Blessings And Curses Are All Coming Down To One Reason ( Current Events )

Good evening. This lecture, b'ezrat Hashem, will be leilu nishmat Miriam bat Yisdam, and refuat rozachaya bat Miriam. She needs a kidney donation. And refuat zev ben Chaya luva bat Annie. Yitzchak Nissim ben Rosa, and also, before I left to Israel a month ago, Things looked so promising. President is for Israel, is anti-Iran, is anti-Gaza. Things may look good. Finally, we get rid of the problems. I came back to a different world. He is more anti-Israel than Sleepy Joe. Sleepy Joe was hiding the fact that he has cancer. I don't know how he wanted to get reelected. I mean, remember, they forced Kamala, the chameleon, they forced her to take him over. As far as he concerned, he did not let go. He wanted to stay president for more years. It leads me to believe that he probably didn't know he has a serious cancer. What person would like to run again knowing he's not going to make it. So the last 2 weeks, my friends in the government are telling me that Trump changed his attitude completely towards Bibi. He's talking to him like he's trash. In his regular style, the way he puts his enemies down. So you see that no matter what, In the end, there's only one that pulls the strings and does whatever he wants, it's Hashem. Doesn't matter who you vote for, doesn't matter what they promise, doesn't matter their ideology. In the end, what Hashem wants, that's what happens. And if the person wants to do good for us and Hashem doesn't, nothing gonna help. If a president wants to do bad to us and Hashem wants good, nothing will help. Whatever Hashem wants, that's what will be. However, that being said, it's still better than— a thousand times better than those lefty Democrats. Because they are a threat, not just to Israel or to the Jewish people, they are a threat to the world. They are cancer in the heart of the world. This liberalism, this abomination that they spread, their horrible rotten ideology is a danger to humanity. Danger to this country, danger to this state, danger to the whole world. At least Trump and the people of his government, they are not pro-abomination, they are not lefty liberals. They— he may be very naive, or it's very easy to buy him with money. You hold the money and he forgets all his ideology. So the Arabs, they buy everyone with money. Qatar, Saudi Arabia, it's for decades already. Every obstacle they have, they solve with millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, and billions. And in the end, they get what they want. We have a saying in Hebrew, "Ba'al ha'me'ah, u'ba'al ha'deah." You have the money, you're dominant, you control. Unfortunately, that's the way it is. One thing, he deserves some credit that few days ago they passed a very important law. Hopefully soon they will follow this in Israel. I hope. I mean, it's sad that the goyim here in America have better morality and ethics than the secular Jews of Israel. This is the truth here. The people of his government have more ethics and more morality and more fear from God or respect to God than the trash that's running Israel. I give you an example. They passed a law here. I spoke about this law more than 20 years ago with a member of the Knesset. His name is Mickey Zohar. He's one of the key players in the Likud. He's a minister. I met him about 20 years ago and I told him that a similar law should pass. What did I tell him? I told him any person that is a suspect, right away they published in the newspapers about his case and destroy his life before he even went to trial. By the time he comes to the trial, the judges already read about him and they're already not objective. And even if he will be found not guilty, in the end his life is already finished. So you will apologize to him, but that's it. He lost his job, he lost his customers, he lost his friends, he lost his marriage sometimes. The price is unbearable. Why don't you pass a law that no one is allowed to publish about any case or any trial until the person is convicted? Once he was convicted, he cannot hide it anymore. He was sent to jail. Everybody will find out anyway. But until then, you're not allowed to talk about it. It should be confidential. So he told me, although you're 100% right, this law will never pass in Israel because the people of the media, these lefty liberals, they live of murdering people. They live off the shon hara, of gossip. That's the way they make their money. That's what brings them rating. So they will never let a law like this pass. They bribe all kinds of people not to vote for it. So if I would be you, I wouldn't even suggest that. We should go for something a little bit less than that. Maybe there is a chance that it will pass. What is it? That it could be public Published only when the police and the prosecutor decide to press charges. In the beginning, it's only an investigation. There's no decision yet. So as long as they didn't decide to press charges, that should be confidential. Once they already say that they're pressing charges against him, it should already be published. I know it's not fair. 'But only 2% of the people that the police press charges against them, they are not guilty, meaning 98% of the cases finish with conviction. So it's really almost the same what you want and what I suggest. For the 2% will have to forgive us.' That's what he said. Of course, in the end, even this law didn't pass. Today they're murdering people. As soon as the police come to ask him questions, it's on the newspaper already. His life is already finished. So now we have now a more dangerous world. Now you have AI. People can make fake videos of anyone. They can put you anywhere they want. They can fake a video from a security camera of you. They can make a video with your voice, your lips moving. That you give a speech and it's the exact opposite of what you believe in. And can do everything they want with this AI today. They can take dead singers and make them come back to life in a live show. In a live show. People see on a screen, he's singing with a band of living people and there's a person that is 30 years dead. And he actually sing with the band. And I'm talking new songs, songs that were written now, before, way after he died. Yeah, they can just like get his voice or something. So that's the point here. So now that's called deepfake. That's the name of it. Trump, you know, he wanted to pass a law and the law passed. What is the law? That people that would spread deepfake in the internet will be trialed. It's against the law as of now, and they can be jailed for up to 3 years and will pay very high fines. What does it mean, very high fines? Thousands of dollars, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, I guess depend on the damage. That means now if you will make a video of someone without his permission, deepfake, and with the AI, and publish it on social media, the person would press, would file a lawsuit against you. You can find yourself in prison and bankrupt just for one video you post. Until now, everyone posts whatever they want. Nobody did anything. That's a very important step towards fixing the world from the disaster we see in front of our eyes. You need hundreds of other laws to defend people's dignity and to destroy gossip and defamation of character and all these things. You need to make much, much stronger laws. To defend people. But at least over here they do something. You see, in Israel, if someone found a secret about you, he read your emails, he read, he heard a conversation that you spoke to someone not knowing someone is listening, he bugged your phone and listened to it and found out a deadly piece of information about you that is going to destroy your life, and he published it and you sued him, he will be found not guilty if the news he published is correct. Only if it will be a lie, then you can actually get money out of him. But if he published the truth about you, even though it's completely confidential and it's no one's business— no one's business. Somebody like that will be actually not guilty and you will have to pay his lawyer's fees. Meaning you published a secret about him that destroyed his life. He's broken and destroyed, pressed charges against you. He paid $10,000 for his lawyer. He would lose even though you destroyed his life and he will have to pay you for your lawyer. As a gratitude for destroying his life. That's the law in the Holy Land of the sodomized secular people of Israel. That's the law right now. Yesterday in Queens I spoke for 3 hours about Parashat Bahar. I have a lot more to say about the Parasha, but we have to move on to the next Parasha, Behukotai. Parasha Behukotai usually goes together with Bahar, have 49 curses in it. Parasha Kitavo and Parasha Behukotai together, 147 curses. 98 in Parashat Ki Tavo, right? And 49 in Behukotai. Together, 147 curses. And people are so scared from these curses that when they— when we go up to the Torah, the Ba'al Koreh that reads in the Torah, lowering his voice, low volume. Why? It shouldn't scream the curses in the middle of the synagogue. Whisper, whisper it, don't scream. The one Chacham once said, I wish people would be afraid to commit those sins that bring these curses as much as they're afraid to read it. So people are afraid to hear it but are not afraid to do things that actually will bring those curses. How to understand the logic of the people? You worry that people will read to you the curses in the Torah, but you're not worried to commit sins that actually bring these curses to your life? The parasha begins, "Im bechukotai telechu, ve'et mitzvotai tishmeru, v'asitemotam." 3 steps. "Im bechukotai telechu." literally, literally commercial time already. Im bechukotai telecho, that means if you follow my laws. Vet mitzvotai tishmeru, meaning and you keep my commandments. V'asitemota means and you actually do it. And then as a result of that, I am going to give you a lot of blessings. A lot of blessings in your life. What does it mean, a lot of blessing? I'll read to you some of it. Im bechukotai telechu, if you follow my laws, ved mitzvotai tishmeru vasitemotam, as results of that, first of all, If it says that you're going to keep my commandment, what does it mean if you follow my laws? The laws and the commandment, isn't it the same? The Gemara explains, no. Im bechukotai telechu, it means shetiu amelim baTorah, that you're going to learn Torah in the highest level of efforts that you can. There are many ways to learn Torah. You can sit in air conditioning with a cigar and learn Torah while you're getting a massage and eating a cream cake or good coffee. That's good for the library when you learn history. You can learn history like that. When you learn Torah, you have to be totally in it. You have to be be totally focused. It doesn't matter if it's hot, you suffer physically, you're poor, there's no AC, you know, all these things, none of it should be relevant. You have to sacrifice every one of your efforts and abilities, everything you have to invest in learning Torah. If you're going to put efforts in learning Torah, What will be the results of it? Listen carefully. I will bring rains to the Holy Land on time. What does it mean on time? When is a good time for the rain? 2 PM, 4 PM, 1 AM? What does it mean a beit ham? So obviously, literally what it means, you need the first rain to come in the right timing. If it comes 2, 3 weeks late, late or 2 weeks early, it can destroy all the produce. If the rain will come 2 weeks early in Israel, usually the rain begins in the holiday of Sukkot. The second half of Tishrei, usually it's the first rain, which is good. If it would come around Rosh Hashanah, before Sukkot, destroyed everything. If it would come closer to Hanukkah, already the Cheshvan or Kislev, it would be a disaster. So you need it in the right timing. Okay, that's