Rabbi Maor Bendel - The Boomerang Effect of Our Actions

As we know this week's we learn a little bit more about what we want to call I guess we can call it the n the first Jew in history. We spoke about it briefly last week and there's much to learn about. We'll get more in depth as we go on. But the mymonities brings down he has a in the first chapter chapter over there on an idol worship. He details out how the world from pretty much the beginning of creation until we get to and so on and so forth. How idol worship came to the world. Now why is that a question? Why is it a question how idol worship came to the world? If you think about it for a moment was created by who? God. Was created by who? God. They saw God. Kind of heaven. They knew God. Yeah. Obviously, they had children. What happened to their children? They should have known God. If you spoke to God, you wouldn't tell your son you spoke to God. Huh? You wouldn't pass down to your son that I saw God and spoke to God. How is it possible that we get to a world where everybody is doing idol worship? How is it possible that we get to a world where everybody's corrupt? The Mishna tells us there was 10 generations from Adam until Noah. 10 generations, almost 1,000 years from Noah until also 10 generations, almost another thousand years to show you how patient Hashem was. What does that mean? Can you imagine creating something? Can you imagine doing something in your life and you have a purpose? Right? If I make a watch, you ever seen a watch and came to the person who created the watch and ask him, "Why did you create the watch?" What is it going to tell you? To tell time. Nobody in the world, if we're small creations of God, have you ever created anything without a purpose? Everything that's created has a purpose to its creation. Hashem created the world, right? I cannot look at a building and say the building came out of nowhere. There's someone who created it and he created with a purpose. What's the purpose? For someone to live in it, for their people to work in it, whatever it may be. But everything that was created is created for a purpose. And if we're small images of God, then Hashem himself created the world with a purpose. What's that purpose? We talked about it in depth. But whatever the purpose may be, even though we spoke about it one time in depth about appreciation and so on and so forth, Hashem created a world with a purpose. And then he waits. Okay? I want you to understand what real patience is. He waits 10 generations from until Noah. Now 10 generations today 20 years. How long did they live then? Almost a thousand years. He waits. And the whole entire world is the whole entire world became like a disease infested killing idol worship everything poss one one sad versus whole generation Noah and his family. Hashem wipes out the world. Now imagine you were in the TVA. You come out of the TVA, you and your sons. Are you going to go back to the way they were? Are you going to go back to idol worship? >> No. How is that possible? Was born. Is there one person in the world who knows Hashem? Is there anyone in the world who knows when was born? Besides for the Shivan that was we barely hear about it. There was no one in the world out of at this point maybe millions of people who didn't know a millions of people don't know WHAT IS HOW IS IT possible no children weren't in the flood no children weren't there they didn't see the world didn't know we know today how do they not know it doesn't make sense to me says the what happened of course they know but they reasoned in their mind yes we Hashem, but you know how a has ministers in his kingdom. Hashem wants you to also honor the ministers, right? There's the king and then there's the viceroy and then there's the CFO and the CEO and [laughter] okay positions and you have to honor those positions. So they looked down into the world and said, "God, you're right. You created the world." But Hashem also created the sun and the moon and the stars and all of the galaxies and all of the planets. And guess what? Maybe those are ministers of Hashem. And we're supposed to give them honor as well. They're like uh advisors, their positions in the kingdom. And that's how it started. And guess what happens? It starts by saying, "Respect the moon. Respect the sun. Who's in charge of the sun? Who's in charge of the day? The sun. Who's in charge of the night? The moon. And if you look up, you'll see stars." Huh? Back in the day, I used to get around. Oh, you the big dipper, the little dipper. You Let's go for a dipper. I mean it's coming in the dippers and you see stars you see oh yeah now today you have Jupiter this one it's if he's a part of the planet it's not part of the planet [laughter] what happened they assumed that Hashem wants us to honor the planets Hashem wants us to honor the constellations and guess what it starts by Hashem wants us to honor them and then it's oh we honor them we also should give them gifts we also should do this this this this until eventually they worship them until eventually they become their gods and until eventually