Shiur Torah#59 Warning Shots From Heaven, The Power of Modest Women (Miami)

[Music] Thank you very much for inviting me. You know, you can talk freely just, you know, any questions you have. If there's a uh uh any specific issues or questions that you want to ask or anything, you can interrupt me and talk. It's not just a lecture where I just talk. It's for you. If you have something interesting that uh you want me to talk about, by all means, it's the the whole goal is for uh all of us to learn together. Uh not necessarily just for me to talk. And uh if you're not interested in it, then let's find something else you're interested in. The Torah is very very interesting. The um first of all, I'd like to thank uh Fidel Pablo for for inviting me here to Miami. It's really uh an honor to be here because again, you know, you want to spread Torah everywhere. The problem with with with with Torah today is that the Torah itself has not changed since the day we got it in Mount Si a little over 3,300 years ago. Nothing's changed. People, on the other hand, the desires haven't changed because they've always had desires. But we've become a little bit more sophisticated than we need to be. Where in the old days, even if you just look at our grandparents, 100 years ago, 150 years ago, 200 years ago, if a rabbi came to somebody and told him, "Listen, this is what God said." He said, "Okay, God said, I'm going to do it." God said, "You need to be modest. I'm going to be modest." God said you need to eat kosher. Eat kosher. No one asked any question. No one had the audacity to ask a question. Well, what if maybe God is wrong or maybe there isn't a god or maybe this or maybe that. Nobody would even dare to do that. It was very few people were not religious in the old days. In today's age, people think they're smarter than God. In today's age, people think that they're smarter than what they really are. And they start thinking that, you know, listen, maybe this book is not real. Maybe this book has mistakes. Maybe uh this book is not as advanced as my iPad. Maybe this uh you know, Moses didn't have an iPad. I have an iPad, so I'm better than Moses. You know, Moses didn't have a car. We have cars today. So maybe the Torah is not applicable. Maybe it's okay to drive on Shabbat because back then they didn't have cars. So that was that that's the reason why they didn't drive on Shabbat. But Moses uh didn't have a car. I have a car. But God probably understands and they start making up new rules, but it's not in the Torah. It's not in the Torah. Now, the one thing I say to people usually when they uh when they uh are trying to in essence not say that the Torah is not real, but trying to argue that maybe it changed. Maybe it changed. Okay, it's real. We got it in Mount Si. Even the goim, even even the Christians and the and the Catholics and the Arabs, they all agree that we got the Torah. The AmI got the Torah in Mount Si. Everyone agrees. No one says Amis is didn't get the Torah because their religions are based on ours. We got it first and then about 1500 years later, Christianity started and about 2,000 years later, the uh Islam started. So, but their religion says that our book is the first book and their book is the second book. Obviously, we don't agree, but okay, fine. At least they say that our book is legitimate. The only people that say our book is not legitimate are usually Jews. That's the problem. Usually it's the Jews that say that our book is not good. And that's the thing. It's and it's and it's and it's absurd, but it's true. Our biggest enemies are ourselves. So today, when you're saying, you see some people listen, okay, maybe we got the Torah, maybe it's real, but maybe it's not applicable anymore. Maybe it's not relevant to today. Maybe back then because they didn't have cars that no one drove on Shabbat. But today we have cars. So God understands. And the reality of it is that as absurd as it sounds, many people make a legitimate lifestyle thinking that way and operating their life with that in mind. Thinking that, you know, God understands me. I'm not going to keep all of the rules. But God understands that it's too difficult for me. It's too difficult for me to eat kosher all the time. I have to have McDonald's once a week. It's too difficult for me to be with one woman. I have to have a different woman every other day. It's too difficult for me to be modest, so I have to show my whole body to the world. It's too difficult for me to be a nice person. I have to yell at least at one person every day. Everyone says, you know, if it's student, so God understands me. So when you think about all that then what you're saying if someone really thinks that way and they're saying on one hand that God is real and the sages are real Moses is real everything is real but they are an exception people today are an exception so in essence what we're saying is that Yakovu and everyone else they're all fools they all followed the law they all followed everything that God said they're in Ganeden They're in a great position, but we don't have to follow and we're going to be in the same place. How could that be? If if God would say if we if we don't do anything, if we don't follow the laws, God dictated Mount Si, we don't follow them. We make up our own laws and we go up there and we say, "God, you understood me, right? It's it's okay for me not to uh keep Shabbat, not to eat kosher, not to do all these things. You understand me?" If God says yes, that cancels the entire Torah because it makes the Torah not real because God says this Torah is eternal. It's forever. It cannot change. God also said that he doesn't change. He doesn't think like man. He doesn't have a mind like us. He doesn't think like us. He doesn't look like us. He doesn't have an image. Whatever he says, it's not an opinion. It's not maybe he's going to change his mind. Like we change our mind every five minutes. One day we want this dress, another day we want another dress. One day we like our car, the next day we like our neighbor's car. Have you ever noticed that you always like your neighbor's car better than yours? It's the same car, but his car is a different color, but you always like his better. That's that's human beings. We always like somebody else's stuff. The grass is always greener on the other side. So people are constantly trying to humanize God. They're trying to make him like us. They want to make, you know, make everyone believe that God thinks like us and maybe he changed his mind. Maybe he was wrong. Maybe he made a mistake. Now, if God is able to make a mistake, if God is able to change his mind, if God thinks like us, then the reality of it is that he's not God. He's just another person. God didn't say that he was another person. He specifically said in the Torah that he's not a person. This is actually one of the best things to argue against Christianity that says, you know, maybe God came in a human form and it was a person and then he died and then he came back and then something else happened. People are constantly trying to humanize God. They feel that if God is human, they can connect to him more. The reality of it is is that if God was human, it's impossible to connect to him because most people don't like other people. We like a few people. We have a few friends. Everyone has a couple of friends. We have, you know, few good ones and that's it. Everybody else is somebody else. I know him. Hi, bye. But that's it. He's not uh coming to my house having dinner every night. I don't want him in my house every day. Some people don't even want their family to come over every day because you want your own privacy. You want your own life. You want, you know, that's I don't want everybody on my head all day, right? So most people don't really like everyone. They like a few people. So if God was a person, what's to say they were going to like him? So what ended up happening, the next thing that people did said, "No, no, I love God because he gives me a bunch of stuff. He gives me a car. He gives me a house. He gives me kids. He gives me this. He gives me this. So you turn God into Santa Claus. Another human. If he gives me stuff, then I like him. So what happens if he doesn't give it to you? Well, then you don't like him. And if you don't like him, you don't have to follow what he says. So that's the thing. That's the problem. When you humanize God, it's not God anymore. The Rambam said that if I he was saying about himself if I was able to understand God if I was able to understand him really understand him like I understand another person I would be him to expect us to understand everything he did and why he did it is impossible he's above us he's divine and that's one of the main things we have to understand when we're reading all of these pesot in the Torah some of the things that are happening here are very easy to understand some of the things are beyond us. Some of the things we don't understand why did God let this righteous person whether it's or Moshe or any of the all of the sages if you notice they all have one thing in common they all suffered our natural human inclination is to think that if we're righteous if we do what Hashem says that we that means that we should live a wonderful life with no problems right if I do everything that Hashem says why should I have any problems problems. But that's a human god. A human god, if it's Santa Claus, if you're a good boy, you get present. You get presents, right? You get presents. If you're a good boy, if you're a bad boy, you'll get presents. That's a human god. The real god, I told you that you come in here. You come into this world. This world is like a corridor. It's like a hallway. It's a small little