Who's a Charedi? | STUMP THE RABBI (284)

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Now when a uh person got from Shalom, he told the Ra that uh listen I want to take on the mitzvot but you know I don't want to be you know with the keepa the the hat and the uh you know the black and fight and said to him, "What do you think?" Abrau was a was not khaled. He was Au. He was our father. What does that mean? What does that mean that he wasn't? He was our father. There's a couple of places in the entire Tanakh that the word actually appears only two places one in Sephra and the other time in Seph Isaiah. In Sephra says in chapter 10 verse number three. So now let us seal a covenant with our God to send away all the women and those born from them. This is talking about leaving the goyote that they uh married according to the council of the Lord and those who hasten at the commandment of God. Let it be done according to the Torah. So here we see that the word means someone that's that he is hastening he is zealous for the word of hem. Deni Isaiah said the same thing just in different words. In chapter 66 verse number five, the Nav says to Listen to the word of Hashem. You who are zealous regarding his word, your brethren who hate you and shun you. say Hashem is glorified because of my reputation but we will see your gladness while they will be shamed. So here we see out of the entire Tanakh the wordim appears twice and both times it means the same exact thing. those that are zealous for the word of Hashem. Today doesn't mean that much. Khedi has become the media joke of the day especially in Israel but in recent years also in America especially by all the anti-semmites who look for ways to justify their hatred of the Jews they say it's Zionist but in reality a subsonate we have that taught us hates Jacob. It doesn't matter if is a or he's a something else, As will hate him. It's just really a matter of time before Hashem turns on the button for to hate. So, how come pretends like he doesn't hate him sometimes? simple puts if you know a uh the analogy would be it's as if Hashem is covering their eyes as if Hashem is covering their eyes with his hand. He doesn't have a hand obviously. And when Hashem wants to turn on the anti-semitic button because that's one of the ways that a kadosh who runs the world there's a staff and there's a stick as says the staff you lead me the stick you hit me. Why? Sometimes you need someone to lead you to tell you to come to the come in and Lauder Hill. It's a new place every every week. That's the staff. The stick is guy says, "Nah, you know what? I want to go watch basketball. I want to go uh hang out. I want to go to uh the block party." And then on the way to the block party, he totals his car. That's the stick. That's the stick. That's a says and he should have gone to the He's alive though. Don't worry. Especially since he's only imaginary. But the point is is that runs the world this way. There's a staff and there's a stick. And the stick, the most common stick that uses from generation to generation is this fulfillment of this of Jacob. Hashem fulfills the entire Torah. He fulfills it. How? He turns on the bun for to hate us. Before they murdered us in the streets in in uh in Germany, we were running their government. We were running their banks. We were the top doctors. We were the top scientists. We were top business people. They liked us. We made them a lot of money. And then they killed us. Why? They were all along. When the said this that one of the people said, "No, I think is referring to all of the other nations but not the Germans because they were well known that they have the best manners. Look how they even talk to people where every time they complete a sentence, they complete it with a question of what do you think?" Like whatever it is that they say. Listen, I think we need to go to uh, you know, buy something from the store, but what do you think? Oh, I think we need to build a house, but what do you think? Such great manners. They care about what we think. And look how they treat their dogs. Said that said, you see how they treat those dogs, you will also see how they'll feed you to those dogs and they'll act worse, more vicious to you than they will to the dogs. And that's exactly what happened some years later. But before that they liked us. Spanish Inquisition identical that Babanel was the secretary of treasury. He made Spain the richest country in the world. So much so that the king even though he decreed to kick out all the Jews he told listen you stay and if you need 10 more Jews to stay with you so you can pray with them every day he even know about his min we'll allow 10 families to stay just so you can stay obviously did not stay he went and became the treasurer of Portugal made them very wealthy But before they kicked us out, before they tortured all of the people, the Jews that stayed behind in Spain in the most horrific possible ways known to man, anyone that read a little bit about the Spanish Inquisition and what they did to us, those that stayed behind either to protect their money or because they thought they could change something or a combination of both. Anyone that was caught being Jewish got tortured in ways that even in your nightmares, you won't get there. But before that they were treasurers, governors, mayors, doctors, lawyers, leaders, entrepreneurs, friends with the kingdom. In England in the 1100s, the Jews were very very successful in business. Unfortunately, one of the top business they had industry they had un you know just like all of the other examples I just gave and all the other examples I'm not going to give that right before them you know there's a holocaust or right after them there's a holocaust is that the top business was lending money to the goim with high interest but they had a good relationship with the mayor non-Jewish mayor In the year 11:30, some 900 years ago, the mayor went on vacation. That's what happens. Go on vacation. Soon as he went on vacation, the entire Asav community came to attack the Jews. The Jews ran into a building, locked themselves in. Asaf burnt the entire building with all the entire community inside. What happened? Yesterday you were borrowing money from us. Yesterday we were doing business together. Yesterday our kids were playing together. What happened? If he doesn't hate you now, it's not because he doesn't hate you. Doing your and covering his eyes. Now of course there are some exceptions that says the sages asked to hashem how come you brought to the world if you know he's going to torment your son Jacob so much and all of the descendants and responds if I didn't bring wouldn't have come to the world it was worth it to create We don't understand such logic. We're not anything. But that's the reality. A lot of things also come from as that are good. So came from Asavaka came from his father was a convert. Uh you you have Balines. You have you have many converts that we spoke about in in past. Now with all of the hatred that you see against the Jews, no matter what they do, no matter what they do, somebody looks for a reason to hate them. In Israel, it's worse than America when it comes to hating the topic on national television and news and newspapers every single day without exception. If there's no fight, there's no hatred for the there's no news. They beat him up in the middle of the streets. They uh when when one of the uh Arab bus drivers ran over a young kid, nobody even didn't even get fined. He didn't even get fire. He didn't not only didn't get arrested, he didn't even get fined. He didn't get fired. Nothing. Killed the kid. No, he was in his way. But you saw he intentionally ran him over. So the perception the public perception of on one hand they're the public perception of Jews to the non-Jews. Meaning anytime the non-Jews think of any type of caricature or any type of picture to mock the Jews, they take a looking Jew, a religious Jew, and they make something like that. Even though the people that they have problems with are more atheist than like the George Shores of the world and the Hollywood uh superstars that are atheists and hate God. But nonetheless, every time they try to uh go and and uh say hatred, usually they pick some either one they made up and invent or they find the bad actors within. meaning they find that does something stupid, that does something evil, that does something bad, and they highlight it to the whole world as if all of the Gentiles, they're all righteous. They don't steal, they don't rape, they don't they're not pedophiles, they're not anything. They don't they're completely righteous like in their communities. There's no alcoholics, there's no drug dealers, there's no nothing. Everything is perfect apparently. But if the Jew slips on a banana the wrong way, that's it. That means all the Jews are like that. In the Jewish world that hates the Torah, they don't go and make fun of just any Jew. They only make fun of him if he's so much so that they celebrate right now in the last 24 hours. They're celebrating that they had an election and the Arab political party. Yes. Again, for anyone who doesn't understand, yes, Israel government has Arab terrorists as part of the government. They're not just like I'm not saying they're Arabs and I'm calling them terrorists because I don't like Arabs. I have students that are Arabs. I have no problem with Arabs. >> I have a problem with people that are pro kamas. They actually say they're pro kamas. They actually say after they got they won 17 or 18 seats, which is doubling the amount that they had before, they're saying we're going to turn Israel to Palestine. They're inside the Israeli government. Again, this is not like a different country's political party. This is the Israeli political party saying, "We're going to turn Israel into Palestine. And guess what? The lefty liberals, anti- Torah people, they're celebrating that the Arab terrorists won. Just don't be meaning they rather have October 7th win than another yeshiva open. So now this is not a new thing. This is something that's been going on for years, especially since the founding of modern state of Israel, which hashem, the land itself has more Torah in it than any other place on planet earth. It's a beautiful place, has a lot of good people in it, but unfortunately has the most wicked government in the history of mankind. They make the Romans look like righteous people. the things they did to the Jewish people that keep are in competition with what the Nazis did to us. And I'm not exaggerating. Anyone that watched my series about the uh uh the count that uh wrote, anyone that watched some of my past lectures in regards to the subject knows that what the Zionists did to the Jewish people is in competition with what the Nazis did to us. tested on them, sold them, killed them, poisoned them, all types of horrible things. Most of the public, unfortunately, today, especially young people, have no clue about this because we live in a very in a in a generation where there is more information available to people at their fingertip than any other time in history while simultaneously the most ignorant generation in the history of mankind. In so many words, there's more books than anyone could ever read and there's fewer people that want to read than any other time in history. They rather read text messages from each other about what's up, lol, how are you, BRB. You know, people have reinvented language. So now in Israel, you have a situation where the hatred for the is at an all-time high. Thank you, While at the same time within our own religious communities, we're also having problems that are actually magnifying things and making them worse. Why? Because on one hand you have the media both Jewish and non-Jewish constantly telling people highlighting the bad actors and number two the people that are in the religious people me you we can't necessarily disagree with everything that they say. Why? There are some bad actors. It's not as many as they say. It's not as bad as they say. But yeah, the guy the fact that the guy just did a Ponzi scheme and robbed all of his clients and including his uh his family. Yeah, that's true. And yeah, this guy is a nursing home business and he really doesn't take care of his patients and he's stealing from the government. Yeah, that's true. And and this one this and this one. Yeah, there is bad actors. Obviously, there's a whole lot more that are not Jewish that are not being highlighted. But the point is is that within our own communities, we're having a dilemma. What does it mean to be? Many people that grew up religious are now considering themselves more modern. Not necessarily because they're going to start driving on Shabbat. They're going to keep Shabbat, but they feel like I don't want to be that. I don't want to be that. I don't want to be in that category anymore. Why? Apparently, they saw enough, heard enough, experienced enough that they don't want that. But since this has been happening for a long time, the ignorance is everywhere to the point where there are many Jews that are already born into a clueless generation of what does it even mean to be? What does it even mean to be religious? What does it mean to connect to Hashem? One Rav told my dear Rav, Rabbi Fraim, a story just the other day. said that he went to the hospital to visit someone and he saw that the uh next to him there was another Jew or a guy that didn't look relent to it and you know he was sitting there and then he got a cup of water and he did a ba the rabbi did a ba and the guy said amen like with a lot of you know like the the you know the you know there's there's the and there's the two different amens amen is an acronym that means God is king he's whatever he says he's going to do but if you're about cha your amen is completely different when you start doing chuva the whole world has to hear your amen you just drank a LITTLE BIT OF I MEAN, I WAS JUST SAYING IT LIKE EVERYONE outside in the roads, over the mountains, in the sea, across the ocean, everyone has to hear you're about to drink a little bit of water and hoping that you know that you're only allowed to make a blessing on the water if you're thirsty. Cuz if you're just drinking water just to drink, then can't say unless it has taste and it's water that has some taste like the water they make that has flavoring. But if you're about your amen has to reach the mountains once you become religious for a while no one can hear your amen including