The 10 Plagues - Current Events

Ah, so, good evening. This shiur, B'ezrat Hashem, will be Latzlachat Alexander Shimon Brink and to the merit of Daniel Bergus, John Palin, Ben Susan Kahn. Latzlachat and good mood. So, it's good to be back after a month I was in Israel almost the full month. It's good to be back, Baruch Hashem, after a month that I was in Eretz Israel, almost for the full month. Every night in different city, sometimes 2 nights, 2 times, 2 lectures per night. And I had nice Shabbatons as well. And just the last one, last Shabbat, we had 200 Chilonim, 200 secular people. If I tell you that more than 100 of them became Shomer Shabbat, it's not going to be an exaggeration. As a matter of fact, the— there was a big terror attack And that was right after I gave them a lecture about the importance of Shabbat. So my son was there, he told me, "You know what I just heard? There's a husband and wife, the wife said, 'I heard there was a terror attack, but I'm afraid to turn the TV on. Would you turn the TV on?'" He said, "No, I'm also afraid to turn it on." Shabbat. It's two chinonim. Two hours into the seminar, one lecture they heard about Shabbat, they didn't want to turn on the TV the entire Shabbat. Kufar have been screaming for years, if people would only know what Shabbat is, no one would ever dare to be in chol haShabbat. It's only a matter of knowledge. Right there, the majority of the people, they hear one good lecture about Shabbat or the film that we made, Immediately they cannot be mechalel Shabbat anymore. So the trip was very successful. About a week ago, I had a lecture to the Israeli soccer players, the stars of the league. You'll be surprised how many of them listened to the lectures and became already partially religious, and how many of them arrive to the games that are on— most games are not on Shabbat, Monday, Sunday, or Motzi Shabbos, now wintertime they do it sometimes 8 PM, it's after Shabbat. But once in a while the games fall on Shabbat, they sleep in the hotel nearby from Friday that they don't have to be mecharel Shabbat to get to the games. The best names, the most, you know, successful players. One of them told me, I don't sleep in hotels. I walk, even if it's an hour walk. I walk to the game. From his house to the place is an hour. I take a walk. And before a professional game in the league, he walks an hour. And they told me, before we go, before we have a game, we do Mincha. We have Minyan, we do Mincha. This is the power of the lectures. I gave them my books. I had with me like 22 books. I said to them, here is all the books. I signed to them a nice blessing in a book. 2 days later they call, they say they need 12 more books for players that did not come. They eat the hard, they didn't show up. So imagine if all these players leave, we come Shomer Shabbat, they'll cancel the league on Shabbat. I told them, why don't you say that you don't want to play on Shabbat? So we've been saying it, but we are not the majority. Once we are the majority, we'll be able to move the league out of Shabbat. Things are happening, things are happening. It's not easy. As you can see in Israel, there's every Motzai Shabbos there's big demonstrations of tens of thousands of lefties, all these Erev Rav, haters of Hashem, haters of the Torah. Spiritual cancer in our nation, just like the Zohar 2,000 years ago predicted. Obviously it's all a prophecy, but before the Mashiach would come, this Erevrav will become the main problem. And the Gaon of Vilna over 200 years ago said that from all the empires that torture us and gave us hard time— the Babylonians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Arabs, Ishmael— 5 major problems we had with those 5 nations. The biggest one will be those Erev Rav. It's the biggest klipa. It's the hardest to win. We won the Romans, we won the Greeks, we won the Persians, we won the Babylonians, we will win the Arabs, but it's very hard to win against these Erev Rav that Moshe Rabbeinu converted on his own opinion without consulting with Hashem. And every generation they gave us such hard time, and before the end they will take over completely, and that's going to be the hardest time. And this is exactly right now as we speak. Even though Baruch Hashem, there's a revolution in the government, the government is a lefty, is a righty now instead of those lefties. However, These lefties are not going anywhere. They threaten to destroy Israel. They instigate between the United States and Israel. They tell them that the new ministers are radical and extremist and they jeopardize democracy. You know how they are, these lefties. Bunch of complainers. Amit onanim. Same, by the way, the same people made Moshe Rabbeinu all the problems in the 40 years in the desert. All the problems Moshe had with the golden calf, with the complaints about the manna, complaints about the water. All these problems, it's all them. Bunch of complainers crying like babies. Those are these same lefties now. Every little thing they cry, they demonstrate, they threaten. And never accept that other people are in control. This is what we have now in Israel. This is very dangerous because it can create a civil war. 200,000-300,000 lefties, and they are violent as well, can create a civil war because among the righties there's also crazy people, violent people. That at one point they'll say enough is enough and it's gonna start being riots on the street again. You saw some riots here a year ago, remember what happened? So they interviewed me on the TV, on the radio, and I did many interviews while I was there. One of the main channels, Channel 14, very high rating, in the morning show. It's a morning show everyone watched. And then I had another interview with another news website. And they say, "Wow, what you say is very scary." I said, "I wish I would be wrong, but I'm basing what I say, besides reality, on the words of the holy Zohar." Same way the Zohar predicted that the Arabs will take over the world before the end, when the Arabs had no power whatsoever. 2,000 years ago. There was no Islam, there were no nations, the Arabs didn't even, didn't have oil, they didn't sell oil, they didn't know how to get the oil out of the ground. They're only doing it today thanks to the Europeans, the Russians, and the Americans. All these billionaires in Texas, American company, they are the one who gets the oil out for the Arab and they cut themselves a nice coupon for that. Nice percentage. You know, the Bush family and all the other in Dallas, and it's Houston, Dallas, all these places. That's the place of all the brokers of the oil, all the companies, Exxon and all these companies. They make trillions of dollars until now thanks to the blessing that Hashem gave to the Arabs, that they will have oil in the ground. And until today, the world cannot get rid of being dependent on the oil. No matter how many inventions they invent— hybrid, Tesla, electric cars, solar cars, whatever you want— you still need to buy billions of barrels of oil every week. And who makes the money? The Arabs, the Russians, Iran, a lot of evil people. And you see that that's the will of Hashem, because without oil, who would look at them? Think about it. Try to imagine a world that the Arabs have no oil. What else they have to offer besides falafel and some good music? That's it. No one would look at them. They never invented anything. They do not contribute anything to humanity besides terrorism and murder and hatred. They kill each other. They kill others. All the suffering we have— every time I go on a plane, I think about the verse, "Ismael, Per and Adam, Yadob Hakol V'atkolbo." All the sufferings we have to go through in the airport is all because of their terrorism. They would not start with their terror You know, I remember days when I came to America in 1989, I just came with a suitcase on the plane without all this MRI and all this checking and metal detector. It's like going on a bus. No shoes. No, nothing. You have to take your shoes. Yeah, you can take liquid food, whatever you want. It would be so easy. They have security and then again they check your bag before you get on a flight when you go to Israel. Nightmare. All of that because of one verse in the Torah. Ishmael, wild beast. He will be involved in everything. And how you become involved in everything? They need your oil. If you don't have oil, nobody would look at you. You won't be able to be involved in anything. Not everything, anything. But once you have the oil, every item in the world has a stamp, made in Arab country. Doesn't matter where you get it, even made in China, it has an Arab stamp on it. Where do they get the oil from? Everything you buy, plastic, paper, tissue, everything you buy, the machinery needs oil, needs gasoline. Cars, highways, electric, everything. They have their finger in everything. They make trillions of dollars. Look at the Saudis, Kuwait, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Iran, all these countries. They find a way to sell their oil. Since I wasn't here for a few weeks, I will try to conclude View of the parashiot. We started Sefer Shemot and the Bnei Yisrael went down to Egypt, 70 people, and now they're growing there. And the Egyptians started to get scared. They see that the Jews moved from the land of Goshen and filled up the entire Egypt. The Egyptians got very scared. They started to make a plan. How do we fight illegal immigration? Even though the immigration of the Jews to Egypt was legal with the approval of Pharaoh when Yosef was in charge, but they gave them the land of Goshen. So as long as they're in Goshen, nobody sees them, nobody knows about them. There's no news, no TV, no traveling. They are there and we are here. Let them be there, who cares? It's a vacant land. We got rid of them by throwing them over there. Problem with the Jews, they wanted to move and live with the goyim. That's where all the problems begin. When the Jews live in a ghetto and they're isolated together with themselves, usually there was never a problem. The problem only begins when the Jews moved and they mix with the goyim, they married them, they lived in the same building, they live in the same in the same neighborhood, they become partners in business, they go in, begin to jealous. Why? Because there's a blessing of God to the Jewish people, they will always have wealth and they will always be the most talented in humanity. It's a verse in the Torah. Vayitasham le'mashal u'lishnina. Whenever you go, wherever you're going to be, everyone's eyes will focus on you because you will be the highlight of the place. That's what the Torah says. Once God says something, you know, there's no way to turn it, no way to change it. That's it. It's a law in nature. In every country when the Jews immigrated to there, they lived there, they built communities there, that country became the most powerful country in the world. Germany, Iran, Spain. USSR, Spain, Egypt. Once they either killed them or kicked them out, these countries usually were reduced to nothing. Why? Because they only went up for the purpose of hosting the Jews over there. Without it, they wouldn't have anything. Why would God give them so much power and success? Even in Germany. No, they're not. They're not even 5% of what they used to be. 95% of the power of the Germans went down. You compare Germany to there, what they used to be before the war, you know, nothing to compare. And today in Germany, I want to remind you that Germany is on a temporary time because the Muslims are taking over and Turks filling it up. I don't give them more than 20, 30 years. France, maximum 20 years. Belgium, England, 20 to 30 years. Europe will be all Arabs. That's it. There's nothing they can do. Europe is basically gone. The