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[Music] is we're back doing our Wednesday night Shure of stump the rabbi asking questions hopefully you guys have some questions tonight couple of nice updates that we have for everybody um the uh tonight's sh will be for elat Moshe benim sah barrel uh Simka Ben Sarah Nim Ben zakaya and um IA but Mara David tal Sarah Jonas Ben Sher Haley ysep Ben B roel Stefan Ben Katarina aaham and Ari Ben Aiza schlomo yov Ben kayara and Moshe Ben s and also for foran OSH Boris Gabi Ben Doris elad Boris David benri Mara Julie and all of will have especially those that are our partners in all the amazing work that we're doing a few uh nice updates we we just got a video that was made of just uh one of the areas that uh a place called yel uh that uh they did the uh distribution of food 400 people or so and um it wasn't enough we we we actually last night uh I told her to uh uh to help some more probably another hundred or so we sent the money for that and uh uh you see these people and you know I mean you you know the video doesn't show their faces but you hear their uh the words that they're saying um because for the sake of their cavod we don't like to disclose who it is even though nobody here knows them but still you know it's they're already suffering enough there's no reason to show who they are and so on but uh you see how much they appreciate these food uh and clothing that they get for the holidays it's uh amazing because you know for many people this is like weekly shopping you know many people like you know give them the meat you know stuff is not uh uh they're getting they're getting a lot of nice things but at the same token for for an average family sometimes this is like what they do you know what they deal with every week and so you see how much people appreciate it it's it's really amazing and it gives you a you know warms your heart that you have the uh ability to uh be used as a vessel for to uh to help his people so the continues uh you know we're continuing to raise as much money as possible to help people for the holidays um we we're going to have a another distribution uh in the next uh few days we'll uh um getting the uh the people getting the food together but then we're going to do a much larger distribution right around before sukot so anyone that wants to be involved in that please do uh second thing is is that that uh we just launched our uh campaign uh like we did last year there's you know many people make the largest donations of the Year usually during this time of the year and they go to the synagogue they buy an Aliyah so they can go up to the tah and uh you know make a mitvah maybe get a little bit of cavod and uh you know if you're sapharic there's usually a bidding process right in front of everyone if you're ashkanazi it's a bidding press behind the scenes um but uh at the end of it all although it's very important to uh try to contribute to your communities and to good things many people that have contributed to kiru have seen much greater reward not only Ina but also even in because we did this campaign last year uh and um many of the people that uh were part of it uh told me that you know despite the economic crisis and uh you know life crisis that's happened over this covid-19 they got a blessing so it's working so this year we added a little bit more things last year uh anyone that bought the blessing got a video from RAB frim with a special you know customized blessing with your name and so on this year we'll uh do our best to do both of us he'll do one video and I'll do a video for the people that are uh buying these uh uh these blessings and there's also another level where someone can do that as well as uh get a lecture uh dedicated to themselves or even if somebody has the financial means to do it even get a to a point where they could sponsor an entire series because we're coming to a close on a couple of serieses and we're going to start a new one and anyone that wants to sponsor series can be part of it of course these things are not uh um they're not $5 so don't ask me oh why is it so expensive if that's your question do me a favor don't ask it's not about it being expensive the point is you're supposed to help us build organization so we could do more good trust me it's not paying my rent it's not paying rer fr's rent it's not it's it's a uh simply to build organization help people with food distribute CDs and so on and so forth and that's actually one of the things that people saw in a video that we published last night short one and a half minute video of the enormous achievements that the team hasem has made over the last year uh just a few things that stand in the top of my head is that over 60 million minutes of our shim have been watched over the last year 16 million minutes so just imagine anyone that took a part of it and let's say gave enough money to take let's say 10% of it so you're talking about 600,000 minutes okay that I'm sorry 6 million minutes 6 million minutes um no yeah 6 million minutes that have been learned uh you know and you you have it in your account now even if you study 24 hours a day yourself you're not going to get to that so for a person to be part of such a thing it's it's an enormous thing and again doesn't necessarily need to be 10% it could be 5% it could be 1% the point being is is that when you do kiru you have uh exponential rewards because even if that person is thinking yeah but I only donated $1,000 over the last year you know so how much could that get me well think about it okay so let's say that got you a uh I don't know let's say a th minutes $1,000 let's say th000 minutes just for argument sake now that th000 minutes is not doesn't end over there why because the person or the people that learn those thousand minutes are not going to do mitv because of those thousand minutes they're going to do chuva they're going to get closer to Hashem all of that goes to that person's account so it's a exponential reward that never ends and that's why people that are very smart about their Investments for invest as much as they possibly can into KU because they want to make sure that they don't just have a nice house and a nice kitchen here they have a nice house over there and you know this doesn't uh come cheap by any stretch of the imagination not because we take big salaries or any of that but simply because we're trying to reach as many people as possible to reach 60 million minutes in one year is not a cheap thing you know you have to do a lot of different things to get to people and if you just to give you guys a you know a uh a statistic to compare it to you have an organization that uh so no one gets offended I'm not going to mention their name but everyone that is in the Torah world knows who I'm talking about they have somewhere in a neighborhood of 930 to 950 rabbis okay on their Network and they and they raise millions of dollars millions they have campaigns where in 24 hours they raise a million and a half dollars and they do it a few times a year anduk let them $100 million I don't really care doesn't make doesn't there's no money coming out of my pocket that's you know if somebody else makes money but just so you understand to to to host 900 rabbis and have all of the newsletters and the videos and the staff and so on cost a lot of money so they have 930 to 950 rabbis that they're hosting and every day there's new and many people get out of it now their entire network and what their their whole budget and what they're doing is that they're saying with this budget with these millions of dollars that we've raised another million dollars recently for new servers and another million dollars for this another million a lot of money we are hosting 900 rabbis great how much are we reaching people they say 9 million minutes I'm sorry 9 million hours 9 million hours so 9 M million hours we have 60 million minutes which is 1 million hours okay so they say oh so that's n better yeah you can say that if you want if you if you just simply look at that yeah technically it is more but you have to look at it this way 950 rabbis with 9 million hours two rabbis with 1 million hours so you could do the math of what's more what's less point being is there's an enormous amount of that is helping us reach a lot of people in all walks of life some are some are are yes some are some are huge enormous which as a side note there's a uh dear friend of mine that I've been in communication with for this last uh year or so that I tell you guys that I I'm always surprised that he watches my sh because he's a genius and I'm not saying it because he's my friend he's simply a genius he is doing the of which in essence is very similar to what ra kki does where he completes the and thei and the mid and the and tanak and a few other things that I can't even remember the names of every year for the last I believe four or five years now I don't know how he finds time to do such a thing needless to say watch my sh but because he loves he recently started doing videos to teach short videos short movies I I promoted it a little bit last week uh this week or last week I told people to watch it we put it on our Channel his name is R Adam Summers he's a is not videos are not only Pleasant to hear and very good but you're it's not a regular person it's a genius so highly recommend everybody to subscribe to his channel listen to his uh it's it's wonderful that people that are have real serious are willing to jump into the fire of K because there's a bunch of idiot in the world and they're already you know they're the fire they're the actual causing the Gom fire that we have in the world today but see when you have somebody that actually has real that actually studies the studies the complies with it to thick and thin is's willing to teach it's a big gift to so we have some serious that are watching our from from Ash from some people that are very famous people that I'm not going to mention their names simply because I don't know if they want me to mention their names but they watch the sh and the point being is that there a lot of people getting benefit from the uh and and many of them when I ask them how come you watch the and they say listen everybody needs M everybody needs and if you want to get it in English you know they they claim that uh this is the place to be so why why does everybody need M if you want to be a servant of hem first and foremost you have to know that you have to soften your character traits and make yourself more humble more giving more generous and and obviously a person that Hashem wants to make a vessel to bring good to the world and this requires M because you cannot get it simply by learning just one other subject or any other one subject so many people are benefiting from this so a million hours in in the last year uh and growing we have distributed over 5,000 books and uh um newsletters over the last year we've helped uh over 10,000 people uh where they eat clothes over the last year which uh that's one of my personal favorites uh to see some of these really amazing people eat uh gives a person a certain pleasure to know that you had a little you know you had something to do with it you know you press the prea button you press the button that's what I did I pressed the button and if you I have have a little Merit and the thing is though is that it's it's a uh it's amazing that there's so much good that can be done and uh you know there are some people that are doing it but hopefully that list continues to grow so uh the uh R sh campaign has several choices like I said one is to get the blessing uh where we pray for you on R you're also going to get a personalized uh video for myself and from Rim uh and then there's a second choice which is to do a as well as have a lecture dedicated to you or C uh is uh to have a and also have a whole entire series dedicated now again it's a uh for anyone that wants to do it or knows someone that wants to do it aside from that another uh good uh good news is that uh although we don't necessarily you know recommend people on a regular basis when I find something good I love to recommend it because that's in essence the whole key the key is to share the good now last week I think it was or two weeks ago I told you guys about Ben Israel books.com many people are very happy and already placed orders and started getting books and uh you know they uh they've been looking for this type of stuff for a while and uh they were very happy that we recommended them now there is another thing that I've recommended to many people privately uh but never did it on a um on a uh on a public scale simply never never thought of it or just never got to it one of the most difficult things that uh we have in this generation is that uh you know is teaching kids uh but this particular thing is really not just for kids I believe this is for everybody uh especially Bala uh converts people that are serious about Judaism uh but also of course for kids uh it's tough to teach people today uh because more or less everyone's a kid today and uh and we have a very difficult time focusing because we have distractions you have the phone you have the iPad you have the notepad you have the this pad you have the TV if you still have it you have uh you know all types of things distracting you and it's tough this is also part of the reason of why we make some of our videos as in a movie format you know because it's to capture your attention for those 5 or 10 minutes and give you the to keep going closer to Hashem for the rest of the day now but to learn to learn like the laws whether it's to how to blow a shabat or what really is uh because everyone you know is confused about what L is generosity different things like that that gets a little bit more complicated why CU it involves a lot of rate details and the person that learns it knows that you have to learn a lot of information and then be smart enough and have enough to put it in a box in a video format of five or 10 minutes now I believe that no one is doing it better than Torah live it's a organization that I've been familiar with for a little while uh they are Wonder beautiful organization they're run by Rabbi Roth and he's a serious very nice person too and um he started the organization and um you know he uh he called me the other day and uh we