Giving Is Actually Receiving - Full Of Amazing Current Events

Good evening. Great to be back from my trip to Israel. Baruch Hashem, another very successful trip. One of the best that I had in years, which I'm going to tell you about briefly. But first, this lecture will be the refuah of Baruch Raphael ben Nekadam and the iguinishmat nesoda bat Rachel and Bachendel and Refael Jacob ben Raphael. And also for the merit and success, the Chidut of Daniel ben Michel and Lauren Bath-John. Baruch Hashem, I was in Israel 17 days. First Shabbat I had Shabbaton in the north next to Tiberias in a nice resort for Israeli Soldiers that are wounded in the war, handicapped. People, soldiers that became blind, soldiers that lost their hands, their fingers, their legs. That's when you begin to appreciate what Hashem gave us. When you begin to see people that have always need to hold someone's shoulder when they walk. I can't see anything anymore. When I walked into the Friday night synagogue, I was walking on the aisle and then I had to make a left between the chazan and the first person who sits in the first row with his legs forward. And his legs was blocking me. So the chazan is standing and his legs is all the way almost to the chazan. I couldn't walk. And I'm looking at the guy, so why is he not moving his legs? What, he doesn't see I'm trying to pass? Pull your leg back. That's when later I realize he's blind. That's what they say, like, "Don't call a dumb cop a cop." You have to judge people, you know, give them the benefits of the doubt. Never know. So that was a very big success. From then, Maharaj Mishamayim, I had the first lecture after that Shabbaton, one mile away. One mile away, Maharaj, like crossing the island. That was Saturday night, which was very good. And then I stayed there in the north. Sunday, I had another big lecture in the north. This time I was a lot in the north of Israel. All the way up to Lebanon. And Baruch Hashem, the following Shabbat we had the usual Shabbaton that we always do in Jerusalem. As you probably saw the pictures, a lot of people come to learn Shabbat, put in tzitzit. It's amazing how people come secular to a weekend seminar and they leave Motzei Shabbos with tzitzit, accept on themselves to keep Shabbat, grab the USB, grab books, And that's it, they have a new life. It's unbelievable. And the third Shabbat in Rechov, what I had, I spoke in a few places. Also the place that they were, you know, in Avlut morning, they made a big tent. Saturday night I spoke there, hundreds of people came. There was no room in the tent, they were standing in all black. It was very good. So there was a lot of great activity. The last week when I was there, I went to meet a few important people in the government, in the Knesset. You probably saw the pictures. People that you hear every day on the news, on the television, that they give all the speeches in the Knesset. Very interesting because in Israel, You have to have a Taviya Ruk, you have to have a special barcode that the government sends you after you got vaccinated. But it has to be only in Israel, meaning if you got vaccinated out of Israel or anything like this, they don't care. You have to have Taviya Ruk. Now finally I have a meeting at 4 o'clock. I arrived at 3:30. They don't let me in. The guard, the main guard, "Sorry, even if the Prime Minister would not have Tavya Rok, I cannot let him in. That's the law. This is the house of the laws. The laws were made right here. You think I can let you in without it?" Just when we almost gave up, a guard with a big machine gun came out. "Rabbi! Ah, I can't believe I find you here. I listen to you all day. Everybody here is crazy about you." You are the commando here that secures the Knesset. I said, they won't let me in. I came all the way. He tells me now go to the mall, do PCR. Who has time for this now? Don't worry, let's see what we can do. A few phone calls, this, that, that, they got to the doctor of the Knesset. Bottom line, I'm making a long story short, once I walked in You see all the security soldiers with their big guns over there. Top elite unit. They secure the Knesset. I had to see how they all ran. We listened to the lectures here all day. I started to take pictures with them. I walked through the metal detector. It beeped, toot toot toot toot. If Hashem wants you to go, no taviarot, you don't have to empty your pocket. The most important thing out of these meetings, we already thinking about the future after we get rid of the lefties, the wicked lefties that now in charge with the Arabs together. Hope the government will collapse and the righties will go back to power. We have to prepare in advance now. So I would like to now announce over the last few years, a lot of people were trying to make Aliyah to Israel. Once they find out that they are religious, they give them the runaround. The Jewish agency, they're not interested to bring religious Jews. They only want to bring Reform, they want to bring gays, and they want to bring goyim. But they don't want to bring religious Jews. Every time they find out a person is religious or convert, will convert, they begin to torture them. Give me your grandparents' birth certificate, your aunt, the original one, have to mail us the original. Who's gonna agree to such a thing? Your uncle's gonna give you his marriage certificate from USSR that he has? Imagine if he's gonna get lost, he has no documents. Nobody would— they on purpose ask you for things that they know there's no chance for you to get. It's not once and not twice, I heard it dozens of times. The problem is that I did not collect all the information and I don't have now days to start doing search and looking for all these emails. So Baruch Hashem, after my meeting in the government, finally they're gonna do something about it. So I need all the people who emailed me over the years to send me now an email with an explanation of what did they have to go through from the minute they went to Nefesh B'Nefesh, from the struggle that they walked them through in detail, not too long, in details, not 5-page stories. You know, this is politicians, they don't have patience. But if I collect many emails, I will put everything together and send it to them And then we're gonna put an end to this regime that does, that's trying not to bring religious people into Israel. That's what they do. So, B'ezrat Hashem, we also discussed few other laws that are necessary to pass. B'ezrat Hashem, let's hope that with Hashem's help, it's gonna work out. Anyway, when I was in Israel the previous time, 3 months ago, I told you a story that before I left, I have a friend that always insists that I pass through his house for dinner before we go to the airport, the night of the flight. David Atzadik, Reish Hamayim, the sweetest guy on earth. He is mamash lakavran havinu. You come to his house, he gives you his heart on a platter. He has a neighbor A young guy, 23 maybe, on a wheelchair. He had a motorcycle accident, became paralyzed. For a few years sitting on a wheelchair, suffering terrible pain, horrible pain, screaming, going crazy with the pain. If you remember, I discussed him in one of the lectures. He asked me if he can go to do a surgery to cut completely the leftover of his spine, that he should, that the feelings of the pain that he will have, will also not have. But then he has no chance ever to walk. If they ever will invent something after you cut it completely, that's it, but you know, you don't have pain anymore. I told him, no, don't do it because the technology is advanced, advancing in a very fast way. And I believe that soon they will announce that they will find a way to bring remedy to people that cannot walk. And today the day arrived. They announced in Israel today that they invented an artificial spine cord that they tested on mice that they made the mice paralyzed after cutting their spine and they cannot walk. And now they transplant this artificial cord in the spine for the mice and 80% of them started to walk. 80%. That means there's a very good chance now within few months They'll be able to perform surgeries on all these young boys in Israel. You have more than 70 people die from motorcycle accident every year. And many of them become paralyzed. And I told this guy, don't cut your spine completely. Because I'm telling you, they're inventing things. They will invent something to restore it. And today I actually called him and I said to him, see, I told you it's not even 3 months past. I told you they're gonna invent one day something. Yeah, they had to see the excitement, him and his mother. Imagine now thinking you're 23, 24 and you have to sit in a wheelchair another 50 years with pain. Just imagine this kind of life. And then people ask, Rabbi, there is Geinom in the next world? You have to get a home in this world. You don't see how many miserable people suffer in this world. You need to ask about the afterlife. Already half of the people in the world are in hell in everyday's life with their children, with their marriage, with their business, with their health, with so many other problems. So hopefully, Baruch Hashem, B'ezrat Hashem, hopefully with the Jewish brain that keeps inventing things and improving the world. Hopefully this will also work by people, not only by mice. Usually what works for the animals work for people because the concept is the same concept: spine, muscles, nerve system, brain. It's all the same, just a little bit different. Hopefully it will work with us. Today, after 2 years of Corona, remember March started between Purim and Pesach. Purim was supposed to be in 10 days now. But we have a leap year. But just then, Purim, 2 years ago, Corona started. So in 2 more weeks, it's exactly 2 years from the first cases that started. If you remember, 2 weeks before Purim, I was sitting right here at this chair, right here, and you can see this lecture on YouTube, and I spoke about I don't understand how Hashem brought SARS to the world. People got it by breathing, you know, it started to spread in the East, in China over there. People started to get SARS, people started to die, and all of a sudden overnight disappeared. I asked, how can it be? Something like this can continue forever. More people catch it and more and more and more. It keeps traveling, gets to our world, destroys the world. So I say, I think that maybe Hashem is giving us a final warning. You can go watch that lecture. It was on February 2, 2 years ago. And I said, I think Hashem is giving us a warning to show us what can happen in the world. Just from viruses in the air. This time he took it away by a miracle against all odds. Something that begins to spread, all of a sudden in one second it disappeared. How can it be? But maybe it's the final warning before something like this really will happen. And 10 days later it started. So, a match like this would happen. After giving 4 different vaccines in Israel, now we're finding out that the vaccine helps against the specific mutation, but then another one comes in and another one and another one. So the people in Israel, that's it, they gave up on vaccines. Nobody comes to get vaccines. They have 250,000 vaccines in Israel that expired. The government extended it by 2 more weeks. Come get the vaccine for free. Nobody comes. People give up. People realize there's nothing that we can do. We tried everything. We tried masks, we tried vaccines, we tried canceling events, doing all these things. We tried Tavya Huk, we tried Hashem is on top of us. He doesn't let us get away with that. Not with medicine, not with shots, not with all kinds of rules and restrictions. No. This time, nothing you can do. So we're back now to square one. More than 50 people a day die in Israel now. 1,200 people are in very hard condition in hospitals. They don't have room for more patients. It's this Omicron, you see, they don't know what they're talking about. 