The Foundation Of Good - Q&A w/ Rabbi Yaron Reuven

[Music] we are back in Sunday um our questions and answers sh we have a uh lots of uh good feedback from last last week's Shu people liked learning a little bit of M about saying thank you maybe we'll B go over some more things about it there's a few couple of subjects that uh I learned that uh very very interesting more more about the uh gratitude which I think is something that uh we simply don't know how to do and then also something about Kusa also as well so the we'll see what we're going to go there's a lot of material um sh today will be uh also for umm David Ben Masa um to David benri Viola Doris but J um Leana Batar s um Mercedes and I'm forgetting somebody I forgot for WR name oh M Ben um Lear um no but there was also another name that I forgot to write down her in in my mind I just forgot to write the name Will knows our intentions and will give uh so since this is called these questions and answers you hopefully you guys have some questions last couple of times you had a couple of questions but uh still there's uh 500 more questions after this year then during than before the Shi uh so do anybody uh have any questions no okay okay well I mean the uh the gratefulness I'll go over later uh because it has to do more with the shield I think uh but uh the river itself can't you can't turn an entire ocean to just like you you know you can't just say okay from now on this uh the entire Atlantic Ocean is my idol therefore amista can never uh use it again uh usually as far as a it's something that's limited to a specific uh you know size space some type of in inanimate object uh that they created not something that Hashem created uh so it's the creation's creation so it's in essence the the reason why Hashem considers for example the the worst of the worst in the same category as uh for example someone that violate Shabbat is because the Creator is everything says literally means there's nothing really else other than him meaning all of the creation is technically part of the Creator there's really nothing else but that's hard to say and impossible to really understand that really in reality there's nothing else but him meaning even us even we are part of him um we understand that a certain part of us is from him it's um that he put into but even the other aspects of it are the cre the creation is part of the Creator either way the um uh the uh Creator himself that's all good that created everything all he asks you to do is to serve him simply he created you didn't have to doesn't owe you anything and in reality we owe him everything and even Beyond us giving him everything we still owe him more and the only thing that he really asks from us is to serve him in accordance to what he said not accordance to what we say if you're serving him according to what you say then that means nothing that means you're serving yourself if you're serving him according to what he said that's that means something so when somebody does not serve him already that's a spit in his face when somebody not only doesn't serve him but serves a false god serves something else serves Jesus serves Buddha serves uh you know uh their own ego serves uh you know nothing that person is the worst of the worst why because they've taken everything instead of serving everything instead of serving AEM they not only have serving nothing they're serving something less than nothing which is the creation's creation so if let's say for example a person you you know was you know serving Hashem that's one thing a person that's not serving hasem is a different thing but a person that's serving something that he himself created either by buying it or by uh you know manipulating it into reality building it or something like that then in essence that thing becomes if you will their creation even though we can't really create anything from nothing we have to have we have to use his Creation in order to create still we've created a false god which means that we've taken the tools of and used it against him it's like for example somebody takes in the Army says let me borrow a gun for a second he borrows the gun and then he shoots the guy there's no bigger criminal moral criminal than such a person I know sometimes they show it in the movies and things like that people say and they think oh wow he's so clever no it's that clever there's no worst moral act than to use somebody else's tool in order to hurt him even more so when it comes to Hashem so when a person goes and takes the tools that Hashem gave him just to make another God there's no one that's more detestable and despised by hasm than that person unfortunately many of our brothers and sisters put themselves in that same class when they violate Shabbat because Hashem asked in it says that hem says to mhe go tell is that I have a big present for them in my treasure chest and the name of this present is Shabbat and from there learn teaches us that anytime a person wants to give a present to his fellow he has to announce it he has to tell him he's giving him a present don't give him a surprise tell them you're giving him a present told is through I'm going to give them a present the name of this present is Shabbat so in essence what was supposed to do is accept it enjoy it feel a part of through it that's what we're supposed to do till this day the problem is that part of thank you excuse me part of the part of the uh keeping Shabbat is that a person that keeps Shabbat is acting as a WT to Creation now nowhere in the Torah does it say I am God that created the world doesn't say that what does it say I am God I am your God that took you out of Egypt why does it say I'm your God took you out of Egypt why does it say I'm God that uh created the world the reason is is because creating the world no one was a witness no one was there there was nothing before he created it other than him there's nothing else so you can't say oh yeah yeah you created the world yeah I'll just take your you know I believe you because yeah somebody told me you can't you have to take his word for it if to take his word for it but Egypt millions of millions of people witnessed it not only am that you can say are technically biased you also see that there's actually outside parties unbiased parties that reported it and uh Josephus and others reported what was actually happening at the time even though some of these journalists were rooting against the Jews the Egyptian journalist meaning the uh CNN was reporting that uh you know the Israelis are doing something good in the world it's like mash come mashia might as well come CNN's reporting am is doing something good mashia came already just saying it it's hard so that's what happened in MIT millions and millions of people witnessed that AEM took out of Egypt because it couldn't be anything else nowhere in history has it ever happened before or ever happened after or will ever happen again that Hashem turned an entire civilization of slaves into the master it never happened before it never happened after now some places had slavery you know be abolished or freed some escaped and so on and so so forth but no one ever became the master the best case scenario they were freed the best case scenario know it's bdh just a few here and there oh you know what I feel bad for you after I tortured you and killed your wife killed your kids chopped a few arms off you know what go free Go free can't walk the guy poor guy tell him to go free where's he gonna go he can't go to the bathroom by himself Go free the guy felt bad that's one guy two guys 100 200 guys you freed or they sold them or what they did to people but to say that the slaves turn into a master if you heard a story like that if you heard it's a fairy tale and it's only one person but never in history was it ever a entire civilization here we have millions of witnesses that an entire civilization turned from being slaves and into Masters so this Hashem says you are witnesses to it the go were witnesses to it everybody was a witness to it but just like you witness to something that you saw keeping Shabbat is something that you have to also do why because you realize that I'm God you realize that nobody else could have saved you you realize that this was M this was a divine intervention into the world this wasn't some type of super uh strong person it was Supernatural so just like you saw the Miracles that I brought into the world there was just as many miracles to create the world even more so so by keeping Shabbat you're testifying that as a witness that I created the world so when a Jew violat Shabbat by driving on Shabbat or playing on the internet on Shabbat or uh smoking a cigarette and cooking or working on Shabbat and does one of the 39 restrictions in the Torah on Shabbat that person in essence is saying to hem thear says he's screaming in the middle of the street at Hashem saying to him I don't believe you created the world I don't believe you not only not not a witness not a witness let's say he's a violate shabat he's hiding he's smoking cigarette at home but nobody knows he even smokes nobody knows he smokes nobody knows he's on TV but the guy that drives to or the guy that smokes cigarettes and everybody knows he chain smokes everybody knows he smokes on Shabbat even if he smokes at home by himself but everybody knows he smokes on Shabbat everybody knows he goes on the internet on Shabbat everybody knows that uh he works on Shabbat they don't need to see it 10 people know that's already considered Faria meaning a public sin which makes that person detestable in the eyes of hem to such an extent that it's he that person is considered as if he's running in the middle of the street advertising and yelling like in a big billboard to hem I don't believe you created the world and he's trying to take other people to follow him so everyone could understand that idolatry is disgusting it's disgusting to AEM it's it should be disgusting to anyone that's intellectually honest it also should be disgusting to anyone that has morals anyone that has a an inkling of positive character traits within them should be disgusted by this but very few people are disgusted by m Shabbat most people have no problem with them most people have no problem with the sin either I'm not saying that you should go and start beating upat because that would mean that we would have to beat up all of us in the past that's not what Hashem wants says you have to hate the sin and not the sinner you have to hate the sin and not the sinner so if you know that you have a certain relative or friend that violates Shabbat and he simply does not view it as disgusting he doesn't think that that's disgusting send him to sh maybe he'll understand that what he's doing is disgusting it's not just bad as far as it's a sin that he doesn't even understand the magnitude of it's disgusting it's in the same level as idol worship and we'll talk more about why why it's disgusting even more so later on unless you guys have no questions anything else yeah I have a question why you pick the number 10 you're asking or why why each Mak differentes oh we have uh we have uh I think at least one maybe two entire about the mid the measure for measure of each one of the makot uh we would have to do an entire Shield just on that because each ma had significance I'll give you a slight example just to give you a taste of what it looks like so first and foremost we have measure for measure and we also have a everything is for the good so there's certain principles just like you have gravity that people know about that's a law of nature hasem created nature that's why Elohim and naturea have the same numerical value 86 so there's certain rules that we know of gravity the uh and other other aspects of the uh physical world but there's also other rules that Hashem runs the world with one of them is that everything that he does has to be the best that we learned from at the end of and number two that everything works off of measure for measure so the plague of blood was given say because the uh Egyptians did a few things one of them is that they didn't give water to the Jews to drink you didn't give my Jews to drink therefore I'm going to make you thirsty why because they couldn't drink anything other than blood on their own if if let's say for example there was one cup of water one straw the Jew has one straw the Egyptian has the Jew will suck out water the Egyptian will suck out blood it literally would transform on the spot because of course they tried stealing the Jewish water and when the Jew was drinking it was beautiful water crystal clear you know uh $5 a bottle water the Egyptian blood smelly disgusting blood so he stole this water turns to blood same cup turn to blood the trees turned to blood the walls were bleeding everything that had water in it that belonged to the Egyptians had blood everywhere there was blood so that was a disaster of itself so how could they survive soem gave them a way to survive how they can buy the water they could buy the water and that is actually one of the ways that hasem fulfilled the promise that he made to abah ainu which he said to abah ainu that when your children after they slaves for the Egyptians over 400 years they're eventually going to be freed and they're going to be rich so one of the ways that Hashem made am is rich is by actually the fact that they sold the water they sold their water to the Egyptians anytime the Egyptians tried stealing it or beating them up for it it turned back to blood but if they paid for it then it turned it stayed as water and that's actually one of the ways that am is became very very wealthy by the time they left Egypt so we see on one end where they didn't give them water another aspect of it we also see that um there is good out of this that we actually made money out of it became very very wealthy and this pertains this is just a small token to every single makah every single plague that we had in Egypt uh would require an entire sh just about it and since we already talked about it on the internet couple sh I think it's better that we go over other things what else as far as the 10 number 10 number there's a specific PUK hasem says that I'm going to