Life In The World Before And After The Destruction Of The Flood

Good evening. Oh, we have background music, the show can start. Baruch Hashem. This lecture will be L'rfuata Lisa Malka Bat-Lea. And, "V'erfuat Avraham Yosef Aryeh ben Sarah." Baruch Hashem. We are one week before the election. I remember it, it was Tuesday night 4 years ago. Remember we spoke about it? We don't— nobody gave Trump a chance 4 years ago, right here, we were sitting here, all of us. And I told you that according to the codes, he's going to win. Nobody believed. On the way back to Monty on Ocean Parkway, I called my son. I said to him— before I told him that Trump will win. He said, "Nobody gives him a chance, even his supporters." We had that famous bet that he's going to paint the deck, which he never did. But he said to me, "I was never so happy to lose a bet." because he thought that Trump would lose. Same thing will be now, B'ezrat Hashem. We'll win. I saw today a video of Sleepy Joe. It just gets worse by the day. He called Trump George. He forgot who he runs against. Did you see that or no? Who saw this video today? His wife would keep reminding him, "Trump, Trump, Trump." But it's so scary. I mean, we're laughing, but if America will fall in the hands of Sleepy Joe, he may think one morning that he's the president of China and launch a missile against America. I mean— I wish him merifuach lema, but there's a limit to how much a person can be dumb. I mean, you see your situation, you see your medical condition, you have complete dementia. What do you call it? Dementia. Dementia. Maybe it's Alzheimer's, who knows. What are you so insisting to be the President of the United States? So yeah, so basically he's not really a candidate here. It's the— what's her name? Kamala. Hussein and Kamala. Stop. I want to ask you a question. You know, I had a big dilemma, but you know, in life you need patience until Hashem shows you the answer. I don't know if you remember, but about 2 weeks ago there was a debate between Mike Pence and Kamala. Do you remember that in the middle of the debate A fly landed on his, on the pen's head and it was there for like 5 minutes. It just never— I was thinking to myself, why did Hashem do such things? Why would Hashem do such things? There's the good and the bad. There's the right and the left. There's the pro-God and anti-God. Why would the fly fall? Fly, it's a sign of the Yetzer Hara. Fly, the Gemara says, Vuv, Baal's Vuv is the Yetzer Hara. It's one of his 7 names, Vuv. It's not a good thing because this Vuv, it goes in the waste and then it comes to a person to show you who you are, where you belong. That's like a hint. So it's not a good sign. Obviously, if you place with flies, they're gonna come, but in a place there's no fly and a fly comes and insists to attack you, That's not a good sign. Now we had a dilemma. What does Hashem want? This guy's a million times better than this liberal prosecutor. He's much better. He's a pro-God. He's a God-fearing person. Obviously, he doesn't fear only God. He fears JC. But the idea is that he's pro-Israel. He has better values. You know, he's against abortion. He's against certain things that the other one is pushing. So I was thinking to myself, what was the message here? Today I got my answer. It wasn't a fly. It was not a real fly. Did you see the video today? There is, there are people who have these mechanical flies, size of a regular fly, looks exactly the same, and they sit in a computer room and they send those flies. I was wondering to myself, what the heck is going on with this fly? For 5 minutes it doesn't want to fly. Did you ever see a fly that doesn't move 5 minutes from someone's head? Usually maximum 10, 20 seconds and they fly. Why do they want to land on his head? Today I saw how they did it. They actually showed the video how they send it and they also showed that they did it to other people. To Hussein Obama once they did it. And they actually showed this artificial fly. You have to see this video. I think I sent it in my group today. You see the video? I sent it today. So I got my answer. It wasn't Hashem sending the fly. It's these crooks standing in a room with a screen sending the fly. And what's the purpose of doing it? Because once the fly is on his head, now one person in America listens to his words. That's how people are. When, I give you an example, if a rabbi would come to speak to you and he will have a stain, oil stain on his shirt, the entire 5 minutes that he will talk to you, would you listen to what he say or you will focus on the stain? What kind of a rabbi is this? He come with the trina and the hummus and the matbucha on his on his white shirt. That's how he leaves his house? Right or wrong? Anyone would listen to the words? No. I give you another example. When you sit in front of a speaker in a class and someone walks through the door, it takes about 10 to 20 seconds from the minute he walks in, you all look into the door to see who walks in, right? That's curiosity. Once he walks in, now after you saw who he is, you're checking him out, right? Who is this guy? Who is this girl? What are they doing here? First time? They come every week? Look what they're wearing? That's human nature, curiosity and analyzing what you see. That 20 seconds that person walks through the door, nobody listens to the speaker. You agree or no? So imagine the speaker now looks at the audience and in a lecture that has a lot of traffic and every 20 seconds someone walks through the door, this is how it looks. But hundreds of people like this all the time, like this. So one of the things to do is that people will come from behind the audience, not like here. Here we are limited, what can we do? They come in front so everybody looks. But imagine if people would come from the back, no one would turn around to see, it's already too much. Okay, that's human curiosity. Anyway, B'ezrat Hashem, I started yesterday to speak about certain things. Subject was different kinds of wicked people, ideology, desires, speaking a little bit about the Parasha. I will continue from where we left. It's written in the Parasha, "Vati shacheta aretz lifnei Elokim." The earth became corrupted in front of the God. "Vati malea aretz hamas." and the land now is full of Hamas. Not the Palestinian Hamas. We're talking— it's very interesting how the Arabs, they were looking for their organization for a name. So what did they call themselves? Hamas. What Hamas means in Hebrew? Thieves. Thieves. Constant thieves who keep stealing. And this is what we're talking about. The people of Sodom, they are professional thieves. But they steal in such a way that you cannot prosecute them. You know, I give you an example. If you come to a person, you steal $1,000 from me, most likely it's going to go to the police, report you, start a claim, sue you, you know, the whole thing. But what happened if you take a dollar a day from me? Dollar, next day dollar, every time is only a dollar. You're not going to run to the police for a dollar. So after a few months, he took the same amount, but he took it in such a way that you won't really make a big deal out of it. The question is, does any difference between the one that stole $1,000 in one shot or one that stole $1,000 in installments of $1 each? In Shamayim, there's a difference or no? Has to be a difference. One upset you one time and one upset you a thousand times. Right? So that's one issue already. Huh? Yeah, because by us, every sin, whether it's a dollar, whether it's a thousand, is still a sin. So I give you an example. If a person eats a huge steak of pork, let's say 5 pounds, took him 6 hours to finish it. Like, you know. Or he ate it over a period of 1 month, little by little, a little bit today, open the fridge, cut a piece, eat. Next day a little bit. There's a difference or no? Huh? Is it one sin versus 10 times that he ate during the month or no? Or it goes by the weight? Huh? Oh, very good point. If it's less than a kazah, it's less than a kazah, it's a sin or not? It is. So what's the difference whether you eat less than 1 ounce or more than 1 ounce? What's the nafka mina if both of them is a sin from the Torah? Huh? It has to be a difference. Korban, Malkot. If you take him to Bedin, less than 1 ounce, he doesn't get a warning with the whip. More, it's already substantial. Same thing, chametz. If you eat 1 crumb and another crumb and another crumb, chazilet sterufe onadeg maras? Can you add them all up? Depends on a period of time. Today, next day. You waited more than 6 minutes between one bite to another. I give you an example. At the Seder, if you want to eat matzah, so it's hard for you to eat, you took one bite, you say, ah, let me breathe, corona, corona, 10 minutes, another bite, 10 minutes, another bite. Baruch Hashem, by the morning you finish one round matzah. "Shpamayim kazeit kabeitzah matzah." Did you make mitzvot matzah or no? Never. Because you never got full from the matzah. One bite, wait half an hour. One bite, wait half an hour. You never ate at least one ounce of matzah within 4 minutes. Some say 2 minutes. Argument, 2 minutes, 4 minutes, 6 minutes. Definitely not more. Don't wait more because by now you're never going to get full. So there's a lot of rules, as you can see. It's not yeshiva here. Yeshiva, you come, you learn these things, all the possibilities, the options, the rules. Anyway, the Gemara says, "Mal'ar etz chamas." There's a lot of corrupted people everywhere. How many generations from Adam to Noah? Huh? 10. 10 generations. How many generations from Noah to Abraham? 10. How many generations from Abraham to Moshe Rabbeinu? 6. Together from Adam to Moshe Rabbeinu? 26. The numeric value of Hashem, 26. Yud, Kevav, Kevav. 10 generations, everyone is wicked. Millions of people in the world. Not one person is righteous. Not one person was righteous. How is it possible? Today, most of the people in the world are righteous or wicked? You don't even need to think about the answer. It's obvious. 99.99% of the people in the world are extremely wicked. That's the truth. Everybody who tells you otherwise is politically correct, trying to be nice. The problem is the Torah forbids being nice to wicked people. You have to be careful. You cannot kiss up to them, cannot give them compliments. It's a Mitzvah to bring them closer and turn them into righteous, big mitzvah and an obligation of every person. And yesterday we learned that even by the goyim is like this, because the demand from Noah was, why didn't you do kiruv? Why didn't you preach to all these wicked people? And Noah was a goy and the people were goyim. So if there is some charismatic goy with the power and he's righteous and he could influence some thousands or millions of goyim and he did not do it, he's responsible for them being wicked. That's why Noah got the punishment that he has to be a babysitter of animals for one year. You don't give such a punishment to a tzaddik unless he's guilty of something. We spoke about it yesterday. That's yesterday's lecture. So the point is, because you have an obligation to do kiruv, but at the same time you have to know not to cross the line and not to ever give compliment to the wicked people, never to call them tzaddik. Never to say Hashem loves you. Never to say lies. Dov'ar sh'karim lo ikon le'negedenai. It's written, someone that speaks lies, I cannot see him in front of my eyes. I can't look at him. That's like we say, get out of here, I can't look at your face. That's literally what it means. That's why it's a big sin to stand in a eulogy of a person that died, in his funeral, and to make up stories about him to make him look good. You can never say a lie in a eulogy. Find out if he has good things that he did in his life, even though he was wicked, he wasn't shomer Shabbat, he had a lot of issues with him. Find out if he had some good things about him and highlight about the good. You don't come in a eulogy and bring up the bad, of course. If there's nothing good to say about him, don't make a eulogy. Or you can say it's a beautiful day today, the sun, Baruch Hashem, is shining. Or if it's a rainy day, you say, wow, it's a very depressing day. You know, something that has nothing to do with him. But he's not allowed to come and say, oh, he was such a generous guy, he gave so much money to Torah, when in fact he was stingy, he never gave any donations. Cannot stand in line. You can say, oh, he was such a nice person, when half of the world is in a fight with him and court cases and cannot come and say lies. You cannot say it was such a tzaddik when you know he was a mechalel Shabbat. You have to be very careful. You can never say the word tzaddik to a person that is mechalel Shabbat. Never. Doesn't matter if your father, it doesn't matter if your brother, could be your husband, it could be your wife, doesn't matter. You're not allowed to say on mechalel Shabbat that he's a tzaddik because he's an extreme rasha. That's what it is. That's what the definition of Mechalel Shabbat is. A very big criminal, even higher than a murderer. We spoke about it hundreds of times with proofs. It's not the time to repeat it now, but I gave you hundreds of proofs already that in the eyes of Hashem, Mechalel Shabbat is a bigger criminal than someone who actually murdered someone. Why? We see from the punishment, and we see from all the penalties that Mechalel Shabbat gets, that the murderer doesn't get. And it's mentioned in the Torah 12 times. And he loses Jewish identity, Michal el-Jabbar. A murderer doesn't lose his Jewish identity. Imagine this, if you had a Jew that was a mass murderer. If you had, I don't think in history there was such thing, but let's see if you had something like this. A murderer, I don't know, a million people. Today it's easy with gas, with the with nuclear. Someone like that is a despicable murderer, no question about it, but stayed a Jew. Mass murderer, but his status, still a wicked Jew, a wicked Jew. And the nicest Mechalel Shabbat in the world, nicest person, sweetheart, cannot kill a bug, such a nice, gentle, classy educated, merciful, whatever you want, give him all the compliments in the world you want. What is mechalel Shabbat is losing his Jewish identity. It's written 7 times in Shulchan Aruch. Don't say I say, I'm not a factor here. Mechalel Shabbat areu ke goy lechol davar, 100% a non-Jew in the eyes of Hashem and in halacha. Touch the wine, you have to spill it. Comes to the shul, you don't have 10 people, you can't count him as one of the 10. And many hundreds of other penalties against him. And as soon as he becomes Shomer Shabbat, everything changed 180 degrees instantly. Once he said, that's it, enough is enough, I'm not going to be Mechalel Shabbat, his status goes immediately from a Mechalel Shabbat arei okegoy to a kosher Jew. Why? Because the Baal HaShem did teshuvah when it comes to Shabbat. Only two things exclude you from your Jewish identity, from the Jewish nation. What is it? Mechalel Shabbat and idol worship. All other sins in the Torah, as bad as they are, you stay a Jew. Those two averot, as the Rambam writes, makes a person become like a non-Jew. Which is very serious. And most Jews that are not Shomer Shabbat, if they hear me now, they get very angry or very sad, or they just don't take me serious because it's hard to digest such truth. 100%. It's called in English, it's called cognitive dissonance. You know what it means, cognitive dissonance? That the brain and the heart do does not absorb information in the same rate. What the brain understands in a minute, it may take the heart years to digest. I always give this example: when Albert Einstein came with his results, the entire scientific world fought him for 7 years. They all came to the same results following his finding. And it's still impossible. Impossible. Cannot be. Why? Because everyone was used to a complete different truth. And all of a sudden someone came and smashed their new truth in their face, showing them that everybody lived in a lie until now. So even though logically they understood within an hour that it's right, or within a day, 7 years they fought it until one of them said, "Enough is enough." We keep saying impossible, impossible, impossible. Do we have any evidence against him? No. We all unanimously came to the same result. It's time to adopt his results as reality. And until today, that's the reality. So what do you see? The person that gets information that is not pleasant or show him retroactively as a fool, It just— the whole world just found out if you come and confess and everything you've been saying all along is nonsense, it's a big punch to your ego. It's very difficult to come. That's why it's much harder for older people to become baalei teshuvah than younger. 