spoke for a little while and um he invested his own money into this organization I mean one of the main ways that they have this organization is utilized by is by yes different yes use Torah alive uh in order to uh you know to teach their kids because if the you know the old-fashioned way is not working for some people some kids want a tablet some kids want something interactive they don't want just the book you obviously have to always stick to the book but they want something more too so some schools have been utilizing Torah lives curriculum uh to teach but they also made it available for the average person especially during this whole covid-19 where a lot more people on the internet and I can tell you personally my own kids have been listening to Torah live for I don't know the last year or so maybe less uh and uh they amaze me I watch some of the videos with them and uh I always love the videos but aside from that I see how my kids react to these videos and some other people that I recommend it to how they react to these videos and they absolutely love it and it impacts them now one of the most difficult things in recommending people is that many times people tell me listen why don't you uh host my friend he's a rabbi he wants to maybe come to your sh I always say thank you but no thank you oh why don't you do something uh you know a uh an event with such and such Rabbi thank you but no thank you why because if I do an event with you that means I have to vouch for you now if you if I know you and I know that you're in I don't mind I'm more than happy to actually you know we did some things with I know who they are but somebody I don't know I can't do it why because if you come back to next week or next month and you start becoming like M or like some of these other people that distort the Tor I can then all the people that are that I recommended they're going to fall with you so I can't do it one of the beautiful things that I've noticed time and time again with each and every single video the rabbi Roth has made in a Torah live is that it's emit they teach emit when it comes to M they teach emit when it comes to they teach em which is absolutely beautiful beautiful to uh to uh uh to see available to the English-speaking public you know some of this stuff you know is available in other languages other organizations have it but in English in my opinion this is really the uh one that has it and I recommend it really for both adults and for children not just for uh for children now you could go to their website tor. and get a uh free uh you know sign up for free or you could be smart and get even more than that how by being a student and watch the sh today because that means you're going to get a special code that you're going to give a lot more access if you get something for free on your own it's good you're going to get access to some of the videos but Rabbi Roth God bless him gave us uh out of the goodness of his heart a special access for all of the students of be uh where you can go there you put the code and you'll get access to the whole thing which is something that usually you have to pay for so you'll go to Torah live.com slbe z a t you go there it's going to tell you put this code b e z r a t in this box which person Ence means you have to just know how to copy and paste and you get full access to Torah lives uh material there's a lot of wonderful things there and you'll enjoy it I love it I love recommending good things especially since today we need it more than ever so with that being said you know we have a uh opportunity to ask questions each week some of you are very good at asking questions but only when the camera is off I'm hoping today that you guys will ask some questions when the camera is on um but uh you know there's obviously other material we can go over I uh there's I think a couple of questions that people have sent me that I can ask but uh who wants to start with some questions everybody knows the entire tah nobody has any questions okay all right so oh here we go you know so um so what is it your wife is not coming so I don't get any water anymore kidding um when someone someone one is uh per say purchasing Their Blessings right giving can but um their heart is not really in it okay are they receiving that same blessing as what do you mean their heart is not in like they don't really want to do it yeah like I mean they're they're just giving the money to give it but they don't really want to do it yeah okay so it's the same the question is if somebody is doing a Mitzvah let's say he's donating but he doesn't really want to donate does he really still get the Mitzvah better yet we'll add to this question if somebody let's say comes to to learn T but he doesn't really want to go he doesn't really want to go does he still get a mitah should he still go the says in a couple of places that even if a person does a mitvah without willpower he doesn't want it he doesn't want to do it in fact he hates it still wants him to do it because once he does it it he'll get the Merit to see another Mitzvah and that other Mitzvah they'll have an opportunity again and the more he does more he connects to these mitv eventually what ends up happening is he starts liking them because he starts tasting the sweetness of the tah in the beginning many times people learn tah they get inspired by sh or something like that and they want to learn from the books but the books of very different than a lecture why cuz in a lecture I give you everything on a silver platter I'll tell you where the source is I'll tell you who said it we connect all the different subjects all the different books everything is given to you on a silver platter now if you go take one of these and you start learning on your own you see that it's a world apart between the gar and the sh why because the gar is going to talk about one particular subject for 10 hours and all the different walks of life about this particular subject and every possible question that you can think of and can't think of they're going to ask and they're going to answer and they're going to tell you debates about it but it's in so many words it's focusing and it's narrowing on one particular thing it's not giving you anything on a silver platter in fact you have to toil in order to even understand what is even being said there so it's a world apart so many times when people start learning the books they say oh this is it's not it's not where's the sweetness where's the sweetness the rabbi keeps talking about yeah he's talking he has all the information already so yeah for maybe for him it's sweet but I'm just learning this thing it's not sweet at all it's bitter it's hard takes me six hours to finish one page who wants to do this so the says exactly that initially you don't want to do it initially it's bitter but keep going why the more you keep going the closer you're going to get to that sweetness where eventually to start seeing how things add up and now that you've arrived at the right conclusion on your own you feel like this now has become yours you've become part of the Torah not just a reader of Torah like if you read math if you learn science you do all these things okay so you're knowledgeable about certain things but when you learn Torah the right way the Torah becomes part of you and is the sweetest thing that could ever exist in the world so everyone needs a little bit of sh a little bit of the actual obviously there's different levels of learning there's different levels of there's different levels of but the point being is that even if a person does not want to do Mitzvah whether it be learning t or giving whatever it is he should go and she should go and do it why number one hasem said so that's already enough of a reason number two it's good for you yeah but I don't like it it's good for you do it antibiotics you don't like it right they taste disgusting all of this technological Investments they still haven't figured out to make the antibiotic taste like anything edible but guess what if you have an infection you have to take it why it's good for you why cuz if you if you don't take you're going to die from the infection so sometimes we have to take something because said it that's enough of a reason but sometimes we are stubborn people we need something extra okay it's good for you when is it going to be good for me trust me it's good for you it's just that you're not going to see the benefits of the Cure right away may take a little time may take a day may take a week may take a month but point being is eventually you're going to see it eventually you're going to get it and when a person does the will of hem simply because hem said it they'll eventually taste the sweetness of the now as we learned the other day one from the Kish is that one of the most difficult things for a person to uh to overcome in his acquiring of the sweetness of the tah is the fact that he himself is holding himself back because he or she has terrible character traits she wants to learn a but still walk around with a half a half a half a clothes you know she wants to learn T and be holy and read but she doesn't want to cover her head he wants to learn T but he also wants to watch basketball he also wants to curse like a truck driver he also wants to uh you know do all types of things that Hashem says is forbidden and he has bad character traits and K thank you and K says these flood character traits are what's holding you back from the sweetness of the tah so yes you could still get some sweetness some sweetness without perfecting your character traits but to get the ultimate level of sweetness you have to perfect your character traits why because you have to make your physical body a vessel for this pure spirituality that wants to gift you so the way to do it is by doing things that hasem said even if you don't want to next question good question thank you for the water that's what we call her the better half okay so I to put a on a piece of paper K can K I'm going to get to that yeah I got that okay so someone heard me talk asked me about safaria it's a uh website on the internet uh that uh has many uh that uh KES that were translated to English uh some not uh but many have probably more than any other website that I know of at least uh they have they have an app that's very interactive and uh somebody asked me should I uh use this website this website kosher and I responded I think it was was off camera so I'll respond again if if you have uh the ability to buy the book let's say for example there's a book you want to read you want to read a certain gar or you want to read a certain or you want to read a certain mus books and that book is available in English for you to buy then do not use safaria go buy the book go buy the book okay for a few reasons but if it's not available and book format for whatever reason it's not available then obviously you may have to use safaria or websites like it there's another one uh that um uh it's called m r c a vaa i think it is that is also very good and that one is actually from my knowledge is 100% kosher uh it doesn't have as many things translated uh as safaria but nonetheless they're getting there uh the point is why why why why buy the the book and not just uh get a free ride for a couple of reasons number one it's always good to have KES in your house if you're going to read them not if you're just going to collect them not Furniture pieces I'm talking about books you're going to read it's always good to have books you're going to read in your house number two Safari is not available on yomtov or on Shabbat why because you're not allowed to use it so if you want to read that book on how you gonna do it you need a book that's number two number three number three when you hold a book if you're a reader you hold a book that book becomes like a little baby to you okay you don't want to leave that book you read something on the Internet it's almost like informal it's like you know it's like a you know it's like a friend it's like a friend oh yeah I read something I don't really remember where but was some website but if you read something in a book that impacted you you know where it is you know what it is you know the page number you know the three words before 87 words after why that's your baby that's your baby we just moved to a house recently and uh you know we had to reorganize my books and so on so I have some books my books and have you know some of the kids' books and have some books that are like neutral that I let them use also and so on so I told my wife okay so let's put the books over here my books in this you know the ones that I use all the time she said okay fine so uh she started putting the books and she stopped so I went and I got a few more books goes what I told you I I put all the books you said I said yeah yeah but I also need that one oh okay and then I also need that one oh okay Al and before you know it I'm carrying like piles and piles of books and she's laughing at me and she goes you can't you can't let them go can you I'm like I don't know they're next to me I know if they're next to me they're going to be okay if they're next I need them to be next to me now I'm going to read thousand books at once no but they're next to me why cuz it's books so that's another reason for me again anyone that's a reader it's a having a book is a world apart from having a website if you will now of course again there are many many good sources that I use and many other people use to learn on the internet and there's online books and even on our website there is a eBook section that you can download some books for free and print them out or just read them but if you have access to get a hard copy it's always better now that's the easy part the hard part is what this question is the last part is I said is that safaria is not reliable and that's the reason that's really the biggest reason of why I don't recommend you use it unless you have no other option and why do I what do I mean by safaria not being reliable number one many of their translations uh have certain issues because they use use not just Orthodox teachings not just Orthodox rabbis but also reform and conservative and you know like a uh and people that have not been really reliable as far as their translations and their da but if that wasn't bad enough they also