What Is TeShuva? - STUMP THE RABBI (64)

for [Music] we are here in our last year of the year uh the is just a couple days from now less and uh will uh speak a few words of kuk to uh get prepared for the big day hopefully you guys also have some questions you have whether it be about the holiday or about uh Chua or anything else now is the time to ask um please try to do whatever you can not to leave things the last minute and send me text messages on Friday because uh as some of you may know I'm still a human being still and I have a family and I also have stuff to do so just like you have to prepare for your holiday I also have to and it's very difficult uh to do it when you have three 400 questions 20 minutes before the starts you know I feel bad so I try to answer the questions but it's uh it's you know it's it's getting impossible so don't depend on me 20 minutes before the H you have questions things like that ask now ask tomorrow don't wait for Friday because uh I can't promise you that I'll answer you uh anyway you know we'll we'll get to uh get uh you know a little bit more you know the says that um there are certain things that always need certain things always need including itself you need to constantly get a strengthened regardless of where you're at even if you're learning the sh for your third or fourth time even if you're religious your entire life even if uh you know doesn't make a difference everybody needs both the student the rabbi and everybody else in between today's sh was sponsored by a dear friend ruen wib bless him and also uh the sh will be for for sha Ben faran for um Mara B Julie and her dear daughter Isa but Mara Abraham Talia Sarah oshri Ben dor gab benis elad benis David Ben and also for forit David Bena Doris Bora raban Leana Saran SAR anah Talia Batar Jonas Ben Sher Haley ysep Ben B Stefan Ben Katarina m b sya b bat sarit B Esther Bora dor Mercedes and all of will have and uh really a special thank you for everyone everyone's Support over this last year we've uh reached Milestones that even if I had to dream I wouldn't think that we would reach uh anyone that uh took the time to watch one of our uh minute and a half two minute videos about some of the things that uh the team has achieved over the last year to be honest with you I watch watch it several times just because I'm so amazed uh simply if you just understand what it means and if you're just looking at numbers like I did for 16 years on Wall Street then it won't really mean much to you oh it's some numbers oh it's 60 million oh it's 5 million or it's 2 million you know numbers numbers doesn't mean much but when you understand that there is eternity behind it there is n behind it there are families behind it there are people just like you behind it and they're changing their lives as a result uh you get uh you get a little bit of pleasure behind ganeden uh a little taste of geden I'll give you an example one of our dear students in is she loves kiru loves kiru she tries to donate whenever she can she shares the lectures whenever she can but she never really tasted the pleasure of kiru until she saw it firsthand when did she see first day she sees what we do she sees the lecture she sees but one day she tells me that her son I think he's uh 9 years old 9 years old cute kid sadik he has a friend that's uh a couple years younger than him completely secular but I don't mean secular like his parents still go to on the and maybe you know uh keep the fast no no I'm talking about nothing zero you know little kid with an earring already you know looks you know if you wouldn't be able to tell that he's a Jew until he starts speaking Hebrew anyway they befriend each other and this sadik says come on come to my house what what are you going to do in your house we have you have a Game Boy I don't know what that is I don't have that you have PlayStation not really sure what that is but that's not what I'm talking about no no what do you have I'll show you come comes brings him to the house what does he do he opens the with him say okay repeat after me he goes through the whole verse starts te starts teaching him Tor this little kid starts repeating blessings all of a sudden and the mom's watching the whole thing already for a few weeks not the first time for a few weeks already every day he's come to his house he's teaching them starts coming for over Shabbat and he starts teaching them teaching them M showing him the lecture and she says I saw my son do now I understand why you do it now this little kid that never heard a never heard never heard a blessing in his life forget never said it never heard a blessing in his life is now doing blessings before he eats and he gives M and he goes back and forth with him little kid says that's G that's G when you understand that behind all of those numbers there are countless people just like that little kid there's big versions there's little versions there's middle version it means a lot and for all of the supporters all of the people that donate money all of the people that watch the sh all of the people that share all of the people that care care enough to uh to help am is because as we all know when we talk about week after week the condition that we're in as a nation is not very good needless to say the condition of the world is not very good but the condition of our nation specifically is not very good and really the only thing that you can compare it to is the situation that we were in preh Holocaust monetarily we were in great shape politically we were in great shape but when it came to our religiosity when it came to our commitment to Hashem even though we had big big giant in that generation it wasn't enough it wasn't enough brought the Holocaust and took away six million many of which are us are the people that are living in this generation this last generation before mashiah the same exact thing happened several times in history before destroyed the first and the second bet mikdash politically we're in great shape we're friends with the go made a lot of money many many Rich Jewish people religiosity nightmare idolatry became standard unfortunately like it is today different forms of idolatry but idolatry nonetheless heresy became standard different types of heresy but heresy nonetheless and a that gave us many signs and many indications and many warnings said enough's enough and he brought us the Holocaust 2500 years ago 2,000 years ago several times in between and obviously the most recent one that everyone knows the name Holocaust from so the question is why would hasem bring us a holocaust if every year we're supposed to have followed by Yip and he's supposed to forgive all of our sins I mean technically there should never be technically there should never be a holocaust why because if it is as the many people say that you know listen on this day Hashem judges Hashem forgives we start new people walk around with white clothes like their angels and and and and doves sh sh if you're Safar it comes with a couple of kisses too good thing no so how come the Holocaust happens how come Corona happened why is this happening I mean it's a big question if really forgive how come it's happening now let it not enter your mind that I'm questioning hasem and questioning whether he forgives or not because surely he does the real question is why is the Holocaust happen if we said I'm sorry the short answer is many of us don't say I'm sorry now if somebody came up to you you knew him you didn't know him you like him you don't like him decided to investigate your face with his hand give you a nice chop to the right initially you'll be shocked you'll ask him a few questions in they maybe use some uh pecul your words while you're asking those questions but if you're not a violent person you're not going to hit him back you say oh what's wrong with you what are you doing oh okay okay what do you mean okay oh my bad my bad what do you mean of course it's bad no you mean like that's the today's expression replacement for I'm sorry because we have a hard time saying I'm sorry so we say bad like we're little kids my bad we don't know how to speak my bad it's not even appropriate English it's my bad and it's become standard language okay now if he didn't say I'm sorry if he didn't even say my bad and he just came up to you and gave you a nice chap to the right maybe a left went to follow just to make sure the two cheeks match he doesn't want you you know looking silly with only one of them being read and you said what you said what's wrong with you or whatever other choice of words you have in your vocabulary especially for a peculiar situation and you say what's wrong with you and he says nothing nothing wrong with it see you later how would you feel about that would just walk away talk to your wife say listen honey you're never going to believe what happened in ch today or would you be uh more modern with your reaction by showing him how his cheeks look like in the mirror after you hit them right back most likely you hit him back most likely why not only did you hit me not only did you violate my privacy not only did you embarrass me not only did you do things that completely demoralized me but you weren't even apologetic about it you weren't even remotely close to being remorseful in any way in fact you were so careless that your carelessness hurt me even more than the slap the fact that I asked you what are you doing I wasn't really questioning whether what are you doing I knew what you were doing you hitting my face you were embarrassing me in public I knew what you were doing it was just an expression to say hey say I'm sorry and not only you didn't say I'm sorry but he said what what doesn't everybody just hit your face it looks like one of those faces that needs to be hit what what's the problem I'm just here to hit faces that's all I came here for that response made me much angrier than the hit itself that's the M what's the name that's why the Holocaust happens that's why Corona happens that's why a lot of tragedies happen including the BET mikash and anything that happen in between and anything that follows we show up to Unapologetic we show up to more concerned about our outfit and to make sure that everyone sees us at our best we spend 20 minutes doing our hair we spent a half hour taking a shower another 45 minutes to an hour making sure that the suit fits just right but if it doesn't I'm getting a different one and making sure that the colors of our socks and underwear are colorcoded and the watch is right outside of the jacket and the shirt so everyone sees the bling right when you come in hey and the reality is we spend so much time looking good we forget why we're here we forget why we came to sh we forget why we pray we forget about what's the point we think about okay I'm going to go see some people you know do some prayers and then eat like I've never eaten in my life and then I pray again say what's up to my friends again that I haven't seen you know in several months at least and then eat again and you have to eat you have to enjoy it's not a day to fast it's not a day to mourn it's not a day to be sad but there's a time and a place for everything and one of the things we forget about is that it's also a time to say I'm sorry to hasem now when we show up to the bitet or if we're going to pray at home and our prayer is just like that guy that slapped you Unapologetic not remorseful in any way shape or form says that hurts me a lot more than the than the actual sin itself why I gave you a chance to clean your bill and instead of saying I'm just a little sorry which really doesn't actually matter in all real reality but I was willing to accept that I'm sorry on this special day you didn't even say it so I gave you two days and you still didn't do it it offended me even more why you missed the whole point now the ran the ran almost over 800 years ago wrote a uh countless things but one of the things was a speech a speech that he gave for to a K that perhaps needed the message just as much as we do and here he didn't waste any words he didn't give any special stories but rather got to the point of what is for of course you have the laws of which is you know different things they used to supposed to do during the day you have to treat it like it's Shabbat especially this year since it is actually on Shabbat you have to make sure that on the second day this year you hear the shaar usually if it's not on Shabbat you would hear the shaar twice you have a the meal the festive meal you eat you have to eat meat uh don't necessarily to eat meat in every meal but at least at the uh meal on on on twice during the holiday you have to make sure that you're not angry you have to make sure that you know you uh spend it your time wisely which means don't waste your time taking naps and going to sleep like you typically do on Shabbat afternoon don't do that on why say anyone that sleeps on not counting to sleep at night that you need to sleep but anyone that sleeps extra like he wants to take a you know a 2hour nap in the afternoon in between meals and prayers says he sleeps on R his Maz will also sleep that year too his fortune will also sleep his whole year is going to be on hold why you're sleeping you're taking a nap and mazal is sleeping also whenever you need it it's not a good idea to sleep during in fact it should be a day that we pray as much as we can we learn to as much as we can and we have to make sure that we don't waste time sure you could be with the family you could learn you could do a lot of wonderful things there is this G among the that uh specific really for the ladies which is to read the book of twice during the uh one on each day depending on your speed of reading could take anywhere from two to four hours to read the whole book it's 150 uh chapters or sections so each day 150 it's a the uh gatria value numerical value of the is spells out the word which uh means forgiveness hem will forgive our sins so that's a g that uh so the 200 the f is 80 and the is um so that spells the uh forgiveness and uh again if you're praying uh you know a uh with all seriousness surely this will be good for you you're allowed to take a uh a break as far as to go to the bathroom if you need to uh munch on something but don't you know say the words of T while you're eating uh but most uh you know something that you can do to make it even more valuable is don't speak mundane words while you're reading the uh if you can't you have to say something do it but uh it's ideal if you could just sit there for a few hours two three hours however long it takes you without uh without speaking mundane words for some people it's impossible especially if you're a mother with kids uh you know to unless you could pretty much put your kids in a coma for four hours it's not happening and I don't suggest you put them in comas or anything just do do it at your own risk I'm kidding um but the uh the thing is though is that you have to uh try to do your best for the guys try to learn some Torah try to pray most importantly don't waste time don't waste time and don't violate the hug now the biggest thing is to do chuva to do cha and the ran brings us here in his special discourse of R special lecture that he gave on and he says the following the rabbis also said in the Hereafter the Holy One Blessed Be