question is how long will it take? My assumption, maybe 20 to 30 years. Could be shorter, could be a little bit longer, but just about one generation, that's it. And unless the Europeans will wake up and become serious racists and they will not care anymore about the stupid democracy and they're gonna start making laws like they did with the Jews and they start kick them out and they're gonna start doing all kinds of horrible things to save their countries, which I doubt it very much because the liberalism and the lefties who control these countries, they're never going to do it because it's so into their ideology, freedom and, you know, and human rights and all these things. And I always say democracy could have been good if all the citizens in the country are Patriots, they love the country and they want to contribute to the success of the country. But when you have minorities of 15, 20, 30% that lives among you that calls for your death, they want to destroy the majority, they want to take over the country and turn it into a different country, they want to cancel the Constitution, take over and put their Islam on it, they become a very big danger to the existence of the majority. No one ever had in mind to create democracy to defend the minority and help them to kill us. Stupid. If you have a family of 10 members in a family and one person homeless from the street doesn't have where to live and you're willing to let him in, and after a day or two you find out that he's violent and he's crazy and he wants to kill you, and if you don't do things the way he wants, he's gonna kill all of us and he's intimidating us, we will care about having such a— we will throw him out of the window. You have to be super stupid to give him rights. Okay, we'll give you this room as well. You can have the kitchen. Here, you have your own refrigerator. We'll give you monthly money. Just don't kill us. What do you mean? Throw him out. Why are you giving him rights? You think that he's gonna become nice to you? In a normal place, if you're nice to someone, you're supposed to get the same behaving from him. But the way with the Arabs, with the Muslims, it's nothing about nice, but their ideology. They're so much into their ideology. Either you become Muslim or you don't deserve to live. This is the way they raise them. There's nothing else you can do. In Israel, you have 400 major mosques. And all you hear over there is kill all Jews in Israel. Kill Jews. We won't rest until we kill them all and we take over the country inside Israel. And these mosques accept donations tax-exempt courtesy of the Israeli government helping them to raise millions from even out of Israel from all these rich Arab countries. In order for them to become more extremist and more dangerous. As you can see, the terror every hour, this is all coming out of the mosques. If you have an Arab that is not religious, is not a threat almost at all. Only the extreme religious ones are dangerous and murderers. Open-minded Arab, I don't know, with doesn't care about Quran or Islam, the chance that he's gonna come and kill someone or blow up a place almost doesn't exist. Only those radicals are danger. So, about time the Egyptians didn't know what to do, they decided to make a slavery camp. In the beginning, how do you make slavery camp? You offer money. Anyone wants to come work for the government to start building cities? In the beginning, they made you already walk. Once you knew how to walk, slowly, slowly, they took away your rights. And the Jews in Egypt found themselves as slaves. They limited their rights. Why? The Egyptians were afraid that there's gonna be a war and they will join the enemy and they'll take over the country. In a normal way, there's nothing to blame the Egyptians about. They only want to defend their country. We gave you the land of Goshen, right? Who gave, who told you to move over Egypt and take over and buy all the real estate that every other person around us is a wealthy Jew? Give us some, give us some courtesy here. We the owner of the land. Well, you want to take over Egypt from us? We're going to pay you rent for, you know. Even without antisemitism, normal common sense. Why Hashem was so angry at them that he destroyed them in the end? For that, why? Don't they have the right to defend their country from another, from guests that came from a different place? The answer is because without us they wouldn't be alive. They were already dead. There will be 7 years of hunger and they will all starve to death. The only reason they got their life back is thanks to us. And gratefulness is the most important thing in the eyes of Hashem. He cannot stand ungrateful people. So what the Egyptians should have done? In one hand, you have to be grateful to the Jews. Thanks to them you are alive. Without Yosef, you'll be all dead. On the other hand, you don't want them to spread like cancer all over the country and take it over in a generation of time. So what are you gonna do? Very simple. Pharaoh should have said to them, listen, we hosted you here, we gave you a huge place for yourself, and now you're taking over our country. Please go back to Goshen. We don't want to hurt you, we don't want to kill you. If you need help over there, whatever you need, we'll help you, but you have to go back to the country, to the place we gave you. So you have 6 months. I would expect all of you to sell your real estate in Egypt, sell whatever you own over here, and move back to Goshen. And any help you need, talk to us. We appreciate you. Thanks to Yosef, we got our country to be the wealthiest in the world. We have plenty of money. We can help you financially. You can be wealthy over there. 'But please do not take over our country.' That would be the end of it. They wouldn't have any choice. The king said, 'We have to do it.' But why do you have to kill them? Why do you have to throw their babies to the water and murder them? And why do you have to make slavery camps? What for? Just send them back to Goshen and make a ball there. They could have done it. Because they didn't do it, they paid the price. I want to ask you a question. In Parshat Vayera, it says that the king, Pharaoh, is a king asher loya da'et Yosef. The king— how the Torah defines Pharaoh? In Shemot, it's more. But let's continue in Vayera. What is the complaint against Pharaoh? That he doesn't know Yosef. Vayakum melech hadash. No king. There's an argument in the Gemara if it's really a new king or it's the same king that was fired and they put him in isolation for 3 months. And then they said, he said, if you don't want to go with our plan to eliminate the Jews, you cannot come back to power. So, okay, I'll go with your plan. They brought him back and he took over. There's an opinion that he got leprosy. Once you have leprosy, you count like a dead person. Same thing if you become blind, or same thing if you become completely poor, or same thing if you cannot have children. There are certain people, the Gemara said, they are considered like dead. Considered like dead. Not dead, obviously alive, can make millions, but they're considered like dead. Why they're considered like dead? Because they cannot benefit anyone. If you don't have kids, who are you going to benefit? All your money in the end will go to someone else. You want money to help your own children, to enjoy, to see how your children make it in life, buy them homes, give them money, help them with clothes, help them whatever they need. You cannot benefit your children. It's kind of like your dad. Once you die, that's it. There's no continuation. That's one reason. Second, if you lost all your money, cannot give tzedakah, you cannot save souls, you cannot support Torah, what good you are? You can't do anything. You don't have enough to support. Or if you have leprosy, you are in isolation, right? They put you in isolation. Once you're in isolation and you have no contact with people, you cannot benefit anyone. What good you are? You understand? So it all goes to the same concept. If you live in this world and you are unable to benefit society or your own children, you count like a dead person because you do not contribute to the world like, like a dead person. It's just a comparison. It's not really like that. The word like means similar but not really. Just like they say, mechalel Shabbat arei hu ke goy. It's not officially a goy. His mother is Jewish, his soul is Jewish. He's like a goy. All the rules that applies to Gentiles applies to him as a penalty. It's like someone that is a driver and you suspend his license. So is he a driver? Yes. Can he drive? No. That's exactly what it is. Is he Jewish? Yes. Can he get the Jewish rights? No. Why? He was provoked because it's Michal El Shabbat. He doesn't accept the Covenant. He's counted 100% like a goy. What's the alternative? Become Shomer Shabbat. You get all your rights back. That's it. You can get back your license, but there are conditions. All right, so you got the So, Abutai, I don't get it. We have Hitler. That's the first Hitler in the world. Well, maybe Nimrod was before him. But maybe Nimrod was after him, actually. Well, the same time. Same time. Matay Nimrod, ayah. No, because Esav had the clothes of Nimrod. I guess he went from from generation to generation. Nimrod was in the time of Abraham Avinu, which is 200 years before this particular power. So Nimrod was the first Hitler that we know in the Torah, killing people, dictator, that's very cruel, acting like a god. Then power, the same story: dictator, murderer, and acting like a god. So I don't get it. He killed thousands of babies or tens of thousands of them. Yes. He tortured millions of people in slavery camps. Yes. None of it goes on his title. You know what's the title? Melech hadash asher lo yada'et Yosef. A new king that he doesn't recognize Yosef anymore. Meaning ungrateful, the Gemara says. Chazal say What's— why the Torah defined him as a king that already forgot Yosef? To show you that he is an ungrateful person. But one thing I don't get it. What's worse? To be a murderer or to be ungrateful person? To put people in slavery camp or to be ungrateful person? The answer apparently, if you can see the eyes, in the eyes of Hashem, to to be ungrateful is worse. Otherwise, if a person is a thief and he's also a murderer, when you want to define him as a monster, how, which one of the titles you will give him? A thief or a murderer? Murderer is a thousand times worse. You don't want to say, oh, he's a thief. What about the fact that he kills people? Ah, that's nothing. Come on. You always have to— if you want to describe someone in a negative way, you have to choose the most negative trait about him, not the least of the problems that he has. So if the Torah describes him as an ungrateful person and actually ignores the fact that he's a mass murderer and is a horrible and cruel person, from here we understand that to be an ungrateful person is a nightmare. It's a disaster in the eyes of Hashem. That's why Judaism is all about gratefulness. Always thank you, thank you, blessing, helping, chesed. It's all about kindness and it's all about gratefulness. That's what Judaism is all about. So that's one issue. What's the issue? The king that forgot who gave him the power that he has. Already forgot that he goes against the children of Yosef. So that's one issue. Then we continue. One day, Makarios Bar-Khusi, that the Jewish nation screamed from pain. "Ma'ishma'ah shemet na'akatam." "Na'aka," it's when you scream from a broken heart. You feel that's it, I can't take it anymore. Better to be dead than alive, that's how they felt. No hope, no future, killing their babies, torturing them physically and mentally. From being very wealthy, from a royal family, proud of