use Christianity they also use it at times not all the time but at times they use Christianity as sources for commentary so yeah you can to have Rashi you're going to have TOS you going have B you have R you have Yos what where did this come from now when I first ran into it I first I I I was certain this is a mistake I I was certain somebody planted a bug there's no way these people are Jewish people why would they have you know some Christian sources for commentary why would they do such a thing so I contacted and somebody else also contacted safaria and asked them you know there's a mistake on your website there's Christian commentary there Christian commentary and uh they said no it's not a mistake and also the reform I also asked them about that there's commentary that's not it's it's not it's wrong there's certain things that yes it's uh used by reformed people or conservative people are translating the words this way but it's wrong so no it's not wrong we use these specific sources which also includes the reformed conservative and Christianity at times we it's a freefor all so it's not a mistake now you're going to say yeah but I never saw it okay so I'll give you a source because nothing is valuable without a source as we always say has a called and uh it's a uh midash commentary it's very very well known uh it's it was published somewhere in a neighborhood of about 5 600 years ago and uh it's a uh has some fantastic stories and background and so on in that particular book you will see uh that they have Christian commentary which obviously completely does not belong there completely is inappropriate uh so that's one source I'm sure you'll find other sources on your own like I said they have some good there too they have some good there too but unfortunately like all other conservative and reform uh mentalities uh they cannot it cannot be relied upon it cannot be relied upon meaning it's a use it as a last resort as a last resort you need something really quickly you already have a good understanding of something you don't have the book right there and then yeah maybe it's uh but uh uh if you have access to the book get the 20 bucks together 30 bucks together however much it car and go buy yourself a book so that's the reason why safaria is on my uh my uh bad uh bad list uh for that and again I also use them at times I also use them at times like I said for those desperate times where I need something specific in last minute before a lecture I need to print something out I'll use it because I could also translate I don't need to rely on their translations many times uh but the point being is is that uh it's uh if somebody is selling you let's say food okay somebody's selling you food why do you eat food because you want to live right so somebody's selling you food and you go to a store in a regular basis you eat everything is good right but then another guy opens a store next door and he has better looking food much better looking food his apples are much more red much more green his chocolate is from all types of places you never even heard of is is meat it looks like it's it's like jumping to your mouth you can't wait to shop there but then right before right before you enter right before somebody go hold on a second and he gives you a little note is you read the note says you see the guy's picture you see this oh this guy has killed a thousand people this guy's kill a thousand people with his food cuz sometimes he likes to put poison in it just to see what happens just to give everybody a chance you know every Apple there's a thousand apples one apple has poison in it let's see if you're the lucky guy I'm not putting poison every Apple not putting poison in every book once in a while you're going to find poison are you going to go by it looks delicious are you going to go by no you're not going to go by why because it's not reliable same concept here same concept with other rabbis that speak well and say nice things and have even done nice things if they have the wrong ideology if they state things that are against the Tor page 17 says you're not allowed to study from them what not to study Torah not to study anything because if they're not reliable when it comes to to they're not reliable in regards to anything can't say oh no but I I could learn from him no no if he's a heretic openly distorted in the T when it comes to you cannot learn from him simply can't simply can't so that's the thing one little bit of poison put there intentionally is already more than enough now once in a while somebody makes a mistake somebody makes a mistake and you know he's cooking and instead of putting some salt there he put some chemical that he has you know in his uh in his uh chemist uh lab by accident you're a chemist I'm sure you have some things that look like salt right you put something that looks like salt in in in a chant and somebody dies it's not a good news right but was an accident you can't tell that guy he's not a murderer he made a okay it's a careless mistake but you can't say that guy's a murderer he's a worth wor guy in the world can't it's a mistake mistakes happen mistakes happen you don't judge people based on mistakes mistakes are mistakes but if somebody intentionally puts the poison there and even after you bring it to their attention the damage that it could cause and they still don't care that's not a reliable person it's not a reliable person that's a person who says listen I'm going to sell a thousand apples one of the apples is going to have poison in it you want to use my apples at your own risk at my own risk here you go I don't want to take a risk at all how about that that's it that's a simple guess so you go to uh T you'll see commentary by Christians I'm sure you'll see it in other places too but the point being is even without this I still would recommend books you go to Reliable Publishers whether it be art scroll felim Naim and several others that I can't remember off the top of my head depending on what kind of books you want there is a uh you could go to Ben Israel books you can go to Safari Center you can go to Art score you go there's a lot of websites that sell Jewish books uh judical stories if you want point being is you have to make sure that the books that you're buying are coming from kosher Publishers because the publisher is even more important than anyone else because they even the the Publishers have a certain uh metrics that they're willing and not willing to to publish you know they're not you can't let say for example some a atheist and or or or or a person that's a missionary cannot call you know one of these Jewish Publishers that I just mentioned and say listen I want to publish a new book about Yos they can't why because this goes against the nature of the of the company and what they stand for so you have to rely on the Publishers a lot and and uh why because they don't want to put their readers at risk I don't want to put you at risk and that's why I say the things that perhaps other people don't want to say but it has to be said next question K problem this year um the first day so both right which C you like first so a uh no the the um you with with regards to candles Shabbat Shabbat is what you uh um I'm sorry the Y then Shabbat in Ence you're lighting both of them at the same time it's not like a uh it's the same it's simultaneous the whole thing but the big thing the big change is more than the candles the big thing is on this year is that R is falling on Shabbat and also on Sunday because R whether you're in the Exile or in Israel is two days now one of the important of aside from eating the meal being happy not getting angry praying to hasem is also blowing the blowing the sh but since it's on Shabbat there's no blowing the shaar in Shabbat not allowed to blow the shaar in chabbat not yourself or anybody else if you're at a place they're blowing a shaffar that's news that placees reform there's no shaffar blowing on Shabbat okay but you have to blow the shaffar on Sunday on Sun so that's but that's already the that's really the biggest uh change now have to go and you have to listen to the shaar if you have a Sho that's open next to you and is uh you know able to have Min and so on of course your people uh go there listen to the prayers be part of it listen to the sh if you do not have it either because uh your place is closed because there's still covid-19 situation um then you have to blow Shah which means that you have a very short period of time to learn how to blow the uh so I recommend you go to Torah live they have a whole section over there teaching you how to blow sha I already know a three-year-old that knows how to blow I'm not going to tell you who though unbelievable unbeli never seen in my life something unbelievable anyway next question next question no you have 500 questions yesterday you're you're that's it I'm going to keep tearing you up until you give me questions on camera okay that's it 500 questions not that's questions outside anymore it said camera is off he says 5 questions the questions are so good that's what makes me upset it's not like terrible questions it's like good questions and Camera you don't want to share with nothing you keep to yourself didn't you guys already complete you oh so that's what you have to do next time next why because you get take page 17 16 17 you see it says say somebody learns to for his own sake but not to share it it's like someone who doesn't have a God so it's maybe that's going to scare you enough you're going to start remembering questions instead of learning all the one after another you're swallowing up you in swallowing up the like it's food you have to start no okay you got a question okay a question I heard from somewhere but it was about the same subject they said during the time of good um with his father being the father of idols and um during that story about him beting the breaking the idols and saying oh um they they were in a fight but he said when his father asked him he said you know that they they can't do anything they don't move or do anything like that but they said back uh in the time of um the Kings and he was putting Idols everywhere said the idols were like doing Miracles so if back then when we know all those were they have power could says or you know the doesn't do anything good question good question so the uh question is you know we know that uh the tun at the uh time of Egypt at the time of uh uh the BET mikdash was that the idols were given Powers uh by uh in order to test the people so now since this is later period than abah ainu question is did the idols that the father of Abu the idols that he make also move and do different things I don't remember ever reading a source that says that they were moving uh especially since it would go against theat that thatu like you said said to his father these Idols don't move and agreed that they don't move but there's a reason for that one of the main reasons is that thear says that 10 Powers 10 levels of Witchcraft were gifted to the world and nine of them were given to the Egyptians nine of them were given to the Egyptians so the it appears from that particular mid is that the uh super power type Idols began at Egypt rather than beforehand rather beforehand um the uh you know and the other thing is is that at the time of bet mdash this is obviously after Egypt so this this continued to spread around the world and also the test was still there now how come you're not going to see any Idols walking around to Walmart today that's because the the says prayed for to remove this test from the nation because they simply can't stand it they couldn't stand it one of the garot says that uh Raba was uh teaching a students and he said he was teaching him about T and then he mentioned M says and our dear friend Mas you know Mas was a king of am which was for a period of time a very big rash that literally made every crime under the sun he killed his grandfather Isaiah Isaiah the prophet was his grandfather he killed him chopped him to pieces killed a bunch of raped his family uh I mean he did everything like literally every crime Under the Sun put uh Idols in the BET mikdash horrible stuff eventually did Chua eventually did chuva which we talked to you about that CH but years later at the time of the one of theim says Oh Our dear friend he mentioned that night the says Mas comes to them in a dream and says to them how dare you call me your friend I don't know you what you think you are you don't know anything you're next to me meaning you're an ignorant you don't know any Tor next to me call me a friend you you are the same level of learning to you don't know nothing you probably don't even know which part of the Kal you're supposed to use as the first piece of the miti you know on Shabbat you have the you do the two both have to be complete don't cut your before you do the Mi okay and also don't do Mi on a that's partially eaten or partially cut it has to be two complete okay so now you do the uh bring to you do the blessing obviously this is after you've washed your hand and made a blessing on that and then you have to take a piece out of the Kalam and give and eat it yourself and then to the rest of your family so tells one of the some that revive the dead says you prob You're such such an ignor he calls him imagine what we are next to him now he's an ignoramus say you're such an ignoramus you probably don't even know the simple thing like which part of the Kal you're supposed to actually use as the first piece so says to him you're right I don't know but if you're such a big how come you worship titles right know so much to how come you worship Idol so Masha answers him in a dream and he says to him if you lived at my generation and you saw the way the idols were in my generation you would chase them worse than me to the point where you would raise your cloak and tie it around yourself so you can run faster after the idols so don't judge me you weren't in my generation so says to them okay you're right that's what the the law is that we're not allowed to judge somebody unless we were in his shoes in his in his situation but can you at least teach me what you said though which part of the Kal do you actually do you actually take he says yes he says you take the one that was cooked the most you know kala is not cooked evenly not