he will bring a scroll of the law and place it in his lap and say he who has been engaged in the study and observance of this Torah shall come forward and receive his reward thereon aware that they cannot claim any share of the reward all of the nations of the world will gather and assemble in confusion and trepidation and the Holy One Blessed Be he will say to them do not come before me in confusion why is the ran saying this to a bunch of Jewish people why is he telling us about how the Nations that didn't learn tah are going to come to Hashem as a state because it also pertains to us don't come to confused what am I supposed to do now what do you do now I don't have anything to do I'm so bored don't do that why today is the day to do CH you don't know what to do go pick up a pick up a pick up a mid pick up start reading obviously if it's not during prayer if you're prayer Pray but don't come and walk around aimlessly like some zombie what do you do now don't be so confused the whole point of the day is to do chuva why the ramban continues over 800 years ago to give us this point so we hopefully get it through our skulls in our preparation however this is the explanation of the matter all that came into the world passed before him pertaining to matters of this world each one is judged to determine if he is worthy of being granted peace riches possessions and honor or whether he is to be sentenced to die during that year or to suffer visitations of of sufferings Sorrow and poverty in short the Judgment of concerns all matters that affect the human body and in this world including life children and sustenance however Ros does not Embrace a judgment on matters of the soul that is whether the soul is worthy of ganeden and enjoyment of eternal life life and the world to come or whether it is to be sentenced to G and destruction you know it's very interesting that all of the Giants in tat mentions Gom like it's common language yet people that write books today they say Gom doesn't exist or it's just a uh fairy tale or it's just I don't know they maybe make fun of you for a little while and then you go to ganeden strange where what happened in the last 900 years someone showed me a book famous book just the other day it's the guy writes in the book life after death everyone goes to geden he writes well just those Wicked people they feel shame they're embarrassed that they didn't get the high level of ganed I said I don't read I don't need to read the rest of the book but I can tell you you're not allowed to read the rest of the book why it's complete hary once a person says such a thing you cannot rely on anything else that he says now the ramban was very clear no one disagrees with the ramban you cannot say listen I don't think the ran was right here raan tells us clearly the whole po purpose of the day is to do chuva because this is the day that hm is going to decide whether you're going to have money in your pocket or not this is the day that is going to decide whether you're going to live or die that's a big deal live or die a lot of people died this year every year a lot of people died but a lot of of people died in unusual deaths this year dying from Corona or something that the government says is Corona even though it's a heart attack it's an unusual death it's an unusual death that they found a poor woman in afula in Israel okay they found her dead on the floor with a three-year-old daughter just just yesterday or the day before for days she's been dead her three-year-old daughter is next to her that's an unusual death but it was decided last year it's an unusual debt that they're finding constant constantly finding older people dead in their houses in Israel and other places that are completely crazy when it comes to this Corona scam people forget that they even have a family they don't call they don't check neighbors don't check everybody cares about themselves and the reality is people literally dying in their houses because they don't have food they don't have care they don't have anything and they find out eventually after a few days when the body is starting to already rot is that's an unusual death and that was decided on R last year it wasn't decided last week it was decided last year in R which means that had those people knew had any of us known what this year would look like last we wouldn't have left the sh had any of us known that this year was going to be a year that's going to scare the world to death in a way that we haven't seen in at least a hundred years since the Spanish flu killed tens of millions of people this year we didn't have those many deaths as the Spanish flu but the fear that people have might as well be it the economic damage that small businesses have had might as well be death for many of them the amount of suicides as a result of hopelessness that we've had this year might as well be that why because we did not prepare enough last year had we known we wouldn't have stopped praying we wouldn't have stopped doing chuva had we known that a little virus that you can't even see and not even sure if it's real how did you known that such a thing is going to come to the world surely after the year began and spread around the world and scare everybody in such a way that they've never even imagined they would live through such a thing we simply would have started and never stopped doing chuva on the good end this Corona virus and the ble that's been happening over the last five or six months which no one thought was going to last that long has helped many people do Chua but as the closenberg REI said himself to people that heard his he says I was in the Holocaust I was in the Holocaust you took 10 kids all 10 of his kids and his wife and him and I saw that even during that crisis even during that trauma even during that gam on this world there was still inside the Holocaust staying still going against you while they're being punished not doing CH even at at the gates of G just like the says have mercy on us give us good and we will do good because obviously they're not doing CH some of them maybe if you do good maybe something else will happen unfortunately that doesn't always work he gives us good sometimes we get worse and who knows what works and what doesn't work we don't need to give him any guidance but when we pray to Hashem for the nation of Israel we pray to Hashem for our people we always pray in their favor when we speak to individuals we have to rebuke and tell them to do chuva why that's that's what you're supposed to do do that's how it works you never complain to hasm about the nation of Israel but you have to make sure to complain to Israel about Israel why because that's how you help them do Chua had we known that this year will be this way we wouldn't have let ourselves leave the same as we entered there was one time a story by R galinski where he says there was a a king a king that invited another king over to his castle and surely when you invite another reputable person of status and so on the first thing that you to do is show them your glory show them your big castle and the jewels and the art and all of the wonderful things and uh surely the guest being great as he is also wants to show something too so in this particular instance galinski says that the guest King the guest King said I have the best chef in the world and I want to show your highness that a dish that we like and I want you to enjoy it so he makes him something where the Jews from Tripoli like myself we called and none of you are going to know what that is so I'm going to explain to you simply rule number one if you're not cooking it don't be in the house while it's being cooked because the stench is horrific why because part of the food is the intestines of the animal the intestines of the animal and you put food in it and so on but once it's finished delicious now I haven't had this in probably 20 30 years but but it's a delicious dish that people from the Middle East enjoy very much so he made him this dish and the King had this food and he said this is the best thing I've ever had this is the you you have to tell you have to tell my Master Chef exactly everything you do if you're my good friend please share with us the secret he said your highness I'm already ahead of you I'm already having my chef sit down with your Chef Tell Him exactly step by step how many grains of salt even to put he says thank you you are a true friend so they part ways the King goes back to where he came from and the other king says to his Chef listen you got the instructions Chef said your highness got it he said okay let's go oh now right now right now okay your highness no it takes four hours don't worry about it let it take four days I want it right now so the chef comes he starts fixing up a dish gets the best of the animals the potatoes the V everything makes the dish exactly as the instruction said he brings this to the king and everybody says smells a little funny it didn't smell like that before he goes your highness I I don't know but it's what it is I I follow this an instruction okay hopefully it tastes better than it smells the king cuts it open takes the first bite and almost as a reflex spits out everything that was in his mouth on on the chef he's I'm going to kill you I'm you trying to poison me go no no you're hiest no no no please please don't I did everything he said he said are you sure he said I promise you goes go do it again and now I'm going to have people watch you so he goes back in the kitchen several more hours in this time he's got people surrounding him like if he makes the wrong move there's a nice sword coming right straight to his neck so this guy's scared to death but he's he's a that's the chef so he does everything that says to do put to this put to that take the intestine makes the dish several hours pass brings it to the king this time we're not really sure if it smells or it's from the last one because the last one was something to to remember the king cuts it open takes a bite and instantly spits it at the chef goes now I'm definitely going to kill you goes your highness look I have witnesses they saw me follow everything the witnesses say your highness we saw it followed everything he says if you followed everything then we're going to war because that means that that King that I thought was my friend he made this he gave his his Chef instructions to make fun of me so he gets angry he's raging and he sends a message to the other king and he says I can't believe you did this to me but I'm going to destroy your whole country over this dish the other king says what is he talking about he brings your Chef he goes what are you doing what' you do he goes your highness I told him what to do he goes are you sure I'm going to kill you goes no no I'm sure I did it he writes letter back to the other king goes listen my chef told your Chef everything that needs to be said maybe your Chef is stupid or maybe you are for threatening me but if you want to come here to visit us we're ready both Count's armies are boiling they can't wait to fight each other over this dish moments before the king says let's go to war he says how could it be if he's saying that the chef did the right thing then something's wrong here because if he really meant to poison me if he really meant to make fun of me he would just say so why isn't he saying so the other king is thinking the same thing he says I don't understand why does this guy want to go to war with me we were friends if he followed the instructions like my chef told him then I don't why would he be mad at me both of them figure it out say you know what they sent a letter to each other before we go to war let's just put both of the chefs in jail and they have to we're going to listen in we're going to see what happens because if something doesn't come out of we're just going to kill both of them instead of go to war so that's what they do they take both chefs they throw them in jail and said listen you two you're not coming out until you tell us what happened so the chef that gave the recipe says to the guy know what' you do he goes I did exactly what you said he said you put the salt I put the salt you put the potato I put the you put the this you put the that everything you sure you did it go I did it twice and even after while the King was W I did a third time every time same thing I can't believe I don't know what's wrong with you he goes I don't know what's wrong with you what kind of what kind of food do you guys eat so they're sitting he says listen we have an hour if we don't come out with something within an hour they're going to kill both of us you idiot what did you make what did you goes you idiot where did you feed my king and they're both like fighting each other but they don't know what to do now you have 10 minutes left sitting down like Okay so let's just say kadish on ourselves do CH before we go before the moment's up the chef that gave the menu thinks of something goes let me ask you something you use the intestines because yeah obviously that's the main dish you clean them right said what what do you mean clean them what do you mean what do you mean you clean them the intestines the intestines that you put the food in did you clean them before you put the food there he says no you never said that he goes your it's full of feal matter of course it's going to taste like that you're supposed to clean it before you eat it that's the M of galin he told us many years ago what's the if you want to show up to yip if you want to show up to if you want to show up in front of a without cleaning up your sins and you want to still be full of it guess what your chuba is not going to work your prayer is not going to work nothing's going to change before we go ask a for all of the wonderful things that we want we have to clean ourselves up we cannot be continued we cannot continue to be full of it full of sins full of tum full of garbage full of filthy language full of sin full of jealousy full of hatred full of arrogance full of all of the filth all of the Abominable acts that people do on a daily basis you cannot continue that and then say you know I'm sorry can I have some money by the way all that stuff can I have can I get married this year she needs to be good-looking too and Rich maybe uh I'm sorry okay listen now that we finished with the whole sorry thing um I need a new job because this job only pays me 100,000 a year it doesn't really work out with my millionaire plans I need a job that pays me at least double this year can you do that for meem you said you have all the m and we we have no problem asking we have no problem putting the different ingredients in the dish we have no problem eating says clean yourself up first don't come to me full of it full of the T full of the impurity have a game plan to fix yourself because today is the day that Hashem decides whether we live or die whether we get married or stay single whether we have children or we stay without AEM whether we have money or we don't everything is decided on this day if you want to have a favorable judgment you have to come clean you have to come clean this is also what theim says theim Shalom lived a very short life but achieved more in that short life than most people do in an entire life even if it was 10 times longer and he says in his fifth