18, 19 teenagers, sometimes in one conversation, "Okay, no problem, I'll put tzitzit, I'll come for Shabbat." Older, 'What, you want to tell me now that 60 years I lived in a lie?' Psychologically, it's a much bigger resistance. Two reasons: one, it's much harder to admit that I was a fool for 60 years. Much easier to admit I was a fool only for a few years, from my Bar Mitzvah to 16, it's only 3 years, no big deal. Then to say 50 years out of my life I was living in a lie, it's much harder. And second reason is the longer you live in a certain way, you are used to it. It becomes your DNA, much harder to change. Understand? I give you an example. If a person wore a pair of shoes and his legs are a little bit crooked, some people don't have straight legs, I don't know, the toes goes to the right or to the left. After 2, 3 months The shoe will get the shape of his foot. If his brother would want to borrow his shoes and put the shoes on, it will be very, very difficult. It will pressure in certain areas. When they were brand new, it wasn't like that. Only because it got the shape of the foot. It happens sometimes. You take someone's shoes, you put it, wow, pressure on my toe. Why? Because the shoe moved left, right. It adjusts to that because the more you wear it, the more it gets shaped. Even cars. When you drive a car, let's say you drive it for a year and then you give it to a friend for a day or two. He comes, he brings you back the car. After that, problems begin. Well, what did he do to the car in 2 days? That's all, I drove it, no problem. All of a sudden I have these The car got used to a certain way of driving and then somebody else driving a different way, press the gas too much or too slow or press the brakes too much, it changed the way the car works. Very interesting. Why? Nature is nature, physics are physics. Things that repeats many, many times, much harder to change. And I can give you hundreds of examples, some better than others, but You got the point. All right, so we move on. So 26 generations from Adam all the way to Moshe Rabbeinu. Now one person besides Noah, you can add Shem also, and you can add Eber, even though it's not mentioned so much about those two, but we know that Yeshiva cannot be wicked if the Yeshiva teach the world about God. You cannot be fully wicked, let's put it that way. We know Shem was tzaddik, Shem, we name after him. Someone who hates Jews, you call him anti-Semite because we are the children of Shem. Shem has another name in the Torah, what's his name? Very good, Malkitzedek. Malkitzedek, Kohen Lelelion. Remember the story about my friend that we wanted to How do you find out if it's a Kohen or not? We open the Torah or no? You remember or no? Wow, you guys have very good memory. Baruch Hashem. So I have a friend, by now I believe he's maybe 63, 64. This story was about 15 years ago. He was probably 50, maybe even younger. One person came to me and said, you know, your friend is going with you to lectures for for years. Do you know that he's a Kohen? I said, Kohen? What are you talking about? He said to me, yes, he told me that his father in Yerushalayim used to do Birkat Kohanim. Masiach lefitumo. By the way, he was telling a story. By the way, it slipped out of his mouth that his father was doing Birkat Kohanim. Wow! My blood was fuming. Ma? Is a Kohen hiding all this? Right away my mind started to write all kinds of scenarios. Single guy, almost 50 years old. Why would a person want to hide the fact that he's a Kohen? One guess. No, one word. Ha? Shiduch! When you are a Kohen in a late age, much harder to find shiduch for you. You can't marry a divorced woman, you cannot marry a convert. A lot of the options are closed for you. So if you have no Emunah or your Emunah is not so strong and you move to a different country and nobody really knows the history of your family and you say, I don't care, I'll marry a divorced woman, I don't care, I'll marry a convert. Unfortunately, there are people that have no fear from God. The Torah says clearly you're not allowed. What's better, that I stay single? Don't be judgmental. It's a very common sentence in America. Rabbi, don't be judgmental, please. But the Torah is very judgmental. The Torah is judgmental, but you don't have to be. So what am I going to be? A mechanic? Maybe I'll fix cars. If I teach Torah, I have to teach what the Torah is, and the Torah is very judgmental against certain people. So you tell me not to teach Torah in that case, or to be a faker, one of the two. Better we fix cars, we change brakes, there's good money in it. You open a garage, change brakes, change oil, at least we don't have to lie to anyone. So basically So the question is, how did we get to the mechanic? No, no, but how did we get to the mechanic? Anyway, so the guy now is trying to hide— that's what I'm thinking— he's trying to hide that it's a Kohen because he thinks maybe they're going to offer him a woman that is already divorced in her 40s or late 30s, you know. Because it's much harder to find a girl that is not a convert and it's not a divorced woman, meaning she never been married and she's almost 40 years old. Much harder. So I'm thinking to myself, wow, he was fooling me all these times. So right away he came to my house one few days later for Shabbat. I said to him, what did I hear? That your father was a Kohen doing the Kat Kohenim? He looked at me. 'Who told you this nonsense?' I said, 'That guy.' He said, 'No, it was a joke. Why do you take it serious? I was fooling him.' I said, 'I don't know. People don't just say things like this as a joke. Something here does not add up.' He told me, 'What? You don't trust me? Did you ever see me lying?' And he's really an honest person, usually. I said, 'Listen, but this is a personal matter.' Even honest people sometimes to hide something, you know, they may lie. No, I promise you it was a joke. Come on, don't dare to say it. People's gonna start believing it. He got very nervous. I said, come on, admit the truth came out. At least when you got busted, confess. No, what confess? You're trying to put things in my mouth. Heated argument. There's few other people at the table. Admit, admit. What should I admit? I'm not a Kohen, Mike. Did you ever see me do Birkat Kohanim? Go check in my neighborhood in Yerushalayim if I ever did Birkat Kohanim. Meaning when he was 20, when he had no reason to lie. He's making an argument. It looks like a 50-50. Still not convinced. So I say to him, you know what? I said, let's do a goral. Let's open the Chumash and ask Hashem what you are. Ma? I said, yeah, we make a prayer, dear God, show us if he's a Kohen or not. He said, but how are you gonna know? I said, you're gonna open the Chumash and on the right side, the right page, if the word Kohen appear, that means you are Kohen. He said to me, okay. Took the Chumash, boom, he opened. What came out? Ha? "Hitro, Kohen Midian." The word "Kohen." I said to him, "You see?" But this guy is a real good snake. "No, that doesn't count. It's Kohen Midian. I'm from Midian." I'm a kosher Jew, I'm not from Midian. This is Kohen of Avodas HaRah used to be. Ma, we spoke about the Jewish Kohen. Kohen to Hashem. We're back to square one. He still is very stubborn. He doesn't confess. I said to him, okay, no, we'll do it this time, second time, but no more excuses. This time, if the word "Kohen" comes, you confess. "Okay," say. But he said, "But this time we're gonna trick you real good." Why? "I will open in the beginning of the Chumash." Sefer Bereshit, you don't have "Koanim." It only starts in Vayikra. So if I open in the first 20 pages, it's safe. You're not gonna find the word "Kohen." I said, "Whatever you want, just do it already." So he came like this to the Chumash, up, he opened it. The entire page was Aftara, just two lines in the bottom was the Parasha. What was there? Malkitzedek, Kohen le'LeLion. We went crazy. We said, maybe I have a Kohen, I didn't know about it. So the question now, 15 years later, does he do Birkat Kohanim? The answer, no. The second question is, did he get married since then? The answer is no. When Mashiach comes, we'll find out. But twice he came Kohen. That's, by the way, a story. We move on. The question is, even today there's so many wicked people, 99.9% of the people are wicked. Why am I saying it? Not that I want to put people down, it's not the point. The point is we have to stick to the rules. If you're a Jew and you're Mechalel Shabbat, if you steal, if you curse, you say non-modest words, You know, there's a list of things that makes you wicked. You eat non-kosher food, you know, you're going to a non-kosher restaurant. "Ah, it's only fish." That fish, they cook it in the same pot with the pork. 2 minutes earlier they just cooked pork in that pot. What do you mean fish? And plus fish, you think they're really going to give you the fish you order? They're not going to have salmon, they'll bring something else that is pink. There's a lot of different fish that looks like salmon. What do you think they're gonna give it? Like, you can tell with the sauce that they put on it that it's really salmon. Maybe it's an unkosher fish. Can rely on them? Not to talk about the millions of bugs and worms that you have in the salads and the lettuce and other things that you eat over there. Rabbi, you'll be proud of me. I went with my parents to dinner. They insisted we're gonna go to this fish place. Fancy restaurant, but I only ate tuna steak and vegetable green salad. Only. Each one, 5 sins from the Torah. Now you count how many sins they did in one meal. Anyway, so if it's goyim, 4 billion goyim are idol worshippers. All the Buddhists, all the Hindus, all the Christians, are all idol worshippers. That's right there, 4 billion people, half, more than half of the world right there before you even check. Idol worshippers, they worship JC, they worship Buddha, they worship all their gods in India. Many, many different cults and religions of idol worship in Tibet, Nepal, India, Japan, China, all idol worshippers. Or atheist. In China you have Christians, You have Buddhists and you have atheists, all three wicked. So 2 billion people in China, all wicked according to the Torah. I'm nothing personal against them, I'm just describing what the Torah says. So right there, 2 billion people in China. Japan, same thing. Vietnam, same thing. Thailand, same thing. India, same thing. So countries that you cannot find one righteous goy there. Because they don't follow the Seven Laws of Noah. So the only righteous goyim you can find are actually among Arabs. They are the only ones that are not idol worshippers. So if the Arabs respect Jews, like some of the speakers that you find now in the Emirates speak very highly of Israel and that the land belongs to us and they're happy that we make peace with Israel, you know, So the God-fearing Arabs, they don't steal, their wives are modest, they have dignity, they don't do animal acts in public like some other goyim. And they don't steal in a business, they don't murder, they don't support murder, they're not happy when Hamas or Hezbollah kill innocent people. And they're not idol worshippers, these Arabs, and they don't eat animals unless they dead first. First, right, before they eat them. And they obey the police and the court. So this is righteous Arabs. One problem that they have is that they follow a book that is not a book of God. That's a big problem. Even though it's not idol worshiping, but it's a fake religion. So ideally, if you have an Arab that is not religious in Islam, but he behaves modest, him and his wife, and he's not stealing and not murdering and not eating a living, a live animal, and obey the police and the court and believe that there is a God, one God, right? And he doesn't steal in a business and cheat, but he doesn't believe in Muhammad, doesn't believe in Quran, and does not follow Quran. He may speak to God in his own language when he needs. That's a typical righteous Gentile. But there's one comment that almost nobody knows. The Rambam writes that a Gentile like this that keeps the Seven Laws of Noah is not an idol worshiper, not a murderer, it's not a thief, it's not eating animal unless they're dead first. All these things, not making sex crimes with his relatives. So it's a kosher goy. But if he does it because that's Ethical! Why you don't murder? It's not ethical to murder. Why you don't steal? It's not ethical. Why you don't eat animals that are moving in a plate like the Chinese do? It's not ethical. The animal is still alive and you eat it? Come on, kill it first and then eat it. It's not ethical. Why you obey the police and the court in your town? Otherwise the world will become a zoo. The law is a law. We made laws and constitutions. We have to follow it. That's not a Hasidim Motolam. That's not a righteous Gentile. He doesn't get heaven for it. He only considers a righteous Gentile if he does all the above because God said so. It's very important. That's why some Jewish organizations They made websites to teach the goyim about the Seven Laws of Noah. Why? That they know that that's what God said. Why are you doing this? Why did you stop to steal, Ahmed? Because God said so. Why do you eat the animals only after you kill them? Because God said so. Before, I used to eat things that are not 100% there. You find a Chinese guy, He listens to lectures, he stops eating rats that are still moving in a plate. You ask him, Mr. Lee, why you stop eating the rats? He says, because I listened to a lecture and God said so. So now I'm not allowed. Why you stop stealing in a business? Because God said so. His morality is to steal. His ethic is to steal. Why stop to steal this goy? Because God said so. Then it's a righteous goy. Many goyim, you say on them, oh, Baruch Hashem, this Arab is a tzaddik. Why? He's not an idol worshipper, he's not a murderer, he's not a thief, he's not, he's not, he's not. But he's not a tzaddik because he's doing it because he's a nice person. Nice person is one thing, tzaddik is another thing. You understand what I'm saying here or no? There's a lot of secular people that don't steal. They grew up in kibbutz, you know, they got some values. You ask especially the older ones, 60 and up, from the old ancient Israel, the first 20 years of Israel. You ask them, "Hey, Mr. Lefkovich, why you never stole a penny? You were in charge of the fund for 30 years." It's unethical to steal. Ask him, do you believe in God? Absolutely not. I'm an educated, you know, Israeli, I don't believe in such things. So you don't believe in God? No, I'm an atheist. So why don't you steal? Because it's unethical, not because God said so. You understand? There's a lot of issues that are evolving from it. I give you an example. If you go by your ethic, you become a Robin Hood. It's very ethical. You have somebody billionaire like Bill Gates, $100 billion, or Bezos, $150 billion. You ask him, I want you to help this family, they don't have what to eat. They have 6 children, they're dying. Leave me alone. "Get out of here, leave me alone." 10 minutes later, $10,000 from this person came to your hand accidentally. You take it and you go to that family and you give it to them. You didn't steal it for yourself. You had mercy on that family. "Here, come, look, I give you money. You'll be able to live in the next 2-3 months with dignity." 90% of the people in the world will clap for you. "What a great man!" great guy, look what he did, such a good heart, right? The Torah says you're a criminal, you're a thief. Or if you're a judge in a court, you have a big shark landlord that owns 20 buildings in Manhattan, has billions of dollars, and you have a poor guy, old man, Holocaust survivor, tzaddik, all his family died, he lived in a little room in one of these buildings and he didn't pay rent because Corona. He doesn't have money and the shark comes to court and stand over there and say, "He did not pay me rent for 3 months. He owe me $3,000." He has $3 billion and you're the judge. Judge is also a human being. He will have mercy on this Holocaust survivor old man, no? So the judge will begin to cheat. And no, you did not give him the notice on time. I don't see you gave him the notice. That's not a proof. The judge know that he's right, the rich man, but he hates him so much for suing this old Holocaust survivor with no mercy that the judge will do everything he can to let the old man stay extra few more months for free if possible. 