Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff - Ten Statements that Changed the World

[Music] hm I said you know what if I'm gonna be a Jew I better find out at least they take a massage because at least we have that in common without Christian you know neighbors you know and possibly our friends okay so if you don't know what they are it's fine but the same very important about them did you have to know what these ten are so the opening statement is our no-fee so what's God's steamer right after I'm the Lord your God Ania are no customer lacasa the took you out of Egypt well that's it that's the opening statement there to crowd of Egypt that's the best you can do what be a better opener for God imagine your God some of you may be easier than others right but imagine your God what would you be opening statements I'll be Lord your God who created the world split this okay it's good I mean I'm open that's good there's big what creating new your heart's beating right now that's cuz the me says God your eyes are walking back oh sure that's because of me that's a big opener created the world the universe and everything how many stars are there in the universe forget billions 76 billion which is the number seven with 36 zeros this is according to the Australian astronomical society which is by the way which is according to them you can look it up you can't count is it very carefully I Brad to turn your brains at the guacamole yeah every grain of sand in the entire world every beach every desert every footpath multiply that number by 10 that's how many stars there are in the known universe yeah okay with me how did I do it they take a piece of sky they knock it out they counted the amount of stars in the strip they not buy that strip everything and they go to number the figure it out I don't know I this enough I got more to with my life if Akari grains us now that that's well they came out this in Australia well if I go to Judaism count she would drink beer what are they doing over there did it Frostburg Hashem they figured it out for us okay that's how they did it for us now that's a big opener while we sound the Lord your God who took care of each Amina I appreciate it it's nice it's recent happened 49 days before but why is that the opener what's that why wouldn't God our God who created universe go back to me o tightener mm-hmm right go back to Genesis guys embrace it create the world right bracelet relic a mystery might doubt it why did I start with this quest is very famous all my query famous question the ask this question is very very important 210 years okay but sterilized okay so says the ROM bonds I'm very important the ROM bond says like there's nice Monty says like this he says I tell you why I can't fathom the size of the universe it's too big I got appreciate my heart beating I forget about every you know who thinks about those are problem with it but they're my great-great-great great-great grandmother and my great great great grandfather was slaves and a Shem took them out that becomes something very different we she didn't exist until this point in history and what was that until this point there were people who believed in God until this point there were people who believed that God created the world but there's one thing that did not exist until the Jewish people turned up on the scene and what's that that God is involved in our lives what's called a personal God hashgacha a God that is involved and communicates his will via Navarre prophecy to the world you know there's a Midrash as you may have heard a Montmartre be no se paró and he walked in and he said I'm here to represent the God the yurt with the hey with the verb of a whoever he depicted him and put what power of did I remember this Midrash what didn't my power ado nope he looked it up he had one of his sons one of his own spring at a book right I say yellow pages now Google book of all the gods and he went through and there were thousands of them there tons of there the Sun God right they had they ran their the fish got that gone they had the Nile God and needless let go for everything she went through what he says winter no there's no you live above it doesn't exist of it he's not it and that's the end amid respect what I'm interested that what's he talking about just take her pen and see her 30,000 God's he's thirty thousand and one God's what's the difference why do you just do that because the completely different I did this is the God of love if someone loves you they're involved in your life and they're helping they're protecting you and taking you out of a difficult situation up to that point that never existed this is a whole new concept now whole world up to a right Chris yeah I'm gonna do that man all right speaks matter now but it's also the way people are scared of God they were sacrificed their children in terrible ways to God in order to appease the gods emotional pain is saying no this is the God of love he loves us so much he's gonna take us out and take care of us forever that's a whole new concept so I'm the Lord got to go out of Egypt Bing I'm with you I'm involved in this world and I love you and I'm your personal God that you can connect to I can't connect to stars and universes too much but I connect this all it takes care of me that's the opening scene obvious as a different okay and that point to many opinions is the midst were to believe in a show although it's not said as a command it's said as a given but if Sun does something for you it's obvious I need to act on it okay so we're gonna do now obviously it's the SHA amount of time we have together another 15 minutes I'm not gonna get through all of it tonight I'm gonna jump around a little bit if you're okay with that we're gonna go sideways right make sense because the first five are between us and Hashem and the sacrum we do not send each other which means there must be some reflection between both of them there must be some connection we can see if they put next to each other even sour I'm saying the feather for net each other means I meant to look at it that way and see they're on the same plane with they are the same so if I jump the other side I'm gonna see the same version of number one but between each other are you with me so what's commandment number six spring over there law here it's tough what's too tough murder killing probably is not a good translation because killing is sometimes permitted it becomes a mitzvah right it is accidental as well the invents a mitzvah not mister that we want to do but if they'll come to attack you you're after the famous often invokes killing them you've done a mitzvah right you gonna do we gonna do Priam to go to war you like to do that so murder is probably Bobby let me ask you a question what's the what's the problem with murder with killing someone I don't get it what's the big deal let's discuss that I mean if you're very well robber you can write who says well we're killing someone yeah I don't