everyone is over until everybody forgets God as he doesn't exist how step by step by step you know you go out to the world in Israel one thing you have to say about the people come from is the people Jewish people come from is one thing about them if you go to Israel you'll find people who are religious and you'll find people who aren't religious usually there's two there's two different sides Either I am or I'm not. Why? Over here in America, what do you have? You have Orthodox, modern Orthodox, conservative, reform, reformed, conservative. You have in between conservative and orthodox. You have something in between. It's a spectrum. You know, I'm Jewish. Islam spectrum America. Why? Because in America, they can sell you nonsense and you'll buy it. How do you know how many of you bought all those diet cokes with aspartame and the burgers and we could they sell you garbage and you buy it? and they're like what you're saying to me is a bunch of nonsense. I'm not buying. You cannot sell me today. They have a small group of reforms and but this was the thing never heard of it. People come from Israel, they go for [laughter] I always pictured to myself in my mind you can imagine a guy coming for the first time from Israel. He comes to America. He's 18, 19, 20 after the army. He gets over here. He says, "You know, I want to go to Shabbat." And he's walking around Manhattan and he sees over there. Bet Israel. Okay. Bet Israel. He thinks, you know, is [laughter] a nice place. You see David, he walks in. He sees a de flag of Israel. Here's the outside. You know the place. He walks in. He thinks he's coming for Shabbat service. He put He walks in. He's sitting down. All of a sudden they see the come up with Shabbat with the thing into the loudspeaker. Shalom. Hello everybody. Welcome to the Shabbat sermon. What a sermon [laughter] sermon. This week's Torah portion. You know where did I find myself? Can I imagine how he feels at that moment? Why? Cuz in his life he never such a thing in his life. What is this? Either way he tell me or he tell me is nonsense. How do we get to a point now we have Jews in the world who think that's okay? You know, I live in a sort of neighborhood. I'm not going to mention now in the video, but long story. I live in a certain neighborhood and in my neighborhood next to where I live, there is a conservative sh. Now ink, I always tell the story cuz it's a real story. And so I sleep outside. I go outside of my house. I sleep on a good one year. I'm sitting down on the holiday. Yeah. Not on the holiday. first or second night, probably the first night of Sukkot on the holiday, I'm sitting down in my suka. I'm getting ready to unwind, go to bed, and all of a sudden next door or nearby where they have the suka of the conservatives. Now, how does conservative look like? Four sticks and a garbage bag around. Yeah, they flying in the wind. They have some random tarp. They bought from Home Depot and they attach it to some sticks and they go in there with some decorations that the kid drew up in school. No problem. They go in there. Now, you think, okay, they're sitting down. They're eating. They have a dinner and they invite everybody. Everybody comes. Now, at the end of the meal, they do. Now, you guys ever went to to Jewish school? You went to Shiva. There's different types of ways of katamazon. But one of the ways you do is now I never this in my whole entire life. I want I never this my whole entire life. The I want to call him the rabbi. Okay. But he wasn't a rabbi. and the Abanit and she was an Abanit over there are doing a duet a duet on the loudspeaker. [laughter] They have a loudspeaker set up and with a microphone and and now the rabbi Yeah. which is not a rabbi again is coming over there and then she takes the microphone and back forth back forth. [laughter] How they get over there? Huh? How do they get over there? The aunt has a sukot is sitting in a garbage bag covered suka. It's not even a kosher suka with three sticks around with a microphone passing back and forth between the rabbi and the habanito over there. How? And it all starts with one orthodox guy fully from fully religious who comes home one day and says, "I'm 100% a Jew. I keep everything but there's one thing that I don't do. There's one thing everything else I do but this one thing it's not comfortable for me. I don't like it. So I'm not going to do it. So what he learns, he goes Shabbat. He's this. He's that. But there's one thing in his household he doesn't do. Guess what? His kids get up and they get raised. And what do they see? We're from we're religious, right? We're Orthodox. But daddy has this one thing he doesn't do. And when I ask daddy, why don't you do this thing? He tells me, look, everyone has their own level. Yeah. I love what they say. Everyone has their own level. I do what's comfortable for me. So guess what? Your kid's going to do what's comfortable for him. And what's comfortable for you is not what's comfortable for him. So when you do one thing less, your kid is going to do four things less. And so on and so forth, it continues until eventually it