The Innocent And The Con Artist

Good evening. Baruch Hashem, this shiur will be led forth by Lisa Malka Batlea and also by Lili Mishmat, Veluma Batshava Batshmuel, and Eliyahu Ben Mazal, Olga Batshem, Also, "Le'fuat anefesh v'aguf of Reuven ben Yael, Yonina, Simcha, Yonina bat Shifra, Samara Aviva bat Shifra, Ahu Vachaya bat Samara Aviva, Shifra bat Sivia, Yaakov Reuven ben Haika." So, Baruch Hashem, I have wonderful news that after a long time I finally, with the help of Hashem, have the best app you can find on earth. It finally came out today, I mean last night, and Hashem sent us a tzaddik that is a world expert in building apps. It's not an ordinary app. All the apps that I had until now, people liked them, they were good, but it's a different league now. You will have the video, audio, messages, place to order CDs. You can donate over there without— one time you put your credit card information, you don't ever have to enter it again. It will recognize it automatically. You have double speed, 1.5 times, 2 times. So when we have a 3-hour lecture, don't complain because it's only an hour and a half. [Speaker:MAN] But you guys are going to be bored like 3 hours? [Speaker:RUBEN] Don't ask hard questions. But, so it's fantastic. You know how it is, first week there may be some bugs, you know, until it's gonna go smooth. So far so good, and we're gonna keep upgrading it and make it even better, B'ezrat Hashem. Finally, you can get it on the Google Store and you can get it on the Apple Store. Of course for free, Baruch Hashem. So that's one very, very good news. Please everyone should share it. Someone just told me, I didn't know that, that when you watch these lectures, make sure you always give like, because the more like you put, the more the lecture exposed to more people. It's not only the sharing. Sharing for sure, I said everybody must share. If they don't share, they're not allowed to watch the lectures. I said it 10 times, it's clear. Someone who does not want to share a lecture with other people does not deserve to watch the lecture himself. Simple as that. You don't care about Hashem's children, we shouldn't care about you. I'm sorry, it's hard word, But that's the truth. You don't care about others, we shouldn't care about you. That's "Mila Keneged Mila." That's what the Torah is all about. You must share. People who do not have any friends on Facebook or other places, they have nobody to share with, fine, they are "nus." But if you have people in your page, you must share it with them. That's it. Otherwise, it's not mitzvah for you to watch the lecture because it's mitzvah ba be'averah ena mitzvah. And I know that since I made that announcement, 10% of the people stopped listening. They rather not listen than to share. Okay, that's their choice. We will see in the next world what's gonna happen with their decision, but for now, that's what they chose. Fine. But at least one good thing we can say about them, that they're not thieves. At least they're honest. You don't give permission to watch unless we share? Fine, I don't watch. Some people, it's just their ego. Okay, fine, deal with your ego. Some people, they don't want to share for whatever reason. They don't want people to complain that you send them dvar Torah. I have a ger tzedek in Israel, he sent me today a picture of his exchanging messages with someone. He sent him 3 of my short videos in one shot. The guy sent him, "Please don't send me videos." He said to him, "That's not videos, that's the Torah. Sit and watch." Innocently, why? They know no tricks, these people. What are you doing me a favor? You don't want, delete it. But you have to make comments. It is what it is, Rabotai, you know. So what's the app called? The app on the App Store, Rabbi Yosef Mizrahi. That's it. You're gonna put it in search, it comes right away. Download it now. Divine Information? Divine Information is the old app. RabbiYosefMizrachi.org, but you don't really need that.org. You're gonna see right away it comes the first one on the list. It's blue. Huh? What's the blue website? I could never find it on Google. Let's see. I already have by now 3 apps. The old one was Divine Information. Here, this is the Divine Information. But that's not— no, but that doesn't work anymore. The videos don't open. Videos don't open. Okay. The old app, the videos one day stopped to work and we can't locate the person who built the app. So it's basically half obsolete. After that we had RabbiYosefMizrachi.com, but that's a virtual app. You can still use it. It's a fantastic app, but it's the second on Google App Store. It's the second one. Okay, but you know, the ones that I'm just giving you now RabbiYosefMizrachi.org. And that's gonna be the app for good, B'ezrat Hashem. That's— you don't need anything more than that. You have everything there. You have fast speed. You have a lot of other features. Baruch Hashem. Baruch Hashem, you know, everything Hashem does is for good, even though it takes us sometimes many years to understand. It looks like it's official. Trump lost the election. That's it. If he had hopes It's time to let go. Officially, they announced that in Pennsylvania he lost. Mayor Giuliani made a lot of noise but did not perform. Lots of false promises, lots of hopes. In the end, nothing happened. These liberal lefty Democrats, when they cheat and lie and steal, they do it in such a way that they have the judges in their pocket and all media in their pocket, and there's nothing you can do against it for only one reason. Why? Why can't— why there's nothing you can do against it? Because the holy Zohar 2,000 years ago said that before the end of the world, they will control the entire world. That's it. Nothing you can do. That's it. That's the punishment, to be under their, under their control for X amount of time until Hashem will purify the world. That's it. And I want— we made fun I gave a few lectures just about that topic. I don't want to repeat it again, but the idea is that that's it. It is what it is. We're gonna get John Kerry again and Hussein Obama behind the scenes and all the other liberals and some Jews that are married to goyim, liberal. I don't have to tell you their ideology, this kind of Jews. They're going to run this country in the next 4 years. Let's just hope that the damage they're gonna do will be bearable. For sure they'll make damage. The question is if it will be bearable or not. That's what we have to hope, that we will survive the 4 years. They can bring to the destruction of the world very fast. We'll see what's going to be. In the meantime, it looks like Israel and Saudi almost had a peace agreement, but it struggled a little bit. Netanyahu was in Saudi Arabia. Once Israel forms peace with Saudi Arabia, the sheriff of the Arab world. There will be a new Middle East. All of a sudden Israel and the Arab countries becoming an ally against the real evil, which is Iran. Who would ever dream such thing? Still have the same problem with the Palestinians. They're not going anywhere. The curse of the Palestinians living in Israel It's written in the Torah. Which Parasha? Who knows? Which Parasha? Come on. You don't know? Where is the curse of the nation that live among you will go higher and higher and you go— huh? Parashat Beruchotai. Behukotai. Same thing. Parashat Behukotai. Over there, the Torah says, if you're going to follow my instructions and laws, that's what's going to happen to you. A list of good things. And if you're not, this is all the problems and curses you're going to get. One of them is the nation that lives among you will rise and you will go lower. They will grow and you will be shrinking into your cities, meaning you're gonna lose parts of the country to them. And they would put you under fear. And even when they won't chase you, you will live in paranoia. You'll be paranoid, right? And I will bring on you revenge of Erev. Nekam kherev— sword. That's exactly what they do. March like this for the last 50 years. There's nothing you can do. The Zohar also said that these Arabs will sit in Israel until Mashiach would come and then we'll take care of business. Why you cannot get rid of them? No agreements will ever be able to fix the problem. It's because they have— they do brit milah. And when you do Brit Milah, you have a piece of the land. Even though the Brit Milah is totally incomplete, they don't do prayer, they don't do it like the Al-Akha, but it's something, something. It's a little bit of Brit Milah. It already gives them temporary holding in the Holy Land. But the Ramak, Rabbi Moshe Cordovero, owned the Zohar. He was the rabbi of the Ari HaKadosh. 500 years ago he wrote, the same way the Brit Milah of the Arabs is incomplete, their holding in the Holy Land will be incomplete until the Mashiach would come. Once the Mashiach would come, they cannot ever stay there anymore. The land will be purified, but not only from them. It will be purified from all the wicked Jews and the Erev Rav and all the other people It's going to be days that you never ever imagined that you're going to see such thing, if we will have the merit to survive. Don't, don't think that we are such big tzadikim. We have to work very hard to be able to survive. Now remember, to see the destruction of all the evil and wicked, ungrateful people, whether they're Jewish, whether they're not Jewish, it doesn't matter. Evil is evil. Wicked is wicked, you know. We're not categorizing people. Someone told me, you know, when you speak, you have a lot of non-Jews listening to the lecture. I say, I never in my life spoke anything against non-Jews. Never. I speak always against wicked people. Nothing to do with where they are from. If they're Jewish, I speak about the wicked people. If it's us, I speak against us. What we do wrong, include myself. I speak about right and wrong based on what the Torah taught us. Nothing to do with who the person is: Jewish, Arab, European, white, black, doesn't matter. Person can be a righteous Jew or a wicked Jew. It can be a righteous Gentile or wicked Gentile. Righteous Gentiles, they go to heaven. Spoke about hundreds of times. Gmarah in Sanhedrin said Bilaam is wicked. He has no share to the World to Come. He was the prophet of the Gentiles, of the goyim. The Gmarah says from here we learn that other Gentiles that are righteous, they go to heaven even if they don't convert. So there's no obligation to convert to go to heaven. You go to the heaven of the Gentiles, you understand? Some Gentiles for sure Hashem loves more than wicked Jews. Even though the Jews are his children, as it's written in the Torah, you can't deny it, it's a verse in the Torah. You are my children, I chose you from all the nations. But sometimes even a father would rather— would love someone that is a stranger than a son that fights him and disobeys and disrespects him and is very ungrateful to him for a very long period of time. They say in Hebrew it's called "Iggi umay madnafesh." The water arrived all the way to where the soul comes out, meaning they passed the nostrils. When you go into the water, when will you drown? If the water reaches your chest, you're not drowning yet. If it reaches your neck, you're not drowning. If it reaches your mouth, they cover your mouth already, you're still not drowning. You can breathe from the nose. When will you be dead? When the water goes above your nose. That's it. Now another minute, you'll choke and you die. That's called in the Shona Kodesh, "Igiu may madnafesh." The water arrived already to a place where the soul comes out. The soul enters the body from the nostrils and also leaves the same way. And it's very interesting because it's written in the Torah in 1st chapter of the Torah, the way Hashem created Adam, sent from the ground, vayipach be'apav nishmat chayim, and he blew into his nostrils a divine living soul, and then he became alive. So how the soul enter? It's like blowing air into a balloon. You put your air into a balloon, the balloon begins to fly in the world. What makes your balloon fly? The air that came out of your body. That air gives the balloon the ability to fly. If there was no air, it would not fly, it would stay on the floor. So that air of yours can end in China. Oh, you are traveling now in China. Well, what do I know? It keeps going and going and going until it reaches the other side of the world, maybe. So that's exactly the idea of Hashem blowing a divine Soul energy into a person's body, it becomes alive. And this is, this is an energy that never dies. It never spreads, it never becomes obsolete, it doesn't get old. The soul doesn't get old. The soul will never have a limit. Everything the soul went through in all the reincarnations, it's all recorded. There's no way to erase it. Even if you used to be wicked and now you became righteous, All the sins you did is all recorded in the soul. The consequences of your sins will remain for good. There's no way to erase the dirty pictures you saw. It's still affecting your life. It's true that the more you're going to be more and more righteous and you live holy lifestyle for a long period of time, the longer you are in holiness, the less influence your bad days will have on you. If you're only 6 years, believe me, all the dirty things you used to do are still like poison in your system. But if you're already 6 years religious and many of these things you forgot already, slowly, slowly it leaves your system. But make no mistake, it doesn't leave your system completely. It only leaves your conscious. Yes, but it will always remain in your subconscious, always. That's why we can hypnotize a person. It's called regression. We take him back in time and we get information out of him from his past life. Who he used to be, who cares? Now he's a new person. We care how he is now. Why do we care how he was 150 years ago in France? No, because what happened to him back then still affecting him now. I give you one example and we move on. There was one woman in Brazil. Every time an airplane passed above her house, she jumped under the kitchen table, hold her head, and start screaming something in Italian. Some kind of words in Italian. Nobody understands what's going on. Never been in Italy, she doesn't speak Italian, and why would she get so scared from the planes, from airplanes? So they took her to a specialist, hypnotizer, he did regression, and they brought her back into the previous life, and they found out that that she was an Italian woman that died from a bomb in World War II that fell on her head on her house and killed her. So now she died, Hashem sent her back to the world in a new body instead of in Italy, in Brazil. Non-Jewish woman, she was non-Jewish in her past life and she's not Jewish now. And she came back in a new body, and every time an airplane comes, she has this trauma which nobody understands. Where does it come from? So you see that this trauma stays in the subconscious. If you have a woman that was born into this world and she doesn't want to go out on dates, not because she doesn't look good, or maybe she's overweight or too skinny or something that made her lose her confidence. No, she looks perfectly fine. She's from a good family. She's smart. Nobody— she's not sick. She doesn't have any diseases, and she doesn't want to go out with anyone on dates. You wonder to yourself why she has such fear for men. You're beginning to think maybe someone attacked her when she was a girl or something like that. Yeah, that's sometimes the reason. But if you go and check and you find that nothing really happened to her in this life, it's probably something that happened to her in a past life. That's why it's still affecting her subconscious. And that's why you sometimes have children from a very young age, they have gay, gay behaving. A boy play with all the girls, with girls those things. What do you do over there? Come over here to the soccer field. Join us in the basket. No, no, I play with the girl. What do you call it? With the string, they jump like this, going like this with the girl. Hey, you're a man, you're not a woman. Every once in a while you find those kind of kids in school from a very young age. What happened? That's the reason. Past life influence from things that they did in their past So we move on. Yesterday I finished the first part of the weekly parasha by speaking about the reason why Rivka was barren for 20 years. 