move on, you're both going to be crying for 6 months. So, it's not fair to him. It's not fair to her. This is the time that so precious. It's a time to focus on yourself, develop yourself, figure out who you are, educate yourself, challenge yourself, become the person you're capable of becoming, develop great friendships with people of your own gender whom you can be open with, whether it's boys or girls. Create real friendships, create real relationships, and then when you become a solid human being, you become ripe and fertile and ready for the ultimate relationship which will, God willing, develop in marriage and a beautiful family. So the focus of is not to spoil anybody's fun or spoil anybody's life. God wants you to live the best life and the funnest life and the most enjoyable life possible. Shem wants you to have a great great great life. But when you have a great life, imagine I always tell this to my students. Imagine, okay, I want to play want to play a great football game. So we go up to the roof of a building because it's a huge roof and it's a great football. It's a I said baseball football. It's a great It's a great place for a football. There's only one problem. There's no fence. And it's 40 It's 40 stories high. We're not going to be able to have fun. Every moment I'm going to be scared that if I run, if I tackle you, God forbid, it could be my end. The best thing somebody can do for us is build a fence. When we build, somebody builds a good fence, we can have a lot a lot of fun playing football on the roof. When life has fences, you can actually have much more fun with your time, with your talents, with your opportunity. Because without the fence, it looks fun, but then I can go head first down to the abyss. And emotionally, what that means is I get involved in relationships. I get involved in encounters and conversations that ultimately are not helping me and not helping the other person. That is a pretty brief but I think honest answer to your great question. Okay, so let's go live. Okay, let's go live to somebody who is tuning in to us. Let me put on my headphones so I can make sure I hear you. and we are going to go live to MTA Yeshiva University High School. Let's see if you're there. Okay. Yes. Do you hear me? I can hear you. One moment. We all want to see you. This is MTA Yoshiva University High School and I am so happy to have you on the show. Why don't you introduce yourself? I'm uh Yoshua Pariser. I live in Montelcome person by uh neighbor's house. Um and I had a question regarding people saying things that possibly could be true nowadays if I could ask. Yeah. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. Um, people are saying that uh that this corona is is now now specifically is mashiach and I know in Hawaii there's a big a big saying that that goes those who know don't say and those who say don't know. If it's true, if the statement is true about knowing that is not saying, then how do I deal with people who are saying that this is certainly Msiah and no other time? Wouldn't it be kind of like Barova? And if the saying is not true, then why are people saying the same? Excellent question. Your first name is Yeshua. Yeah. Yeshua. Thank you. Thank you, Yeshua. Yeshua goes to MTA, which is the high school of Yeshiva University. And Yeshua asked the Galdica question. And that is a lot of people are saying the corona is the last thing before Messiah. But but what if they're making true? Isn't this like the story of who also they believed he was Messiah? But it was a mistake. And he quoted the famous saying, "Those who say don't know, and those who know don't say." It's a great question, Yeshua, and thank you for coming live. And whoever wants to come live, you're welcome. We're going to try to take a few. You can text to 8457774747 and just note in your text that you want to go live and like Yahushua you will come up on the screen or you don't have to it's up to you guys many of you are very modest and that's also perfectly fine let me answer your question very very briefly dramas in the laws of kings chapter 11 and chapter 12 that a lot of the details about Mashiach's coming and what happens after he's coming. He says we will know when it happens. What we do know however is and this is a basic tenant of Jewish faith is Jews await Mashiach's coming every single day. We say, we say every day, three times a day. For your salvation, for the gula, we await all day. Jews await Mashiach. We know Mashiach could come every day. We hope he comes any day. We hope he comes now. We just declared by the by next P already it should be after Mashiach's coming. So the next year SA could be in your and that doesn't mean it should be next year means it should be this year. So automatically next year it will we will be we'll do the sed with the when people are saying if a person gives a certain date that I know mashiach is coming on this date or this morning or this afternoon. Obviously nobody knows that. The only one who knows that is the creator of the world who decides when Msiah is going to come and exactly how it's going to happen. None of us know that. Certainly I'm not in a position of knowing that but I don't think any human being knows that unless Hashem told it to them and I don't know that there's such a person that Hashem told them when Mashiah is coming. So a person who makes such a statement it's obviously irresponsible. What is clear however is that the world is getting ready for Msiah that we can hear the footsteps of Msiah that we could see the energy of the gula. What is also clear is that after thousands of years of and mitzvah and masim and nephesh it's due time after all the struggles