you so much so you're like did I just make a blessing a blessing you make a you made a blessing you see the guy wait did you bless before you yeah of course why you didn't hear nobody why because you got so used to it get used to it all of us all of us are guilty of The longer you're religious, the more you become accustomed to doing all the things and it becomes like breathing. It's not good. We have to get better. We have to learn from the baluva, not necessarily to scream, but to say the blessings with kavana. But anyway, in uh this story, the rabbi makes a blessing. The guy next to him says amen with kavana. It's like, oh, okay. So, he's Jewish. He's two seconds later, he sees the same guy making a cross on his chest. You know how the Christians do. No, no, you don't do that. You know, you're Jewish. The uh it's okay. It's not a It's just not for nothing for a Jew to do. Uh so the Christians, they do a cross like it's somehow it's going to bring him back to to to life. But I'm not really sure why you would even worship somebody that couldn't protect himself, but that's a different story for another day. But nonetheless, he does a cross. What is this guy? Jewish. Oh, so he's he's Christian. Then two minutes later, he sees the guy taking uh uh one of those rugs out of his bag, puts it on the floor, and starts bowing like the Arabs. He's like, "Listen, I'm sorry. I have to ask you. What are you? You said amen. You speak Hebrew. You're Israel. You say, "Amen." Then you do the cross. Now you're imamas. Are you Which one are you? You're like, he says, "I don't know what I am. I was born Jewish. My parents are Jewish, but I I don't know what I am." Says, "Why are you doing all this?" He goes, "I'm looking for spirituality. So I'm simply doing everything. Meaning this guy was born into such a ignorant generation. He doesn't even know how to connect to so he's simply just doing anything. He heard that the Christians do the cross. He does the cross. He heard you say amen blessing. So he said he he saw the the Arabs praying in the middle of the street on Fifth Avenue in New York. He does it. This is now this is not 500 years ago. Now it's happening. The ignorance is at a high level. On the other hand, when a guy tells him he's scared to be says was a different type of it wasn't about the garments. It wasn't about black and white which is European anyway. I promise you did not wear a hat in black and white. You can it's perfectly fine. You could uh be even a handsome uh like our own dear of Gabriel but it's not required to be religious means. You are zealous for Hashem's. That's what is supposed to mean. The stereotype that makes religious people look ugly has nothing to do with being khalidi. There is religious people that do ugly things. There are non-religious people that do ugly things. There are Jews that do ugly things. There are non-Jews that do ugly things. You cannot judge Judaism based on the people. You have to judge it based on what the Torah says. If someone follows the Torah, then he's a If someone doesn't, then he's not. You could even be what's called what's avail but he keeps what does that mean? It means listen don't think for a second that you have to wear black and white and you have to grow a beard and everything to behal. No, you could continue dressing normal, be modest, decent. Make yourself think that you're just keep all the you could wear your t-shirt. You could wear your flipflops, you could wear Crocs, you could uh, you know, uh, drive your sports car, Ferrari for a quarter million dollars. Whatever it is you want to do, no problem. JUST MAKE SURE you keep you're not required to look a certain way in order to follow what Hashem says. You're required to be modest. You're required to be honest. You're required to be a decent human being. But as far as dress code, it's not required. If that's what's stopping you, then it's just yet convincing you that Judaism is something completely different. Judaism is completely different. Now, Abrahamu had to overcome a much bigger obstacle than all of us because he was alone. And even though they tried to burn him alive when he was three years old for being everyone wanted to worship idol, everyone wanted to follow Nimrod. And then this three-year-old kid destroys a bunch of statues. It's okay. You are too religious for us. We're going to throw you into the fire. That worked out perfectly well for au because number one, he didn't care. Didn't care. And number two, Hashem saved him. What does it mean he didn't care? He didn't care. They're throwing him. Why? Because the other option was to be like them. And that's not an option for anyone that actually wants a connection to Hashem. The option of being not religious was not of was not possible. What is it like of breast shalom gives a explanation a story. He says there was a guy, he lived in a city where he had a dream one day that this year's wheat is has some chemical in it that's poisonous that's whoever eats it will go crazy. He didn't believe this dream but the next he had the dream again. Whoever eats the wheat will go crazy couple days in a row. Okay. So, you know what? You know, I'm not going to eat it, but let's see what happens to everybody else because no one's going to believe him. And he starts seeing people eat the wheat and people are going crazy. All of a sudden, instead of going down the stairs from the third floor, they're jumping out of the window. All of a sudden, instead of walking on the sidewalk, they're walking in the middle of the road into the cars or horses in those days. So much so, everyone goes crazy except him. Now, of course, everyone that has gone crazy, they look at him, he's normal, right? But what do they think he is? He's crazy. Why are you walking on a sidewalk? Are you crazy? Why are you walking up the stairs? Are you crazy? Everybody thinks he's crazy. So much. So, he starts becoming confused. What should I do? Maybe I should eat. Be like them at least. No, but I don't want to be crazy. I don't want to go down, you know, from the third floor through the window instead of the stairs. I don't want to eat sand instead of eating regular food. You know, these people are crazy. But then he starts thinking, "I'm hungry. I kind of want this." Goes, "Okay, you know what? What I'm going to do? I'll make myself a sign and I'll wear it as a chain." And the sign's going to say, "You are crazy, but you used to be not crazy. You're crazy because you ate from the wheat. At least I'll remember that I used to be not crazy." And says what's so so what what's the point of this says this guy even though he ate in the end and he became like them he was never like them. Why? Because he always had this reminder that yeah even though you want to do what they do. You want to jump into the middle of the street with moving traffic. You want to jump out of the window. You want to do this. You want to do that. He has a reminder that you know what you weren't like this before. You don't have to be like them. He says that's the same concept with a Jew. A Jew grows up in a environment where everyone is crazy. Why? They tell him go against Hashem. Yeah, but Hashem gave me my lungs that I'm breathing through. Yeah, but go against him anyway. Yeah, but Hashem is he's given me the money that I'm going to use to go against him. Yeah, but go against him anyway. Yeah, but he's given me the car that I'm you tell me to drive on Shabbat. Yeah, but go against him anyway. He's the one that gave me the money to buy all these different things. And you're surrounded by a bunch of crazy people. So much so that people start thinking, "Wait, the guy that's religious, that's following Hashem, he's the crazy guy, not everybody else." Why? because they're jealous of everyone else that looks like they're living the life. All the crazy people look like they're living the life. They're having a good time. They're on TV. They're building hotels. They're uh they're on all types of uh uh celebrities. And so it looks like the crazy people that are going against Hashem, it looks like they're winning. Says, "We need the to constantly remind us you're not crazy. And you know what? Even if you fall and you act like the crazy people, at least come to this to remind yourself that you're crazy and you don't have to be. Knew that everybody was crazy. And therefore, not being thrown into the fire was just simply what whatever Hashem wants. Why? either the fire or they're just gonna let me go. If they don't if the other option is to be crazy like them, that's not an option. It's not an option. It's not an option to do that because I know that the rest of history depends on me. What gave Abrainu so much strength to not go with the crazy people? Now, we're not talking about a community. We're talking about the entire world worshiping idols, build a tower to go fight against God. Meaning, they weren't atheists. They believed in God. They just wanted to go to war with him because they figured that he destroys the world once every 1600 years cuz that's when he destroyed the world with Noah. So they figured listen about 300 years passed since Noah this gives us time to build a tower to reach the sky that uh we could fight him before he destroys the world again. So they believed in God. They weren't atheists. I'm surrounded by these people and he chose choose no. No, I'm not going to go with them. I'm not going to go with them. What gave him the strength? And not only that, after they throw him in the fire and Hashem makes a miracle, some people follow Abrau and some people stay. They stay crazy. They stay with they stay with idol worshippers. Meaning not everybody came with them. In fact says that the people that followed eventually fell off the and he took the merits of all of them for 10 generations. He took the merits of all of them. Why? He got them to do chuva. But then they decided to speak against the rabbi that uh get them to do chuva. See you what happened to them? They became part of the crazy people and he got all the merits that they were supposed to get. They lost everything. This continued despite the tests that Ara would get. And what gave Abrahamu so much strength to overcome the crazy people around him is that he knew that he has a responsibility for the next generation because he knew that he is the only one that possesses the em and if it's not for him the em would not exist. These are two different things that every single Jew has to apply to their heart and mind on a daily basis. Why? If you are selfish and you only think about yourself, then nothing is going to stop you from marrying a nonjew. Surely the Satan will send you a pretty one, a rich one. one that he can even cook, one that uh treats you well, at least until she turns into Asav, Satan will send it to you. No problem. He has plenty of them. 8 and a half billion people in the world. So if you don't care about the next generation, why should you marry a Jewish woman? You don't care about the next generation, why should you marry Jewish men? There's no reason to care about yourself. This life, this temporary life, that's all you care about. Nothing is going to keep you in. But if you realize that there has to be a next generation and therefore if you intermar if you are a thief if you are someone who doesn't even learn to you keep Shabbat you keep kosher in the same way that people in Africa wear you know bikinis on a day-to-day basis and they once a year they throw somebody off of a tower because they believe that brings train. They build a big tower and a guy jumps off of the tower, crushes half of his body, most of the time dies. Sometimes just half the body and he's paralyzed for a while. But they believe in their religion that this brings rain. So you keep Shabbat and kosher and basic Jewish laws like going to school, let's say, like them, but you don't learn Tawa. Why? You're too busy for the Torah. So Judaism becomes something superficial. It's just something you do, not necessarily something you live. It doesn't control your decisions on a day-to-day basis. It doesn't get involved in your in your monetary transactions. It doesn't get involved in your marriage. It's not it's just something you do. You look Jewish. You're you wear the black and white. You fit. You even wear a tie. and you make sure to shine your shoes because you know shine if you if you have non-shiny shoes and everything is superficial. A person like that that either does not keep the Torah mitzvot or keeps it in a superficial way is not going to be surprised when the next generation whether it be his kids, grandkids are completely off and disconnected. Shalom lived such a prosperous life where a kadoshu ensured that he lived to see over a thousand grandkids and family members. So much so that they had him as a sandak for the grandson of his grandson. seven generations and one of the people came to it's 100 years old says you know there's this gula that if you sit as sand for the your grandson's grandson seventh generation you won't go to gay you go straight to ganedin says to him I'm not looking for a shortcut I'm working very hard to go through the front door not the back for not looking for a gula that maybe is going to get me in there. No, no. I'm working very hard to serve that I'm going to be let into the front door, not some back alley because I happen to have so many grandkids. Now, if a person looks at Judaism based on what the Torah says, you'll easily be able to find good people, good in the world, even despite the bad that's everywhere, bad people and bad things. If you define Judaism based on people, it'll be almost impossible for you to see good. Why? There's a whole lot more bad than there is good. So if you look at Judaism based on people, there's a lot of people. And the ones that get the most attention are not the ones that are saving lives. They're not the ones that are uh you know that sadiki. Who gets the most attention, the criminals, he's the one that goes on the news. Oh, this guy Cohen just robbed the bank. Oh, this guy uh you know, young just killed somebody. Oh, this guy, that's the one that goes on the news. But the Sadi that saved a life, the Sadik that just uh fed a family of widows and orphans for 20 years out of his own pocket, you never hear about him. So if you define Judaism based on the people, you're not going to find anything good. You're going to be a miserable, miserable Jew. You're going to think either everyone is bad and you're the only remaining of which is delusional way of thinking because you're going