SHEMOT: BRIT KODESH - Stump the Rabbi (188)

We're back here on our Wednesday night stump. The rabbi where after some some updates you guys will then ask some questions and will give us the answers. Tonight's you is going to be for the foritis and all of Amra and all the righteous Noah that continue to watch our lectures, learn with us, grow with us and of course uh anyone that uh donates to the organization is very much appreciated. Uh the uh website to donate uh is the uh bzatashem.org always or if you want to go to one of the specific campaigns that we have uh either to build a building uh and a community here in Florida, you could go to bhy yeshiva.org uh and uh or bhashshiva.com. And also if you want to uh do one of the uh tikkunim for uh you know for past uh mistakes and immorality uh you can go to tikkunablit.live which will discuss tonight. So just a couple of uh brief updates of course we have uh we're looking forward to our big event next week here in South Florida. looking forward to seeing uh so many of you uh next week. We have uh some people coming from uh the uh community here, but we also have quite a few people coming from all over the place. Uh some people coming from uh Texas, New York, uh Canada. I believe there's even one person coming from Brazil. uh and uh boashm we have people coming from all over the place different countries different states to be part of the uh exciting event next week and uh as anyone that's been at the events uh in the past knows uh the events themselves are exciting the questions after the event are uh are very interesting and exciting and then certainly the uh blessing that everybody is uh gets after it is usually uh you know the the best part for some people uh So anyone that comes uh is gonna get a blessing after the uh after the lecture and we're looking forward to uh to guiding and helping anybody that uh comes. Uh aside from that we uh just got our copy today. We got our copy of the new edition of the Kodesh by our own very dear Rabi Yakov Barakman the 26th generation descendant of the Ramban. uh it really came out absolutely beautiful. Uh and he actually uh he added quite a few things to this edition uh that uh was not available in the past. Uh very useful and and informative uh prayers uh special prayers that uh are uh uh from the Ramban. Uh in addition to that also the famous debate between the Ramban and the uh leaders of the uh church and uh in that happened in Barcelona about 700 years ago. The translation of that debate is in here as well. And uh a few other things, pictures, beautiful pictures of the Ramban's uh uh community and uh really something uh special. And also there's a lot of corrections on the translation itself for anyone uh that's been watching our series of Jewish intimacy. This is the book that it's based off of. And uh as just simply a side note, anyone that buys this particular edition will also be uh happy to see our uh first as or one of the first Askamote that we gave uh as our dear, you know, for whatever reason asked us to give him an as uh you know, and we were happy to do item. Uh so this was uh definitely a very big uh um to be a part of it and uh we're looking forward to continue to teach that series. We just uh started or restarted the series uh in last night and I already got quite a bit of feedback from people that have watched it that it was uh uh simply uh extraordinary how much holiness is in our Torah and how relevant it is today uh than uh more than ever before. So highly recommend for anyone that uh hasn't started the series to start it as soon as possible because it'll simply fix your marriage. It'll fix your life uh because you'll get a better understanding of some of the mistakes that are uh simply uh uh common uh common uh behavior today uh that you could easily get rid of and of course certain certain ways that you could sanctify yourself and bring some holy children uh to the world. Uh so with that being said, we are starting a you know this week we started the uh of the shaveim. We're starting sephilmote the book of Exodus. Uh and of course everyone that has been uh you know you know learning with us over the years anyone that's been learning in general over the years is very much familiar with the story. This is when uh Israel in essence uh begins begins becoming am is uh although it all started with Abraov. Uh the uh the next chapter is really when we all became slaves in Egypt suffered tremendously until the salvation eventually came uh and uh who gave us the Torah. But in between the lines there is a common denominator. a common denominator that you will find across the entire Torah. Uh the message that's between the lines that is teaching us about kadusha. So much so that you literally see it everywhere in the Torah. Not just random places, but literally in every single part of the Torah, you will see extraordinary and important teachings about kadusha, about morality, uh about, of course, the prohibition of immorality and you know, and wasting seed and adultery and all of those things that unfortunately uh have become all too common in our generation. But the uh constant teaching and the repetition and the reappearance of the teachings of kadusha show us that kadusha is the foundation of Judaism. Achieving holiness specifically when it comes to morality is the foundation of Judaism as the sages repeat over and over again. Now where do we see the teachings of kadusha in the paran that's some of the things we'll discuss tonight and there's going to be some uh beautiful things that will bring also from that uh we haven't said in the past despite the uh you know numerous uh lectures we've given about this topic things that uh literally are earthshattering now These are the names of the children of Israel who entered Egypt with Yakov. Each man and the members of his household entered. So here we see that this is all in essence taking us a little bit back, giving us a little bit of background that this is how we got to where we are. Yakovinu came down with his family to Egypt. There was 70 souls. Uh and this is specifically counting the uh you know mainly the men with the exception of two women. So there was more than 70 uh because of course everyone was married and so on. But the point is is that the uh the 70 souls that are mentioned is repeated several times in the Torah. We discussed this particular point in last year's lecture. So we're not going to repeat it. why this number 70 is of utmost importance and why it's repeated so many times. But then we see something very interesting that perhaps we missed until now where we see here that after it's giving the names of the tribes All of the persons who emerged from Yakov's loins and entered Egypt were 70 souls. And this includes Ysef who was already in Egypt. Now in today's language or the way people speak today generally when you say you know this is uh Yakov and you'll say this is his sons this is his daughters or this is his family and if you're going to say oh this is what came out of his loins the average folks out there immediately have dirty things coming out out of their mind, dirty things pictured in their mind and uh if they were connected to uh artificial intelligence that is going to take their thoughts and turn them into pictures of what would actually come out. But our holy Torah repeats this multiple times where it says all the persons who emerge from Yakov's loins. Why do I need to know this specific detail? Obviously, if they're his sons, that's how they came out. What is this bi biology lesson that I'm getting here? Know this. Kadusha is highlighted in the Torah. Anytime there is kaduca, and I don't just mean holiness, superficially, holiness, like a holy mitzvah or a holy deed, but rather specifically the matters of kaduca, the matters of morality. That's how it's called in the holy language, kaduca. Kadusha is highlighted in the Torah because from a kad a kadosh comes out just like the says someone that's something that's unholy creates things that are unholy. But here also the Torah shows us that holiness can also create holiness. Not always because we see that he had keshim but he also had Ishmael had keshim but he also had saneti. Now generally speaking there the the wickedness of Ishmael or was by their choice. In fact, the Mes by uh Kouli, it's written about 300 years ago who used to fast for one week at a time from Shabbat to Shabbat as he was writing the Mes. And all this he was doing in hiding. No one knew that he did it until it was disclosed by one of the students who found out. But Rav Kouli brings up the point that Asav was actually given tools that were even greater than Yakov. So much so that he was supposed to be the father for half of the tribes. And he had a potential that's even greater than Yakov. Initially they both started on the same righteous path. But then eventually Asav abandoned the world of Torah and followed his desires. Yakov on the other hand became a whose favorite and thereby gave birth to all 12 of the tribes. And this is highlighted here specifically in the words that all of these holy people the 12 tribes came out emerged from Yakov's loins. Now why does the Torah want us to know that this happened specifically this way? even though you can simply understand it on your own to emphasize the importance of kaduca. It's not incidental that the time of chauave that is the auspicious time to do chuva for immorality specifically wasting seed or anything connected to it whether it's addiction to pornography or uh you know LGBTQ behavior or adultery or promiscuity both for men and women this is the auspicious time where opens up the gates in order to help you do chuva for it if you simply so try. So the book of that begins this time starts with this first lesson. The foundation of Isel comes from Yakov. Why Jacob? Because Yakov was kadosh. Not because he prayed three times a day, not because he learned Torah, but rather because Yakov protected his so much so that the first seed that ever came out of his body, as we learn in last week's parad was the seed that was used by to bring into the world. The first seed that ever came out of his body was at the age of 87 years old. I have young men and sometimes women that tell me that they're struggling to protect their bre. It's been too long. It's been a week. I don't know if I can handle it. Rovit told us a shocking story recently where one of the that learns at a different Kel that that he knows came to him for help. What was the help that he needed? Was it a suggestions when it comes to uh purity and impurity? No, he was addicted to wasting seed even though he's married even though he's an how often every two days shave who told us that the first sh that he ever gave in his life many years ago when he was 16 years old was about kadusha was about the issues of morality to a bunch of young guys that weren't exactly religious or kadosh. So he has some extensive experience here. He helped the guy, spoke to him, taught him, sat with him and after recently meeting him again several months have passed already. This was happy to say that things have improved drastically. He's now at only once every two weeks. Now, even though this is still not a complete chuva, it's a world of difference from where he was just a few months ago. So, Sephot starts off by letting us know that Am's foundation came from Yakov. And the reason why chose Yakovinu is because Yakovinu protected his bre from the moment that he brought to this