section of a really, really big palace. Small little section of a really, really big palace. this life where you live 60 70 100 years 120 years but that's it real life is eternal so here you come here to do the work here you come here to do the to earn yourself a spot in the real world not that this is the real world this world is for work this world is not meant to be easy this world is not meant to be fun and yeah you can have fun if all of us have some times that we have fun we're not all supposed to be tortured all day. But at the same time, no one is supposed to live a mindset where if I do what Hashem said, then my life is supposed to be perfect. Because we see from the most perfect people in creation, their life wasn't perfect. Can we say that we're the same thing as Mosherenu? Can we say that we're the same thing as Jacob or even his uh his his little finger? We can't. And they had a difficult life. So in this week's para it starts with a big test the next big test that had after leaving Lavan and Lavan was a big Rasha he was not only an evil person but he also had powers he was a wizard and uh from him as we uh talked about in last week's in yesterday's sh and also last week is that uh he had such powers that everyone was scared of him including Isav. Even Asav the Rasha Jacob's brother that was the biggest gangster over there even he was scared of Lavan. Nobody messed with Lavan. The sages say that either Lavan himself was a Gilgul and eventually became Bil. The bil was the prophet that tried to destroy later on with Mosherenu and obviously failed and but got close to it or Bam was his grandson. Now to go into uh into Bam when you think about the story of Bilam and how he succeeded and almost destroying is it wasn't from his curse. Bam had the ability that Benu even didn't have. Bam. According to it said knew exactly when Hashem was mad. There's a what they call a rega is like a moment. It's now no defining time of it. A moment like however long it takes you to say moment is how long a moment is. So let's say it's a second. There's a second in the day that Hashem is not necessarily angry like you and I angry, but is upset at obviously is and the world not doing what he really wrote for them to do, not following the instructions. There's only one moment a day and anyone that knows that moment can ask Hashem to do whatever he wants and usually not a good thing. So, Bil knew that moment. He was the only one in the world that ever knew it. And he wanted to use that time to ask Hashem to destroy his own nation, to destroy the Jews. When the time came in Bil and and Balak, which we'll learn about both of them in a few months, tried to do this. It didn't work. Hashem instead of turning the curse that Bam had in, you know, in cursing, he turned it into a blessing. But how come 24,000 Jews died anyway? They didn't die because of the curse. They died because of Bil's advice to Balak. He said, "Listen, the Jewish God, he doesn't like promiscuity. He doesn't like when women and men get together and just without marriage, without worrying if they're Jewish, not Jewish." He doesn't like that stuff. He doesn't like people that act like prostitutes. He doesn't like the people that want a new girlfriend every day. If you send your girls to them, get the Jews to make sins, he'll destroy him. He'll destroy them for you. You don't have to bring any wars. You don't have to bring any spears, nothing. And we see something very special from the story of how much Hashem doesn't like. As soon as the women arrived to the Jews and the Jews started sinning with them, Hashem didn't ask any questions. He didn't send a warning signal. He just started destroying. In a matter of seconds, 24,000 Jews died. And he only stopped when Pinas and Pinas, we're going to learn this. took a spear and took the Zimri, the leader of the Shimon tribe, while he was with Kosby, the woman, the Midianite woman, while they were together and killed them both on the spot. And that's when the plague stopped in a matter of seconds. If he wouldn't have done it a few more seconds, all of Amai would have died. None of us would be here today. Now, why do I mention this story? Because most people today, especially we live in Florida. In Florida, a lot of people forgot what clothing is. They forgot. They leave it at home. They have clothes at home. They come they come outside naked. And it's a problem. Hashem doesn't like it. No, it's true. It's a it's it's it's true. Really, you know, you walk around your Miami Beach, they think that they're always on the beach even though they're at work, but they think they're on the beach. New York is no different. Even the cold weather, there's people walking around half naked. I don't. So, it's not it's not the weather. Everywhere around the world, it's not just in America. It's in Israel. It's everywhere. People today feel like the more skin they show, the more beautiful they are. The reality of it is that if you look at history, if you look at the women that are highly regarded, whe even if they're movie stars, even if they're celebrities, even they're the if they're the president's wife, usually it's the most modest women. It's not the ones that showed their their body. The ones that showed their body, they remembered for a week, a month, a year, or two years. That's it. They forgot. Okay, we we got bored of her already. But the one that's modest, everyone remembers. Oh, you remember so and so. Wow, she was so modest. Everybody talks about that. And that's the beauty because women today don't understand that. And men are far even further than men. Men are asking their wives to be this way. Men are asking their wives to be modest. You have husbands asking their wife, "Listen, why you wearing so much clothes? Take off. Wear a tank top." The key here is that Hashem, if you think about the beginning of this book, you think about Noah. Everybody thinks about Noah. Hashem destroyed the world. Start all over with Noah and his and his three sons and their wives and his wife. That's it. Everyone else was destroyed. But before Hashem destroyed the world, he gave them a warning. He told Noah, listen, build, build the uh the ark. It's going to take you 120 years. So for 120 years, people are going to see you walking in a working in the middle of town. They're going to ask questions. If they ask questions, tell them, "Listen, God's going to destroy the world." So in essence, they're getting warnings for 120 years. For 120 years, every day, they're getting a reminder. Hashem is going to destroy the world. Why? Because you're sinning, you're stealing, you're doing this, you're doing that. They didn't listen. Hashem destroy the world. The Tower of Babel, they wanted to go against God. They wanted to build a fight God. They wanted to build a tower. Hashem obviously instead of destroying them, he just changed their language and it ended up being destroyed itself. You look at Sodom and Gomorrah, everyone knows what Sodom and Gomorrah is, right? Mhm. Sodom and Gomorrah. When Hashem told Ara, I'm going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. He didn't tell him because listen, I'm going to destroy it and that's it. He told them because he wanted to pray for them to maybe maybe they could do cha said maybe if there's 50 righteous people there maybe if there's 45 maybe if there's 40 maybe if there's 10em said even if there's 10 I wouldn't destroy it but in essence he's giving him more time he's giving them more time because you know is praying for them he's trying to help them do chuva the only time in all of the destructions We've had even in the beta mikdash the first beta mikdash we made a lot of really big sins including abuaz is one of the worst things you can do which by the way just anybody doesn't know every time every time idol worship is mentioned in the punishment for it it's mentioned right next to Shabbat right next to the violation of Shabbat is idol worship why because Hashem considers it the same thing someone that violates Shabbat is the same thing as someone that's worshiping an idol. Same thing. People don't know that. They think, "What's the big deal of Shabbat? What's the big deal?" Wow. I'm just driving to Shu. I'm just driving. I'm just uh going to the movies. Why? Why does Hashem care so much? It's a big deal. It's the fourth commandment. So now we're sinning for many, many years. Hashem was sending us warnings. He was sending us the prophets. Duchva, do chuva, do chuva. No one wanted to listen. Eventually destroyed it. 70 years later, we built another bet mikdash. It lasted 420 years. But out of the 420 years, we weren't righteous for most of it. If you uh know also the the second betash, we had a ken every year that had to go to the keshim and pray for during yonipool and during those few minutes pray for chouba for all of but if the kan was not righteous himself even if he thought about something bad or something not 100% holy he would die on the spot. So the co had to be really really righteous something out of this world. During a bet first beta mikdash there wasn't many co. Why? Because they lasted a very long time. During the second beta mikdash we had over 300 of them which means that every year the coin would die almost. The second beta mikdash was around for 420 years. We had over 300 kani. Why? Because every year the guy would die. Sometimes more than one would die in the same year. Why would they die? Because realistically they weren't really righteous people. They were buying the co the the priesthood. It was rich people. So they figure, listen, if I'm rich, I'm righteous. Everybody thinks that when they're rich, they're smarter. They're better looking. If they're rich, they're they think everything changes. So same