goes from orthodox to some new creation in the world. It only happened a few years ago. something they called modern orthodox and then it goes to conservative and then conservative to reform and then eventually you become uh you know convert to Christianity how because one thing in your house says you want to know how idol worship started in the world because one person made a mistake he passed it down to his child and so on and so forth one person decided to make a mistake everything you do your children will learn after you and they will amplify times 100 and give it back to You know my rabbi they one time asked him his father was a working guy. They asked him how was his how did your father merit to have sons. So every one of them is a rabbi one bigger than the other. One is in Tel Aviv. One is one is another one of a rabbi of a city. One is how is it possible that a guy who was a regular working guy has four kids or every single one of them rabbis. How is it possible? Explain to me. And you know what he says? We saw how much our father valued. Tell me how much he pre how much he made precious how much he loved, how much he cared for rabbis. He would kiss their hands. How much he valued them. And therefore the child every child in the world sees the father. What does he want to do? He wants to make his father happy. Look how much Aba loves to. So guess what? I'm going to be that. Okay. His father was a big rabbi. Of course, what was he? He owned the grocery stores. They went said, "How is it possible had a son that wasn't an angel?" The way he would dance in he would dance with such a love and that that fire [snorts] was instilled in his son. He sees, "Wow, look how much Aba loves the Torah. Look how much Abba cares." Whatever you're going to do, your children are going to take it and they're going to magnify it. And therefore when you take one small incorrect thing in your house when you take one thing into your house and you say look it's one thing to be growing and to be on a level but it's another thing to make it a that means look I'm struggling I'm growing another thing is this is my it's this is my opinion and I made it allowed for myself no I'm I'm growing I'll get there but when you allow yourself to come into the situation and come into the chapter and say to yourself this one thing is right and it's okay because I'm not comfortable with it and everyone has their own levels is basically you're saying the Torah is changeable. TW is flexible and I can do with it to whatever I want according to my will and whenever you do that that's what creates this flow until it goes downward and downward and then even further a person is a person who god forbid takes a friend of his and takes him to the wrong places it's worse than killing him a guy who calls his friend and tells him let's go to the party they're having drinks tonight at the place and there's going to bean. Okay. He calls his friend, tells him, "We're going out. You have to come." Oh, there's tables and there's what's worse taking inviting him to the party or putting a gun to his head and shooting him. A little bit extreme is worse than inviting him to the party. Why? What happened? You know why? Because when you invite a person to a party, when you invite a place who shouldn't be can, what happens? You're not only affecting him, you're affecting his children, his children's children, his whole generations after him. If you kill him, nobody's affected, his kids are going to have a hard time, but he didn't change their life. But if you take a person and you change his life and his trajectory completely, you affected him and it took him forever. But on the other side of the coin, also true. If a person is he brings his friend closer, it's even greater than he fed him food when he was starving. What does that mean? If a person right now had no food to eat, he was on the brink of death and you fed him food. It's not as great as if you invite him to come to If you invite your friend to come to he comes to he gets one time he gets you know what's going to be with him he's going to come religious his family come religious his children become religious you know whose bank account that's sitting in in yours cuz you called him on one Tuesday night and one Monday night and one whatever night you say what are you doing tonight come to the class what are you doing tonight why don't you come people ask me all the time when you come to give a class. I give classes Queens, Manhattan, Flatbush, this that what makes the difference between a class where you can get 100 people, 200 people, 50 people, 80 people. It's a class where it's a little bit less people. How's it? What's the difference? Something called boots on the ground. What's boots on the ground is when you have people who come to the class who take it upon themselves to bring people. They walk in the streets. They go to the pizzeria. They go to other shoes. They go here. They go there. They see friends in wherever they going at the barber shop. But wherever they go, they see somebody who doesn't come to the class, who's not as strong as they are, and