of exile thous close to 2,000 years of exile. would be like a a pregnant woman who is not due but then there's due date 9 months and then is overdue date. It's past due and now every day you say did you it happened yet? No. You ask her husband it happened yet? No. No, not yet. And it's surprising. There was a time when Msiah was not due yet. There's due date. Now it's postdue. So every day we wonder, it didn't happen yet. Why didn't it happen yet? and Jews are eagerly waiting and anticipating and dominating for Msiah. But to say that we know exactly when that we don't know but we hope any moment now when Hashem wants Msiah is going to come and our work is to prepare for Mashiach to believe in Mashiach to dive in for Mashiach to ask Hashem to bring Mashiach and to already live in a Msiah state of consciousness. That's what I think is our role today to help the world usher in the gula. There's certainly an openness in the world to a much deeper message and an openness to our role as Jews to be ambassadors of the divine in this world. And every time a Jew brings light and goodness into the world, this brings the light of the gula into the world that will be revealed when Mashiach comes. Cuz Mashiach is really the revelation of what we've been doing for thousands of years. Thank you, Yeshua. I see another wonderful question about Messiah that I'm going to take because it's really fits into what you said. Somebody says as follows. I'm going to read this. I'm going to read this question which is a great follow-up to Yeshua's question and that is I believe in the wisdom and depth that tora has to offer thatus has to offer I even experience the beauty of davening the warmth of a fabangan the intense intellectual vigor and paradigm shifts that each and every mimemer of theidic works possess but a true student of our masters cannot deny the focus us on the coming of Msiach. One could even call it an obsession. It's not just good enough to wait. We have to do, implement, be the leaders to bring that divine consciousness in the world. How do I deal with the deep pain and disappointment of being obsessed with Msiah and yet not having the gula? This is not only my own perspective. So many of my friends who have been inspired with the Msiah mindset, a lot of them are now not believing anymore. None of the answers that we have learned seem to make any difference. There comes a point in your life when you say, "Is this Msiah thing ever happening?" How can this what's happening right now really be the impetus for the recognition of the divine and his knowledge all over the cosmos? Many of us are just giving up and we're stopping to believe in all of this. Wow. Okay. So, let me try to uh let me try to respond. Let me try to respond to your question. I think that it will be helpful to give a little metaphor. And the metaphor I want to give is there were two brothers and the two brothers were brilliant, brilliant musicians. They were talented. They were skilled. They wrote brilliant music and they sang beautifully. Unfortunately, the brothers had an illness and they became deaf and they couldn't hear the music anymore. One of them said to himself, "This is not for me." And he abandoned the world of music and he just went to try his luck in other fields. The other brother would not stop. His love to music was so deep he continued to write music. As a deaf person, you probably know that Beethoven at some point was almost completely deaf. And yet he wrote some of the most exquisite compositions. And this is what this boy did. He was deaf, but he continued to write and compose the most extraordinary symphonies in the world. Years later, decades later, science discovered the procedure that will allow these two boys to be able to experience the gift of hearing once again. One of the brothers received the gift and it was amazing. He could now hear. But the other brother who never left the world of music, when he was given the gift of hearing, you know what happened? All of his compositions, all of the symphonies that he directed, all of the music that he wrote, suddenly he can hear it. He can dance to its beat. He can melt in its ecstasy and he can appreciate its deliciousness. When the bamika stood in the world, there was a music that Jewish people heard. There was a music. We felt and sensed the music of every mitzvah. The music of a pes of a of a sukus, of a shabas, of a yumpt, of of this is what's called a revelation of the divine. We heard the music. Exile is a state where we become somewhat deaf. We can't hear the music. So some of the sometimes one of the brothers says, "I'm done." The other brother knows, "No, there's tremendous music here. even if I can't hear it. And he continues to produce this music. And what Messiah is is just we get the implants in our ears to be able to hear the music that we created all of the years of gullus. Mashiach is not a new reality. Msiach is my father once took me to a Yiddish play when I was a child. They open the curtains and I see all these beautiful props and I was six years old. So I said, "Tati, how did they create all these props in a few seconds?" I thought that when they opened the curtains, that's when they created this beautiful stage. And of course, my father explained to me that this stage has been prepared maybe weeks in advance. The curtains opening only allowed me to see what has been there. Messiah is not a new world, a new reality. Mashiach is Hashem opening the curtains so you could see the real world that you created, the world that you live in. It's a beautiful story about Rebendel of Viteps. He was in Tvaria in Tiberius you know he was quarantined from Purim till after Shu was