especially if you cook it yourself you make you bake kala yourself you have the Merit to have such sadik wife or if you're a sadik yourself you [Applause] make it's not doesn't doesn't bake equally sometimes a little bit of a spot somewhere here and there it's a little darker that's the first piece that's the first piece you take that's the first Mi after that doesn't make a difference but that's the first piece of Mi that's what we learned from a dream imine that kind of you learned from a dream we we have to be awake and still not get Mas to join us maybe one day so I uh you know again the idols the test of the idols uh was not always the same there was ups and downs the um the says that the world the test for the world you obviously the nation of Israel was divided into three was divided into three where for uh the first 2,000 years there was a uh test of idolatry then there was immoral and the last 2,000 years which is where we find ourselves in uh is the test of money the says those are the three major tests that were divided to this world that's going to be only alive for 6,000 years where about to hit 5781 so we're in the last 2,000 years our test is our making uh money Idols making money on that's actually one of the things that it says in this week's 29 uh verse uh verse 16 says um uh says through M says that um for you know of and you saw their Abominations meaning the other the other nations Abominations you saw their Abominations and their detestable Idols of wood and stone of silver and gold that were with them so these are different Idols obviously not all all Idols are alike I had a k one time where the ETS the the the uh the wood represents Christianity the stone represents the Islam silver also is a uh KF says silver but KF is also money KF also means money and gold Pride kav four different Idols worship and Christianity worshiping all types of heresy thinking that Muhammad is bigger thanu all types of nonsense even though the rambam says that uh Islam is not idolatry they they believe in the same God but still it's obviously not what Hashem wants uh then worse obviously Christianity is much worse because it's 100% idolatry uh according to the r and most but then even unfortunately in some cases even worse is when people idolize money K because they could be completely from keep Shabbat keep uh MIT keep this but when it comes to money no no no they'll they'll kill you for money they'll kill you for money they'll do anything for money so that's that's a person that's made money an idol you know he doesn't want to have any more kids whym said to have more kids yeah but uh we don't have money what do you mean you don't have money why is not going to give you money he's going to give you the kid but he's going to let him starve to death doesn't make any sense people sometimes are idolizing money to such a point where it distorts their mindset even if they are religious needless to say if they're not religious but one of the worst of all is the last one gold meaning Pride people are one of be show offs a lot of times people do things just to get a uh you know get some type of an audience they'll say things even if they don't mean them they'll say things even if they don't believe them they'll do things even if they shouldn't they'll do things even if they couldn't why they want to be praised by the public they want attention they want popularity they want likes uh Pride perhaps is a uh the most dangerous of all of them because it could literally be in you with without you knowing you could be a prideful person without even realizing that that's the reason why you're suffering so much I give you a couple of examples how terrible pride is many times you tell people listen why don't you do CH do this do that and many times they listen and then you tell them okay you have to read you have to learn you have to do this no no it's it's it's too tough maybe I'll do something else maybe I'll do something easier and they complain about the difficulty of what you're asking him to do because it's going to take an extra half hour an extra hour but they complain about it for six months why because they want it created to them a certain way a certain size the way they want it they want you know they want you to nurse them for their whole life they want to be babies they don't want to be grown-ups and what ends up happening is that they're so focused on having things their way they forget to realize that had they not complained about the difficulty and simply did what they were supposed to do did what they were told to do they'd actually be finished by now I have this situation happened to me many times with people you know many times with people I had one time a wonderful wonderful person came to me learned wanted to convert to Judaism now I told him you would be a great Jew because you have good character traits you have a uh you know you're a nice person you like to learn and he learned with me for a while and one of the requirements is that you have to live in a Jewish community so after being with me already for a couple of years I told him listen you're ready to convert you've already been ready only thing is missing is you not you don't live in a Jewish Community just move to Jewish community and I'll convert you tomorrow I'll take you to the B I'm more than happy to do it you're a good guy you're perfect yeah yeah yeah I'm still looking I'm still looking you're looking for that long okay s all right well I'm I'm not I'm not a babysitter whatever look whenever you're ready let me know but months would pass and I would see him every week another three months another 6 months no you ready or what no no no I found something but it's still $200 more expensive I said what what do you mean it's $200 more expensive say it's $200 more than what I'm spending now so I'm waiting for the market to drop a little bit and then I'm going to move I wanted to eat his head I said are you kidding me you're going to delay moving in order to convert for $200 like that's what this this is this is where we're at no come on Rabbi I know I know you say I know I know you're right you're right you're right you're right you're right you're right but he's not going to do it now because I like him and I hope he's listening to this I'm going to say this that was the biggest mistake of his life because a doesn't have an open door policy that remains open forever and what ended up happening is that he didn't take the advice that I gave him to just simply find a way to come up with the extra $200 find a way to do it don't delay becoming part of the chosen people for measly 200 bucks just get it done and he had a way to get it done he just it was a unfortunately a very serious disease that like I said a dollar Tre of money just having I want things my way I want things to fit my budget and my Excel spreadsheet and my Quickbooks and my the way that I'm used to things where does that come from number one it's idolatry of money number two it's ego it's ego you want things your way a says oh you want things your way how about this you're not going to become a Jew how about that how about that for that and you know what happened for another year I waited for him another year he kept coming to my and I liked him so much and I said I don't I can't believe it's been a year already since I already told you to move and you still have for $200 you go yeah I know it's not available this that and eventually what ended up happening one day he just disappeared he came to every single lecture some of you know him and everyone loves him he came to every single lecture he was one of the best and one day hasem just simply took the desire to convert out of his heart for no like nothing happened we didn't get into a fight there wasn't a disagreement nothing just one day just disappeared and just stopped Desiring to be a Jew and he wanted to be a Jew for many years even before he met me why says if if you're not willing to take a $200 risk on me we can't uh we can't be close can't and that's what happens that comes from ego at another time another person I told him listen I understand that you believe that you are Jewish and you may be right but according to the there's a doubt whether you're Jewish or not so you need to convert no no you have to understand my mom converted and and and she's I said yeah but you told me that she converted and she doesn't even keep Shabbat our conversion is I don't know what it was but it's not a valid conversion you have to convert he took offense to it and guess what happened instead of taking the advice the guidance that's for free not $10,000 like some say it is what ended up happening stay AO what why cuz you want things his way another time another person told him listen I understand you want things your way it doesn't work that way you have to learn these things in order to go to a conversion even though you believe you have a Jewish n you know a lot of people believe they have a Jewish n you know because of different reasons sometimes it's real sometimes it's but you can't you don't that's not how Judaism is like some idiots think oh no no I checked my DNA and and I'm 70% Jewish so that definitely doesn't make me anti-semite even though all I say is anti-semitic remarks there's some people that make videos on the internet they're completely anti-semitic but their disclosure is no no I'm not anti-semitic because I'm 70% Jewish because I checked I checked my DNA so I'm allowed I'm allowed to make fun of Jewish people people think that Judaism is determined based on DNA so anyway this wonderful person I told them listen you have to learn these things either way you need to know because if you're going to live as a Jew you need to know all these things yeah but I really believe that I'm Jewish and I don't know and I don't know and I don't know I said just do it anyway just go learn these this information I'll take you to a bed they'll ask you some minimal questions you pass then you have this certificate that pretty much eliminates all doubt meaning if you are already Jewish that certificate is nothing means absolutely nothing that certificate just another paper that tells you you like your high school graduation means absolutely nothing but if you're not Jewish that certificate is everything so it eliminates the doubt you can get married you can have kids you can have you eliminates all doubt just get it done and that's it okay okay okay people say you know they okay guess what months would pass no how you doing you ready it's not that much information I'm not asking you to become a rabbi you ready no no I still haven't gone to yet what do you mean you haven't gone to you said you watch all my shim yeah I watch the shim I just I don't know I'm having a tough tough time really learning because I really feel like I'm Jewish I don't think I need to do this it's one of the most frustrating cases I've had it many times a year would pass a year would pass a year and a half would pass instead of a month or two months you finished now I didn't start yet are you something wrong with you did you fall in your head what happened why why are you still the same where you were a year and a half ago what happened no I really feel like I'm I don't know I don't think you're right Rabbi so why do you call me if you don't think I'm right why do you ask me if you don't think I'm right go live your life and do what you want what do you want for my life why do you bother me then and what end up happening is that all this time would pass and guess what had they simply did what I said to do not only they would have known a lot more information than they know now but they would have already finished the conversion 15 times over well it's only a couple of months two three four months worth of studying that's it but no your insistence that you're really Jewish and your n and this and that you're going to insist you're going to insist and you're going to insist and two years would pass and you're still insisting but nothing changed nothing changed and that all comes from ego ego and unfortunately this is part of the job you have to deal deal with other people's ego constantly constantly in order to help them and this I can tell you cases from here until the world ends and it won't finish where people simply destroy themselves because of their ego you tell them this is what you have to do that's according to the Torah yeah but let me see if I can find some other answer so why do you ask me why do you ask me why I have to listen to you it's not necessarily you have to listen to me but why do you have to waste my time if you're not going to take my answer go search on Google other people that I deal with they take my answers if you don't want to take my answers go find it somewhere else don't waste my time I got hundreds of families that are waiting for an answer and I'm taking my time with you and that's the reality is that people have such a big ego they get in their own way and unfortunately this is one of the biggest destruction that a person could have in their own life simply allowing their ego to run their life next question you had a question I think right in 11 slow down mentions what sorry 102 where says to repent and then I you and will stroll together in Ed and first mentions that this term to refer to someone as a son of so so is a term of disp and so and he actually use that that that same namea so I understand that why King this very good question uh so the question is that you know the uh and also to the page 102 says that was one of the biggest that we had in but he was also knew a lot of Torah and the Merit of his Torah was big enough for hasem to come to him himself and say listen if you do CH you and I and Ben Ben is will walk together in geden so the mid says that when you refer to somebody as instead of their name hasm is referring to somebody instead of David he refers to them as the son of uh of of uh of isai maybe it's it's disparaging so I can give you a couple of ideas in regards to that it's not necessarily Shalom disparaging disparaging David but rather to Pro to show two points number one number one knows his creation and he knows that his weapon weon of Destruction but rather weapon of self-destruction was his ego so if would refer to DAV asid a and he's not referring to Y as um excuse me as a as a m y would be insulted so in essence