20 years she cannot have kids. One of the main reasons she was not able to have kids is because her father, her wicked father Betuel, and her wicked brother Lavan the crook Both of them gave her a blessing that she will multiply and become a large nation. As a result of their blessing, Hashem needed now to close her womb that she cannot have kids for a long, long time. Why? That they, these two wicked people, will not get the credit that their blessing actually made her have so many kids. What's the conclusion of this part of the Torah? That's where I ended my lecture last night. The conclusion is that some people think that by going to a fake Kabbalist or some idol worshiper magician or some Muslim magician or all kinds of people that have nothing to do with the real Torah and the right connection to Hashem, and they tell you to do all kinds of strange things and this and that As a result of them, your life can turn into worse than what it was, not better. So some people think, what's the big deal? I'll go to this guy. If he will help, he will help, and if not, I'll stay the same. No, sometimes because you went there, now you suffer 10 times more for X amount of time. Time. So that's why you got to be very, very careful. The maximum you can do is to go to a big tzaddik and ask him for bracha to have children or whatever you need, parnassa or health, and that's just about it. Don't do anything else. Don't start with this magics and go here and do that. None of this. Stick to the Torah Tamim, fear Hashem Elokecha, and be very careful Be careful, very careful not to be connected to all these fake people. Baruch Hashem. That's where we ended. We will continue from here. We have, we have now a very interesting phenomenon that Rivka walks and the twins in her stomach are jumping left and right. It's like they're having a fistfight inside the stomach. Normally doesn't happen to a woman that have twins. Usually she finds out she have twins later in the pregnancy. She doesn't even know. Only when the stomach become really huge or they do a sonogram, oh, Mazal Tov, you have two, you know. Vaytro tzitzu habanim bekirba, vato mer im ken la maseh anoche. No connection whatsoever from the beginning of the verse to the end of the verse. What's the connection? The kids are fighting inside, jumping around, and she say, if that's the case, why me? Why you what? Rashi explained, when she walks in holy places, Yaakov wants to go out. He's attracted to the place. When she goes to places of wicked people and idol worshippers, Asav wants to go out. Something here is a little bit not clear. First of all, when a baby is inside his mother's womb, the angel teaches him the entire Torah for 9 months, right? So there is an angel right now who is teaching them the entire Torah. So if you want to say that Yosef is wicked and he's not interested to learn Torah? No. That's why he wants to go out to places of Rav Odaserah. In that case, why Yaakov wants to go out? What can be better than being with an angel 9 months and learn Torah? What do you need to go out? To learn Torah from some rabbi or from Hashem? There was one yeshiva in the world, Hashem Vaevel. With all due respect to Hashem Vaevel, there's nothing compared to that angel that knows all the secrets. The secrets of the Torah, right? Why would you want to go out? The answer is, we learn, Rabotai, every pasuk in the Torah, every verse is a school for life. Remember this, school for life. We learn that even if I'm learning Torah and the person next to me in the yeshiva is a rasha, Better to move out of there and go to a place. Just being in the presence of such wicked person already it's a curse. Why? But you're in the middle of a class. I'll find the class somewhere else. Same thing in a shul. You come to a shul, maybe the rabbi is very good there, maybe he's giving beautiful lectures, maybe he's teaching nice Torah, maybe it's a fancy nice place. Place that is pleasant to be there, but there's some wicked people around there. Mafia people, people who charge all kinds of interest, people that mechalel Shabbat, all kinds of people. Some liberals, some Democrats, some lefties over there. You have to sit in the same place with these people. Who told you it's a good thing? That's why I always tell people, if you have have the option to learn to pray in a place that is a yeshiva, always better. Always better. Doesn't matter even young boys, high school, whatever. They have minyan on Shabbat, better you walk half an hour to go pray with Bnei Torah than to pray with all kinds of people that are not Bnei Torah. Because if you have 50 people in a synagogue and 10 of them are very wicked that's not so good. Why? We have a saying: "Oi la rasha ve'oi le'shreno." "Oi" to the wicked. It's obvious. He's doing everything that G-d hates. But "oi" to his neighbor as well. Why the neighbor? The neighbor is tzaddik. Why? What does the neighbor have to do with it? The fact that you're not allergic to him and you're sitting next to him Already showing that you're not that much better than him, because a real righteous person cannot be one minute around this kind of clowns. Sometimes it takes many years for you to purify your soul. It doesn't happen overnight. I have people that I had to make them baalei teshuvah over 20, 24 years even, and it took them many years until until they actually reach a very high level. Beginning, once they all of a sudden met the right place for them, from then on they started to fly. Once they reach a certain high level, there is no way they can go even for 1 hour to be where they used to be. You see it. I see, I speak to them sometimes, oh no, over there I'm never gonna go. After I I was for a period of time with this kind of people. You ask me to go back there, there's nothing to talk about. Why is it? Because the soul will suffer around fake people, around fake people. You understand? So here it is, Rabotai. That's the situation. So now the question is, what does it mean, la'im, that Rivka says, im ken la'maze'ah nochi? The answer is, Rabotai, let's go back in time and try to understand what is she saying actually. The words of Rivka connects to something that happened years before. Don't forget, Avraham sent his servant Eliezer to find Shidur for Yitzchak, and he said to him, don't take from the Kenaanim, take from the people of my family in Charan over there. Don't go to to the Kenaanim. But I don't understand, they're both wicked people. The people of Kenaan are wicked, the people of Lavan, Betuel, as you see, they're just as wicked. There's a big difference. One major difference between the wicked over here and the wicked over there. Avraham was the speaker of the generation, representative of Hashem, like the goyim told him, You are the president of God among us. Even the non-Jews knew about him. That is, Nimrod threw him into the fire and he came out. It made him a name in the whole world. This was the man of God. Everybody admired Abraham. Everybody. Plus now he became very rich also. So the righteous people admired him for being holy, and the wicked people admired him for being wealthy. Wicked people admire money and college degrees. Righteous people admire Torah and holiness, modesty, good traits. That's how you know if you're righteous or wicked. Check what you admire. If you admire people with Ferrari and Lamborghinis, it shows who you are. If you admire people that have beautiful mansions, it shows who you are. If you admire people who knows how to tell jokes, it shows who you are. If you admire all kinds of athletes, they are your hero, it shows who you are. If you admire holy, down-to-earth giants, Chachamim, throughout the generations, and your life is around them, it shows who you are. It's two different planets. So Avraham is used to give speeches. He lives among Knaan. Don't take a girl from the Knaani Ashera Nochi or Shevetocham. I live with them. I know who they are. Not one of them I was able to make Baal Teshuvah. When I was in the other place, a lot of people I met Baal Teshuvah in Haran. Why? It's written in the Torah. Ve'et anefesh asher asu becharan. Avraham megeir tagvarim, Sarah megeir etanoshim. All the baalei teshuvah of Avraham and Sarah were where? In Charan. But in Canaan? No one. They went among Republicans, they met baalei teshuvah. Why? They are not enemies of God. Maybe they make sins, they need a lot of improvement, but at least there is good raw material. You go around the Democrats, the lefties, how many of them you can turn to become Baalei Teshuvah? Not one out of a thousand. So Abraham told him, I already know these wicked people and I know these wicked people. Democrats are wicked, Republicans are wicked. I'm not living in illusion. I exactly know who the family of Betuel and all the other people over there are. However, there's a difference between the raw material of the wicked of Haran and the wicked of Canaan. From here we learn a wonderful thing. I can say, I give you an example. One time when I was in a seminar myself, about 26 years ago, there was one Israeli-Bulgarian guy, Bulgari, Israeli, but he was Bulgarian, that became Baal Teshuvah in the seminar. The rabbi of the seminar told him, Baruch Hashem, I do it for more than 20 years, you are the 7th, 7th Bulgari that I was able to make Baal Teshuvah out of thousands that I made. Very difficult to turn them to become Baal Teshuvah. On the other hand, take 100 Bukharians, bring them 2-3 lectures, 2-3 lectures, maximum 6-7 hours of Torah. Half of them already into to the religion. Sometimes one shiur. Why? Different souls, different background, completely different. Very high percentage will become baalei teshuvah, very high, not everyone. Wicked you have everywhere, you're gonna find wicked people there as well. But the raw material immediately you see right away, right away you see the difference. I remember when I started, not one was religious. Not one of them, of these Bukharans, nobody. Besides some old people that came from Samarkand and Russia Union, Soviet Union. All the new generation who grew up here in America, nobody. I started to speak to these teenagers back then, 25 years ago, 23 years ago, whatever it was. All of a sudden, massive amounts Another friend and another one and another one. Wow! Shomer Shabbat. Another one, another one. Thousands became Baalei Teshuvah. More than 100 new synagogues opened just in Queens over the years from this Baalei Teshuvah. I remember I used to go, they used to sit in a park at 1 AM. It was mamash nothing. There was only minyanim of old people. It was maybe Bet Gavriel and another shul or two. That's it. All of a sudden, another one and another one and another one. I started in an organization called Or Natan. Or Natan, they asked me if I can give a lecture in English. I never gave a lecture in English. Baruch Hashem, I shammai'im, the night that I got the call, Rabbi Aderet was in my house with the rabbi from China, from Shanghai, and I asked him, what do you think? Give me the push. Oh yeah, why not? I say, you know, Until now I give lectures only in Hebrew. In English, to give lectures, it's not like when you speak to someone on the street. You make mistakes, big deal. You have to speak for 2 hours not to make mistakes. He said, "Ah, that's not, no big deal. The mistakes, people would live with that. It's not the end of the world." And that's how it started. First lecture, it came like, there was a house, it was a house, small little in this place. A lot of people came. Not— it was mamash. All of a sudden you started to see cousins and friends and this two brothers and this one. Why? The raw material was good. Later I understood when I started to go to the synagogue and I saw the pictures of all the grandfathers. Everyone was religious and mamash and down to earth. Only a generation or two ago That's how it was. So this is grandchildren who went lost because they were born here in America and went to public school. That's it. All you had to do is to shake them up a little bit. They are not that far from the grandparents. You understand? This is a community of hundreds of hundreds of years. It's not something that— so Baruch Hashem, you see that the more generations people are descending disconnected from the religion, the harder it is to turn them into Baalei Teshuvah. So if you have an opportunity to go tonight to speak to 100 people, 100 very far, meaning their grand-grandchildren, grand-grandparents already not religious, grand-grandparents, few generations already, or to people that their grandparents were all religious, just that they are the first or second generation away of the derech. 100 as opposed to another 100, where you should go? To the place that in 2 hours you'll be able to serve as many souls. You're gonna speak over to the first 100, maybe you make 2 of them change out of 100. You go to the other 100, you may affect 20 instead of 2. And that's, it's like statistic, game of numbers, game of numbers. Same thing if you sell diamonds and you have an option to open a store in a very, very poor neighborhood or in a very fancy neighborhood. Where should you go? You may say, ah, doesn't matter, parnasah, it's from Hashem. You have to do a shetlut, my friend. You're going to a poor neighborhood, now one person will come into the store because, you know, he cannot buy diamonds. What is he gonna waste his time? They already know who they are and how much money they have. But he go to the fancy places, all the women come. Wow, how does it look? 10 women come, one will buy. It's a game of numbers. Same thing over here in spirituality. This is the speech of Abraham to Eliezer. So what happened now? Eliezer arrived over there. He came to the house of Rivka, he had kfitzata dereh. It should have been 17 days travel. But Hashem made him a miracle that he made it in one day. It's called kfitzata dereh. Vavo ayom, meaning today I came out and today I came in. That was a very, very long distance, 17 days. Avraham sent Eliezer to a ride of 17 days in the desert. 