because of an epidemic because of a pandemic token involved 1786 and Mendelpskar was in his home. Now there was a mishug guy a crazy guy who went on the har the mount of olives with aer and he started to blow and Jews always are waiting for mashia. So rumor had it is blowing. Wow. Wow. It was so exciting. The news came to somebody ran in and said, "Rebel is here. He's blowing. Mashia is coming." He went to his window. He opened his window. He stuck out his head. He gave a sniff and he said, "No, no, it's not it's not Msiah. It's not a Leoi." So they asked the question, why couldn't he smell in his own home? Why did he have to open the window? The answer is cuz in his own home there was always the atmosphere of Msiah. He had to open the window and stick his head out because when Mashiach comes the whole world will experience the oneness of Hashem in the world. But in his house there was always the atmosphere of Mashiach. So when we speak about Msiach it's about creating a reality now. It's about living with your highest deepest self. It's about being in tune with your infinity. It's about believing in your music even if you can't always hear it. Msiah is just our ears and our eyes will open up to hear the music and see the art. Let's go live to another question. Thank you Yoshua for your question. Let's go live to Yitzk Yakabov. Hi. Hello. Hi. Hi. Where are you from? I'm from Queens, New York. Queens, New York. How old are you? Um, I'm 13. You're 13? Okay, wonderful. Go ahead. Um, I was just wondering about how we could push ourselves to learn during these difficult times. I just feel like laying about and not learning, but I really want to learn, but I'm tired and sluggish. Okay. Are you getting enough sleep at night? Yes, you are. Yes. Okay. And I I think the answer to that is the answer to that is program. Yes. And you're learning right now learning. So here's the deal. Why don't you learn from people and sources that you're going to enjoy. For example, if you're enjoying this program, right? I have many of such classes and programs. Why don't you learn with me every day? Me or somebody else that you can choose. And that way you will enjoy the terra that you're learning. You see this is a great opportunity when we're out of school, right? There's also gifts. And the gifts is you could learn things that you don't always learn in school. You could discover new things. You could learn new shim. You could hear new teachers. It's a great opportunity. So I say to you, seize this opportunity. Ask yourself who are three rebies, three teachers who you would love to have in life. Choose them today. Go to their websites, get their MP3s, uh, go to their, shoot them. If you like a program like this, do it every day. Do for an hour, an hour and a half, 20 minutes, 30 minutes. Okay? You can come to my website, the yeshiva.net. We have I have 2,00 world. And that that way you will continue to grow in your learning and in your thing that I would say is try to make a commitment with maybe on the phone maybe on Zoom maybe FaceTime or another way or just on the phone like make a time every afternoon every morning to learn for 45 minutes for an hour. That way when you're learning two friends or three friends together it's always more exciting and it will take you off take you out of your sluggishness. That would be two suggestions that I would make to you. And it's remember it's important this time to be disciplined with your schedule. You wake up at a normal hour, get dressed. Don't stay in pajamas all day. I see you're dressed, but I'm speaking to your friends. Don't stay in pajamas. It's important to have a normal schedule. Okay. 8457774747. Thank you, Yitzk. If you want to come live, just text that you want to be live and we'll put you on the screen. 8457774747. Please. Huh? Okay. Please explain. Please explain the meaning of knocking out the teeth of the wicked son and the hagada who is considered a Russia. I am on a down world downward spiral. Is the correct way to deal with such people in such a harsh and weird way? How can one be told he won't be redeemed? Aren't we all going to be to Msiah? Is this really what you're supposed to do to a wicked child? Knock out his teeth, blunt his teeth. Where did the Hagada get this from? Does any did anybody ever do this? And why in the world are you going to tell your child that he will not be redeemed? I find that so harsh and quite rude especially I look at myself as that child. Three people ask this question in different words and I combine the questions together. Beautiful question and the answer is I think you have to understand this passage in the hagada in a deeper way. What's happening here in the Hagada is there is a child who is a Russia. What does it mean a Russia? Arussia means he sees himself as alien. He says this doesn't belong to me. I'm not part of it. He or she does not recognize their own value, their own beauty, their own holiness. I say God doesn't care about what I do, what I don't do. It doesn't mean anything. This person doesn't feel themselves to be part of the clown. You don't feel that you are deserving to be part of the glory and that's why you ultimately you deny Hashem because you don't feel that you belong you don't feel that you're connected and you know what tells us which literally means blunt his teeth which means get rid of the sharpness of the teeth and you know what that means it's a very powerful message sometimes you have a child or a person who says these very sharp sharp remarks, very snidey remarks. They're biting. And the Hagada says, "Don't fall prey. Don't bite back. Don't get sucked into their bite. Blunt their teeth. Go beyond the bite. Go beyond