Different Kinds Of Bribe That Can Blind You - Current Events, Tucker The Spy
A speaker connects Jewish teachings about the Tabernacle and Bezalel's craftsmanship to modern spiritual blindness, arguing that true wisdom lives in the soul, not the brain. He warns against insincere charity, criticizes liberal religious leaders as hypocrites, and insists that fear-based teaching is necessary for real repentance. Rabbi Avigdor Miller's work, he claims, can transform your life.
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Good evening. This lecture is for Elie Mordechai ben Sarah, Sarah bat Anna, Elisheva bat Miriam, Moshe ben Greta, Eleni Orna bat Chen Hanna, Ariel ben Elisheva, Atzlahav Yoel ben Nehemia, Chaya bat Esther, Leiluini Shammat Avraham ben Yaakov. Also it's the refuah to Elisa Malka bat Leah, la tzlacha ve'yishuat, Akiva Asher ben Shmuel, and the refuah to the nephesh verguf of Talia bat Hoda Brena, Gavriel ben Sarah, leilui nishmat malakeh bat Albu and Yosef Chaim ben Yishua haKohen. And that's it, I guess. So one announcement: tomorrow's lecture in Brooklyn has a new location. It's 914 Avenue R between Coney Island Avenue and East 9th. We updated the calendar. It's not far from where the lecture was last, a few blocks in Flatbush over there. And it would start at 8:15, bli neder, b'ezrat Hashem. One more announcement. There is a great book I came across of Rabbi Bentov, that tzaddik over here from New Jersey. It's very interesting. I saw, you know, it's inspiring for people that wants to get closer to Hashem. Teshuvah, it's a great awakening. He made it in such an amazing, amazing story that makes the person very interested, and there's a lot of great reviews about it. So the name of it is David Rising. You can see it. B'ezrat Hashem, anyone who will be interested in it can just email me, ravamizrachi@gmail.com. I will forward you to the author. B'ezrat Hashem. Michel Khor. I don't know if you saw the interview I made yesterday. It's already on my website. And, you know, once you deal with one of those famous people, then they all come from the holes. Can we do an interview? Can we do? But this one is a tzaddik from Los Angeles that I know him for 20 years. He asked the right questions. It was a 1-hour interview. It's covering everything that happens on social media with all these antisemites and all these things that are happening. You know, in the end, in the world, everything that a person does, everything he will receive will be "Mida ke neged mida"—measure for measure. This Tucker Carlson started to receive a lot of money from horrible Muslim countries who sponsor terrorism for decades. All the evilness of the world comes from Iran and Qatar. Somehow he became their follower. He received many millions of dollars according to what's published all over the internet. One person invested $15 million in him and all kinds of others. I reviewed some of those articles. And some of the videos out there all over the social media. And what I didn't know until yesterday is that Trump sometimes pretends that he's a fool, but always is in control. The guy is clever. What I didn't know is that the CIA, by following Iran. Remember, CIA do not monitor American people. They're not allowed to walk in American soil. Only out of America. That's the law. So assuming they keep the laws, I would assume they do. So they don't do civilians under American citizens. They just go under terrorists, all kinds of people outside of United States. While they following all kinds of Iranian terrorists and generals, they found out that they are in contact, daily contact, weekly contact with Tucker Carlson, their follower, which now is receiving money from them, lots of bribes. As I said last week, bribe makes the person blind. Many people are mistaken, they think Reuven and Shimon has a fight. I know Reuven is right, but Shimon is offering me a million dollars. So I will take the million dollars from Shimon and start twisting the story and say, "No, Reuven, you're wrong. He's right. Why are you doing it to him?" As a judge, why all of a sudden I became the lawyer of Shimon? He paid me a million dollars. The Gemara brings many stories like this. But that's not what the Torah says. You have to pay attention to every word of the Torah. The Torah doesn't say that bribe will turn you into a liar. The Torah says it will blind you. You won't be able to see the truth. Once you have sympathy to a person, you cannot convict him. You cannot convict him. I will never forget when I was 17 years old. I just started to drive and someone with a bicycle just came in the middle of the night and hit my car. I'm almost 100% sure that it's his fault. I mean, I was— I completed the turn and he came from nowhere and somehow hit my hood. I couldn't see him. It was in the middle of the night. Poor guy fell, had some stitches. I went to the hospital to visit him, brought him a cake. We actually became friendly for a while, me and him, you know. Accidents happen. And then the police came and they said, "Oh, you just got your license 2, 3 weeks ago. Already an accident? We suspend your license for 60 days." That's the law. Doesn't matter whose fault. Back then, at least, that was the law. You're involved in an accident, 60 days automatic suspension. Do you know what it means when someone just got his license after months of driving lessons Finally has a car with all his friends and they take away his car and his license. Do you know what a nightmare it is? So I'm going crazy. I'm going to the juvenile court in Tel Aviv. Up to, I think up to 18. It's for teenagers. I walk into the elevator. I see a guy with a suit holding a James Bond briefcase, you know, those old-fashioned ones. Used to be in style. And me being a friendly guy, a nice guy, I say to him, "Hi, good afternoon," something like that. And he looked at me with a smile, "Good afternoon." 10 minutes later, I walk into the courtroom. Who is my judge? This guy. I see, wow, he put his black, you know, outfit. And he's the judge and he saw me. And just a few minutes ago I was very nice to him in the elevator. He had to see how the nice smile that I gave him with the hello, how it turned him into my biggest fan. He became my lawyer. He was hinting to me what to say. Oh, I see in what you say here that your mother has knee problems. And she needs to go twice a week to treatment. Why she should suffer from that? He's looking at me. Say, yes, of course, of course. I tell you what we're gonna do. Instead of giving you 60-day suspension, we will suspend your license only at night. From 7 PM and up. But during the days, you need to drive your mother to the hospital. Yes, Your Honor, thank you so much. This is the power of bribe. He couldn't see my guilt. Why? He likes me. That's it. If you're still not convinced, remember O.J. Simpson trial. They put a person, black, you know, murdered some guy and a woman, murdered them. Everybody knows he's guilty. It's very, very clear. And what happened? There were a few black people in the jury and they couldn't find him guilty. That's it. And if he would be a Jew, a nice Hasidic Jew, and you put 3, 4 Hasidim in a jury, they'll do everything they can not to see guilt in him. You put a white German Nazi and you put 2, 3 Nazis over there from, you know, Tucker's friends, you put them in a jury and they will not see anything wrong with what he did. That's the way people are. She put few Muslims and there's a Muslim terrorist in the tribe, they'll do everything they can to let him go home. That's why the system to begin with is corrupted. Expecting ordinary people who never learned law for many years and don't understand the responsibility of the tribe, of justice, and they have to decide if a person will walk out free as a rapist or as a murderer or who knows what. You let him go free just because he's from the same ethnic or race like you? That's how bad people can be? The answer is yes. The bribe blinds people. They cannot see. Now, in case you still don't understand what I'm saying, if you come as an FBI investigator to the judge after the trial, your honor, 'We have to check you, test you on a lie detector. There's a complaint about, you know, the way you conducted the trial. We want to connect you to a lie detector.' 'You're suspecting that I wasn't honest?' 'Yes, Your Honor, please see it.' Tuck, tuck, tuck. 'Did you have empathy to John, the defendant?' 'No.' 'Did John give you anything?' 'No.' 'Do you really believe that John is not guilty?' 'Absolutely.' And the machine shows that you are not lying. The machine shows you are not lying because once you receive bribe from John or some nice gift or donation or anything like that, you already will do everything to defend him because you feel like you owe him. He's your friend. You cannot find guilt in him. Can't see it. Any guilt they'll show you, you'll find an excuse why it's not so bad. 'Ah, come on, you're exaggerating this, that.' This is the way people are. That's why the Torah is so careful. Even, by the way, you should know that there's also something that's called later bribe. Let's say you went to a trial, you didn't give any bribe to the judge, the bed-in, 3 rabbis sitting in a courtroom, and they conducted the trial perfectly with honesty, with, you know, professionals. And in the end, they found that you're not guilty because you're really not guilty. The other person stole money from you and they found it and they convicted him and they forced him to pay back. A month later, you say, "You know what? This judge is very honest, is very righteous. I saw how he handled himself in the courtroom and he has a big yeshiva. Yeshiva always need donations. Let me send him a $10,000 donation to the yeshiva." He's not allowed to receive it. A month after the trial, he won't see you again. He won't effect justice because your trial was a month ago. He actually ruled the right sentence. A month later, you want to send his yeshiva a donation. What's the connection? Technically, he should have been allowed, but it's not allowed. Why? The Torah says it's not allowed. Why? Very good, says the genius, says that, you know, that in the next case, automatically, once he receives a check from the rich guy of the two, he's automatically gonna always choose the side of the rich people. Why? From them there is a chance to get a check later on. From this poor guy, what is he gonna send? This guy may not send anything or he may send something nice, but at least there is a chance. With the other one, there's no chance. Automatically takes his side. I give you another example and we move on. The Maharaj says that, you know, every time the month of Adar comes, every 2 to 3 years, We push one more month into the calendar. It's called a leap year. Instead of 12 months, it will be 13 months. Why we do it? Because Passover falls too close to the winter. Passover has to be springtime in Israel, just like it was in the original Passover Exodus of Egypt. It was nice. Hashem took them out in the best weather. I don't know, 70, 75 degrees. Nice, nobody's freezing, not at night, not during the day. So that has to be like this every year, okay? So it falls around the month of April, beginning, middle, end. Now what happens if it comes towards March? This year, by the way, will be April 1st. That means next year it has to be a leap year because then it would fall around March 20th. And that's gonna be very bad because it's already cold. It's still cold, so you have to push another month, and now you're pushing it to April 20th, and the next year, April 10th, and this is how it goes. So by pushing one more month into the calendar, you make the year a year of 13 months. You're postponing the Passover time into the spring. Always make sure it falls in the spring. And it's perfect. How many months you add? Every 19 years period, you add 7 extra months. So remember, 19 years, 7 months. So it falls every 2 or every 3 years, a leap year. Sometimes after 2 years, sometimes after 3 years. So now, if you take a Kohen to sit in a bedding. Holy, very holy rabbi, tzaddik, kohen, he serves in the Beit HaMikdash with all the miracles in the house of God. Beit HaMikdash, the Temple, is now on the news. Everywhere it's on the news thanks to these antisemites. So Hashem is preparing us. Wake up! Everybody begin to talk about the Third Temple should be built. Bimrabi amen uson. So, you know, so the Kohen cannot be objective. Why? They walk with no shoes, barefoot inside the Beit HaMikdash. And they— there, for them, they think, if I will not push another month, my feet will be cold. So my incentive is to push another month. You know, they have to make a decision in a Bedin, all the rabbis together. If to add one more month to the year or no, which is going to be his second Adar, Adar Aleph, Adar Bet. But the Kohen is, in his subconscious, is already blinded because he is naguah badavar, he is receiving automatic bribe here. By adding one more month into the calendar, he will walk into the Beit HaMikdash in the time of Passover with all the ceremonies and everything when the floor is not as cold. Don't let him be a part of the court. And who are we suspecting here? The most righteous people in the history of the world that are serving in the house of God. Do you understand what we're talking here about? People that know Torah, people that are holy, people that feel the presence of Hashem in their life every second. And what happened? Even people like these, they cannot be objective once it's something that relates to their own comfort or money or children or anything like that. Why? The Torah tells you the nature of people, the psychology of people. So if by the most righteous rabbis it's like this, needless to say by ordinary people, needless to say by Gentiles, needless to say by all human beings. Very, very obvious. So speaking about all of that, I started to explain the trick that Trump did to Tucker. What did he do? Once the CIA found, by following Iranian generals, that he's giving them information because he's trying to cancel the war, it's not gonna be good for his employers. Those who sponsoring him, whatever. So they informed President Trump, and right away he called him. And that's very suspicious because just few days earlier he criticized President Trump. And if you know President Trump, he's not easily forgiving anybody. It's not easy to come and apologize, President, I apologize, and he forgets. No. It's difficult with him. So all of a sudden, he's so friendly with him, invites him to the White House, and he begins to give him inside information. Ah, don't worry, I'm just fooling the Iranians. I don't really gonna start now the war, but we have— it's a poker game. I want them to surrender, that we should do a deal. The only way they're gonna do a deal is me bringing all this army and air force and all these carriers close to them, put them under pressure. And you will see, soon they're gonna sign a deal. Knowing this guy is a traitor. He's a spy for Iran. He's working for Qatar and giving information to the Nazi regime of Iran. The famous Tucker. Such a lowlife. You betray your own nation. Okay, you hate Jews. Okay, it's nothing new. But your own nation? You betray your own nation? For what? For the money? So what happened? He told the Iranians, "Ah, you don't have to worry. I just came out of the meeting with Trump. He's bluffing you." That's why Khamenei and all the generals came out of the bunker. They were in a bunker that it was impossible to bomb them. They all came out. To the higher level. Just when they came out, courtesy of Taker, the friend, the Air Force, Israeli Air Force came and sent them express to hell, to their friends Nasrallah and Sinwar and the rest of the garbage. And that's what happened. So we owe this Taker a huge gratitude. Thanks to Tucker, we had the second Purim miracle. Haman died again. This Hamanai, which the name Haman is in his name, and it's not a coincidence, died thanks to the traitor Tucker Carlson. I wonder if Candace and all the other puppets, what