Testing Our Relationship With HaShem (New York) - MUSSAR Pirkei Avot (13)

[Music] n everybody Welcome to beuro I'd like to first of all thank uh tonight's sponsor whoever sponsored the food his name is we should hopefully you know should become in the Merit of tonight's and all the blessings that you make in the food hopefully we should be dancing in his wedding very soon and also like to thank RAB far for opening the door of the doors of his Sho for the T really man who does things sh for over 3 years he he been hosting us here and God bless him and his family amen amen and uh tonight we have a pleasure of having Rabon ruen and for those of you who never met him before you you're you're in for a treat and every time I think of him I think about the the great rabi AKA and before you know before rabi AKA became the rabbi he told his medium you know when I was I didn't know much he said I hated the rabis so so badly I wanted to to bite them like a donkey you know this you know I wanted to bite them like a donkey he said why like a donkey because why not like a dog so because the donkey when he bites he breaks the bones that's how much I hated them you know and uh obviously I'm sure the RAB never hated the but the you know so much we see RAB he went from not knowing much to become one of the greatest rabbis of his generation I think about RAB yon and about story when he went from not knowing much to to spreading the Torah in in the Jewish people and makes me you know makes my heart very warm to see you teach our people the Torah and thank you so much for coming and for those of you that don't know Rabbi used to be millionaire in his 20s uh and then he went through a number of uh life challenging situations and illness and um he he was he he came back to hasem and and and started discovering the Tor and spreading across the globe really so thank you so much RAB it's a pleasure to have you always thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you for it's a pleasure to be here again anyone that knows that the famous lecture that I have about personal story even though we've said it several times the most successful one was actually over here in this and CD number two which I put some over there it's free anybody wants to pick it up the first track is this famous lecture that uh has moved people from everywhere around the world as far as Australia people in Africa people in all over the United States Canada Europe everywhere it's been in six continents so far somehow we're trying to figure out how to get to Antarctica we don't have anybody to receive it yet no one wants to be in the cold but overall this that we did over here had so much that uh I Now understand why when you have a group of people doing mitah it's like okay people do all the time each one of us does a Mitzvah whether we mean it we don't mean it we do mitv what's the big Mitzvah what's the best Mitzvah first of all the best Mitzvah you ever going to make is the next one the next one you're going to make is the best mitvah you ever going to make and after that is the next one but the best best Mitzvah is the next one that's just for hem not for you for hem I mean for me I wish I could just be a shoe that he threw out at the end of his life he said something to explain to us what's a real MIT real mitvah there mitvah and a real mitvah mitvah as the are killing him scraping his skin makes you want to cry you think about this students are telling them I you could say the you could sayem's name let's say kill all of them the whole Army dies just when you say the name of hem do something and says all my life I've been saying you love him with all your heart with all your money with all your soul okay with all my heart said there i d I learn T I do this I do that money every bit of money that I have to the call but my NE I thought my whole life how am I going to fulfill this mitvah how am I going to give my life for AEM he controls when I die when I live now I finally have the chance to die meaning I have no benefit out of this whatsoever I'm dying it's the end it's not like tomorrow say you died oh going to open a in your name oh we're going to do nothing I'm dead meaning the only Prophet is for hasem my mitvah is 100% for and you want me after waiting 80 years 80 years years I'm waiting for this Mitzvah cuz he only did age 40 80 years I'm waiting for this mitvah and you want me to interrupt it you want me to stop it finally I get a chance to do mitvah net 100% forem when you have people like the r said they're running an entire organization every week rabbis from different places local far away shim different languages men women whatever you want just come for free free that's a mitah for it's for now I know why we have here because it's 100% forem everyone here involved is 100% forem it's not for profit it's not for popularity it's not for fame it's not for Fortune it's not for anything it's 100 % for hm and when you do it 100% for hem you get all those things anyway just like when schl finally was at a young age was made King and he had an opportunity to talk to hem he said Hashem please just give me the wisdom to judge your nation favorably according to your Tor not to use my own not to use Consultants for $500 an hour or in New York there a thousand I think let me have the wisdom based on knowledge of your Torah not philosophers not Aristotle Torah so I could judge your nation favorably Hashem says you could have asked for anything you're sadik you're a king you could ask for anything you ask for money you could ask for power you could ask for women you could ask for whatever you you want all you want is to judge my my babies my children in a good way according to my Torah not only will I give you that and the most wisdom that anybody's ever had but I'll give you everything else too why you did everything you did everything for this will give us a little bit of a perspective of what brought me here in the first place my family lives here but we're so busy doing lectures different places we don't have time to visit as often but as we mention in several of our page four it says at the end of times before the mhia comes there's going to be a lot of converts a lot of people are going to have they're going to wake up one day and say ah I need to join okay but you're a Christian your parents are Idol worshippers I don't care I'll disconnect if I have to okay but your husband is an atheist I'll divorce him I don't care okay but uh your children they don't believe okay I'm going to convert they can say whatever they want okay but it's difficult right now you don't have to keep Shabbat you can do whatever you want no problem I'll keep Shabbat okay but now you have to be modest you know last week you were able to walk like a cow or a giraffe in the middle of Africa now you have to be modest in reality even go have to be modest but it's a big AR stringency on Jews you have to be modest now no problem I'll be modest okay what about all the clothes you have Louis Vuitton and Versace and Armani and all of their uh friends garbage yeah cuz you can't sell it why cuz somebody else is going to be I'm Hest tens of thousands of dollars worth of clothing goes into garbage no problem hasem is going to give me new ones 100% yeah but now you have to learn all these laws no problem says going to be a lot of that at the end of times before Masia comes we're seeing new ones every day every day and no exaggeration every day is a new email a new text message a new something a new phone call from someone somewhere around the world watch the sh whether it's the personal story