Who’s Left To Learn Divine Truth From? - MUSSAR Pirkei Avot (82)

[Music] always great to be here got uh some prepared questions that you guys got me for me and we're also up to number 82 number 82 in the musar series we had a very good sh last night I woke up out of it was uh helped me do chva a little bit for the night uh hopefully other people did too and uh the amazing thing about this MIM is that it doesn't matter how many times you listen to them it's always brand new it's always you're going to find out something new uh and that's the beauty of Torah that's the beauty of Torah where um the difference between tah and all of the secular knowledge in the world whether it be science math English History or so on is that uh once you learn something about history once you learn something about math once you learn something about anything in the secular world it's stagnant it it Remains the Same nothing changes One Plus One will always be two and anyone says otherwise just needs to go to a menal institution uh on the other hand Torah knowledge is dynamic Torah knowledge is constantly something something that you can build on so that's why the sages explained that there's 70 faces to the T not that there's Shalom no one knows what's going on so there 70 different opinions but there 70 different understandings from every sing every single verse every single um paragraph every single excuse me story every single word even uh there is literally 70 different understandings minimum um but the sad part is that in our generation we still don't really know the value of Torah uh I'm in we still don't know the value of Tor we still don't know the significance of Tor the magnitude of Tor uh people think that if you know you read a couple of books you read the K you read a couple ofar you read maybe a few mid and that's it you know Tor and uh that couldn't be further from the truth uh many times people uh misunderstand what the Torah really is and unfortunately sometimes it's their fault sometimes it's the teacher's fault Sometimes It's A System's fault it's systemic problem uh that pretty much everyone is at fault you can't necessarily pinpoint and say ah he's at fault she's at fault you can't really do that sometimes as we were talking about before the sh was started sometimes it's the uh parents fault because they don't want to send the kids to Yesa sometimes it's the kid's fault because he doesn't want to learn sometimes the teacher's fault because he doesn't have patience he has want to teach sometimes the school fault school's fault because the school is run by people that are ignorant and are racist and only accept a certain type of Jew in the Yeshiva so if you're a convert or your Safari or your ashkanazi or your y or your something that they are not they literally act like it's NACI Germany only to to their own Brothers though is the problem and they don't accept them or even if they accept them there's always like they're looking for you they're looking for you around the corner I have at least two people that I know that were kicked out of Yesa by the same rotten principle many years ago and uh to this day to this day these two boys need to make do chuva because they were religious when they were in Yesa they kicked him out of Yeshiva both for B bogus reasons CU I know both of them personally uh they kicked him out of the Yeshiva and uh of course you know why would you stay religious if you just kicked out of a religious school if you got such as a young kid 11 12 13 years old you don't know anything in your life she got kicked out of school your whole confidence is destroyed just lost all your friends and now you have new friends who are your new friends they're not Jews so now you have a serious problem because now the kid is off the D he's not interested at all in a religion because all he saw is bad things from the religion and uh you have yourself a very very serious problem because now 25 years later they're still off the de now incidentally I actually spoke to both of them today uh as theem would have it I spoke to both of them today uh both of them are starting to make a little bit of progress one more than the other and uh I'll tell you a story because sometimes you know people think that I make this stuff up or like I don't know I have a I have some type of like uh vivid imagination uh but you know what some of these stories you really can't even make it up even if you had a vivid imagination could go so before we start oh you have the list or you still uh writing it okay by then let me know the list to everyone you got it thank you okay so before we start to Michael Koto ruven Joseph Ben Rifka SAR Le Batar Gladis Nunes Melissa N Suarez but Miriam Suarez Rachel and Monty Sandler lard RI yua Mikel Ben hadasa Patricia vanman Melle van Sonia Suarez Nicole valman Austine Hernandez J Hernandez Isabel bet Liliana ante Bonia giberto menesis jacalin roas idah Garcia Pablo Lorenzo Miriam Batar Joseline Adas Vasquez anid Vasquez suncha Vasquez SAR Gutierrez Diego Hernandez uh dor butat Mercedes Judah Ben dorah but Maz Rose L Norah Elish s uh amber but Noah rose rose Lord but Noah uh Zaria Ben anat Leana but Sarah Sarah but Lana Doris but Jorah David Bena and all of am is the ones that I remember the ones that I don't the ones that are here and the ones that are not will have so so in a world we live in today um I'm glad to tell you that the prophecy that the na'vi says that at the end of the days the world will be specifically mentioning is is going to be very hungry now unlike many of the horrible prophecies we've talked about in the past this is actually a very good prophecy because the hunger that the navi is talking about is not the hunger for food it's not one of the curses that's mentioned in or in several other places in the Tora in theak it's not mentioned in any of those places this is a different level of hunger this is a different type of hunger the hunger that we're talking about is the hunger for truth the hunger for Hashem in our life and I see these Amazing Stories every day someone sends me a message someone sends me an email and you know Hashem continues to try to cheer us on because this is not easy you work day and night and you feel like you haven't even started there's always new there's always more and uh but hasem cheers you on he gives you some results little ones big ones say oh I got a message a really nice message today some you know wonderful family donated $100 and along with the on our website you have the ability to also write us a message and there really a heartwarming message said uh you know thank you for your teaching we love you and um for me it was if you will I me it's it's like a um said don't let any of the fakers get in the way because the truth that you teach took us took us us out meaning themselves out of being fakers we used to be fakers we used to be fakers ourselves but the truth woke us up so to me this this is this is good as it gets because you see that people that are really searching for the truth they just never had it just never had it no one offered it or they just didn't search for it enough or it wasn't important enough or it wasn't time or whatever it was there's a systemic problem there's a systemic problem and we can't necessarily pinpoint of this is the one that's fault you can't say it's the rabbis only because the knowledge is available meaning that if you want it as a student if you want it bad enough you can get it if you don't get it from this Rabbi you know that the rabbi behind him there's several hundred books and in some case several thousand books instead of depending your entire is going to depend on whatever lecture he chooses to tell you whether he's telling you about oring for the 50 millionth time or it's a uh you know about some holiday that okay great it's all wonderful but if it's not shaking your heart and you want it it why don't you after this year let him finish this year after this year say up can I borrow one of the 3,000 books that are just collecting dust can I borrow one of them and read it you'll be more than happy be more than happy to give you one of the books to read pick up a book and start reading you want to know the truth pick up a book and start reading so you can't really blame the rabbi only also you have to understand that today because many big sh have boards and in many cases small shes also have boards there's 10 members nine of them are board members 10 people on the Sho nine people board members and the only guy that's not a board member is because he doesn't come all the time you know and uh so is a board memb board members so what happens so the rabbi the only one that knows anything the only one that knows the truth if he actually tells it to the people the board's going to fire him so he's also limited his hands behind his back even if he's a man of truth it's not enough why because you also have to have an extraordinary amount ofuna now it's hard to have extraordinary amount OFA 24 hours a day when you also have thatuna also is depended on by the five little kids that he's got at home okay he may have amuna maybe his wife doesn't or maybe he has amuna but maybe they don't know what to do or you know they're waiting for a better time or a better day and so on and so forth The Works in different ways to convince us that one day it's going to change so you can't blame the rabbi only on the other hand when someone becomes a rabbi they take on a responsibility not only as the owner of this knowledge but also the disseminator of the knowledge meaning you're not allowed simply to learn for your own sake someone says in that someone that learns T without an intention to teach is considered as if he doesn't have a God why because the point of learning T is to sanctify hashem's name why would you want to sanctify hashem's name because he's extraordinary he's the best so in essence what you're trying to do is you're trying to learn about Hashem in order for you to emulate him to show how great he is to the world the number one character trait if we you know we're allowed to say it according to this the character trait that AEM has is that he's a Giver he only gives and never receives meaning that if you now took the number one gift that he gave to the world which is Torah you took this gift and you're not going to be able to share it you or you choose not to share it you're an ungrateful person you're an you're not reading the Torah for the sake of emulating hasem you're reading the Torah for your own sake for your own selfishness and that's not Tor so even though it's not easy to be a rabbi it's definitely not easy to be a Kila Rabbi it's not an excuse go up to sh says someone who doesn't say the truth to his K sh they they judge him as if he's the one that made all the sins this is why the raan gel when he picked two major uh major sikim the poorest dirt he picked them to become big rabbis overnight they went from being poor as it can be to be big rabbis to told no no maybe we don't want he goes what you think that I'm uh giving you these jobs because I feel bad for you cuz you're poor no I'm giving you a job that's in essence the equivalent of being a slave you're equivalent why you're being a rabbi you thinking why you're rich famous and it's all great you're 100% a slave to the tiu you're a slave to the community why you have no day you have no night and if they mess up it's your fault if they mess up it's your fault that's why the like every time someone would tell him uh do you know anyone that knows that could give me an answer about this this and this go yeah yeah go to this one go to someone else go he would always he knows all the answers one of the yeah yeah go go he's great he's a great Rabbi go ask him go ask him and one of the students asking for the you wrote a book about it why don't you give him the answer no why why if he wants the answer he reads my book now otherwise why do I have to why do I have to go to Gom F why do I have to go why do I have to go to G him if he doesn't listen if he doesn't listen to my they're gonna ask me how come you didn't teach him you understand so it's not you're not off talk if you're a rabbi you just keep quiet on the other hand in the schools okay you built a school you got the funding I don't think there's any uh shortage of money everybody gets money one way or another sometimes they get it from big donors sometimes they get it from this from that now they're trying to certain programs they're trying to get it from uh different states in the United States the point is it's very rare to hear that a uh Torah Academy or Yeshiva was closed down because of money that's not the case but there is plenty of Stories of the students leaving plenty of stories like that there's plenty of stories of kids even if they attended the ISA they weren't really interested at all in what's happening there and sometimes it's because the teaching is not good sometimes because the the teachers themselves are not interested in being teachers they're interested in making a living they interested they making money and this is the skill set they have so they choose this but in reality they're not passionate about what they're doing so they're the worst possible person for the job it's very it's better to bring someone that's half an ignorant but passionate about doing it so he's going to study and get to know what he's doing doing by the time he gets in front of the class then someone that has a bunch of knowledge but doesn't really want to share because he thinks that he's supposed to be some big Rabbi or he thinks he's supposed to be some big sofel some big uh writer and this is just like a in between jobs type of gig you know so sometimes you have the wrong teachers or better yet sometimes you have yeshivas that uh you know they don't really care about the actual process of educating these young innocent Souls they don't realize that the future of mankind as a whole as well as is all dependent on these little babies these little three-year-old kids four-year-old kids 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 all these little babies the whole world is dependent on them the whole world is dependent on them but some of these people don't take this into account like nah listen let's try to cut the budget so instead of hiring qualified religious Jews to teach the kids why do they hire they hire people that you know don't know anything they know how to attend they know how to get there they know the how to follow GPS system to get to the school as far as religion they don't know anything how do you know first of all you see you see you see you see the appearance of some of these people they don't even look Jewish in some cases in other cases you have sometimes they hire people that are not even Jewish they're not Jewish no but they're only teaching English okay so why do we have to learn English from a non-jew what if if this English non-jewish teacher is uh on the side as a gig a missionary why do we have to what we don't have any Jews that speak English no one that's it all of us became stupid no one knows how to speak English no one knows history no one knows math we're all we don't know anything all we know is the five books of Moses that's it so you see there's a systemic issue here why it's cut Corners here cut Corners there for what sometimes for money sometimes for other reasons the point is schools also have an issue but that's not the problem it's not alone you can't pinpoint and say the school all that's at fault why plenty of people became coming out of those same schools with the problems why they wanted it they wanted it and plenty of kids that went to these schools that don't have any problems have great teachers great curriculum great everything but some came out rotten why the parents are rotten the kid goes to a religious school teachers are great curriculum is great everything is great he comes back home he sees ABA and IMA in a bathing suit ABA and IMA are pretending like they're on the beach 24 hours a day ABA thinks it's okay to walk around in his in his in his briefs with no shirt on he thinks he's on a beach IMA doesn't know where clothes actually she thinks that clothes only belong in closets she doesn't know how to be modest you know there you know Shabbat is just another day and really okay we're sending our religious kid to school but at home we're people that's the de of the reform by the way the people that started the reform movement um said be a Jew at home and a person outside and very same people today are marrying homosexuals going to Jews dogs to Jews all types of things even the go are making fun of us about this because even the go don't have such people this is why hasem said to Abu and also in this week's par says to your children your descendants are going to be numerous countless extraordinary like the stars or the sand why the stars or the sand when they're spiritually enlightened they're the best when they're not they're the worst they could be like the stars or the scent so you can't really necessarily blame the school now now you have teachers that are wonderful but the kid has to pick at some point he goes home he sees ABA and IMA completely disinterested from Judaism instead of having at the table they're talking business on Shabbat instead of a uh you know making Torah this is the number one thing oh let's send the kid to basketball classes or karate classes and Thanksgiving giving parties and uh this office party and talk about the stock market and everything except God God's for school it's not for home so the kid is initially he's confused which one's right my teacher or my ABA my teacher or my IMA he's always going to pick he's always always going to pick IMA and ABA why first of all he sees them more often second of all they give him money he want something they give him that he's always going to like them more it's very rare that a kid likes his teacher more it's usually there's something wrong with with the parents so the kid is going to say look my teacher's full of it is uh you know he's wearing his black and white uniform because that's his uniform for school but you know my dad is the best my dad's the best he's a he's he's a real person he's the same all the time and he knows the truth there's no way that my dad is wrong the teacher wrong so the kids confused and those kids that come from such confused households where they go to Yesa and they come back to a secular house or a half religious house or a non-serious house they end up either being fakers themselves or complete atheists many many times they end up becoming complete atheist because what ends up happening is that they see two completely distinct ends on one end you have someone that's looks extremely FR extremely religious the other one thinks it's a joke pretty much or at least treats it like a joke and kids are always like a sponge you tell them something they're going to remember it forever and if they see ABA you know they're like selectively religious they're religious during the holidays or when people are