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in an incredible period of time.
You know, many times in life, you know,
there's a famous story that people tell
over. It's like a famous mushel of a guy
who stands uh at a flood and he turns to
the Kuresh Bar and he says, "Hashem,
please save me." And he sends a boat and
he goes, "No, no, Hashem, please save
me." And he sends a helicopter and goes,
"Hashem, like Hashem." And then he sends
sends a jet and he goes, "Hashem." And
then he gets to shim after the flood
comes up through the house and he goes,
"Hashem, I I I I heard I read all the
books."
I said, "Save me."
So he says, "What do you mean save you?"
He goes, "Where were you?" I ded. I
said, "Oh myim." He says, "What are you
joking me?" I sent you a helic I sent
you a boat, a helicopter, a plane. Like
who do you think sent that to you?
Many times in life, we turn to the bar
when he says, "He said save me. I want
to be connected to people. I want to
find my bash. I want to have more. I
want to be more connected. I want to dab
him with kavana." Like hello like what's
up? Like what do you mean? I gave you
tishov. I gave you three weeks. I gave
you L. Where were you? I changed the
whole world around. You think that's a
regular world? Like, you think it's like
a regular world that looks the same
because the sun rises and sets and it
gets more or less in terms of how hot it
is? Are you joking me? You're the Jewish
people. Every second of the day, I'm
changing the whole spirituality.
Everything is changing behind the
scenes.
I'm telling you what to do. If you're
rolling through the year like it's a
regular day, yeah, you're missing the
boats.
If you realize that when you hit periods
of time, they carry with them very
specific energies,
very specific abilities, you tap into
the abilities the right time, your
simukas,
your chuva and your
we spoke last year in this room, the
ability to be able to go beyond your tea
and sit in that suka.
what lagba means. If we could just slow
down and realize that what's happening
is behind the scenes, Hashem is opening
up channels of connection, what happens
is if we put in effort that is uniquely
specific to the time and it hits the
right time, we change. If you're looking
for the plug and you hit the outlet, you
get the energy. If the plug is too small
and if the outlet doesn't have
electricity, it doesn't work.
We're entering into a time that for most
of us is like a time we want to be done
with. Three weeks in most of our minds
is like here we go again. Is there a
greater joy than the bagel when you
break your fast on tishabove? Like
there's it's almost as good as breaking
your fast on your own kipper. I'm done.
like aa leego I'll see you in a year.
Are you joking?
It's like you know we say in the
corporate world it's like the opposite.
You say that like July 4th it's like
amazing how it works out in the same in
the corporate world July 4th is the
greatest yontiff. Why? Because everyone
loves summer but July 4th is the
beginning of summer right? So like by
Labor Day everyone's upset. So the
holiday that launches summer like
everyone's like dancing in the office
now. We're leaving it's July 4th and
then we're coming back to July and then
August and no one's around. It's like
the opposite unfortunately for like
Shivas is first of all forever and it's
of course it's 100 degrees and it's the
beginning we're not done and then I'm
thinking like the nine days oh my gosh
usually we're out doesn't really fall
out half the time so it's like we now
it's like Thursday
we got like all the we got to go back
and figure it out oh my gosh I want to
just go back and have a summer
and Hashem is
I hope you don't understand. I hope you
realize
then I'm sending you a speedboat.
And if you can capture three weeks of
your year now and understand what we're
building, you get to tish, you come out
of tishabove and you know what you may
be able to touch?
You may be able to touch gula
because this is the period of time where
we told the kuresh we're not interested.
This is the period of time where we're
trying to fix a problem. The problem
we're fixing is
it ends without hashem
gulus at the end of the day is just and
I had this question yesterday. Someone
said life's amazing here. I can fly to
Israel kosher food. Have you seen
Central Avenue? And this is nothing.
this thousand feet go down to Lakewood
you know what's going on in the world
galas and the answer is if you walk
around and you do not feel with you
every second if you walk down the street
and someone goes are you Jewish you go
yeah and they don't ask you can you
teach me about hashem if the qu if they
don't come out of their mouth is can you
teach me about hashem you are in gullus
because if we walk around trying to get
through if you come to this day and I
don't feel this way and you don't feel
when you get to shasamuz that you are
broke broken in pain. You're in gulus.
That means the darkness of this world
overwhelms us.
And the goal of this 3 weeks, if we can
get one%,
can you imagine if we're done and we
shitz for three weeks and we get 1%
moreina
speedboat.
So dig in. Don't pull out after you
break your fast in a few hours. Don't
lose three weeks of greatness. the
cousins of magic says from the mag of
measures
it's a
he says
whoever runs during this time to bear
if you ever wanted Hashem in your life
if you ever wanted a life with moreina
the time that you run after that is the
three weeks. So what is the goal and
what are we trying to accomplish? So
let's see if we can just identify
one nuda. It's a difficult nikuda but we
got to
when else are we going to talk about
stuff then on a fast day. It's from the
rabbi. So take it from him.
It's interesting what we're standing in
right now. It almost feels like a setup.