they tell them, "Where are you Monday night? Where are you Tuesday night?" And they push and they bring and they call and they text, "You have to come. You have to come. You have to come." And guess what? You invited 10 friends to come. One of them came. One of them stuck. One of them enjoyed the class. One of them became a consistent comer until eventually it changed their life. Guess what? Whose bank account does that sit in? Them and their children forever sits in your bank account. You're going to get to shim. You're going to see mentions and mentions on mentions and manions physically. Okay. In the spiritual world. Yeah. And you're going to say where did this come from? That one text message that you did tell the guy come to class on Tuesday night. That's it. Yeah. Cuz look what happened to him. He became religious. He married a religious girl. And now they have religious children. his children became a rabbi. Their children became this and they're helping people. You know, I know people growing up that from one text message took people who were on the streets, whatever you can imagine, earrings, gel, muscles, took them and brought them to came to that person became a rabbi today. He goes out and he's helping people. You know who's been accounted that sitting in that one guy who texted him on a Wednesday when he was 16 years old and told him hey why don't you come to the sh on Wednesday night why don't you come to the sh on Wednesday night you know what you have in your hands you have an immense ability to be to to jump off the you can never imagine the same way you could be what's the person if a person god forbid in his lifetime when he was younger used to bring people to the wrong places how can heap forgive me Hashem forgive me says I forgive you but you have to do some type of what do you have to do the complete opposite take all your friends make a for them take all your friends invite them to the class take all your friends if they don't want to come to class make a in your house you know what that means you have to when you go out to war you have to know how to come around the roundabout way my my my my brother is dating an Andrew's I need help. If I'm going to invite him to the is not going to come. So what should I do? I tell him, look, you have an event coming up. He says, "Yeah, I have my daughter's birthday's coming up." Great. Would I ever go to your daughter's birthday? Probably not because I'm busy. I You know what you're going to do? You're going to invite him to your daughter's birthday and I'm going to show up randomly. It's your brother. Nice to meet you. You work out. Next thing that guy's talking to me. Next thing you know, he lo his girlfriend. Why comes religious? Why? If I come to it's not going to work. But if I do, if I come, I try. Okay, you know what? I'm trying to find things. You don't want to come, I'll bring it to you. You don't want to come, I'll do it in my house. Whatever I have to do, come over. You say you have a neighbor who's not religious. Harass him until he comes. Harass him. You know, one Shabbat table could do. You know what I can one one time inviting Shabbat could do? You know how people come to mass for Shabbat? One Shabbat. One Shabbat. Save their marriage. People come to my house. One Shabbat on the brink of divorce. One Shabbat about my house. Not because I'm special. Because they saw a Shabbat. They saw what a Shabbat is. They saw what it looks like. They see what the children look like. And guess what? They yearn for it. They want it. Everybody knows a famous story. There was a certain religious guy was driving in the street. You know if you think over here there's traffic on Friday of Shabbat. Can you imagine how much traffic there is inh [laughter] you know what the area of Shabbat looks like in stand still traffic in Israel they're not like over here over here they huh better to walk now what happens in Israel they're not like over here over here maybe they get one or two hunks in Israel they hung the whole time [screaming] until you move actually [laughter] don't take offense you know the car they'll hug you love you but move your car you I love you but your car mean that's how it is comes when Shabbat is driving and that's how it works one Thursday and I also traffic also bad on Thursday on Thursday there was a guy going driving in his car with his two children in the car in front of him a taxi driver and there was a red light okay the light turned green now what happens when the light turned green and the guy in front of you doesn't go what do you do give him Nice little tick. Shut up. Give it up the phone. [laughter] I know you're waiting. We're all waiting. Let's go. He gives him a little tick and he goes like this with his hand to show him the light turn green. The taxi driver. Guy sees him doing like this after the honk. He thinks he's telling him in an angry way. Guy puts the car in park. Comes out with his cuckoo. Huh? Comes out with the cuckoo. Sees the guys. What you honking at me? Comes to the car, opens the door, pulls this guy out and starts beating him up AND THE CAR bun until