they will have to say now when the CIA opened an investigation against him and arrested him, I guess for investigation. What would they have to say? Would they still support him or every one of these mouse— you know, mice will run into the holes. Usually people with you when you're on the top, when you begin to collapse, they all find excuses why they have to go. That's when you find out, by the way, who is really a good friend. That is with you in hard times. He's not in a rush. I'll call you next week, I'll call you tomorrow, I'm sorry, I have to go. No. Now when a person needs you, now is the test. Are you there? Are you fully devoted? Or, now what can I get from him now? He's collapsing. As long as I could get something out of him, of course it was my best interest to support him and to compliment him. And to kiss up to him. But now when the FBI is on him and the CIA, and now he's gonna lose his popularity and maybe soon is gonna be in jail, then the question that we have to ask is, do we still want to support someone like that? The answer is, if you are a righteous person, of course, more than ever before. More than ever before. And by the way, in case you think that someone that compliments you and kiss up to you is a good friend, think again. That's not what I'm talking about. The Torah says the good friend is someone that rebukes you when he sees that you are doing something wrong against the Torah. He calls you quietly to the side, not in public. You're not allowed to spill the blood of a person in public. Gotta be very, very careful with that. You have to be very careful not to speak one word of lashon hara about him to anybody, not even to your spouse. You have to be very, very careful not to start gossip, and needless to say, say, not to talk to anyone on the phone or to put it on your social media page. Some people are not thinking. As a matter of fact, something very interesting happened in Israel. I'm beyond shocked, beyond. A few days ago, a judge in Israeli secular court, not rabbinical court, not Torah court, convicted the person on lashon hara. You know, they have a law in Israel that you're not allowed to speak lashon hara about people. It sounds very nice, like the Torah. No, it's not like the Torah. In the Torah, it says you're not allowed to speak anything about a person, not the truth, and needless to say, not lies. Even the truth you're not allowed to say. 'What happened over there? What happened with him? What is he blamed for?' Not allowed to talk. And if someone sends you a video, you're not allowed to share it. A lot of people make this mistake right away. They share to their friends. That's a murder. That's an act of murder. You know, and right away it spreads everywhere. The next thing it's on the news and his family is destroyed. And the Torah is very, very strict. The punishments are beyond anything you can imagine. The punishments are equal to murder, idol worshiping, and giluy hara'ot shfichut damim en avodah zarah, and forbidden intimacies. All combined. In a secular law, only if you say lies you are guilty. If you publish the truth, you did not break the law. But according to the Torah, you are guilty of a murder. Do you see the difference? You go to rabbinical court, so what do you want? I put in my Facebook page the truth. I put the truth. And say, yes, you put exactly the truth, and for that we are holding you guilty of murder. Mamash. And it's terrible, terrible punishments by Hashem. If you add lies to the story, then the punishments become A lot worse, because now you're adding, you know, some salt and pepper to the story and some spices. That makes it a lot worse. And of course, once it begins to travel from hand to hand, everybody adds another spice. And a $50 robbery ended in $5 billion robbery after it passed 100,000 hands. WhatsApp pages. Everyone just added a zero to make the story more juicy. And of course they had other details and all of that. So there was one woman sued a neighbor in the same building that spoke to another friend of both of them, mutual friend, in a private conversation on WhatsApp chat. Not on a group, not on social media, two people on WhatsApp. And he wrote to her that the neighbor, that woman, she's a scam. She claims that she's active, she's doing charitable things, but he doesn't believe her. Stay away from her, be careful, you know, conversation like this. And then what happened, this woman went and told the other woman. And she showed her the chat. She sued him on a private conversation and he was found guilty. And that's the first time in history. They're going crazy, the Israeli secular. What is this? We're becoming Iran? We can't talk even to our friends on a private chat? There was a lot of criticism. Even lawyers, you know, they comment, what kind of a law is this? He's making up laws. It's not the law of the land. Okay, between you and I, the judge made a mistake. Judges in Israel, they don't stick to what's written. It's based on their hunch. Whatever they feel, that's what they rule. I guess he was in a bad mood, maybe, and he decided— but in the end, in the end, when he had to rule how much to pay, he only gave 4,000 shekels, and since the lawyer cost more, he called it even. So there was really no payment. Just pay for the lawyer, okay. But you get the point. But according to the Torah, you don't even need to ask a question here. If people speak lashon hara to each other about a third party, that's already a serious violation. So, you know, a few other things happened, and before I start, I just want to cover them and then we quickly move to our topic. The war is continuing, 17 days of war so far. As I told you last Monday, it won't be easy to surrender these demons. I told you that. These Iranian ayatollahs, no matter how many you kill, immediately somebody takes their place. Kill Khamenei, Khamenei, another someone will take their place. People don't understand Iran. Iran has 90 million citizens, and a third of them are radical extreme Muslim and supporting this regime. They support killing people on the street. They support bombing Israel and United States with a nuclear bomb. They support sponsoring the Hamas to kill innocent people, and Hezbollah, and Jihad. And the Houthis and all the other ones. 30 million terrorists in Iran. What do you think? You're not only fighting few thousand ayatollahs. They march on the street, you see over a million terrorist Nazis cheering for them with blood in their hands. So what do you think? If you're going to kill 10,000 ayatollahs, the problem is over? Right away they get from those people new people. Everyone goes up one level in rank. Somebody gets in, then the person that was there go one step higher. The second goes to the third and the third goes to the fourth. And that's how it is in every army. A general dies, his deputy takes over. Yes, maybe they're not so experienced, it will take them time to learn. In the end, they'll learn what to do. Russians helps them, the Chinese. So you may say, okay, listen, but we threw 20,000 bombs on them and missiles. We blow up their factories. It will be hard for them to make rockets. We heard the same story 2 months ago in the first war, in a 12-day war. We pushed Iran years years delayed until they will refill the missiles and everything and the nuclear— it was all a lie. They're very ready. 17 days, every hour they shoot missiles on Israel and this missile just before it lands opens up and turns into 10 and it spreads in a radius of 10 kilometers. Which is 7 miles from here to Queens Boulevard. All the way. Think about it. It covers the whole Queens almost. That's why Friday, Richon Lezion, Lod, Shoam, Hulon, today Beit Shemesh, Jerusalem, and other places, every day. Billions of dollars of damages so far to property. Huge miracle, less than 20 dead. It's unheard of. People don't understand. What happens here between those two wars, the first war and the second war, you had hundreds of huge missiles. Each missile is from here to the door. It's 6 feet height, 6 feet wide, and 30 meters long, 90 feet long from here to the door. It looks like an airplane almost. You have to see pieces of it. It falls in the mountain. It's fat next to the grave of the Ari HaKadosh. Just one piece that broke, you can put 10 people to stand and they don't cover that piece. 10 people, one next to each other. That's very, very big pieces. They fall if they fall on a building, can knock down a building, they can make holes into the ceiling of the building and go few apartments down without the explosive. Just the pieces that spreads everywhere. And maybe 30, around 30 people died so far. Do you understand what we're talking here about? Logically, according to the laws of nature, We could have had 10,000 dead by now with the amount of missiles that fell and tens of thousands of injured, seriously, badly injured. How many died? 30 approximately, could be 32, 29, some— I can't really keep track of everything, but that's more or less what happened. And the people, they don't see the miracles, most of them. They don't see the miracles. Each person has a free will, how he evaluates things. A wicked person sees, "Why God, if you have a God, if your God is so great, why he makes us get attacked by missiles?" A righteous person says, Wow! 500, 600 missiles, size of a building each one of them, and only 30 people died. Wow! What a huge miracle! Beyond— it's beyond words. Glass, I don't know, I told you last week, the Iron Dome, the Iron Dome, they sold them to Dubai, to the Emirates, and they able to shut down 50% of the attacks. Same exact system, no difference, shooting more than 90% in Israel. The main engineer went to Dubai to see what they do wrong, and he verified they do nothing wrong. System work here, system works there. Over there, 50% coverage. Over here, 90-something percent coverage. Why? Hashem. Has extra sensitivity to his children. One major disappointment we all have, you probably didn't even realize, this laser gun that they bragged about and made videos and spread those amazing videos. Wow, I was so happy to see. Soon they're gonna shut down the missiles with the laser. Because right now every missile we shoot we shoot to shoot it down, cost us tens of thousands of dollars each missile. Millions of dollars every day. The laser, $5. Few lasers, boom, boom, boom, all the missiles exploding in the air. They didn't shoot down one missile. The biggest scam of the century. Not one missile. So an article, I was beyond shocked. Beyond shocked how they fooled the whole world. How can you— you're not afraid what's gonna happen in the next battle? Everybody is gonna find out that you're the biggest scammer. How are you gonna get out of it? Well, first let's make $100-200 million deposits from all over, show them fake experiments that we made. Look, Shooting down there, shooting down there, and in reality it's completely worthless. Now they try to say, no, you need many of them. One, it's not enough. You need like 20 and 20 here and 20— oh, now they're gonna come to cut another coupon. One time they scammed us. I tell you what it's like. You know these people that borrow money for a real estate project. So they come to you and say, "Listen, I need a million dollars and within a year the building is going to be finished. We will sell it. A year to 2 years you get very nice return on your money." When the year finish, before the year finish, "No, how is it going?" "We ran out of money. We will need more money." "How much more?" "Another half a million." 'Are you serious?' 'Yes, we need to find another investor. We have to do it quick, otherwise we lose your million.' It's like a gun to your head. You want to save your million? Come and give us another half a million. That's the way it works. That's the way of the crooks. So in the end, his laser beam gun, it was a major disappointment. Kaval, if the video that they showed was true, it would be amazing. All the Hezbollah missiles from Lebanon, it was supposed to shoot all of them down. In reality, Hezbollah hit more than 100 targets. Fires everywhere. One of the interesting things that I saw that this round there was a lot of fire all over Israel. Buildings are going on fire, houses, apartments. Who knows what's the significance of fire in the land? When Hashem makes a lot of fire, things are burning, what is the message from heaven? What is the message? Shabbat. The desecration of Shabbat. The Gemara says, "Be'makom she'mitzuyad leka," you should know over there people break Shabbat. They violate, desecrate Shabbat. The desecration of Shabbat, it's segula to lose your property by fire. Hundreds of fires in 17 days all over Israel. Big, massive, whole building is on fire. One more thing that is very, very sad and upsetting, very sad, at least to me. Everybody knew that the holiest city in the world, Bnei Brak, is protected from missiles forever. The Chazon Ish 60 years ago said nothing bad will happen in Bnei Brak. Rafael Kanievsky, 20 years ago in the Gulf War, when they asked him, "Rabbi, should we close the Gemara and go stand 2 hours in line to get a mask?" Saddam Hussein is shooting Scud missiles. The same Saddam shot Scud missiles in Iran with chemical weapons. Each missile killed minimum 800 Iranians. Today you can see that it was a huge mistake to put Saddam out of power. Should have gone, check that he doesn't have any nuclear. Once you know for sure, you monitor him, you know, seriously. You check everything. You put civilians there. You listen to what they do. You'll be on top of them, but that is the remedy against these ayatollahs. They had a war for years, they were killing each other. They were shaking from Saddam. That's, by the way, the reason why they made all these missiles. They saw what the missiles of Saddam is doing to them. So they ask Rav Chaim Kanievsky in Nebrak, all the Avrechim in yeshivot, should we close the Gemara? The government say you must go get a special mask because if they shoot Gas, it's like tear gas. You cannot breathe, but it's not a little mace or pepper spray. No, it's in the entire area. You can't breathe. You die. 2, 3 minutes and you can't breathe and hundreds of people on the street falls and die. Or if you shoot mustard gas, it's special yellow powder. That spreads in the air, you know, like sometimes you have sandstorms that the sand is all over the cars. You come to your car and you see it's full of sand. Imagine this, but instead of sand is mustard gas. If it touches the skin, immediately it makes a permanent hole in the skin for the rest of your life. It eats the skin. So when they shoot the missiles, what do you have to do? You have to take a big garbage bag, thick one, not the thin one that they sell here. They have a special one. You have to go in, close it, and wait for a few minutes. And then if they say on the news that now it's safe to come out of it, you come out of it. If you don't have a bag and it begins to touch your face, you have no skin left. You see the bones, you see the inside. It eats the whole skin. Your life is finished. When I was in the army, they took me to a special course and they showed us films what Saddam did to the Iranian soldiers. You get the shock of your life. See people in hospital, no skin, face with no skin. See the bones inside. Scary. Life of a person is finished. One drop. Touch a face, big hole in the face. What are you going to do? Do 500 surgeries to restore the skin? This is how dangerous it is. Assad in Syria gassed his people. Half a million people he killed. Nobody made a beep. Why? Because there was no Jews. If the Jews would kill someone, the world is interested to know. Arabs kill Arabs, nobody cares. Nobody cares. Literally nobody cares. It doesn't even come to the news. Every day was killing thousands of thousands of people with gas and you didn't even hear it on CNN. Nothing. And when Israel attacked one terrorist, one, it's all over the world. That's the root of the antisemitism. Let's find out what we can blame blame the Jews. There's nothing special today. Oh, they just killed the Hamas terrorists. Shame on you, it's a genocide. So here you go, you see what's going on here. So Bnei Brak, Avraham Kanievsky, say to them, why do you need a mask? What is it, Purim? You don't need a mask in Bnei Brak. Nothing will happen. 