or the series or something and says I've been looking for you my whole life I need help what could I do I what do I know help me you're looking for me what do you want for me I need to convert you have a million rabbis you want me go no no no you know you went through it your wife's a convert you have other students a convert you understand the mind of a convert like yeah but you have to do this you have to do this you have to do this you have to be 100% Jew I don't deal with fakers it's either you're 100% or you're nothing there's no 50/50 we don't deal with 50/50 there's no 99% truth it's either 100% truth or 100% lie with a little bit of Truth in it it's either f or nothing not for the looks the looks doesn't matter to me what is your actions Rabbi I'll divorce I'll this I'll that whatever you want I need to convert why do you want to convert for what go cuz I now I know the truth you mentioned this you did this you I know the Torah is true and I can't stand it I don't want to be a noahide I don't want to be a Christian I don't want to be this I don't want to be that I must convert immediately and these people every day and once in a while someone graduates a few months ago we had a student that that converted right now she's in Israel on a someone came from not only a Christian house but the father's a pastor she's more FR than most F people she knows more Torah than most Jews and today we had the to have another Jew graduate another convert joined is turned our entire world upside down and did more in six months than anything I've ever seen now even though she already began to become interested in Judaism over maybe almost a year and a half two years when the bed asked okay but when did everything change when when did you know okay this is for you this is that she says you know what I've been interested for a while but everything changed a little over 6 months ago seven months ago I spoke to the rabbi he told me a few answers and I knew this is it from that moment on I opened the Torah and I never left it so they start asking questions now B de usually they get to know the person over a period of time they ask them a few usually the test is simple sometimes it's five questions sometimes the 10 questions depends on a bed but it's usually simple questions but the student they would ask her a question and she'd give them an answer she could write a chapter of a book extensive answer sources this that so the beding started enjoying it became like she start asking continue asking questions she say listen we're not really asking you these questions we just want to know how much you know it's amazing and she starts giving answers and answers and answers and here and this and this one this how do you know so much an hour and a half of questions usually it's 5 minutes 10 minutes an hour and a half of questions it became a we're all enjoying the sh how is this possible when somebody discovers the truth they have a decision to make it's either you're going to run after their met or you're going to decide yourself to stay a faker cuz once you know it's true once you know it's a you have to make a decision once you know it's 100% from God once you know it's 100% Divine you must make a decision is it real now I have to apply it or I have to live with myself knowing that I'm a faker once she discovered it every we would learn she take it on okay it's okay next day she tells me okay I threw out my entire wardrobe okay Shabbat okay I threw out all the this I did this everything every mitvah she learns it immediately she changes everything unbelievable and tells us there's going to be many of these and we're getting many of them and that's what brought me to New York in the first place but now the same gar later on tells us that these converts are going to are be like a skin disease for the nation of Israel what is the skin disease they say these converts once they actually see the Amit once they see the truth they're so zealous they love hem so much they do so much for him and makes the rest of us fakers not look so good not that we needed the help to not look so good sometimes sometimes we do ourselves a favor and make ourselves look so bad but when you see it sadik learn more to in 6 months than most uh most of us know are you serving hasem appropriately it makes you question am I really doing everything I can we're not talking about Einstein here we're not talking about someone that has a special brain we're not talking about somebody with an IQ of 500 we're not talking about someone we're talking about a normal person decided this is the truth let's I'm going after it and she has a job and she has everything that everyone has here that's a distraction and five times more because she also has people that try to tell her not to do it so now we have to ask ourselves what's the difference so a couple of months ago we started a new series called and now we're up to I think number 12 or 13 and we're going to go over to a couple of mish we're going to connect these to the question we're asking how I don't know will tell us first chapter 18 we're at the end of the chapter one and we're going to even do the uh first Mish of chapter says the world endures on three things law truth and peace as it says in the book of Zechariah Prophet chapter 8 verse 16 you shall adjudicate the verdict of Truth and peace at your Gates so here that comes from Shimon he Grand son he's also the father of r that put this Mish together this whole Mish from where the source of comes from the Mish he's the father of abuda so we know comes from a family of kings of leaders champions of the best of the best so now that you know where it's coming from we have something to learn if if I told you a homeless guy in the middle of Harlem said this you say what I care what a homeless guy said I'm telling youan Shimon comes a family of Kings okay we have something here and he's telling you something simple civilization as a whole must have three qualities it must have law it must have truth it must have peace whether that's civilization ation is overall which is logic you must have law so people don't just kill each other like animals and behave like a lion chasing a gazelle have to act appropriately you know that you're not allowed to steal you know that you're not allowed to murder you know that you're not allowed to cheat on your wife or El divorce and take all your money you know a lot of things law said Dean and you have truth truth you can't have false Witnesses you can't have bribery you can't have corruption pretty much everything we have today you can't have it you can't have the Saudis fund a campaign with a billion and a half dollars and think that it's a kosher election they're obviously giving an IOU they're giving money because they're expecting something in return they don't like you that much but also internally you know that this law and this truth also applies to you because before you get to the peace which is a state of every everybody's desire everyone wants to have peace every country wants to have peace even you know it seems like sometimes we want war in reality everybody wants peace the the way that every country justifies going to war is by saying we're going to have this war so we can have peace was an easy solution don't go to war and you already have peace reminds me of a story someone sees the story I don't know if it's true or not true it's an interesting M Henry Ford the famous anti-semite has a few things that they say about him that are nice we can learn some M from it he himself was an anti but they say that one day he sees a