2, 3 weeks ago they said, oh, it's very light, it's mild, we don't have hard cases with that, it's actually good that it's spreading because maybe it's the beginning of the end. Today they say something completely different, it's actually as bad as Delta. It killed many people. More than 50 people died in Israel. And remember, almost everybody in Israel is vaccinated. So people that are older than 60 are getting it and they're dying. In the first wave, before the vaccines arrived to Israel, we reached 93 deaths per day. That was the highest it's ever been. Before Netanyahu bought the vaccine from Pfizer, it was 93. It went up 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60. It was 93, the highest. They were shocked because they're afraid another week it's going to be 500 a day and another week it's going to be 2,000 a day like in Mexico, Brazil, blah blah blah. They lost control over it. They were very, very nervous. Netanyahu called 20 times to the head of Pfizer. He testified that he called him at 2 AM at night, woke him up. He said, he called me in the middle of the night on my cell phone. The vaccines arrived, everybody started to get it, it went down to zero. 6 months later, they needed the second, they needed the second shot, 3 weeks later. After the second shot, 6 months it was fine, then it started again, another one and another one and another one. Basically now you're gonna need a shot every 6 months. People give up already. Why people give up? Because you don't really have any benefits by getting vaccinated. You still need PCR tests, you still need quarantine, you still need all these things that people that are not vaccinated. So the people say, you know what, What did I get by going together? At least you will give me some privileges, something. Nothing. Still have the same restrictions. Nobody wants to come. That's dangerous because if it's going to be now another mutation which is serious, could be who knows how many more dead. Right now we are 9,200 people died in Israel. I know it's a huge number, but compared to the world is nothing. In America, it's almost a million people died from, from Corona. 900,000 and change. Almost a million people. Million people. So we have no solution. No solution. That's it. The only solution is, as I said in the beginning, we have to start thinking about what Hashem thinks about us and about the world and start to change because we can only get worse. You never know what can happen. The fact that people give up on it already, that's very, very dangerous. One of the problems we have is that the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, what they call today gays, they are now taking over the world. In my opinion, that's the biggest danger to the world right now. More than viruses, more than Iran, more than China, more than inflation, more than wars, more than anything. This is now a massive propaganda, massive brainwash all over the world for little children to turn them to be like that. And in the last 30 years, it went up by thousands of percent. Meaning now you can see in every group of people, there are few, which it was very rare to find 34 years ago. Now it's everywhere. You see it everywhere you go. Every show, every model, modeling show, every music competition, every sport, everywhere you go, you see it. Ministers, presidents. Now they're forcing their mental disease. That's what it is. Don't let anyone fool you. That's what it is. It's a mental disease. I know people don't like to hear it. It's not popular. We are not looking for popularity. We're looking to say what God thinks. That's it. In the Torah, the Torah said that people that do these kinds of things, they will be put to death by stoning and their soul will be cast for eternity. That's the punishment of gay activity. So I'm not God and he did not ask my opinion. I'm just telling you what's written in his book. This book happened to be the book also of Christians and Muslims, which is 4 billion people. And the rest of the nations also pay attention to the Torah, what the Christians call the Old Testament. And over there, it's written clearly that that's abomination. And there's nothing God hates more than that. People who rebel against the laws of nature that he created and made. They decide to declare a war, a direct war against the creator of the world. I don't have to tell you how it ended every time it happened in the past. Check the history. Sodom and Gomorrah, the Babylonian Tower, Dora Mabul, the flood. The Torah brings us few cases like this. Hashem wiped them out, burned them, wiped them, drowned them by millions. That's what happened to the world. After the flood, everybody died. Only 8 people survived and restarted the world. Sodom and Gomorrah, hundreds of thousands of people got burned from fire who came out from the sky. They all went on fire. You go to Sodom today, you look at the ground, you see you cannot grow anything there. It's all you can see over there. There was like a nuclear bomb. That's how it looks. Not only that they want to force their mental disease every city, every school, every place, every show, everywhere. Not only do they force it on the kids, they force it on people that are straight, they force it on religious people. They want to make the whole world like that. They're gonna bring a disaster to the world that we're all gonna drown with them. Because if somebody makes a hole in his room on a boat, everybody drown with him. Now there is a new thing. Everywhere you go, you get a form, an application. Instead of father and mother, they're waving it now. They put parent 1, parent 2. Parent 1, parent 2, that means we are moments before God will destroy us all. That's it. You declare a new world. My terms in the Torah, father, mother, genealogy, all these things, it doesn't exist. You wanna run the world, not me. No problem. Check in history everybody who did it before you, what was their end? I'm just warning the people who think that they are smart, they're gonna pay a very serious price. You may ask, but why we have to pay? We are trying to be religious, trying not to be like this. We are disgusted by this kind of behavior. We are not happy from it. We suffer from that just as much. We hate it just as much as Hashem hates it, or at least almost just as much. So why we have to suffer? Why? Because we did not protest enough. And there's a rule in the Torah, when you don't protest against the wicked, you drown with them, or you die with them, or you get burned with them. History show. The Gemara say, when Moshe hit the rock instead of speaking to the rock to get water, why Avraham had to be punished? Moshé had a king. He hit the rock. The water came out. Hashem told him, speak to the rock. But why Aaron that was standing there had to be punished and he also did not enter Israel? Hashem spoke to both of them plural. Because you did not sanctify me in front of the nation as I ordered you, both of you will not enter Israel. Moshé understands, but why Aaron? The answer is, they might ask, why did he have to hit the rock twice? First time, few drops came out. Second time, flood came out. First one was to test Aaron. Will he stop him from the second one? Because he didn't know what he's about to do. After he hit the rock first time, he should have stopped him when he was about to hit again. He should have said, Hashem told you to speak to the rock. Why are you hitting the rock? You have to follow instructions. So the first shot, Aaron was innocent. He didn't know what's coming. But when he saw he's about to hit the rock again, it was his obligation to protest and stop it. Because he did not do it, it counts like he did it. And this idea repeats hundreds of times in the Torah. Hundreds of times. In the Tanakh, maybe more than 1,000 times. People who did not rebuke, they count as guilty as the sinner. People who did not protest, they are guilty. People who did not feel bad, people who saw the golden calf and didn't stop it, they held guilty. Many other examples like this we have in the Torah. So when we see gay parades, all kinds of things that they do, flags everywhere, and we do nothing about it, we will drown and get burned with them together. Make no mistake, that's it, that's the way it is. So now, Avotai, listen to this now, what's happening in Israel. You have in Israel, Magen David Adom. Not Hatzalah, but it's a national ambulance services. Everybody who calls like 911, ambulance, Magen David Adom. You also have Hatzalah in Israel, but it's the second biggest ambulance service. First, you have Magen David Adom for decades. Magen David Adom changed the applications for the people who would like to donate blood. People that donate blood, 99% of them are people with a yarmulke on their head or religious women. Secular people, it's not the top of the priority to go and donate blood to strangers every once in a while. Who wants to do it? People that value life, people that know that it's mitzvah to save life. So once a month they go, they donate blood and they keep the blood by type in a bank, in a cooling system. And when they have an operation, they use this blood. Of course they check it that you don't have HIV, all these diseases. After they check the blood, they use the blood to save life and they do save dozens of life every month on surgeries. People need extra blood. Operations. Because they changed the form to parent 1, parent 2, all the rabbis in Israel, Haredim and Datim Lomim, meaning the needed Yamakas as well, decided to put a ban against this Magen David Adom. Nobody donates blood. People stopped to donate blood. No blood already for months. Hundreds of surgeries are postponed until further notice because there's no blood in the system. And if someone will have an accident and needs blood, he will die today, tomorrow. Why? There's no blood. These wicked, lousy lowlifes, their devotion to destroy the world and turn the world into Sodom and Gomorrah and to rebel against God and their arrogance and their ego does not even bother them that people will die every month and they won't receive blood from religious people because they are basically the ones who give them the blood. Just not to change the phone back. Look how much devotion this Reshaim has. How much hate they have to the laws of God. That their hate to religion is so high that they can care less that hundreds of surgeries will be canceled and people that need emergency blood will die on a daily basis, just that their ego will not tell them, okay, we made a mistake, let's go back to the old forms. No, let everybody die, but we will turn Israel into gays. That's it. That's the mission of our life. Now you begin to understand what's going on over here. You see that Satan took over these wicked people and he does exactly what he wants to do. That's it. Messengers of the Satan. There's no logical explanation. I mean, you believe in it, but when people die, at least give up on your nonsense and save life. Right? If I know I'm right in an argument, and I'm arguing with someone, me being right will turn him to die, will make him die. I will say, okay, you're right, you're right, no problem, don't do it. Let him live. Okay, I'm right, he's right, who cares? As long as nobody dies. But they don't care. They will continue with their nonsense, let people die, cancel surgeries. Why? Parent 1, parent 2. So now you have the liberal university rabbis. They're always the cancer in the heart of the religion, this kind of rabbis. If you can call them rabbis, of course. They begin to bark, "Ah, it's our fault! We should not put them in a ban! Why? Because of us people are dying!" No, you fool! Not because of us people are dying, because of this Reshaim people are dying. You cannot turn the world into Sodom and Gomorrah. You cannot surrender to them. Your children will all become like that. It's massive brainwashing everywhere you go. It's crazy, you don't understand what's happening. Israel now is full of them. And full of dogs. Every person in the street have dogs. Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, because almost all the men there is like this, they became the capital city of this kind of people. So there's no man who is interested in women anymore in Tel Aviv. So all the Israeli girls, who they go with? With the Arab workers. Almost all of them with Arabs. Every store runs by Arabs. Not just restaurant, every store. All the workers in Tel Aviv, all Arabim. And all the Jewish girls, if you can call them Jewish, they have no connection to religion, these girls. They grew up like goyot. That's why they don't care. Any kind of goyim. If it happened to be Arabs, Arabs. If it would be French or British, they'll go with them. I don't care about religion. That's what one of my students who still lives in Tel Aviv told me. Told me, before you turned me into a religious person, I didn't see any problem. I was so much in the dark. Now when I listen to you every day, it burns my heart. Finally got a brain to see around me what's happening in Tel Aviv. On the other hand, the Satan is enjoying every minute, enjoying the show. The Satan is enjoying the show. Why the Satan is enjoying? I give you an example. In Morocco, a Muslim country, not the most fanatic Muslim country in the world, it's actually open-minded. There are much more religious Arabic countries like Saudi Arabia, even Egypt. There's a lot of Arabic countries that the religion over there is strong, strong. Most of them fanatic Muslims. Saudi Arabia, for instance, women cannot drive there. They can't vote. They all have to be covered, can't walk in the street with not modest clothes. Iran, If a woman who walk in Iran will not cover, the police of women come. Women, not men, because men will not touch a woman. Police of women, they stop by, take the woman in, into the car, and take her to arrest. Why? She walks on the street with not modest clothes against the laws. They have the law. They don't care about the law. So why am I talking about Morocco? 