The Path To Spiritual & Monetary Success - MUSSAR Pirkei Avot (53)

[Music] great to be back in Avent continuing our Series today we are up to number 53 and uh for anyone who missed out the series uh they should definitely check it out you go to our website bash.org uh and also on our YouTube channel anyone that missed the series or on Soundcloud and soon we're going to have both a new website and also a new application you'll be able to get all these uh uh what we have right now and many other new things uh and uh so there's a lot of lot of a lot of really good things but anyone that missed any of the lectures in this series is uh missing a lot because each lecture uh Hashem gives us new things to say we try not to even repeat the same story more than once I think I repeated the same story a couple of times but overall I think most of the stuff that Hashem gives us each week is brand new um and uh I think that this week we can try something new but it requires your participation since Hashem is telling us what to say any anyway let's just do it based on whatever you say I have the avot obviously we studied the avot that we have but uh we always miss the questions and answers a lot of people tell me they have questions and since the lecture itself is a couple of hours long sometimes longer we end up not answering certain questions because people are tired or they have to go whatever so since this worked out really well we did it in New York and the kids got really excited about it uh one of the lectures we did I uh asked the people what want to talk about just ask me whatever questions you have and I'll answer them through the lecture not on the spot I'll answer them through the lecture make it as part of the lecture I'm answering your question so whenever hasem gives us the answer he'll give us the answer so you see that number one it has nothing to do with me so don't give me any credit all hasm and number two you see how deep the Torah is where you could literally ask any question and still connect it to any other part of the Torah that's the point so let's start with uh some questions yeah want me to ask the questions too whatever you want any question you want any question you want BM I'll do my best to answer it if hasm gives me the answer I'll answer it number one number two if uh you know I'll try to answer it um you know through the lecture if I don't answer it remind me I made a blessing before so okay okay so the qu first question is how does somebody that used to be C turned into a c that's the question and now he's trying to get other people to leave the religion to leave hasem because he turned into a CER how does something like that happen that's the question okay that's question number one no next seconds okay okay okay the answer is no but I'll tell you why during the lecture uh the question was can someone prove their their Judaism based on their DNA the answer is no based on Al and I'll tell you why during the lecture because it'll keep it interesting next speaking of ANC genetics okay we know that's the descendant of David today who those people are that are from documented from the line of so we come from that would be nice wouldn't it okay next that's three questions no can we start building it now get a couple of contractors okay next it's pleasing words to my ears you complain about right it's like you don't even understand that it's okay to bless our leaders right say I'm trying to ask is complain people even better question why didn't he why didn't he pray earlier why did he wait till the end of his life to pray for himself even more so right why you waiting for the last moment it's a good question no okay guys leave the room did hold on one second everybody on online hearing the questions you guys hear the questions okay one question was uh and correct me if I'm wrong if we know who the descendants of David are another question is can we start building the bet mikdash now or we have to wait for mashiah another question was uh can someone prove their Judaism based on DNA another question was why did mosenu uh complain against is that they didn't pray for him if he didn't tell them ahead of time to pray for him uh another question is why did mosenu actually I asked this question I asked myself the question see uh why did MOS Renu wait till the end of his life to pray for himself why didn't he pray 40 years already he could have prayed and now you're asking another question okay so who who's the one that's actually koshering the wigs okay it's a good question right someone says they're kosher but they're not Kosher uh so the question is what's why would somebody say that the wigs are Kosher when in reality all all facts prove that they are not Kosher and then also there was another question I think in the beginning about how somebody that uh does kiru can turn into a cofair and actually instead of dedicating his life to helping people do chuva now he's trying to get people to leave the Torah what else you got more questions along the way okay will give me the words to give you guys the answers especially to this lecture again I remind you again if I have the answers it's not me it's AEM it has nothing to do with me it's just AEM gives you the words because of your not mine you when you do and you actually do lectures to help people do chuva because you actually want them to do Chua not because you want money not because you want fame not because you want fortune then as we've seen already over the last few years you have a lot of and umm gives you the words to say because sometimes I'll prepare a lecture I told you guys this a few times sometimes I'll prepare a lecture I say let's I'm going to cover 15 points I take you know write down a little notepad it's 15 different things that I'm going to cover I go to the lecture I have the lecture at at the end of the lecture I go over the 15 things I talked for three hours maybe one or two I actually talked about the other 13 nothing so what you talk about for for three hours things that they want to talk about how do you know what they want to talk about put the words in your mouth so that's how it works you do you have the same thing so anyway the m is M it's 3:21 so the mishna starts rar T translation says if there is no Torah there is no moral conduct if there's no moral conduct meaning good manners if there's no moral conduct there is no Torah or morality I guess it's a better translation if there's no wisdom there's no fear of God if there's no fear of God there's no wisdom if there's no knowledge there's no understanding if there's no understanding there's no knowledge as you can see already there's a pattern here if there's no flower there's no Torah if there's no Torah there's no flower so Torah is mentioned twice in the beginning and the end first it says if there's no Torah there's no morality and at the end it says if there's no flower if there's no Torah there's no flower if there's no flower there's no Torah so obviously those are two different things completely but will explain how all of this connects now first and foremost like we do the way of kazal is to always make sure that we know who we're dealing with who we're dealing with who's giving us this advice because based on the basic meaning even of what is saying in essence he's covering practically every single topic that you have to do with from the beginning of your life until the end of your life so here is in essence he's trying to teach you everything in two sentences everything you're ever going to need is in these couple of sentences so so why should we listen to him who is he in Hebrew they say who are you what do you think you're going to tell who is he soar is 10th Generation tana and he's also one of the descendants of Ezra s Ezra The Scribe one of the uh parts of the Torah one of the 24 books of the tanak talks about Ezra and how he enforced everyone want to become religious how he's responsible for an enormous part of the Torah uh that we have today and um again Ezra s is uh one of the Giants in all of Judaism since the beginning of mankind rarar is one of his descendants this by itself wouldn't mean much similar to the extent of how somebody tells me listen I know I don't keep Shabbat I know I don't keep MIT I know I don't do this and I don't do that but you know my grandfather was a big uh sadik he was a rabbi he he wrote A Few books he wrote this he wrote that I said yeah you know what his father was his father was says has no share of the world to come even though his father was the giant of giants he's one of the Patriarchs when I say AB they don't say they sayov why is one of the Giants of all generations we can't even fathom how holy he was when the mashia comes and the come the also going to come they're going to come is gonna come we're not going to be able to come close to them we're not going to be able to shake their hands oh how are you how you doing how was it in G you're not going to be able to do that their K is going to be so high we're not going to be able to get close close to them we're going to burn up like a lava so this is was as's father as has no share of the world to come L because as every day said tomorrow I'm going to do chuva tomorrow I'm do CH tomorrow I'm GNA do Chua but he never do Chua but he knew every day he said tomorrow but he never did so all of those people are say my grandfather was a big sadik okay what about you grandfather maybe he's in ganeden what about you your your your ultimate destination depends on what you do now not your grandfather your grandfather's in a good place not helping you though maybe he's getting you some more time but he's not helping you to the extent where you're going to just enter wallow into ganeden because your grandfather wrote a good book so not going to help you soar benar being a descendant of Ezra s is great but what about him himself so in page 27 B and also it's the uh beginning of 28 it talks about a giant one of the very famous arguments between raban Gamel and RAB yosua it's a very big debate between the two and RAB Gamel was The N he was the president and uh in order to make sure that am stayed United and there's no difference of opinion there's no one saying oh let's go to a different betet let's start something else he was very very strict with enforcing the laws so there's a few times that him and Rua had a m and one of the times is they talk about uh AR if you guys got to it I think you probably already got to it um it's talk about Al is Alit mandatory or a supplement you have to do it you don't have to do it so the talks about a story of a student comes to rhua and he asks him is it mandatory or not and abua says no it's not it's not mandatory so then he goes the same student goes to raban gel he says is mandatory or it's not gel says of course it's mandatory of course it's mandatory so he said yeah but also not some guy he said no which if in case I forget Shalom you know the is today the is that yes it's not mandatory per say but the that in essence became is that it is mandatory all of took it upon themselves to make mandatory so anyway he uh says okay say this let's wait for all the talim all the students to come to the K to Yesa and ask the question out loud because Rua is going to be there ask the question out loud I want to see what he does so this is exactly what happened the students came everybody came Rua came and the student asked for the is uh mandatory he says of course it's mandatory does anybody have a different opinion and Rua because he wanted to protect the honor of raban Gam still the had honor even though he disagreed with him to protect his honor he stood up and he says no no no one disagrees with you you're right so says yeah but in your name isn't it just in your name someone is saying that you actually said the other thing you said it actually it's not mandatory and they're here to prove it so stay standing and he started a sh of why it's mandatory and so on and so forth and he the whole time Rua is standing up so the eventually got really really embarrassed forua old manik Kad he's embarrassing him and this wasn't the first time it happened a few times like this so they said enough enough of this let's remove raban Gamel from a position to remove him but who we're going to replace him with so the first choice is let's replace him with Rua n we can't really do that because he's directly related to the matter is gonna think it's something personal it's not personal it's for the Torah these battles by the way you these arguments you hear about in the Torah it's not personal it's not like uh you and I get into an argument oh you're ugly oh you're fat it's not like that they're all for the honor of the Torah how to make sure that we worship hem to the best of our abilities how do we honor hem to the best of our abilities that's the whole thing is all about that it's not about oh he's smarter he's stupider he's that's nothing like that has nothing to do with that those things didn't even talk to these people these are holy people so sometimes people read it literally without reading the commentary from Rashi from rambam from different places they start thinking oh look at these people they're like little kids why are they arguing like little kids they're not arguing like little kids this this is all for the honor of hasem so anyway he said we can't actually add Ru because ra will be offended we cannot offend shom what about has 24,000 students they say no we can't add RAB AKA because RAB AKA doesn't have the Merit of his forefathers comes from the seat of DAV it's a holy person and his ancestors where he comes from from are even Holier Bea comes from converts so he doesn't have the Merit of his parents being gets offended that took his position maybe he's gonna pray and hasm is gonna feel bad for he's gonna punish Shalom so no we can't picka so who can we pick who do they pick they they pick razar Ben aarya why razar Ben aarya they said because he meets all of the requirements first of all as far as what is the he's the descendant of doesn't get much better than that two as far as if ra wants to test him in public or in private see what he says rabar knows the entire Torah any question you ask him he can answer on the spot no question questions asked Giant and last but not least if he becomes president the first thing that happens is the go come they try to do different things try to bother us so if the Romans come and they want to bother us they're going to go to the president first so what do the president do bribe himar has a lot of money RAR is a multi-billionaire multi-billionaire I did the math in a Shabbat it says that rarar used to give a m his M would be 12,000 cows that was his M every year he would give 12,000 cows that's his Mas 