for the sake of helping yov do CH to to please his ego if you will to soo his ego if you will he referred to David as if he's lesser the second thing is second thing is is that if you notice after said to you and I and Ben would would walk in ganeden but then yov responds and he says who's walking first and Hashem says David Ben is but that doesn't make any sense why because if the David was going to walk first ahead of yam it should say me meaning hasem and David benai and you would walk in ganeden which means that originally originally if was going to do was going to let him walk ahead of but because y's ego was so big he was the type of person when you gave him a compliment and and he heard what you said so what you say again what' you say what you say again what good is good oh you meant to me oh okay okay oh me like those people you know sometimes you tell somebody oh me what' you say what you say me me where me oh oh they want you to repeat it why their ego is enormous it's so big it's not enough one compliment it's not enough weapon of mass self-destruction was his ego is so bad that he said to hasem what would you say again what' you say again who's going to go in GED but hasm said it already you have to repeat it it's too much I told you you're going to walk first but now you want me to repeat it okay now you're second you can still go to ganeden who's promising us ganed you can still go to ganed walk with but now because of this disgusting filthy ego now you're going to be behind Benny now you're going to be behind him and that was too much for him to handle he says no if I'm not walking first I'm not doing CH and until this day is burning in gay and he will never leave says is one of the people that has no share of the world to come and for that stupid ego of his that filthy despicable ego of his he got a person personalized invitation from which one of us here could say I got a personal invitation from he got a personal invitation but the ego that he had was so filthy that he says no no no I rather not do Chua why he never saw Gom but now that he sees Gom he can't get out why there's no door just a one it's a dead end Street once you go into Gom there's no finished seven seventh level is just a no coming out and that's what happened why for ego ego is a very very dangerous thing and it's like I said before it's one of those things that's perhaps more dangerous than many other things because you could have an ego and not even realize that it's destroying you the says that an ego is so detestable so detestable that even a person's family hates him when a person is an arrogant person even his own wife and kids hate him he thinks they hate him because they only care about money he thinks they hate him because they uh you know they're not nice no no they hate you because you have a big ego and is trying to teach you to do Chua but no no no they'll do Chua they need to do Chua everybody else needs to do Chua and this ego comes in different forms and sizes thing is ego is one of those things where it doesn't come in an obvious way like you have the obvious way like a Donald Trump okay Donald Trump I mean no one can say he's a humble person you it be like a joke it's like an oxymoron putting Donald Trump in humility in the same sentence okay uh you know he's he's an arrogant person he's proud to be arrogant and people elected him because he's arrogant because the society is upside down and they you know they want arrogance it's prais to be an arrogant person in today's warped Society okay so there the obvious arrogance which is pretty much a person that says I'm better I'm better I beat you here I'm better here that's the obvious one but then says there is the worst form of of ego worst form of arrogance is the exact opposite as far as its expression it's a person that pretends to be humble he pretends to be humble he walks around yeah yeah I don't know anything I don't know anything yeah I know yeah who am I in in his heart he thinks he's better than everybody else he's pretending to be humble says that's the worst type of arrogance worst type but then there's the ones that are in between the ones that are in between that are like y that want to do over you say Hey listen you did a good job what what I do what what' I do I said you did a good job I was right next to you I was two feet from you you didn't hear me oh no no I heard but I wasn't sure if you talking to I did a good job I I oh okay okay I did a good job Hey listen you said I did something before I forgot what you were saying what did you say I did what did you say I my my wife is picking me up I don't I don't I'm confused what did you say I did I said you did a good job oh oh I did oh yeah see honey I got I did a good job that's ego that's ego it's disgusting it's gross makes want to vomit on you why because ego is considered an abomination in the eyes of and many times people do not even know that they have an ego they don't even know they have an ego they don't even know that it's arrogance or they don't even think it's that bad perhaps but in reality it's poison it's poison and a person needs to know that someone like y that knew the entire Torah knew a lot of Tora the says he had 127 on every single subject in you can't even imagine such a thing what killed them ego same exact thing same exact thing many people that were heads of the are in till this day why ego ego I want things my way that's ego that's ego you don't want to eat your wife's food as is you have to uh you know tell her no no no no do it over why it's not well done it's like well it's not like well done got to do it over just throw this one out ego you're going to get a divorce probably or a miserable marriage oh son what only 95 n come on it's ego what 95 grade is not good for your son why not why can't you encourage him maybe next time he'll do better why do you have to you know nothing is good enough you ego all of these things come from ego Believe It or Not rebuke rebuke many times many times it doesn't work you rebuke somebody and it doesn't work why because you're rebuking with ego you're not rebuking him because you want to help him you're rebuking him because you know that you have the right answer and he doesn't he is ignorant of the tah he never heard in his life that a is considered an idol worshipper so you want to tear him up look it says in the Chapter 30 number 16 I even remember it even though you just yesterday yeah look this why he says you're an idol worshiper guess what it's not going to work you know why it's not going to work his is repulsed by your even though you're right he's repulsed by you why you're not trying to help him you're trying to prove him wrong that's ego many times people will start doing chuva because they want to to be better but then they'll torture their household they'll torture their wives and husbands and kids and neighbors and everybody else by tell them what they hear in a shoe and then they come back to me say listen I try doing what you say in a Sho but it doesn't work wait you tried doing everything I said in the only for everybody else not for yourself in the I didn't just say Shabbat is a violation I also said ego is a violation I also said a lot of other mid character trait flaws are a violation so all you were worried about is telling everybody else meaning you wanted to fix everyone else except you guess what it's not going to work why because you are doing it out of ego not out of care for other people you know if you you know I'll give you a little small small uh indication small indication you can check yourself you don't have to tell me if you want to help people do CH or you you're already doing it okay you're already doing it you're rebuking people you see somebody that's driving on Shabbat you tell them something you see somebody that's walking around you tell them something you you know you're trying to help you you try to fulfill that mitvah but you see it's not working now maybe it's not working because perhaps hasem wants you to do it in a different way Orem wants you to try even harder and so on and so forth but it could also be because it's coming from ego how do you know if it's coming from ego or not I mean obviously you should know if you have an ego or not but let's say you like to lie to yourself and deny that you have an ego so how do you know if you actually care about these people or you're doing it simply to prove them wrong and prove yourself right to look better how do you know if you know somebody is living a life that's against theem and you rebuke them you tell them the truth you tell them that and they listen they don't listen whatever the case is now usually after the first chance doesn't usually work right away now if you simply continue to do it just by talking but you don't pray about them you don't pray to Hashem you don't cry to Hashem you don't beg Hashem for Mercy to open up their heart no you don't pray for them you don't do nothing you just they're gonna do chva my way guess what that's ego you're not trying to help them you're just trying to look good and it's not going to work I mean a broken clock is right twice a day it may work here and there but on a on a larger scale it's not going to work why because it's not coming from the right place if you really want to help get used to crying for them now it's hard to get from zero to crying from why most of them you don't even know so what do you do just start start praying for them period without not crying just pray for them pray forem to have do things to help CH care about people care about people doing Chua the more you care about them the more likely it is that you're going to get to a point where you actually cry to hem for them but if you've never cried for it's very very likely that your rebuke is not going to work if you're trying to make your brother your sister your cousin your mother your whoever do chva and you saw them violate Shabbat even after you told them what you told them and you didn't pass out check yourself how come it doesn't bother you no no it bothers me I told them they don't want to listen yeah okay it's not just about I told them they don't want to listen how come you don't cry how come you don't like beg AEM to give them another a little bit more time and not kill them how come how come you don't because in essence again it could be that it's not coming from the right place I mean it could be very well that it's coming from my you just don't know how to do it but the point being is we have to make it a daily task to pray to hem for everyone else not ourself all day we pray for oursel hashm give me give me give me give me give me give me give me give me it's if if that could be the only uh the only word in our vocabulary would be perfectly happy just give me give me give me give me enough with to give me enough with to give me no not not not at all I'm not saying not at all you could keep saying give me but say also please have strengthen wake them up use me as a vessel use me as a tool so at least I have a purpose in the world to get people to do chuva or even if you don't want to use me at least get them to do chuva so they could do your will so they could get get to heaven and so on pray for pray for them pray for them to do CH if once you start praying for them guess what eventually you start caring about them and not just because they're your sister or your brother or your cousin but even if they're complete strangers you start caring about them and you'll see something miraculous happen your rebuke starts working your starts working what you're trying to do starts getting results but not just one time results the guy says no no I'm going to keep Shabbat he keeps two three four five shabbats and then he stops permanent results Real Results but that's because it comes from a place of care and that takes that takes you have to show you have to show that you care not just what the words you say to them but also the words you say to hm in private next question next question yes um inaugurated a feast on to celebrate the construction of the temple however the people felt that they sinned so Hashem blessed the women with sons um I'm just wondering how is it possible that hash was pleased if they ate and drink on it's a good question mama said the question is how come there was a made a Tak that um the day of the inauguration of the BET mikdash was y pool but he says this is such a big day that uh we're not going to we don't have we don't have to fast we don't have to fast and everyone ate a big Feast on that day and discusses this where some people were very scared wait a minute we just ate on it's maybe we took it too far maybe we should have eaten maybe we should have eaten tomorrow why do we eat da to do with that and they didn't listen you know they didn't have a 100% Comfort listening to says this is this day is such a big day we just put a house for a In This World by putting this house by putting this bet mikash in the world and having a place for the to be at all times that is the ultimate tun of the world is a for that year but to have the we can do every day on the spot we can know what Hashem wants every day on the spot we can fix everything every day on the spot why we have the mdash the is here it's such a big day that y can be skipped this year that was D and the people had a uncomfortable uncomfortable time listening to this D because it was so far so in order to fulfill his own words where says that he makes the uh the the righteous right among the public meaning if isim say something even if that something is wrong Hashem will make it right Hashem will make it right I'll give you guys a example it's actually one of the things I wanted to talk about where you'll understand what is because that's actually one of the problems that we have today is that people think that if let's say RAV Kanki says something or the styleon his father said something when he was alive or Shalom said something or when he said something or someone that's even alive today but a he said something you can just say I don't have to listen to him I can maybe listen to somebody else like the doctor said everybody has to wear a mask Kanki said that you don't have to wear a mask if you're learning Tah learn to the specific people that he was talking to you don't have to wear mask no butki no way doctor no more than rki so people