he's the guy sitting over there. Boom. Boom. His kids are in the car. He's getting beat up. People come jumping out. They break them up. You crazy. You know, anger when it gets over you. So they hold the guy down and tell the guy, "Look, we're going to bring the police. You want to press charges? He says, "Look, I don't want to press charges, but on one condition, you come to my house for Shabbat." The guy with the cuckoo, guy sitting over there with blood coming down his eye, black and blue, cool beat up. I mean, he comes over there beat up over there bleeding. Guy tells the guy, "I'm not going to press charges against you. If you come to my house for Shabbat, the guy thinking to himself in his head, I'm not one of those guys. I just beat you up in the middle of the street in front of your children. now you want me to come to Shabbat let's say you want me to press charges or no the guy says look I don't want charges I don't want to go to jail whatever you say they exchange numbers the next day he calls him he says look I'm very sorry but happened yesterday I know maybe I hope you're not serious about all thing [laughter] he comes after it's okay. Forgive me. The guy tells him, "No, no, forgive me if you don't come to my house for Shabbat. I'm not going to forgive you. I'm pressing charges." Guy says, "No, do me a favor. I'm I'm begging you. I It's not for me. I have to keep Shabbat. It's not a thing. Listen to me." Shabbat. I says, "Okay, I want to come." Calls him an hour later. Look, I'm coming now. I left my wife in my home. My wife and my kids at home. No, if you want me to forgive you, you got to come with your wife and with your kids. Because no, you're pushing your luck. No, you have to come. Okay, what am I going to do? Go to the wife, honey. Listen, it's either I'm going to jail or we're going for Shabbat. She goes, go to jail. [laughter] Go to jail. No, no, please, honey. Come on. We have to go. This bad. He convinces her. She decides she's going to go for Shabbat. You can imagine how you get over there now. that comes with his cuckoo. I mean, comes knocking on the door and I just beat the guy yesterday in the middle of the street. Guy opens the door, black and blue. I [laughter] mean, he just bandaged up from yesterday's uh altercation. He opens the door. The guy's feeling so, you know, strange. You know, you're going to this guy's house yesterday. I beat you up. [laughter] He walks into the house. He come to the house like, "Okay, get ready. We're going to sh What's that? That wasn't part of the agreement. We're going to press charges." I don't know. Okay. Okay. I'm going to come to come to my yard. They sing. They come back. They sing. Amen. They sit down together. And the father, how was your school? What you doing this week in the par? And then they sing why why sitting down. They go to sleep that night. Comes the morning. He tells him 8:00 in the morning. He hears someone knocking at the door. Who is it? He doesn't go to I came last night. No, you have to come to He goes to he sits down singing songs singing. A few shots of whiskey. They come back sit down come out good energy. They're sitting on the table and they start talking to him and the guy and his wife start bursting out in tears. Says, "What happened? Why are you crying? Why you crying?" He says, "Very simple. Me and my wife last night, we had such a good time over here with you guys that we decided last night that we also went like this in our house Friday night, you know, it looks like our kids are stuck to their iPads and their phones. I'm on my phone. We have no time together. Our house is chaos. We come over here. Wow, what a beautiful energy in this house. We decided last night that we're keeping Shabbat. Moving forward, we're going to start keeping Shabbat. This family from this one Shabbat not only ended keeping Shabbat ended up being completely them and the children forever. Why? Because one guy got beat up. Real story. Look it up. Guy got beat up after told him come to my house. Come to my house. A person who's a person who has an opportunity to help another person and he goes out of his way to do it that is sitting in his bank account forever and ever and more so than that more so than that you have the ability to do ultimate we have to understand who was we spoke about it last week but I'll just explain further again the tells us there are three attributes that every single Jew in the world has what are they What is that? Bim is bashful. Is merciful is they do charity. Those are three attributes every single Jew in the world has. If a Jew doesn't have one of these attributes, he is not a Jew. There's a story about we learned if a person like the for example, they didn't come out to greet us. They're not accepted a few generations later. Why? because they don't have one of the attributes which is the three different things that every single Jew required to have. What is that? A person who could be what does mean? He cares about other people. He cares about other people. If you don't care about other people, you don't have one of the attributes what is to be a Jew. That's