thing back then. They figure, listen, I have money. I want the best position. I want to be the top. I want to be the president. I want to be the coin gdole. So, I'm going to buy the position. They didn't think about, listen, I'm going to have to go to this and if I'm thinking about something bad, I'm going to die. They didn't think about that. They were just thinking about they were thinking about pride. They wanted to get everyone to respect them. Not realizing that most likely you're not going to survive. Now, I can I can understand logically. I can understand the first guy, the second guy, the fifth guy. I can understand everyone thinks that they're better than everybody else. I can understand. Okay, fine. I don't understand. after five people, after a 100 people died, after 200 people died. How could you still do it? Wow, you didn't notice that 200 people are dying every year. I mean, I don't understand. And that shows you that sometimes when someone has pride and they want everyone to respect them and they have so much arrogance because they think they're too they're special, the logic goes in the garbage. They don't think clearly. They rather be honored for one minute and die than not to be honored and live forever. Doesn't make any sense. One time Napoleon, somebody asked uh told Napoleon, Napoleon was about to go to war with the Russians and uh he went to a rabbi and he asked the rabbi, he respected the rabbis and he asked the rabbi, "Listen, um what do you think about this war with the Russians?" Rabbi told him the truth. He says, "Listen, you're going to lose." I think it was the Balmtov. He came to the Balmto and he told him, "What do you think?" He said, "You're going to lose. The Russians are going to kill you. You shouldn't go to this war. Shouldn't go to this war. No. Is there any other way? No. No. You're 100% going to lose. You're going to go to the war. Go, yeah, I'm still going to go to the war. How does that mean? I'm telling you, you're going to lose 100%. Why would you go to war? He goes, "Because when I'm not fighting a war, I'm not Napoleon." So he rather go fight another war knowing that he's going to die just so he can get the cav you can get the pride that he went to another world. That's the thing when someone has pride they all the all logic goes in the garbage and this is something that we all have to check ourselves. Every day we look in the mirror right every day we look in the mirror we have to ask ourselves am I righteous with God? Am I really doing what he's uh what he asked me to do? Am I really deserving of all the things I ask for him every day? Every day we pray either we pray during that we pray personally sometimes somebody is just praying personally at home they're talking to God which is very good to do by the way it's very very important to talk to God every day talk to him like you talk to anything just talk to Hashem it's one of the best things you can do for yourself so sometimes you have people that are talking to God and they ask him for stuff give me health give me this give me this give me this give me all these things you want all these things okay Listen, it's not the Hashem. Hashem gives you everything your heart desires. But once in a while, at least once in a while, you should ask yourself, if I was God, would I give it to me? You ask yourself, because I'm asking, this person is asking for all this stuff. Now, Hashem said, "Listen, I also asked for a bunch of stuff. I told you to do all of these commandments. Everything that you can do, you have to do it. Even if you don't like it, even if you don't understand it, whatever is relevant to our generation, because there's some things that are not relevant to our generation because we don't have a bet mikdash. So some of the mitzvot out of the 613 that Hashem gave us. Some of them we can't do because we don't have a beta mikdash. But there are many that we can about a third of the 613 we we are obligated to do. So many of them we can't do even if we wanted to. Some of them only apply to kohanim. Some of them only apply to women. Some of them only apply to men. So you can't do everything. No one can do everything. But the ones that you have to do, you have to do. So Hashem is okay. So now you ask yourself if I was God and I told this person, listen, you have 50 mitzvot. You have 50 mitzvah that you have to do. You have to do this A B C D. You have to do all these mitzvot. And this person is doing 10 of them. And those 10 happen to be the easy ones. You know, he washes his hands in the morning. He does in the morning. He uh eats kosher. He happens to live next to a kosher deli, but that's a different story. Okay. Okay. He's doing the easy ones. But the big ones he's not doing. He's only doing 10. I gave him 50. He's doing 10. But he's asking me to be rich. He's asking me for gin. He's asking me for for his kids to be successful. He's asking for his kids to be have zebuim and have family and have kids and he's asking me for from here he's asking for in this world and the next world if you were God would you give it to you you give it to this person doesn't make sense right but God still gives it to us that's the amazing thing about God he still gives it to us now if we're asking for something and God is not giving it to us there's only one of two reasons if you're praying every day for something something has a problem or whatever is there's a lot of problems in the world whether it's you know the disasters that are happening to the Jews all over the world or it's health problems or financial problems or kids problems all the things that are happening or there's no shortness of problems in the world so we're all praying every day and sometimes we pray but nothing happens we don't get the results we ask for this it didn't happen we ask for a job we can't get a job we ask for define as evil we can't find as evil we ask for you know different things it didn't happen only one of two reasons. Reason number one, you didn't pray long enough. Meaning, you didn't get there yet. You have to pray more. Hashem wants more prayers. This is one of the main reasons why Hashem gave the sages and the the the matriarchs and patriarchs so many problems. He wanted to hear their prayers. Everyone knows that Yakov was a Tadik. Everyone knows the as good as it can be. So why is Hashem constantly giving him these tests? He knows he's going to pass them. Hashem knows the future. He knows he's going to pass this test. So what's the point of giving him a test he knows he's going to pass? He wants to hear his prayers. When Yakov is now about to meet Asav, Jacob gets very scared because he hears that Asav is taking 400 leaders. And each one of these 400 leaders has 400 soldiers, which means Asav is coming with 160,000 soldiers against Jacob and his little family. Jacob is scared. He starts praying to Hashem. He says, "Hashem, you already gave me so much. I came to Lavan with just a stick. I had nothing. No money, no nothing. Now I have two camps. I have money. I have a, you know, my wives. I have 11 kids. One of them is on the way now. Number 12 is on the way. By is on the way because was pregnant. Oh, Hashem, I have your Torah. I'm healthy. Everything is good. You already gave me too much. But now I'm hearing that Asav is coming to kill me. You promised me that the nation of Israel is going to come for me. So I don't know. I don't know if I don't deserve all this already that you gave me. So to ask you to save me is already too much. But please save me anyway. Now, Hashem knew and he already told Yakov and he already told his father and he already told his grandfather Abraham that everyone all of that come from Yakov. So why is Yakov so worried? He knows everyone's going to come. He can't die. He's not allowed to die. Everything depends on him. So why is he so worried? This this teaches us something about the sages. This teaches something about the patriarchs, the matriarchs, all of the most important people in history. The ones that were closest to Hashem were never ever confident about their own actions. Even though they were righteous, even though they did all the mitzvah and they kept the Torah, even before they got the Torah, even before Mount Si all kept the Torah, they already kept the Torah. They weren't obligated, but they already did it. Even then, they weren't sure. They said, "Maybe, you know what? Asab has been doing a mitzvah that I couldn't do. He was respecting my mom and my dad. He's respecting Abaima for the last 34 years. That's the fifth commandment. I couldn't respect my mom and dad because I wasn't there for 34 years. 