You ever noticed this? Like in most
holidays, the holiday is the story,
right? Kaneka is Kaneka. It happened on
Kaneka, right? What took place in Lag
Bulmer is Lagbo. When you think through
Yontiff's, there's a lot of setup to
Yontiff. Like we have a very a very busy
life. We're the Jewish people. Like
before something happened, we do a lot
of stuff like there is a climb to Mont
Torah. There's a lot of prep before
Pesak. Like things happen as a pregame
to the history that we remember. That's
called living life. Nothing came out of
nowhere. And usually when you have an
event, the event is that what you're
paying attention to. And we have an
event. It's super clear. The event is
tishabove. The day that the destruction
of the of the carbon happens, the
building, the base mig happens and it
burns on tishabove. But this is the one
time if you think about it throughout
the year that we have an event for the
event. We're fasting. Why? Because they
broke the wall. So what? Well, well then
they broke then they they then they
burnt the base of Mikdash. Okay. So
we're fasting for that. So what the wall
is set up to the base of MD, but we got
the Bdish covered. What is going on?
There's of There was a million things
that went wrong. They burnt all the
food. They killed a lot of people. A lot
of things happen when you're about to
lose the bases. When you're in battle,
it's not one thing. There's a million
things that go wrong that slowly leads
to the evolution of the Romans or the
Babylonians coming and destroying the
place. Do we fast for every little
thing?
There's something about Shivas that's
not just about Tishab because if it was,
it would be Kyle and Tishab.
There has to be something different and
it has to be unique because it sets up
the whole period of time. We have a
surve that's also connected to tishab
but we're not fasting and there's no
period of time from a surate all the way
to tishab which means if something
happened on that began this process if
the walls that surrounded the bish went
down it can't just be that there were
happened to be a battle it has to be
that what's going on right now is the
setup the tishabove it's the it's like
when the teacher tells the kids I'm
telling you what's on the test and like
two kids are like holy cow what's on the
test and they get to the test and you're
like I can't I can't failed. And she's
like, "I told you it was on the test."
You're like, "You were serious?" She's
like, "Yeah, I told you." Hashem is like
saying to us, "I am telling you what's
on the test. It's a 3-week period of
time. I'm launching it with a fast. I'm
closing it with a fast. And I'm telling
you that in the story of the of the
midbar, you're not going to see the
connection because fast one is about a
story about an aal and fast two is about
a story about a about a moraglin. And
you're not going to connect the dots.
And if you pay attention only at the
end, you're only going to think about
the second story and you're going to
miss the point. And maybe and maybe if
you get to Tishabove and you wake up in
Tishab and go, "Oh, why are we here?"
You can't get it because it's half the
story. Maybe the Moragim and maybe the
destruction of the Bam Mikdash is not
the full story. Because if it was, we
wouldn't have a shabbas three weeks
benamits nine days. Maybe we would just
have tishab yum kipper. Maybe we just
have the day that it it actually
destroys the fact that we have a day
beforehand that we're sitting here. It's
like tish of esque a little bit. No,
don't you feel that way? Like it's I
could sense like you have like that
exhausted tired. We're almost done. I
can't we're almost done with this tish
of boiling hot feeling
because maybe what's happening in
Shabbasamuz
is really part of the story of what
happened on tishabove.
It's just step one and if you miss step
one you may miss the whole game. So what
happened on Shivas?
So if you remember the story comes out
of out of
get gets ready for the Torah. They start
counting 50 days they go to Moshe. They
get the Torah. Moshe gets Torah for
Kalisel on the sixth of SA. Remember the
story. The next day the seventh
depending on how you understand the
story of when you got it on sixth or the
seventh doesn't matter. The 7th,
Mosherenu goes up to to Hashem to get
the Torah and says to I'm coming down in
40 days, right? 40 days later, they to
their count is the 16th of Tamas. From
the seventh of Sivan, 40 days, the 16th
of Thomas, right? As I always learned
the story growing up, it's different.
What really happened at the foot of the
table at the mountain was Ashkanazi
Jews.
Moshe was spari. Spartim have their own
time. We didn't know and we fast because
of it. So that's how I remember learning
the story. It's not like that at all.
What happened?
They were wrong. Mosha said 40 days. 40
full days. The seventh of Son wasn't a
full day. He wasn't coming down on the
16th of Son. He was coming down on the
17th of Son. On the 16th of Son, the
Jews started to panic. Why? They're in
the desert alone with mun and with
clouds of glory and not knowing what in
the world just happened and where
they're going.
But here's the thing that we don't
realize. Moshe got it beforehand. And
Moshe tells the B is he says
he told the people if you have a problem
I am putting in my replacement. The VP
is staying back. We got the protocol.
I am not leaving you alone.
Last week, two weeks ago, whenever it
was with Korak got up and says, "You and
I are our horde in all the power." This
is the whole point. There is a there's a
succession line. I got somebody here.
He's going to take over. You need to
shout the rabbi. He's got an assistant
rabbi. And he goes up. He comes down and
Cla on the last day starts to panic.
Remember what happens? We're going to do
it nice and slow because what happened
is something that we may not realize.