their leader Yosef, that is the treasury of the world for 80 years, all the money in his hand, keeps giving them whatever they need. Nobody has to worry about his financial problems. Everything is ready. Beautiful life. All of a sudden you become the lowest of the lowest. Mentally destroys you. Who suffered the most in jail? Poor people that went there that never had anything in their life? Or people who lived in castles? Every day for them over. That's why they made the white-collar jails. They don't mix it with regular murderers and others. Why? He's a murderer and he's a big thief. Mama, put them together. No, can't. Why? Because these people will become crazy. We're gonna have a million crazy people. We're gonna need 100,000 psychiatrists. They're gonna have mental breakdown. They cannot live with all these people, the monsters. Gonna put them in a camp in upstate New York. Why? Because they all come from beautiful neighborhoods, from nice homes with maids. What were the crimes? Fraud. Insurance fraud, I don't know, stock fraud. People who eats $500 steak for dinner. You want to put them with murderers from the Bronx that goes with guns in the gangs that grew up in the worst places and put them together in the same room, you know what's going to happen in this country? Every minute you're going to have a murder in a jail. Believe me, the goyim didn't care about them. They just knew it's going to create such a disaster they won't be able to control the jails. In Israel, You also have separations between the Arab terrorists that are in jail to other criminals. Let's say if an Arab murdered someone not for terror, murder another Arab, he's gonna be in jail with the Israeli murderers. Once he's a terrorist, they put him in a different jail. You're not gonna believe the conditions they give them. The lefties are very weak. Those Democrats there, they are weak. They don't have Hashem in their life. They don't have emunah. So they are very weak. They think that by kissing up to the murderers and to the terrorists that the murderers will appreciate it. And as a result of that, they would like them. And they will not make problems. In reality, it's the exact opposite. The more weakness you show, The more they attack you. They never put— in Germany, the Germans were so nice to them. Make them all kinds of camps, brought them in. As soon as they arrived, a day, a day, they go up. Don't forget, even though the Germans gave us everything we need when we came, our goal is to destroy them and take over the country and turn it into a Muslim country. You're only one day over here. The Imam gives a speech. Don't be fooled by the Germans' hospitality. You know what our mission are. With no shame. And the Germans are listening. But because they are democrats and foolish, they continue to bring them. It wasn't a red light for them. Same thing the stupid Israelis that ran the country for 30 years. Now they made, they put a friend of mine to be in charge of all the police and all the jails in Israel. He's a religious rabbi. He went today for visitation in the jails. He went out of his mind. They already made shows how they eat like kings. They give them food like kings. Believe me, many of you So listeners who listen now, don't eat half as good as they eat over there. Olive oil, kolkas, cheeses, za'atar, spices, baklava, cakes. Pshh. Better than Hilton Hotel. Today he went to the jail, he got the shock of his life. What did he find out? They have a pita bakery. They bake pita, fresh pita. You know the smell of fresh pita? Just for that is worth to go to jail. Every day you're gonna make yourself those puffy pita bread. These are nice. Wow, you know when I was a child, there was next to my grandmother a bakery like this. They put them in, they become like balloon. We used to buy it for half a lira. I was just eating it with nothing. No one put anything on it. It's so good. The smell of it kills you. I would stand and make sure I always make the dough, puts it in, it rise. It's very nice, crispy. They make themselves pita, they eat, they enjoy. So what's this? He said it's been going on for 17 years. Why are you giving them Fresh bread from the oven. 90% of Israelis don't eat pita like this coming out of the oven every day. They go and buy in the supermarket from a week ago in a bag. Why they have to have— what is this, a palace here? They murder people, they murder pita, monster. They said, we don't want to get them angry, so we give them good conditions. Why? They are monsters. They're dangerous. Being around them when they have such hate, you want to reduce their hate. This is the way the leftists think. No, no, they only understand power. Stupid mentality. The European mentality, excuse my language, is extremely stupid, and it reflects on the European Jews, you know, without disrespecting anyone. They're very naive. They didn't grow up with them. They didn't grow up in the Arab countries and understood their mentality. You know King Hussein? The father of this King Hussein? In 1970, the Palestinians made demonstrations in Jordan. He came with tanks. You know tanks? Did you ever hear someone shoot with tanks on people? He started to shoot at them with tanks. Bombs, boom, to their face. 19,000 killed, 19,000 in a day or two or a few days. Never went back. And not once you heard a beep from them until today. Palestinians in Jordan, if you would have not done it, they would take over the country a year later. There would not be Jordan. He knew how to deal with them. And that's what the world does not understand. The world thinks that by kissing up to the murderers and to these violent people, they will become civilized. No. Violent people understand harder violence. There's no other way with them. That's what they don't understand. By the time they will understand, they'll be all dead. That's what's gonna be. Fortunately, this is the way we are. In the world like this. And it's written in the Torah. It's not just our opinion from what we see. It's written in the Torah. This is who you're dealing with. So Abotai, he saw that they have bakeries for 17 years. They bake their own bread. Shut it immediately! What do you think is going to happen now? You know what's the problem? He's going to be in jail now. They're gonna go crazy. It's gonna be riots. They're gonna burn things. A friend of mine that is in a secret service, he told me there's another reason why they let them have bakeries inside the jail. Because if you bring bread from outside, they smuggle things inside the bread. They take a dough, right? You want to smuggle something, smuggle anything you want. Put it inside the dough, put it in the oven like we put the key, right? We have one here, we put the key inside. Huh? We put the key inside and everybody gets a piece and hoping the key will be in his piece, good, it's gula for parnassa. Everybody check. Ah, we got the key. Wrap it with the tin foil, put it inside the dough. It goes into the oven and it comes out. So they can put anything they want inside. Or after they bake the bread, they make a cut, open it, take some soft out, put inside the cell phone with SIM card ready, close the soft again, close it, tape it with crazy glue, something from the top. It looks like a perfect bread and goes in and one will get it with information inside. I can't bring from a Jewish bakery? First of all, you have to know the world Jewish bakery, all the workers there are Arabs. Every store you go, the workers are Arab. Everyone who builds roads are Arabs. I want to tell you something, you know, a lot of people think, "Oh, Baruch Hashem, now we are, we have the righties, we are in charge now, we're gonna fix Israel." It's not so simple. If they decide to go on riots together with the lefties that are also the enemies of Israel and they are much more dangerous than the Arabs because they have the power inside the authorities to make changes. This manager, that one there, general in the armies. All these lefty people have access to sensitive places. But I want to just tell you one thing. If the Arabs in Israel will decide to go on a strike for a week, we are done. No hospitals would run. Half of the doctors are Arabs because all the Jewish doctors come to America to make a million dollars a year. I don't want to walk in Israeli hospitals. The Arabs don't leave. So all the truck drivers will all go on strike. No trucks, no delivery, no food, no medicine, no nothing. Many of them answer when you call the bank. You call Bank Hador, "Shalom, this is Mahmoud. How can I help you?" They're not going to show up. You won't be able to call the bank and wait 3 hours on hold. In a post office, many of them work. These supposedly Israeli citizens. Some of them commit terror attacks like last Shabbat. Citizen from Shohafat. When I drive in Yerushalayim, it's 2 minutes walk, Shohafat. You have a road. Jews, Arabs, cross the street. Street. That's it. You're in Shofar. Just like when you come to the Kotel. You come down from the Kotel, you make a left, right? Or right. If you go straight a little bit down there, that's it. That's Sinu'an. Monsters! So cruel! They'll slaughter us and drink the blood, this kind of people. 2 minutes walk, one mistake with a GPS, your life is over. This is the situation in Israel. You drive by the Olive Tree Hotel, there's hotels. If you make a turn, you are in East Jerusalem. That's how they steal the cars every night, 50 cars from Jerusalem. Before you even find out your car is stolen, they drive 5 blocks and they're already in East Jerusalem. Police is afraid to go there. It's like going to Gaza or Afghanistan or something. You know how much weapon they have? In every house, bunkers, this. They have bazookas. This is 34 years of negligence by the Israeli authorities. So it's enough they don't come to work for a week and that's it. You're gonna see no constructions, no progress, nothing. Nothing will be done. Nobody will clean the garbage. You won't be able to have painkillers. No, basically they shut down the country. This is what the Egyptians were afraid of. But Hashem, although they have a logical reason, because He hates so much ungrateful people, He did not forgive them in the end. This is unbelievable. Now I want to ask you a question. Parasha Vayera describes 7 plagues that Hashem made. Parasha Deborah has 3 more. Why they did not combine all of them in one Parasha? Why to divide in the middle of the, of the 10 plagues, 7 plus 3? Just put them all in one chapter, no? Same topic: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. That's it. Why 1, 2, 3 up to 7 and then 3 more? Do you think anything that they do is coincidence? Of course not. There's a reason why they divided between the first 7 and the top, the last 3. What's the reason? The first 7, every time Moshe came to Pharaoh and warned him, He had an opportunity to repent and get saved and save this nation. Between one plague to the other, there was a one-month break, meaning he came now, he came again in the next month, and the next month, and the next month. So that's already 7 months that Hashem is waiting for this evil dictator to repent. To apologize, to say, "Hatati aviti pashati," I'm so sorry, all Jews are free, they can go out of the camp, they can get back their home, we will pay you for the time you work, let us do things right by you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the next day he changes mind. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like this, 7 times he makes fun of Moshe. 'Pray for me, ask God to forgive me. He's righteous, I'm the wicked.' You know, in the beginning he said, 'Who is Hashem that I should listen to him?' After a while he got the point. So Hashem waited for him 7 months. How many years Hashem waited for the Ukrainians to repent from the Holocaust until now? What is it, 75 years? 