the sharpness of the teeth. And you'll see that inside there is such a beautiful soul." And you know what else you tell them? If this child would have been there, he would have not been redeemed. And this interpretation I heard from the labavba of blessed memory. He said as follows. You don't say if you were there you would not be redeemed. If he was there why aren't you talking to him? If you were there the answer is if he if a child like this would have been in Mitsay he would have not been redeemed because the only Jews who left Egypt were the Jews who wanted to leave. If you wanted to stay you didn't leave Egypt. But that's before the terror was given. Once the Jewish people came to our Sinai and we say every single Jew is sacred and divine for eternity, of course, you're going to be redeemed. This is one of the most powerful statements we're telling this child. You may call yourself unholy, but it's not true. You're holy. You're godly. You're loved infinitely. You're loved unconditionally. Of course, you're going to be redeemed. Once Mata happened, your soul is a piece of godliness. Of course, you're going to be redeemed. If you would have been there in then it was up to your choice. If you chose and you said, "I don't want to be part of this," then you were not part of this. Okay, my dearest friends, we know the nion of this generation is technology. If so, what does God want from us? It's now more than ever that people are online and on their devices all day. Especially with the Corona virus, we are online all day. Thank you so much for what all for what you do. You mean so much to so many. Thank you. I'm going to correct you on one thing you said in your question. I don't agree that I I understand what you mean, but I want to paraphrase it. I'm not sure it's right to say that the nan of the generation is technology which makes it sound like technology is evil. No, the nan of the generation is the is that the technology could be used by the sahara and it could be used by the that's the technology is not evil. Technology is a gift that the creator of the world gave our generation. Just like the gift of electricity, just like the gift of computers, the same is true the gift of the internet and the gift of modern technology. The reason we could do this right now is because of the gift of technology. This is a divine power that was discovered in our world. So therefore, that's not evil or negative. It could be used in a most gorgeous, beautiful, amazing way and in a very very destructive way. So for example, if I take a device and I use it for things or websites that are immodest, that are impure, that are destructive, that's where the Yates took over and used the technology. And that's why it's very important to have filters on your devices. It's also very important to have a few hours every day when you don't use it. Not only when you're sleeping, when you're awake, because people, even if they have great filters, they become addicted to their screens and it's not good for your brains and it takes you out of a social relationship. So, it's important a few hours a day you put it on off, not on vibrate, on off when you're ding, when you're learning, spending time with loved ones, with family, with friends, it's very important that a few hours a day it's gone. So, it doesn't take over your life. Instead of you owning it, it owns you. But we should not believe that technology is evil. Look at what's happening here right now. During the Corona virus, I had this and the privilege to give dozens and dozens and dozens of classes to hundreds of thousands of Jews around the world, messages and classes and presentations because of modern technology. Technology was created to spread ta to fill the world with the knowledge of God to actually bring out the oneness of the universe. 8457774747. You can text your questions and if you want you can come on live. You can come on live. I am 19 years old. I want to know if therapy is consistent with Judaism. I think that therapy makes people very self-centered. They start blaming everybody around them. A Jew has to live with gratitude. A Jew has to believe that there's no accidents in our purposeful world. I'm not saying I'm on that level and I am a believer in talking about your feelings to somebody who can help you. I did go to an experienced top therapist and for Yiddish I'm going to a rabbi and after hard work I found out what Yiddish is all about. And I'm wondering now if I made a mistake. Is therapy really the right way? A lot of my friends are in therapy. It doesn't help them. I understand you're an angry teenager. But don't force your anger on Judaism. You should discover the beauty of Judaism. A therapist should empower Jews through making them leaders, not victims. I love your perspective. I want your answer. Wow. Beautiful question. The answer is very brief. There are unbelievable therapists, great ones. There are fine therapists and there are lousy therapists just as you have it in any other field. Dentists and doctors and physicians and any other profession in the world. You have the great, you have all right, they're all right. And you have people who are not the best. Sometimes actually pretty lousy. It's so important to be an educated consumer. If your therapist is not bringing you to the places you want to go. If he or she is not helping you become the person you want to become, it's time to uh find somebody else. Now, you really have to know the situation. Not everybody needs therapy. There's no mitzvah to go to therapy. In some situations, it can be very, very helpful. Yiddishkite is amazing. Yiddish is beautiful. However, if my mirror is broken now, I can have