Kiboshious Moshe. They see that Moshe
came down
to come down from the mountain. He's
late
alon. Who was the Am say it's not the
full people you know who did it? It was
the Arav. The Arav is a group of people
that weren't part of Claudius that
joined at the end because they saw the
miracles and as things were amazing they
rolled with us and when things got bad
they stepped up into a problem. What
who's the Arab today? Complicated suga.
Are they spiritual? Are they physical?
It's a ser ask your local sadic for this
one because I got to tell you something.
When the Jews have problems, the Jew
that has Msora sticks to the Aishtar.
They don't panic and run to the world
right away. The Arab rolls in. And the
says, "Who they who are they?" They're
theuh
Make for us a God that will stand before
us. Why? Moshe led the way. They can't
talk to Hashem. They can't walk through
mountains. This wasn't regular people.
They weren't a in a fourth grade class.
They just experienced plagues. They just
walked through a sea. They're talking to
somebody who just walked and standed in
front of parro. He just thought of
Hashem. We're talking about the craziest
time of all time. How are we going to do
this? We need We need We need somebody
to be the conduit.
the man who led us out of
simple people came and said the Ramban
says this approach they didn't want
another god you know what they wanted
another leader simple I I need Moshe I
don't have Moshe I need someone to be
like Moshe can you put a different
replacement in front of Moshe does that
sound logical of course
because logic
is the beginning of us leaving Hashem
because the the argument that was made
to the men was
we don't have anybody. We should put
somebody in. Makes sense. What they do
that was so wrong. So let's look at the
P again. You'll find something amazing.
Elohim Aer Yu Leanu.
What did they ask for? So let's get into
it.
One of the greatest aspects of finding
Shina,
Rabbi speaks about this a lot. We have
to understand why is it that we're still
sitting around in Gulos after all these
years. So if you go into tishabove you
will find that tishabove is about two
totally separate things and you'll hear
both come out on tishabove. Why is there
destruction? So one camp is because of
and there'll be a lot on
and one camp is on the moraglin and all
theum.
Here's the challenge
and the moraglin are not the same thing.
The moraglin were actually totally
aligned with Kalisol. There was no sinus
during the Moraglin. They got up. Two
people were against them and the rest of
Kalis held hands saying Kumbaya and
said, "We're all going to die." There
was no fighting. No one's like, "You're
wrong and you're a rabbi. NO, YOU'RE
NOBODY was like that." Two guys were
locked at the corner. 10 out of 12 said,
"We're going to die." And the entire
nation said, "Yes, we're going to die."
fish. How could there be onag?
Wait, then what's moragum? But I thought
it's about the moragum, isn't it? But
then is it about or is it about the
moraglin? Because the moragum. So then
what's then how does it connect?
Rabbi says something amazing. If you go
underneath at one level, you will find
something that very very important. It's
actually both. But at your at the level
we're seeing it, we're missing it.
There's something underneath taking
place.
What is the core of sin?
Why is it that I should be able to ever
look at somebody else and not like them?
Why? What drives me? What is the core of
the moraglin? Why is it that a people
should stand before the kures baru and
say you're wrong, we're going to die.
Why? What happened?
So if you get into the level of drop
deeper, you will find what is it that
causes a bas migdash to get destroyed.
Why would Hashem ever leave? What causes
Hashem to leave anywhere?
Hashem loves us. He runs the whole
world. He is the whole world. What could
ever cause the kadeshu to ever leave?
What mechanism is there in this world
that can ever have the Shina leave
presence? What do we have to do in order
to get it to leave? We know that kicked
it out, but what does that even mean?
But we know that Moragum kicked it out,
but what does that mean? So the answer
is there's something even deeper.
There's only one thing in the world that
can kick out the Shina. And what is
that? Us.
We kick out the Shina. Hashem says, "I
am in everything. I am in everywhere. I
am in you. You You have me inside you.
The reason why your eyes are open
because what you are empowered with is
an is
you don't exist but for me. Nothing
exists but for me. Therefore, if I
actually leave, it disintegrates. So
even when I leave, I can't really leave.
So why would I leave? You know why I
would leave for? Because you're kicking
me out.
The only way Hashem leaves us is when we
say goodbye.
And our kicking out Hashem in everything
in our lives always is the only way he
leaves. How do you kick out Hashem? Do
you say leave? Does the Jews say leave?
Do they get up to the and say I want you
out? Does the come back and say we want
Hashem out? No. When you have sin,
that's not about Hashem.
Sinum. If you really thought that you
were kicking Hashem out, this wouldn't
be a sin issue. It would be a sin as
hashem issue. So then what's
and the answer is the rabbi speaks about
this a lot. The answer is that the way
operates in this world is if you don't
want him here, he won't be here. Which
means if you believe in your core, if we
believe in our core that Hashem is in
everything, he is in everything. But if
we believe in our core that I am in
something to the place in which I put me
in in that place the Garra says Hashem
says I can't be with you. The Gomorrah
says I I can't be d I can't be with
someone who's a goas someone who has a
holy spirit. Why? I love the guy. He's
my kid. He doesn't want me. The rules of
the game is where you are, I am not.