do it just to show my uh glory and uh to that you're going to remind your children's grandchildren of how I um mocked mock the Egyptians not I just destroyed them I mocked them I made fun of them why it's a Mitzvah to make fun of idol worship to anytime you see somebody making fun of of JC Penney Jesus uh the uh falsity all the all the all the funny names people take offense to it oh it's not nice you call Christianity things you're a fool it's to make fun of Christianity same thing with all other religions any religion that's not Judaism is considered to be some form of of idolatry with the exception of Islam Islam Shalom said is not idolatry and he after the r r also say it's not idolatry uh there are the origination of Islam started with idolatry but not today anyway the point is that um you have yourself a beautiful tah that shows you how every single one of the natures every single one of the character traits of Hashem can be proven to each one of these plagues could be proven through each one of these parot um and one of the main things that uh we see in this is something very very strange we see that when hasem tells M to bring the plague to bring the plague he does something different on the first three plagues that he did for the next seven what do he do he says so in chapter 7 chapter 7 verse number 19 say hem says to Moshe say toon take your staff and stretch out your hand over the water of Egypt over their rivers over their canals over their reservoirs and over all of the Waters of Egypt uh over all of The Gatherings of water and they shall become blood so hasem says to Moshe first plague tellon to do it tell to do it everyone knows the mid and the LI that Moshe didn't want to hit the ocean and the same thing happened with the second and third plague where he didn't want to hit the ground because he owed him gratitude he owed him gratitude but we have a couple of uh serious questions about this number one what do you ow gratitude for whether they going to get sad the river the the ocean is going to get upset she going start crying that you didn't say thank you that you turn him into blood what what is he is it right to you know negative emails negative review one star rating on Facebook what is he going to do what is he going to do what's the river going to do okay second of all how did he protect you kazal says he didn't drown him the river didn't drown Moshe what is it the nature of rivers to drown people is that what they were created for to drown people no but did he make extra effort not to drown him technically the miracle with Moshe was the smallest one of all why because at the time the Egyptians imak they took the babies the Jewish babies if it was a boy they threw him into the water so he drowns and dies but hasem miraculously made sure not a single baby died all of them were saved hasem took them to a different place and fed them and they came back to Mid M says when they were 3 years old not a single baby died threw him into the water but they didn't die meaning that even if the Egyptians tried to drown the babies they wouldn't succeed so Moshe was not thrown into the water by himself he had a nice T nice little jacuzzi over there it's a fridge on the right it's a comfortable place it was a ship he had a nice little ship there think even had a captain maybe so B putting all joking aside what is it more difficult to survive in the in a little basket or learn how to swim at one day old what's harder you're already three months old you're in a congratulations what's the problem the other one just born two seconds ago they threw him into the water what's harder it's harder to be the one one day old that's a bigger miracle that he survived so what's Moshe saying thank you thank you thank you what's thank you the other question is same applies obviously to the ground ground they said that the ground he used it to bury the Egyptian Egyptian that he killed after he saw the uh Egyptian hitting the Jew and he saw that the uh Egyptian wasn't doing good and he killed them said to the name of hem and the Egyptian died on the spot and he buried him in the ground and he's saying thank you to the ground to allow him to bury the guy technically that's what the ground's for to bury stuff which as a side note you should know that's why we take the when you do you take Thea the forkin and you bury it in the ground as a token to to the ground and tell her don't worry don't worry we're coming back soon minut it's not a it's not a it's a reminder to the ground but it's also should be a reminder for us don't worry what maximum 70 80 90 120 years I'm back I'm coming back that's that's what it is we take the I'll be back soon everybody so buil houses builds 401ks has plans to have a big account big enough for 15 Generations even though they don't know anybody yet they don't have one kid yet they have a dog you tell you told the ground you were 8 days old I'll be back soon so the ground is there to bury stuff he's saying thank you he show him an appreciation gratitude to the ground that's why I don't want to turn the ground into lice the M says that each one of the lights was the size of a chicken egg and it was six feet meaning that there was no way for anyone to avoid it you were drowning the Egyptians were drowning in these lights said thank you it's very nice for you to say thank you but for what is the ground going to send a hate maill if you don't say thank you is the ground going to get upset did the ground make any effort to hide the Egyptian or did it just bury a couple of billion people a few Generations before you the generation of Noah what's the big deal you Buried one Egyptian he was a rash anyway ground probably wanted to swallow him anyway the last question abai that we have to answer is it says that mosenu felt bad if mosenu felt bad why does the p the PUK itself say meaning that it wasn't really the says there it wasn't really moshe's decision to not hit the ocean the river hasem told him go tell to hit the ocean if hasem said to Moshe go hit the ocean go hit the river and mhe says noem I feel bad I owe gratitude to this to this River let me go tell Aon hem says okay that we have a different fine but now we have a problem why because here it's hem is giving the instructions toon through Moshe so in reality what we see here is that Hashem decided hasem decided Moshe don't hit the ocean don't hit the ground same thing with the ground same thing don't do it tell our to do it why anybody have a hint of an idea humble is good but what does have to do with uh not hitting the ocean okay so let's say let's say okay let's go with this argument that both of you said that uh Hashem knows the beautiful nature of mosenu and mosenu wants to say thank you to the river thank you to the ground to the nice sand but then we're back to the original question what are you saying thank you for is the ground going to complain to Hashem is the river going to complain to did any one of you speak to the river on the way here tell me the truth did you speak you spoke to the river what it say is it Jewish huh no interesting but no it's interesting but no no no no connection only one still have to be to someone whether or not exp but we're not okay I like what you're saying you're in the right direction you're saying that someone should say thank you with or without somebody caring whether they say thank you okay but doesn't that assume that that someone can talk why so you so you're going to say thank you to the chair when you leave people sometimes say people aot listen there's a there's a there's a mental institution of a lot of people saying uh thank you thank you and they're talking to the wall one time a guy goes to a mental institution to visit to see what's going on over there and he sees one guy say says where was braa what happened to this guy goes oh this guy poor guy he wanted to marry some woman named braa she didn't want to marry him he scan the guy lost his mind Broken Heart lost his mind what you do broken heart he goes to the Next Room see the same thing goes what happened to him goes oh he's the guy that married her he's the guy that married her slow laugh you guys are slow wake up a third joke you know how how hard I worked on this joke it's harder than is sh so I like what you're saying that you have to be grateful you have to be grateful with or without the other person caring but that's assuming there's a person that's assuming there's a person why are you going to say thank you to the chair why would you say thank you to the building why would you say thank you to the ground why would you say thank you to a bed why you're up down up down so you're I'm getting seasick from the up and down arm okay in the back hashem's creation okay why should I say thank you to it then okay thankful to the angel it does say it actually does say in the that every strand of grass has an angel right next to it saying to grow every strand of grass not all of the grass you have on your lawn every one of them every every line has a separate angel look at grow Kapa grow grow grow grow all day imagine how many angels are there so if you're going to start saying thank you to every single angel you're not going to have time to learn Torah but you guys are in the right direction let's go into unless somebody has has any other new insight no you have something because right that we know that the water saved him as a baby but if he says thank you to the water doesn't not assume that the water can say you're welcome the water should respond you're welcome but the water can't respond it's water I mean said he talked to the water on the way here but then he took it back he says no because I asked him if it's Jewish he doesn't know so not sure if he talked to it or not but the reality is water is supposed to say thank you you're welcome no has to I'm I'm already saying thank you to the water better say you welcome I'm the first guy in history say thank you to a water second M first but anyway no somebody say welcome no but all joking aside this is going to teach us how much more work we have to do you're all in the right direction though you're all in the right direction which shows actually you have good but we have to go into the source we have to go deep into the source the minds of the wisdom of is something that's beyond comprehension because you can think about this question until you're bleue in the face and you're not going to get what they said now after I say it you're going to say no of course I knew this I was was going to get to it give me five more minutes I was going to get to it why because it's in you you know it the Mal taught it to you when you were in the stomach the problem is you forgot it so we have to bring it up but in reality no one in the world no one in the world will naturally think about this in this generation or previous generation or any other generation other than 900 years ago how do I know because they asked this question similar question to one of the previous shom and he made a mistake according to in his level according to he made a mistake and they they show no no you didn't consider what the the 900 years ago the the Raam what he said in his answer he didn't consider it once you see his answer the answer is p it's no good this answer so if didn't think about it so about 900 years ago there was a giant by name of R Ali also known as theef also known as The Reef was kesim had a huge mid hug many students and his biggest student his biggest talmid was someone by the name of the Arash was such a giant that RI The Reef made him into at 27 years old which is very young over his own son his own son ysep was a giant himself but he says you're not like he's a different world the rambam wrote about him the rambam wrote about him he was his one of his rabbis the rambam wrote about him the heart of his the heart of the for t for learning Tora like his Tor is terrifying his Torah is on a level of terrifying it's scary to such an extent is means terrifying to such an extent where there was no one ever like him before meaning all the way to he's talking about no one was ever like him and no one will ever be like him that's and this is who's saying it the ram which if you don't know rambam then get out of the rock will teach you about the rambam so we see that before we learn what he said we have to learn who we're dealing with here so has a has a what questions and answers book in 220 it says the following a hole a well that you drank used water from it don't throw a rock into it use the well after you finish drinking don't just throw some stuff into it don't throw your garbage into it in so many words don't disrespect it and don't bring evil on it after you've enjoyed it that's what he says that's the where do we learn it from he says we learn this from The Reef from his Rabbi The Reef The Reef was one time sick and he went to a which is similar to like a sauna because thear says someone it's sick sweating is good for them to sweat is good for them and we learn medically it's true you sweat it's good for you take out all of the bad stuff from your body and that's also why anytime somebody has a high fever it's good news if they break a sweat because that usually means that the fever broke that means that things are getting better but if the person if if a child for example continues to have high fever you have to do everything you can to try to make the the kid sweat and some cases not all but in some cases some it's the opposite anyway theef got sick one time and he went to a which helped him of course helped him feel better and he got better as a result of it and sometime later the owner of the sauna got into financial trouble got into problems he borrowed some money he couldn't return it so they wanted to sue him because he used the uh the SAA is collateral as one of the things in collateral so they wanted to ass to collect this SAA so they said oh we have to go to bedin bed to The Reef we got to go to the rabbi please be the judge for this case The Reef says I'm sorry I cannot be the judge cannot be the judge so why can't you be the judge I can't be the judge because I cannot return bad to the sauna that did me good the SAA what the sauna going to complain to AEM the sauna is going to