17 days in the desert. We fly to Israel, 12 hours. The whole journey from the minute you leave your house until you arrive to Israel, 13 hours. And we complain for a week, "Oh, so difficult. I can't stand this flight." You see, enjoy the air conditioning. Listen to music, right? Imagine sitting on a camel like this 17 days in the heat, in a no air condition, like this 17 days. What would you do? Well, yes or no? 17 days ride. Then Kanaan was a lot closer. Don't go. Kanaan was a lot closer because Avraham lived with them. Don't get from Kanaan, go far. Get from good, from the good raw material people. Rivka said, Rivka said all the efforts of Avraham and Eliezer was for nothing. The minute that she went to Shem and Shem told her, "You have two babies inside you which will become two nations, one righteous and one wicked," the first reaction that Rivka said, "Why did Avraham, as to Bader, send Eliezer 17 days to my family?" to take me to a son if this is what Hashem is giving me? A wicked boy. That's what she said. She said, if that's the case, why did you choose me? Why didn't she look after the other servants? Let me ask you a question. If they ask a person, you're gonna have no children, or you're gonna have one righteous and one very wicked. What should he choose? Yeah, what do you think? What's better, not to have children at all and you annuls? Hashem didn't give me children, okay, it's not my problem, I tried. Or to choose the bad end and to get one righteous and one wicked? What do you think? It's a good question, no? Who would want a wicked kid? You have one tzaddik, he's in yeshiva all day, sits in ateret Torah, you don't see him from morning to night, he's in ateret Torah. But the second one is a gangster, all day mafia, guns, with his convertible, with his tattoos, with his rap music. Walks into the house with his gang. What's better? Not to have children at all or to have one like this walking around for 20 years and molesting people or robbing them or who knows what else he does or selling them drugs or shoot cops. What would you like? The truth is, it's— I think the answer is pretty obvious, but I'll tell you something else. Even if you are so anxious for a kid and you say, you know what, I'll take the bad with the good, as long as I get the righteous, the wicked let him do whatever he wants. Change your last name, buddy. Let's go. I'll get rid of him. Even if that's the way you think, Remember the words of the Gemara that the boy in the house of a person that went off the derech is worse than a war of Gog u'Magog. Milchemet Gog u'Magog. That's what you get for that righteous boy. Something worse than Gog u'Magog. After you read this Gemara, he said, don't give me the wicked. Shemirachetokh. So Rivka said What was the whole purpose of sending Eliezer that far to my family if in the end I'm gonna be the mother of this Nazi? Where the Nazis came from? From Esav. Where Hitler came from? Eichmann, all these monsters, where they came from? From Esav. How many Jews knows that the Jews and the Nazis were twins. They came from the same stomach. Most Jews do not see the connection. Do you think that the poor Jews that suffered 5, 6 years in the camps and Holocaust, those who died and those who survived, that while they were suffering, do you think it came to their mind thinking these Nazis that torturing me and killing me and killing my children is actually in a way my brother? How can you even think such thing? Monster like this is my brother? But reality, they both came from the same mother. And it's not only that, it's written clearly in the Gemara in Masechet Megillah, page 6. The Gemara says, "Amar Rabbi Yitzchak Bar Chama." Rabbi Yitzchak Bar Chama says, it says, Translation: Yaakov said to Hashem, Ribbonosh Shalom Olam, don't let my brother Esav succeed in his plan. Z'mamo is mezima. Mezima is a bad plan. Al tafek. What's tafek? Peh mefik margaliot. Mefik, it's like producer, produce. Yeah, so tafek, don't let his bad plan succeed. Why? Who is Esav? This is written in the Talmud. Remember this, it's written in the Talmud 1,800 years before the Nazis started with their plans. 1800 years before. You know, obviously it's a prophecy, right? It's written in the Gemara in a Talmud. What Yaakov say? Yaakov said to Hashem, if you let Esav succeed, who is he gonna become? Germany of Edom. That will ruin the entire world. Machrifim kol haolam kuloh. And then the Gemara begin to speak Speak about this Germany. There was no Germany. Germany is not even 300 years old. There was Bismarck. He actually made— he took all the barbarian tribes, right? Bavaria, Westphalia, Schleswig, all these barbarian tribes and turned them into one republic. He unite them. They were all against each other, enemies. Once he turned them into one nation, It used to be a Republik der Deutschen, the German Republic. Bismarck, remember this name, you can Google him. Later it became Germany. That's it. It was East Germany and West Germany, and then the wall in Berlin fell, I don't know, like 30 years ago, and now it's one nation. It used to be West Germany and East Germany, communist, mamash, like Democrats and Republicans. A country is divided to two enemies, enemies, just like Russia against America in those days. This is how it was. And now they became one nation. Communism died supposedly, okay, so the Gemara says that Rabbi Yitzchak Bar Chama, he says there are 300 tribes in Germany of a dog. How did he know? How did he know? He was in Europe? He lived in Israel all his life. Oh, he went to the galut in Babylon, in Iraq. What does it have to do with Europe? There's no telephone, no internet, no nothing. Plus, it's 1,800 years before the Germans came to the world. How is he supposed to know? Go to the encyclopedia and see. 300 tribes. Oh, and they give, they unite together and each one of them wanted to keep their financial independence. Just like in Europe now, they made euro, one coin for everyone. It's not good for every country. For some countries is good, for the other countries crush them. They're not in the same level. So now we have Germany, which is a strong country, France a little bit, England, and the rest— Greece, this or other, Ireland, all these places— they're not doing so good. Spain is bankrupt. Very bad. So now England is going to remove themselves from the Euro coalition. Who knows what's gonna happen now in Europe? It's a big battle. The Gemara said back then 300 tribes, you go to the encyclopedia, you see 300 tribes. Don't forget, this is what Yaakov is telling Hashem. So Yaakov is 3,400 years ago, not 1,800 years ago. The Gemara explains what's behind his words, but Yaakov already had Ruach HaKodesh to see that Esav will be one day the Nazi The problem is that Hashem has a justice system, and a justice system, you don't judge a person based on the crime he's going to commit next year. For instance, you bring a criminal into the court, he's 18 years old, he's robbing people, you know. The prosecutor bring WhatsApp messages that he's planning to rob a bank. I heard they robbed a bank here in Queens Highway today. Yeah? Citibank, I think. They robbed them today. It's gonna be— I think one of the banks here in Queens— where was it? Kings Highway? Kings Highway. It's gonna be a lot of those. People, I told you, people don't have what to eat. They're gonna start robbing you on the street. You're gonna go with a car, you're gonna have to Be very careful. The crime will be now in a level that you have not imagined ever. What's gonna happen in the next 4 years because of the horrible situation and economy. Who knows what's gonna be here. Life is not going to be safe, that's for sure. So what happened? So if they show— the prosecutor showed the judge that in one year this criminal has a plan on that day to rob a bank for $100 million with guns, with shooting, putting bombs, and he shows that that's his plan. The judge right now can send him to 20 years in prison based on what he's going to do in the next year? The judge can only tell the police, keep your eyes on this monster. Hey, put him in jail! Why do we have to keep our eyes on him? I can't put him in jail. He did not commit the crime now. Maybe he's going to change his mind. Maybe he's going to become a saint. Maybe he's going to become a Talmid Yeshiva, this criminal. What do I know? Same thing with Hashem. I don't judge someone based on what is going to be one day. Remember the analogy that I gave with the tank that everybody has? Everything you do goes into the tank. Once you reach the top, that's it. You must pay for your sins. As long as you do not reach the top, the sins can go up, can go down. If you give a lot of charity, it goes down, it gives you extension, you can live longer until your end comes. Once it reached the top, it's called in the Gemara, Igdishetasea. Igdishetasea. Now Yom Kippur brings it down. You pray a lot, can bring it down. You give a lot of Tzedakah, can bring it down. So, or you suffer a lot, you have sicknesses, surgeries, problems, you lose money, it can bring it down. It buys you time. But once you reach the top, that's it. You have no place to get more sins. So either you die or Hashem will take away all your money. You have $10 million, in one bad deal everything got lost. It's like killing you. So it brings the tank down. It's the malach of Satan. It's the malach of Satan. Yeah, that's it. Igdishe tase'a, it's malach ha'ase'a. But, but we learn it from a pasuk in the Torah. It's not just an idea. Everything we learn here, it's all divine information. Where do we learn it? Kilo it'malah avon haimori. The Amorites, one of the 7 bad nations, Hashem said their time did not come yet. Kilo shalem avon haimori. Their sin did not reach the shalem, the 100% yet. Maybe it's 90%, maybe 95%, but it didn't reach 100%. It's a verse in the Torah. That's why for now we don't touch them. Same thing, the city of Mitzar. There were 5 bad cities: Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot is there. The angels come to save Lot because Hashem is going to burn all the wicked people, the thieves, the murderers, the gays. Sodom was full of them, and I'm about to burn all of them. So Lot said to the angels, please take me to Mitzar. I don't want to go all the way up to the mountain. I'm an old man. I'm gonna die. So what's the Gemara explain? Why Mitzah did not get burned? They're just as wicked. Because they started the city one year after Sodom and Gomorrah. They did not reach 100% yet. They're a little bit less. Look at this. Same thing with Nineveh. Hashem sent Jonah and say, you have 40 days left. In 40 days from now, you'll all be dead. They made teshuvah, they got saved. So we see, Rabotai, that every one of us, you continue to make sins, you're playing with fire because nobody knows how big is his tank. One person come to the world with a tank 100 liters, the other person 1,000 liters. Why? Why you have a big tank and I have a small one? It's not fair. You can do a lot more sins and you stay, and I make few sins and I die. It's all continuation from past life. Depends who you used to be, how you left the world, based on how much chance Hashem wants to give you to fix your, your Neshamah. Some people, the distance to live very short life, that's it, age 18, 19, they die already. You have only few years, few years. I won't wait for you that long anymore. I'm not giving you another 80 years of life. Some people Hashem has a lot more patience for them. So what do we see over here? That Rivka started to feel guilty. Why did Avraham, my father-in-law, had to bother so much sending Eliezer with all the camels, with all the gifts, all the way to Haran to choose me for me to get such a kid? Good question, no? You have a big dilemma. There used to be a tzaddik named Rav Yitzchak Elchanan. He was Avvedim in a city of Antipola. I don't know what country is Antipola, but it's somewhere in Europe. And he said that in his city there was a man that a bad spirit went into him. A soul of a wicked person, Dibuk, it's called Dibuk. I don't know how you call, you say Dibuk in English. I don't think there's a word for it, but that means that a soul that is in space, it's called Kaf Hakela, is entering a physical body of an an existing human being. So now you have two souls in one body. It happens. It happened 20 years ago. You remember this woman in Israel? It happened in the time of the Chafetz Chaim. A student of Wasserman, alav Hashalom, Shemikom Damo, he went with a group of students to remove the Dibuk out of the girl, 12-year-old girl that got a Dibuk of a Rashar got into her. How does a person get another soul hiding inside his body and he begins to talking two words and two voices and two accents? Two individuals in one mouth. Two captains on one boat, each one turned the wheel to his direction, fighting. Two pilots in one airplane, which reminds me that two Israeli pilots crashed today. Died. An older, 42 years old, and a young one that is in a course of learning to fly crashed today in Israel from a kibbutz. So the question is, how a soul— there was many people over there, there were many people— why the soul entered the girl or the guide. Why? How do you choose where to hide? Is it the choice of the soul or the soul needs permission to do such thing? What do you think? The soul needs permission. It can't enter every body. Which body the soul can enter? Someone that eats without making brachot while he's eating without bracha, if the soul is there, it can hide inside his body. Or someone that curses and screams and gets angry, in a minute of anger, a bad spirit can enter into him. So now there was in his town, Rav Yitzchak Elchanan is telling the story about this man that had this Ruach HaKodesh Every Rasha he saw, he ran to hug him. Every wicked person, every time he saw a Talmid Yeshiva or a big rabbi, immediately went crazy, started to cry, to scream, ran away. Unbelievable. Once he saw a righteous person, he could not take it, he will go crazy. Similar to the newspapers of today. When they see Rashah, they admire him. When they see Tzadik, they butcher him and murder him. I'm talking about the religious newspapers. The non-religious is nothing to talk about. It's a waste of time. I'm talking the Orthodox magazines around here. They murdering every week people. Religious people from the community by writing lashon hara and bad articles about them. And they also brainwashed the youth, the guys and the girls, mainly the girls, the Betyakov girls. They destroyed them mentally and spiritually by advertising all these Bahamas and Dubai events and the trips and organized trips for $4,000. 