That's why kings, Jewish kings had so
many things they had to do. They had to
carry a toy. They had to control
themselves. Why? Because a Jewish king
is not a human being. He has to be a
conduit of Hashem. Because if you would
be a king and everyone has the highest
level, a king, as the rabbi says, Sha
was the biggest unav. But he fought
David Hamelik. Why? to keep his kingdom
because a king has the highest risk of
ani at his level.
The ani that's inside us is the
difference between whether we have a
life with hashem or not.
I saw this today in the it says in the
say
the says from the
The more you make yourself into
something,
if you want to know where Hashem is in
your life, if you can make a meter in
your own life for how much, how much an
how much is it me, you know there's no
Hashem. A guy can stand in front of you
and quote chapter and verse everything
sukim the guy a person could know shas
cold if he lives with an ani there's
noina it's a computer a guy can come in
here not know olive bay and he is koe
and
the goal is to do both
but understand something when we talk
about the lack of when we talk about
tishov Stop blaming the world. We love
to sit on Tishov and go, I wish Clio
soul would just get it together. When
are we going to bring the gahula
already? When can we just all get
together and figure this out? Stop. You
know when you figure it out? When you
figure it out in your heart and then the
kosh comes into you 100% and you will
see. If you're living your life with
zero anemina,
he'll use you. He knows knows how to use
people.
you'll shine.
The game between today and the rest of
our lives, but for sure until you stand
up in three weeks from now and break
your fast is you have one I'm with you
on this one. I'm the regular dude. We
have one question. You know what the
question is? If my ani meter is at a 85
out of 100, can I get it down two or
three degrees? If what we can accomplish
in the next three weeks is get what's
going on. What's going on is Hashem
never left.
We kicked them out. We said it's about
me. It's about you. Me. Therefore, if
it's about you, what am I here? This
whole city's yours. Okay. Even today,
you think the city's yours? I'm going to
come wherever. You think the show's
yours? You think the house is yours? You
think this is your house? This is your
business. Ah attack ever no problem good
luck laws of nature not
what's the difference what's the what's
the unifying factor between moraglin and
between
what's the what's the connective tissue
as a rabbi says from him believe he says
how can a person stand in front of
hashem and say I'm not going in you know
why let me give you the logic explain to
let me explain rab in case you missed
this hashm I don't know if you You can
see up there. It must be very high.
There's fortified cities. Are you
serious? I mean, do you see these guys?
They're giants.
I don't know what you're thinking.
We're going to decide over here what to
do. It's
It's for the kids. No, it's it's nef.
It's not We're not going in. So, thanks.
We appreciate it. Keep the mud going. We
need this for a little bit longer. We're
going back to the clouds of glory. She's
like, I'm sorry. This is a democracy
now. Like I Oh, we're going to decide
together because you're one where we're
moving next.
Ah, I get it.
You
You're the God. I understand now. Ah,
you think you can turn to Hashem and
tell me what's right. You're gonna
predict how a battle goes. It's gonna be
you. You know what that's called? It's
called GIA. It's going to be an is going
to be
you know what? If it's you,
I'm out. And if you look at the story of
the Moragum, you find something very
sad. I find one of the saddest parts of
the story of the Moragum takes place
afterwards when Kais get realized it and
says, "Okay, okay, okay, okay. We're
going in." Remember the story. Look at
the story inside. They go, "We're going.
We're going." Mosh's like, "Don't do
it." Like, "No, no, no. We got sorry,
sorry." They go in and get killed. Why?
She's like, "Wait, you think you're
going to win a battle? You think this is
Oh, I'm sorry. You think this is logic?
You think this is like like battle
terrain? You think that's how you win
wars? Look at the base of Levy. You
think Kalisa wins wars based on our
battle strategy? Are you serious? If you
paid attention to the Jewish people,
we're in war based on we our wars are
based on faith. Hashem sends boats. We
got to use our hands, but now we're
using our hearts, too, and our souls."
Says, "Here's the deal. You think you
can win?" Going, "Oh, here's how it
works. I'm I win." And I was going to
use you to be the generation, but
apparently you know better. Ah, you're
in the middle.
You know what? That's same difference.
You know why I don't like you for?
Because you threaten me. You know why?
Because I don't believe that I'm in this
world for a mission. I am worried about
your success. I am worried about you.
Why? Because it's about me. And if I
walk around and I am not achieving the
game that I was put into, I feel less.
And if you are, then I feel like your
presence makes me feel bad. And I don't
want you to win. I don't like you when
you don't look like me. You know why? I
like how I look and look at me every
single day. And if you're my type of Jew
with my type of yamaka, let's rock and
roll. If you got a different Yamama on,
I don't like you. I mean, I'll pretend
right on tissue above time, but deep
down, you know why? Because it's about
me. how I talk. As we always say, I'm
right in the middle to the right. You
guys are fanatics. You don't got to do
that. I don't know where you wrote that.
I don't know where you I don't know
where Robbie told you to do that. It's
not real. Okay. It says in the show, big
deal. We We don't do that. You You're
not even Jewish. Like, do this stuff.
Can you step up into my lane? Why?
Because I
am in the center of the world. Hashem
says, "You know what that's called?
Galas.
You can be living in the old city in
galas.