what write letters to to the bed of the next town over please send your di because the doesn't want to do it SAA is an inanimate Pro it's nothing doesn't move doesn't say thank you there's no Mal Mal you could say okay it's the grass but what's the has Mal also which by the way the thing is also but it's a different story but anyway the point is the says no no I cannot be the judge why I owe a gratitude to the sauna that helped me heal and if I judge I may return it bad maybe the judgment is against it so here we see that the says that the uh the Arash says we use the story as one of our sources thatu did not judge on a Case simply because they didn't want to return bad to something that gave them good even though it was an adamant now when this question was brought to Feinstein Shalom and they said to him listen uh are you allowed to judge on something that uh you benefited from Feinstein didn't see what the actually said and he says I I don't see anything against that I I don't understand what's the problem why would you not be able to be a judge on such a place what's the problem you're doing him a favor what if you don't judge against him uh you know if if he owes money and you don't judge against him has to come back in you're doing a favor by judging him in AED but later the the other P um went against this simply because it says you didn't see what of course in his honor I wish we could just be a grain of salt under his feet a grain of sand a grain of anything but uh they said you didn't see what wrot 900 years ago he didn't have this book apparently so here we see that this is not something new that created he saw his Rabbi do it and we see M do it this has some sources in the say in 105b says a person should never be the judge of a person he loves or a person that he hates so says why why he continues why why can't you judge a person that you love or a person that you hate the first reason is obvious you're biased bottom line you love the person you say oh muchi muchi I love him I'm I give him against them you give the other guy this this guy I'm going to give him over my boy nah come on no he's innocent what innocent we have camera the guy stole everything no no it's not him he didn't mean to no this is like the Judgment of a mother Judgment of a mother against the own kid it's like uh it's it's waste of time I remember would drive me crazy as a little kid till this day drives me crazy why anytime me and my brothers will get into a disagreement anytime we get into a disagreement so what do we want we want the want EMA want you know our mom to get in the way no see see what he did see what he did see what he did you want to get the you're the hero was a complete waste of time why doesn't matter if you're innocent you're guilty anything doesn't make a difference you're still saying see you see you see everybody thinks they're innocent person doesn't see obligation himself go to my mom see what he did he broke this immediately my mom G the M the B she gives to everybody no he didn't mean to what do you mean didn't mean to he smashed the chair over my head with both of his hands no he was meaning to put the chair next to you to sit he didn't mean to smash you over the head Shalom he loves you he's your brother no he said look I'm going to hit you IMA he said look look I'm going to hit you and I came and he hit me no he said look I'm putting you didn't understand because you were running you she'd create this whole story and me and my brothers would would lose our mind because even us were like where did she come up with this where did you come up with this AR like M it's a complete waste of time why cuz she can't pick one of the four no he's guilty he's guilty he's guilty she loves all of us so she would make up things so we don't fight it would drive us crazy for years till this day it drives us crazy so going to a mom to ask judgment over one of the brothers a complete waste of time under normal conditions Unfortunately today there's a lot of abnormal conditions with his animosity within family but that's not what we're talking about talking about under normal conditions when there's love and there's you know uh normal relationships you can't ask the mom to be biased or to be unbiased so says if you love the person you're not going to be able to be the judge of this person because you're biased you love him or you hate him if you hate him he's already guilty before you want you know what what he's guilty for doesn't make a difference doesn't make a he's guilty I hate him I hate him guilty of course he did it I don't know I don't care what he did he's guilty he's a this he's a that wow you don't even know what he did you don't know what he he's been accused of no I just saw his face I saw in his face that he's guilty I saw I can read his face it's the same face reminds me of when he did something to me no no he had plastic surgery it's a different face no no it's him I could recognize his face a mile away you have this already predisposition about this person mkin so judging in such a condition it's a waste of time so T does not allow you to such an extent that the anytime they would go to the bed they didn't know who the parties are for for the days trials they would go to the bed they would sit and people would come with their cases so sometimes what would happen is they would come at the same time some of the people would come if somebody opened the door and then later on they found out let's say open a door for one of the judges and later on they found out that he's in he's s he's on one of the people that's suing or it's being sued that recuse themselves from the case why I already have a bias towards him what's the bias I like him what do you mean like him you don't even know the guy no I have already a little bit of liking towards him because he opened the door for me he opened the door for me that's it that makes me biased that makes me biased so that's the level of Integrity that must be upkept in our Torah which is also the reason why somebody that go goes to court goes to the Civil Court uh by his own will not that he's forced to go there but let's say for example he got into a business disagreement with somebody and uh the other person doesn't want to pay him or he doesn't want to pay the other person whatever the case may be and he decides you know what I'm going to sue you in court and he doesn't try to initially go to a bed Dean he immediately goes to court that person has to be put on you're not allowed to include him in a minan you're not allowed to accept his kids in Yesa you're not allowed to say Amen to his kadish not allowed to do business with him the person is put mamash he's treated like an idol worshipper an idol worshipper why you went to civil court by choice now for example if someone sues you and you know that if you don't go to civil court you lose by the fault you get a permission from the bed to go no problem or for example you sue somebody in the bedin you sue somebody in the bed and he doesn't show up to the bed doesn't show up then the bedine gives you a uh permission you can go and you have to you have no choice you have to go to the civil court but you can't go to civil court just as a as a uh uh first thing first can't do it because you can much lose your uh your connection to the community to Judaism in general that's how much civil court is hated among the Torah because many of the rules r that they have are the exact opposite of Tora to such an extent that you're not allowed to even put Aza in a court not to put him as a building this is why when people ask me about career choices many people ask me whether they should be lawyers or not actually usually they tell me they want to be lawyers and I tell them they shouldn't be and the reason why is because most lawyers in general um you know they want to go to where the money is and the most amount of money to be made in law usually has to do with criminal law the problem is with criminal law is that you have to be a criminal in order to be a criminal lawyer either criminal because that's your client or criminal because you have to violate the Torah day and night in order to make sure that your clients win by Lying by forging by doing all types of things that completely go against the Torah where you don't really care who's guilty and who's not you care about who's paying so there's many criminals that are released into the streets because of some clever lawyer that took advantage of a government loophole legal loophole and it's m a disaster same thing goes also by the way with other parts of law it's not like the other law is completely kosher you know a lot of the only types of lawyers that anyone if they have to be a lawyer they should ever even consider should be a business lawyer some the business lawyer immigration lawyer something like that reason why is because they're the ones that are more likely to have less issues but they could also have even more issues depending on the person itself like for example if someone is uh sued someone is sued and uh they could literally lose the case the entire case they could lose it by default by simply not having one paper filed and not a paper where they didn't prove anything like one paper filed where they all had to do it they just had to say yes no check mark something like that how do I know it happened to me we had a uh a lawsuit was going uh for for bankruptcy and so on and they needed documentation we provided them I think it was something like um I don't know maybe 3,000 Pages worth of documents like some absurd number several years worth of documentation financials proofs everything took days to get it all together provide them oh good okay thank you very much all right thanks the lawyer last second oh yeah but your uh your highness your whoever uh Mr Satan but they forgot to bring the paper oh lost by default what paper yeah the paper you were supposed to check mark on the right side okay I'll bring it no too late lost by default you have to try the whole thing all over again one paper this is this Isa this is thievery so a person has to have such a mid of honesty to be a lawyer they must have to be in today's world there's so many opportunities to make money to make a decent living without putting yourself and your n in danger I don't know why anybody would put themselves in that danger I don't recommend it but again some people have some type of interest in it or family or something into it fine the point is is that according to the Torah it's not the ideal choice because if you're going to go with the uh civil law you have to know also the Torah law you have to know where you're not allowed to do certain things and you can't say no no but this is the law of the land doesn't make a difference law of the land law of the land does not supersede law of the uh of the Torah don't let anybody fool you thinking no no but this is the law of the land so it makes it okay no if the law of the land says you have to violate Shabbat from now on you have to move you're not have to violate Shabbat so when a person is in a position of being a judge which is the aspiration of most lawyers is to one day be a judge even though they make less money legally they make less money but bribe wise they usually make more if you consider the bribes the illegal money that usually there's more but legally it's less money because this no the clients the clients don't send you a check they have to give you black money uh joke number two you guys still didn't laugh see that's why I don't give you guys any jokes it's not words it's a waste of effort two jokes already I'm already getting a high I'm the only one laughing at my jokes maybe people on the internet are fing my jokes you guys are slow that's what it is slow yeah I'm G to give you guys more gay gay give you more gay now you got start laughing see everybody says scary scary I'm trying to be funny people feel like you guys are GNA start crying we talking about business over here anyway so when a person is in a position of Judge he cannot judge somebody loves he cannot judge somebody that he hates so back to what we were saying the says what's the second thing what's the second reason that a person cannot judge somebody that he hates or he loves because if you were able to save him but have to judge him according to the dean and the dean is unfavorable to him then it would be returning evil to one who gave gave you good so if you were able now you are a judge your friend came into your court you owe him a favor he lent you 50 bucks 25 years ago we didn't have any any food to eat he's being sued by his partner for stealing a million dollars his partner is Right 100% his partner is Right 100% well he's a thief he has proofs he has on the camera everything you judging on that case say listen I I appreciate you led me 50 bucks 20 years ago you saved my life but you're guilty you're a thief it's the law says you're right it's the law but it would be returning it would be returning evil when you received good and that's an evil trait and that's evil and if this is the case he continues when it comes to a do when it comes to an in adate something that's nothing a wall a river a nothing which doesn't have feelings it doesn't have benefits it doesn't Sue it doesn't look for you it doesn't write about you it doesn't think about you doesn't have any intent tensions it's meaning needless to say that this is applicable to people who do have feelings or of pain and helpfulness which such action would be despised if done therefore such a judge violates the laws of M and the adds that it's clearly that it's clear that it's forbidden to embarrass and hurt any person it's clear everybody knows this but a person must also be careful not to hurt anyone or anything that he benefited from even in his mind not only don't go and disrespect somebody or disrespect some place don't even think about it ah you know this place I hate it you know next time I come here I'm G not clean up next time this next don't even think about it why anyone who does violate this we're not even talking about you actually did something you broke something you said something about him you said something about her no no no no we're talking about you thought about it