75 years, not one word of apology for murdering 2 million Jews. Million Jews. 75 years he waited for them. Now he gives them a little taste of what they did to the Jews. It's coming on them. Hashem has patience. Sometimes the punishment comes in a long, long time later. Why? He has his calculation when is the right timing for it. We are being punished now in our 50s or 60s for something we did 30 years ago. Sometimes you laugh at someone before you get married and then you laugh at his children, let's say. He has one kid that is not so smart or something, you make fun of him when you are a teenager. 30 years later you also have a child that is a teenager and does in the same condition. You already forgot that it's because of what you did 30 years ago, measure for measure. You laugh at someone because he had a son that is not doing so good, 34 years later you have the same case with your own son. Most people don't even see the connection, but by Hashem it's all computerized. It's everything, there's no mistakes. Everything is calculated very, very precise. So after the 7th plague, we start Parashat Bo. From Parashat Bo, Hashem said already to Moshe, "Lo ishma paro elechem." Pharaoh will not listen to you anymore. Why? I made his heart stiff, stiff, tight, stubborn. I took away his will. From this moment on, he cannot repent. From that moment, Moshe did not walk back in reverse when he left the palace. He turned his back to his face. Abtunayim was giving him respect. As a king. Once Hashem told him he's a lost case, that's it. I'm not letting him change from this moment on. Moshe knew he's considered dead already. He's in the blacklist of Hashem. From that moment on, he turned his back to him. It's nothing. Imagine you go to meet the President of the United States hoping he won't be sleeping in the time of the meeting like he slept by Bennett. Hashem arranged from for him to have a nice nap because this guy is looking so much for kavod, Rodef kavod. The Gemara says, kolah Rodef kavod, odah kavod boreach mimenu. You run after honor, the honor will run away from you. One guy said to the rabbi, wow, I don't think it's true. I run away from the honor and the honor doesn't run after me. Still nobody pays attention to me. No one gives me attention. I'm alone. I run away from kavod. How come the kavod doesn't run after me? The rabbi told him, you know how you run away from the kavod? You make 2 steps and you turn your head. No, where are you? Why are you not chasing me? You run 5 more steps. No, you're supposed to chase me. That's not running away from kavod. Running away from the kavod, meaning running and hoping the kavod will not come to me because I'm not interested in being famous and the center of all the highlights. Attention. Yeah. So anyway, he was so happy to become the Prime Minister of Israel after he fooled all his voters and went with the left and the Muslim brothers. Just for the feeling, I'm sitting in charge here in Israel. He even flew on Shabbat to meet Putin with his little kotel on his head, pretending to be religious. He flew to make peace between Zelensky and Putin. How is it connected to us? Why do you have to fly on Shabbat? You cannot fly after Shabbat. You cannot wait 6, 7 more hours to fly. What will happen between Putin and Zelensky between now until the evening? That day of Shabbat. Huh? Anyway, Rabotai, so when he came to speak to Sleepy Joe, he turned the sleeping mode and he was snoring and he talks and talks. You know what an embarrassment, the whole world watching now. Speaks to the president of the United States and he sleeps and snores. Unbelievable. How wonderful is Hashem. We not always get to see it because we are dumb, we don't see. If we were brilliant, we will know that even something that looks minor, not important, or bad, it's the best thing that could have happened. Great people see it. Ordinary people barely ever see it. So what happened? From the moment you meet with the President of the United States and you turn your back to him, that's not respect. You walk side by side when he walks you out. You don't turn your back to him. Where is your— where are your manners? President of the United States, not such a big mitziah, you know, but the king with a crown and servants and soldiers around him, that's a little bit more impressive than someone who walks to his office, instead of making a right turn to his office, continue to walk straight on the grass. Anyway, Rabotai, so Moshe already knew Paro is a lost case. From here the Rambam learns. Rambam, the biggest Posek in Jewish history. One of the biggest rabbis in history that ever lived. Even in Washington they put his statue there as one of the greatest 18 people who ever lived on earth. Smartest. The Rambam, Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon. Maimonides. The goyim knows him as Maimonides. We have an hospital here in Borough Park, Maimonides. That's called after Rambam, which happened to be also a great doctor. But the main thing about him was he's a great rabbi and a great posek. So the Rambam says that every person has X amount of chances to repent in his life. If he misses all the chances, Hashem takes him from where he is and puts him on a blacklist. Once you're on a blacklist of Hashem, you are considered dead. But you don't die physically yet. You can live another 10, 20 years. 10 or 20 years. Why? Why do you live another 20 years? You're already on a blacklist. You cannot repent. You live for your children, for your wife, for the company you run, for the workers, for other reasons, not for yourself. Your life is basically over. You can never repent. That's what Hashem said to Moshe. Pharaoh had an opportunity to repent. That opportunity no longer exists. Ah, I took over his heart. Finished. And the Rambam says, concludes from this, that the biggest punishment in a person's life is that Hashem locks, locks the gate of repentance in his face. Do you know that famous train that came out of Auschwitz? The Rabbi Messadmer was on it. It was one train that saved some survivors. Kastner train. Kastner train. This train, Rabbi Yoel Messadmer, that's how he got saved from the Holocaust. Huh? From Switzerland. To Switzerland. Sorry. To Switzerland. Kastner, yes. Kastner is a grandfather of Merav Michaeli, one of the lefty Arev Rav in Israel that was in the former government. He was in charge of transportation. She was trying to force everyone to start speaking in female language in Israel, you know, you know, these liberal How they are. So what happened, this Kastner was a Zionist communist, not religious. He organized that train to Switzerland and Rabbi Yoel Visatner got saved on that train. Imagine if you come to the train to go in before the Nazis will put their hands on you and kill you. And the door just closed in your face like this. One more second, you would make it. You just was about to jump in, boom, it closed in your face. Imagine the pain that you feel that second. You missed the train. That's why they have this expression, "Don't miss the train." Once, I think Microsoft had a big big advertisement. Someone is holding a bag waiting to get on a train and it says, "Don't miss the train." I don't know if you remember, 20 years ago there was this big sign, "Don't miss the train." That's what the Rambam said. Hashem locks the gate of repentance. If you enter the world of repentance, everything will will change. I want to add one more thing for us to understand, that every opportunity that Hashem gives a person to repent, the next one will have less assistance from Hashem. The first chance in your life to repent, you will get 100% assistance. Hashem will help you, will push you to the right rabbis, will get people to give you the right books, will make you go to the right community, synagogue, whatever the case is. If you didn't take that opportunity, you may have another one a year or two later, but this time you're not going to have 100% assistance, 90 or 80, and the third time less, and the fourth time less, and less and less. So even if you finally decided, no, that's it, I'm 50 already, I'm gonna repent now. It'll be a lot harder than when you were 18. A lot harder. First, because your habits are built in all into your system already. It's integral part of you. Hard to change when you're 50, 60, 70, even more. Hard to change. 40 years of habits since you were a child, much, much harder than when you were 18. And it's not only to change your character, it's much harder. You don't have the energy of a teenager. Teenagers wake up, run, kotel, tikuni, merav adamachpela, coming to yeshiva, going to slichot, 1 AM. An old person No person has patience for this. All he wants is to drink his Persian tea and watch TV. Tell him, "No, no, Grandpa, yalla, let's go to Maharata Machpela, the FT Kun, 1 AM today." "Ah, Maharata Machpela, I can barely go from here to the bathroom." No energy. No energy. Once you don't have energy, it's like an empty battery. Car barely starts. You know how when the battery is empty, Frozen, Shabbat is going to be minus 1 degree. Oh, Hashem, I don't need to start the car. Many cars will not start in minus 1 degree. 12, 13 hours of such frozen weather and the car is standing. You have an older car, you come, man, frozen. So the old people, they get frozen with the ears much, much harder. And the worst part is the family. When you're single and young, you still don't have to report to your wife or to your husband or to your children. We're about to change our entire life. We're going to move from Tel Aviv to Bnei Brak or to Jerusalem. I'm moving you from public school to yeshiva. Good luck with that. No sense. We like our place. We like to drive to the beach. You want to be religious? Give me a get. That's usually the reply. Be religious on your own. Leave us alone. You know how many families broke because of that? That one became religious and he could not live anymore with his not religious spouse? Many. So what do you see? Because you didn't take the first opportunity, on the fifth one, when you finally woke up, it's so much harder now. Why? You have resistance. Resistance. A lefty wife. A hater of Torah. Voting Bernie Sanders. You are Republican and she is a Bernie fan. What are you gonna do now? Big problem. That's why when Hashem gives an opportunity, grab it. It's also insulting that Hashem is reaching his arm to you and you continue to walk like ignoring him completely. I sent you a rabbi to sit next to you on a flight for 10 hours and talk to you about Judaism and show you about the truth of the Torah, and you went back like nothing happened? Where is your head? Why did I give you intelligence for? To use it, to think, to think about what's right and wrong and what's good and bad for you, to plan your future. And you completely ignored the logic and went after your desire, just like nothing happened. Just like nothing happened. On Shabbat, like I told you, I had a seminar in Israel. One of the rabbis we invited to speak is a very— he has a very soft approach. Why will we invite someone with very soft approach, which I'm totally against this approach? For two reasons. One— actually, three reasons. It has to be calculated. One reason is many people like this kind of speakers. Because they are popular. They hug you, kiss you, they tell you how great you are even though you are a very, very serious wicked person. Because they like, they give compliments to the wicked, the wicked likes them. People love those who compliment them. Even though in Pirkei Avot it says that it should be the other way around. You should love those who rebuke you. And hate those who compliment you. Hate, not literally hate, meaning I don't appreciate the compliment. Can you compliment in order to rebuke later on? Yeah, that's a part of the tactic to sometimes start with compliments until you reach the rebuke. That's what you have to do because most people are losers. They're not straight and honest and say, just give it to me in my face, rebuke me, attack me, tell me everything. 