world. The moment that his eyes opened up, he protected his bre and a seed did not leave his body until he was 87 years old. Such a holy person is one of our forefathers. Now if a person simply understood just this it would be it should be motivating enough for one to do chuva but what can we do that most people don't really understand the magnitude of this and therefore the Torah teaches us further where it says that the same sentence what does it mean what does it mean that Yousef was buried in Egypt unlike his father that was buried in Ysef was buried in Egypt but only temporarily where made sure that Mosheu took out the bones of Yusf Sadik out of Egypt and buried him in Israel. Why? Because Ysef was at Sadik. Why was he at Sadik? Because he protected his brit. When the beautiful isetifal, which the says was one of the most beautiful women that ever lived came on to him on a regular basis as he was a servant in our house and tried to entice him to be with her. He refused time and time again to the point where eventually he landed in in in prison for 12 years just for the sake of protecting elite. one of the holiest men that lived in the last century writes in his kuresh that when someone protects their brekad protects them and ensures that all matters relating to them he himself takes care just like you sadik and even beyond their life. So when it says that Ysef was in Egypt, that's because his bones were in Egypt temporarily. Then it says Ysef died and all of his brothers in the entire generation. Doesn't mention the names of his brothers. It specifically mentioned Ysef. And thereby after it says, "And the children of Israel increased, reproduced, multiplied, and became mighty very, very much so. And the land became filled with them." Another lesson that Khazal teaches is that Am had an extraordinary blessing when they were in Egypt where every woman aside from the women of Chevet Levie, the ones that were from the tribe of Levie, every one of the other tribes, every time they gave birth, it was six babies. six children at a time. Hence the reason why the adjectives used to describe the expansion and reproduction of am is six different words increased, reproduced, multiplied, became mighty very very much. So why do they get this blessing? Why do we have all of this blessing? And what does this have to do with dying? This is the teachers Abu Tai that when a person protects their bre just like Sadik did when they make their kesh where they're only using it with their spouse they're only using the seed for holy reasons and not for things like unfortunately animals Even though they call themselves humans, when someone protects their and realizes that this is the covenant between me and ensures that they give them a blessing of children. Several times people have come to me where they have problems bringing children to the world young, healthy. Sometimes they have money, sometimes they don't have money. They love their wife. Everything is good except married for four, five, six, seven, 10 years, no babies. There's nothing more miserable than that. Both for the husband and the wife, especially when they don't even know the reason. And not once and not twice. When I spoke to the people, I told them that it all has to do with their if they protect their if they do tikun, they'll have blessings. Now, of course, this seems ridiculous because it doesn't agree with science. It doesn't agree with logic. It doesn't agree with society. It doesn't agree with a lot of things that have become normal ideology today. But it doesn't need to agree with it because our Tora has always been our Torah. The fact that everyone else is wrong is doesn't matter to us. If it says it in the Torah, that's the truth. Everything else is irrelevant. When a person believes it, he'll see it with his own eyes. She'll see with her own eyes. I had a young guy, good guy, tell him he's together with his wife, loves her, adors her, everything is good. But doctor said there's no way they could ever have kids. I told him, "Make sure that you protect your wheat. No more pornography. No more looking right or left. No more of that garbage. Furthermore, for whatever you did, which I don't need to ask in the past, do a tikun. Rabbi, I'm not rich. You don't need to be rich. No, but if I calculate how many times I wasted seed in comparison to how many f I mean, if it's $400 every time I have to do a tikun, I don't know, I have to $50 million. Said, "No, no, no, you don't have to. You don't have $50 million, right?" He says, "Right." said, "God knows you don't have $50 million, right?" Well, yeah. Well, he's the one that didn't give it to you. But maybe you have a different amount. You don't have 4,000? No. You don't have 2,000? No. Do you have 400? Yeah, I have 400. Okay. So, do 400. Do one tun a month. I can do that. Okay. Not a year passed. He tells me, "Rabbi, my wife is only a couple of months away from having our first child." Didn't wait for him to do a million and a half tun before he gave him a blessing. He saw that he's serious. He gave him the blessing. Other times I had I saw people that newly married two years, the wife is crying every day. Why? She wants a baby. She says, "Rabbi, that's the only reason I got married. married. I want to have kids. I love my husband, but I want to have kids. I had a little chat with the husband. Told him, you know, that uh the fact that you're on the computer at 2:00 in the morning. So, yeah, you're not watching Shetto, are you? No, not always. It's okay. Cut it out. Why? It's that big of a deal, Rabbi. Well, it's most likely going to land you in gum for a very long time. In addition to the fact that you're probably gonna get divorced if you don't stop. But I don't think she knows. Rabbi, she knows. How do you know, Rabbi? Our knows everything. Our knows what your is doing, even if her body doesn't. You really think it's going to work? I don't think. I know. 6 months later. Rabbi, when should I uh tell my parents that I'm pregnant? Because everyone has been crying about this non-stop. I said, "Keep it a secret for as long as possible." I tell all the young women, keep your pregnancy a secret for as long as possible until you can't where pretty much the body's disclosing the secret. Why blessings are best kept out of people's uh conversation? Yeah. It's going to make them happy. Fine. It'll make them happy in six months from now also. Don't worry. Nothing's going to change. Just try to keep it. If you can't, you can't. But it's better to keep it a secret. There's a lot of especially people that have this issue. And as I said many times, I've seen young people that never even heard about the fact that immorality and wasting seed is such a big deal in Judaism to the point where it's literally the foundation of Judaism. In so many words, if a person protects their breath says in the name of the name of the if he protects his bread will make sure that he does not go to even if he makes other sins. Even if he makes other sins will make sure he doesn't go to gay if he protects his why he'll give you whatever difficulty you have to have whatever suffering you have to have whatever punishment and rebuke you have to have in this world why you protected your bre you're not welcome in gum says that a person that protects does not suffer The extraordinary benefits of protecting your breath are literally unimaginable. We're thinking about doing a whole sh about this at the big event next week. It's a lot of information, a lot of preparation. And if gives us the strength, the ability, that's what we'll do. Because the amount of information that you are unaware of of how important morality is in the eyes of a literally will change your life. Even if you're already religious, even if you're a rabbi, even if you're an Aabah, the amount of information that's available out there from our holy sages, from our if one were to know it, literally they would make this issue their number one most important thing in their entire life, more than anything else, more than money, more than their job, more than their anything if they knew how much benefits they get for protecting teaches that the entire salvation of au bringing mashiach depends on the ble of am is depends on the morality of Israel. After the Msiah comes, the bet amikdash depends on the of the entire foundation of this world only has reason to exist because of the ble of am. When a person protects their ble they give themselves benefits that they cannot even imagine even if we review it because simply each one of them is bigger than the next and you can't even imagine the first. So when a person achieves the extraordinary insight that kaduca has to be their number one priority in their life. For men of course protecting their for women of course same thing. Not just in that particular manner but also modesty and everything that has to do with the issues of kaduca with morality. If you're walking around immodest, you're not only losing the kaduca that you could easily acquire, but you're actually causing tumat to come to the world. The loss is unimaginable. Even without considering the punishment that ultimately will be given to those women that walk around immodestly. Even without considering all of the teachings we have in the film gay of how the sinners get hung by different body parts that they sinned with. Even without considering that the loss that is created by you walking around immodestly, by you looking at immodest women, by you doing things that are antithetical to the Torah when it comes to the matters of Kadusha. The loss that you have in this world is literally unimaginable. How much you lose by the time a person gets to the bet of heaven and is told how much they lost because of immorality. The zahadosh says and even the will the person themselves says toadhu put me in gum you are the righteous judge put me in gum that's how much the loss is if the if the ground could swallow them they would do So when a person achieves the major milestone of realizing the importance of kaduca, they start going on the path, protecting their eyes, of not going to certain places that they know that it will lead them to look at things that are inappropriate, act inappropriately, commit adultery, commit promiscuity. destroy their kaduca. They go on the path. But of course, the satan is also on that same path trying to ruin it for you. Each time you don't look, each time you don't act, you could ask for a specific blessing from and as you protect your more and more for a longer period of time, you start gaining things. protection, prosperity, perpetuity becomes your personal protector. Those that want to destroy you, those that want to hurt you, those that want to take from you now have to deal with. They have no permission to go next to you. And you see this with your own eyes. Sometimes years after the fact, sometimes months, sometimes moments, but you see how certain things were according to the nature of the world that was supposed to happen, but it didn't happen. Why? You protect says I protect you. Prosperity. When a person protects their they start getting more blessings from when it comes to money. All of a sudden the money that they're making doesn't just increase in quantity but there's increase in blessing. Meaning that whatever you're getting you're keeping more of it. I know a bunch of guys that make a lot of money but they simply have no blessing. I have a guy that I know makes no less than $150, $200,000 a month. But for him to make a $500 donation is literally like he has to move things from account to account. It might even be easier for him to donate a tooth or a limb or or some other body part. Not because he doesn't want to. It's just because there's simply no blessing. As soon as the money comes in, it has to come out for something. There's a bill, there's a fine, there's a problem, there's a this constantly no blessing in the money. 