chapter of his M all that is required from a person is to purify and cleanse himself and refrain from following in the footsteps of the masses who are immersed in I ities of the times simultaneously he must direct himself towards the precin of the Eternal and his Dwelling Places as DAV himself concludes in t 266 I will wash my hands in Purity and then I will encircle your altar oh Eternal and if it turns out that he finds himself in the company of one who ridicules him he should not let this bother him at all this is why the first is to be proud of your Judaism and don't be don't be discouraged by all of the naysayers that tell you you're too religious first thing in you tell oh you you're fanatic amen fanatic forem amen for some reason in this world that you say you're well you're you're a Mets fan you're a baseball fan you're a football fan nobody yeah yeah yeah they're proud of it where does fan mean fanatic but if people say yo you're fanatic about this Judaism people are embarrassed by it to be fanatic about some stupid team no no problem that's you're proud of but to be fanatic for we're embarrassed of first says not only be fanatic be proud of it says if somebody comes to you and says listen you're too much with this T you're too much with this K you're too much with this prayer you're too much with this learning come hang out with us what are you an old man starts making fun of you theam says don't let it bother you at all on the contrary he continues he should ridicule and denigrate his scuffers he should imagine that if he had the opportunity to make a lot of money would he pass it up just to avoid the ridicule of his peers how much more so then should he not be willing to lose his soul because of ridicule in the same vein they of blessed memory cautioned Us in chapter 5 mishna number 20 be bold as a leopard to do the will of your father Father in Heaven gives us a practical explanation he says that if somebody comes and makes fun of you not only it shouldn't bother you opposite you should fight all of those people tell them you're making fun of me for me serving hasem you do realize that your life has no meaning whatsoever the difference between you and the cow is zero she eats you eat actually I think the cow is a better life than you she doesn't have to pay mortgage you're never going to see a a cow taking any pills for stress you're never going to see the cow saying that she feels lonely but you do but yet you live the same life you eat you procreate you sleep you're making fun of my life where I'm trying to live an eternal life I worship the one and serve the one that created me the one that gives me for being great for it and if at all one of these ridicules comes to you and says to you oh you're too much you're a fanatic think of what the says if somebody came to you and says listen why you crazy why are you working making all these millions enough go hang out all day you're working millions and millions and millions no come on enough with the millions already go hang out go to the beach chill out a little bit be like us maybe have a beer on the street like a bum would you take such a person seriously only if you're an idiot would you take such a person seriously I can tell you on a personal note when I first started my career on Wall Street I was a young kid I was 18 years old and every day I worked as hard as I possibly could because that's one of the things that my father taught us my mother taught us if you want something you have to work hard for it so we already all of us started working very early I started working when I was 10 years old by the time I was 18 I went into Wall Street and I wasn't making any money now every day especially as I was already in the business for a little longer was in the business for a couple years already still not making any money working for other people making them money but not myself started getting other jobs just to make ends meat and I would work two jobs and every day my day ended somewhere between 1:30 and 2:30 in the morning but I don't mean it ended like I finally went to sleep at 1:30 or 2:30 in the morning I mean I got home from work I got off the bus at 1:30 2:00 in the morning and every day I'm in my little suit and my little briefcase coming back from Manhattan walking in the street from the bus stop about a mile to my house mile and a half to my house at 1:00 in the morning 12:00 in the morning 2:00 all types of odd times and going to work early 6:00 in the morning 5:45 get on the bus for an hour hour and a half depending on traffic work the whole day finish somewhere around midnight then get on the bus another hour an hour and a half by the time I got home it was 1 1:30 in the morning and every single day every single day I would see the same losers hanging out outside drinking 40 smoking marijuana and laughing at the world and they all having a good time and they're seeing me as this poor Schmo walking around with the briefcase like an old man and I'm walking to my little apartment that I'm renting for 700 bucks a month and I can't wait to go home so I can rest for a few hours before going back again and every day like hey now you finished work what's I said yeah that's my finished work why don't you come hang out sorry I don't have time why not I got work you just worked yeah I got work again tomorrow when are you going to hang out and never why not you know I don't have time I don't have time to hang out no come on we're having a good time we're just talking about this and that you remember this what happened in high school yeah no not really I don't really care actually I'm going to work how much money you make about ,000 bucks a month maybe 1,500 for this particular job the other jobs pays a little bit more but what what what you're telling me you're working from 6:00 in the morning till 2:00 in the morning somehow you sleep in between and you're only making about $1,000 a month see I give a take on a good month maybe about 1,800 if the boss pays and they look at me well holding their 40s the other guy's holding his marijuana or some other form of drugs and everybody else is doing the same thing and they'll have a kick they're having a laugh and like you're crazy he goes you know the homeless guy makes more than you right yeah let it be you going to come hang out I'm not coming to hang out and every day will be the same thing every day the same losers at different Corners hanging out drinking their 40s smoking marijuana and they're making they're having a of their life on my bill as a would have it a little time passed and then we started printing money and then we started making millions of dollars where there wasn't anybody in a tri-state area that didn't hear about us people that I haven't spoken to in 20 years all of a sudden call me Hey listen uh you have any job openings what how did you know I'm hiring I don't know everybody comes to work for you so I figured can I can I work what do you know about the business no nothing do I have to know anything I just want to be like you no every day new people new people new people why why you were making fun of me just a little while ago the guy with the briefcase at 2:00 in the morning oh yeah no he got lucky he got lucky he picked a good stock he got lucky because uh he got a good time in the market it went down all nonsense all nonsense you don't get lucky and make a fortune get lucky here and there but to me to build a business all of these people you see on TV built companies and so they didn't get lucky they put themselves at the right place at the right time and they did what everybody else is not willing to do and decided to bless them the guys that are drinking 40 smoking marijuana thinking they're cool guess what happens to them they stay losers forever the is teaching us something even more critical than what I'm trying to teach is saying it's even more valuable when that work that you're doing at 2:00 in the morning is not just for this world so okay so you went to Wall Street you made some money you lost it this bottom line is even if you had it or you lost it in reality even if you died with a hundred billion dollars what does it really mean in the real world nothing you can't take it with you can't take it with you and you stood up against all of the naysayers making fun of you for stuff that you can't even and take with you to the real world needless to say should you stand up for the truth and for something that's meaningful and Priceless millions of mitv every day that you can gather because those you can take with you those stay with you those are valuable but it all starts with us cleaning ourself cleaning ourself now before we take questions remember that cleaning ourselves means that we have to work on specific traits that we have weaknesses in cleaning ourselves means that we have to do certain things that are sometimes difficult for us and one of the things thatu over years ago says that a person needs to do in order to clean ourselves is what he says in the third gate in section 35 he says you shall continually give to him and you must not feel bad when giving verse in seph the book of Deuteronomy chapter 15:1 says we have herein been admonished to distance ourself from meanness of spirit from being mean but to be magnanimous similar to what the verse says in Proverbs 229 a magnanimous person is blessed magnanimous in Hebrew is to meaning somebody that se you want to help people succeed you see somebody succeed even if it's in your field even if it's your competition oh that guy just signed a deal made $5 million that guy just bought a house that guy just got married yeah but you realize it's somebody that said no to you on what do I care let him succeed oh you had his third kid you still haven't even had one hasem that he had yeah he just know he just sold this company for half a billion dollars you're still looking for work you succeed oh you know you just gave a lecture thousand people showed up you still have 25 let them have at least hopefully he helps them do CH somebody that wants other people to succeed Hey listen uh do me a favor listen I heard you really good at uh such and such can you give me a hand doing this thing what so you want me to help you compete with me I guess more or less okay no problem what do you need what do you need I don't know I need to know how do you actually build that thing that you build that you sell for $1,000 I want to sell for $2,000 on my website cuz I have those kind of clients that are willing to pay me $2,000 can you tell me how to do it sure no problem here you go I'll send you the email you got it why would you do that you know that comes from sh you want people to succeed you want to help them Hey listen Rabbi I heard yes I want to give a sh to other people can you give me the sources you use for that sh that took you about 9 10 15 20 hours to get can you give it to me on a silver platter in two minutes no problem no problem don't be one of those people listen I work for it you go work for it don't be one of those people don't be mean help people succeed says we are obligated to not be mean to have a to but he says what's the cleanliness here that's just something to do what's the cleanliness here said it's not enough to merely open our hands and give rather we must implant within our souls the trait of generosity therefore the Torah rebukes Us by saying You must not feel bad when giving him subsequent to its saying you shall continue to give it's not just give the Torah says but don't feel bad because you gave cuz sometimes what ends up happening somebody says Hey listen uh Rabbi see you have a campaign for some uh helping some poor people in Israel yeah listen I uh you know I have M I just made $10,000 where do I send a check to oh he sent over here okay do on the website okay fine okay send the check ,000 okay okay okay and the guy after that I can't believe I just spent $1,000 on this thing can't believe it hm why do I have to give this myself ra you sure I have to give my because I'm not sure if I'm going to make the same money next month maybe I should wait to see what happens next month he doesn't want to give inside him he doesn't want to give Rabbi listen you promised that right I didn't promise anything no no but you said in the shield that hasem say he's going to pay me back right if I give if I give money he's going to give me back right you said that he's going to give me money back right Hashem said I'll give it back to you I didn't promise anything I'm just repeating what the Torah says but he's going to give it back though right or it's on you hey hold on a second you go to Hashem you have a problem with him oh so it's like that so it's like I gotta like believe it and stuff you can do whatever you want buddy you could do whatever you want but says you're already on the right you're already on the wrong boat meaning even if you give with that type of mentality it's not clean it's still a Mitzvah but it's not clean why you gave but you feel bad for giving it's like ah I can't believe I got to give you know what I'll give because it says that I'm going to get it back and in the whole year you're counting the hours listen Rabbi you said they're going to give it back right no I gave it already a month ago I gave stock already a month ago it's still not in my account though I'm still missing that ,000 you sure it's going to give yeah all right two months later Rabbi listen three months have passed the money still hasem didn't send me any emails are you sure he's going to give listen wrote it he's going to do it I don't know how he's going to do he's going to do it nine months pass listen Rabbi I don't think I don't think you understood what the Torah says here I don't I don't know I maybe you got to go back to Yeshiva Rabbi I don't know I'm still missing let me ask you a question how much money did you make this year I don't know 100 200,000 50,000 60,000 so what makes you think that that $1,000 wasn't part of that why but that was my salary I was supposed to make that who said you're supposed to make that the company oh so the company runs the world the company runs the world who says how many people do they fire in your company this year oh they fired a lot of people 40 50 people and they didn't fire you no no no I still got my job so in essence you're saying that you actually got that 100,000 that 50,000 that 200,000 while the other people are collecting unemployment 3 400 bucks a week yeah so well you're actually getting a lot more than $1,000 oh I guess you could look at it that way it's like looks at it better than you a donkey looks at better than you you're still complaining while other people don't have jobs and you think that didn't give you why cuz you want a to give you a wire transfer signed AEM like you wanted to be obvious like you think Hashem works in the world like you do problem ISM doesn't work that waym works in ways that he makes things look normal look natural he doesn't like to use Miracles that are open Miracles because that takes away from our but we ourselves could never get to a point where when we're giving we feel bad about giving because the Torah tells us don't only give but don't feel bad when giving and finalizes this particular point in the next section by saying You must not Harden your heart nor close your hand to your destitute brother Deuteronomy 