you know what next time I'm going to say something next time I'm going to do something you thought about it anyone who does violate this has no midot and is considered despicable in his nature IE he is an animal that's what it says that's what the says you thought about hurting something or someone that gave you good the school gave you good right right but you want to write some comment anonymously on the internet don't go to the school the bathroom stink yeah but did you use the bathrooms did you relieve yourself in the bathroom but you're still going to talk bad about it what if you what don't you go what you go somewhere else then oh you couldn't so the school helped you right the building helped you you still want to talk about it you're no different than an animal no different than an animal yeah but I just thought about didn't write it I just thought about it I thought Hashem knows you thought about it and at that moment you thought about it he's saying look at my despicable son look at this ungrateful son that I have I created a whole building in the world for him to use the bathroom and he's thinking maybe I should do something to do something to go against the school look what kind of son I have me SC my son I gave him instructions how not to be like this I gave him a Torah not to be like this he forgot to read the Torah so where where do we get the next part of understanding this from third part page 98 he says the following we've been obligated to show gratitude even to the inanimate despite the fact that it doesn't exert itself or toil for us meaning the river didn't go out of its way to hide mhe it didn't make any waves it didn't like make a special tunnel it didn't make anything it just it was a river the river flowed the sand didn't make any special cave for M to height the body there was nothing Supernatural he took the sand shovel okay shovel sh body went into the shovel finished that's it that's what happened so it's not like the the the the the sand or the water did anything special it's not like the building did anything special for you it's not like the chair did anything special for you it's a chair it's a building it's a water it's a nothing says we're taught to show gratitude to the inanimate even though it doesn't exert itself for us and of course it doesn't POS possess the intention to instill good meaning it's not like the water thought all day you know what when can I do a favor for bet I can't wait to see bet why because last time I saw him he smiled at me so you know what this time I'm gonna smile back at him I want make a special W for him so he enjoys the way the water didn't think about you I promise it didn't think about you I thought about you the water didn't think about you why the a water it's water after all it's water after all it's a water after all it's a building it's an inanimate says it doesn't possess the intentions to instill good yet our sages taught us that gratitude doesn't depend on intention or effort rather it's the obligation to show gratitude on the receiver why just because he received it meaning that to say thank you to show appreciation to the chair to the hat to the wall to the clothes to the everything that you have is the obligation of the receiver it has nothing to do with the giver why because a person is mostly born with horrible midot some good ones but for the most part most of our midot most of our character traits are evil everyone thinks that they're special their mom tells them that they're special their dad tells them that they're special their teacher tells them they're special they're brought up in the world that tells them that they're special you get in the war Just for participating and this generation if you participate and you arrive last you still get the first place reward if you're if you're a uh if you have uh some type of deficiency they call you special special needs special ed special this special that everybody's special so it's very so so it's very normal for us to actually start believing this stuff that we're special special special now yes there are certain parts of us that are special but when everyone is a saying you're special they're not referring to the evil in you they're referring to the good stuff now we don't have that much good stuff we have a lot of bad stuff plenty of that good stuff there's not that much why because unless you work on yourself you're not going to have much good stuff naturally a person is born arrogant naturally your natural inclination for a person is to think he's better than everybody else he's smarter than everybody else she's better looking than everybody else better better better than something else oh I'm not better looking than her but I'm smarter than her oh I'm not I'm not uh you know smarter than her but I'm better looking oh I'm luckier I'm this I'm everybody thinks they're better at something so the arrogance that people have is a natural inclination the jealousy that we have against other people is natural for us we hate to see other people succeed naturally It's Supernatural to not be jealous you have to work on it very few people are naturally not jealous people very few most people hate to see other people succeed even their best friend in fact mostly their best friends oh I can't believe she got a new car probably stole it why why is she have to steal it why does she have to steal it we can't give anybody credit oh he says he finished the shot Liar Liar probably finished writing sh he didn't feel reading sh right he wrote the word sh he doesn't know he doesn't know how to read the guy he saw him he doesn't know how to read what Rabbi what Rabbi what he's talking Rabbi who calls him a rabbi it's a fake diploma Rabbi come on Rabbi where' you get this house I he probably killed the uh killed the landlord probably killed the landlord we skinn the landlords probably the wife is looking for him they start creating stories in their head why because they have such deep jealousy they can't live withs themselves seeing somebody else succeed no there has to be something has to be something I'm still trying to figure out how does he make any money he does everything for free how does he make any money that's what 500 times I've heard this people actually asked me question they sent me question how do you make a living like what do you K do I ask you how do you make a living people ask how do you make a living you're free every lecture is free how do you survive has to be something there has to be a a scam or something why because the reality is number one people are jealous they see success they're jealous number two which is worse is that they know especially the rabbis that go against they know they wouldn't do it they wouldn't work for free so they're saying if I wouldn't work for free there's no way he's better than me he's no way he's a better person than me so there must be a scam this must be he's making money somehow he's scheming some way he's probably sacrificing people in the back $1,000 ahead every lecture 2,000 people show up gets a few million bucks like the thoughts that go into the jealous people's minds have no end unfortunately I've dealt with jealous people my whole life because people have nothing to do with themselves they're so busy being jealous they forget that they it's they could succeed just as much when you're a jealous person you also know that aside from not being able to resurrect with the dead because anyone that dies with the mid of jealousy is promised that when they Resurrect The Dead they'll stay dead you cannot resurrect from the dead being jealous why because jealousy is it's hery why because in essence you're saying that Hashem gave him Hashem gave her something that belongs to you so hasem made a mistake in your mind jealousy is a horrible trait to have but aside from that aside from not being resurrected the problem is that a person that's jealous doesn't enjoy this world because they're constantly eating their heart and they're never satisfied there was a person that was evil person during the generation of eag Shalom and this person was evil jealous made sure that he's the only one that has money and anyone that wanted to borrow money he completely ignored the you're not allowed to charge people interest not let charge Jews interest so you would lend people money and he would charge them interest rabbis tried to get involved wouldn't listen one day he died and uh his son's called kadisha and kadisha said yeah sure no problem we'll bury him we need a thousand gold coins which was an enormous amount of money Sons complained what are you crazy thousand gold coins it doesn't even cost 10% of that listen we're charging a th000 gold coins do you want us to bury or not you can bury to if you want no it's our father Jew he this he that he kept Shabbat his beard was reaching the floor everything a th000 gold coins that's what we charged you want to go take us to bed take us to bed so his sons went to the bed with the king king at the time the mayor or whatever it was of the town the go mayor came to said listen we have a problem here your kadish over here they're supposed to be religious people but they want to charge a th000 gold coins just to bury a body rule over here rule you're the judge I'm giving you the uh you're the ruler of of the bed of the of the court of the Jews review the case rule over ITA reviewed it says the are correct it's a thousand gold coins and I'll explain to you why he says you see usually when we bury bodies we're expecting that this person is only going to be here temporarily why cuz one day they're going to resurrect the dead and the person's going to leave and with the mashiah and everything's good but you see the problem is this person's a rash he lent money to people with interest so he's not going to be resurrected with the dead he's staying here permanently so they have to they have to charge a higher price he's not a rent he's buying he's purchasing the space third joke you still have to left third jokes still half for laugh terrible see have no more jokes for you guys you're of jokes of jokes I have to give a disclosure joke joke coming so I think the the me say complaining about the jokes is funnier than the jokes though so now so now we have a situation here where a person has horrible traits naturally they're jealous they're arrogant they're stingy that's our natural inclination if a person does not work on becoming humble then all he will ever be in his life is arrogant he cannot become humble naturally someone pretended to have the trait of humility at the time of the rambam the ramb say it's impossible followed him around followed him around he looked like he was humble before he left town he came to the he says aren't I the most humble he says Ah now I know the secret it was all a show why it's impossible to be humble without the Torah so if you don't work on becoming humble that means you're only going to be the opposite which is arrogant now not everybody expresses their arrogance the same way I have one guy that I know personally rash guy that I used to work for okay he expressed his arrogance in the loudest like as if it's on a microphone at all times he wanted to make sure the whole world knew he's the best other people Express their arrogance behind a keyboard they don't show it in in public they look like they're little Mis poor guy looks like he's aad what does he do after he gets behind his keyboard he starts insulting people in public and doing stupid things why he's arrogant but he expresses his arrogance in different ways so just because somebody's not vocal and obnoxious does not mean that they're actually humble arrogance is expressed in different ways only way not to be arrogant is if you work and toil and break that horrible Mida destroy it to remove any claim of arrogance whatsoever that you have any inkling of arrogance that you have if you have never worked on it you should know you're arrogant naturally you're arrogant so that's so now you're asking yourself am I arrogant am I did he just say to me that I'm arrogant did he just dare to call me arogant does he know how humble I am fourth joke you left good so does he know how humble I am does he know how humble I am if you saying does he know how humble I am you're arrogant you're the most arrogant person in the room because you think you're not arrogant you think you're humble so the reality is if you're not working on becoming humble you're going to be arrogant if you're not working on having having a meaning enjoying the good that others have not your good the good that that other people have you see somebody else got a new house wow is so amazing got him a new house you're as happy for his new house as even though you're living in a little tarant you're living in a little Hut that you're supposed to use for suot you live in there the whole year round you saw his four story house you're as happy as can be if you're not working on it if you're hating it a little bit and you're jealous a little bit and you said I should have that house I'm going to have that house I'm it's my house really just borrowing it from me for now you have that kind of attitude you're not going to be resurrected with the dead it's funny but it's not funny why you have mid of jealousy and a jealous person does not Resurrect The Dead you looked at other people's WIS and you're starting to say to yourself that's mine that's mine it's not his why did he get it why does he get all this stuff why does she get all this stuff why did she find a why did he find why did he do this why did he do that you start questioning hem you have a serious serious tragedy and it's called spiritual cancer and the only solution for Spiritual cancer is chuva no chemo is going to help you no doctor's going to help you nothing is going to help you other than serious chuva which means that you're going to have to work on yourself to an extent of breaking this horrible Mida because being jealous destroys this world and the next yes greater in Torah because you want to have the Torah and you're toiling for it not because he just has it for the sake of having it you're not doing anything about it meaning if let's say for example you're studying he's studying he finished the sh 