200,000 a month. Literally teenagers donate more than he does. When a person protects their automatically they start getting blessings when it comes to money. First thing they stop the big losses because each time a person commits acts of immorality and I don't recommend you test this but if you want to test it by all means especially if you have money you'll see immediate loss. I had a guy invest a few million dollars in the stock market. I told him this. He didn't believe it. And then he tells me, "Rabbi, I just lost $25,000 this morning." So, okay. Well, you have money. Goes, "Yeah, but everything was I did everything right except the thing you said about the bleet. Well, he didn't learn the lesson. The first time wasn't enough. He lost money, so he was upset. So, he wasted seat again. The next day, he lost another 25,000. And the next day, he lost another 25,000. Literally, he lost over a half a million dollars inside of a month. And he still didn't get the point. No, it was just a bad market. Everyone else benefited except you. I promise you this is not being made up. This is what Tawa says. You waste seed, you act immoral immoral, you'll lose. First thing you lose is money. Why? Because takes money instead of your life. Because according to the letter of the law, a person that weighs seed, a person that acts immoral, person that's promiscuous is supposed to get the death penalty. But since we do not have the right now and is merciful, he doesn't kill you right away. He gives you time, but you still have to pay. What do you have to pay with? That promotion you were supposed to get, you're not getting it. That car you just bought, now it's in the shop because somebody hit it and you have to spend $15,000 to fix it. That new house you just got, the air conditioner is shot. You have to spend $10,000 to fix that. All types of problem. You start losing money left and right. Why? It's because of that. The says that if a person sees that he's losing money, check your actions. Specifically this, specifically this. If a person is protecting his ble, you'll see the opposite. You start seeing that you're getting blessings. All of a sudden money shows up. All of a sudden you have enough when mathematically you didn't. All of a sudden things work out. Why? The bre is the foundation of the Torah. We have protection. We have prosperity. Prosperity. And then we have perpetuity. What's perpetuity? An endless blessing that's even beyond your life. As we see with Yusf Sadik. Ysef was in Egypt buried inside the Nile River. They hid him. They didn't want the Jewish people to take out the source of their blessings. They wanted Yousef to stay. Akadosh made sure that the daughter of lived for hundreds of years before he took up the gun eden alive. So she could be the one that tells Mosheu where Ysef is buried because no one else from that time was still alive that knew. Furthermore, AmI is continues to benefit from Ysef's holiness. How each mother despite the circumstances of what's going on in Egypt, she carries the babies, delivers six babies. average family young. They get married young. They're not playing PlayStation. They're not going nightclubing. They're not testing their bodies out until they're too old for anyone to want them. They get married early, which means that she's getting married in her teenage years. By the time she's 25, she's given birth seven, eight, nine times. even if it's only five times. By the time she's 25, she's got 30 kids. And she doesn't stop at 25 continues. We have a woman that we know. Hashem give her she just gave birth to our 15th kid. She's 55, 56 years old. 56 years old. She just gave birth. Why gives you blessings? Her husband is will continue giving them blessings and protect them from all evil. We see that gives birth six at a time. Woman gets married in her teenage years. By the time she's 25, she's got 30 kids. By the time she's 35, she's got a small little army. By the time you figure out what everyone wants for breakfast, it's already dinner. But what a blessing to have. Sometimes people say, "No, listen. We already have two, three kids. We stopped." What do you mean you stopped? No, you know, we did the procedure to stop or so what's the question then? No, we figure we're trying to ask you because it's not because of the kids. We're just we're having financial problems. You don't have financial problems. You have mental problems. No, no, no, no, Rabbi. We're good. We'll keep Shabbat. We keep kosher. We we uh we give stock or whatever we have. Right now, we don't have and we haven't had for at least two, three years. Let me ask you something. Entertain me for a little bit. Did the financial problems start somewhere around the time when you decided to stop having kids? Whoa, Rabbi. Well, how'd you know? Were you a prophet? No. No, I'm not a prophet. Even though says in the name of the that a person that protects their and teaches and teaches about will go to heaven and be considered as one of the prophets. Why? Because this is the foundation of Judaism. But I'm not a prophet. But I can tell you this is what our Torah says. It's not a coincidence that your financial problem started when you decided to stop having kids because our sages teach us in countless places. Each child brings a blessing. Each child gives you money with them. You stopped. You closed the store. There's no more income coming in. Are you sure? Do you believe in the Torah? Yeah. Okay. So, I'm sure. And what ends up happening when people are clever enough to listen, they see things change. All of a sudden, the contracts go through. All of a sudden, life works itself out. And all of a sudden, they have what they were longing for. They figured, listen, I already have a couple of kids. I have a boy. I have a girl, but we're having financial problems right now. Things are a little tough. The tuition for school is high. So, let us make a little more money and then we'll have kids. It doesn't work that way. Bringing children to the world is one of the ways that you show. You believe that he's the one that will sustain you. You stopped having kids because you're waiting for money to come in. You're doing the opposite. The kids come, the money comes. You what if I try and it doesn't work? It's not your problem. Your responsibility is to try. Whether wants to bless you with it or not is irrelevant. You have to try. Now, of course, there's breaks in between pregnancies for health reasons, both mental and physical health of the woman. Usually, it could be anywhere from as little as six months to as much as two years. But the point being is is that when a person doesn't care about holiness, they don't realize how much they're losing. And therefore, when a person achieves the milestone of knowing that kaduca is the foundation, I'm not even saying the milestone of achieving kadusha because that's already a purpose of life. when they simply understand that they must prioritize kaduca in their life that morality is of utmost importance. There's nothing more important than that. They can get the protection, the prosperity, the perpetuity. And as says they are now partners in the building of the beta mikdash. They are now partners in bringing Mashiach. And as an added benefit promises you when you protect your he promises you that one day you will see him. You will see him with your eyes. He say but he doesn't have an image. Does have likeness image. Yeah it's in this world. When you leave this world it's a different story will allow you to see him. How big is this? Even the angels cannot seek. But those that protect their will get to seek. Now, of course, the more a person realizes the importance of this, the more the Satan is going to try to do what it can to stop you. All of a sudden, they'll send you friends that want to invite you to all types of places that people make sins. All of a sudden, you get a job offer at a place that is full of sins. All of a sudden, all types of things pop up on the screen. All of a sudden, people care about why you're not coming out and hanging out with everyone. And they care about your personal choices. Until now, they didn't care if you jumped off a plane without a parachute. Now all of a sudden they think that you're too fanatic about religion because you're protecting your bleet. Where do we see this? In this para after we're told that the foundation comes from Yakov, the blessing comes through Ysef. Ami says sees the blessing and right after it says a new king arose over Egypt who did not uphold the edict of Ysef did not uphold the edict of Ysef. What's an edict? It's a covenant. What's a covenant in Hebrew? Breit. Just like the bre of a man, the bre is also a deal. As soon as am was achieving sanctity, immediately po came to attack. Who does po represent? The powers of impurity where a person must realize that their aspiration to achieve holiness is not going to be an easy path. It's going to be the most difficult thing that you've ever done in your life. But when you achieve it, you will see so many blessings that you won't even have not enough time to count them. But Kadusha cannot coexist with tuma peacefully. There will never be peace. There are breaks in between the attacks. But kadusha and tuma cannot coexist in peace. The says 10 levels of immorality were brought down to the world. Nine of them were given to Egypt. Hence the reason why right after we hear about Yakov Ysef and not Israel that are modest and giving birth to six babies at a time. What do we see? The leader of the most impure nation in history. Break the bleet. Attack the BL. And he says come let us act wisely towards them. This is to teach us that will sometimes allow the tum allow the evil to win for a period of time in order to test the kadusha in order to test the sadikim. in order to weed out the weak, the fakers, but also in order to show off the as the midrash says, why did test out all these? He knew that they're going to pass the test. He didn't test them for himself. He didn't even test them for he knew they're going to pass the test. He knows the future. Why did he test them? To show all of us that they passed the test and that's why he loves them. So he lets the impurity, he lets the evil win in order to test us, but also in order to eventually celebrate theim and show off to the world. Look, I tested them. I tested her and they passed. Now you know why I love them. Now you know why I blessed them. Parole continues to fight and he says, "Let's act wisely towards them lest they become numerous and it may be that if a war will occur to us, they too may join the enemy. and go up from our land. Now, logically, this doesn't make sense. If you're scared that the Jewish people are your enemy, then why wouldn't you want them to leave? You're saying they may be your enemy. They may join your other enemy and then leave. If they're your enemy, the first thing you want them to do is to leave. Now, of course, from a worldly perspective, we know that it's because all Perau wanted is simply more money. He wanted more material. He didn't want the Jewish