guy fishing he says what are you doing fishing enjoying life yeah but why don't you go get a job cuz for what so you can make money for what she can get married for what she can have kids for what she could provide for the kids for what so you to go to college so what for what so they could grow up and be married and have kids of their own so what then so you can retire for what so then you can relax CU You full I'm already doing that now so you have de judgment has to be fair peace is the ultimate goal but in between the two there must be AIT and between the two if there's no emit you can't get the peace we say that we have to go to war because we want to create peace sometimes it's true sometimes it's false sometimes really we want to go to war because we want oil sometimes we want to go to war because we want land but sometimes you want to go to war because you know that if you don't go to war you're going to there's going to be chaos some psychopath is going to take over the world and you can't let them but this all applies to us as well in order for you to get to a state of peace first you have to judge yourself first you have to evaluate yourself and if you have to ask yourself am I like my father am I like my forefathers page [Applause] three it says it quote Psalm 47 verse 10 it says the Nobles of the Nations gathered the nation of God of abam this is referring to the Nations coming to Hashem the god of ab so the asks okay all these converts are coming all these nations want to come to hasem they want to come to the truth they want to leave the idol worship of Christianity they want to leave the idol worship of Buddhism they want to leave the heresy of Islam they want to come to hasem for the truth the end of times before mashia comes because the says track page once the Mia comes no more that's it the end no more Converse No More CH no more nothing doors closed one CNN announce breaking news mashia is here where you are is where you stand you're still wondering of whether you should keep the next Shabbat or not mashia can't help you anymore anymore you're wondering whether you should eat Domino's Pizza mhia can't help you anymore it's too late he's here you're wondering whether you should convert or not too late no more converts so the asks okay so there going to be a lot of converts at the end of times but why do you call them the Nations that are coming to the god of Abraham why is it not abob he says because Abraham sacrificed his life to convert everyone make them monotheistic spend his entire life looking for looking for people that want the truth great so we learn about AB but now in this week's par last week's par last we're learning about yob so now also same thing like Rim we know where the source is we know that yov has good roots a so let's see what a produced grandson we already know who's this yov are we serving AEM like our forefather yov well let's see [Applause] in one day yov comes to his wives and he says to them now you have known that I was with I was with all my might that I served your father laan yet your father mocked me and changed my wage changed the salary changed the deal Chang the contract a 100 times what's the you all heard this before I said a year or two ago ask a question everyone knew that lean is a is not everyone know he was such a r that the reason why yov went to him is because even as was scared of him is scared of that's why he went to him so it's not a secret they said the only thing that you know about lean is that he's automatically a liar even his name is a lie because his whole life is black and his name is laan everyone knew you're a cheater everyone know he's a so if everyone knows of course his daughters know also so what is yov saying finally he's telling his daughters yeah your father's cheated me changed my salary 100 times what they don't know their father's a criminal they don't know their fathers everyone knows even asab that in a different country knows what's the here did something that should put us give us a little bit of perspective who we're dealing with here 20 years of working and being cheated day after day being given the wrong wife being given the wrong salary being given the wrong contract 100 different types of contracts for 20 years Yu did not complain even one time even to his own wives in private he never told even his own wives of truth but about their own father 20 years he did not complain for 20 years he let his wives the daughters of this rash believe that their father is doing okay by him I go to work he pays me the fact that he changed to pay 100 times it's not they don't need to know that the fact that their father's a rash they don't need to know that for why what I going to tell them for so they hate their father so they don't to invite him for PES so they don't want to go over for Shabbat so they don't want to have the kids play with them all of a sudden for what they going to tell them M within the family for what 20 years of suffering [Music] quietly when did he finally say it said okay hasem told me I must leave now in case you don't believe that this is the will of Hashem understand a little sign of why Hashem little sign not the whole reason but a little reason of why Hashem said I must leave is because in reality I didn't tell you cuz I didn't want you to have a little a little altercation with your father but in reality your father he's been cheating me since day one so yobu who had the right who was correct in this if he said listen your father's a cheater a week after he's there he's 100% right they knew too if he said listen your father really told me I was supposed to marry your sister your father really told me that I was really supposed to get this many sheep your father really told me he had the right to do it they said no there's no benefit all it's going to do is create problems for the sake of the sanctification of hasem for the sake of SCH bite and for the sake of not making of saying kept quiet for 20 years we hear a juicy rumor we're not even sure is Right 20 seconds later it's already on the news 20 years said later on yobu who didn't exactly have an easy life says hem I know I've gone through this 20 years of torture with Lavon thank you very much for that I know that had some issues with the kids thank you for that I know I had this I know I had that but Hashem you're so great to me he says I've been diminished by all the kindness and by all the truth you've done your servant meaning hasem everything you're doing I know is for my own good even the T even the problems even the headaches even the loss of money even all the problem S I know it's all good for me and it's so good you're actually doing me thank you you're doing me too much I don't deserve so much that you're giving me all these problems you're giving me that's the second thing we learn about Yakov but the final one is this we know that yob was cheated it we know that yob took it the right way but then if we go in the middle at the end of when Le finally catches up to yob he accuses him of stealing this that yov finally says enough he says these 20 many years I've been with you your Hues your she and she goats never miscarried nor did I eat Rams of your flock meaning I never even took a sha sandwich while working for your restaurant without paying for it that which was mangled I never brought to you I myself would bear the loss for me you would extract meaning if I worked in your restaurant and the steak fell on the floor I didn't like clean it up and give it to the customer anyway I paid for it and they gave the customer a new one why are