to think that everybody's bad because you define it based on people. Or are you going to just say, you know what, they're crazy. Might as well join them. Either way, wrong direction. On the other hand, if you define it based on the Torah, then you're not going to care about the bad that people do. Even if they look if you hear that some rabbi is a pedophile, it's not going to shake your WHY BECAUSE YOU KNOW HE'S WEARING A CUSTOM. HE'S NOT A RABBI. He's a He's not a rabbi. He's a wicked disgusting excuse for a human being. If you hear that somebody religious looking just stole from his customers on merchant cash advance business either through a pre either through a Ponzi scheme or just by simply having customers that turn into victims. Guess what? He could have not just one keeper, big one like mine. He could have a tower of them on his head. He has nothing to do with the Torah. He has nothing to do with Judaism. The only thing that makes him Jewish is the fact that his mother is Jewish. That's it. Why? He's not acting in accordance to the Torah. So when you judge Judaism based on what the Torah says, it's much easier to find the diamonds in a rough. Why? You see this guy when he walks, he looks down, a woman, talked to him, he spoke back to her, but without staring at her. When he does business, he's honest. He has decent manners. He says thank you. He's not like one of these people where he acts as if the whole world is a ghost. That's an example of a Torah. He uses his time to learn Torah. How much time? As much as possible. Whenever I don't need to work in order to make a living. Whenever I don't need to eat in order to survive because I have a human body. Whenever I don't need to go to the bathroom or sleep or be with my family to take care of family needs, I learn Tawa. Guess what? That's Judaism. But if he doesn't do those things and his Judaism is only defined by his exterior and the community he happens to live in, then don't be surprised if you hear things about this person over time that are antithetical to Judaism. As someone that has spent a lot of effort in time exposing wicked people over the years. There was a few times that I highlighted decent people or decent things that are happening in the world, good things that happen in the world. And I want to use an example of the difference between someone who's and someone who looks. There's a guy that I've mentioned several times past couple years that I think this person is a gift. A gift to whoever merits to connect to him and learn from him. His name is Rabbi Elie Stfansky. I don't know him personally. I've never had a conversation with him. But I having somewhat of a similar experience being a former businessman turning to Torah and so on. I know how big the test is for him to leave his business empire. No one but him knows how big the test is. His house was bigger than almost as big as a shopping center. Not this 10,000 location. Talk about the shopping center. He reached huge wealth, huge success and decided to leave all of it to go teach Tawa in Israel in a tiny little apartment that he had since then. He's built a building and so on. He still has money. uh but he uses it now to publicize Torah and he being a Torah learner his whole life his father was a very big Tommy from what he what I've heard him say and very dedicated and so on he has dedicated every ounce of his energy to learn and to teach so much so that gave him where tens of thousands of people have started learning dumi with him all over the world from all backgrounds backgrounds background, safari background, baluva, converts, uh, from from birth, people from all over the world really because he also makes it interesting. And he uses technology in order to explain things in a way that everyone could understand, especially a generation that's comprised of people that are confused about what really is. and hashem he's done amazing things and he's doing it every day and he's very dedicated but of course the satan has to interfere the more you succeed the more the satan says listen I got to ruin this you're getting tens of thousands of people to learn every day all over the all over the world online live they now have these cartoons where they take sugot complicated sugot from the and they make a cartoon to explain it and it's a funny cartoon too. So it'll make you remember it too. Meaning is there's a lot of psychology that goes behind it. There's a lot of humor. It's very entertaining and it's also genius for anyone actually knows what they're doing. Especially if you know about what the generation needs. We're not in the generation of Abaya and Rava. We're not in the generation of the Rambam and the and and the Ramban. We're not even in the generation of the Baltov or his grandson of Breastliff. We're not even in the generation of what we just saw 20 30 years ago with leading the way and the Babasali and the stipon and we're not we're in a generation of clueless people even if they're wearing a keepa a hat a strimal or whatever it is we have a lot of clueless people now of course if you want to learn serious Torah you want to delve into things you want to break your teeth break your mind going to the sugot going to the go to the going to the balot go and look at uh you know all of the commentaries that ever existed in the history of mankind go into a park there live there enter the cave and never leave at least for 13 years like but for the rest of the generation that most of don't learn at all barely even learn to barely even understand what they're saying when they say if you give that guy a cartoon or an explanation with a digital image that tells him what a complicated suggest IS HYPERACTIVE GUESS WHAT you have to be hyperactive in order to get his attention but if you tell him no listen you got to come down from the tree. If you want me to teach you Tua or I'm leaving. Guess what? You're going to be leaving. He's not coming down from the tree. He's not coming down from the tree. Why? He wants to be on a tree. He wants to be on a tree. So I think what he's doing and how he's using his money and how he's using his time to publicize Tawa in such a fantastic way that people are able to understand it, people are able to learn, people a lot of people are taking it on is extraordinary. But of course, the Sultan had to interfere recently. And I heard that this Roshi from America apparently was bothered by the fact that he's so jealous that he almost ran out of heart to eat because he was eating his heart for so long that apparently there's only a little bit left. So with the last remaining heart that he has left, he spent his time publicizing a message to the world that this is not the way to teach Tua. And it's better that people don't learn Tua than to learn through Rabbi Ali Stfansky who doesn't even call himself a rabbi. He calls himself Alfenski. And he this violates the Torah aside from the and a lot of other things he also made a violation of by making fun of him by making fun of his name. Now if you see this rabbi rashisha he also has somebody told me he's even a dian you're going to think this is religion this is Judaism he looks the part but he has nothing to do with Judaism even though he's ashiva even if he's a dian even if he's whatever he is. And the reason why is because we learned from call is all of Israel are responsible for each other. Therefore, even if my way of learning is in the middle of the night with uh you know uh Yeshua and I'm only going to learn it with uh the toot and I'm only going to uh do it with this and I'm only going to do it that even THOUGH IT'S MY WAY TO do it, that doesn't mean it's the only way to do it. If I'm going to teach it to somebody who is not at that level, guess what? If I care about him, if I care about him because I have a connection with Hashem and not with the with the with the with the garments, then guess what? I'm going to find a way for me to communicate to him. If he wants me to write a cartoon, I'll learn how to draw. If he wants me to say a joke here and there to open him up, GUESS WHAT THE ITSELF SAYS? SO START THE SHIELD WITH A JOKE. WELL, OPEN UP THEIR HEART. If he wants me to say it slow, if he wants me to say it fast, if he wants to say with excitement, if he wants me to say if I care about him, then guess what? I have to customize myself to him, not have him turn into me. It's just not going to happen. At least not today. Sure, you have to be like what the says that brought to the Torah and didn't bring the Torah to them. Why? You have to lift people. But guess what? In order to lift them, you have to go down to where they are first. You can't lift them from the top. You can't start telling them what you don't know who Rabba is. You don't know who is. Ah, you're a bull. Yeah, nothing. Yeah, I'm that's not going to help anybody. So now when you have people that say, "No, no, no. We are protecting the Torah." Let's test that. Rabena lived about 700 years ago. He wrote a book. It's called Shah Chuva. If you haven't heard of it, it's not only highly recommended to read it, to study it at least 101 times, but do it as soon as possible. In the third gate section 195 says as follows. I'll just read the translation. It's easier. says, "One who is in a position to express his disapproval but does not do so. He voices no reproof. He does not give a sharp look when sinning takes place, takes no notice, and refuses to be the one who admonishes." Now, the Torah has commanded us to eliminate evil from the midst of our people. And the puk says in chapter 13:6, you shall eradicate the evil from among you. And the sages said further in Shabbat, one who is in a position to object over the actions of members of his household and does not do so is held accountable for the sins committed by the members of his household. One who's in a position to object over the actions of the inhabitants of his city and does not do so is held responsible for the sins committed by the inhabitants of the city. And one who's in a position to object over the actions of the entire world and does not do so is held responsible for the sins of the entire world. Further the puk says in chapter 26:37 they will stumble over each other. And our sages expounded on this that one will stumble over the sins of others. And based on this they said call is all of Israel are responsible for one another. Here we see the mitzvah of rebuke. When you see people doing wrong is not just a good recommendation. It's such a serious and significant obligations that the Torah tells us which clarifies that if you see the people in your house, the people in your community, whoever you h is in your circle that you're responsible for going against the Torah and you stay silent, you get charged with their sin along with them. Your son drives on Shabbat to go to the movies and you say, "Nah, listen. What could I do?" It's his choice. Guess what? You have a problem. Why? Number one, you did something to raise him that way. Number two, you don't even care. You don't even care that he's going against Hashem. Needless to say, if you see somebody is teaching heresy or teaching pro things that are against the Torah and you don't say anything, if you had the ability to do it, you're supposed to. If you have a big circle, a big stage, a big influence. The bigger the influence you have, the more power Hashem gave you, the more your responsibility is. And that's what the Torah is saying here. If you had your only impact, your only power that you had, you had a little muscle, you're only responsible for you and your friend. You have a little bit of a bigger muscle, you're responsible for you and your family. You have a little bigger muscle, you and your group of friends. A little bigger, you and your ka. A little bigger, you and your city, you and your town, you and your it can be you and the whole world. The point is you can't stay silent when you see things going against the Torah. So now this yeshiva that we spoke about in his mind he is speaking against someone that's going against the Torah. He's calling him names. He is saying don't learn from him. It's better that people don't learn Torah. Now, how do I know he's a liar that he's not defending the Torah? How do I know? I don't know the guy. Never met him. Not even tell you his name. I don't remember it even. But I don't know. He's a liar. How do I know? He doesn't mean number one, he violated the all of responsible for each other. When you say it's better that they don't learn Torah than to learn, then that means you don't really care about what is. You don't care about learning. If it's not your way, if it's not the the standard classic way, then it's better off to stay than don't know anything. That means you don't care about you care about your That's number one. But the second reason, which is even more valid than the first, is that where were you when all of the other heretics that are public speakers make their speeches everywhere, saying heretical things on a regular basis, like God needs you, God has an arm, that the sages don't know what they're talking and all of the other heresies that we've exposed over the years from different famous people in his community and in others. Where were you then? How come you didn't expose them? THEY WERE OUTRIGHT saying heresy and they're still saying heresy. How come you didn't speak against them? Even if you don't like Ellie Stfansky's teachings, did he say heresy? Never. But him you go against. But the heretics, the ones that the the the the ones that don't even believe in God, but claim they're still part of the part of the uh from community. like this one from what I heard he's from Montreal. You look at him, he's potassi uh um way of speaking accent and so on, but he's an atheist. He tells he makes videos about how he's an atheist, but he continues to look this way because it's good for his life. It's good for business. But he makes videos every single day to tell people why atheism is the way. And he makes fun of the Torah non-stop. How come this Rashiva didn't go against him? And it's not just him. You know how many of those people there are? That's just a popular one. There's dozens of them in and Benit there's no house that doesn't have a dead body. You know how many heretics are in every community? Here in Miami, North Miami Beach, there's a center that they call a healing center of some kind. They sell drugs, hallucinogen drugs to the people in the name of God. This is what sacrificed his life for. This is what Rabbi was willing to die for. This