people to leave. He wanted their own profits to leave and go to him. He wanted the Jewish production, the Jewish uh blessing, but all of it to go to him. This is not a unique thing. Same thing happened in all of the enemies of Amisad throughout the generations. They want to kick out the Jews, but they want to keep all their stuff. or they simply just they don't care if the Jews stay but they don't want them to continue making so much money but they wanted them to continue producing money for everybody else but on a deeper perspective when it comes to the matter of Kadusha since we now know that on the side of Kadusha Yakov and Ysef are representing it is the daughter of Israel are showing us some of these blessings because of their own modesty as Israel preserve their blessing by you know keeping their names keeping their uh modesty as far as their uh their uh clothing and also their language. They still continue speaking the holy language. But on the side of immorality of tuma, of impurity, we have par that has in his hands nine levels of impurity out of 10 that are given to the entire world. As the Rambam says, a woman is not allowed to be with a woman because we learned that finds that disgusting as that's one of the reasons that he punished Egypt cuz that's what they used to do. That's what they used to do. So now we see that is talking war but don't leave. So why would the tumah the impurity not want the kadusha to leave? That's because the war between kadusha and tuma is constant. If you're fighting for the sake of attaining kadusha, you're going to constantly fight against the tuma. But know this that the tuma is not looking for you to abandon learning to. The satan doesn't want you to stop learning dua. The satan doesn't want you to start uh to stop keeping Shabbat. No. What does he want? He wants you to do all of those mitzvot but act immoral, waste seed, watch pornography, wear something immodest, socialize with men that are not your husband, do all types of things that are immoral while you're doing mitzvot. Why would the Satan want you to do that? Because just like P says there's a war but I don't want them to leave. Do you know why I don't want them to leave? Because the tuma needs the kadusha. Because the kadusha is the source of life and without kadusha existing there is no world. And therefore the tuma specifically focuses on people that do meet that are religious that are learning Torah. People that are not learning Torah the tuma doesn't even bother with them. Why? They're already sinning by themselves. They're like on autopilot of sins. They sin by themselves. They do things immoral by themselves. They're addicted to sins all by themselves. They don't have to. The Satan doesn't have to influence them to go to bad places and look at bad things. They're already living a bad life. They're already living a purposeless life. Where does the Satan focus all of his energy? On people that are learning Tawa. On people that are keeping Tawa and mitzvot. He sees you learning. Wow. Look, she's watching to every night. Look at that. Great. Great. Let him keep watching. Look at him. He studied two hours today. Good job. Keep going. Keep going. This is not the uh saying at that point. This is the Satan saying, "Look, he just watched the rabbi for two hours. Good job. Look, he just finished two of good job. Keep going. Keep going. Keep learning. Keep doing mitzvot." Oh, look. They just gave some staka to a homeless guy. They just supported a campaign over there to get some tit. Good job. Keep doing good. Why? I'm waiting for you around the corner. Build you up. Fatten you up like a duck. Fatten you up like a little calf. Feed you. Feed you. Feed you. More meat. More meat. Why? Because around that corner, I'm waiting for you with a film of immorality. Around that corner, I'm waiting for you with a opportunity to sin with immorality. Take that date that was supposed to be shid too far. Take that conversation with the client too far. Take that opportunity too far and when you fall Satan says ah now I got you all of that you've gained protect us and save us from this all of the mitzvot that you just did all of that you just did all of the learning to that you just did all of the kaduca that you've gathered by protecting by doing good but you fell now it just gave the satan the even more power hence the reason why the sages teach that wasting seed is like a it's not a but it's like a why it's like he gave a to the satan You walked around modest the whole year. Two years you're covering your hair. Two years you're covering your body. Everything is good. But then one of your friends says, "We're having a wedding. Why don't you come?" Okay, I'm coming. But you're not gonna I want you to be one of the uh bridesmaids. Okay, fine. I'll be a bridesmaid. Yeah, but I I don't want you to wear that schmata on your head. What do you mean I have to cover my hair? I'm I'm married. Yeah, but uh you know, we can get you something else. What are you going to get me? You know, you can get you a wig that's longer than the exile. One that makes you look more single than the bride. But worse yet, she got a new job. She making a little bit of money, helping the family out. All of a sudden, the boss says, "Listen, we're having a uh meeting today after work. I want you to come talk about promotions, bonuses." Yeah, but you know, I have my husband. He's waiting for me. You know, it's a uh listen, it's promotions, you know, first come, first serve. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No, I'll come. Okay. She tells her husband, "Honey, I'm going to be a little late. I have to go to a promotion meeting." And Oh, okay. Okay. Where is it? At the office? I don't know. It's somewhere around and it's nowhere near the office. It's at some bar. And before you know it, the boss says, "Listen, have a drink." "No, no, I'm not going to have a drink." "No, come on. We're talking about promotions. I was thinking about giving you a 25% raise." Oh, 25% raise. Yeah. What are you drinking? What are you drinking? How much you drinking? Yeah. Have a little shot. And before you know it, his hands all of a sudden his eyes all of a sudden, everything all of a sudden. And guess what, my dear daughter of Even if you did not commit the act altogether, but you crossed the line. Remember all those, remember all that modesty, remember all those things you did. The Satan just took all of it. The Satan just took all of it. So why did he why why did this happen? It happened because you allowed it to happen because you didn't realize that tuma needs kadusha. It's not just oh it's either tuma or kadusha. No no no tuma needs kadusha. Hence the reason why says there's gonna be a war, but I don't want them to leave. Why? I need them. They're my weapon. Yeah, but they're the enemy. No, they're not really the enemy. I need them to do. It's just that once they finish doing the then I'm going to get them. Let them build. Let them build. Let them learn. Let him do good stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. But if he comes and he waits see once a month. Perfect. All of that goes to me. She keeps modesty all month long, but then she decides to forget the kisulas at home. She decides to wear a dress that's no different than her skin because it's just as tight. She decides to do all types of things that are not allowed because it's a business meeting. Guess what? Those now they went to the wrong side. The tuma attacks when you're least expecting it. And what's going to get you back now that you made some mistake? You fell. You studied all month. You studied for two years. You haven't done a wrong thing in a long time. But now you just heard this and you are losing steam. Oh man, I lost everything. Yes, but there is hope. What's hope next? It says that is Amish suffered tremendously. But as much as they would afflict them, so they would increase so they would become powerful. Meaning even though the tum even though tried to destroy a did not let it to happen hurt they got hurt suffer they suffered but meaning they held on to something to keep them in held on to very little didn't have the Torah like we have today didn't have translation transliteration didn't have easily accessible shor rabbis that work at 3:00 in the morning just to answer your question. They didn't have that. But whatever they had, they held on to it names. They kept their Jewish names. They didn't start calling themselves all types of Egyptian names. They didn't call their son Mikey. They called him MK. They didn't call their son Richard. They called him Yakov. They called him Shimon. They called him the Jewish names. What's the big deal of a Jewish name? It's a reminder for yourself that you're Jewish every time someone says your name. And it's psychologically proven that the prettiest sound to a person is to hearing somebody saying their name. You have a Jewish name, you're constantly reminded you're Jewish. A lot of people have two names. A more the business name they have a Jewish name. Jewish name they use in synagogue when they want to get a blessing. Everywhere else they use different name. You could do it. I just don't recommend it. Why? Even though it's permitted to use this business name for different reasons, but you need to hear your name. Not that other people need to hear your name. You need to hear your name. Why? It's a constant reminder of who you are. AmID kept their names. AmID kept their language. Yeah, but they're in Egypt already for 200 years. They kept their language. Why did the Egyptian become their first language? Why? Because we're Jews. It's important for a Jew to know Hebrew. It's not more important than learning Torah. But if you know Hebrew, that's a very big benefit. You can learn more things that haven't been translated. But what's the point here? It's not that Hebrew makes you Jewish. There's a bunch of Arabs that speak Hebrew, but rather it's another reminder of where you come from. It's another reminder of where you come from. Lastly, they kept their clothing. They didn't start dressing like gangster rappers with their pants down to their ankles and the hat sideways as if they can't see straight. didn't start wearing all types of clothes they saw in some filthy magazine of how these runway models wear. They didn't have any French designer decide their ultimate for them. What do they wear? Modest clothes. Modest clothes. What about learning Torah? all that stuff. They didn't have that. But they had those three things that kept them in that kept high. That kept So no matter how much they would afflict them, no matter how much the tuma would affect the kadusha would cause it to fall, they stayed in. Meaning you fell, you lost your mitzvot, you can get it back. How? Start again. Start learning again. Start being modest again. Do chuva again. Do a tikun. Help other people do chuva. Yeah, but I I worked so hard and I lost it. Yes, you lost it, but you can get it back. Yeah, but it's so hard. Because you just want to go to gay home. You just want to suffer for the rest of your life. You want to be a loser. What do you want to do? No, but it's so hard. Yes, but it's hard because you made it hard. It's harder now to get back up than it was to stay on the right path now that you've learned that. Go back on the right path and stay on it and write it in a little book of how hard it is to get back up. So the next time the Satan comes to attack you and try to tries to convince you to wear something not