You could be living in a a an alley in
the middle of India in gula. It's about
your relationship to the
an
you know who teaches us an
our environment. The west is a place of
anism. That's gullis. Gullis is Greece,
Rome, right? How did gullis start? The
gullis we're in right now isn't
Babylonia. That gullis ended. The gulus
we're in right now is the Greco Roman
gullis. Yavan,
Rome, Edom. It's all one. That's the
last gullis. It's all through the middle
ages in Europe and now America. And we
love America and they give us freedom,
etc. But what it gives us is gullis.
We're in gullus. But the gullus of
America, the gullus of it's not just
America. It's the west and the east. But
let's we're living in the west. If
you're not living in America, but you're
living in the west, you're living in
gullis. But what's the gullus of the
west? What makes this country go? Me.
Bootstraps. Independence.
Do it on your own.
Feeling of that I have to take care of
myself. What about you? And what about
me? You deserve it. You deserve a You
deserve a How many commercials in your
life have you seen with you deserve a
And time and time and time and time
again, our brains orient around a life
that feels normal. And it and I'm
telling you and again you could reject
this but between me and you if we're a
zero is a total unav and a hundred is a
total bay Moshe and bum let's say if you
want to be real today before you f break
your fast take five minutes and ask
yourself
take five minutes and ask yourself
where do I score for real no playing no
one's got to look at your
I'm not Billum, but am I Mosha?
And if you feel like a normal person and
you're living in this country, chances
are you're not on the Mosha side. It's
okay. It's normal. It's called living a
life where you're taught what do you
want to be when you grow up. What does
that mean? You know what that means?
Let's figure out what you're good at
when you're three and now you can do
your whole life. You anyone tell you
what's your when you grow up? Anyone
have that conversation with you? What's
your do you think when you grow up? What
am I cry? What are you talking about? I
already gave a guy a dollar. Cryas, what
are you talking about? I got to worry
about my family and myself and my
growth. I got to pull myself up. I can
do anything. And then you hear this
stuff. Be hungry, ambitious,
win, beat the guy next to you. We we we
glorified that. And and I love sports,
but we got to call out on Chioas. It's a
crazy thing that little kids are put in
rooms and being told if you beat the kid
next to you, you're a winner. Yay. You
outpace the guy. You elbowed him. It's
okay. Car drift doesn't see it. It's
okay. I'm I'm a sports guy. But it
breeds a sense of
it. It just does.
When 15 kids are in a room and one kid
memorizes better than anybody else and
what one little kid gets put up on a
room, it's okay. It breeds an it's fine.
But let's not forget what it does. I
guarantee you Mosherbena was not having
valadictorians in Bahari.
I'm sure they were not playing and I
love sports. They were not playing
sports mikdash.
You know why? Because a doesn't think
about any the was running a race. He'd
be going the slowest
because he'd be worrying about the kid
whose father is watching and what's his
mom gonna think needs to win
needs to win. The sadic needs to impress
the brother comes down the rabbiton that
walks in the room she gets dressed and
when she when the rabbit you respect
walks in the room and she gets dressed
she's hoping that you all look at her
they they come from a different place.
You know where they come from aani
raash
they're free they're plugged in and in
that percentage that they are able that
we are able to take the ani and lower it
to that percentage we don't go to zero
you know what happens as you lower it's
like when you're in a pool and you bring
the thing down and the water fills in as
you lower it you know bunny has died
what happens the fills in because the is
always there he's waiting for you not
for him you we're sitting around
thinking
We we sitting around going, "When are
you going to bring goula?" "Maybe
today." Like, "When are you going to
bring gula? Maybe today." Like, it's
your problem, not mine. You kicked me
out. I made the house. I showed up. You
kicked me out. And we're like, "Maybe
you'll come today." And was like, "Yeah,
I hope."
This is the fight. This is the
underlying fight. It's going to happen
in three weeks. Let's get it now.
Anyways, we're sitting on the floor in
three weeks. And when you do and someone
goes, "Maraglin,"Mim, don't be like, "Oh
my god, Moragam. That's right, Moragum.
Let's get it. three weeks will look down
and see a bunch of people on
for him. What a forem he'll look down
and see a few people walking around
going ah I'm getting ready for the game.
I'm getting ready for the test.
What is the biggest ani we have? You
think the ani starts at you think the
ani starts at at at standing in front of
and saying no. No, because if it did we
would never fab. The ani starts earlier.
The ani comes in in a much more subtle
way. The ani presents itself way before
you get to destruction. You know where
it comes in the beginning before the
comes and messes with the kesu before
the comes for one second and says listen
I want you to say no to Hashem. Yeah. He
says go for and you go no. Can you
imagine? I want you to look at another
Jew and I want you to think bad. I want
you to walk into someone else's sim and
not be happy for them. Before the
atahara comes and whispers real good
anas like the good gya. Before he does
it, he sets us up. How? Through the
story of Shiva Sabatamos. It's a setup.
What's the story of Shiva Sabatamos?
It's a logical move. Mosha's not around.
They need to fill it out. But if you
look at the word, it's not what they're
asking for.
Look at what they're asking for. Ramban
picks it up all the pick up on this.
Rashi picks it up. Here's what he says.