100 times you finished the 99 times yes you should be jealous that he finished it more than you absolutely but if you're sitting home sleeping all day and you're jealous that he's already has five 2,000 following him around at all times to be judge jealous of him has nothing to do with his Tor has to do with what he's achieved that's not a good jealousy so that mean you have to do what he's doing but you haven't reached what he's what he reached that's the thing two people are studying he reached higher that's a good jealousy but other than that if a person is not doing anything about it it's not good I've seen many people jealous of certain rabbis and they're not even rabbis they're not they're jealous of the rabbi but they're not even rabbis they hate the rabbi oh no it's probably a scam it's probably this it's probably that why because they don't care that the rabbi is working for hem he's helping he's building more Tora in the world no no they care about what does it represent people follow him people listen to him people respect him they don't value the rabbi per se and what he's achieved T they value the surface the fame the fortune all of this you know superficial garbage that the rabbi doesn't even want if he's a real Rabbi so a person that does not work on having a is naturally going to remain jealous and jealousy is a horrible terrible spiritual cancer if a person does not work on becoming generous work on it becoming generous is naturally he going to be stingy why are people so stingy how do you know if somebody's stingy or not it all depends on how much they like money if they like money naturally they're extremely stingy why no one likes to give what they like you're never going to see a really fat guy share his meal why he says listen I'll give you money you can maybe he's generous with money but not with food why he likes his food his food is like his baby even though he's about to eat it if it was his baby maybe he eat it also if he's hungry enough I don't know but the point is a really fat person is not going to share his food why he likes it too much and I'm talking I'm not talking about someone's fat because he's sick I'm talking about somebody's fat because he just has no control over himself he just doesn't control himself he eats everything that moves doesn't move alive dead it doesn't make a difference he's eating everything that's a person that's sick I can tell you the truth and I actually never really saw really really big people until I came to America everything in Israel is much smaller at least when I was a kid it looks smaller today when I first saw an apple I almost had a heart attack I thought it was fake when I first saw an apple in in in in in America I thought it was fake because the apples it's not fake it just has a lot of drugs in it said that it's not fake it's real gentically modified it's not fake it's not fake it's just that's on steroids done steroids an apple on steroids it's worked out a lot but anyway the thing is though that's what you guys laughed at for the Apple that took steroids fifth joke fifth is a charm GMO you never heard of GMO oh Apple took steroids yeah cows take St okay natural natural it's comedy act comedy act so anyway so now when a person is likes money he's going to be stingy why because a person that loves money the says will never have enough money he's never going to be fulfilled with money he's gonna always always love money he's never going to want to get rid of it he's always going to keep it somebody could be struggling right in front of him it's not going to do it okay get back to me get back to me he's hoping the guy forgets to get back to him he's hoping the guy forgets to get back to him get back to me on Tuesday I don't have it on me he has $5,000 on him I don't have it on me no this is already this is already somewhere else it's already committed to somewhere else but come back to me on Tuesday he's hoping the guy forgets his phone number he's hoping the guy forgets his phone number maybe even dies before he comes back then why he loves his money much more than he loves this person a lot of people if you're not generous because you've worked on it naturally most people are going to be stingy because they like money and when you like money you forget about God you forget about MIT you forget about what's good you forget about all that stuff you like it sometimes certain people will do certain things where they're going to try to please you know give like their own conscience like like a pat on the back to make themselves feel good so for example somebody doesn't really want to contribute to the Beet why he says why am I going to contribute to this place they don't listen to me they don't really give me any special Cod here yeah they're crying and they need money and if if they don't come up with $25,000 in the next 24 hours they're probably going to shut down the place but what do I care that's their problem you know what I'm going to do once they shut down this place I'm GNA open my own B for a quarter million dollars why because I'm a sadik why but why wouldn't you invest into one that exists already because it has nothing to do with the B it has to do with your ego has to do with with stinginess but how do you please yourself and not admit that you're stingy stingy despicable person you open a you open one say I open a says something unbelievable it says that one of theim one of theim comes to uh comes to visit his friend and they're both walking into uh in this town of l l and uh ra says look at how many synagogues my family has built look at how many synagog lud is full of synagogues P beautiful synagogues he tells his buddy Ray says look how many synagogues they built says o Bo what did your family do what did your family do look how much money they wasted what there was no poort in the entire town meaning why are you building so many synagogues take the money Finance for five years we don't need buildings we need people we need Jews this is the end of 88 anyway the person that's stingy he's going to somehow Comfort himself by using his money to do a mitvah that pleases him instead of that pleases AEM and this is a very very serious problem why because he could continue living his entire ire life thinking he aad look at the I built look at how many SE I have yeah but you have no people no the people are going to come eventually yeah but you spent $500,000 building this place you could have spent 50,000 supporting the place that exist for the last 50 years yeah but it's not my place so what it's not your place it's aem's Place ah you don't care about hem you don't care about is you care about me you care about yourself right oh okay so at least say it's for you don't say don't say say say at least at least admit you're never going to admit why because he doesn't even know it himself sometimes the stinginess is so ingrained in a person he doesn't even realize he's wrong he think aah he's actually viewing himself he's thinking about when they Sayad during the any type of they're talking about me I can't believe they discovered me I thought I was I thought I was hiding I was in hiding I I can't believe they're talking about me why I'm blushing can they see me blushing with the beard can they see me blush they're say sadik they're talking about me that's what people like to talk about my the ran the ran said ran the's wife says you know people like to hear about sh about gratitude why they like shim about gratitude because they think oh finally people going to learn how to say thank you to me finally people are going to say thank you to me meaning to to yourself six joke six joke I got half a laugh only bit is a good audience the rest of you guys are have asleep listen what can I do I got to go back to uh just G just G you guys laugh more there anyway point is that if a person does not work on himself his natural inclination is mostly bad midot where if he doesn't work on breaking them he's bound to remain only with bad midot and the Very basis the minimum of minimum of good the minimum like many people claim to be good people in fact everyone claims to be good everyone claims to be good you tell somebody how come you don't keep Shabbat you know Hashem created the world created the Heaven created you created this created that he did a lot of good for you why don't you keep Shabbat why don't you keep tah listen I'm a good person I'm a good person I'm a good person why you a good person I don't kill anybody the cow doesn't kill anybody you ever see a cow murder anybody even when the cow is angry you do you ever see a cow just like hit somebody so hard he killed it no it doesn't happen it doesn't happen you're never going to see a cow getting arrested you right right to be silent you go no cow ever got arrested in a history of cows why they're all good no they're cows the point is is that people think no no I don't murder therefore I'm good that doesn't make you good what if you embarrass people in public and then they commit suicide because of you that's murder what if you embarrass somebody they don't commit suicide but they go into a depression don't leave it's worse than suicide that's murder what if you embarrass somebody they lose a all the kids that would have come out that you've murdered all of them what if you embarrass somebody and now they lose a job all of the benefits that would have brought to the world as a result of this job you murdered murderer it doesn't have to be with a knife or a gun people think that they oh no no I don't murder anybody with a gun or a knife I'm not from Isis I don't chop heads on television therefore I'm good no you're just not a member of Isis good good we still have to consider we still have more questions to ask to determine whether you're good or not you're just not a member of Isis that's it okay so you're not part of that organization you can still be Kamas you can still be uh Palestinian why Palestinians don't chop heads off they don't they blow themselves up come on what Cav they die they kill people with kav no they blow up a different way rocks Rockets Rockets rocks see he's an expert listen maybe he knows a few he could introduce you he could introduce you to a few Palestinians if you want Palestinian point is not killing people does not make you good doesn't make you good oh I don't steal so what you don't steal so what you don't steal doesn't make you a good person plenty of people don't even realize they've been stealing for years years they've been stealing years years and years they've been stealing but they don't evaluate as a stealing they go work for somebody and instead of working for him they're on their phone with their girlfriend their whole time you know you're stealing right he's not paying you $500 a week $1,000 a week to be on the phone with your girlfriend now if he doesn't care that you're on the phone with your girlfriend and your wife and your kids and the this and the that and you're not working he doesn't care because he I don't know you're doing your job still or he's simply an idiot whichever one Happ weapons then that's a different story but if he says listen I'm paying you $500 a week to go mol Lawns and you instead of Mo Lawns you're uh talking to your friends you're going to uh to have some hot dogs some cheeseburgers to the casino all the stuff you're a thief no he's a millionaire I'm not stealing $500 he doesn't care all of a sudden they start doing the accounting of the boss all of a sudden they become a CPA no you know how many millions he makes from this company do you really think he cares about the measly $500 that he pays me I'm doing him a favor for working for him I'm doing him a favor I gave him a ride one time in 1927 like they start doing all this accounting of why they're not a thief in reality not only the person's a thief gav mus a corrupt Thief at least regular Thief he's not corrupt he knows he's a thief this person corrupt Thief why he doesn't admit he's a thief if you're going to even listen to people ask me this all the time am I allowed to listen to while I'm working if your boss doesn't mind because it doesn't interfere with your job enjoy if he does mind then you're not allowed now what does it mean if he minds or he doesn't mind so somebody asked a difficult question two people in the same week as the same question Satan is getting strong a lot of people are listen to they download our app or they watch on the internet different things and they listen to the whole day why they have the type of job that doesn't necessarily require them to be enamored in the job itself they could do two things at the same time and the problem is that uh Satan doesn't like it why it's like you've turned into a you're better than the AR 24 hours a day you're learning to all day you're all the all day you're working you're listening after work you're eating you're listening after you you finish eating you come to 24 hours a day you're learning T even your sleeping is considered like you're learning why because you need to sleep in order to learn more tomorrow you turn to 24 hours a day so some people are doing this promise Satan doesn't like it so he starts creating problems all of a sudden some uh zil in the in the office comes out of the garbage can says no no no you're not allowed to listen to uh to the why I'm not allowed to listen to everybody else is listening to uh whatever they're listening to this guy's listening to MC Hammer the other guy's listening to Tupac the other guy's listening to some comedian with that doesn't stop cursing why can't I listen to No if you want to listen to music that's fine by us but if you listen to this Torah of yours it's going to interfere one guy in Los Angeles told me yeah it's going to intimidate other people that you're listening to Torah maybe they're going to be intimidated by your religion I said you know you could sue them for millions of dollars for saying such a thing could sue them for million for saying such a thing but what about Al ala is if this company permits you and everybody else to listen to music but they say don't listen to Torah you don't have to listen to them you could still listen to the Tor why because then it's just religious persecution has nothing to do with work but