39 huge SCUD missiles fell in Israel, another 21 fell into the ocean. 60 missiles fell in Israel together with the water. Now one of them fell in Bnei Brak. One fell close to Bnei Brak in Ramat Gan, secular city. But Bnei Brak, people walk, no masks, no nothing, no shelters. Rav Chaim Kanievsky said nothing will happen in Bnei Brak. Chazon Ish said nothing will happen in Bnei Brak. The Lubavitcher Rebbe said in the war with Saddam, nothing will happen in Bnei Brak, it's a place full of yeshivot. All three of them were right, and many other rabbis will say the same. But now a missile hit a building in Bnei Brak directly, boom, into the apartment. That means in case you don't understand what it means, that you have about, I don't know, 80,000 people that sits and learn Torah from morning to night, maybe 100,000 in that city alone. Bnei Brak is the number one city in the world in health. It's less heart attack than any city in the entire world. Did you understand what I'm telling you? In Bnei Brak, You had to have the highest amount of heart attacks. You have all the necessary conditions to get a heart attack in Bnei Brak. People eat very unhealthy— kugel, pshah, lots of oil, meat, tons of oil in potatoes. They don't care about health, find the means. These eat vegetarian. They don't have it. You know, the Hasidic food and the Litvish food. Not exactly the healthiest food. Some people are even heavy on their weight. People, most of them don't even go to doctors for decades. They just live. Many people even smoke. And most of the people there are extremely poor because they sit all day and learn Torah. So now, Health? You're not healthy. You don't eat healthy. You're overweight. You are very poor. You live with lots of children in a one-bedroom apartment with no elevator. And you cannot afford 90% of what you want to buy. Okay? That's almost a guarantee to get a heart attack. Stress, financial stress, unhealthy habits. Less heart attacks than every city in the world. Why? People's minds are deeply in Torah. Torah, Torah, Torah. Everything is Torah, Torah, Torah. Nothing else. But now it's changing. It's changing now. There is still a lot of Torah, but there's also a lot of nonsense. Politics, baseless hatred. Internet everywhere, very fancy boutique stores which you didn't have 30 years ago. Nobody would dare to make such stores in such a holy city. But by the stores of the town and by the size of the houses and by the decorations on the streets, you begin to see how holy is the city. Two people came to the Vilna Gaon. To the genius from Vilna to collect charity. He asked the first one, "What city you came from?" He told him the name of the city. "Describe to me the city." "It's beautiful. In the last few years, the town, they made a special waterfall. They made a lot of gardens with lots of flowers and they just finished the bridge and it's so much nicer." they made a place that you can go buy these and you have a new market. Okay, and then he said to him, okay, he called the other one, what city you came from? Same city. They both came from the same city. And he said to him, describe to me the city. Wow, such an amazing city. There's over 50 yeshivas there, 100 synagogues, so many big rabbis, so much Torah in the city. On Shabbat, you hardly see any vehicle on the streets. The horses are all resting. The donkeys are resting. People are in yeshivot. Songs of Shabbat from every house. Lots of mikvahs. So much charitable acts. So much acts of kindness and chesed. The gaon of Vilna took all the money he had in his charity savings and gave it to the second guy. How much he give to the first guy? A quarter, half a ruble. One of his students that was there said, "Rabbi, where is the justice here? Two religious people came. You spoke one minute to him, one minute to him. You give 99.9% to the second guy and almost nothing to the first." I want to learn. What did you do here? He said, by what a person speaks, you see who he is. You ask a person, "No, how was Pesach?" "Wow, we went to the hotel in, I don't know, Switzerland, Croatia, Florida, Cancun." You know? 'Wow, there is a great resort in Vegas. We're gonna do Passover over there in Sodom of United States. There is a special resort. Wow, it's, Rabbi, it's $10,000 a person. Just our family will be $100,000. And with the flight, $120,000.' And it's so amazing. So when they come back from their Passover, You ask two brothers, Reuven, how was Passover? Wow, such a nice hotel. They have such nice water in the beach and such beautiful sand and palm trees and such delicious meat and the fish there. I never had such a fish in my life. And you know, they have such great basketball courts and jet skis and bowling and the mall. Wow, you have to see what prices they had on the mall. After this, you know that he has zero connection to Torah, zero connection to holiness. He is a walking animal. Just eat and enjoy the moment. That's his life. Zero connection to spirituality. Then you ask his brother, Yaakov and Esav. You finish with Esav, you ask Yaakov. "Ah, was the Passover? Disaster. I'm so sad I went." "Why?" "No kedusha, naked people in hotel, Leila Seder with 500 people, so much noise you couldn't hear the rabbi what he was saying about the Haggadah. I don't even know the kashrut. The mashgiach didn't look so Orthodox to me. I'm worried." Who knows how many worms I ate in the lettuce? Who knows how much hametz he pushed into his catering serving? I suffered there so much. I miss the yeshiva. I miss Monsey. I miss Lakewood. Ach, I regret it. I'll never go again to one of those Passover events. Never. Now you know who is Esav and who is Yaakov. How do you know? Are you following them every day? You see what time they go to shul? No, you don't need to. Do you see how many hours they learn Torah? You don't need to. Do you see how holy their mind is? You don't need to. You don't need. You already know. Do you know where is the first one's mind is? And where is the second person's mind? Sometimes you have people that are half and half. Half in Torah and prayers and Emunah and half in their fancy lifestyle. People like these, Hashem gives them help. Every month or two, a smack. Car got robbed. Some guy came, "Give me your watch and your wallet." Wow, get so scared. Rabbi, you don't understand, I almost died. I have to come to the shul to make a seudah, seudah todah ya. It could have ended with my killing. Wow, wow, I'm shaken up. Every once in a while something. Government, lawsuit. One of his employees stole hundreds of thousands from him. You know, I want to tell you a story. There is one guy I know, good guy. I've met good guys. Over the years, he became tzaddik. But because he's so good, he's also naive. He had someone working for him, this crook goy. And she stole from the business, from the escrow account. It's in real estate, you have an escrow account. Hundreds of thousands of dollars. By the time him and his partner found out, she ran away. She doesn't answer phone calls for 2 weeks, can't know where she is. And now You tell her, what did you do? We were so nice to you. And they were so nice to her. And as a matter of fact, one time I went to the office and I asked her, how, you know, how they treat you here? Amazing. Amazing. She's still a thief. Thieves don't have conscience sometimes. They steal from their best friends, from their own parents, from their own brothers. So what happened? They can't sue her because she has leverage over them. She threatened to do this and to blame them for this. All lies. Say, we are 100% clean. It's all lies she makes. After an investigation, they'll see that none of that is true, but it will cost us $200,000 for lawyers. Then what? Whatever she stole, we're gonna have to spend on lawyers. You understand how these thieves work? They get enough information against their boss. There is a famous, very famous— they call themselves Kirov Organization. I say that they're completely worthless in Kirov, but they have hundreds of millions of dollars donations. Hundreds of millions. They own a lot of real estate in Jerusalem. Anyway, their accountant stole from them more than $30 million and they didn't sue him. Excuse me, $16 million, not $30 million. $16 million. They didn't sue him. They don't sue. Why? Let's see who's smarter. No, he can store a jewel in a building. He knows about them what you don't want the FBI to know about them. What do you think, he has the guts to steal such an amount one day and disappear and think that they'll leave him alone? He will only do it when he knows 1 million percent that they'll never take actions against him because they are guilty like him. By fooling the public. You see, many people don't understand. When you have a driver, when you have an assistant, when you have people working in your office, they see everything you do. Not only Hashem sees, they also see. They smile to you, they pretend they are with you, they pretend that they agree with what you do, but they collect information against you. And one day you will feel their knife in the back of your heart. That's the way it is, Rabbi Taei. You sit in a car, your driver is driving you around, he hears everything you talk about. He knows about your children, about your family, about your business, about everything. He may even record you on his cell phone when you drive. He knows your secret, he knows where you invested, he knows a deal that you're about to do. He may even acting behind your back against you. Just like Tucker was cooperating with the Iranian Nazis against his own people, against the United States of America. Why would he do it against America? Does he hate America? I wouldn't put my money on it. He hate the Jews. And the Jews are getting a huge glory right now. When the whole world sees that they have the best army in the world, without a doubt. The best intelligence in the world. They are the smartest. They do things that nobody ever heard that it's possible to do. They even greater than the huge empire of United States when it comes to attacks and intelligence. They know what the CIA doesn't know. They are able to put thousands of bombs in a tiny beeper. They plan it a year in advance in Europe. They go to a company, they buy beepers, they put the bombs there, they put it back. They do such an operation that the Hezbollah from all the people in the world will order 5,000 beepers like this, and then they blow up the head of all these Nazi murderers of the Hezbollah in one minute. The CIA can do something like this? In a million years nobody can do. And it kills him. It kills him to see this. So let me help Iran. I don't want Israel to get such glory. And there's another reason. What's the other reason? He thinks that Trump say America first. And Trump cares about the rest of the world just as much as he cares about America. Trump never say America first and no one else after. That's what he doesn't understand. Yes, of course America first. If Iran will have 11 nuclear bombs with the uranium they have, they can put together in one month 11 bombs. If Iran will have 11 bombs, you can have another North Korea. Everyone is afraid to talk to them. One word to this lunatic from North Korea and a nuclear bomb will fall on on Paris. Do you think this guy have limits? One word, you're going to see a missile coming and falling in the head of who knows where. And everybody knows and everyone afraid to say a word to him. Afraid. Why? They let him have a bomb and it's over now. He hold the whole world. He torture his people. Himself murdering people. I heard he murder his own sister, if it's true or not. People over there live in constant fear. There's no human rights. They torture his own people. He kills people just like they kill in Iran, and nobody ever make a beep about it. You don't see it on the news. It's a closed country. Nobody discuss them. Why? They have nuclear bomb and they're crazy. If Iran will have it, the next thing you're gonna have a nuclear bomb in New York. They're gonna call Trump, listen, we already have the bomb on the truck. Came from Canada into New York. We want this and this and this and that. If you don't give it to us by 8 PM, a nuclear bomb will explode in New York and 10 million New Yorkers will die. And they will do it. You see what they're capable of. So these Tucker and Vance and Candace and the rest of these idiots They know that if they will have a nuclear bomb, it's a threat to America just as much as a threat to Israel. They know it. But if we can condemn the Jews, why not? Do you understand what's going on here? That's the dirty politics. When you're not honest, when you have agendas, you twist the truth to justify what you say, all your lies and everything. Just a week ago, he spoke about Netanyahu saying, "We are erasing the memory of Amalek, the Amalekites." And he goes to the Book of Samuel. I would give him that, that he knows more Torah than 80% of the Israelis. I know most Israelis wouldn't know to go to the Book of Samuel and find the story of Amalek. Or maybe he used Google. Then he begins to read from the Book of Samuel, which Christians also follow, how God said to the Jews to wipe out the nation of Amalek and not have any mercy on them. And he reads the whole thing, and now he says that actually the Jews didn't do it, and God was furious with them. Why didn't you do what I told you? I told you to kill everyone, including the children. That's what he says. So now Netanyahu is saying we are erasing the memory of Amalek. Oh, the Iranians are Amalek? Of course they are Amalek. They're worse than Amalek. But we do not know who is Amalek. We do not know. We cannot identify Amalek. Why? Because there was a king named Samchariv, I don't know, about 2,400 years ago. He tortured the whole world and everybody ran around from country to country. So all the Gentiles of that time started to merge with each other. Ran here, Italians to this country, to Greece. The Greeks ran to Portugal. From Portugal they ran to France and to Holland and who knows. And then they left Europe. And so many people ran all over in the Middle East. Everybody got mixed. Children of Esav got mixed with the children of Ishmael. Buddhists, Hindus, everyone got mixed. Now we don't know anymore who is Amalek. There's no way to know. We believe the Nazis are Amalek, but we don't know for sure. We believe these ayatollahs are Amalek, but we don't know for sure. So this mitzvah of wiping out Amalek is not relevant for at least 2,400 years. 