15:7 we have been rebuked to remove from our soul the quality of Cruelty to implant within it Pleasant saplings the faithful virtues of mercy and kind as the verse says walk in his ways since it is possible for one to not be tightfisted meaning cheap and show grace to the poor but without being merciful the verse says the mercy of the wicked is cruelty therefore the verse says You must not Harden your heart the punishment for acting cruy is Harsh and bitter as we will explain in the gate of Cruelty it's different section of the book that wasn't we don't have a copy of anymore in the world God willing furthermore the sages said he will grant you mercy be merciful to you and you and have you multiply whoever is merciful to his fellow creatures will be treated mercifully by Hashem and whoever is not merciful to his fellow creatures will not be treated mercifully by ashem in essence it's not just give but don't feel bad but even more so though he says Don't Be Cruel how is how can someone that's giving money cruel reminding the poor person that he's poor Hey listen did you get your uh wife I gave you the money right you got the money I sent you yeah I got the money so you have food yeah yeah had food said Thank you right yeah yeah yeah but also I'm the one I gave it to you though right yeah yeah yeah so okay okay listen uh your wife didn't look so good I saw her in the store maybe you get her something she she she didn't smell so good you get her something with that money I give you you have some money left yeah Hey listen uh your kids your kids um I don't I don't know if they're getting the right education at that school you're sending him to maybe you could spend some of that money I gave you to maybe like I don't know get them a tutor or something or maybe a bath or I don't know maybe some food or something that's what happens every day people think that just because they gave you some they can give you some M too they can give you some guidance they can give you some management they can start telling you how to run your life and they remind you of all the things they did for you says the punishment for such a thing is a vicious punishment why because that is rule to remind somebody that you did a favor for to remind somebody that you gave to that you gave them that in essence they owe you something that you're in essence reminding them of their loneliness and your stature is cruel this is why the highest form of there's levels ofak there's is giving to the person then there is giving without knowing who the person is you give it to an organization let's just call for now and give it to somebody else the needs you don't know who that person is nor do you care all you know is that is not you help somebody that's a high level of what's even better is if that other person doesn't know who gave it to them when The Giver doesn't know who is giving to and the reer doesn't know who is giving it to him that's the highest form of why it eliminates all form of Cruelty the one that the receiver doesn't have to feel bad that this guy every time he sees him in the street he has to like say thank you for the 50 million time for that $20 that he gave him 30 years later oh listen remember that time I bought you a sandwich right yeah I remember thank you thank you thank you thank you it was 1912 but yeah I mean I've eaten a lot of other meals instead but thanks thanks thank you thank you thank you very much thanks thanks if it wasn't for you I wouldn't be alive today Ah that's what I wanted to hear if it wasn't for me yeah you always say I know you give credit to hm I agree hem yeah yeah but hey no no no do I have to say it every time no no you're you're right you're right oh I like that you singing songs for me now yeah yeah yeah you have another people want you to say thank you forever says the punishment for such cruelty is horrendous why because we are supposed to be merciful people we get a bunch of bunch of free presentence from hem sometimes we don't even say thank you for them yet everything we give to other people we want them to say thank you you thank you thank you one of the signs that you've cleaned that particular flaw is if you not only stop looking for a thank you but you've gotten to the point where you feel uncomfortable uncomfortable when the person thanks you why what are you thanking me for it's not my money Shem gave it to me to give it to you what's what's what to thank you for now it's good to say thank you you still have to say thank you and it's good to allow people to say thank you to you if somebody wants to say thank you to you sometimes they feel relieved by saying thank you to you you know somebody that receives feels bad about it so at least they can do to you is say thank you you know maybe send you a nice voicemail maybe uh you know send you a letter or something like that it's nice accept the thank you but in reality you're accepting it because in essence you're it's part of your to them to allow them to say thank you but if they don't say thank you you don't feel bad at all in fact sometimes you prefer they don't even they don't say thank you at all why you feel uncomfortable like what are you thanking me for now to get from looking for a thank you to being uncomfortable with a thank you it's a far walk but that's in essence what we really need to be that's what we need to be at the very least don't be here looking for thank yous why because it's cruel it's cruel to remind people that they owe you things these are a little bit of words of that I thought we needed to hear some things that we can take take to this a little bit different than last year's now you guys can ask as many questions as you want for another hour no if what repeat that again I'll start saying am I to learn in that time it might be Poss disrespectful did Shabbat start no I right but I'm saying okay so I mean usually the way people pray is you know the Min they start M um the question is for the people on online that can hear is that can he learn during the time that other people are saying Shabbat because he hasn't accept the Shabbat on yet uh that's that's is the question now the thing is that it all depends on when that time period is because whether we accept Shabbat or we don't accept Shabbat Shabbat starts at a specific time right so now some people pray M early they pray early in the day so in essence they say and then right pretty much as Shabbat entered right at that moment but most people especially When you pray they combine all three prayers all three things they do literally moments before you know a few I don't know 10 15 minutes before Shabbat begins right as Shabbat begins they start already saying all of the Kabal Shabbat and ideally get to right when Shabbat starts the song You're supposed to have get already on the third section of right when Shabbat starts that's where Shabbat that that's ideally if you're perfect timing and so on that's why there's especially in theim a very precise with time uh it's very admirable to be precise with time it's a very very good thing to do and I see many times they're very careful with exactly the prayers that they start many times we're not really like that you know we say we're starting prayer at 5 5:15 we're still like oh okay well you want to start now you know we're not exactly so precise all the time some of us are but you know like soldiers five o' 5:00 they start right on time it's very admirable and many times that's why they're able to do this they are actually able to get to exactly the specific time and so on and so forth so if you're praying in that type of format where everything is a specific time you don't have the kind of time or luxury of time like you're saying to study while uh while everybody else cuz really you have to follow the the the regiment in order to accept Shabbat at the time it comes in now on the other hand if you are praying M early okay you've prayed M early already and it's a it's not yet time to accept Shabbat you still have a window of 10 minutes or 15 minutes mean other people could have accepted Shabbat but Shabbat didn't officially start yet you could accept Shabbat an hour early if you want but if you didn't accept Shabbat yet because it officially hasn't started it and you have it in your mind that you're going to accept Shabbat at the moment it officially starts you can no problem study T during that time no problem but again you have to be very careful with that because especially if you're getting into uh something extremely interesting and delicious in the Tor you can forget yourself and continue studying Tor and forget to accept Shabbat forget to forget to do things meaning you forget to do the forget to do a lot of things and there's a time and a place to to study there's a time and a place to do everything so ideally ideally you should accept Shabbat with the K at a specific time if you're praying on your own you have the luxury of time you have the luxury to pray whatever you want that's a different story so you have you could you have room to play with but if you're with a K you should do with the K does unless again you sometimes people pray fast so sometimes you pray fast like I know I prayed for example with ra FR every time I go to it's been a few years already but when I go to is God bless him ra he is uh he's something unique he's something very very unique and his his the only desire that I know he has is to learn toah that's his desire desire you know other people have other desires he has a desire to learn toah so while everybody else you know is you know they're praying and so on he complet his prayer immediately opened or any book that's next to him not doesn't matter what it is if he doesn't bring AAR with him anything open like a machine it's unbelievable we have to like prepare put the coffee there the seat there make sure the air conditioner is the right temperature this that this guy soon as everybody's and he's no everybody else is praying they're praying and they're finishing and he's got that extra three four five six minutes and he does the first three with them like everybody else but again unbelievable doesn't waste a second and this is the way of the this is the way of theim one time I believe it was MOS Feinstein MOS Feinstein said that uh you know was every day he would take a elevator and uh one day he was in the elevator he says oh guys I wanted to to come with me to do a with me oh this is a I mean but the ra has done many meaning you completed the sh many times because no no no this is a special sh cuz what what's so special about the sh this is the sh that I completed on my elevator rides every day I know I'm going to be in the elevator for 20 seconds 2 minutes however long it is every day so instead of wasting time I started learning the sh just specifically on my elevator ride and over a period of time I completed the sh this way too and there's also another sh that I completed while I was folding my and it's also a sh I complet it regularly many times and that's how you become a g that's how you become a kados right you don't waste time so again more direct answer to your question I answered but I think the bigger lesson is to make sure that it get if we are in a we're in a in a community we have to have a but if you're really precise with your time you can do both you can do both if you pray a little faster than the Kila perhaps but still have kavana you can have a window of three five six seven minutes even within prayer to study an extra extra page two paragraph whatever it is if you're a uh you know if people are uh have certain things for example you know have this tradition where in uh during the holidays they have the they sell the alot to the Tora this in some places can take an hour an hour and a half where you see the the auction going on don't be one of those people that can't wait to hear what everybody else donated grab a book and learn grab a book and learn why that's a that's an hour that's a half hour that's an hour and a half that you can learn my Bo go do it why that's the whole point of the day don't just be one of those people just caring okay yeah it's going to be hour hour and go outside and uh smoke cigarettes take advantage of that time you if you take advantage of the big Windows of time you also eventually learn how to take advantage of the small Windows of time and you'll be able to you know become something very very special but again always remember that you have to be conscious of the time and not end up missing the prayers so it's admirable to uh to learn at every moment but make sure that you're also learning at times that you're supposed to be learning like don't only want to learn during those small five minutes of time but then when you have five hours all of a sudden you're busy so you have to be you know you have to be precise with your time you know on the big Windows as well as well as the small windows but in general you know as long as you accept Shabbat exactly when it begins you have no problem whatsoever to do whatever it is that you want to do before everybody else even if everybody else uh accepts the Shabbat earlier it's not a problem as long as again you don't make it obvious you don't make it obvious like if if the KLA has a the community has a tradition where everybody uh accepts let's say the Shabbat an hour early you know it's a you don't have to keep Shabbat an hour early you don't have to but don't you know it's not nice for you to violate it right in front of them why because it's not that it's a sin on your end you're allowed to do whatever you want but unfortunately what ends up happening is that people that take on an extra stringency eventually they become acclimated to it and they start looking at everybody that's not taking on D stringency as a sinner so he's accepting Shabbat early an hour and but it's an hour early it's not really Shabbat yet but they're accepting it an extra hour because they like the Shabbat right but they see some people are driving to the Sho but at a time it's not Shabbat yet it's only Shabbat for you because you accepted the Shabbat early but they start looking at everybody else a loser ah look at this guy look at this guy he's driving look at this guy yeah but it's not Shabbat yet listen over here it's chabbat over here this guy's still driving that's bad thing it's better off that you never take on that Kuma so again if you're not going to take on the stringency of your local Sho or whatever it is don't go against it publicly but again it's a yeah you know person needs to use their common sense and to know how to also be uh you know uh uh conscience of your surroundings but in general you know you trying to learn a little bit extra before Shabbat very admirable continue to do it and make sure you stud as much as possible after Shabbat next question yes the back the Book of Daniel it says something about he prays for forgiveness for him and his forefather's sins and I was wondering how and what like what does it mean to be able to pray for forgiveness for your forefather sins that already has pass how does that work ah so says that on the day of judgment on the book of the living and the Book of the Dead are opened the book of the living is all of us that are living andh reviews all of our actions in the past year and determines what he's going to give us in the following year the