if they say no one's allowed to listen so rule company policy no one's allowed toist listen to music no one's allowed to listen to Torah no one allowed to listen to anything don't listen to anything other than the voice of the boss that's the only music you're allowed to listen to that's a different story that's a different story few people came to said hello to him he wouldn't answer them he wouldn't answer to them until he finish work he said why because my boss doesn't accept me talking to people while work and if I spoke to you guys even saying hello I'll be stealing from him I don't want to come back in a g because I said hello so a person needs to know that just because they don't think that they're stealing doesn't mean that they're not stealing in reality kazal says that almost everybody's a thief unless you work on it heavily to know the of gazel most likely you're stealing and you don't even realize it you work for people you have customers you don't give them what they paid for different things like that it's very very easy to be a thief so to say no no I'm a good person because I don't steal unless you're a giant most likely it's not true you're a thief and most likely also not a good person for other reasons why because again like I said you cannot say I'm a good person because I decided I'm a good person most people that say such a thing are usually the worst people but they don't realize it and they don't realize that not only are they corrupt not only are they corrupt in what they think but they corrupt in other aspects also so what is the bottom line of bottom line the minimum of minimum of being good what is the the minimum requirement to be defined anything remotely equivalent to good answer gratitude you H in order to be good the minimum requirement you have to have is to have gratitude not even to give simply to say thank you for what you receive if you're already in a stage of saying thank you and you give then you're even better you're but if you don't know how to say thank you even what you give doesn't count why because everything you give is like business it's not you're not giving it because you're good you're giving it because you're expecting something in return if a person does not know how to say thank you to his fellow he doesn't know how to say thank you his friend gave him a ride he doesn't know how to say thank you his friend lend the money he doesn't want to return the money why didn't you to return the money he lend you the money ah it's his problem he let me the money yeah but he L you the money he worked hard for the money no he didn't work his father gave it to him so what his father worked hard for the money what difference is it to you how he gave you the money gave you the money once you pay him back ah it's his problem he gave me the money he's a fool he's a for letting me the money you know how people like this there is you know how many people like this there is they borrow money they know for sure they have no no inclination whatsoever to to to they have no possibility to return it why that's an that's a corrupt person not just corrupt because of the law of the land and so on no that's a person that believes that the world owes him something owes him everything everything belongs to him and if he fooled you a he's the winner the fact you lent the money and he's not going to return it back for you it's your problem yeah why is it my problem I give you money I try to help you out why is it my problem that you don't want to pay me back why don't you pay me back I don't care that you let me money why is such a person corrupt because thear says that such a person that's a it's an ungrateful to his fellow will ultimately become ungrateful to a will ultimately become ungrateful to hem how does such a person become ungrateful to hasem a simple simple analogy if you lend the money and he says no I'm not going to pay you back why I don't have it yeah but you do have it you just bought a second house yeah no but I spent the money already okay but you're going to buy a car give me the money instead of buy the car no but I need a car he always has an excuse of why he's not going to pay you back to buy his stuff he has to to pay you back he doesn't have ever that person one day going say you know by the way you have to keep Shabbat you know by the way your wife has to start wearing clothes she has to be modest you know by the way you have to be honest you're by the way you have to give you have to do good things so on so forth now all these rules it's not for me what do you mean it's not for you hasem created you it's his problem who did he ask me if you if I you should create me did he ask me for did I ask hasem to create me that's what the does that's what the ungrateful the most despicable disgusting human filth on Earth says did I ask Hashem to create me it's not my problem that he created me he decided to create me so what that is the most despicable human being on Earth why not only you acknowledging that Hashem created you and gave you good but you're saying why should I say thank you I'm acknowledging you gave me good no thanks literally you're a problem you created me when are they going to come back to hasem and beg him beg him to come back into their life when he starts taking limbs one at a time when he starts taking bodies one at a time when he starts closing bank accounts one at a time when things stop working everybody becomes a sadik at the hospice center when the doctors only give you a few hours to live but it's too late this is why a person needs to know that if they don't work on themselves if they don't work on their midot to improve the character trait of gratitude they will always be a mushat a corrupt person because all of the other traits whether it's humility or generosity or or the opposite all of good ey bad eye all of the other traits have to build on this if a person naturally is ungrateful the rest of his midot that'll build upon them will have some type of corruption on them we'll have corruption on them why you don't even know how to say thank you thank you you don't know and you think you're good I mean think about it somebody just saved your life and you don't even have the courage in you to say thank you thank you you don't know how to say thank you what he saved my life he just gave me 50 bucks eat what if you didn't eat now I would have find it somewhere else ah you not only don't know how to say thank you you much evil why says says something that puts things into perspective it says what's a good guest you have guest in your house right what's a good guest a good guest says wow look at this everything that the Bab the owner did was in my honor what a good babite what's a bad guest what's an evil guest day he was going to eat anyway so are he put another chicken for me big deal he was going to eat anyway what it's a big deal he put another plate Ah that's an evil person that's corrupt instead of saying thank you he's like I knew he was going to eat anyway what there's 20 people in his family one more person big deal if it wasn't me it was going to be somebody else and he has all of this rationalization of his corrupt evil and this person will never get out of his own way why he's convinced he's right he's convinced the world owes him something so now we have to go back to our question why did mosenu say everything toon to do why did he owe this ocean gratitude now of course we heard that theim say you should show gratitude even to something that's in adamant for yourself what does it mean for yourself for yourself is that that explains in order to avoid falling into the horrible trait of ingratitude in order to stay away as far away as possible from this evil horrible disgusting despicable character trait of not saying thank you a person must accustom himself to show gratitude even to to the inanimate even to something that doesn't move not because the closet's going to answer you and say you welcome or the ocean is going to do an extra wave for you and say you're welcome or the sand is g to have a party for you next time you come by no it's for you why for you if you get used to saying thank you to the walls to the chairs and to every single thing that you get a benefit from in this world it's needless to say you're going to say thank you to things that move also your wife your husband your kids your neighbor your teacher your boss you're going to say thank you to everyone instead of complain about them but if you forget to say thank you to the closet and to the chair and to the school and to everything else then it just becomes a habit a habit to be a mushat a habit to be a corrupt person a habit to just expect things to be given to you just because you're you and you're Mr Wonderful and you're owed everything so now the ocean gave me the wife gave me why they both owe me the dog gave me the uh husband gave me they both owe me God gave me man gave me they all owe me why I'm just so good this is a a d mus and a person like that cannot be a good person because they don't know how to say the basis of basis of thank you and just saying thank you to the teller for giving you your change back doesn't make you a good person don't start saying no no every time I get $22.37 back for the coffee at the non kosha play Starbucks I say thank you I say thank you that doesn't make you good person that became an instinct and a reflex to thank you that we're talking about is a thank you that's hard for a person to say why is it hard for people to say because a thank you obligates a person obligates a person to recognize what's been given to them when a person does a blessing for let's say this water as Jews we're obligated to say thank you twice but if you look the blessing after is much more significant but much more difficult to do why let's say you keep toah let's say you're uh came to a few you spoke about G and a few jokes in between and you're going to start saying blessing before you drink this nice water you're gonna say okay so you're GNA say thank you to hem for giving me the water in reality that is not going to have the same level of magnitude as the blessing of if you drank about two ounces in one shot you have to say if you drank it sip by sip then even if you drank a whole jug you don't have to say but if you drank about two ounces of it in one shot like a shot glass in Ence then you have to say that Second Blessing is much more significant why because initially you were so thirsty it's like a bribe why okay let me just get the yet you drink you forgot what you said did I say the blessing I didn't say the blessing I was just so thirsty I wanted to drink I don't know if I even said the blessing right you're so in you're so thirsty you want your desire is so overwhelming that you're going to say whatever tell me to go jump off a building I'll just just give me the Water For Heaven's Sake give me the water I'm so thirsty you're so hungry sometimes what do you want see okay we'll do whatever you want I'll do it just give me the food so it's like a little bit of a bribe cu the food's in front of you many people struggle with even though it's the most important blessing in the entire Tor more critical than more critical than is the only the entire that commands us to do it says it it's more important people struggle doing it oh can you bless for me can you do this for me can you think about me can you think about him too can you think about everybody else also can you think about me yesterday even though I wasn't here is there a shorter version yes there is a shorter version of bat but that's assuming you have three kids in the house and you don't have time to like sleep eat eat nothing like you eat you know the burger from last Tuesday what one bite at a time why because the kids are running around then if you're a wife like that there there is a shorter version but if you have no kids in the house and even your husband is not there you're not allow to have a shorter version there is no shorter version people have a hard time with why they already ate there's no more bribe there's no more bribe and they corrupt people aside from the fact that there's no more bribe reminds us of whether you're a corrupt evil person or not why you just ate a meal the size of your head you can't say thank you to created a cow just for you to eat a piece of it who knows if anybody ate from this cow other than you you ate the the whole cow the cow have parents those parents had to be together that seed had to create another cow it didn't come from an explosion like the atheist believe it came from a from from a parents that those parents were exactly ecstatic to see the little baby cow go to your plate so they got sad Hashem got sad also but he says that's the point I we created created this cow for what for you to eat this cow one day now this cow you're not going to eat the whole cow you're not going to enjoy the whole cow some of the cow becomes leather some some of the cow becomes candy some of the cow becomes thck the point is this cow goes to a plant they kosher it they salt it they take the blood out and so on and so forth they cut it up they mark it up by 500,000 per so by the time it arrives at your plate you've paid a mortgage on it by the way finally sh it arrived at your plate you ate the cow but not the whole cow you ate a piece of the cow rest of the cow who knows what happened to it you a piece of the C and you had a little bit of tomato on a side that also what's the Tomato came by itself tomato had to be rain rain somebody had to put a seed seed had to go into the ground miraculously the seed absorbed the water pure Miracle completely shrivel to nothing ruined and from that came the actual plant and the plant had somehow miraculously enough power to withstand all the damage that happens around it from Bugs from from people people stepping on it from all types of all everything survived with stod and accomplished and achieved its purpose to become a plant out of that tree there's a few Tomatoes Somebody went to that tree took one of the Tomato sh brought it to the market who for you and on the other side what do you have oh you have a drink of water you drink of water by by itself rain had to come to a whole plant why there's so