14 years that Yakov was yeshiva that he went before Lavan. He went to the yeshiva of um Shem and then he went to Lavan. He worked there for 20 years. So 34 years he hasn't been at home. So for 34 years my parents there's no Facebook, there's no telephone, there's no email, there's nothing, can't call, can't send a letter. So 34 years I can't talk to my parents. If I can't talk to my parents, how can I show them respect? Maybe they died, maybe not. I don't know. They don't know what happened to me even. So I can't honor my parents. He's been honoring my parents. So he has one mitzvah that I don't have. Plus he lives in which is later called Israel. Hashem said that he's going to bless this land. That's the chosen land. So, Asav has been living in this land. I haven't been living in this land. So, he has two mitzvot now that I couldn't do. He's not thinking like us. Oh, I do this and I do this and I do this and I do this. He's thinking I'm missing two. He has two. He's not thinking is murdering people. No, he's not judging him. He doesn't know. He's like, listen, his business is business. All I know he has two mitzvot. I don't know about his crimes. I don't care about his crimes. It's not my business. I don't know about my own mitzvot because I'm supposed to do it anyway. What am I supposed to get a bonus for doing the mitzvah? Hashem said to do it. I have to do it. So he's not thinking about everything I did. And he's not thinking about everything the other guy is doing wrong, which is exactly what we do. We see somebody else is rich, we think, why is this why is giving him all this money? He steals. He's this. you thinking about everything wrong that he's doing. Everyone else is a sinner except us. We think all the time you you think about all the time. Everyone else is sinning but our sins are not sins. It's accidental. I did it by accident. He sinned on purpose. That's what we think. Human beings. That's the way we think. Everyone else is a sinner. So Yakov is different. Yakov is saying no no he has two mitzvot that I couldn't do. So with those two mitzvot maybe he beats everything that I did. So he's really really worried and he prays to Hashem when it comes back to all of the sages. Each time we spoke to God, each time we got news from God, anytime there was a decree from Shamine, God would give us a warning shot would tell us repent whether it was the flood or it was Sodom and Gomorrah or it was the first uh bet mikdash, the second bet mikdash. All throughout history, we've constantly gone warning shots. The only thing that changed between today and a couple thousand years ago is that today we don't have prophets. So Hashem gives us warning shots that are obvious if you're paying attention. But he's not talking to us in public like he did back then. Today he's telling you, listen, the Arabs have already had two billion people almost in the world for a long time. It's not like they just were born two billion today. They've already had two billion for a long time. which really means that if they really want to destroy the nation of Israel, they don't need weapons. They don't need machine guns. They don't need tanks. They don't need anything. They don't need planes. They can just all walk to Israel. That's it. All of them come together. They all get on a little boat, a car or something. Or they walk on their, you know, or on their camels. They come to Israel. That's it. Israel's gone with no weapons. Not even one shot fired. What what what is the little 10 million people or 12 million people we have in Israel going to do against two billion people now? Hashem has obviously been giving us a lot of mercy for a long time. They didn't do it. But now all of a sudden they have this new policy. Anyone that could take a knife, go use it against the Jew. They could have already done this a long time ago even without the knife. So why is it why are they doing it now? Hashem is talking to us. If you're paying attention, Hashem is talking to us. He says, "Listen, you got to wake up. I didn't bring you to this world to play on your computer. I didn't bring you to this world to go focus on making money. I didn't bring you into this world to do everything that we do. I brought you to this world for Torah, to bring the Torah to life." When most of is not keeping, most of is not keeping Shabbat. They don't even know what Shabbat is. Most of them, they think it's just another day. It's called Shabbat. They think they can do kouch and then go to the movies. Do kush then go to the pub. Do kouch and then go make every sin possible. So Hashem is sending us signs. The only time the only time he did not send us signs the only time he did not give us a warning shot. The only time he didn't say you have to do cha is with the story bil that gave the advice to balak and when they sent the women to make the Jews make sins. That's the only time. As soon as they started making the sins, Hashem didn't talk to Moshe. He didn't talk to anybody. As soon as they started making the sins, he started killing them. No warning shots. So when people today, when Jews today are telling you, listen, why does Hashem care if I wear a tube top or a tank top or a mini skirt or a long skirt, why does Hashem care so much? It's my body. Mhm. It's my body. What? He created me. He knows what he created. What? I have to be shy from God. He knows what I created. What is What is he? What's What's the big deal? We have to remember this story. Hashem hates zema. Zema is in essence immodesty. It's it's it's uh promiscuity. When women walk around without being modest, it's not just about them. It's not just about their sin that they're going against Hashem. It's about how they're making other people make sins. Because guys don't think like women. Women in order for them to love somebody, in order for them to be intimate with somebody naturally, in a normal way, they have to care about the person. They they they like, you know, they want them to be a nice person, to be funny, to be this, to be that. They want to care about the person. Guys, not so much. Guys just want life to be convenient. If she's cooks, if she cleans, if she understands my lifestyle, I can deal with it. I could live this life, she could be a good wife. Guys are not as a uh they don't put as much thought into a relationship as women do. Women are much smarter than men in many things, by the way. Much smarter. So, the problem is that guys are looking at, you know, especially people in the street. When I talk about guys in the co or that noto I'm talking about people regular in the street. They see a woman that's not modest. They're already thinking about everything that they're not supposed to be thinking. They don't even know the woman. They're already thinking about this and that and the vacation we're going to take and then she's going to be this way and then she's going to be that. They already had this whole movie in their head. Now the guy could be married with four kids but he's thinking about somebody else. But it's not only his fault. It's her fault cuz she dresses in a way that's appealing to anyone. So when she grabs their attention of the guy, what ends up happening? He goes home, but he's thinking about another woman. So she makes him sin, but she's not walking in a street with one guy. Thousands, millions. So when a woman is not modest, the problem is is that it's not just the sin that she's making by not mean by not being modest. The sin is that she's making everyone else sin. She can walk on one block from 75th Street to 76th Street. 1500 men passed by her. 1500 men made sins. But it's not one sin they made. They're making that sin over and every time they think about her, it's another sin. Be millions of sins in a walk that took maybe 30 seconds. This is something we need to know because again when Hashem gave us so many warning shots even when we worshiped idols he gave us a warning shot. We worshiped idols. He told us stop do chuva. When we did everything we did, even when we actually in Mount Si, he wanted to destroy us, but he didn't destroy us. Why? He said, "Okay, they worshiped an idol. They did what they did. It was really, some people say it was only the some people say it was everyone." Either way, point being is that at a time that realistically we deserved as bad as it can be, we didn't get it. Why? Because Hashem loves is and he gave us another shot. The only time he didn't give us another shot is with im modesty. And this is something that we have to really really try to teach everyone around us because when people say, "No, I love Hashem. I understand Hashem. I love Hashem. He loves me." And you're asking for all of these things, just like YaKob is asking for Hashem. Hashem, please save me. So we have to remind ourselves okay Jacob he made all the all of his wives were kosher all of his kids were sadikim he was a sadik he did everything even after Lavan was cheating him for 20 years 20 years we talked about in last week's para 20 years he's cheating him one day he comes Yakov comes to his wives and he says listen we have to leave your father's house because he's been cheating He's telling to his daughters what? His daughters didn't know that he's cheating him for 20 years. That's the beauty about Yakov. 20 years he's being cheated. He didn't complain once. He didn't say even one time. Which means that for 20 years, Lavan's daughters, which are Yakov's wives, they don't know. Maybe he's cheating. Maybe he's not cheating. We don't know. Yakov never says anything. He goes to work. He does his work. He comes home. Never says 20 doesn't say. Can we last one day without we talk on the phone with somebody already who started? We It's It's already become part of us unfortunately. 