believe in God what's our killing really this rabbi did not believe in God hey why yes yes I'll tell you I want to kill someone I'm really hungry I'm starving hungry and I see mrs. Goldberg has a pocketbook full of cash and there's money coming out of it and if I don't get the money right now and buy food I'm gonna die so what I do is I walk over to her I get out of take care of brick I bang her on the head I kill her I take the pocketbook and I gonna feed myself there's no police no one's gonna find out about it what's wrong with this the only thing the reason is I'm gonna trouble for it see what's the problem let me ask you this question let me ask this question I'm not gonna I want to kill her because she's gonna come after me she gonna report on me I'm gonna kill mr. Goldberg let me ask you a question we're in the jungle you see the lion running after the you see the Geographic Channel what was cooled right was running off to the gazelle fine and goes out and he think the butter that girl's neck and he kills the gazelle did the police turn up or no no no no you can't do that I put him in handcuffs rice got blood around his mouth did you do that I didn't do it you thinking where were you the night of the 14th no does it work like that why not why not how come the lion is that a kill the Gazelle and you don't see pizza sand there no down with a lie and save the gazelle down with lions head with that and we go along and we stop till you okay each other oh you can't do if we're just animals if we're just advanced animals that are evolved over time then what's the big deal the white is another person the d'lai takes the bite out of the gazelle and the I take a bite out of mrs. Goldberg's neck both of survived what is the dinner I won't know the difference I know you know what why is the lie more important that gazelle how come he's allowed to do it we're equal we called the lion wants to eat and survive I'm attacking to survive myself so that's we gonna have to say ah very good so you're gonna have to say you're gonna have to say yeah I also have an establishing to eat and live with a lot of things I'm hungry my needs are I want a burger from some Bukharian meat placing on over here everything on the grill kebab on the grill baharon on the grill Chihuahua on the grill hibachi on the grill Jews on the grill unless he does he's getting to trouble for it oh there are no animals eat other animals there plenty are my point is ah I have a choice the animals choice to harm us is I'm gonna find your act honestly see and the answer is we rise above that why number one see number one is on the Lord your God there's a God above the equation how do you whose is this question how do you kill God must be connected right no you can't kill God how do you kill God by not acknowledging God by not acknowledging there's a God you are essentially as it were killing God so there's the connection how do you not acknowledge another person you kill them that's one of the biggest Disick knowledge meant it's such a word right the biggest dish you can give someone yeah but not acknowledge who they are by killing them so the key connection over here between I know from the logic God so God decides who gets the loo gets to die and start as weak the choice for into our hands but the connection is acknowledgment I acknowledge God by acknowledging his existence that's how we believe in God and I ignore other people I'm not killing them but realizing they have a part of God inside them because we open up the animals we're not connected the animal kingdom we have things in common with them absolutely they eat we they see we sleep right they have relationship where relationships but wake up we have a little bit of God inside us we have an Islamic and that's completely different that's all aspects now elevates the human way above the animal therefore we're responsible to as each other and once all other animals as well humans and animals okay with me so far we have two Commandments and one our dear acknowledgment okay it's 10 to 10 no lights no camera should we finish off as much as we can get through tonight okay let's do another two so you get the idea what's tomorrow number two you can cheat law yello-ha elohim ah hey rim that's an interesting word in this context what elohim mean what does the word answer my question what is the word in this context elohim mean and why am i saying it when usually low key i want it why in verse of God isn't it what is the actual word mean what is L mean I've already what a guy why am I going I'm T no word from the taurah the word elohim over here okay but they didn't have phones back then so was the torah talking about it's a nice idea agree we do worship there's a lot of bad worshipers american idol worship well there's Elliott I want to figure out I wanna fight with a word Elohim means what is what L mean L means power L means power what is him mean you pretty good member that what was it do plural Isis it that's interesting so now we're saying cannot have any other powers you can describe in the context of this one of idol worship okay power to anything else but one second one of the names of Hashem is L Oh Kim we're not gonna save because now referring to a Shem to God so what's that how cuz he plural over there doesn't make sense because there's only one God we really picked it up and commandment over one are you following this so far so what's that about so L means power him means God is the power behind all other powers so in terms of our Shem we say look Kim now we don't pray to Allah Kim it's a bad thing to do you don't say oh well oh Kim saved me you should never say that because it's time to that name of Hashem that represents dim judge whites in the name the name is televi scowl so the job may get done but not in a pleasant way we pray to Hashem which refers to the Yid with the hey with the father the hey which is God's name of mercy of attributes no that's different yes will be no so the word good with the hey with the verb of the hey is three words higher was hava is year will be that's the name you'd with the hey with love the hey that's why that name was not given to the of lot because it's God's miraculous name it means that shemin's are beyond time it was given first emotion Rubino and that's the name of God's miraculous power there I've thought refer to a Shamus kelsh akai right we refer to a Shem from that point on as Hashem the name referring to you with the hey with his past present field I sure would be on time - American miracles happen are you with me so when were terribly know it's a power he said I'm here to represent you but that hay was over the hay that's why I Shem sister must remain who go in and tell / oh you did with the hay with her he said I see him this name was not known Lana dr. Laham to the althought they never had this name okay so now we have this name of Hashem of the idols sorry which is Elohim okay now this actually is the I said there are 13 commandments