10 days in hotels. They destroyed our girls. These girls supposed to be the future of the Jewish nation and they make them corrupted. They make them materialistic. They make them very low in their spiritual level. And then these girls, after many years that they trained them in Beit Yaakov, that the ultimate goal is to marry a ben Torah, someone that would sit and learn all his life. That you will be the vessel for him to succeed and raise the children and prepare the future of the holy nation, she became 50% secular in her mentality. All she talks about to her friends is nonsense, nothing holy, just sh'tuyot. I want to go to Dubai, I want to go here, and I want to go to the Bahamas, and I want to go with my friends. If I won't get married in 2 years, I'm gonna move out. Move out. Yeah, go to an Arab family and ask Fatma, if you reach 22 and you won't be married, what's your plans? I stay home. And if you be 24? I stay home. And if you be 44? I stay home. Why do you expect me to move to Manhattan? I'm from a religious Muslim family. By us, girls don't leave the house. Imagine Fatima would say to her father Ibrahim, "Dad, I met Chris from Sweden. I would like to move to his apartment in Manhattan." I think that before she would reach the word Manhattan, I don't want to tell you what would happen. To her head. Let's not give anybody bad ideas. Why? It will be the end of the world for them. Huh? What did you just say? I see this, it breaks my heart to be honest with you. People that don't have Torah, they follow a religion that was not given by Hashem. And they learned from our Torah more values than some of us. It bothers me very much. By the way, our unique expression, the name of the Jewish nation, Am HaSefer, the nation of the book, was given to us by whom? Huh? Muhammad. Muhammad called us Am HaSefer. Sefer, the nation of the book. Which book? Bialik, Shakespeare, which book? Book of God. Where did he get this idea to pretend he's a prophet? He saw in the Jewish tradition 24 books full of prophets. Did he speak highly about about the Jewish prophets? Very much. Did he speak very highly about Moshe Rabbeinu, Musa? Musa, it's Moshe. Very much. Of course. So what's gonna happen? What's gonna be? The goyim that have no Torah would adopt the Torah and the children of Hashem that got the Torah will ignore it? What about seminary girls go to Israel? Seminary, seminary, we have a very big issue with the amount of money that they charge. Big money, $20,000 or more a year. Huh? $25,000. Not everyone is a millionaire. If a person is a billionaire and you have 4 or 5 girls, you can afford $100,000 to send them to a year in Israel. Israel. What happened if the father is an ordinary person or even he owned a little grocery store? Where is he gonna get that money from? So it becomes like a must-go. You must go. You're either there or you don't exist. It's a problem. I read once, someone sent me an article that one rabbi wrote. Every word there was basela, meaning accurate. Describe the fakeness of our community and what's going on and all that. Stop. Certain things, there's nothing you can do. You have to fight against the whole community. And if you're not gonna go their way, they'll target you as not normal, dysfunctional. In other words, you can have the best girl now coming out of Bete Yaakov, 18 years old, And if she's not gonna go to seminary, in her resume, when she a year or two later go on Shiddukhim, they will target her as dysfunctional, antisocial, something is wrong with this family, which in reality could be the exact opposite. It could be the exact opposite. She was observed in a good home with good brothers, Bnei Torah. Maybe she worked a little bit for a doctor or something, and she was very good kept. Religious girl, but she doesn't have that one-year experience walking around in Yerushalayim and learning in seminary, as good as it is. That's a problem in Hashiduchim. Go and try to understand this world. I want to remind everyone that until Sarah Schneerson opened Beit Yaakov, even 100 years ago, girls in the whole world did not go to school at all. All, not elementary school, not high school, and definitely not seminary. What would you say about your grand-grandmother? That she was primitive? That she was barbaric? That she was uneducated? She was a billion times more than us today. Ask Hashem who he loves more, your grand-grandmother or you? Ask Hashem. I can tell you already what's going to be the answer. Just by the way you dress and the way your great-grandmother dressed. Look at the picture in 1900 in the Western Wall, how women were dressed in Yerushalayim in the market, and see how the world became today, and you understand the difference when it comes to modesty and behaving. So we have two nations inside you. The Gemara is telling He's teaching us a secret now. Shnei goim bebitnech. Who? Antoninos and Rabbi. A Roman and a Jew. I want to remind you there was no Judaism yet. Rivka was Jewish? No. Abraham was Jewish? No. Noah was Jewish? No. No one was Jewish. There was no Judaism yet. There were Hebrews from Abraham on. Abraham, Avri. The Gemara says the Bnei Noach. There was no Judaism officially yet. Judaism officially started in Mount Sinai. The moment we made that marriage with Hashem and got the Torah, that's it. "Ayom hazeh niyet haleam." Today officially you became a nation. What I was until now What was I? You were also a nation but not in a covenant with God like now. Does that mean that there is different Gan Eden? Because of that? Once Avraham became the messenger of God and became Ivri, he's already considered like a Jew, but officially there was no Judaism. Avraham kept on they called them Mitzvot. But officially there was no Judaism yet, meaning I want to explain how is it Esav became Nazi. Nazis are not Jewish, right? How from someone who came from the same stomach like Yaakov came, Yaakov's name changed to Israel. Israel and Nazis came from the same stomach? Yes, no contradiction. There was no officially Judaism yet. Later, Yaakov became Israel and Esav became the Romans, right? Now, you know, when we say in a tefillah, Baruch Atah Hashem Elokeinu ve Eloke Avotenu, Eloke Avraham, Eloke Yitzchak, Eloke Yaakov, right? Why do we say Yaakov and not Yitzchak? Israel. It's written in the Torah that after God changed his name from Yaakov to Israel, it's written, "Lo ikar esh imcha od Yaakov," the angel told him. Your name should not be called Jacob anymore. Your name should be Israel. So if the angel in the Torah, after fighting with him all night and surrender to him, and he told him your name should be from now on Israel— Israel is a very special name. Israel. What's Israel? Yud, it's the smallest letter in the alphabet. Lamed is the largest. The Jews start small in this world and finish very big, and the Lamed points where they go, to heaven. The Lamed is two letters, Chaf and Vav on top. You have Chaf and on top of it you have Vav. Chaf, it's 20. In numeric value, and the Vav, it's 6. 26 pointing to God. It's the name of God, Yud Kei Vav Kei. Not only that, Israel is Yashar El. You must be honest always with Hashem. Don't be a politician, politically correct liberal rabbi. I can't stand those. Be straight. Yashar Im Hashem. Like Rav Avigdor Miller was. Perfect example how to be a rabbi and a leader. Perfect. This how you must be. Doesn't matter what they're gonna think, what they're gonna say, how— doesn't matter. They compliment you nice, they bash you and ruins your reputation, don't worry about it. You have to do what's right. The rest is not in your hand. That's the right approach. Yashar El. Also, it's the names of all the Jewish fathers and mothers. Yud, Yitzchak, and Yaakov. Shin, Sarah. Resh, Rachel, and Rivka. Aleph, Avraham. Lamed, Leah. 4 mothers and 3 fathers in the name Israel. So now you see that the word Israel is a very special name. In the pasuk, Yom Hashishi, right? That talks about the Covenant of Shabbat. From the Yud, Yom Hashishi, you count 7 letters, what do you get? Shin. You count 7 letters, what do you get? Resh. You count 7 letters, you get Aleph. You count 7 letters, you get Lamed. The word Israel is hidden in the pasuk that speaks about the marriage between Israel and God, which is the 7th day, Shabbat. Yom Hashiv Vayechulu Hashem Eretz. I don't remember exactly which Yud, the Yud of Vayechulu, you can see over there, you try it. It's an equal skip of 7. Why 7? That's the What's the subject? Shabbat is the covenant. That's why if you're not Shomer Shabbat, you are not Jewish according to Halacha. That's it. Doesn't matter your mother is Jewish. Me'chalel Shabbat arei ok egoil choldavar. Even in a Jewish cemetery, you cannot bury him. You have to bury him on the other side of the wall. Why? Because he did not want to enter that covenant with God, which is Shabbat. That's why Shabbat was given to the Jewish nation before the Torah. It has to be a separate covenant. It doesn't have to be part of the Torah. It's also part of the Torah, but it had to have a special significance. That's why Hashem gave the Shabbat before he gave the Torah. So in that case, why we say Elohei Avraham, Elohei Yitzchak, Elohei Yaakov? Elohe Yitzchak, Ve Elohe Yaakov instead of Elohe Yisrael. Ah, something is not adding up here. The answer is because Chazal and Sheikh Neset HaGedolah that wrote the prayers, everything is full of secrets, full. Hundreds of hundreds of secrets inside the prayers. Why this word is 3 times here and this and died, why they use this word and not that word. Can give a one-year lecture just about Filat Shemona Eseret. One of the things they wanted that all three names will give 13 and all the names of the mother also give 13 and together is the name of God. Let's count. Rachel, how many letters? Resh, Chet, Lamed, three. Rivka 4, Sohama 7, Sarah 3, 10. And who else do we have? Sarah, Rivka, Rachel, and Leah together 13. 13 letters. All the 4 mothers, how many letters? 13. Gematria Echad. All the 3 fathers also 13. Avraham 5, Yitzchak 4, it's 9. Yaakov, it's 4, it gives 13. If they would use Israel, it would become 14 and ruin all the secret. That's why they stuck to the original name. If Israel would be— if Hashem would change Yaakov to a name of 4 letters, I assure you that that's the name they they would use, but that would ruin all the secret. So now 13 from the men, 13 from the women, 13 plus 13 equals 26, the name of God. So why don't they mention the women's name as well? What, you became a feminist? No, I'm just asking. Hasidish ask me such a question? I understand if you were from university, you ask me this question, but Hasid not supposed to ask such a question, especially now when the ladies are here. I'm joking. Baruch Atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech HaOlam Shekol Yavivu. It's getting interesting. So the Gemara say two nations are in you. Who? Rabbi, Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi, the President of Israel who wrote the Mishnah. Thanks to him we have the Oral Torah, otherwise we would lose it. And Antoninus. Antoninus. The Gemara says they were both very rich. Rabbi was a billionaire, he lived in a big mansion. He had a long, long, long table full of all great fruits, vegetables, food. Poor people would stand all day and come to eat there. His house was like Beit Hamikru, servicing for free. He had a lot of servants. Rabbi, before he died, he was 120 years old. He's from the descendants of King David. He should have been the Messiah if he would come in his days, the Gemara says. He lived full life, 120 years old, and he was from a royal family of King David, and the biggest Chacham in the world, and the richest. What else do you want? Okay, everything a man needs. And the Gemara says this Antoninus the Goi was also rich, very rich, come from this Romans, they always had on their table— you ready for that? Snon and hazaret. Hazaret, it's lettuce. Snon is radish. Ma? I understand if you say there was a fish and steaks and sushi and caviar. Something a little bit more interesting than radish and lettuce. Well, how much lettuce costs? Go to Costco, you buy 6 pieces like this for $3.50. Less than a dollar apiece. This, imagine you come— I went to— I was a guest by President Trump table. Every day I was there. Unbelievable table. He always had radish and lettuce. Put this guy in a mental house. This is what you pay attention to? To the lettuce and to the radish? To the lettuce, no one? Yeah, talk about the dogs, talk about the caviar, talk about the special meat, something that has value. What do you care about the radish now? No? By now you already know that every word Chazal say, it's big secrets, right? You understand that they didn't mean literally radish and lettuce, right? What's the big deal? Every poor person can have lettuce in his backyard. What's the difference between radish and lettuce and what they symbolize? Each one of them is a symbol to something. First, do you know the difference between them? Huh? Each one of them has good part and the bad part. The part that you eat and the part that you don't eat, meaning the root, right? What's in the ground and what's above the ground. By the letters The part that is in the ground, that's what you cut. You don't eat it, all these strings that comes, the roots. You cut it, you wash very carefully, and you eat the top, what's above the ground. Radish is the other way around. The radish is inside. These pointy things, it's all the way in the ground, and it had all kinds of things that comes out. That's how you pull it out, and you get rid of what's above the ground, meaning half of the vegetable is revealed and half is hidden. One time you eat the hidden and one time you eat the revealed part. By the lettuce, you eat the parts which you see. That's the regular Torah, not Kabbalah, not secrets. The regular Torah is lettuce. The radish is the secrets of the Torah, all the secrets. The Gemara wants to hint, Rabbi and Antoninus, Antoninus made a tunnel, he was rich, he made a tunnel under the ground like the Palestinians do today, all the way to the house of Rabbi. Why does he need to make a tunnel? That the media will not find out that a Roman from the royal family comes to learn by the chief rabbi every day Torah. So he made a tunnel and used to go under the ground and sit with Rabbi all day and learn, learn at a very high level. So the Gemara says in Avodah Zarah page 10 that there was a tunnel from the house of Antoninus to the house of Rabbi. Every day Antoninus would come for years and would sit and learn Torah with Rabbi, and Antoninus asked great questions and Rabbi answered all his questions. Then the Gemara in Masechet Sanhedrin, page 81, the Gemara says that One of the subjects that they learn is when does the evil inclination penetrates the human being. The process of forming a human being is a man and a woman are together tonight. One seed will go into an egg and begin to fertilize the egg and it will become a process of creating life. 40 days after, the Gemara say, this is becoming an official human being. The pulse begins, the brainwaves begin. Up to 40 days, there is still no life. There is preparation for life. 40 days and already a complete baby. Size smaller than a dime. Small human being. A month later, size of a nickel. A month later, size of a quarter. Grow, grow, grow until it becomes 8 pounds a moment before he comes out. But already after 40 days, full life. It's very interesting. In seminars we show how doctors of today say that they begin to detect brain waves and pulse from the 48 days of the pregnancy. And the Gemara, 2,000 years ago, it's written if a woman, lo alenu, lo aleichem, had a miscarriage, how do you know if she's impure or not? Meaning if there was a dead baby or nothing. Maybe it was just a piece of meat. So the Gemara says up to 40 days she doesn't get this kind of impurity yet. From the 40 days and up, she's already impure, meaning life begins at 48 days. This is written clearly in the Gemara. Unbelievable! And today that's exactly what they discovered. Scavenger. 