2,400 years. He may not know it. If he knows it and still pretends he doesn't, that's worse. That's a scam. Maybe it's just his ignorance. Oh, so now you want to wipe out these Iranians. Their own nation wants to get rid of them. Look what they did, killed 50,000 of them. How do you dare to talk? Now we understand. He works for them. He gives them information. They give him a lot of money. Between you and I, whatever money they gave him, $10 million, $50 million, $100 million, $500 million, whatever the case is, what exactly is he going to do with the money if he's going to sit now 30 years in prison? I want to remind you that Jonathan Pollard, the poor Jonathan Pollard, gave Israel information about Iran, not about United United States. He did not betray his country. He just gave the Israelis information that the Americans had at that time that the Americans for some reason did not give it to them. They should have given it to them. Israel shared with them their intelligence. They should have shared their intelligence. For some reason, they did not give Israel that information. And from the article I read, the Israelis didn't even use this information. So nothing ever happened. They put him life in prison. Trump pardoned him and now he's in Israel. And I had the merit to make him religious without meeting him in person. When I was in Toronto, in Thornhill, I spoke there in Esh Atora. There were a lot of people there. And right after the lecture, one Canadian woman came to me Rabbi, Rabbi! I was surrounded by 30 people, you know, after the lectures. Nice. Once or twice a year you go there. Rabbi, Rabbi, pray for Jonathan! I look at her. Who's Jonathan? Pollard! Oh, now I know who she's talking about. You made him religious! I said, I made him religious? Yeah, we gave them your Torah classes. He became religious in jail. Who are you? I'm his wife's sister. Sister-in-law. A week later, Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, ala bashalom, got permission from the Americans to go and visit John McCain in his room in the jail and to take a picture with him. They took picture in the jail. With their camera and then they sent it to him. Out of respect to the rabbi, I see Jonathan Pollack with the yarmulke and a beard. Wow! She wasn't telling me fairy tales, this woman. And then my friend Simantov, he used to deliver medical supplies. He met him with his wife, alea shalom, she had cancer. He met him in a clinic in Manhattan. They said to him, "Wow, you know, we want to come visit you." You know, they put him with the bracelet on his leg that he cannot leave the house in Brooklyn. They didn't let him out, the FBI. You have to stay in house arrest. "We want to come visit you, Rabbi Mizrachi and me." He said, "No, tell the rabbi I love you, but don't come. Everyone who comes to visit me, the FBI torture them from that moment on." How much they hated him and he did not betray America at all. They gave him life in prison. Without Trump, he would still be in prison and die in prison. A few years ago, he let him go to Israel courtesy of, you know, of his love to the State of Israel, to the Jewish people. What Tucker did is a million times worse than what Jonathan Pollard did. If Pollard got life in prison for the rest of his life, was supposed to sit in jail, then he should never see daylight. Because here he gave information to the enemies in a time of war. Do you understand the difference? Taking something from American computer that relates to a different country which everybody hates, nothing special, and tell Israel, be careful, That's what they have against you, right? So you see over here, Rabotai, that now everybody who mess with the children of God, the time comes and Hashem takes care of all of them, sooner or later. Not this time, next week, next year, but eventually everybody gets midah ke'neged midah. Measure for measure, everybody gets. Baruch Hashem. So I really encourage you to see that interview that I had. It's on my YouTube page and the website. You can see it. You're gonna like it because they asked me all the questions that relates to all the things that are going on. And Baruch Hashem, I answer everything in one shot. So this Shabbat we read two parashot, Vayakhel, Pekudei. And we actually finished the book of Exodus, Sefer Shemot. We're studying Leviticus now. The book of Vayikra is only a period of one month. It's all the laws that relates to the Kohanim and the Mishkan and the portable house of God. So the entire period of time that it was given to them was one month. That's it. The book of Vayikra, the The Book of Genesis, it's 2,200 years. The Book of Leviticus, 1 month. You see, the Torah is not a history book. It's not divided in a chronological order and every part in history have more or less the same amount of pages and chapters. No. One period in the Torah can be described can be described in many, many pages, and another event can be described in one sentence. Also, the appearance of events in the Torah, it's not in historical chronological order. And mukdam umukhar ba Torah— some events in the Torah described before others, but in reality they were after. To show you that the Torah is not a history book. We learn a lot of history from the Torah. Without it, we wouldn't know our roots. But it wasn't meant for that mainly, obviously, as we all know. So, Rabotai, Moshe now is in the last period of 40 days in the desert, in Mount Sinai, begging Hashem to forgive us for the sin of the Golden Calf. And Hashem gives him instructions how to, how to give charity, tzedakah, how to make all the things that relates to the portable house of God. And he gives them the second commandment after he broke the first one. The first one were made by God. He actually made the tablet. It was already ready with the handwriting in it. After Moshe broke it, he said to him, I'm going to give it to you again, but this time you have to make the tablets yourself. Here is a big chunk. In the Torah, it's called snapiroon, something like sapphire. Imagine one tiny 2-3 carats of ruby, sapphire can be millions of dollars. I held once in my hand one ruby. Pink, looks like marble. It doesn't look shiny like diamond. It looks like a piece of marble, like a chip from a marble. In a square thing, there was a little sticker on there, 2.2M. 2.2 million. And there were many small stones in the set. I picked up the small stone, I see a sticker on it, $110,000 each one. The whole set was $4.4 million and the guy was bragging, "It's sold, Rabbi." Yeah, like I came to buy. That's nothing. You put it in your hands, you barely see the whole thing or in a ring. $4.4 million, imagine a big chunk. The board, trillion dollars the value of it. The Gemara says, "Hey, that's how Moshe became wealthy." From the pieces that left after he made the tablets, there were lots of leftovers. And there was a precious stone. I always wonder who needs precious stone in the desert? I mean, today with the fakeness of the world, Every little thing worth billions. But now you're in the desert. What exactly you're going to do with sapphire or ruby? Besides making nice jewelry to yourself and to your wife and some nice earring or necklace. Other than that, what are you going to do with that? What, you need to buy food? You have mana falling every day and you taste any flavor you want. You need to buy cars? No, you have donkeys, you have horses, you have cattle, you have camels, you have everything. Yeah, you have everything you need. What exactly you buy? Oh, we want to buy a nice, a nice outfit, you know, a designer. Hugo Boss, the Nazi that make sure that you have sharpness inside. Why? That the Jews buy it, they should get cancer. If we have wool and linen mixed together, sewn together, for instance, fancy suits, Italian suits, they are made with 100% wool. 120, you know, they have all this. It's the quality of the wool. And then they want to sew the buttons. They don't sew the buttons with wool strings. They use linen. Why linen? If you try to rip it, you can't. Take wool, go around your fingers, pull it, you can rip it. But it's impossible to rip linen. So they want the buttons to stay forever, so they use linen. The designers in Italy. So they sew it into the wool once it gets mixed. It's a sin from the Torah to wear it every second. Torah say you cannot wear wool and linen mix on your body. Also in the color of the suits, on the color of the suit, they don't want it to get wrinkled, especially like a day like today when it's raining, it become wavy. So what do they do? They put a special linen net, a special wool net, and they and sew it around the collar with linen strings. And that's wool and linen again. So if you buy an Italian designer suit, most of them have chardonnays. You buy a regular suit, $200, $300, usually they don't have, but you still need to check it. But if you buy the fancy $2,000 suit, very high chance to have chardonnays. So what do you do? You go to the lab. And they check it. How do they check it? They have a microscope. They look with the microscope on— the guy showed me in his own microscope. He said, look, this is wool. He puts it under the microscope. I look at it, looks like bamboo. It makes it 1,000 times bigger. So it looks like a bamboo. You know those bamboos we put in the s'chach in Sukkot? Then he shows me linen. He says, see, look at the linen. Different inside of bamboo. That's how you see right away. Also, he's such an expert, while putting his hand inside and touch it, he knows by the contact if it's wool or linen. Also, they saw in the underarms with linen. Why? People with big muscles, the gorillas, sometimes they, you know, they stretch and what happened? The whole thing gets ripped. So they sew it with linen. Regular suit, they don't have patience to bring linen here, here, and all kinds of places. They just sew everything with wool and that's it. So what happens? You can fix it. If the net, they open it, they take it out, they replace it, they sew it, they fix it. The buttons, they take it out, they sew it with wool. Strings and they fix it. Sometimes you cannot fix the suit. The entire suit is wool and linen. When they need it, they sew it, need it together, all the pieces, it's all— there's no way to do it. Gentiles are allowed to wear it. It's not, it's not a problem for them. But Jews are not allowed to wear it. Why? Why God care if if a Jew will wear wool and linen mix on his body? Why does he care? You can ask the same question about any one of the commandments. Why can God care if you eat shrimps? Why does he care if you eat a shark? Why does he care if you eat a dog? Why does he care? Eat whatever you want and that's it. Obviously there's a reason for it. But why does he care if you have a suit that it's all wool, which is fine, or fully linen, which is fine, but wool and linen mix? Big problem. Every second is a sin wearing it. The answer is the first murder in the creation, in the history of the world, happened because of wool and linen. God said to Cain and Abel, the sons of Adam and Eve, to sacrifice a gift to him, show appreciation, teach them manners. Don't be ungrateful. Everything you have, I'm giving you. You have wealth, you have wool, you have meat, you have milk, you have the animals that supply you everything you need, you have cottons in the field. 'I owe you nothing. I gave you all of that. Learn to say thank you.' So he said to them, 'Bring sacrifice.' What happened? Abel is a shepherd. He cut the nicest wool, make sure it's clean from the best sheep, cut it nicely, and he brings the wool. And Cain is not such a God-fearing person like Abel. What does he do? He grows linen. Linen looks like cotton. You know, if you go in the field, you know, they grow from the ground. What does he do? Took the linen, dirty, sand, mixed with sand, not so nice. He also bring a sacrifice, but he didn't put efforts in it. When you do something for God, you have to do it in the best possible way. When you buy tefillin, if you can afford, buy the best one. If you buy mezuzot, buy the best one. Not just your BMW has to be the best one. With the BMW, you can take a smaller model, say 50,000. Well, when it comes to tefillin and mezuzot, what is the best in the world? That's what I want. Some people have art on their wall. Not for the purpose of business, for the beauty. Half a million dollar painting. Marc Chagall, Rabbi. Marc Chagall. Half a million, that was 25 years ago. Marc Chagall, probably now it's 5 million. And I don't have mezuzot in the house. Marc Chagall on the wall, no mezuzot in the house. I said to that billionaire in Rye, New York, right on the water with the— back then they had a mansion of $25 million. They bought that villa from this best baseball player, Rodriguez. No, Rodriguez? I don't know anything about baseball. Supposedly it's somebody very famous. Rodriguez. They bought this house from him on the water. You have your private beach. It looks like paradise, the whole area. One of the prettiest neighborhoods in America. No mezuzot in the house. I was pushy. You need mezuzot, mezuzot. No, few thousand dollars, I don't want to buy mezuzot. I said, I buy you mezuzot as a gift. This guy gave a $100 million donation. In one check to the university in Manhattan and another $40 million to a school in Westchester. And they own the biggest chemical company in the world, they don't want to put mezuzot. Now you may think antisemitism, they worry about maybe people come and see that they are Jews, maybe they do something to the house. Don't worry about it, nobody can come into the house, it's surrounded with such security and gate and a special electric gate. There's no way to enter. And you have servants. Nobody can come in unless you know them. So it's not because they have an apartment here or a store in Brooklyn, they're worried there's too many Arabs. If they see mezuzot tomorrow, they burn my store, which unfortunately happens. That's not because of that. But they try to say, I say a few thousand dollars on the mezuzot. Does it make sense to you? I tell you the answer to this mystery. When you go to buy Marc Chagall, there's no Yitzchak Hara. When you go to buy BMW, the Yitzchak Hara tells you, "Don't be cheap, get the best one." When you come to build your mansion, he gives you any possible idea to burn millions of dollars on the decoration. 'Get this one and bring this one from Italy, that special thing, this is handmade, this is custom-made.' People put 7 years into their house to decorate it. And then they become religious and they cry every day for the time they wasted. When you are here with no Torah, that's your life. When you finally understand the life in Torah, then you don't care about these things anymore. So what happened? Here you go. So here in the Parasha Rabotai, Hashem says in the beginning of the Torah, because Abel's sacrifice was accepted and Cain was jealous, he actually killed him. So because of wool and linen, the first murder in creation happened. Then don't have permission to get mixed together anymore. More. That's it. I don't have permission. So, Rabotai, Moshe now brings the second commandment and Hashem is teaching him all the necessary work to build the portable house of God. And right next to it, it says you have to observe the Sabbath. What's the connection? Yeah, you're building the house of God and right next to it you have to keep the Sabbath. Do not desecrate the Sabbath. The answer, the Oral Torah is teaching us to teach you that all the 39 works that are done to prepare the house of God are forbidden to be made and delivered on Shabbat. 39 things, if you count all the instruction, 39 major works. And from each family you have children and grandchildren who comes out of it. But the 39 main orders are, all of them are forbidden on Shabbat. So forbidden that there's a death penalty if you desecrate Shabbat. And a permanent cut from the soul for eternity. It's no joke. How many times I have to explain to people that if you murder a person, you will be executed by a sword. But if you observe the Sabbath, you have a share to the world to come. They may execute you for the murder, which they should. All murderers, almost with no exception to the rule, Jews against Gentiles, Gentiles against Jews, Gentiles against Gentiles. Doesn't matter. Everyone who comes and kills someone— we're not talking in the middle of a war, two soldiers coming, obviously it's a war. Talking the neighbor killed him, some racist threw fire and burned him. All these kinds of, all these acts of murders are all should be death penalty. Jails should not have murderers eating and drinking and watching soccer games. Or basketball. That's rotten society to let them live and enjoy life and eat well after they destroyed the life of a family and left some orphans and a widow. You give them a prize? You're feeding them? Immediately execution. Needless to say, terrorist, terrorist. There's any question that they have to be executed? But people don't understand the importance of Shabbat. With Shabbat, first of all, it's stoning. It's not a sword. Sword is a one-minute death. One, two, three, and it's over. Shabbat is a very humiliating ceremony. You have to wear a special alphet, which is a big, big disgrace. You know, sometimes you go to the hospital, they give you this thing to wear, you know what I'm talking about? Wow, it's terrible. They couldn't come with something better? Your entire back is exposed. You know what I'm talking about? Special pajama. They make you wear a special thing and you walk from the Sanhedrin, from the court. From the court, they walked you directly to the place of the stoning and all your children are crying and your nephews and your parents parents and your brothers and their wives and all your friends from the synagogue and your chavruta from the yeshiva. People scream and faint. Do you understand what it is for breaking Shabbat one time intentionally? One time! You clean a stain from your shirt, that's it. You lit fire one time. You thought something. You wrote something. 