watching so the kid is going to say ah it's really everyone knows everyone probably else does the same thing it's a joke so the kid's like no I'm more open about it I'm going to treat it as a joke also so you have a lot of confused people but thank God we have a God and the reason why is because told us that if you look for me you'll find me if you look for me with all of your heart and all of your soul and makes a promise that if you actually look for the purpose of life you look for me you look for you find them you find them there's no question about it you'll find them but now once you find him if it doesn't obligate you you didn't find them if you think you found God but nothing changes you didn't find God you found something else you found a you found a cult you found the today's style you found uh you know some I don't know fake nonsense cabala centers that they teach the average person pretending like it's real Torah you know people unfortunately have such little clue about what Torah is and what it's not that they think that it's okay to go to these cabala centers and they think that they're learning Judaism they're being taught by sometimes non-jews half the class if not more is non-jews they're being taught things that have really no one in the class itself even understands what they're talking about just sounds cool it sounds like you know you can fly in the air after the class and the reality of it is that the only obligation is that you just have to pay otherwise you don't have to do anything just pay and people think oh yeah you tell them oh you're religious oh yeah I go to cabala Center every week and the reality is that it creates so much spiritual damage to people that it's very very hard to fix it these cabala centers and these fake cabala mystical Judaism they want to call it creates so much damage that it's very difficult to fix it's much more difficult to fix a mind that's been broken by one of these fake teachers than an atheist it's much more difficult to fix someone that's been going to these nonsensical fake classes being taught by Heretics to sometimes many Heretics sometimes by choice sometimes by ignorance it's very hard to fix it why because you literally have to pluck everything they know out you can't even fix it you can't even fix it there's no Foundation whatever is there is rotten and I've had several students that have tried to come to the classes and they've come and they come and they come and what they see is so different what they hear here is so different that it shocks them so unless they're literally a person of Truth they can't hold up one two three classes either they break or they come full force either they become full force or they can't handle it why they've been going to cabala Santa nonsense being taught that all you have to do is just attend the class pay the fee talk about things that no one understands all types of philosophical and mystical things believe in certain spirits and powers and times and certain days and certain hours all types of you know it's it sounds like witchcraft doesn't even sound like anything that's part of Judaism and there's like a half of a half of a half of a percent of Truth tainted with the rest of Lies so they think oh yeah but didn't you mention something like that yeah but in a completely different context so now all of the teaching they had for a year two years in some cases some of these people have been going for class for a decade but nothing changed they're still not modest they're still walking around half naked they still don't keep Shabbat they still don't keep kosher they still don't keep any of the laws and if they keep any of the laws it's purely by coincidence it's not because of the cabala center no one in the history of mankind has ever done chuba because of the cabala center that's not the goal there the goal is to make it a business and the business is open for all for filthy disgusting people like these celebrities that you know present themselves naked on on stage on a daily basis or it's for innocent people that don't have a clue and think this is Judaism doesn't make a difference Jews non-jews missionaries n doesn't make a difference everyone and all the welcome why you all have to pay a fee and no one ever changes nothing ever happens other than becoming more crazy and spiritually damaged nothing ever happens nothing it doesn't get anyone closer to Hashem just gets people to become confused but no one asks any questions no one really cares why doesn't obligate them as long as you pay the fee everything's okay now they come to a class like this and there's no fee and if they want to donate grade and if they don't no one really cares you want to donate donate don't donate don't no no one ever says Hey guys from now one you have to pay nothing no there's no donations already something's different then next thing you know you start hearing some things and every single five minutes you hear something new that obligates you to change oh I'm not allowed to wear no clothes I'm not allowed to wear my birthday suit all the time I'm not allowed to eat everything that walks I'm not allowed to act a certain way I'm you have every five minutes you hear a new law a new thing that obligates you to change buz you obligates you to change obligates you to change and now your world has turned upside down when you hear that all of these obligations are the are from the Creator and not from the teacher so For Better or For Worse regardless of whether anyone's been going to these classes or know somebody has been going to these classes by these Heretics show them this show them this and I'm more than happy to debate any of them uh and they could provide their sources and we'll provide our sources uh not because I care for debates and I'm not even talking about public debates they can public or not public but simply look at the truth what's the foundation of what they're teaching where are you going what's the goal where you start and where are you going is the goal of the world to wear red strings is that what hasem created the world for to for us to wear red strings and uh celebrate uh you know uh donation Tuesdays or uh or is it uh to serve him cuz he's the king of kings so that's that's the that's the main thing that you have a systemic problem that's even outside of the school it's not just in the schools it's outside of the schools it's not just problems with rabbis it's also problems with people that pretend to be rabbis now it's got to such a horrible stage is that it's almost difficult and in some cases impossible to know who's Jewish it's hard to find out who's Jewish you I I have a guy that was going to a synagogue and for a few years two three four years and uh you know quiet guy always looked very Ultra cish hat didn't look like uh the typical kabad for example everyone this nice guy whatever but anytime they would um ask him to do a blessing or do anything like that he didn't know what he was doing really but he knew the movements he had the clothing everything was I mean he looked like a perfectly normal Jew but he didn't know much he looked like a rabbi as far as no didn't know much so after a while a couple you know Jews are curious people so couple people started asking questions yeah you know this guy where's this guy this guy I'm surprised it took so many many years so say I'm I'm going to ask I'm going to ask him oh where you from what they find out in 5 minutes later he's not even Jewish he's not Jewish at all nothing no not process of conversion not uh talk nothing zero zero he just decided one day I'm gonna be Jewish like he thought he could just be Jewish just by wearing black and white growing a beard that's for free so at least you don't have to invest any money so it saves you money actually now and you wear this black and white and you're Jewish that's it you open this book you make these strange movements you're Jewish what difference does it make what it says in the book you're Jewish by wearing a clothes and going like this you're Jewish he looked more Jewish than everybody else this is not one case there's several of them there's one guy actually in Miami is it Miami yeah I think it's in Miami everyone knows he's not Jewish but he's been going there for almost nine years nine years he's been going to the synagogue they don't know what to do with him they feel bad throwing him out I mean the guy's part of the Kila nine years they ask him why don't you convert oh my wife's a missionary the wife's a Christian Missionary he lives two lives this craziness you don't know what's going on I'm telling you you have no idea what's going on in the streets right now you have no idea you guys are all innocent you all have your lives your families you have no idea this is the news you have no idea what's happening in the world today you don't know what's Koshi you don't know what's not Koshi you know who's Koshi you don't know nothing you have certain people calling themselves rabbis but they're applauding the like the one we talked about yesterday you have all types of strange things happening well the key is is that left us each and every single one of us the same instruction set there are no two instruction sets in Judaism there's one the single instruction set it's called the Torah the Torah itself has multiple Parts it has the written Torah which is the five books of Moses then there's extension of it which is the rest of the tanak it's another 19 books that's the written Torah so you have five books of Moses that were written by Moses through Prophecy from Hashem and then you have the other 19 written by different prophets King David King Solomon and so on after you go through the written Torah you realize after you just read the first verse that you don't know what you're talking about okay so it says in the beginning hasem created the Heaven and the Earth like oh it sounds great is it a story is it a story he's just telling us a story because if he's telling us a story it's not really that good of a book why because you just jumped after bit after you you know you created the world you have Adam and Eve they messed up on the first day and then you jump 500 years what happened I mean it's a lot of time I want to know what happen during those 500 years then you have okay there's uh you know little details of what happens over a period of 100 years or so and then boom we jump another few hundred years what happened those few hundred years and then again then another thousand years like whoa hey why you skipping slow down a little bit we're still we're still on the first day I'm still trying to figure out what bid is why you skipping to 1948 when from creation when abrah Ain was born relax no that's because it's not a story book because if you look and you fast forward all the way to the end of the Torah the five books of Moses the book of Deuteronomy the entire book entire book you have is a couple thousand years the entire book of Deuteronomy is five weeks so you have one book that's a couple of thousand years and one book it's few weeks a little over a month this is it's not exactly how books are written today maybe you need an editor that's because it's not a story book says and also Kaz say it in other places in the midash and several other places anyone that says at the point of the Torah is to give you a history of the nation of Israel loses their right to live meaning they have no right to live at all because it is as far from that as can be each and every verse each and every P each and every single paragraph each and every character each and every single story each and every single Al each and every single event of any kind is there to teach you a life lesson and that life lesson could be dynamic meaning today it means one thing to you next week it could be something quite different it can be applied in a different way just like you you can use glue glue to as a little kid when you're a little kid in Yesa you glue a couple of piece of papers put the manur for hanuka on a piece of paper here IMA look at my manura IMA sees the thing is crook say yes my son what it's the most beautiful manur in the world in the back of my mind I can't wait to throw it out but whatever I put it on the fridge why because the kid's cute now why is it cute because he's five now if your 35 or 40y old husband brought you the same thing brought you the glue with with the manur he came from Wall Street he came from uh uh CVS or wherever he works he say honey look I made a manura for us you say honey sleep outside please go sleep outside go sleep outside I'll I'll send you the divorce papers I'll send you what's the same glue different times even more so that same glue can be used for different things the Torah can be applied in different ways the par that you read this week is going to affect you way next year same time you read the same it'll affect you in a different way that's you see that the Torah is divine it's Dynamic it's divine in essence means that it's a moving Target and it's customized to you to you specifically you that are watching you that are sitting all you got to do is just read it but now since you don't know what you're talking about because you read the first few vers and you're like oh okay bit how what's the big deal ofit oh there something called commentary commentary that's the oral Torah that's part of the oral Torah the MIM the commentary by our great sages that were not called great sages just because they were great as people or great in money or great in any particular thing other than Torah that's how they were evaluated and they weren't evaluated by their mothers with biased opinions they were evaluated by the entire generation genertion because just imagine how many people wanted to write commentary who doesn't want to write commentary about the book of God who says we're going to accept it so for someone to really truly understand the significance of each one of the names that you see next to every single tanak every single K you always see Rashi you always see Unos you always see these amazing names what no one else had an opinion yes many had opinions many had knowledge but it wasn't like that it wasn't Rashi it wasn't Unos it wasn't it wasn't ramban it wasn't ramban many have ideas even today there's plenty of young and old people that have their own ideas their own as a matter of fact the holy books say that there is actually countless countless insights new insights in sh that belong to each one of you that belong to each one of you and no one is ever going to get them other than you no one is ever going to get those and bring them to to light and bring them to the world other than you which means if you don't work hard enough to bring these they'll never come to light so get working get working this is part of our Tora but it's still not Rashi it's still not R it's still not the Foundation that's oral Torah so we have the commentary the other parts of the oral Torah of course we have the explanation not only of the verses and what's the hidden meaning behind everything but also we have the mishna and the gar that explains different aspects of Judaism the mitv how we got them where we got them from who said this who said that different teachings about M ethics mystical teachings you also have books like the zor collection of books like the zor which part of it is the cabala then you have the have which came before the is based on that's taking out the R and M took out the laws the the uh mishna took the laws from the written Tor then thear explained the mishna how we got to what the mishna says because the mishna minimized it in the fewest possible words as possible in their generation they were able to understand what three words meant you know it could mean 50 books in three words but Generations pass we deteriorated so he said okay we have to explain to the world what these three words really mean how we arrived at everything so now you see that these three words are explained over 50 pages that's the gar but now not the entire gar is laws there sometimes there's stories sometimes there's historical lessons sometimes it's scientific facts by Jews that are Divine from Hashem sometimes their scientific things by gim because they were the experts and that's why anytime someone says look thear made a mistake in science by saying the uh the moon revolves around the sun the sun revolves around the moon the opposite of what it is look it's not Divine whoa whoa if you look at who wrote that it's not a Jew we depended specifically a Jew that wrote that specific thing said we got the information from the non-jews meaning they're not experts if we got it from Hashem we say we got it from hem that's that's never wrong that's never wrong but if we got it from someone else that was the expert fine no problem if he's wrong he's wrong it's not our fault but that's the Tora so we have the M was explained into the but now we have stories we have historical facts we have scientific facts we have medicinal facts all different types of things arguments debates all types of amazing things I mean once you get into the G which takes a while takes a lot of effort takes a lot of sweat but it's the highest level of Torah once you get there they like okay what's the bottom line what's the bottom line the law now if everyone going have to learn the entire to know what the law is you have to learn the many many times to figure out what the law is so the r made it simpler he just took the law out no stories no opinions no this is the law he took the law and this the law fear God love God and so on and so forth all the 613 laws that we have in the he took it from the where the sources are and he wrote but then years later I think maybe 400 years later approximately 350 400 years later R even took the rambam and minimized it even further as far as explaining it even further applying it to the current times at the time further most of the comes from the r most of it not all but most of it is there so that's again also the oral Torah but then you have many many other books written during that time before that time after that time regarding M regarding other mystical teachings other things these are all part of the oral tah and what I'm describing to you right now is not even 1% of one% of the tah this is not even 1% of 1% of the tah we have if you look at the Torah we have I mean for example you just look at the library that Shalom had some estimated to have over 60,000 books 60,000 books just he had it's not all of the books in Juda it's all the books in Judaism you're talking about hundreds of thousands if not a few million of what we have now what we have is not all of it because the says that the Mish about about idol worship that abrahamu used to learn hundreds of years before we got the Torah itself before we got the written Torah and all of the oral Torah and so on in Mount sa the M about thatu had some say were there was 400 sections some say there was 600 sections to this to this that he had to this m that he had what we have today what we got from the remains