10% he gave 12,000 cows which means that his profit every year was 120,000 cows that was his profit you do the math cow is what $10,000 10,000 time 120,000 how much 1.2 billion that was his annual income RAR benar how old was he at the time he's president 18 years old 18 years old makes $ 1.2 billion better than any hedge fund manager in the world so had all the qualities sadik kados giant they come to they say you want to be the president he says let me ask my wife anyone sadik has to ask his wife his wife says maybe uh you don't really look the part you're young and maybe they're going to throw you out because you look young so he started praying on the spot 18 hairs that were white came out and that's why he says in the um in the of p i look like I'm 70 years old not I am 70 years old I am like I'm 70 years old because on the spot he had such they wanted him to be present from sh they gave him white hair said okay he's the president so that's what we're talking about here that's who we're going to listen to he's Rich sadik great descendants what else do you want doesn't get better than this so this very same RAR he's telling us some interesting things first and foremost he's telling us if there's no Torah there is no manners there's no morality and if there's no morality there's no Torah now when the the rais says that when the Jews would see that they uh the go change a leader they would do an invest investigation what do they investigate they investigate the new leader of the go what do they investigate if he likes chocolate or if he likes wine what does they investigate they investigate as morality why they want to know if he takes bribes if he takes bribes is celebrates if he doesn't take bribes we start praying to hm we start crying why because we know the only way you can deal with these people you bribe them if he's got if he one of these people that doesn't take we have a problem why because as soon as he gets an opportunity he's going to want to punish and if we can't bribe him we can't do anything about it so that's why they were actually all that's why Kaz was very happy that rabar was rich because they knew that as soon as the leader of the go from the Romans going to come tried to mess with us can bribe what do you want 100 million no problem it's in your bank 200 it's already in there 300 you'll have it by tomorrow kill Roman Empire was pretty big Roman Empire was pretty big so anyway RAR says morality and Torah are interconnected they're intertwined if there's no Torah there's no way that there could be morality if there's no morality there's no Torah meaning if a person uses their own decisions to decide what's good and what's bad the problem is is that it's not Dependable morality cannot come from humans because humans change one day they think that white is good that's in style the next day no only the people that are in in jails wear white one day they think that blue is good the next day no only if you work in a hospital you allowed to wear blue one day they think that black people should be in the back of the bus they're not allowed to drink from the same water as the white people the next day no no they should be president so morality when it's based on humans it's flawed it's what's in style what's popular what are people voting for how do we make the most money from it how do we take advantage of this so Mor it from people is useless because it it depends on people that are Flood now morality when it when it comes from God that's something you can rely on and the reason why is because God doesn't change despite what many go think God doesn't change once he makes a deal it's finished deal is done so if the Torah is there you're going to have morality but he says here if you have no Torah there it's impossible for you to have morality that you could depend on whatever morality you have whatever standards you have they're not to be dependent on even if today everything looks good people look at America today on the surface it looks okay you start digging deep not so much not so much in the past everyone looked at America like they were wow today when you have the Freedom of Information and you start investigating some of these past stories of American History the standard of morals are based on America that's what people today based everything everybody wants to be Americans Israel wants to be like America the Arabs want to be like America even though they hate America they say kill America they want to be like America kill America kill America but let's open mold like America kill America kill America but let's invest into helicopters and planes and parks and so on like America everyone wants to kill America but they want to be like America Israel is like oh no no we don't need America we have this we have this but you're copying them everywhere everyone wants to be like America so America is like the standard because America was L looked up to there were reasons they should you should look up to them they succeeded in certain things but when it comes to morals when it comes to to things like that it wasn't exactly like the picture says first of all there's a holiday that people love to celebrate and my people I specifically I'm talking about Jews obviously we're not allowed Jews are not allowed to celebrate Christmas it's a holiday of idol worship you're not allowed to celebrate any really of the Go's holidays but there's certain holidays that you would think are neutral neutral holiday like for example Thanksgiving Thanksgiving thank God before I did chuva I loved Thanksgiving loved it why it was my once in a year opportunity to fry my turkey I bought a big giant thing I saw it on some video or some news somewhere I bought a giant bucket thingy pot that you could fit a whole turkey in you fill the whole thing up with oil almost you put a little bit of things but mostly it's just oil and turkey you fry it for an hour and 45 minutes delicious amazing 35th floor apartment full of snow you're frying turkey it doesn't get better than that Thanksgiving once in a year but then you start looking at what what's behind this Thanksgiving what's behind this Thanksgiving do you know how many people died this holiday of Thanksgiving American Indians that were destroyed and annihilated from this world world for absolutely no reason whatsoever other than greed they make them they made them walk from one coast of America to the other we can't walk to the bathroom barely they made him walk from one coast of America to the other and most of the people died I went to the Indian American Indian museum I wanted to cry this Thanksgiving this is exactly this is Thanksgiving this Thanksgiving you still think oh Thanksgiving thanks what Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Thanksgiving you got the country from Whole you killed millions of people what do they have to show for it casinos you think they care about the casinos their ancestors want to be alive so the morality is not exactly like we think and there's a lot of other things obviously point being is that when the morality comes from people it's flood in the business World there the everybody depends on software depends on technology one of the most important Technologies is antivirus software you send a virus you could destroy an entire company send a guy email email says hi it's your friend Justin the guy opens the email he presses on some file because he thinks it's his friend Justin and the email says his friend Justin's email looks like exactly the same like Justin send it to him he opens the file it says I love you or something like that or whatever it says the guy opens a virus he could destroy the entire company you can m shut down the entire company in a matter of minutes so these V antivirus companies are something we depend on the problem is that anyone that knows a little bit about technology especially people that are hackers and people that know a little bit about the behind the scenes of Technology they'll tell you that the biggest pushers of virus are the antivirus companies the antivirus companies are actually the ones that create the virus so you buy their software they create the disease because they already have the Cure it's almost like the dentist punching you in the face to break your tooth and says come back I'll give you a ranel you understand so here you have you have things that are not moral that's because it's coming from people comes from people it's not Dependable it looks good on the surface it looks good Coca-Cola looked good just that people didn't know that in the beginning it had cocaine in it Coca-Cola why is it called Coca-Cola because they put cocaine in it but everybody was so happy because all the babies would stop crying as soon as you gave Coca-Cola but you look at the history book you see all these little babies all the parents would give Coca-Cola to the babies not milk no more breast milk no more nothing what they give him Coca-Cola why as soon as the baby had a sip Coca-Cola stop crying instantly look at the news reports and the old days later they found out yeah why does he stop crying he's high the guy just did an eight ball real Caine real 100% cocaine what mean real what is fake cocaine well you know of anything there a different type of cocaine not anymore not anymore in the old days when they found out that this is obviously an addictive drug and it kills people when they found out that this is a drug that kills people and is addictive and so on they obviously removed it but the but but the point but the point is is that you had damage happen before people found out same thing with a lot of other things there's a lot of drugs that go to the FDA and they're released to the public and only to find out a year two years three years to into it that the drug makes people people suicidal or the drugs makes people going to you know it's a drug for a headache but it makes people depressed give me the headache back I don't want to be depressed the drug is to cure fungus on the foot but the guy wants to jump off a rou I just give me the don't give me a foot don't even give me the foot just don't let me I don't want to jump off the roof one time I told you seven years of Health Battle you try everything we went traditional medicine alternative medicine and at some point I uh the problem obviously continued getting worse and I got something called hyper sensitivity hypers sensitivity means that if you touched me just touch me regular I feel it drastically more than you do which means that whatever pain I had I felt it 10 times what it really was so it was already bad to begin with but I felt it like 10 times more so it's like a little mini gome so now now if let's say for example you have uh let's I don't know you get scratched you scratch your hand hurts a little bit but it goes away the pain goes away I don't know minute later 30 seconds later me feel it for 25 minutes 25 minutes a little scratch so I went to different doctors and this and one neurosurgeon makes a million dollars a year told me yeah you should take this drug it's going to come your nerves it's going to do this it's going to do this it's going to do that I said okay this guy's successful he's smart he's this he's that all these wonderful things he tortured me a little bit with the tests the tests were horrible cuz they test your nerves to test your nerves they inflict pain on you again a little another level of Gom I told you you guys you don't know all the stories so anyway with a million dollars a year the guy gives me a drug and he says you know good luck to you everything's going to be okay two days later I see myself I'm in pain pain is not stopping but all of a sudden I'm starting to look in my roof and I'm like you know what wouldn't be too bad to jump out of this roof started to become suicidal for no reason for just looking like maybe I should jump off the roof not because I was depressed just I was just like IM something's gonna happen I start I'm like no no it's not good so I go back to my day then I go downstairs I I used to be a smoker so I smoked a cigarette and I'm thinking to myself you know what maybe I should jump in traffic see what happens and then I re I catch myself I'm like what is wrong with me I call my wife immediately I'm like honey what is wrong with me I start telling her she goes stop taking the drug I just found it on the net it's suicidal I actually just found out I didn't want to tell you I called the doctor goes oh yeah we forgot to tell you we forgot to tell you that they it's a it's a it's a potential side effect it's a potential side effect the bill me no didn't forget so it gets worse and worse so so now but this drug had to go through a line of tests and as part of its approval they knew this drugs makes people suicidal but it's still in the system and it's not the only one there's plenty of them that's why when you see drug commercials I haven't watched TV in a few years when you see drug commercials at the end of the commercial there's a speed talker a guy speaks really really fast and he tells you all the side effects what death what I just want I what I just wanted for a headache I have a wart on my finger why death what happened dying what your family's going to die what what do you mean I just have I just have an ingrown nail why is my family going to die what do my kids do what do they do I just have go nil honey shut the TV off we got to move the old neighbor's going to die he's a plague what what happened it's just for I just want to I didn't want to propa I want to put some hair or something but they think that if they talk fast you're going to miss it and unfortunately we do because Satan talks really really fast Satan talks so fast you forgot it's him talking Satan talks so fast that sometimes it makes it look like you're talking so first rule of thumb you're looking for Morality you're looking for honesty you could only find it from God you will not find it in people now this is extremely important and the reason why is because sometimes you see stories that will shock you sometimes you will see a guy that was a rabbi sadik kosher person left everything millions of dollars Fame Fortune everything decided to go help people do chuva and succeeded and then one day he loses his mind and he goes the opposite way not only does he stop being religious but he starts making other people not religious which is unfortunately a story that we're hearing about right now without mentioning names this is happening as we speak this is your first one of your questions how could such a thing happen How could somebody leave what you would think is the God of this world of idol worship which is money leave money leave Fame leave Fortune leave everything go help people do chuva great