39 restrictions. Beyond any understanding. Now, how many times Shabbat is mentioned in the Torah? Generally, with explanation, 12 times, but mainly 8 times. 8 times. 8 times is much story talking about a lot of information. 8 times. But you're not gonna believe it. There is a very big secret that it appears 8 times in the Torah, it appears in 2 different variations. Sometimes it's called Shabbat, sometimes it's called Shabbat Shabbaton. Shabbat, sometimes Shabbat Shabbaton. Mal Shabbat, Shabbat is Shabbat. Shabbat Shabbaton, meaning the Shabbat of the Shabbat, meaning it's like Multiply it by who knows how much. It's a much higher title, right? Like you say, "This guy is my hero." And then you say, "But this guy is the hero of all heroes." Oh, that's already much higher level. "He is the best player of the team." "But he is the best player of the whole league." Oh, there's nothing to compare. Okay. You have Shabbat, ordinary title, and then you have Shabbat Shabbaton. Now, if you pay attention, sometimes it says 6 days you do your work and in the 7th day you rest, just like I did. I created the world in 6 days and the 7th day I rested. So sometimes what you say is, O vayomashvi'i Shabbat, right? O veshamubnei Yisrael et haShabbat, v'asot et haShabbat ledorotam brit olam, right? But sometimes it doesn't say ta'aseh, it says te'aseh. Do you know what's the difference between ta'aseh and te'aseh? I'll tell you the difference. Ta'aseh is you will do, you an individual the nation will do, but I'm referring to you directly. You will do 6 days, you will do your work, and on Shabbat you rest. Then there is another version: 6-day work will be done, and in the 7th day, Shabbat Shabbaton. Where it's written Taaseh, it's only written Shabbat. When it's written "te'aseh," it will be done by others, it's written "Shabbat Shabbaton." Your Shabbat will be in a much higher spiritual level. What is the difference between "ta'aseh" and "te'aseh"? Now I'm going to teach you a very big secret in life. It pays to be righteous. Na'aset bidei acherim. The work of the righteous people is done by the other people. You have a brother, he's in yeshiva, he's a tzaddik, sits all day, learns Torah, lives simple, doesn't have big eyes, doesn't cheat, doesn't steal, doesn't go, doesn't see anybody in the club, in Manette, doesn't go to vacation. Vacation, beaches, nothing. Synagogue in the morning, sits all day on Torah, live with his wife and children, children go to yeshiva, sits with his kids, teach Torah. That's his life. You walk, you fight, you see dirty people, you deal with crooks, sometimes you yourself is also becoming a crook, and you make money and you support your brother. Fantastic! Amazing! Everything he creates with his Torah goes to you as well. You bought him a house, he lives, he has, Baruch Hashem, a place to sleep, peace of mind, doesn't have to deal now with mortgage, bills, this. Thanks to you, he's learning Torah. You get full reward. But you're not in his level. Make no mistake. His mind and your mind is not the same. The way he looks at the world, the way you look at the world is completely two different eyes. Yes, you'll be lucky. Thanks to him, you're gonna get a very, very good eternal reward. But anyone in the world think that you are holy like your brother? No. Even you know it's not the case. It's not the case. Once you're working offices, Manhattan, people, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, It's not the same. Any contact with evil people, any contact with wicked people, any contact with all kinds of racists, contact with not modest women, contacts with gays who makes Hashem very angry with their lifestyle, make you a damage constantly, immediately, right away. That's why the Gemara is so strict about not to look in the face of the wicked people. When I had a debate with a wicked person in Israel, that gay lefty liberal, hater of God and hater of religion, I didn't look at his face. I was sitting facing the camera diagonally and he was sitting facing the other camera. I didn't look to him. And even if by mistake I move when he talks, right away I move my eyes. I don't aim on his face. Looking in his eyes, making eye contact with such a wicked person, immediately it's poison venom into your soul. Shaking hands with such a person is an immediate venom into your soul. Look at a lot of the big Hasidim, they don't shake hands. They make sure to come with books, they come in that nobody will give them hand. It just came out of the mikveh, Mendel. He's gonna start shaking the hands of all the wicked people? No. It doesn't help his spirituality. There are things that make damage. Most people are not even aware of it. They're not aware of it. He ran, ran to shake hands with every wicked person in the street. Someone gives you a hand, you're not allowed to embarrass him. Yes, you're gonna get the damage, but to insult him in front of other people, that's worse. But if it's a woman and you're a religious man and she doesn't know and she wants to shake your hand, tell her, "I apologize, for religious reasons I don't shake hands to women." That's what you answer her. Nobody will get offended because it's not personal. You see, if you don't explain, she thinks, "Oh, he doesn't like me because I'm white," I'm Black or I'm Chinese or who knows what I am. You understand? They may think, oh, he has something personal against me. No, you just say it's for religious purpose. I don't shake hands to any woman regardless where she came from. You need sometimes to explain what you do for the people who do not understand. Anyway, Hashem said to him, so remember, so when it's Ta'aseh, When you work hard, when you don't have faith in Hashem, when you kill yourself to bring money to the table, your Shabbat will not be in a very high level. You're tired. You're thinking about work that you had all week, what's coming on Sunday or Monday. In Israel, Sunday it's a working day. It's not like here, you have 2 days rest. Here, in the old days, used to be only Sunday day off. Shabbat was a working day 100 years ago. Now you have 2 days weekend. In Israel, Sunday is a working day, the beginning of the week. So now on Shabbat, people sit on Shabbat in the synagogue, Shabbat afternoon, and they are worried about the meeting tomorrow in the office. Critical meeting. Why? They are in business. They're buying, they import, they sell. They have a war now. There is all kinds of tariffs that Trump's made. Prices of oil now went up to over $100 a barrel. That means we will begin to pay for everything double now. Life will be a lot more expensive. Inflation will go higher. They will raise the interest rate or keep it the same, and it kills the industry. Nobody can sell his houses, real estate is frozen. It makes the world, America, a disaster. The economy is a disaster. Amazon killed all the businesses. Malls are going bankrupt left and right. Look, Maldonado became the mayor of New York. New York is about to go bankrupt any minute. Complete bankrupt. Do you know what happened from the minute Mamdani won? Everybody runs out of New York. It's about to add percentage to people's sales tax. I mean, state tax, which is already very high, the highest in America, even in California. And what did he do? He wants to make it worse now. People say, you know what, let me move to Texas or to Florida. No state tax. I save 10% on my income. Someone who makes $2-3 million a year right there saves $300,000 by moving to Florida or to Texas. Also, the quality of life, according to those people, they think Florida is nicer life. Everything nice. Go on Collins Avenue, you see the amazing ocean, the beautiful buildings. Wow, who wants to live in Bronx? and to live over here in some of the neighborhoods of Brooklyn or Queens, it's a disaster, plus snow and freezing. They look at this world. You see, people that don't have Hirat Shamayim, they don't choose their location where to live based on what's good for God. Only what's good for their stomach, for their boat. For their swimming pool. Do you understand? Do you know there was a law in LA that you're not allowed to have a pool? Why? They don't have enough water. There's no water. That's why you have a lot of fake grass there. Because you don't have water to put to the grass. They don't have enough rain there. People moved out of LA because they couldn't have a pool. That's the reason they left LA. Not that they pay $6 a gallon, for that they didn't care. $6 a gallon back then, now probably it's more even. The idea is before you move from place to place, from house to house, from neighborhood to neighborhood, or from state to state, or from country to country, first thing you check is where will my children learn? That's the first thing. What kind of yeshiva will I have? That's the first thing. Why? The souls of your children, each soul worth $100 trillion. Messing up one of your kids because you moved to Florida and they see all the liberals and all the— not liberal, the modern, the extra modern fakers. That walks with their shorts and the shirt with the flowers, and they have almost zero connection to Hashem. Come with a little yarmulke, usually red or pink, you know, with their names on it. And that's how your children will be. No connection to Torah. What do you think? They're going to sit and learn Gemara all day? They'll be in yeshiva? No! They only care about the Ferraris and the Bentleys of of Aventura over there. That's their life. To be righteous in Florida, you deserve a gold medal every day. It's like Noah. Noah got a lot of credit. He was the only righteous person in the world when everyone was wicked. To move to Florida and to stay the same righteous like you used to be in New York or in Jerusalem or in Bnei Brak, it's almost an impossible mission. Now, do you have permission to move to a place that there is a guarantee that you're gonna reduce the level of holiness of your soul? Do you have permission? I'll give you an example. I went to the Rosh Yeshiva on Friday night for Shabbat meal. Friday night with all the boys from the Yeshiva. We sit at the table. When we finish the meal, almost, I don't know, 11:30 at night. One guy, I said to him, you know, I invited you for Pesach. He said, I decided to go to Florida for Pesach. On purpose, I repeated loud, you're going to Florida for Pesach? Laila Seder, you'll be in Florida? Don't worry, Rabbi, I have a friend, he's religious, he's family religious. I said, but you leave Monsey and you go to Florida for, for, for Laila Seder? The Rosh Yeshiva almost fainted. He looked at him like this. I looked at his face, he was about to faint. So Rabbi, he wants to go to Florida for Pesach. Only if the Rabbi will allow, the guy said. Only if the Rabbi will allow. I say, you know the Rabbi will not allow. Why you ask That's why I didn't ask. In front of him he said, "That's why I didn't ask." So I will ask for you. I want to save him. I say to Rabbi, where should he be in Lelasseter? In Monsey or in Florida? He knows the answer. Why would I even have to answer this? He looked at him, the guy doesn't know now what to do. He said to him, "Let me ask you a question. What do you think Hashem wants?" The guy said, "Hashem wants that I'll be here with the yeshiva." End of story. That's how you have to train yourself. I'm about to make a decision to buy a store, to buy a house, to move the kids from school to school, to move from a neighborhood to a neighborhood, to write a book, Whatever you're about to do, what will Hashem want from me right now? Is that a good move? Most of the time, if you're honest with yourself, you know the answers, you don't even need to ask the Rabbi. Most people ask me questions like this, they already know the answer. That's why some of them don't ask. Of course I know the answer, why would I ask? Anyway, I'm not not planning to listen to the answer. Most people lie to themselves. It's like not going to the doctor because you're afraid what he's going to tell you about your health. That's how we are. Why don't you go to check your blood? Ah, excuses. Why? I have to stop doing this, diet, that, all kinds of things, shots, needles. It's not for me right now. When will he wake up? After the heart attack. But now he's going to be miserable for the rest of his life. Most people smoke, smoke, smoke until they get to a point that they are unable to smoke anymore, can't breathe, need a mask. I've seen in Israel, the last trip that I went, a guy walks with a balloon. With wheels. What kind of a life is this? You go to the bathroom, oxygen balloon. You go on the stairs, you have to take it one stair at a time, it's heavy, it's metal, oxygen. You sit in a Shabbat meal, it's right there in the way of everyone, in the eye. What kind of life is this? Oh, now we appreciate the oxygen we get for free. When you see someone needs a balloon because otherwise he will choke to death without his balloon, and you say, "Wow, I take my oxygen for granted." "Oh, wow, imagine I was like this." That's what the Gemara says, everything that is an exception to the rule came to teach about the rule, not about itself. When you see one blind person out of a million people walking in Manhattan, and he comes with a cane, it's not to teach about what is it to be blind. That's not the purpose of it. It's to teach how lucky you are to have eyes. When you see that, you know, one person sits on a wheelchair and he has no legs, he cannot even enter the bank. Snowing, windy, 1 AM, he wants to get to the ATM. They have two doors, glass doors. He puts his ATM, but he can't push the door, it's heavy. He has no legs, sitting on a wheelchair. It's very hard to push such a heavy door. He needs someone to come and push the door for him. Happened to me once. Came very late to the bank, to the ATM. See a guy sitting there on a wheelchair, freezing, snowing. 