40 days, life begins. So now, so now they are asking, when does the evil inclination enter the baby? Is it in the first night? Is it 10 days later? Is it in the 40th day? Is it when he's about to be born? Is it in his brit milah? When? When does the evil inclination penetrate the body? So the Gemara says, the question is, mishat yetzirah, from the time you're forming life, or from the time of exiting his mother's body? It's a good question. Why? Why it's a good question? Why it relates to our parasha? Let's see who is clever here. The two chachamim, in less than half a second, they already know what I'm talking about. So, very good. We have— it's important to know if you say that the evil inclination enters only when you come out of your mother How is he supposed to get to Yetzer Hara to go to Avodas HaRah? He passed by the church and say, "Hey Father, help me out." How? He don't have Yetzer Hara. If you say that is in a minute that you're formed, that explains. So what would be the answer based on our Parasha? That the Yetzer Hara penetrates When you form. When Antoninus died, Rebbe cried. He said, "Nit parka achavila." The package fell apart. Rashi said that they became best friends. Best friends. So The secret of the radish and the lettuce is Torah ta'Nistar ve'Torah ta'Nigleh. Radish is the Nistar because it's in the ground, what you eat. And lettuce is above the ground. That's what you eat. So they learn not only P'shat, they also learn Kabbalah. That's why Rashi in the Midrash, they write, two nations are inside you. Rebbi and Antoninos. We have Yaakov, Bachur Yeshiva, ish Tam, Yoshevu Haalim. What is the meaning of the word Tam? Huh? There's many, many different ways to explain it. Today in the modern Hebrew Tah means tamim, naive. That's not what the Torah meant. The modern Hebrew and the Torah is not exactly the same because the people who formed the modern Hebrew, the head of them was a very wicked person, Eliezer ben Yehuda HaShem Re'Sha'im Irkav. Although he used Avrechim from yeshivot, paid the money, to help him because they knew all the words in Aramaic in the Talmud. In the end, he was the master of the work. He also had a newspaper, Zionist communist newspaper. And I once told you that somebody gave me a book that was written by a Satmar Talmid Chacham Chasid that showed all the places that the Torah used a word and he in the modern Hebrew used the word and it's the exact opposite translation. It's almost like they did it on purpose that when we speak modern Hebrew we will curse ourselves every day in front of Hashem. Or we're gonna say one word thinking that's what it means which actually means the opposite. I don't want to get into it because he can give you about 50 hours of speech just about that book alone. I, to be honest with you, was shocked. Most people in Israel don't know how to speak the modern Hebrew. Very, very bad with spelling and grammar. And people— I get hundreds of emails every week, maybe thousands of emails for every book in Hebrew from Israel, and even from Israelis that lives here in America. I want to I exaggerate saying that 8 out of 10 is full of spelling mistakes. Even though today the phones fix 90% of the spelling, but they don't— they want to write 'im' with ayin, they write with aleph. When it's supposed to be with aleph, they write with ayin. 'Im' is 'with,' with ayin. 'Im' with aleph, it's 'if.' 'With' and 'if,' two different words. They don't know how to spell. People that went to universities. They have spelling mistakes. Why is it? Why the intelligent high-tech Israelis don't even know how to write simple Hebrew? Why is it? Huh? I'll give you a quiz. When I was in school, in secular school, 8th grade, he would come to me, let me write one month straight, any word you want, you will never find one spelling mistake ever. Not possible. And I was in yeshiva, I was not in yeshiva and not gaon, and I barely learned what they were teaching in school. Today you come to a professor in high tech making a million shekels a year, is requested by Google and Apple and Microsoft Israeli genius. In every letter he would write, you're gonna find few spelling mistakes, and he's much more into learning than what I was when I was in 8th grade or in his age. Nothing to compare. So how did I know to spell, and all my friends almost, and he barely knows how to spell? What changed? One change, that's it. Computer? Back in my time, there was no internet. We didn't have televisions. They only started in Israel, one lousy channel, few hours a day, black and white. There was no computers, no internet, no smartphones. Basically, the only pleasure you had was sport, sport, going to the beach. But if you want to do something at home, reading books. That's the only thing. I used to take from the library 6, 7 books every week, finish them all. All kinds of books. When you read a lot of books, you learn spelling. That's all. That's the only difference. Yeah, I read hundreds of hundreds of books. You learn spelling. It's a matter of practice. Nobody reads books today. You know, the internet, computer, nobody reads. Sometimes I tell people, come, I give you my book. No, I'm not into reading. This is an academic, doesn't have patience to read a book. Give me something to watch. People have no patience. That's why half of the kids are on Ritalin. Ritalin. You know the story with Yaakov and the ritalin, no? You remember or no? Don't remember? Ah, it's too long. We'll move on. So what does it mean, ishtam? Ishtam means innocent, not a crook, not a snake. Doesn't mean he's naive. He knows what the world But he's not into it. I don't want to be a snake. I don't want to deceive people. I don't want to push. Let me be on the side with my Gemara, and I'm in the hand of Hashem. That's what Yaakov is. Was Yaakov naive? Not at all. He just tricked who? Yitzchak, pretending he's Esav. You can't be naive. Naive and do such an act. Later he said to Rachel, your father is a crook, right? Lavan is a crook. Lavan ha'arami, Lavan ha'aramai, Naval ha'aramai. Don't worry, I know how to handle with crooks. Im Naval, Tik Naval. It's written in Tehillim, in the Tanakh. You're dealing with a deceiver. Deceive him to get what you deserve. You understand or no? Let's say you're working for your boss and he's a crook. He always cheats you on a commission. If you have a way to trick him and get extra $2,000 out of him for the money he steals from you on a commission, you're allowed or not allowed? Mitzvah. Im naval, titnaval. As long as you don't take more than what you deserve. That's where the problem begins. With the food comes the appetite. Imah ochel ba ta'avon. The Gemara asks if a person can do judgment to himself. If a person can do judgment for himself, meaning somebody owes you money, you come to his house, knock on the door, he opened the door, he sees you, he's about to close the door, push the door, Give him one knockout to his face, knock him on the floor, go inside, look for the cash. He owe you $5,000, you found things that worth $5,000, you take it and you go home. Did you break the rules of the Torah or not? Huh? Shavi inish din al enaf shedig marahas. That's machloket. It's not so simple. One opinion say yes, allowed. One opinion say not allowed. But everyone agree if it comes to your hand naturally, then you can keep it. Meaning, I'll give you an example. This guy owe you money and he either pretend he doesn't remember or he really doesn't remember. And he say to you, I want my son learning in Israel and I understand you're going to Israel. 'Hey, can you give him this envelope? Be careful, there's $1,000 inside.' And he owes you $2,000. For sure he owes you. You take the money, say, 'Thank you, now you owe me only $1,000.' What? Yeah, now you have the money. He cannot get it out of you. But to come and attack him and get it out of him, that's already Machloke. Do it, to break into his house and take it. But if it comes to your hand, you got lucky, it's yours. It's okay. So now Yaakov knew how to trick Lavan. If somebody owes you money and they can't afford to pay, you're not supposed to harass them to give you the money. That's a different story. If you know for sure they cannot afford, but today somehow they cannot afford to pay but they can afford a plaza plasma size of a building in every one of the rooms, and they can also afford 3 nice cars in the driveway and 3 trips a year to the Bahamas and Florida and St. Martin, now it's Dubai. Somehow they cannot— people somehow cannot pay back what they owe, but they can afford everything else. We just have to be careful because Rambam says that we have to look for saras. What the Torah say. Rambam only tell you what the Torah say. The Torah say you can— not only that, better than that, the Torah say something even greater. The Torah say if a poor person took from you a loan and he gave you a collateral, what's the collateral? His donkey, meaning his car in our days. But he's an Uber driver. He's working with a donkey. He rides people from place to place. So now He has to give you the donkey every night when he goes to sleep because at night he doesn't use the donkey. So he parks the donkey in your driveway and in the morning he comes get it. Why? This is your collateral. So you cannot hold it and not let him use it, telling him, I'm sorry, I'm selling the donkey and I'm taking what you owe me. Why? How is he gonna make a living? So the Torah is saying sensitive to people that borrow and it's hard for them to pay. But, or if you know for sure he doesn't have, let's say we really know. You heard that he went bankrupt, or I don't know, the bank froze his assets, it's really going bad. Doesn't matter, he may have a fancy car but doesn't have money to put gas in it. I met few people with a fancy car over the years that could not afford gas. One minute they were rich, a year later they were poor. You know, I don't have to tell you, it can be very fast. I just heard about someone in Israel that went and built the most beautiful home in Israel. 40 million shekels cost him to build. Cost him to build. You never saw a house like this. I don't think in Beverly Hills they have houses like this. Well, maybe I'm exaggerating, but for Israel, wow. Huge pool comes out of the ground, all this extra— I don't know how people see it and make up all this. Now, for whatever reason, he's under pressure. The house is for sale for a third below the market, third of the price. It's already 20-something from 40. Why is it? When a person is under stress, the genius Professor for boxing, Mike Tyson, the genius, sold a house with 60 bedrooms. 60 bedrooms for $4 million when it's worth $100,000. Because he needed the money in few hours today. He gave a house with 60 bedrooms. You know what 60 bedrooms Where do you find a hotel for $4 million today with 60 rooms? He needed money today for being genius. Genius always need money from now to next hour. So he sold it for, for $4 million. Now I heard another genius, Paul Simon, the singer, has a house somewhere with big acreage. You can run over there for 30 minutes and you don't get out of the property. That's the reason he bought that house for $17 million somewhere in upstate, that him and his wife can jog every day without being in public territory, that nobody bothers them. So they wanted a big place that they can run. So they bought some big mansion somewhere already for sale from 17 to 11. Give it another 6 months, it will go down to 7. All the luxury homes are crushed now in the market. Who wants to buy a house for 20, 30 million? Gotta be crazy. Even if you have the money, who knows where we're gonna be in 6 months. The world is shaking. Any minute it can come to an end with riots. Who knows what can happen over here? People are afraid. Everyone trying to get rid of the fancy homes. There's no buying, no buyers. In Israel— One other thing I just wanted to clarify with the— if it's a Jew that owes you the money, you're not supposed to harass. But if it's a Jewish person that's owed money by a non-Jewish person, he's supposed to actually push in to get the money back. That's the first topic. The Torah always, the Torah always separate between your brothers and not your brother. Always the same thing with interest, brother or not brother. One way or the other, what I'm saying is that sometimes a simple home will cost almost like a house that is 10 times more valuable. Why? Because there's no market for the expensive expensive one. Why? Why? After all, you buy a house for $1 million in Queens, tiny house, you drive 10 minutes to Long Island, a house that is 5 times bigger and fancier is $1.5 million or $1.3 million. It doesn't make sense. Taxes. Biden is hungry. He wants taxes. But that's different taxes. This is the town taxes. Real estate tax, school tax, police, this, that. How much you have to pay? In Queens you pay $12,000. Over there you pay $60,000. You pay $60,000. Nobody wants. Go see New Jersey, what mansions you have under $2 million. To build them cost $4 million out of pocket and there are for sale for $2 million and nobody buys. Do you know this comedian Eddie Murphy? He bought a house in Englewood for $30 million and offered it for $15 million and nobody was interested. You have to see this place surrounded with walls and cameras. It's the size of 3 soccer fields. Nobody buys. Why? Probably the taxes over there is $300,000 a year on that house. Who wants to pay $30 million or $15 million and still spend $30 million just taxes plus gardeners and people and servants and construction? And it'll be a million dollars to keep a house like this. You understand? It's not realistic. The world is coming to a new place, new time, new times. The fancy 20 years that we've been here or 12 years since 2008 until now, it's over. Now we are in a whole new world now. We'll see how we survive the new— regardless of Democrats or not, even before, just when the corona started, you already knew where Hashem is pushing the world to. Hashem destroyed the fancy weddings, destroyed the fancification, destroyed the hotels, destroyed the Manhattan. Manhattan is totally destroyed. Everybody leaves Manhattan. Thousands of people left Manhattan already. Thousands of apartments are empty in Manhattan. Rent came down 40%. Value of homes 40%. In Israel, increase in bankruptcies this year 41%. Increase. That's so far. That means people using their savings. Another 6 months, it's gonna be another huge increase. Almost everybody's bankrupt besides some food businesses that sell and do takeouts. Almost everyone goes bankrupt. Hashem is bringing the world down on their knees. Remember, we've been speaking about it for the last 20 years. This is now the time. Everybody will come come down on their knees, everyone. Even if you have a lot of savings, what are you gonna do with that? What are you gonna do, buy a fancy car? Immediately you'll become a target. Can I have over here 3 million hungry people in New York that walks around with guns and knives because the police is basically worthless because they cut their wings? The police have no incentive to risk their life. There's gonna be an anarchy over here. Let's see you driving with a yarmulke with a fancy Lexus or fancy I don't know what. Let's see how long you'll survive when you have so many hungry wolves on the street looking for piece of bread to bring home. You're not gonna resist when they come to you, take, take, whatever you want, take, just take whatever you want, take the car, take. You know how much insurance what it costs with the new crime rates. Now you pay $6,000 on 2, 3 cars because you have maybe