everything was working out wonderful one day disappears from the scene disappears from the scene no one hears from it for a while but now you're hearing little secrets and little stories and little horror things where now he's starting to do the opposite now he's trying to convince religious people to become not religious how could such a thing happen this has to do with morality this has to do with morality because in the history of mankind in the history of mankind you will never find a single person that left the Torah because of the Torah you only find people leaving the tah because of either people or their own desires or combination of both they either can't stand people they saw some guy that looks like a rabbi but really is a molester he's got a long beard reaches the floor he's got a hat that reaches the sky but the guy molests little kids you have these stories almost every other day it seems like principal of a Yeshiva rapes kid principle of this one rapes this one what's wrong with these people so the secular people the religious people and the all look at this guy looks like a sadik looks like everything is great looks like a little miniu he's raping little kids that's what the Torah is no my friends that's not the Torah that's people that's people so when you think that that person is a representative of Judaism that's your first mistake the second reason why people leave Jud ism is because they're tired of making sacrifices and they want to start feeding their own desires simple as it gets they like the material world too much they want girls they want money they want fortune they want fame they want to celebrate this life without a care in a world be like the Greeks live for the moment they're tired of praying every day three times a day they're tired of saying thank you to Hashem every day first thing that they wake up in the morning before they eat after they eat after they go to the bathroom every single moment you have to think about this God I'm tired of it I don't want to think about I want to think about myself little do they know that all of those mitv are for yourself so when someone is looking at that they're not leaving Judaism because of the Torah they're leaving it because of their own desires the yet convinced them they can get away with it their grandfather wrote a book their mother lights a candle for every Friday their cousin is a rabbi in some they think that they get piggy back off of somebody else's there's a very famous story in the it's one of the Giants of all Giants in history we read about him in the beginning of the mishna his brother was very rich and he came to him one day and he says I'm rich I succeed in business you succeeded in Torah why don't we do deal I'll buy half your mitv I'll give you half my money I'll buy half your mitzvot what's it to you you'll have money you could buy build more Co do make movies on the internet do whatever you want you have a fortune I don't have that much mitv so now I have mitv I got a billion dollars I'll give you 500 million I got 10 billion give you five billion give you half deal or no deal a but call from sham came out a Heavenly voice from shamim came out and said even if he would agree even if you would agree when you'd arrive to sh we'd laugh in your face to think that you can buy a single mitvah forget half of his mitv a single Mitzvah with all of the in the world not just your money your five billion your five trillion your five whatever all of the money in the world can buy one Mitzvah the smallest Mitzvah the biggest mitvah doesn't make a difference one Mitzvah can't afford said in sh they use a verse from SCH said it I think it's from my co it says we laugh at you when you get to sh for thinking so foolishly that you can buy mitv after they were already made you want to buy you buy them before they made you want to invest in tah you invest into the guy before he becomes R not after he becomes R there's a story of a guy a rich guy who invested in buying a BMW every year and he thought he was doing a big Mitzvah he said he's buying Rya a car I 100,000 $150,000 car every year every year he' buy a brand new car he was very very rich and he would consider that is now wasn't exactly too keen on uh material stuff but he just took the car and he would give it to his family to drive him around and so on but this was not a uh traditional thing but the point is is that one day the news reports come out that the guy that was so-called donating this BMW crashed in a helicopter and died so they asked doesn't they say it's that charity tells us charity will save you from death so how could it be that a guy that donates BMW every year or every few years whatever it is how could he die not only died but died such a horrible death this is a strange death you know from a helicopter what they say said BMW is not a uh it's not giving rabada a BMW is not considereda it's a gift it's Nota giving before he becomes a few dollars to survive that that's after becomes you give him a present you give a present not he doesn't need you's he's a multi-millionaire he doesn't need your present it's not go give it to an that doesn't have food to eat right now before he becomes that's go help do by contributing to some organization that actually helps people do chv that's but you want to give it to some famous celebrity that already he's already printing money in his living room and you think that's that's not that's just a gift gift you don't get you don't get special uh protection from heaven for a gift it's nice thank you that's so you get you get thank you card so now when someone leaves the religion how could such a thing be so first and foremost we have to understand is that when a person is basing Judaism on Jews and he's basing his chuva on the Jewish people he's basing his conversion on the Jewish people and for a matter of fact he's basing his anything on people any people it becomes like an hourglass you know The Hourglass where the grains keep dropping dropping and eventually they run out of the sand where it's only a matter of time before they all let you down and before your decision to do chuva to move to convert to join something it's only a matter of time with that whole decision the whole rationale behind your decision collapses why because it's based on people and people will let you down people people will let you down your friend from childhood is not your friend anymore your best friend from three years ago all of a sudden you don't talk anymore your colleague that you used to smoke a cigarette with 18 times a day when you worked on Wall Street he doesn't even call you I had a guy that mkin he had a lot of problems he came from an enormous amount of money came from a very very rich family as a teenager he would crash his Porsches and Ferraris that kind of money and we were friends in a business but I he was older than me but I took him under my wing because he was a mess he was a psychological mess extremely smart guy like IQ off the roof very handsome guy used to be a model like celebrity model everything going for him problem drugs drugs would destroy this kid so anyway so I took him under my wing and I try to help him every time he get into trouble I'd bail him out get arrested I'd bail him out get high bail him out too high s to rehab pay for rehab and so on and so forth this this guy became like my son for years endless amount of problems one of the times he uh got kicked out of his house so I took him into my apartment now one of my apartments in New York was on the seventh floor and two floors down there was like a community balcony on the fifth floor so one time this is one of the crazy stories you can't make cup so one time I went out and uh I told him listen just do me a favor go to sleep you got into some trouble or whatever go to sleep relax stop with the drug stop with all the mess stop please just I'm only going to be gone for a few hours can you do it no problem no problem no problem and he was such a manipulative person all people by the way that have a drug addiction automatically inherit the ability to manipulate everyone feels bad for them I was one of a mass sucker for people like this so anyway he uh I go out I come back there's a few things a few details I'm trying to avoid telling you I come back to the house I my the doorman to my apartment building tells me where were you I'm like what what happened he goes you didn't hear I'm like no what didn't hear what said he jumped out of your window I'm like what do you mean jumped in the he goes he jumped from the fifth from the seventh floor to the fifth floor because he thought that the cops were after him somebody was he got high he got high he thought that he got paranoid somebody knocked on the door he thought it was the cops he jumped out of the window destroyed his leg his leg broke into a million pieces and then he started like crawling in the hallway m a big mess I'm thinking to myself what is going on with this kid a few hours I leave you a few hours so anyway I go to the hospital take care of this guy this that whatever yeah they have to put metal in his leg life of have stories that can write a book just about these stories of course the first time as I told you the story get keeps going it's a very long story if I told you guys the story be 10 years so anyway so this guy jumps out of my window I take care of him his drug habits send them to rehab a couple of times every time $188,000 coming out of my bank like nobody's business no problem no problem guy's sick you love the guy's a good guy take care of him as you would have it one day I get sick November 18 2006 my surgery my famous surgery takes place I start dying everyone knows people that know me know people that don't know me know everyone knows your own ruen is dying some strangers come to visit some familiar faces come to visit but he doesn't come to visit he doesn't come to visit or even call for almost three years and one day he calls me and he says hey hey how are you how's everything I heard you know heard you had a thing like yeah you heard I had a thing huh I'm like where were you when I was down because no I don't know I I felt bad I don't know I didn't call right away I don't know it was I don't know I don't know I'm like yeah I don't know I don't know but thank you for I don't know but good luck that's it guy like that for me me guy like that doesn't call you doesn't visit you you nursed them much more than what I'm telling you people will let you down it's not just in religion it's everywhere so if you're basing your decisions on people your decision has no legs it's only a matter of time before it gets destroyed if you converted because you like the Jewish Community you converted for the wrong reason if you converted for a husband or a wife you converted for the wrong reason and Sham they won't accept your conversion but he you'll have to suffer with it if you became religious because you like a community you want to be part of some bitet you became religious for the wrong reason it's only a matter of time before the community will spit at you it's only a matter of time before you're not popular anymore it's only a matter of time before you're not invited to the community barbecue or before people start talking about you or before they start saying things that you don't really like or they don't accept your kids to school or they don't back you on some type of plan that you have it's only a matter of time before they all let you down only a matter of time they're all going to ask you for favors but they're never going to return all of them call me and ask me oh can you help my son he left he's off the D why is he off the D he did some drugs oh he has a non-jewish girlfriend oh he has a this oh he has a that can you talk to him can you do a lecture for him can you invite him can you go oneon-one with him can you do this can you do that no problem no problem whatever your son is Mein your wife is M your husband your this no problem you want me to help no problem here's a package give him give him my number have him call me he wants to meet whatever whatever it is we work for Hashem no problem you would think that in three years you'd send $10 contribution $10 contribution to the I sent you a package $95 free you think at the very least you'd pay back the $95 because you make a h 100,000 a year you make 50,000 a year you would think you know that we work off we don't get MTH from sham you think I helped your brother I helped your sister I helped you I helped something do you think somebody's going do something no my friend no no it doesn't work that way doesn't work that way if you're doing it for you're doing it for the wrong reason if you're doing it for all of these other things it's a matter of time before the whole system shuts down so when you get in to you tell the story I made money I did this and I left this and I did all these things initially people are impressed but this one specific person was expecting to get the same level of respect from the Jewish world that he got in a business world and fortunately it doesn't always work that way he made an error he spoke about somebody that he shouldn't have spoken about whether he's right or wrong is irrelevant and that other person emptied out the laundry on this guy he uncovered a lot of things that no one wants to hear and in so many words the Jewish World wasn't exactly very accommodating wasn't exactly very pleased to hear this news so he got embarrassed he got [Applause] embarrassed and he ran away and now he's so upset at the Jewish people that he wants to destroy them this has nothing to do with the Torah even though he's trying to use the same Torah that he learned against him he's trying to or he is being a a degenerate with he thinks permission of the Torah to be a degenerate as the ramban said the reality of it is that he's not doing it because of the Torah he's doing it because of his own ego his ego was hurt he was expecting people to applaud him he was expecting people to kiss his uh you know what he was expecting people to praise him and as soon as a few Tomatoes were thrown in his face he didn't like it so now he wants revenge you remember a story like that in the we just had you guys remember a story about that no which story same thing ego is hurt has nothing to do with the Torah he didn't go to the go and rat on the Jews because he didn't like the Torah he used the Torah law he used the Torah law against the Jews saying listen if you bring theban and the kban is has a has a gum on it has some type of Mo on it they're not going to accept it so what did he do he created the mo he cut the uh sheep's uh lip and he knew the Jews are not going to accept the uh the Corban what happened destruction of betam