20 years didn't say about somebody that he's right about the guy's cheating him. You should say non-stop. Not saying anything. So Yakob is doing all of these. He's doing everything and he's asking, "Please save me. Please just save me. He didn't say Hashem give me money. Hashem give me uh more kids. Give me this. Give me nothing. Just save me. Save my life. We not but we're asking for everything else. So that's the thing we have to understand. One of the most valuable lessons from all of these is not to just learn the story and enjoy it. is to learn the lessons from the story because Hashem wrote this Torah in order for us to learn how to behave in order for us to learn how to connect to him. He's saying look I loved Jacob. I loved I loved all of them but look what they did for me. They showed me love also. They didn't say every day say they kiss I say I love you. They did more by their actions. If our actions show Hashem love, our words don't need to say anything. We're already doing it. But if our words are just saying it, but our actions are the opposite, it's worthless. If anything, it makes Hashem upset. So when we're asking Hashem for things every day, we have to ask ourselves, am I really doing as much as I can to deserve everything that I'm asking for? Now after Yakov gets through this test and he meets there's just like there's an for and there's an al for Shabbat there's al for prayers and everything else there that is hates Jacob no matter what there's an inner hate in as for Jacob but they're not just talking about asav they're talking about Edom They're talking about all of his descendants hate Yakov, hate Israel. So even if someone has a uh a relationship with a non-Jew, they always have to take that into mind. That doesn't necessarily mean that all non-Jews are wicked. Doesn't necessarily mean that all non-Jews are not good. It just means that we always have to think for ourselves that when push comes to shove, we have to try to stay as close to our own people as we can because during the times of World War II, the Jews were very popular in Germany. Before World War II, they were very popular. They were very rich. The Jews were just like in America today. There's a lot of Jews that are very rich in America. They live comfortable lives. They have big houses, big this, big that. and they're all over the media and everything is great. And the goim, you know, for the most part, even though there's 40% anti-semitism in in America, for the most part, people don't feel it. People don't feel anti-semitism in America as much unless you watch the news and you see that every time the Palestinian kills a uh 15 people, they the news only says Palestinian died. Okay? What the 15 people he died? be killed. But for the most part, Jews don't feel anti-semitism hashem in America. They feel anti-semitism in Europe and the rest of the world. But in America, for the most part, no. At the same time, a Jew has to understand. During World War II, we were in the same exact position, if not even better than America. If not even better than America. But then one day it all changed and all of those nextdoor neighbors that brought us cookies for the holidays and said shalom all of a sudden they were the same people that were pushing us into the trains to go into the concentration camps. So again like I said doesn't mean that all goim are not good. It just means that a Jew needs to live next to Jews needs to be next to Jews. We are stronger together by ourselves. We can't survive. So now when when Asav sees Yakov, [Music] he runs towards them and Yakov run towards Asav and they hug and it says they kiss, give a big kiss like they haven't seen each other for a long time and then they start crying. But the midrash says that it really wasn't a kiss. The word which means kiss has on the Torah scroll. You'll see it on Shabbat. You'll see on on the Torah scroll it has it has a stars around it. Has different dots which is unusual. So the midh the sages explained that he didn't really kiss him. He actually tried to bite him on his neck and kill him. Asav was really trying to say, "Listen, I'm going to I've been waiting for this moment to kill my brother for so many years. I'm going to not only murder him, murder him in the worst possible way, most violent way." But Hashem made a miracle and he turned Yakov's neck into marble, as strong as marble. So after he bit him, he broke his teeth and both of them were crying. Asab was crying because he broke his teeth and Yakob was crying. There's still hatred here also. But at that moment, Asav realized that he's not dealing with the same Yakov that was there 34 years ago. He's not dealing with this little Tamid, you know, ghostsha with a little hat just trying to uh make it through the day. He's dealing with something kadosh. He's dealing with something holy. He can't just push him around like he did. And the 160,000 people that he brought with him also realized that they saw this Jacob is not this person that Isab was really making to be they all left. Hashem made a miracle. They all left. And that's why after says, "Listen, why don't you come with me and with my people and Jacob says, "No, no, no. I'm going to go my own way, my own pace. I don't want to go too fast. Maybe my sheep and my cattle will die if I go too fast. And also, my kids are young. They're fragile. Let us go our own pace and I'll meet up with you." And then when it says that uh Asav accepted this answer and he left, it didn't say that he left with the 400 men. Initially it mentioned the 400 men, the 400 leaders that had 400 people each, but when he left, it didn't mention the 400. The Midash says the 400 already left before this. They saw how holy Yakov was. They said, "I don't want we don't want to mess with this guy. This is not this is not a regular person. guy has fire around him. He's walking around with a holy fire around him. That's not that's not you and me. But one thing also that we uh learned, we went over it a little bit yesterday. Uh if anybody wants to watch the show, it's online now. It's something that happens a lot today that we could learn from Yakov that there's a time and a place for everything. The first thing that Yakov does when he uh before he sees his brother is he sends angels with gifts for Asav. And he says, "Tell Asav exactly these words, tell your brother, your servant, Jacob, your servant." He calls himself Asav's servant. I'm here and I have all these presents for you. And then when he sees Asav, he begs Asav to please take these presents. and he acts really really nice to him and he's constantly giving him compliments. He says seeing your face is like seeing a divine face like seeing an angel. It's like seeing an angel wasn't exactly the best looking guy in the world. He's not, you know, he's not portrayed in the Torah as a good-looking person. So why is saying seeing your face is like seeing an angel? What is this flattery? This is part of the old Torah. says some really bad things about anyone that gives compliments to someone that's not worth it. Meaning if someone is an enemy of Hashem where he's not enemy in a sense that he's has to be a murderer all the time. Sometimes somebody's an enemy of Hashem by just going against the Torah and not putting the time that he needs to to learn Tawra and not putting the time into needs to keep the mitzvot. but he happens to be rich. So he doesn't keep Shabbat, he doesn't keep kosher, he's married to a non-Jew, he's doing everything wrong according to the Torah. But when he arrives to the Besset because he has a few million dollars in the bank, they give him aliyah. They give him cavode. Everybody's excited when he's there. All of a sudden, it's like the president came. The says some really bad things about that to give a cavode to someone that's considered wicked. according to the Torah has some very dear punishments. It says there are four classes of people of sinners that do not receive the divine presence. Meaning people that even if they prayed, Hashem doesn't listen to their prayer. People that Hashem is doesn't want any part of their life. Four types of sinners. People that make fun of everything. People wants to, you know, I want to joke. You know, you sometimes you go to and the rabbi is serious. He's trying to give a shield to he's trying to show you what Hashem said. And everybody's serious. Everybody's learning. and all of a sudden this one guy wants attention and he makes a joke about nothing and he gets everybody off the topic and no one wants to learn anymore. Everyone's joke now. That person's in a lot of trouble. It's very, you know, there's a time and a place for everything. You're allowed to be a funny person. You're allowed to say jokes, but there's a time and a place for everything. Second one, a class of flatterers. What's flatterers? People that give compliments to the wicked. Just like we were talking about guy that's a wicked person comes to the mcesset because he has some money maybe he could donate a million dollars to the shul or hundred thousand or a thousand whatever he could donate all of a sudden they give him all the cav in the world he says that person those people around him hashem wants nothing to do with them so they're thinking that this guy is coming to help them they're thinking this guy is coming he's going to donate all of his money to to us to this to build the yeshiva wow it's so great It's so amazing. They don't realize that him coming here and them giving him kabot is hurting them more than they could even imagine. But this is normal in our world. People that have money in our world, they get so much. It's always been this way. It's not just today. The other two is a class of liars. People that are naturally liars like to lie and they lie their whole life is a lie. They say they're this, but they're really not. Some people pretend like they know the whole Torah, but they really barely even know how to say. They call him babot. Sometimes you see these advertisements in Jewish communities where they say a sadik baladik is coming to the city and someone you've never heard of and he's dresses differently. He has a hood sometimes or you know they're usually older and people are saying, "Oh, this person is holy and he can give you these special things. you know, he can heal you and he can do this and he can do that. But if you want to be healed or if you want help with ABC, you have to give him 10,000, 5,000, not you know, he has to charge money for it. Anyone that charges you money to do something for you is fake. There's no such thing there. No such thing as uh help cost money in the business world. Yes, you have to obviously cost money. In the Jewish world, help does not cost money. Anyone that comes to a city says, "Listen, in order for me to help you be healthy, in order for me to help you, to pray for you, to do whatever it is that you need help with, you have to