you going to lose because of my mistake whether it was stolen by day or stolen by night someone stole I paid for it not you why cuz you put me as a sh it's my responsibility and say listen why don't you claim Insurance call the insurance company they're going to pay no you put me in charge somebody stole I took it on me and I didn't even tell you about it i' say Hey listen do me a favor is a little difficult now I'm getting married kids are going to Yesa it's tough no no no something stolen something lost I pay for it without second without second guessing anything this is how I was by day scorching heat consumed me and frost by night my sleep drifted for my eyes this is my 20 years in your household says whether I was in the Gom heat of Florida or the freezing cold of New York I worked fulltime I forgot what sleep feels like asked the question and it's a good question we have to ask ourselves shim son will give us the answer the question is now we know that Lan was a r we know that Lan cheated yob for 20 years we also know now that yob worked his hard out rain or shine cold or hot loss or profit the question is can anyone here myself included say that we're serving like served are you working for hem the same way that yob worked for laash that was cheating him or is every time the snooze button is close to your hand you're pressing it 18 times because you don't want to go to Nets or every time Shabbat comes in you're about 15 minutes away you make sure that you answer an extra few emails because Shalom you don't answer a business email before Shabbat or is every time your wife looks at you the wrong way you forget that you're not supposed to exert anger like an animal and immediately you lunge and act like a wilderbeast on Discovery Channel are we serving AEM that's giving us eyes ears mouth brain cells things we know of things we don't know of things we understand things we'll never understand are we serving the Hashem that gave us the ability to enjoy both this world and the next World to such an extent that as mizi said in a recent lecture is this is the amazing part of Hashem he punishes us by sending us to the Exile it's a punishment to live in America this is Egypt of modern day it's a punishment to live anywhere else other than Israel it's a punishment the land vomited us our souls weren't exactly sikim in previous generations so we're here said but hem loves us so much that even through the punishment of vomiting us to Exile he still allows us to enjoy the Exile no one wants to come back home no one wants to go back to Israel once in a while oh yeah I'll move to Israel but no I have to have P I have to have a house with four rooms I have to have nice view I have to have a job that's giving me $25,000 a month I have to have all my kids in the best schools I have you have conditions for hem hasem if you give me all these conditions I'll move to this but if it's going to be a little uncomfortable if that my kids have to walk seven minutes to school no no come on is too much we're enjoying the punishment so much that we forgot it's a punishment that's how much Hashem loves us so this very same Hashem that loves us so much that allows us to even enjoy the punishment are we worshiping him as much as yov served a rash named Le rebi R the son of ranim Mish Al in M chapter 2 first part says translation says which is the proper path that a person should choose for himself to be considered an Adam and we'll discuss what Adam means whatever path is a credit to himself and his creator and earns him the esteem of fellow men be as scrupulous in performing a minor Mitzvah as you do is a in a major mitzvah for you don't know the reward given for the respective MIT calculate the cost of the mitvah against the reward and the reward of sin against its cost consider three things and you will not come to the grips of sin know what is above you a watchful eye an attentive ear and all the Deeds are recorded in a book okay this is the answer we'll find out why first of all who is Rabbi Rabbi is the son as I said of aan Shimon but in thear rebi also says one of the reasons why I merited to be a is because I made sure to see the back of r r was his Rabbi what does it mean he was meant to made sure to see the back of a meaning he made sure to see his ra on a regular basis he didn't get too comfortable and just watch his lectures on YouTube he went to the lecture why because he already knows from sh is extra going to the lecture so much so it says that the biggest reward of listening to a lecture is the way there what do you mean the way there what about sitting there for 2 hours listening to the r says if it's a high level speaker most people are not going to understand what he says anyway not everybody's high level and even if it's a traditional speaker most people are not going to remember everything he says so you listen to 100% you remember 25% and you understand 10% but hem loves you remember hasem wants to reward you so much that even the punishment feels good so he says okay I want to give him full reward but I have to have Adit because the whole world stands on three things one of them is in it so I have to find a reason I have to find an excuse of what for what to reward him oh he took the subway to the lecture okay I'll reward him for that oh it took him two hours to get to the lecture that's what I'm going to give him the reward for that's where you get the reward so he has extra of going to the lecture more than pressing the button on YouTube or to anytime or anywhere else so this very same rebi is saying this what's a what's a proper path for you to be considered Adam and page 61b it says says is you're all called Adam but none of the other nations are called Adam but none of the other nations are considered Adam so as we all know as Jews there's never been a shortage of anti-semites there's plenty of them every generation more and more anti-sites more and more people hate us so in the times of which is the founder of the Dai people learn One D of every day they finish the entire sh approximately every seven years a little over seven years a huge accomplishment so at the time of rabish shab there was a court case against is they found a Jew they convicted him of murder and rabish shab came to protect them came to defend them as the lawyer and one of the cases that the rashim the used against him is like listen why should we listen to anything you say in your own Torah your own book you say that your God says that you're the only ones that are considered Adam you're the only ones that are considered people no one else is a person just you no no you have to understand what that means why is a Jew considered Adam and no one else else because when a Jew is in trouble we're all in trouble if you convict this Jew this innocent Jew for murder you're going to say all the Jews are murderers if you convict this Jew of stealing you're going to think all the Jews are stealing all the Jews are thieves if this one Jew is caught on camera yelling at his wife in the middle of the street and it goes on CNN and Fox News and the rest of the wicked channels say look how the Jews abuse their wives if you see the Jew arresting a Palestinian terrorist and the Palestinian says ow but they only catch the ow part they don't catch the fact that he just tried to kill 18 people and it goes on the news say look at these Israeli soldiers persecuting the innocent Arabs not the terrorists the Arab a religion of Peace So when one Jew is in trouble we're all in trouble meaning we all Adam we all want of the same thing but that's not the same for the