5 days ago, a little 5-year-old Moroccan kid fell into a well. Small well, very deep. You know, wells, they dig them very, very deep. Could be 300 feet. And one sees many houses from the, from 40, 50 years ago when they built them, they did not connect them to the water company. They just made them a well. They dug 300 feet in the ground and a pump and you keep getting free water. It's fantastic and it saves you a lot of money as long as there's no drought. If you have 40, 50 days without rain, it gets black. It gets black. And what happened? Then you have to reopen it. It's a big operation to go in and open everything. Usually in New York, you don't have 40, 50 days without rain. So it's been going on for years. Most of them don't pay water. They just have water from the ground. When you go very deep in the ground, you have water. So this kid fell into some kind of a well. I don't know how deep it was, but it took 5 days to try to get him out. They cannot reach him. That's how deep it was. I don't know the details. I don't know how they found out he fell there. Maybe someone saw him falling. I don't know. But for 5 days, all the rescue teams were trying to save this kid, and then they took him out yesterday and he died. They took him out dead. Maybe he died from starvation. Maybe he died from falling. Maybe he choked. I don't know. The entire country is crying. The King of Morocco called the parents, the King, to tell them about the bad news and to comfort them. Why am I telling you this story? Before I left the house to go to the airport yesterday, I'm sitting by my mom's house and she's watching the news and this lefty Israeli host is interviewing a Moroccan Muslim reporter from Morocco live to ask him about the boy. What happened? How did it happen? What's the story now? How do people feel in Morocco? And every word the Arab reporter was saying 'This is God's will, this is what God wanted, God will have mercy on him.' Maybe 10 times in a 2-3 minute interview he mentioned God. And I know, I became an expert in body language, I had to learn it. I see how this Israeli lousy, lefty, wicked reporter is suffering in his chair, how he reacts every time he hears the word God. That's what God wanted. Allah irhamo means God will have mercy on his soul. That's what God wanted. That's what God— every other sentence he repeated it. And you have to see how this Israeli left is suffering. This Arab goy reporter. Reporters are not exactly the most righteous people, you know, they're looking for some gossip. But in their countries, almost every reporter mentioned God. Saddam Hussein, the mass murderer, every other word in his speech, Allah, Allah, Allah. Arafat, the mass murderer, Allah, Allah, Allah, 500 times. Sadat, Allah, Allah. Every Arab leader, the most corrupted people in history, mass murderers, people who used to do horrible things, gas their own people. I don't have to tell you what kind of lifestyle they had. But they never, never was ashamed. They were never ashamed to say in their speeches, God, God, God, God. And these ungrateful Jews, lefties, if you can call them Jews, they're all Erevrav, black souls. They can't even hear the word God, forget not to say it. They can't even hear it. As soon as you say it, they change the subject. You see right away how they move to a different subject because they already see you're about to talk about religion. Rabbi Uri Zohar, who used to be a famous movie star, the number one in Israel. He was in talk shows, he was a host in TV, he had his own show, he was a producer, even he was on the way to Hollywood. He was 40, 42, something like that. He came to a wedding of a friend and became religious. I don't know what his name was. He just died a year or two ago. Back then, they grew up together, became religious, invited Uezor. Uezor came over there as the leader of the show business. One rabbi sat over there with him, started to talk to him. He said, "If you're a man of the truth, you continue the argument with me until you will find out the truth." 3 days he went to Jerusalem, 3 days to continue to ask, to fight, hoping he's gonna win the argument that he doesn't have to become religious. That's his words. And then the rabbi, obviously with this brilliant Torah, closed on him from all directions. And he became religious. He is the Baal Teshuvah of the generation. Somebody asks you who is the biggest Baal Teshuvah of the generation, he is the one. Became a learner, devoted, sitting all day learning, all day, more than 30 years. Gave up all his money, gave up the rights on his films. He asked them to buy all the rights that should destroy all the films that he made on the beach of Tel Aviv on Shabbat, women, not modesty, jokes, this. They wanted to buy it to destroy it. They don't want. They own the rights. You can be an actor in a movie and you have no say. You have no say. You can be a singer and you sell your rights to some big company and you have no say. They can put it anywhere they want. Even if you don't like this organization, they're gonna put your music. Yeah, once you sign up the rights, that's it. So why did I remember him? Because they decided a few years ago, I believe about 6, 7 years ago, to revive him, to bring him back to television with his beard and black hat, to give him a show, Friends from the Past, in one condition. That he commits not to mention one word about religion in any one of these shows. Now you know a person that learns all day Gemara and is already 25 years religious learning, learning, and he's already disgusted from his old lifestyle and this show business garbage. Every other word come from his mouth is about religion. You know? So he has an earpiece in his ear. And once he begins to say something that they don't like, immediately, "Uri, Uri, we agree on religion." And he, he's very clever. On one hand he's innocent, but on the other hand he's much more clever than them. He plays dumb. "Oh, oh, oh, I'm sorry." Dear audience, I was just reminded that I'm not allowed to talk about religion. You can't say it. No, no, you're right, you're right, we agree, no religion. They telling me here in my earpiece, no religion, no religion. So he was actually stopping, but he was bringing it out to the audience. Look at what kind of lowlifes controlling the show business, how they reprogram your brains to go against God. All of you, you foolish audience, you let them control your mind in a nice way. Of course, after a few shows they dumped him and, you know, he couldn't continue for— I know it's gonna be a gimmick. It's good, it's good for the rating. You know, for rating they sell their own mother. It's all about rating. Oh, the famous movie star from the past. Let's see how he became. Few shows we saw, not for us. We want him the clown he used to be. We're not interested in a rabbi like this talking to us about serious stuff. We want no shirt, standing in a beach of Tel Aviv with his curly hair with some goya. That's what we want. Jokes. Music, rock and roll, drugs. That's what it was. The '60s, the '70s. What year came now? Beer, this, that. Already 8 years old now. So my cousin, the big rabbi, he is married to his daughter. He's married to his daughter. So now, still now, sitting in a little tiny apartment, tiny, tiny, tiny, and learn all day long, all day long. That's it, learning and learning and learning. This is us and them. Instead of us representing Hashem in the world, publishing His name everywhere, speaking about Him, telling the world about God and all the miracles He did to us for the last 2,000, 3,000 years. Every generation, everyone is standing to destroy us and Hashem keeps saving us. And again and again, the whole world wanted to slaughter you and you're still here and they're all gone. The Romans are gone, the Babylonians are gone, the Persians are gone, the Egyptians are gone, the Greeks are gone, all the empires are gone, all of them. The Ottoman are gone, the Seljuks, the Armenians, every one of them at one point controlled the world. Hashem wiped them all out, nothing is left from them. The Spanish, the Spain Empire 500 years ago, Spain and Portugal, a little tiny country bankrupt. Nothing is left from them. Germany, the German Nazi Empire, what's left from them? Little Germany, that's it. Nothing is left from them. Where are the Greeks? Where are Pharaoh and his empire? Where are the Romans? Where are all these people? Hashem wiped them all out. And the one they all wanted to kill, the Jews, are still controlling the world. Every generation until this moment. You have to be a fool to be a goy and not to see it. Some goyim saw it. They wrote it. Tolstoy, others, they wrote, what's the secret of this nation? Everyone wanted to kill them, they're all gone. And the Jews are beating up everyone and rising always again and again. Why is it? The miracles of Hashem. So instead of us telling the world about Hashem, the Arab reporters keep saying, "That is the will of God, that's what God wanted, God will have mercy on him." Maybe 10 times at least, I promise you, in 2 minutes, 10 times he kept pushing God. And you have to see this lefty, he goes like this, suffering in his chair. Sad, very sad. It gets worse. I only get worse. I'm sorry I don't have some good news for you today. You're not gonna believe this. Today I heard one of the worst things I could ever imagine. I would never believe I will hear such thing. So it's so scary that who knows what's gonna be the outcome of it. You're not gonna believe it, Rabbi Tye. You have to sit and hold the chair very tight that you won't faint. Today they published on the news that a 62-year-old man, 62-year-old man, an ex-prisoner, he was sitting in prison for about 10 years for raping someone. After he came out of jail, the Israeli sloppy government gave him freedom. No surveillance, no checking, no It's a ridiculous— he's a dangerous man, the judge. Well, he asked to go out to cut his sentence by a third. Usually they always agree unless you're really dangerous. They refused. The committee refused to let him go 3 years earlier. He sat the whole 10 years. The sentence finished and he came out. He's 62 years old. What do you think he does? Raped a girl, 11 years old. 62, 11. You may say, "Oh, it's terrible." But we heard cases like this. There's a lot of pedophiles out there. Why you never heard it before? So you ready? Who helped him? Who helped him to do these things again and again for more than 2 years every day to this girl? Who helped him? The mother of the girl, in exchange for him paying her electric and water bill and give her some cash every month. The mother actually did took her girl and gave it to him and made arrangements for him to do his crimes. They're all shocked. Even the most secular wicked people in Israel have the shock of their life today. They don't know what to say. Society is not only bankrupt, it's now for sure worse than Sodom and Gomorrah. For sure, that's it. People lost their mind. My cousin, Baruch Hashem, I was able to make him Shomer Shabbat. He's not fanatic. He's Persian. He came from Iran to America, and from America he came to Israel. He told me, if I could, I would go back to live in Iran. Someone like that in Iran, they would hang him in front of the whole world. No one would dare to do such thing. Do you know what they will do to someone like that? Send him to prison to watch TV? When he's right, he's right. It's time to bring back the death sentence immediately, urgently. There's too many thousands of monsters living among us that they are danger to our children, danger to the women, danger to kids, danger to society. The punishment is the joke. He's not afraid to go back to jail. I'm not afraid. What's in jail? I spoke in jail a few times. I saw the Israeli jail. Talk about Turkey. Oh, that's a jail. Ireland, that's a jail. Places like this, India, oh, rats like this walking on your head in the middle of the night. 