'Hey, I adjourn the case to December 5th.' 'Ah, just gave him another 45 days to live for free.' That's a crook according to the Torah. A judge like this is a crook. The Torah warns, do not take the side of the poor in a court. Rule the truth and then go and do fundraising for the poor. 'I rule that you have to evict the house.' The rich man is cruel. What can we do? The rich man is cruel, he has no mercy on you, but he has the right. You cannot live in his place for free, he doesn't want. We cannot force him to let you live for free. So I'm evicting you from the premises, but don't go home. Let me see what I can do. Call his friend, his rich friend. Can you help out this guy in one of your apartments? That's what the rabbis used to do in a Bedouin. Don't go anywhere, we're gonna try to help you. First, we rule the truth. So you see, if you follow honesty based on your personal common sense or most people's common sense, you will contradict the Torah almost every day of your life because you're gonna follow your common sense. But if you do it because God said so, You must do it the way the Torah said, not the way you understand, right? Or if we follow our common sense, now you're going to have a dilemma if you have to respect your parents. Why? Let's say your parents abused you, very bad parents. They never gave you money. They never cared if you learn or don't learn. They never cared to support you in times of trouble. They never got you what you want. All your friends had bicycles and nice clothes and you're the only one who did not have. And they were beating you up and calling you names and never ever they did something nice to you. They can care less. They didn't want to talk to you. And who knows what kind of punishments you got. Now you're an older man. Your parents you know, are still alive and you hate them. You hate them. It happens. That's a very common thing, by the way, what I'm telling you now. I get these questions hundreds of times per year from people. Or when they die, they ask if they should sit Shiva or no. Because their parents did only bad for them, or at least one of them. So do I have to sit Shiva on someone like that? It can be a girl that says, my father abused me also physically. And he died now. Do I have to see Shiva on him? Or a monster like this, I don't have to see Shiva. A father that kills and cheats and lies and makes a lot of people miserable and stole millions and also abused us as children. Do we have to give him respect or not? If we follow our common sense, the answer will be absolutely not. He's lucky if you say hello to him. If we follow Halacha, the Halacha says you have to give him respect. Can't abuse him, you can't speak bad about him. You can't be a witness against him in a court even if you know things. Lo yumtu avot al banim. Strangers can come testify. You cannot testify against your own monster father. There are rules that are divine. Why? Because the Torah does not only protect society The Torah protects a person from becoming corrupted. When you give money to the poor, it's not only because Hashem had mercy on the poor, because if you don't, you become a monster. You lose your human being identity, because even animals help each other. Look among the monkeys, if someone is in trouble, everybody comes to help. Sometimes you see in these animal shows how one lion comes to attack and they all gather together, or they're willing to risk their life to save the other. So if animals willing to do such thing and there's no ethics by them and no constitution by them, they don't have a divine soul. If you won't do at least as good as them, then you become worse than animals. I can give you many, many examples, but I went off the topic. Topic. So let's move back. So the question we have to ask after this long introduction: how is it possible that there was not one righteous person? Yes, today, like I said, 99% of the people, 99.9%, according to the guideline of the Torah, consider Reshaim wicked. Not evil or bad heart, Could be very nice, sweetheart, but wicked. A Jew can be the nicest person in the world, but he shave with a razor. Rasha. A Jew can be the nicest person in the world, but he eats lettuce without checking for worms. Rasha. A Jew can be such a nice person, but when he gets angry, he speaks lashon hara. Rasha. A Jew can be such a nice person, but he has no patience for His own children doesn't give them attention, doesn't care about the Torah. They learn, they don't learn, Rasha. Mahalad Shabbat, Rasha. Does not respect Chol Hamoed, Rasha. I can give you an endless list. Almost everyone falls into that category. You have a lot of Reshaim and some of them has a lot of merit. It's no contradiction. You can be a complete Rashah and have billions and billions of merits. That's why I always tell people, make a lot of donations for kiruv, because righteous most of us are not. What will save you in the end coming to Hashem wicked? What will save you? People that got saved from your money. That's it. Nothing else will save you. What are you going to say? Why did you do this? Why this You didn't respect Shabbat enough? No excuse. Why you obnoxious to your family? No excuse. Why you stingy when it was there? Why you were a bad partner? Why you were lazy? Why you woke up late? Why you didn't pray? Why you skip days without filling? Such a wide list. Why, why? It's a long list. Why, why, why, why, why? So what happened in the end? You don't know where to start. What's the point of even answering? I have such a long list of convictions here. And only one thing can save you in that moment. That the angel that is the defense attorney will come and say, it's true. Over there it's Olam HaEmet. It's not like here, the lawyer would lie for you. Over there he must say the truth. Everything you accuse my client, it's true. But there is another side to the coin. 'Let's see how many children of Hashem were lost and returned back to Hashem thanks to my client.' Wow, they're now showing a list of 1,000 people. This guy, this girl, this family. The guy would ask, 'Excuse me, Mr. Attorney, I have no idea who these people are. How did I save all of them?' He used to give monthly donation, no? Recurring PayPal donation, Divine Inspiration. Information, no? Organization, it adds up. Another 2, another 3 this month, another 4. This guy got a book, this guy got a USB, this guy got a bunch of CDs. It adds up after 20 years, 1,000 baalei teshuvah. And the 1,000 baalei teshuvah made you trillions of mitzvot who turns the scale in one shot to the positive side. A moment ago you were drowning in billions of sins that you had, and a minute later everything turned to the positive side. Doesn't mean that Hashem will forget all your sins. That's not what I say. Everybody must pay for to the last sin that he did, unless he did teshuvah. That's a different story. If you repent, it erased. But if you still have pending sins that you did not repent, The charity that you did will save you from horrible punishments and all kinds of things. You're still guilty of certain sins. So if a rich guy gives a lot of donations to yeshiva and he's still Shevu Derezer, he's still a Rashah. Because that's the guidelines. If you make one sin from the Torah purposely, knowing Hashem said you're not allowed, already you're a Rashah. And it doesn't say by the Rambam or by all the Nefarshim You're only Rasha if you do sins from the Torah purposely. Only if you're not a Baal Tzedakah. Only if you're not Shomer Shabbat. It doesn't say such thing. It says, "Asa averachad bemizid." You know that is not allowed from the Torah and you do it. Rasha. How about maybe give millions of dollars every year to yeshivot? How can you call someone like this Rasha? Rasha sounds worse than what it is. In Israel, when you say the word Rashah, people think like some kind of a cruel Nazi. Look, it's ish rashaze, Rashah, despicable. Rashah means does not obey Hashem rules. That's it. That's what it means. It doesn't mean evil or ra. Ra, it's an evil person, beating up, cursing, making everybody's life miserable. That's ra. Rashah and ra, it's two different things. Don't get that mistake. That most Israelis do. If you say to a secular Israeli, according to the Torah, you are a Rashah, he will hate you very much because in his mind you call him evil. You're an evil person. You can be Rashah and you're not evil at all. You don't offend anyone. You have great manners. You care about the poor. You're very merciful. You're very polite and you're 100% to send Rashad that does not have a share to the World to Come because you don't believe in the resurrection of the dead, you don't believe the Messiah would come. The college that you went through for so many years brainwashed your head and made you a goy in your ideology. You don't believe in anything. Like all these Bernie Sanders and their friends, they also consider to be Jews. What's their connection to Judaism? Zero. Zero connection. But they're Rechaim by Ashkafah, by ideology. Communists, socialists, lefties, pro-gay marriage, all these kinds of Jews that you have around, the supporters of Hussein and Bernie and Hillary and Sleepy Joe, you understand? So by the fact that they support such Democrats already show you how far they are from the Torah. You don't need to be a genius to understand, right? If someone comes to you and say I'm a great supporter of Bernie Sanders. Do you have to ask him if he's religious or not? You don't have to. You're gonna ask him after they tell me, are you Shomer Shabbat? Someone would listen to this and tell you, are you out of your mind? He just told you he's a supporter of Bernie. What are you asking him if he's a Shomer Shabbat or not? What's the Nafka Mina? And if he would say yes, we can count him in a Minyan Bechalach, someone like this? Can't count him as a minion. He's a communist. Communism means anti-God. Socialism. There's no God in our life. Doesn't exist. You understand what's going on here or no? So the question that I have is, we still did not answer it. How is it possible that there was not one person in the whole world that was righteous. Today we have some righteous people in the world, right? We have thousands for sure, maybe even tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of tzadikim. And you know what? In a good dream, maybe even few million tzadikim the world has among Jews and non-Jews. There are some goyim that are tzadikim. So the question that I have is, Rabotai, is what What is the possibility that you will have, I don't know, 20 million people in the world and now one of them was a tzaddik? That's what the Torah says, only Noah. No one, even today, you have a lot of places that nobody rebukes anyone, but it's still some tzaddikim there. Acting the same way, how do they know any different? But let me ask you this. You're making a good point, there's nobody to learn from. But when Noah started to build the ark, they all came and said, what are you doing? You're saying Hashem is going to bring a flood and all of you will die because you're wicked. So he did rebuke them, right? Maybe not the way Hashem expected him, but when finally conversation started, like, I know There are few different kinds of speakers in the world. There are speakers who always teach nonsense. Stay away from them. There are speakers who teach truth and nonsense mix. Stay away from them. There are speakers who don't teach nonsense, but they never rebuke. They are never aggressive, they never rebuke anyone, they're all politically correct, try to be nice in in the eyes of everyone. Up to you. My recommendation: don't waste time on them as well. But I cannot come at least and say that these speakers are infidels or apikosi. They're just soft. They can't handle the pressure of the public, so they sugarcoat everything. As long as they don't modify the Torah, No, it's bearable, meaning some of them will modify the Torah. "Eh, Rabbi, I went to hear this Israeli speaker and he said that in hell there are 7 sections and one called this and one called—" Oy, God forbid! Chas v'shalom! Who told you such thing? There's no such thing. That's a kufar. That's heresy. That's already enemy of God. That's all you need. Or like this political speaker Ben Shapiro. He puts a kippah on his head. They ask him in the interview if he believes in life after death. He doesn't believe in Olam Haba. It's Rashagamur. According to the Torah, it's one of the 13 principles. He doesn't believe in an existence of the soul. These clowns change their minds too often, it's hard to follow. So he doesn't believe in a soul. How can you be religious not believing in a soul? It's what the first verse in the Torah, the first chapter, "Vayitzer Hashem Elokim et ha'adam afar min ha'adamah vayipachda pav nishmat chayim." God blew a living soul into Adam's nostril. And he became alive. It's a verse in the Torah. So you don't believe in the Torah. So why you put the yama ka? That's the question. Something is not right here. You have people here in Flatbush that keeping almost all the Torah. They come 3 times to minyanim, they daven nets, they eat strictly kosher, they give tons of tzedakah to yeshivot, they keep Shabbat, they have tzitzit under the clothes. They walk with hatkipah. When they want to do Birkat Hamazon, they take the kippah, put it on, those kippot that fly with the wind, make sure it's indoor. They put the kippah, they do Birkat Hamazon. Then you have people with kippah on the head, complete infidels, the shayim gmurim. How to believe in Israel? You are all so fiorni. One of them is in the Knesset with a little koder on his head. What's the connection between him and religion? None. Like this Bennett is the opposition to Bibi now, trying to be the next prime minister. Just a week ago he said that he's supporting Yair Lapid, Haman, that wants to destroy all the Jewish yeshivot. To become the Prime Minister. What in the world the yarmulke does on your filthy head? What is going on here? You're worse than Antiochus. That's what Antiochus want— close the Torah, close the synagogue. That's it. That's what he declared. He puts it— used to be one Avraham Burg. We don't want religion here with the kippah on his head. It's not Iran. Separate the religion from the— but he has the Yamakan. Same thing this guy, has the Yamakan on his head, speaking in political subjects, which is very good, by the way, when it comes to politics. What, you deserve a compliment? In politics, he's an expert and he has the right opinion. He's a righty. He used to support, before Trump, what's his the Christian— Ted Cruz. Cruz was a good guy. Cruz was the president, also good for Israel. Trump got elected. Now if you ask him, who you want, Trump or Sleepy Joe? He's going to tell you Trump. So when it comes to politics, it's good. But we are talking religion, not politics. Religion and politics sometimes goes in certain subjects together sometimes are complete separate topic. When you speak about afterlife, what does it have to do with politics? When you speak about the existence of the soul, reward and punishment, what does it have to do with politics? When you speak about the law of the land, going to the army, opening a shivuot, that's already politics. Sometimes politics and religion are together. You unite together. Sometimes they are complete two different things. So because a person knows about politics and is pro-Israel and he pro all kinds of things that is from the Torah doesn't make him a non-infidel. He's still a radical, spreads heresy. We have to be very careful from people that speaks and spreads heresy. Some speakers, they never say the painful truth. They're very, very careful. But if you will ask them in a lecture, they will never say the lie. Then by now they will tell you, "Rabbi, I heard the one speaker speaking about Gehinnom. There is such thing Gehinnom that God will burn the wicked people in hell?" Yes, it's written 150 times. 33 times in Agmara, he will answer. He himself will never say it, but if you already ask him, he will not say a lie. No, at least they're not infidels, at least they don't spread heresy. That's already a huge progress. I know a few like this in Israel, very, very soft approach, but if somebody would raise their hand and say, is it true that Mechalel Shabbat is count like a he would go in Halacha, he would open the Rambam and read. It wasn't his plan, and you can see how he suffered while he's doing it, how he has to force himself to say the truth because it's against his personality. But he will say the truth. From here on, it's kosher up to here, Hashem Yerachem. If he's able to say the truth, at least when you ask him, no, You can live with someone like that, but the best ones are the ones who constantly punch you. Boom, boom, boom. Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up. When you die, you will appreciate them. That's not my suggestion, the Gemara say it. The Gemara say, Hey, those who compliment you nonstop. Wow, he's such a great guy. Wow, he's such a tzaddik. Wow, you're so generous. You're such an honest person. Wow, I wish everyone was like you. This person makes you more righteous or less? It makes you comfortably numb. You feel like, oh wow, look how many compliments he gives me. The person over there, shame on you, you're showing up to shul at 9 AM? How are you not embarrassed to walk through the door at 9 AM, shachrit? You were supposed to be already 2 hours in yeshiva by now, after shachrit. Why? What's the big deal? I went to sleep late. Oh, that's where the problem begins. Go to sleep at the right time that you should wake up very early, that you should be in shul very early. After you daven, you have time to learn. And if you have to go to work, by the time you have to go to work, it's after learning and after praying. Don't show up at 9, finish at 10, arrive to work at 11. That's not a life of a kosher Jew. You understand? So if he will rebuke you— someone told me today, I met him for a few minutes on my way here, Someone from Flatbush. I'm not gonna say to what shul he belongs since there's hundreds of shuls around here, you won't know what shul I'm talking about. But he told me that he goes to a specific shul here and he said, Baruch Hashem, I had a shiur a few years ago. He was very traditional before, but after he started to listen to the CDs, he became very, very serious. So he told me, I learned by this place every morning with that rabbi of the shul, famous one. I said, okay. He said, I went to him to ask him a question. I told him, Rabbi, why over here you never speak strong like this time? Meaning me, should speak like this. So the Rabbi answered him, look, the community are full of a lot of great people, a lot of nice sweet people. There's so much good in our community. I don't want to put too much pressure on the people here. I don't want to ruin the atmosphere. So he asked the Rabbi, I want to ask you a question. When we come over here and I come with my children, my children are young, they don't know. They know that we're praying here and they know that we learn Torah here. And after we finish, they see a party with half of the women here completely undressed. You have to see how they come, like it's a beach, inside the catering place of the place. Look how people are. And some people may come with a car and the kids will see a lot of confusing message inside the same place where we learn Torah and we pray. A minute or an hour later, they will see this kind of parties. How am I supposed to explain to my children that in the same place that's supposed to be synagogue and holy There are two opposite lifestyles. One side, Torah and learning Torah and praying and speeches. And parties like the clubs of Manhattan. How will I explain to these 3, 4, 5-year-old little children when they ask me this question? He told me, if you see his face when I asked him this question, he didn't know where to hide. He almost cried. Excuses you can give to the whole world. So I asked him, "Listen, maybe he's afraid to get fired, they're gonna fire him, who knows who they're gonna bring." He said, "No, he's not afraid. He actually wanted already a few times to quit and he has plenty of money, he doesn't even need the salary." It's not one of these speakers that if you fire him, he won't have what to pay his mortgage next month. So he's afraid to talk because they're gonna fire him. No, he's a well-established person. But it became— this is the way it became. No one has the guts to speak the truth. And those who speak the truth attract all the fire. See, I'll give you an example. If you had 500 speakers that speak strong, the fire would spread among all of them equally. He gets 1 kilo, he gets 1 kilo, he gets 1 kilo. No problem, you can tolerate here and there a little punch. But if you have 1 or 2 left, they have to take all the fire of the world. They need really wide shoulders for that and a very strong face for the punches. Now what can we do? That's the way it is. I'm thinking about Moshe Rabbeinu in his time, 400 All the years he was the target of all the Rasha'im. Korach, this, Dathan, Aviram, the— Hashem miracle. Back to our question, how is it that there was now one righteous person besides Noah? Do you know how many years we are talking here about from Adam to Noah? Huh? 1,500 years There is not one righteous person in the world. Everybody is Rasha. How is it possible? Now listen carefully. Pay attention carefully. Asarah dorot me'adam ad Noach. Hashem has a lot of patience. From Adam to Noach, 10 generations, 1,500 years. Noach, the flood is 4,200 years ago. Adam, 5,781 years ago. Do the math. Approximately, Metushelach was a tzaddik, but before the flood, Hashem postponed it one more week because he just passed in the 7 days of yeshiva. Metushelach was tzaddik. But I say, there are few exceptions to the rule. Metushelach, Yitzchak, And you have, you had Ewer also, had to be tzaddik because it was Yeshiva Shem Vaever. But that's after the flood already. Shem Vaever, you learn about their tzaddikut after the flood. Before the flood, you're right, you have Methushelah was a tzaddik and he passed. So now only Noah left. And Hashem said to Noah, and the Chatam Sofer said, it's not my idea, the Chatam Sofer, only Noah was a tzaddik. That's why the Torah speaks about Noah, nobody else. The question is, how come? Listen carefully now, Rabotai, you'll learn the concept of life. Chazal in the Midrash Bereshit Rabbah, they say like this: Amar Rabbi Yitzchak, Rabbi Yitzchak said, maga ram la'enchim redubi? What caused the whole world to they all rebel against me. Hashem is speaking. Why they all rebel against me? Millions of people rebel against the Creator of the world. Lo al shem zorim velo kotsrim, yamar habitzchak, achad lemem shanai u zorim. Their life was too easy. Heaven on earth. They put the seeds in the ground once every 40 years, not like now every year you have to do it. Put it in and you constantly have wheat coming, easy life. No sicknesses in the world yet. Sicknesses started from Yaakov. Yaakov said to Hashem, until Yaakov, a person with sicknesses sneeze and die. No preparation. That's why when someone sneezes in Israel, everybody says, "L'abriyut!" For good health. What sneezing has to do with good health? It's an old custom. In the old days, when someone sneezed, he falls and dies. The soul comes out. Now when a person sneezes, we say, "For good health, don't die on us, please." That's what it means, "la b'riyut." Right? So Yaakov asked Hashem to have preparation before we die. Give us X amount of time that we know we're about to die. That's why you have diseases, cancer, this, that. People have X amount of time to prepare, to write a will, to say goodbye, to ask for forgiveness, to do teshuvah. So from Yaakov on, all sicknesses started in the world. Old age— people had old age, but they look the same like they were young. Nobody aged in their face and in their body. You can still run, you can still walk, be 500 years old, 700 years old, you still run and dunk in the NBA. How? How many years you in the league? I started 600 years ago. How many teams you played by? Oh, I don't even remember when the league started. People do not age. Yes, he's 600 years old, he's 700 years old. People live 2,000 years old, as you can see, Methuselah 969, Adam 930. Noah was 600 years old when the flood started. Sarid still lived a long time after that. So Avraham Avinu and his son looks the same, like twins. Avraham and Yitzchak, people get confused. Hi Avraham. No, I'm not Avraham, I'm Yitzchak. Oh, sorry. How are you? How are you, Yitzchak? No, no, I'm not Yitzchak, I'm Avraham. Father and son look exactly the same even though there's a big difference in the age. Abraham said, there's no kavod, please Hashem, make a sign in a person that people will know who the father, who the son is. So all the age started from the time of Abraham. Abraham is after Noah, after the flood. It's a little bit before Matan Torah, like 200 years before, like 3,500 years ago. And the flood was 4,200 years ago. So it's hundreds of years later. So until the flood, no one is sick, no one looks old, no one has back pain, no one has corona, no one has AIDS, no one has cancer, no one needs Botox, no one needs to stretch his skin, no one needs to plant hair plants. Planting— what do you call it? Hair transplant. You don't need to go to Turkey next to Erdoğan in Maksimo and pay $10,000 that they restore your head and your blow it. So life was a picnic. And one more thing, there was no four seasons, only one season, spring. Heaven, 70-75 degrees, No humidity, no strong winds, no hurricanes, no floods, nothing. No snow. Snow is judgment. No icing in the morning, none of these things. You wake up in the morning, the birds are singing. Unbelievable. Wonderful life. Everyone is rich. They plant seeds in the ground, 40 years it gives them everything, they have unlimited bread, food, animals eating grass, fantastic. Nobody has one problem to worry about. I have a big question about this Midrash. We'll leave it for later on. So this is a Midrash. I'm not telling you from my own imagination. Imagination. People used to be so strong they can pull a tree out. That's how strong they used to be. Chazal say when a woman gave birth, the baby is already like 20 years old. Comes out, "Hi, what's for lunch?" Yes, he was cutting his own cord. Bring a knife, go to the kitchen, bring a knife, and cut his own cord. I know it sounds like Alibaba's stories, but not one reason for anyone, we don't need God, what we need him for? We have everything we need. Life is a picnic. No sicknesses, no problem, no poverty, no wars, no nothing. But everybody is wicked, everyone is wicked. Now you may say, if everyone has everything they need, why do they need to steal? That's not a question. Billionaires are still stealing. The owners of all these big companies, they educate the manager to steal here, to steal there. Look at the telecommunication company. Yeah, you want to disconnect your cell phone in Israel. You have to go, you make an application to disconnect your service when you're 21. B'ezrat Hashem, in a wedding of your grandson, you gotta get a letter when you're 75 years old. Mr. Moshe Cohen, we are happy to inform you that we disconnected your service with Bezek. What? Who? Doesn't remember his name, like Sleepy Joe. JP Joe, he called Trump George. Maybe still in the time of George Bush, no? That's signs of Alzheimer's. Ah, George Washington. George Washington. Oh my gosh, stop. So, nobody say thank you to Hashem for all the greatness. They started to make sins. All these gay parades, all these things that you see today, sins with animals. And Hashem say, "Ki ishrit kol basare dar kol aretz." There's not one piece of meat, flesh, that it's righteous. All corrupted in sexual sins. Even the animals, that's why the animals drown, but not the fish. Fish stay according to the laws of nature. Other animals, penguins, bears, also learn from San Francisco habits, if you know what I mean. How is it possible? Animals don't have free will. Can animal be righteous or wicked? A lion that murders zebra is a murderer or it's a way of life? It's a robot, what do you want from him? So saying, "I'm gonna judge the lion for murdering and give him electric chair," it's a very stupid comment, right? Because everybody understands he's not guilty of anything. It's not guilty. So how is it possible that animals chose to be gay? It's written in many, many places in the Torah, in Chazal, in the Ramchal, and in many philosophy, Jewish philosophy books, that nature is all influenced by the actions of mankind. When there are good holy things taking place around material, around animals, it makes everything around holy. When bad corrupted things are done by people, everything around become impure and corrupted. The actions of the people, the Ramchal writes, Affect also raw material. And it was proven scientifically. I have a whole lecture about it. What was the name of this Japanese doctor? Amado? Doctor? D'Amado. He made an experiment. He took drops of water in in a lab in a negative 245 degrees. Freezing weather, you know 245? Minus, minus 245. Zero Celsius is freezing. Minus 245 means if you sneeze, you take your friend, you poke your friend's eyes out. The one drop that flew from your mouth into his eye became a knife. It's not water anymore. It became a sharp glass. Boom! Right into— oh my gosh, you took my eye out! Why are you sneezing in my face? You know what it is? It doesn't go that far. You won't be able to sneeze because you'll be dead before you're born. Minus 245 degrees. He put one drop of water in the lab, in the glass, and He put it in a room with a bunch of Japanese people that all day spoke nice words of love and peace and bless each other. All day they read nice positive words in Japanese, Rabotai. It's not even the holy language. The Japanese, chauwawa, chauwawa, chigawa, wawawa, all day like this, have a nice friendship. then he took the drops into a room with 10 angry Japanese, all day cursing each other, cursing all day. How smart this Japanese guy was to do such an experiment. He has a patent on it. And now with the microscope he looked at the drops of water in a room that they spoke positive, and they went to the room that they cursed and looked with a microscope. In my presentation, I show the pictures. Rabbi Zamir Cohen has it in his book, "The Revelation." You can see the pictures. It's a world patent. In a room that they cursed, nothing came out. All the water was smashed, not symmetric, no shapes, nothing. In a room that they spoke nicely, everything looks like diamond, beautiful triangles. Circles. Unbelievable. Like a diamond cutter. You know how the diamonds, how they cut the diamonds beautiful? Marquise, these, pear shape. You cannot believe the shape of the waters. That justifies 100% the words of the Ramchal. When a man sins, he corrupts his soul and everything around him. Chazon Ish. Chazon Ish walked with his student in Bnei Brak when Bnei Brak was all orchards, no buildings like today, like sardines. It was all trees. The Chazon Ish walked with the student and they came to a place in the middle of the orchard and Chazon Ish all of a sudden started to get excited like a child. This is a very good place place. People learned Torah here in the middle of the orchard. And later the Talmud started to investigate. A group of Talmidim used to go sit there over there on the rocks and learn Torah over there. The Chazon Ish Neshamah felt when he came to that area that this was a place that people learned Torah. If we walk there, we won't feel anything. Don't Don't try it at home. Don't waste your time. Some people could feel because they were so holy. So holy. I remember we had a seminar 25 years ago in New Jersey and we invited the legendary biggest tzaddik in the world. Who is he? Rav Dov Kook from Tiberias. A big tzaddik, holy, mekubal. 