of R AA students is five five chapters five sections meaning that AB just tracked tracted of ab was more extensive than our entire SH now you think oh so we don't have anything hold on a second if you look at the gar now there's obviously different versions of a uh you know commentaries on it but famous one is from art scrol has English and uh Hebrew on it also has it in French has it in Spanish and I think a few other languages but the the point is is that there are 73 of this type of book this believe 36 36 track of but since each tractate is multiple books there's 73 of this 73 now this book you see it's very very thin paper very thin paper and it's tiny handwriting it's not like your school books where the handwriting it's like the whole page takes three words it's tiny little words tiny little words meaning each each page is very very extensive so you have I don't know maybe five six 700 page yeah probably 500 to 600 pages in each book now if you do the math the gar itself has just a little under 2,700 theim but theim are double meaning it's back and forth so each each Duff in the gar is the front and back unlike the books of today where you page one two three four five in thear it's one a and one b 2 a and 2 B so each D has two sides so there's approximately just a little under 2,700 which means approximately 5,400 Pages now since there is commentary to understand what's going on since we don't know what's going on this commentary so there's 73 of these books if you do the math I did just a brief math just the other day you're talking about somewhere in a neighborhood of 21,000 to2 4,000 Pages regular pages that we're all used to in every other common book 21 to 24,000 Pages now the um zman from volin used to say about D giant of giants wanted to learn from him wanted to honor him and so on and so forth one or the other said for the of course the vill go is a giant but your brother is also a giant why don't you go to your brother he knows the Torah zman o from volin giant go to him what do you have to go to V going for he says if my brother yes he's a big giant before he would do anything before we would do anyah let's say for example simple before he would do theah in his mind he would review every single place that's mentioned in the Torah we're not talking about just the written Torah we're talking about the oral T we're not talking about just thear and the Mish we're talking about all the all the all the all the commentaries all the commentary on the commentary he would review it in his mind and count and mention it where it's mentioned before before he would do aah of anything he would review it oh where's this mentioned in we can't do this in the computer type in take us 20 minutes to figure out what the computer says he was doing in his head in moments moments eventually he saw this is making everyone else wait for him all the time he says oh this that I made this vow that I made that before I you know in order to sanctify hm's name I really study his Tor and really know what I'm doing not just do it like a robot Shalom but it's making my family wait a lot before I do before I eat before I drink before before uh anything everyone has to wait for me until I finish so oh I have to cancel this oh but is also in the Tor where is it in the Tor so the rabbi is like oh hold on a second when you finish finding out how many times it's mentioned in t come back to us took him three days three days he's counting different all different countless places where the where vow is mentioned in the Tor he comes to the after three days he goes okay I have it these are all the places of where it's mentioned in Tora here but now I have to test you you guys this me if you're going to cancel my Nel at the very least you need to know where it is and his brother says this very same giant that we can't even understand at that level of intelligence that's a computer can't even be a student of such a the computer can't be a student of him we can his brother said if that same if that same giant just a few hundred years ago if he learned a thousand more years and was a thousand times better than he is right now he still wouldn't be half as much as the VNA gone can you understand such a thing I can't I heard this story I can't understand the first one forget about the second one he won't be half as much as the Von we're thinking oh they called him vag cuz they liked him it's like today every guy with a beard in the belly the the the righteous are coming to the city do you know him have you ever read any books did he write any books does he know how to speak does he know how to write does he know how to read you don't even know if he's Jewish or just anyone with a beard and a hat and a be and a belly that's say we're finished and he goes like this and you go like this that's of course requirement something that's doing in the middle of the street so here you have the giving us a little taste of what a real is we can't fathom this level of intelligence we can't fathom this level of wisdom but yet you have people in this generation that don't even know basic level Judaism I don't agree with the Von I don't agree with the rambam I don't agree with Rashi I don't agree withar I have a different K I have a different have a different understanding I don't think they're right here I don't think they're right here the level of that we have in this generation is that every time you hear somebody make these comments ah it's for sure the end of times why page 49 says what's at the end of times you're going to know that m is coming why because the the the obnoxiousness the lack of shame that people going to have is going to get to new levels new levels of new levels just it's it doesn't even make any sense you little guy you little whatever you are you're you don't agree with rambam you don't agree with the with with so now you see that the Tor is so vast it's so extraordinary and this is just the parts we have this is just the parts we have we're all upset for a moment oh we only have five M five sections of had so much more that five sections that five sections if anyone even knows half of it half of it by heart they're already considered big deal you understand the Torah is extraordinary now why do I tell you all this as an introduction because if we understand what we're dealing with it becomes easier when the obligation comes along with it if you understand the value of T the significance of T the the Eternal nature of the Torah the Divinity of Torah then it's easier to accept that when the Torah tells you you have to change you have to change your lifestyle you have to change your character traits you have to change your clothing you have to change your language you have to change your IES you have to change your mindset you have to change the way you do business you have to change the way you parent your kids you have to change the way you think you have to change what you look at you have to change everything everything you're doing naturally wrong you have to change once you know the Torah is as great as the ocean and even greater okay we got something hereos came to or came to visit and it says was very upset why didn't you come visit me in so many years this is over 2,000 years ago meaning vnon is just a few hundred years ago vnon was not even enough to be a student a student of RAB AKA R AKA because to be a student of R AA you had to be able to revive the dead forget knowing Torah knowing how to do a lot of amazing things yet to be able to revive the dead someone's Dead Alive live we could just maybe spell the word dead maybe that's sake what language how many language can you do it so you have someone that wanted to be want to be with to revive the dead now his RAB was upset himba why' you come visit me in so many years so I was busy you know I was learning running the Yesa 24,000 students that's so easy not so easy he was very upset at him I have so much Torah to teach you goes I know I know teach me now what can you teach me now how much Torah is there how much Torah do you know this is his teacher he says if the entire ocean 72% of the globe is water the entire ocean was ink and all of the trees turn into pens and all of the land turned into paper it would not be enough to write the Torah that I know says all of the trees were pens all of the ocean was inks you're never running out of ink land became paper not enough to write down the Torah that I know and the Torah that I know the Torah that I know says his Rabbi was ranan the Torah that I know is not even a fraction of what my Rabbi know what did your Rabbi knew what what did he know what know he says comparing my Torah to my rabbi's Torah is like if a dog comes to an ocean and takes a lick of the water he comes to an ocean 72% of the world he takes a lick out of the water has anything change have you noticed that's my Torah in comparison to my Rabbi and my Rabbi his Torah is nothing in comparison to his rabbis you see the magnitude of Torah mentioned by the ones who knew Torah okay it's easy to become obligated when it says hey you have to change now once in a while you have a person has merits has merits where AEM doesn't only want you to change but he wants you to change now so one of those two students you remember I told you those two St you guys still remember the original story still with me those two young studs that got thrown out of the Yeshiva when they were young kids and went about their lives and over 25 years of passed and they're both trying to do chv one is doing better than the other the one that's doing better than the other is really a superstar he's got a brain that's unbelievable just that he's got to get over some of these different things I mean you have to literally rewire the whole thing he's already studying he's already studying different things he's doing it but he's not there yet so he's doing some mitv but not all the mitv what mitvah we we're talking what do we have to do what do we don't have to do we're still learning we still have to figure out do I believe do I don't believe we're still in the beginning stages but but his his brain is Advanced enough that if you just give him basic level to it's not enough to give him complicated stuff so anyway has been learning and he tells me listen he watches the lect he's going to enjoy the story he says listen I got to tell you I don't know what you're going to make out of the story I usually don't believe in this type of stuff but I don't know what to do I have to tell somebody he says I uh have a plant you know I have my little library in my house I have a plant in this Library I've had this plant for years for years I've had this plant a plant you know you have it for years usually the same little whatever it is nothing changes so I don't know what's happened for the last few months ever since I've been really taking torist seriously the plant has been growing completely out of proportion he doesn't stop growing this plant so Shem saying hello nice this is cute it's cute plant all of a sudden after so many years started to grow because now the house has Holiness so he's doing mitv he's doing this he's doing that but the thing is though withv is cha requires certain amount of leaps there many many small steps and once in a while you're required to make a big leap you can't just take small steps forever anyone that teaches you just take it one day at a time for ever is lying to you because it's not going to work in anything in life once in a while you have to take big steps big chances big advances you can't just keep treading away and think that's going to work once in a while you got to take a shot no different with chuva Chua even more so if you want to start Chua you have to take on something big and then a bunch of small things you get acclimated and used to those things small things and a big thing eventually it becomes everything becom becomes the same almost now it's time for you take the next big step so let's say for example you started with learning to every day for 15 to 45 minutes a day and keeping kosher and and I don't know saying okay great this is a good start after a month two months that you're doing this it's time to take another big leap okay I got to start taking something else what should I do okay I got to start keeping uh do is a big thing why obligates you every day six days a week and a bunch of other small things I'm going to do I'm going to increase my learning from 15 minutes to 25 minutes and so on and so forth then a few months later oh got to take another big step what's the next big step time to keep Shabbat it's big step it's one day a week yes it's a big it's required if you don't take big steps you're never going to get to them you're never going to get to CH so once in a while wants us to know the not only we required to make a big step but he wants to tell us what the big step is and he tells me that he had a dream but the dream wasn't exactly one of these fun dreams now usually says that most dreams are complete nonsense so please don't start sending me emails I had a dream today I was a turkey I had a dream tomorrow I was a Pikachu I had a dream the other day I was a president don't start sending me your dreams please every day get enough people already sending me their dreams don't send me your dreams your dreams generally don't mean anything if you're Pikachu and your dream maybe you're Pikachu in real life okay fine you're Pikachu go be Pikachu what do you want to tell you everyone thinks they're the Messiah or Pikachu so anyway the uh he tells me I had a dream but the dream was very scary because the dream was not my dream the students dream the dream was very scary because it was all types of lightning and scary and pay attention for a second forget the food lightning scary Darkness it's like a terror and then a voice comes out usually nothing good comes out of this part but the voice says something interesting are you going to believe in me or not yes or no yes or no yes or no over and over and over again and each time again gets scarier and louder and more terrifying and he says to me I've never been more petrified in my life I had night terrors you know if anyone knows what night terror or it's a horrible horrible type of nightmare where you literally feel the pain he says I've had those this was scarier than all of them I woke up petrified after I said yes yes yes at the end that have terrified was terrified thinking it's over I went back to sleep I had the same exact dream again are you going to believe in me yes or no yes or no now I need to know yes or no he says I woke up the second time I didn't know what to do with myself I didn't know what to do myself I turn on the TV just to get my mind off of it I don't know there's some program about dreams now I don't know what's happening here he said I don't want to go back to sleep I have to sleep he doesn't know what to do himself you had the same dream it's petrifying twice already he goes back to sleep eventually he has the same dream again that's when it becomes significant when he told me he had to dream three times first he told me to dream Once ah it's cool it's cool could be you want you watch some movie or something and it says something like that twice ah it's a coincidence three times M says it's meaningful three times I told him I'll call you in two minutes I don't call anybody in two minutes I call you in two minutes why you want to live now it's not a question yes or no now he's telling you the reason why the says that every single time a person keeps Shabbat they're becoming a partner to by because no one was there to witness creation soem says you want to be a partner keep Shabbat you're testifying I created Shabbat I created six days I created the world on the seventh day I rested by you keeping Shabbat you're testifying you agree with this you're testifying it happened you're testifying I created the world but Shalom if you do not keep Shabbat if you not keep Shabbat it's not oh no no I don't know I don't know no no Mar says when a person when a Jew violate Shabbat it's as if they're screaming to hem on Shabbat I don't believe in you I don't believe in you I don't believe you created the world maybe somebody else did it Hashem is screaming at you are you believing are you going to believe him me yes or no he wants to know what you're going to do in two days are you going to scream back no are you going be a good boy and say yes soai sometimes hasem gives us messages those messages they're much more abrupt than my lectures the reason why when you get messages from Hashem they're a little more painful he took on shab succeed but the key is that we have to understand is that the Torah is not a fluffy book it's not a fun cartoon Torah is very serious and it's very important to understand that if you're you have not learned this Torah yet you've only heard fluffy details you've only heard nice stories about the Torah there's something wrong is either something wrong with your parents and how they taught you or there's something wrong with your teachers and how they taught you or there's something wrong with you as a student and you didn't listen or the rabis you listen what something is wrong something is clearly wrong it's time to change why because the Torah obligates you if the Torah you've learned your entire life does not obligate you you don't feel obligated as a result that means you learn the wrong Torah so the M chapter 4 M 27 and some say it's rebi some say there's two opinions here some say it's some say it's re mishna does not change just the uh story behind it changes slightly of what the meaning is but either way mishna says don't look at The Jug but rather what's in it there is a new jug filled with old wine and an old jug that does not even contain new wine so this sounds very similar to the common saying don't look at the cup half empty look at it half full but much more extensive once again we see that any anything that had any significance of any value in the world whether it's a saying a thought or anything in the world must have Torah background behind it if it has good in it it must have something Tye of background in the Torah so in essence he's saying here something that's common sense don't look at just the jug don't look at just the outside look at what's inside sometimes what's inside will impress you the outside looks sloppy looks like nothing looks homeless but the inside has precious diamonds sometimes it looks great on the outside but rotten on the inside this in essence is the states the ones that argue that said it they're saying it because this is the argument to justify the fact that he continued learning from Elisha B Aya his Rabbi that went off the and how he was able to continue Discerning the good and the bad from him he was able to do it we can't he says don't look at the outside now that he's a murderer and he's crazy and he's this fine I'm able to see what's inside he loved him dearly and he continued learning from him and he was able to discern but no one else was allowed to learn from him that's