40 people in a tiny room sleeping on a freezing floor. That's a jail. Nobody wants to go back there. Prison in Israel? Plasma. And they watch my lectures over there, the prisoners. Eating, watching lecture. Oh, at least they became religious. More than 100 of them became religious. Told you when I go to the jail, They'll stand, sing. If you want to check the best popularity that I have in the whole world, in the jail in Israel. This guy 37 years, this guy 25 years, 12 years. It's called a ghaftovani, the religious section. Everyone is dying to get there. You have davening, you sit on the learning Gemara, halacha. It's not like the other prisoners. It's mamash, like the VIP. You are among people that are not violent. Nobody step you, nobody will choke you. People become better when they learn Torah. No fights, no alarm, "Oh, hey, hey, somebody try to kill someone." What do they do? They sit with feeling and learn and watch lectures. Why they promote my lectures there in jail? Asking the television, secular lefty television, to put one of my lectures, would they agree? Never. You offer them a million dollars for 5 minutes, they won't agree. Tell them I want to make a commercial. Commercial? Give me 5 minutes, how much it will cost? Like you want the other nonsense commercial. 5 minutes about Shabbat, million dollar I pay you, 5 minutes prime time. They won't agree. They won't agree. 2 gays would come, they agree for 50 bucks. It's good for our agenda, we like it. Now, Avotai, the commercials of the companies in Israel more and more are presenting families of 2 2 men and a baby. Now Doritos, we're gonna put them in a ban now. We're working on it. No one will buy Doritos. That's it. Cannot buy from them anything. Rasha'im arurim, they put a commercial now and they emphasize that family, look how wonderful, the man and a man, father and a father and a baby. Try to redesign the world. AIG Insurance in Israel, same thing, all over Israel, signs, too many. Sodom and Gomorrah. They brainwashed the people. They forced their nonsense on every normal human being. It's just like in America, people who voted for Trump, they were afraid to say it. I'm also Trump, but shh, shh, don't say anything. They're afraid from the lefties. If you're gonna say that you voted for Trump, you're finished. The lefties, they'll never leave you alone. Ah, 62 years old, 11 years old. With the help of the mother. What kind of Mother? This is the mother? Where is the father? Obviously there is no father. Who would ever believe such thing? The last thing for today and then we move on. I had current event accumulated. So you get it in one shot. Jad Sigalit Ofek. The stories that I tell you, it's deep. I hope you understand what's happening here. You understand where the world is going to. Jad Sigalit Ofek, another lefty garbage from the court of Israel, ruled Listen carefully. In a case that an Israeli guy, Australian citizen, he lives in Melbourne, Australia, got divorced from an Israeli girl with 3 kids. He is in Australia and she is in Israel. She sued him that she wants $1.2 million for every kid she gave birth for. For the 9 months suffering in the pregnancy, for giving birth, for raising them. She calculated how many hours she worked for the 3 kids that she had, and she want him to pay her $3.6 million. Did you ever hear such thing? A man and a woman have kids. The woman comes and says, "Pay me for having kids. You divorce me, I want money." So the judge, he arrived to Israel for the first hearing. The judge kept him in Israel on purpose for 14 months. He cannot go back to his job in Australia. After 14 months, with lots of pressure, she agreed that he's gonna put $150,000 in bail and go to Australia and must return to the next hearing. And he returned on time. And he had a court date and he's standing in front of this lefty judge, this Erev Rav Reshahit, Arua. He's standing in a courtroom and the lawyer of the woman say the Minister of Health, Health Minister, which is another gay, changed yesterday the rules that people who came back from Australia instead of 5 days of quarantine. They'll have to be, I think, 14 days in quarantine or 10 days. He's not supposed to be here, he's breaking the rules. And he's saying, when I bought the ticket, when I got on my flight, I was supposed— I came exactly enough days that the quarantine will end the day before the court date. How would I know that the Minister of Israel would change the rules? Every day they changing things. How am I supposed to know? The judge say, you're not supposed to be in my courtroom, you're breaking the law, get out! And she wrote in the verdict, because he did not show up to the trial, I'm putting a judgment $3.6 million on him. This is the kind of judges you have in Israel. And then people ask, do you need the laws to be according to the Torah? Don't you see what's happening there? What, are you out of your mind? You wouldn't prefer 3 rabbis tamid chachamim, with common sense, with brilliant mind, with a heart, with fear from God, they're gonna rule such nonsense? She threw him out and she wrote, "No show." How do I know about it? Even the wicked reporters in Israel. I said, "Oh, that's already too much." I mean, we usually liberal. We are, we are feminist. We are pro-everything wicked. But something else doesn't add up. He showed up to the trial, come on. Even they cannot believe it. Do you understand how it gets worse every week? More and more and more. Why am I telling you this? Because then I know that when Hashem would lose finally His patience, it's gonna be a disaster. Because it happened already in the past because of people like this. All of a sudden, you're gonna hear a million people died. What do you think? Then what are we gonna do? Oh, how did it happen to us? Where was God in the Holocaust? The same story will happen again. How did God let it happen? How did Iran shot a missile on Tel Aviv and kill a million people? For 40 years after, they're gonna ask, where was God in the Holocaust of Tel Aviv? That's how we twist the truth. Where was God? For 150 years He waited before the Holocaust until it started with assimilation and rebelling against Him and making the Torah toilet paper. 150 years He did not do anything. After He gave us the punishment we deserved, you're asking where was God? Where did this chutzpah come from? 150 years He tolerated your nonsense and then when in the end, chas v'shalom, such a tragedy happened, And it will happen again. What do you think is going to happen? Did you didn't read the words of the prophet Zechariah, Zachary? That's what's going to happen. It's going to happen again. It's going to happen again. If it will happen with a nuclear bomb, nuclear bomb. If not, it's going to happen with another virus. You had Ebola, you had SARS, now you have COVID, now you have Omicron, you have Delta, every something new. The next one can be the worst. You breathe it and you die an hour later, if Hashem wants. It could be such a killer virus, as soon as you get it, an hour later you die. Then what are you gonna do? Nothing will help. You can't even get to the doctor. You breathe and you die. Biological weapon. That's what happened. It can spread to a billion people in one day. Meaning Hashem has obviously the ability to do it, but he's holding himself back. We are pushing to a dead end that Hashem, it won't pay for Hashem to keep the world going. That's what people don't understand. You keep pushing and pushing, and in the end Hashem is not going to be able to keep the world going. Whether every other person will be gay or the Hashem is going to keep the world like this. What do you think? He's gonna be silent forever? You're rebelling against all these laws, you're changing the world, you're destroying this world. There's no morality anymore, there's no honesty, all the laws became Sodom and Gomorrah, all the courts are lefty, wicked, erev rav judges all over the world. No more modesty, kids have no defense anymore. It's such a dangerous thing to be a kid in democratic countries. In an Arab country, if somebody would touch a kid, they'll hang him on a lift in the middle of Tehran. If you steal, they chop your head off, a hand off. In Singapore, you sell drugs to someone, they'll kill you. In Israel, we watch TV and eat peanut butter and jelly, or if you're an Arab, you get hummus and olive oil and play basketball. That's what's going on here. So very sad, very sad what's happening. Sigalit Ofek. I promise you, if you take this Sigalit Ofek and give her the book of the Rambam and ask her to read, I bet you anything you want, she doesn't know how to read in Hebrew. You don't believe me? Go and do it. Go tell Riris. The page in the Rambam. Can you read it? Every other watch, she will make a mistake. But she's going to decide who's going to live and who's going to die. Amen. We are now facing a war between Russia and Ukraine. Usually when two countries going into war, I know it's not the topic of a lecture, but in these particular two countries, it connects to our Messiah. The Gaon of Vilna, one of the greatest rabbis in the history of the world, he lived 250 years ago in Vilna. He wrote, mamash, like a prophecy. He wrote, when the Russians will arrive Constantinople in Ukraine. Everyone should wear their white holiday Shabbos clothes because the Mashiach will arrive shortly after. This was 250 years ago. Now Russians are preparing to attack Ukraine, the cities in Ukraine. It will happen, it can happen in a week or less. The only thing now, I don't forget, when he wrote it, there was no guns. There was bow and arrow, spears, swords. People didn't have bombs, airplanes, tanks. He wrote it almost, you know, like I said, 250 years ago. When Russia will attack Ukraine, when there will be a gate of Constantinople, then you know it's gonna be the sign of the Geulah, the redemption is gonna begin. So, that's something to get excited for. Not that we want wars. War is always a bad thing. It's not a good thing. But if this war will be the sign that the Messiah will come, we'll wait and see. This Shabbat is Parashat Rumah. This whole Parasha is describing how to build the temporary Mishkan, the temporary temple. It's called Mishkan. Mishkan comes from the word shochen. Shochen means to live. Why you call it Mishkan? Because God comes to live there. That's what he's saying. Build for me a Mishkan that I should live among each one of you. He means that he would be inside this temporary temple. But the language of the Torah is not "nuli mishkan v'shachanti betochu." That's the way it should have been. "Betocho" means "in it." "Betochan." "Betochan" means plural. The Gemara asks, "What does it mean, 'betochan'?" The answer is, when there is a Mishkan, when we do all the sacrifices, when we do all these things in the Mishkan or in the Temple, the Temple, that means that God is living in the heart of every Jew. But we have to understand a few things over here. Daberu Bnei Yisrael, talk to the nation of Israel, ve'ikulit ruma, and they should take donation. Meaning, you mean they should give donation? What does it mean they should take donation? They mara'ask why the language is and they should take donation. Donation you give, you don't take. The answer is wrong. Donation you take, you don't give. That's the mistake. Every donation you ever gave in your life, you took. You took it with you to the next world. It was wired already. It's in the hand of this guy Moshe It's in the hand of the Rosh Yeshiva, it's in the hand of the Rabbi, that the speaker, is in the hand of the poor family. Yes, you give here, you give there. That's an illusion. You give nothing. Nobody ever did anything for anyone besides themselves. That's really the truth. The rich man is thinking, I'm giving money to the poor thanks to me is learning Torah. The Gemara says, no, my friend, it's the other way around. The poor person is doing you a favor that he's accepting from you money and let you share with him on his merits. The Gemara asks, who does a favor to who? The poor to the rich or the rich to the poor? Conclusion? The poor does a favor to the rich. The Roman Caesar asked one of the Chachamim, if God loves the poor so much like you say, why doesn't he give them enough money to make a living respectfully? That they need donations from rich people to beg them for money, right? The Rabbi answered, what was the Rabbi's answer? To save us from hell. Why did He make poor people? Why they need our help? Because when they come and ask us to help