much pollution in the world in the world it has to go to a plane to filter it to clean it it says spring water but it's spring do you right spring they know how to spell spring there a spring is it the faucet water the same thing all of them what's the pH level if it's spring why you asking what PH level is in there if it's really spring it came from some Mountain what PH Level there's no spring there's no nothing AB there's just marketing and stickers on the bottles but hey there was work that went into it work sh water came to your plate a nice plastic bottle that's worth half a cent because they're so cheap with the plastic these days but arrived right you have a steak tomato you have the water that's not enough if you're on Shabbat 27 salads tomato was just to make the steak look good salads is and the P you ever think about the P do you ever think about the P whoever said that wheat some plant that doesn't even look like it's going to do anything in the world it's going to actually become bread like if you're you ever thought about it it's the most ludicrous thought in the world to think that that piece of wheat is going to turn into this fluffy bread if you told me that maybe the apple or the orange or the Clementine that will become bread logically I could reason why this is soft this is soft maybe I don't know they'll put some white on it bleach on it make it into bread but you tell me this little grass thing that's like hard that's going to come to soft pea does that make sense and how does it become they take it they crush it they this arrives in your table sh you have nice little soft p and then Kus oh you want me to give you the anal on the Kus what they do the Kus with the beans so by the time you finish you're really really hungry and really really excited and you're willing to give any blessing in the world just give me the Food For Heaven's Sake you're making me hungry Mi whatever eat the food no you ate the food you like the food you enjoy the food no come on I'm so heavy right now can you do it for me think about me I'm so heavy right now I just ate this whole steti you gave me a big steak for the I don't know I'm so heavy right now can you do BL can you think about me when you're blessed can you do it bless can you think about when you're blessed what when you were eating did you think about me when you were eating did you think about me why do I have to think about you when I'm bless blessing did you think about me no you thought about your fat stomach why don't you say thank you to Hashem why don't you say thank you to hem you why you see how ungrateful we are why every single time comes if you're not excited for it that's because you're corrupt if you're not excited for that's because you're corrupt you don't want say inside you don't want to say thank you if you're not excited to say that means you don't really believe you owe AEM a gratitude that's the definition of musat corrupt Hashem just meet all of what I just said to you and you can't even say thank you for three minutes four minutes 10 an hour it should be you ate for an hour you should say thank you for an hour has didn't ask you say thank you for an hour you ate for an hour say thank you for 3 minutes that's it say thank you and not only say thank you guess what you get a blessing you get a you create worlds that you're going to benefit from this thank you not only does that make you not corrupt makes you a decent human being but you actually get rewarded for it you get actually rewarded for saying thank you it's the most ludicrous system in the the world but that's how much hem loves us it's ludicrous that we get any reward whatsoever from its ludicrous we should get nothing but he still wants to give us why if you could overcome the evil traits that are within you you deserve a prize you deserve a prize why because they're in you you were brought into this world with them because you're supposed to overcome them but a person does not that does not work on overcoming them is going to stay evil corrupt despicable and despised by all not only God even his own wife will hate him that's why she divor divorced him twice that's why she hates him that's why his kids hate him that's why her kids hate her why because they're corrupt corrupt people hate each other this is one of the main explanations of why the divorce rate is approaching over 85% and in some cases over 90% in the western Society people are so despicable and ungrateful they think that the world owes them something so as soon as something that does not go according to their plan the wife does not make the laundry the way they want her to the wife doesn't cook the food they like the husband doesn't make the the amount of money she's pleased with the kids don't have the scores that they were you were expecting from them the teachers don't teach the strategy that you want to be taught the coach doesn't yell when he's supposed to and doesn't do this and doesn't do that and the rabbi doesn't do this and doesn't do that immediately people fire people and they take their example from leaders of society like Donald Trump you're fired and they think they think they think this is like something to be applauded for I care less about his political position right left it's indifferent to me I don't watch I don't care but to learn midot from somebody like that you're bound to be a mus you're bound to be corrupt you think this is this is good just embarrass people in public a person needs to know that the blessings the first one is easy the second one is critical both you have to do if you if you accept something without saying thank you then there's nothing to talk to you about but after you've enjoyed it not only you're not going to say thank you but you're going to return evil instead this makes a person into someone despicable this is one of the things that everyone has to learn everyone has to think about these things because if you're not going to say thank you to Hashem for the simple stuff you're not going to make it you're not going to make it in life you're not going to be happy with your life because the world around you requires you to be grateful but being grateful is actually the best thing for you because a person that's grateful has to admit that he has something that he received something that technically nobody owed him this say thank you to Hashem for bringing back your n if you actually not just mumbling the words but you actually think about them at least at some point during the day thank you Hashem for bringing me back my that means that you should think at some point during your life at least technically he didn't have to bring back my or actually he didn't have to bring back my Nama that way he could have done what he does with other people where the is there but the body doesn't recognize it so the body is simply a plant it's in coma it just sits there and doesn't move but the knows very very well it's there and it's suffering and it's screaming it's screaming and yelling to every sh doesn't move sh can't move the body can but the two don't recognize each other this is a disaster a person that does not recognize the fact that Hashem brought him back and say thank you about it is a person that simply doesn't know what the purpose of life is doesn't know that he's supposed to say thank you he does not appreciate his life a person that says things like I didn't ask Hashem to create me such a person is as corrupt as can be so when it comes to saying thank you it's something that you need because if you're acknowledging the hasm put that n back in your body you're acknowledging that you have a wife you're acknowledging that you have a husband you're acknowledging that you have children you're acknowledging that you have a job that you have a house that you have a life you have a little bit of knowledge you're acknowledging it you're saying thank you that already makes you good but if you don't acknowledge it you could live your whole life life simply clueless about all the gifts that hasem keeps giving you and thinking that you were short changed being grateful helps because if you're grateful then you could Step On To The Next Step and give and giving is always something that you're doing for yourself page 156 says that there was a there was something that happened that showed that is is above and beyond ma above and beyond Fortune a certain that was able to read the stars and do in fortunes was sitting down with and uh when a few people passed them a few a few workers passed by them the go said to you see that one they're all going to go but that one's not going to return He says why don't why do you say that he says oh his Ma I see they're all going to go but him a snake is going to bite him and eat him so says if he's a Jew everything you said is meaningless whatever you read from the Stars only applies to G doesn't apply to Jews because a Jew can do certain things can do certain things that change the forces of nature change the world around them says okay they all went some sometime later they all came back immediately the going couldn't take it he stopped the guy said wait how'd you come back what' you do let me see the wood that you have they all cutting wood let me see he pushed his bag all the wood came off and he saw there's a snake in there cut in half sh says to the Jew what did you do that was so good that saved your life what' you do that was good he said well today we we're having lunch every day we have lunch together and everybody gets their bread and gets their food and they throw it into the basket together and then we split it we get each person get some so when I I saw that one of the guys that usually collects the food from everybody he didn't have any himself to put into the pie and I didn't want to cause him any embarrassment so I said hey guys today I'm going to collect I'll replace you I'll collect and I went around everybody and when I went to him I pretended like I took something from him so nobody says he didn't give why should he take and instead I took for my share and gave more just so he doesn't get embarrassed says to him you see you did a Big M you did something good you gave but you got something in return what teach everyone your saved your life but not just m like strange death actually M you gave you got something return why that I thought of in is that you when you give what are you doing really first and foremost you're acknowledging that hasem gave you the ability to give that's what he say the second one when you say we're thanking we're thanking for what for being able to say thank you this what he say you're telling thank you hasem thank you for what for allowing us to say thank you now here when you give you're thinking hem gave me you're acknowledging that you received not only gave me he gave me enough to be able to give already you've identified two major things two major gifts then you're seeing wait a minute he doesn't have if everyone else realizes that he doesn't have not only does he suffer already enough suffering a lot of suffering for not having but he has even more suffering from embarrassment of other people seeing he doesn't have an embarrassment is like it's like death a person that embarrasses another person in public it's like he murdered him so when a person gave when this person gave to his fellow without anybody knowing not saying heyy listen it's on me like one of those people hey it's on me it's on me hey guys it's on me what what's on you his lunch I bought his lunch I bought his lunch it's on me his lunch that's not a gift that's a bigger embarrassment it's better off you didn't give anything people that have don't advertize anything don't do anybody any favors a person that gives now you've done a few things what' you do now you've now taken away the embarrassment from him he was going to be embarrassed embarrassment is like death and so this is one of the rules of the world measure for measure you saved him from Death hasem saves you from death you saved him from Death gonna save you from death when a person gives in essence all he's doing is giving himself he's giving himself acknowledgement that he has gifts Beyond his need he's giving acknowledgement to the Creator that he's acknowledging that he gave him at all he's giving himself an opportunity to build more good upon this good and he's also giving himself an opportunity to save his own life by using the good that Hashem gave him to do good and that is what makes a person good any questions I stop joking got a thank you I know okay no go ahead Rivers have been turning red for for a long time it's not a uh not news Rivers have been turning red for a long time it's not nothing new doesn't a uh I mean it's a uh there is uh all the signs of the plagues I mean there's you could find them in different parts of the world there is a uh Russ red red uh red and oceans and different parts of the world has always been uh especially in recent years where everybody's become a cameraman we just see much more of it uh there's different parts of the world that have infestations of uh of specific types of bugs like we had in Egypt there's uh specific places that suffer from all types of animals and so on yeah I mean it's a uh Hashem is definitely giving us signs but uh the problem is right it's happening in the world the problem is that paying attention means that we have to do Chua paying attention doesn't mean oh wow okay so what should we do should we build a house in the mountains should we get guns the problem is today people misunderstand the paying attention part people think that oh because there's signs that mashiach is coming that means we should all move to Israel maybe you should maybe you shouldn't if you're going to be less religious over there it's better off you don't move if you're going to be more religious there then it's good that you move but but it's going to create schom problems then we're back to not moving so it's not a one-size fits all people take the signs the wrong way they they they misinterpret the sign just like they misinterpret the verses uh and that's the problem is that people think okay there's a red cow okay so there's a red cow and there's a uh it's a whole organization that is uh you know starting