rest of the nation one Arab is a terrorist say okay that's just one terrorist rest of them are religion of Peace okay but you have almost two billion of them and at least half admittedly are anti-site no but it's Sim they don't really mean it when one makes a sin one makes anything it's only him but when acts like a fool it's meaning it makes all of Judaism look bad to such an extent that AEM made sure that you're reminded of this every day in your Sid couple of times a day you do Corban for and it goes to the section of talking about the the incense offering and it has certain amount of parts and a certain amount of amounts of each one of these incenses you have to put this and you have to put that and this is what they did in the bet mikdash both the one in y and the one in the desert for years they had one of the not one of is an incense offering but what most people never noticed or never acknowledged or never really paid attention to because we're in a hurry to get the we're in a hurry to already leave the we just got here we're already in a hurry to do turn into we do on the way home already no you get to six people outside already we never know I'm the only one noticed again you know this also right okay it's true so now it says something interesting and both of them were both of them were both of them were Angels but they say something a little strange in this that we say several times a day in so many words if he puts too much or he puts too little death penalty I said one time being a little bit no incense offering okay the guy messed up fire him you not allowed to do incense offering anymore you're fired like the president elect had a show for 15 years telling people he's fired he got famous okay you're fired no more incense offering for you but kill the guy and not only kill the guy you have to kill him you don't have like Hey listen you know what I know your father you're a good guy you didn't mean it go go I'll tell him uh it's not you somebody else messed it up no death penalty anybody have ask a questiony come on why you such a why you such a so black and white oh come on killing the guy he messed up on an incense offering fire him sue him throw him in jail even extreme no the ran says that when we did the incense offering it would create a pillar of smoke but not a regular pillar of smoke a special pillar of smoke that stood from where the Corban is all the way to the sky and would stand straight even if there was a strong wind it would never move but if there was a mistake it would turn into a foreign fire now let's see what this really means first and foremost we see that Hashem has this Pillar of Fire what do he wanted for what's the outcome of this pillar of smoke so there's three types of people that look at this pillow of smoke we're in a camp for 40 years there three types of people first person keep shabat keep kids go to Yesa everything is good once in a while P doesn't come in on time once in a while one of the kids get sick once in a while schite is not great once in a while he has a suff what's going on has a little bit OFA problems it'sa is a muscle you don't exercise it it dies you don't get tests in life you won't won't have emuna so this guy has emuna problems he looks up he sees the pillar sees the pillar of smoke it's like oh reminds me Hashem is in control look at this pillar it's a miracle this strong wind coming from Mexico coming from this place coming from that place the pillar is not moving Hashem is above nature if Hashem is above nature then he control my P I don't have to work seven days a week I don't have to work over time if I really really believe I don't even have to work will send directly to me but if I use my time effectively if I'm watching TV all time all day go back to work my friend but if you are dedicating your life to the Tora dedicating your life dedicating your life for the sake of with a clean mitvah you believe in hasem you don't even have to work meaning a regular job you work a different type of job but nonetheless says that your is decided meaning hem decides how much money you're going to make regardless of how many hours you work you work nine hours 9 to five you work 20 hours you work 100 hours a day you invent a new time machine you work a th000 hours a day whatever you work p the same doesn't matter how much you work you invented something new p is the same you have a new store is the same Hashem already decided how much you're going to make if you really understand and apply this you're never going to spend one minute being stressed out about money cuz you know it's not up to you only thing that's up to you is going to work go work you exert your effort you come home and you actually really live life work is a part of life it's not life you go you work you make money whatever you exert your effort you go home and that's where Life Is Life is applying the Torah applying in your business being honest apply in your business doing K where people say oh look is honest is is they're they're straightforward people they're not looking for comot they're not looking to cheat the system they're not looking to uh cheat insurance companies they're straightforward people you go home look is not just a kid Factory where no kid has any mid you know people like to have kids they want to have five kids 10 kids 50 kids 100 kids that's great but if all of your kids are going to be zoo animals don't have any kids do me a favor why do I have to suffer because you want to have kids teach your kids midot don't bring your kids to the if they can't sit down and be quiet because then it's not a Mitzvah to bring them to to the sh and have them create chaos the rabbi is trying to say they're lighting fire under the chairs keep them home but if you could teach them me do then it's K you have so many kids to have kids but only if you could follow the Tor follow the rest of the instructions having the kid is part of the instruction teaching them how to act like human beings is the other part so now you taught your kids you have k at home you have K with the wife everything is good you're doing everything good the next part is that one you do Kem you realize that Hashem is giving you things in an easier fashion all of a sudden you don't necessarily feel the need to work over time because you see that you're fulfilling hashem's will and he's giving you only tests that are necessary not necessarily tests that uh everyone else gets but nonetheless you realize that the purpose of life is not just working the purpose of life is to connect to hem and you're applying this to your life will you know that no matter how much I work is going to be the same so you're never going to fall into the Trap of the guy that has amuna problems the second type of person that sees this pillar is someone that didn't look up initially he had amuna problems but he gave up right away he didn't want to ask he didn't want to go to the rabbi and ask him what do you think why is hasm doing this what does it say about it in the tah what this no no already automatically he got a test got a flat tire he abandoned the car in the highway all of a sudden his wife looked at him the wrong way he wants to gate wants to get a divorce all of a sudden something small happened he's giving up on everything so he left so he's in the mountains he got into a problem he left the entire besset why there m in theet this guy wants to pray this way the other guy wants to pray that way this guy wants to sing the other guy wants to hurry so he said you know what I'm not going to besses anymore left everything once in a while