25 years ago, he was already holy like today is nothing to talk about. All his teeth fell from fasting non-stop. Only on Shabbat he drinks a little bit fruit juice. Every day pray, shachrit minimum 3 hours, mincha minimum an hour, shemonaesrei, arvit minimum an hour. His knees are finished from standing in prayers and crying to Hashem from morning to night. All his life, 7 years of life like this. We brought him to the seminar just to sit there to bless the place by his presence. The entire 3 days he refused to come out of the room of the lectures. Did not go to a room room. He did not go anywhere in the hotel, only stayed in a place where the Torah was taught. He didn't want to walk in places in the hotel because they feel, their Neshamah feel. You go to different rooms, I don't have to tell you what's going on over there in those hotels. In my own eyes, I saw him 3 days sitting with the Gemara open without sleeping for 3 days. Every once in a while he would fall asleep for a few seconds, hear noise, wakes up learning for 3 days in a row like this. People like this, they feel. They feel that Rabbi Ben Zion Abba Sha'ul had a rabbanit that brings to him women for blessings. It's shamash, told the story. I heard it when I was in Israel 2 and a half months ago. Mamash unbelievable. He was such a humble tzaddik, such a humble tzaddik. So far from show-off, did not exist by his life any show-off. He couldn't stand show-off. The most humble you can meet. Him, Rav Moshe Feinstein were people like extremely humble. And the rabbanit brought him one woman pregnant like this for blessing. She stand by the door. As soon as she came by the door, "Chutzah, chutzah!" Take her out. Paranoid. "Wait outside, please." She came to the Shamash. "What happened to the Rav? I never saw him like this. Let me find out." He came, "Kona Rav, what happened? Is there any problem with this woman?" "Ah, she bring there into my room, she carry a mamzer in her stomach." Like this. "She has a mamzer, the baby is not from her husband." I says, "You understand what I'm telling you?" The shaman told the story, I get the shock of my life. Already see from his whole holiness that this baby is an illegitimate kid. Look what level you can reach in this filthy generation. When they look at the— well, yes, in his time there was no internet, he didn't have all the things you see everywhere you go, it wasn't as bad. But there are some people in the world, like Rav Addis and others, that still have very high standards standard of holiness. So these Goyim were all corrupted because they had everything— no sicknesses, nothing to be worried about. They live very long life. What do you worry about? You live 700, 800 years. Who needs God? Think about it. If somebody would come and give you a certificate, I have a special promise from Hashem, you, Mr. Mr. X, you're going to live 800 years from today. Now, one sickness and you have an ATM unlimited. Whatever money you need, you can take anytime, anytime you want, no limit. What is the chance that you will remain extremely strict Orthodox religious person? Person? When you know now you have 800 years of security, life, no sicknesses, no poverty, no problem, no death fear, no nothing. What are the nature of the people? I tell you, the Gemara says, the Gemara asks a question, why do Hashem gives us the parnassah little by little, weekly. Why anyway decided on Rosh Hashanah how much we're gonna get this year? Give it to us and we'll meet you again next Rosh Hashanah to ask for more parnassah. Why are you giving me little by— Imagine you have a builder, he builds your home, he renovates your house. Let's say you agree $100,000 for the whole renovation. So can you give give me some money. Here, $50. What's that, $50? I have to buy this, I have to buy, to pay the worker. Here, another $500. Don't, you're asking too much. Give me some more, little by little. $500, $300, $1,000, until by the end of the job he got his $100,000. Or he gives him all in one shot up front. What happened when you give a person everything upfront in one shot? What happened? That's probably the last minute you see him. Yeah, let's see you paying a builder upfront for the whole job. The next day you're gonna get a call, Moshe, shalom, ah, manishma, it's Yitzchak. Listen, I don't feel so good. I won't be able to come this week. I'll call you Monday. I'll let you know when I come. He's gonna drag you 5 years. Why does he need you? He already got his money and he got another job. Yeah, but I paid you upfront. You're a very nice person, but I have to make a living. But I pay you for the job. That's why you never give them anything upfront, as less as possible. Make a rule. Everything you order, try to give as less possible upfront. The less you give, the better and faster your job will get done. The more you give upfront, that second you will appreciate it very much, wallah, you are akhlaq giver. The next day, where are you, Ahmed? It's not Ahmed, it's his brother Masoud. Whatever, where is Ahmed? I pay him to build a window here. No, Ahmed is gonna call you back, don't worry, don't worry, Hawaja, nothing to worry. Why, why, why? Go and find him now. Well, after it enter Adam's body, it exists, that's it. They had evil inclination, they That's why they made all the sins in the world that you can think of. However, there was no fear from the outcome if nobody gets sick. So the Gemara says, why Hashem doesn't give us the Parnas Ha'apfan? We won't talk to Him a word for the entire year. When we will remember we have a Father? Ere v'rochokhana. Hashem, here I am. Where were you 364 days? Al takpid. You know, I tell you, there was a father, you know, I probably told you that story before. There was a father, his son told him, "Abba, I want to go on a trip." "Where?" "I go to Nepal, this, that. I need $10,000." "$10,000?" "Yeah, it's gonna be 3 months trip, this, I'm going from one country to the other." "Come on, Dad, you loaded." Help me out. I'll make a deal with you. Since you're off the derech, ungrateful son, let's make a deal. Here is your tefillin. Cleans all the dust from the Bar Mitzvah until he's now 21. 8 years of dust. Phew, Corona, he can't choke. Here is your tefillin, Baruch Hashem. You promise me after you arrive to Nepal, one week you put tefillin every day, I will send you the money with Western Union right away. Really, Father? Yeah. Fair deal? The whole 10,000 in one shot? Yeah. In one condition. Yeah. You promise, you promise you don't skip a day of tefillin. Fill in the entire trip. Of course, what's the big deal? I'll put fill in. You're right, should have put fill in. It's not nice of me. Okay, adios. The next day, called, Dad, wow, Nepal, I came, I saw the Dalai Lama. Wow, so wild. What a tzaddik, the Dalai Lama, beautiful shiny head. Baruch Hashem, ich tabach shemo. No, did you put fill in today, son? Abba, I know you don't think so highly of me, but come on, a deal is a deal. Don't you know I have a word? I put a tefillin, of course. No, that's all I wanted to hear. Baruch Hashem, I should thank Hashem. Next day, no, you put tefillin? Yes, yes, yes. Like this every day. Next Sunday already, a week. No, Abba, it's a week today. Are you wiring me the money? Sure, sure, I'm gonna go to the bank soon. You put fill-in today? Yes. You did not skip a day? Abba, enough! Oof, you're such a nudnik. How many times you have to ask me? No, I just want to make sure. Listen, it's $10,000. It's no joke. You sure you put fill-in? Yeah. Okay. In that case, please explain to me why you are calling me for the money if the day you left the house I put I threw $10,000 cash inside your tefillin pouch. How come you didn't see it yet? That means you did not even open that tefillin, you liar. This is the story. What do we learn from here? That's basically what Hashem tells us. I already sent you the bracha. You just never opened to receive it. It's my problem. You're complaining, why I have this, I have this. But with this Reshaim, before the flood, there was no punches, no warnings, no urgent emergency check engine, nothing. Everything smooth. It comes out beautiful weather, business is booming. You put the seeds in the ground, 4 years you don't have to worry about Parnassah. Imagine you have one meeting in business once every 40 years and it's enough to survive 40 years. Imagine what wonderful life. What reasons you have to stay religious? How do you know I'm right? Very simple. Connect all the people in a synagogue to a machine that reads their mind when they pray Shemoneh Esrei. This is how it goes. He begins, when it comes to Shomer Tefillah, he begins, Kiel Shomer Tefillot Vetachanuni Mata. Now he begins to add all his personal requests. That's the moment he likes the most in Tefillat Shemona Esrei. In the middle of Shomer Tefillah, you can add your personal request. "Business is struggling, this lousy Corona destroys me, I don't know what you want from me, I have a building stuck here, mortgage stuck there, the bank making problem." The entire thing, Parnassah, Parnassah. If somebody is sick, it's also B'rut. If he has enemy, kill this guy, cut the head of this guy. You look at the list of the things, all about his problems. Usually you don't find a person that in Shomer Tefillah he says, Hashem, I don't want anything. I'm happy with what I am. Whatever you give me is more than enough. Don't be too generous. It's enough. I'm good. Don't change anything. Keep it the same way. I know if this is the way it was until now, that means it cannot be any better. 'Leave it like this, I'm happy.' You don't hear it, no. What do you hear? A list of just like Bibi come to Trump. 'We need these F-35, 100 this, that, bombs, weapons, this, that.' It comes with a list. First you praise the King, then you begin with your request. If a person, if you would be able to read everyone's minds in the middle of the davening, it would be the bestseller, a book like this. The prayers of each individual. Now, if you take away all the problems in life, what exactly you're gonna pray for? Nothing to request. Money, you have ATM unlimited. Sicknesses, there's no such thing. Bad weather, no such thing. Everyone is happy, everyone Fantastic life. To die, you're not worried. They don't have to worry. Mechayam et im, what for? Baruch Atah Hashem, mechayam et im. Ah, we worry about it in 700 years from now. Nothing to talk about. That's the nature of a human being. Once you have your future is secure, you don't have any pressure. That's why the Tosfot say that Hashem does it in such a way He gives us little by little. Why? That this is how He established connection to us. If He give us everything up front, once a year we will talk to Him a day or two and that's it. That will be the end of everything. So why they were like that? Remember, when life is a picnic, that's the worst life you can have, not the best. Wow, look at this guy. What a life he has. Rabbi, believe me, if I was like him, do you think I would be like this? Look at him, rich, famous, healthy, handsome, married, children, all the children successful, all of them are married, beautiful homes, car, house in Miami, house in Yerushalayim, house in New York, house in upstate. Everybody bowed down to him. "Wow, if I would be like this, of course I'll be religious." In your situation like this, half homeless, with $20 in your pocket, you don't know where you're gonna be next year, if you have a place to live. Your situation is a million times better than this king of the world out there. Why? Because he's comfortably numb. Business is great, everything working out. When does a person speak to Hashem from a broken heart? Only when his heart is broken. If the heart is not broken, can't take a hammer and break it. Money losses break the heart. Issues with marriages breaks the heart. Sicknesses breaks the heart. Wars, problems, reputation issues. Breaks the heart. Depression, sadness, losing things breaks the heart. Once the heart is broken, how do you fix a bone? Sometimes you need to break it to fix it. The way sometimes to fix something is first to break it, then you're able to fix it. So if you don't break a person, they will never be attached to Hashem. All be minas safah lebachutz. Minas safah lebachutz. That's why in a Yamin Noraim, what do they say? Take a shliach tzibur that is poor. Don't bring the best chazan in the world that drives a beautiful Bentley because they pay him $100,000 on the show. Chazan like this will not help us. Bring in a vrech kol el that has a mortgage in 10 days and and he doesn't know where to start. And there's stress, pressure, "Wow, what would I do?" And he cries to Hashem on Rosh Hashanah and everybody benefits. Why? Because he comes and speaks from a broken heart. "Amar Hakadosh Baruch Hu le'noach, ketz kol basar ba'alefanai." Everyone is about to die, their end arrived. This is 1,500 years after the world was made. That's it, 1,500 years. "I'm going to destroy the land." Every flesh around will die. In the end, we're all gonna die. Everyone will die. A person that remembers the day of his death gets scared. A person that is dead will come in 700, 800 years, there's no worry. People don't know, wow, I have another few months to live, I better wake up. They get nervous. Amar Hakadosh Baruch Hu, even when you live 70 years, not that many people remember the day of their death. I'm only 50, still time. I'm only 60, still time. I'm only 59, I'm only 69, it's still time. What do you mean? You're almost 70, that's it, you're an old man. Still plenty of time. Who told you I'm gonna die at 70? I may live to 90. You're almost 80 already. No, wake up, there's still time. You're 90, wake up, it's still time. I feel great. I have an appointment to go play tennis indoor. This is the way the Satan makes you you sleep. The people of the Generation of the Flood that lived hundreds of years, they didn't think about that. Ah, once in a blue moon someone died. We don't see funerals that often. Everybody lives a long life. Hakadosh Baruch Hu gave them 120 years warning. It's like 12 years for us if you look at the ratio of life. And he said to Noah, "Make an ark. Plant the trees, the cedar trees. When they grow, cut them, peel them, slice them." There was no Home Depot. You didn't have electric saw. The work was 20 times longer. Gotta do it manually. Like this. It takes a long time. Prepare a boat, a long boat, the size of a soccer field. 300 feet. 300. It's very long. 100 meters long. So it's a lot of work. So Noah is working. He didn't have Mustafa and Ahmed and the rest of the crew to help. It was a one-man operation. He has to bring, cut the trees, bring them, cut them, carry them with his donkey. It's a long process. And all day people pass by, "Excuse me, Noah, what got to your head? What are you doing? What are you building?" "I'm building a boat." "Why?" "Because soon all of you gonna die and that's supposed to save the world." He said, "I have a telephone number for you. Dr. Eisenberg, call him. He's a good psychiatrist." Everyone makes fun like this. Every day people pass by, "What is this?" "Soon it's gonna be a flood. All of you gonna— ha ha ha, flood." Then later when the ark was already finished, so serious, believes in it. They told him, come on, listen, do you really think that if it's going to be a flood we would let you into the ark? We will grab you down with us. We're not gonna die and let you live. So it's not gonna help you. You're wasting your time. Hashem said, we will see who would let who live. When the time came, they came to grab him. Hashem sent the lions. The bad animals protected him. They actually wanted to grab Noah with them. Look at this. The animals are starting to walk into the ark. The rain began. And what's on their mind? Instead of thinking, "Noah, you're right. Wow, how blind we were." "Hatano avinu pashanu." "Forgive us, God. We will change." That's it. Nobody. I think I didn't understand, like, okay, the rain started, they still didn't, you know, you keep going, but like the animals coming in, like— Not only that, Noah himself did not believe. The Gemara says Noah was k'tan emunah, his faith was lacking. Only when the rain got to his nose, it pushed him into the ark. Even Noah did not believe until until the last second that Hashem will kill millions of wicked people. He did not have problem believing in Hashem. Hashem spoke to him, so he knows Hashem exists. He also knew what Hashem told him and he followed the instruction. Vayasnoch asher tzivah Hashem, right? But when the rain actually started, you always have the theory maybe Hashem is only threatening us. Like some of the secular Israelis, they live in illusion that all the punishments of the Torah is just to scare us. It won't really happen. You really think Hashem is gonna put me in Auschwitz? When Hashem brought the Holocaust on us and we actually saw in our eyes how horrible punishments can be, it should have been enough to understand that He means every word He said. But 78 years later, Everyone is back to their way. They still live in illusion that nothing bad would happen. Don't worry, Hashem loves us, he will defend us. Look what's going on in America. Antisemitism here is beyond it's ever been. It's the worst it's ever been. You know how many people tell me? I go in an average day, I get 3 antisemitic attacks. At work with people that works with me, they make Nazi comments on the open. The goyim are fuming now. Two things caused it. Three. One, the goyim can tolerate the Jews as long as they have what to eat. They have what to eat, they make money, they have cars, leases, this, that. I hate the Jews, but I can live with that. Why? At least I have what I need. Take away his money, take away his job, he doesn't have enough to pay mortgage. Right away his eyes would see successful Jews around him. President of this company, this doctor, this judge, this— immediately his eyes are on the Jews. Like it happened in the Holocaust. I don't have to tell you in Poland, Germany, Austria, all these places. So that's problem number 1. 