the most handsome person facing the mirror, but when I look at the mirror, I'm going to see a broken person. Not because the person is broken, but because my mirror is broken. So, Judaism may be beautiful, but if it's being reflected in my broken mirror, I'm going to see a broken Judaism. And I'm going to need help in fixing my own mirror. And sometimes a therapist can do that. The objective of the therapist is never to turn you into a victim or to an angry person. The objective of the therapist is listen carefully to give you an understanding of what is happening in your own heart and mind so that you should understand it and then have the choices that you are capable of making. You should understand the abilities that you have to choose your path in life to understand that you're not forced to live in a particular orbit or stuck in particular habits or attitudes. That's the role of the therapist. If he or she is doing that, it could be extremely extremely helpful. Wow. Okay. I watched your WhatsApp clips about the virus spreading. I am having a very hard time with some religious Jews. Outside my window, I watch the police stopping so many Jews walking to visit family on Yam afternoon. I am frustrated. I am embarrassed at their behavior. They are acting selfishly and ignorantly. It makes me question whether I should continue to be part of this community. Maybe I should move out and one day raise my family alone, coming close to Hashem in their own way. And yet I know that one day my children need to feel part of a community. It takes a village to raise a child. But I feel disgusted by their behavior. My answer to your question is in many ways you're right. It's very very painful. It's it's horrible. It's horrible that after seeing the amount of funerals and hearing about the cases and knowing that almost every doctor in the world is pleading with everybody to remain quarantined and 99% of rabbis and and Jewish leaders are pleading with everybody to stay home and that people could be so oblivious and they mingle in stores and supermarkets or go to simas or go to homes or go to shs or go to other places is unconsciousable. It it it cannot be defended. It is wrong. It is immoral. It is disgusting. It's an indirect It can indirectly cause the death of innocent souls. And the fact that it's being done by people who would otherwise sacrifice to save one Jewish soul. And yet these very same people will push and mingle at a funeral or in a grocery store thinking that oh it's fine I'm healthy is is be is is something I can't believe I I just don't understand it. There was a funeral the other day and hundreds of Jews came and the police had to disperse them. And I was thinking because of this one rabbi's funeral now, God forbid, who knows if there's going to be many more funerals as a result of this virus spreading. All the people who were there who bring it now to people who may have a weak immune system or elderly people, even if they have the best intentions, why is this? Why is this? So the first thing you have to understand is that there was a very serious lack of understanding. Jews, religious Jews are always going to shul. They're always going to sus. It took so many people time to digest the truth that you got to stay home. And some people just didn't get it. They some people still don't get it. Another issue is your whole life, their whole life, they were told every problem in life run to every go learn more. Go to the Bish. go say to and suddenly here they're saying there's a problem don't go to sh don't go to don't go to the mikvah it's hard for people to wrap their brain around it so I understand all of this I understand it but it's not forgivable they are making a colossal colossal mistake now you say that you want to run away from the community I say to you this only shows that our community needs leadership our community needs people like you who get it, who care, who are empathetic. It's not a time to run away. It's a time to remain and show leadership. Generally, let me tell you a rule in life. It's a sad rule, but it's a true rule. You can't always confuse Jews with Judaism. I wish you could, but you can't. You cannot always confuse Jews with Judaism. Some Jews embody the noble qualities and teachings of Judaism, and some the opposite. And it's it's a sad reality, but that's the truth. If there's somebody who wants to come live, this is your last chance. 8457774747 and you could tell us that you want to go live and we'll put you on the screen. We do have here we do have here an endless amount of questions, but the hour is late. So, I think I'm going to take I'm going to take one. Okay, we have close to 200 questions. I do want to take another very important question. I'm going to take I think two or three more questions and then we're going to call it a night. Okay. My question is I am a ber. I barely put on fillin. I never din. I struggle with keeping shabas. I don't feel that shabas or fillin or davining benefits me. Doesn't benefit me. It does nothing important for me. Obviously many other mitzvah I neglect too. I really appreciate you and I love learning from you. Can you give me background and inspiration to help me get back on track? I am signing off as a baker, but trust me, I know that there are many out there who share my questions. You know guys, I love you and I'm so happy that you're asking all these questions. I'm so happy that you're honest, you're candid. There's nothing like your honesty. It's it's it's mama's great and and I'm loving every moment of it. And I think we're going to have to do this again because we have now almost 200 questions if not more. And we're going to have to do this