a few teenagers that just got their license, you may go up to $20,000. They're not gonna want to insure you, especially if you have sport cars. If you buy a Toyota Camry and you buy an Infiniti for the same exact price they cost, same exact price, small Infiniti and a Toyota Camry, same value. The Infiniti is double insurance. Why? Huh? The thieves love that. It's a sport car. They don't love Camry. Camry is for ladies and old men like me. I have it, right? You see, Camry, 4-cylinder. You press the gas, you're not sure if the car is on or not. It's just not moving. So A thief, 20 years old, what does he want? To go to the club with a Camry or with a BMW or an Infiniti? Doesn't matter the value. It's nothing to do with the value of the car. It's which cars they steal. Lexus, Infiniti, BMW, Mercedes. That's what— why a guy is stealing a car? He wants to come to the girl and pretend it's his. Hey, what's up? Let's hope he's gonna have money for gas. You understand, Rabotai? That's the new world. Ya'ami miyagido, tov Yaakov ishtam, is a bachur yeshiva, Esav is a hunter. We know the story. They grew up. Yaakov is a good person. He has good midot. The bet ha'meer It's an admiral from Ostrovica, probably one city in Europe. He brings a very good point here. So Esav has everything a person needs to succeed in life. He's a handyman, he's a hardworking person, he's aggressive, he's athletic, right? He comes from a very important family, so he can present himself, I'm the prince, I'm the son of Yitzchak, the grandson of Avraham, the man of God, you have everything you need. The son of Donald Trump, you have connections. So first of all, Parnassah, he has no problem, he can always hunt, right? So there's no problem, he knows how to do it, he's very strong also, nobody will mess with him. Yaakov, actually from the way he looks, he's in a situation He can't send him to a bachur yeshiva with Gemara, with his little jacket. What does he know? He knows how to walk. He can't walk in the Delhi even. Ask him, go walk in Delhi in the summertime. He can't make a sandwich. What does he know? He knows how to learn Torah, that's it, and be a tzaddik. When you look at them and you have to guess who is going to be a millionaire in 10 years from now, who would you put your money on? Technically, Esav, right? Reality is, what was the end of both of them? Let's see what was the end of them. What was the end? Yitzchak wanted to bless his son Esav, give him the blessing the blessing of all the wealth, if he would get it until the end of time, right? Then basically the whole world will be his. Yaakov will get nothing. But Hashem turned it around that the blessing went to Yaakov, and who in the end have the main wealth in the world? The children of Yaakov. One of the claims that the antisemite has against the Jews that they are powerful, control the world, they have money, right? So sometimes you hear other goyim that defend the Jews and say, what do you want, the Jews have money because they deserve it. But they say the truth, but the reason is incorrect. The Jews got it because Hashem blessed them. The way the goyim explain They explain the Jews have money because they go to university, they get education, they're lawyers, doctors, judges, you know, architects, engineers. They make money. What do you want? They're hardworking people. They invest in education. They make money. Wrong. There's a lot of educated people who barely pay rent. There's a lot of ignorant Jews who make millions. They sell watermelons in Shuk HaKarmel. They bring a big truck, 5,000 watermelons, make 15 shekels on each one. That's a one-day profit. That's besides the cucumbers and tomatoes and grapes. Buckets, all day, 50,000 shekels a day like this, cash, all cash. Ask him to write one sentence in Hebrew. There is 50 letters in a sentence, he will make 52 spelling mistakes. But Hashem wants that this genius will be a billionaire eventually. There was one guy like this. He has a chain of supermarkets in Israel, became one of the richest guys in Israel. Started from a small mini market. Hashem decided that this guy— now he also owns a cellular phone company. One thing leads to another. He's a genius, he went to university. Nothing. How many doctors in Israel are genius scientists working, inventing vaccines, all kinds of things, DNA, that, whatever you want? How much they make here? How much? $3,000 a month. That's it. Professors. How much a teacher makes in Israel? Math teacher, genius, $2,000 a month. How much a soccer player make? $200,000 a month for knowing how to kick a piece of leather. Boom! The professor, excuse me, can you help me out here? The professor in university, yeah, but I can't pay my rent. What are you doing? I know how to kick a ball. $200,000 a month. Look at the NBA, see. The guy plays in Manhattan basketball, somebody comes, he knows how to jump. Come, they want you to play for us, 10 million a year. Then they see, oh, he knows how to jump, come advertise Corn Flakes for us or sneakers, another 50 million. It's very interesting because they make tens of millions and they're all broken in. They spend more than what they make. It's crazy. Why? You need someone to— some of them, they had some good Jewish accountant that knew how to invest the money, they became billionaires. But the other ones, after 20 years, they broke. What happened? All the money went here, there, shtruyot. So there was a king, his name was the Sultan of Abd el-Hamid from Turkey in the time of the Ottoman Empire. Remember his name, Abd el-Hamid. He lived in a capital city named Kushta. What Kushta means? To emess. Emess. Era B'ra, the capital city, it's called the truth. That's the name of the city. The Jewish people were all mourning the death of their loved chief rabbi of those days. They did not know who to nominate to take his place, so they brought few names and they begin to argue. Who should they vote for? One of the leaders of the community got up and said, why don't we include the Chacham Moshe Levi? There was one very innocent Chacham, what we call today naive. Moshe Levi was his name. Moshe Levi. And everybody was against it. Ah, no, it's not He's not sharif, he's not sharp. He's too down to earth. You need somebody sharp. Yes, he's a very big tzaddik, no question about it, but you need somebody with some spice. You know, like Hussein Obama fooled everyone with his speech. That's what you need. So they begin to argue and they say, listen, if we're not mistaken, he's even stuttering. His speech is so bad that he can't even speak fluent. So they say, but Moshe Rabbeinu also stuttered and Hashem decided to make him the leader of the world, the biggest in history, and was the biggest prophet. And no one will ever reach his level. I suggest you add HaKham Moshe Levi to the list. You have nothing to lose. They said, okay, we'll make a lottery. We'll put him in the list, but we're gonna make a lottery. Who came out? HaKham Moshe Levi. He came out. They went crazy. No cheating! Cheating! Scam! Election scam! Ballots! The computer, the software. Giuliani will teach you now how to do it right. So the people started to say, no, no, but Moshe Levy got the vote. No, we're not gonna let it happen. So that happened. He said, okay, we'll do it again. If his name will come again, you gotta let go. Well, no, let's do it. They did it again, and again he came out, and again they refused to let him be the rabbi. Just like the Democrats, they will never let you. They always find something. So they said, okay, we'll do it a third time, but you have to swear this time that that's it, if his name comes again, you will never argue. So yeah, 3 times we will know already Chazakai, it's from Shamayim. His name came up for the 3rd time, Rabotai, 3 times. What do you want Hashem, to come and dance for you? 3 times his name came up. They got very upset, but they had some Emunah, these people. Today they will already go to the Supreme Court, the gods. So they decided, okay, mabrouk, Chacham Moshe Levi, you are the chief rabbi of Kushda. Top. What's the rules over there when a chief rabbi is elected? What's the first thing he has to do? Go to the king. And asked the king for a meeting and dressed very nice for the king. Rav Moshe was excited. "Wow, I never saw the king in my life. Wow, I'm going to the house of the king. It's very exciting." When he came, he was so nervous because he was the Ishtan Yoshevo Alim. He was so nervous that the king looked at him, he says, "Everything okay with you, Rabbi? You look too sad." —supposed to be happy coming to me. He said, what can I say to the king? Our community's account is totally empty. There's no money to pay mandatory expenses, not to talk about for the rabbis. It's such a hard time, Corona, you know. The king said, don't worry, Rabbi. We can help, we brothers. We will give every month 50 lira, Turkish lira. It's like $50,000 today a month for expenses to the Jews. In Iran, they also give money to the shuls. Why? Why? To show the world we are not anti-Semite, we are not against Jewish people, we are against the wicked Israeli communist secular Zionists. We have no problem with the religious Persian Jews. Not only that, we give them money. Khomeini, the Nazi, gave the Jewish community money and they have freedom of religion. Let's ask one question. You don't have to answer, just remember this question. Where do you think is much, much easier to raise religious kids? In Iran or in Israel? Where do you think the kids will be more religious with more modesty and more Jewish ideology close to the Torah? In Iran surrounded by all these Muslims Muslims around, with no internet, with no bad signs on the street, with no naked women everywhere, with no liberalism and gay party and gay parades and all kinds of other things that you find everywhere else in the world, or in a fancy-schmancy places like Europe, America, Israel, etc.? You don't have to answer, just think about the question. So we're gonna give you 50 lirot from the treasury for the expense of the chief rabbi's office. After they spoke, they blessed each other for peace, and Rav Moshe left. And he came back to the community, Baruch Hashem, I got out of the king 50 lirot every month for our expense. They were very happy. Wow, what a miracle! The Muslim king gave us 50 lire every month. Oh, what a miracle! Everybody said, you see, we chose Chacham Moshe Levi, it already pays off. Money talks. Everybody's happy. After a few weeks, the Rabbi Moshe Levi goes to sleep and he has a horrible dream. In the dream, he sees the assistant of the king serving him coffee. And the coffee has horrible poison inside. 5 AM, he woke up in the morning quickly before he even went to shul. He ran to the palace, knocking on the door. The guards opened. Yes? I need to meet the king. 5 AM, middle of the night, it's dark, it's an emergency. Rabbi, with all due respect, we never dare to wake up the king. It's life and death for the king. Call him. Trust me, it's gonna pay off. They got nervous. They went to the king and said, the chief rabbi here, he says it's a matter of life and death. The king right away asked him, yes, rabbi. Comes like this with his pajama. What happened, rabbi? He said, I had that dream that one person will put poison in your coffee. Please 'Be careful when they serve you the coffee. Make sure you get very careful not to drink.' The king said, 'I appreciate you coming so early to warn me. Thank you.' An hour later, 2 hours later, they bring the king breakfast with a coffee. He said to the guy, 'Bro, come, come here. Joe, here, drink it. Biden, drink.' No, no, I'm only serving. Drink! What is he gonna say? He drank it. After he drank it, he said, "Hello, Michigan." He was in Florida. The poison started to confuse him and he fell and died. Right away the king, the king was shocked. Wow, if the rabbi wouldn't come, I'll be dead now. Vaismach ha'melech merod, the king was very happy and he sent a huge treasure to Rabbi Moshe Levi for the Jewish community and with nice letter that they have the best rabbi ever. And Moshe Levi became a legend in the Turkish community in the time of the Ottoman Empire. Why did I tell you this story? It's similar to Yaakov. Did he know how to make business? No. Does he know how to hunt? No. Does he know how to be a farmer? No. What does he know? To learn Torah. What else do you know? Just this. Where I live, there's a very big rabbi, big tzaddik, pure, you know, like you can see right away, that's it, that's what it means to be a rabbi of a community. When he was a teenager, 18, 19, They offered him a shidduch. He went to go on a shidduch, the daughter of a rich man. And the rich man met him and he said to him, if you marry my daughter, what are your financial plans? How are you going to support her? He said, my plans is to sit and learn Torah all my life. He said to him, yeah, this part I understand. I also want you to learn Torah. But for instance, how would you buy a house? How would you buy a car? How would you raise children and send them to yeshiva? He said, I want to learn Torah and Hashem yazo, Hashem will take care of all the rest. He said, but don't you want to do something? Maybe you'll be a sofer, maybe you'll sell tefillin, mezuzot, maybe something. No. I don't want to waste time on anything about this world. Just learn Torah non-stop. Learn Torah, teach Torah. Learn Torah, that's all I want to do. Okay, we'll get back to you. This guy is going to a place of fancy rich people. He has a friend also very rich. You're not gonna believe what the Chatzuf was dating my daughter yesterday. I asked him, what do you want to do? He said nothing. I want to just learn Torah. I hinted to him, fine, you learn Torah, but you got to do some Michtadlut, make Parnassah. So he's basically telling me in my face, you will pay for my expenses while I'm learning Torah. Can you believe it? He doesn't even pretend. The other rich guy says in his heart, that's exactly what I'm looking for, someone that wants 'Only Torah.' 