'When there is financial crisis by the goyim, the Jews always pay the price and will always pay.' That's the number one reaction. Second problem: Jews have chutzpah. What kind of chutzpah? They make demonstrations against the mayor. They're 100% right in their claims, don't get me wrong. The mayor is an antisemite. Semitic and the governor and they hate us and they're looking to get us into more trouble and fines. They're not exactly want to protect our lives when they make all this decree to close the synagogue. They just want to make our life difficult. There's no question about it. It's very obvious because you can see how when they go to other places, when demonstrations, they don't care. But when it comes to some yeshiva or something, right away fines. They even come to some yeshivot with the fines printed from the office before they go in. They want to put it by the door. You saw the video this week, no? Yeah, so you see right away. Sha'are Torah, where is Sha'are Torah? It's right here? Coney Island. Oh, so the person that was speaking on the video is a rabbi from Sha'are Torah? Yeah. He made that video? He works in, he was taking that video. All right, so what the point is The point is we know exactly who we're dealing with. We know their hatred to us, but we added oil to the fire because when we don't put our head down, they go 10 times more cruel, they become. Yeah, when a lion is angry in a room, he did not eat and he sees that you have— you're standing over there and you're doing very well. Immediately thinking, how do I bring him down with me? This Jew, who does he think he is? He's gonna live the life here in my country. I'm not gonna have what, and he's gonna live and he's gonna tell me what to do and he's gonna demonstrate over here. Immediately they go crazy. That was a very big mistake to do all these demonstrations, making videos on WhatsApp, and only made the situation for us 10 times worse. And the worst thing now was the Support rally for Trump. Whoever organized it, I'm sure he had good intention, but he made a huge damage to us and we're gonna all cry for this march. Why is it? As you saw, a lot of New York is a place of liberal lefty haters of Hashem, Democrats. They hate everything that is righty to begin with. And if it's a Jew, religious, righty, they hate him 100 times more than they hate other ideas. So all they needed is to see some fancy cars driven by religious Jews with signs Trump. You have the combination of everything they hate. They hate Trump, they hate Republicans, they hate everything that is not Democrat like them, lefty, wicked. They hate Jews and they hate religion, the whole nine yards. Fleshing in the face. So now, yes, it's true, we want to show gratitude to the president for being nice to us and did a lot of good things for us and for Israel. Yes, we should have done it quietly, sending him letters of support, emails, you know, donations in fundraising, whatever people did quietly without of big noise and publicity. The more the Jews show that they support Trump in public, the more antisemitism you have in this country. There was never, ever so much antisemitism in the open with no fear like the last 4 years. When we had the best president in the history of this country when it comes to relationship between us and him, we actually were attacked more than ever before. Even in the time of Jimmy Carter, the anti-Semite, Jews did not suffer in this country like they suffered in the last 4 years. There was no— even in the time of Hussein Obama, the anti-Semite, there was no attacks on the Jews even half of what you had in the last 4 years. It's very simple. If you have a person that you hate and you see that him and the king get along very nice and complete complement each other, your hatred to that person becomes 10 times more. What's so hard to understand? Problem is that there's no leaders. Nobody gives instruction and everybody does whatever they want. This is something you need that Torah. Why do you go and organize a rally? Did you go to a serious Rav and ask a question? Quote the Rav, we want to show support, bring a few thousand religious people. And show support in Manhattan, in, I don't know where, in Brooklyn, to the President. Good idea or bad idea? Bailo. He would tell them be quiet, don't make noise, media, lefty, this is New York here, it's not some places. They all love Trump. They would look at that as a very good thing in the South over there. But over here, you know 80% of the New Yorkers are allergic to Trump. And allergic to Jews. Even Democrat lefty Jews are allergic to Jews. They're also antisemites. Do you understand? So that was a very bad idea, but that's what happened. You make mistakes, then a Holocaust come, and then 400 years later everybody cry, why it happened to us? Why? Because all you need is to to trigger the attention of the lion that is hungry with you in the same cage. And then when he rips you to pieces, then your son will ask, "Why did it happen? Why the lion did this to my father?" The answer is because the lion hates your father and he's hungry. And your father did something to get his attention and that was the end of it. This is it, Rabotai. You have to be quiet, low profile, not flashy. Enough with all these speeches, enough with all these WhatsApp videos. We will demonstrate, the mayor, this. You expect they're going to give you solidarity? You expect them to support you with the war against the governor? They care that you got fines in yeshivot here? That's what they care about? So what would we expect? That Hashem will destroy the whole world now? Flood will finish the world and that's the end of it? So Hashem gave them 120 years warnings, warning, a period of time. Noah is now rebuking them finally because they ask questions. But they abuse him, "Zaken!" Hey, old sleepy Noah, old man. What's this ark for? "HaKadosh Baruch Hu mevi'al chemabul." Mabul shel ma? Flood of what? Flood of fire? We know how to handle it. Flood of water? We know how to handle it. What do you think is scaring us? They give answers. We're ready, don't worry, we are ready. 120 years passed, 7 days It started, but there was 7 days delay in the plan because Metushelach died. They give respect to the tzaddik. The Gemara says, "Yemei avluchu el Metushelach lelam decha." What do you learn from here? Hashem actually postponed his plan 7 days. Why? Millions of people lived 7 more days. 4, because Hashem wanted to respect the Tzadik. Look how much the Tzadik is important in the eyes of Hashem, that He's willing to let millions of Reshayim get Him angry for 7 more days, millions of them, just not to ruin the 7 days of the Shiva of Metushelach, Shivayamim. You may say, but there was there was no Shiva yet. The Torah was not given. Methuselah anyway was a Goy. Noah was a Goy. Everyone was Goyim. There was no Torah yet. What do we see from here? That 7 days after a person dies, even a Goy, it's substantial. The Zohar says that 7 days, then the Neshamah of the person that dies is still in this world. It doesn't go completely out of it. That's why we see Shiva to let the person see that we all mourn him and we regret that he passed. Comfort him. It brings ease to him because it's very difficult for him now to understand that he has to leave this world. So there are few steps. 7 days and then 30 days. 30 days. Why 30 days? Because in Kabbalah you have Asaras Sefirot, 10 counts, and you have 4 worlds. This world is Olam Ha'Asiyah. We have to go Olam Ha'Yetsira, Olam Ha'Briya, Olam Ha'Atsilut, and in each Olam you have 10 Sefirot. So we are already in this world, so this world doesn't count because we are here. So we have to go to elevate the soul to the next world and to the next world and to the next and every day the soul goes one step higher. So it goes to Olam HaBriah, one step. We have Asarah Sfirot, so it's 10 days. Then it goes to Olam HaBriah, 10 days. Then it goes to Olam HaAtsilut until it finishes, 30 days cleansing the soul spiritually. It's very deep stuff. That's why Vayifku called Nei Yisrael Taaron, 30 days. Why they decided 30 days? Why not 50 days? Why not a year? Why not 5 years? Why not 20 years? Why not 2 hours? You have to pick up a number? What, it's random? Russian roulette? Okay, Aaron, a tzaddik, passed. Let's vote. How long should we mourn him? Vote? No, no. Why voting? People will cheat. Election. Democrats. You know? 'Oh, so let's turn the roulette, we'll see what number will come. Oh, number 30 came.' That's not how it goes. There are reasons for everything. So— [Speaker] How did the younger come? Did he skip some Shiva? Because he go to a higher level? Did he skip it because the younger fall down? [Speaker] No, regardless if people actually needs to see Shiva or not, it's what happens to the soul in the upper world. So, HaKadosh Baruch Hu changed the orders of the creation in those 7 days. The sun instead of rising here, rise on the other side. What's going on? The earth is not moving. Revolution in nature to wake them up, but they don't wake up. You know, in the city of Nebrak, There was a Talmid Chacham named Sha'ul Rubin, Rabbi Sha'ul Rubin. He was a head of a kollel in Afula. One day, one day, an officer that works in a jail, an officer that works in a jail ask him for advice. He said, Rabbi Shaul, in the jail where I work, there is a man who refused to give a get to his wife, refused to divorce her officially, to give her the release. Years he's in jail and he refused to give the get. He kept his wife stuck like this, a gunah. Here we can't do that much to people like this. Besides writing letters against them, don't let them enter the shul. In Israel, they take away their driver's license. They can put them even in jail. They take away the passport. They cannot leave Israel. Believe it or not, there are still people that no matter how much you torture them, they rather die and not give the get. So what happened is asking the rabbi, what should I do? This guy is in my jail. I have to look at his face. Face every day knowing his wife sitting home crying for years. I refuse to give the get. What should I do? The rabbi told him, let me see him. He came to the jail, spoke to him. He came out and he said to the officer in a jail, listen, this guy will never give a get. Doesn't matter, keep him here 100 years, he'll never give a get. So what are we gonna do? So the life of this woman is over? No, I have an advice. Release him for a few months and then put him back in jail. Huh? Yes, he got used to jail, likes it here. Release him 6 months, let him go back, see his people, friends, family, be free, and then bring him back to jail and be very cruel to him. Drastic change in his comfortable life, and he will give you the get. I can't release him. I'm only— we have to go and make a request from the committee. Do it. He came to the committee and say, Rabbi Shaul Rubin say that's the only way to get the get out of him. They made a vote, they agree, you're free. Ah, so See, no one will break me. Let him be, started a business, this. Things were— hey, the committee changed their mind. Come back to jail, you. Ma, hey, cannot do it to me. I just started the business, this. Come, handcuff him. Throw him in a cage. Let me out. I have merchandise coming. I have this. You can stay here for the rest of your life. In less than an hour he gave a get. It's a true story, that. That Torah, you get the right advice from a Chacham. There are two things that is very good to ask always an important kosher Chacham with intuition. Why it's important? First, he's a smart person who have life experience. Experience can give you good advice. Second, whatever advice he gives you, even if it was not such a good advice in the eyes of Hashem, after all he's a human being, it's not God, Hashem will make it work for the honor of the Chacham, you understand? That's what Rav Moshe Feinstein say when a woman showed up one day with a letter to his office. Rabbi, you gave me a letter to go and get married because my husband died in Vietnam. He just showed up. I already got married and I have 2 kids. And Rav Moshe Feinstein told her, I never gave you any letter. Why? I was here a few years ago. I never gave you that letter. Rabbi, it's your signature and the Beddino over here? It's a letter from your beddin. I never signed that letter. And there were many letters he did sign, depending on the case. How was he so sure? After going back and forth, she started to cry. You're right, you didn't give me this letter. They took her out. Why are you doing such thing? You're blaming the rabbi for giving you a letter? Forged. Then his grandson, who was his shamash, asked him, Zaidy, are you so sure you didn't give her the letter? Thousands of people coming here every month to the Beit Din. I don't remember if she was ever here a few years ago. How do you know that you never signed that letter? He told him, I didn't know. One thing I did know, that Hashem will never do such thing to me. Because all I'm doing is serving Him and helping His people, working for them to do what He wants. I work for Him and He's gonna stab me? He didn't say it this way. He was gonna stab me in the back? It cannot be. Do you understand? If I do it for money, of course it can be. You do it for yourself, not for Hashem. If I do it because I want to gain control you can have all kinds of things. But if you do it 100% for the sake of Heaven, no Takallah would come by you. You will always have special protection. Why? Because you are a vessel that does what Hashem wants to do in the world. Hashem doesn't go against Himself. You are His servant. Once you mix politics, a lot of problems can come to the world from you. But if you're pure, only good, only good will happen. You know the famous story that one journalist came to Rav Ovadia Yosef after Yom Kippur War 40 years ago? And she told him, my husband died in a war Yom Kippur, and this is the evidence, and this and that. I want to get a letter that I'll be able to get married. After checking whatever, he called her up, he said, "I checked your case." I don't know, back then it wasn't like today. He didn't even have telephones. I talk 40 years ago. Only one family in the neighborhood had a telephone. You didn't have like today media, internet, Google. You didn't have all these things. So it was much harder to check. She brought false witnesses, whatever the case was, that he died and and whatever, and he gave her a letter that she's permitted to get married when her husband is a journalist also in the newspaper and he's alive. The minute Rav Ovadia gave her the letter that she's permitted to get married, she said, I got him! What a scoop we're gonna have on the lefty garbage Israeli newspaper that hates so much religion. Until today, nothing has changed. The same garbage. So I got in, she ran quickly to a payphone. Used to put a simon, you know a simon? A token with a hole in the middle. Only the older people here know what I'm talking about. If you would see it, you wouldn't know what it is. The simon had a hole in the middle. You throw it in a payphone, you have to go buy it in a post office. A simanim. You put it in and you dial. Rotary phone, you roll it like this. You call. She dials. "Hello, I need to speak to my husband. Is he there?" Silent. "Hello, where is my husband?" Silent. 