They don't ask for for a leader because
they really want the leader. You know
what they would do? If they really
wanted a replacement for Moshe, what
would they do? They would walk up to
Aaron and say, "Aaron,
take over. Moshe's not here. We've been
paying attention. We've been watching
the back of the line. You're in the
front." When the when the when the s
when when the sea splits, like we know
the whole story of Korak, it was insane.
This the ground opened up like holy cow.
This is beforehand but whatever
structurally beforehand
but either way before Koraka
would come to Ara and go Moshu appointed
you you know what they do
Elohim
know Rashi says
I thought the leader is supposed to have
a singular yel Who is
plural? What? I thought you wanted to
replace Moshe. Moshe is one person.
Eloh harah.
Zakumar and son. You know what they
wanted? They didn't want another Moshe.
Now listen closely. When the rabbi told
this to me, I was like, it hurt to hear
it.
They didn't want another Mosha because
they wanted that emotion. They would ask
Aaron to step in.
They want another system.
The Mosha system wasn't working.
There's a guy named Ken Spiro. I once
heard him speak. He's great. He's he's a
history guy. And he spoke about in Rome,
Jews used to be prosecuted, I know this,
for for belief in religion or for
theology.
And they would say in Rome, how could
that be? Rome had thousands of gods. We
only have one. Why would you prosecute a
Jew?
You have many more gods than we have.
And the answer was because the belief in
many gods is the belief in no gods.
If I've got 30 gods to choose from,
guess who is God?
Who?
Me.
If I wake up in the morning and I have
one God, then I'm number two. If I wake
up in the morning, I have 30 gods, then
I'm number one. I don't wait for my
plate to come to me in a restaurant. I
have a smorgus board.
Now, I can make myself feel like I have
the gods, but I'm much better than that.
Of course, I know how to play games. But
the truth is, if I can pick the gods
that I want to choose, and day one is
Zeus and day two is Afra, whatever, and
all every I need sun stuff. I need bad
be. I'm doing this. I don't want him to
see. I go here. If I can walk around and
be led by lots of different opinions,
then you know what that means? Then who
is the opinion that I care about the
most?
My own.
That is the playing checkmate.
You see it? They weren't asking for
Moshe. Because if they were asking for
Moshe and they were worried about Moshe,
you know what they ask for? They'd ask
for iron even though Korak came later.
They'd ask for H. They'd ask for the
Zakanan. Moshe is not running alone.
He's not running his own shop. There's a
whole the whole group of people that are
there. There are people standing in
front. They just sat and it's a group.
If they're asking for Elohim,
what they're asking for for real is
I want a different system.
I want a system of gods.
I want a system where I have many in
front of me. Do you know why? Because
what I want to not do
is bow my head to one.
The first step of knocking Hashem
and watch this closely. I'm not going to
have enough time. I'll leave you for
homework. Look at the world and you will
see. Look at different types of
whatever. Go do your own homework and
you'll see something amazing. Before
anybody messes with the kures, they know
better. Hashem's Hashem. You know they
don't. You know how they mess with the
kures? They don't go after Hashem. You
know they go after they go after Moshe.
You see, Hashem did something that was
incredible. You know what Hashem did? He
created a system of Torah that was
unique.
It wasn't just I'm handing you a book
and figure it out. Torah is not open
source.
It should be because we're Americans and
we should have access to everything. As
one guy came to me once at a at a at a
at a party,
a business thing, wonderful Jew,
I whatever nice guy. He comes to me and
he had a whole thing with me about
Orthodox Jews and h I don't know. So he
says to me, "What do you know about the
Torah?" I said, he goes, "Oh, before you
say anything, whatever you know, I know
too." I said, "Really?" He goes, "Yeah,
everything's online now. I've done a lot
of studying. I know what you know. So do
me a favor. Don't don't don't tell me
that you know more toer than me. I know
everything you know. It's all available
today and I study this stuff all the
time. And I'm thinking ha really like is
the pork in your mouth didn't make it to
the thing guys are you telling me that?
And he was serious. You know why he was
serious for because of this same
episode.
You see the way Hashem gave us Torah
listen closely is he did not give it the
way the world gets information.
You see, if you live in a secular
western world, your information comes
and it's packaged for the ani because I
wouldn't go to it if it wasn't part of
myself.
And so, it has to feel like it applies
and it appeals to somebody who is trying
to be self-oriented.
Hashem built a system in which Torah is
not about yourself. Because if you learn
Torah and it all it does builds
yourself, it's not Torah, it's a sam
mavis. For Torah to flow properly, it's
not just the words that you learn. It's
the midos you have. The RV says because
the midos is the cle. If you're learning
and learning makes you arrogant, you're
pushing away Hashem through your
learning. That's not doing anything. The
goal of Torah, it's the word of Hashem.
The goal of mitzvah is to connect to
Hashem. So therefore, Torah has to make
you more humble. And if you're learning
your whole life Torah and all you get is
ani, okay, it sounds like more you'll
make him sound more yeshivish or moreash
or you'll use more Hebrew words. But if
you walk into a room and you look around
and go, I know all that stuff. Hashem's
like, not I'm out of here. So what's the
point of Torah? Just learn science. What
are you learning Torah for? If the whole
goal of Torah is Hashem and the goal is
to get close to Hashem and it's to
devour Hashem, Hashem has to create a
system in which when you learn it, you
have to learn it and at the same time
work on your midos. Because if you don't
work on your midos, then what are you
learning it for? But how does he do
that? How does Hashem create a system
that's going to allow you to both be
able to grow the ani? Because as you
learn, you're going to get smarter and
you're going to get more wiser and more
respected. Torah is Hashem's godless.