pay me a certain amount of money, that person is as wicked as can be." The last thing is people that say a lot, like it's part of their day. You know, sometimes there's a people that like to talk on the phone to their friends a lot, not because they need anything, just because they want to tell everybody else what everybody else is doing, how everybody else is not good. So now you have a situation here where Hashem is in multiple places. We mentioned a lot more in yesterday's sh, but this just gives you an idea where Hashem doesn't like it. He doesn't like when you give compliments to people that don't deserve it. That's to say it nicely. Now you have Yakov. He's saying a lot of nice things. He's saying a lot of nice things about about Asav. But Jacob was a sadik. So this is where you have to pay attention to the words. Yakob is saying to Isab, listen seeing your face is like seeing the the face of an angel. So what does that mean? That means that Jacob has seen angels. So the explains it same same. He says, "Listen, Jacob is telling him his face looks like an angel, not because he really likes him." He's telling him, "Listen, don't mess with me. I deal with angels all the time." It's just like somebody, they give a story. They say, let's say somebody is invited to go to a uh person's house, but he finds out that his host is planning to kill him. So, what is he going to do? So, he says to the host, he goes, "Oh, you know, the food is so good here. It's just like the food I had at the king's house. So automatically the guy that's thinking about killing him, wait a minute, I'm going to kill this guy. The king is going to go after me. He knows the king. He's friends with the king. He eats with the king. He's friends with the king. That's exactly what Yakov is doing over here. He's saying, "Listen, you look, your face looks like an angel." Not because he looks like an angel. Just listen to me. I deal with angels all the time. I'm not a regular guy like you. So he's giving him a little bit of a warning. At the same time, he's giving him a compliment. Another reason that Khazal says that he's given him a compliment is that to make shalom, to make peace, to make peace and and avoid war is the way of is. It's the way of is and sometimes it's necessary. So, you're allowed to make to say something nice if it's a uh if it's for the sake of peace. But again, peace, not money, you know, not because you want a donation, you know. So there's a very big difference and there's a thin line between them. Um, so far anybody have any questions? Okay. So now the next thing that we hear about is the abduction of Dina. Dina was one of the daughters of Yakov through his wife Leia. And Dina was at Sadika. Dina was a very very righteous girl. But she made a mistake. One day she walked around and she did not something that was not a Jewish like a righteous person's like behavior. They walked she walked around town just to see other girls and hang out with the girls and see what was going on. And Hashem says that's not what a righteous girl does. Righteous girl is at home taking care of the family, learning Torah. We don't go around the Manhattan uh you know looking for a uh you know a skirts and and bikinis. We you know a righteous girl has times and a place to do something but not by herself. You want to go shopping? Okay, you bring your husband with you. Or if you don't have a husband, you bring your brother. You don't walk, you know, a nice Jewish girl doesn't walk around by herself. It's not a modest thing to do because if you walk around by yourself, it looks like maybe you're uh you know, maybe you're not married. Now, the beauty about Judaism is that in order for us to know if some if a Jewish woman is married or not, there's a there's a basic sign because everyone's required to be modest. But there's one obvious sign of a of a married Jewish woman. What is it? She covers her hair. She covers her hair. If she's married, she covers her hair. That way, we know, okay, she's even if she walks around by herself, we know, okay, she's married, don't care, that's not a girl that I'm going to mess with. She's married somebody else. Even the gim respect married women. even back in this day very very important for a woman to to uh to cover her hair. Now this is actually one of the controversies in Judaism for for the last generation for the last probably 100 or so years especially this generation with the issue of wigs. A lot of righteous people, people that listen to Torah, follow the mitzvot, are making a decision to wear a wig instead of covering their hair with either a hat or scarf of some kind like everyone has done for nearly 5,000 years or 3,300 years. The problem with today's wigs is that even though there is a source in the Torah that talks about that there is a wig, um the wig that they were talking about in those days is a wig that you knew it was a wig. It looked like a straw. Like even someone that was blind would tell them it's a wig. It looked like a you know you know the carp the um uh broom you sweep the floor with. It looked like that on somebody's head. So you knew it was a wig. just that the woman chose to cover it either because she didn't have money to cover her hair with a uh scarf or a hat or uh that's that's what was available. Unfortunately, another way that we changed and made Judaism into something what we call more modern is that we put these wigs, but the wigs today are nicer than hair. So you have a woman that's supposed to be make herself more modest, but instead of putting the something that's makes herself show the world that she's married, she walks around with a wig and has all these curls. It always looks perfect. Always looks perfect. And the best part about it, guys. I see it. I can't tell the difference. Maybe another woman can tell. My wife tells me all the time, "Oh, no, she's wearing a wig. How do I know she? What do you mean? She's wearing It's our hair. I don't know how." She goes to the salon every day, maybe, but it's her hair. Oh, my wife's like, "No, no, it's a wig." Like, how could it be a wig? It looks so It looks real. And this is some of the things that um creates a lot of problems. There's actually a story with a with Rabbi Misrai told me that somebody came up to him one time in a wedding and uh young guy and uh he says, "Uh, Rabbi, I'm looking for a shid and there's this nice woman over there. If you could introduce, maybe talk to her parents. I can't walk up to her myself." You know that's Tommy. It's not a regular. He's not in a club. Rabbi happened to know this woman. He goes, "No, no, she's married." I said, "Oh, she's married." Because of a religious wedding. It wasn't a secular wedding. Oh, I I couldn't tell the wig is a uh it's a wig. I thought it was her hair. I thought So, that's the thing. It's a problem. It creates a lot of problems. creates a lot of problems because you know when the guy's asking listen the rabbit please set me up with that he's already thinking in his mind how the wedding's going to look like he's thinking about the wedding what the kids are going to look like he's already thinking about her waking up in the morning and making breakfast he's already has the whole movie in his head it's not like he's innocent nice little guy he's just he's thinking he has a whole movie so this poor woman that's trying to do a mitzvah she's trying to cover her hair she's making a She's causing this other guy to make sins, but not intentionally. Not intentionally. There's a story about uh in it talks about had two daughters. One of them was Bullya which is the wife of and the other daughter I don't recall the name but one of them got a dear punishment even and his wife also got a punishment but it's a long story but we'll just focus on the uh the three women. The three women got a big punishment each at their own uh had their three three different stories each at their own uh for their own actions. The wife of Khan was one was one of the greatest greatest sages of all time. He was able to bring back the dead. I could barely even notice if I'm alive. This guy's bringing back the dead. Somebody somebody that's holy. But he made a mistake at his level. He made a mistake. He said the name of Hashem inappropriately where you know you see sometimes and you know not sometimes all over the Torah you see the he vav and he but we don't pronounce that name the way it really reads. We pronounce it amunai with the d. You're not supposed to say it for no reason. He pronounced it. He pronounced it the way it really reads. And you're not allowed to do that. Even though he was a completely righteous person. So, Hashem punished him at his level and he had a very difficult death. Romans tied him up and burdened with his wife saw him when he was giving back in those days. She didn't need to make phone calls and Facebook meetings and uh and all of these things. Back then, someone knows Torah, goes in the middle of the street, starts talking to all of a sudden 500 people show up and listen to his Torah. People love Torah in those days. You don't have to organize anything. You go, you know, talk, you go into the middle of the neighborhood, you start learning to start saying tora, everybody comes. His wife would see that he's doing Torah. He's teaching Tawra. He's making this mistake. She knew it was a mistake, but she didn't say anything. So, Hashem punished her also. This teaches us from her, from wife. You're not allowed to watch somebody else sin and not say something. If you're connected to them, if you don't know them, if it's just a stranger, it's different. But if it's somebody know, if it's your father, it's your mother, it's your, you know, you have to be careful because it's your parents, you have to respect