seasonally. Seasonally, you needed to start around Sukkot. But what about weekly? Weekly also need the rain to come on time. When? Friday night. Friday night. Why do you need the rain Friday night? To remember, back then everyone was shomer Shabbat. We have problems, Benji? Huh? Those are big problems. Static cold, I don't know what that was from. So, you need it in the right timing during the week. When is it? Friday night. Why Friday night? Now remember, in those days everyone must shomer Shabbat. There's no such thing as chalalei Shabbat. So where is everyone on Shabbat? In a house. Friday night no one is in the street. After shul, after the meal, 10 PM, 11 PM, all night it can rain. If you have 3, 4 good hours of rain every Friday night around midnight all the way to the morning when people have to start going again to the shul in the morning, this night no one is outside. So no one is getting wet. Now remember, today people have umbrellas. People today are not shomer Shabbat. They sit in a car. They don't care if it's raining. They don't really get wet. But back there in time, when people wanted to go from place to place, they were sitting on a donkey. If it's starting to rain, it's pouring rain, they get very wet. There's nowhere to hide in the open field, in the desert, anywhere you go. People were praying that the rain should not start. So the Torah says that the rain will come on the right time. Tov. There will be blessing in the wheat and the barley and the grain. Everything will grow beautifully. Tov. You're going to make breads and eat and be full. And you're going to sit securely and peacefully in your land. Why do you think those two sentences are attached in one verse? V'akhaltem lachmechem lasova, v'ishavtem la vetach be'artzechem. You're going to have good parnassah a good living, enough food to eat, no one will be hungry, and you will live peacefully and securely in your land. What's the connection between good Parnassa and peace in the land? What do you think? What's the connection? Well, peace of the land is necessary to keep the good because if there's war on the land, then they'll steal the land. That's one way to look at it. That's one way to look at it. If Gaza is destroyed in a war, there's no food to eat. You need people to bring food, otherwise you die. Okay. Or even in Israel, everything becomes expensive. The shortage in the market. You never know what can happen. Currency movement. Yes, absolutely. But there is another way to look at it. There's another way to look at it. Because you have everything you need, there is no desire to start a war. War— leaders create war when there is bad economy. Wars move the economy. Manufacturing weapons, manufacturing all kinds of things you need for the war. You need tents, you need blankets, you need medicine. All of a sudden it increased the economy. Thousands of people work for the war, which if there's no war, there's really not that much of work. So when everyone is happy and they make a living, what's What's the point of going to a war? We're good, we're happy. When people are hungry and the economy is terrible, right away they begin to say, let's occupy this one, let's occupy that, let's steal this from the neighbors, from that country. We should take their land, we should take their gas, we should take their produce. Even Trump now wants to take Finland, the island, Greenland, Greenland? Greenland, next to Iceland. Why does he need it? Because it's close to Russia. If one day you have a war with Russia, you will be very close to them. You know right away they're on the way to you. That's an excuse though. But there is a lot of minerals there. You will produce billions of dollars out of that land. Oil, gas, aluminum, all kinds of things. They said this is a very rich land. He wants to buy it. We'll give you, I don't know, $50 billion, give us the island. They don't want. They go in. They know the potential. Trump can tell them, I'm taking it anyway. You want money? Fine. You don't want? We'll take it for free. What does it call in the Torah? Someone that comes to you and says, "I like your tie, give it to me." Hamas. Hamas. That's what it's called, Hamas. There is ganav, there is gazlan, and there is Hamas. Ganav means he steals from your pocket when you're not aware, behind your back. Gazlan means he steals while you're looking. Comes into your store, you stand behind the counter, He takes from the shelf like the people in San Francisco, up to $900. You know, so they come in your face, fill up the stuff, and they leave. That's called gazlan. Chama'as means, nah, come on, I'm not a thief. I'm giving you money for it, but it's not for sale. Listen, I like your watch, give it to me. No, no, it's not for sale, it's a gift. No, I'm not, I'm not saying— here, take $200, give me the watch. He grabs it, he puts the money and go. That's called Hamas. He could do it. He could also take the, the Panama Canal over there, take it over. That could create a big problem. Why? Because all the boats, the Chinese boats, all the export passing through this canal. Right now they pay a fee to the Panama people and they move. He can take it over and say, "No Chinese boats passing here." Next thing you hear about a world war. You never know what can happen. So, okay, so there will be peace in the land. You would sleep peacefully. Right now, nobody sleeps peacefully in Israel. Every night, sirens. The Houthis, they shoot a missile from Yemen. It takes a few minutes for the missiles to arrive to Israel. 99% of the missiles, the Israeli security system shuts down. All you need is one missile to go through, like one fell in the airport. In Ben Gurion Airport. He fell 300 feet from Terminal 3, where is the main terminal over there. Thousands of people there in a big hall. All the United, Delta, all these people is right there, Terminal 3. There is security systems underneath, so much, the billions of dollars of property and the life of thousands. That missile, if it would fall one block away, think about it, 100 meters away, it can kill 1,000 people and cause $10 billion in damage. That's just immediate damage. Then all the cancellation of flights until now already cost billions of dollars. Thousands of flights, hundreds of airlines cancel all the flights from then until now. Every day hundreds of flights are not flying. It's destroying the country. So what does it say here? "Ushravtem vein machrit." You sleep and there is no fear. What else? "I'll make sure there's no bad animals in the land." Who sends the bad animals? Hashem. Who sends the enemies? Hashem. There will not be a sword in your land. No war. Nobody stabbed, nobody killed. Today it's shooting. Same idea. No terrorism. Who brings terror? Hashem. When you ask in Israel, Who are the terrorists in the world? The answer: Muslim Arabs. That's the answer. As soon as you hear about terror attacks somewhere in the world, what's the first thing that comes to mind? An Arab. For every 1,000 terror attacks, 999 are done by Arabs. That's a fact. Here and there you have some Christian wacko, or now I heard something in Liverpool in England, the soccer fans of Liverpool was walking on the street in a parade and someone came with a car and ran them over. First thing came to my mind, England, London is full of Liverpool, London, Crystal Palace, all these places are full of Arab Muslims. Probably one of the Muslims decided to commit a terror attack. The next day I heard on the news that he's actually not an Arab. He's somebody British. Probably some crazy person. I don't know for what reason he ran over the people. So, "Kerev lo tavoh ba'artzichem," Hashem say, "There will not be terror attacks in your land." So next time when somebody asks you who brings the terror The answer is really— the real answer is not Hamas, not Hezbollah, not Islam, not Arabs, not Nazis. What's the answer? Hashem. It's written right here. I will bring it. I will not bring it. That's the language here. How will I bring it? I use filthy people to commit attacks. I don't use a nice civilian, nice person, righteous Gentile to go and kill people. No. He doesn't want to be a murderer. I leave him alone. I choose those ones. It's a very good match. I want X amount of people to be hurt because it was written in Rosh Hashanah. Who will I hire for the job? Mustafa, Hussein, Saeed, Ahmed, Muhammad. Eh? Back in the Nazi times, I wanted millions of Jews dead. Who will I hire for the job? Hans, Adolf, Rudolf. Here's different contractors. One day it's an Arab, next day is a German, the next day is anyone. It could be anyone. Next, you will chase your enemies. Your enemies will collapse in front of you, meaning beg for their life with their hands up in the air. 5 of you will chase 100, and 100 of you will chase 10,000. There is a little bit of a problem here with the ratio. 5 will chase 100, meaning 1 for 20. 1 Jew against 20 enemies. 100 of you will chase 10,000. That means 1 for 100. 5 times more success. What happened? 5 can deal with 100. 100 can deal with 10,000. 100 should be able to deal with 2,000. How we jump to 10,000? You hear the question or no? If each Jew can handle 20 enemies, right? So 5 Jews times 20, it's 100 enemies. 100 Jews times 20, it's 2,000. So it should be 100 Jews against 2,000 goyim, just like 5 against 100. How all of a sudden 100 will chase 10,000? Because it's not the person that's doing this, it's Hashem that's bringing the— Fine, so Hashem, Hashem, if Hashem decided that when we are listening to him and we're learning Torah with lots of effort, he will give us a success. What's the success? That one of us can run out of Israel 20 Hamas terrorists. One Israeli, 20 Hamas murderers. Based on this formula, 100 Israelis will chase 2,000 Hamas terrorists. Same ratio. But all of a sudden it jumped to 10,000. Meaning if it will be 1,000 Jews, how many they will chase? 100,000 probably or more. The numbers, they will— so the question is why? Why all of a sudden 100 have more blessing than the 5? No? What do you think? One way to explain it is less than 10, you don't have the Shechina with them. With Hashem, to be with you, you need at least 10, like in shul. Minyan. If you don't have minyan, you cannot pray. So 5 don't have the Shechina yet. If you come to the synagogue, it's a mitzvah to be the first one. That's the highest level. If you didn't come as the first one, it's mitzvah to be one of the first 10, one of the first 10. If you came number 7, there were 6 people in a shul and you walked in, you are the 7th one. Did you change anything in the status of the room? Nothing, nothing. There's no shchina yet. Who brings the Shekhina? The 10th one. Once the 10th one enters, then the Shekhina of Hashem enters together into that room. So who is more important? Someone that came as the 3rd one or someone that came as the 10th one? The 3rd one came 10 minutes earlier in the morning, deep freezing winter. 6 o'clock he showed up, the other one showed up 6:10. Who deserves bigger credit? The one that came at 6. Why the one that came at 6:10 get a higher credit? Because he brought the Shechina in. But it's not thanks to him. It's not thanks to him because every one of the other 9 brought the Shechina in. Why does he need to get? The answer is we're learning a very important rule. That every job that is started to get done by someone but it finished by someone else, who gets the credit? The one who finished the job. You know, sometimes you bring a contractor into your house or an electrician or a mechanic on your car. He work, work, work. He does 60, 70% of the job and give up. I don't know, it doesn't work out for me. 