Year that's beginning just like we discussed until now based on how we acted over the last year hasem is going to decide what to give us uh how much money he's going to give us marriage this that the other thing but what about the book of the dead they already died now in Judaism there really isn't such a thing as a uh a death where a person ceases to exist because theim they they live for eternity they live for eternity and theim also get punished for eternity in essence they're they're still there until they're completely destroyed the but the Sim continue to live and every year Hashem opens the book book The Book of the Dead and evaluates what their actions were when they were in this world when they were living and what they yielded today meaning let's say for example someone wrote a book A book of M to help people do chuva to help people do good things now after he dies yeah he's in ganeden but there are still more people learning the Ram's book every day there's still more people learning the rambam raan every day there's still more people learning by the still today so what do you think that's that's a waste no says look there was a sh in Florida on a couple days before and a bunch of people online and in person learned a little bit of those books what do you think that's for free every single letter every single word that was discussed and read from those books however long it was guess what goes to their Merit on evaluates not just what we read but what everybody else in the world has read and has followed and so on and says look you have a trillion more from the book that you wrote while you were alive so the GED that you have it's good but it's not a propriate for you why you have trillions more me we have to get you to a better G the gun Ed that you have right now is homeless next to the GED that you have now after all of these MIT were done because of the book that you wrote 800 years agoan listen I know you're you're really a high Eden and you got but listen this G Eden is not it's not good enough for you why because there's more mitv that are being made right now thousands and thousands of people are now taking on CH taking on seriously because there was a sh that mentioned you and what you wrote word for word and people were motivated by it so now we have to transfer you to a much better G and guess what there is no end to the amount of uh uh reward that Hashem can give a person no end there is no top every year the sedim get higher and higher unfortunately as we always have to disclose the risk the risk is that it also works that way for the someone that writes a book or makes a website or says while he's alive and then he dies and people read this book of heresy after he dies on people have said his nonsense a million times during that year people believe there's a million times during that year opens the book he says rash rash Wicked son of wicked what do you think you finish with the punishment because you're in the fifth chamber because you're in the sixth chamber because you're in the seventh chamber you think you're finished look how many more sins were made because of you you rash now in decides to make his punishment even worse to dig his hole even deeper why because more sins were made as a result of his actions this is why there are certain sins that a person makes that if he doesn't do chuat to clean them up there is no recovery this is also one of the things that we learn about as you remember I told you made every sin under the son but he did CH but that Chu is not mentioned during his life it's only mentioned in the book of Chronicles why because his Chua was not accepted in heaven complete CH was he was actually punished in sh until all of the idols that he placed in different places were destroyed from the world meaning until the damage that he caused to the world stopped until then he was punished now he's in GED but he left some even though he did Chua he didn't go and you know take back all of the pornography left in the world he didn't go take back all of the filth the idolatry of the world he left it there this is one of the dangers that a person has when he makes sins that are public sins he says a comment against the tah he writes a book against the tah he has a website against the toah those things it's almost impossible to remove them from the world it's almost impossible to remove the world one of the most famous Bas used to be a uh very famous movie producer and uh unfortunately his movies in Israel were number one hits but they were full of Filth full of Filth the most disgusting things in the world but all of the people from that generation grew up watching this stuff it was funny plus provocative plus filthy disgusting and everything else made him a super in the secular world one day he woke up and he realized that he has to do chuva and he did a miraculous CH became a real serious but along the process early in the process even he realized there's no way for him to Do complete cha so long as his tapes are still at people's houses and they're watching these movies so what did he do all of the million that he made all of the money that he made all from this fil he used every single penny to go and offer people to buy back the tapes from them and he bought everything that he possibly could get his hands on from people that were willing to sell it to him why to remove the fil from the world not many people could do do such a thing but nonetheless it's I mean today it's virtually impossible because of things being digital but the point being is is that he understood he understood that to clean your past is you know difficult if you have certain things that are still out there so that's why thear says Hashem opens the book of the living and of the Dead on so that also means to answer the last part of your question what about the marit of our forefathers and so on is that if a person does good he completes his chuva he fixes his breit he fixes his guess what that that he does if it's a serious could fix tell us could even fix the the the the defect of even his father and his mother and his ancestors all the way to the beginning all the way to the beginning because that defect usually doesn't start with him usually he learned that thing from his dad from his grandfather and so on and so forth now him doing Chua can actually fix and rectify the problem that his ancestors do and that's why many people especially people that are very very spiritual and have merits have dreams or all types of things where they have their grandparents or parents come to them in dreams and ask them for me ask him for for help Sometimes they come in a form of a of a homeless person or a person that's suffering because they're asking you to do MIT for them please please thank you change change they're not asking you for money obviously they're not in a world of money they're asking you to do MIT why because if you fix yourself you can fix them your action fixes the root itself your action fixes the root itself and many many times there's people uh that have said stories countless times that uh people that have died left the world come to them asking them for help and after they do it they uh they they help them I have for example we don't do this often but uh it's a uh it's something that uh is is good to do it's very common in Israel I don't know how common it is in America but it's a uh you know when somebody passes you have to read kadish on them for almost a year 11 months now the ideally ideally it's if a person you know son or reads kadish on on the parent uh you know is as long as the son isab and so on but in addition to that it's also good uh to have somebody righteous read kadish on this person that's important to you whether it be a parent or a brother or whatever it is so sometimes there's certain people that have asked us if we have somebody righteous which we know many righteous people in is and some even in America but we use specifically especially that learn T all day and so on we tell them please is the name of this person say kadish on him every day and learn some Torah for his Merit as well and if you give shim give shim as well in his for his for his sake and the uh the family gives them a little bit of money every single month and this person learns to does kadish for them every day for a year and sometimes people like it so much they ask to continue read it permanently I'll send you four $500 a month or whatever it is and you read kadish for my father for my mother for whatever it is it's worth it if you say wow it's a lot of money okay so you do it you do it then you don't want somebody to do it no problem you there's no obligation you don't have to if you think it's a lot of money if you think it's it's not worth it don't you do it yourself but to have a sadik read kadish for your father for your mother for for somebody that's important to you every single day in the morning in the afternoon at night in the sh and so on and so forth it's a very big respons responsibility number one number two is a lot of reward for a lot of good for it so you know some people think it's worth it and some people perhaps maybe don't I don't know but everybody chooses their own point being is that a few people that have asked us we we have people that do it for them and it's a uh it's a nice thing to do but again it's a uh it's just one of those things where you have to understand and uh be clear about the fact that life doesn't end in this world your need for marriage don't end with this world if a person understands that life is eternal and the need for merits continues they'll do whatever they can to do as much as possible for the people that have passed on because those people can't earn mitat on their own everything that they're they're getting is for stuff that they've already done while they were alive so you do something for them that they can't do for you that's a very big thing and that's also why people go and for example go visit the the graves of theim and uh why why would people go there because if you go pray at the uh even though the ramb say was very much against going to to grave sites at all to go to the grave sites of sikim is a some say is a good thing to do but so long as you don't pray to the tadik and turn into an idol worshipper but rather you pray at the tadik by showing him respect but also read his work learn his Torah in essence do him a favor by you doing him a favor by learning his Torah by you know showing him a respect perhaps bringing other people to honor his gravite and his life and his Torah teachings and so on this sadik in essence is a says okay you did something for me I'll do something for you I'll do something for you I'll tell you a little story uh that I know firsthand one uh one uh particular uh person that I know she is very very righteous woman very righteous woman and uh but you know like a abnormal amount really I wish all of am would be like this love for theik that that she has is truly unbelievable every time she isar a sadik's name she doesn't even know who it is or she does automatically okay tells her kids okay from now on this is the sadik this is his name and so on and the kids she has they always talk about sadik sadik this sadik this and so on so anyway one of our kids was suffering from uh nightmares little little boy was suffering from nightmares and uh you know there's not much you can do so she prayed one day she prayed what are you going to do cuz the kid wakes up you know you know three-year-old kid something like that wakes up you know like crying hysterical and to calm him down after that it's tough and there's nothing you could do so one day she's crying to please pleas please please and the mer of the and so on the little boy wakes up in the morning she tells me says yeah I'm not going to have nightmares anymore okay that's good you know why IMA no why why why you're not going have nightmares because last night I had a dream a big sadik came big sadik what's his name I don't know but he was big had long p and a beard and a keeper and he said don't worry I took care of your nightmares you're not going to have any more nightmares anymore so IM I'm not going to have any more nightmares how many of us dreaming about sikim coming to you saying you're not going to have nightmares just don't don't even deal with my nightmares near my day just tell me I'm not gonna have a tough day what sadik is coming to us telling us not gonna have a tough day this little kid had a dream this little K had a dream a big comes to says son don't worry about you're not going to have nightmares anymore why because his mother taught him to loveim why they have married they have Tora they walking this what happens so more we honor T more we sanctify name the more Supernatural things happen those things that she did to teach our kids these sikim and who they are and they have Tora and so on obviously that has much Merit and this this Merit uh deserves something that's Supernatural Supernatural praiseworthy is the woman that fears hem as the says and you're gonna sing itm on Friday night next a uh next question almost done no it's St time it's St time yeah you will no question that America's under stress I see this first handing with in retail M the yelling the wasted food the disrespect they all seem normal after a while when Rabbi ala came to America he talked about this and noted that most people are under the influence of some chemical or another whether coffee or cigarettes or medication most people need something I think the root source of all the stress is money and lack of my question to you is this it's to my understanding that a lot of people will perish before msia do you think that of the remaining people one will be looked at as king one like King Solomon that the people truly respect one that does Good by the people and sees that everyone is what was it look after or do you think that the only way to enter the Messianic era is through aem's open Miracles ah so the problems that are in the world today are like you said without question the amount of corruption that's in the world is atrocious and it's continuing to increase but unlike any other time in history it's be it's it's fulfilling the prophecy that we see in the where there's going to be there's going to be a generation of people that have no shame whatsoever so the uh when it comes to corruption corruption has always been uh in the world uh but now it's at a level where it's out in the open so for example uh you know what's happening now you're seeing that uh you know they're you know they have these uh cities are closed down they're not allowed to work they're not allowed to do anything and everybody has to stay home in quarantine but yet the uh speaker of the house in America the uh the lady over there that she is wicked garbage that she is she while she obligates her own city of San Francisco to shut down and to very least make less sins hopefully but she goes to a hair salon without a mask without a care in the world everybody else shut down the business cannot operate but she is allowed to operate no no problem that's that's a that's a form of corruption it's a form of corruption but now it's in the open in the past they've always done stuff like this but now it's like in the open and after they showed her on camera that she's doing this she was oh no I was