why as a matter of fact many of the old Mish of Tred of actually removed the mishna ofish they don't have it in there at all said we don't if he's teaching it maybe this it's uh damaged so rebi on the other hand if rebi said it then it's in essence trying to say that he is disagreeing with Elisha and R which for the most part said the same thing that uh study from the old and wise and not from the young r is saying I don't care if he's old if he's young if he's tall if he's short we talked about this yesterday it doesn't matter what the age is there's plenty of old fools and there's plenty of young Geniuses what are you selling what's ins what's inside you have something to offer I want to hear it what's it what's inside I want to know what you have to teach you have a I'll listen you want to talk to about baseball basketball football money stock market Bitcoins not interested people keep sending me text messages hey how are you I usually don't answer don't ask me how I am you're give me the real question what's the you don't really care how I am don't send me hi Hi how are you you don't really care how I am let's be real here what do you want send me the real I don't I don't respond I don't respond because I find it very annoying to be honest with you because I have a million and a half messages now I have to answer every single one person that says how are you so I wait for them to eventually give me the real question question and many times people ask me questions like oh what do you think of Bitcoin or what do you think of the stock market oh you used to be in the market what do you think of this what do you think of that and again I don't answer and the reason why is because it's not my life it's not my life anymore and anyway you're not going to listen even if I told you you're not going to listen what's the difference I told if I told you it's garbage you're not going to listen because you already own it I told you it's good you're not going to listen and if it goes it falls down you're going to blame me so so either way I lose so don't ask me you want ask me about t I'll try my best to answer but many people ask questions for no reason whatsoever here we have rebi a kadosh is saying I don't care if you're from Wall Street I don't care if you're tall you're short you're black you're white you're a gear you're a natural born Jew you're a rabbi you're a regular guy you're 5 years old you're 50 years old I don't care what's inside what do you offering what do you got you have a you have something show me why why we talked about this yesterday taught us I love your Torah so much all day it's all day I talk about it all day I talk about Tor so that's the way that the commentator say what you see if you see 70 faces T we now have two for this one particular thing it doesn't make a difference whether it's this one and that one it doesn't disagree with each other it's like one says black the other one says white both of them are two different teachings even if it's the same character you have two different opinions of why he wrote this Mish either way it's two different perspectives of that you can learn from the same Mish now this is something that you can literally translate into 500 different things if not more don't look at The Jug look at what's in it I believe is page 25 I think I brought I think I brought yeah but it's not 25 it's 15 good that I brought it guys are going look say he doesn't know what he's talking about uh anyway um enemy in Chapter 158 it mentions a verse from seph the prophet yel chapter 2:13 the prophet says you know after he sees all of am starts to fast they start fasting they start ripping their clothes putting sacks on says du so they start fasting they start putting ch their clothes they're not wearing the uh you know the tank tops and the uh ripped jeans anymore and the prophet says rip your hearts not your clothes from here from this m we learn that is not looking for you to rip your clothes he's not looking for you to fast every day or every Sunday or every Friday or every other day he's not looking for you to go and roll yourself into uh snow he's not looking for you to do all these different things that if you're in a high level then you don't need to be here anyway but if you're an average Joe like us uh the reality of it is he's not looking for that all he wants you to do is do chuva and chuva requires for you to learn T and do what it says do learn T and do what it says not what you want to do not what you think you should do but what you have to do why hasem said so it's the real reason of all of the mitv hasem said so if a person does not understand the significance of Tor doesn't understand the magnitude of Torah thinks that there's doubts thinks that you know maybe maybe they agreed on one thing in that day and they don't agree on it today then you don't really understand the Precision of the law so for example and also in Shabbat it's page 15a and it's 16b it talks about a 200e debate there's a debate for 200 years 200 years a debate about what you think it's debate do you drive on Shabbat or not a debate eat kosher or not Kosher it's a big debate I debate about listen some guy said listen I have a way for you not to eat kosher go eat cheeseburgers from every McDonald's I'll debate 300 years if there's a way I I want to eat a cheeseburger why not never had it but maybe it's good I'll debate 300 years if I live that long sounds like something to debate for something to live for so the reality is you think it's a big deal it's like ah keep Shabbat don't keep Shabbat something huge one of the 63 big 200 years are debating the same thing you know how many you how many generations go on in 200 years you know how many people had to review this and debate the same thing what are they debating on what's the debate debate is are you allowed to put your hands on top of the cow when you're bringing it as a Corban on Shabbat or not are you allowed to do it also on yum or not that's the 200 year debate that's it one side says if you do it you the other one says it's fine you're allowed to do it in the end you're allowed but the point is people think that the Torah was given Loosely yeah he thinks this he thinks that you think this you think that sometimes I hear these teachers these rabbis God bless them they just don't understand the secular mind they don't understand a generation today they don't understand that people don't know anything with all due respect to all of us we don't know anything we and I I'm also including religious people I'm also including people that have gone to Yeshiva I'm telling you I've met a lot of people it's very very rare to find someone who really has all of their ducks in a row they may know certain things they may know plenty of Al They maybe have certain strong points but there's always some one two or three major principles that're like missing it's like missing a leg it's missing an arm it's like yeah overall it's something there I mean a guy's religious he keeps Shabbat he keeps he keeps kosher he's a no problem but something's always missing there's NOA or they're wasting seed it's like something it's never something small it's always like something huge it's like you have the body you have the head you have the Torso you have the legs you have the arms you have the hearts you have all the different uh parts of the body everything is good right but here I'm telling you time and time again I go to religious communities I go to I go to completely I go to Hollywood I go to California wherever you want every place I've gone to in Israel America wherever it was it's not complete it's always like yeah he's got the head yeah he's got the legs yeah he's got the body oh he's he's missing a chest why is there a hole why is there's there's no chest oh he's missing an arm he's missing where's the AR your hey your left arm is missing man the left one is missing you're not doing it's it's always something big it's like the guy looks great but there's NOA the guy looks amazing genius knows every ala heart but doubts whether Hashem really cares it's always something big missing people somehow they just skipped the lesson somewhere something happened along the way where hasem didn't feel that you were glued enough hard enough to him where he just didn't give it to you like he wanted that he wanted that sacrifice for you to make to get that extra peace and you just never you just never did it and I'm not just talking about the religious the non-religious the Jews the non-jews of course obviously I mean every I'm telling you it's everywhere and just people just walk around like they're perfect and from an outside perspective like you're missing an arm you're missing a head your face is completely crooked and obviously I'm talking about spiritually not that I'm some uh genius or I'm perfect I have probably more to fix than all of you the point I'm trying to make is that from an outside perspective it's much easier to tell especially when you work with it all day and but everyone doesn't seem like everyone walks around like there's there no big deal like oh it's you know the Torah is you know a lot of people tell me oh no you know the Torah has 70 phases you know it's up to uh up to your understanding up to uh whatever whoever whatever you understand and sometimes you see certain rabbis teach and they give you like a uh a bunch of sheets of paper to show you all the sources and uh this is like the Yeshiva University way where they give you a source sheet they call it they give you a source sheet and they tell you I don't there like 30 pages or 40 pages which is a lot of work went into it no questions asked there's 30 40 pages of source sheets of you know what they're talking about they're talking about I don't know whether you're allowed to make tea on Shabbat and if you're allowed how you're allowed to do it and so on and so forth or whatever Al they're talking about on Shabbat and they give you 30 pages of different opinions of how to do it this that the other thing I think there know literally it's one of the worst teaching styles for this generation that could be if you were 100 200 300 4 500 any other time before this generation fine this generation I think it's just the wrong approach for most people maybe not all but for most people reason why we know so little we know so little that when you tell me there are 30 different opinions to me as a secular person secular mindset that just just means no one knows what they're talking about so what's difference from their opinion than mine they don't realize that to come up with the opinion we had 200 years of debate just to whether you're allowed to put your hands on top of the cow's head or not 200 years we debate they think it's just like Loosely being translated no he agrees he doesn't agree it's like today he felt like it tomorrow maybe he'll change his mind like people think like Al is like yeah no he doesn't like it oh yeah today maybe tomal changes mind people don't realize what goes into it they literally debated for 200 years to a point where many times bet Shi put a sword by the table and said no one's leaving until we get to a conclusion that's how they got to the conclusion by the way after 200 years he said no one's leaving doesn't matter day night it doesn't make a difference you have commitments no commitments wife kids food no no one is leaving until we get to a conclusion after 200 years 200e debate for one law that none of us practice anymore because we don't have C we don't have kot we don't have aash so people think that when there's 30 opinions they don't know what it means they don't know what it means 30 opinions 20 opinions five opinions even if there's two opinions it's hard for me to understand what does it mean two opinions well there's two toras so then people that are not glued to hem not like for real like really really serious people they don't realize this and this are living Torah they could both be right they could both be right even if it's an Essence opposite they could both be right Hashem wants both of them but the point is for you to toil to figure out which one is true they're both true but I want you to prove your side that's toiling in tah this generation doesn't does not understand that for the most part does not understand that for the most part so they think that we're just supposed to learn a bunch of things and just know it by heart like it's a uh High School uh you know math math test or it's a history lesson uh to remember European history and who killed who and who tortured who and why they had the Witchcraft and why Martin Luther decided to uh you know to kill a bunch of women for absolutely no reason just because he decided they're all witches I mean we're supposed to this is what we learn in European history in school that's what they learn public school this they feel oh this this is important this is important for you to learn about some psychopath that decides to kill a bunch of people and burn them alive that's what you think is that you that is the part that's important and then we don't debate them we don't debate the school system for teaching us about psycho racist people don't we don't no one debates that part no one debates this craziness that they teach in school but the Rabbi says listen hasem said you have to keep Shabbat heyy maybe he doesn't mean it maybe I don't agree do do you know did you follow it no but I don't know it doesn't sound right to me no one else said it no one else said that if you drive on Shabbat you get a death penalty you understand so the point is is that the Torah is not some Loosely translated you know open debate for them to come up with the law they were literally willing to put their life on the line that's the Torah so with that being said says don't take my Torah and turn it into some idolatry some uh witchcraft some cult where you start ripping your clothes and you start wearing strange clothes you put some weird strings on you you fast on for no reason whatsoever yeah there are certain fast during a year hasem put it in the toah no problem but don't just start adding stuff when you don't know the meaning people think that you know every time if they waste seed as long as they go to the mik it's okay you can go to the mikve from here until next year you could just sleep inside the mikve if you continue wasting seed it's not going to help you same thing goes with the um tuna book that I gave you guys tonight is very well known from it's all Psalms but it's a certain order of different Psalms thatv picked that says this is good if you've wasted seed by accident accidentally accidentally you read this according to and his his if it's accidental meaning you fell asleep it happened if you read this and focus and meditate and and and and do your best obviously for it not to happen by watching your eyes and so on says your sin will be forgiven because still technically a sin it's still technically a sin even though it's not on purpose why because thear says that if you watch your eyes you watch your eyes during the day it'll protect you from having bad thoughts at night if you don't watch your eyes during the day it's only natural you're going to have a dream about it so anyone that has these types of dreams on a extended period of time it's because you're not watching your eyes there's no other reason you're not watching your eyes you're watching movies you have books you have different things that have a lot of immodesty you're not watching your eyes and that's what happens so even if you're not doing it on purpose it's happening and in sham it's still considered a sin not the same level of sin as if you literally outright did it which brings me to my second very critical point that most people do not know T this specific T from has absolutely no effect whatsoever if you did it on purpose if you did it on purpose you could read T from here till next year it's not g to help you CH will help you CH will help you learning serious T is going to help you giving is going to help you learning really serious T to help you committing to not doing it again it's going to help you but just reading himself say it's not going to help you did on purpose you just made the biggest sin in what think you're just going to read some T everything's okay then everyone's going to be a sinner for the rest of their life so a lot of people think that it's just you read a few things and you know Judaism turns into mumbo jumbo and we we finished so that's very very important to understand that you can't just do things nonchalantly and just think that everything is secure everyone wants a quick Zula quick trick to fix all their problems that's not Judaism it's not Judaism so we learn this when you really learn the uh the depths of the Torah you see that the reality of everything is very different than what most people think now the uh mishna says that sometimes you're going to see certain people that are teaching and you don't know is it right is it wrong you're brand new still you're brand new you don't know what to tell there's some guy that's become wellknown that is a uh there a few unfortunately there a few well-known people that are being recognized as rabbis uh that are complete Heretics one guy is not even a heretic it's that him a heretic is actually less than him he's worse than a heretic he's a mean and this guy is uh shapir that teaches people to go to Christianity focuses specifically on Jews and tries to bring them to believe in the New Testament and JC Penney and all that idolatry uh this is a guy I mean he calls himself Rabbi for an ignorant fool that sees this guy as his first Rabbi he doesn't know the difference by the time he's in by the time he realizes this is idolatry he could very well already be in a few months or even a few years depends of how serious of a learn are is there's other people that we've talked about many times before and I haven't mention names in most cases simply because it's not necessary the M everyone that knows will know who I'm talking about it's reality of it is some of them look like they're much more religious they're much more well you know just more they're more they're more it looks like they're more why cuz we're looking at the exterior you see the payers are as long as the uh as the winter you see the uh the hat and the clothing and the way they talk and they look like they just came from the clouds oh Hashem loves you yes oh it's always like this this everything is all floaty and wonderful and yeah don't worry well you just murdered five people that's okay that's okay just just just make the check payable over here yes bring it to our check yes thank you actually it's better if you wire it and here's a few children's books that I wrote you know he looks much more religious this fool or other people that invented new laws saying that the the whole world is misunderstanding rambam and they themselves are understanding rambam foolishness is at an all-time high the the literally the lack of Shame is skyrocketing if it was a stock was be Infinity it'll be