'Wow, finally! I've been waiting here 20 minutes for someone to come.' I opened the door for him, he walked in, then I opened the second door. And then I started to think, 'Wow, we have legs, we never say thank you Hashem that I can walk, run, climb stairs.' We take it for granted. So, Abotai, so when you have full faith in Hashem, when Shabbat is very important to you. Mea negeta Shabbat. You make Shabbat like a special holiday every week. And you have a faith in Hashem that everything will come from Him. You don't have to kill yourself. Everything is done for you. Everything is done for you. This guy, that one, this neighbor, that. Things get done for you. And once they get done for you, on Shabbat you have nothing to worry about. You have full emunah and you enjoy Shabbat like a world to come. But you see nothing in the Torah, few times it's written, it ends with the word Shabbat only. The job will get done by others, that will be Shabbat Shalom. Shabbatons. Nothing is random. People read the Torah like a newspaper. Do you know how many hours it takes to learn the Parasha really good? One Parasha with the Ramban, with Rashi, with Dor HaChaim, with Baal HaTurim and other Rav Sorotsky, Torah Mimah, other commentaries. So Unbelievable. The Gaon of Vilna, Rav Yonatan ben Eifshitz, the Ben Yisrael. Treasure! You sit the entire day, you daven early in the morning, you finish early, you can sit 9, 10 hours, you don't finish the Parasha. So many secrets, one after the other. Shabbat flies like this. No? So much to learn. You never finish. I don't remember once finishing everything. In the end, you have to stop in the middle. It's so much. And it's unbelievable. So Hashem said to the nation, and Moshe said to the nation of Israel, Hashem commanded me to tell you that every one of you should bring a donation, a korban, according to his will, to the generosity of his heart, for the purpose of building a house for Hashem. Bring gold, silver, and copper. Gold, the most expensive. Silver, second most expensive. Copper, third. Today, gold costs $5,000 an ounce. Silver costs $80 an ounce. $80 an ounce. Copper is probably, I don't know, a dollar? I don't know, I didn't even check. Much, much cheaper. But in the old days it wasn't like that. The gold was not so much more expensive than silver. It was maybe 6 to 8 times more expensive. That's it. That means if silver now it's 80, it will be 500 gold, not 5,000. And now gold is very, very expensive. Platinum even more. Today, sometimes people buy a diamond ring today, sometimes the gold on the ring is more than the diamond. This is only now. 5 years ago, how much was the gold? $700, $800 the gold, the diamond few thousand dollars, that's it. Now the gold can be more than the diamond. It's very expensive. Ounce is nothing, it's one coin. What is it an ounce? Ounce is 28 grams. It's nothing, it's a thick coin. It's very expensive. So people have to donate a lot of gold. Where do they have gold from? How they have gold in the desert? The Egyptian drowned. Over million Egyptian drowned in the ocean. It was much easier than to drown the ayatollahs. The ayatollahs don't surrender. Hamas don't surrender. Hezbollah don't surrender. The Houthis don't surrender. They don't surrender. Never surrender ever. You can attack them again and again and Trump says, "Oh, now it's going to be until May." And the Israeli, "Oh, it's for sure until April." You throw another 50,000 bombs on them, they don't surrender. You kill the million ayatollahs, they don't surrender. They have only one purpose: to torture the world. Why? In the end, if they surrender or not is the decision of God. Why would He let them survive again, again, and again, and again? 47 years of torture. All the terror in the world, all the fear, all the missiles, all the sirens every hour in Israel. People are broken, people are in trauma, people are in depression, people are bankrupt. So much suffering right now in Israel. Israel more than ever before. Why is this? 50 missiles a day, Hezbollah. Iran, another 20 a day. And the last round, they shot 100 each time. Now it's 2, 3 every hour. 1, 2, another 2, another 3. Still, they exhaust you. Why is it? Who knows why? That's the only way to make Jews repent. That's it. There's no other way. I can say it from 30 years of experience. When will it be easier for someone like me to take an atheist and convince him to become a kosher Jew? When he got cancer? And he was just informed, or when business is booming and he's healthy and make fun of the religion. Once he got the call from the doctor, "We need you to come immediately to another test and you have to come today." His heart shattered. "Oh my God, I'm only 30. I'm going to die now?" His brother, "Let's call the rabbi." 'Ah, leave me alone, you and your rabbi.' 'Oh, wait a minute, it's actually a good idea.' Yesterday, he wanted to kill the rabbi. Now all of a sudden, 'Rabbi, my brother wants to talk to you.' 'Hi, Rabbi. What's your name?' 'Chris.' 'You Jewish?' 'Yes.' 'Why your name is Chris?' I once walked with some someone called Chris Cohen. And me, the fool that I was in 1992, 1993, 1994 maybe, me, the ignorant that I was, I understood that something here is off. So I told him, hey Chris, how come your name is Chris Cohen? What are you, Christian or Jewish? He said, I'm fully Jewish, both parents. So what parent calls his son Chris? Jewish parent. Christians, Chris is a very popular name. By Muslim, not the most popular name in the world is Muhammad, including Israel. Muhammad is the most popular name in France, England, Germany, Holland, all these places. Muhammad, Muhammad, Muhammad. To call your son— imagine someone call his Jewish son Muhammad. This we didn't hear yet. We didn't hear this yet. But somebody call his son Chris. Why? He likes the name. They don't believe in religion. He doesn't call him Chris because he believe in Christ. He just like the name. Chris, Christina. There is some women in a community here that their American name is Christina. Christina and they're religious Jewish girls. They have a Jewish name also, but in their email they send an email with the name Christina. Why? Their parents in communist Russia didn't know anything better. Common name, they called them. That's it. So Rabotai, other than gold, silver, and copper, then you have to bring wool which you paint with telet, argaman, purple. It's beautiful purple, blue-purple, like the tzitzit, the way we used to dye the tzitzit in those days. And the argaman was red, red burgundy, beautiful colors. Tola, chani, bright red. Sheesh, it's pistachio, linen, sarizim, wool from goats, leather of sheep. What sheep? Male, not female. Why? Their skin is softer. You need the stronger Stronger leather. Painted by red. Orot Hashem, special animal that's very hard to find. You need their skins. Pieces of wood. Atzei harazim, oak. Harazim, it's oak. Erez. Erez is a tough wood. Cedar? What's the name of cedar? Cedar? Cedar. Shemen zayit, olive oil. All kinds of herbs, smells great like perfume. And precious stones. Shoam. Maybe it's ruby, something like that. And other precious stones. You need 12 different precious stones to put on the chest of the Kohen to make the Choshen. So Hashem is teaching Moshe all these things. That's why he was in the mountain altogether for 120 days. Now Hashem say, everything that you will have to prepare for my house, there will be a supervisor. Who is he? Betsalel ben Uri. Who is he? A 13-year-old kid. Even though 13 years of those days was like probably 23 today. Don't get too excited. But he has no idea about engineering, about architecture, about covering pieces of wood with gold and putting things together and knitting the pieces of wool, connecting them in the right angle. Difficult to make the tent look symmetric. You know what a job it is? Today with all the machinery we have and computers and this, it's difficult. Sometimes they messed up. Why? Hashem said, I'm filling him with Divine wisdom. I'm giving him a gift. He has no idea about architecture, but I'm filling him With what? With Divine wisdom. When you have Divine wisdom, everything is clear to you. You see the world with different eyes. He's a holy person. He will know how to do and calculate everything. Women, and it's very interesting, this entire parasha when God is referring to wisdom, He says, "Chacham Lev." Smart heart. Today, if you ask a person, tell me, where is the intelligence of the person? In his heart or in his brain? In his brain. Where is his wisdom? In his brain. Where is his knowledge? In his brain. If you take out his brain, take out his brain and you bring it to a lab and take any microscope you want and try to find the knowledge in those pieces of bloody, you know, meat that you're gonna have on your desk. Where is Albert Einstein's information here on his brain? You know, they examined his brain to see if it's different than other people. What did they see? His brain looked like a cow. In Israel, they sell brains. Here, it's illegal. In America to sell internal organs— kidneys, hearts, ears— it's illegal. But in Israel, you buy it in a butcher shop. Why not? It's part of the animal. So anyway, it's very interesting how a country like America forbids to sell hearts. Forbids— but liver, I think it's legal here, which is very interesting. Why liver is legal but hearts or kidneys is not. I don't know why. Okay, maybe for medical reasons. Okay, but look at the brain of a cow, look at the brain of a person, and look at the brain of a pig or a brain of a monkey. Put them all on the desk. Minor changes. Look for the information the monkey have. Will you find it? Or the pig? No. Take Albert Einstein, look, examine, dig inside his brain. Would you see all his intelligence and knowledge? No. So why you say that the wisdom is in the brain? The Torah says the wisdom is in the heart. But then we have the same problem when we come to examine the heart. Take a piece of heart with the valves, take it out of the chest, put it on a desk. Where is the information in the heart? What do you see? A carburetor. Where is the information in the heart? The answer is not here and is not there. It's not in the body. All the wisdom and all the knowledge is all recorded in your soul. When you come out of the body, meaning you die, even temporarily, for 5 minutes and then you come back to life. When you come out of the body, all these millions of people who died and came back to life, they were in full awareness. They recognized their people, they saw their wife is crying and the children, they saw the ambulance, they saw the hospital. They were fully alert and that means that their computer with all the knowledge and the wisdom that they gained in their lifetime, everything stayed intact. Power even though the body was fully dead. No blood circulation, no oxygen, no beat, no heartbeat. Where was all this knowledge? He died and came back to life after 10 minutes with all the knowledge. But when he was dead, can you get the knowledge out of his body? Of course not. So the knowledge is not in a physical body, b'cholam. So what does it mean, Chacham Lev? I'll tell you the secret. There are two kinds of intelligence. Intelligence from the brain, you have sharp brain. Wow, you think, you have memory, this, okay. Then you have intelligence that comes from the heart. What does it mean? Where is the soul in the brain? The soul is in the brain, attached to the brain. If you chop someone's head, he has no awareness. Even if he will take another minute or two to die, the body still will function maybe few seconds. They chop the head of a chicken and still walk 3 steps after that. Why? Because the brain sent already pulses electrical pulse to the nerve system and moves the organs, even though the head computer was chopped off. When they chop off the head of a person, you bury him where his head was, not where his body, because the head is where the soul was. The head is the captain of the boat. So what happened over here? You have now The regular information that we learn, you learn math, you learn history, you remember, it's all in the brain. Some brains are very sharp, mathematical brain. Some brains are, you know, very slow computer. However, when the Torah refers to wisdom, the Torah can care less about how sharp your brain is. I made it like this. I made 'This Mercedes with 500 engine and this one with 200.' I'm the designer. You want me to give credit to the car I made? I deserve the credit. I'm the maker. So someone I made with a sharp brain for his purpose in life, he needs to get a medal for it? Absolutely not. The opposite. I'm demanding a lot more from him. That's why I gave him such a sharp brain. Supposed to revolutionize the whole world with that, with the sharp brain and the memory, and to teach and to remember so much information. I'm giving him tools that will help him to succeed in his purpose of life. Then I have another guy, he's a shoemaker. He doesn't need a sharp brain to know how to fix the sole of the shoe. You can do it even with a slow brain. But, but when the Torah refers to the wisdom of the heart, it means that you are able to adapt everything you learn through your brain, through your, you know, knowledge and intelligence and wisdom and translate it to actions. And the only way to do it is to overcome the evil inclination which is in the heart. That's why they call it 'chacham lev'— someone who knows that if I will commit this sin, it will destroy me in the next world, but he has strong desire. And he does it anyway. What happened to him? One day we'll have to deal with his bad choices. But he's not Chacham Lev. Why is he not Chacham Lev? Because he cannot translate what he learns into actions. The evil inclination controls him. His desire runs the show. By the way, people that have that the desire dominates them and controls them. Every speech they give is subject to their desires. First they think, "What's fun for me?" and based on that they give their speech. I'll give you an example. If I speak about how horrible it is to smoke, who gets angry? Among the crowd. Only the smokers. Everybody else, not with the red. Of course, it's terrible to smoke. Terrible. They made this vape now. Worse than cigarettes even. Do you know what damage it makes to the lungs? It makes the lungs after years like a piece of rubber. A person is unable to breathe. By the time they'll discover the damage it makes, they want to make it illegal now. The damage it makes, worse than cigarettes. At least it's not a terrible smell like when people smoke cigarettes, everybody around them suffers, but other than that, it's a killer even worse than that. And now my dentist told me something scary. Told me, I'm a dentist for many years, very good one. That's brilliant guy. He's great in his job, super intelligent, very knowledgeable. He told me, you know what I see in the last 6 months is scary. People that smoke grass, the last 6 months, it kills all the bone of their teeth or cost them tens of thousands of dollars damage to fix the bone that they won't lose their teeth. And he said, grass is around for more than 20 years since I was a teenager, but now they put special poison on it to pasteurize it from all kinds of insects. And I guess that chemical makes such a damage that when people smoke it, it destroys their bone. How did this conversation come out? I sent him one of my students, poor guy, works so hard to make money. He told him, your teeth are great, don't have cavities, don't have root canals, but you're gonna need now massive amount of work, thousands of dollars to fix the entire bone. To create new bond. It's such a job to keep coming again. This is for 6 months of the last 6 months that people smoke grass and every other person here on the street, you smell it everywhere. It's now all over the market. Destroys people's mouths. A person could be 40 years old, all his teeth will fall off. Hashem made the body for this kind of poison? If we only control our desires, our life would be so great. Do you have no idea how much we suffer because of our desires? And the reason we cannot overcome our desires is because we don't sit and learn a few hours Torah every day. We don't listen to lectures. And finally, when we want to listen to lectures, we listen to a worthless speaker, one of those modern Orthodox university speakers who makes a lot more damage than helps. He makes you feel wonderful with your sins and your horrible lifestyle. He's a liberal in religion. He could be a righty in politics. Some of these wicked people in my blacklist, I will give them a gold medal when it comes to politics. Like the clown from Englewood. He's great. He knows how to fight all these antisemites. He has such arrogance and chutzpah, the antisemites are shaking from him when he goes on the talk shows. But in religion, he is a serial killer. Everyone who listens to him destroys his soul. Some other ones, when you speak to them about politics, They're very good, but when it comes to Torah, they are such heretics. Everything Hashem hates, they love, and everything He loves, they hate. They pro-gay, and he goes to the gay parade and takes pictures with the naked gays. And normal kosher person want to vomit when he sees the way they dress and how they behave. Obviously, there's a mental issue here. Why would you want to be a follower affiliate with such dirt, especially when their children will have to see it online that that's their father with his fake beard and yarmulke. What is, what is