mikdash why it wasn't the Torah that destroyed bet mikdash people was ego it wasn't the Torah that made this guy go off the him and many like him was ego lack of morality no one in the history of mankind has ever left the because of the Torah they only left it because of themselves because of their bad decisions their lack of morals and their bad decisions so here we see if you want morals you could only get them from the Torah if there's morals that are missing that's because Torah is missing in a place where there's no morality there's also no Torah that's what the first part of this mishna is teaching us to answer your first question and if there is no wisdom there's no fear fear of God if there's no fear of God there's no wisdom Proverbs chapter 1 verse two says what's that's actually but he defines in M2 he defines as what's mus you want to have wisdom wisdom could only be found in the Torah only found in the Torah now if you're talking about Architects scientists biologists physicists and so on this is not wisdom this is knowledge you gain knowledge for a profession you gain knowledge for some type of thing that you do it's not wisdom wisdom is a way that you run your life wisdom is a way that you're going to operate your life and what's going to happen beyond your life how do you plan for those things if you're a doctor for example it's great but if Shalom you get into an accident and you can't move your body anymore you being a doctor is now useless useless it's useless knowledge because you can't practice anymore wisdom on the other hand is something you can always use as long as you're alive and your brain is functioning you could always use wisdom so first and foremost if there's wisdom in this world it must come from the Tor it must come from the Tor why because the only one that possesses wisdom ISM and he gave you all of it in the Tor now how do you know if somebody possesses wisdom says if he's a if he has wisdom he's GNA do why because the first thing he's going to do as soon as he arrives at wisdom he's going to ask himself why am I here what's the difference between me and a donkey this was the question that ad asked I believe asks Adam asked Hashem what do I eat Hashem says you eat the grass soam says so me and my donkey going to eat the same thing soem says no no okay I'm going to give you fruits too obviously this is a midash what do we learn from here we learn from here that what separated from a donkey what's up what's the difference between you and a cow aside from looks can't tell me because you speak maybe it speaks also you just don't understand speaks out I don't know I saw I saw a thing uh one time on I National Geographics or Discovery one of those things they do about lions and they made the they showed the show of these two female lions they had their cubs and they were protecting their cubs from other lions that wanted to kill the Cubs and they would like whenever the Lions would come attack them the Cubs would run away the female lions would fight the Lions as soon as they ran away they'd go look for the Cubs how they looking for the Cubs they start howling or something to them and eventually the little cubs would find them like oh IMA IMA how are you so obviously they're talking the fact that you don't understand it is your problem so you can't tell me the difference between your lion is talk he talks also what's the difference Soul prove it where's your soul show it to me okay so you have a soul so there's a lot of people that have souls okay no you're get the right way but how do you implement to build a house why the uh the um the birds don't have a house they have a house their house has even better construction than yours so they fly they don't need f16s they fly by themselves the animal in okay okay main difference is main difference you have tah meaning you have instructions from god of what you need to do and how you need to do it you have a guide they work off of instincts like you said but you have guidelines you have consequences they don't they don't have if a chicken kills another chicken it doesn't go to G doesn't go to G if a cow decides to carry a few things on its back on Shabbat doesn't go to G if a lion eats a non kosher piece of meat doesn't go to G unfortunately when a Jew does all those things he does it's consequences why because a Jew is given an instruction set a Jew is given an instruction set that teaches them how to be moral a Jew was given an instruction said that tells them where he came from so explained to us that uh if it weren't for the Torah there really wouldn't be a difference between him and a donkey and therefore there really wouldn't be a reason for hasem to give him a different type of food it would be the same thing since you're the same thing as a donkey eat the same thing he eats grass you eat grass what's the difference the fact that you eat different food is for a specific reason because your mouth is supposed to be used for something else so now this Torah as soon as a person understands that he has some level of wisdom in his head he knows that he has to figure out things how to run his life first of all he has to accumulate information you see little kids in the beginning when they're little babies one of the greatest pleasures of being a parent is seeing the kids grow up seeing the baby from not being able to move all of a sudden he starts moving he moves an arm he starts celebrating for a week moves the leg it's like wow starts like communicating with you even without words starts smiling you just think you sawu every little action every little thing he does or she does it's the greatest thing in the world so first thing you see you notice that the kids they try to test everything out they put it in their mouth they start touching it they hit it they kick it they jump on it they do stuff not because they want to get in trouble not because they're trying to torture their parents even though sometimes it does just want to see what happens I want to see what happens when I hit my brother in the face P the kid cries oh that's funny so the kid starts laughing at the other one why are you laughing you just hit your brother oh I don't know he makes funny noise when he's crying the little kid doesn't have a concept of pain like the other two-year-old doesn't have a concept that the one-year-old has pain he just sees him just crying as a result of something he's not connecting right away that's a result of you punching him in the face or if he takes a piece of scissors and starts cutting your dress you doesn't think oh ima's going to be really really upset when she sees that I cut her dress he's thinking why this is so creative look what I made Tada he's happy about it or if they take a market they start drawing on all your walls they're not thinking we're gonna have to paint the halls again no they're thinking look IMA son what Sun there's all types of craziness on the wall now they're just trying stuff out so kids trying stuff out it's amazing to see it it's amazing to see kids trying stuff out so the first thing that a human being does similar to an animal is trying stuff out to accumulate knowledge accumulate experience the next stage is to start making decisions based on this experience try to accumulate this experience and try to figure out how did it work out last time last time I jumped off the couch it hurt my face so I'm not going to jump off the couch again or maybe I'll jump in this time I won't do it after the fifth time they stop jumping off the couch so they learn off of experience eventually they mature they grow up they use other experiences they start realizing that there are certain things they should do there's certain things they shouldn't do sometimes they realize it early sometimes they realize it late but the point is is that you start realizing that there's a third step the third step is you have to start figuring things out before you take a shot you have to start rationalizing things and start predicting Things based on pre uh previous experience based on somebody else's experience based on just common sense and so on so when a person arrives at this intelligent Point according toal and Ben is said that a kid is the equivalent of a monkey until about 6 years old till about 6 years old they're equivalent to a monkey it's not disrespecting kids we obviously love kids and we live part of our life for our kids but as far as intellect is concerned you can't really do much with a kid before he's six years old as far as you know really really seriously educating them you could do certain things certain level of discipline certain level of education but you can't you know have like a heart to heart conversation with a three-year-old as much as you would like it he's going to forget about it as soon as he sees some show on TV or computer or something one time there was a uh a bunch of scientists at the time of the rambam that said we to the king we believe that we can change the nature of anything and the rambam who was a renaissance man in essence he was a philosopher a doctor a scientist many many different uh professions not only one of the Giants in all of history as far as Al and all parts of Torah but uh he was also a giant even in the secular world to such an extent that even the G till this day have a statue of him saying he's one of the 18 most important people that ever lived I think it's in Washington so anyway the scientist of his day almost 900 years ago said we believe that we can change the nature of anything and the rambam said it's impossible to change the nature of anything now humans you can't change the nature because a human you know you can't prove it you can't prove the change the nature of a human being because he could act you could tell me I changed his nature look last last year he was a criminal this year he's a tadik you can't prove he could be an actor last year he was a criminal this year he's a Bigg criminal just has a mask on we say okay so we could change the nature of a cat give us a cat give us some time we're going to change the nature of a cat so they took the cat the ram says whenever you're ready just let me know no problem I'll prove to you that you can't change the nature this is actually a story that happened they took the cat they started training him 6 months passed they go to the king they tell the king look at the cat the cat is wearing a little bow tie and he he's holding a dish and he's walking on two legs it's like look we changed the nature of the cat he's now believes he's a waiter everyone's impressed o wow look at the cat he's serving cheese he's serving wine this is amazing this is amazing amazing wow who H big deal call the rambam bring the rambam the rambam that day was studying and he saw there was a little mouse going inside his Tobacco Box so rather than kill it what he do close the box he closed the box and he wanted to take it out to throw it out but as soon as he was about to throw it out somebody came to his house from the king's uh Castle said the king is calling you he put the Box in his pocket ET he forgot about it so he went to the castle said oh the scientists are back he Ram forgot about this he says I forgot about this bet already a long time ago because he knew it's not possible to change the nature of anything so they say look we changed the cat and he sees this cat walking on two feet or two legs and he's carrying a plate with this and the r immediately has a thought oh he has a mouse he opens the Tobacco Box and he lets the mouse out and as soon as he lets the mouse out the cat goes back to his previous nature the plate goes one wall the bow tie goes another wall the wine goes in the other wall and he's going after the mouse without saying a word he proves the point nature doesn't change now person on the other hand can change his behavior but he has to have a good instruction set if he's using secular instruction set that instruction set is temporary that instruction set is limited so for example people that like to use for example things like uh the self-help books or coaches like Tony Robbins uh or um or Zig Ziggler or any of these uh motivational type of speakers or the book like the secret all of those things they all sound wonderful be positive posi positive things would happen be good good things would happen it's nice it's nice thought but what about when you're positive and uh you are uh very positive you have a mantra every day I'm going to be positive posi and you say to yourself in the mirror I'm going to be positive I'm going be positive I'm be positive 500 times and you find out that shom you're uh I don't know somebody related to you has cancer how's that positive how's that secret work for you hi to Tony Robbins and Zig Ziggler and whoever else that's your coach how's he going to explain that one when you're uh so positive how about you're so positive you say I'm going to be rich I'm be rich I'm be rich and be rich and Rich I want to be so rich and you find out on Wednesday morning that your company lieman Brothers just declared bankruptcy and your whole 401K worth 1.8 million is not worth 18 cents because all of it was invested in Company stock and Company stock is worthless how's that for being positive how's that for being a secret it's so secretive no one knows it Law of Attraction how about you're so law of attraction is so Fant fantastic to you attract a bunch of people to mug you and take your Bentley how's that for attraction all of that is limited it's limited in a sense yes there are certain aspects of it that are positive certain aspects of let's say for example if somebody wants to smile force himself to smile for 20 minutes a day it is proven scientifically that he creates certain hormones that improve his behavior improve his State of Mind mind for the moment it's not going to solve your bank account problems it's not going to solve your marriage you still have to be a decent human being it's not going to somehow bring kids to the world if your wife can't have kids or if your sperm cells don't work it's not sorry as positive as you can be only God can do those things so when you go and listen to all these things these all self-help books it's all wonderful but it's limited it's limited the Torah on the other hand is given to you by God God is always God and if he's always God that means he's not limited there's no limit to him so here you have a person that's acquired a certain amount of information from being a baby to being a child to being a teenager to being an adult he's acquired information at some point along the way once twice 10 times countless times he's going to ask him what's the difference between me and the Donkey if he acquired wisdom he knows that he had to come from somewhere if he