though he looks back he's in the mountains but once in a while he looks back you know to see how far he went what does he see she's the pillar the same pillar that's not moving what doeses remind him of he goes oh Judaism is not about the Jews Judaism is about my connection with because even if there was no Jews and I was alone on an island I still have to be a Jew I still have to find a way to eat kosher I still have to be modest just because I'm surrounded by monkeys doesn't mean that I have to I can act like a monkey just because I'm surrounded by thieves and criminals does not mean I'm allowed to act like a thief and a criminal because Judaism is about your connection with and the guy that looked back he says Hey doesn't matter what the is say they want to sing they want to dance they want to this they want to that I need to go to be because it's a it doesn't matter if I agree or disagree what does it say in the Torah that's what I do that's the second guy the third guy is the go the go forever always ask why does hasem make so many miracles for for what what did they do and they also look they look into the sky and say oh look from far away you see this pillar this pillar of smoke like oh the Jews make a special Corban an incense off offering for hem we don't do it go don't do anything special for hem they actually have a religion that says you don't have to do anything they say listen some guy died and therefore because he died the rest of us don't have to do anything so they actually created a religion to justify doing nothing but the Jews we haven't stopped dying because they keep killing us but every generation we had more we had more more things to do we don't stop working for for morning tonight we have say look is doing so much for hem they even have a special incense offering that has to be precise makes this special pillar it doesn't move to the right doesn't move to the left that's why he makes miracles for them cuz they work for him they do something for him we do nothing so raan says this is a big deal why is a big deal step number one the guy that Hada problems now he doesn't havea problems he went to the rabbi he asked him a few questions Rabbi show him a few sources look you're not alone this happened to Abu everyone it happened DAV did not sleep more than 15 minutes in his entire life every 15 minutes he' have to wake up deal with problems slept like a horse problems his whole life we sleep eight hours a day some of us more some of us 12 hours a day when we sleep especially if you're like High School in college 18 hours you're lucky you're awake so first guy problem solved second guy left the camp you're doing K you sent some Rabbi with some crazy idea come come come back you scared the guys okay okay it's between meem you bring them back you did K and then the go asking what is hm doing all this for them he show him this ah so now we understand why this special pill of smoke is special we have a chance to do we have a chance to do K we have a chance to do number one page 16 says if you're not involved or caring about K on a regular basis on a daily basis you're not trying to sanctify aem's name every day it was better that you weren't born meaning if you're not trying to do what are your life for so thisan you read in your every day it's like you did thean but if you're not reading it with you're not doing you're doing anything if you're a criminal in your business you're doing which lead us to the next point now what happens if we mess up on the incense offering raan says it becomes a foreign fire what's a foreign fire meaning it's just a fire there's no pillar of smoke so now what happens we still have the same three people first guy with emun problems looks up sees nothing now hisa problems becomes a disaster now he doesn't even know if there's a God before he wasn't sure if God cares about him now he sees nothing he doesn't even know if there is a God he starts hanging out with the atheists the guy that left theet looks back he only sees the same Jews he got into a fight with it's like oh yeah that's the ones that got into a fight with good I'm leaving he gets even more confidence that he made the right decision by going against the you may have lost him forever and in the go they ask what is HEM you know why is he give so Miracles they look up they see nothing then they say maybe made a mistake so now instead of having instead of having K instead of having K we have the opposite the ended up being it turned into a saf saf and same gatria the guy that had problems looked up saw nothing now he has a now he does not even sure if he's going to stay religious the guy that left the camp he was supposed to do now it's now it's instead of the guy is lost now he was keeping you know Shabbat and kosher now he went down from all the now he left the camp that's it became a go now you lost a Jew and last but not least when the go was supposed to see a reason of whyem is blessing is are they honest are they good are they this are they that instead of doing it's and my friends so now you understand why every day hasem made sure that the sages put this in our he says a few times a day you have to understand and remind yourself that your actions matter you're either going to be a for your environment because of your actions you're either going to bring Jews back to Hashem or distance him away you're either going to be a k or if you're K you have a purpose according to ACC to according to ACC toing to everything reminded several times a day about this so is telling us first of all beam how do get to be whatever the path is credit to himself and his creator and earns him an esteem in his fellow man so here we understand to create credit for yourself is tied to your creator meaning if you're doing K you're doing you helping people do you're helping people with your action are causing other people to want to come to your actions are causing people to want to learn your actions are causing people to want to keep something then you're doing a benefit for yourself because you're doing a benefit for others but then the next part breaks it down for us it says be as scrup in performing a minor mitvah as you do a major mitvah for you don't know the reward given for the respective mitv calculate the cost of the Mitzvah against its reward and the reward of the sin against its cost says listen since now you know that everything you do has to be forem everything you do has to be forem and everything you do has to be something that hasm wants in order to do that you can't start picking and choosing which Mitzvah you're going to do you can't say oh listen Shabbat greatest Shabbat in the world this that but the rest of the week you're a thief modesty great I'm going to put the jacket I'm going to put the Hat I'll put this and put that but he goes to casino cu for the say oh look I'm here because I don't believe in anything me and the giraffe are the same thing but what are you doing here with the Str playing Texas Holden with me what are you doing here at least take off the uniform take off the costume leave it home why you why you coming to the club with the hat or like these makim putting the Palestinian uniform on top of the for what you want to be an Arab be an Arab you want to be a terrorist go there move there don't be a faker it's either you're 100% or it's nothing in order to do that you have to remove your opinion there's no big Mitzvah there's no small Mitzvah you don't know the reward everyone wants to do the big Mitzvah what do you think the big Mitzvah is the big Mitzvah is the one that's popular I'm going to