'No, don't leave anything out. I don't want sugarcoating.' Once in a while you meet people like this. Most people would love you if you compliment them. If you make a comment, even a tiny one against you, they will never forgive you for 20 years, especially the women. Imagine you tell a woman something she doesn't like. She will remind it to you when you have already grand-grandchildren. Why you don't like it? 55 years ago, insulted me. What did he say? He said, my cake is not tasty. 55 years, you remember? I told you, I had one couple came to my house for Shalom Bayit, from New Jersey. The woman initiated it. I want to bring my husband and this and that. Okay, so they sit in my shul, my house have a shul. The way the woman described the man, and in reality was the exact opposite. He was the nice one, he was the humble one, he was the miserable one in a marriage, and she was the shark, the aggressive, the evil. I won't say evil, but very aggressive. As they speak, she said to him, "You didn't tell me this and this and that." He looks at her, "When did I ever tell you such thing? In the wedding of your cousin, Eli? This was 25 years ago." I didn't know if to laugh or cry. Rabbi, this was 25 years ago, how she's mentioning it now? So this is how Hashem made the women. By the women's heart, there is no eraser. There's no delete button. It's the same computer, just one button is missing. The delete button does not exist. By the man, there is 5 delete buttons. Before she finished to insult him, A minute later he didn't remember what they talked about. "Listen honey, I want to apologize for what happened this morning." "What happened?" "The words I told you." "What did you talk to me this morning?" "What? You already forgot? I told you it's like this." "Ah, big deal, why are you wasting time on this now?" It's different psychology. How did I get to that? Once Hashem gives you opportunities to repent, the longer you wait, the harder it gets until the clinical moment arrives. That he locked the gate of repentance. And the Rambam says that's the worst punishment a person can ever get in life. Worse than cancer, worse than losing children, worse than bankruptcy, worse than mental diseases, worse than pain, worse than prison, worse than any horrible punishment you can imagine. It's worse than all of them combined. You know what it means that the gate of repentance is locked in your face? That means you basically jeopardize or lost your entire Olam Haba. No way to fix it. You know, in the first plague, which is blood, you have to hit the stick on the water and the water turns into black already. The Nile is a huge river. Big, goes from Africa all the way to Egypt. Everything turned into water, into blood. Moshe did not want to do it. Aaron had to do it. Moshe refused to hit the water. Why? This water saved my life. They hid me over here. How can I go against someone who saved my life? I know Hashem wants to kill this water and turn it into blood because the Egyptians bowed down to this water thinking it's their god. Because in Egypt there's no rain, so every once in a while the water of the Nile goes up. No, who cares if they go up? And they flood all the fields. Remember, there was no pipes, no pumps like today. You press a button and you have water in a sprinkler system. In the field. It was a different world. How do you get water? How are you going to carry water for 10 acres of field of wheat or barley? How are you going to— what, you're going to go with glasses and put on each piece water? How are you going to get water to the field? The way they did it is they dug like a tunnel, like a path. Canals. Canals. And it's like spider webs. It goes to every field. The problem is that in order for the water to arrive to your field, obviously the closer you are to the Nile, the more expensive is the property. Because if the water goes up, not a lot, it would reach the fields around. But if it's gonna be massive raise in the level of the water, it will go to the furthest fields. They're all gonna get water. And from there, they already have the water there, they can spread it. Primitive but productive. So once it happened, it's like God is blessing us. They admire the Nile and the sheep. Those are the two gods. They had another god that's called Baalzebub. Different idols, different idols. That's like in Chinese or Indians, that's so many different gods, the Greeks. Anywhere, Hashem wants to strike immediately with the hardest attack. When you go to a war, the most important day of the war is the first day. If you do it right, you'll win the war. If not, you will struggle for years. The mistake of Putin that he didn't go full force. He went 50%, 40% in the beginning. The Ukrainians saw the enemy is not so bad as we thought. They got motivation. Now they're willing to die for to protect their land. If Putin would strike on the first day, first day, massive attacks everywhere, no electricity, make no war there. Tens of thousands of people destroyed. Immediately they will surrender. Okay, okay, enough, you crazy, enough. No more war, please, we apologize. That's what he did to the Georgians. In 3 days they surrendered. You remember the Georgians also thought maybe they can go to a war with Russia. Back then the Russians attacked them so bad, immediately they realized Another week like this, we'll be all dead. Okay, okay, ceasefire. It was over before it even started. The Israelis are also soft. They do nothing, just noise. They throw bombs in empty places. They throw papers to the Arabs, vacant the place. We want a bomb tonight. Make sure you're not there. That's how the leftists do war. We need to show the media that we do something for the righties not to make noise. But we're helping you out. Today between 8 and 10 we're coming to bomb your area. Make sure you're not going to be there. We're going to bomb the empty places nearby. Just to show that we retaliated for your terror attacks today. And make sure you're not there. Imagine it's— It's like clowns. That's how you do a war. Why they do it? They're afraid that 2, 3 Palestinian citizens, civilians will die? The whole world will bark. Who cares? I don't see any other country care what the world say. Iran care? Putin care? Nobody cares. Chinese care? No. A lot of countries do whatever they want. The world is condemning what they do. Syria. What happened? We condemned them for 10 years already. He gassed his own people. What happened? Everybody forgot already. Even United States, you will wait and see that Assad will ever visit the United States one day. After they put him on the blacklist, ban him, everything. You're gonna find out all of a sudden Assad is coming to America for a visit. In the end, everything goes back to normal. People have short memory. If Israel would attack one time the right way, we would not hear anymore any attacks by Arabs. The Arabs see the weakness, they become brave. Nothing to be afraid. We'll get a nice pita with olive oil and za'atar in the Israeli jail. While we watch soccer games together, all of us from the neighborhood. That's what's going on. But Hashem is not the Israeli army, and is not that army, and is not the American. Hashem is Hashem, and He's great, and He's perfect. And how does Hashem want to teach the Egyptians a lesson? Immediately destroy their gods. Mentally, you make everyone weak. Once you go on the Nile, you turn it into blood. There are few problems that they're going to have. First, they see that their God is worthless. Cannot rely on it. Second, all the fish is all dead. Billion of fish is dead now in the river, in the Nile. So even when it goes back to be water, you have billions of fish floating on the water and you know it's a disaster, dysentery. You know how many diseases it's gonna bring? How are you gonna clean 1 billion fish floating on the river? Snakes, everything that lives in the water, they're all dead. How are you gonna clean it? You need a million servants to go with nets, take it out, bury it somewhere, and burn it to prevent other diseases. You know what a nightmare it is. One of the miracles that Hashem made in the world in order for the world to go as normal is interfering with the laws of nature. Meaning, how does the rivers always remain normal and do not freeze completely. If all the rivers and oceans would freeze, that means all the fish would die. Only the top freeze, but the bottom will always remain water, that the fish has where to, where to hide. If everything will turn into ice, Everything will die. Once it's defrosted, it will be the end of us. 72% of the world is water. And they have trillions of things living in this water which will all be dead and floating on the top of the water. And that will be the end of us. We all die from all kinds of diseases. From the smell, from the horrible reaction. Plus, some of this water we drink. Imagine the Kinneret. Kinneret freeze one time, all the fish die. That will be the end of us. We need to drink this water. How are we gonna drink water that have billions of dead fish in it? So what did Hashem do? Everything in nature, once it gets heated, it expands. Once you cool it, it shrinks. So what happened? When it's freezing weather, the the top layer of the water begins to freeze and begin to sink to the bottom. And then the other top freezes and begins to sink because ice is heavier. It keeps going lower and then lower. So what happens in the end? Everything will freeze. So what did Hashem do? Once the water becoming, starting to become colder and colder, Once it gets to 0 degrees Celsius, not Fahrenheit. Now, United States freezing point is 32 degrees. Up to 32, as long as it's not below 32, it's not snowing. 32, 31, 30, it becomes snow. So 32 in America, it's 0 in Europe or in Israel. 0. 