have a misunderstanding of rki and Doctor why they think that the doctor knows better thanki because he's a doctor so the mistake is is that people compare the Torah to secular subjects and this is also part of the reason of why many people in perhaps let's say the modern Orthodox world and the uh just regular secular World um have a impossible time being glued to hasem as he wants it but rather customize the Torah to fit their own life you know they accept Shabbat but whenever they feel like it they accept but their own standards not standards why because they don't think that the opinion of the Tor the opinion of the is really a you know firm opinion of AEM they think he is human I am human the ram is human I am human so why should I listen to him that's the mistake now to take it even deeper before we get to the answer the in page 13 says there's between and there over 300 M between and something around 360 between them most of them goes like most of them say that in it goes like after Masia comes most of them but need needless to say the here says that like in this particular but both this and this are the words of the Living God so this is confusing why if they're both words of the Living God how why is why is he right why is shouldn't it be both of them if it's both the words of hasem why is there m this question was asked over 800 years ago almost 700 years ago by the the on comments on this it says the between where the says that both word both of these words are the words of the Living God yet so the question is how could both be the words of the Living God if is like one of them whether it's doesn't make a difference but how could they both be the words of the Living God and the answers one of the most important questions and answers that we have to understand Judaism and the right ideology AEM left certain judgments open for the to conclude and P to become to the point where there's a rule of meaning that there are certain that we do not learn from shamim but rather we only learned from the the have to PK in on this issue because did not give us the Torah complete rather he left certain parts of it open for interpretation by by the until this day to make us partners in the T so much so that there are certain things that happen in thear and a says this is what the is and said no we don't learn from buts we learn from the rules that hasem gave us in Mount Si of how we so we don't learn the Torah from Heaven this way we learn it based on the principles that hem gave us M of how to and unless there's something that's black and white that we already know from that we know there are certain things that left open for for interpretation by the that are using these rules in order to P so much so the continues that once the pass can here this becomes the in sh meaning if let's say the in sh that Hashem left for interpretation but obviously Hashem knows what the AL is let's say he picked red he picked red and Sh but he left it for interpretation for here and used the tools that they have that gave us and they arrived at Blue they arrived is blue at that moment changes the why that's the rule that's the rule that he and instilled into the world now to give an example of this to give an example of this the mid comments on the verse in the Book of Psalms chapter 57 verse number three I will call upon God most high to The God Who fulfills for me where the mid says that this verse is where tells us that when you call upon him you honor him you fulfill his Torah you learn you toil it it is God who fulfills for me meaning that Hashem agrees with with their even if his originally that he left FR us for interpretation even if his is different he fulfills our words meaning he now repaskin in sh because of what the did over here and the mid says there's an example there's a rule in it that says that if a little girl has a accident or Shalom gets uh raped and uh before the age of 3 years old and obviously this breaks the Hyman now the says the concluded that if it's before 3 years old the Hyman reconstructs and comes back as if nothing ever happened if it obviously it stops doesn't continue again after three if it's let's say happens before 3 years old AEM built the world in such a way that the uh Hyman will reconstruct and when she is older as if as if nothing happened but if it happens after 3 years old if the hman is broken after 3 years old that's it it remains broken remains broken so then the ask okay but what about a sh a leap year a leap year why because a leap year it's when we have a we add the seven times every 19 years they add a second ad know two adults there one a but they had a bit now who decides this the rabbis the sages decided not hasem hasem hem left it for us and the sages decided put a mathematical calculation until mashia comes that we already know time every year that's going to have two ad but back in the times of the they used to decide this based on a based on their own calculations at real time now we already have it known for for until mashia comes but at that time they used to conclude when the month began when the month ended based on the Moon based on the renewal of the moon but that also means that that the sanedrin would decide which year they would add a 13th month and this was happened seven times every 19 years this is you see all the details of this now the question is when it pertains to this rule that's a physical rule meaning there's a physical thing here there's a girl and something physical happened there a trauma happened there accident of some kind it broke a himman but you're saying that if she's below 3 years old it reconstructs if she's above three it doesn't reconstruct so what happened if the day of her birthday the the mid says the day of her birthday the day she turns three the SED pins no we are going to have a second a ad we're going to add on that moment we're going to add a 13th month so technically Technically she's 3 years old for she's Less Than 3 years old for another month she's still technically in her twos so does the hman take that into consideration M says absolutely AEM changes nature and will reconstruct this girl physic Al for the sake of showing that right that's how valuable is in the eyes of a that's how valuable it is so when we see that is glued to AEM you see that they what does that mean glued to hem you're glued to D people that think that they could just connect to hem and ignore the just like listen to them when they want not listen to them when they don't want they have no idea what they're talking about there is no such thing as an intermediary in Judaism but not intermediaries are simply telling you what AEM said because you don't know what he said because you did not toil over the Torah for all of the decades that they had you cannot interpret the Torah like they can and that's the reality if you think you can then ego is your problem because is willing to change nature for the he's not necessarily willing to change nature for some Average Joe because those there is representativ they're the ones that he relies on to give the message to the rest of us and there they there such favor in his eye he loves the so much that he literally changes the world for them they say something he fulfills it and this is one of the most valuable things that a person needs to know when they're asking a someone that has or perhaps a they're asking a question question and the response that they got doesn't sit well with them take that opinion of yours that tells you this response doesn't sit well with you take it crumble it inside a little piece of paper put some oil on it cooking oil or the oil from the car whichever one you prefer whatever is whatever's faster access then take a match perhaps maybe a lighter depending on your preference put them in a bucket so it doesn't cause a big fight and burn that opinion of yours burn it as soon as possible why your opinion doesn't matter if you asked a a question and he gave you an answer according to the Tor you do it just like as if God said to do it why because now that you've asked a question and he give you an answer's like him I'll give you an example somebody came Toki he said I'm about to retire in some months and I was wondering whether I should take all my pension money and buy a house in this C such and such Community ra kanvi says to him come back to me when you have the money now rki is not much of words he doesn't he doesn't have conversations with people you know says a few things finish next the guy gets up confused more confused than he was before says why iski telling me come back when I have the money is he really telling me that I'm not going to get the money that after 30 40 years of working for this company they're really not going to give me my pension the whole thing is a fraud I'm going to lose everything what's going to happen I don't know why did he say it oh so for the next several months he doesn't know where to go doesn't know what to do he can't wait to get this money but he doesn't have access to it yet after several months finally he retires and he gets the money he comes back Toki he says I got the money seski says good you should buy the house he said but why couldn't the tell me six months ago so Kanki says to him six months ago it was a hypothetical question because you didn't have the money in your hand so I didn't have the theay the special assistance from Heaven to tell you the right answer I only had my opinion but now that it's a question that's actual because you have the money in hand you ask me a question I'm giving you an answer and I'm relying on the fact that Hashem is the one that's putting the words in my mouth for your sake because now it's an actual question it's a realistic question it's a question of right now it's not a hypothetical question anymore so now I have the answer for you 6 months ago I didn't have an answer for you now I have an answer for you you ask a something it's a real question he give you an answer you don't like the answer that's too bad why if you are not going to listen to the answers don't ask questions don't ask questions and this is one of the things that hurts a lot of people because they look for Rabbi Noah you know what Rabbi no is every he is not only from the from the tah also means comfort so they're looking for the rabbi that is going to give them the most Comfort meaning whatever is comfortable for you so what did he say do it no it's not comfortable for me what do he say maybe it's not so comfortable for me what he say no do whatever you want oh I like this guy this guy's he told me I could do whatever I want this guy Kad give me a hand let me kiss it let me kiss it right he told me I could do whatever I want this is this is this guy is like Noah no Rabbi Noah Rabbi Noah so so that's the thing you have to understand loves the loves the because they invest their whole life invest their whole life for the sake of the Torah all day and when a person understands that he asks a question he receives an answer and he goes with it same thing with girls obviously same thing next question we're almost done why is called so many different names but not the infinite one can cover in best you mean the qu the the 72 name uh 72 letter name you mean why he's not called by that no why is he not called the infinite one because that cover oh the infinite one oh so there are there are different words that mean that so uh has many names and some of the names that he has uh they represent his different Natures so there's a uh it says and you know in the beginning of the Torah hasem is called Elohim obviously with the hey and then later on it says the other name the one that's Amai now why does it say and then later on it says a different name so the explained to us that initially was called uh represented himself as Elohim because that represents his mid his judgment where initially he created the world with just pure judgment meaning you make a sin punished right away no chuv nothing but he obviously knew that the world cannot sustain such a thing so later on he gave us his other aspect which is the other name that he has which represents his trait of Mercy his trait of mercy so different names that he has represent different things one of the other names that has is Mak Mak Mak means place but because a is not at one place but rather every place he's called a Mak meaning he's everywhere in English that's translated as the omnipresent omnipresent meaning he's everywhere so in essence the same exact thing as what you mean uh infinity or perhaps omnipotent the omnipotent God is in essence also the same thing as the infinite There's No Limit he has no uh no UPS no Downs no no p no present no future he has no limitations so it's the same exact thing as what you're saying just used in different uh different names omnipotent present Mak you know and so on and so forth and there's also sah is referred to him to Hashem has different names that represent different things that we need to learn from him at that moment and to say simply that he is uh unlimited is not going to do the job of teaching us that specific lesson meaning if hasem was always called let's say the omnipotent God at all times we would have never learned that he has an attribute of Mercy an attribute of decree some people that are politically correct no he's always Mercy Mercy Mercy so when somebody gets into a car accident and dies like oh I don't say what's going on with this God of Mercy where's the mercy in this I thought he's the god of Mercy they don't realize no no it's not just Mercy it is also judgment it's also judgment soem uses his name as a way to teach us about his different Natures in essence different ways for us to meet him and the more a person learns about different attributes of hem the more he understands what his own or what her own role in the world is and how to serve AEM the right way the uh the path of the just has a chapter chapter 10 it's called cleanliness but not cleanliness like physical cleanliness where at the time of the r if you took a shower once a week that was enough in today's world surely you have to take a shower more than once a week some people do it like you know three times a day that's a little bit too much but the point being is it's that's not the cleanliness that we're referring to the cleanliness that the is referring to is when a person needs to be