'Not worth it for me. I'm leaving. You don't have to pay me. Goodbye.' You're stuck now. 70% of the job is done. Everything is open. You call someone else. He comes and finish the job. He gets all the payment. First man get nothing. So obviously, obviously, the one that came in and thanks to that the Shechina came in, he gets an extra It's like credit, but every one of the 10 get the credit for the Shekhinah that comes because every one of the 10 brought the Shekhinah in. Then it continues, I will come closer to you and I will fertilize you, meaning I will make sure no couple that got married will have any problems having children. All women will be healthy and fertilized, they'll have many babies, easy deliveries, easy pregnancies. I will multiply you and I will keep my covenant with you. Look how many blessings. Look, all of that is thanks to what? You fixed the problem? What was the problem? The cord over here? The wire? Yeah, it was a faulty wire. And you have an extra wire? You don't stop to surprise me. How did you think to have an extra wire? There was a problem and we had to change it. No, I'm beginning to think that you have Ruach HaKodesh, man. You play humble, you play, you know, down to earth, quiet, but behind the scenes— I just make things better. So we owe you a lot, Baruch Hashem. It's really annoying when you have static in a lecture. It bothers a lot of people. Okay, but now that's been said, I put on the AC, but move on to the next issue. You know, all of these blessings that I read to you, which there are more to come, is thanks to what? Thanks to what? What will give us all the blessing? I don't get an answer here. Thanks to what? What does it mean? Huh? The whole Torah is going in Hashem's way. We are now talking about a specific requirement. Oh. If you only learn Torah like in a library, none of these blessings will come. Think about it. Think about what I say here. The entire Jewish nation learns Torah all day in yeshiva, everyone. You still don't get all these blessings. Why? Because they learn roughly. They are too spoiled. Nobody kills himself like the Chazon Ish over the the Torah, or like Rav Ovadia or Rav Eliyashiv, all these people who gave their life for the Torah. So just learning, just like you learn in school or you learn in a library, that will not bring the blessings. Specifically, sheti'u amelim baTorah, remember this. When people say it's a huge mitzvah to support Torah, You have to be more specific. Not all Torah. Torah of people that amelim bat Torah, amelei Torah. Tomech be'amelei Torah. Not someone who comes at 10, cigarette, coffee, donuts, phone call in and out, talks half of the time about politics, about the election, and does one or two rashis in 3 hours. That's not Amel Batorah. Giving money to someone like that, that's really not a good investment. Amelim Batorah, here everyone comes on time, no dibbur echol, nobody speaks about anything besides the learning, no phone call, no stopping, not in and out. Amel Batorah never look at the door and someone walks into the yeshiva. 3 hours he is with his face in the Gemara, 50 people came in and out, and the door makes noise, squeaking, "Whee-ah, whee-ah, whee-ah," like this, 100 times. People that are melim bat Torah, they didn't even pay attention. They only will see who is in yeshiva when they finish to learn. People who are not melim bat Torah, this is the way they learn. Like a fan, you know, the fan. So remember the requirement. If you are melim bat Torah, then the list of these blessings is going to come. Then the Torah continues. I will build my house 'inside you, among you.' 'I will not be disgusted by you.' You have something that is absorbed inside a plate or a pot. Absorb, absorb, absorb inside a pot. When you boil that pot, the garbage that is absorbed inside the pot comes out. So it causes separation between the good and the bad, right? The bad is separated out of the good. So Hashem say, I will be disgusted by you, lo tiga'alen afshi efchem, if you will behave with abomination and horrible things that you are doing, I will be so disgusted from you that I will vomit you out of my system. Just like you get the dirt out of the pot. Same word. Ag'alat keleem min hashon go'al. With ayin. When we ask someone, how was it? Ugh, go'al nefesh. Meaning so disgusting. That's go'al nefesh. Disgusting. Something that makes you want to vomit. Definitely not a good feeling. So Hashem said, I will not be disgusted by you. Meaning, if we're not amelim bat Torah, Hashem is disgusted by us. Think about it. You can be a complete religious person, keep all the mitzvot, come to shul 3 times a day to pray, learn most of the day Torah without efforts, peacefully. It's not the main thing in your life. You're not a tziv, you give tzedakah, your wife goes to the mikveh, your kids go to good yeshivot, you live like a frum Jew, and at the same time you discuss Hashem. For one reason, that you can put efforts in the Torah learning and you don't. That's it, nothing else. I'm translating to you what's written here. If you are Amelim BaTorah, you get all the blessing. And thanks to the Amal HaTorah, I will not be disgusted by you. Meaning when there is no Amal HaTorah, what happened? Hashem is disgusted from us. You don't have to be a big thief or a rapist or mechalel Shabbat to make Hashem disgusted. It doesn't have to go that far. That's needless to say. Like the Rambam writes in Chodesh Shuvah chapter 7 halacha 6. The Rambam writes over there yesterday before he became a Baal Teshuvah, before he repented, he was hated, ayas sanui, meshukatz, meruchak, vetoreva. You were literally an abomination, hated, pushed away, disgusting. And today, and now when you became religious, you are welcome. You are like a relative, like a friend. I want to hug you. Come closer, my son. Yesterday you kicked me out of the room, tell me, get out of here, I don't want to look at your lousy face. And all of a sudden today you tell me, come son, give me a hug. Looks like a contradiction. No contradiction. Yesterday you were a lousy thief and today you stopped. Yesterday you were mechalel Shabbat and today you stopped. Avaldis is one step beyond. Over here we're not talking about non-religious people here. Everyone was religious. There is one requirement, "Sh'ti'u amelim baTorah," meaning if you want, soon you're going to see what's coming to us if we're not amelim baTorah. Most people never pay attention to this. They read Parashat Behukotai 1,000 times. People in their 70s, they read it for 7 years and they never pay attention to what I just told you. This whole parasha is not if you be mechalelei Shabbat, thieves and stufim be'arayot. No! It's talking to religious nation. Just one requirement will change it all. You put all your life into my Torah or not? You will? This is what you're gonna get. You won't? See what's coming for you. Just for that alone. Every other sin is needless to say, obviously. If you're fully religious and you're not a melba Torah, you get all the curses you can think of. If you are mechalel Shabbat, it's needless to say. So all these arguments that all these liberals have with me is because of their ignorance. "Ah, you think because he's mechalel Shabbat Hashem doesn't love him?" Of course he doesn't. If someone is not ameil bat Torah, is fully religious but he's not ameil bat Torah, he gets all the curses that you cannot even imagine. And it happened to us. It's not just the threat. Let me read it to you. So I won't be disgusted from you. I would walk among you. "I will be your God." Meaning not always I will be your God. I will be your God when I will be welcome. When I will feel that it's the right thing to do. If you push me out, if you ignore my talk, Torah, if you don't give your life into the Torah, I may feel that it's not worthy for me to act as an active God among you. And you will be my nation. When can you be my nation? When you are Amelim BaTorah. If you only Shomer Shabbat but you don't learn Torah, you won't be my nation. That's what it means here. If you're just going to do all kinds of mitzvot but you won't be amelim baTorah, you're going to have a very big problem. I am your God that took you out of Egypt, released you from slavery, broke the chains from you and took you to freedom. Now, up to now was the list list of what you're going to get if you put all your heart and efforts in the Torah. Now is the list of what will happen to you if you won't be ameil baTorah. Remember, it's not talking about if you won't be shomer Shabbat, or if you will be stingy not giving tzedakah, or if you won't do this and you won't do that. No, this is already assuming that everyone is religious here. Now I want to talk to the religious people and tell them it's not enough. There's one main issue, Amal HaTorah, and that's what everybody runs from. Almost all the scholars of Torah ran away from the Amal, meaning if they get stuck in a Gemara, in a hartos fot, after 10 minutes, yalla, weiter, let's go on. 'Come on, let's move on.' 'What do you mean let's move on? We're stuck in the middle. What is the Kashia? What bothers the Rav over here? What is he talking about?' 'Ah, it's too hard. Tov, let's move on. I don't want to waste all day.' 'Ah, but that's not Amal, that's Hafif.' I remember one time I listened to a tape from my Rav. He said something in a shiur and one of the talmidim said, "What, Rav, minayin la Rav shezekacha?" How does the Rav know that that's really what it means? Maybe it's like that. So he told him, "You know, yesterday I stood 7 hours standing to understand this line in the Maharsha." Meaning, I won't sit down until I will understand it. Doesn't matter if it takes 2 days. After 7 hours, it came to him. Now, I want to ask you a question. This is a genius guy. What took him so long? Why it took 7 hours? If he didn't understand after 1 hour, usually the chance that he will understand after 7 hours is very slim. If you have a sharp head, you try a few times until you get it. 10 minutes, 20 minutes, an hour, that's it. Don't need 7 hours. The answer is it was impossible to understand, impossible. But Hashem is testing the person how much he cares. And He sees that a person stands and tries write 50 times, 60 times, 70 times, thinking, reading again, thinking, calculating, thinking again, but now, but this, but that, checking in a different Gemara, checking here. Boom! Hashem says, okay, you proved yourself, here is the answer. Puts it in your mind. You didn't get the answer, don't kid yourself. It's just that you proved to Hashem that you wanted it so bad, He gave it to you as a gift. He gave it to you as a gift. That's called siata d'shmaya, siwa from Hashem, help from Hashem. Some people have a lot of siata d'shmaya and some people have almost no siata d'shmaya. Whatever they do, doesn't work. You know, every person have a personal purpose in life. Personal purpose. There is the general purpose. Everybody has to be righteous, everyone has to be honest, everyone has to be shomer Shabbat, every woman has to be modest, people have to keep the laws, the purity laws. Top. It kosher, that's a general law to everyone, general purpose to me, to him, to her, to everybody. But there is also a unique individual purpose to each person. That's, by the way, one of the hardest things to discover in life. First of all, no one can swear holding the Torah that he knows what's the purpose of his life. You can be sure, I'm 90% sure, I'm 95% sure, to swear to all the Torah and to swear that's my purpose to be a teacher, that's my purpose to be a doctor, that's my purpose to write fillin and mezuzot, my purpose to be a musician, my purpose to slaughter animals, My purpose is to teach kids. Everyone in the end finds something to do in life. How do you know if what you chose is really your purpose or not? How do you know? You are a successful doctor, so you're sure that Hashem wants you to be a doctor and save lives. But you'll be very, very surprised to find out when you come to Shamayim that Hashem may be very, very angry at you and disgusted by you that you went to be a doctor. He'll be very angry at you. You would say, I saved 500 people in the surgery room in my 30 years being a doctor, maybe 1,000. What could be bad? Hashem will tell you, with a brain like you, like I gave you, I wanted you to be the Chazon Ish, be the biggest rabbi in the world or the biggest rabbi in the country. And you put your efforts and your brilliance into medicine. So then the person will say to Hashem, I get it, obviously to be a big rabbi is billion times more important than to be a doctor. 