0 means freezing point. Below zero, needless to say. Above zero, it's not freezing. So what happened? When the water beginning to go lower, the temperature, 6, 5, 4. Once the water reach, as long as the temperature go down, the water shrinks and become shrinking by the, you know, by the hour. Once it gets to 4 degrees, it's supposed to continue to shrink. What does Hashem do? It flips over against the laws of nature with no explanation. The law is the colder it is, the more it shrinks. But from 4 degrees, it turns around and it goes like it's getting heated. That Exception to the rule makes the water in the world never freeze and give us the option of living in this earth. Otherwise we'll all be dead in wintertime. Different parts of the world will all die from diseases, from problems, for no food. Many countries without fish, they have nothing to eat. They need the fish. So, Rabotai, this is obviously the brilliance of Hashem and His mercy on humankind. So, first shot, boom! The Egyptians are going crazy now. Imagine the pain they had. Their god is destroyed. No more fish. What are they gonna do? Moshe refused to bring it on them. Why? Because This water saved my life, but water does not have feelings. If someone did you a favor and you stick a knife to his back, I understand. You're not happy, you know, I mean, he did something horrible, you're an ungrateful person. You hurt his feelings. Instead of kissing his hand and praising him and thanking him, you went against him, you are an ungrateful person. But the water has no feelings. Hashem wants to destroy this water for now, do it. I can't. Why? I want to teach the world what does it mean to be a grateful person. Even though the water can care less if I did it or I won't. In the end, the water gets destroyed. But I do not want one person in the world to think how Moshe eliminated this water that save his own life. Second shot, second plague is frogs. Frogs. Billions and trillions of frogs filled up Egypt. The Torah say Hashem said to Moshe, and Moshe said to Pharaoh, the frogs will fill up your homes, will go into the chambers, into the furnace, into the ovens, everywhere, into your bedroom, into your suit. Imagine you come to wear something, pop, one frog jumped from the pocket into your face. What is the problem with the frogs? Did you ever hear the noise of one frog? It would rip your ear off. I was in Boca Raton one time, 2 AM, I say, you know, it's a good chance to go into the pool, mikveh. Mikveh, I won't sleep, there's a pool in the back, let me go into the mikveh. And I'm enjoying the warm water in such a humid, hot, muggy temperature. All of a sudden I hear, "Grrr, boom, what is this?" Middle of the night, I got so scared, so loud. One tiny frog by the pool. Right away I thought to myself, wow, one frog almost killed me from a heart attack. Now multiply it by a trillion. Try to imagine the noise. If you were in Egypt now and you have billions of frogs, what first thing you have to do? You have to go like this. But then the problem is they jump into your face, so you have to, you have to protect your face, but then your ear suffers. So what are you going to do? What are you— how are you going to protect yourself? Jumping on you everywhere. Some of them are big. What a scary thing. After something like that, he did not let them go. Now you have billions of frogs dead everywhere. The Egyptians were not French. The French would actually be happy. They love to eat frogs in France. It's delicious. Yeah, delicacy. But the Egyptians, apparently, they, they don't like to eat frogs, I guess. And now they have to clean billions of frogs and burn it again. It's going to create diseases, pandemics. Do you know how hard it is to clean huge piles of frogs? Go to Montreal, see when they have snowstorm. They have piles of snow 15 feet high in malls. They have to clean the snow. It's not like here. Here you have also, I don't know, 3, 4 feet. Over there is a massive amount of snow. It's much colder. Now multiply it by a million. That's how much frogs, and it's heavier than snow. You got to get it, but it's not enough just to accumulate it. You have to burn it to prevent diseases, and then you have ashes everywhere and horrible smell. Try to, try to burn a dead frog, see the smell. Multiply it by trillion. Do you understand what Hashem did to them? Bury them. Bury them. Bury them. How you bury a trillion frogs? You have to make holes, size of a— each hole size of a river. You understand what's going on or no? So I want to ask you a question. The frogs, some of them jumped into the ovens as well. As Hashem said. How the frogs, some of them agreed to jump into the oven and some of them did not? Who decides what? There are billions of frogs right now in one city. One jump into the fire and one jump into the pool. Hashem. Praise the Father. Did Hashem force the frogs to do it or they actually chose to do it? The answer to this question is in a Gemara that speaks about Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, 3 tzadikim, that they threw them into the fire for Kiddush Hashem. They're willing to die on Kiddush Hashem. The Gemara says, what happened to them that they're willing to give their life to die on Kiddush Hashem? They learned kal vachomer from the frogs. Kal vachomer means needless to say. If the frogs that don't have a free will like a human being, they don't have reward and punishment, they don't have Torah, they don't have obligations, and they don't have the obligation to do kiddush Hashem, to sanctify the name of God, they were willing to voluntarily jump into the fire to perform the will of Hashem. We, the Jewish children of God, that has an obligation to do Kiddush Hashem, to sanctify the name of Hashem, needless to say, now we have to give our life to jump into the fire. Beautiful. I only have one problem with that. What is the problem? What is the purpose of the mitzvah of kiddush Hashem? Why do we have to agree to sacrifice our life, to die for the name of God or for the Torah, or not to commit a horrible sin that the Torah forbids us? Why? What is the purpose of doing wonderful things in public Because we want people to be impressed by the Torah. If they see a Jew found a bag with $80,000 somewhere in a park and he put notes, anyone who lost money can call this number and give signs and you can get your bag back. And then they put it on the news. Remember one guy found in the furniture that he bought from an old person? On the bottom. And someone hid there tens of thousands of dollars. It came on public TV. It was, I don't know what's the name of this black guy, the host that actually interviewed the guy. You found all this money and how are you willing to give it? You'll be a rich guy. The whole world see a Jew, religious Jew, is giving back the money. That's Kiddush Hashem. Maybe 10, 20,000 people when they find money, they'll be in inspired by him to do the right thing. Or at least the antisemites who want to kill Jews would think twice now before they attack. Well, you know what? I guess not all of them so bad like we thought. That's called Kiddush Hashem. You help the poor? Kiddush Hashem. You don't steal? Kiddush Hashem. You help anyone who needs? It's Kiddush Hashem. If you're willing to die for Hashem, that's the highest level of Kiddush Hashem. There's only one problem in a Kiddush Hashem the frogs did in Egypt. Not one Egyptian got inspired from that Kiddush Hashem. They all remain wicked for 6 more months after. That Kiddush Hashem the frogs made did not make any impact on the Egyptians. So it's a worthless Kiddush Hashem. If I want to impress a bunch of secular Jews by my behaving or by my wisdom, my Torah wisdom, or anything that may make an impact on them that they will consider to become also religious, I have to find a way to do it. But if no matter what I do Nobody became religious and they stay the same wicked as they are. The Kiddush Hashem helped, didn't help anything. Rav Aharon Leib Steinemann, zechev tzadik livracha, say from here we learn that Kiddush Hashem that did not make impact did not have an audience, it was just you and Hashem in your living room or in your bedroom. Nobody saw it. The world did not become a better place thanks to that. It's just you and Hashem. You are surrounded by four walls in your house. It's considered Kiddush Hashem. Kiddush Hashem to whom? I was thinking to myself, it doesn't make sense. Where is the logic here? The whole purpose of Kiddush Hashem is to make people fall in love with Hashem and the Torah. I did not succeed in it. Why it's considered Kiddush Hashem? Kiddush by whom? By the, by the Fluorescent light, by the chairs. So there's two answers to it. One is Hashem has a beautiful law in his world. If you wanted to do something good and you fail, fail. It's considered honest, anus. If someone, let's say you saw a blind person is trying to cross the street, he's waiting for someone to hold his hand. You're a little bit far from him, so you started to walk quickly to try to grab his hand. A second before you, another gentleman grabbed his hand and helped him to cross the street. So you went all the way there for nothing. You did not succeed in your plan. And count like you did. Hashem gives you full reward for that. Like you actually did the mitzvah. Wonderful. It's like you coming to work today and the electric— there's power outage and your boss pay you anyway that you work. Why? Because you didn't try. That's not your fault. Send you home. There's no electric, we cannot open the bagel shop. Go home. Pays you anyway. Why? If you did not come calling sick in the morning He would not pay you for that day. Say, "It's not fair, you paid to all the other workers because they showed up and an hour later there was power outage, I sent them home. You did not come, you're not getting paid." You got the point? The point is you wanted to do, I'm giving you credit that you did. So over here you wanted to do Kiddush Hashem, nobody was impressed because they're wicked, but you're gonna get the full reward. There's another reason for it. Kiddush Hashem is only on living people or also on souls that are reincarnated in here? There's a lot of spirits around us of wicked people, a lot of wicked people. Everywhere you go, there are spirits. That's why in Shulchan Aruch, he said that when you get dressed You have to cover yourself with a blanket. Why? You're alone in the house. Hashem doesn't see you naked under your clothes. For Hashem, it doesn't make a difference if you're dressed or not dressed. Either way, He sees you naked all the time. The clothes cannot cover your private areas to Hashem. To people, yes, but to Hashem, no. How is it going to make a difference? No matter how many times you're going to cover yourself and try to hide from Hashem, He can't. He can see through. So what difference does it make if you're alone in the house and there's no people there and just you and Hashem? Does it make a difference if you're gonna get dressed or you walk naked in the house? Technically, it should not make any difference. Even if you cover yourself with a blanket, it doesn't make a difference because Hashem sees you. Through the blanket. It's not going to make a difference. So why there is an halacha to always dress, to be modest in the house when you're alone and to cover yourself when you get dressed, to do it under the blanket? Even though unfortunately most people don't do it, but I once was in a seminar with a tzaddik, he was one of the speakers, and he was doing it, doing it all the time. He wanted to change clothes, he covered himself with a blanket. Mamash, like Hasid. The answer is not for Hashem. Hashem sees you either way, doesn't make a difference. It's for you and for all the spirits around. There are people watching you, you just don't see it. Your eyes cannot see spirits, you can only see physical material. Once the spirit is inside the body, you can see a body. Once the soul comes out of the body, you cannot see the soul, but the soul can see you. So when you think you're alone in the house and you walk naked, there could be 10, 20, 30 people in the house with you actually looking at you right now. So that's one thing. So when you do an act of Kiddush Hashem, when you're alone in the house, there may be 30 wicked people that sees and and they are very impressed. Look at this Jew, look how he does. What's the difference between them and others? There's one difference, that others, people that are alive that see that you do Kiddush Hashem, it can influence them to become more righteous. The spirits cannot become more righteous, they're already paying the price for not being righteous. That's the only difference. So the Kiddush Hashem will make them impressed will make them maybe even jealous that they were not like that, but it would not turn them into better people. Because right now they are in a place called Kaf Hakela, as it's written, V'et Nefesh Harasha Ikla Ena BeKaf Hakela. Soul of the wicked, Hashem put it in a slingshot and make it fly all over the the world with horrible angels torturing that soul. But the soul is everywhere. Some souls are reincarnated in the walls of the house. So there are different spirits around. Sometimes cameras detect spirits. I was once in Florida. I gave a lecture about life after death, showing pictures on a— with a projector. It was a nice big house, private home. When I finished the lecture, the owner of the house said, "Rabbi, I have to show you something. Come, come with me." Took me to his