clean based on not the acts that are obvious to the world but the acts that he does in private meaning a person is not going to go robber bank but he could still be a thief and not be clean how he works for a company and said this in a sh just the other day where he says he a person can work in a company and he works hard or he thinks he works hard or she thinks she works hard and sometimes she works overtime and sometimes she does things that are not even her responsibility but for the betterment of the company she does it but she doesn't feel like she's being recognized he doesn't feel like he's being recognized why they haven't gotten a raise in a year or two they haven't gotten okay for a vacation they haven't gotten aak special email they weren't recognizing the recent Awards dinner in so many words I'm not getting I'm not getting recognized I'm doing all this work work and no one even is even noticing so you know what some of these pencils these pens the company has they don't need all of them it's only me here I'm going to take some of them and give it to my kids it's just pencils schedule says 9 to5 I'll show up at 9:30 why I'm going to buy some groceries in the morning and I'll just get the job done yeah but you getting paid for 8 hours you're not getting paid for 7 and 1 half hours yeah yeah but anyway they don't know so she steals a half hour here she steals some pencils he steals some pens he takes all this picture's nice going to look good in my living room he puts that in his pocket too and he starts taking all types of things why because he doesn't think they value him so he is going to pay himself with the property in the time of the company and that's a thief now if the company finds you stealing its pens is it going to fire you no it's not going to fire you if it sees that you took one of the pictures to your house they going to fire you most likely no if it notices that you were late or you just decide to take off because you wanted to take your kids to a park even though you didn't let them know but you figured that the bus is on vacation anyway won't notice I'll just work from home at some point when I get a chance I'll make up for it when I get a chance even though it's not what I agree to make your own rules they're not going to fire you even if they find out most of the time especially if you're decent at what you do but in sh says look at this filthy person not I hate him but he's filthy why he's not clean yeah he's not going to go rob a bank in open daylight he's not going to go murder people no but he's still not clean he doesn't have the cleanliness the trait of cleanliness because he's still trying to get away with different things in different ways when no one's looking as if hasem doesn't see it or if if nobody car and that's the thing a person needs to know that Hashem is omnipresent he's everywhere he's watching everything and part of our servitude of hasem is not just with the obvious but rather with the hidden the small things the things no one else is going to see and says that one of the came to his rabbi and his RAB rosi rebuked him he says to him don't you see that there's a decree in the world not to teach you teach the Tora in public says says to him what I'm telling you real things you tell me I'd be surprised if they don't burn you with the now of course knew that his Rabbi is not cursing him but rather as Rabbi saw that this is in Ence the outcome of this you're living on K you're going to die what does care about he says but Rabbi do I have a share of the world to come imagine someone built yes was teaching to in Nazi Germany thousands of people even with Hitler sitting over there doesn't care he's asking do I have what was the response of rosi rosi says to him I know tell me a little bit about your acts what opening 100 years sh is not good if I was tell what do you mean tell about your acts you didn't see thisa this all of them have logo on them who you think opened him look at all these B an army of army of converts Army of people that are closer to what do you mean show you my ACT that's that's why I'm not what does say R says one time I was collecting some money for the poor people for pooling and when I got the money I realized it got mixed up with my money it got mixed up with my money so what I decided to do is donate all of it donate all the money to the the poor people including my money even though my money was supposed to be me for me to pay my bills I decided I'm going to take all my money cuz it was mixed up cuz I didn't know exactly how much was my money versus how much money was for the poor people I just combined all of it and I gave it all away abosi says to him oh may my future be like your future may I have like you he starts singing to him Ohad you are now the question is wait a minute why he didn't get was aad by teaching he didn't get that was aad by opening all the how could he find out how could he confirm that he's a sadik with a little bit of money that he gave fora and not from the teaching how come you see was but the only way that you can verify that is not by the acts that are open to the public why you open Yesa right yeah but you got some Cav out of it right they gave you some honor every time you walked in they stood up for you kissed your hand you know maybe you got some salary out of it possibly you were teaching Tor it's nice right but maybe you did it because you like the way people say wow what a just changed my life wow so the reality is all the things you did you buil the Yesa you taught Tor you did this you did this maybe yeah it's nice but maybe you did it because you benefited from it cuz you got all this honor so it's not really you did it because of the tah itself but rather because you were getting a financial benefit a a uh some type of respect honor you know so we can't really see if you did it for the right reason or not based on these public acts but we can know who you really are based on what you did when no one else were looking when you decided to take the money that you had and combine your money with the stock of money because you weren't sure if there was a penny this penny that you're not sure which one is your money you decid to give it all away that means that not only not only were you righteous in that act when no one else was looking other than if you would have taken all the money nobody would have known except the but not only that does it mean that you were righteous in that act when no one was looking but it also means that all of your public acts all of your public Acts were for the right reason you opened the ISA for the right reason you gave lectures for the right reason all the things that you did were also for the right reason for the sake of the tah and rosi says to him may my future be like your future why because test you on the small things in private because in everyone looks like with wow did you just come from no no no I just came here five minutes ago oh okay wow I S light on your face no it's not light my my wife my kids put some glare glare on my face no yeah it's a light everybody looks like a sadik in the everyone what are you doing in private what are you doing in private that's also when you know when you have arrogance you don't have arrogance you have anger you it's private private we're almost done I think perhaps maybe one or two questions and we'll finish for the night anything else from the women section anything oh ITN huh and they teach that survive okay because he did okay and they don't learn that he was the the king OFA when came okay and so the question is this did it do because even later on WE they refer to him as being in the gates of Vietnam which seems to be like forever so did he do so story of PO is that initially he was a rash where he uh in Egypt he tortured Amed he was gifted the ability to do it from Hashem but nonetheless he took it overboard and uh Hashem initially gave him an opportunity to free am is he didn't want it So eventually hasem hardened his heart and took away his free choice and because he took away his free choice Hashem gave him the uh you know he didn't kill him like he killed the the rest of the Egyptians uh and after saw how his entire world collapsed and he was the only one left he went and he actually did do chuva uh or at some point where he went and became king of nve now nve was doing terrible terrible things and Hashem sent the prophet yah to nve to tell them to warn them to warn them to do chuva initially the prophet yah did not want to go the whole story of yah being swallowed by the uh whale uh and the reason why yah did not want to do it is not that he didn't want to do the will of hem but the on the contrary he did not want the chuva of theim to look bad for the Jews that have not done chuva so he's like why do I why should I be used to go help go do chuva let me go help Jews to you know it's just like for example when someone asks you know should I uh should I focus on helping you know non-jews do chuva and become noahides it's much easier than helping Jews do chuva now you're 100% allowed to help non-jews do chuva and and and become noahides but not at the price of Jews meaning if you have Jewish people to teach versus non-jewish people to teach you must teach the Jewish people you must must choose the Jewish people first now it's uh it's it's a priority uh now it's a it's a uh hard to accept at times because it's much easier to help non-jews uh they don't have the same type of yet they're also a uh um they have don't have necessarily as many life changes that are necessary but the point being is that the first priority you have when you're teaching is to teach uh Jews if you're able to teach both at the same time or simultaneously no problem perfectly but sometimes there are certain rabbis that try to focus only on non-jews and that's a mistake that's a mistake it's not a good idea uh now either way yah did not want to be used just to help non-jews do chuva so he was in essence trying to run away from this Mitzvah but eventually he got to nve and he told par that God is warning him and Par that already saw what happened and Egypt took it seriously put a sack on himself and had everybody repent and that's whyem did not destroy nve so now you ask why did why is because that was only for that period of time they stopped sinning they did chuba but then time passed and they went back to their sins and hasem destroyed them and that's why isn't G so the story that we have the basic story that we have in the uh ya is that they uh you know is that we have the the part of the CH because that's the part that we could learn from but the other part in the mid discusses how they eventually went bad and hasem destroyed them and that's why in G good question good question oh anybody else you had a question in the back and I didn't uh you had one no uh yeah okay how so chapter in verse two he he says that silence is praised to what is that supposed to mean silence is praised yeah no silence is praised for you so silence is praised okay so there's a couple of ways that we learn that silence is praiseworthy few things number one RAR Ben Rish Shimon says in mishna this is the son of Rish shim says that all of his life he was next to wise men and you know meaning he listened to wise men and he learned that the most valuable trait is to be silent to be silent why number one when you're silent you're able to learn more you're able to learn from others from the number two if when you're silent people don't really know anything about you so if you're really a fool as long as you remain silent you don't look like a fool you know many many times people expose their own foolishness by their by their words and you know sometimes they do it you know in a uh in in a public forum and uh you know and it's they expose their own foolishness it's like you're not only a fool for the things you said but you're a fool for exposing the fact that you're a fool like until now everyone thought you were smart cuz you didn't talk but now you talked and everyone know you know everyone knows that you're a fool why did you tell everybody your secret but so silent in essence also is a indication of wisdom because you could learn more and if you are really a fool no one would know that's one thing the other thing is is that silence also represents patience that's in essence the attribute of Hashem is that no matter what we do Hashem does not react right away most of the time Hashem has patience that's insurmountable it's something beyond our comprehension where there are certain people that literally curse hasem on a regular basis and Hashem doesn't react he lets them work he lets them live he continues giving them oxygen he continues giving them food he gives them a house he gives them a wife he gives them kids he gives them you know all types of things and they're going against them on a regular basis their whole career their whole livelihood their whole life is D against hem I'm not just talking about somebody just violate Shabbat and so I'm somebody that their whole life they're going against hem and Hashem just sits there silently and say that's extremely praiseworthy why is it so praiseworthy because it shows that is very different than us very different than us in such a way that he has the um doesn't have lack of control of himself like we do he doesn't have a uh uh mood like we do he is just sitting there and he knows that at some point this person may do chuva this person may be uh uh be exposed to a possibility of doing chuva and there's no need to you know to react to the things that he's doing because even the things that he's doing Hashem is going to utilize them for good in some way or another and many times people actually end up doing chuva as a result of bad things that happen in World obviously everybody knows my story I got sick you know as a as a result of mistakes you know that uh that I made but also in the Practical aspect of the world the doctors made mistakes the doctors made a very very serious mistakes that I'm only going to know the details of them once uh you know get to's going to show me what really happened in that surgery room but the point being is that a bunch of people made a lot of mistakes one after another the doctors the lawyers the uh the insurance company everything that could go wrong went wrong you know but all of the bad and the