modest, tries to convince you to go to a place of not modesty, tries to convince you to do things that are against kaduca. You look at that book and it reminds you. You look at the lectures that we have, a whole playlist of lectures and it reminds you not to fall. Achieving kaduca is not a one-time thing. It's a lifelong endeavor. But even after continued growing continued fighting back and it says later on literally the next verse he afflicted them with labor they embittered the lives with harsh labor. One of the most effective tools of the Satan to get you off your path, especially off the path of chuva, is to get you to stop thinking about it. How? Get you busy with work. Get you busy with work. You're busy with work. You're busy with chasing money. You're busy with acquiring a better position. Yeah, I want to get a better position at a different company or at the same company and I I got to get this client. I got to close this deal. Yeah. Yeah, it's good. You can do all of that. But what about your Torah learning? What about your kaduca? What about all these lines that you're almost crossing every single day just to achieve your goals? If you don't start paying attention to it and go back to making kaduca your number one priority, guess what? You'll be worse than what you were when you first started this journey. And this rat race that you're on that's keeping you busy. That's also part of the strategy of the the Satan the all being the same. Keep you busy. He's willing to give you money. He's willing to give you contracts. He's willing to give you opportunities. Why? Get your mind off of cha. So you think, "Oh, I have this opportunity with this client, with this company." Great. So close the deal. Call them. No, no, no. I got to meet them. Why do you have to meet them? No, because the owner. Okay, fine. So, you know, you have somebody else that can meet them. Or maybe you can go with somebody else and not be a one-on-one meeting, not be in the middle of the night, not be at a nightclub, not be at a bar. Can it be a just a meeting in the office with other people there so there's no issues of no you know this guy he's really like one of these like you know people that likes to enjoy life and he wants me to meet him at this lounge and you know there's a lot of people there but the meeting is just me and him and he's a male and I'm a female and she's a female and I'm a male and before you know it and all become a reality. Why? Because you thought you going to sign a contract. You thought you're going to sign a contract. How did he get you? Simple. Harsh labor. Get you busy chasing the dream. Forget about cha. Forget about we can go on forever. This para and this Torah is full of it. But as I mentioned before, the basic understanding of the para is what you do the first time you learn it. As you continue learning, you build. You build. You learn more. You don't learn the same thing every time. You learn more. You build on it. But one of the beautiful things about the Torah is that building upon it doesn't mean going to a completely different subject. It's the same thing but with more information. It's the same thing but with more insights, with more connections. gave us extraordinary insights over the years about the importance of ble of the bleet. And he says in theatesh that there are 80 malot 80 specific types of rewards that are beyond comprehension which he goes into detail of what each one of them is. 80 m lot that a person gets for protecting their to the point of seeing God bringing the Messiah getting considered like a prophet literally things that are beyond the comprehension. You would think you have to be like, you know, the most righteous person in the world to even think of something like this. says, "No, no, no. You can achieve it. You, little you, 16y old, 26 year old, 46 year old, whatever old, you can achieve this. How it all starts with kesh." In fact, he starts off this section by saying that some of these rewards that are of this world, there's many of them that are beyond this world, but some of these rewards that are in this world, there are times where the generation, the generation itself does not have the merit to live among somebody that has such rewards out in the open like prophecy and so on or things that are even beyond that says, "Don't worry. Even if Hashem doesn't give it to you here, you will get it. You will get it. You will get every single thing that he promises. And I'm telling you, every one of these malot is better than the next. It's impossible to understand it. How could such a thing come from what seems to be simple? Now, of course, it's not simple. But in comparison to the reward, like I told you, if all of you knew what I have in front of me, you would literally make your top priority in your life to achieve kadesha, which means modesty. It's no no longer up for discussion. It's the only thing that exists, both males and females. protecting your eyes, modest clothes, modest speech, holiness in regards to intimacy becomes a priority. You want to achieve it even if you can't and you're 20 years away from ever achieving it because you're used to one thing and it's a you're going to try protecting your speech, learning about this and doing tikunim. Why? The more I invest into this, both my time, my resources, my efforts, the more I'm attaining this kadusha, the more becomes a partner with me. I become a partner with him. you become one of Akados's promoters, one of his prophets that spreads out this information, whether it's giving out USBs or cards or sending out the links to the shim for those that know how to speak and have learned enough teach literally this becomes the number one thing for those that have money literally they would sell buildings just to do this they would sell buildings they have that they're making they would sell the building just to do this if they simply knew what I have in front of me if they knew what told us literally 50 years ago less the amount of blessings that a person gets from achieving kadusha, promoting it as he himself says unlike the people of our generation that are embarrassed to talk about it or teach it. So of course he had the same issues we have now even 60 years ago. He says the opposite. One must promote this. One must teach this. He merits for the fourth. He merits three specific benefits for the fourth one. We're not talking about all 80. that in the future he will ultimately seek himself without anything separating him. No separation between them. He will seek. She will see. Is there anyone that could possibly even imagine such a thing? This is just the fourth level. It gets better from this. Honestly, there's so many here. I don't know what to tell you. I don't know what to tell you. Here in the seventh level, for example, he says, He says someone that protects their bre achieves kesh it lightens their body. It makes it g bring a special light on this person to such an extent that no worm or maggot can touch it. meaning they finished their life here, they're buried. Open up the open up the grave. 100 years from now, it looks like they're sleeping. It looks like they're sleeping. There's they're still there. We're not talking about someone that learned for 500 years straight and didn't. No, no. We're talking about someone that keeps ble kesh. something that every single one of you that's watching can attain with a lifelong of effort and consistency. You can attain this. You can do this. Ben and Ysef. He says, "Whoever overcomes an obstacle is considered in Shamim." They announce Gibbo. What's Gibbo? He is like Boaz who didn't fall for the test with Ruth before he got married to her. He had an opportunity to do it, but he didn't. Even though she was sleeping by his feet, he never sinned. That's why from him comes Mashiach with Py who Shaul gave him his daughter to marry even though she was already married to Davidid but he didn't fall because he knew she's the wife of Davided and every night he put a sword in the middle of the bed he says whoever crosses this the sword will cut him sleeping next to a woman that he knows knows he's not allowed to but he can't say no because the king will kill him until the vid became again a king he gave him his wife and this was one of the most not just a difficult test every single day he loved her he wanted to be with her but he knew he's not allowed to in shine he's called the gibbo and then is sadik gibbo you overcome the test the next time you have a test of The Satan coming to you in Shim. They're announcing Gibbo. Gibo like who? Like Bo like Py Ben like Gibbo. ultimately put the clothing of a king, the garment of a king over you. Just like Ysef Sadik became a king. This list goes on and on again. If you only knew what What our sages told us about kesh, you would literally understand how there's a clear path to achieving sanctity beyond and blessings beyond your comprehension. And the reason you haven't yet is as a result of the Satan doing everything he can to take your attention away from it. Even if he has to take you to other mitzvot, bring your focus to other mitzvot. Bring your focus to other good things. He rather you do all other good things. Go feed the homeless. Go uh help the poor. Go uh do all types of other things. Just get out of this bleed code of stuff. No, no, no, no. You're going to destroy my life. Yeah, destroy your life. Build mine. The only reason why you don't know is because Satan works extra over time to keep the generation ignorant. To keep the generation ignorant. Because if you knew it's no question it would become the top priority in your life. on may be his will that all of us will learn this, will do this, will succeed and not only serving as a holy people as it says inim you be holy because I am holy which is a special one of the 613 mitzvot but even more So may we achieve it at the highest possible level by not only achieving kadusha but also by achieving kadusha through publicizing it and not just keeping it to oursel whether it's by supporting it teaching it whatever it is if we can make this a top priority there's simply No power in the world that the Satan will ever be given that will be able to stop ism. We succeed. Now you guys could ask some questions. Give us the answers. When do you do the starts? The first one is at the wedding itself. that uh you do is the first and then it continues for the next six days. What is regarding Muz the time of persecution and life risk? Is one allowed to hide them? I mean, if they live in a place where if somebody sees that they have a muza, they'd kill them, then the first thing they should do is move. Uh, but until they move, if they if it's legitimately a life, then sure, they could uh uh hide them. But uh generally speaking, a muza brings protection to the house, not uh not um uh persecution. So you know is at in Egypt we publicized that we were Jews by putting muzot rather than took him off. But again right now I don't believe there's any place in the world that Jews live in that there's a Jewish community where it's a life risk to put a muza. And even if let's say there's more anti-semitism and so on wherever you are you still have time to move out of there. And if you don't move out of there, then it's your fault, not the Muza's fault. Does it make a difference in if in the if one wore a garment with a little bit of chaot or was loaded with cha? I mean, if you're talking about is it make a difference how much of an a uh if if a person enjoyed an a