doesn't think he came from anywhere there is no difference between him and a donkey if he thinks that he came from an accident as a matter of fact the donkey is in better shape than him if he thinks that his parents didn't actually create him and he just appeared then he belongs in a mental institution if he thinks that his maybe he came from his parents because there's baby pictures but his parents s magically appeared then him and his parents need to go to a mental institution somehow they have to explain the beginning you have to explain the beginning of how it all started so people that try to explain that everything happened from some big bang they still cannot answer the question of what was the beginning first cell where did the first cell come from St Hawkings can't answer it all of these other scientists can't answer it and the reason why is because the answer is something they don't like it's called God whether you want to believe God created Adam and Eve or you want you want to believe that he created a cell that somehow became Adam and Eve irrelevant point is you still got to believe in God and if you believe in God why are you limiting him to only making one seed if he's already going to create something why is he only creating one seed why can't he create the whole chicken why does he have to create the egg and if he create the chicken why can't he create a monkey and if he create a monkey why can't he create a human and if he create a human what's the difference between you in Torah the only difference between you and Torah the Torah obligates you Torah says this God he smart just like you know you're smart your creator at least has to be just as as smart as you and there's no human on earth than from beginning of time until the end of time that ever started working on something for no reason no human on earth ever put anything together for no purpose whatsoever no human on earth ever built a chair for no reason you ask him what are you doing that for no reason what do you mean is there a purpose for this chair well yeah I guess you can sit in it oh so it does have a purpose there's no such thing as a purposeless creation so if the creation knows enough has accumulated enough knowledge to know that no creation can be purposeless then obviously the creator that created the creation also knows he can't create something for no purpose the creator has to be at the very least as smart as the creation obviously he's much smarter but the point is at the very least just a smart so if the creation knows that it's never going to create something for no reason there always has to be a reason there always has to have some type of purpose for All Creations that means your creator also knows that has to be a purpose that Creator had to give you the instruction set because if he knows that there has to be purpose that means the creation needs to know what its purpose is because without the creation knowing what the purpose is does has no purpose so now we go back to the original question the original question is why does there have to be a God because somebody had to create the first thing the first being the beginning and since scientists sometimes don't like to hear the word god they call it intelligent design call whatever you want point is there has to be something and that's something had to create some type of instruction set that instruction set is called the Torah there's many many ways to prove it this is just one simple rational way to do it there has to be an instruction set and no one can dispute that this is it no one can dispute it you can say you don't believe in it because you don't know enough about it or even if you claim to know enough about it you could say I just don't want to follow it but the reality of it is this instruction set the only reason why people argue against this instruction set and they don't argue against the instruction set you get with your iPhone they don't argue against the instruction set you get with your television they don't argue with the instruction set that you get from the government they don't argue with the instruction set that you get from anything else is because with this instruction set you have a choice you have a choice of whether you could accept it or not with the iPhone you you don't have a choice even though at the bottom it says accept or not accept in reality if you press decline your phone's not going to work when you sign a contract with a company and said you accept our conditions if you say no you don't get the job so in reality it's the choice but it's really no choice the choice but it's really no choice it's really the only choice is yes or get out of our face yes or go away with the Torah you have a choice you have a choice of whether you want to accept it or not because there's consequences for that choice if there was no choice there wouldn't be consequences so one of the questions you asked before this year started was about free choice is a free choice removed from someone if the free choice of a person was removed from him then hasem would not be permitted from his own rules to punish him this is the reason why hasem did not punish despite all of the damage he called caused hasem left him alive he was the only one alive that survived the Sea of reeds collapsing on all the Egyptians and he actually became the king of nve became the king of nve and that's why nve did chuva in 40 days because already knew that hem is real but why did Hashem leave him alive some people say oh it's because he wanted to prove it to par he really needs to prove it to par the reason why is because hem removed this free choice as soon as he removed his free choice he can't punish him so in essence when someone's free choice is removed that's obviously excluded from the equation here you have a choice your choice is do you want to listen to God or not and the difference between the Torah and your iPhone instructions and the New Testament the Quran the everything else is this has consequences this has consequences when you listen to the Torah it has consequences when you don't it also has consequences that's as simple as it gets so the thing is that when a person understands that there has to be a cre the creator has to have some type of instruction set immediately arrives at immediately scared and that's why it says if you have no wisdom if you're like the donkey of course you're not going to be afraid of God if you have no Torah which is what is what wisdom is from the Torah if you have no Torah of course you're not going to be afraid of God because you don't believe in him now what about people that say no no I believe in God but um I love him I I'm not scared of him that means you believe in a false god you believe in a God but it's not the god of Israel and the reason is because the god of Israel says that if you do certain things you get rewarded if you do other things you get punished now interprets this is that what does it mean to believe in God and he says the following he says first and foremost that believe in God means that you believe in a divine origin of the Torah meaning that you believe that this Creator is obviously more intelligent than you must have given an instruction set must have given an instruction set now it cannot be the Quran that came up 1500 years ago since the Quran came after Christianity it cannot be the Christianity since Christianity was 2,000 years ago almost 1500 years after Judaism and they themselves say that Judaism preceded them it cannot be the Idol because the idol is still here and he's still worth only 15 bucks in Chinatown the only thing that leads to is to the Torah so first thing that says You must believe that Torah is not just a bookal like a history book but it is divine meaning the hand of God put it together together it must be from God if you are one of these people that says no we believe in a Tor but there's like one verse I don't believe from the Torah you my friend have put your entire in Jeopardy according to the r you have no share of the world to come one verse you don't believe this from God you have no share of the world to come to that extent so first thing says and I'll answer the question after I finish these two points is you must believe the Torah is from God second Point You Must Believe In Divine reward and Punishment if there is no reward and Punishment it's not from God if your lifestyle if your world if your mentality does not have reward and Punishment you my friend live in La Land you live with the Carebears and the unicorns you don't live in the world because the world we live in has reward and Punishment whether you like it or not whether you agree with it or not there's still going to be traffic and there a punishment for traffic if to waste four hours of your day waiting on it if you try to cut off everybody and go through the red sign there's a punishment for doing that too you you're putting other lives at risk whether you agree with it or not is irrelevant the government instilled a law and they didn't ask you for permission they said if you blow through the red sign you my friend have a problem if there is a problem because somebody hit you if there's a problem because you're just going to get a fine irrelevant you have a problem you violated the law whether you agree with the law or not is irrelevant meaning that in your natural state you know that you live in the world with reward and Punishment you work hard naturally you're supposed to succeed but in general you know that that's supposed to be the outcome eventually you don't work you know that naturally you're going to become homeless at some point naturally is a reward and Punishment you keep cursing your wife out naturally she's going to poison you most likely or at least leave you on the best case she'll leave you on a more likely case most likely she'll kill you you poison your kids with filthy language and filthy televisions and filthy internet and filthy Hobbies they eventually are going to go against you they're going to use all of that knowledge to go against you why they're going to learn on TV how people do things and how do you know against their parents and they're going to follow you oh this is cool look there's a show on MTV where the kid keeps booby trapping his father that sounds like fun fun they had a whole show about it when I was a kid I know 20 something years ago had a whole show about it where the kid kept torturing his father the whole show he'd put fireworks under his chair he'd mess with his food all types of things so what did kids that watch it do they did the same thing to their father are you surprised that this generation is full of degenerates we have every day hundreds of thousands of people that are going to be our Future Leaders future presidents future CEOs future doctors future lawyers future people we put our lives on a line in their hands they may heal us they may get us out of jail they may fight a battle for us they may vote for something for us they are going to represent us in the future and these hundreds of thousands of kids are going to cocaine parties ecstasy parties alcohol parties prostitution parties every day that's the future every day all of the Future Leaders go to ecstasy parties techno parties garbage parties parties Ganon parties Sodom and Gomorrah parties every day every day that's your future that's your Future Leaders why their parents said you could watch TV you could freely surf the Internet here's an allowance of a hundred bucks a week go do whatever you want with it go do go do what you want with it have fun oh you don't want to go to school anym you want to drop out honey okay don't worry about it you can stay home you're only 13 years old it's okay you're already an adult you can stay home you can stay home you'll just you'll educate yourself on YouTube You'll educate yourself oh honey you like smoking weed it makes you feel better okay no problem honey I I believe in you I know you're I know you're going to protect yourself I know you're not going to do anything stupid oh honey you're addicted to cocaine oh you could get off it I trust you I trust you give the kid Freedom do what you want son I love you I just don't want to hear you cry and eventually David tells us it's the parents that cry because the child is turned into a the child is turned into a wayward child where if the son had the ability if they were still in power they would have to kill him as a child why kill him while he's still a minor sinner minor that's Point number two last but not least of this specific point that will answer your question is You Must Believe not only in this reward and Punishment not only in the Torah coming from God but you must believe in the Eternal existence of the human soul meaning you must believe that this is just a corridor you are here temporarily you're in this world temporarily this is not real life this is temporary life real life comes as a result real life comes as a result of what you do here you do good you have eternal good you do bad you have eternal hot place anyone that tells you otherwise is a liar anyone that tells you that God loves you regardless of what you do and all Jews yes has two places one is warm one is not one has lava and the other one has trees and wonderful things anyone that tells you that all Jews are going to do chuva before the Messiah comes need to look at the r says yes all Jews will will do chva before the mashiah comes if they survive all the Jews that survive the Messianic days the 15 days of darkness the time where hasem is going to destroy all of theim we're not talking about the we're talking about the Jews 15 days of darkness similar to the several days of darkness we had in Egypt says if they survive they'll do Chua full Chua they already did Chua beforehand but they'll get to the culmination Point they'll get to be the 50th level of they'll go from 50th level of to 50th level of says rambam says yeah if they survive we're good if you survive if by the time the mhia arrives you're not already be expert in shabat you have no chance my friend if you're not keeping kosher inside the house and outside the house you have a problem if you're not keeping you're not wasting seed you're not stealing you're not have worked on your mid to clean yourself up you my friend have a serious serious problem because time ran out so here when someone understands that their is just stopping here for a little while trying to collect some bonus some Stars some diamonds in order to enter eternity if they don't understand this everything else goes to waste why there's no reason to do anything if there is no eternity you should never do a one mitzvah for what for what why you do a Mitzvah there's no eternity if there's no eternity