how deep it goes. that all these three attributes are only three attributes that we got from our but even more than them every attribute that we see by every attribute that we see is not just attributes they're attributes that are passed down to us that's why say she brings over there that a righteous person calls to Hashem is so Hashem is so meticulous with them on every little detail. You want to know why? Especially with every little detail says you know why the Jewish people went down to Egypt for 400 years because one time one time Abrau had a a little bit of a lack of doubt he took a medim he took the medim out from the midash he didn't take the people from the war he he asked Hashem how will I know he had one moment of just a tad bit a drop of disbelief and Hashem said your children have to go down to a land that's not their own for 400 years. Says from the birth of with us they didn't make it 400 years only 210 400 years 210 years backuality we had to go down to Egypt in order to clean one blemish to clean one blemish in our character trait. What was that? a lack of belief was you know why he was you know why he was so meticulous with because every attribute they had every mistake they made every right they did was passed down to us everything and therefore when you read the Torah you learn about you learn about you learn about not just stories you learn the power that you have inside of When you learn doing something crazy, immense, you know what it is to to be 99 years old and do 99 years old. Now our sages teach us what's the most painful day to the third day. Third day of the is the most painful. Now I never met a baby at 11 11 days old that could talk. But I do know one person who did it with me 15 and he told me 100% the most painful day was the third day. Third day is the most painful and that's 15 years old. Can you imagine 99 years old? 99 years old. Where is he standing on the third day? Hashem comes to visit him. Says that came to visit him. From there we learn the third day. On the third day comes to visit him. He's talking to Hashem. Hashem is talking to him and he's with the pain and he's standing. You know what that means? He's standing at the opening of the tent. You know what he's waiting for? Guests. Says to you know what hurt more than his. You know what hurt him more than the fact they didn't have any guests. He tells his servant, "Do me a favor. Go out and go find guests." He comes back and says, "Look, there was nobody there. Tawas says the day was so hot teach us. You know why the day was so hot? Hashem didn't want to have guest. He made the day so hot that nobody would come. But he saw how much pain Abraham had. He didn't have guest. He made three guests appear. Okay. Three guests appear. How do we know? When the servant comes back comes back, he tells them, "You didn't look hard enough. I'm going out." goes out and the bandages from his wound open up until his mat until blood comes out from him. He went out into the heat to go find guest until Hashem said I have no choice. I have to send him three people. Who did he send? Three doesn't know that they're he thinks that they are huh Arabs. But at those times which is 13 years old meaning long story short three people he considered to be Arabs says says tells them to wash their feet why because they used to be with their feet even today you walk by a mask okay you could smell their feet from the outside cuz they all leave their shoes outside till today they don't wear their shoes inside okay can go bring over there some lysol spray >> [laughter] >> outside. Long story short, they go out their feet. Thought they were going thought there were nonjews. I thought there was three random people along the way and I actually talked to them. My masters, please come inside. My masters. He leaves the he leaves in the middle of talking to him to go greet three. And he runs and he puts them under the shade and he gives them water and he runs to get them the tongue and he runs this and he finds everyone knows the story teach us for every action he did to them for the shade for the water for the food everything he did Hashem gave his children 40 years in the 100fold you gave these three random people say sh I'm going to give your children of the clouds of glory they're going to go with them 40 years in the desert it's going to save them you gave them food I'm going to give them. You gave them water. I'm going to give them every one small act you do for other person, Hashem is going to multiply it 100fold and give it back to you. Explain was you know what that means? He was proud of himself. 