a Farm of red cows in Israel the temple Institute they started a farm of red cows because they want to find more red cows but there are certain things that they're doing this sounds like a noble uh Noble act but there are certain things that they're doing that are not exactly uh I don't know I don't know who gave him the the permission to do it but it's not exactly uh at least not that I know of which is that they're starting to bring sacrifices you now that to bring sacrifices not that to bring sacrifices they made themselves a uh you know like a place to to bring sacrifices who said you're allowed to bring sacrifices without bet mikdash so people are taking all the signs the wrong way there's only one thing that all of the signs mean they mean they we have to do Chua if everything I said in the sh does not apply to you you should give the sh you should give the sh why if you are perfectly grateful you are Mr grateful you say great you just missed the Gratitude you should give a sh next week why because this applies to 99.999% of people even the ones that are grateful can become even more grateful just acknowledge more of the creation so if it does apply to you then applying this is going to help you a lot more than any sign like people ask all the time oh you have aul you have some type of zul that's G to bring money that's going to bring Z it's going to bring this it's going to bring that yeah keep Shabbat no no I already keep Shabbat okay on Shabbat oh no I give on shabb okay do K oh you have anything else okay so learn Tor you have anything else like they look like it's a supermarket you have something else you keep giving them something basics of tah if you just do another MIT that you're obligated to do anyway it's much better than any Gul that you have to do so yes all of these signs are exciting but it's not at the same time it's exciting that we're seeing them in our life it's exciting that we're seeing red cow and the nuclear war already alive and well and uh people confused and rabbis off the D it's exciting to see all that stuff but at the same token it's a nightmare how that it's exciting meaning that you're seeing the prophecies come true things that were written 3,000 years ago are coming true but it's also a nightmare because you're seeing that we're simply not ready we're simply not ready now if we weren't obligated to expect mashiach if we weren't obligated to expect mashia as one of our 13 principles of faith I would actually have mass prayers to pray for him not to come why because if he came tomorrow we're worse shaped than Egypt we're worse shaped than Egypt I'm telling you every week it gets I see more I I don't know I don't know every week it's just it's I see the conditions are getting worse and worse there other information that I wanted to talk to you about but it's a uh it's we're out of time but it's a the the things that are being that are going on today in the world it's just getting worse and worse in the religious communities and non-religious communities um it's at a point where modesty has become pretty much a uh not even a minhag not even a minhag people simply think it's completely relevant kosher is based on your own definition um you know learning a learning Torah whenever you have time teaching Torah as long as you like what you teach uh pretty much business yeah everybody survival of the fittest we learned from Darwin and and and the thing is though is that mamash every single aspect of our life has Satan mamash in it mamash in it and you see it's like you just don't know is any anyone going to survive so it's not something I'm excited for because and I see why the sages said what they said in the said yeah we want M to come just not during our lifetime why it's going to be really really big tests is it is it wrong to say that basically to what you just say is what I just it's what I just that's what it says in no I mean if they said it we're allowed to repeat it it's not it's not it's not a uh let them come not our lifetime but the problem is that it's not up to us we have to be ready regardless I mean I always tell people that they said it they don't want to come they don't want the mashia to come in their lifetime because they knew that with or without mashia they did their best can we say the same thing with or without mashia they did their best which means they gave themselves the best chance to get to geden did we so which means that let's say mashia doesn't come in our lifetime let's say he do doesn't Al he does and he will soon but let's say he doesn't let's say he doesn't eventually we're going to die eventually the ground that lent us this body he going to want to call alone it's going to call the loone okay you going move in come back department number six let's go the worms are ready lunch you know that steak you ate sh come come come worms are hungry why each one of these worms like six like three feet you ever see meat worms scar can be meat worms is worse than what happens in the grave first time I saw it I almost want to vomit scari as can be anyway it's it's good you need to know these things because makes you realize that you have no reason to be arrogant at all because they're about to eat you at some point in 70 80 90 12 years now at some point the ground's going to call alone body has to come back after it goes through what it has to goes through here it goes up the sh they're going to ask you were you grateful no why weren't you grateful he gave you six jokes in the shield you weren't even grateful for the jokes you weren't even grateful for the jokes you weren't grateful where are you going to be where what hole you want to want to bury yourself in doesn't matter mashia no mashia that's the thing that's why I always I always I'm baffled that that everyone assumes they're going to live to see mashia everyone assumes that they're first in line in gun Eden assumes that they're there oh sure you know how much money I gave how much I gave I give a lot how much I give I give I give did you give 20% what 20 20 of what 20 what do you mean 20% of what you give 10% of what 20 Give me the definition of 10% is it after taxes is it after expenses including the vacation to Bahamas is it after the third fourth and fifth card that I don't need is it can I use the tuition for my kids as M also and all of a sudden the m has its own QuickBooks has its own accountant why every expense Under the Sun goes under the 10% and by the time you have money left here $12.37 I love the sh go go use money for K use the whole thing for K you mean the whole $12 the whole thing no no not nothing forom not for myself the whole $12 for K yeah but you made $150,000 last month yeah have expenses have expenses so seven joke hey so now so now you have to understand were you good if you are good then you have something to to to to build on but if a person is not even the min minimum of minimum of a decent human being mashia no Masia nothing's going to help them nothing's going to help them that's the thing so signs or no signs people should be worried about dying if you're not worried about dying you're going to forget how to live this is why in our entire Torah every major person that ever lived it's mentioned in Tora talks about death every one of them all the way to prophets all of them every one of them talks about death why they were all scared of eventually having to pay the bill what bill that exactly that's what makes themad if you're worried about dying you'll know how to live you'll know that you can and can't do certain things somebody came to Shalom said are you one of those uh you know fire Brimstone M speakers Shalom says to him and what's wrong exactly with fire Brimstone if you're scared of the fire you simply won't sin what's the problem with fire Brimstone Mister you see people are scared of the truth why because they don't want to do chuva they don't want to do chuva they're scared of it why because chuar obligates you to number one acknowledge your flaws number two change them and if a person is going to focus on on the on the most important on the necessary of course he has to change even the walls have to change I have people that I sent them Kyu packages two years ago three years ago and they've changed some more some less but everybody had to change to some degree you can't have an abundance of Torah and stay the same animal you can't you can't continue watching the shim coming to the sh and stay the same nothing can't you have to change it's a constant reminder sometimes with seven jokes sometimes without point is it's a reminder so I wouldn't really worry so much about all the signs in the world personally I would worry about dying should P pay attention no you should pay attention to everything you should pay attention to whether you got a flat tire or not but the key is to make sure to pay attention to ourselves whether we are actually doing enough if we died today every person should think about this I know this sounds morbid and this doesn't sound like a pleasing thought but every person should think every day if I die today Shalom all that stuff if I die today am I going to GED or not if I was the judge of me not if hasm is the judge of me judge judge of me says don't bring back my past what past he made one sin in his life don't bring by my past don't because no one's GNA pass if it you judge everything is scared was saying no you judge yourself if you judged yourself would you allow yourself based on the law you know the law you have a law now you're just creating a law in sh you have a law you're going to read the law to yourself let's say let's just say Happ that talking eight joke hypothetical now you have the law no go ahead read the LA to yourself and let me know what you think of you are you going to let yourself into G no and give you a worth a million dollars that's exactly what happens in sh after shows a person everything that they did but not CHS them in their eyes he puts them back into the body shows them as if they're doing it you know Hashem is right they watching you but you still have to make the sin you still have to make the sin but you know Hashem is watching you and you still do it you're still making the sin and Hashem says nothing he's looking at you that's what you do I don't mean to but you're doing it I don't mean to but I doing it the suffers so much from this embarrassment of hasem watching it sin throughout it entire life and at the end of the 12 months the itself says AEM please send me to G the asks for it why because the knows gratitude it's something we didn't possess during our life this is why we have to be grateful we have to be grateful for every single day because every day gives us an opportunity to do chva every day gives us an opportunity to say thank you to Hashem every day gives us an opportunity to say thank you to our lovely wife to put clothes in our shower even though we didn't have she didn't have to every day we have to say thank you to our husbands for working so hard even though they didn't make any money this week and every day we have to say thank you to our kids for even being alive because not everybody has kids and for breaking half the house because not everybody has a house and you remind me that I have a house so you broke half the house I remember if you didn't break the house who's going to run have a house and every day we have to thank our boss for giving us a job because they don't have to there's seven and a half billion people in the world they could have given the job to but they gave it to you and every day you have to say thank you to the teller who gave you food the says that a person should say thank you to a person because he saved his life what do you mean I just bought a chocolate bar yeah but if he didn't maybe you would have died thank AEM thank hasem for giving you the undesirable desires like hunger if you didn't know when you're hungry then simply after three days you just die why because your body needs to eat if you if Hashem didn't give you the undesirable desire of hunger what would happen you just sit there for three days three days three days dead why you don't eat for three days you die if he didn't give you the undesirable desire of thirst couple of days bye-bye if he didn't give you the undesirable desire of pain you think Pain's a Bad Thing Pain's a wonderful thing it's a reminder you have a body you know some people have a disease have a disease they don't feel pain it's a nerve disease and they say when they grow up if they make it their childhood was a nightmare why there was one woman said the story she said my child was a nightmare why constantly I would get hurt blood everywhere but I'd never feel any pain one time my arm was in fire as a kid and I didn't do anything because I don't know I don't know I don't know there's something wrong with it until my parents took me out of the fire because I didn't feel pain but by the time they took me out the bone was showing you think Pain's a Bad Thing Pain's a wonderful thing for pain you should say why it reminds you you have a body it reminds you you have a body you have teeth you have eyes you have arms you whatever is hurting you hm's reminding you my dear son remember I gave that to you did you say thank you oh okay now you're going to say thank you now you're going to say thank you everything in the world is something you should say thank you for your problems say thank you the good things say thank you the bad things or the things you think are bad say thank you why there has to be something good or else it would simply not exist even the even the yet has something good what he's the pressure without him there's no free choice without him there's no gedan there's no point to life if there was no yet there would be no resistance you would have no evil inclination you would have no inclination to do anything wrong there would simply be no point of you I'm not going saying yet come to my house we'll have dinner together I love you no but even that a person needs to say wait a minute even that AEM himself calls him ra it's still good even ra is still good that's how good AEM is when hem is so good the least we should do is thank him a [Music] 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