them. You have to do it in a certain respectable way. If it's your children, if it's your husband, it's a different way. If it's your friend, also different way. But you have to do something. You can't just watch your brothers and sisters that are Jewish go against Hashem and say nothing. No, no, he'll figure it out on his own. That's what a lot of people say. Yeah, but the guy is a nice guy. He's a wonderful guy. He comes to Mikess once a year on Yumipu. He donates some money. He thinks that he's okay. He doesn't realize that is it's worthless. If he doesn't keep Shabbat, if he doesn't keep the basic foundation of Judaism, he's cut off from the nation. He has a very very bad place prepared for him. Why tell him to keep Shabbat? Maybe he doesn't know. No, no, he knows. He doesn't know. There's only two types of people that don't keep Shabbat. One is because they don't know. Two is because they don't believe. Either they don't believe that Torah is real. There's questions. They haven't investigated it long enough to really know the Torah is real. Or two, they don't really know how significant it really is. They believe the Torah is real. We got it on Mount Sai from the limited knowledge they have, but they don't know how really, you know, how critical Hashem is of someone that violates his laws. Because if someone really knew, there's no way that they would go against Hashem. If you know and believe, there's no way you would go against Hashem. Which means that everything that we do that's a sin, we don't do it intentionally against Hashem. Do it because we don't know the difference. That's why Hashem says you have to learn Tawa every day. Something every day you have to learn to especially men. Women are supposed to know the basics. But today it's easy to learn Tawa. You put a YouTube video. You have a tape CDs. I brought you guys some uh some CDs for Rabbi Mijah's lectures and also this amazing book uh by Rabbi Zamir Cohen. It's in English. A lot of the sharing that I do when I talk about science, a lot of the stuff comes from this book. It's a uh so each one of you has a free copy and also some CDs. Uh that will be your homework for today. So now okay at his level he was a complete sadik made the sin saying Hashem's name inappropriately. Hashem punished him. Fine. This is to show us that even the righteous, Hashem is critical with them. So no one should think that we have a free lunch here, that it's okay for us to sin just because we're not. His wife watched him sin. She didn't say anything. Not allowed. She got punished. The daughter, the one that I don't remember her name, very modest, very righteous person. One day she's walking around. The Romans see her walking and they like the way she walks. So they compliment the way she walks. She hears them complimenting the way she walks. She gets excited. She walks even nicer. That's it. She's still modest. She's still covering herself. That's it. She didn't take off her clothes. She didn't walk around with a bikini. Nothing. She heard somebody complimenting her. So she got excited about it. So she walked a little nicer. Hashem says, "Ah, you get excited about these men. These goim actually are complimenting how you are. This is how a righteous woman is behaves." He makes a decree. Hashem makes the go make a decree to send her to the prostitution house. Become a prostitute. That was her punishment. This is for walking, not for the naked people we see today. Imagine what what this is. This is for walking. Hashem is very critical. He's not he's not our friend. He's not our friend from college. It's for walking. But the good news is she knew she made a mistake. Unlike us who we say, "Why is Hashem doing this to me? Why? Why? Why? We're so good." She knew she made a mistake. She said, "Hashem, you're right. I deserve this punishment." Because of that, her other sister, the third woman in the story, her husband was a lot of people know. We always pray forot to help us. But people need to understand you have to pray to God, not to. So from this story became bua goes to we're almost done. Buya goes to and she says, "Um, how could you be studying Torah while my sister is in a prostitution house right now? Go get her." So says, "Okay." He takes a bag of money of din and he goes to the place and he prays to Hashem. He says, of make me a miracle only if somebody didn't touch her. If she was already with a man, don't make a miracle for me. It's already too late. If she's already defiled, it's already too late. But if she's still pure, then make a miracle for me. So he goes to the place, he sees this big guard. Now he's Rabim is not dressed like a rabbi. Now he's dressed up like a customer. He can't tell him, "Listen, I'm here for this woman." So he tells, "Listen, I'm interested in your woman. What do you have?" And he shows him the women. He's, "Okay, I want that one." And he picks the the sister. So he pretend. She doesn't know it's him. She doesn't know it's she can't recognize him. She says, "Okay, listen. I'm ready." And she says, "No, no, I'm sorry. It's my time of the month. I can't be with you. I can't take customers. says, "Ah, smart woman my my wife has. Smart sister my wife has. This is probably what she tells all the customers. This means that she wasn't touched. Okay, I'm going to save her." So, he goes back to the guard and he says, "Listen, I like that woman. I want to take her. I'll buy with her." He gives him a bag of money. And the guard says, "Listen, great for the money, but what am I going to do with this money? Once my boss finds out that I sold one of his girls, he's going to kill me. goes, "No, no. I have a way for you to get out of it. If when your boss comes or anything happens, you say, "Pray, [Applause] the God of answer me." The guy's like, "Come on. Oh, it's what is this a magic show? Leave me alone with your nonsense. I understand what your story is." Okay, fine. But no, no, try it. Try it cuz leave me alone. Listen, you have a big dog over there. Vicious dog. Release that dog. Release that dog on me. Cuz listen, if I release that dog, that dog even tries to bite us. If I release that dog, he's going to kill you in two seconds. Fine. Release the dog. Okay. He releases the dog. Says the dog becomes a little puppy and stops and starts becoming friend. The guards couldn't believe it. This dog is like a lion. He wants to eat everything in sight. All of a sudden, he's a friend of this just because he said a few words. He believes him. He says, "Okay, fine. Take the girl. Give me the money. Goodbye." So, but saves the sister. And Booya obviously benefits from it by having her sister saved. Aside from learning more about modesty, how is this connected to para after dinina? was raped by this Rashm wanted to after he already did what he did with her, he wanted to marry her all of a sudden. So he comes to Yakob with his father. He says, "Listen, we have your daughter. We've been keeping her for the last few days, but now I want to marry her. So give me uh give me your daughter. Now, it says that Yakov didn't answer him until the brothers came back. Didn't answer him until the brothers came back. One of the reasons is that once the brothers came back, Jacob was figuring out if it was too late to save Dina or not. If she's already been defiled, is it too late to save her? Is it worth it to save her or not? If she wasn't, if this guy would have come to me before he touched her, I wouldn't even talk to him. I would kill him on the spot and I would go myself. Yakob would go by himself, kill everybody by himself just to save her. Just to save her. But since now the brothers came and they verified that he really did touch her, say, "Okay, so now it's too late to kill everybody. It's too late to fight for it. Already happened. Let's try to negotiate. Let's try to make peace. This shows you the significance of how a woman is appreciated in Judaism. Many people don't understand. They think that Judaism, women are less than men. It's the exact opposite. Women are higher than men in Judaism. We were saved from Egypt because of the women, not because of the men. The Mashiach is going to come because of the women, not because of the men. Oh my god. Mashiah is going to come because of the women. When a mother cries for her children, the door is always open. Father, sometimes yes, sometimes no. when Am was beat up by the destroyed the beta mikdash connects to the para because right here is when Rael dies and Yakov decides to bury Rael on the in the road not to bring it to the not to bring her to the cave of because Yakov already saw in prophecy that the day will come and the Bhanzer is going to kill the Jews, but he's going to bring a bunch of them to become slaves. And the Jews are going to lose all hope. They need a mother to cry for them. Father is not enough. Father's already over there. He's one of the slaves. We need a mother to cry for us. So when they pass the grave of Rael, she's going to cry for them. And that's when they're going to have hope. That's when they're going to have the salvation because a woman is something special in Judaism. If the woman starts realizing it herself, she's going to want to be modest. She's going to want to be connected to Hashem because she knows she's significant. If the man knows it, he's going to have good marriage. He's going to have a good relationship. He's going to have a good life. You know, in America, they say happy wife, happy life. There's something to it, though. But if neither one of them knows it, what hope do we have? If neither one of them knows it, if the if the man doesn't know that the wife is special, the women are special in general, how's he going to treat them? Even if they're his employees, even if it's the waitress, the