5 minutes after Avovadia gave the letter in her hand, her husband died in a car accident. He told her, you permitted to get married. Permitted to get married, I got him. Hashem killed her husband. She actually, her and her husband that had that scam, brought the death of her husband with her own hand. It wasn't the plan of Hashem to kill him. Maybe he would live another 30, 40 years. But Hashem had no choice because if it would be published in a newspaper that the biggest rabbi of the Sephardim in the world just gave permission to a married woman to go get married and her husband is next door, I don't have to tell you what would happen to the reputation of the rabbis and the religion. Hashem had to do something urgent. That's how this scoop became sent. It's very interesting how the word of Rav Ovadia in this particular case happened 5 minutes later when the Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, Rav Ovadia said after he gave Gush Katif to the Palestinian Hamas, Rav Ovadia said Hashem will give him a punch, he will sleep and not wake up. It didn't say he will die. Very interesting. He will sleep and not wake up. Ishan veloyakum. Hashem iten lobana. That's his words in Hebrew. Hashem iten lobana. Like a slap. Ishan veloyakum. He will not wake up. 7 years he was in coma. When did he die? After the funeral of Rav Ovadia. Hashem kept him alive as long as Rav Ovadia was alive. When Rav Ovadia passed, a few weeks after, he died. Look at the word of a Chacham. What else do you need to say? The word of a Chacham. Unbelievable. So the Mabul started, the rain started. Starting in the beginning, it was with mercy. Haha, beautiful day, rain. Rain was rare. I told you, it's spring there. You don't have that much, you don't need. You have everything you need, everything grows. You put the seeds in the ground, 40 years you don't have to worry about it. You don't need rain. Then Maharaj says, even the animals started to behave like in San Francisco. The Gemara did not say San Francisco, they said Sodom. Sodom imitates them. San Francisco imitates Sodom. So everything got destroyed. Why Hashem made Noah an ark? Because Hashem wanted to cover the world with water. What's the significance of water? Now, why not fire? Why not hurricanes that destroyed everything? It's mikveh. When you buy something and it's impure, how do you make it pure? You dip it inside water. Mikveh. The world needed to restart. He cannot start the world that is so contaminated with so many sins of these lefty liberal wicked people. You gotta destroy everything, bring Corona, mess up the whole world. And restart a new world after. Who knows how it's going to end, this Corona? We don't know yet. We don't know. But one thing we do know, one thing we do know, is the impurity that the people created in the world was unbearable. That's why it needed to be such a flood. Rav Chaim Kanievsky You know, he was very close with the Chazon Ish. What was his uncle? No, his uncle. So he was the one that I told you before the story that testified that he walked with Chazon Ish. He was a kid. Chazon Ish was— when they walk in an orchard, that Chazon Ish stopped and said, this is a place that people learn Torah over here, he smelled it. In a book, the Mashgiach Mikamenitz, is written like this. It says Rav Moshe Aaron Stern, tzatzal, same Hashkenazid tzaddik, he went to pray in the shul of Degra. In that shul, there was another tzaddik named Shmuel Peppermann. Feferman. He knew that he's praying with such crying and such devotion, it's like once in a generation. After Rav Shmuel passed, he took his place. Who took his place? Moshe Yehoshua Landa. That knows that the Chazon Ish loved him very much because he was a big tzaddik. If the Chazon Ish love you and say that you are a tzaddik, oh wow, there's no question about this. So after he passed, Rav Stern asked from the Gabai, maybe he can sit there. Everybody fights for that place. Maybe he can sit there because the place is absorbed with tons of holiness and purity. We may not feel it. I, every time I go to Yerushalayim, as soon as I walked into my yeshiva, something happened in my neshamah which I don't feel in any other place. Why is it? This is a place that is older than 100 years old, this building, and all the biggest tzadikim of Yerushalayim that you read about them in the books were praying there and learning. See the building, it's ancient building from the time of the Turks. You have a sign on the wall who gave few lira to build the place. You had Rav Ezra Tzviya, Rav Alfandari, all them holy, holy tzadikim that all their life was just Torah, Torah, Torah in that place. The walls, the windows from 100 years old. They absorb all the Torah of the biggest tzadikim of the last 100 years in Yerushalayim. Right there, stand over here, Rav Elphandario standing here, Rav Ezra Attiya, or Chacham Atalon and many other tzadikim. You read about them in a book, you see the pictures, look like angels. It's unbelievable because even the windows, you see the windows are still 100 years old. The windows are still the same window, nothing has changed. The door, the front door is such a thick, big— you need 50 people to pick it up, it's so heavy. Solid wood, you don't build doors like this anymore. You see the door from the time of the Turks, the handle, the key. You know those big keys from the old days? The key is gone a long time ago. If you look at it, you see the door. You feel like you're back 100 years in time. There's other places like this in Yerushalayim. Those one of these places that it's mamash, you feel the holiness over there. Baruch Hashem. Time is running out. We're almost done. Noah is sending the raven, the crow. What's the difference between a crow and a raven? Or it's the same thing? Ah, doctor, any difference between a crow and a raven? Don't send me emails to explain, I'll find out on my own, please. I'm going to get now 50 emails explaining. Every time I ask a question, something in English, the whole world is trying to explain. We'll figure it out. Google, Rabbi Google will give us the answer. I think today since they invented Google, you don't need schools anymore. Just give me the test, let me learn through Google, everything is there. Why do you need to pay $40,000 tuition? Everything, basically almost everything you can learn. And if you can't, enter more information. Maybe one day they'll come to this conclusion. Anyway, Noah is sending the raven and the raven is not going. He's staying above the ark. Right away comes back. Noah said to him, "I should not let you come back in." What do we need you in the world for? If I send you to check if the water dried and you refuse to go, why do we need you in the world? What positive things will come to humanity from you, an ugly bird like this? That's what Noah is saying. We cannot eat you. You're not kosher. You noisy, you cruel to your own children, you don't feed them, you selfish. Give us one reason why we should keep you in the world. Good arguments or no? One thing I ask you to do, you refuse. HaKadosh Baruch Hu said to Noah, let him in, don't worry, it's gonna be a use for him one day. How long it took until the raven finally justifies creation? Huh? How many years? 1,600 years later. Finally they perform. When the wicked King Achav was searching for Eliyahu HaNavi that made no rain in Israel for 3 years. No rain, everybody's starving, no wheat, no barley, no nothing. Nothing is growing, no rain, the animals are skinny, no meat, no nothing to eat. All the wealthy people got wiped out. Corona, but in a much worse way than today. Everybody's starving. And Achav the king is looking, where is Eliyahu HaNavi? He has to cancel the decree. And Eliyahu HaNavi went to hide by a widow. Hashem told him, go to this widow in this city, hide over there, she has a son. When he come to this widow, few days later, her son died. He's dying. So she said to him, what do I have to do with you? The man of God that you came to my house? You came to highlight my sins? Look at it, because of you my son is dying. What did she say? She said, until you came here, I was considered righteous among other people. I'm a righteous woman in this town, so I consider Nishamayim as somebody important. Better than the average here. Now someone holy like you came to my house, you live around here in the attic, it shows how bad I am compared to you. I'll give you an example what it's like. You have a basketball team, one of them is a big star compared to the other 4 or the other 10, whatever. Let's make it in soccer, it's a better example. 11 players, one of them is a superstar in this league in Israel. Wow, in Israel everyone looks at him like he's the god of soccer. Then they say a team from Europe wants to purchase you. Much better team, different league, much more professional, big money. He goes over there, for one year he sits on the bench, doesn't even play because everybody there is much better than him. So here and there they let him play 5 minutes. He cannot move his legs, he lost all his confidence. So that's the deal. When he was there, he was a superstar compared to them. He came to the place of the real superstar $100,000 is nothing. So you see, it's all, it's all relative. Depends where. When you are here, I want to treat you like wow, you're something. Same thing among rabbis, by the way. You have a rabbi, young, charismatic, people love him. So in a place where he teach, compared to his audience, is a diamond compared to silver coins. Now you move him to the top league, put him in Yerushalayim, in a place with serious Chachamim learning for decades. In best case scenario, maybe they'll let him make tea over there. You make us the tea, we'll allow you to listen to the shiur. So if somebody will come from his town and say see that he serves thee. What? That's how you treat my rabbi? What is it? Well, he's not a janitor here. Compared to us, he is. When he comes to your town, you're gonna kiss his hand. That's what life is all about. So she said, before you came here, I was a superstar. Now you came here, I'm nothing. Right away, the Satan used you. To speak against me and my son is dying. What do you see from here? But sometimes when you have an extra righteous person among wicked people, that's what brings them problems, because the Satan is using that tzaddik as a case against all of them. He says, Hashem, look at all these wicked people, look how they are addicted to material, how they run after money. Nobody cares about Torah. All they care about is mixed wedding and show off and all these fancy-schmancy things. And if there's no chacham there, Hashem says that's how they were raised. Look, they don't know anything from their life. That's the protection. They barely know anything from their life. This is the reality. They grew up in America. What do you expect? How many chachamim came out of America? How many? None. All the Gedolim that live in America grew up in Europe. They became Talmid Echad Chachamim over there and then they came here. From here, the world of materialism, you did not have Gedolim coming out. Why? Fancy life do not create big Gedolim. That's reality. There's nothing you can do. The Gemara says, Give a lot of respect to the poor kids because the Torah will come out to the world from them. Why not the rich kids? Not that the rich kids are not important neshamot. Not that the rich kids are less important. This is a good neshama and this is a good neshama. Just when you raise in a mansion with 4 chadames, one pick up your shirt, one pick up your underwear, one do the laundry for you, you, one bring you the omelette to bed, you know, and all that, it's a little bit difficult to become Chacham Ovadia. Chacham Ovadia and Rav Ben Zion and Rav Ades and Rav Bar Shalom and all the big Sfaradim came out from Purat Yosef when bombs were falling on the yeshiva and there was nothing to eat for 3 days. Their stomach were grinding because there's nothing to eat and life was so poor, people didn't have money for shoes. That's why they became who they became. Raise the same people in fancy lifestyle here in America, I don't know if anyone would know who they are. That's reality, Rabotai. Reality. Chachamim, when they are in Syria, big chachamim. Iraq, big chachamim. Morocco, in the old days, big chachamim. Europe, Russia, Lithuania, all these places, Big Chachamim. Israel, big Chachamim. America, nothing. They already came here ready product. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of Talmid Chachamim in America. I'm talking Doledor, like biggest in the world, like Rav Chaim Kanievsky, Rav Karelitz, this kind of Chachamim. Not ordinary Chachamim, we have plenty, Baruch Hashem, thousands. I'm talking, you know what I'm talking about, the giants, Rav Avigdor Miller, Rav Moshe Feinstein, Rav Kotler, all these big, one to a generation you have Chachamim like this, Rav Ben Zion Abba Sha'ul, Rav Ovadia, Rav Eliyashiv, this is all products of poverty, product of poverty. No servants and swimming pools and vacations in Cancun. You understand? What was the vacation of Rav Yaakov Kaminetzky, Rav Moshe Feinstein? What was their vacation? Who knows? They went on vacation. You know what was their vacation? They went upstate, sat by the trees, next close to a lake with a Gemara. What they used to do here in Flatbush or Borough Park, I don't know where, you know, Lower East Side. Same thing they did in upstate. Changing the atmosphere a little bit because the Neshamah sometimes needs refreshment. So instead of sitting in a building in Brooklyn or Manhattan, Lower East Side, I'll sit upstate New York with some mountains and trees, huh? Maybe a bear will come to say hello. That's it. What other thing they want? Physical pleasure? Nothing. Just for the spirit, to get some good fresh air, some nice view of the creation. From time to time it's good to change a little bit the environment around you, like when you come back to your normal place, it's renewed. It's like recharging your batteries. So, you know, I want to tell you, Eliyahu Hanavi The ravens were bringing him food. He's hiding, everyone is starving, and he's the only one who has what to eat. The king, nobody has food, all the storages are empty, 3 years no rain. They're going crazy, where is he? The ravens are bringing him food. Then Hashem said to Noah, leave them, there will be a use for them. But I want to ask you a question. The ravens that did this, did it for a righteous reason or for a wicked reason? I'll tell you why I'm asking you this. Noah called the raven, what's the name of it? How did Noah call them? Ra. Chazal called them Rasha. Reshaim, wicked. Noah called them evil. If they are evil and wicked, will Hashem use wicked and evil to feed His holiest person in the world, the prophet? He cannot find an animal that is good to bring food to Noah? Why would He need to use a raven? There's the dove. The doves can bring. The dove is a good It's a good bird. There's other kosher birds. Why you need to use the crow? We remember I made a lecture, Messengers of Hashem versus Messenger of Satan. Every human being belongs to someone, either to Satan or to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. Depends on your actions. If you're wicked and filthy and impure, Hashem gives the Satan permission to occupy you. You are in his hand, that's it. He use you for bad things in the world, to be a DJ, to make parties, to publish bad pictures in internet, to convince people to leave the yeshiva and go to work. You are his soldiers. He's using you according to his job, who he has to destroy. You see plenty of people who destroyed souls on a daily basis. By George Soros, destroyed millions of people. He is one of the generals of Satan. All the money goes to the liberal, to the lefty, to the gays, to the Black Lives Matter, to antisemitism. What's going on here? Only bad came out of that field. Only bad. Nobody made more damage to America and to Israel more than this this monster. Even in the time of the Holocaust, he cooperated with the Nazis, telling them where Jewish property is hidden. Monster from his childhood. And spent $30 billion in donations. All of them went to horrible causes. I was very happy to know that soon we're gonna get rid of him. But I got very disappointed to find out that he has a son which is relatively young is going to inherit all these billions and is just as bad as him. So Satan has someone who will still serve him for many good years. So the ravens, if they are righteous and they're good, Hashem will use them for good things. If they're bad and evil, if they're wicked, Hashem will use them for bad things. Bringing food to Eliyahu HaNavi is a Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Huh? It has to be bad because Hashem won't use George Soros to bring money for the wealth of Rav Eliashiv or Rav Ovadia. No. So if you see that something came from the hand of somebody bad, it's probably bad. You think it's good, but it's bad. Now let's investigate why the ravens bringing food to Eliyahu HaNavi is a bad thing and not a good thing. [Speaker:AUDIENCE] Why was it worth it to keep them around? [Speaker:RABBI] I tell you why. Why it's a bad thing. Because Hashem was upset at Eliyahu HaNavi for one thing. You made a decree against all the wicked people in Israel that there's not going to be rain. Fine. What did you do in these 3 years? I sent you to a shelter by this widow. I secured your life. What did you do besides learning