is what Mosherenu got at MOUNT SAI. HOW COME NOBODY'S exposing them except me for the last 10 years? How come this Roshima didn't speak about that? When Manis Freedman said that God has a body, how come this Roshima didn't say anything about him? And don't tell me you didn't heard about Manis Freedman. The goim heard about Manis Freedman in the church when he spoke there. WHEN HE SPOKE AT CHURCH, he he went to a church. He himself says he went to a church and he gave him a speech inside a church which is against the Torah. How come this rash didn't speak against him? When the Dian in Boaron Ephraim Goldberg invited Christian missionaries to give a speech to the congregation of a THOUSAND FAMILIES. HOW COME HE DIDN'T SPEAK AGAINST IT? WE had letters publicized everywhere to expose this criminality. Where was he? How about this? Who else did you speak against? No one ever heard this rabbi's voice before outside of his community. But now they're making shorts everywhere. Karim, I'm doing this not because I have any stock or any investments in anything but serving for and what the it is. And the reality is if you had to look at who cares about Israel, you have to look at the results. What do they want and what are they getting out of it? When you see somebody leaving a multi-million dollar if not hundreds of millions of dollar empire to go teach for free in a way that people would understand versus is other options that he has. And then you see somebody saying, "Listen, I don't like it." Did you not like the either? Did you not like the criminals in your neighborhood either? Did you not like the criminals in other neighborhoods? Any like what else didn't you like? And you don't see nothing else. Everything else was perfect. Apparently, the world was perfect before that speech because he didn't speak about anything else. Then you realize he cared about who's going to learn to he cared about who's going to ser even if that meant that he had to open up a kitchen for them. What do you think of Ramavinu's ambition was to be a chef to be a restaurant? Why did he open the restaurant? So people come to Why did Abraham go from place to place so he could teach? Why did he make his tent right outside of Sodom and Gomorrah? Surely there's better weather somewhere else because that's where all the are. And hopefully when they leave it, they come to him. So what is telling us is that yes, you do have a responsibility and an obligation to rebuke whenever there's something evil going on. You do. But don't forget what it says at the end that your responsibilities because you're responsible for is not that you have to rebuke, you have to speak against just because you're jealous. You only speak against because it's your responsibility to take care of other Jews. So if this person that you're speaking against is hurting Jews by teaching them heresy, by selling them drugs, by being a pedophile, by being a criminal of some kind, it's a mitzvah from the Torah for you to speak against them and to publicize it and protest against it 24 hours a day. You're the pin of the generation. But if that Jew is helping Jews get closer to Hashem, you speaking against him, even to yourself, is a sin. So much so that the says a person that makes says, "No, no, he's not so bad. He's a nice guy." But the sadik, no, he's a he's a cult. He's fanatic. He's bad. Don't listen to him. Wait. So the you have no problems with the sadik is terrible. Guess what? In Hashem's eyes, the verse says you're considered disgusting. And the malim says that fulfillment of that stamp you are. He says that's the stamp of someone that makes the wicked people into righteous. Meaning he thinks that he calls them righteous and the righteous people he calls them wicked. It's important for us to know Abra was not the stereotype but he was that's why says in our par in chapter 18 verse 19 for I have loved him because he commands his children and his household after him that they keep the way of Hashem doing justice and charity in order that Hashem might then bring upon that which he has spoken of him. Why? Hashem says I love why I love Abraham. Did Hashem write about you? I love you somewhere. No, we don't have a book that says I love this one. I love that one. But he has it. Abraham has it and we are supposed to learn from it. Why? The says anything that's written in the Torah by one of the 55 prophets that are mentioned in the entire Tanakh, it's relevant to every generation. So this means that we're learning this not because we need to know that Hashem loved Abraham, but rather we need to know what did Abraham do to make Hashem love him. The fact that he loved Abraham, we know he's mentioned in the Torah. We don't need this verse to teach us that he loves. We need to learn what did Abraham do that Hashem loves so much in order to that he let him to love him. He commands his children and his household after him that they keep the way of Hashem. That means when you're worried about a Jew that you don't even know. You don't know him. He just said amen. Then he put a cross on his chest. Then he uh bowled down like as if he's in uh you know in uh next to that uh square rock. He's everything. But you care about that Jew and you're going to try to get him to do chuva and stop with the nonsense of Islam. Stop with the nonsense of Christianity and come back to come back to you're going to help that guy and you're going to help the guy that's Tommy. You're going to give him a little bit of money if he needs. You're going to give him some if he needs. You're going to do whatever you can to help. It doesn't matter what kind of you're going to try to help him. Get closer to Hashem. Fulfill the Torah. Not because he looks a certain way. Not because he has a a hat. He has a frock. He has a this. No. Because he's a kosh son. He's my brother from a different mother, but technically the same grandmother. That's what I'm going to help him. And I'm going to help him in a way that's going to be customized to him. If it's in within my ability, it's if it's within my world that I can do it, I'm going to do it. Now, no one can be everyone's rabbi aside from Abenu. Some people are very much connected to the way that I speak. Passionate, loud, in yourrface. the most just so you know in the uh in the non-Jewish world just in the general secular world some of the most popular and famous speakers in the world they speak this way not because I do it I don't do it because of them they do because of me but the point is is that it's a character it's just this is your personality type you speak this way some people don't some people like someone that's monotone that speaks quietly silently maybe once in a while you way uh improvises their voice to make you realize that he's still alive. Like all types OF THEY LIKE THAT. NO PROBLEM. Some people like analytical speakers. Some people like people that say jokes. Some There's no problem with the styles as long as there's results. As long as But no one can beat for everyone. Why? Because if you like someone that is a uh you know the the best uh jokester in the world, I'm sorry. I'm not that guy. I can't do it. So I can't customize myself for you. I don't have that ability. It's not within my resume. But if you need me to be emotional, you need me to be this, you need, there are certain things that I can do. So the way you teach, if you care about Hashem's children, is you acclimate and improvise yourself in order to reach that spark within them. Not because of what they wear or how much money is in their pocket or bank account, but rather because of that nish that's inside and your responsibility and obligation to that. But if you don't have the ability, pray that someone else does pray that someone else does. But to go say it's better that learned Torah than learned from him. This is against the Torah. It's against the will of Hashem. And it's certainly the opposite of what Ainu gained Hashem's love for. Why? He commands his children and his household after him. Meaning he cares about the generation that it's in front of him. this household and something that comes after the next generation. So even though this one is he's good but he's like liabet he's like uh you know he's he's like standard and I am advanced teacher. Okay. So teach him. No. No. Well I'm going to throw him off to somewhere else. Throw him to something else. I'm only going to teach the uh the best ones. Guess what? Our sages got their names because they were teachers to babies. The heads of ambalon comes from abalon. It's a from Greek it says ab. He was the father of all the orphan kids. Why? He took them all under him. This is theado. This is someone that was beyond our comprehension how much he knew. So if you care about Hashem's children, meaning the ones you see and the ones that come next, then you say, "You know what? Even though this one, he's not a he's a new bouva or he's this or he's that, he has lackings, he is this, no problem. I'm going to teach him not only because I have an obligation to but I know that if I teach him if I teach him how to pray if I teach him how to learn if I teach him even the simplest 400 times like papa if I teach him that then guess what I'm also going to teach his kid indirectly why cuz if he learns his kid's going to learn, too. And his kids going to marry a Jew. And his kid is going to live as a Jew. Why? Because if I teach him, he's going to have kids. And they're going to follow in the footsteps of the father. And those kids, if they follow in the footsteps of the father, then the grandkids are going to follow in the footsteps of the father. And I'm saving entire generations by making a little cartoon, by making a BH kids film, by making a sh at 9:00 in the morning or 9:00 at night, by making videos available everywhere. Because the reality is created everything in the world for Isel and it's our obligation to use all of it to publicize his name. Which means if you can use technology to publicize Akadosh Bah's name, do it. Do it. That's why he created it. What do you think? He created technology so people could go on X now called Twitter or Twitter called X to to tell each other about how much they hate each other? YOU THINK THAT'S THE REASON WHY HASHEM allowed this company to exist? You think that Hashem cares about a flying car that's going to make somebody a trillionaire one day? YOU REALLY THINK THAT HASHEM CARES ABOUT A FLYING CAR THAT he he allowed him to make a flying car because it's it's it's he wants flying cars in the world? You really think that Hashem made the computers that do all these different things just so you could play Tetris on it and all types of VIDEO GAMES? THAT'S WHY YOU CREATED THAT'S WHY HASHEM, the king of the world, created everything. He needed people to create computers so we could play video games. Killing people in our imagination. That's why you think he allowed it? No. He created all of it. So we can use all the different tools. Whether it's cars or it's houses or it's money or it's technology or it's communications or it's marketing or it's business, whatever it is, use it to publicize name. Honor Hashem with the best you have. If the best you have is your money, do it. If the best you have is a talent, do it. If the best you have is a combination of things, do it. Go honor Hashem. HOW? PUBLICIZE his name everywhere. And if a person starts to think that way, everyone starts realizing, you know what, first and foremost, everyone could publicize Hashem's name in one way or another. Everyone has a way. Everyone has a tool. Some people could do it with their thumbs. Some people could do it by handing books. Some people could do it with money and donations. Some people could do it with lectures. Some people could do it by all types of other things. But aside from that, it also answers the question that all of you and all the people out there should have had in your mind. What is? It depends who you ask. If you ask the stereotypical world today, is someone that looks a certain way. He has a uniform. It happens to be a similar uniform to what they wear in the business world, but it's a uniform. If you ask is gonna tell you is someone that's looking for ways looking for ways not just doing looking for ways to publicize Hashem's name in order to take care of the next generation in order to ensure that there is a next generation that's what is someone who cares about Hashem so much that zealous for all of his mitzvot. Not just to do it himself, but for you to do it even though I don't know you. I don't know you. I don't know your name. I'm not going to know it either. I'm not even going to ask you because I don't care what your name is. You know what I care about? You have a Jewish nama. You have A JEWISH NISHA. THAT'S ALL I CARE ABOUT. I DON'T CARE your name. You have a cool name, a bad name, a big name, a small. I don't care. I care about the nisha inside. Once you start thinking about things that way, then you're just a costume. So if you see an opportunity to publicize a kadosh's name or to defend someone that's publicizing a kadosh's name, take advantage of the opportunity as soon as possible. That's what being a is. It's being zealous to take advantage of every opportunity to publicize Hashem's name. Sometimes publicizing Hashem's name is not just talking to somebody directly. Sometimes it's helping somebody that's doing the job. But if you see somebody judging Jews based on how they look, then at the very least, you may not be able to convince them, that they're not crazy, but at the very least, leave yourself a sign that says you're not crazy. Don't fall for the trap and think that people are based on clothes. That's just a stereotype. It's fake. What's real is what you do, not how you dress. As long as you're following alah, as long as you're modest, as long as you're decent, no problem. You want to dress the parta, go do it. There's nice stores that sell uh frocks and and suits and all types of things, go do it. But the key is what's inside. What's in that heart? What are you doing? And this is what we have to learn from what a real is. That's our goal. We succeed with that. You guys can now ask some questions will give us the answers. Yes. What is what is the difference between sacrificing your life and sacrificing your soul form? >> So we say in that you have a obligation to love Hashem with all of your heart. Which means your and your meaning you love Hashem to do his your you do the mitzvot where instead of just buying the uh the five minutes before the holiday when it's on a