for example, if they enjoyed the sin, they'd get punished specifically for the joy as well as the sin itself. Uh if they're a uh you know, violating Shabbat, for example, uh it's not just, oh, he broke Shabbat by driving and that's it. It's finished. Every single time he presses on a gas pedal is a new sin. you know, if if a person is wearing chinesz, every second that he's wearing a chart is a sin. Uh, you know, so it's a uh it certainly does matter as far as uh you know, as far as the quantity of sins that a person makes. It's not just a one-time thing or no. Rabbi, do you believe that mean well or no? No. I've spoken about in the past. And they'll have a special uh punishment from at some point. I folded your short clip about New Year's to my cousins as you suggested. They were insulted and demanded an apology from me because they said that it is an extreme to compare the secular new year to a yard sight of Hitler. May his name be erased. How should I respond? You should respond that I'm not going to apologize for what the Torah says. I'm not going to apologize for the right ideology. you apologizing would be a bigger sin than uh them celebrating New Year's because you apologizing for having a Torah ideology would be would be a desecration of God's name. So apologizing is absolutely the worst thing you could do. You should never apologize for being a religious Jew. A married woman is supposed to cover her hair. Does that mean that she will never be able to go to a beauty salon? Uh she can go to a uh have her hair done by a place where there's only women and it's closed off to the public and there's no man that works there or can be there. If that's not available at a salon, then she could bring somebody to the house. But quite frankly, there's really no need for her to do our hair like uh you know, single women do because she has her hair covered anyway. So, what's the point of doing our hair? I don't I don't really understand the question. How can one merit a miracle? uh there's specific time uh like uh kanuka where people can actually pray for a miracle which we discussed about a month ago or so. Uh other than that a person has to be a nephesh meaning self-sacrifice for the sake of a self-sacrifice for the sake of hem. If a person self-sacrifices, you know, the more they self-sacrifice and they do beyond their nature, the more in essence will do beyond nature. [snorts] Uh if we follow the lunar calendar, how come the Amida we switch to Alen know on December 5th which is solar calendar. Uh actually according to the uh calendar the way it works here in the exile it's not always December 5th. It's it's December 4th or 5th. It changes but it just mathematically always works on that day. It's not because of the uh date December 5th. just happens to be that that's the exact number of days separating uh when the count starts when we do the dime in the morning. Isn't the cup technically still tuma after touching it? Uh it's the uh the cup is not uh it's not not important for the the cup to be tumor. There's no such thing as uh something that you could apply right now because we don't have the beta mikdash anyway and you're not serving in the beta mikdash. Uh the the main thing that you need to be concerned of is the water. Uh so if you had the uh if you're filling up the cup with brand new water, then the water is uh pure for you to use. If you had the water waiting by your bedside the whole night, then uh you know, it's good to cover the water so it's not open uh above it. And then when you wake up in the morning, you uncover it and then pour the water uh on your hands. Um you know, it's you can cover it with a towel, you can cover it with a piece of plastic, cover it, whatever you want, but there's no issue of the cup being pure impure. Isn't it against the 13 principles of faith to say that parts of the Torah are metaphor? Isn't the whole Torah true? Uh the fact that there are some things that could be utilized both as a metaphor does not negate their truth. Does not negate their truth. It just depends on where the uh the sages told us where something is this and where something is that. You know, unfortunately today it's people just decide for themselves without any consideration of what the sages said. So we have a tradition, we have a maso, we have a teachings that is in the midash and the and all different throughout all the generations that have discussed every single aspect of the Torah and uh there are endless amount of lessons to be learned from every single word from every single letter. uh and some of them are uh allegorical, sometimes are metaphorical, sometimes they're literal, sometimes they're for ethical reasons, sometimes it's there's endless lessons. But to just simply say that a uh let's say certain uh uh story in the Torah like for example that Adam uh you know I heard one heretic say that the whole story of Adam and Kava Adam and Eve is not really a story that happened but it's a metaphor. That's heresy. Saying something like that that's heresy because our sages have taught us in countless places that it's the story of Adam is a story of creation. It's not a metaphor. So if somebody decides to be a superhero for the villains uh and say that uh something that's against our tradition and say that this is metaphorical then of course that's against the 13 principles of faith. But if let's say for example they go into the uh commentary of the song of songs of then it's well known that the whole song of songs is metaphorical. It's teaching a uh you know the the love between and it's not talking about a man and a wife you know because over there it talks about you know different body parts of a woman and the love between a man and a wife but it's not really talking about a man and a wife it's talking the love between and so that is clearly metaphorical but again there there are um uh teachings about every single word in the Torah that tell us what is and what isn't something and if somebody follows Because the words of the sages, they'll uh they'll protect their nish from going to a bad place. Is a man supposed to fast during shaveim? Is it just twice a week or every day of? No. A man is uh is a um doesn't have to fast during shaveim. Uh if a person is learns Torah uh and has sanctified themselves to the point where they can continue learning Torah and also fast then yes they can do it. If the rabbi says it's okay but if the person is a uh not learning to all day and he's is going to fast it's serves no purpose. If he's just going to work and fasting that's not that's not going to serve any purpose. Uh generally speaking uh the the biggest thing to do uh during the time of shaveim is to learn to specifically about this subject to do chuva meaning to uh do all the steps of chuva and to also do tikunim when possible. If somebody has the ability to do tikunim it's better to do it with money than to do it with fasting because uh usually most people don't function the same way uh when they fast. Uh so they're uh you know they're not going to be able to learn the same amount of Torah. Uh if they're working then there's no point of them fasting at all. Uh the point of fasting is usually for somebody that's not working. It's learning to all day. And usually when somebody fasts they're uh they're not able to learn the same quantity of Torah and one minute of Torah is worth more than an entire day of fasting. So it's a uh it's the fasting is not uh uh of of utmost importance for somebody that's a balabite. That's somebody that's a worker. If a person has sanctified themselves, they're they learn to all day and they can they know themselves and they know that they can fast and study just as much or even more then yes, this is very good to do. Uh to lower the uh physicality and distance yourself from from materialism uh and elevate your spirituality is a very good thing to do. But for the vast majority of people uh this is not relevant. vast majority of people are, you know, working all day uh and they're not studying to all day. So, it's not uh uh it's not relevant to them. What they can do uh is uh again they could do tikunim, they could learn more to than they usually do. Uh or they could also do tan du which is a fasting of speech, you know. So, let's say uh learn to for let's say two hours or more without talking anything other than for those two hours. Uh that's that's very valuable. If someone says that is only awe and not fear, is that heresy or is that just semantics? Uh it's not necessarily uh uh uh heresy, it's stupidity because it's just that there's a clear verses in it that uh show us that exactly what it is. And there's a uh specific teachings of the sages that tell us that there's different levels of there's fear of punishment is the very basic foundation. That teaching is in that teaching is in that teaching is in literal parts of the Torah. Uh so somebody to say that it's awe, they not only they don't know what they're talking about, they don't even know what awe means. Awe is superior to fear of punishment. Uh it's it's it's literally like saying uh you know a uh uh I don't believe that uh you know I don't believe in uh I don't know honestly I can't even compete with that level of stupidity. Just it's just a person doesn't know how to speak. It's a person doesn't know how to learn. It it's sometimes you just can't help people. It's not semantics though. There's no there's no semantics. There's a there's a there's a mitzvah in the Torah to fear God. Uh the book of lectures and is it ready? Oh, you mean my lectures that uh typed up theot? No, no, it's not ready. It's gonna it's gonna take a while. It's just I don't have time. I don't have that much time to to write and to fix. And even though I have some people that want to help me, uh it's it's hard for me for even to find time to review things. I have my own said of learning. I have uh which I've trying to uh you know learn, try to do a little more uh and then there's whole anyway. Yeah, self one day. What advice do you have for a nohide in their 20s looking for a wife? Usually, it's hard finding another noahhide around my age. It's hard finding a noahhide uh in any age, but that doesn't mean that they don't exist. Uh my suggestion is to you know see who has a uh you know if there's if you're 20 years old you're on social media you're uh you know you're active in some type of you know things in the community and uh you're more likely to find uh either people that are not religious at all but believe in God uh maybe have a background in Christianity but they don't they're not religious at all or people that are actually uh uh Christians but are uh open to the truth uh than finding somebody walking around saying that they're a nohide. Uh so my suggestion would be to see if they uh if you could uh find somebody with a similar ideology and is not a sheep that is just going to believe whatever people say to him or to her and uh and try to find somebody that uh is willing to learn and what the truth is and you can make that into a spouse. If you're a man then woman spouse and if it's a if you're a woman then no woman spouse man spouse. Oh you're a man. Sorry. So yeah woman my my dear rabbi why no one talks about the things that the holy rabbi does? [laughter] You have to ask them that. Uh I don't I don't have more answers than I've already given to to you guys over the years. But as we see from by this is not a problem unique to me. Uh this is a problem that was uh also you know in his