there's no reason to keep toah go ahead before before yeah before after that he's considered an adult well no it has to be it could be earlier but in general they say that the in the Tora when they mentioned it they said it never actually happened they never actually killed the boy kazal the sages never actually killed the boy but they said that if a boy would fit all of these criterias they would actually have to kill him now we did a sh in uh in New York uh and uh you should know this if you haven't watched that sh you should watch it because uh to today we don't have one we have plenty we have many many wayward children but I'm not only talking about bad kids bad kids unfortunately it's like a plague today because of lack of education but I'm not just talking about that what I'm talking about is that according to ra MOS Feinstein anytime a Jew takes weed pot kashish any of these drugs and smokes them takes them and it's not for medicinal benefit it's not for like he doesn't have cancer Shalom or some type of other disease he's just taking it recreationally he is considered for all intents and purposes as a where if the was around they would actually have to kill him for weed forat he says it's 100% a Biblical sin so obviously if somebody has I don't know some type of disease and the uh the marijuana is helping him deal with pain no problem even though there there is AAR that says that even for medicinal purposes you're not allowed to take it unless there's no other choice if there's no other if there is another choice that doesn't get you high it doesn't get you to state of mind that's outside of the norm if there's another choice you have to take it but if there is no other choice then you can take it but if there is another choice and you take it you have a problem if you're not if you don't even have a problem you just like to get high you have a bigger problem so all of these kids that say oh no no I'm only doing weed I'm not going to get to Morphine I'm not going to get to cocaine I'm not going to get to ecstasy I'm not going to get to that you don't need to get to that according to the Tor even if if it's just that if you will it's not really just anything it's drugs if it's just that you still have a problem with God you still have a very serious problem with God we're not going to go through all the details of what is because I had a whole sh about it for an hour and a half in New York anyone that wants to learn the real answer of what the is about drugs recreationally and so on watch the but the point is is that it's 100% forbidden and even for medicinal purposes there is limitations meaning there has to be no other choice no other choice for you to be a uh uh cured so as far as the uh that's the uh issue with that now right the reason why they compare someone that does drugs why R mosha Feinstein compares the someone that does drugs to someone that's considered in a Torah as going against his parents is because if the guy that's going against his parents the reason why they kill him is because he said he is already a wayward child now what does a wayward child do he starts going against his parents if he doesn't get what he wants he starts stealing from them and if he doesn't get what he want if he if they ran out of money he's GNA start stealing from other people if the other people catch him stealing he's going to end up murdering them so we rather off killing him before he murders somebody that's what a is in the Tor MOS Feinstein says someone does drugs the same exact thing in the beginning he just uses his own money later on he starts stealing money from ABA and IMA later on he starts stealing from his friends maybe his wife maybe it's this one maybe it's that one later on it keeps getting bigger and bigger but as soon as the nest or the well runs dry or someone catches him it's not Beyond him to kill it's no longer Beyond him once someone is mentally or physically addicted to drugs it's not Beyond them to kill another person because once someone becomes addicted to drugs they no longer value their own life so they definitely don't value yours this is also the reason why in Israel there are there are different uh laws for Kut for Kut in Israel there is two types of Kut in restaurants one Kash is or that level and one is ran now if it's what's the difference if you go to a restaurant you see on the on the wall ran many of the religious people will not eat there and the reason why is because there's no M present at all times the the m has to have a m all the time but sometimes you're going to see in Israel something very different you're going to sometimes see a guy that says himself listen all my food is kosher the chicken is kosher the turkey is kosher the lamb is kosher it's all kosher it's very easy to get kosher food in Israel very easy he says all my food is kosher but I don't have the stamp I don't have the certificate why don't you have the certificate because I don't keep Shabbat in Israel if the owner doesn't keep Shabbat you cannot have a kosher restaurant in Israel it's supposed to be everywhere if there's no if their owner does not keep shab he cannot have a kosher certificate and the reason why is because they say if he doesn't keep Shabbat doesn't matter that his food is kosher not Kosher if he doesn't keep Shabbat he obviously doesn't care about his own if he doesn't care about his own why would he care about your n to make sure that he follows all the laws of kosher to make sure you eat kosher food he doesn't care about his own why would he care about yours if you know an owner here that obviously like I said the laws here are different here they have a m it's supposed to be a m all day many places do not have a m here all day a place doesn't have M here all day you shouldn't eat there and even if they do have a mash if the mash is a t Mash is a fool don't e like I know for example there's one guy that I know is I know personally he used to come to my he's a but he used to like my the first year I was doing sh year year and a half he's my friend my neighbor and he was to come to my he knows the entire written Tora by heart he's a I know he's I know he if he's if he's a if he's a Mas somewhere I know I have no problem with that place why he has so now on the other hand is's another guy in the neighborhood that also became a for whatever reason people became in our neighborhood over there a lot of people became they pay 150 bucks they barely know but they pay 150 bucks they go to a course they become M so anyway this guy became M now I know this guy personally I know him a little bit he's 100% a 100% of the guy M I don't even know if he believed in God but now he is right now presently he's a Mas in a restaurant that restaurant salad I wouldn't eat there salad salad I wouldn't eat there even if I wash it I wouldn't eat it that would be scared he may be messed with it you understand so again you have to know the M you can't just like you know so you have to try you have to try your best yeah can lock and unlock but then sometimes he leaves yeah he has to turn on the flame as far as cooking it's supposed to be that a Jew turns on the flame a Jew is monitoring the ingredients a Jew is monitoring in essence everything but again it's a uh if the uh staff gets used to the mash the rabbi leaving after he turned on the flame after he took care of the ingredients but he leaves until 9:00 at night they know he's gone at 9:00 in the morning he's not coming back till night you can't eat in that place why they know he's not coming back they could do whatever they want they could put Pig in there they could put cats in there they could put you in there they could put whatever they want in there why because they know he's not the mash is not coming for another 12 hours but if it's the type of place where the mashk shows up a different times random you have certain people that certain po that say that you know there may be some leniencies in certain places but in general you need to know where the Mas is you need to know where you're eating it's very very difficult place because in general right now there's even difficulties in confirming some of the meat forget the kosher restaurants some religious people like the really many of them don't even eat meat from the butcher unless they know the butcher because there's a lot of problems so again when you have you don't have to worry about stuff like this why because you know everything's from God use wisdom you get to God beginning of wisdom is fear of God so now that's the first thing you obviously get to if you're in Israel if you're in Israel then you have to eat M if it says just raban in Israel then I personally would not eat there in in America there's no such thing in America Everything is madling Everything is glut or whatever everything restaurants are GL there's no sometimes there's no M sometimes there is but everything is the same standard here there's no two standards in many places how do you know if there's a mash or not go in the kitchen yeah I'm saying go to no in Israel there's two different standards in America from White knowledge there's only one standard there is in America supposed to be but sometimes some places don't follow to that extent they don't have M there all day they're M for part of the day like I know another MH he's there for part of the day because he runs five other businesses he's a mash but he also runs five other businesses he's an entrepreneur so yeah he's a great businessman but terrible M because he's never there that of course the S yeah of course the S but again people have a problem because they made made money their God when they make money their God they follow their God everywhere when God is in Sears they go to Sears God is in Macy's they go to Macy's when God is in Gom they go to Gom God is in Vegas they go to Vegas their God is in stock market they go to the stock market wherever it is they follow them so when people make money they God they follow them everywhere even if they means that sometimes they have to pretend like they're following the god of Israel so they put a beard on they put a hat on they put black and white on which is the modern day Jewish uniform so it looks good they look religious but in reality they have a different God what do you do what do you do you have to check you have to check you have to be very careful who you deal with in general like I told you it's a u it depends how much you can handle different people it's not this is not like a rule of thumb where everybody can handle the same thing if you're a brand new B Chua you just started keeping Shabbat last week this last section is not 100% for you and the reason why is because right now we have to work on you keeping Shabbat right now we have to work on you keeping kosher at all stop eating shrimp six months from now a year from now even two years from now we'll start telling you you know the restaurant that you go to that kosher you shouldn't really eat that food even though it's kosher eat it home certain do not eat at all at any restaurants as a matter of fact most do don't eat at all outside period um I mean it's a uh in general it's there's a lot of different other reasons not just because of kosher there's other reasons of why they don't K can Custom Custom Custom yeah so yeah these these people these people have a special special Gom but you know so now when someone has wisdom when someone has Tor then he's gonna get to when someone doesn't have Tor he's not going to get why because without T there's no way for you to know that you're supposed to be scared of something after this he says do if there's no knowledge there's no understanding and if there's no understanding there's no knowledge so like we said before there are different levels of intellect is in essence wisdom you have accumulated knowledge that you've accumulated over time you know that a certain thing is called a pair certain fruit is called a apple you've accumulated certain knowledge you've accumulated knowledge about medicine you've accumulated knowledge about architecture and so on and so forth that's that's wisdom you've accumulate over time the next thing is called Bina Bina is being able to break things down and understand one thing from another one thing from another so for example if somebody walks in right now somebody walks in right now and they are they have uh mud on their shoes then you could know it's raining outside you can understand within a few seconds that it's raining outside or it rained right recently or at least they stepped in a puddle you understood from the mud you don't need to know you don't need to go outside to check if it's raining you don't need to ask the guy is it raining you know that just the fact that he has mud on his shoes and it's wet that he stepped into water and mud it's either because it's a puddle pre-existing puddle from rain that happened earlier or if from rain it's happening now either way something happened and that's where the mud came from it didn't just appear appear so that is knowledge uh B understanding you understood something from another do which is knowledge the ultimate knowledge is to understand things that are not that are Beyond meaning to understand the ultimate purpose of things in a sense of being able to decide good and bad so for example if you have a um a guy walking in here with mud and you see that everyone looks at them funny because walking to a biget with mud it's not exactly the greatest idea so immediately you don't need to ask people for their opinion you could already arrive at a conclusion that if you also have a situation like this you should clean yourself up before you come in you understood it's not a good thing to do and obviously it gets deeper than this so here he's telling you if you have no knowledge then there's no understanding if there's no understanding then there's no knowledge now to get to a basic level of knowledge basic level of basic level of wisdom anyone's going to get to just by being alive you're going to accumulate knowledge you don't have to be Jewish to do that you don't have to learn to often do it just being alive you see things you see different things you learn certain things to be able to understand one thing from another again you're also going to reach that level of uh of intellect simply by being alive you're going to know that if guy CES in with mud you know that it rained outside you don't need to learn to offer this but to decide what's good and bad you could only do a Torah because only the Torah is reliable enough to tell you on a consistent basis what's good and what's bad and it'll never change if it's good today it's always going to be good if it's bad today it's always going to be bad so when someone tells you