and we give them money, we don't help them, we help ourselves. We're buying insurance. This insurance will save us save us from going to hell or from dying young. Tzedakah can save from death, meaning after it was decreed already. After it was decreed. On Rosh Hashanah, Hashem wrote on an individual, Chasvei Shalom, that in this day he is going to die. And then he gives him one or two more opportunities to save himself by sending him a postcard woman or something like that and he ignores it. He doesn't give. He doesn't give, he dies. If he would give, he would live another 30 years. Another 30 years. He comes to Shamayim, why you took me? I'm only 40. Didn't get to enjoy life, B'cholat. Well, it wasn't your aim. You should have lived another 30 years. But when this man begged you that his family is hungry and they don't have money and they're taking away his home like this case now. There's a case now of Ben Chaim, the Avvedim of the Bedouin. He made a video with Rabbi Golan, the Tzadik of the Bedouin, about some man that they— what is the story there, Hannah? They're taking away his home, no? If we don't raise money in the next 2 days. If the next 2 days, how much money they have to raise? Over $300,000 and it was only originally $15,000 of tax lien. The losing is $500,000. $300,000 to raise in 2 days is not easy. That's a lot of money, it's a problem. But even when it's $10,000, $20,000, it's hard to raise, unfortunately. So the idea is that sometimes we hear the miserable person We give a little bit just to, you know, feel good, but it wasn't really what we could. The Torah says, "You're not doing anyone a favor by giving donation. You're actually giving it to yourself." I told you, it's a routine. Every time I go to Israel, donation goes minimum down 30%. And now, last 3 weeks, 30% minimum. Sometimes 50%, but there's not— I already know 30% will go this month, cancellations, this, no, nothing, dead. Why? I don't know how many times you have to remind people the organization is still working. It's still expenses. A bill on this country, a bill on there. No, if there's gonna be English lectures, we will donate. What is it, a movie? You buy tickets? Let's go. It shouldn't be in Beit Dinu, but the Torah says many years ago, if you remember, I said an interesting part of Torah based on the Masechet Kiddushin. When you give money to an important Chacham, you have a big Rabbi, Chacham, he needs help. When you give him money, what does it count? That you gave or you took? When you give a homeless money that you don't know him, he lays there in the park, you give him $20, you definitely don't feel you took. You feel good that you help a miserable person, but that's just about it. But what happened if they tell you this biggest tzaddik in the world needs help and you went and gave him $1,000? How great you feel about it? Like you won the lottery. I once said in one of the lectures, sometimes your friend, your brother, your wife, your husband asks you for a cup of tea. You make a face, you walk to the kitchen like a turtle, full of fuming. How many times is he gonna ask me to make him a tea? He thinks he's a king or something? All day I work with the kids, now I have to make him tea? So, you know, you do it, but you're not enjoying doing it. So I say, what happened if the Baba Sali would ask you in the middle of a lecture, "Son, my throat hurts. Can you make me a cup of tea?" You would cry from happiness. If it was in front of the camera, you'd pay a million dollars to get the film. And I was now in Israel. I had an event. There was a big rabbi there. Rabbi Batzri is one of the biggest Dayanim in Israel, in a Beit El Din, very well respected Chacham. And the whole family Batzri has a lot of Chachamim there. So I went there. Why? It was the yahrzeit of his wife. She passed a year ago. Rabbanit Sima Batzri, alei Hashalom. She was also Kalimida Chachama. She wrote books, she had students, women, children, you know, she was rabbanit. So there was a Yom Tov. They have a very amazing synagogue in Yerushalayim, in Arnof. It's called Mishkan Haro. If you see the pictures that I post, I put on my WhatsApp groups and Facebook, that's where I spoke. Behind me there was an extraordinary Aron Kodesh. This is the original Aron Kodesh of the Ramchal. The Ramchal somehow assembled it together over there. And the Bima, where they read the Sefer Torah, he told me that they got it from one of the time of the prophets. It's unbelievable synagogue there. So Baruch Hashem, because it's such an important Chacham and it's This is Rabbi Tzvi. I didn't know I'm gonna speak there. They asked me to speak. So they invited the biggest rabbis in Israel. The chief rabbi, Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef, the son of Rav Ovadia. That's the chief Sephardi rabbi. The chief Ashkenazi rabbi, Rav Lau. The former chief rabbi, Rav Amar, the Sephardi. All of them came with special outfits. You know, with the turban. And I was there. They asked me to speak, so I spoke between Rabbi Tzvi Yosef and Rav Ammar, between the two chief rabbi rabbis. First was Rav Larry, then it was Rav Batzri, the husband of the rabbanit, then it was Rabbi Tzvi Yosef, then I spoke, and then Rav Ammar spoke. That was the order. So you know how it is when you speak I sent it to the rabbanim and this, there was one rabbi from Florida, Tzadik Ashkenazi, friend of mine, when he used to live here in Medalya, he used to invite me to do Shabbatonim in Orlando. So he took pictures. I said to him, no, wow, these pictures worth billions, send it to me. He said, no, $30,000 for the picture. But I have you. In a video speaking to the Chief Rabbi face to face like this with the camera to your face. You want it for free? That's what they do, by the way, in Israel. They take pictures and say, oh, you want it? Pay. Like in a wedding. You know, in a wedding, I once went to a Syrian wedding in Flatbush. They have a machine over there. You want to take a picture, you have to pay money. And it prints you the picture on the spot. In the wedding, you pay money and the machine prints, "da, da, da." That was a joke, but I'm saying if the Baba Saleh would ask you to make him tea and someone caught it on a video, how much you're willing to pay for that? What? He asked you to make tea. You're usually not so excited to make tea to anyone, even not to yourself. But how lucky you feel, oh my God, Oh my God, it's the happiest moment of my life. I actually made tea to the Bar Sali and he said, "Ah, very good, thank you." If you got a bracha for it, be glad you don't sleep for 2 weeks. So now, who did a favor to who? You did a favor to the Bar Sali by serving him tea, or he did a favor to you by choosing you to make him the tea? The answer is obvious, right? Wow, my uncle, ala vashalom, he was thinking, how will I get close to Rav Kaduri, the oldest Kabbalist in the world? He was 105 at that time. A holy man. How will I get close to him? He came up with a great idea. That's the idea. He's gonna bring him a box of tobacco. You know how the Iraqis, they like to put— the Moroccans and Iraqis, they have this brown powder, ground tobacco. You push it in the nose and it makes you sneeze. It keeps you awake. Even on Yom Kippur, they put that you don't fall asleep all day praying. So every time the Rav Kaduri was Speaking, they had a video. You see my uncle comes with a box and smile to the camera. How happy he was when I told him, Uri, I saw how you gave Rav Kaduri the tobacco. Oh, you're so happy. I got lucky because because he was close with Rav Kaduri Rav Kaduri gave him this original amulet with his handwriting, worth millions. All the names of the angels, big things, tzvatzlachayim, like he wrote it to him and my uncle, ala Hashalom, loved me so much, so I'm giving it to you. And I got like, from this tabacco something good happened. 2 times I got lucky. One here and one when 30-something years ago, one Canadian guy, Pimchas, I wonder where he is today, was 18 at that time, probably he's 50 now, took me to the Lubavitch Rebbe. That was right before Lak BaOmiya. Usually the Rebbe gives dollars, you know, gives you a dollar, 2 or 3, whatever, but dollars. Paper. That was special edition that year, that they printed silver coins with a picture of Beit Chabad on it, 770, with the name of the Rebbe on it. Silver, nice coin. Wow, now in the market it's worth $10,000. It's only going up. A few years ago, $3,000. Now it's $10,000. Soon it's gonna be $20,000 and $50,000. You know how it is. Chabad will pay any amount of money to get a coin like this. From the Rebbe, the last Rebbe from 7 Rebbes. You know, in Yerushalayim, I spoke a few days ago in Mikdash Melech Yeshiva. Mikdash Melech Yeshiva is in the Admor Milubavitch number 38. Next door to it, there is Chabad house. A copy of the building of Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. Same building. Every brick, every window, same exact building. Next door to mikdash. My son told me, you know, they were not allowed to build in Jerusalem with brown bricks like in America. It's against the law of Jerusalem. You're only allowed to build with Jerusalem stone. Can't build anything you want, any color or stucco or whatever you like. It's not like here, you can build anything any way you want. You get approval and that's it. In Jerusalem, you must build with Jerusalem bricks. Can be a little bit brownish, white, but it has to be Jerusalem stone. Just like in Forest Hill Garden, you're not allowed to change the shape of the houses. The windows, everything, because it was built 100 years ago by the Germans. If you're gonna change the outside of the house, you get a huge penalty. You have to keep it original. Same thing in Jerusalem. You must build with Jerusalem stone. So the kids over there in Mikdash, they told me every year they get 250,000 shekel fine. For having this building like this and not making it Jerusalem stone. Every year. Now you can argue. One would say, what a nice devotion. They want to keep the original house of the Rebbe. They're willing to pay any amount of money to keep it as it was. The other one would say, chaval, it's a shame to give this wicked government, whatever, whoever give them the funds Fine, so much money, with this money we could make a lot of ballet shoes, but it's an argument, you know. You can argue about it. But the idea over here about, I will go back to where I started, that when you give a gift to somebody important or to an important cause, right? So you're not really giving, you are receiving much more than what you're giving. Even in kiddushin, you know, when they get married now. How do you get married? A man has to give the woman some kind of a gift. We do it today with a ring. Doesn't have to be with a ring. You can give her anything that has some kind of a value, anything. To make it easy, not to confuse people, today they do it with a ring. So if the chatan is an important man. Let's say he's a famous rabbi, big talmid chacham, everyone was dying to marry him. And this girl got lucky, she is the one, right? If she gives him money before the wedding, let's say she has money, she comes with a bunch of money and she wants to give it to him. "Here, I want to give you a gift." Does this gift make her his wife or no? That's the question now. Because we just say that giving to an important Chacham counts like receiving. So when she gives him this stuff of cash, it's actually like he gave it to her. That he agreed to receive it from her. She feels that she just got it. Not she gave it. He feels so lucky. So the question is, because of the pleasure she had, is it count like she's married or no? Huh? According to some opinions, yes. She's gonna lay again, huh? She is not buying the husband. She gives the husband a gift, but she has pleasure like she just received it. If she would give an ordinary guy, what pleasure she has? Nothing special. Same thing if you give a stranger on the street money. Fine. But if Rav Ovadia Yosef Zatzal would have come to you and said, I want to print my book. Would you like to sponsor it? Wow, so lucky you came to me, Rabbi, wow, what an honor. I'm gonna put your name in the front page. Wow. You walk around like you won the lottery. Why? You gave $10,000. The Steichler, the father of Rav Chaim Kanievsky, was a very holy man. He needed back then, I don't know, 50, 60, 70 years ago, or something like that. 7,000 lira to print this book. Back then, in that time in Israel, to get such an amount of money when everyone was extremely poor, you know, it was probably before Israel was a state, the British were there, it was very hard to find this kind of money. One rich man, okay, And Rav Chaim Kanievsky was still very young back then. He was in a room. Actually, you know what? I take it back. It was probably more than 90, like 90 years ago. Because today he's 90 and he was a kid, he was a child. Today he's 93, I think. He was still a child. So we're talking about 80 years ago, this story. And he looked at his father and the man walked in saying, Rabbi, I heard that you're looking to print your book and how much is going to be? Steigerl told him, don't worry, I manage. It's 7,000 lira, but I managed already. Thank you very much. Oh, I can give you the whole amount. No, I manage. And he left. Rav Chaim, which was Chaim K. back then, he told him, Abba, whoa, he just spoke about that you need this I'm the sponsor for the book. What do you mean you managed? He said, I didn't manage, I just didn't want his money. So I say to him, where would you get an opportunity to get the full amount in one shot? What are the odds? The typist said, we don't go by odds. If Hashem want me to print the book, it must be printed. If not, it won't be printed. So I do not compromise on my way, on my Ashkafa, on my ideology. I'm not taking money just from everyone. I don't want this money, this person's money. Rav Chaim said when he got older, he said the story that a minute, a minute later, not A week later or a year later in a country that barely anyone has what to eat. You get food stamps from the British just to buy, to get flour from them on the truck that you can eat bread only. Nobody has money for shoes. My father lived in those days in Israel. He told me we used to cut the front of the shoes. 