bedroom, turned on his big computer. He had a big screen. He said to me, "I want to show you a picture." Shows me a picture that he has a minivan. He sits by the driver's seat, son sits in the front seat, and in the middle seat, which is like a bench, an old woman woman sits. I see her face, wrinkle, color of her eyes, everything, gray hair. He says, you see, this is me, this is my son, and this is my mother-in-law. Why is he showing me this picture? So, okay, I say, my mother-in-law died 7 years before we took that picture. She was not with me in the car, at least I didn't think so. When we did a selfie, she came in the picture. Me, my son, and she was in the backseat. Look, the wrinkles on her face. You see the color, red face, everything, eyes, eyelashes, everything. Spirit. When we were in the car, we didn't see anyone sits in the car. The lens of the camera works in a different frequency than the eyes. Hashem programmed our eyes not to be able to see spirits, otherwise we'll all be crazy and frozen from fear. Think about it. But some people have eyes to see spirits. I once told about a woman in Queens. She sees spirits all the time. She struggles how she will hide it from her husband because sometimes she cannot fall asleep at night. Asking, why you're not sleeping? She doesn't want to tell him she sees spirits. She told me once she went to the Western Wall, she saw 20,000 faces in the wall. Do you see any faces in the wall besides some bushes and birds? She sees faces, faces, faces. There are some people like this. That they can see spiritual things. Very few, but there are. I met few of them over the years. So it's scary, definitely. Maybe at one point you already get to learn how to live with that, especially if they never hurt you. But I had one case of a woman called me one time. It was Friday morning. I remember I was I was in Costco going to buy for Shabbat. This woman from Queens, she asked me if I have a telephone number of a big Kabbalist. What do you need a big Kabbalist? People learn the magic word, Kabbalist. You have me kubal, me kubal. Not me kubal, I have me kupal. So I said, why do you need Kabbalist? She's telling me a story about herself. 16-year-old daughter that for 3 years her bedroom is upstairs. When she walks into her bedroom, she sees a man sitting on the bedroom with a hat, sitting like this, the way she described him, with his face, and very sad. Doesn't move, just like that. But it's a spirit. You go like this, you don't feel anything. The girl can see it. And the girl's in the beginning screaming. They saw that the man did nothing. There's nothing. It's like frozen over there. And after 3 years, now this was from when she was 13, now she's 16. But now something has changed. She's all excited. She needs a Kabbalist. Why? Because last night for the first time the man was trying to choke her. She started to scream. Me and my husband ran upstairs. We saw her out, she's, you know, fighting it. We don't know what to do. We're very nervous now. Things like that. I had them in my own house, something similar to that. Remember I told you the story about the guy who spoke against Rabovadia? Spirits attacking, demons, whatever you want to call it. I don't know what to call it. His eyes became like tennis balls. You know how he was screaming? Ah! I said to the two guys, don't touch him. The book goes into you. Don't touch him. He was holding his neck on the bed. Ah! Maybe for 20 seconds it's been going like this. Believe me, it's a long time, 20 seconds. Keeps screaming and screaming, became red, sweating. Took him over a minute to take his breath. What happened, Effie? His name Effie. What happened? Like this. They were choking me. The guy said, 3 secular guys, you see what happened when you speak against Avowadia? He became religious, that guy. 6 months later, I went to Israel and said, "How is your friend?" He said, "Became religious, this." He's already teaching halachot of the Bnei Yisrael, from the book of the Bnei Yisrael, teach to the people in the neighborhood, kids. Some people learn the hard way. Last thing before we finish, I want to ask you one more question. Maybe you can help me out here. Soon it's going to be Pesach, before you even know it. What is it, less than 2 months already? I know the women has their nightmare when they hear the word Pesach, the cleaning period of the year, which American women and also Israeli women today are not so crazy about the cleaning. The reason why they don't like the word Pesach is because they are ignorant. If they knew halachot, they would see that you can clean the house in 2-3 days for Pesach. You know, you don't need more than that, even if you have a nice big home. 99% of the cleaning that people do for Pesach, it's not required. And if you're Hasidish, b'shem yazo, you really need to see after the Shema, because the Hasidim even clean the walls. I don't know, maybe somebody hid hametz in the walls, they cover it with tin foil, things that are no connection to Pesach whatsoever. To really clean for Pesach is no big deal, especially today when you have self-clean. Put everything inside, When you snore. But I remember scenes when I lived by the Hasidic neighborhood, how they take over the oven and finding things inside, breaking the whole thing. What for? Just put the oven on 500 degrees, clean it You want to create for yourself an extra level of Torah? Fine. Sometimes "machmir" comes from the word "chamor." Rabbi Ovadia used to say this word, "mirovshemachmir niachmar," because it's all the time looking to be extremely righteous. By the way, sometimes it comes from ego. Things that people do in public not necessarily indicates that they are extra righteous. Sometimes it's an indication that they are extra wicked. Because pride is something Hashem cannot stand. You have sometimes people that in the middle of davening make face, you know. What's up? Who's watching me? Oh yeah, the rabbi is here. Let me pretend I'm better than him and daven. Hashem said, get out of my face, you proud fool. All this show-off you're putting over him. Some people are real. Amot SheMalcha Zatzal. You cannot fake the way he was. Shabbat, he was Crying in full-on trance. Pray for hours, hours of Kukh from Tveria, of Hades, Sera Madis every day for decades. Crying, screaming, crying. What kind of a Neshamah is this? Rav Mordechai Steiner from Manzikv. Cannot be a regular person. From age 13, crying, jumping, running, crying. Special souls. Souls are attached like a magnet to Hashem. No obstacle. They breathe the light of Hashem. When I start the series of Derech Hashem of the Ramchal, you're gonna learn the concept of the spiritual light. That reflects on the soul of the people and how, Hashem Shalom, we can lose that light and how we increase the light of Hashem on us. It's all about that, the Divine Light. Remember, the soul is a spark from that light of Hashem. It's like a Wi-Fi transmitter, phone to the modem. But if you make obstacle, another wall, and another one, there is no connection. It ruins the connection. Very similar, the concept of Wi-Fi device that gets the waves from this, from the transmitter. So the more obstacles or distance, the less connection there is. It's very, very similar to the concept of the connection that a soul has with Hashem. So, Rabotai, it's written in the Parasha, Parasha Vayera, "Votzeti atchem mitachat zivlot Mitzrayim." I took you out from the suffering of Egypt. "Veitzalti atchem," and I saved you. "Me'avodata," from the work. "Ve'gal diatchem," I redeemed you with strong arm and judgments, great judgments. And I took you to be my nation. And you should know I'm your God. And I brought you to the Promised Land. How many languages of redemption do we have over here? They say 4. You know why they say 4? I say 5. You know why they say 4? Because in Lail HaSeder, the Chazal told us that we drink 4 glasses of wine each one for every word of salvation. Since we have 4 words of salvation in a verse, for each one of them we drink 1 glass of wine. But I insist that there are 5 words of salvation. What are they? Ve'otseti, ve'itzalti, ve'gaalti, ve'lakachti, ve'eveti. It should have been 5. What happened? Mistake in accounting? Don't be a fool. Every fool see that there are 5. No need to be a genius for that. The answer is, Rabotai, there is a difference between the first 4 and the 5th. Orach Chaim Hakadosh, 300 years ago, He said the first 4, Votzei ti vitsalti vegalti velakachti, is guaranteed unconditionally. The 5th one has conditions. I will bring you to the Promised Land. It's only If we will already know 100% and accept and digest that Hashem is our God and there we have no one besides Him. If we will accept that, then we will get the merit to go to the Promised Land. If not, we will all die in the desert like happened in the end. Everybody died in the desert besides two, Joshua and Caleb. The entire people that came out of Egypt died in the desert in 40 years. Hashem took them in circles until the entire generation died. Why? They did not digest what it means you should know I'm your God. We say Shema Yisrael 3 times a day. I am the God that took you out of Egypt not to become politicians or gays walking in a parade or naked people on the beach of Tel Aviv or people who smoke on Shabbat or eat hametz on Pesach or not putting tefillin or women walk with no clothes on the street. That's not the reason I took you out of Egypt. For that, you would be better off dying. You wouldn't want to come out of Egypt to gain sins and later on have to pay for them. You would be better off to die. So what happened? I took you out of Egypt in one condition, that you will understand what I have done for you. Become my children, become my followers, faithful followers, and I will become your God. And since we did not accept that condition, that covenant, we paid the price. And none of the people that came out of Egypt actually entered Israel besides those two, from 3 million, two. All 3 million died. The children who were born in the desert, which has nothing to do with the Exodus of Egypt, they went to Israel later on. But those who had that dream, we're finally gonna make it to the Promised Land that God promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Because that did not happen according to the plan, we do not drink a fifth glass for it. One more reason, even though we in the end arrived to the Promised Land, we were kicked out of there twice. Giving someone a gift and then later on taking it and give him a smack and throwing him out of the house, what should we focus on? On the period that someone gave me a gift and I enjoyed it? Or the period that he grabbed it back, gave me a smack, and threw me out of his house? On which condition I should focus? The one while I was in his house, happy from the gift, enjoying it? Or after he threw me out and I lost it and now I'm in exile? But that was a result of bad actions. One difference doesn't make. In the end, the salvation of Aveti did not happen. Happened partially. It did not happen to those who came out of Egypt. For that we don't add a fifth one. You know, in the Gemara, Masechet Sanhedrin, page 91, the Gemara said the Egyptians, when Alexander Makedon, Alexandros, the Greek leader came to Israel area, he was occupying the whole world, Young and successful, brave, strong, great warrior. The Greek Empire, he shows up in Israel. The Egyptian came right away, "Hey, Your Majesty, tell the Jews to pay us back for all the jewelry that they took and never returned." They said, "Only borrowing." And they left and they never came back. We gave them so much. Now we want it all back. Let them pay us for that. I want to ask you a question. In Auschwitz, the Nazis did everything they can to destroy the Jews as much as they