set up like it doesn't matter you was set up not set up you did it you did it you don't even feel bad about it same thing going on with all this Corona virus numbers everybody knows the corona virus whether it's a uh you know bad this everybody knows that it exists in the world but at the same token everyone that's paying attention knows that the numbers are fake the numbers are fake the amount of death the amount of a uh sick all that stuff is fake because right now because of the corruption everyone is being diagnosed with Corona if the guy died from a heart attack Corona the guy died from car accident Corona the guy died from a uh you know headache Corona everything is Corona why cuz if he dies from a regular thing the hospital gets $118,000 if he dies from Corona it's $40,000 that's a pretty big test for someone that's not living with God in his life 30 you know you're talking about 222,000 difference 40% difference big big difference so the point being is there's a lot of corruption when it comes to that because people have no imuna no faith in theem so they feel like they have a need to be corrupt they have a need to cheat they a need to to to beat the system so this is one of the prophecies that's can happen at the end of the days that this type of shamelessness will grow to a highest level that it's ever been before mashia comes okay now as far as the people that will uh will survive this this difficult time you look at the uh the prophet Zakaria chapter 14 it talks about the last war which is called go Magog is also in Ezekiel 38 and it talks about the aem's cleansing of the World by using this war and this last generation where the Prophet says that 2third of the world 2third of the world will be destroyed 2third of the population so if let's say we're working off of the current let's say 8 billion people six billion gone okay something close to that okay so that's gone already now the remaining two billion in change the remaining two billion in change Hashem says and to the prophet over there and obviously to us that Hashem will purify them like you purify gold and silver meaning that just because they survived the first big attack doesn't mean that they're skyfree doesn't mean they're Sky free meaning that those remaining that remaining third still has to go through a purification system before and during meaning that each of us is going to have our own tests our amuna tests Faith tests our our uh you know our our our ethics test our everything test our Torah test our every everybody's going to be tested to the highest limit you can possibly imagine and trust me Hashem knows that your much stronger than you think you are meaning that whatever test you have right now you think you can't take anymore if hashem's giving it to you he knows you could take it so everyone's going to be tested up to the moon and those who pass the test those will be the ones that will see p mashia will see the face of mashia so it is not by the miracle per se uh of hasem Simply deciding this one you know what I'm just going to put a spirit spiritual bubble around them and nothing's going to touch him just because I feel like it no it's not doesn't necessarily work that way the time of mashia you have to have Merit how do you have this Merit by passing those tests and by fulfilling what the sages said which is to employ yourself in Torah like we talked about last night and philanthropy helping people do chuva doing kindness and so on by overcoming your test that's obviously needless to say just because that's your own chuva if you're done overcoming your own test you haven't completed your Chua second token is obious how do you have the strength to overcome your test by employing yourself in Torah because it's very difficult to have amuna if and have faith in hem if you don't learn a little bit of tah every day it's very difficult truth be told it's impossible it's impossible to have faith in hasem without learning toah impossible because you have to know why should I have faith in hasem when everything else is a uh the opposite and at times we see it in a Torah of a test of that has failed and what was the damage as a result of it for example in the Book of Judges Chapter 19 Verse number 30 there is a horrific act where a PES ran away from her husband who wasn't exactly a very nice person and The Tribe of Benjamin Benjamin tribe who were a bunch of at the time found her and did their way with her in such a horrific and atrocious way it is recorded in the tanak what they did to this woman may you never know may you never know such horrific things unfortunately similar things have been reported in the media just in the last few weeks young girl went to a lot a group of I don't know 16 or 20 uh guys to decided that they're going to have fun by destroying this girl these stories continue this story there's nothing new Under the Sun what happened in a lot a few weeks ago it's nothing new it happened in tanak also to even a worse extent this woman was raped tortured by these that were Jews but after that she got to back to our house and our husband who understood what happened cut her into pieces and sent a little piece of her to the different tribes little piece of her to the different tribes and say look what they did to her what they did to her and to get them angry because we want to go to war with these Wicked Benjamin this tribe bamin himself was one of the four people that never sinned big sadik but that doesn't mean that all of his descended this generation of the the Benjamin tribe was horrible people so he sent it to yud he sent it to to Y he sent it to all of the the tribes not obviously the the uh the uh uh the Patriarchs themselves and so on they weren't alive at the time so now now everybody got heated everybody got angry and decided time has come to go to war with the Tribe of Benjamin and they went to war they went to war with them with 400,000 soldiers am is went to war against one of the tribes with 400,000 Soldiers the Benjamin tribe had 26,000 soldiers you would think logically the war should be done in 15 minutes and if they're good soldiers a day that's the way it's supposed to work logically 400,000 you're talking about a ratio of to1 so imagine doesn't matter how strong you are doesn't matter if you know tawo and and and jiujitsu and maybe a little Capa 16 guys don't even know how to fight jump you you're getting beat up all the stuff do you think no no it's Bruce Lee yeah it's in the movies 16 guys jump you you're finished you're finished 16 guys with weapons do I have to say it here it didn't work that way you would think wait a minute 400,000 righteous righteous people 26,000 Wicked that's even more of a reason why this this fight should be finished in 15 minutes right not only is it rationally 400,000 vers 26,000 but on top of it the 26,000 don't have any good merits they the wicked people look what they did to this girl didn't work out that way in the book of shim chapter 20 verse 18 I'm is goes to the go to the talk to hem should we go to war says you're going to win the war meaning got stamped from going to win the war didn't say time though on the first day first day of the war the Benjamin tribe kills 22,000 of am is a statistical impossibility 22,000 meaning practically every Soldier they have killed somebody won a fight they all ran away had 400,000 now 378,000 left run away don't know what what just happened to them they all demoralized how do we not win this war in 15 minutes what happened on top of it on top of it we asked we talk what's happening here they go back to say you're going to win the war next day Ben Benjamin tribe kills another 18,000 people 40,000 people of died by the Benjamin tribe start cry soldiers huge powerful soldiers start crying like little babies what's happening here this goes this continues within a week everyone's going to die but we can't stop the war now it's 26,000 it's if we lose this war overall all of the nations are going to attack us and kill us anyway cuz see how weak we are so might as well you know they can't even beat their own people what's Happening Here becomes the leader becomes the leader goes to the say tomorrow you're going to win the war first time says the time tomorrow you're going to win the war next day am kills 25,100 of the Benjamin tribe meaning leaving 900 left virtually destroyed all of them still a little bit left that's where they're still in the world some of the Benjamin tribe and we're only going to know who is who when mashia comes so the question is 40,000 of is that were on the righteous side had to die before a single rash died before they won the war defying All Odds defying all logic but doesn't Define the rules of the Torah so explained rashi rashi explains on the PUK that is was punished was punished and that's why they lost why were they punished they were punished because they weren't zealous in the past sins that were being made which was in chapter 17 of the book of shim when is when they were worshiping Idols when people were worshiping Idols wasn't is to go fight it when people were recruiting Jews to Christianity when people were getting getting people to become atheists when people were teaching heresy when people were saying that God needs us when people are pro homosexuality am wasn't zealous but only you became zealous once it heard somebody that you was your friend your friend's girl got hurt now all of a sudden you're a servant of hem now all of a sudden you say oh all of a sudden you're you want to be the all of a sudden how come you weren't zealous for when it came to idolatry how come you weren't jealous for want to defend the T how come you weren't zealous because of that when one woman gets killed everybody fight but when aem's name was being desecrated for years no one did a thing to protect his name and his so says okay you're win at the end but not before you learn this point you learn this point that if you want to be saved when you want to be saved if you want that special protection when you want that protection you have to fight for the Cav of not when you want to fight but rather when you need to fight how do you know when to fight any time hashem's name is being desecrated that's your cue that's your cue you see a rabbi or a speaker or somebody desecrating hashem's name you stay quiet don't expect any special privileges from hashm you're defending the reform mental you're defending the Christian Missionary mentality you're doing all of that don't expect to be in uh on your on on your good side when you need to why you didn't defend his honor you didn't defend his name yeah but I was righteous overall I kept Shabbat I kept this yeah you're good I'm not saying that you're going to Gom fly but as far as the special privileges not so much why because you didn't do it you didn't you didn't make it to the team you didn't make it to the team you aren't on the starting lineup you you know we kept you in Camp kept you on the roster somehow why fighting for the K of hem is the most important thing in the world most important thing in the world and that's one of the things that people don't understand they defend the wicked so right now because of that many people are doing things that are much much worse than the am was doing a couple thousand years ago couple thousand years ago the am was simply not rebuking the people that worshiping Idols today we have Jewish people not only not rebuking the people that are Idol worshippers but actually helping them as I've told you many times there are countless Jewish organizations that dare to call themselves Orthodox but yet they have organizations where they support Christians the Jewish Christian Association or the uh whatever judeo Christian uh Institute all these organizations I'm just making up these two names cuz I don't remember the names but the point is there's countless Jewish organizations that actually are all for the Brotherhood with the Christians and they're going to say to you yeah we should be united we should be friends we there don't need to be enemies we don't believe what they believe they don't believe what they believe we can still be United who said you're allowed to do such a thing now I'm not saying go fight them I'm not even saying go insult them even says but to go befriend them to go on and share financial resources with them to go and invite them and give them an open door policy who told you this is allowed who told you such a thing is allowed and what's happening is the Friendship the so-called friendship between the mistaken Jews and the so-called Christian supporters of Israel are slowly but surely destroying Judaism as we see it inside Israel as Rabbi toia singer sh recently released a video being on the ground there saying that the Christian church is doing something unprecedented in the past it was well known that although there was many Christians and Christian churches inside Israel it's illegal to be a missionary in Israel illegal it's against the rules it's against the Constitution so they still missionized but quietly behind the door scenes now they have so many connections and so much money they're doing it in the open despite the fact that it's still against the law but they feel comfortable perfectly comfortable to do it openly no one can trust TR in and out of Israel except if you're a Christian Missionary guy wants to go visit his parents no not allowed it's Corona virus woman wants to go back to her husband no no not allowed it's Corona virus kids want to go back home no no Corona virus Christian Missionary why Money Talks how is this how is this whole thing thing you see when the secular people who many times are ignorant about the law but sometimes are against the law they're against the Torah but when they see religious Jews religious Jews being Hypocrites that makes them hate the Torah why if I'm a secular person I don't keep this I don't keep that now I know that maybe I should maybe I shouldn't I choose not to fine but I still know that that religious guy he says he does he says he keeps the rules so he has a certain expectation from him from society myself included the secular person when I see that so-called Rabbi befriend the pope right a tweet like wrote that he admires the Pope the the head Rabbi of the UK writes a tweet saying he admires the leader of the idolatrous nation admires him he doesn't admire mosu he admires the pope and he goes to churches as if it's allowed he has Gatherings with these people no problem and many you think he's the only one countless other people countless other so-called Jews they call themselves religious many times modern orthodox which for all intents and purposes believe that they're perfectly religious but modern and they're befriending the Christian the secular guy says you know what you're all full of it it's all about money why because in the books that you told us about Moser who says that if somebody's an idol worshipper you have to kill him in the books that you told about the rambam says that you not even allowed to be within six feet of an idol worshipper in the book that you told us about you said that the Rin and most of the throughout all of the generations that they are Idol worshippers but yet you call him your friend and not only that you share bank accounts with him and not only that you share his campaign to his Pastor that's moving to