7 brothers wore the same shoes. So I asked him, but when it didn't fit, what did you do? So we cut the front. The toes go out. We make it like sandals. And it kept getting ripped. We put another patch and another patch and another patch. That's it. Nobody can afford Amazon. Birkat Amazon. Prime. Before you finish the order, yes, your shoes are ripped. A little bit different the world back then. So what happened? A minute later someone came in, "Rabbi, you still looking for someone to sponsor your book?" This one is a tzaddik. He said, "Yes, absolutely, I have 7,000 lira, here it is." Steiner told him, "You see, you have to trust Hashem. Do not compromise on your truth because you have lack of Emunah. Same way it wasn't difficult for Hashem to send you the bad guy, He could send you a good guy. But He first want to test you. Will you take the money from everyone? And that's why we always fail. We think, ah, who's to say I'm gonna have another opportunity? So we begin to give excuses. Ah, this guy is not so bad. What did he do for me? Well, it's not Haman. No, no, but come on, it's— Don't be extra fanatic. It's written in the Pasuk, Le'kach is lo'keach. What's lo'keach? Taking. Ki le'kach tov natati lachem. I gave you a good taking. The language doesn't add up. You gave us a le'kach? Yes. What do you think? Whatever you do, you're actually taking. You're not giving. I gave you the Torah. You learn Torah, you think you're doing it for me? You're doing it for yourself. The nation of Israel, after they say Naaseh Venishma, right after they say Naaseh Venishma, what was Hashem's response? Ma? Immediately, be'ikru lituma. How do you give the Tuma? Ish kemad kenidvak libo. I don't want just donation because you have to give. I want it purely from your heart. If not, don't do me a favor. You want to give? You must give it with happiness because you want to give. Not for personal calculation. Personal calculation. Personal calculation is still mitzvah, by the way, don't get me wrong. If a person has a sick child and he says, "I'm giving tzedakah for my son to get healthy," that's 100% tzedakah, even though he does it from personal interest. Still count it as taka. Person lost money on the street, your wallet fell, I don't know, your money fell from your pocket. Happens. Some people are sloppy. Somehow they come home, where is the money? In the fall. After it fell on the street, you beg Hashem, please make sure an Avrech, tzaddik, will find the money and not some lefty gay. And an Avrech found the money. Avrech learning in yeshiva. Wow! 6,000 shekels! Wow, Hashem! Wow, I cannot believe in the next 2 weeks I can sit and learn without worry. Did you intend to give him tzedakah? No. If he would come to you and ask you for 6,000 shekels, would you give him? Probably not. Maybe some of it, but not all of it. But now when you lost it, you beg Hashem that it will go to the right hand, someone who learns Torah with that. Let's say that you actually saw— I'll give you an example. You're sitting on a train, on a truck, and somehow it fell from your hand. Outside. There's no way to get off. The train began to go. And once it fell, you see someone, black hat, tzitzit, Gemara in his hand, was sitting on the bus stop, on the train stop, learning Gemara. He saw the money, he ran and grabbed it. You have a comfort. Wow, at least it went to a holy man sitting learning Torah. Something good will come out of it. If he would ask you for the money, you wouldn't give it to him. But now you're happy that it went to him. Does it count like Tzedakah? The answer is yes. So if something like this counts as Tzedakah, when you actually give Tzedakah with intention that I'm gonna get a great reward for it in Olam Haba, or my kid will get cured, or I'm gonna find a good job, 'Look what she do for my children, thanks to it, it's for sure it's Dakar.' But there's a higher level than this. Why do you give? 'I don't want anything in return.' 'I don't want anything in return.' Why you give? 'Because I'm a good person.' That's it. Don't give me, don't make me sit over here, don't write my name on a wall, don't write it on the Aron Kodesh, don't write it on the building. Today someone sent me a video in Israel, you're not going to believe it. They made a hole in the wall of the shul. Hole! Imagine this wall or this wall. Break the wall! People from outside, they put their hands inside with a note. Matan baseter. You don't know who you're giving to. He puts his hand like this. With a note. Give hiddenly. The hands like this, people can't put money in his hand, right? He doesn't know who he got it from and you don't know who you gave it to. He doesn't know who he got it from, it's good for you. But you do not know who you gave it to, that's not good. You need to know who you give it to. What happened if he's mechalel Shabbat? You give him money to put gas in his car to drive on Shabbat? What if he's a drug addict? Give him more money for drugs now? So you should never give without knowing who you give it. But better that he doesn't know who he received it. That's for sure. That's more than— makes your reward a lot better. There was a very big tzaddik, name was Moshe Fish, tzadzal. Very strong, straight. He opened a shiva for Argentinian boys from Argentina. They come to Jerusalem and they learn here, 2 years. One time a boy came from Buenos Aires. He learned the first year, he was supposed to go back to university. The usual brainwashing, university, university, university. His father, which was the president of the community or vice president, somebody important, his father called him, "No, why you're not coming back? The deal was that you're gonna learn for one year." I want to learn one more year. I love the Torah. No, that wasn't the deal. You must return. We're gonna put you in college here. I don't want to go to college. I want to learn Torah. Listen, you must come back. That wasn't the deal. I know, but I don't want to go. I don't want to go to college. I enjoy learning Torah. The same story. Let me speak to your rabbi. Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Fish. Rabbi, please tell him to pack his suitcase. I got him a flight. Tomorrow he has to get on a flight and come back to Buenos Aires. He's going to university. The rabbi said, I will definitely not make a person who learns Torah leave the Torah and go to university. On Mike Kushevsky. I'm gonna do such thing. If you and him reach an agreement, it's between you and him, but I cannot kick him out of the yeshiva. I'll never do such thing. No, that was in the deal. You're not kicking him out. He has to stick to what we agreed. I will not make a Jew close a Gemara. I don't want to lose my rabba-ba. I don't want to upset Hashem. Especially if you tell me he's going to Sado. So I'm not gonna do it. Rabbi, you come into Argentina, we raise money for your yeshiva every year. You don't want to mess with me. If you don't send him, you're not gonna come back to collect money anymore here. You know how I influence all the people here. It's not in my hand. If Hashem wants to close my yeshiva, close my yeshiva, but I will not go against Hashem. Whatever happens, it's not my problem. What do you think the rich man did? Right away got on a flight and arrived to Israel. You know how it is, my way or the highway. He arrived to Israel, he comes to yeshiva, now he's angry already, wasting my time, I have to come over here to beg you to come back. "Pack your stuff! If he doesn't get on the flight, you're not gonna have yeshiva here. Tell him to leave." "No!" "Okay, you don't want to come, fine." Went back to Argentina. A few months later, there was a wedding. One graduate of the yeshiva in Argentina is getting married. The rabbi went to the wedding. He arrived, nobody said hello to him. Usually they give him the blessing in the chuppah, sits like one of the people in the crowd, not first row, they don't call his name, they gave brachot to all kinds of ameiratzot who don't know how to read the brachot. Happens sometimes. Big embarrassment. They call up people to say brachot, they don't know how to read. Unfortunately, we live in such a generation. The big Chacham sits in the crowd and ignorant Argentinian man doesn't know Halachah, making mistakes, and everyone is wondering what's going on over here, why they don't let the Rosh Yeshiva make Bachaya. One guy came to him, said, "It kills me, why you keep coming to the weddings when you know they're gonna treat you like garbage? Isn't it better you don't come?" to spare the embarrassing of a Talmid Chacham and the Torah. He said to him, how can I not come? This is like my children. I raised them, I taught them Torah, now they're getting married. How can I not come? Yes, but you come and they disrespect you. It bothers me to see such thing. It's okay, I don't need kavod. I keep my obligation and that's it. So Avotai, when he passed, his son spoke in his funeral, in his eulogy. This is what he said. He said, every rabbi that teaches about faith, Emunah, you have to trust God, you have to believe in Him, you have to count on Him. We know, we have thousands of speeches about this, or books. Popular topic in Judaism. Even the goyim speaks about it a lot. We know one of the main tests in a person's life is faith, and we know. So he said, every rabbi will tell you, and it's right 100%, that no one can ever lose from listening to Hashem. No one can lose if you do, if you sacrifice for Hashem, for the truth, how you even worry that Hashem is gonna stick a knife in your back? Come on, that's nuts. Someone who is a religious person, he knows I did what the Torah say, right now it looks like I'm losing, it's only for now. In the long run, you can never lose, you can never lose. Every rabbi will tell you that. My father had a little bit different shita, different understanding about it. He said, of course what everybody said that when you sacrifice for the truth, you can never lose from it. It's true, but I want to lose. For Hashem, for the truth. I don't want Hashem to reimburse me. I don't want Him to send me from a different address because I did not surrender to the wicked, or because I did not steal, or because I did not do something against the Torah. No, it's an honor to lose for the sake of Hashem. That's very high level. Because between you and me, that's a little bit insulting to even think that Hashem is gonna stick a knife to your back because you did what he told you to do. And because of that, you think you're losing money. You're gonna go to yeshiva and give your life for the Torah, and as a result of that, you think Hashem is gonna make you lose money because of that. That's really insulting that you're in such a low level. Every Arab understands that it cannot be. You need to be a big tzaddik, a big hacham to know that? That's common sense. Your friend that you come and volunteer to clean his house for 2 hours after a party, taking