'But if that's the case, why you gave me such a talent in medicine? Why you made me such a brilliant surgeon with a good hand? I never messed up, I always succeeded in my surgeries, never had malpractice.' Maybe it's a test. So the person would ask Hashem, 'Wait a minute, you should have made me a failure, a loser.' Right in medical school, a year into medical school, The teacher would tell me, listen, it's not for you to be a doctor. You have two left hands. It's not for you. Yeah, go find yourself a different job. And then I don't have no choice. You went back to yeshiva and you became somebody big. So you will blame Hashem and tell Hashem, I don't understand. If it wasn't my purpose, why you helped me to be so successful in medicine? Why help me to be such a great teacher? Why you help me to be such a great caterer? You could have made my food disgusting and stale. No one would order food from me. I'll be bankrupt in a week or two and go back to yeshiva and, you know, fulfill my obligation as a big a great scholar of Torah. So technically you get the point what I'm saying here, no? It doesn't really matter how successful you are. It's not a clear indication that that's what Hashem wants you to do in life. However, if that's the way you chose to live your life, he wanted to be a doctor, he wanted to be a businessman, he wanted to be rich that he can support Yeshivot. But it wasn't his purpose. With his head, Hashem wanted him to be a learner, not a supporter. Sometimes it's the other way around. The person Hashem wanted him to be a big businessman and support hundreds of Bakhur HaYeshiva, and he insists to learn even though he's dumb and he doesn't understand anything. But he learns for 30 years. Why are you learning? You have potential in business. Makes you very, very smooth, smooth talker, good salesman. You can make millions. Make millions and support Torah. No, I want to learn, I enjoy learning. But anyway, nothing is going to come out of you. Who's to say that something has to come out of me? The purpose of learning Torah is everybody must be Rashi? No, dumb people have an obligation to learn Torah as well. So any way you look at it, there is really no way to know. No way to know. In my opinion, it's a very big mystery. Because how can Hashem make a person live 70 years and until the second he died, he can't even know know for sure if he lived his life according to Hashem's expectations. Who would ever know such thing? So we have a belief. That's a matter of faith. It's no clear knowledge. A matter of faith that if you see special help from Hashem in what you do, to benefit the world, to benefit the public, to benefit the community. You know how to read in the Torah in a beautiful voice. You're a great chazan. You sing nicely in a chuppot. You have an amazing voice. Everyone enjoys to come to shul thanks to your voice. You know how to pronounce the words correctly, etc. Many, many examples. It leads us to believe that that's the purpose of the person in life because Hashem helps him to benefit the public. If Hashem didn't want him to do it, he will find someone else. He doesn't have to be stuck with him for the next 40 years if he wanted someone else to do the job. So logically It's most likely your purpose. Can you swear about it? No. No, there's no way to know. But let me ask you a question. If a person learned all his life Torah with Amal, killed himself in learning, 16, 17 hours a day, did not leave the yeshiva, he doesn't know town, him and his books. And it wasn't his purpose. Hashem wanted him to learn like everybody has to learn daily. You must learn. Cannot go a day without learning. But Hashem's purpose for this individual was to take his father's wealth. His father already built an empire in real estate. He should take his position and continue to make a lot of money and support all the Ishivot. But he didn't want. I don't want to go to work. I don't want to go to Tel Aviv. I don't want to go to Manette. I don't want to see these wicked people every day. I want to learn Torah. What's going to happen with the company? We sell it, put the money in a bank and leave. That's it. What about the 100 people your father was supporting? 100 families with his business? It's not my problem. I'm not going to be a slave to feed these 100 families. I want to learn myself. And he learned nonstop, and he died. Now he comes in front of Hashem, and Hashem says, such a shame, I really wanted you to take your father's business, and I would help you to make it 10 times bigger. Instead of 100 families, you would support 1,000. 1,000 people will go to learn for full day thanks to you, but you chose to learn Torah. Can you go wrong with that? Somebody like that can get punished. Sometimes you come to a big Rav, you ask him, should I continue to succeed in business and support the people I support, or I should sell the business and go learn on myself? Always the answer is: stay in the business and continue to support those who learn. Because he's already making money, why risking it? Take the money and support. Meaning, what is it going to give us that you're going to go to yeshiva and 20 people that, thanks to your learning, will have to go to work? We gain 1, we lost 20. So Rav looks at the general good of the public. I will gain 1 and lose 20? What's the logic here? That's what Hashem really wants? But looking from the individual eyes, he wants to learn Torah. Hashkana of Shiva Torah, he says. Who can give me a proof from the Gemara that in the end nobody can complain to someone that chose to learn Torah nonstop? Stop all his life. Rabbi Tzadok Safdi on the point. Rabbi Elazar ben Charsom, his father Charsom left him 1,000 siddis. You know how much real estate it is? 1,000 towns full of real estate, stores, people paying rent. And 1,000 boats. Boats! You know, boats that carry merchandise in the ocean. That means he was probably what we call Bill Gates of those days. His father. How many people own 1,000 towns and 1,000 boats full of merchandise? And what did he do? He took his staff of cash and a huge bag of flour. Because flour, no matter where you go, you take water, you mix it, and you have bread. You won't die. You would live off bread only all your life. You can live now 50 years eating few slices of bread a day, nothing else. No fruits, no vegetables, no meat, no vitamins, nothing. No vitamin C, no vitamin D, bread only. You won't die. You may have symptoms, you may have pain here and there, you may have all kinds of symptoms, but bread alone keeps you alive. It's interesting. Just in the Holocaust, that's what they ate. One piece of bread and the soup was really no soup, it was just water. So bread and water. They lived years with bread and water. They didn't get grapes, they didn't get oranges, there was no meat. Bread and people survived for years. If they would give them 3, 4 times more bread, they wouldn't be so skinny. They wouldn't be healthy, but they wouldn't be so skinny. They would look normal. So he took flour and cash and he went to learn Torah. And he left all the wealth to get destroyed. Who would run the show? His father left, his father passed. He have to come take over the business. On the way to yeshiva, they were making, paving a road. Hey you, come help us. You see us working and you walk by? They didn't know who he is. He's their boss. He owns the town. What did he do? He didn't say, I'm your boss, be quiet. I'm Elazar, the son of Chazon. That would fall on the floor and kiss his feet. He didn't even say who he is. He took the cash that he had, bribed them, let me go. Here, take your money, consider me helping you. Instead of helping, I'll give you money for it. And he went to yeshiva even without money. How do we know that Hashem was happy from what he did? Well, it's like— maybe it was a mistake. It was like Yaakov Avinu when he was coming to learn in the yeshiva, then Esav came and tried to, like, sent his son to attack him, and then Yaakov Avinu gave, you know, gave Esav's son everything and just looked at him. So it matches that. That's a good idea, but over here it was because there is either that or you get killed. So obviously you don't want to die, so you give everything you have. Somebody comes to rob you, you and you have a lot of money on you. What, you're gonna rather be dead than the money is gonna stay in your pocket? So you give him everything you have. Take my watch, take my this, take everything, don't kill me. So it's not such a— it's not an exact example. I'm talking about something else right now. How do we know that what Rabbi Elazar ben Chorson did was a great thing? Maybe it was a mistake. Maybe Hashem expected him to take over the 1,000 towns and make it 1,500 towns and buy another 100 boats and increase the business and support Torah. How do we know that what he did was a great choice? The answer is because how do we know this story? The Gemara brings it and the Gemara brings this story as a proof for what? The Gemara says 3 kinds of people come to the Judgment Day in front of Hashem when they die: a poor, a rich, and a handsome man. Someone who looks very good, meaning the women didn't leave him alone. Someone that is very, very wealthy and has a lot of positions and business. Someone that is extremely poor. When the poor person comes, they ask ask him, why didn't you learn Torah daily? Lo kavat haitim la Torah. He says, how can I learn? My mind was distracted. I had to run, bang on doors, collect donations from people to feed my kids. All day I walked in the street collecting charity. Someone in my state of mind can sit and learn Torah? Immediately they turned the screen on in Shamayim and they show him Hillel HaZaken, how poor he was. He was chopping trees, carrying the trees, because back then it cost money to go into the yeshiva. You had to pay admission when you come in. Without it, you cannot go in. Why? Everybody participate in, you know, keeping the building alive. So Hillel HaZaken, one time it was a snowstorm in the Galilee. He couldn't chop trees. He came there, the guard didn't let him in. He went on the top of the building, put his hand in the chimney hole and froze to death almost. And they took him out and warmed him with a fire. Shemaiah and Naftaliyon was the two biggest rabbis in the world. Two converts. Two converts were the biggest rabbis in Israel. And they say Somebody so righteous like this Hillel deserves that we, the two biggest rabbis in the world, would light fire on Shabbat to save his life. It's our honor. Why? He's in life risk. Pikuach nefesh. But not just, "Hey you, come help him not to die. Come, light a fire." No, no, I will light the fire. The rabbi, not the student. So that's one story. A rich man come to the trial. Did you set up days and time to learn Torah daily? How can I learn Torah? I have 4,000 employees. I have offices. I have buildings. I have to collect the rent. I have to go, people suing me, I sue them. All day I'm working until 10 PM. Where do I have time? I leave the house early after shacharit and I come at 10 PM. Do I have time to learn Torah? By the time I get home, I eat a little bit. And fall on the couch, fall asleep on the couch. Then they show him Elazar ben Charsom, Rabbi Elazar ben Charsom, how his father left him all the wealth in the world and he kicked it goodbye and went to learn Torah and became a big rabbi. If what he did was stupid or it wasn't the