write a seph t I'm going to open AET I'm going to donate to a hospital why cuz my name goes on the building so everyone's going to know you build a building what a sadik you are they don't he doesn't tell him listen yet but I also got a benefit taxwise and if I didn't have this donation I would have to pay the money in IRS taxes anyway he doesn't say that so on topic of the benefit he got from the IRS he gets kot from everyone oh sadik donated $100 million to a building what will we do without you wants to donate the besset why because he wants to run the besset he doesn't want the rabbi to run the B he became the rabbi the guy barely knows one Mish but he was tell the rabbi no no Rabbi I don't think you're right Rabbi learned since the day he was born he was born with in his hands no no Rabbi I don't think that's what Abu meant you even know how to spell abah a you're telling the rabbi how to how to run a shoe you learn you know anything you're telling the rabbi how to run the shoe the RAB from the day he was born learning T learning everything you tell him how to run the sh what do you know why because you have money you have a highq but why he wants to donate cuz he wants to run the Sho he wants to donate because he wants everyone to know oh that's that one's mine I wrote that like he wrote it himself like he knows how to write Hebrew no what happens so the especially in Brooklyn they have too many get to the point have a place where they keep all the but says you have to use it open it at least once a year this is a problem there's only 52 weeks a year you get to a certain situation where you can't use some of these you have to lend them it becomes a hassle but every week they accept more why because everyone to say no no I donated a $60,000 seph yeah but I donate $50,000 one it's not that I got a better deal yeah but I donate $100,000 that means I love God more everyone wants to know no but how come he's not using my book because he's using my book or my book or my book or my book who' you do the mitvah for for you your honor for who's benefiting out of this the has 300 it doesn't need anymore thank you but what about the living SE what about the one that's alive the one that moves the one that learns to offer morning toight that actually reads what the SOP wrote what about the I have an in Israel M this story i s in a the other day some of the people in the crowd started crying my is M special special person sadik anav humble huge genius I can't even explain how smart he is that's how smart he is we have sh to give you a small tiny example sometime we have sh and once in a while it gives me like a taste of like [Applause] what is not for his honor he says listen everything I'm saying I don't know is 100% but just for to show what Torah can do says pick any verses in the Tor as many verses in the T as many topics in the Tor and we'll connect all of them so what do I know I said okay so we're going to open the book okay okay this is the first verse I tell him the first verse and then Deuteronomy this verse and this verse Joshua this verse this one give five verses 10 verses thousand doesn't make a difference on the spot with connected to the Mish connected to connected to all these things good luck on the spot lecture you would think he prepared it for six years on the spot and everything is connected like you wouldn't believe what we used to do for fun he said give me any word any word so I said okay Apple gives me a on an apple an apple okay so I start looking for weird words closet he gives me on closet any word you pick on the spot but not like one sentence lecture this is when somebody is connected to glued to now this genius this sadik is telling me there's an in the who's a gaon now if I told you somebody's a gon what do you know but when a gaon says somebody else is a g that means something says there's one guy in the cola is a gon but M has a big test right now they shut off the electric in his house his wife is losing her mind because she didn't know that they have such financial problems she's not willing to leave the house already 3 months and I just saw his daughter little young daughter eight n years old 10 years old walking around with holes in her clothes cuz they can't afford to buy a clothes M poverty one of the people that's like M Giant in Tora doesn't have food to eat doesn't have money to pay electric his wife doesn't want to leave the house and to ask somebody maybe help out electric this should never get to that point why because instead of buying all these that we're not even using for $60,000 for $50,000 you could Finance 10 10 of these 20 of these for whole year 10 of these living so this is what is telling us here be scrupulous with the minor Mitzvah as in a major one meaning remove your own opinion of what you think is a small mitvah is a big Mitzvah you think it's a big Mitzvah because everyone's going to know you think it's a big Mitzvah because your name is going to be on the door you think it's a big Mitzvah because a and you can feel it and the small little mitah is the yeah I'll give him $10 like you're doing them a favor yeah I'll send them yeah you have a dollar you have $10 you have $20 walking when we use our opinion we get in trouble we get in very very deep trouble now the only way we can get to this point is if we understand what is the value of Tah page 63 they ask him who gets Tor he says you get T was the top mobster of his time and did CH top gangster that the people were so scared of him that if he just spoke to anyone automatically everyone knew that person's okay everyone would do business with that person if he didn't speak to you everyone was stayed away from you he did Chua and not only he did chuva is is RA was R all over the you see R and he got to his level so this former M that became this I grind yourself down the words of down over the words of Torah exert to the outmost in order to acquire them for says from where do we know that the words of Torah are not retained except by one who kills himself over Torah for it stated in the Book of Numbers 1914 this this is the Torah of the man who dies in the tent is saying you want T you want to be like this you want to be like that knows everything by heart you want to connect every verse you want to be a walking it requires all the way to the point that you're willing to die for the Torah now not all of us are at this level of dying for the Torah but all of us want the privilege of having some share in it the way we can get a share sometimes because we learn and sometimes by removing our own opinion and knowing that listen there's and there's there's for me for there mitah and there there mitvah for me because everyone's going oh yeah he's aad he did this he did this he did this and then there's the best Mitzvah the best Mitzvah is the next Mitzvah the next mitvah that the only one that knows about is Hashem because the only one that you did it for is for Hashem when you give money to when you give money for K when you give money for any of these things that are purely for hem it doesn't get publicized on CNN it doesn't get publicized on Bloomberg it doesn't get publicized in any community but up there they write it [Applause] down and is telling you listen you want to get to the point of fulfilling on a regular basis all you need to do is remember three things [Music] know what's above you which is I a watchful eye an attentive ear and that all your Deeds are record recorded in a book you want to have the highest level of mitvah on a regular basis you want to be a walking K you want to be and walking se you