discount you buy the most expensive that you can afford because you want to do you want to do you love with all of your uh heart when you're doing mitzvot with or without money. That's the first thing is to love to show that you love the mitzvot. You keep Shabbat for an extra hour. You uh you know, you uh you pray with you're not one of these people that prays just to get finished. You pray so you can talk to Hashem. You study even when you don't feel like it. Especially when we don't feel like it. You got to eat it in the morning and at night. So with means that when there's a very very juicy sin right in front of you, it's so juicy, you almost taste it and you say, "I'm not going to do it." NOT BECAUSE IT'S NOT JUICY. IT IS. Not because it's not delicious. It is. Not because it's not fun. It is fun. I know it's going to be fun. I even did it in the past. I have a sample. I'm not going to do it because said no. I'm going to love Hashem with my how I'm going to I'm not going to deny. I'm not going to all of a sudden say, "Listen, all non-coosher food is disgusting." It's not true. It's not true. Not going to say, "Oh, being uh you know, all types of sins, immorality, it's not fun." It's not true. your body, your mind, your all types of things going ruin your life, but nonetheless, it's a in the process to gain there's a lot of fun. I'm not going to say it's not a lot of fun. It's fun. But the says we don't do because Abba said no. We don't do because our father in heaven said no. So love is all your life. Call your life meaning somebody says listen either you bow to Yoske or I'm going to kill you. You show him like this. Say right here. Right here. Shoot. Shoot over here please. Squake. No. No. You bow to Yosk just one time. You don't even have to mean it. You don't even have to mean it. JUST SAY IT OUT LOUD. ONE time over here. Over here if you want. It's never going to happen. Never going to happen. In fact, the Rambus says that if there's a uh they're they're killing Jews for being religious in the streets, meaning it's a and the guy tells you, "Listen, we're killing Jews everywhere. Isab is going crazy. Ishmael is going crazy. You could save your life. How you Jews, you tie your shoes a certain way. tie your shoe but in a different way. You Jews wear your shoes. You tie your shoes your right leg first, your left foot second and so on. That's how you Jews tie your shoes. I want you to tie your shoes differently. Tie it any other way. In you have to say no. I'm going to die and not change it. Even if it's tying a shoe now, any other time if some uh Mustafa comes up to you and says, "Listen, I want to see you tie your shoes differently." Tie your shoes. Put your gun to your head and says, "Uh, tie your shoe differently." No problem. Says, "Take off your tit. Take off your tit to save your life. Save your life." Says, "Violate Shabbat to save your life. Save your life." But if it's a where they're killing Jews because they're religious, even changing a hag, a custom, you're not allowed to. You have to die for it. So you have to be willing to sacrifice your life for the sake of Hashem and his mitzvot. So much so that when you say you're supposed to be imagining you being burned alive by the goim for being a Jew. That's what you're supposed to be imagining. That's by the way of says you're supposed to be thinking of yourself being burned alive being a Jew when you say he says when you're not able to go to sleep for anyone didn't watch the series cuz you're under some rock and want to stay ignorant when you're not able to go to sleep at night instead of wasting time imagine yourself being burned alive because you're a Jew. says when you're bored, not like when you're like in the deepest of your learning and you're you're you're like in upper world. No, he says when you're not able to go to sleep, instead of wasting time, think of yourself being burned alive uh for being a Jew. That's how easy it came to. So one second. So now you are sacrifice your life either for which is the three cardinal sins or like explained with all of your resources. Meaning you're willing to give all of your money in order to observe the mitzvah and not violate them. So that means being stingy and not giving daka is anti-Jewish. anti-Jewish. It's anti- Torah. So to love a with all of your life is your physical life. To love a with all your that means that it's also what's in here in your mind and what's in your heart. I'm not only doing the action of going to the sha at 10:00 at night, going to synagogue, of giving the no also in my mind. Also in my mind, Hashem, your Torah is so good. All day I talk about it. Even when there's nobody next to me, I talk about your Torah all day. All day I'm looking for mitzvot. All day I'm I'm thinking about your It's not just my body became some robot being run on AI. My mind, my heart is constantly thinking about meaning I'm sacrificing all of my animalistic feelings, desires and replacing them with you. The more a person sanctifies themselves through learning to through protecting their protecting their eye, protecting their mind, protecting what they hear, protecting what they say, the more is going to be at the tip of their tongue at all times. The less holy a person is, the more difficult it becomes. Why? Because even though even if you want to think about Hashem, there's always some type of distraction. there's always some girl or some guy or some transaction or some uh you know basketball player I don't know some car whatever it is that junk that you allow into your mind it's always going to take up your mind even when you want to pray to hashem this is a side note I always remind guys this is also the side note of the benefits that a woman gets if she marries a husband that protects his eyes why she may not see the benefit of him protecting his eyes. But I promise you there's a very very big benefit. And the biggest benefit of all is during a time that a married couple is acting like a married couple, he actually thinks about her and not somebody else. But if he looks at other girls during those times, he's thinking about them. Even if he doesn't want to, even if he doesn't want to think about somebody else, during specifically those times, he's thinking about them. it becomes unfortunately part of his subconscious. So if you want your husband to think about you during the most intimate moments, make sure he protects his eyes. Which means that if you're bringing a TV into your house, there's a reason why the stipler go says you're bringing a toya to your house. Like you we say about idol worship. Why? You're bringing a a TV to your house. You're bringing movies into your house. You're bringing another woman to your house. So that's that's the thing. So if you want if you marry a guy that protects his eyes, you have won the lotto. Next question. Yeah. >> So we know that is >> Yeah. >> What about for example? What do you what do you >> that if a Jew was threatened with death or to go to Islam, he's allowed to save his life. He's allowed to save his life because it's not considered idolatry. So the Jews that were uh the Jews that it happened in Yemen uh it's a famous letter the Rambam wrote to the Yemenite community that many of them were forced to go into Islam in order to save their life and then years later they you know they uh they were able to you know continue practicing Judaism in hiding and then later on more in public. But there was one uh one uh uh person that wrote that they're not considered Jewish and the Rambam saw this and he wrote a very very public chuva that literally you know reached the heaven and the earth like it reached everywhere that changed the uh the future of the Yemenite community till this day saying that is they're still Jewish. It's not like converting to Christianity. Not that it's good, allowed, good, you know, things like that. But it's they're still considered Jewish. It's not the same thing as someone that converts to Christianity. Uh and uh in fact, he showed them that uh that's what the Ala is. And that's why until this day the Emmonite community when they say kadesh they also add in addition to Hashem's name they also add the Rambam's name blessing the the Rambam because they thank him because in essence he saved their Judaism. The Yemenite community exists today because of the Rambam. >> Islam >> anything other than Judaism is against the Torah. But there's a difference between something being against the Torah and and something that is idol worship. Just because something is idol worship doesn't mean it doesn't mean it's a something is against the Torah doesn't mean it's necessarily idol worship. So yes, Islam 100% it's a false religion 100% the opposite of truth. And I've spoken about it and and brought even sources from their own Quran to show them how hypocritical it is and nonsensical it is. But that does not turn it into idol worship according to most of the puskim. There is an exception uh from the roach says that it is idol worship but the rest of the puskim uh you know based on what the raam says which is it's not an idol worship. Now to add to your question just another question that you may or may not have. What's the difference between a Shabbat and a Muslim? >> Aus. So what does that mean in practice? I have my own he wrote an act of that according to if a Muslim that uh goes prays at Mecca over there to the stone every year and he's one of those guys that punches other people and moves them and climbs other people just so he could kiss the rock. They have it. They have they lick the rock. It's a strange thing. Huh? you'll know like you know their their names. But the point is the uh these people fight it. Now this guy picks up the wine. No problem. You can still drink the wine. But someone's he drives everybody knows he's Shabbat. He picks up the wine. You have a problem. You have a problem. Why the because the Shabbat is considered an idol worshipper. meaning that the stringent the the the the judgment on Shabbat according to is much more than uh than uh someone that's in a wrong religion altogether. Uh but the point is that again not being right doesn't mean everything is wrong. It doesn't mean that it's necessarily idle worship. Next question. Yes in the back. on his katan needs to say the of he has to say the under the kupah and you can't just say sheanu for no reason uh you have to have a reason to do it so even if you have your grandfather's uh talit from uh you know from 1876 you still need to get a new talit because you cannot say the shehanu on your grandfather's talit that you've already been wearing wearing or somebody else has been wearing. It's not brand new. Uh and and you can't uh uh say it on on nothing. So you have to say it on something. And therefore the custom is to choose a new talit to say she on because a new talite everyone enjoys. Now if you say well why don't I just uh say shehanu on a brand new shirt uh that I'm wearing or the brand new suit that I'm wearing. What if you don't like the suit? If you don't like the suit or you don't like the shirt, you don't say because you don't like it. Even if you're wearing it one time but you don't like it, it's not comfortable for you, you don't like it, you have to say, you only have to say if you actually have joy as a result of getting it. And who doesn't get joy of getting a brand new? >> Yes. In the back. Yeah. >> Are you allowed to let them in your house so you can help them leave the I'm woriing or or you're not supposed to >> if there's a the question is if there's a couple of missionaries from Jehovah's Witness that like to knock on doors uh and they they knock on your door and you've already watched enough of the uh anti-missionary videos. You know a lot. You maybe used to be a Christian missionary now you've converted to Judaism. You're an expert. Should you allow these missionaries into your house? And the answer is no. Don't argue with them. Don't uh don't uh bring them into your house. For sure. Don't bring him into your house. There's a few reasons why not. As far as not bringing him to your house, you actually learn from this para. Everything is in a para, guys. Everything is in a parasa. In this para asks of why didn't you tell me she was your wife? Why didn't you tell me she's your wife? said there is there's no fear of God in this place and they will kill me because of my wife. So you're not allowed to put yourself in harm's way. Now, even though these two little teenagers or 20 nothings uh missionaries look harmless, the fact that they're representing idolatry means they have no shine whatsoever. Which means that to stop them from killing you, nothing is. Now I know this in the eyes of people especially people that may know or like or so on that uh uh uh they but you have to understand if you are going to argue with somebody against their most valuable possession which is their belief in something then nothing will stop them from from take you know becoming losing their control losing their control. So as far as putting yourself in such a such a way, I would uh say no. That's number one. Number two, and it's also of not not being alone with uh with with people like that. Another reason I would say that it's not good to even uh argue with them is because generally speaking debates are a waste of time because the only time that uh discussing somebody with somebody uh with someone is worthwhile is if that person is already open to change, open to a different opinion. If they're at a level of missionizing, meaning they are so fanatic about their belief that says mashka mashk meaning the missionary gets to a point where he's addicted to the sin of idolatry that he can't stop himself. He can't stop himself. I wish we were addicted to kiru like they're addicted to to to idolatry. So mashka is to such an extent that it's like beyond his natural control. So to go and change that guy is not happening at that stage. It may happen down the road. I have some students that used to be Christian missionaries and today are Jews, Orthodox, religious righteous Jews. But it didn't happen just like that. It was a very very very difficult process. So much more so that the says that many of them die if the the right after they convert that my students weren't that bad in missionarizing or weren't successful in missionizing so much that they died as converts but nonetheless it's a uh it's a it's not something simple because it's not just physical psychological it's a spiritual thing so to go and debate somebody that's not open to the truth is