will of Hashem, why the Chachamim are using it as an example of what's happening in the trial of every Jew. Meaning now every Jew that died in the last 2,000 years, when he comes up to Shamayim and he says, I was a businessman, I didn't have time to learn, Hashem shows every person is Elazar ben Chazon until today. You had more than him. I'm a puppet compared to him. But he left everything and he learned Torah. Why didn't you do that? Meaning that's the expectation of Hashem from every person. He can never go wrong with learning Torah. It's unbelievable. And the third one was handsome. Do you learn Torah? No, Hashem, the girls didn't leave me alone all day. Yosef Atzadi. They show him Yosef Atzadi. Sadiq was very good-looking. The women in Egypt were screaming when they saw him. "Yosef, let's have a selfie!" And he was walking like this, guarding his eyes. And they say to him, "You look better than Yosef." "I see, Yosef is such a good-looking man." He said, "No, I look like a monkey compared to him." No, he learned Torah. What excuse you have? Bottom line, between Hillel and Yosef and Rabbi Eliezer ben Chansom, you cover all the excuses of all kinds of people— rich, poor, handsome. So by the way, we learn now that if you go and learn Torah, You cannot go wrong, you can never lose, and there will never be a complaint of Hashem against you. Can you say it about anything else in life? If you want to be a butcher slaughtering animals, making glatt kosher meat, maybe Hashem will be upset at you. You want to be a doctor, He could be upset at you. You're going to be an engineer, will be upset at you. You want to be a math teacher, they'll be upset at you. It could be, maybe not, maybe that's your purpose and Hashem pushed you there. But since you never know, that's the big mystery. Anyone who does good in the world and we admire him so much, how do we know it's his purpose? If you have a great singer, has a great voice. I'm talking religious singer. He sings beautiful songs with holy words. Can he swear that that's the purpose of his life? Not every person that have great voice, his purpose is to be a singer. No. You get the point or no? Now let's see what will happen And let's see what will happen if you, if we won't be Amelim Batorah. Are you with me? What will happen if we won't be Amelim Batorah? Vehim lo tishme'uli. If you're not going to listen to me and you're not going to keep all the mitzvot. V'im lo tishme'uli. Let's see what Rashi says. Okay, I want to remind you, I already told you that many, many times over the years, but it seems to me that most people don't get the point. You never ever try to translate the words of the Torah literally. Never. It's a very common mistake because Because the literal explanation, "V'im lo tishme'uli," it means if you don't listen to my voice, to my words. But that's not what it means. If you tell your children, "Im lo tishme'uli, en ice cream." If you don't listen to me, no ice cream. That's modern Hebrew. We get the point. "V'im lo tishme'uli" of the Torah, it doesn't mean literally. If you're not going to listen to me, let's see what Chazal are telling us. V'eam lo tishme'uli liyotamelim baTorah. That's what it means. And if you're not going to listen to me about what? About keeping Shabbat? Obviously. About eating kosher? Obviously. About giving tzedakah? Obviously. We discussed that already. What am I talking about now? Rashi, Rashi asked the question, maybe Hashem meant if you don't listen to me to keep my commandments. Is it literally like it sounds? But he already said in the rest of the verse, it's already telling you if you don't keep my mitzvot. Why would he repeat it twice in the same verse? What does it mean if you're not going to listen? Listen to me, to put all your efforts in the Torah learning. Let's see what's going to happen. Hold tight to your chairs and try not to faint. Rashi says there are 7 steps in the collapse of a wicked person. There are 7 steps. They all appear right here. Let's see what Rashi says. If you're not going to learn Torah, obviously you won't know what to do. So you don't learn Torah, that's one sin. You don't know how to keep mitzvot, that's the second problem. Okay. If you're going to be disgusted by my laws, what does it mean disgusted by my laws? You become allergic to other people that learn Torah and speak Torah. You see it clearly today in Israel. Those who do not open a book, they cannot cannot stand anybody that learns Torah. This is Rashi 900 years ago. Moes be'acherim aosim. He doesn't do, he doesn't keep, but his brother is a bachur yeshiva. It bothers him. Tov. Lebilti asot. Mazal min lebilti asot. Moneach herim min asot. At one level, you are disgusted by religious people who learn Torah. Mazal lebilti asot, you actually come and fight them that they should not do it. You don't let them learn. Close the book on them. Call the police, "Hey, they're not supposed to be here. It's illegal, this building." Or when you see someone put fillin in the street, they run, take it down. Every day it happens in Israel. They can't see someone putting fillin to his friends on the street. They go crazy. Somebody put a sign on the wall, this lefty liberal, you have to see how he was pushing to grab it off. What was the sign anyone wants to put fill-in? Come. Take it off! It's school property, the wall. That's what you should learn in school anyways. That's a good point. Good luck telling it to the lefty Erev Rav. Pictures on the wall on your left. Now. So I skipped one level, excuse me. You're disgusted when other people do. You hate the rabbis, those who give musar and rebuke people. Preventing others from doing. Like I just described the guy that ripped the sign. Who said that? Who said what I just said? No other but The genius, the dumbest person on Earth, Yair Lapid, the former prime minister of the Jewish land, that Maishu is genius compared to him. One of the dumbest people on Earth. I don't even know what comes more by him. Him? First that he's dumb or that he's wicked? Most people, when they're wicked, it's obviously more severe. But him, I'm not so sure because the things that come out of his mouth are below anything you can imagine. He never read the Torah once in his life. One time he said, I actually really like Esav in a story. Even the secular people make fun of him. They make videos of the nonsense he says. When I was in the Knesset, he knows I attack him in my lectures. It's all over the TV. I come to walk upstairs to the second floor. Who comes in front of me? A pig. You see by the way he walks how dumb he is. He looked at me, "Ah, good thing you didn't give me a hug." He say, "Yom Kippur, it's not in the Torah." Yom Kippur, it's not in the Torah. Well, that's man's logic anyway, so it's kind of the same thing. Man is a different problem. See this? The two categories. The two rabbis, Rabbi Chaim Kachlon and Rabbi Reuven, they made this kuntres. Kuntres means a collection of all the heresy of Santa Claus. Santa from Minnesota. He say, I did not ask to come to the world, so they brilliantly, they call their book 'You say I didn't ask to come to the world, so they respond, it's a shame you came to the world.' And I signed on that with my stamp. It's such a shame. So, to be honest with you, I don't know why such two important people would waste so much of their time to even respond to such a clown. But I guess the level of the people out there is unfortunately so low that they need somebody to enlighten them to see that this person speaks filth and heresy and declares a war against Hashem. He's trying to save Neshamot. Today I went to a very big rabbi, one of the biggest Dig a hole. I don't know if you remember once I told you a story that he was on a flight and who was sitting in the business class next to him? Michael Jackson. Rabbi Michael with a bunch of kids. Back then nobody knew why he always surrounded himself with kids. It was discovered later on. So he was with his bodyguards and lots of children and the entire business class and that Hasidish rabbi. And the rabbi, of course, he doesn't look at anyone. He's fully with his face, his very holy face, mamash in his Gemara. All of a sudden, he comes to him, "Excuse me." It's unbelievable. "Excuse me, do you know who I am?" He realized everyone who gets on the flight saw him. "Oh, pictures, these." He signs his pictures, he gives it to people. And he doesn't look at them. The rabbi doesn't look at all the mess. They got curious. "Hi, do you know who I am?" "No." "You've never heard of Michael Jackson?" "No." "I'm a very famous singer." "Best in the world." "Good for you. What do you want from me?" "Can I give you a gift?" "Okay." He signed his picture and gave it to him. The person that was with the Rabbi later said that they came out from the flight, took the picture and threw it in the garbage. You see, in his holy mind, he didn't think that a picture of this clown 'He's probably worth $20,000 with his autograph.' He threw it to the garbage. So the day when I met him about this clown, I asked him the story. He's embarrassed, he's very humble. So, okay, I didn't want to respond. Anyway, so, you know, if you have extra time, for those of you who listen to me, obviously I already told you what you need to know about it. If you still have questions or you're curious or you want to show others, the Rebbitzen here, she got that's a part you can have, you can read. It will also teach you the right Jewish Ashkafa. Today when I told the holy rabbi, the holy Hasidic rabbi about some of the things he said, I saw in his body language how his body is shaking, literally shaking like this, was shaking. He said, "Hashem needs us more than we need him." He almost fainted when he heard it. I have more to say. No, no, no, I can't hear. Enough, it's enough. You don't need more than this. Holy people, they get the point in a second. Let me ask you a question. What do you expect from people that have yarmulke and beards and black hats who comes out of a show of Modi? Modi the filth with his husband. The comedian Modi who lives with a man, his husband, and religious people go to laugh from his filthy jokes and look at his face. Those are the people who follow this clown. Bah, Orevetz Lazar Zir! Oh, I just heard that another one from my blacklist interviewed this Two clowns interview each other. God needs us. It became a new movement. Shabtai Tzvi and his followers. So it's a very good name. Brilliant name. Chaval Shebat Al HaOlam. Indeed, chaval. So let's move on. So let's see the list of what What will happen if we're not going to be Amelim Batorah? You're going to say that I did not command that, that it's not from the Torah. Eh, laferchemet briti, what's the 7th step? Kofar ba'ikahar. There is no God. God left the world. We don't need him, he needs us. So let's repeat the 7 steps. Try to memorize it. You don't learn, therefore you don't follow the commandments. You are tired, sick and tired when others do it. You hate the Chachamim, the real kosher speakers. You hate them. You prevent others from doing. You claim that it's not from Hashem until you say there is no God. I don't believe in anything. I'm an atheist. You used to be a bachor Yeshiva, what do you mean you're an atheist? There are 7 steps until you become one of those. It's all written here. See, see, obviously you don't translate the words literally. It's completely different meaning. So, if you be disgusted from my mitzvot and you annul my covenant with you, I will do the same to you. From here we learn the concept of measure for measure from this parasha. All the punishments of Hashem relate to the nature of the sin. You steal from someone, someone will steal from you. You laugh at someone, someone will laugh at you. You ruin someone's shiduch, someone will ruin your shiduch or your kids' shiduch. It's all midah ke'neged midah. I would let you live in constant fear. You worry, panic, weee! Everyone runs to the shelter. People fall from the stairs, people break bones, old people fall on the floor. Terrible. Every time there is siren, you hear 20 people got hurt. From what? They shot down the missile in the air. From the panic, from panicking. You know, when I was in Israel, it was Friday, I was driving towards Rehovot. Remember I told the story that I— oh, actually, I don't remember if I said that in English. I was on Friday, I go with my friends, there is the religious beach in Bat Yam. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, it's men. Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday, it's women. It's a religious beach. Some of my friends from Yerushalayim come, from Cholon, from Bat Yam, from all over Israel. Everybody meets there on Friday afternoon. As I'm in the water with my friend, he's an Avrech Tzadik, he said to me, look, look, a plane comes and crashes into the water right in front of us. Boom! Small plane. I don't know if you heard it on the news. Right away, the lifeguards, they have a boat called "chassake." Against the waves, it's very hard. Two people and it's far. It's about 400-500 meters, almost half a kilometer. They have to go until they got there, it was more than 5 minutes. In the meantime, the plane is starting to drown. They saved the pilot, which was the father, and the boy was trapped with the seatbelts of the plane. They couldn't take him out and they sunk into the water. And he was under the water at least half an hour. I witnessed that. Under the water. I mean, after 3 minutes I was sure he died already. 5 minutes the most. An helicopter came from one of the Air Force bases in Richon Lezion to Bat Yam. It takes 3 minutes with the helicopter. It's called 669, Special Rescue Unit. They have ropes, they fall from the you know, like in the movies. They came, the helicopter make waves, it's such a big machine, all the sand is flying. Everybody ran to the end of the beach because nobody wanted the sand to come to his face. It's all religious people, everyone peot, beard, you know, it's all religious people. And the lifeguards scream, "Everyone, read Tehillim for the boy!" 15 years old. Old boy. People retailing. And it's unbelievable thing happened over there. And they couldn't get the guy out. They needed a hammer. It didn't work out. They wanted to cut. It took half an hour to get him out. Then they brought jet ski from another beach nearby. Meaning they don't have a budget that every life a lifeguard will have a jet ski for cases like that. They don't have the money. They use primitive ways. Maybe if they had a jet ski, they would get to it before the kid sunk inside. Once it was still out, maybe it was easier to break or to cut. I don't know. In the end, they took him with the ambulance and then we hear on the news that he's in difficult condition, be matzav kashé, critical condition. So how can it be critical condition? It was half an hour under the water. Who survived and didn't die being half an hour under the water? Air pocket. Sometimes they come. It's a small plane, you're not talking a large plane. Not all the water didn't fill up the No, the whole plane is under the water. It is under the water. The plane, you don't see the plane anymore. It sunk very deep. I don't know, maybe it's the Tehillim. Hundreds of people on the beach saying Shiloh Mahalot. Why I remember this now? Okay, after an hour we decided to leave. I had Shabbaton, I had a seminar that day. I had to rush. I come out of the parking lot, I drive 5 minutes— whoo! Big siren. For me, it's something new to be on the road with a car when a missile is on the way. You have to see the Israelis, how they panic. I'm telling you, it's mamash unbelievable. I sit in my car, everyone leaves their car in the middle of the road, you cannot drive. They block the road, they don't move to the side. In the middle of the car, the left lane, right lane, they leave the car, the doors open, they don't care if somebody comes, steal. Right away they run and they throw themselves on the sand on the side of the road. And I said, wow, I have a seminar today, how long it's gonna be now? I sit in the car and all the cars in front of me, there's nowhere to go. Can I go reverse behind me? Everyone ran. I'm the only one who sits in the car. That's it. People live in paranoia. This is what's written here. This is the source right here. V'evkati alechem be'Allah. That's Hashem is doing. A bunch of primitive Yemenite idiots shoot a missile from so far. You know how far Yemen is? It's like from Iran, very far. Takes more than 10 minutes for the missile to arrive. You know how fast is a missile? And big ones. How they aim? The missiles to come to fall in the middle of Israel. Then he begins to describe the sicknesses. Et asha kefet takadachat. You plant the seeds and vineyards and your enemies will take it away from you. When did it happen? In Gaza, Gush Katif, they gave everything to the Hamas. All the Gush Katif, all the farms, all the synagogues, thousands of apartments, tens of thousands of people you by force took them out of their home, out of their farms. They gave their life to plant trees in the land. Give it to the Hamas. And immediately after that they started to shoot rockets at us from this place. It's all Hashem is doing it. What normal leader will do an agreement with such terror organization and give them a whole city? Here, take it. For what? No understanding. It's all written here. Your enemies will eat the produce You will fall in front of your enemies. Your enemies will control you. One Arab gets on the bus, 50 Israelis counting the seconds to the bus stop that they should run down right away. Why? Maybe there's a bomb, especially in August if he comes with a coat. Everybody begins to cry. "I don't want to die. Honey, I love you. If I don't come home, you understand why." What? Ahmed just got on the bus with a coat in August. You know what it means? Suicide bomb. Who goes on the 90 degrees with a coat? If you see Swedish tourists, okay, maybe it's not normal. But if you see Muhammad in August gets on the bus with a coat, you know that now it's Gadal V'it Kedash begin. No joke. Boom! Explode the whole bus. Or take a gun and begin to shoot people. It's all written here. It's all written here. If you see all these tragedies and you still won't listen to me, meaning you still won't learn Torah with full effort, I will torture you much more. What? I will break your ego. Veshavarti et geonushchem, and your strength. I will make the sky not give rain. All your energy will be wasted. You will eat, but you won't be full. I'm hungry all day, Rabbi. Of course, it's a curse. Tzadik eats 2 bites and he's full all day. Rashah! No matter how much he eats, he's always hungry. I need salty, I need sweet, I need dessert, I need this, I need that. What's the pasuk? Tzadik ochel The stomach of the wicked will always be empty, no matter how much they eat. That's when the land will finally have a rest every 7 years in the year of Shemitah. And you are living in the enemy's land, when I throw you to exile and you live among your enemies, the land will have a rest. Why? Because you were there, you didn't keep Shemitah. And those of you who will survive, those of you will be left after all the tragedies, 'Vehach bilvavam'— I will bring fear, paranoia in their heart. In the countries of their enemies, they will run even when the enemies do not attack. Like in Europe, like in Canada. Friday someone sent a warning from Canada: Jews do not walk in the street with any Jewish signs. One person, she asked me from Canada, My husband should walk with the yarmulke on the street or with the baseball hat? It's not safe to walk with the yarmulke. In Montreal, it's all Arabs. And this is all Hashem, Rabotai. It's all Hashem. V'ani sharim bachem imakuba avonam. Those of you who believe will die slowly with their sins in the enemy's countries. And sins that started in the time of their parents. You know, it says that I will scatter you among the nations. I will throw you to exile, but not to one country. I will spread you everywhere. Spain, Portugal, Greece, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, England, United States, all the Arab countries, even China, Japan, everywhere you can think of. Why didn't Hashem throw the Jews all into one country? At least they'll all be together. Communities, everyone same language, same traditions, same everything. When he put some Jews in Syria and other Jews in Germany and other Jews in Poland and in Russia and in everywhere else, what will happen after few generations? The Jewish people would look nothing alike each other. You will have a Polish Hasid with his accent and his clothes and his food and his tradition standing next to a Yemenite, both of them holding the same Torah, and you will never ever guess that they are from the same nation. One is very dark with different accent, different food, different everything. One is very light, green eyes, blue eyes, very light skin, complete different customs. That's the price of exile, that when you come and speak to Jews from two different countries, you don't understand almost a word of what he speaks. You speak to an original Yemenite from Yemen, you don't understand a word. You speak to Hasid with very heavy Yiddish accent, you don't understand. The Hasid also don't understand you in your Israeli accent or your American accent. Why is it? That's the punishment that Hashem gave us. Some people ask, when you read like the Hasidim reads, Are you Yotzei Li Dechova or no? That's a good question. Why it's a good question? Because the Hasidim say for men and women, for both of them, he, which obviously cannot be both correct. If a man is he, the woman is who? If the man is who, the woman is he? But cannot be both of them he. Has to be a difference between a man and a woman because everywhere in the Torah difference between male and female, with animals, with everything else. You ask the Hasidim, they know there is a problem here, but that's their tradition. They are doing it for over 200 years at least, or more. The question is, for someone Temani, Syrian, Iraqi, that they read in the Middle Eastern accent, which is the same accent for more than 2,000 years, that's the accent that everybody spoke in the Middle East with ha and ah. You can see in Shukran Aruch, you have to make a difference between ah, ah, and ha. But when you speak to Hasid, it's all the same. Aleph, ayin, chet, same thing. Speak to Ashkenaz, German, same thing. Speak to Yemenite, Syrian, Iraqi, you see the difference. It's all balagan, big mess in the language. Are you b'chlal yotzele dekhova? If you read about a man he or if you read about a woman who or whatever the case may be, you yotzele dekhova, you don't read correctly. So the Hasidim, that's their tradition. You follow your tradition. The question is not about the Hasidim, question about me. I go not to Polish Hasidic shiur and I don't understand half of of the words they read. For instance, they say, "Lo totirmi meni ad boker." In my language, it is, "Do not leave anything left from me until the morning." Meaning, you ask Hashem to kill you by the morning. When I hear the Hasid say it, I get goosebumps. "Lo sosirmi meni ad boker." In my language, it means that he's asking Hashem to kill him but to make sure it's getting done before the morning. If you tell it to the Hasid, he won't know what you want. In his mind, he says he's reading a verse from the Torah about the meat, the meat of the sacrifice. Make sure you finish it before sunrise. That's the way he understands it. The way I understand it means that the Hasid is asking Hashem to kill him. That's the the price of exile. Oh, shaketz te shaketzeni vetah'ev te tav'eni. In my language is asking Hashem to make him impure. Shaketz. Shaketz te