'Wow, what was the name of that guy?' Told him the name. So the next day called the Shatranim, 'I want you to set up this guy with my daughter.' Right away they set up the shidduch, perfect, they got married. The years went by, this rich guy give him money, whatever. He had a shul and now even a bigger shul. I'm just thinking to myself sometimes when I remember that someone told me that story, what does the first father, what does he think every time he comes to Davendeer or he hears about his speeches that hundreds of people walk 2 hours to listen to him on Shabbos from all over? What does he think? After all, big deal, so you would spend another million dollars in the last 20 years. People that have many of those, big deal, would you even feel any difference? It was just the ego. The ego is that I'm telling you in your face, you're not doing me a favor by sponsoring me. I am doing you a favor because that's what Hashem says in the Torah. The one that learns Torah and you support him, you think thanks to me learns Torah, thanks to him you are alive, thanks to him you make money, and the most important thing is thanks to him you're gonna have a very good place in the eternal world. So who does a favor to who? You have to kiss his hands every day. Yes. I had one time in my life the merit to receive a check from one of the richest Jews in the world. I met him in a place, he came to me, multi-billionaire. He came to me and he said, "I'm very happy with what you did in the community over here. I want to start helping monthly." I said to myself, "That's not happening. It never happened before." It's not happening, it can't be. He wrote to me a check, $10,000, said, "Bli neder, I'll give every month." Never happened, don't get too excited. Better one than nothing. But when he gave me the check, grabbed my hand and started to kiss my hand, like this, I felt very bad. It's like a little woman in a big house. It was a part of the engagement 'Kiss my hand like this.' He said, 'Excuse me.' He said, 'No, believe me, I know that you are doing me much bigger favor than I'm doing to you.' Question is, what happened a month later? Satan is already a genius. He already found out what to tell him. But for someone in that level, To say such thing and to believe in it with such excitement, that's rare. Usually it's the other way around. Oh, you need money? What do you need it for? How do I know this? And how do I know that? And are you sure? Okay, let me think about it. Come back next week. 10 times you come, in the end he gives you $180. That's usually how it goes. Over here, different way. Chaval, chaval, only one time. So, better, like I said, better something than nothing. But we're not talking about the amount. We're talking now about the concept. What he said was 100% the truth. Yes, he has Baruch Hashem, but well, he gives here, he gives there. The people that receive from him If they do something good, they are doing him a favor. Where is it? You know, if a person has billions of dollars and no financial advisor is willing to invest the money for him, everywhere I go, "No, no, we don't want to take money from him. What is he going to do with the money?" Money brings money if he has someone who knows how to invest it and double his money every 2, 3 years. So who does a favor to who? The one who invests the money and makes him all the profit profits or the one who gives them the money? The one that creates profits on their money, right or wrong? That's it. Imagine the rich guy say, oh, you have to thank me very much for investing my money by you. I made you 300% profit every year. I have to thank you for the 3% commission I took. Do you understand the concept? By the way, it's not only rabbis, it's also a regular ordinary poor person. The Gemara says when the poor person takes money from the rich, he does a favor to the rich, not the other way around. So either you believe in God or you don't. If you say that you are religious and you believe Hashem and you believe the Torah, that's the way you must look at it. The poor one who just took money from the rich did a huge favor to him. It may save his life, may save him from sicknesses, may God his children great Shiddukhim all the time. 100% because it's written, "Tatzil Mimavet." By the way, the Roman Caesar asked the Chachamim, "If your God loved the poor people so much, why didn't he make them also rich?" Rabbi Akiva told him, to save us from hell. By them coming to us and we give them, it saves us. If everyone will be rich, how the rich people will get saved from hell? There would be no way. Like this, we give the Tzedakah and it saves us from Gehinnom. How many times Gehinnom is mentioned in the Gemara? Who knows? Very good. 23 times. So in case you want to become a university liberal speaker, remember when you come to deny there is such a thing as Ein Om, there's 100 sources in the Talmud who will contradict your nonsense. So think if you want to become an infidel before you begin to speak sh'tuyot. Now Yaakov is giving a sav, lechem en n'zida ad Hashem. We have a few more minutes, let's take advantage. The Gemara in Masechet Yevamot, page 106. A person walks in a boiling desert. The sun is on his head. The floor is also boiling. Steam comes from the ground. That's how hot it is. No shade. He's tired, thirsty. Hungry, he dragged himself barely. All of a sudden, hotel in the middle of nowhere. Hotel! Oh my gosh, hotel right here in the middle of nowhere. He ran quickly into the hotel. Give me food, please. No problem, sir, the waiter say. I'll be right with you, but you should know, check the menu first because the price prices here are very high. Remember, you're in the desert. Check first the prices. You see a bottle of water over there, $50. Ma, I buy it in Costco for 20 cents. $50? I'd rather die than pay $50 on this bottle. He begins to argue with the waiter. What is this? Chicken $500, bottle $50. What is this, gold? Sir, you're forgetting. You big crooks! Say you're forgetting. We are in the middle of nowhere, and does you know how difficult it is to bring all the food here and the drink and the refrigerators and to build the hotel here? We don't have even electric here. We have to bring generators to build the place. It's a 10 times harder operation. It has to be more expensive. You have a baker's store in Manhattan, it has to be double than in Queens because the rent is triple. Who's gonna pay the rent? You want to pay the same price? It's not working that way. So the bill came out to hundreds of dollars. The person refused to pay. He said, but I warned you in advance and you still are there. He said, yes, of course, I was in a situation of pikuach nefesh. 'You must give me food for free. You cannot let me die. You're not a murderer. If you would not let me eat, I would die. So I had to lie to you that I will pay, that you give me the meal and the drink, that I should not die. Now after I ate and I'm not gonna die, I refuse to pay.' Huh? Wow. The waiter told him, That's almost convinced me. There's only one problem. What is the problem? The problem is the first slice of water and the first bottle of water, that's for the pikua h'nefesh. Everything else you ate was for the stomach, not for pikua h'nefesh. So we'll take off one slice of bread and and one bottle of water, that was for Pikuach Nefesh. What about the chicken and the steak and the dessert and that and this and the drink and the beer? For what? Ketchup? What was that? Also Pikuach Nefesh! Same thing with Yaakov and Esav. Esav comes, he sees Yaakov making a lentil soup. It was the day that Avraham Avinu passed away, so they mourned. Give me, give me, open up his mouth, pour in my mouth. He said to him, wait, wait, my friend, what do you mean? He said, I want you to shake my hand and sell me your bechorah, sell me your share. I'm gonna be the firstborn from now. So Esav drank and Esav told him, "Ha, you really think I meant it? I was just hungry. I came from the field. I was hungry." It's written in a pasuk, "Vayakov natan le'Esav lechem unezida adashim." "Nezida adashim" means lentil soup. "Lechem" means bread. Esav asked for only for the lentil soup. Aliteni me'adomada. He didn't ask for bread. Why Yaakov gave him bread? Why? The lentil soup for the claim that he's about to give me, my crooked brother, that I was under pikuach nefesh and I needed to eat, otherwise I would die. The bread is already extra. So if you sell me the story for the lentil soup, why did you eat all the bread? What for? Or if you ate the bread, then you didn't need the lentil soup. You don't need both. You have 2 lentils and you have bread. You're in Pikuach Nefesh and you don't have money. So you come to a person, I'm dying, I'm dying, I'm starving. Okay, eat something. So you eat either this or this. You don't need both. You're not paying. So Yaakov knew Esav will say the sale is not binding. Why? Because you took advantage on my misery. You're not supposed to take advantage on a person that is in crisis. That's how you want to make the deal? Taking advantage on my situation? Yaakov says, G-d say to him, yes, that's why I gave you extra bread, that when you come and claim such a thing, the bread, it was extra, it was not mandatory. After 48 years, Yitzchak wants to give bracha to Esav, ask him to bring food. Okay, we know the story. Once Esav found out what Yaakov did, he screamed. Big scream, marad me'od, very bitter from pain. And he said, that's why his name is Yaakov. Yaakov means me'akev, delay. He delayed me twice. One time he stole my bechora, and now he stole my blessing. I don't get it. He did not steal the bechora from him. He actually bought it. There was an agreement. You gave it to him. You want it. You say anyway you don't believe in Olam Haba. You don't believe in Olam Haba. Let me enjoy the soup. Who cares? He also made fun. The Gemara, we need to know the secrets here. Not everything is written in the Chumash. The Gemara tells you the secrets behind the scene. Rabbi, also in the Zohar HaKadosh, it also tells the secrets that it had to fix from the Nachash in Gan Eden. This was done by trickery, so there also had to be some trickery now. That's already the radish. We are now in the lettuce. Very good. So now you got it. So now he wants the soup and he makes fun. 'Take the bechorah, who cares about bechorah?' He's such a fool, you agree? On bechorah, he was selling? Okay. Rav Chetzke Levinstein Zatzal, he said, 'When the soup is on the table, the Olam HaBa looks very small and neglected, not desirable.' Great shul emperors. Who remembers the Olam Haba when you're hungry and the cholent is served? Maybe the meat is not Bet Yosef, maybe it's not even glatt kosher, maybe it's not even Rabbanut, maybe it's not, maybe, look at the yarmulke of your host, size of a nickel. Someone like this will give you kosher meat? There is a little doubt here. He doesn't seem to have such Mirach Shama'im with the holes in his jeans knees. Something is fishy with this guy. Why would you risk your Olam Haba'ah eating that shulen? Why don't you say, "Oh, I'm sorry, I have to run to the bathroom." Make an excuse to save your Neshamah. The Rambam came to house of a modern guy who gave him meat. And the Rambam said to him— no, not the Rambam, it was someone else. One rabbi of our generation, he came to a house of a modern guy and he gave him meat and he said, "I'm sorry, the doctor told me that I'm not allowed to eat." When they left the house, his shamash told him, "Rabbi, you're sick? I didn't know. You never go to doctors. What doctor?" He said, "I had in mind the Rambam." Rambam was also a doctor and he writes you cannot eat by someone that has no Iratz Chayim. How are you going to trust this Shrita? Big deal. When the meat is on the table or the lentil soup, the Olam HaBa looks very far away and not important. The problem is when the soup is finished The Olam Haba looks very big and desirable. Why? Why people forget Olam Haba? Let's think for a second. Well, first, why people will deny the next world? It's very logical, very logical, because the world was created and the Torah is divine and the Torah has hundreds of verses that say that the righteous people will get their reward later on and the wicked will get cash to get rid of them. The Gemara is full of examples. The smartest people in the history of the world was these sages, rabbis who lived according to that concept. And all of a sudden, some rotten modern Jew over here in the 21st century who challenge all the truth of 3,300 years and forgot that millions of Jews stood in Mount Sinai and heard the voice of God and receive the Torah in a public event. All of a sudden he knows better than all of them. No, he has to deny. He wants to eat the steak. He wants to date Christine. The only way to do it now is to deny. Don't believe in it. Leave me alone with your sh'tuyot. I'm not religious. I'm not Hasidish. Why are you talking to me about Hasidism? Hasidut? Do I look like a Hasid? Why are you talking to me about Zionists? I'm not Satmar. There's always going to be an excuse. Once the desire is over, the truth comes right back. As long as the desire is boiling, you forget about the truth. That's the rule by every human being. Few are able always to overcome the desire and stay stick to the truth. Why don't you eat? I'm dying to eat, but I can't. God forbid there's a chance 1 to 100 that the meat is not kosher. I will contaminate my soul, eat non-kosher meat. But I'm dying to eat. Look, look, my saliva is dripping. My stomach is grinding. I did not eat 2 days. Nothing I would love more than to eat now. I paid $1,000 if I could to make it kosher. One person came to Rav Eliyahu Shevesatzal and he said to him, Rabbi, this tefillin is questionable. I paid $1,500 for it. This was 30 years ago. Expensive. I would give it to him for half the price, but no, he paid a lot of money. Money. And then once he showed Rav Eliashiv the filling, the phone started to ring. And what did he say? He said, I took it to two Sofrim. One say kosher, one say not kosher. Yavo ashlichiv ve'achri habenehem. That's why I come to the biggest rabbi in the world, Rav Eliashiv. Tell me, kosher or not kosher? Rav Eliyahu Sheveshiv checked. He told him, "Kasher be'dieveded." You know what it means, "Kasher be'dieveded"? It's not lechatkhila. To begin with is not kosher, but after the fact, you have some opinions to count on to make it kosher. There's nothing else. Better you put this than something, and there's nothing. So, "Sh'tabach Shemot." So it's good. And he was about to leave and Rav Eliyahu Sheves yelled, "It's kosher bedieved!" "No? You want every day of your life to be bedieved? Not afraid?" "Perfectly kosher." He didn't say it's for sure not kosher. Maybe according to one or two opinions. So, you're not afraid? Where is your Hirashamayim? We look at that guy and think, what a loser. We're nothing better than him. The difference is he had a weakness to money. He didn't want to spend another $1,500 and buy another pair of tefillin. And we have a weakness in other things. Not everybody is greedy. Some people are not dying for money. But they will do it for women or for vacation or for sport or for movies or for who knows what, or politics or Lashon Hara. Look what's happening in our communities, how many wars in average day. Disaster, a disaster. So everyone, everyone has his own weakness. The weakness of woman Well, it's definitely a weakness of Shimon. He can't compare. He compares from his point of view and he compares from his point of view. It's not the same. You make fun at him for making such a, such a sin or disease. Look at this guy, what a loser. Something like this you cannot keep. And he looks at you like you are the loser. Look at him what he cannot keep. In the end, desire just justify every excuse you can find. But the desire is over. There's no more motive to modify the Torah anymore. Right now, they wanted to go with the Goyim, so they made the Golden Calf. If the Goyim would say to them, we don't want you, get out of here, you filthy people, go back to your place. Don't come here anymore. So they cannot go with the Goyim. They would come and smash the Golden Calf. Why did we do it? Because we wanted to justify going with the Goyim, but the Goyim don't want. What do we need the stupid Golden Calf? But 2 weeks ago you say it's great, this is the God that took you out of Egypt. Do you really think I believe in it, you fool? I just needed an excuse to go to the Goyim. That's why I took off my peyot and and all the beard and the sombrero and the frock. But now there is no reason. Give me back the frock, the beard goes back. Why? There's no reason. That's what life