generation. Uh he actually writes in here in Kodes that uh if he would publicize what he writes in his book but if he would publicize it in the synagogues in the communities in lectures he said they would make fun of him. So, and this is literally I mean anyone that knows anything about uh knows the kaduca of but in in this generation you know it's a uh similar to now you could be at sadik surrounded by you could [clears throat] be sadik uh surrounded by mediocre people you could be mediocre with a few sadik next to you there's a lot of different mix and matches all over the world the key is to know what the truth is to have a very strong and uh you know Tom as your rabbi uh to guide you to give you answers to questions and confirm whatever uh things that uh you're learning you know the fact that you're learning the right way uh and uh you'll be fine you don't need the whole world to agree with you remember even Moshe Renu uh that we're only introduced to him in this week's para moheenu is beginning a life but he's going to live an entire life full of problems full of haters full of people that tell him he's song, you know, we learn about him of how uh you know, he saves a uh a Jew uh from being killed by an Egyptian. The very next day, that same Jew and his cousin or his brother-in-law, which is the Tanam, they go and tell Pero that Moshe Rabenu killed Egyptian. meaning the Jew that he saved his life is the same Jew that ends up causing uh Mosher Rabenu to nearly be killed and they continue torturing him for the next 40 years. This uh so it's a uh Mosher Rabenu had endless fights Korak and all of his followers which included the Tanam uh he had that he had a lot of problems. So if Mushe Albenu had people telling him he's wrong, telling him he's a womanizer, he's a thief, all the things that he wasn't and cause him a lot of anguish. And of course, anyone uh that's living in the world today that uh is fighting for the truth and has a bunch of people saying that he's crazy uh should be proud of it. You're you're in the same you're you're in the same uh conversation. You're in the same world as Mosher Raenu. You're nowhere near Moshe Rabenu or you know but at the point is that you're fighting in your little level the same battle that Mosher Rabenu fought. That's a fantastic achievement. May all of us be in that same position uh that we're fighting for the truth like Mosheu did. And as far as the and all of the people that uh speak things that are the opposite of the truth that also again that's not a new thing. and nothing new under the sun. Mosheren who fought with it and uh of course the uh those before him and those after him did the same fought against the entire world. Entire world was on one side. Abrau was on another side. Okay. Yakovu obviously had a endless light uh time against fighting whether it's a Asav or it's a uh Lavan you know these are wicked people. They weren't just looking to steal money from him. They were full of idol worship. Uh, of course, you had heretics and uh and people tell the wrong uh throughout all of history. All of the prophets, every single one of the prophets was telling people literally the words of God. Meaning it's not like a just a they would give lectures, they would teach, but they also literally gave prophecy which is literally the words of God and people called them crazy and in some cases even you know killed them uh you know they uh you know tortured them uh chased them tried to you know nightmare whether it's Elia Navi uh that Isabel tried to kill him for years uh or it's a Jeremiah that uh they they tortured him and uh uh you know for threw him into a hold did all types of horrible things to him uh which they murdered in cold blood uh you know all of the prophets all of the prophets that literally said the words of Hashem didn't just teach Torah give nice give good insights tell people to do chuva they in addition to that they literally said the words of God being a prophet means Hashem tells you something and you repeat the same thing, you're not allowed not to say it. They said the words of God and yet the people went against them. Why? Because when people don't want to do cha and they in essence are on a side of tum side of impurity, they cannot let exist peacefully. They have to fight it because it's either they're fighting it uh in order to uh uh to to to get it out of their way in essence and not ruin the uh the tuma that they already have or even more so like we discussed tonight. They tried to destroy the kaduca by making the kaduca fall ultimately so they could in essence yearn all of the kaduca from it and give the tuma more life, more power. But it's a constant fight and this is something that's uh going to continue has started since the beginning and is going to continue until Mashia comes and many of the uh discuss it whether it's says it in that the uh most of the uh uh rabbis in a generation before Mashia are going to be it's not uh uh you know uh this is he says this uh he says that they are uh looking to build themselves uh you know a name rather than to build a Torah name like the people of the tower of babel um so you know it's if you see people that everyone loves them the itself says that's a problem why if he tells people the truth There's going to be some people that love him. There's going to be some people that hate him. Why? There's people that want to do kadusha, want to follow the Torah, they're going to love him. People that want to don't want to do it, they're going to hate him. There's no way of coexisting in peace. So, if everyone loves him, there's a problem. There's a problem. Now, if everybody hates him, it's also a problem because why does everybody hate him? It's extreme. So, it has to be uh has to be a, you know, a sum of both. Okay, let's see what we our friends at Tik Tok have to say. Just a couple people repeating the same thing over and over again. All right, just wasting too much time. Just a couple of people. Rabbi, how to convert? Okay, I've answered this question many times, so I'll give you a very short version of it. uh in order to convert to Judaism, one of the main things that a person needs to do is to move to a Jewish community so they're surrounded by Jews. They could go to a Orthodox synagogue and uh learn Torah uh learn how to live a kajju. Uh you could uh as far as what to learn, uh we have a uh syllabus on our website bzadashem.org or uh that you could download for free or if you want you can email us uh at uh convertem.org. That's uh convert co nev z r a t h a shm.org uh and um if you didn't get that just send me a you know a message and I'll send you the email. You can email us over there and we'll send you the syllabus. The syllabus has it's an interactive syllabus where first it tells you the different topics you need to learn. It gives you a uh list of uh book recommendations where if you click on the pictures of the books, it'll take you to different stores online that sell them. Of course, you could buy them, you know, elsewhere if you want. Uh it also uh gives you a um a picture of a playlist of uh different lectures that I did about the topic. uh one of them being a four-part lecture that goes through all of the details of uh what you have to do in order to convert. Uh and once you have that, that's the basic instructions. Now the main thing is is that there, you know, you have to have not just live in a Jewish community, not just learn the information, but you have to have a uh rabbi uh sponsor you to take you to a bedin, which is a Jewish court uh Jewish uh uh religious court uh that is recognized by the Rabanut that is going to convert you. Conversion in Judaism takes time. It's not like Christianity or Islam where they throw some water on you or they give you some type of bomb and you become one of them. No, in Judaism it's we have to see that you actually can live and want to live uh the life of a Jew. Uh and uh that can take time. It could take anywhere from uh 6 months to 60 years. It depends on you. Usually most people uh that go through conversion it takes them a couple of years. That's usually the average. Some people more, some people less. Um, but you know, a lot of people say, "No, I've been in conversion for seven years." Because they calculate time that they first discovered the Torah or they first started learning Shua. They consider that as part of their time that they started converting, but it's not really true. Either way, the point is is that don't put a clock on it of how fast you could convert. The key is to uh know make the decisions for the right reason. do it the right way and you'll succeed. But as far as conversion, there's it's certainly possible for anyone that wants to convert to convert today as long as they're able to live in a Jewish community and learn uh the appropriate amount of Torah and apply that to their life. Uh but if a person wants to uh live like a secular person, but yet uh you know uh have some certificate that says that they're Jewish, they don't need to do anything I just said. they could just go to the computer, type it on uh on a computer, and then print it out and put it on the wall and make themselves feel good. But if you want to live like a Jew, you'll have to make some major life adjustments. Who is this monkey that uh keeps insulting? very strange. Somebody just came online just to insult. Like you do realize that says that anyone that endlessly in this world. Okay. I I don't know why you would do that to yourself. It's very strange. Okay, let's see. Do we have any more? I think we've already done everything. Can you bring me a source that is against Allah? Uh is it against is it considered? No. To say is not necessarily but it's certainly not accepted among uh the only people that do it are hardcore labavichers, kabadnik. Nobody else does it. uh not just about the labi but about anyone. You don't see the sphartics uh hardcore of sayenu. Uh you don't see the uh you know the uh satme sayenu you don't you don't see it anywhere throughout all of history. So it's it's just not part of our maso. It's not accepted among anybody else except Kabadnik. So if they want to be different, they want to do what they want, they could do it. But it's it's certainly not a uh appropriate. Now, as far as saying that he is uh uh Messiah, uh it's it's not considered, it's considered wrong because he doesn't match the uh the proper things for being Msiah. Uh, one of them is that he would have to stop all the wars. I'm not sure if you noticed, but we are in the middle of a war right now. Uh, he would have to uh build a beta mikdash. Not sure if you've noticed. We don't have a beta mikdash. So, he doesn't fit the description of being mashia to say the least. Uh, and it's not just because he died simply everything else. He didn't, you know, it's it's it's a but it's like saying is a mashiach and he didn't fulfill anything. doesn't make any sense. Uh but the point is that to say Mashiach is simply wrong. It's not considered heresy. It's just wrong. Now to say that he's alive like literally physically alive like you know they they uh some of them say where they believe that he still you know comes to every bar mitzvah and he's giving people blessings and they pretend like he's pouring the wine into people's cups or he's giving dollars to people like I have in the video uh that we made several years ago. That's not heresy. That's not a uh uh um um that's that's not that's not heresy. That is mental institution. That's mental