shaketzeni. Te shaketzo ti. According to the Hasid is te shaketzo to, not me. Do you see the differences? So Rav Moshe Feinstein zatzal, as an answer about this question, he said that all the accents and all the pronunciations are all liyotzei li dekhova, even though clearly in every group there are mistakes in their language. How can you be liyotzei li dekhova? You're saying the wrong words. The answer is because we are Anusim. Anusim. Anus Rachmana Patri. If you have nothing to eat, you're in a dungeon in Gaza, 2 days you didn't eat anything and the Arab would throw you a piece of meat or chicken that is not kosher. Could be halal but it's not kosher. It's trefah, nevelah, whatever it is. According to the Torah, you're not allowed to eat it. But now you are dying. If you don't eat it, you die. By tomorrow you'll be dead. So you must eat it now. Now it's mitzvah to eat it. You eat chicken that was not slaughtered. Maybe the Arabs, they slaughter, but they don't slaughter it the way of the Torah. Don't check the knife, they don't slaughter in the right place. So now, now you have to eat it because Because if you don't eat it and die, Hashem will be upset at you. Why did you commit suicide? You understand? When you're stuck in a place, obviously you try to eat vegetables, fruits, because that's always kosher. Fish, if you know the fish is kosher, if you have your own pot, you can wash it good, you can make yourself fish or rice, potatoes. There's ways to survive. If you're stuck in China now, what are you gonna eat? You go to the market, you see fish with scales, you clean them very well, you know, better even with soap or scrape it. You have a brand new pot from the store and you make yourself a kosher meal. Rice is kosher everywhere, white rice. You buy, you cook it, you steam it. Vegetables, kosher. Fruits, kosher. You cannot eat meat in China or chicken. There's no shrita there. Unless— when I was in Hong Kong, there was one kosher restaurant in a shul. In China, when I was in Guangzhou, there is a shul where all the Syrian people come from Brooklyn, from Brazil, Argentina, from Israel. They are importers. They import shoes, they import all kinds of things to America. So they go to the shows in Guangzhou. They have big shows. They buy electronics, they buy shoes, they buy all kinds of things. Where are they gonna be on Shabbat? So they have a shul there. And there is a lady there that cooks kosher food for 200-300 people. I had a Shabbaton there, one of the best I ever had. Who would believe in China I'm speaking to 300 people in every speech in a shul? People that live 5 blocks away from from here discovered who I am in Guangzhou, China. They are 5 blocks away from here, they don't know I'm here. They came to me, "Where are you from?" I said, "Monsey." "Oh, I'm from Brooklyn." "Where?" "Flatbush." "Wow, where is Big?" "Close to you in Flatbush." Small world. Let's just finish. Conclusion, Rabotai. Conclusion. Today, the wicked people of Israel, they want to close the yeshivot and the learning of Torah. They want to close the yeshivot. If you go to 100 secular people on the street and you ask all of them, would you agree that all the yeshivot in Israel will be shut down, there will be no Torah learning, and all the learners of Torah will go to the army or to go to work? Guarantee that 99 out of the 100 will say absolutely. Guarantee, not less than that. I don't want to say 100% because maybe there will be one tzaddik in stone, maybe. So I give it the benefit of the doubt. But I want not more than one. How do I know? I'm not a prophet. How do I know? I speak to people, I see the reaction. You know what? Forget about the secular people of Tel Aviv. More than half of the people with yarmulke and beard speaks like this. Those who don't learn full day must go to the army. Complete heresy. You can never send a religious person to the army. It's destroying his soul in a day. What he will see there in one day will destroy all his religion. What is he going to see there? Boys and girls kissing, abortions, cursing, non-Jewish music. People with no modesty and tons of heresy and hatred to the religion and to God. That's what he's gonna see. They're gonna give him time to learn Torah. They will give him time to put tefillin and to pray shacharit. They will care about his needs for kosher food. They will care that he cannot listen to a goy singing loud music in a dormitory at night. When the boyfriend and girlfriend will be sitting next to him, touching each other in a provocative way, they would care that Mendel the Hasid is there and he cannot see it? Who are you kidding? It's a gas chamber to the souls of the religious people, not to the body. Nobody will kill your body there. It's meant to destroy your soul. Therefore, no religious person is allowed to be one second in the army, one second. Nothing to do with he learns or not. Those who learn, thanks to them we breathe. Without them, we have no life. The Torah says, without learning the Torah around the clock, there's no existence to the world, the whole world, needless to say Israel. So those who learn Torah, to come and tell them close the Torah and go to the army, it's not just pure stupidity, it's a holocaust. For whom? For those who ask for it. They are the first ones that will die. If the shiurot will shut down for one week all over Israel, more than a million Chilonim will die. They don't understand that. Right now they're surviving the missiles and the Hamas and what's happening thanks to the Torah. Torah magna umatzla. So they want to actually cut the branch that they are sitting on, but they don't understand that. But I'm not talking about the Torah learners. This is— it's not even open for negotiation. Those who learn barely an hour a day, half an hour a day, and then they go to work. Plumber, electrician, a driver. Most religious people are not in yeshivot. They work. She's a nurse, she's a secretary, he's a driver. Most people work. I wish everyone was a learner, but it's not the case. So what are you suggesting? That a Hasid that is not such a great learner in yeshiva, but he's a holy kid, you watch his eyes, he prays, he put tefillin, you know, he doesn't go to places a Jew is not supposed to go. You want to put him with all these people that have zero dignity? A woman walks walks without getting dressed in front of him? I will finish with the letter of one Chabadnik. One Chabadnik wrote a letter. It came to me, the letter. I'll tell you what he wrote. He wrote that he have a grandson. He's an older Chabadnik. He said, I confess my sin today. I confess my sin today. What is his sin? I was one of those who screamed that all religious people who do not learn full day must go to the army. I admit, I thought those who learn, leave them alone. Those who do not learn, there's no reason why they they shouldn't go and serve. Until now I'm paying the price for my stupidity. My grandson got married, lives in a beautiful home with his wife and one or two children. I don't remember the number of the kids. And he's young. They took him to the army. He's 20, 21. You know, he didn't serve, you have to serve, Tov. Put him in the army. They put even married people. They just give them a little bit more money. And he did something he wasn't supposed to and they put him as a punishment in a base jail. We call it jail, but you know, it's more like community service. Clean the base. And who, and who was in charge of him? A girl. A girl, 18, 19 years old. She's in charge. So they told him, you are assigned to this girl. Let's call her Miriam, whatever. You're assigned to Miriam. She gives him orders to this religious Chabadnik in the army. And One time he went home and she forgot that he went home, so she wrote to him, where are you, Mendy? Where are you, honey? Efata motek. I miss you. That's the way they talk. Most likely she didn't mean romantically, but that's the way they talk. Like here in America, how are you, hon? Honey. You know, it's a form of speech. And his wife saw it. She wrote to him, where are you, honey? Efata motek anidgagate lecha, meaning being sarcastic. Where are you? I'm looking to torture you. Why are you not around? She enjoyed to torture him. And his wife saw it and Nothing helped. She divorced him and the house was destroyed. Now this older grandfather is crying now. If he would listen to that Torah, it wouldn't happen to him. This Mendy, this kid, should have died and not agreed to go one second to there. There's no permission from Hashem to go to a place that your soul is in jeopardy. What's not clear over here? Chazal say, Gadol HaMachtiyo, yo termina orgo. Putting a soul in jeopardy is worse than to murder the body. Putting a person in Vegas, in a casino, expecting him to stay Hasid. In what imaginary world you live in? Oh, I'm moving to Kansas. What's in Kansas? I got a good job offer. You have permission to go to Kansas? You have a shul bechalach in Kansas? One piece of kosher meat you're gonna find there? Besides, I don't know, cowboys and some southern people? What are you gonna find over there besides churches and cowboys? I'm just making up Kansas, Nebraska, all these places. That's where all our meat comes from. Huh? That's where all the kosher meat comes from. Nothing is It's import. You mean the farms? You're not going to go and eat the farms, right? I think AgriStar or one of them is over there. I came there when I was a truck driver. You have a shul there? Minneapolis, next state over. Minneapolis? What, Reform? No. The shuls of the gays? What? No, over there is a Chabad. Bottom line, Rabotai, you get You're not supposed to go to a place that you know your soul is in jeopardy. You know what happened to me with my youngest son? We'll finish with this story. Just a few days before I went to Israel, a few days, my youngest son, he told me, I want to go back to yeshiva in Yerushalayim. On October 7th, I had to pull him out of Israel. By flying him to Greece on a private charter, and from Greece— there was no flights— from Greece to Albania, from Albania to Poland, from Poland to New York. Not just him, him and my other two sons and my friend's son. Four kids. That was on October 7th. You had to see how they were crying. So getting to the yeshiva for one week and don't I don't come out until everything will relax. They were so scared. Oh, one Syrian guy found a private way to make a flight and we can get in. That's very expensive. That's the only way to come out of Israel. First let us get to Greece, then we'll see what to do. It was a nightmare. Tov, he came back here. I put him in yeshiva. In our yeshiva, adults. He was 16, 16 at that time, on October 7th, and now he's 18. He learned with people 27, 29 years old. Baruch Hashem, he has very good head. Was learning very good, became the star of the yeshiva. Now he say to me, okay, now it's time to go to Israel for 2 years. To learn in the highest level and then to get married. I said, "You sure?" He said, "Yes." I said, "You know, but Israel on the streets, it's not such a great atmosphere." He said, "No, don't you see I learn all day? I don't care in the streets." Okay, got him a ticket. He flew to Israel. 