restaurant, even if it's say his daughter, just another it's another body. And the woman, she's not going to think she's any anything special. So, she thinks that she needs to show herself. She needs to get attention cuz I'm not special. All we need to do in order to find out how special we are is learn from the Torah. Make sure that you know that you're special. Make sure that you know that you're something significant. This is why they say the full truth in a Torah. story about rape is not exactly a uh a complimentary story. It's not exactly a story you publicize to the world. Someone had a rape in their family, they wouldn't tell, hey buddy, how are you? Oh, by the way, this thing happened. You don't tell it to people. You keep it in the family. It's a disaster. Here, Hashem is writing it in the Tawa. Number one, because it's real. Number two, because there's a lot to learn from it. And Yakov was looking for peace, but his son said, "It's too late for peace. They violated our sister, and we cannot accept them violating our sister and violating our nation. So, we're going to pretend we want peace. Don't listen. Our sister can't marry you because you're not circumcised. Our daughters can't marry your people because you're not circumcised." As Hashem said, we have to be circumcised. If Hashem said we have to be circumcised, we have to do it. So, it will be despicable for us to be with somebody that's not circumcised because you're not following what Hashem said. Someone not following what Hashem said. It's crazy because they knew. So, says and his father, Kaml, by the way means donkey. An interesting name for somebody. So, okay, you know what? We'll do we're so excited. Well, we'll circumcise. Fine. was excited because he was just thinking about the physical. He was thinking about the woman. He's thinking, "Okay, I I could be with her forever. I can have more women. I can do this. I can do that. Fine. It's worth to get circumcised for that." Kamo was thinking about Yakov's money. He's thinking, "Yakob has so much money. If I get circumcised and all my people get circumcised, his money is going to become my money. So they have everybody circumcised. On the third day, Levine and Shimon find out that everybody's circumcised. They come, they see everybody's injured. They can't fight. They're not strong. They kill everyone. So to finalize it is the last midash we're going to learn. Once they come back, once they come back, Yakov finds out what they did and he gets very upset at them. How could you do this? You're going to cause a war. This is a big problem. So they respond to him and they say and they said, "Should he treat our sister like a harlot? What? She could just walk around. Anybody could sleep with her? That's okay. That's it. That we should just let that happen." And Yakob doesn't answer. About 300 years ago, there was a decree against the Jews by one of the nations made the Jews suffer a lot. So the holy Jews tried to find out why is Hashem giving us this difficult decree? Why is this happening to us? So there's something there's a thing to do if you know how to do it if you're around you know really holy people is that you open the Torah anywhere and the first verse that you see gives you a message gives you a message that's specific to you so he said okay we're going to open the book and the first verse is going to give us the message of why am has such a difficult decree why are the torturing us so much why okay we know hate we learned heard that already, but right now what's happening? There's a Mashiach coming. Did we do something wrong? What's happening? So they open and the first verse they see is this verse. Should he treat our sister like a harlot? Before they open the book, there was a debate of what could be. One side said, "We think it's because the women today are not modest like they used to be." Imagine this is 300 years ago. Everybody was modest in comparison to us. We're like monkeys next to them. But they're saying, "No, the women are not modest like they used to be. We're not modest enough." The other side said, "No, people are talking too much in the bikes. Talk about nonsense in the go to sh instead of praying, they talk about nonsense. in the Torah not allowed to do that. So two sides when they open this they see this verse and obviously this verse has to do with modesty. So the one side says ah see I told you it's all because of the women but then one of the righteous Jews there says wait let's see the midrash let's see the interpretation here of what's what's behind the scenes on this and they see the midash of who is the biggest student of something we can't even understand all of the all of the people today you combine all of the Torah together is not even like a half of all of them together something they said that when he would study the birds that would fly over him would burn in the air that's how much he had says and Levie said to Yakov when Yakov said he was upset to them they respond to him they're like Abba we don't want the people in the to talk about our sister and how we just let her walk around in the street and somebody took advantage of her. We don't want people in the bikes to talk about that. Not people in the streets to talk about that, but we don't want the people in the bikes to talk about that. So when they read the migash, the people of 300 years ago realized it's not just because of the women, it's also because of the men. All units is a unit. When am realizes how special it is, AmI will really reach its full potential. As long as thinks that they're like everybody else, all only problems we're going to have because Hashem said we're chosen. Hashem said that you're special. Hashem said that you have to act like a king. When you act like one of the uh local thieves, when you act like one of the local homeless people, when you act like one of the local people that's regular, but really in reality you're a king, it could create a problem because people going to treat you like a local person. They're not going to treat you like a king. And that's the thing. If women knew how special they are in the Torah, they'd act like women. If men knew how important it is to be a Jew, they'd be excited to learn Tawa. They'd be excited to be in Judaism. All we need to do is learn. That's it. It's not rocket science that you have to go to school for 100 years just to maybe get a job one day. Tawa is easy. You learn a little bit every day. A little more, little more, little more, little more. And eventually when Hashem sees your effort, he gives you the rest as a gift. He gives you knowledge beyond your effort. But it's all based on your effort. You have to try. You have to take the first step. Hashem has proven to us one time after another that he's real. All we have to do is pay attention to the details. Whether you want to look at the details of Isel and the history of of the nation of Israel or you want to look at scientific details, this book has a lot of interesting things. We'll go over some of them maybe next week or the next time we have a sh. There's a lot of things that if you pay attention to any of the details, a lot of these things we don't pay attention to because they happen every day. Just last week's Pala, we learned about the situation with and Lavan and we saw how during the negotiations between and Yakov and Lavan, Lavan changed the deal. Ravan changed the deal a hundred times. 100 times he changed the deal. The cheater changed the deal a hundred times. But in order to finally get what he you know what he rightly deserved, Yakov showed us a secret. He showed us that if you breed an animal in a certain way, you will have much bigger success than if you just let things happen normally. He taught us in that para that he knew about he actually got a uh the insight from an angel which he talks about in the para and uh he taught us that he actually knows about genetics. These genetic theories were is actually in this book. I think it's page 170 if I'm not mistaken. Uh it's in this book. But a lot of the stuff that people discovered just in the last 50 years, people think that it's a uh you know, they should give the credit to these people. They get all the uh they're all smart because we have computers and we have this, but a lot of the stuff is already written in Tawra. All we need to do is just pay attention to the details. Yeah. It's page 174. This is regarding last week's page 174. It shows you how there's two theories in regards to uh uh genetics, Mendele's law of inheritance and the law of heterosis. But both of those laws, which will take a little more time, but you know, you could read it. It's only a couple of pages. Both of those laws were really something of a discovery just in this last uh last hundred years. But the beauty of it is that if you read this last these couple of pages, you'll find out that all of it, all of what he thinks he discovered, the scientist was written in last week's para. All of the genetics, all of the wisdom, all of everything that people think they found out, they didn't discover anything. Even the theory of relativity that uh a lot of people gave to Einstein as credit for Einstein became known as the smartest Jew. In reality, everything that Einstein wrote was already written by the Rambam 800 years ago. But nobody gives the Rambam any credit for it. So you see that in in every par there is a lot of things to learn. You could learn the same para every day for a thousand years and still learn more stuff. same one as we continue to have shuim I'll get to know you more and we'll try to connect some of these things even to our own personal stories but unless you guys have any questions again thank you for having me and we'll have more very interesting