Torah? Did you pray that all these wicked people will repent and do teshuvah, that I should not destroy them and I shall not torture them with no rain for another month and another month. No. Whenever you are the tzaddik of the generation, I expect from you, it's mandatory to pray for the generation. Same blame Hashem had to Noah. Avraham prayed, he tried to save the generation. Noah and Eliyahu HaNavi did not do so. Not only that, Eliyahu HaNavi spoke against them. You're not allowed to be mekatrek. You're allowed to rebuke. You're allowed to give examples of the bad things that people do. But when Hashem comes and says, leave me alone, I want to destroy them, you have to say no, don't destroy them, give them time to repent. And you pray for them to do teshuvah. Same thing Moshe Rabbeinu did all the time. He spoke very strong against the Jewish nation face to face. But when he came to Hashem, always defend them. No, it's give them more time, you know, it wasn't intentional. If you want to wipe them out, take me out of your book. If you kill them, the goyim would say that you could not bring them to Israel, that's why you killed them. Very good lawyer. So what is it like a lawyer that has a son that is not so good? In the house, fights with him every day. Shame on you, stop with this, enough with the drugs, enough with this. When he comes to defend him by the judge, he doesn't say to the judge, yeah, I told him yesterday, enough stealing, enough with the drugs. What does he say to the judge? He's a good boy, give him another chance, he's gonna make it, I have confidence in him. If you want to send him to jail, don't expect me to ever come here again. Why is it? Now it's your job to defend. When you face to face, tell them all the truth. Don't be a faker politician, politically correct. Tell them the truth as it is on the table. Later when someone come and say, you saw these wicked people? B'ezrat Hashem, I'm praying that they will do teshuvah. Let's give them CDs, make them Shomer Eshabbat. Let's make a seminar and bring bring them over. Let's give them books. You understand? This is the right way. It's no contradiction. When I'm with you, I punch you in the face to wake you up. When I'm over there, I will fight with the governor not to put you in jail. No contradiction. So Eliyahu HaNavi did not pray for them. Why? He has food. He doesn't feel hunger. They're all hungry. They were suffering, a lot of people. Not everyone was wicked like Achav. Some people suffering because of his cares. Instead of praying for them, you eat, learn Gemara, Baruch Hashem, enjoy, learn Torah. Everybody suffer and you don't pray for them. The ravens giving him food made him not pray for the generation. Meaning, by them feeding him Millions of Jews are suffering. So the ravens are messengers of Hashem or the messengers of the Satan? Do you understand why Hashem used ravens and not doves? [Speaker] So my brother-in-law was just sitting there, he left, but I just have a question. How do I make him do teshuvah? That's what I want to know. [Speaker] Ah, you made him do teshuvah. You should have asked me this question when he was here. No, it's okay. Over here there's no rules. You can ask questions in the middle. So before you leave, we'll give you a book for him, things, and you bring him next Tuesday. I'll speak to him one-on-one, B'ezrat Hashem. I want to just finish, B'ezrat Hashem. I know I said it already before and Benji's already giving me hints over here. Benji, in case you didn't know, is a master of— what? Jiu-Jitsu? Kung Fu? What is it? Yeah, it's very dangerous. So, so I just want to finish. It's too sweet not to say it, so we'll give you Hadran. You know what Hadran means? How do you call it in English when the band goes off the stage and everybody screams, "We want more," and they come back? Encore? In Hebrew, it comes from the Gemara, it's called "hadran." Hadran means to return, to come back. Hadran alayich masechet Shabbat. You finish masechet Shabbat, mazal tov. It's not an easy masechet, and it's long also. A'oo Hashem. So, we read in a Parasha, we read in a Parasha, "Vayamot Haran al-kneper terach." Who is Haran? Ah? Avraham Avinu's brother. Avraham in Haran is a father. He owns a big company in Wall Street. Name? Apple. Selling iPhones. Avodas HaRah in the ancient days, a little bit more primitive, but the same concept. You sell iPhones and you have two sons, Talmidei Shiva, tzadikim, Avraham and Aran. Who is the bigger tzadik, Avraham or Aran? Avraham. Anyone knows Aran today? No. But every goy knows even Avraham, Ibrahim, Abraham. Avraham, right? Not Lincoln. Haran was also thrown into the fire. He survived for a few minutes or a few hours and he died later from the fume. Avraham survived the fire, but he died. But he was also a tzaddik. He agreed to be thrown into the fire. With Nimrod, the evil king threw him in. Let me read to you something sweet. He gave his life for his faith in Hashem, no question about it. Like we say, died on Kiddush Hashem. He learned from his brother Avraham there's one God and all these idol worshippers are fools, and it's worth it to give your life for the sake of Heaven. Top! Abraham was teaching the whole world faith. Many of the idol worshippers made fun, as usual, like today, wrote comments on YouTube against him. Such a strict speaker, Abraham, son of Terach. Fanatic, extremist, vile. What other words I forgot, Benji? Radical. Oh yeah, radical. Radical Abraham, son of Terach. So he got a lot of criticism, Avraham, but he continued full force. He's Etanefesh Hasherasu Becharan, he's Machzir Betshuva, the first one in history is Avraham Avinu. He invented the concept of kiruv, Avraham. Then, you know, he was working by the iPhones in Apple computers, and his father one time left and he came back and saw all the iPhones are smashed, you know, and he asked him what happened. He said, look, the big iPhone and the small ones, they fought because one woman bought a cholent here. They were hungry. The big big one smashed all of them and ate the Shulam. And he said to him, what is this nonsense you're telling me? This was a statue store selling statues. His father was making statues of Avodah Zarah. He took a stick, put it in the end of the big statue, and all the small ones were all smashed. His father said, what happened to all my gods? He said, the big god killed all of them. Why? A woman bought Shulam. They were fighting for the Shul, you know. So his father told him, enough with this nonsense, don't you know they can't move? What really happened here? So you see, your ears should listen to your mouth. You yourself admit that they can't even move, so how do you sell it to people as a god? He was very clever, from age 3 he was already clever. What age Abraham started to make a revolution in the world? Huh? Huh? No? What age Abraham started to preach? Age 3, he already knew about Hashem. 1948 it was. 1948 he was born. Age 52, he started to preach. That's what the Gemara says. The first 2,000 years in the creation, tovavo. The second 2,000 years is Torah. The third 2,000 years, geulah, Mashiach, salvation potential. So the middle 2,000 years is Torah. It started with the birth of Avraham Avinu. It was 1948 to the creation, and he was 52 when he started to make seminars. He was exactly 2,000 years to the creation. That's when Torah started to be taught in the world to the public. Later we got the Torah and with spreads and Torah Shel B'al Peh. So Avraham Avinu Age 52 started to make— today you have speakers in the late 20s, they begin already to give. There's a lot of young rabbis here in the community. I look at them, sometimes I get clip, they don't look to me even 28, you know. Baruch Hashem, it's good. Keni rabu. So this is the conversation between Avraham and Nimrod, and we finish here, and I pray I promise it's the last thing for today, so you can relax and enjoy the end of the show. So it says, one time Terach, after he came back and he saw what happened, Avraham gave him that speech. Terach got angry. He said, you are a hostile son, too dangerous, you're too radical. I have to report you to the king, to Sleepy Joe. Okay, so Terach was afraid that Nimrod will find out that he has a son that is an anarchist. So he ran quickly to tell about his son to the king to save his skin. Hey, Nimrod, Your Majesty, my son is— something wrong with him. He's a righty. He's a Trump supporter. I don't understand what's going on over here. I was expecting him to vote for Sleepy Joe, but he's talking about Trump. So I want to just make a declaration that I'm totally against it. I'm a Democrat. So he said, bring him to me. Don't worry, we'll fix his head. We'll give him some brainwash, you know. Some university staff. So he came to Nimrod. Nimrod said, "I heard about you." Abraham said, "You heard good." He said, "I'm a believer of the God on heaven and earth. I believe he supervises the whole world." Nimrod said, "We believe in the fire. You will worship the fire like all of us. Don't give me speeches here. We're not interested." in your speeches. Don't make problems. Abraham said, fire? Why fire? Better to worship the water, they're stronger than the fire. Look! Nimrod said, you know what, you have a good point. I will agree with you on that. So we will worship the water, but you have to join us. He said, wait, wait. 'If we worship the fire, the water, it doesn't make sense because we have to worship the clouds. They bring the water, the air, so we have to worship the clouds.' So Nimrod said, 'Okay, we worship the cloud, but you join us.' He said, 'No, no, wait a minute. I wasn't thinking. We have to worship the wind. They make the clouds. They gather them all together.' So he said, 'Listen, enough with your games here. Okay, we believe in the fire and you will be a democrat as well. If not, I throw you into the fire. If you have a God that can save you from my God, then we will see if you're right or wrong. Abraham said, okay, do it. They made a furnace very, very hot. Nobody can come even near it. And they shut Abraham with a slingshot because he couldn't come near it. They shot him with a slingshot right into this ball of fire, like a pool full of horrible fire. Avraham was tied with ropes. The ropes in a second got all dissolved, but Avraham was inside the fire, and Hashem made a clear miracle. Haran, his brother, standing next to him, And he asked, who do you worship? He said, don't you see that there is a God that's saving my brother here? I believe in the same God. He said, okay, when we get him out, we'll take care of you. They took Avraham out, they threw Haran inside, but he didn't have enough merit like Avraham because he wasn't doing kiruv. You know, so what's going to happen? He said he threw him in and he got burned and later he died. So Avraham died on Kiddush Hashem? Died, right? For sure, no question about it. What reward did he get? What reward did he get, Avraham? The Chatam Sofer says all the Jewish mothers, the mothers of the Jewish nation came out from him. Who? Aaron had 3 sons. We're almost done. Yitzchak, Milka, and Lot. 3 children. Yitzchak and Sarah. Sarah. Why they call it Yitzchak? Sochaber Ruach HaKodesh. He was a prophet. Milka, it's the daughter that married a guy and she had the merit that Rivka will come out of her. Rivka. And Rivka has a brother named Lavan, and he had 4 daughters, 2 of his wife and 2 of his concubines, pilakshim. And he gave birth to, they gave birth to Leah and Rachel, and from his pilakshav, Zilpah and Bilhah. So Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah, all 4 mothers of the 12 tribes came from who? From Haran. Wait, why are you jumping? So Haran was also the father of Lot. Lot, even though he made a lot of problems after he moved to San Francisco, but after all, he got married to who? To his two 2 daughters after the destruction. And 2 nations came out, Ammon and Moab. And from Moab, who came? Ruth. And from Ruth, who came? David HaMelech. And from David HaMelech, who came? The Mashiach, the Messiah. So all the Jewish nation came out from Haran, the mothers. And the salvation of the Jewish nation, the Mashiach, came out from Haran for one minute act of heroism. Nobody in history ever lost for doing the will of God. No one. This is what you have to remember. I just spoke to a person before I came here. I told you the story that he spoke to the rabbi of the community. He told me, I'm opening a new business soon. I order a big sign. It's gonna be in the entrance of this big— it's gonna be a whole building, a lot of people come there, serious center of something. The sentence will say, "Nobody ever lost from doing the will of God." That's a very big Kiddush Hashem. Imagine every goy comes there, no one can ever lose from doing the will of G-d. That's what we have to learn. Step number 1. You think you lose right now? Just have patience. It's impossible. But remember of Moshe Fish Ratzal. He said, I know that nobody ever lose from Hashem, but I want to lose. I don't want Hashem to pay me back. It's an honor to sacrifice for the will of God, to lose. I paid thousands of dollars to do something, to save a prisoner, to make Baal HaTeshuvah, and Hashem did not give me back the money and I became poor. I'm so delighted. I gave all my money to save souls and Baruch Hashem, I died poor. Nobody gave me back the money. So where is the justice? He said nobody ever lose from doing the will of Hashem. He said, I don't want Hashem to do give me back. In that case, where is the heroism here? I want to do it and I want to pay for it. It's a higher level. So we have a guarantee not to lose. You can multiply your reward by saying, Hashem, I don't even want it back. Remember the story I told you what happened with Rabbi Aderet 15 years ago? That there was a contact with people in the Vatican to release the menorah of the Beit HaMikdash. We had a whole plan. I saw the papers in his house. He used to live in Monsey back then. I went to his house. What's all these faxes? Came from the Vatican. What is this? All this paper. What is this? We're about to release the menorah from the Vatican and bring it here. So where are we going to put it? In the backyard. We'll make a big hole. We have a guy with a tractor in Monsey. Michael is going to come, make a big hole, put the menorah in the back, cover it with in the middle of the night. Whole operation from the port, Israeli movers, they come with a truck, bring the menorah, take it to Monsi, hide it. Only few people will know about that secret. One Persian guy from Great Neck agreed to pay $6 million for these corrupted people in the Vatican. He gave them $1 million upfront, sent them the money, and $5 million more when the menorah will be released. What happened? Everything was ready to go. The chief rabbis of Israel ruined the plan. They found out somehow. I don't know how it leaked to them. Quickly they went to the Vatican to meet with them and tell them, if you release the menorah, it must come to Israel, not to America. What do you care? Let's first the menorah get out. They got scared. They never released it. I asked him, "What about the million dollars? Did they give it back?" He said, "The Persian guy said, 'I don't want it back. I gave it. Don't want it back.'" "Can I ask for it back? There's no deal. Give back the money." "I don't want it back. I gave it because I wanted to release the menorah of the Beit Hamikdash." Didn't happen, it's Hashem's plans already. Hashem did not want, but I did it and I don't want it back. That's the right way to look at it. I don't want it back. We say, well, don't worry, you're going to get it back. You give Tzedakah, you give, nobody ever lose. Hashem sends you back the money. The Gemara says, "Nobody become poor from giving Tzedakah." It cannot be. Because you give it to Hashem. Hashem is the master of the money. You give it to him and he's gonna make you lose? He gives to murderers and all kinds of horrible monsters, idol worshippers, he gives them billions. He has a problem to give you at least what you give him? To reimburse you? So you cannot lose. But there's a higher level. I want to lose. Why? The more you lose over here, the more you have over there. Don't give me back, give me back, where is the Mitzvah? Hey, 90% of that I lost because I really, nothing came out of my pocket. It was just a test in Emunah, test in Emunah. But I already knew I'm gonna get it back. I just have a beautiful story to tell you, but I promise we will finish and Benji is angry there. We will postpone responded for next Tuesday. Baruch Adonai le'olam. Amen.