again. Let me give you uh let me say something uh let me say something briefly to you my dear bah and all of you who are listening. The first most important thing is you need to understand and appreciate who you are. You are the interlacing link between heaven and earth. You know, sometimes you look in the mirror and you just think you're insignificant. You're just a random mistake on a big planet and a little virus could come into anybody and take their life or make them sick. And you sometimes look at yourself as just insignificant. I sleep, I wake up, I go back to sleep, I grope around in the kitchen looking for my mommy's food. Yeah. I open the pot. Oh, we're having chicken again, potato cookle again, matzah again. I go back to sleep. I go back to my phone. Life is boring. Life is not interesting. But that's the greatest lie in the world. I want you to remember that you are an ambassador to the whole world. You are an am you are an ambassador of love, of light, of hope. You are God's messenger in this world. Your words are powerful. Your thoughts are meaningful. and your actions are impactful. They're cataclysmic. The worst mistake you could make about yourself is saying and believing I'm insignificant. I don't belong. I am valueless. You need to understand that what you do and what you don't do means so much because your soul is infinite. Your presence is infinite. I just told a fellow the other day, you know, he said, "Nobody cares about me. Nobody I'm lonely. No one even knows what's going on. And I told him a joke. I said, "There was once a guy who came to a rabbi and he said, you know, I'm alone in this world. Nobody gives a hoot about me." And suddenly a 100red billion white blood cells spoke up and they said, "What are we? Chopped liver." Because basically you have 100 billion white blood cells that are roaming your body every single moment like police, like security, like Shmeira checking out for every infection, for every virus, for every bacteria, for every invading enemy to get rid of him, which is basically what they try to do. 100 bill at least 100 billion, maybe more white blood cells that are roaming around every millisecond of your life. Don't say nobody cares about you. 24 hours there when you're sleeping, when you're daydreaming, they don't stop. There's a major system happening in your life. We are all connected. But your soul is a you are a piece of infinity. It's so important for you to understand the value of your life, the grandness of your life, the impact of your life. Not because other people know it, but you have to know it because your God knows it. That's point number one. Point number two, you have to understand you have a soul. You have a very big soul. Your soul needs nutrition. Just like your body needs the right nutrients. Your soul needs the right nutrients. A Jew living according to Tyra is a Jew who's living a healthy life physically, emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually. Sometimes, you know, my father and my uncle died from diabetes. I'm not supposed to eat a lot of sugar, but I see sugar and I like sugar and I want to eat it. Sometimes I'm not in the mood of staying away from sugar. I'm not in the mood of staying away from carbs even though I'm supposed to. But when I do, when I do live a disciplined life, as time passes, I realize I have more energy. I'm more healthy. I'm more in touch with myself. I have more adrenaline. This is true about physical foods. The same is true about spiritual foods. A Jew who celebrates Shabas is a Jew who's feeding his or her nama the right nutrients. The same is true with putting on fillin. The same is true with davining. But davining should be meaningful, personal. Daving doesn't m you don't have to do a long davining but take a few sections of davining say them in English or in a language that you understand be sincere and this doesn't mean I always I'm always in the mood of it but yiddeshkite is a lifestyle that as you become you allow it to become part of your life you'll realize it enriches you it gives you the right perspectives it creates the right boundaries it gives structures that are meaningful it's like eating the right foods for my blood type. There's also eating the right foods and doing the right things for your nishama type. It's good for you. It's important for you. It's vital for you. It's what your soul needs. And don't be afraid of mistakes either. We make mistakes and we learn from our mistakes and we rise up again and recreate recreate our lives. Let me take one more question. my dearest dearest friends. Wow. Beautiful, beautiful stuff. Beautiful, beautiful stuff. Wow. Guys, okay. We are Yeshiva, guys. We're not going back to Isel. What's the best thing we can learn now that we're home? Yakov from Hollywood, Florida. Thank you for everything you do and say you give us a lot of strength. We watch you. Okay boys from Israel. I would suggest a few things. First of all try to create everyday try to learn with with telephone or with zoom or with other technology uh from your class or a friend or a family member. It's very very important. So you have set times. Another very important thing is I would suggest that every day you should learn a section of from the parab with rashi. So today is parmini. So today is Monday you go from sheni toi. Tuesday and during the week you finish the whole para with rashi and learn it well. Every day I think you should learn some gimra. Every day you should learn some. I would also suggest to use this time to to study also the spiritual parts of Judaism. Learn of hashkaf of makava. Take for example one of thearim ofidus. It touches the soul. It speaks to your soul. It's a