the garbage out and all of that, obviously, obviously you don't expect that he stick a knife in your back after these 2 hours. Wait 2 hours for you. You don't even have this fear in your mind that after I finish to clean and help him and take the garbage out and wipe and mop the floor and help him with all the shopping and all of that, after all of that, instead of giving me a hug and say I appreciate what you've done, he's gonna take a knife and stick it in my back. You worry about your friend doing such a thing? No. So what are you saying, that Hashem is worse than this friend? How can it be? That's an insult. So, Hafiz said, that's needless to say. You need a speech for it? Nobody can ever lose from doing what Hashem wants him to do. I say more than that. Of course, Hashem is going to give it back, but I say to him, don't, don't give me back. Why? Same thing, Avraham Avinu. Hashem said to Avraham, go and slaughter your son. And once Avraham was willing to do it, Hashem said, no, no, it's okay. Now I know you're a God-fearing Jew. You don't have to prove to me. Now I know you're a tzaddik. So Avraham begged him, let me do something at least. I came all the way here. Let me do the mitzvah. He said, no, you don't need. Don't touch him. Don't reach your hand to him. The master, Abraham, begged Hashem, let me do something, at least a cut, something, take some blood out. And Hashem said, no, don't do it. Abraham could have played dumb. Great, I passed the test. Hashem gave me a stamp that I'm a tzaddik. I deserve to be the man of God in the world. I got what I wanted. Why would I slaughter my son? My mom didn't want discounts. Don't, don't, you give me what you give me, do not reimburse me. Let me still do it. After you give me the stamp, I still want to pay you. Why you give it to me without payment? You tested me if I'm willing to pay. I'm willing to pay. No, no, you don't need to pay. 'Here, it's for free, take it.' 'No, no, you gave it to me, it's mine already, here, it's in my hand.' 'But I still want to pay you.' That's a higher level. Somebody offering in a restaurant to pay. You know these people who, 'Oh no, come on, it's on me.' And then they read Shir LaMa'alot in their heart, that you won't agree. Imagine if you say, 'Oh yeah, it's on you? Okay, hold on, let me order some more stuff.' Why didn't you say So, there are two levels here. One that suggests to pay and he said, "No, no, it's no problem. You are our guest." He's happy. At least I suggested. He doesn't want. I got away with that. But there is another kind, no matter what, he's gonna leave the money. He's not gonna, even after you pay, he's gonna leave it on the table and run. Why? You got the mitzvah. You already showed that you're willing to pay. So why? Nobody will say anything bad about you. It will count like you did. They didn't let you. No, I'm gonna pay no matter what. That's Rafish. The Maharal in Baba Batra brings a story about Binyamin HaTzadik. The man Binyamin was a big tzaddik. He was in charge of the fund of the community, giving charity money to poor people. One time a woman came to him She was a mother of 7, asking for help. But the fund was empty, no money. She said, "If you're not gonna help me, me and my children will die from starvation." He couldn't say no. He gave her money from his own pocket, not from the charity. Years later, he became sick. Was about to die. Barak Elosh Baruch Hu added to him 22 more years because of the money he gave this widow. Question is, we already know the rule that Dakas saves from death. The question is, how does Hashem decide how many years to add? Why not 15 years? Why not 30? Why 22 years? Based on how much you gave? Based on how many hours it took you to make that money? What's the formula? Ma Hashem is a roulette? It's not a Russian roulette. Maybe he's a roulette. Maybe in heaven. Ah, you know, okay, Benjamin, you get zakat, so you're not gonna die. But let's see how many years I have to add to you. Ah, 22 years. Got lucky. One more, it would be 5 years. The ball fell on 22 years. That's how it goes. Goes not. Who can tell us the calculation? Only the Gaon of Vilna. Who else can say it? They need somebody at junior stages. So the Gaon of Livigna told us the secret. What's the secret? The secret is that it's not a coincidence that he got 22 years. Why? The Gemara says someone gives a coin to the poor, he's getting 6 blessings. 6 different blessings automatically that are written in the Torah. And if you comfort him in a nice way with words and give him some hug, words of encouragement, I'm gonna pray for you, we're gonna add you to the list, don't worry, you're gonna see, I used to be in this situation. You're not just giving it with a sour face, amen hara, take it, goodbye. Don't waste my time, I have to go. Here is your money, goodbye. I'm gonna leave it here by the door, under the mat. He took it, but he don't wanna be bothered. Time is money in America. Gonna waste my time now, he likes to talk, this poor guy. By the time I talk to him, I'm gonna lose a lot of time. So first of all, time is not money, money is time. It's a mistake. When people in America say time is money, it's baloney. Time is not money. Money is time. How much money you have, you have to calculate how much time from your life you lost to gain that money. That's the way it is. Not time is money. No, absolutely not. So if you also comfort him with words, you get 11 blessings. Double almost. What do you have to lose? Put your hands around his shoulder. Wow, I'm so happy you came. How are you doing? How is the children? How is this? Ah, terrible. Don't you know it's all tests? The ones Hashem loves, He's testing him. If Hashem puts you in this situation, situation, it means he loves you. I'm gonna help you, of course. I'm gonna make him leave for you. Here is the money. Don't worry, be strong. Give him words of encouragement. So, Avotai, you get 11. So, what happened over here? Binyamin also comforted this widow with words and he gave her money, right? So she and her 7 children is 8 people multiplied by 11 blessings, it's 88, right? 8 times 11, 88 blessings. The Gemara says when Oh, when you have a man that he wants to take his wife to the Kohen to drink the water, the Mayim Hameravahim, the water does not kill her immediately. Sometimes it can be 3 months. The Gemara in Masechet Sotah, page 2 The Gemara says it can be 3 months extension. So 3 times 88 is 264 months divided by 12, which you have 12 months a year, it's 22 years. 22 years. So the Gaon of Vilna did all the calculation and that's how he came to 22 years. It reminds me that about 20, actually 19 years ago, one day someone knocked on my door in Monsey. "Hi." "Yes, shalom." "I'm collecting for my daughter's wedding in Israel. It's in 3 weeks." "If you can help me out, come in. Sit. You want to eat something? Drink? You hungry?" How much I gave him? $20. People knock on the door all the time. 20 years ago, 19 years ago, $20. But I gave him orange juice, cookies. I asked him if he wants to eat. And then I spoke to him to cheer him up because he told me I did not collect all I need to I'm trying to collect his $5,000. I'm doing the cheapest wedding, nothing, the cheapest food, no flowers, nothing, volunteer keyboard. And I cannot collect $5,000. His malach Hashem closed on me from all directions, he said. And I'm trying to cheer him up. Then when he gave me the shock, He said to me, look at me. Do you know how rich I used to be? I used to own a high-tech company. I had a fancy office in Tel Aviv. Fancy, big, secretaries. I was making millions. Do you know what happened to me? One time as I was sitting with Koreans from Korea to buy one of our software packages for millions. Big deal! Some rabbi walked into the office to collect tzedakah. My mind was in a deal. The secretary say, someone here is right there, you see, he came for tzedakah. So he came to him He was in the room. He said, excuse me, now it's 3, please come back after 4. Meaning until we can finish the signing. They signing a contract with lawyers, this. They continue, that rabbi, all zero-zero showed up. I tell you come after 4, you come at 4:00? You couldn't come 4:15? He got angry. So I got angry with him. I meant after 4, not 2 seconds after 4. 4:20, 4:35, why you coming 4:00 like a leech? Apparently, you know, sometimes somebody come, that means He doesn't have transportation now. Where is he gonna hang out? What is he gonna do? He's waiting downstairs. You told him after 4. Poor guy is sitting an hour for nothing because he doesn't want to go and come back. He's already there. What is he gonna do? So he came 4:00. I saw him from the door. The door was a little bit open. I came out. I got so angry. So I come on, what is this, man? Do I owe you something? I told you after 4, you showing up 4:00. I'm sorry, I was just downstairs waiting. I'm busy now. I walked back into the room. The Koreans, without knowing what happened outside, between them started to talk with the lawyers, this, that. Excuse me, we have to make a phone call to Korea. They call up the home office, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, cha, cha, cha, cha, cha. I don't know what he started to say, the supplier, the lawyer, any partner, found something in the contract, this, that. They packed all their stuff, they said, we cannot sign the deal today. We will have to get back to you on the deal. No deal. Korean got up and left. He said, this was the turning point of my life. This was the turning point of my life. From this moment on, I lost one customer after the other until I left with nothing, no income. Closed my business, lost my company. 'From a very rich man, I became very poor that $5,000 for my daughter's wedding I cannot get. You cheered me up, you give me life now. I feel so miserable all day I walk, I didn't collect anything.' I never forget this guy from being so rich, fancy office, now coming to collect $10, $20. This was the test of his life, this Rabbi that came. Imagine if you give him a nice check or tell the secretary just give him, write him a check, whatever it was, it would be the end of it. That's what the Maharaj says, sometimes a person buys his world in a second, sometimes he loses his world in a second. Buy his world or lose his world. You know? The end of the pasuk, it said, "Tikru et rumati." You will take my donation. What does it mean? Tikkun Hatrumati, even by force. What do you mean by force? Once a person say, I am pledging such and such money, and he doesn't give what he pledged. It happens. Sometimes people buy aliyah in shul and they don't give the money. Sometimes they raise money. Who wants to donate to this and this and that? $1,000, $5,000, $2,000. They write it down. Okay, Baruch Hashem, we got enough. It hasn't come. You call him a week later. No, Moshe, you bringing the money? Call me next week. Call me next week. Call me next week. Call me next week. His hair became white already. Call me next week. So what do you do in a case like this? Does he owe the money once he said that he's gonna give? Or he can change his mind and not give it. So I say I'm gonna give. That's my problem between me and Hashem. Can you take me to court for it or no? That's the question here. Afilu befiyach, once the person said said it's like a vow. You can force him to pay. You can force him to pay. What happens if it's a woman? She was sitting in a shul and she said $1,000. Now her husband found out, he got angry. Ma, $1,000? Sell your shoes and pay the $1,000. You have 300 pairs of shoes, go sell them and pay it from your own money. The husband refused to give. There was a case like this, Rabotai, a true story. A woman, poor woman, the money fell from her on the street. What happens if you find money on the street in the area of Gush Etzion? In Manhattan, Manhattan, somewhere Fifth Avenue. Your money fell from your pocket. A Jew walks behind you. He sees another Jew lost the money, fell from his pocket. He picks it up and put it in his pocket. Did he do anything wrong or no? Who walks walks in the street, 10 $100 bills fell from his pocket on the floor. Shimon walks behind him, picked it up. Both of them has yarmulke. What does Shimon has to do now? Does he have an obligation to return it to him? Hey, Mr. Jew, you just lost your money. Obviously, if he's going to do such thing, it's a beautiful thing. It's a nice mitzvah. The question is, is he obligated to give it back? What's the law? If he saw it, who dropped it, he should give it back. The answer is Rabotai, if it was in Monsey, he must give it back to him. If it's in Harlem