could. Everybody understands that there was no mercy there. The fact that you had some survivors is not because they wanted to have survivors, because they didn't succeed. Succeed 98%. That's it. It was up to them, not on us. Now, one Jew would make it. Imagine the Nazis while they're killing the Jews, all of a sudden in one day turned their entire ideology, the entire approach, the entire attitude to the Jews, and they say, whoa, Timeout! Stop! As of now, no more killing, no more torturing, no more starving anyone. We love you. We want you to enjoy our Mercedes and Audis and Volkswagen. We want to make you some kosher steaks for dinner. Don't have to work anymore. No one is going to die. Tomorrow we will serve you with beautiful new suits. Hugo Boss, our German designers, and we're gonna get you some nice bracelets and get you back all your jewelry. Everything was going to be different as of now. What could have made such a change, 180 degrees? How can it be? If you would say while the Jews were getting killed in Auschwitz, If you said to the Jews, as of tomorrow at 2 PM, the Germans are going to switch their entire attitude 180 degrees, they're gonna hug us and be nice to us and try to make it up to us in any possible way. If someone would say such thing in the middle of Auschwitz, what would I say? Mendel. Hashem Irachem, you already lost your mind. Poor Mendel. Right or wrong? Anyone would even hope? Anyone as religious as you are, do you think anyone had hope that as of tomorrow the Nazis will all become so nice and sweet? No chance, right? You agree with me that not one Jew had this dream or illusion? If that's the case, please Please explain to me how did the Egyptians that were just as bad as the Nazis all of a sudden came to the Jews, what would you like? We have designer suits, take, take jewelry, take earrings. What else do you like? Hashem made them like the Jews. Hashem did that they would find favors in their eyes. Just 24 hours ago they were killing them, torturing them mentally and physically. All of a sudden, come Yosef, come Yitzchak, come, come, take. No, no, no, wait, wait, I have in my bedroom in a safe this nice jewelry. Come, come, Zissaleh, come, try it on your finger. Wow, your daughter looks so nice. B'ezrat Hashem, should be your bashert, you get married. How did it happen? Did you ever think about it? Even when Hashem performs a miracle, the Ramban says He always makes the miracles natural, in a natural way. He doesn't like to perform clear miracles. If He does it, it means that there was no other way, or for an ordinary righteous person like Abraham or Nachum Ish Gamzu or Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. Legends! Not for every person. Miracles happened to Jacob, to Yosef, to Avraham Avinu. Okay, Noah, but that's it. So the answer is in Makat Choshek, in darkness, before the final plague, there was One week darkness. The Egyptians are all frozen. They can't move. If they sit, they can't get up. If they're up, they can't sit down. They're frozen. Thick darkness, can't move. Thick darkness, it's like you fell into a mud, can't move. And the Jews walk. There's no darkness Israel and Goshen. They have infrared eyes all of a sudden. They come, they walk, they see the Egyptians are frozen. They didn't touch them. They didn't kill them. It was a great opportunity to take a hammer and smash their heads. You killed my children, how can I let you live? Burn them alive. Slaughter them. And then clean the whole house from the jewelry. And it will be 100% justice. It's not gonna be a crime to kill someone who killed all your children. He deserve it. To take all his jewelry, you worked for it for 86 years. It's still not enough to pay for the slavery. The Jews had all the rights and all the reasons to kill them all. You are in my hands. Imagine now the Hamas in Gaza, all of them frozen now for a week. And the Israeli soldiers walk, cute Ahmed, don't worry, we're not gonna be like you. We won't slaughter you. We won't blow you up. We won't even handcuff you and take you to jail. We'll let you stay. You see your jewelry right here in front of us? You cannot move. Imagine I can take your jewelry, put it on my hands, and you kill yourself. We're not gonna touch anything. We're not gonna be monsters like you. The Jews saw and they didn't take advantage. When Hashem released them, they were shocked and ashamed. How could we have killed such a nation? They could have killed us all. They didn't touch us. No revenge. Where is their revenge desire? That's how Hashem made them like the Jews in a natural way. And what happened in darkness? 80% of the Jews died and were buried together. That the Egyptians don't see. Hashem hid it from the Egyptians. From 12 million, we were reduced to 3 million. 9 million— from 15 million, we were reduced to 3 million. 12 million died. 12 million died in the darkness, in the week of darkness. The holy Zohar says that before the end, it will happen again. Hashem will make 15 days of darkness in the world, and in these 15 days of darkness, he will erase and clean all the wicked people from the face of the earth. Jews and non-Jews, all men. All the idol worshippers, all the gays, all the mechalel Shabbat, all the thieves, all the all the racist and all the horrible people will all be clean. By the time the light will come back, every person you will be able to see on the face of the earth, you know, is righteous. Of course, this prophecy does not have to happen necessarily. Maybe people will make repentance, so it would not be needful I don't know it, but probably it will happen because unfortunately people do not make repentance so easy. So you saw that Hashem did not want to take them out and he called them wicked. What was wicked about them? They just came out of Auschwitz, skeletons. Their children were dead. They finally got their freedom back. Moshe said, get ready, we leaving Egypt. They said, no, no, please, please, we're not interested to go now to another adventure. We're going to the desert now? No, no, please, we cannot take it. Mentally we are destroyed. We want to stay here in Cairo, in Alexandria, in Egypt. Go back to our home. Make ourselves breakfast, lunch, something, whatever Hashem wants. We are with him, we love him, we appreciate the miracle. We cannot go now into a journey. Moshe said, but wait, the whole purpose of the Exodus of Egypt is to accept the Torah. Hashem is making a wedding with us. We are the bride and he is the groom. You don't want to participate in a wedding with Hashem? You don't want to become the chosen nation? You don't want to, you do not want to be the nation of the book that will teach civilization to the whole world of humanity? You don't want to enter the Holy Land and build the house of God that he would live among us while we have Beit Hamikdash? All these wonderful promises that Hashem made to us, you do not want Do you want to have a share in it? No, we want to stay here in New York, Park Avenue, Fifth Avenue, Great Neck, Beverly Hills, Flatbush, Lakewood, Monsey, enjoy our homes, enjoy the backyard. We'll be religious here. If you want, we'll send some money to Israel when Mashiach comes. Don't take away our real estate. What am I gonna do in Israel without my Bentley? Without the fancy half a million dollar wedding? Now, by now it's a million already with the inflation. When Mashiach comes, where are we gonna be? We're gonna live in tents? It's not gonna be real estate to buy in Israel. That's it. You know how much it's gonna be, a house? We'll send money. We will admire the building of the Third Temple. From here, from America. Mashiach ben David, shalom, this is Mr. Moskovich from Borough Park. Do you need some help? Of course I need. Come help us to build the house of Hashem. Ah, you know, I have 2,000 employees in my businesses, you know. No, I meant how much money? How much? 1 million is enough? 3? Put my name on the wall. It's better mikdash, I can't put you. You'll find a way. I'll add an extra million for the name. Major disappointment. That won't be enough to just send money. You'll have to come and help. The Yemenites didn't want to come and help the Second Temple. They didn't want. Ezra, the leader at that time that came from Persia, Israel and Nehemia, they came to build with money that was given by Quresh or Kurosh in Farsi. There's a lot of Jews named Kurosh. Since when? Imagine you call Jews Hussein. Why you call Hussein? I was Iraqi Jew, so Saddam Hussein, I call myself Hussein. What's your name? Khomeini. Why you call Khomeini? I was Persian Jew, so so Khomeini. I call myself Khomeini. What's your name? Assad. Why? I'm a Syrian Jew. Assad is the king. I can't. Looks like a joke. Koresh is different than all these monsters. He was a good king. Not only gave them permission to go and build the temple, he wanted to sponsor it. A goy I will sponsor the entire walk. Workers, carpenters, you know, anything you want on me. How much? Here is an open check. Ah, what can I say? We are entering very, very special days, as you can see. Some of us would still be alive when Mashiach comes. Some won't. We may die for a short period of time and resurrect if we'll be righteous in the resurrection of the dead. Until then, we have only one mission. You know what the mission is? To fix all the negative and focus on ourselves, stop being lazy, Growing Torah in Eretz Yisrael, gain a lot of fear from Hashem. Remember, He's not our friend. Yes, He's our Father, He loves us, it's all good, but we have to report to Him and He's judging us every second. You can tell Moshe in Yitzchak, don't be judgmental, but you cannot tell Hashem, Hashem, don't be judgmental. So what if I don't wake up for shacharit? I die at 10:00 in my bedroom. 5 minutes, better than nothing. So what if I'm not this? So what if I'm not that? So what? So what? So what? In the end, then I'm left with nothing. It's time to wake up now. I want to remind you also before we finish that Take away all the jewelry from your hands, the rings, the diamonds, the expensive watches. Every day someone is being attacked to steal his watch or his fancy car with a gun to their head. It's dangerous. Some people, I told them, take away your jewelry and they can't. Their ego and pride is so big that they're willing to risk their life to show off their $100,000 $100,000 Rolex. You can't hide it. You have to walk in the street of the dangerous New York with so many dangerous monsters who look who to mug today. What is going on with you? Why do you need such an expensive watch? Why do you need so much things to attract attention? What do you think is gonna happen? They'll follow you once or twice to see your schedule. Next thing, they're gonna rob you and bring you into your house with a gun, and then you have to open the safe and clean you from everything you have. And sometimes it can end with a murder. Could be a drug addict. Right here across the street, I one time came after the lecture to put gas. Right here, there was a drug addict coming in. He took crazy drug. There's a Muslim works here in a gas station. He has a protection. He's lucky. Without that protection, that day he would be dead. The guy was banging on there for him to open and he didn't open. He was taking things, throw it, cursing, throw it. I was in the car so I hope he was not gonna notice me. Imagine now he turns against me. Me. Once he left, the Muslim opened the door and what did he say? He said, drug addicts, they come here at night, they're very dangerous. When you fall in the hand of someone like that, it's very dangerous. B'ezrat Hashem, we'll make it hopefully. If we'll be serious, we will. We do teshuvah, teshuvah tzidakah, You know, and tefillah, ma'avirim etroak zera, ba'uchadonai le'olam, amen, le'amen, habihanan yamin ha'kefion.