Infinity how can we tell how can we tell this is the responsibility of every single person both Jew and Gentile alike AEM said in the book of Deuteronomy if you look for me you'll find me if you look for me with all of your heart and all of your soul meaning if you're going to continue following these Liars these Heretics these fools these minim that are distorting my Torah you're not going to be able to use it as an excuse in sh why you are obligated to double check what they said looking at their attire looking at their title looking at the money they have means nothing why I gave you a brain I gave you a heart I gave you limbs I gave you everything you needed to find out the truth you cannot use as an excuse there's a very famous story written about is one of the Giants in history of Judaism a lot of commentary in to but God bless him he uh he blessed him with extraordinary wisdom but no money whatsoever and no luck whatsoever he says that on himself if he started an umbrella company Hashem would just make sure that it never Reigns again if he started a hat company Hashem would just remove people's heads he literally had no luck so he was very very poor now in those days there's no internet there's no social media whatsoever there's no pictures of people so people didn't know how the looked like so one day he goes into a town and he uh decides that this is a um place he wants to maybe try to see if he could teach and so on and so forth so he goes into the big Kine in the community and they look at this guy like he's he's some homeless bum I want to give you go find somewhere else completely disrespect him completely dishonor him not even asking who he is nothing was very spicy like because you see all the there were fire at the end of it says is like is it's like fire itself is he's all fire you can't be and be still nothing to be you have to be much fire why because Torah is fire it even gets to a point where the Torah says that if someone is on his way to becoming a it's expected for them to be a little Moody at times because of so much fire so the wife should take it easy on them the wife should take it easy on them if they're a little Moody at times why you're fire must fire it's not you're allowed to be angry that's but to to be fire to be like quick sometimes you know sarcastic you know short fused even at times it says even theim theim and mikdash were just like that why when you have so much Torah in you you're fire there's no such thing as light fire so now EV wanted to get back at them but he left town and on the way out of the Town she's a tall handsome guy with a really long respectable beard looked good you know they say someone that has a k k is a stomach and a long beard he's already half a rabbi big stomach and long beard already half a rabbi so Evan says how are you who are you T what do you do you you're a big Rabbi for the no no no Rabbi I sell meat sells meat he goes oh he goes yeah listen you sell meat long enough you can have car also and the beard is free says listen you uh what do you make a week I don't make 500 bucks a week I'm just giving you a hypothetical example make 500 bucks a week because you want to make a 100,000 sure follow me do everything I tell you no problem he comes with them comes back that same K hey you again no no no listen it's not I'm not coming to do anything I'm just the shamash I'm just the helper of this giant Rabbi o see this guy respectable long beard tall handsome oh where is he from listen he doesn't talk he's he doesn't talk to the public gu he talks through me that's why I'm his helper you want to know anything in the Torah philosophical issues Al issues this issue that issue whatever you want to know he's going to tell you any question you have oh yeah you know Jews are very curious people you say we can ask they ask I I told you guys to write some questions you wrote I still haven't answered them yet though so I forgot about the question let's see if any of these questions have to do with the story so um so now the uh Ki is very excited who is this big rabbi fine they start asking questions he Evan pretends like he's talking to him Whispers to him in his ear and then talk tells every question every question he gives him K not like I give you a little K you guys are get entertained for five minutes every changes their life every you give him a letter he gives you K on a letter you give him a word he gives you on a word anything you want it gives you gives you insights that you've never even thought of you never even thought that someone can think about them Genius of geniuses like this is the greatest Rabbi in the world wow what a what an amazing listen on Shabbat who I'm goingon to host him they fight on who's hosting him now they start giving oh listen I'm gonna donate a thousand I'm gonna donate now every time they ask a question thousand comes in 2,000 comes in 3,000 comes in people start donating to this big Rabbi how are you not going to honor the big Rabbi just keep the visit he probably has he probably has he probably has this he needs our help who we're not going to help the biggest Rabbi in the world answered every question I'm going to host them they start fighting who's going to host them so on Shaban said listen we got to hear the rabbi himself give us a shoe something no no just the rabbi talks to me what do you guys want to know you could pick whatever issue you want and I already know I already learned a lot from this Rabbi I learned my whole life from him so say can the rabbi say anything so the rabbi said the fake Rabbi the meat sell papaa as he said pop nothing a word that meant absolutely nothing everybody's like wow what's this EV his genius gets he goes oh papa peip let me tell you what he taught me about Papa pipa you guys have know k i got this you told me enough about Papa pipa you told me enough about please don't Tire yourself he starts giving but it's he's teaching him everything but somehow it's connected to pip the genius here is out of this world it's KLA has never seen anything like it over the next three weeks they're there they you know donate a ton of money after three weeks evanel says okay all the money is yours enjoy that's that was the deal I'm leaving what do you mean you're leaving what what I do I don't know the answers he goes no listen you're going to be fine you're going to be fine in general they're all going to ask you at this point they asked already all that questions right now they're just going to ask you common questions basic simple stuff goes what do I do goes okay someone's going to come to you and going to say listen I um I drop myin what do I do I drop myin happens people drop their feeling pick it up kiss it and give some okay so the guy's like okay guy's uh you know he's hollow inside has no brain no nothing so now he has to repeat pick it up kiss it give the pick it up kiss it the one mitvah he still doesn't kick it up kiss it okay fine okay what's the second question you're G to ask me second question ask you somebody's you know slaughtered a cow but now they don't know they saw that the lungs have something that looks like a hole but they're not sure so how can they verify if it's or it's if it has a hole it's you cannot let to eat the whole cow if it's it'ser how do you know says you tell them put the lungs in the water if there's bubbles come out it's not all to eat it if no bubbles okay great he goes the third question is the most important one most common one most important one what they going to ask me he says he G to ask you about SCH say husband or the wife going to come to you my wife she yells she screams she curses me I hate her she hates me I want a divorce I want to this I want to that say come back next week why come back next week because by next week they'll figure it out in their own okay so that's the thing they like oh goodbye goodbye thank you for giving me a million dollar business over here and he goes away Evan leaves somebody comes to this hot dog salesman that became a rabbi and uh asked him uh listen I uh Dro my uh the guy confused some of the answers I drop my what should I do oh come back next week come back next week the guy come back next okay maybe he's busy so he leaves now the guy comes in I just slaughtered a cow and I don't know if it's kosher or not what should I do there's a little hole in it you see this whole of it what do I do how do I know if it's kosher or not Kosher goes oh it's okay just give it a kiss put some it's okay give the lung some kiss put the it's okay so now a guy comes in have SCH B problem my wife is this my wife is that now he realizes okay I used the first answer was okay to come back next week second answer was kiss and gift what do I have left oh put put her in water if there's bubbles no good got to get divorced if there's no bubbles she's Co you can stay with her at this point the GU is like they realize this guy is a fool it said who told you where who told you to do this who told you to do this oh that's who came here they went chased them down they caught up them why' you do this to us why' you do this to us he says because you did not honor the Torah you did not honor the Torah you honored the outside you honored the outside you honored him because you had the beard and the hat and a this and a that and that's the punishment you get CU if you honor the T you would have honored me when I wanted to came to you to come teach you tah but you saw me you saw me you thought I was some homeless guy he didn't find out what was inside that's what you get all the money you gave him belongs to him that's the deal all the money you gave him that's the deal that's the deal there's no no no taking it back that's the deal that's what you get why the Torah has nothing to do with what you look like but on the other hand on the other hand in page 94 a says he called his clothing clothing that he had he called them my honies meaning his clothing gave him honor and shab page 114 it actually says that a that walks knows that he has a stain on a shirt and walks outside with the stain on a shirt deserves death penalty why it's this is what looks like so it sounds like a little extreme here okay so he has a little stain he has a ketchup stain he had some little hambur burger after he checked it in the water he had a burger and uh had some ketchup what's the big deal why you're letting the world know oh this is what our look like look like bums if you have a choice you're not allowed to look like that change shirt why what's the real meaning what's the commentary what's the oral Tora the oral Tora really tells us they really care about the shirt they really care about the ketchup says no what's the real secret why why why death penalty I mean death penalty seems extreme it's a ketchup stain after all okay said I was lazy I had another shirt I was lazy I didn't feel like putting it on it's not that I if I don't have another shirt or if it happened at work and I don't have another Choice okay that's not my fault there's no for that there's no death penalty for that if it happened you have no way of fixing it that's not a that's not a death penalty we're talking about here thear says if you have the ability to fix it you have a stand shirt you have the ability to fix it and you don't death penalty why why is reason why if you that means you're going out there to go teach you're going out there to teach the Sons and Daughters of hem his toorah but if you look like that they're not going to listen to you if you look like that if you look like you just came out of the of the garbage pale they're not going to listen to you and by not listening to you they're not listening to hem if they're not listening to hem each one of them can become each one of them can become intermarried each one of them can start eating on a daily basis each one of them can lose their right after your why because you were too lazy to change the ketchup stain I just lost a son because you didn't want to change a shirt that's why it's such utter disrespect for the position that you have have as a teacher that you don't deserve to live to that extent when you don't understand what kind of influence you're going to have on the world around you when you have no idea what what the words that come out of your mouth mean what kind of impact it has on people you don't deserve to forget you don't deserve to be a teacher you don't deserve to live cuz you're literally taking little precious Souls 10 year olds 12 year olds 15 year olds and 50 year olds you're taking them just throwing them and gaining them why you don't feel like doing anything better by yourself so looking like a bum on purpose is not allowed not allowed you have to honor the tah you have to honor your creator so now we see that the first part of the M whichever one it was already sees that the outside and the inside is significancy there significance that if you truly look into it you could literally talk just about this section for another several hours if not more but now it says sometimes you'll have a new jug with old wine and sometimes you'll have an old jug that doesn't even have new wine sometimes you can have a young person sharp mind he's gonna have new wine fresh new insights as I told all of you each one of you has a one two three four 5,000 could be could be 5,000 with your name on it waiting for you to get there meaning that if you don't get those there's going to be a case against you in sh this part of the Torah was waiting for you why didn't you do it oh I was busy playing baseball I was busy on Wall Street I was busy doing a bunch of other things that don't matter to Eternity you have a problem and the reason why is because your soul is not here for the first time you have a question here is that if our soul is the past soul and we're meant to reach Perfection why do we tell people may you live till 120 shouldn't we say may you complete your life's meaning or purpose yes but most people don't understand what that means and the reason why is because most people don't understand that they actually have a purpose most people think that their purpose is to make money to have a bunch of friends to have a uh to be popular to be famous to enjoy life when you tell people that a significant significant part of your purpose is to suffer in this world significant part of your purpose is to suffer in this world already all heads turn upside down like oh you suffer I don't want to suffer you suffer I don't want you suff that's a different ex delete delete all control all delete to start the sh all over again control all delete you suffer you suffer I don't want to suffer reality is anyone that's been around around knows that the vast majority of our life is suffering anyway you suffer waiting for the bus you suffer waiting for the paycheck you suffer waiting for the kids to finally grow up you suffer for the kids to finally get be born you suffer for for for your husband to listen you suffer for the wife to listen you suffer for the job to fire you finally you suffer for the job you want to hire you again you suffer because it hurts you suffer because it doesn't you it's constant suffering that suffering is worth something we've had a sh here about suffering most people don't see that as part part of life they don't see that as a good part of life they don't see it as a purposeful part of life they think that they're supposed to come here as they're supposed to come to a vacation this is a life you're supposed to enjoy you're supposed to go on vacation permanently and if you really really are fulfilling your purpose that means you're just permanently on vacation you're permanently on the beach you're one of these Surfers that's on the beach all the time so if you tell people may you fulfill your purpose if they know what it means then sure unfortunately most people don't know what it means don't know that it means to fulfill your purpose so we tell them 120 and that's not necessarily because we believe that they are going to live to 120 or we don't believe they're going to be live to 120 just that we're repeating something that was said in the tah that's where it stems from after everyone before that was living an extraordinary amount of years years 500 years 800 years a thousand years and so on a young guy died at 365 but then decided the end says that man will not live past 120 so even though there were certain exceptions like was 180 aam was 175 and so on there's a few exceptions to the Kates here and there for the vast majority like mosenu Oran Ora all these Giants throughout history liveed to 120 so in essence we just it stems from a verse in the Tor that hm says man will not lift to 120 but overall the the deeper part of this of this question as far as our soul is that more importantly is to understand that we're not here for the first time and some of the Giants before him have uh consistently talk to us about different mystical parts of the tah different things uh even though didn't deal with mystical Parts on a regular basis he he did say one time that there's no more G there's no more reincarnation meaning whatever if you're here that's it meaning there was you've been here many times you could have been here 30 times before but there's no more time for new ones why mashia is around the corner mhia is around the corner so don't people that think that they're going to die and then they're going to be reborn again and hm is going to give them another chance just know that there's a millions of souls also already up there waiting for their trials there's not enough time MH is supposed to come well before uh the uh there's enough time for you to do again so meaning that whatever you're here this is your shot so for whatever reason we're here we're here to fix something there something we didn't do in our previous reincarnations maybe our Shabbat wasn't good maybe our Torah wasn't good maybe our whatever something we did wasn't good how do we know what that is whatever is the most difficult for you to do that's your current tun so if you're let's say for example you modesty is extremely difficult for a woman to do that's the biggest part of our tun now it may not necessarily be a biggest tun for her life but right now that's the most difficult that's the big step you have to take you have to become modest so if she decid no no I'm not modest but you know I'll do Shabbat it's easy for me to do Shabbat it's good but it's not the T of course you have to do it anyway but it's not the T I'll do kosher it's good it's not the T she's already keeping Kosh already keeping all of the but she's still not modest she says no no I'll do I'll even add an extra extra stringency on my kosher till from now on only drink or eat which is above you not you don't have to do it not only you shouldn't do it not only you shouldn't do it because it's not going to help that t but you shouldn't do it because it may fool you into thinking you're more righteous than you are to such an extent that you'll forget that your real purpose is to become honest and that's what I've seen many many times people