You're going to be interacting with
divine wisdom. You can have a Shabas
table and the world's going to be like,
"How do you have a family?" You're going
to walk into the room and know how to
split the hairs on ideas. A person who's
engaged in Torah Yiddish. They're
connected to the divine mind. How could
any human being not be ag but if you
want has to kick you out. So now you're
stuck. You hear me? So what does Hashem
deise? It's the most brilliant system.
Here's how it works.
Al Moshe
Yeshua.
Hashem says you don't have Torah.
Torah is not given to you. What do you
have? You have a couple of books. Torah
is a yam. You know how you have Torah?
I'm giving you a mura,
which means it goes down.
You don't just pick it up off the shelf.
You can pick it up off the shelf. But
you can't just pick it up off the shelf.
You cannot wake up in the morning and go
online. And I love online. I love
everything going online. But if all you
have in Torah is just online, you don't
have all of Torah
because it doesn't flow like GBT and
Wikipedia.
It's not biology and it's not coding in
Claude.
It's a mechanism to bring you to me
and to come to me. As the rabbi says,
you have to learn how to put your head
down.
If your head doesn't bow to another
person that I have put in the misora,
you can't get the full package. It
doesn't work like that.
Your midos have to also grow. And if all
you're doing is information,
information, information, information.
Guess what's happening? You're becoming
the god. This rabbi for this, this
rabbit for this, I'll go online for
this. GBT for this. I got it. I got my
cabinet of adviserss. Rabbi doesn't know
this. I got three therapists here. I got
two adviserss here. Oh my god, the
business deal. Why would I do that for?
Okay, so it's ribbus. Ribis ribbus.
What's ribbus? What? No, I got it. What
does the rabbi know? What does the rabbi
know? I I I brought the rabbi in. You
think he knows more than me? I paid for
his salary. Rabbis. Rabbitens. What?
No,
I'm a rabbi.
I I use arts girl.
You know what that's called? Ano?
Sounds American, isn't it? It is.
But America doesn't bring.
We can sit there for the rest of our
lives until we get this.
And
says, "Put your head down. Who do you
ask your questions to? Who do you turn
to for advice? You can learn everything
if there's not one person
Why? Because that's how I want it.
Hashem says, "I want you to go to some
person in your life and not know the
answer." Because when you ask a question
to someone and not know the answer, and
you tell yourself before you get the
answer, I'll do what he says. You know
what you're doing? You're actually
getting to me. Because it doesn't matter
if you do the deal. I give you partners.
It doesn't matter if you go left or
right. I run the world. It matters if
you're building yourself into a clea so
I can live with you.
And when you put your head down and you
let somebody else guide you, someone you
choose very carefully, a RV, a arbitson,
someone in the misora,
you know what happens?
You connect to what I'm going for. and
you can owe everything but until you
have that you're not connected.
You know what the Arab does? They come
and say, "Ah, I don't I love Hashem. I
love Hashem.
Me and Hashem, we're boys.
I want Elohim.
I want lots lots of options.
Moshe is too tough for me. I don't know.
This whole do everything doesn't work
for me." I don't know. You see Moshe up
there? He's a serious guy. I was too
much. Ara, you're going to be like him.
You're way too religious. Give me a
bunch
and we'll make them fly. The Eagles were
dancing. I'll show you miracles.
Hashem's like, "Miracles are easy." No.
No. You see how you know it's religious?
You know how Hashem loves it? Because
it's miracles. Otherwise, it wouldn't be
miracles.
Shivasamuz is the setup
before the goes for the he goes for the
Torah. He goes for the misor.
He says, "Figure it out on your own.
Whatever you feel is true. You don't
need to bring to the rabbi into this
one."
And when you start to break at the
misora
when a person goes through their lives
and looks over to a r and feels
Why should I give you respect? When a
person, if you're sitting here right now
and you can't think of a rv that you go
to to guide your life, they're getting
you.
It's hard. Welcome to being a Jew. I
don't know who. Try.
If you're living your life and you do
not and you're listening to this and you
do not have a human being that you're
going to stand with you in Shamayam and
say, "Don't blame me. Blame him, blame
her." It means we only got one piece.
It means the Ael is still here. They got
us. They convince us that we're the
gods. we can figure it out on our own.
We'll just collect a few pieces together
and put it into some
agent and they'll tell us what to do.
And Hashem's saying, "Uh, uh-uh, do
that. Learn like crazy. Pick up things
off the shelf. Study watch all of Torah
anytime.
But
you need a Mosherenu."
and the fight for me and you to put our
heads down and to tell ourselves I don't
know how to lead my life. You know why?