Israel to raise money for him to to to help them build another church Ines so how do you say all those things in the book act like you keep it but violate it openly and with a smile how how do you do it how do you do it that way so guess what as a secular person he says the whole thing is bogus and on top of that the Christian comes to collect the spoils cuz the the the secular person he's ignorant the little bit that he know he saw the religious guy violate anyway so now he's completely distraught so miss the Christian Missionary shows up don't you want God to love you oh why don't you accept JC peny why don't you accept Macy's also we'll give you a card for each why don't you accept him he loves you he died on some cross like a dead animal yeah they hung him over there like steak well that's going to help you somehow you can continue being a thief because you believe that Shish kab from 2,000 years ago that's going to help your life why don't you do that the guy had so distraught and so annoyed by the religious people says you know what look at this Christian guy he's playing music in the middle of the street he looks happy his house is bigger than my building he looks Rich too why not cuz surely the religious Jew is a faker He's a hypocrite he's the one gave him the money to buy the guitar so why should I listen to him and guess what countless Jews fall to the Christian church on a regular basis because of this hypocrisy countless and this is why kadosh says that he punishes the Hypocrites we read about yesterday yesterday he punishes the hypocrites why hypocrite doesn't have to be not religious in fact the hypocrite is the religious says that punished the religious Jews before he punished the secular why he says it's your fault they stayed secular and that's what happens and that is one of the tests that we have right now to see who's really clean to see who's really clean to finalize this point I'll tell you this I learned this from my ra but I also heard this from rais ofis is one of theim of this generation anyone who doesn't know that name anytime you view anything from the cotel and you see somebody crying hysterically sadik that's he comes from a whole lineage ofik for many many hundreds of years he looks homeless but he's accept walking love Addis he wrote a cont or a book of some kind and he sent it to the pope sent it to the Pope after the pope received it apparently there was some type of communication and he told radis that he can't sleep since he read this book shortly later the pope resigned for the first time in history this is was in 2013 for the first time in history the pope resigned he didn't tell him the reason I'm going to convert to Judaism or anything some say he ended up converting but long story short he's like out of the picture out of the picture and said and I heard this myself he says if you want miracles to happen in your life fight against Christianity all of these missionaries all of this missionizing of Jews you want miracles in your life that's what you got to do why because it's the source of the impurity of the world I'm not saying go physically kill people that's not we're not Nazis I'm talking about you have to do whatever you can to support the anti-missionary efforts that few in the world are doing some that we do here at has made probably close to 40 different shim against these missionaries in Israel and Hebrew I've made a few on a regular basis we try to talk about it and try to help people get out of the church and many many Christians and Catholics have left Christianity and become either righteous noahides or righteous Jews as a result of our teachings is also the teachings of Rovia singer if you watch his lectures you should donate to him also it's good but also has a unique Focus to fight against against the missionaries same thing with Jews for Judaism Jews for Judaism they teach many other subjects but again their main focus is to fight against the missionaries and there is only a few organizations that deal with this and to support it to help itah says this is something special why because this is a source of Tuma because this at least can be the tun of all of those confused rabbis and Jews that call themselves religious that are actually supporting the church by inviting them to this to the sh like they like Ephraim does and boaron or his friend does in New York or other people do in Atlanta already it's become it's become like already normal to invite uh priests and pastors to synagogues today the most bizarre thing in history is happening why because we forgot what the Torah says I'm not saying go and openly beat them up fight them any of that stuff Shalom you have no right to do it and no no no no whatsoever I'm not even saying to openly insult them or anything like that don't be like one of these fools that starts making silly uh uh posters on his uh on his uh Facebook or social media uh you know publicly insulting the Christians what I am saying is that you to fight the the Christianity to fight the missionizing is by educating people about the truth educating people about the truth how do you educate people about the truth use what you already know worked don't become an anti- missionary yourself you have Torah to learn you have Torah to learn until you complete the entire the entire the entire entire T all of the things you're required don't deal with this yourself don't say no tomorrow I'm going to become a speaker I'm going to go learn about no don't do any of that stuff there are things that already work known to work God bless him has a lecture that has helped countless people get out of Christianity Rabbi Toby singer has countless lectures and debates that have helped many people leave Christianity uh Rabbi scoach and his other colleagues at juice for Judaism have countless lectures that have already defeated the church countless times I have a few that have helped many people leave the church that's it share and support that share and support that don't become a superhero say oh you know what I'm going to learn everything about the church I'm G to learn everything about don't do that why because you have obligations your obligation is to become become to become learn the things that we need to learn there's already experts that are much better than you could ever be doing it for you to catch up to where they are it's going to take you a long time it's going to take you 10 20 years to catch up to hopefully where they are right now why why why reinvent the wheel support something that already works and focus on what you need to do focus on what you need to do why because unfortunately there are many people that are not only not supporting it but they're actually supporting the opposite side and this is why the Christians are running wild right now recr recing Jews to their idolatry on a regular basis and this is one of the things we have to fight we have to do it we have to do a lot of things to to at least wake people up and let them know that Christianity is not only forbidden for the Jew but it's also forbidden for the non-jew it's considered idolatry if someone wants to be righteous they have to follow the Torah if they're following the to as a gentile no problem they can still go to Heaven by following the rules for the Gentiles in the Torah which is the seven noahide laws and the ethical rules such as honoring your parents and being honest in business and so on if they're a following to as a Jew then they have to follow all of the all of the to the best of their abilities needless to say both Jews and Gentiles have to learn m in order to perfect their character traits become better quality human beings and also become more kind and helpful for society to bring more good to the world but the key is to know that you have a mission in the world first priority help yourself save yourself do CH yourself second is help the world around you so that's why I say don't go start you know thinking that you're going to become an expert in Christianity by reading all of Rabbi Toby singer's books and Rabbi Daniel ass's books and RAB all these book no don't don't waste a minute doing it there's already people that are experts in it that are doing it and you can just simply support them to do it on a bigger scale on a massive scale and they'll succeed you know many times people want to reinvent the wheel themselves and it's a complete waste of time complete waste of time oh Rabbi listen can I start a new YouTube channel with your Clips on there why I have a channel already I have four channels eight channels or something like that why why is another Channel needed no no cuz I'll cut the clips so I could share it so why don't just share the channel that we already have no because maybe it's going to be like my channel yeah but you're why why do you want to have your own channel like if you if it's purely about sharing Torah why don't you share something that already exists no no no but you know it's mine it's this it's that oh okay so it's all about kod it's all about honor respect and things like that it's better you don't even do it number one I don't really like it I don't really like it number two it's not going to succeed anyway you know why because you're not doing it for the right reason how do you expect you're doing it to get honor you're doing it to get subscribers you're goinging it to get likes you're not doing it to help people do TR if you're doing help people TR you would support something that's already working and many time you see it people do it and they do it for the wrong reason there are some they keep to do for the right reason and they do succeed and they do help people but many times people do it for the wrong reason and that's the thing same thing with Christianity same thing with anything else don't try to reinvent the wheel there's already things that work support the things that work RAB by Toby singer has been doing it for at least two three decades if not longer RAB SCC and Je with Judaism also for many years ra FR has been dealing with anti- missionaries for some time ra as well but the point being is there's already enough that's working support what's working and you focus on your own cha other understand this will help us this will help us do CH and hopefully help us wake up many of the sleeping sleeping religious people among us to stop having an open door policy to the church because it's literally killing us it's killing us at the root one or two more questions and we'll finish for the year any finally woke up I know after the sh 78 questions but you're not getting it I told you ask the beginning of the sh no um why can't you push him as the big brother like give him a nice elbow no no no come on earlier he said was love because we know that when you your can turn into your can turn into how about idry that you did how can you transfer that into when it's still going on how can you transfer that into midv when it's still people were still doing so how does in essence what the question is how could AEM turn a the page 86 says that there are in essence two levels of chuva in essence there's obviously Su levels but two levels of chuva there's chuva from fear of hem and is chuva from love of hem if somebody does chuva where they repent for their sins because they're afraid that God will punish them whether it be in this world or the next they're afraid that Hashem would take away their money take away people that they love and so on and so forth put them in gay gome then thear says that all of their sins that they've already made turned from purposeful sins to Accidental sins meaning that the punishment is much much less severe a world of difference a world of difference to give you an example of what a world of difference looks like to some extent if somebody violated Shabbat at the time of the BET mikdash okay if he let's say drove a car to sh death penalty death penalty but if he forgot it Shabbat forgot it Shabbat and he drove the car because he forgot not because he knew he forgot it was a mistake he thought it was Friday he thought it's Tuesday right he drank too much last night so he forgot so that's an accidental sin what's the difference death penalty it's the worst what is an accidental he did the same exact act drove drove same exact act he drove here drove here but just here he knew Shabbat he violated anyway here he didn't know mistake what's the punishment bring a nice cow well sacrifice it you'll cry a little bit because in reality it's supposed to be you being slaughtered instead of the cow that's how you go back home that's what a world of difference looks like in this world so in essence when when the says that all of those purposeful sins that were supposed to be death penalty turn into accidental sins you understand now better how much lesser is the punishment so that's already a big deal now thear continues and says that if somebody does chv out of love forem love for hasem then all of their sins purposeful sins turn into MIT meaning the guy worshiped an idol now Hashem turns that into a Mitzvah instead of death penalty he now gets reward for it that's how much CH Out of Love Is now as far as Hashem doesn't change the ACT he doesn't person committed idolatry person committed murder I can't hasem is not going to bring that person back to life because you did Chua Hashem is not going to make that uh you know that uh reading of the New Testament and now a permissible thing because you decide to do CH he doesn't change the act itself he CH he changes the outcome of the ACT meaning what you're supposed to get the uh the the a cause and his effect the effect of it where here a person was supposed to get shot in the face in G for his idolatry now hasm says no not only he's not going to get hurt not only he's not going to get punished but instead I'm going to give him a reward why because now he's turned his entire life and he loves me and he's doing cha from loving me and therefore I give him a reward for it he turned everything else so in essence this is a supernatural act because it doesn't make any sense whatsoever but in all reality Chua in general doesn't make any rational sense for all of those people that are very typically really wicked they call themselves rationals Jews because they try to rationalize the Torah but the Torah the last thing it is is rational it's not rational there are many rational things in it but it's not a rational thing it's not rational that hasem will start the world with two people and expect it to grow to billions it's not rational just because he said P it's not rational theem would split the ocean for a small group of people even though there are many many more around the world just choose them it's not rational for hasm to obligate you to put on to fill in six days a week or if you don't want to put on feeling all okay I'll just put you in G permanently that's what says in page 17A says who goes to Gom permanently says people that make sins with their body with their body so obviously since with their body we're thinking oh wasting seed yeah that's an obvious one but says what's what's not obvious sin with the body say someone who does not put on their doesn't want to put on oh doesn't want to put he goes to G permanently with seventh level doesn't get out why sin with the body does that make any sense no doesn't make any sense at all why because we are