is. Desire clouds the judgment and buries the truth. So Yitzchak, he needs to give a blessing now after 48 years. Rav Chatzkel Levinstein saying once Esav came and the soup finished, all of a sudden he does want the Olam Haba. Now he's standing in front of Yitzchak, he stole my Olam Haba! Just before you said get out of here you and your Olam Haba. Give me the soup. Take your Olam Haba. Where should I sign? Here, here, take, give me the soup. Now you finish the soup, give me back the olam haba. No, deal is a deal. Come on, I wasn't serious. He stole my olam haba. He goes all over social media, my brother is a thief. Don't do business with him, he's a crook. Why? That's what life is all about. The stipler found the source for it In Parashat Bereshit, from Adam and Chava, Adam and Eve. Chava, the snake convinced her that if she eats from the tree, nothing will happen. You're gonna be like God, you know everything, you're not gonna die. And he pushed her on a tree. You see, you touch the tree, nothing happened. I'm telling you, nothing's gonna happen. I ate, I'm alive. You can eat. After she ate, she ran quickly to give to Adam. Why? Why would you want your man also to be a genius? You open up your eyes and you see things that you didn't understand before, right? You just found out you're not mother as this. Obviously it affected you. Why would you want to make him also smart? Better you control him, no? Ah, if today there was a pill that a woman takes and it makes her super genius and controlling her husband. Gershon, on the floor. Yes, dear, whatever you say. She said, wait, Gershon, I bought one pill for you also. She give it to him, as soon as he take it, who you told me to sit on the floor? Come here. No, no, don't get angry. Why would she do it to herself? She's a feminist, no? She wants to run the world. She ran to give Adam HaRishon the stifle, say why? Hazal say that I don't want to die alone. If it will work what God say and I will die, I don't want him to stay here without me and marry a different woman. I'm taking you with me to hell. One woman, she was very obnoxious, very bad woman, dirty mouth, screaming, yelling, not cooking, not doing anything. One time somebody gave her a CD. I don't want to tell you the name of the speaker. She put it in the car and she drove home and she heard that 3 things saves a person from hell. One of the three is if he has a bad obnoxious wife. As soon as she heard that, she said, "What? I'm gonna save this lowlife from hell?" She came home, became an angel. "Well, you sure it's you and not your twin sister? You okay? Let me check your fever." "Sarah, it's you? Sarah?" 'Yes, honey, what do you want?' 'How would you like your burger today? Should I make you french fries in the oven, fried? How do you like it? Do you like Israeli salad? You want Caesar salad? Talk to me.' 'What? Am I dreaming? Maybe I'm dead already.' What happened? She realized, 'I better be nice to him.' that he's not gonna go to heaven. That's the only way. Let me suffer and be nice. You understand? It's like that person that Eliyahu Hanavi came to him and he had a neighbor that they hated each other. He said, today it's your lucky day. Everything you ask, I'll give you. In one condition, whatever you ask, I give your neighbor double. He said, "Oh yeah? Please poke my eye." Poke one eye, he went to the other one, poked both of his eyes. Why? I'd rather be blind in one eye as long as my enemy will be totally blind. That's called in the Torah, "tsar'ayin," narrow eyes, meaning he cannot see someone enjoying, bothers him. Can't see. Once the desire was over to eat from the tree, her eyes opened up. What did I do? I'm gonna die and he's gonna stay alone here. I better take him with me. As long as a person has desire to 'Do something!' The Olam HaBa looks very small. Once the desire is over, he screams, 'Tze'akag dolah umaram me'od.' You know, one father wanted to teach his son a little bit mussar. He took him to a pool. The water is very cold. And he pushed him into the water. And the boy screamed, "Ahh!" It's very cold. He pulled him out and he gave him a big warm Egyptian cotton towel, warm from the dryer. Covered himself and said, "Ahh!" When he fell into the water, he said, "Oy!" Now Ah! And the boy said, why did you do that? Contradiction, like first you torture me, then you're taking care of me? He said, I wanted to teach you the consequences of the sin. Sin? He said, I'll tell you what. When you commit a sin, you first say, ah! And then you say, "Ooh, forever!" You understand? When you do a mitzvah, you work very hard, first you say, "Ooh, very painful, difficult," then you say, "Ah, forever!" The question is, what do you want first, the "Ooh" or the "Ah"? Because the "Ooh" is forever. The 'ah' in this world is temporary, and then the next world is the other way around. The last thing for today, to finish the introduction. How many times I told you that joke and it's always still funny? You know, by the way, Is it possible that one person would fool his friend 100 times with the same trick and it's still working? Huh? I'm the best proof. I've been fooling you for 25 years and it's working. Meaning, every time I tell you, last thing for today, you all relax, oh good, soon I'm gonna be out of here. And then I keep you another 40 minutes. So, and you already know You know already after 500 times that when I say, "Okay, last thing for today and we're done," you already know that these 5 minutes will be 50, but it still relaxes you. How do I know? I see from your body language. For instance, I see a guy, I'm not saying who, he's already like this. Then I say, "Okay, last thing for today." It goes like this. After half an hour, again like this. You say 5 minutes, it still works. We just got an extra half an hour of attention. But don't worry, this time we will not trick you. Lina, that will be the last thing you'll read of the introduction. We have one more, one more thing to understand about this deal between Yaakov and Esav. He said, what kind of soup is this? Yaakov said, Avraham passed and we have Midat Hadin and he says, you know, ah, so our old man, meaning Avraham Avinu, died and what do I care about Olam Haba? Look at the tzaddik how he died. Should I care about it? I don't care about it. Give me the soup. That's really what it looks like. The question is, what's the connection? What's the connection? Why the death of Avraham Avinu made Esav become an infidel and denies Hashem's supervision and reward and punishment? What's the connection? Did Esav think that Avraham will live for eternity? Didn't he know that people are dying from all the generations before? What did he expect, that Abraham will be around forever? The fact that someone dies age 175, that means there's no God and there's no afterlife? Do you understand the question here or no? More than that, Hashem already promised to Abraham in Brit Ben HaBetarim when Abraham saw a vision and Hashem said to him, you will die peacefully and you will join your fathers peacefully, and your children will go to exile and will be tortured by another nation for 400 years. And after that, they will come out with massive, heavy wealth and inheritance. Everybody knew that that's what's going to happen to the Jewish people because Avraham Avinu already had it before Esau was even born. So Abraham already told Yitzchak, that's what Hashem showed me. And Yitzchak already told his children that that's one day what's gonna happen to our family. And everybody knew it in the family. However, Esav wasn't stupid like you think. Yes, hunter, hunter, but hunter college. He had some education. What happened? What did he say? Look at his calculation. He said— the Beit HaLevi explained, Brisk. He says like this: of course Esav knew that Avraham will die. It's written in what Hashem told him. However, he also knew that Hashem told Avraham, you will join your fathers in peace. And As long as Abraham is alive, we know that we are safe. We're not going to any exile because it will only happen after he died. So until today, Esav wasn't worried. There's nothing to worry. Our grandfather is still alive. Now he died today, he got nervous. Maybe tomorrow the exile will start, maybe next week. Who is gonna go to exile? The children of the firstborn or the children of the second or both? It's a question. Who will continue the nation of Abraham? So Esav thought the firstborn. Firstborn is more important than the secondborn. He is the one who continues the father. I'm the firstborn, what do I need? To be the firstborn that my children will be in exile slaves. Give me the soup, take the firstborn, and he pushed to Yaakov in the back door the suffering and the slavery. Why? Because Hashem told Avraham Avinu, beitzchak ikarei lechazara. Beitzchak, meaning in Yitzchak you will have your genealogy and descendants continuing, but not all Yitzchak, the Gemara says. Not the entire Yitzchak, only a part of Yitzchak, meaning either me or Yaakov. And if I'm the bechor, usually the way of Hashem is that the bechor takes over. I don't want to be the bechor. Fantastic deal, take the bechorah. It's not that stupid to sell Olam Haba'ah for soup. Come on. And I'll prove it to you. If a person will come to you now and say, I'll take you to the fanciest restaurant in the world on me, $20,000 meal, best wine, best whiskey, best meat, best everything, but I want you to sign with two 2 witnesses that you're giving me your Olam Haba, your eternity. Sign and I take you to the best meal of your life. Anyone here would sign? I ask anyone here would sign? No. Baruch Hashem, none of you are dumb. So what makes you think that Esav is dumber than you? He's a son of Yitzchak, grandson of Avraham Avinu. What do you think? He's a fool. You really think he's that stupid? Negmaran sechokh ma bagoyim ta'amin. If you see a goy that is smart, don't be surprised. Why not? Some goyim are geniuses. The big scientists, big doctors, chess players, philosophers. There's a lot of smart goyim. Maybe percentage-wise by the Jews you find more genius people. As history showed. But it doesn't mean you're not going to find millions of genius Goyim. There's 7.5 billion Goyim. It's enough that 1% of them are smart people. You have hundreds of millions of smart people in the world around, much more than the entire Jewish nation. So, Chochmah ba'Goyim ta'amim, Torah ba'Goyim al ta'amim. But you'll never find a Goy that will become Rav Chaim Kanievsky. Unless he converts first. As a Jew, he can become. We had converts. Shemaiah Haftalion, the father of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Meir and other Chachamim. Unkuluz. I can give you a name of at least 20 that I remember of goyim who became the biggest rabbis in history. So the babies that are born non-Jewish, does the angel also read them the Torah or not? The angel teach the goyim the Sheva Mitzvot B'nei Noach. The goyim also have Torah. It's a lot smaller, but they have to learn. So Esav said, I want to save myself from the bechora. I want to get rid of it. And this fool, supposedly my brother, wants stuff from me? Take it for free, give me the soup. I don't want it. I was always worried that I'm gonna be the one and my children that will be slaves. So I started to tell you, none of you would agree for the greatest meal in the best restaurant in the world to sign on such a deal or to shake hands. Wait, wait, that's according to one opinion, but there's other opinions that he knew exactly what he's doing. Give him a little bit more credit. He's not that stupid because we would not do it, and we're not smarter than him. Don't think you're smarter than Esav. They actually, Chazal, say that Esav was a genius. That's why his head was buried in Merata Machpela when Chushim, the son of Dan, chopped his head off, his head rolled into the cave to show you in the mind he was just as good as Yaakov. The body killed him, the desire. The body is the enemy of the mind. The body pulls you to all kinds of pleasures. So you really— that thing is that stupid for this meal that is going to sell his Olam HaBa? Didn't he think there's 1% chance that there is Olam Haba? You remember I told you the story about this Tzadik Baal Tshuva from Atlanta, Yaakov Cohen? He moved to Israel many years ago. He came to Monsey, he was learning. He came out with a genius idea. Sell me Olam Haba. He started to tell Jews, I want to offer you a deal. You sign, I give you Olam Haba. I give you $200, $300 and you sign that you sell me Olam Haba. Yes, there were some stupid people who were willing to sign for a few hundred dollars, yes. But many of them started an argument. What? What do you mean sell your Olam Haba? Even those who did not believe in Olam Haba, as soon as they saw that a clever Jew like this, not some kind of a brainless person, intelligent guy comes and offer me $200-300 and he wants me to sign that I'm selling him my Olam Haba. It cannot be that he's that stupid. That means Yesh Barim Beko, something here is happening. They started to argue. Wait a minute, are you sure about it? There's really such thing Olam Haba? And that's how he was making them Baalei Teshuvah. We'll finish with the story. The story— ah, we all relax. The book was closed. Baruch Hashem. The story is there were two partners, one Jewish and one not Jewish. They do very well in business. One Hasid and one goy, partners in real estate. The goy was always asking questions about the Hasid's things that he's doing. Sees him with lulav, "What are you doing? Mendel, this." He was curious, the goy. Why are you doing like this? Why you put this box here? Can I also put? One time he said to him, tomorrow I'm not coming. Why? Tomorrow is Yom Kippur. What's Yom Kippur? Day off. For you, not for me. It's not fair. What do you want? Close the business. Tomorrow is Yom Kippur. What is Yom Kippur? We go to the synagogue. And we all pray to God for forgiveness for our sins. The goy thought, I also have a lot of sins, let me also go. So he showed up, he asked him where is that synagogue, he told him, he came around, standing outside by the window and he looks. They said to him, excuse me, all the chairs are taken, it's members only. So he stands outside and now they begin to sell the Aliyot. Tichata echad, 1,000. $2,000, $3,000, you see Mendel, $5,000. The guy screamed, "$20,000!" Everybody looked, who is this guy? "Leave him alone, it's my partner." "What does he want?" "$20,000, wants to pay." So one person came to him and says, "What's your name?" "Hi, nice to meet you." "What?" "John." "Hi, nice to meet you." Nice to meet you, John. What are you doing here? I'm a partner of this Mendel, the Hasid over there. But why do you bid? Do you know what you bid on? He said, I have no idea. So why are you willing to give $20,000 on something you don't know? So he said, what I'm buying on, I don't have no idea, but I know this Hasid is a genius in business. If he offered 5, it It's worth $20,000. That's what he does to all our customers. You got it? That's the point. This is what the Iaakum coin was doing to these people. Let me give you $200-300. Right away they started to think, maybe it's worth $30,000 and this guy fooling me for free. You know? That's how you get people to think. I have a lot more to say, but I will have a lot more Continue? Nah, it's late a little bit. No, it's too late.