that you're never allowed to drive on Shabbat to theet even though it's a nice cute Mitzvah to go to theet it's a nice Mitzvah but you're never allowed to uh to drive on Shabbat just to fulfill this Mitzvah thank you just to fulfill this Mitzvah simply because the Mitzvah of keeping Shabbat is much bigger than the Mitzvah ofet so if someone tells you that some big rabbi told them in secret told them in secret that you are allowed because you live in America which is a population of about six million Jews that are mostly reform and conservative and even the Orthodox are very very weak to some extent not all of them of course but many are weak so since such a weak weak Nation as a whole weak generation as a whole even weaker in the exile some big Rabbi that's one of the Giants of the generation told some other small tiny little noname Rabbi in secret your K has special rules they could drive to your on Shabbat this is no different than Christianity no different this is no different than Islam the rabbi that says that some other big Rabbi whatever name they want to drop people drop names like it's their best friends it's oh yeah Ru kaneski yeah yeah yeah R keski yeah he knows you they even Ru you was just throwing his name like he's your boy from school oh yeah rad yeah R I read his book yeah you read his book you even know how to read Hebrew what' you read people oh no no his sons his son what's his name people just drop names like it's their friends no this Rabbi yeah no I heard this Rabbi no he came to my K gave a lecture I shook his hand yeah he shook everybody's hand he's a decent human being so people say no no that Rabbi that big Rabbi told my Rabbi that it's okay for me or it's okay for my K to drive on Shabbat to be it you my friend are Christian you're reform you're conservative you're actually worse than a Muslim because a Muslim at least he's following whatever he thinks is true you know it's false you know it's false most Christians believe what they believe is true despite the fact that it's foolish they believe it's true you know it's false you're worse than them so all of those people that keep dropping names and trying to make excuses for themselves you need to know you're not following anything you're following your own religion you should stay home shouldn't go to beet and if you're already going to drive to besset why bother why bother go to the beach go somewhere else why show other Jews that you are driving on Shabbat enticing other Jews to potentially drive on Shabbat also one of the GU is a brand new B cha he just stopped driving on Shabbat but he sees the guy that gets an Aliyah driving on Shabbat says Ah see I get alah you just need money here you don't need to follow religion why you making other people fail because you're a loser why why either don't come or don't drive simple so the rabbi that says you're allowed to drive or doesn't say anything about it page 54 says Mia comes he's the first one he will punish just like he did at the time of the BET mikdash all of the rabbis that didn't say anything hasem punished them first why they didn't say anything they had knowledge they didn't say anything so even more so Rabbi that actually made up this law where he tells his k no some big Rabbi told me it's mut it's allowed for us this is complete garbage there's no such thing we don't have Giants that can do that and even if mosu came down he told you allowed to drive on Shabbat you're still not allowed to drive on Shabbat why because T is permanent so now how do people fail they fail when they humanize the Torah when they humanize it when they make it human they start adding things to it there a specific law is not to do that so when a person uses their intellect the right way they know that anyone that tells you such a thing is full of it they know it's they're full of it there's no such thing as being allowed to drive on Shabbat because you're weak because you're old because you're ugly because you have six heads because of whatever other excuse you came up with because the rabbi likes you because you're dating someone that's really nice because you're rich because you're poor because you have a root canal stay home stay home Ten Commandments fourth Commandment says Don't drive on Shabbat don't drive on Shabbat it says doesn't say go to beet on Shabbat in your car doesn't say that so for all those people that are making new rules just you know not only do you get punished for violating Shabbat but you also get punished for treating AEM with casualness like he's your boy you treated AEM with casualness yeah drive your house no no no you never ever tell him you could drive to your house you can never ever tell him you can drive to my house on Shabbat ever never ever tell him if he drives to your house on his own it's one thing you can never tell him you could drive on Shabbat it's bad what is doing have you attended my lectures is kabad part of Judaism if kabad is part of Judaism then it's not good what they're doing if kabad is a different religion which some rabbis say it is then it is a problem the old kabad you know the founders ofab amazing people of today not as much not because of Shalom kabat as a whole but the style of what they're doing in many places that I know of is against the Torah so for example if you're telling me that what kabad is doing in your area is telling people drive on Shabbat because hopefully one day you'll do chuva that is 100% against the Torah and both the person saying drive on Shabbat and the person driving on Shabbat get the same punishment they both go a nice level very very warm place in g a nice Villa over there for about eternity why it's against the Torah it's a new law not allowed to create new laws not allowed to drive on Shabbat now if you invite someone to come to your house you say come to my house for Shabbat dinner now you know there's a possibility he's gonna drive obviously he doesn't keep anything you want to invite him come over if he drives on his own it's not your problem but that's for once one time once you know that he drove to your house you have to tell him you can't drive on Shabbat so the next time you come first of all try to convince him to stay your house for Shabbat if he ends up leaving anyway it's not your problem but the next time you have to tell him if you're GNA come to my house for Shabbat you can't drive can't drive on Shabbat you don't have a get out of jail free card because of B so if thead or whatever other place says drive now and don't drive later this is absolutely ass if that's what you meant that's what they're doing then again one time yes again not telling them to drive never ever telling to drive but again the problem that I see the reason why this kabad question is not new is because it's not one time many places not all obviously there are many places that are part of kabad that are phenomenal great amazing Kim but unfortunately some that have stolen the kabad name it's not really kabad they call themselves kabad real kabad is KES real kababik they were willing to die for any mitvah pick a Mitzvah they will to die for it real kabik were willing to die for Mitzvah of kanuk one candle willing to die for MIT die die they will to die for it any mitvah pick it they will to die for it even though you don't have to die they will real kabad Nik were so holy they want to die for any Mitzvah today some people are wearing the kabad banner the beard the Hat the symbol on the but they're not really it's it's like a costume no no it's just it's in general it's under the umbrella everyone thinks it's kabad in reality in sh they say no that's notab that's why they tell people oh yeah park over here park over here park over here park over here the guy comes to the biget with a car on on Shabbat with the car for 20 years no one ever says anything or even worse one of my students stopped driving on Shabbat finally she saw one of our videos she stopped driving on Shabbat what does the guy tell her oh how come you don't come to our besset anymore she because it's driving on Shabbat she go yeah it's okay Hashem understands Hashem understands you one of the pleasures that the sikim are going to get is seeing the wicked suffer it's what happens one of the punishment of the wicked the time of mashia is to go see all the get their reward this is what I could have had if I didn't drive on Shabbat so sometimes you have costumes you have people wearing costumes and the people wearing costumes call themselves kabad call themselves breast live call themselves all types of names try to connect themselves to to very very holy rabbis but in reality they're 100% it's fake so if anyone tells you you're allow to drive on Shabbat for any other reason other than he call him don't call him don't call him Jew call him he looks and he sounds like yov but he's as you understand so now how do we know if it's the right thing to do or not Hashem gave us dot Hashem gave us Bina hem gave us he gave us all these things just as a human being you were able to accumulate knowledge human being that's with your just a human being you able to understand one thing from another that's Bina I'm sorry that's a um Bina Bina and just as a human being by using the Torah you are able to attain dot why you understand what's right and wrong you understand what you have to follow and what you don't have to follow at the time of the mhia people are going to need to know the truth now today there are many different places trying to convince people that they know the truth Christianity is trying to do it missionaries within Judaism calling themselves Jews but they're really Christians are trying to do it people that are coming from different places in the world are trying to do it now when it comes to DNA for example many people are trying to prove their Judaism through DNA they say listen part of the anusim we're part of uh Heritage we have this we have that and they you know they go to different tests and they say listen I have X amount of ashkanazi in me x amount of safarik in me or x amount related to this family but I don't know how according to Ala you cannot rely on it you cannot rely on it you cannot base Judaism based on DNA and the reason why is because there is actually another company in Israel an Israeli company that has found technology ology to change DNA they have technology to change your DNA you give them one DNA they work on it for a little bit of time they give you a different one something similar something similar but a little different but the point is DNA can be changed therefore is not reliable so that's one as far as what about the DNA of the mashia we do know that there are some people that are that can track their lineage all the way to DAV but that's only a small fraction of people we've been in the exile for over 2,000 years so many people that are related to DAV do not know that they are do not know as a matter of fact the vast majority of people that are connected do not know that they are there's only a handful of people that say that they are and even then there's certain questions if they really are or not so it's been too long there's been too many Exiles there's been too many pgrs there's been too much intermarriage there's been too much all types of things that we've gone through hardship and so on to really prove it so how are we going to know how we going to know well first and foremost one of the Prophecies of what's going to happen at the end of days is that there's going to be it's going to be false Messiahs people going to come and say I'm the Messiah to such an extent it's going to happen on a regular basis Hashem says you don't have to worry about that if you use this pattern that gave you over here you have nothing to worry about he says first and foremost so Masia first and foremost you need to know he's has to be a perfect human being is midot have to be pristine he can't be a hote head he can't be the guy that throws the chair across the room because you don't like his ala he can't be that guy he can't be the guy that loses his mind just because his wife didn't look at him the right way he can't be the guy that slaps his kid in the middle of kindergarten because the kid didn't get a 95 on the test can't be that guy he has to be with good midot which means he has to have Torah next thing is he has to have which means that if he has he must have a high level of Torah because is not something you could attain very easily you have to work on it next thing is he has to have do and be not just knowledge like an average person not just B like an average person but he has to have do meaning he has to know always be able to make the right decisions because hem is going to instill in Himes but that KES cannot enter an imperfect place an imperfect n so first and foremost if your mashia is not perfect if he's a sinner like the Christian Messiah is a major sinner that goes against God he's a womanizer he's a shabat he's an idiot he's a he's a magician he's a lot of things this JC Penney guy so he definitely can't be the mashiah Muhammad is a murderer so he definitely can't be a mashia pedophile and a lot of other things so they can't be mashia Buddha is too fat to be mashia he's definitely in so mashia has to be a kosher human being has to be a perfect human being has to be a Jew obvious viously so that's the one thing but he also has to get to a certain level where the can enter him now the reason why is because in the prophet says that the Messiah is going to get to such a high level that he's going to be able to smell your sins but how does he know if you're sinning in the first place or not because he's able to see and smell or he's able to smell your do you have or not there's no excuses Hey listen I go to sh every Tuesday and I I lay okay it's 11:30 I lay but I did it I did before I went to sleep even I went to sleep at 4 o'clock in the morning after the club but I went to sleep and I did kma there's no excuses there's no excuses mhia comes he could smell it he could smell your bad midot your good midot smell it and it says when he speaks it's judgment meaning the words coming out of his mouth he's not going to say hey how are you how you doing how the kids no no no my friend de alive or dead yes come with me I'll protect you no that's the Masia is not your friend unless so now how are we going to know what all this all these fake prophets how we going to know wellem says to the prophet he says remember before the mhia arrives first I have to sendi three days beforei comes three days before the mashia comes is going to be sent from shami is an angel he's going to publicize to the world Masia is here have three days how do I know it's it says in the prophets it says in the tah how do you know it's be oh well how do