take on a lot of really easy small things on themselves and forget about the really big ones so I'll take a lot of really small ones that are easy they'll retaing they'll do this they'll do that but they'll they won't keep Shabbat they won't be modest they won't protect their bre they won't keep koser all the time they they won't cover their hair and so on and so forth there's big things the big things are the key so if your soul is here again that means that you have one of these you have one two three or 100 I don't know how many you have each one of us has a different uh that you have to fix now as far as why is a blind person considered dead it also has to do with the whole souls and reincarnation is because a blind person is limited to the amount of MIT that he can to he can't learn to the same way that a person that's not blind can uh uh he can learn tah but not to the same level so there's a story of a person that uh was losing his vision and he's starting he was learning T he's like you know he's learned the tah before but he doesn't know the whole thing by heart like listen he went to the doctor I'll pay you whatever you want he said listen there's no cure you're losing your vision and within a matter of uh the next couple of years you're not going to be able to see there's no cure so he looked at it and he's like what am I going to do I'm not going to be able to learn tah I'm not going to be able to have somebody sit next to me and teach me toah all day so how could I fulfill my purpose how could I fulfill my chuva how could I get to ganeden what am I gonna do so he decided that he's going to pick one m one tractate in the Tora and learn it by heart so that way even if he loses his vision at least he knows onear in his head by heart and he can repeat it every day and every day get new from that sing you can learn sing a million times you're still gonna have new insights so he decided to pick the tractate of a lot of really really beautiful stories a lot of beautiful things in that mystical stuff what happens in shamay what happened before this world all different types of really really mystical stuff people think that you have to go to the zor for mystical stuff there's plenty of it in has an overwhelming amount of it and it's a relatively small small small tractate meaning less pages about it's about it's one book of these uh very very entertaining beautiful uh anyway so he started learning this day and night day night after a couple of years by the time he lost his vision he knew it by heart so for the rest of his life he learned after X amount of years he died and he wasn't a wellknown he wasn't very well known in general he was quiet and to himself so no one showed up at his funeral Buried kadisha buried him and there's no one to give kadish all of a sudden a woman arrives at the Sho and says one of the just died one of the Giants of this generation just died and he does not have even a Manan at his funeral everyone was shamed who is this they all ran over there they got the whole Kaa went over there can be how could we not know there's aor Among Us oh it's him he was in Aila how do we not know what fools we are we just looked at them on the outside outside look like an average guy we didn't know he's a giant we didn't know he knew anything we didn't know oh wow wow they all cried hysterical how could we miss out we hador among us and we didn't benefit from him we didn't learn his Torah that's when when a giant dies we're not crying because the body left we're crying because we haven't had the opportunity to learn all of his Torah and even more so crying because we're not going to have the ability to continue learning the new insights he's going going to get had he lived longer so now they're finding out they missed an opportunity of a lifetime they had door right next to them and he died after they say kadish t everything this they finish the woman everybody starts walking away but before that like he who are you and she says and disappears The tractate of came as an angel each one of your each time you learn this is a very famous well-known story and uh the uh there's a song written about it also there's a song written about very nice song written about it each time that you learn it's literally it becomes part of you something created as a result of it this is one of the famous stories that exemplifies it believe it don't believe it that's your problem um so anyway the problem and the mistake that we make constantly by judging things on the outside and misjudging it more times than not is that sometimes you'll have a young person that has many new insights that are Kosher that are good but you're not going to want to listen you're like no no no I'm just going to listen to the old man I'm going to listen to the old teachers but the reality is that we learned we learned from The Book of Job that sometimes you could have somebody that's very old looks uh like he's a giant but in reality only nonsense comes out of his mouth only nonsense comes out of his mouth that's it he doesn't know any Tora he doesn't know anything so by default picking someone that's old is not good and that's what the rest of the Mish says sometimes you'll have a new jug with old wine meaning he has theim of the of of past years it's in him but sometimes you'll have an old jug meaning someone that's been around for a really really long time time but doesn't even contain new wine meaning he doesn't even have one k one new inside you have you have Shabbat you're there for two three four hour meal no give us a no no nothing what do you mean nothing what did you learn all day a Pepsi what' you learn Coca-Cola what did you learn the stock market how do you not have a nothing you studied the whole week you don't have anything to say take open the book read it do something how do you you tell me you learn to of nothing nothing no nothing all week you learn you don't have anything this is this means that our studying sometimes is not serious enough it's not serious enough you're not supposed to just study it's not you know like it's a Harry Potter book like it's entertainment you have to study to teach even if that teaching means to teach your family even if that teaching means to teach your wife even if that teaching means to teach yourself teach yourself at the end of the week you should have something doesn't necessarily need need to be a brand new to the world but it should be something you should have something okay I read the by the way says You must read twice twice with by itself and one with commentary it's a law in just like keeping Shabbat just like just like a kosher food you must read the Tor guys you have to read the T you have to read twice with no commentary once with commentary meaning there's no way that if you're following the there's no way you're going to finish the week with nothing there's no way you have to have something okay this this and that whatever something had to happen you have to have something to say something some story you had a video you heard it you watched it you have to go something that's why I tell you guys a lot is that apparently I'm not such a good teacher because no one wants to listen to me but I tell you guys each time bring a notebook bring a notebook only one student listens bring a he's been doing it since day one though I can't even give him credit oh that's the new one he's recording me too See's he's good student but the rest of you bring a notebook there's no way you're going to remember everything I'm saying but you're going to go home to your wives you're going to go home to your kids you're going to say no okay you were there for three hours what' you learn um uh I'll put on YouTube tomorrow what do you mean I just I your wives just gave up three hours of their lives with you for you to go to learn to that's already giant giant step today you go away for 30 minutes they ask you where'd you go if your wife is sending you away for three four hours you're gone bring something home honey I have the greatest diamond in the world what is it something bring something home don't say he's the link go learn yourself what you get out of it what did you get out of it same thing with people watching online okay you watched two hours three hours you made some comments you fought some missionaries you fought some great what did you get out of the Shure is it going in here and out there but with a little bit of entertainment in in between or you got something out of it how you g to get something out of it you write it down you write it down and therefore by writing it down now you're using multiple senses that's going to help you remember it cuz just by listening you're just using the sense of hearing by watching you have hearing and and and seeing by writing now you have touch to now you have touch to so the more senses you use the more you're inclined to actually remember this stuff so that's why it's very very important for you guys to write it and I know I've said it about at least four or five times hopefully the fifth time is a charm now how do you know that you're doing the right thing as far as your tun as far as your uh um this this reincarnation how how do you know you're working on your midot the Von that we talked about earlier about two and a half hours ago that they said is double double uh or more than that uh he says the character traits of a person that's his purpose that's his purpose now the ran uh the ramban wrote inan the letter that he wrote a son very very good book to have very good letter to have you can get it from Arch scroll for $3 it's a book with commentary and you should read it every day for the rest of your life it's really really wonderful the letter itself is very short it's two three pages but the commentary on it is very extensive and you could learn a lot of M from it um anyway the um the ramban writes there's different character traits that a person needs to have but he says and he agrees with the and obviously all the other major the greatest mid to have the greatest character trait to have is humility humility is the greatest one the worst one to have is anger which stems from arrogance the reason why humility is the greatest is because when you minimize yourself you automatically by default become a vessel for tah AEM gives the Torah to the lowest places Mount saai was not the tallest mountain we said it yesterday Mount Si was the lowest mountain Hashem put because the mount sa was the most modest hasem gave the Torah over there mosenu was greater than everyone else prophet of all prophets smarter than everyone else Rich he was amazing he was humbl than everyone else he didn't give it to him because he was smart he didn't give it to him because he was you know sevenet 7even M tall he didn't give it to them because he was strong he didn't give it to them because he's smart he didn't give it to them because he was rich he didn't give it to them because of any other reason other than the fact that he was humble and that's why at the end of the Torah it says he was the humblest man that ever lived meaning not just in his generation or before ever no one will ever believe ever be more humble than m no one will ever be more humble than M but each one has to stride every one of us is obligated to stride to be humble how do you humble yourself by working on M working on your character traits when you learn musar there's The Superficial type of learning where you just come you listen you read a book passively but then to really take that teaching into your life you have to write it down you have to meditate on it you have to think about it how do I apply this in my life okay she just yelled at me what should I do well the B would say the greatest thing for me to do when someone's yelling at me is stay quiet why because a war a war requires two sides an argument requires two sides when it's just one then it's just crazy person but it's when it's two sides then it's an official argument and in the Book of Job we see there's a verse in it what is the job asks AEM what is a what what is the world world standing on on nothing the world is standing on nothing so Kaz the sages explained to us in your old T and they say what does it mean the world stands on nothing it stands on when people that are have all the right all the reasons and all the causes to be angry and to respond do nothing why because that's a mid of hem that's what hashm is doing every every day every time we sin hasem should punish us according to his law we sin a guy smokes a cigarette on Shabbat his head should blow up a guy turns the car on on Shabbat the car should blow up a guy flies a plan on Shabbat it Should Crash a guy steals money his hand should be chopped off instantly technically the law says what the law says but hasm Waits why I love my kids I want to do chuva I I know they fell they broke they did this I but I love them so I when I give them time time time a year two years three years 30 years 40 eventually run out of time eventually he could come to you in a dream and say are you going to believe in me or not and that's when he's telling you you have to change there's no more waiting there's no more waiting there's no more time time's up you want to live now if the Torah that you've been learning does not tell you such truth you've been learning the wrong Torah because the Torah that's written by the sages by himself that's the Torah that's thought that's the Torah that's taught any questions asked question last night something yeah ideas everything that I've said tonight to that yes well someone that someone that denies the resurrection of the Dead cannot convert because that's one of the 13 principles of Faith so if they did not believe in the resurrection of the dead at the time they converted their conversion is not valid now they can fool the rabbis because the rabbis are still flesh and blood they can fool the rabbis but they can't fool AEM which means that they are the biggest fools in the world the reason why what people don't understand is that this is scary what people don't understand I don't usually give you guys a disclosure but this is scary and the reason why is because it's not detailed I'm not going to give you details but just give you if you understand what I'm about to say you'll be scared when someone lives a life and they die however many years you're not allowed to exaggerate about that person meaning you can't say that someone that was not a big was a you can't say oh oh you're such a oh yeah loves him and the guy was or the guy wasn't necessarily A was just an average Joe why say that the Mal hear these words say oh they say it wases oh they say it was uh big no bring him show us what what did you learn what you where's the part show us the oh not only you live the LIE over there but they're still publicizing you're lie and then they start torturing him extra they start punishing him extra for what he left behind they start punishing him extra for the lie that he left behind and this is why all of the with no exception all of the say to people don't say anything at my funeral don't say don't say don't say sadik don't say anything am I don't say anything don't do me any favors why I'm not I'm not I'm talking about the talking about the I'm talking about the real they said don't say anything why you're going to exaggerate you're going to say I'm more than what I am they're going to punish me in sh that's all IIT so all these people that like to you know exaggerate about their loved ones that passed you're not doing them any favors and it's more than one two or three or 10 dreams that people have had or different instances that people have had where they met their past loved ones and the past loved ones told them to stop you're getting me in trouble your exaggerations is complete nonsense and I'm showing up naked every day when every time when you're telling people I was holy I was I was sadik I was every single time I'm making a joke out of it they're making it because every single time it's like I Dishonored theem oh what that's they think that they think that someone that learned once a year that's what you left that's your fruit so this also has to do with this mishna this also has to do with this Mish people that live AE don't realize the consequences that a person has to pay the has to pay is so dear it's so scary that if you read the Torah and you're not scared there's something wrong with you there's something wrong with you you're reading I don't know maybe you don't speak the language maybe you don't know what you're I don't know something if you're not scared reading the Torah I'm not even talking about the commentary of commentary in the M I'm not talking about that basic level Tor basic level Torah you seeu just in the just spoke to God in a dream spoke to God says the the Angels go up and down go up and down go up and down so one of the sages says why are they going up and down says because loved yov so much he was so holy yob that hasem decided that on his throne he has three images one is the leader the king of all the birds the eagle one is the king of all the beasts which is the lion one is the king of all the um uh the bull and the third the fourth one is the leader of all of the earth which is all mankind is he decided to have image of yob so the that's also why you're not in general you should not have statues in your house of any kind but if you have let's say I don't know if you if you want to have let's say a sculpture of a uh I don't know face or something like that a face is allowed but a full body is not allowed a full torso is not allowed unless you break it you break part of it and even then it's not really that good or if you're going to have a bird you have a sculpture of a bird it shouldn't be of an eagle you could have I don't know a little parrot or something or if you like that stuff it's fine but it should not be an eagle should not be a sculpture of an eagle should not have a uh lion a full sculpture of a lion why these are things that can create problems in your house all types of spiritual issues when I found this out on the spot I was on the I remember this day like it was yesterday I found this out I was on the phone with rer FR we were learning our t on Thursday and he's telling me you're not allowed to have an eagle oh I started running around my house I had I knew I had Eagles I had like three four of them I loved sculptures I had three four I'm like Eagle garbage garbage garbage each one of them cost a ton of money I was petrified if you're not petrified there's something wrong with you and what else lion lion garbage garbage garbage garbage my wife it's 3:00 in the morning my wife's like what are you doing I'm like can't have the Lions can't have the can't have it's like okay start helping me throw this stuff out she doesn't care B the B went first B went through the door I had a few of those because the stock market business so the angel saw the image of yo ainu on the on the throne of Hashem and then they see here so they keep going up they see the they going down