13 years old did me. Who sacrifices bigger? Mine or who sacrifices bigger? Did it when he was 8 years 8 days old? He hasn't any doesn't have anything. I'm 13. I mean, I did a over here. 13 years old with felt good about himself until one day they got into an argument. Tell him you have pride. You're proud of yourself that you were m you sacrificed one limb in your body. One limb when you're 13. When I was 37 years old, my father told me, okay, when I asked him where's the ish told me, Hashem will show his will show exactly what he needs. Beni said when he said the words who was going to be the he was right after they went together. What does it mean they went together? But the same heart, the same was willing to be was being willing to give up his whole entire body for Hashem. He told me, "You're proud of one limb." I was willing to give up my whole entire life. When my son, if my father wanted to sacrifice me, I told him, "Tie me tight so I don't move." I was willing to sacrifice my whole entire life. How did he die? They had a decree in the times, the Romans, they had a decree. They're not to learn to publicly went out to the road into the streets and started learning Torah publicly. I think one of the biggest from this game starts learning Torah in the streets. They come and ask him, "Rabbi, you're not afraid. They're going to kill you." He said, "I'm going to tell you a mash." You know what the mash is? There was fish in the water that they were afraid from the nest, the the nets that they were throwing out. They didn't want to be caught. So, they started running away. The fox that was standing on the shore, he told them, "Come, come. You afraid? Come over here to the dry land. They won't catch you. Come over here to the dry land. They won't be able to reach you." The fish tells him, "Are you crazy over here? I'm not sure if they're going to kill me. Out there for sure I'm going to die." Aa says, "You want me to leave the Torah over here? I'm not sure if they're going to kill me, but if I leave A TORAH, FOR SURE I'M GOING TO DIE." You heard the words said, "I want to repeat it again. If I learn Torah over here, maybe they will kill me. But if I leave the Torah, for sure I'm going to die. What do you mean, Rabbi? You're going to be alive. What's life? I told you these guys a year and a little over a year ago. We're standing over here for the site for their commemorates. It was 12 years at that time. Yeah. Now I was 13. Said when I I've come over there at the end of his lifetime. When I told him he's no longer to sit up properly, he came to his son. He said to him, "Is it true what they're saying that I won't be able to sit up?" Said, "Yes, but it's true." Says, "How am I going to learn Torah?" With bitterness in his eyes, I'm sorry. It won't it's not going to be possible. He says, "If I don't have Torah, what's it where to live? cried with bitter tears in a thing he said if I don't have Torah and a short while short while after understood understood something every single one of us need to understand says it's rather rather than kill me than to be to be without my water without my Torah it's nothing what happens a few days later they catch him they put him in prison and they take him onto the streets And they start torturing him. How they torture him? They took hot combs and they were pulling it against his skin. And what was doing in those moments? Says again students ask why you saying now because my whole entire life I had a question. What was the question? What's okay? I know. Okay. With all my heart, I understood. All my soul, what does that mean? All my money, I understood. But with all my soul, what does that mean? Until this moment, I didn't understand. I prayed my whole entire life to know. And now I understood because of God forbid to take your life, you have to. And when he finished saying left his body, you're proud that you were one one limb. You know what a Jew is? Not only he's willing to be his whole entire body, he's even willing to be in sh. He's even willing to his his soul everything from inside of him. When a person lives his life, he understands that all the stories even in the Torah, not just stories, they're telling you the power you have inside of you. When you learn about to stand to withstand the hardest test in the world to take your son to bring him in the Quran, just learn that you have that self-sacrifice in you as well. Everything they had, you also have it. And when you learn about the that he did to take three, they thought they weren't angels. He didn't know they were angels and to do ultimate with them. How did he do with them? I'm going to tell you guys a story to illustrate exactly how did with them. There was a guy one time he rented a car. Good. Shabbat he had 5 hours until get to destination. He said, "I'll rent the car and I'll drive with my son." He packs his baggage, starts driving. An hour and a half into the drive, 2 hours into the drive, the car breaks down. Good. Transmission is blown. He calls the company says, "Guys, what kind of car you give me over here? This is a rental company or this is a car dealership. What did you guys wipe the clear the head check engine light? [laughter] What happened over here? You guys left me in the middle of the street. I have 4 hours to get to my destination. Sir, we know the problem. We're going to send you a car. 1 hour passes. No car. He calls him 3 hours now. Guy, what's going on? I'm waiting for the car. It's already been 1 hour. No, no, sir. We had a delay. They're coming right now. Another hour passes. He calls them and announced 2 hours. Where are you? I'm