Because the way Hashem set up the world
is that he wants me to be able to put my
head down in front of Torah and I'm not
worthy of standing before Hashem because
I'm not holy. I'm not a nvy. So he wants
me to go to a representative of his. I
got to find one. I got to respect one. I
got to be with one. But if I put my head
down and I'm able to realize that my job
in life is to be able to my das to
somebody else. That act of being able to
I don't know everything and I can't
figure it all out myself
is the hardest thing for a good
Westerner to say out loud because I
could get it especially now with with
AI.
What can I have? I can figure it out.
Hashem says, "If you think you can
figure it out, then you're not figuring
it out." Because there's no it out.
The first level of what we have to do
for three weeks, if we're being honest,
I'll say one more thing and then I'll
call it. This next thing we're going to
talk about for those who want in two
days from now, I'm just going to give
you a taste. Especially because of
today,
if we're really being honest with
ourselves, we have to take a minute, go
back to the sin, and see what that was
and say they tried to knock out Moshe.
Do I have a Moshe in my life?
Have I degraded a rub in front of
somebody else, lowering the statuses of
Moshe, even if he's wrong? Now Moshe's
the RVs are lower.
Have I contributed to that?
When I therapist tells me to do
something, do I ask the RV to make sure
it's kahala or what does the rabbi know?
She went to Harvard.
Is my life aligned
not just with Torah?
And this is hard, but welcome to
greatness. I'm not there. Is my life
aligned with the Msora?
If we can't plug into that, how in the
world are we going to plug into being
close to the kures by?
And so the first bit of homework I leave
us today is
where's my Moshe? Do I have that person?
Have I degraded those people? Do I think
I'm better than the rabbis
or do I have someone that I and I it may
take me years to find that person, but
I'm searching. Hashem looks down and
says, "I want to have my advice come
from the misora. The aigel knocked us
out. I'm not independent.
I don't want to be a person that makes
my own decisions. I'm going to use my
head. I'm going to use my I'm not going
to be blind. I'm going to read every
book on the shelf. I'll learn everything
that I can, but at the end of the day,
my head bows. And when my head bows,
so does my gya. And when my ga bows,
there comes the shina.
And the second thing I'll mention for
one minute, we'll talk about this later
for those who go online. There's one
other way that we there's two ways we
get misra. The first way is with
what is the second way?
There's only one more way. And the fact
that we are not screaming it out right
now shows just how much they got us.
The fact that we don't know the answer
off the top of our heads shows that we
are Hashem save us.
The modern world has taught us that our
parents work for us.
If they're not delivering, I don't got
to respect it. You know who got shafted
in the misora the most? parents.
Hashem says, "You don't honor your
parents because they're good to you. You
honor your parents because I told you
so."
You look around the world and you find
if you want to know who is the greatest
casualty to a world that's broken misora
in a world of the west and a world of
gullis it's when kids don't understand
that their parents deserve respect
because they are in the chain of the
misora.
They gave you msora. They gave you your
soul.
And you hear stories of kids that don't
talk to parents. It's psycho. Why? Well,
when I was 18, my mom didn't understand
me. I'm like, what? You out of your
mind? Well, my wife, well, my husband.
Yeah. Like, you understand that Hashem
said that if you don't talk to your
parents, if you're not good to them,
you're not good to me. Oh,
it's about me, isn't it? Aren't I in the
middle of the world? Isn't about my
suffering and happiness? Hashem says,
"Actually,
no."
We're going to set the parents of
another speech, Mashim, in the next
hopefully the next few days.
Our goal tonight before we break our
fast. If we really want to be serious,
is to ask ourselves, what is it about
this moment
that is causing our destruction? This is
the moment where we realize that what we
need to rebuild is the Msora. The rabbi
says, "How do I rebuild a misora? I want
to be back in the chain. And if my
misora is strong, I can't go far from
Hashem. And if my misora is weak, I'll
be making up versions of Judaism and
I'll be thinking that everyone else is
crazy. You know how I reconnect to a
Mosha. I need a RV. I need a Rebbitson.
I'm not going through life making it up.
Torah is not a smorggas board. And if
you don't have one, three weeks, let's
rock and roll. Let Hashem see it. And if
you do, put your head down a couple more
times. Let Hashem see it.
And my parents need to have the respect
beyond what they do because of who they
are.
Parents and rebum are the misora. And if
our msor is broken, you're going to have
in three weeks from now. Are you kidding
me?
But if our msra is strong, if our chain
is rebuilt and we're rebuilding it every
single day, then we get to tish and all
of a sudden we go, "What's with you
people? How could you live without
Hashem?" And Hashem says, "That's my
boy. We should be zoh to be Jews." That
during this period of time, we're not
messing around anymore. We're not pumped
for chabas would be done. Why do we want
to be done? We want to be winning. We
want to be growing. We want gula. We
don't want to go back to the country. We
don't go back to eating. We want Hashem
to come down. And guess what? It's a few
Jews that can bring Hashem down. Says,
"A bunch of Jews that get together and
are willing to do something big, me and
you have a chance. We really can be a
people that gives Malim and Hashem the
spend today before we leave and try our
hardest to see how I can rebuild the
train in my life and for my children and
for my grandchildren. We should be to
fix
by the time we get to we're already
ready already ready past the final and
our days in