or in Fifth Avenue or in East New York, or in Albany or anywhere in Bronx, he can keep the money. Why? When can you enjoy a lost money that someone lost? If he psychologically gave up on it. If the money fell on Fifth Avenue with 5 million going walking there in an hour, what are the chances that someone will find you and give you back the money? The answer is zero. But if it fall in a place where all religious Jews, someone will find $1,000. There's a lot of good people. They will write the notes in a synagogue and Friday 10 AM, I found an envelope with cash in it. The envelope was blue and it had a name on it. Anyone will call my number and give sign, meaning how many bills you had in the envelope and like the amount, how many bills, could be 20s, could be 50s, what was written on the envelope and where the area that it was lost and you see that it really belonged to that person, I'm willing to give it back. As a result of that, the person lost it in Lakewood or in Monsey or in Bnei Brak or in Yerushalayim, in Mea Shearim, he still have hope to get back the money so but he's not giving up psychologically on the money, there's no Yehush. But if he lost it in a non-Jewish area, there's nobody religious over there, then he knows immediately the money is gone. Once he already in his mind understands that he will not see the money and you collected it, it's yours. Amen? Collected the money. And the woman said to him, "It's my money, you saw it fell from my pocket." He said, "Yes, it is, I saw, but I'm not giving back to you. I'm a poor man and I look at it as Hashem sending me a gift." But now, I'm also a poor woman. What, you want to give your children my children's money? How would you do such thing? He say, "You have a problem? Let's go to the rabbi." I went to the rabbi. "Rabbi, he saw and he admit that it's my money. It fell from my pocket. A second later he picked it up." He say to him, "What's the halacha? If someone find money in the area of goyim, it's his money." So, there is a uzh. The rabbi told him, you still need to give her back the money. Right, that's the halacha. But in this case, you must give her back the money. Why? You may think because she didn't have a chance even to know she lost the money. When he picked it up, she did not find out yet she lost it, so she could have never given up. She would give it up after he already collected it. Once he collected it, he had an obligation to return it. Therefore, when he collected it, it couldn't be his. He had an obligation to give it before she gave up on it. Meaning, if she gave up, she said, wow, I lost the money, and it was a crossed the street and he saw that she's— that's it, the money is gone. She called her husband, "Oh, the money is gone, I lost it." That's it, no chance to find it. And then he picked it up, then for sure it's his. But the Gemara says no. Why? As soon as you find it, it's yours. Why? Because we have a certainty that a person always checks in his pocket how much money is. People love their money more than they love their life. So if they have a stack of money in the pocket, they check a few times a day, a lot. Still have the money? Still have it? How much? Some people count. I used to have a boss in Drakenec in a baker's store. I came, Israeli guy, 1989, September 1989. '69. Found a job first in Little Neck Bagels store. I was 21 years old. I worked in Little Neck Bagels for, I don't know, almost a year. Then I moved to bagel store in Great Neck. The guy is American Jew, not religious. Him and his wife and his son. Son was actually a nice guy, secular, grew up like a goy, baseball that. Their father was a very fat man, all day fressing. He had two hobbies. One, all day eats. Second, all day count money. So I have this vision how he goes like this, all day, because he used to make a lot of money. A lot of rich and famous people came Every customer, 50, 70, 100, I'm talking to you 10 years ago, holding like this with his big belly. One time he comes to me, he knows I'm not gonna eat pork, I'm not gonna eat, not kosher, the place is not kosher there. Most of the stuff is kosher, like croissants from the box is kosher. He makes a Bakers, what's bakers? Flour, sugar, yeast, salt, water. The ingredients are kosher, but he also sells non-kosher things. So he makes himself a sandwich with cheese and ham and he comes to me. Ah! Eat, eat! Taste! You love this! I said to him, "Be careful that you don't choke. Don't get angry, you can choke and die." A week later he died, fall ill, got heart attack and died. Now, much like that he was. I told, I got so angry at him. I wasn't really religious at that time. But he comes to me with a hand like this. Taste, taste! I know, hazir, hazir. Bring me hazir. Be careful you don't choke and die. A week later, he had a heart attack and died. So, why did I remember him now? Because every hour he gets all the cash from the register and stand over there in front of everyone like this. That was his fun. Take the step like this. That's what the Gemara said. A person has money, he likes to count it. He likes to check where it is. He puts his hand, he touches it. Sits on the subway, wow, is it still here? Just like a passport. When I fly, every 3 minutes I check if the passport is still in my pocket. I have such a nightmare, one time I forgot where my passport is. Forgot it. Is it here? Just to make sure not to come there all day. Where is the passport? Oh, I forgot. So because a person checks in his pocket all the time, then you have to assume that the person lost it immediately after, gave up on it already. But he saw that she didn't give up. That's the routine. We don't care what he saw. There's a rule, that's it. You find money in a place of goyim, it's yours. So in that case, just tell me please why the rabbi told him he has to return the money, and if you help me out to understand that, then we finish. If not, I'll keep you here another hour. Obligation. You want to be polite, you want to be nice, you want to be kind. Nice, very good. Everyone agrees that if you give her back the money, it's a noble act. Question is, can you hold him guilty in a court, take sanctions against him, force him to pay it, or you have to hope that he will agree to give it on his own will? The answer, the rabbi told him, you must give her back the money. Why? It wasn't hers. It's not the same case like that tape that guy threw away, the old tapes. The old records, someone threw it in the garbage not knowing that it's worth fortune. He had classical— remember those old deals? So he had a lot of collection of old records and threw it all out. And the neighbors took it and sold it in the auction and became a millionaire. A week later, the boy of the neighbor told the boy of the father that gave up the records, my father became so rich and now we got a million dollars. Now why? He found in the garbage here on the street a lot of records and sold it to this auction over there and he got a million dollars for it. What? That was my father's records, he threw it out. He ran quickly to his father, why did you throw the records? They're worth a fortune. So he came to the neighbor and said, I'm sorry, I didn't know their value. You have to give him back the money. They went to court, what was the ruling? He had to give him back all the money of the records. Why? When a person mafkir, meaning throw something not knowing the value of it, It's a mistake of a Jew. The Torah says if your brother makes a mistake, you have an obligation to fix his mistake, not to enjoy from it. You're not allowed to steal from goyim. Tony, Tony, you go to his store, you're not allowed to steal from him. But if Tony made a mistake and money of Tony came to your hand, you don't have an obligation to run and look for him and give it back to him. He's not your brother. Not allowed to steal from him, but you don't have an obligation to look for him to give him his lost object. If you will do it, it will make Hashem very happy. Why? Because it's Kiddush Hashem. Tony is gonna say, look at this religious Jew, he went all the way to look for me to give me back my money. That will be a beautiful Kiddush Hashem, you get a huge reward for it. But if you didn't do it, you won't get punished. But if you did it to your Jewish brother who made a mistake or lost something and you did not run to look for him to give it back to him, you count like a thief. So you see there's some differences between your brother and non-Jew brother. By the way, if he's a Jew, that is, mikhal el shabbat, you're not allowed to return to him a lost object. Not allowed. A goy, you're allowed. And if you give it back to him, it's Kiddush Hashem. Mechanele Shabbat, it's written, "En machziri lo avedah." Not allowed to return it to this criminal. He's not considered your brother. He excluded himself from the Jewish nation. That's a rachat. So today, what are we gonna do? We give it back even to Mechanele Shabbat. Why? Maybe he did teshuvah. Maybe he eats shumen Shabbat. Maybe he just looked Hilomi. I don't know, maybe he grew up in a kibbutz, doesn't know anything from his life. So the answer is the rabbi told him she gave up on the money but not her husband. And her husband is the owner of the money, not her. And her husband doesn't even know the money is lost, definitely not in the area of Goyim. So how can he give up the money if he thinks that he still has it? If her husband knows that she lost the money in an area of non-Jews, nobody religious there, then it would be yours. But since her husband doesn't even know about it, you must give it back, the money. So what do you see from here? Though no matter what money the woman has, actually belongs to her husband. Unless the There's a way out of it. Unless she says, "I don't want ketubah. Don't give me food, don't give me clothing, don't give me a place to live. I'll take care of myself. I'm making money, I have a good job, I'm a doctor, I'm a pharmacist, I make good money. I release you from your obligation to me as your wife." in return for me to keep all the money I make. She's allowed. And all the money she makes belongs to her. But as long as she wants— she can't eat the cake and leave it full. Can't enjoy from both sides. Make up your mind. You want me to give you a place to live? Fine. I sign. Food? Always to have food? Guarantee. Clothes? Guarantee. What does it mean guarantee? What happens if he doesn't have? He has to go and collect charity. For her to eat. I help me out, I have to feed my wife. That's his obligation, to feed her no matter what. He has, he doesn't have, he has to bring food home so she has peace of mind, security, place to live, clothes to wear, food to eat. And if he dies or they get divorced, she gets a large sum of money based on what they agreed before they got married. What can be better than that? Now, if she happens to make money, obviously she has to give it to him. You cannot take advantage of him. Pay me all my expenses, plus I'm gonna keep my money. There are couples like this. They have separate accounts, each one takes care of his own issues. I even know a couple, Rav Otai, that live like that. And then there were mamash in bad relationship. I never forget that. What would you do if you have a beautiful home in a fancy neighborhood? I don't want to say where because then people would know what I'm talking about. In a fancy neighborhood and you come from work and you find out that the house is knocked down. She brought tractors and they brought down the house because she decided to rebuild the house without telling you. And this house belongs to both of you on a deed. Did you ever hear such a chutzpah by a woman or no? He calls me up, oh, you're not gonna believe what happened. What? I came home, the tractor was brought down the house. What? She decided to rebuild. This was in a dream or real life? Real life. She has the money? Real life. Of course, they got divorced. Who would believe such a story? You know what got her to do it? She was a big shot doctor and he was just an ordinary worker in a company. Meaning, anyway I make most of the money, who are you to tell me to rebuild or not? Because he did not agree, but she did it anyway. She actually presented as a fact, what are you gonna do? I'll bring back the house. It led to a divorce. And what happened? Hashem made it up to him. He gave him a beautiful second wife. And he's happily married and religious. Baruch Hashem. Nice guy. What can you do? It is what it is. I'm getting tired. It's anyway late. Tomorrow I'll be in Brooklyn, Bais Ratoshem. I will see you here next Monday. Baruch Adonai.