great opportunity. There's great books out there. There's great sharim out there. I myself have in the yeshiva.net hundreds of sharim in hashkafis. You could follow them. Another suggestion is take a book a safer that you never learned and in yeshiva you usually don't learn and do it now. Okay. It could be it could be go through would be great. Another example the introduction of the Rambam wrote introductions to Sanhedrin the 11th chapter introduction to but his introduction to Mishnayas is a classic. Most boys don't learn it ever. So please learn that. Takearim that you usually would not learn and now is a great time to explore all of these. Okay. 845777-4747. It's your last opportunity to go live. If you want to go live, you can text us 845777-4747. If somebody wants to email me privately, you can do that. Rabbi y atthe yeshiva.net and I will try to answer you. Looking forward to see you again. A few people asked one question. So therefore I am going to take this question. It's now late and this will be our last question for the night. Let me read it to you. It comes from Danil in Germany and a few others a few other teenagers asked a similar question. Okay. I want to thank you for the strength you provide in the uncertain times. I live in Germany. Like many teenagers I feel that I haven't discovered my core self yet. Many times I feel wow I have reached a place where I wanted me to be. I define myself a new as that person. But it doesn't take too much time and I discover that I have stumbled again and again in that field. For example, anger, set study times, healthy routines, interpersonal relationships, interpersonal relationships. This realization is frustrating. I want to be a good and healthy person and I realize almost all of my shortcomings and yet I feel helpless about them in the long run. I change and I go back to my old self. When do I get to a place in life where I can proudly say that I'm satisfied with myself? When will I discover a stable me which isn't jumping between me being very lazy to being very ambitious, me being very cynical to being very kind, me being very greedy to being very giving. I want to become the best version of myself. I don't know when will I finally be satisfied with me. When can I be sure that I will wake up at at time and live the life that I have established for myself? When can I calmly expect the right behavior of myself when it's needed? I want good mid, but how do we make sure they manifest properly? Thank you for being an inspiration to the Jewish people. Looking forward to your advice. A good Dil 18 from Germany. I love this question. So the answer to your question, my dearest friend, is and I have good news and bad news. The good the bad, let me start with the bad news. The bad news is I'm not sure you ever reach a point where you wake up in the morning and you're completely satisfied with yourself. In fact, I pray that you don't reach that point cuz then you will have fulfilled your mission on this world and we want you to be here many many long happy and healthy years. You have to understand that's also the the and that's also the good news. The good news is that you're feeling frustrated about something that you don't have to completely feel frustrated about. The story of life is that we don't have one soul. We have two souls. We operate on two states of consciousness. We hear confusing voices. There is a conflict that goes on in us constantly. When you we're young and when we're old. Don't feel frustrated about that. Remember that conflict is very normal. It means you're human. And it means that you have not one soul. You have two souls. One soul is called an animal soul and one soul is called a godly soul. And throughout the day, you will hear voices from both souls. The key in life is not to get rid of the conflict. The key in life is to know that you always have the choice which voices to embrace and which voices to allow to guide your life. I'll give you an example. You're driving a car. I don't know if you drive it, but if I'm driving a car, and there's a backseat driver who knows nothing about the road, and he tells me, "Rabbi Wi, take the light. Take the light. Take make a right. Make a left." He doesn't know what he's talking about, but he keeps on telling me what to do. I can't always tell him to leave the car. It doesn't always work. I can't always get him to be quiet. But you know what I can always do? I can always say, "Listen, I have the steering wheel and I'm not going to let go of the steering wheel." You have the steering wheel and you can always allow the best version of yourself to hold on to that steering wheel. You always decide which cho which voice to listen to. And let me tell you this uh this story. There was a a grand ch a grandfather a zeda who was talking to his grandchildren and he told his grandchildren in every life there is a big fight a fight between two wolves. One wolf is filled with fear and envy and greed and arrogance and anger and self-pity and resentment and deceit and insecurity. And the other wolf is filled with joy and serenity and confidence and wholesomeness and humility and inner vision and strength and generosity and honesty and gentleness and compassion and they're always fighting. These two wolves are always fighting. And the grandchild looks at his grandfather and he says, "Grandpa, which wolf is going to win?" And his zeda looked at him and said, "The one that you are going to feed." And that's what I want you to remember, Denal. There are two wolves. There are two souls in us, but there's one that you're going to feed. And when you continue that feeding that wolf, the stronger it gets, and the other voices become