this commandment is actually four Commandments put into one okay so you have nine other ones for over here there's four different ways you are and a lot allowed to worship idols the Torah tells us over here so nine and four comes to 13 that's where there's 13 Commandments in the Ten Commandments here with me this commandment of three simple this commandment don't wish rather don't worship idols don't have done of other girls brush em open I is actually four separate commands you can't worship an idol the waste normally don do it's not normally done an unusual way to put down a four different formats and put it out the third is abroad okay now these first two commands were talking about was said directly from a Shem to the entire Jewish people they were given directly from a Shem and that's why these two are put in the first person the other eight were given through Moshe Rabine the other eight were given through emotional Boehner okay why because they were so intense the experience the people couldn't handle it and a shimmer to give over the remaining eight but the first two were given directly from Hashem that's why that's it in the first person and the other eight are given in the second person okay I was talking directly to ask the Jewish people so the first two are very important actually they're so important that all the myths fought can be found of the ten commandments they're sort of dip rods and the ten can be found in the first two all positive Mitzvahed are inside number one it's three hundred children for T positive mitzvahs in the Torah are in command my number one and 365 negative are in number two hey with me I think I'm losing some of you already I think we're finished in two minutes now because we ran out of time okay so the first two have inside them everything you need to know about being Jewish that means they're everything positive about being Jewish is our Lord your God and everything negative is finding an idol to replace God here with me and then includes you all right take it easy wake up I did I love sorry about that so if you can fall asleep just don't snore okay so let's jump to the other side because we got to figure out what's so bad about idol worship okay what's on the other side look it up la la Tina lot Tina that's not what it means what is looked enough mean it's a very neutral word it appears it's the only time this word appears in the entire Torah if not on all the scriptures I think what does it mean Tina it's actually two words ten what's ten not ten is to give what's up here ah actually she means a nose but it means anger because when a person gets angry there you go sorry so he got to be your phone down I'm so sorry I can't talk with you on the phone it's a gig now sighs okay okay fine so 10 off ten off means give anger what's he referring to why is it called give anger what's he talking about what is this command telling you not to do know so if the tech amount said don't be angry we be in big trouble the other time to get angry they just drive around Queens will get your kills no adultery no adultery why is it doubts Rico Burt's unusual name because you have other names for it why is it called lot Tina why is it called give anger why isn't it called it's much worse than that much much worse than that you know gets angry when adultery happens God actually there's nothing that gets God angry or we see from all the stories of the Torah you look at me you'll appreciate this now then the breakdown of the family units then take each other's spouses husbands and wives and whenever you see their happening the Torah Hashem gets angry and bad things happen I sure will overlook many many many things between you and I sham but he will not overlook adultery the breakdown of the family unit that is unacceptable so that's why there's a new little word of give the adult here's another question what's wrong with adultery okay let's try this again and it's hard to have an opinion 2019 is adultery a bad thing yeah we sure about that okay I know whatever the world everything's good it's okay it's no Milton off leash it gets all power of right no it's not a good thing all right we can say that it's okay you're in a safe place why what's the big deal seriously we should try to figure out why murder was bad which we figured out it was by the way in case you missed that why is this bad yeah forget God for a second I feared God I don't believe in God for this moment what's wrong with cheating on your spouse she won't find out about it that's interesting we'd get that from know where'd you go though yeah no way why do you say that that's a very interesting statement there's an exclusive relationship you made with your spouse Oh God willing you will make this bathroom out already when I'm the hopper that's right I performed a wedding last night and the night before Barack Michelle I do a lot of weight about 100 150 weddings over the past 20 years Baraka shamlian oh yeah huh thank you it wasn't even wedding Bradish am actually a barbarian boy and a Persian girl a visa and Levy was last night perfection yeah it was like how people were late and other they were very very latest actually no I married her sister to an organizing guy six years ago yet to give two separate vacations one for the Persians or one for the Ashkenazim for different times I probably I'm not joking I promise you this is true and the Persia still came late anyway okay so what we sinks out of the hope a you make a commitment what are you saying that me and you we're making a public declaration and now we are exclusive to each other let's jump back the other side what's wrong with idol worship because we made a commitment to I shared God when under the hopper what hope I have seen I was a hopper and we made an exclusive relationship with Hashem at that time why is idol worship so bad it's just heme really care if you don't know worship a piece of stone or rock all right you thank you phone whatever it is I don't care for the same where's our sham care you're breaking a bond a connection that exclusively she we started a Mount Sinai heresy night in Cairo right through history actually was crystallized at poor him if you want to go into a little bit deeply God wing I'll come back another time to discuss it with you right why there's an arc and AFC not an AR K and Arthur goes from her scene I write to the Purim story that completes that which started really it's one the same thing it's one of the same thing okay it all come together and they relate and so have one exclusivity that's why I got excited because that's the exact word the first one is acknowledgement we acknowledge one God we acknowledge each other exclusive tween us and I share and exclusive towards each other as well okay okay I've spoken for like an hour of five minutes doesn't felt like it we're gonna leave that over there well this rush em come back another time and the lights are on and we'll finish yourself thank you have a wonderful service [Applause] you