they say how could it be the same thing they go up they said no no go see the real thing down there then they go down there they see the same thing like how could it be in both places it's like so now that was one commentary the other commentary is much more scary the other commentary is that they started going up they saw oh yinu is on a throne wow look it's the same yinu Hashem decided to put you on a throne who are you why are you sleeping why are you sleeping yov don't you know this is a holy place don't you know you're supposed to be working for hem right now you're sleeping he hasn't slept in 14 years you think the angel scared they want to kill him M says they want to kill him they wanted to kill him they wanted to kill y they argued to kill Yu said no no let him go he hasn't slept in 14 years let him go there's enough merits but they want mid says they want kill him so when you understand the depth of tah the more you understand the more scary it gets but it's only scary if you don't want to listen you know it's scary regardless but it's much more scary if you don't feel like listening like this one guy sent me a message he says uh stop teaching people scary things you know uh I uh no one dies because of violating Shabbat I said well it's written in the Torah said uh you're a fanatic I'm like it's not fanatic it's WR T if you believe in a tah then uh it's what it says I'm like I know I said I I replied to him I know that you may be new to tah and this is a uh this is perhaps uh the first time you heard that you're not allow to drive on to on Shabbat and do such things but this is what it says so he says new T I've been I've learned T since I was a kid unlike some people says that started in their 30s making fun of me making fun of me because I did you my 30s uh so I've had my Tora since I was a kid I said well apparently you forgot everything you learned so then he comes back to me and he says uh I just spoke to several uh people that know a lot of Torah and they all said that in the times of thear no one di uh they wouldn't kill people at all especially not for Shabbat especially not for violating Shabbat I said well apparently you and your friends that know a lot of Torah forgot that it's actually written in the Torah itself the five books of Moses one week after we got the Tor we had decided to water some bushes that's it he would decided to just gather a few little little sticks together decid no you didn't just listen do a uh Rock and Roll concert in a midle of Shabbat have wood uh you know Wood stock or something he tell what what are little plants nothing no no big deal had a little Garden or something a little garden said no no I got to feed my uh gotta feed my flowers people are fanatic about that flowers or something got to feed my flowers big deal you know it's small small not a big uh concert hasem said to mosu kill him in front of every every single member of entire of with the worst possible death penalty there is stoning this is one week after we got the toah meaning that if anybody would have ever had an excuse to get a pass okay I messed up give me a pass this would be it a week after we got the toah maybe you didn't finish it it's a big T maybe you didn't finish reading it maybe you don't know all the laws says kill him in front of everyone so if 3,300 years ago only a week after we got a Tora we weren't allowed to violate chabbat and we got death penalty back then even more so today that we've had it for 3,300 years the fact that you haven't learned it or you haven't accepted it or you don't like it is irrelevant is irrelevant the point the fact that I did Chua after I was 30 years old is irrelevant is what I'm saying true is what I'm saying written in the Torah it doesn't make a difference so everyone that wants to make excuses no what does he know oh he just did Chua oh all the stuff that people like to say just to try to you know they try to Kill the Messenger try to Kill the Messenger like I wrote the Torah the reality of it is this is what it says I provide you sources provide you page numbers even to save you time I provide you with books check it if you have a problem go argue with him maybe you'll have maybe you'll instead of having a dream you'll have a full face tace meeting with them un like my student that had a dream you'll have a full face t- face meeting with them enjoy let us how it turned out for you you know you ask a lot of questions eventually they're going to call you up there to answer them you know so that's that's the thing is that people don't understand that at some point it's not a joke at some point it's not a joke you have to take things seriously if you haven't learned to that's scaring you yet I don't know what you're learning it's not to because toah it's obligates you and obligations are scary if you're mature enough to understand with the nature of an obligation consequence of failing an obligation what else no I'm still trying to enjoy my tea here so ask some more questions anybody have questions online these these guys are boring over here today so he covered everything another sh another series we're um trying to uh see I don't know if we're there's no chance we're going to finish the whole series uh before the end of the secular year but we have let's see one the next couple of mish are very very long so the next couple of mish there's only two more in this particular chapter there's a chance that the next couple of M will be a couple of maybe we'll see see how much time we have and how extensive it is but uh also if you have questions uh that you want me to talk about during the shim send it to me before the shim you could send it to me on the same day no problem it's all anyway it's allem anyway giving me the information has nothing to do with knowledge um but please have mercy send a question in one line don't send me paragraphs everyone that sends me paragraphs you send me long stories I either don't read them or by the time I read them you don't care because it's a month or two later don't s me m don't send me long paragraphs don't send me long recordings sometimes people send me 10 10 minute recordings I'm not going to listen to it it's just it's too many so if you're going to send questions send questions but it has to be you have to minimize you have to be like a little rashy minimize youed new literally just get to the point don't tell me the whole story oh when I was 3 years old I had this toy it was a you know Autobots and I played with it and then uh my parents took it away and by the time you finished you get to the question you're 37 has nothing to do with the first four minutes that of of of the Autobots that I heard about you understand so just tell me what do you want yes no yes no yes no if I have the answer I'll give you if not no but uh oh by the way I did make a mistake I don't know when I said this but there was a story that I made I said um in Shabbat chabbat page 54 uh it says that why did hasem punish the rabbis before he punished the secular people at the time of the bet mikdash uh and the reason was I'm not going to go through the whole story again but the reason was uh is because the rabbis knew the truth and they didn't share it they didn't rebuke the people so originally the uhem Hashem decided that he's just going to punish the secular people and not punish the rabbis and I mistakenly said the came to Hashem and said uh you know uh why are you punishing just the secular people their Idol worshippers by be Shabbat but the rabbis that are not rebuking them are also Shabbat because they're they're not telling him the truth it's not the that's a that's a um incorrect it's the mid because the in essence is a representation of hem whereas mid the um uh a tribute of uh of decrees is actually another name for the Satan it's another name for the Mal and so on so the Mal came to hasem and says why are you only punishing one side so it's not the it's so that's I had to correct that uh someone asked me a question and it's a the story doesn't change just that I incorrectly said one word uh but it's important to know that that word was significant you got a question go why did uhuh can sacrifice why did the Noah and and and job have to sacrifice to hem for the same reason that andov and had to sacrifice to hem every single person that's mentioned in the Torah uh the righteous people made sacrifices to hasem made sacrifices to hem um Noah made sacrifice to hem abah yob Shem and that sacrific to until the time of bet mikdash each person was able to make sacrifices on his own as a way of repenting for their sins as a way for repenting for their sins and that time we didn't have yum Kip in that time the sins you were able to repent for them on the same day uh you also sacrifices are also a show of gratitude if Hashem saved your life like he did for Noah the saved your life like he did for abah ainu for for yob for all of these great people uh our Patriarchs he saved their lives endless amount of times and unlike some of us that are extremely ungrateful people they are very grateful for you know and as a matter of fact thear says there are several types of people that Hashem just seriously hates like he just can't stand them it says means he can't stand them one of them is ungrateful people ungrateful people so all of the uh giants that are mentioned in the Torah made sacrific to hem either as chuva for some type of sin they made or as a uh uh gratitude go my convert brother who not keeping Shabbat or eating koser says I do both right so so it depends now if if if the cousin if the cousin if the brother converted uh I think I know who sent this question because I think they sent me a question earlyer today I just never had a chance to read it um first and foremost why is this convert regardless of whether he's your brother or not why is he not keeping Shabbat why is he not keeping kosher who's their Rabbi is he did he did he convert through reform or conservative rabbis if he did you don't need to convert you don't need to rebuke him because he's not considered Jewish if he converted to a reform or a uh conservative Rabbi bedine he's not considered Jewish at all not even 1% or half of a percent or 1% of 1% he considered 0% Jewish nothing Jewish uh it's either 100% or nothing also if at the time that he converted even if he converted in an orthodox bedin if at the time he converted he was not planning on keeping Shabbat he did not believe the 13 principles of Faith even a single one even a single one of the 13 principles of Faith his conversion is is not valid so you don't have to rebuke him because he's not not considered Jewish he may have a certificate but that certificate is just a piece of paper it's worth nothing so again first thing you have to figure out is at the time of conversion who converted him is it conservative reform or is it a you know or is it the nonvalid conversion that's number one um which would be better off for him because he's not keeping Shabbat anywhere laws anyway it's better off for him that he did a fake conversion if he did a real conversion at the time he actually went to a real bedine at the time he was serious about keeping and he did for a while and now unfortunately he fell off then it's more important to find out why it's more important to find out why the two there's only two possibilities of why someone is not keeping the foundation as a Jew why someone's not keeping the foundational agreements between us and hasem not everyone has to be public speaker not everyone has to become mosenu not everyone has to become big Sage but every one of us has to keep the basic minimum basic minimum is what it says in what it says in you know all the commands we have to do but which requires us to learn tah every day requires us to keep Shabbat requires us to keep kosher requires to have and so on and so forth that's basic minimum that's not that's not stringencies it seems like it is because we're you know we're so far away from the truth but it is nonetheless minimum requirements so the only reason why someone is violating openly and without remorse the basic minimum like Shabbat for example is either because they don't believe or they don't know if they don't believe that Hashem gave us these mitv or they don't believe in hem at all Shalom or something like that that's very easy to prove otherwise you could show them that the Torah is divine there's the movies uh that we've made uh Torah science and ancient wisdom there's three parts you could scientifically prove that not only did uh God create the world but also you can prove that God gave us an instruction set and it's called the Torah so you could scientifically prove the Torah if that's not enough you could also watch the 4our film by ra M uh and uh it's even more extensive and more proofs about scientifically proving that the Torah is not only an instruction set but it's a Divine instruction set and it's the only one that exists so if it's a matter of belief then that's one thing that you could easily prove scientifically that's the best way to prove something on the other hand if it's a matter of knowledge they just don't know what happens if you violate Shabbat they don't know they believe that Hashem gave a Shabbat they just don't know that it's really important they don't know that there's a punishment if they get if it's a matter of knowledge then there plenty of lectures that we've made that M has made uh that Rabbi zon has made uh RAB ala has made there's plenty of lectures out there online that you can find out the truth uncensored and what the Torah actually says or you can just open the book yourself open a kosher book yourself and seeb what happens if I don't keep it what happens if I don't keep you know the uh kosher and so on and so forth and that's it so usually it's because of no belief not no knowledge or combination thereof very rarely is that people believe 100% And they just don't know anything because the two don't necessarily go together uh so usually it's always like a doubt of some kind but either way you have to find out number one if they're a real convert if they are then you have to find out why they're not listening if you find out the reason of why they're not doing it then you could just provide them the proofs provide them the videos send it to them and you could save yourself the headache you could save yourself the agony of arguing with them because now it's not you even doing a job now it's a professional doing it and that's usually a much more likely to succeed system than you telling them because usually your um family is not going to want to listen to you it's very hard to get your family to do cha through you very hard it's possible but it's very hard it's much more difficult for me to influence my family uh than it is to influence complete strangers much more difficult it's it's worked in some regards but the point is is that to rebuke or tell the truth to a complete stranger you've never met before you're much more likely to succeed that way and the reason why is because to a stranger a brand new sheet of paper you have no flaws you're tadik you're perfect you're a little mosenu everything is great you have no flaws they don't know your downfalls and you're up nothing you're brand new to them you're telling them the truth that's it beginning middle end but to your family or friends or anyone that knows you before you did Chua before you told them this truth they're always going to look even if you've been religious your whole life if they've known you since you were a kid they're always going to look at you as a a kid this is a story I told you guys yesterday one of the uh classmates former classmates of saw him many many years later when he became RAB one of the but he wanted to still show him like he's friendly he thought that they're still in fifth grade so when he shook his hand unlike everyone else that you know shook hand politely or you know said something uh he like shook shook him really hard like he shook RAB nakan like as if like hey relax take it easy I saw tight type of shake and The Story Goes that that person became crippled instantly like on the spot he couldn't move couldn't move I mean and you realized obviously that it's not the same nak from 40 years ago so that's the downfall sometimes of people is that they don't you know they're judging people based on a image a stereotype a uh a past image and it's uh it's happened to me many many times in the business world in the religious world when I was a kid when I was older I mean it's uh it's I don't know for whatever reason I'm like uh people enjoy a stereotype uh with me I remember in boaron one time they decided to have uh these uh part of the KLA to be security guards KLA members and that wasn't exactly um you know I would go to I go to synagogue I pray I leave I don't I don't I don't socialize um I don't believe you're supposed to socialize and according to T you're not allowed to socialize in AET so wasn't exactly known in the Kil unless people watch my lectures so anyway one time I uh go to uh the on Shabbat and um the security guard which is one of the Kayla members he's probably double my age older guy you know doesn't exactly look like uh gibo or anything it looks like some regular guy he approaches me he who are you I'm your own going to the biget goes you live here or you visiting I said I live here and I'm just continuing to walk I'm like what does this guy want why does he fall on my head he goes wait you live here when did you move here like what is questions which K you going to ashkanazi Safari like he like this guy looked at me like he par and my wife started laughing she go yeah he probably thought you were a terrorist you're like because you know he's askanazi and he thinks anyone that's a little darker than him just came from Saudi Arabia so that that happened to me knowem helps meem helps me a lot hasem helps me by destroying my ego over and over again uh you know it's it's it's a uh it's I'm telling you seriously it's it's it's it's necessary it's a necessary tun um when you go from you know the top of the material world and now you want to teach people the truth of Torah you can't just do it because you know how to speak you understand because this is a thankless job this is not a this is not the type of job that uh you know you uh you know you're making a fortune in or this is this is a thankless job this is people I I think today some guy didn't like what I said in the lecture he's uh he's not a Jew and uh he sent me a text I the beginning of the text said uh I don't know how this uh this is message is not going to be offensive but it probably will be offensive and I listen to your lectures and d and I don't like what you said about the whole issue of uh gav you know you disagreed with uh this one and that one and he gives me these I don't know question I stopped reading at that point he Milla I mean would have taken 10 minutes just to read this thing and he sent me there's like I don't know I think he numbered it I think there's like three or five questions at the end he