a complete waste of time. This is the reason why debating online or in comments is a waste of time because no one online, even the public debates that they have videos on. No one cares what the other guy says. They only care to win. What is he saying? Okay, so I'm going to beat him by saying this. I'm going to beat him by this. They don't care. They're not looking to hear what he says. They're looking to defeat him. They're looking to win. Same concept with people that write comments and other people argue with them. If you actually read the whole thread and waste your life reading it, you'll see that neither one of them cared about what the other guy said. They only expressed their opinion and reiterate it in different ways again. So if you're going to debate someone, it's only worth it if that person is already open to change, already questioning their current beliefs. When a person is glued to their beliefs to the point where they're missionizing for it, they're not open to change. So, it's a bad time to go to them. If you happen to know somebody like a co-orker, a cousin, a friend, whoever that is questioning his beliefs, then yeah, you should tell him this is Judaism, this is Rabbi Ruven, this is organization, this is the Torah, this is tell him. Go ahead, publicize his name. Poor guy. If he if he doesn't uh if he doesn't get out of it, he's going to go to Gome. So yeah, you can help him. you don't have an obligation like you do with a Jew. But certainly you can especially if he's questioning it. But if he's a missioniz if he's missionizing for a different religion, he's not at that point. He's not open at that point. He is as closed as clothes can be. So no, do not bring them inside. Uh and certainly don't discuss with them. Third reason is I know this doesn't apply to you and many people uh this uh doesn't apply to because either they're very familiar with it, they're experts in it and so on, but to the vast majority of Jews, it is a terrible idea to debate anyone with the opposite opinion to the truth in any way. If they are not Jewish and they're preaching Christianity or Islam, you have to understand that the winner of that debate is not going to be someone that has more information. The winner of that debate is going to be the one person that is the quickest thinker and most charismatic speaker and most uh fluid with his information. Which means that if you lose that debate, your nashama will get hurt as a result and it will create a doubt in your mind. And that doubt can turn into you going to their religion even. Now I know you don't think that's true, but that's what happens. All of those people that left Judaism and went to Christianity and if they were previously religious to a certain extent, that's what happened to them. They started by opening up to these people and eventually they fell for it. So the vast majority of people if they're if you're going to talk to if you're a Jew talking to a non-Jew about a different religion it's a terrible idea. On the other hand if you're a Jew to talk to another Jew about his heresy or idolatry you're not even allowed to according to the Torah because he's considered a mean and you're not allowed to be within even four amote of such a person. Meaning that according to the sages, a Jewish heretic, Jewish idoltor is worse than a non-Jewish heretic or idoltor where we are not even allowed to speak or stand next to a Jewish idoltor or heretic. So it's a uh it's it's a it's a dangerous ground. So I h turning a person like that, >> but the bigger chances that that person turning other people, there's too much risk. There's too much risk on the line uh too much on the line in order to try to convert somebody like that. Like I told you, I have some students that used to be Christian missionaries. I'm very very familiar with it. I'm very uh you know, I have uh uh quite a bit of experience in uh in that part. And I'm telling you from experience and also from knowledge of what the Torah says. Do not try to uh do this. There's uh certainly uh uh some experts, few of them that uh can handle certain conversations for the sake of publicizing the truth in certain ways. But for the average person that just watches Rabbi Tovia Singer on the internet or watches me or watches, you know, something else that uh shows them different proofs of why Christianity is false, this does not make you a debater. It just makes you a YouTuber. It makes you somebody that listen to YouTube, not even a YouTuber that gives videos, a person that listen to videos. More times than not, when people try to have debates publicly, it ends up being a does not turn people around. Like I've see young kids, they listen to my shim and then they go online and they start uh for whatever reason they decide that they uh are going to start debating uh you know all types of idol worshippers or all types of uh uh people and uh they sometimes send me the videos. Oh look, I did this. I did this. They're proud of it. It's uh I can tell you 90% of the time it's a mistake. 90% of the time at least it's a mistake. >> I'm an idolatrous Jew. >> Idolatrous Jew is worse than an idoltor that's not Jewish. >> Shouldn't you try? Uh no, not if not. Again, it's depends on whether the person is a sinner or a wicked person. Like we said in the last few, if he's a sinner, meaning he makes his sins himself, but he doesn't try to entice other people, then yes, you have to try to get him back. But if he is a missionary to sins, not only do you uh don't have to save him, but if he falls into a hole and there's a ladder that will take them out, take away the ladder, so he dies in the hole. That's that's that's in essence, that's why because he's a danger to society. If he is if he is on a mission to uh get pe get uh people to idolatry, he's a danger to society. But more so again, like I said, he's a Jew than a non-Jew. Yet the Samites probably like this one that finally they won. Yeah. Go ahead in the back. >> Speaking of two weeks, we should do something to stop him. Should we try to cancel what should we do? Anyone that invites Manis Freedman or any of the other heretics that he's exposed, especially him after so much has been published uh so many videos, a book uh letter from Abedin uh other rabbis even uh from Kabad that have spoken against them and people still insist on inviting them. That means that they are choosing to be blind. There's not much to do. There's not much to do. I mean, anyone that wants to know why he's a heretic, I have a whole playlist of of of lectures, a book, and uh, you know, all types of uh, proofs of why he's uh, you know, he's an enemy of the Torah. But anyone that chooses to ignore that the the uh the uh Mishnah says if uh I think it's that if a person wants to hang himself make sure that he finds a tall tree. So make sure that if he wants to hang himself already go on a tall tree so there's no chance you survive. People want to hang themselves they can hang themselves. This is the this is this is the reality. It's not a uh it's not that we don't care. It's that you've provided the information. You've provided the warnings. Uh I mean more or less we're the only ones that have done it, you know, over the years. There's a couple of other times a few other people have a few other rabbis have said here and there certain things, but generally speaking, we have made a whole campaign to warn people against him. Uh, and um, anyone that wants that knows and and ignores it anyway, make sure they find a toll tree. >> Yeah, >> I have a couple questions, but I'll ask the one that's most of my mind. Um, I have a really good friend's birthday today, and I don't know what to tell my friend why I can't say Ya's like real name or name. He's insistent. Like why can't I say it? Like I know I can't. >> Yeshu. Yeshu. You could say Yeshu is an acronym for >> Yeah. But it's >> Yeshua. >> Yeah, >> you could say Yeshua. It's not It's not a sin to say Yeshua. The sin is to say the what the Greek callum >> the word after Jesus >> because that's the word after Jesus. You're allowed to say the word after Jesus is forbidden because it's like a uh uh but uh the name Jesus you're allowed. There's plenty of people that are goim that are named Jesus. >> That's how you pronounce it. Most people that spell the name that way, it's Jesus. So there's no problem of saying that. And again, when we say uh when we say that name, it all depends on what the implication is. What do you what do you what do you what's the meaning behind it? >> Right? So if it's for the sake of education, yeah, we uh there's no problem. Now, on the other hand, in regards to uh saying the name of the Satan's wife, we don't say lame. You don't say the actual name. And the reason why is because when teaches that when you say it, you call her. >> Which if you call her, you're not going to be happy when she shows up. There's leads to wasting seed, immorality, and all the things that we don't want to deal with. Yeah. What's the reason or the I'm not sure if it's custom or to say after saying after saying like say three times what's the reason for this >> it's a new month I know that um >> you have to say it to a person >> yes person and you have to you say shalom and they say peace be upon you and uh you uh you say in return to them uh peace be upon you uh cuz you're you're sanctifying a new month. So in essence you're wishing the person a uh a blessed month if you will in that in that language. they used to uh the time of Boaz the great-grandfather of uh of the vidmed is that they used to uh say hello to each other in the name of Hashem in the name of Hashem uh and then the uh meaning they would say Hashem's name uh hello in the name of the kav that's how people used to say hello and uh the says that uh the uh people became so accustomed to to doing this that it looked like as if they're minimizing the greatness of Hashem's name. So they forbid it. But this was a very very uh difficult uh taker because they they felt like this was part of the tradition for hundreds and hundreds of years. And uh but the point is is that when we say uh shalom it's in essence uh uh in some regards is almost the equivalent of uh of saying what they used to say in the past in the name of Hashem because shalom is one of the names of God. So but you're not saying the name of God like it is the tetrograman is saying shalom. So when you're saying shalom, you're saying may may Hashem be upon you. Meaning all the blessings in the world, all the good in the world, all the in the world. If you're looking for a zoo, you'll find it this month. If you're looking for pona, you become extremely wealthy. If you're looking to become you, you obviously have to learn non-stop. And if you're looking to donate toem, hem will give you billions of dollars to donate. Uh yeah, >> shalom. Shalom. >> Same thing. You're returning. You're returning. Shalom. I'm saying peace be upon you. Then shalom be upon you. Hashem be upon you. And he saysal also upon you. Hashem will also be upon you. Maybe could add to it also. Shalom. Shalom. Okay. So, so that's one one additional thing. He says that the teach anyone who says shalom to his fellow uh gets his own blessings uh come first. So when you wish peace upon somebody else your your own prayers will be fulfilled first. So also it's someone says shalom first also he is a uh he's assured a longer longer life. So there's no concern of him dying between shalom and shalom. Uh so so in essence no one is trying to fight of who's going to say shalom first because I say shalom you're going to say shalom then you say shalom and I say shalom right and also the reason why you don't say just shalom and you say shalom is because if you just say the word shalom, it's like saying Hashem's name in vain. Whereas when you say shalom, it's a uh it's used differently. So also it's a uh one of the ways that uh we show unity is uh you know is by the is by saying shalom to each other. So that's another way to to have uh unity by saying shalom to each other uh and uh during that time. Yeah. In the back after he released her. >> Yeah. >> And we saw that he gave after he released her, he gave Abraham a lot of gift for her and accepted it in this. Whereas in the previous we saw that Abra came and went, you know, fight and he came back to the people and then the king but he didn't take >> very good question. So fantastic question. I'll repeat it. Arainu in uh two cases where Senu was uh was uh kidnapped uh from Par and then this paras from aime after uh they uh Hashem threatened both par and uh and aime uh they both obviously freed her and not only that they gave a bunch of gifts, money, millions of dollars to Abrainu and Abraham accepted it. On the other hand, after Abrainu went to war with the uh four kings and defeated them, he uh the spoils that you get from war are usually the biggest motivation to go to war. But Abraham did not want any of it. And uh when the king of Sdome says, "Listen, give me the people and you can take all of the spoils of war, not that he was exactly in in a in a room for negotiation." Exactly. He was in a uh in a hole uh hiding from the other kings. But after won, he said, "Listen, at least give me the people. I can rebuild, but you take all the money." And says, "No, no, I'm not going to take the money from you. I'm not even going to take a sho string from you. So you don't say that you enriched me. So what's the difference between the two? How come he said no to him and he said oh he didn't say anything. He said he took the what uh what aimed and did. So Stom the king of stone was a wicked person and he in essence that's exactly what he meant. He wanted everyone to know that he is associated with Abraham. That yes, Abraham won the war, but guess what? I paid him for it. I paid him for it. That's the reason why Abra is so rich now. You know, he has my money because he's a wicked person that wanted to use his money in order to associate with Arainu. On the other hand, the uh uh didn't give uh a uh all the money because they wanted to associate with a so much and say to people, listen, I enriched him. Rather, they were scared to death of Hashem because of what Hashem did to them because they heard a so. So, in order to please Hashem that listen, listen, not only I'm not going to touch her, not only am I going to touch him here, I'm going to give him a bunch of stuff. Just open up my eyes again. and open up the uh the orphases of the of the woman's body again because what happened is that shut off all of the openings in their body. So women