want to be the greatest you can possibly be very simple first and foremost know that Hashem is watching so before you yell at the guy to cut you off Hashem is watching one time someone was giving a ride on a horse and a carriage I believe it was the and all of a sudden he pulled over he started taking some things from the land that wasn't his and the said they're watching they're watching they're watching the guy immediately dropped everything jumped on the on the wagon started going got out of the city stopped eventually after his heart relaxed oh thank you thank thank you where' you see them where' you see them they're watching where where' you see them go up there they're watching from up there so know that everything you do the business transaction where you overcharge in an illegal way will you take what doesn't belong to you they're watching all of the Servants of Hashem are watching you they're reporting it to Hashem who already knows but the difference is they're coming and they're accusing you of making this crime and kazal says that every time a Jew says a word an Angel takes it up to hasem and says this should come true even if that word is going to be against that own Jew even if that word is the Jew cursing his son because he got upset at him the angel says look the Jews said it let's fulfill it so much so that one time a bunch of uh thugs came into the it started causing balagan mess and the rabbi came out he what is this one of these uh thugs was a you know hpan also didn't have any manners or anything he goes up to this old man go no hands no hands like Rabbi don't beat me up like the old man can beat him up is says no you know hands the next day the guy got into an accident lost both of his arms when a Jew with a holy mouth says something it also gets fulfilled so first and foremost realize that not only is the I watching but all in shamat there's an attentive ear listening to every one of your words and trying to fulfill it if your blessing is not with instead of saying doing somebody's listening to it and what they're doing with it they are recording it in a book so now we have to ask a question how do we get to a point of being like okay we're not going to be able to not say about someone that's cheating us for 20 years fine okay we're not going to say that everyone that cheated us the death the death the criminals the this all these disasters that happen in our life thank you hasem you should give me more like this okay fine we're not GNA get to that either we're not going to get to that at least I'm not but how do we get to a point where you know what we can say with a full heart we're serving hem with full Cav at least as much as yov did to well I know that at night I'm working for AEM in the morning I'm working for AEM with it's cold I'm still going to B it's hot I'm still going to theet tough economy I'm Still Honest good economy I'm Still Honest the customer is blind I still give him what belongs to him the customer is deaf I'm still not saying bad things about him to make fun of him how do I get to that point I can say you know what at least I did that at least I'm working for hasem like Lean Like leavon got an employe named yob doing for him how and to finalize everything we go to the seventh chapter of by the r and the ramb says there's many mid and that describe the connection that the prophets all the prophets throughout time had with Hashem some of them spoke to Hashem through sleeping a dream some had an epilepsy some had meditation but there's one Prophet named mosenu where hasem himself says he spoke to me face to face and and also including the page 49b says that the way that the prophet it spoke to Hashem was like through a veil they had different veils different levels of separations between them and Hashem but they were able to uncover some of these veils so like some like just if you have one of these fancy houses with 18 curtains before you actually see the window the prophet was able to take away like six of them and see a little bit more light or 10 of them but mosenu a different level of prophet mosenu was talking to Hashem like you would look through a brilliant glass meaning that it was shining like a diamond but you still it's not 100% B it's not 100% clear but it's as clear as ever how did mhu get to that level how did Yu get to that that level very simple the ram says we all have intellectual shortcomings foolishness naivity difficult in understanding we all have ethical shortcomings gluttony Pride anger brashness Love of Money all types of desires all have all types of flaws all types of limitations I have one student he says I pray to Hashem four hours a day to make me Rich okay do you have a job no not yet I don't know if it's high level or something else I have another student tells me you know slum bite is very very important to to me yeah yeah yeah I prayed extra on I wore all white I wore all white you learn any M no no no not yet I'm still focusing on something else oh is that why your wife keeps calling my wife telling her that you're coming home like a raging uh lion every Friday you she's she's worried about her life so Ram says listen all of us have these little flaws some of us love money too much some of us get too angry some of us have G that can reach the sky all of us each one of these shortcomings are the veils that's the curtain that's what's separating us between us and God each one of these character flaws you're cheap you're stingy you're over your you're you're uh you know a fool and you don't want to learn T you're too prideful you're one of these people that every time somebody wants to give you a k before you finish the first sentence you always say no no I know I know I love those people I know I know they know everything so why' you come to the if you already know I know I know I know ra says all of these character flaws that's the curtain that's the veils that's what separates us between man and God as it says in the prophet Isaiah 59:2 it's your sins that separate you between you and your God your sins meaning your shortcomings so here the rambam was also called Moses gives us the secret of Moses gives us the secret of gives us the secret to never be one of these people says they give us the secret you want to be a walking Kem you want to be a sadik you want to be worthwhile in this world start by removing these veils start by working on your midot start by removing these bad character traits and you could only remove them if you work on them first if you have anger problems start working on anger but not through a self-help book that you buy from Bars & Noble by by m by instructions from the manufacturer because each time you remove one of these veils you're going to be closer to God and each time you're closer to God you're going to understand how yobu was able not to say for 20 years how was able to thank AEM have such level of where he thanked theem for all the problems to such an extent he says all these problems so great it's too good and it all starts with making a very simple choice if you already believe in the Torah which most all of us here believe you believe in the Torah you believe it's real the first step we have to do is read what it says second step is start doing start doing what it says where do you aim you don't have to be abrah you don't have to be you don't have to be mosu orob or anyone else you don't have to beud all you have to do is honestly look at yourself in the mirror every day and say you know what today I served theem at least as good as jakov Serv any questions [Music] [Applause] [Music] n oh [Music]