the connection between this guy and the Torah? Zero connection. But in politics, it's amazing. When credit is deserved, we give the credit. But who cares about politics? In the end, Hashem runs the world. Trump, peace be on him, is great. He does wonderful things, but Hashem runs the world. The only reason Trump succeeded in many of the things he wanted to do is because Hashem wanted so. If Hashem doesn't want, he won't be able to. If Hashem wants this Ayatollah to remain, million people like Trump and thousand Israeli Air Force— thousand, not one, thousand— cannot clean them from from the face of the earth. Why? Because Hashem wants. And look at this, the Iranians, every missile they shoot, almost all of them they hit. They shoot better than Michael Jordan from the three. Every missile hit. Dubai, boom. Qatar, boom. Bahrain, boom. Saudi Arabia. They have missiles that they shoot, but if they miss, Right away goes on a target. Same thing in Israel. Do you know that we don't show all the places they hit? I know some places that are not on the news because I know some people there that in high rank. They hit unbelievable targets. They know exactly where they shoot to. They're not the Hezbollah, just shoot whenever the missile fall is good. They are not Arabs. Remember, Iranians are not Arabs. They're almost as smart as the Israelis, almost. They have hackers. They're great in cyber. And they have— they are very limited in their army. They have missiles, that's it. No air force. Their navy is worthless. And you bomb them and there's nothing they can what you can do about it. But they have those missiles and they shoot and they make the world suffer and they make oil prices go up and the whole world is in panic and stock markets are collapsing. People lose their life savings and then pressure with all the Democrat lefty traders and people like Tucker and the rest of the antisemites who are against the war to begin with It builds a lot of pressure. And what happened? Even someone like Trump in the end surrendered. And what do you see in the end? You made a huge damage to Iran. 20 years from now, they're back to where they were. They have a lot of money. They don't care about their people. They're happy that their people will die. They shot 50,000 of them. They don't care. They let them die. The less Iranians we have, the less we have to worry about the poor people inside. To feed them. See, if you have so many poor people walking in the street, then that's going to create crime, robberies, armed robberies, all kinds of cyber attacks, stealing credit cards. Why? You have nothing to lose. You cannot feed your children. You see, all the wealthy people in society made rules in every country to help the poor, not because they are noble men or righteous people. No, the last thing they care about is the poor. They can drop dead as far as they're concerned, these arrogant wealthy people. The only reason they give them welfare is because if not, they'll come and slaughter me. I won't be able to drive my Mercedes. And that's the price if I want to drive on the street, if I want to wear my expensive watch and nobody gonna put a gun to me, or when I go to the supermarket or my wife and she comes out with some delicious food for Shabbat, the guy is going to come with the gun, give me the food or I'll kill you. Why? Because my kids have nothing to eat. You have a nice car, you have food, go buy more. That's what's going to be. What do you think? So you got to give them food stamps, you got to give them Section 8, you got to give them all kinds of help because if not, they'll come and kill you. They'll rob you, they'll wait for you by your door. You won't be able to do anything. That's what's gonna happen. So it's not because we are so righteous, we want to give Tzedakah because God said so. No, because this Tzedakah is protection money. Take what to eat and leave us to live in our beautiful $10 million yachts. That's all what it is about. It's not, oh, such a great country, they take care of the poor. No, same thing with the Muslims. They flooded Europe, 50 million of them or more. By tomorrow will be 51. And every one of them almost get welfare from Germany and France and England and Holland and Greece. They destroyed Europe. Terror, vandalism, riots, crime, murders, terror agendas. Demonstrations on the street spreading Islam and threatening the life of the Europeans and nobody can make a beep and the Europeans are paying for it. Why God did this to Europe? Because they killed the Jews. They killed millions of Jews. Hashem said, "No problem. I'm gonna send you somebody else instead of the Jews. The Jews helped you invent the technology." things, run the economy, help the country, invented all kinds of medical things. All of them are doctors and lawyers and judges and special artists and all kinds of engineers and mathematicians and professors. I'll give you this barbaric wild beast Ishmael who will slaughter you every morning and drink your blood with a straw and wait for you by the supermarket with a gun or a knife. They'll turn your life into hell and there's nothing you're going to do about it. Look, even now they're afraid to join the war. They're shaking. Now one country in Europe is afraid to show Iran, listen, we helped America. Look at all the Arab countries like rats. Every minute a missile goes to Qatar, to Dubai, to Saudi Arabia. They don't do anything. Shaking. Why? It's all from Hashem. I'm gonna do this to you, there's nothing you can do. Qatar sponsoring the World Cup. Millions died because of Qatar. So much suffering. Every time you have to take your shoes off when you go on a flight and take off your laptop and this and go to the other room. And get scared on the flight, and who knows. It's all the fault of Iran and Qatar. Eliminate those two countries, life will be paradise. There won't be Hezbollah, no jihad, no Boko Haram, and no Houthis, and nothing. All of them eat from those two Nazi sponsors. And that's who Qatar is defending. Taker. Qatar is cutting. Taker. That's who is defending. That's who bribes him. By the way, Qatar, they bought all the universities. All the things you saw, Free Palestine, From the River to the Sea, it's money that the students got from Qatar to go on the street and scream. It's all sponsored. Get them food, get them— All professors go to Qatar, amazing vacation, jet ski, swimming pool. Some of them get $100,000 a year salary, the deacons of some of the university, to spread their agenda. Why Muslims spread lefty agenda? They hate lefty liberals. It's against Islam. Why they make sure America and Europe will all become liberals? Because then we just walk in and take over. They do the job for us, that liberal idiots. The courts, they all fight for us. Human rights for Hamas terrorists. Human rights. Give them fruits. Why the Nukba terrorists don't get fruits? So, Avotai, when you give a donation, the Torah says some of the donation is gold, some of it is silver, and some of that is copper. It all depends. You are happy to give or you gave because the rabbi called you. It's not the same. If you give before he calls you, it's much, much bigger reward. Much, much, much bigger reward. We have to finish in 5 minutes, but You should know that when you give from your heart with happiness, with a smile, and you feel honored that you have a share and you have the merit to participate in such a holy cause, that's the highest level, the highest. That's what the Torah says. Nesao means elevated. When you give, if you do it with the condition I mentioned, your spirit is automatically elevated. Millions you will have to pay to elevate your soul, millions, if you give it with no good intention and without a smile and without happiness. No. it's not the same. The idea is that if it's monthly, you write it down and you make an alarm and you're never late. That's the— all month I'm waiting for that opportunity. If it's on the 2nd of the month, every second, it will never be the 3rd. Just like you're afraid to be late on your mortgage because they're gonna ruin your credit. Credit is more important than God, of course. Do you understand? And when you buy tefillin, it has to be the best. We're not talking someone doesn't have money, needs people to buy tefillin, leave it alone. You have money, the best mezuzot, the best tzitzit, best wool, everything the best. Meal for the bachorei shiva, wedding, you know, wedding, wedding, Bukharian wedding, $300, $400, $500 a person. Person. Expensive drinks, good sushi, 5, 6 different kinds of meat. It's expensive. Forget about all the flowers and the band and 3 bands. Usually it's not one band, it's another one and another one and another one. It's very expensive. If you add all the expenses, it's at least $500 a person. He's gonna spend $500 a person, 500 people. $250,000 for the food and flowers, and Daddy's eye will be on the 20 bachurim yeshiva that came and ate for free and didn't bring a gift. How dumb you can be. The whole wedding is for them, you don't get it? The whole purpose of the seudah of Chatan BeKalai is to feed talmid chachamim. To feed all the rich friends of yours, all these owners owners of buildings and real estate and retail. That's the purpose of the wedding. The purpose of the wedding is to bring the poor, the holy poor, not Reshaim. Reshaim, leave them alone. But to bring the Bachurim Shiva, the Avrechim, and to be happy that you fed them and they dance in your wedding and they didn't bring anything. And if they bring, You don't cash the check. Don't be a villain. You know, this guy is counting the pennies when he goes on Friday to buy food for Shabbat. He gave you a $100 check. Do you know how much it is for him? For you, it's toilet paper. For him, it's pain. The kids won't eat chicken on Shabbat because he's embarrassed. He comes to a fancy wedding. He wants to bring a gift. What are you cashing the check? You're normal? Where is your integrity? Where? What's going on with you? All these things comes only from one source, that they have no Emunah in Hashem at all. No Emunah. That's why the Chachamim had to make an agreement called Prosbol when the 7th year came, Shnat Shmitah. The Torah says that all the debt that the poor people owe you, it's all dismissed. The rich people would not want to give a loan in the last year. In a few months, it's going to be Shnat Shmita. If I'm giving you now a loan, in 6 months, if you don't pay me, I have to say goodbye to the money. The rich people say to the poor, come back after the Shnat Shmita. By then, I'll be dead. I'm sorry, if I give you the loan now, in 6 months you're gonna tell me I'm sorry, it's not Shemitah. So the Chachamim made an agreement that all the debt is transferred to the Beit Din and they owe the Beit Din and the Beit Din can collect after Shemitah and give it to you. Why? Because 2,000 years ago people started to lose their Emunah, their faith. Their faith. They have no confidence in Hashem. And it's a clear verse in the Torah, when a poor person opens his hand, give him with generosity and happiness. Do not close your hands tight. Give him from your heart because I will bless you in everything you do thanks to that. And it doesn't affect anybody. It's like Hashem talking to the wall. Where is your Emunah? Zero Emunah. Zero Emunah. He goes to some Baba, came from Israel pretending he's somebody important. Parat Tzufim, Jalabia, someone is holding his hands. Tzadik balair, standing 3 hours to kiss his hand and to give him a check that maybe he'll give him a bracha that he's $6 will get married. Poor person come, excuse me, can you help me out? Pesach is coming, Kimcha de Pessach. You have to raise money for the people to have money for matzot. It's very expensive matzot. How much is a pound of matzot? You, you, you will tell us. Come on, $30 a pound. $35. Each matzah $6, $7. Handmade round matzah. Almost as expensive as gold. Yeah, and where are they gonna get the money from with $1,000 a month salary? Just matzah and wine is more than $1,000, but all the other food for 8 days— that's why the community raised money before Pesach. It's called Kimcha de Pesach, flour for Passover. And when they eat well— now don't worry, they won't eat caviar. They eat simple food in the end. Cheap wine, everything is as much as they can save. But when they eat and their kids will enjoy the Chag and they talk divrei Torah, it comes to your account, you fool. It counts like you did 2 Seders. You with your family is one and day is the second. It's count double reward for you for an extra thousand or two that you gave that family. And Hashem said, thanks to that, I'll bless you in everything you do. And of course, I'm not going to repeat now how many times I told you that the best investment in the history of the world is kiruv. Everything I will tell you about donations, it's unbelievable. It's a great investment, but it's not 1% from kiruv. From spreading Torah and Mussar and the right Jewish ideology and debating the wicked and prove the world that they have nothing to offer, all these atheists, and to show people the truth of the Torah, shine the world with the light of the Torah, and you have a stock in such an operation, every minute it goes up. You have a part. Those who make recurring monthly donations, they have a share in everything that was done. The debate, they have a share. A new CD, they have a share. A new film, they have a share. A new seminar in Israel, they have a share. A lecture Monday here, they have a share. Helping a guy not to kill himself, they have a share. Helping people to have food for holidays, they have a share. Saving someone from marrying an Jew, which is against the Torah, they have a share. They'll come to the next world, they show them a list of the things they invested in. Excuse me, you're making a mistake, Hashem. This is the world of the truth. It's not me. I never help brit milah. I never save a guy from not getting married to a forbidden marriage. I never I never saved a drug addict kid and took him out and put him in yeshiva and saved his life. I never made 5,000 people become Shomer Shabbat. What did I do? Sent $1,000 or $2,000 a month automatically from the business into the organization. But other than that, in my life, I don't— I'm not such a great philanthropist. But then Hashem shows you in the next world all the great things that happened thanks to it's a clear verse in the book of Jeremiah. "Mishalem la'adam keprima ala lav." Like the fruits of his actions. That's the best news, but the worst news is that it works the same both ways. When you influence people to commit sins, to go to a mixed party, You promote intermarriage, you promote gay parades, you promote heresy on the internet, you sponsoring those clowns on my blacklist, every one of them wicked, Shem Reshaim, Irkav. You invite them to give lectures, you promote their lectures, you share their lectures on WhatsApp groups. That's all sins. It's called "Achta'at Harabim." "Achta'at Harabim." And then you have to be very careful. A person, the Ramchal writes, must think— every Gadol writes it, but the Ramchal was very good in repeating it— you have to think and to pay attention before everything you do in life. You get up to go bring a glass, a cup of coffee. Why am I doing it? Do I drink coffee because of the delicious smell and the delicious taste because I'm full of desires or because I want to learn an extra 2 hours Torah now and I'm starting to get tired and I want to stay up that I'll be able to get another 100,000 mitzvot. You have to think. You have to have order in life. You have to wake up early. You have to have blessing in your life. You have to watch your mouth. You have to watch your eyes. You have to watch your desires. And if you fall, immediately repent. And if you fall an hour later, you repent again. And if you fall an hour later, you repent again. 5,000 times to repent every month, Rabbi? 