goes please give me the answers to these things right away and and this happens to me all the time by the way this is not like a one time this is just today this is literally a half hour before I arrived here so I'm just thinking to myself you know I always laugh at this stuff I'm like for some reason or another people have this image in their mind that I don't me or maybe every public speaker I'm not really sure maybe other public speakers don't have this or maybe they do I'm not really sure I just know me I know it actually also happens to ra mrai as well um but it's a it's very strange like people think like you work for them like they think just because they see you on the internet like you're their employee like you're like a public servant you know this is like the each lecture starts with this is a public service announcement the government is paying for this lecture you don't have to donate we live on man that hasem sends us from sham if you want anything further this lecture please just ask for anything and like they ask for stuff oh can you send me a ky package can you pay for it no no no I don't have any money you live in a $3 million house you live in a half a million dollar house how do you not have a $100 or give me the answers to these 18 questions ASAP please chop chop you know Chop Chop make it quick I need I have something important coming up I have a meeting I'm meeting with my Rabbi I need these proofs I need it for my homework I need it for my study like people think you just work for them and it's like know sometimes I really want to laugh at it and it's like say you know what if you already think I work for you can you send me a check for $5,000 I already work for you at least pay me at least pay something but that but that but that's the thing it's like people people have like their their delusional and uh sometimes they just don't realize that their ego is taking control their ego is just taking control like you know there's there's you and there's your ego and sometimes your ego just takes control just runs the house and I'm sure that at some point the ego ran my life uh so Hashem helps me Hashem helps me by sending me all these little T all these people that you know helps me remind me hey this is for a reason wants to crush your ego a little bit more a little bit more a little bit more so it's it is but it's a uh it's it's funny at the same time it's interesting it's an interesting tun what else listen you could easily get angry at it which is much easier to get angry but it's not going to do anything um right that's in the T it's not even that's that's verse in the Tor it's in the T don't don't add right or left or so on yeah is someone who does that lose also matter who is so if that's true that will loseing why would somebody not why but what happens to someone who accuses well the not adding to the Tor not subtracting from the tah there's a little bit deeper meaning to it first and foremost hasem is specifically talking about not adding a mitvah that's not biblical and calling it biblical there ranan and then there's biblical meaning there's seven MIT from the rabbis and then there's 63 mitv from hasem soem says don't add or don't take one of the rabinal mitv and tell people it's biblical and the reason why is because the punishment or the consequence for not following one or the other are very different so that's one so don't add and don't subtract don't say that we don't bring Corb because we don't have to that's not true if we had the bet mikash we have to bring corot the reason why we don't do it is not because we don't have to the reason we don't do it is because we can't we're considered anim meaning that the 63 mitv are still 100% valid right now we just can't perform them because we don't have all the tools so that's in essence in regards to don't add subtract don't say that something is no longer valid because it is always valid if you're on news because it's not possible it's a different story it's not it doesn't mean it's not valid just means it's not possible okay so as far as the uh someone that goes against the someone that says that theim did something that they didn't um they could easily learn from JC Penney JC Penney uh you know uh they call him Jesus call him uh you know a uh whatever you want to call him but point is is that he knew Torah he wasn't a complete fool as far as Torah is concerned some even said he knew a lot of Torah but he was an egotistical person that because he as soon as his Rabbi punished him he didn't have the patience to wait for the for the rabbi to forgive him and he decided to start a whole new religion a whole new following and so on and so forth and his primary his primary objective was to destroy the rabbis his primary objective was to go against the rabbis publicly and the AL is someone who gets honor as a result of their colleagues being insulted and degraded has no share of the world to come so by going against the it's even worse than that if it's an average Joe if it's an average uh guy that you're going against them your average colleague average you know person you know got uh insulted and you're celebrating it that's already a horrible punishment but to go against the even is is even worse so a person that goes against the is not going to have an end any less worse than uh JC peny because it's truly the stupidest thing you can do by going against the in essence is the same thing as going against hem it's no different same thing uh so that's what people fail to understand and usually this stems from ego that's why the ramban said that the most important mid to work to work on is to become humble it's the opposite to get yourself as far away from arrogance as possible um and the uhem one of the that said to to the to the sages is to build a fence around this fence he has a fence he has the laws if you think that the current generation is getting too close to that fence too close to Danger make a additional law that will protect them from it to get them far from it so in M we have the same thing the ramban is telling you listen the worst possible trait you can have is being arrogant it's the worst one because that leads to anger that leads to a lot of all the worst bad traits comes from from arrogance so to State the def fence around the fence you could easily just not become angry you know do something less no no the best thing you should do is become humble because that if you you cannot be humble and arrogant at the same time it's not possible you know so so that that's the uh uh that's the thing that people need to understand and it's character trait that we have to work on what else is there like I would say some kind of for if somebody not follow what God says or what the thean says or what say like would say like say one of the is like one day and then and then an extra day so if somebody does not know actually go with extra knowingly or not knowingly both either way oh knowingly or not knowingly is two different things if someone if someone is going against the sages not knowingly he doesn't know he doesn't he hasn't learned a law depends why he doesn't learn the law if he hasn't learned the law because the teachers lied to him if he hasn't learned the law because he was secluded and he lived in Siberia if he uh you know something like that then he's considered he didn't know because he had what he had and it was limited to it like for example certain kot in Morocco or Yemen they don't have a large part of the oral T because their tradition didn't have it and therefore their their main dependence is smaller part of the oral Torah but a bigger dependence on the written Tor but that's been that they have certain level of excuse they have an advance they don't have televisions they don't have cars they're still a third world country the rest of us don't have that excuse the rest of us don't have that excuse unless we live in Yemen since we were born uh and and so on we don't have that excuse unless somebody shipped you to I don't know Greenland and your next their neighbors a polar bear but the point is is that if the re you didn't know if a person didn't know as a result of he didn't study it because he was busy doing other things that are not part of the Torah for example he was watching football or he was uh going out with his friends or he was doing things we learned a mishna that a uh person that does something you know an accidental sin but the accident is really not an accident he he's purposefully didn't study he purposefully went to the bar instead of studying he purposefully went to the concert instead of studying he purposefully went to the baseball game instead of studying on a regular basis he just never got to studying and because of that he didn't learn the AL that accidental sin is judged in sham as a purposeful sin so if it's truly an accident then it's an accident if it's an accident because of desires then it's not counted as an accident now on the other hand if he's purposefully is going against the sages because he just doesn't feel like listening to them doesn't feel like listening to them he says listen you said two days I don't want to do two days you said uh you know uh keep uh you know kosher has to be meat and uh you know which is uh let's say lamb and uh and beef and also chicken even though technically chicken is not meat and you have to hold you have to wait six hours on meat just like you have to wait six hours on chicken even though chicken is not meat but the sages said you have to keep six hours same whatever you keep for meat you have to keep for chicken no more no less he said no no I don't want to listen to the uh sages because uh it's not really meat they added that it's not going against the sages lose so there is no leniency in that regard if they do it on purpose if it's accidental it's a different story the key is to not try is to is to avoid looking for shortcuts we're not saying do Above the Law no need to do Above the Law just don't need to be Aid you don't need to be Aid just do what the law says there's plenty of things to do plenty you know if a woman needs to work on herself you know and it's she needs to be modest she needs to be modest with speech she needs to be modest with behavior she needs to be modest with clothing you know if every time she talks she has one of those voices where the whole neighborhood knows she's talking she has to work on it if she has the type of wardrobe where when she's walking everyone knows that it's her she has to work on it if she has a uh you know a uh a mouth that is only competition to truck drivers she has to work on it this is all part of modesty and that's it's it's not just putting a long dress on and you're finished or putting a K on and it's finished every Mitzvah has details to it every Mitzvah has details to it and in order for us to fulfill any of the mitv any one of them it doesn't matter big or small you have to humble yourself must humble yourself the reason why is because if it does not come from humility it'll eventually break if you're keeping Shabbat because it's convenient eventually you're not going to keep Shabbat why because eventually it's not going to be convenient eventually you're going to have family and a family is going to want to watch TV and a family's going to want to go to the beach and the family's going to want to do something that's the opposite of you or the family's going to be annoying and you want to want to run away you want to go drive to the beach yourself you know eventually it's not going to eventually it's not going to be convenient it's going to happen one day it's going to happen I'm not wishing anyone bad it just happens in life life happens if you're keeping Shabbat because it's convenient eventually you're not going to keep Shabbat if you're keeping kosher because it's healthy eventually you're not going to keep kosher if you're keeping any of the mitv because it's rational eventually you're not going to keep them this is why Noah is called a complete righteous person why complete righteous person he didn't need explanation hasm said I do so yes you could rationalize things yes you can look for certain proofs of God through nature through science through rationale and see different you know great things about his mitv it's all good but it's not the real reason it's all it's all good to know it's all like a uh seasoning it's all like seasoning but it's not the real reason you don't eat the steak because of the seasoning you eat the steak because of the meat and if you're really hungry even if there's no seasoning you still going to eat the damn steak you understand so this is even more so this is even more so why because if you know what's on the line it doesn't matter if you like the Mitzvah or not it doesn't matter if you agree with it or not it doesn't matter if you even understand it or not is just or be slamy salant said in he said if one only knew the punishment for violating any Mitzvah forget just I always talk about Shabbat because Shabbat is the worst he says any Mitzvah anything anything if anyone knew just the punishment for violating any Mitzvah they would not only do this mitvah but they would do this Mitzvah even if they knew there's no reward for it cuz just not getting punished is enough of a reward you understand what's What's Happening Here people no don't talk about Punishment No don't talk scary no our sages said that the punishment is so severe if we're just nonchalant and careless and we don't double check we just do whatever we feel like it and we just do whatever we want and we listen to this one sometimes and that one sometimes and we just make a salad out of Judaism and sometimes it's Christianity sometimes it's Judaism sometimes it's as sometimes it's jakov and we make mix and match it's a little puzzle with the wrong pieces the sages say even if there was no even if there was no reward if you actually knew the punishment for any of the mitv not getting the punishment is enough it's enough that's why job that's why job who was a non-jewish prophet he said in says in the beginning of sorry yeah beginning of it says that even if God were to destroy me and I knew he's going to destroy me I'd still serve him even if it was to destroy I still serve him why he knew the consequence that's where M comes in musar is not necessarily knowing the details of gay you don't necessarily need to know that there's angels and this and that you don't need to know that stuff necessarily not everybody's at that level to know it and even the people that know it usually can't handle it so they're they're not affected by it that's also another thing that I saw and I was really uh very very very intriguing uh to read some of these things that the Bal said in this case it's Sal it's genius Minds like they understand human nature to such an extent that if you actually just understand every just every line just one line at the right one line at the right you're to stand the level that this is like not even human in comparison to us so he says that certain people are so far so far removed from the truth that even if you tell them the punishment nothing happens why they're numb they're numb they're like Stone nothing happens like it's like instead of Shing the stone to 50 pieces nothing they's the details of all that craziest strangest things and know oh okay yeah gu which also means it says in the book if you're already doing the law and you read some of the details of punishment and you're not petrified also means you're numb too also means you're you're doing the mitv but you're still numb a little bit you're still numb you know how you go to the dentist and you know they numb it you don't feel anything but then you don't feel anything for like a half a day we still numb a little bit and only over time hasem open up brain up a little bit says oh wow what I read two three four five years ago now it's finally hitting how do you know you're crying for no reason you started crying because you just remembered something you learned five years ago and it finally hid home and you just to started hysterical crying from Fear that's see oh okay I'm I'm less numb it's the numbness is wearing off the numbness is wearing off again this is people people think that being afraid of hem is a bad thing but says the beginning of wisdom is fear of hem it's something admirable it's something adorable to to acquire uh it's not a negative thing so that's that's the problem with unfortunately sometimes it's the teaching sometimes it's the teacher sometimes the student sometimes it's the world around the student either way none of them will be good excuses in sh the BET of sh each one of us is going to have nothing to say because they're already in all the answers and I tell you okay you were given a brain yes check bring eyes check ears check lips check teeth check tongue check body that works check why don't you fulfill the will of oh I I was busy with what making money okay and RAM was also busy making money oh I was uh busy uh you know all the girls wanted to go after me okay yadik every woman in the world wanted to go after me including the most beautiful women in the world oh I was uh I didn't have any money I didn't have any money okay he a he a sacrific his life just for one seal T by laying on top of the to hear the give a he sacrificed his life the snow was on top of him the whole night and he almost died just for one single sh because he couldn't afford to pay the door man to go into the sh he was as poor as a GU no what other excuses you have oh I uh you know I uh it was too hard for me it was a uh I knew the truth but it was too hard for me to make the sacrifice I'm going to tell you guys a story that I never said the story before but story I've been thinking about telling the story for a while but it's a uh I don't know honestly this story some of you know it some of you don't but I think about the story all the time I talked about the story with my wife today yesterday something like that we're still so amazed and not necessarily just amazed at the person but amazed at how little excuses any of us have in sham simply because this person exists don't ask who why and when it doesn't make a difference now each one of us wake up in the morning with a list full of excuses each one of us each one of us wakes up in the morning with List full of excuses of why we don't want to wake up early why do we don't want to go to theet why we don't want to pray why we don't want to do what Hashem says why we we all have excuses of why we can't do it why it's too much why I can't cover my hair why I can't be modest why I can't stop eating too much why can't uh you know stop being cheap Why Can't This why can't that all these horrible terrible characters traits that are the opposite of the will of hem all of us have a list of excuses people that want to convert as soon as they get a few hurdles a few hurdles all the rabbis rejected me all the Kila rejected me oh I you know they it took too long oh it was too hard oh it was too expensive oh I couldn't moved to the neighborhood