waiting for the car. Oh, sorry. We couldn't find one. We had a a problem over here. We're going to send it now. Now he's 1 hour before Shabbat. He calls him. He says to them, "Guys, where's the car?" Said, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's coming." At this point, he realizes there's no way he's getting to the destination with 1 hour left. He hangs up the phone. He takes the bags of the car. He starts walking. He says, "I have to find some some Jew over here." It's walking in the street until he finally finds some Jew walking with Kipai. Tell him, "Sir," he says, "I'm walking with a towel can and the flip flops to the mikvet. You do you do where he's going with the tower in the mikb? He knows he's going. He tells him you tell him where are you? Can I count you for Shabbat being my son? The guy tells him no problem. You invited him for Shabbat, but I want condition. What's the condition? I charge. How much you charge? $1,000 a person. $1,000 a person. That's expensive. It's a fivestar hotel. We're talking big money. I told you,000, but what am I going to do? I have 30 minutes of Shabbat. The guy says, "Okay, no problem. After Shabbat, I'm going to pay you." No problem. He comes to his house. Now, what happens when you're paying $1,000 for Shabbat? Uhhuh. You're paying for Shabbat, huh? He come in, he walks in. He walks into the househ. He pulls out the w the liquor. He says, "No, no, no. I want the top shelf." He's sitting over there. He goes to bed that night. The bed is not so comfortable. It doesn't maybe this bed is not so, you know, maybe let me get your bed. You'll switch. The guy switches it in bed. Take his bed. My mind's wakes up in the morning with the robe cafe. He wants his coffee. The whole Sabbat said, "I spending $1,000 a person, you know, to get my money. [laughter] I need to get my money's he wants a big piece and so on and so forth." End of Shabbat. He comes out with his bag with his son. Shabbat. The guy walks out, tells the guy, "Listen, thank you so much. Here's $2,000. It was a beautiful Shabbat. He wants to go out." The guy tells him, "No, I don't want your money." What do you mean want my money? He told me $1,000 for Shabbat. He says, "Yes, because I wanted you to come to my house on Shabbat. And I wanted you to enjoy as if you were paying. I knew that if you wouldn't pay me, you would be embarrassed and you would tiptoe the whole Shabbat and you wouldn't do anything. I knew if I told you $1,000, you were going to enjoy Shabbat at the full." And that's exactly what I wanted. So, no money. Thank you for coming. It was a beautiful Shabbat. Aino tells them, "Please, please, my masters, don't go. Come sit down. Come eat." Who's doing a favor? I come to your house to eat. Who's doing you a f? You doing you a favor? I know you don't want to be here. Go outside. Go. Who's you come to my house? I'm doing you a favor. Tells him, "Please, I'm begging you. Come on." How much you love? How much you love? You have to learn from to be a person of is to look out in the world and I say how can I help other people? How can I get them closer? How can I take a friend and bring him to get him inspired and change his life? How can I help every single person around me? How can I make the changes in myself to inspire others? What can I do to change the world today? What could I do to help one person get closer? Because helping one person get closer is better than feeding the whole entire world. Helping one person get closer is better than feeding the whole entire world. How do I know? Says any if I don't have to I don't have life. So when you you bring a person closer to Torah, you give him life. So every single one of us should strengthen in these days to bring another person closer to do every we can I'm going to tell you guys it's time to finish with this. I got a phone call today from one of my students in Florida. He runs he runs a class over there every Wednesday night. He calls me tells me, "Rabbi, you have to come." Now when I go to Florida, I'm not there for long periods of time. People here in Florida, they get excited. I fly in, I land at 7:00. I go to give a shu. I wake up in the morning. I pray nets and I'm back to the airport. They give two other shi over here. I literally fly to give the shu and come back. They don't pay me. I go m he call says rabbi you have to come. We're doing a big event. There's going to be people there. They want you to come this this that tells me rabbi tells me to mo how you going to see what you're leaving your family. You're moving shim around. You're doing two on Tuesday, two on Thursday. Are you you're going to you know how you doing it? I tell him because there's somebody else in the world who needs my help. So I'll pick myself up. I'll leave. I'll fly. I'll do this. I'll do that. Whatever needs to be done to help another person, one person across the world. Who cares? Because our job, every single one of us intertwined, we to do everything we can to help everybody we can. And if every one of us get together to help each other, then we build the world together. Brick by brick. We bring the