3 days after him I arrived. By the time I arrived, didn't even have an chance to meet him in Yerushalayim. I arrived from the airport to Rehovot. The next day I wanted to go to Yerushalayim. First thing in the morning he calls me up, "Listen, don't be upset, but I need you to buy me a ticket to go right away back to New York." I say, "What?" He say, "Yeah, it's not for me to be here." I told him, "What?" He told me it will destroy my Neshamah if I stay here. Destroy my soul. So why? You're in the best Yeshiva. Best Yeshiva. Yeshiva is not the problem. It's everything around. If I will stay here a month, it will ruin all my Kedusha. I can't, I have no permission to stay here. So I I said to him, okay, let me see if I can get you a flight. To get a flight from today to today, I bought him one-way ticket. Now I have to buy one-way ticket from today to tomorrow. Do you know how they kill you on the price? I said, not to jeopardize my son's soul, any amount of money I must pay. That's already Hashem's problem. He will return to me the money. No, there's no time to think about money right The boy's serving in jeopardy here, right away you gotta get him out of there. It's not the army, it's the best yeshiva in Yerushalayim. But in between, around the places you go down this, what you see around, it's not for me, let me go back quickly to Monsey. So I told him, you have two options tonight. Tonight at 1 AM or Tuesday? Tonight I cannot fly. I said, why? He said, I have to say goodbye to the Rosh Yeshiva and to explain to him why I'm doing it, that he won't be upset. I don't want him to— he already left for the day. It was 6 PM when we have the discussion and I found him a flight for tonight. He said to me, if the Rosh Yeshiva will come tomorrow morning and found out that I'm already on my way to New York, it will be disrespect. So, okay, so Tuesday, Tuesday, 1 and a half more days. Tuesday in the morning, 5, came to the Rosh Yeshiva and said to him, this, this is the situation. Why? We just started to enjoy from you, Chaval. The Mashgiach told told him, you, Baruch Hashem, have serious strength. Why can't you fight that Yetzer Hara from what's around? Fight it! So he told him, you're right, I can fight it, but I have X amount of energy. Right now I want to use all my strength to grow in Torah and Kedusha. If I will have I have to use my energy to fight what's happening around here, no strength will be left to sit and learn Torah all day because I'll be busy fighting all the evilness on the streets here. Baruch Hashem, you became a ben aliyah. It's an expression in the Gemara, someone that is on the way to the top. Atzlacha, boom, got on a flight, went back. What does he do since then? Doesn't leave the Beit Midrash. This is the right Jewish Ashkafa. You don't put your son in a place of a danger for his soul. Hashem gave you this soul to guard it, not to destroy it. No, but I want him to be a doctor. I want him to be a lawyer. But he's going to go to university, he's almost for sure will become secular and marry a goyah. You don't see what happened to thousands of Jews every year in universities? Forget about the antisemitism and the harassment and all the other problems and all the Arabs everywhere. Forget about that. I can afford that my son will go to a college. Yeah, but how is he going to live? Hashem feeds the whole world. You feed him. If you won't be rich, at least you'll be righteous. What's better, to be wicked wealthy or poor righteous? What's the alternative here? There's any dilemma? Problem is that wicked people love wealth. And it comes before Torah and before holiness and before anything. First money. If I can be rich and religious, fine. If I can only be rich without being religious, that's what I'm gonna do. But you can be religious without being rich, out of the picture. That's what the Torah says, don't make yourself a god of gold and silver. Why do you have to tell me such thing? You already warned me in different places not to be an idol worshipper. I got it. I know it's a death penalty. I know it's a cut for the soul. Why you have to now repeat, say Elohekesevezavlotaselecha? A god of wood I can do, a god of stone I can do. No, so I cannot do a god of gold and I cannot do a god of silver. What do you need to tell me that again? The answer is no. What it means is don't make the wealth your god. The gold— gold was the currency back then. It's like today the dollars. Don't make the dollars your god. The jewelry, the diamonds, the gold, don't turn it into a god. Meaning for that you're willing to sell me for a second. Who did this in the Torah? Lavan, the Aramean. He had a room with all his gods, all his idols. When Eliezer came with the camels full of wealth, what did he say? "Piniti et habait." I cleared the whole house for you. You should feel comfortable. The Gemara says, what did he have to clear? All his idols. He knew the servant of Abraham. Abraham is a servant of God and Eliezer is a very big tzaddik. He's not gonna enter a house with all the statues. As soon as he saw money, he dumped his God to the mud. Why? It's an opportunity to make some cash. In a second he sold his God. In a second. So Torah warns us, don't be like that. First comes Hashem, comes the Torah, comes the mitzvot. And then after that, you have the right to try to be rich, no problem. But don't kill yourself over it. Don't compromise your spiritual level for wealth. I know I'm talking to the world, don't get me wrong. So why am I saying it? That at least I won't be punished when I come in front of Hashem. He's gonna say to me, why you never say that? Anyway, anyway, no one listens. Still have an obligation to say. If one out of 100 would listen, and now from now on you put the wealth aside and the Torah comes before, it was worth it. If no one would listen, what does it say in Avi Eicheskel? Translation: And you, when you warn and rebuke the wicked and he did not return from his wickedness, he will die because of his crimes and you saved your soul. Meaning, if you didn't warn people that commit sins around you, you did not rebuke, and because of that they don't even know that what they do is so terrible, you are going down 100%. 50% with them even though you don't do what they do. You don't break Shabbat, your wife doesn't walk with no clothes on the street, you don't have TV in the house, you are different than the neighbors, you are different than the friends. It doesn't matter, habibi. You didn't scream to save people from their horrible ways. Count like you are like them. That's why so many religious people died in the Holocaust. Why? They were keeping mitzvot. Some of them were learning, rabbis. They didn't scream to all these Reform, "What are you doing? Why are you driving on Shabbat? Why are you taking buses on Shabbat? Why you marry German women? Why you change the sidur? Instead of Jerusalem, you put Berlin? Why you walk with no yarmulke and tzitzit anymore? Why your kids go to do Christian schools and to public schools? As long as me and my children are religious, it's not my problem what my brother and his family do. It's not your problem? I mean, it's supposed to hurt you. That's the whole concept of kiruv. A question is, how is it possible that a kosher Jew will go an hour of his life without doing kiruv? How is it possible? People are drowning in front of you and you walk? Every second around you, people drown in the office, on the street, on the highway, in the class, in the neighborhood, in a wedding, in a bar mitzvah. Even on Shabbat next to you there's a Rashah who came with a car sitting next to you eating lox in a kiddush. Other people don't let you rebuke, they all like— You don't care if they don't let you rebuke, it's no problem. What are they gonna do, beat you up? Who else comes to what, they hate you, so what? Or they tell them that they're fine and they have to go. We have wicked people and wicked speakers that I tell the wicked people, don't worry, you're good, Hashem loves you. They are very big criminals. I scream against these Rishaim Haruim for many years. They are the destroyers of the world. Come to Mechalel Shabbat and tell him Hashem loves you? You are such a criminal with such chutzpah. You have such nerve to come to a person who murders Hashem, no one but Hashem. Spit the Torah, is the most ungrateful creature, and to come and say, "Don't worry, nothing to worry, Hashem loves you, Hashem loves you." Such nerve. You would come to a murderer and say, "Don't worry." So why, if you kill people? "Hashem loves you, you're a great guy." They don't do that, right? I never saw them coming to a murderer and tell him, Hashem loves you. If you come and say to him, this is a big gangster, you know, he shoots people for a living, every day kill 2 or 3 people, look at his guns. Imagine, oh, how are you? My name is Mendel. Come, come, I would like to marry my son to your daughter. You are such a tzaddik, you are kadosh, you are kiddushim. Excuse me, Makadosh, it's a murderer. It's a hitman. I never saw any of these fakers run to a murderer to hug him and tell him Hashem loves you. But they do it to all the Mechalelei Shabbat. And I'm asking, I don't understand. The Torah says that Mechalelei Shabbat is worse than a murderer by far. So who are we following? What the street thinks or what Hashem thinks? If you are a religious man, you have to be a lot more shaken up when you see Mechallel Shabbat than when you see a murderer. Because a murderer is 100% field. But Hashem said Mechallel Shabbat is a lot worse. Hashem said, the Rambam said, the Shulchan Aruch says. So who are you following? Which Torah you have? If a son of a murderer come from your son's class to play with your son, immediately you'll do everything to chase him away. Why? His father is a big gangster. Don't bring this boy anymore to us. But the boy is good. Don't bring him, please, please. Don't bring a son of a murderer to the house. But the son of a Mechalel Shabbat, no problem. And if he's rich, what? He's gonna treat him like a chief rabbi of the city. But it's a holiday of Shabbat. So it just shows us what fakers we can be. Pure fakeness. Then we think, ah, we are such big tzadikim with such a great A real Baal Teshuvah cannot stand people that spit at Hashem, period. Cannot stand them, cannot look at them, hear the way they talk, wants to vomit. That's it. How many times I had people that call me, had two job offers, one paid a lot more, but it's a lot of weekends. With people there. I chose the other job. It pays a lot less, but there's no people there. That's a tzaddik. Parnassah, it's anyway in the hand of Hashem. It doesn't come from the job. Why would I put myself with third im chalalei Shabbat, with gays, with all kinds of heretics, if I can have a job in a storage and I'm alone with divrei Torah all day playing divrei Torah? Torah and I pack packages and ship. That's a lot less. In the office with all the Reshaim, you pay double, you make money, you make double, but every minute your soul is destroyed. Your criteria, your priorities have to be first the soul, then the body. Not like almost everybody does The opposite. First the pocket, then the soul. For that the Torah says, "Don't make the gold and the silver your god." You already have a god. There's a lot of tests in life. A lot of tests. Many of them we fail. The reason we fail them is because we don't fix our Ashkafa, our ideology. Once you make some adjustment to your Ashkafa, you never ever kiss up to the wicked. You don't admire the rich. You don't admire athletes. You don't admire scientists. All of that to you is pure mud. Singed on the floor, you admire it? No. So what happened? You don't admire nonsense. You only admire Hashem in a Kedusha. Mitzvot Hashem will be in this level, hopefully. Tomorrow I'm going to speak in Queens by Gavriel. Gavriel is a Gertz said Tzadik that converted to Judaism about, what, 2 years ago, Benjamin? Very nice person. Unfortunately, he's not healthy. He has a serious condition. And Baruch Hashem, Hashem is the doctor of the world. And our job is to do everything we can to pray for him. Gavriel ben Sarai Menuh. Everyone should dritta elim for him. When you learn Torah, say lerefuat. Yavriel Ben Sarah. Tomorrow we do two things. We do Shiur Torah in his house and Chanukat HaBayit as well. Hopefully, you know, B'ezrat Hashem, things will get better and the treatment that he gets would succeed and we should have him for many more years to go. B'ezrat Hashem. Baruch Adonai le'olam. Amen ve'amen. Rabbi Chananya ben Akashya, Omer Atzak, Adosh Baruch Hu, Le'Zakot et Yisrael.