50,000 times. There is no place in the Torah that it has a limit to how many times you can repent. The day that you won't have a desire to repent, you know you're done. Now your way to final destruction is very, very fast. We will finish with the words of the Rabbi Mikotsk. He said a person has to imagine that Satan is standing above his head with an axe in his hand and is about to chop your head off any second. You have to know, I'm about to pray, the Satan is waiting for my first mistake that he can chop my head off. I'm about to commit sin, the Satan is waiting. I'm about to eat non-kosher, I'm hungry, wow, yeah, but it's not kosher. Oy, only this time. Oh, the Satan is here, he's waiting with the axe. And if you cannot imagine that Satan is standing next to you with the axe waiting for the opportunity to chop your head off, that means he already chopped your head off. That's why you cannot having this fear because he already did it. Do you understand? Because as long as he didn't do it, it's natural to fear. You learn Torah, you're not gonna have fear. And all these modern speakers, the university fakers, all they do is take away the fear from the followers of religion. Hashem loves everyone. There's no such thing wicked Jews. Everybody is great. Don't be judgmental. All Jews have a share to the World to Come. One lie after the other. Horrific lies. Such lies with no shame, with no source. Hashem needs you, you're great, don't worry, Hashem will understand. Your job is to make people get spirit, to wake up, to repent, or to be comfortably numb? What's your job as a spiritual You're a speaker. Your job is to come to the wicked people who think, "Maybe I should start changing my evil way. I must make a change in my life. I have to repent. I have to return what I stole. I have to start keeping Shabbat really serious. I have to start watching what I'm eating. I have to watch my mouth, what comes out of it." And then comes this liberal from the university, "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen." He thinks he's in university. And he begins with his corruption and his heresy and all this nonsense. Chazal, if they lived today, they would say this. I'm sure they didn't know what they're talking about. The Rambam, ah, not everything. I disagree with some of the things the Rambam says. He doesn't know one billionth of what the Rambam knows. Not one millionth, not one billionth of the knowledge the Rambam is. Is a complete ignorant lunatic and he stands in front of an audience in his YouTube page and says, "Oh, I also disagree with the Rambam sometimes." Afar le piv! If you don't understand the Rambam, that means you are the moron. The Rambam doesn't have problem. Do you know who was the Rambam? That's where the problem begins. They don't even know who these Chazal were. If you think the words of Chazal sometimes are a little bit musky, I agree with you. That's the job of the speaker. It's like a doctor comes to the patient, if you like to smoke heavily, I understand you. It's perfectly understandable. Your job is to scare him. If you continue to smoke like this, next month you'll be dead. You don't care about your children? You don't care your wife will sit and cry for years? You don't care about these kids will grow without a father because of your stupid desire? Go to rehab! Who can give me the source in the Torah for what I just said? Where it's written in the Torah clearly, word by word? Lauter. Nishmartem u'od nafshotechem. That means a general warning to watch your health and your security. True. But where does it say that the job of the speaker is to scare his listener to repent? Not to tell them that they are great. The exact opposite. Where does it say it? First Rashi in Parashat Acharei Mot. Parashat Acharei Mot, Vaye'acharei Mot Bnei Aharon, after the death of the son of Aaron, Nadav and Avihu. Rashi writes, why do you need to mention again the death of Nadav and Avihu? We learned about it in the previous parasha. Why? To bring against their death. After the death of Nadav and Avihu, 'After that tragedy, you should wake up now.' Why are you bringing the tragedy? Rashi writes, there are two kinds of doctors. First doctor say to the patients, 'Don't drink cold and don't be in a cold place because you might get sick,' and left it here. The other doctor say, 'Don't drink cold, don't be in a cold place,' that you may get sick like this person and you'll die like he died. Which one of the two doctors helped the patient? Only the second one. The first one did nothing. Why? He didn't get him scared. He's gonna go to a cold place and he's gonna drink cold in his condition. Why? The doctor was not clear. If you're gonna do it, you will "Die!" Once the second doctor tells him, because if you're going to do it, so this guy Ruben is no longer alive, he died because he did it. "You want to die? Go ahead." Now, every time he's about to do it, "I don't want to die." If by doctors who cure the body is like that, doctors that cure the souls, meaning the speakers, the rabbis, teach Torah for the soul, it's a billion times kal vachomer, needless to say. If to cure the body that today is here, tomorrow it's anyway will be eaten by the worms in a grave another few years, whether you kept it healthy or not, to save the soul that will remain for eternity, isn't it needless to to say that you have to put more efforts to save it by putting fear in the heart of the sinner that he will stop with his nonsense. But right away the fakers will show up. Right away. I told you the story and I'm really gonna finish with this, I promise. This is the last minute. I used to give a lecture in a real estate office. 20-something years ago, right here in Jamaica Mistake, no, Jamaica Avenue. And every Friday I used to come from 12 to 2, bring my projector, transparencies on the wall. 46 guys and girls, all Israelis, all secular. One of them, I already made him Shomer Shabbat, him and his wife. He arranged the lectures. He said, every Friday come. First week I come, I make Torah and science, proofs that the Torah is divine. Wow! They are shocked. Second week, another proofs, purpose of life, that the Torah, the oral Torah is also divine. Nobody was able to write it besides God. They are shocked. Third week I come, now Shabbat. That's the punchline. Shabbat, Eternal Covenant, that's what make you Jewish. I show them all the sources. They are dying. Wow, we've been breaking Shabbat, desecrating Shabbat, and it's worse than to murder, and we never know about it. They are shocked. Revolution in the office. The girls Started to dress modest. Guy cut his ponytail. Another guy ordered phyllo. They have mincha and arvit every day in the office. Few people already keeping Shabbat. Revolution in the office. One guy left the— the guy is in the moon. Shalom was his name, organized it. I can't believe what's happening here. The fourth time I come, I walked into the office. Friday afternoon, everyone is on the phone in their desk. Now, until now, I was going into the conference room, everybody sitting waiting. All of them. Half of the people are not in the office, few of them on the phones. I walked into the conference room, 5 people. 5 people. I come to my friend, Shalom. Shalom, what happened? They don't know there is a shiur today? Of course they know. Last week after he left, that's it, you finalized it. They already got to the situation that they'll never break Shabbat again. But then came two guys from Chabad after that and they say, "Hi, how are you?" You know, "Come, did you put filling today?" And they started to ask them. Tell me, is it true that the Torah said that to break Shabbat, to desecrate Shabbat, is like— is making you like a goy? It's written 7 times in Shulchan Aruch. I didn't make it up. God forbid! Who told you such a thing? No, every Jew is a Jew. There's no such thing. Tell me, is it true that the punishment of mechalel Shabbat is a bigger punishment than a murderer? Who told you such thing? All of you righteous. There's no such thing a wicked Jew. The Rebbe promised all of you are diamonds. There's no such thing punishment. All of them went back to be goyim. The guy cancelled the tefillin, the other guy went back to the goya, the girls went back to the miniskirt. Everything went to the garbage. Don't you want to kill yourself after you see such thing? What's going to happen to these two people when they go to the next world and they see that all these people went back to be chilonim? They were already becoming religious and they went back to their evil way. Why? "Wow, this rabbi is a liar, he's a scammer, he told us all these scary things and it's all a lie." And it was all the truth. They lied to them. I say the truth. And now obviously the Yetzer Hara will tell you, listen to the guy that tell you you can break Shabbat and steal, you're righteous and you have nothing to be afraid of. And that was the end of all the efforts. My father was sitting next to Rabbi Uri Zohar on Shabbat. He called me Motzei Shabbat. He say, you see, you sometimes exaggerate. You warned me so I learned so much about cigarettes and Shabbat. Every Shabbat I suffer not to smoke. And now the entire Shabbat I was the only one with a blue shirt. Everyone there was black and white in hats. And not one time Rabbi Orison asked me if I keep Shabbat. I say to him, it is Dodeh Shabbat Chatan. Do you think he has time to start asking you questions? But I was sitting right next to him. And he was a famous Maharshi Beit Shuva, successful. He used to be the king of the secular lifestyle and became a great Maharshi Beit Shuva and tzaddik, amazing tzaddik he became. The Baal Shuva of the generation is Rabbi Uri Zohar. There's nobody greater than him in the whole world. I never saw. And my father almost went back to be Mechalel Shabbat that Shabbat. Because he didn't ask him any question about his spirituality. Imagine if he would tell them, "Mr. Mizrahi, don't worry, Hashem loves you, Hashem loves everyone, there's no such thing wicked." Do you know what would happen? He wouldn't even wait for me until Shabbat comes out. He would already run to the cigarette a minute after in the bathroom there or in the balcony. Baruch Hashem, I put his head back, I said to him, just a because I didn't speak to you, already came to the conclusion that I exaggerated and it's not so bad to be a desecrator of Shabbat? So when you come to those people who break Shabbat and they destroyed Shabbat and you tell them, don't worry, you're great, Hashem loves you, there's no such thing a wicked Jew. But the whole Gemara is full of Reshaim, Reshaim, the whole Tehillim, count how many How many times the word wicked appear in Tehillim? Hundreds of times. Destruction to the wicked. Hashem hates the wicked. Hashem loves the righteous. Help me to destroy the wicked. Clean the wicked from the face of the world. Hundreds of verses. Tehillim. Everything before them is a toilet paper. Tehillim. Ignore it 100%. Gmarah, 133 times it mentioned genome in the Gmarah. Genome doesn't exist. Oh, that's only Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai's book. That's only Rabbi Akiva. That's only Rambam. Genome doesn't exist. 133 times in the Gmarah and you dismiss it? It's complete apicores. Someone that says genome doesn't exist, that you cannot count him in the You can say, "We don't understand, you know, the Gemara describes the fire and the suffering of the wicked people and the Zoar." Okay, I don't understand, it's above my understanding, but don't dare to say it doesn't exist. If you really believe that Hashem judge the wicked people in Gehinnom with fire. You didn't see what Hashem did to the people in the Holocaust? It was in Gehinnom in front of your eyes for 10 years. You didn't see? You don't see what the Iranians do to their own people? You don't see what North Korea does to their people? You don't see how much suffering and torture people get in this world? What makes you think that if in this world Hashem allows it, that it doesn't exist in the next world? The answer is, I don't want to limit myself. I want to live happy. Mitzvah to be happy? Yes, to steal from everyone who is in business with you and to be happy. To desecrate Shabbat and be happy. To destroy people's life and be happy. Wonderful to be happy. A lot of murderers are happy. A lot of gays are happy. A lot of idol worshippers are happy. Where is this happiness gonna get them to? To the worst eternal place. To be happy while you are righteous, it's wonderful. To be happy because you're a thief and you make a lot of money, stealing from innocent people. This is fake happiness. To be happy because you worship a fake god, that's fake happiness. To be happy because you're a drug addict and smoke all day, that's fake happiness. Fake happiness has severe punishments. You had no permission to go into this direction. Everything in life, it's either a reward or punishment. There's no in-between. You sit and you do nothing—punishment. Why? You could have learned Torah. Why are you wasting time? Yoshev batel ke medami. What do you think I made it up? It's all in the Gemara, 100%. All the ideology that we have comes from the Gemara. We didn't make it up. Gemara is from the Torah and the prophets. And the Tehillim. That's why I always tell you, you want to have a wonderful life? Just buy all the books of Rabbi Avigdor Miller and every day learn in them at least an hour, 2, 3, 4, 5, whatever you can. One book after the other, you finish all of them, you go back to the first one. You're gonna be the most righteous person by far from all your friends around you. I am giving you a personal guarantee. Nobody in the world will benefit your soul more than his books. Nobody. It was the most accurate and without kissing up to anyone, teaching exactly the truth of the Torah with no politics, not money, not No greed, none of that. And he was also Kohen and Baal Midor and an unbelievable character. It's a miracle that in our days, 10, 30 years ago, there was someone in United States that is the highest shining diamond of the generation. You have it right here. You can order it, I don't know, anywhere. You have it all over. Order everything. And just read and read and read. You'll be shocked. In one month, you won't recognize yourself. You, people would look, would talk to you, say, wow, you became 100 times more righteous than what you were a month ago. I'm giving you personal guarantee. Take my advice and come back to me in a month. After one month of minimum one hour a day, Everything in your life will change. Your marriage, your children, your business, your emunah, your ashkafah, your love to Hashem, your hard work, your— the way you pray. You're gonna feel attached to Hashem even if you're a non-Jew. I have non-Jews that took my advice. You should see their emails. I bought the books of Rabbi Avigdor Miller. I'm a whole different person. True or false? Completely. Why? It was all true. No kissing up. No wonder all these liberal modern Orthodox made his life hell. No wonder they cannot stand the truth, these fakers. That's what the Eliyahu HaNavi screamed in the Carmel Mountain. Ad matai atempos chrimat shneretzey ifim. Until when you want to be half religious, half goyim? If Hashem is true, follow him 100%. If he's not, go after the fake gods 100%. One of them is true, not half enough. Either I'm with you all the way, or I don't believe in you and I'm against you all the way. I cannot be 50% religious and 50% secular. It's very difficult. You fall, you fail, you repent. As long as the direction is forward. Why? I don't want to be a sinner. Cry to Hashem. When you cry to Hashem every day when you pray in Shema Atfilah in Shemona Esrei, this is what you should say: Hashem, I keep asking you to forgive my sins. My sins are endless. I don't want just to ask for forgiveness. I want you to help me not to commit the sins. Give me the strength. Direct me to the right speaker, to the right rabbi, to the right books. You will see wonders in your life. B'ezrat Hashem. Baruch Adonai Elohim, amen ve'amen. Anyone wants to say Kaddish? Baruch Hashem.
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