we know that hem was AEM because he made sure we knew how do we know that he's he's the one giving us the Torah because he made sure we knew he did it in public your the point being is that Hashem when Hashem wants you to know something he makes sure you know it he makes sure you know it so for example at the time of Mount sa he wanted the whole world to know that it's him talking so what did he do he spoke in a voice but his real voice to such an extent that everyone died no one can handle his voice if let's say for example he only spoke to Moses then people can later on say yeah you know what no one really heard God speak so maybe Moses just made it up maybe Moses just a clever speaker maybe outsmarted 20 million people listen Obama did 300 million a bunch of politicians outsmart people so maybe Moses did it so hasem says no we can't have that what first of all I'm going to make Moses have a lisp have a stutter both have every stammer all types of speech impediments why because they never going to say that he's a sweet talker he's such a good speaker that's why we voted for him that's one two when hasem speaks everyone knows it there's no doubt so when Hashem wanted us to know that it's him giving us the Torah he made sure that there's no doubt to such an extent that even theim even the go knew when they sent the spies when Yeshua benon sent the spies raav said oh we heard what your god did we heard how they hear what it was a Facebook Twitter how they hear newspapers no they heard the voice they heard they saw whole world everyone knew that God spoke to Aman wanted to make sure everyone knows God speaking he's giving the Tor to everyone know there's no doubts that's why none of the religions doubt the Torah no one says the Torah is not valid now what do they say they say that the Torah stopped working when on pension when retirement their new book is the continuation their new book is the reti reement plan their new testament their false Testament their Quran all that stuff is the new stuff and the old Torah it's old they went on retirement funny thing is the funny thing is how do you prove that all religions except Judaism all religions that stem from Judaism they're all fake in one sentence for all of them now you obviously can prove that all of them are fake individually you see their mistakes that they have in their scripture we can go have a whole lecture about how to prove they're all fake for each one of them but I'm saying one sentence that applies to all of them no Witnesses is one thing but again it's a they're going to tell you why do we I had a Christian guy tell me why do I need a witness for God I trust him some irrational it no no no you're in the right direction you're in the right direction you need proof yes but they're going to rationalize it someone's looking for excuses going to find them right so there there's the way here's the here the here's the the K is is that all of them say that the Torah is real got it the Arabs say am got it they call us the uh the um people of the book the Christians also agree they say that to is real chosen people but it stopped working there's a new covenant both of them say the the Christians say that New Testament is a New Covenant Covenant and the Muslims say that their thing is a New Covenant and so on they kill us no they kill us because God is telling them to do that but as far as as far as why why is how do you prove that they are fake even if they look it in themselves is because if the Torah is not true anymore it's not valid anymore you don't have to keep the Ten Commandments anymore you don't have to keep Shabbat anymore right according to the Christians you don't have to keep Shabbat or you keep Sunday it's not the seventh day it's the first day or you don't have to eat kosher anymore or you don't have to doin anymore or you don't have to bre anymore or you don't have anymore all those things you don't have to do anything anymore so if all the laws are no longer applicable why did you only pick one law in the entire Tora that is applicable what's the law give a tithe give money that's the only law that they all keep they all keep that law they all keep you must give it tithe it says it in the Torah you have to give a tithe yeah it's all says in the Torah you have to keep Shabbat it says in the Torah you can't be with the woman that's not your wife it says in the Torah a lot of things why only give money because the money is good for me it pays for my plane it pays for my boat it pays for my house it pays for the other house it pays for his house too whether he's a Muslim or he's a Christian or he's a whatever all of them agree you have to give money because it says in the Torah liar you're just a banker you're not a religious person Banker so that's the thing so that's how you know simply that this is the of this is wisdom of a person it's flawed it's flawed so now last but not least we have is in essence a logical argument that could also turn into something that can build you or destroy you in so many words this is applying to the fact that without sustenance without money a person is not going to be able to have full Focus to study T he has to eat we're not getting M from sham at this generation people need to eat the rabbi needs to eat needs to eat without him eating he won't be able to learn toah he won't be able to teach tah on the other hand if there's no Torah there's no money so now many people say listen I can't become a because and I can't learn T because I got to work I gotta work I gotta work on this day on that day and this day and that day and let's say you even got the guy to keep Shabbat he doesn't work on Shabbat anymore you tell listen you need to learn to every day in order for this Shabbat to really be a kosher Shabbat you need to learn the of Shabbat in order for the kosher to be really kosher you have to learn koser in order for the modesty to be real modesty you have to know what modesty is you have to learn these things you have to learn to every day goes no no no I don't have time to Lear to I don't have time to Lear to why you don't have time to Lear to I work it says it if there's no money there's no T once I get to be a millionaire then I learn T the problem is he's not reading the second part he says if there's no T there's no meaning you're confusing when you use the excuse of money as the reason of why you're not learning Torah you my friend are confusing the cause and effect you think that you're making money because of you because you're a nice guy because you're smart because you're talented you forgot hasem said to the prophet says mine is the money mine is the gold it's all mine nothing is yours nothing absolutely nothing so now when a person is not learning T simply because he says I I'm working hasem says you're confused you're not working you're confused what are you confused you're thinking that you're the one that's making the money if you're the one that if you're thinking that you're the one that's making the money then obviously you're going to make an excuse for the rest of your life and eventually you're going to come up with an excuse why you need to work on Shabbat and eventually you're going to come up with another excuse of why you need to cheat on your wife and eventually you're going to come up with another excuse of why you take drugs and eventually you're going to have to come up another excuse of why you steal you're going to keep making excuses forever so a person needs to understand that if they're using the tools that gave them the first tool is tells you that you need to understand before you do anything ask yourself this what does God think about this what does God think about this action I'm about to take what does God think about me waking up at 11:00 in the morning every day what does God think about me going to clubs what does God think about me overcharging my customers what does God think about me being stingy what does God think about me making $5,000 a month but I only give 50 bucks what does got think about that what does he think so I'll tell you what he thinks when a person understands this mishna he understands that everything in the world has a purpose everything the only reason the only reason why hasem gives you money is for you to fulfill mitv only reason he cares less about your big house you can't take it to Ala anyway he cares less about your car you can't take it anywhere anything you're probably not going to want it because you want a new one especially if it's fancy you want a fancy you want excellent he cares less about your IRA account and the stocks that you own he cares less about the companies you own and the ventures you took he cares less about all those things the only reason why he's giving you money is simply so you can fulfill mitv now when a person takes the money that Hashem gave him it doesn't do that he takes the $5,000 a month that he gets the $10,000 a month that he gets the $20,000 a month that he gets and he uses it to get a car get in the house eat out a few times a week do his thing and when it comes to he only has $20 he only has $50 he never has the M that he owes AEM he never has the 10% that heem in reality you're stealing from God it's not yours to take it's not your money you using 100% of your money you're stealing but you're not stealing from theab house you're not stealing from the school you're not stealing from the company you're stealing from God because God gave you the money so you can fulfill mitv not so you could buy another car so a person needs to understand simply said each person is given money to do mitv it's G do given money to do mitv if you're not doing mitv with your money you have a very serious serious problem in sh why because now the Tora is depending on that money there's an in the world depending on that $500 a month there's a CD that's depending on the dollar there's a movie that's supposed to help people do chuva that's depending on the money there's a CO depending on the money now of course hasem is going to give it to him in a different place but this was your to take this was your Merit to take this belonged to you this belonged to you when you come up to sh they're going to tell you why didn't you do it look how many people didn't do CH because of you look at the guy he ended up leaving K because of you he got stressed out he had to go to work because you didn't send the money in I had a guy one time say yeah you know what uh I want to I talked to one of my lectures about uh giving to a colab like yeah yeah you know what I'll do it I'll uh I'll donate to the col I said okay great you know none of the money goes to me goes to the cola no problem send it to them he goes I'm only trusting you I'm like you don't have to trust me go call the cola don't have to trust me you don't have to trust anything you're not giving me any money I'm not getting any benefit out of it anyway the guy says okay I'll give the money he gives him 500 bucks he says he's supposed to give like $500 a month andash he's very very wealthy and uh somebody you know the CO's going to benefit some is going to benefit there be more Torah in the world great after a few months maybe like six months or so I talked to one of the rabbis from that so is so and so still giving he's good he increased it me he goes no he stopped after two months it caused a lot of balagan for us he gave for the first two months he committed to give for whatever a year but he he stopped giving after two months why did he stop we don't know he stopped now I know he didn't stop because of money because he's building a $3 million house right now so $500 is not going to change anything this is a problem this is a very very serious problem when people commit to a Mitzvah and the Mitzvah happens to be T and you back out you create a very serious problem for yourself so because the Torah is telling you ready over here in order for the Torah to continue growing we need supporters people are convinced that I still have $20 million from uh from Wall Street somehow every time I tell my story I tell at the end of the story we lost everything but people are still convinced oh can you give me give you I need can you give me can you give my companies the can you do can you donate some CDs donate $50 no everybody thinks we're millionaires or it's something else we get sometimes you get I get guys tell me oh you know I used to give so muchaka when I had this money I gave this and I gave that and they tell me like a whole resume of all the things they gave in their life it's like they remember it it's they put a memory stick in their head and they remembered everything of all the money they ever gave in their life and I gave this guy $3,000 and I gave that guy $8,000 and I did this and every time there would be the I gave this amount of money and I bought this Aliyah and I did this and I did this and I did the whole tell me so you're thinking okay great this guy's sadik this guy's has a big heart yeah I don't make that much money anymore so you know I wish hasm would just give me the money back so I'm thinking to myself maybe maybe he's not giving you the money back because you didn't give it for the right reason the only reason you gave the 8,000 the 3,000 the 5,000 the 10,000 the 50,000 100,000 what you could tell people you gave the 8,000 the 5,000 the 3,000 and 10,000 the 50,000 the 100,000 that's not Mitzvah that's Gava it's Gava it's Pride hasem hates Gava person with Gava hates him it's one of the people hasm hates as a matter of fact says someone that has G someone that has Pride is very likely to become homosexual he says because it stems it comes from the same root interestingly enough this is in a um seph seph seph seph of from breev he says that a person that uh is prideful is is more likely to become homosexual and he also says in I wrote it here Tora it says a person who's prideful is typically an adulterer a sex criminal and so on is not just adultery also means wasting seed NE also means uh you know all types of sex crimes so he says he's more he's someone that's a prideful is more likely to be a criminal a sex criminal Torah sex criminal doesn't necessarily need to be a rapist or anything but the point is that he's uh he's has got a very very serious problem now what what was the aside from what you heard I guess for the first time because maybe this is not part of what breast teaches uh oh okay so you read this then the interesting thing is is that the fact that says that someone that's prideful is more likely to be homosexual is interesting because the homosexuals are proud gay pride so hem doesn't like Pride so when you give because you want Pride hasem doesn't like that sta he doesn't like it [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music]