weak, but don't expect the other wolf to die. They're going to fight, but you can always hold on to that steering wheel. And that's what I tell you to do. Okay. Yes. Let's take one last question. Somebody wants to come live and they say it's an important question. So please come live. Yes, we will take a question from the next person. We can do that right now. Let me take Okay. Okay. I see. I see. They don't want to come, but you just asked if I could take their question. Of course. Okay. Beautiful. So, great stuff. Great stuff. Great stuff. Okay, this is a question from Thank you. Thank you. Actually a few girls asked this question and a few boys asked this question. So let me take this question from a lot of forms of entertainment are closed. Many teenagers are watching movies and watching TV or using social media to pass the time. Do you think this is the cause of the long social distancing period and this is the cause of illness and death and what are ways in which we can change this and we could limit this as much as possible. I I'm not the person who defines the causes of tragedies. I don't have that type of knowledge. Every one of us should look at ourselves and always try to become better and repair. But in terms of your question, I would say that this is a time when every parent must communicate with their children and their teenagers in a very real and intimate and direct way with a lot of love and a lot of respect. This is the time that we're all home together and we all want to encourage our children, our teenage children to live productive life lives. Everybody needs to relax. Everybody wants to enjoy themselves. But we want to make sure that our relaxation or our enjoyment are healthy. They promote our health, the health of our body and the health of our souls. So every family must talk about this. This is the job of of parents and teachers and educators who should still be communicating with their students and especially parents who should really help their children find a schedule that is productive and meaningful for them. And I'm not sure that there is a one path for everybody. You know, a lot depends on the family and the nature of the family and and where the child is coming from and where the parents are coming from, etc. One of the girls asked this and it's it's it's a basic extension of this question. Many of us are struggling deep inside spiritually and emotionally. We need a lot of help. The problem is we're afraid to talk to our parents because we're afraid of our parents reaction. They're going to judge us. They're going to be upset. They'll be disappointed. What advice can you give us teens who need help, but we're too afraid of speaking to our parents about it? The answer I would say is try speaking to one parent at least who you feel is more open. Ask them permission. Say, "Mommy, Tati, can I have a private conversation? It may be a little hard for you to hear." Many of you will be surprised. Some of your parents may be more open than you think. Try to do that because it may benefit you. If you feel you cannot speak to your parents or somebody else who's very close to you and ask them to arrange a meeting with a third party. It could be a mashpia, a mentor, a rabbi, a rebbitson, an older sibling, an uncle, an aunt, a therapist, a psychologist, a coach, etc. If you want, you can email me, Rabbi Y at the yeshiva.net. I will try to refer you to the right people or maybe I myself can help you. But don't repress what is going on. It's very important to address your struggles, your issues with people. There is a lot of help available out there. And I want to emphasize this to all teenagers. Some of you have been through difficult things. Some of you have been through abuse. Some of you are in difficult homes. Some of you have deep issues inside of yourself with your hormones, with your identity. Some of you struggle with your Yiddish guide. Who am I? Who am I not? Am I like my older brother? Am I like my older sister? Do I want to get married? At what age? What should be my future? How am I spending my time? These are very important and good questions. Don't think you're crazy for having these questions. Welcome to the human race. God gave us a mind. We're supposed to use it. There's conflict in us. People are very, very interesting. Our job is not to judge ourselves, but to help ourselves shine, to realize who we are, to realize how powerful and good we are. So don't judge the fact that you have questions. Find a person. If it's not the parent, it may be your parent. But if it's momish impossible with your parent, find somebody else. And if that person doesn't work, don't give up. It's very important to have people in your life, at least one person with whom you are open to, you are open with. My dearest, dearest brothers and sisters, dearest teenagers from all over the world, I love you. I bless you. Thank you so so much for being here with us. Thank you for your questions. You could continue to text them. 845777-4747. You can email me your questions. Rabbi wway at the yeshiva.net. We are going to do this bleeder. Once again, look out for our messages. You can come back to the website the yeshiva.net. You'll see the schedule over there when we will do this again. Bleeder. And I wish you may this be a true holiday of liberation, a li holiday of healing, a holiday of comfort, of love, of oneness for you, for your families, for your communities, for the entire Jewish people. And may the celebration of the Exodus of Egypt bring us to the ultimate celebration of the ultimate redemption through Msiahu speedily in our days. My love and blessings. Good mad, good, good night and thank you very much.