stealing and the cheating and so on that was happening AEM utilize it for good in order to navigate me into a unique road that we are on today so in essence hashem's patience is very different than what we have because we're thinking oh you just just crossed me okay I'm going to pretend like I don't care I'm going to stay here quiet wait till I get you and you wait and you wait until you get them there's actually a story I heard from he an enormous um and he says that uh there was one time a young girl that uh said something that her father didn't like I think it was in New York in New York or Florida and uh her father gave her a nice Chapa gave her nice Wy and uh to make sure that she's back in order but as you would have it in today's world you know she called the cops she called the cops and our father cops showed up arrested her father after everything was done finally he got back home and he didn't do nothing he didn't do nothing he didn't hit her he didn't do nothing and continue as if nothing happened and two years passed two years passed and one day she asked her father hey Dad can uh can I go visit the family in Venezuela he said sure you know what I'll go with you it's a good idea let's go to Venezuela oh you're the best dad yay right so he buys a ticket they go on a plane they land in Venezuela at the airport as soon as they're in the airport p p and he beat the living sense out of her what and it's well it's allowed first of all recommended even but while he's beating her senseless which got to the news that's how bad it was it got to the news while he's beating us sensely he's saying you make me go to jail you make me go to jail when two years ago he's been sitting on this two years he's pretending everything is okay two years is not like us has a different thinking a different thought process he's not mad the whole time he's not looking to take revenge he's looking to help us do cha but unfortunately if we run out of time if we run out of this then has to punish us there is a very good story that I heard from again uh says that there was a famous a uh named leaton leaton was a very bigam and in in that time the it was very unusual to see a Syrian Jew violating Shabbat very very unusual they were all religious but there was one particular guy in the community was very very rich very wealthy very successful in business and kept absolutely nothing not Shabbat not Kosher nothing so one time leaton came to him said yeah binci my son don't you understand that wants you to do this you have to keep Shabbat you have to keep kosher you have to keep this you keep that he says listen Rabbi I appreciate it but I like the way I live I'm living okay everything is going well for me what do I need to keep I never kept MIT everything is going well look I'm I have boats I have this I have that what do I need to keep for for what because hasem said my son that's what hasm said hasem said Hashem said whatever he said listen he's giv me he obviously he's okay with what I'm doing says to him no no my son you're not understanding the fact that everything is going good for you is a bad sign because there is a verse in the tor one before last verse where who pays his haters in this world to destroy them so you're getting a lot of reward for something that you did because does not want you to even see his face to see nothing in you're going straight to G the rich guy the cocky guy says to r with a mocking tone says Rabbi thank you but I don't think you got it right there's nothing for hem to pay me for what did he give me all these money for I never made a single mitv in my life never kept Shabbat never kept kosher I never did anything so what are you saying he's paying me he says lion system you're wrong see maybe you didn't mean it but when you were 8 days old your parents circumcised you so you have a Mitzvah even though you didn't mean it you have a Mitzvah and for that one is giving you everything that you have but he's going to destroy you if you don't do this jokester says to the r he says how about this Rabbi I'll sell you my for $50 the Rabbi says to him deal they get aisar realis Witnesses they write a contract I'm selling my B for 50 L $50 whatever it was of currency at the time sign here the rabbi sign finished the rabbi leaves that day not the next day or next week that day already this guy understood something is not going right all of a sudden somebody shows up listen boss I'm sorry to report one of your boats just sank all the merchandise is gone more later boss listen the other boat is gone and sea gone Never Never Land we have no idea where it is it's gone next thing you know the building goes on fire the house goes on fire literally one after another over a relatively short period of time he starts losing every single penny that he has to the point where the only thing that he can do is MoP Mop at a local office for somebody else just to make money to eat he loses every single penny eventually he gets back to the r he realizes he's an idiot and he says have some mercy for the honor of have some mercy give me back my Leon says to him the only way I'm going to give it back to you is if you keep the entire Torah if not go find yourself some other way and the guy says no problem I'll keep the entire Tor he did ch here a person makes fun of the Tor marks the Torah thinks that hm is not watching is watching it looks like you're winning right now why you got a brand new beamer you got a brand new Benz you got a new Bentley you got a few houses you got a company that's on the internet you got a company that's in a building it looks like you're winning you're 30 40 50 years old everything looks good you got bling on both arms your wife looks like she just came out of some magazine everyone admires you Everyone likes you it looks like you're winning even though you're going against Hashem hasem sits quiet he sits quiet he sits quiet he waits he sends you a messenger here and there somebody maybe come put on you you say no somebody says give mea you say no somebody says come his Sho by Rabbi Ruben you say no a CD shows up anywhere you say say no you this that no no no time and time again he gives you chances you keep saying no one day you're thinking ah great got to my 50th birthday 55 years old I'm going to retire early I got a 100 200 million in the bank I'm living large all of a sudden you get a phone call what happened when your kids just overdosed shortly later your wife tells you that she has a boy boyfriend on the side it's the the guy that cleans the house shortly later yes IRS we looking into your books for the company that you own and you run and you this who who invited you no one we invited ourselves we're the IRS all of a sudden your whole life goes into a basket full of dong in one second life collapses and it happens time and time again but we don't learn from it why we only learned from the first phase of the movie where it looks like the people are winning so we want to be like them sits silent and he says my dear Sons my dear daughters yes there are a bunch of people that look like they're winning even though they're going against me and it is me that is feeding them and has given them the houses and the cars and the popularity and everything else but don't think for a moment they'll continue winning permanently at some point I'm not going to be so quiet anymore I'm going to give them chances in their own way in their own time and different things and it's going to look like I don't care but don't worry I still run the world I still pay attention and at some point everybody pays the bill everybody so that attribute to Hashem is simply not possible for a human being to even comprehend little you know needless to say do because us even if we're patient it's not we're not patient because we have some uh you know some ultimate good behind it we're patient to get our way in because we have to be perfect plan you know the sweetest thing in the world is Revenge you know so we're willing to pretend like we're friends for two years until we find you in Venezuela at airport so that's what happens that's what happens so there obviously enough commentaries about that particular verse or others to have a million hours but those are just a couple of tastes that I can give you one on one end from the human perspective one another end from A's perspective but there's many many other things we can discuss yeah last question and we'll finish for the week anything else you guys the rest of the kind of had a question kind of had a question okay I have a question I have a question but before Russ sh um we have to uh get rid of all of our debts right if we owe somebody money we should pay them back and and make sure that no no to pay you back before should no no if you have if you have a debt agreement with somebody whether it be a credit card company or mortgage or a personal loan and that debt agreement is being served meaning you have the money for a uh either in perpetuity until you pay back and you're paying interest on it or you are supposed to pay back within a certain time frame as long as you're honoring that Deb agreement yeah you don't have to pay for it before okay but if you do have the money and if you have the money and you want and you want to pay it back you can but you don't have an obligation to pay it back uh before asash now you know it's as far as let's say to even uh to the question is let's say I have a you know a debt of $10,000 but I also want to donate money and I have I have let's say I have the uh $5,000 I don't have the whole $10,000 or let's say I have the $10,000 I have debt of$ 10,000 I have assets of$ 10,000 and I have an opportunity to donate money let's say to donate 10,000 or 5,000 or whatever it is what should I do now uh a person if you owe the money the $10,000 and it's due now meaning you have an obligation to pay for it now then obviously you have to pay the money now you have to pay the debt now but if there is an agreement between you and the debt holder that as long as you comply with that agreement by paying a certain amount of money every month or whatever it is and you don't have to pay all the money back now you could pay for it over the next two three four years you know as as as long as you're complying with that agreement you can use that $10,000 to do whatever it is that you want to do whether it be to give staka or anything else the only only time you have to pay back the debt before you use it for something else like stocka or something else is if the debt is due now and you know it's and you're simply choosing not to pay the debt but using it for something else like sometimes people I actually had a person asked me this recently where somebody was selling some assets that uh that uh they had uh she had jewelry and said listen I have a bunch of jewelry and I want to you know sell this jewelry so I can give some staka but only Pro only question I have is that I owe $114,000 in rent so what should I do should I rely on Hashem that if I give the St he'll find you know he'll send me money some other way to pay the rent or should I pay the rent what's the answer the answer is you have to pay the rent although it's admirable that you want to give sell your gold or whatever you want to sell in order to give takaka it's admirable and if you have debt that's due right now you fulfilling that so-called Mitzvah of selling your assets to pay for instead of paying for an obligation is not aah from it'sah Froman Satan says to you go give someaka yeah but what about the guy that you owe money to he owes now it's not you don't owe it from like 10 years from now or a month from now you're all right now so you have an obligation to pay him right now but the Satan will make you think like you're doing a by giving the staka instead I had one time a woman that was telling that told me that they had an enormous amount of debt and uh they made some major Financial mistakes but um you know and they have to pay it back over time and so on and so forth Just yeah but the thing is though if I pay back I won't be able to give any uh takaka I said okay no problem don't give any takaka uh until you pay it back cuz you have you know you owe the money now you actually already late and for for like four years all she would send would be like something like $18 a month even though they were making hundreds of thousands of dollars during that time she would only send $18 why only $18 because I'm the one that told her don't send the N sta until you pay off the debt because your debt is overdue it's not due it's overdue you know and you can't use their money that's overdue to go give Saka it's nice thank you very much but mitah is you have to know there's a time in a place there's a time in a place for everything so you don't have an obligation to pay back all of your debt before unless it's due before but if you have an agreement with a debt holder that allows you to carry the debt uh you know for a period of time as long as you comply with certain conditions you pay every month you pay a certain amount of Interest or whatever it is no problem continue and then you can use the money for whatever you want whether beat staka or whatever it is but if it's due right away then you have to pay for it right away okay good question 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more people do Chua surely are more uh likely to find favor in the eyes of asem not just in good judgment but also in judgment to give you more money to give you more more of the things that you want anyway why because you're already using your money for the sake of bringing aem's kids back you know so it's like the king gave you uh say Hey listen is uh your your your salary is $10,000 a month or $5,000 a month and you take all that money or you take a big part of that money and you go free his own kids from jail and he's so happy to see him wait where did you get the money the how did you free my son oh I used most of the money that you gave me to go free your son you use the money that I gave you to go pay your own rent to pay your own bills to go buy a watch to go buy a car to go buy ice cream instead of buying all those things you went and used that money to go free my kid from jail you know what it's worth it to give you money you know from now on your salary is 15,000 a month not 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