that were supposed to have give birth weren't able to. Somebody who needed to go to the bathroom wasn't able to. somebody, you know, so it was a disaster and a half and they knew that it was because of they knew it was because of so in essence in order to please Hashem that uh there is they say here not only am I going to hurt him but here take more more and more just just uh to show honor to the messenger of Hashem. It wasn't to enrich the messenger of Hashem like what the uh Zdom did because the guy from had no connection to Hashem. He uh he was uh you know he wasn't giving it to a he wasn't giving credit to Hashem. He was giving credit to Av. He was giving credit to Ara and Abraham says no I don't want any money cuz I didn't do it. Hashem did it. So I don't even want to shoe strength from you because you're thinking that you're going to pay me for like a mercenary like I did it. I didn't do anything. Whereas the others of Pero and Aimemed they're in essence they knew Hashem did it. They knew Hashem did it. A uh in aimed's case, he actually uh there was a communication that the Torah says that Hashem spoke to Avi and Aime says, "Are you going to kill me even though I didn't even know I was sinning?" So, there was some type of dream uh prophetic dream that Aime was getting. And there's even a question among the Aime do to merit that Hashem would even speak to him. >> Yeah, >> I like your answer better. The opinion I was told was that Pharaoh's like his the Egyptian problem was immorality. So Hashem and Abraham basically accepted the wealth because he wasn't worried that the money was like wrong wicked unlike Sodom which is the wicked they steal and what you just told me now which makes which makes no sense. It sounds like a meal problem with the nation was they don't have any fear of >> right. >> But my question is uh what my question is what do you tell somebody who thinks that the rebi might be mashiach? >> What do you tell somebody that thinks the rebi is mashiach? might be >> uh depends if they're complet if they're like a mashia center addicted uh type of person you say because they're it's a it's a like people that are addicted to it uh it's no different than people that are addicted to yoske missionizing >> they're just uh they're uh so you need to tell them I hope you have good health because it's it's not normal it's not normal to uh to behave that way. Even if you think that your doesn't matter if it's labe or anybody else. Even if let's say somebody thinks that uh was Mashiach or somebody thinks that uh you know I don't know whatever their rabbi is Mashiach. There's some truck driver in Israel that people think is Mashiach. Uh in the Musappi says he calls him a truck driver because that's really what he was. But the point is even if somebody thinks that somebody else is Mashiach, there's a difference between you think something and you living in accordance to it and and literally like a uh uh shaping your life around it, preaching it constantly. So to go around saying Mashiach, Mashiach, Mashiach and and you have pictures of the that's not a normal Jewish thing to do. You're never going to you're never going to hear any midrash saying that walked around in the desert with Mosherenu's picture saying Mashiach. Now, now who's closer to being Msiah? Mosherenui. Well, guess what? Mosherenu was the Mashiach. And according to uh uh the um he is going to be the Msiah. But nobody in history ever walked around Moshenu's picture saying Mashiach now. No one. We have to walk in the footsteps of our forefathers. not invent new things like the says inventing new things is so now if somebody is glued to that mentality to that extent there's nothing you can do there's nothing you can say and debating them is a waste of time somewhere near the same level as debating with missionaries in Christianity why because they're not normal like if you tell them if came to you right now and said is not would you believe him? They'll say no. They believe that it's bigger than anything that he's that in some cases they've some of them even believe that he's become one with God. They call themselves elistim. Some of them that consider they're also eloquist but they're silent. So the point is is that if they're uh to that level of minute mash where they're like glued to it, there's nothing you can say to them. There's nothing you can discuss with them. Uh you know there's don't waste your time. Don't debate them. Don't show the proofs. Simply say the end. If they're if they are a normal person, they happen to say, "Listen, I think maybe or I think or I think I don't know the truck driver. I think somebody's mashiach." Then you could show them, listen, we have a Rambam that tells us the rules of what who is fit to be a Msiah. We have an you open of the Rambam. He tells you what this person has to do in order to be fit to be Mashiach. And he's not Mashiah yet. You can't call anybody Mashiach right now because he's only Mashiach after he fights and wins all of the wars of God and then he's able to to build a better mikdash. So no one could be said that they're Mashiach right now. There could be people that are fit to be mashiach based on certain criteria that the Rambam lists, but no one could be called Mashiach right now. So to go and call somebody Mashiach not only shows that the person is ignorant, but it also shows that the person is is is doesn't even realize that they don't know. They don't know what they know. They don't understand what Mashiah is. So now if the person is clueless, you could show this. So this person that you believe is Mashiach, he's alive or dead. Oh, he's dead. Okay. Well, the Raum says he has to be alive. He can't be Mashiach or even fit to be Msiah if he's dead. Now, furthermore, he has to bring peace to the world. Last I check, it's not so peaceful outside. It's not so peaceful. So, uh, he has to teach the entire world Taw to right now is teaching the entire Torah. Oh. Sure, I have 100,000 subscribers, but there's eight and a half billion people. It's 8 and a half billion people. It's it's the reality is that a person has to understand there's certain rules. We can't just say, "No, this one he'll get to. This one will do later." That's what the Christians say. >> That's what the Christians say. The Christians say, "Listen, he died, so he can't be Mashiach. He can't be anything." No, he's coming back. What coming back? It was a comeback story. Enough with the nonsense. So person has to understand if the person is normal. You can show them what the Rambam writes. You could show them different lectures that explain what Msiah really is. Uh I've made many of them. There's other rabbis that have made and discuss it. Uh there's a whole countress that's been written about why the labbe is not Msiah. But the point is is that if the person is not exactly the brightest tool in the shed while at the same time they're not very patient to watch a whole lecture then you explain to them this way in a very very simple way. The itself says in that wanted to make Like it actually says that wanted to make but made a mistake in his level and he did not sing to Hashem. Again if you don't sing to Hashem right now it's not a sin against the Torah but in his level it was a mistake and therefore Hashem did not make him mashia. He wanted to make him he wanted to make. So now over there we see that Hashem himself wanted to make him mashia. Furthermore, the says in Daniel was fit to be Mashiach. The sages say was fit to be Msiah. And who is better than David himself? He's fit to be Mashiach. So if Hashem is already going to resurrect the Messiah from the dead, why wouldn't he pick one of them over someone that just died 30 years ago? You can't tell me the Labavi is greater than Daniel. You can't tell me the Labavi is greater than David, is greater than me, is greater than anybody that came in a previous generation. Why? That is against our tradition. We have there's the degradation of the generations. We do not get better with time. So if you're already going to resurrect the dead to bring Msiah, let's say that because there is an opinion that it could happen like it's a possibility that it could be according to one opinion or even if you could say five opinions, doesn't make a difference that it could be resurrected from the dead. It's still not going to be him. Why? There's all the honor in his place, but there's been greater ones before him. If you're already going to resurrect the dead, go resurrect. Go resurrect that got all of to learn to such a point that even the six year olds knew the entire oral Torah by heart. The six year olds. Six year olds today barely know Alf B. So you're gonna bring somebody from the dead itself says go go go break from one of them. So again and this is again this is simply logic. It's not you don't even need to be a Torah scholar to know this. It's like if you're already going to bring Mashiach from the dead, bring somebody bring bring Mushenu says bring you know Mashenu is going to be the Mashiach. So this is the reason why both according to the majority opinion of the sages both past and present as well as pure logic. Allah shalom cannot be mashiach according to it cannot be mashiach and I know that the people that are cleaving to it care less about everything that I say they even write books about why he can and they try to argue against all of the other opinions and so on but they can't argue about the last case that I mentioned to you which is they could argue about resurrection from the dead they could argue against uh you know they uh he's he But why him and not all those other great ones from before him? They can't argue against that. That's simply common sense. That's common sense. Simple. You know, you're going to bring something from bring Yeah. Oh, so it's a uh it's not that the Yakavinu uh had bigger muscles than the angel is that the angel was in essence representing the Satan was representing the evil and Yakovu was representing Kadusha. Yakovinu was the uh the greatest of the aot because you had au uh you know it's a uh uh reached a certain level reached a certain level uh of greatness but they say that reach reach completion to such a point that on his in heaven it has four images on it one of an eagle two of a bull, three of a lion and four of a human being. Who is that human being? Jacobu. He he reached he reached completion. So Yakovu in his greatness he uh his uh in essence survived uh the uh the the battle against the Satan, against the the evil. Uh but the whole goal of it wasn't for him to kill him, rather to weaken Yakov. And uh that's why he gave him a uh hit at the end that hurt the uh um uh the uh what is it called? The hip. Yeah, you call the hip. Uh the sciatica nerve part. It's one of the reasons why we don't eat the in in animals. But also say the uh when he hit when he hit him there spiritually speaking he uh hurt the uh the what's called the uh Torah world and finances. This is the reason why it's very common for people that are Torah scholars that are to overcome the uh struggle of uh of money. But again, it's not it wasn't like a uh boxing match. Uh it was a spiritual battle. It was a spiritual battle of uh trying to uh uh weaken the kaduca uh you know to to a certain extent because the more kaduca there is the the faster the completion the culmination of the world will arrive. This is one of the reasons why they say that the uh uh Hashem gives us a mitzvah that we have to uh destroy Amalik and the sages teach that Hashem's throne is not complete until Amalech is uh is is uprooted from the world. What does it mean? Hashem's Hashem runs the world. What does he care about? Some people so it's not the people themselves is that there's a certain uh evil that Hashem let into this world. certain power of tumah that exists in this world and so long as that power of tumar still exists in this world hashem's name cannot be glorified as as much as it's supposed to so this in essence this power of impurity so long as it exists the highlight and culmination of the world cannot be reached so what the uh the battle between yakov and the and the malik was supposed to do in essence was to weaken the kadusha and uh you know uh and not necessarily to destroy it. He didn't have the power to destroy it. So yeah, why disappear? >> Because the per the whole so question is a good question. Why shouldn't why wouldn't Hashem just make Amal disappear? disappear because Hashem doesn't need this world uh in order for his name to be glorified. Uh uh it's the says it uses a verse from uh that everything that Hashem created he created for his glory created for his honor. So Hashem doesn't need this world to honor him but the purpose of the world is to honor him. The purpose of this world is is is to glorify him. Not that he needs it but rather for this world to to uh reach its objective fulfill its objective it needs to glorify him. So the world is limited in its ability to do it so long as there is certain pressure on it. So what is it like? Imagine for example you're trying to you you take your hand you want to put it up. Now raise your hand you go straight up. But if there's, let's say, someone putting their hand with some pressure on it, then it's harder for you to go up. And if someone is really, really strong, then it could leave you exactly in the same spot and you can't move. Right? So the more tum more impurity that's in this world, the more difficult it is for the to get to where it's supposed to. Now, it's not stopping it completely, but it's slowing it down. This has a uh h a positive purpose in a way that it gives us more time to do chuva and to acquire a bigger part of the reason of why the kushai is rising. But also it's showing us that we have in essence a purpose in this creation and we're not just robots because again hashem does not need us to sanctify his name. We need to sanctify his name as to reach our our objective. Just like if you have a machine and you press on it, it's supposed to turn on. If the machine doesn't turn on, then it's not serving its purpose. And if nothing you can do will turn it on, then what do you do with the machine? You throw it becomes garbage. Even though you spent money on it, even though it looks nice, if it doesn't serve its purpose, it's garbage. So same concept with with the creation. If the creation, if you, I, and anyone else wants to be part of fulfilling the purpose of this creation, then we take our part of the kadusha to elevate and sanctify a kadosh's name. Whoever doesn't make themselves a