lowly things who says that hasm has to explain himself to our who who who told you that you deserve an explanation makes sense don't make sense for why what am I getting so wait so if I don't put on this black box around my arm I go and get punished permanently but if I put it on this little box with some strings on with a little little tie thing that could cost thousands of dollars if I put it on I get rewarded permanently does that make any sense that hasem cares I put a piece of leather on my arm that make sense to you no nothing about it make sense who says it has to make sense to you but that's A's rules so that's the thing a person needs to know it's very critical for a person to know it's not about things being rational not rational all of those things not it's not it's not about that it's about Hashem has rules in the world so now chuva chuva is not a rational thing why is it not a rational thing because in essence what is chuva chuva is Hashem telling you yes you are a criminal I witness it the heaven in the earth witnessed it there's other people that witnessed it but if you say I'm sorry if it's like just I'm sorry I'll let you go if it's I'm sorry and now I love you too not only that I'll reward you for it what is that like imagine you just had a Ponzi scheme robbed the bank a billion dollars you took from other people's pockets and life savings and put it in your pocket SEC FBI catch you under arrest bring you you have the right to remain silent but we prefer let you talk so you could perjure yourself and you go to jail they put you in a cage like a dog you show up in front of the trial lots of people there judge looks like he just came out of uh some some horror film and then he smiles at you he says you know you're guilty right yes your H so you stole you're admitting you stole a billion dollars yes your H wow she admitting that this money came from hardworking people yes your I know should you admit yeah yeah admit are you sorry for it to be honest with you honest yes I'm sorry all of a sudden the the judge starts dancing in the stage he goes look at him look at you look at you you know what you're sorry right yeah I'm sorry tell me you love me I love youness how about this just because everything you just said said not only you're free to go I'm going to let you keep the billion dollars you stole and just to make you feel real good to it's not a scam I'm going to give you another billion dollars how about that I love you too by the way that's Chua that's chuva does that make any sense to you does that make any sense to you doesn't make any sense but that's how much loves you when you do Chua that's that's how much loves you when you admitted your crime you said I'm sorry and on top of it you say I love you who says how about this you keep The Spoils of your theft and I'm going to give you more why because you did the right thing but if you continue ignoring hashem's message Continue ignoring aem's irrational opportunity to give you a reward to no end says listen not only you went against me you continued going against me after I offered you a reward just to stop surely you have so much t on your that the only way to remove it is by G the only way to remove is by Gom cuz every single time a person makes a sin he makes a kipa a shell around his Nish very really really thin shell around his Nish and can only break it if he does chuva in his famous SE that he speaks to different he writes that one time he spoke to the was one of the most horrific false Messiahs that existed few hundred years ago until this day there are followers of shap even though he eventually converted to to uh to Islam but he was a miracle worker from all types of tum that he was involved in and had many followers until this day the point being is is that CH one time came as a debuk into a person's uh body and spoke to him and CH told him a little bit of the suffering that he's getting in kaf and he told him I'm going to help you and he said you can't help me because the kip that I have the kip that I have isck thck it's a two feet two feet thick two feet thick of sins that c around this to fix that you need a miracle the came to told him don't mess with it don't mess with it can't fix it it's it's and if even if you try to fix it it cause you a lot of damage was at a very high level himself and decided to continue doing it as a result of of trying to help trying to help the uh sh three both of his sons died both of his sons died dealing with this stuff is not a it's not a picnic point being is how do you get a two feet thick Kiper a lot of sins this rash used to say used to take a piece of uh pork make a blessing blessed is the one who who permits The Forbidden as a rabbi a permits The Forbidden takes a married woman makes a blesses the one that permits The Forbidden cuz he says he's the mashia so he can permit to forbidden and go with a married woman and all of his followers would do it every sin the son they asked them how come you're converted to Islam then because I have to go into the into the depth of the Tuma to break it in order to come back in order to save them all types of craziness people that are make have Tuma around them there's no end to it there's no end to the stupidity but only if you have wisdom in you can you see that this is craziness but the people that don't have wisdom in them they follow it and they fall too they follow it too and even people that do have wisdom in if they if they're not uh objective in their in their uh uh in their understanding of certain things they could easily fall into it too the point being is is that it's a Chua itself is an irrational thing and Hashem allows us to do it gives us the Merit to do it and when we do we get rewarded for it so it's not that he changes the past that's already done but rather changes the outcome from it as a result of the things that you're doing and he gives you different opportunities to fix the things that you've done in the past for example if a person has had certain sins in the past hem will restructure the world in order for you to be able to fix it so for example if you had an abortion in the past okay now you can't bring that baby back you already murdered somebody so how do how does hem do it number one you have a child that already is a part of a t that's already a big deal number two Hashem will send you somebody to that that wants to have an abortion all of a sudden he wants to be a friend all of a sudden she wants to be a friend and they want to have an abortion so what what does do he sends you the the customer so what you convince him not to do it or he sends you an email from a company that helps people that want to do abortion there's a uh uhab has a whole part of the organization where they help women with with money and so on that want to have abortions we do it also on a smaller scale of course cuz we're not as big as either also many women that want to have abortions number one by educating them educating them that it's not just a piece of meat it's a real human being number two sometimes even money if they need money if that's the reason it's the craziest thing in the world but sometimes people want to commit murder because of money so we helped them the point being is this each one of those things the person that donated that few hundred that few thousand to help that woman not have an abortion guess what that's a tun for them that's a tun for them and it's different things why hasm send this opportunity because she wants to do cha so nowm is going to give her a way to do chva same thing for idolatry someone that is committed idolatry hasm is gonna help them do Chua for it one thing to do Chua for idolatry is Shabbat keep Shabbat help people keep Shabbat you help people keep Shabbat it fixes idolatry another thing is also fight against idolatry and other things someone that was promiscuous in their past either with themselves or with other people clearly we've talked about it many times T sponsoring those CDs sharing those lectures hosting events that have to do with t that fixes promiscuity immorality and things of that like so when a person wants to do chuva out of love asem gives him the opportunities to fix those outcomes yeah you can't bring back that person that you killed that little baby that you killed because you couldn't see it you can't fix that but I'm going to give you opportunity to fix it and what ends up happening say that hasem takes the n That was supposed to come and puts it in the one that is going to come why Run the World hard him something something too much for himun the world sh runs the world and many many stories especially among stories of the bmov or uh the or or and so on and many of them discuss different things in regards to reincarnations and things of that nature all of that have to do with t people doing CH or doing different things in order to rectify different because Hashem doesn't want to destroy a he doesn't want to punish somebody permanently meaning by the time he punishes somebody permanently it's because he has no other option because he's given him all the other choices this is why one time told me that uh he uh was invited to a uh uh funeral to to to say something about a young man that was a criminal and got murdered now while he was driving there uh somebody was driving him there one of the family members and they were talking they were close and so and he said him uh the truth is R 5 tells him this I can't believe he said this but he said it he said listen you and I both know that the best thing that ever happened to this kid is that hasm took him young the guy almost got into the car accident when we heard this cuz they're all the way to the funeral it's not like this is like already in the past it's the uh yard site a year two three four years later the guy just died says the truth as the truth is but don't try this at home says to him listen I'm not going to tell this to the rest of the family don't worry but between you and I we both know the best thing that hasm did for him is that he took him now so the guy says how says what does this guy do all he was a criminal we both know he was a criminal everybody knows he was criminal the whole city knew he was a criminal on top of it he violated every Shabbat every Shabbat you violate it's to hasem says I'm going to kill you not only in this world and the next World on top of that he was a womanizer married women single women every single time he touches one of those women it's it's every single day of his life he was he was making sins of K constantly you know how many how many death penalties was in the G the longer he was going to live the more he was going to make punishment would be different hem apparently has Merit this says says apparently has some Merit for maybe his grandfather or something that hasem had mercy on him to take him young before he pretty much completely destroys himself he took him while he was still young before he was I think it was a kid was like maybe like 17 years old or something like that young kid already a full-blown criminal hasem did him a favor him a favor now again like I said coming for FR he could do this you don't try this at home even me don't try this at home why this it's uh it's not it's not not an easy thing to explain to people but nonetheless this is very very uh common language among the sikim where they understand that this life is not it it's not the end it's not the beginning it's very hard to explain this to most people because most people are very emotional very emotional emotional about this and they don't when you're emotional as we've learned from the Kish it's impossible for you to be you know intellectual uh and and that's the problem but when a person understands that there's reincarnation that there is no such thing as a baby there's baby has already been here for you know 3,000 years at least from the time of uh Mount sa uh so you're all old I'm not the only one old here uh and the point being is that you a person understands these things he uh he understands that hasm runs the world in in a precise way nothing happens for no reason but that gives us a bigger responsibility then and the reason why is because if that if it means that this is not my first try in this world that I've been here already at least for over 3,000 years and this is also at the same time according to our sages the generation of mashiah that means that Hashem has given me many many tries apparently I have not completed my tikun yet therefore I kept coming back but this is the last chance because I cannot rely on being reincarnated again because the world is coming to an end mhia is coming whether it's next week next year 20 years from now no one knows and anyone tells you he knows a liar but everyone knows that this we are in that time we are in that time this is our last chance even a ston K's father when he was alive already said 40 years ago no one can rely on reincarnations anymore why pretty much everybody's had enough chances so in essence this means that hashem's Mercy on one hand is scary because this is my last chance he's had so much mercy on me but he's given me this last chance so on one hand it's it's it's it's scary on the other hand it's invigorating why because if I actually do this right if you do this right all of the sins you've ever made from your first Gil can turn it to MIT we're not just talking about the zillions of sins a person can make by the time he's 20 years old we're talking about a person that does it right does serious Chua gets close to hem follows the Torah everything he knows he does everything she knows she does doesn't care about society and what they think and what this no liberalism no nothing just AEM a person that does that literally can get themselves to a point to fix not just their own life but fix the source all the way from the beginning all the way from the beginning fix all of the losses that ever happened and turn them into wins so on one hand the mercy is scary because this is my last chance on other hand what an opportunity let us all take this opportunity that K has given us by taking it by starting now starting now this take on CH take on Chua seriously and fulfill what the have told us time and time again about chuva but also remember it's not a day to be sad it's not a day to cry it's not a day to fast the in chapter 8 verse number nine says today is a sacred day to Hashem your God do not mourn and do not weep for all of the people were weeping as they heard the words of the Torah he said to the people go eat rich foods and drink sweet Beverages and send portions to those who have nothing prepared for today's a sacred to our Lord do not be sad the enjoyment of hem is your strength so is what he's talking about we have to be happy don't be sad because it's your last chance don't be sad that you've already messed up a million times like me don't be sad about that be happy be happy that you have a chance to actually turn your life around to such an extent that you could change every single sin ever made into a mitzvah doesn't make any sense perfect now you understand if it made sense to you that means you didn't understand anything I said the fact that it doesn't make any sense to you perfect that means you understand because it doesn't make any sense that has is going to 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