institution. That's people that need to go to a institution. Uh I would even recommend get one of those cool jackets in white, you know, that like it ties around the body and just make sure it's tight, like really really tight. Um, and uh, you know, take a few of those little candies they give you over there. Take a few of those candies and that's it. Because all you're doing is you're reminding Am of the famous joke where, you know, one guy comes to the mental institution and uh, you know, he sees the first guy, he's a uh, I am uh, Arainu. Okay. Next guy says I am Mosherenu. Okay. And next guy he says I am David. Okay fine. And then he says one guy doesn't say anything. Looks at him gets closer. Then the guy looks at him goes I am Msiah. But as soon as he says it somebody hits him and said what happened? I'm Mashiach. Oh. Oh, I forgot. I forgot. It's your turn today. Your turn today. You know, so it's like a joke like that. It's like it's like saying that he's alive. That's where they should go. They should go to those types of places. Um, now they may want they may want to bring the other kabadnik with them, which actually even upgraded the crazy and said that he's God. You know they're called eloquistimistim. So they're not that much crazier. Don't think for a second they're not that much crazier because by the way as a side note even in you know kabadnik have told me this that the people that call a mashiach. It's the same thing like the Christians that are call themselves messianic Jews that they call Jesus Messiah. It's the same thing. Meaning they both think that Mashiach means God. Many kabadics think that the Rebi became God. And this is there's an article about it online. There are people on the inside that have told me this. This is not a conspiracy. So that's why it's again, we assume that when they say Msiah, they don't really mean God. We're hoping because that would that would be that would be idol worship. That would be the worst thing in the world. We're just assuming that it's just simply wrong. you know uh uh some of uh some of uh have said you know stay away from them don't support them uh and you know and some don't even count them in minan but again let's just be on the lenient side say that calling him Msiah is simply wrong no problem saying he's alive that's just simply crazy why your eyes He the guy that's giving the dollars is a 25 year old kid. It's not him and it changes every day. The guy that's pouring the wine is not him. It's somebody else. They say that he's in a he comes to bar mitzvah. He doesn't feel good today. That's mentally ill people. Those are mentally ill people. Same thing like the people that think he's God. They're mentally ill people. They should go to a nice hospital, you know. Don't call it a hospital though. call it uh where they'll find other like-minded people. Put them all there. Put a nice jacket on them in white. If they want to put it black and white so they can feel at home, they could do that, too. Give them a couple of those candies and uh you know, they could do whatever they want in those where they're not a danger to society. Um that I think is a good idea. I think it's perfectly good idea. You know, I would highly recommend it. I actually even think you could even start a campaign for it. raise the money to to uh to to get those people to go there. By all means, I don't think I don't think that you'll have a tough time raising the money for that. I think that uh many people will be uh happy to do it. Mental institutions are very important places. I [sighs] see. Okay, here we go. All right, last question we're going to take. We're finished. Oh, wow. You guys had more questions. No. Okay, two questions after this. Okay. Uh when Hashem did wonders for the Jews, does it take away from their merit? Like when he does miracles for an individual? Yes. says uh that's one of the things that said to Mik that uh you know although that uh you've done all this greatness for me in uh you know and I'm afraid that I don't have any uh I've spent all of my merits that I won't have any more merits to uh for or even for you to help me here. So that's what a Yakov is afraid of. uh but certainly when a person uh gets uh you know miracles in this world uh it's taken from his that's why the has probably two three talks about uh stories about uh maybe two uh talks about stories and one of the stories that uh answered his prayers for pasa and he put a uh a leg of a table that complete gold uh came down from Shamim but uh you know Kina and his wife gave it back because they didn't want to uh this miracle to in essence take away from their so it's a known thing that a person uh can lose from from that but there are exceptions there are exceptions which is a person uses that miracle to sanctify kadoshu's name uh and and a few other things but uh generally speaking it does take away from When will a dome be completely destroyed? Uh when Mashia comes. If a girl is single and actively looking to get married and start a family, what more can you recommend that she may do to have children and bring a blessing into our life? Uh as you mentioned at the beginning of the show, I think that this shoe is of utmost importance for a woman to achieve kaduca to be completely modest. Uh I think that a woman needs to work on her midot as far as to uh do you know work on character traits not be arrogant not be picky uh not look you know not uh fight with people look for peace uh certainly I think you know the the greatest uh blessing uh that uh I've ever seen as far as uh you know the name of the sages like the writes from nearly a thousand years ago writes that uh a person that does kiru that helps do outreach to help Jews do chva uh there's a uh will be at the highest possible level of you know of blessings and so on. So I think that a woman that uh wants to uh build a Jewish home where she'll have a holy husband and you know and holy children the greatest thing that a man or a woman can do is combine the two teachings. Not only do kiru but do kiru specifically with tikun because we saw at least a little bit what we learned today about how important kadusha is and how many blessings a person gets and we also know already how important k is and that's why I know that if somebody spends their time money effort whatever they can do literally major sacrifice push themselves to the limit to get the teachings of Kadushev Tikunit out there on a regular basis. Every day they put a certain amount of time. Every check they put a certain amount of money at least the m that they have if not more. Uh in so many words the more they exert themselves the more they will get in return. Uh and uh and I've seen I've seen a lot of blessings from it. Uh personally I've seen a lot of blessings for it from people that have done it. Um and uh because kiru is a major source of blessings more than anything else uh kaduca is the most critical topic to do kiru on combine the two there's nobody better than you and uh you could literally be a uh someone that is publicizing you know the foundation of Judaism uh that could not only serve to be a tikun for you uh if you've ever made any mistakes akes as far as immorality or immodesty or anything else. But it could also be the perfect tikun that brings all the blessings that are waiting waiting for you. And I would make this the top priority that you have more than anything else. More than feeding the poor, more than uh really anything else. Uh you know, but again, it requires major sacrifice. It's it's not like, oh, if I send if I send $5 a week out of my $1,000 check, is that okay? No, it has to be sacrificed. It has to hurt. it has to be an extra effort. Um, it's a uh that's that's in essence the uh why it's part of the reason why it's called a tikun. You know, a tikun is is not it's not a uh pleasing process. But I could assure you that there's no doubt in my mind and the Torah promises it that the blessings come when I don't know. That's obviously decides the time. But anyone that makes kiru of tikunit their top priority in their life where they're involved in it some some form or another you know on a regular basis daily hourly minute wow weekly whatever it is every time they get a check every time whatever it is they they make it like their top priority there's no doubt in my mind that you'll have endless blessings but again don't give Hashem a schedule as far as oh I'm going to do this for uh uh three and a half months and then I don't give a hamm a schedule. Don't tell him what to do. Do your job. You do it. I guarantee that you'll see major blessings beyond what you're requesting, beyond anything, whatever it is that anyone's requesting, that's a normal request, beyond it. Why? Because the uh the blessings that a has waiting for us are 500 times more powerful than any punishment can be. And we've already heard how horrible some of these punishments are. We already heard how horrible the punishments are. Anyone that saw the film that we made or watched the lecture of Tikunit or the film of Tikunit or watched the lecture of Kafaka that we made for four hours during Sukkot uh or uh um the Oshanaba uh or watched the film Gayo or simply has watched you know any lectures that we've made over the years that has talked about reward and punishment. We understand punishment difficult. The blessings that Hashem has are 500 times more. 500 times more. So when we have our sages tell us there's nothing greater to do than ku and on top of it there's nothing greater than the subject of kadusha because it brings literally every single blessing you could possibly imagine. And again, I cannot emphasize I cannot emphasize that I feel bad for all of you that do not know what's in this book. You know, a little bit tonight. So, you got a little taste of item, but we'll learn. And and it's it's it's it's really astounding how many blessings are available to us from for simply doing this. It explains a lot of things about my life. I can tell you that. explained a lot of things about I don't know what merit I had to to to to have this as one of the top things that my is connected to from day one but I can tell you that uh uh this is something that is of utmost importance for you whoever you is male female young old single married and also And needless to say, the world as well. Anyone that does it, I think that they they they're they're already a winner on day one. Anyone that wants to know more details about Tikunim, go to uh tikun ablit.live, that's t i ku n h a b r i t. Li. over there there's a write up of how the tikunim work for different sins. Um again you want to do it by all means you don't want to do it don't do it everybody has the free choice to do what they want but at least the information is there and of course we have many lectures about these topics you could all watch it learn and apply. Thank you very much for learning with me. May bless each and every single one of you that uh is gonna have success in achieving kadusha, publicizing kadusha and uh sanctifying a kadoo's name once you see the blessings that come from it. Thanks again for learning with mem will learn again next week. Cultou. [music] asked him, "What can we do to protect ourselves from Mashia?" He says, "Tworah, even if somebody does a nice thing or learns a lot [music] or anything like that, it's never compared to bringing one of Hashem's lost kids that's been lost for the last 3,000 years back home." 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