partner in that is simply going to become waste. >> Yeah. >> If the angel was himself, why did he get Satan is not necessarily a uh the real name of the Satan is something else. We don't say the name but later on uh the sages say that after Mashiah comes the Satan's role of being a Satan being uh is going to be removed and uh he's going to become a holy angel to such an extent that people are going to call their kids after his name. But that's after Mashiah comes. Um but uh as far as him giving the uh name to Yakov, he didn't give him the name but rather he informed he informed Jacob that this was Hashem's uh intention uh to give him this name because when uh Jacob was Jacob, he had no prophecy like when he had when his name was Israel. And how do we know this? In the para where uh they tell Yakov after Yadi gets sold from that point on until later on every time they mention Yakov they mention Yakov by name Yakov. And then when they tell Yakov that uh his son that Ysef is alive and he believes them, you see from the par it changes his name from Yakov to Isa again. And the sages teach us it's a uh that's when he got his prophecy back. Because the question is if Yakov was a prophet, why didn't he know what happened to Ysef? Because as soon as he found out what happened to Ysef, he immediately became sad and you cannot get prophecy if you're sad. So his name returned from Israel to Yakov where he lost his prophecy. The moment he believed them that Ysef is alive, he became Israel again and his prophecy returned and he knew they were saying the truth. He knew they were saying the truth. So the when the Malik told uh uh um Yakov that his name is Isel uh he was in essence telling him what Hashem already decided ahead of time. It's like me uh a person telling his friend listen by the way the teacher marked your test A+. How do you know? Oh, I saw it. I saw it. So but you know nobody knows yet except the teacher. But I'm telling you because I saw it. I I looked. I saw it. So it's like telling them the the secret. Yeah. Yes, sir. >> A heretic. >> Why would somebody want to be a heretic? The uh a person usually does not wake up in the morning and says, you know what, I'm going to be a heretic. Rather, it's when we say the uh every day uh when we get to the section about the that Hashem gave us the and he tells us don't follow what's in your heart and what's in your eyes. And what ends up happening is that if a person doesn't listen to Hashem and his warnings that not to follow his feelings in his heart and what his eyes see. So then they end up doing things that are forbidden. They eat non-cooser food. They eat without a blessing. They uh look what they're not supposed to look. They take what doesn't belong to them. And the more a person does things that are against what the Torah says, the more difficult it is for them to believe what the Torah says. Because the Torah says that if you steal, you get punished. Torah says that if you uh uh um if you look at things that are not modest, you get punished. Torah says all types of things that is reward and as punishment. So when a person starts doing things that are against the Torah, the tells him, listen, you know, if you continue believing in a Torah, you're going to get punished for all of this. So why would you believe something that says you're going to get punished for it? Why would you believe someone says you're going to be punished for it? It can't be true because you're not a crazy person. You're not a crazy person that's going to eat something that's going to hurt you. So, it must be that the Torah's mistake. Where do we learn that strategy from? The uh the saw that made a mistake by adding a uh you know a a word to what Hashem said. Hashem said don't eat from the tree of knowledge. said, "Don't eat or touch from the tree of knowledge." So when the when the serpent saw that she made a mistake by adding that word, what did he do? He touched the tree. He said, "Look, if Hashem said don't touch it, look, I'm touching it." Nothing happened. And then he pushed on the tree and she got she went and she touched the tree. He says look you're still alive. If he says don't touch the tree you would have died right now. So if touching the tree is not true then eating from the tree also is not true. That's how he convinced her. So a heretic doesn't start off as a heretic. Heretic starts off as someone who doesn't have is not afraid of reward and punishment is not afraid of Hashem and therefore makes a sin and then another one and then another one and then in order to justify that sinful life he says it must be not true. It must be not true. And in fact says how is it that is at the time of the beta mikdash they're seeing miracles every single day there was never a fly in the next to the misbeh all this slaughtering if you go to a slaughter house you go to a slaughter house they slaughter an animal guess what's there also aside from blood and the animal that's alive or dead what else is there flies there's flies everywhere you go to a uh you go to uh there's a on a on um what is it called? I think on Griffin there's a huge uh place where there's cows there. If you get closer to the cows or you get closer to the hay, what's there? Flies. They're everywhere. If you go anywhere where there's animals, you go to the zoo, there's flies everywhere. The bet mikdash never had a single fly. Even though there's blood everywhere all the time, that's what they do. They slaughter the animal. They fill up the uh the the cone with blood. They spill it on the uh corners. There's blood everywhere. Not a single fly. A woman never had a miscarriage. Never had a miscarriage. If that's not enough, every day there's a fire in the image of a lion coming down from heaven and burning all the sacrifices. Even the movies couldn't figure stuff like that out. There's a huge line coming out from Shmayim and and burning the sacrifices. So, everyone sees these miracles. There's a smoke, a pillar of smoke from the incense that reaches from the ground all the way to the heavens. Even if there's a hurricane, doesn't make a difference. It's always straight. So, these miracles were visible to everyone. Yet, the wicked Jews went and worship an idol. How You think what? This this wooden statue you made. Did he make the pillar of smoke? No. You could take the smoke and burn him. This this this little statue, it made the lion. No, it doesn't even make nothing for itself. Why you believe in a statue? So says, why did it says everyone knows they didn't believe in the statue, but they wanted the non-Jewish girls. They wanted to sin with the non-Jewish women, but how are you going to sin with the non-Jewish woman and you're still wearing a striml? You're still a religious Jew. So what did they do? They said to the rabbis, "Rabbi, we're not religious anymore. We're idol worshippers." So now the rabbi is not going to come visit them anymore. Now you can go with the non-Jewish girlfriend. Cuz the rabbi is not going to come. He's not going to do kiru with him. So now he's not coming anymore. Okay, now I can go with the non-Jewish girlfriend. Now I'm not I'm outside of the community. And this is this is uh this is a reality where it wasn't the idolatry they believed, it was the sin they believed. And that's the same concept for everyone that it's not that they believe in their atheism or their idolatry. It's that they have a addiction to a specific type of lust, a specific type of sin. And in order to justify that sin, the rationale behind it and and to s and to satiate their conscience or quiet their conscience, they have to justify it in a way by saying the truth is false and false is truth. 2:30. Okay, we'll take one or two more questions. Yeah, go ahead. >> All right. So, I know you're supposed to refrain from telling a Russia or even a s where he's doing is wrong if he's not if he's going to do the opposite. But what if in your heart or what if you're like so optimistic that you think that this is the time that he's gonna actually listen to you like it's a type of it's very question but I'm just wonder says we mentioned before with you now mentioned also that if you see another Jew you have to rebuke him can't just sit quietly but it also deps clarification on that is that if the person is making an meaning let's he is eating without a blessing or he's uh doesn't do you do not need to do you do not need to rebuke him if you know he's not going to listen if you know he's not going to listen if he say if you tell him listen make a blessing before you eat blessing punches you in the face no get out of here you and your blessing if he's going to do one of those if he's one of these uh people don't rebuke him but it's the only it's not a but if it's Sita, you see this guy's uh about to kill somebody. You see this guy's about to, you know, bell to some Buddha, then you have to rebuke him. How much you have to rebuke him? You have to rebuke him until he hits you. Till he hits you. Some say until he threatens to hit you. But the point is you have to say something. So now again, a person also has to be clever. You can't just go around rebuking every single person uh you know left and right. You have to have a clever way of doing it. You don't have to be a guard dog. Meaning rebuking doesn't mean that you turn into a pitbull guard dog or you know that barks all day. Rebuking means you have to use so you saw this guy for example is a uh you know is uh let's say um sin let's say he has a girlfriend and uh it's not appropriate okay so if you tell him listen your girlfriend what are you doing it's not going to work well what you can do is tell listen there's a great sh in Lauder Hill this new place come. He's going to come and guess what? He's going to hear in his that you're not allowed to have a girlfriend. Or better yet, you could send him a link to a video. Or better yet, you could say, "Listen, I want to study uh I need a study buddy. You want to study with me 15 minutes, a half hour a day?" Yeah. And you study together Musar Seaf and he's going to learn that way where it's not necessarily a direct rebuke. It's an indirect rebuke. either you're having a uh somebody else do it or you're doing it in a backdoor way. Why? Because generally speaking, if you go to people you know and tell them don't do it, usually they'll do daft the opposite. And if needless to say, if it's people you don't know, if you don't know, you tell them don't do it. Many times they they're going to say, "Well, are you to tell me what to do?" So you have to be clever. Some people it's good to say. Some people it's not good to say to them. So you have to judge based on where you stand you know and there but there are certain times where you have to say on the spot on the spot you have to say something and one of them is when somebody is speaking in the says when somebody is speaking in during prayer you're allowed to rebuke them and if they don't listen and they continue allowed to embarrass them in public you're allowed to embarrass them in So it's a uh it's not it's one of those sins where that's one of those times where you can say something. Now initially suggestion is to try to instead of being one of the shishers which which doesn't work by the way like saying sh not only it doesn't work and no one's quiet it actually makes more noise actually rather hear the talking than the shush. But if you really want to tell somebody to be quiet, best thing to do, leave where you are, go to them, and whisper in their ear. Whisper in their ear, "Please, I'm trying to pray." Or you can make a little index card and write on it, "Please, I'm trying to pray. I have a lot of I have a lot of I have a lot of problems. I need Hashem to listen to my prayer. I'm serious. Who doesn't have? It's 100% true for everybody. Who doesn't HAVE WHO DOESN'T HAVE PROBLEMS? I have a lot of problems. I HAVE A LOT OF PROBLEMS. SO, I need to pray to I need to listen to you. Please don't talk. Cuz if you tell him, listen, please don't talk. I don't want to hear you. You to tell you, well, I don't want to hear. You don't want to hear me. Don't listen. But if you tell him, listen, I need a favor from you. I need a favor from you. I have a lot of I have a lot of I need Hashem to listen to my prayer. Now if he tells you well what does that have to do with me? Well says when a person talks in shul nobody's prayers get accepted. Somebody talks in the whole place the ceiling is the top it's going to get to. It doesn't get to shim. That's why the calls it. It's a big big sin. Why? Because everyone's prayers suffer because of the one guy that talks. So tell I have a lot of I have a lot of problems. Please. Yes. >> Secrets about the um couple of things. When uh when Abrainu left in the morning, it says Ara went. What does it mean? That went early early in the morning. He was zealous. He was he was such aem so zealous for Hashem's uh uh will that even afterm said you don't need to kill your son responded but I already tied them up how can I bring such a perfect ola and NOT SACRI SACRIFICE IT FOR YOUR HIGHNESS, for your for your glory. Let me make a little bit of this, a little bit of a cut on his throat. A little bit. And some say he did cut it. He cut his throat a little bit. And took and put him in gun. Put him in gun. And this was necessary for a certain of in order for him to be able to get married. was >> he wasn't married. >> Gilgul, >> I don't know, but uh as far as the uh is needed a certain type of tikun to in order for him to be able to marry. Some say it was a feminine that required a masculine part and that tun was required. But the point being is and it's not woman or man, it's something else. But nonetheless, a uh a was so zealous for the mitzvah that actually cut a uh a little bit of the throat of of uh of his son in order to serve Hashem. and it not being like a like a like a wasteful uh uh you know blessing. That's another thing. Um also when it says now I know you fear me. The reason why Hashem says now I know you fear me is because says can I cut a little bit? And Hashem says now I know you fear me. It's okay. You don't have to. I know you fear me already. You don't have to do this. So that's another another thing. Uh yes, if you answered, everybody answered. Okay. Anyone on the women's side? I didn't answer a question. Oh, everybody everybody knows everything else. Okay. I'm going to learn more so I could know like you guys as much as you guys know about. Thank you very much for learning with me. 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