This Will Change Your Entire Understanding Of Life
A rabbi argues that exposing fraudulent religious leaders is a moral obligation, citing Talmudic sources and Rashi's commentary. He warns that silence about their scams and spiritual harm constitutes desecration of God's name, and uses personal stories and historical parallels to show that justice ultimately prevails.
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Good evening. This lecture is about Hashem, L'elui, Nishmat Yaffa bat Rachel, Mekadam bat Pnina, Tamara bat Batya, Marousia bat Kassia. And, uh, and one more thing, and, uh, Baruch Hashem, I just arrived from Miami. I was there, we had a beautiful seminar in Ibu. With about 150 Israelis or people that speak Hebrew. And it was very good, it was very important. Rabbis came from Israel as well. If you know Rabbi Yigal Cohen, Rabbi Snir Gweta, myself, Rabbi Maoz from— is a rabbi in Hollywood in Florida. So there was action there. Lots of lectures and, and Hashem, as usual, always does the right thing. You just have to open your eyes to see it. I was very worried because when I found out that they took a hotel right on the beach, a march on the beach, on the sand, the backyard of the hotel is the beach. I said to myself, such a terrible place to do a seminar there. All these secular people, what do you think they do when they come to the hotel and they see a beautiful nice ocean and white sand? What are the odds they come to listen to Rabbi Mizrachi or Rabbi Igal Cohen? That's what's on their mind right now. But Hashem made such a storm, you couldn't come out, pouring rain. The trees are looking like they're about to fall. There was not one person on the street. Forget about the beach, empty. Just when the seminar finished at noon on Sunday, the sun came out. Mammash, when people were checking out, going out of the hotel, the sun came out. And that's when I went to do another lecture at 4 PM in English for 3 hours. Also lots of people came. I was shocked to see, to be honest without exaggeration, between 30 and 40 people who are converting to Judaism came to my lecture. Some converting— Rabbi, you're gonna have a lot of work. I have to give you all the names, I mean. And a Bedouin here. And some already converted. Some of them already you can see they became Bnei Torah. I had two black guys, black hat, beard, tzitziot, you can see already, habibi, became bachurim yeshiva. One of them asked me for bracha to be successful in his learning. It makes me very happy to see this. I said a few years ago, I don't know if you remember, I'm getting the impression that slowly, slowly, Hakadosh Baruch Hu is replacing a part of the Jewish nation with lots of righteous Gentiles. What does it mean? Thousands of thousands of non-Jews become Jews. Unfortunately, thousands or tens of thousands of Jews every year leave Judaism completely, marry non-Jews, their kids are not Jewish. That's it. The next generation, no one will ever know that they ever existed. Their kids would not know that the grandfather was Jewish. They won't remember that. So many of the Jews becoming goyim and many of the goyim becoming Jews. Hard to believe. But with Hashem, as you know, there's no discrimination. Everyone deserves to get what he earns. For good or for bad. If the Jew is good and he's righteous and he does the right thing, Hashem will elevate him. If not, he can lose Chas V'Shalom, his share to the World to Come. And if the Gentile is righteous, a lover of Hashem, lover of the chosen people, he loves decency, ethics, why in the world Hashem will neglect such a righteous goy? Why in the world? Why? Well, give me one reason why. Why? Hashem is not fair? Even people are fair, most people at least. Try to be fair, give everyone what they deserve to get. You try to be fair with your children, you try to be fair with your friends, you try to be fair, yeah, you try to be fair with anyone you conduct business with. If you have some, some respect for Hashem, try to be a good decent person. So Hashem will be worse than us if we are like this? He's going to be worse than us? He will discriminate against anyone? So, because of that, I'm going to continue now from where I stopped the lecture in Miami last night. The lecture was very long, almost 3 hours, and I stayed another hour or two to talk to all the people. A lot of people there. You know, it takes time. You have to speak to more than 100 people. It took probably 2 hours to speak to them. So, the last thing I spoke about yesterday was about the words of the Prophet Yechezkel. In English, it's Ezekiel. Prophet Yechezkel, chapter 33. I will repeat a little bit of what I said yesterday because I want to continue from where I left. I didn't have time to continue yesterday, but it's very, very interesting. I'm going to give you now a treasure if you listen carefully. Later when you watch the repeat, make notes that you never forget what you're about to learn in the next half an hour. Because your life of eternity depends on what you're going to hear in the next half an hour. It's very important. This is one of the greatest prophets ever lived. Prophet Ezekiel is the one who was in charge of the resurrection of the dead, which happened already once in history. The tribe of Ephraim, the children of Yosef, the children of Joseph, Joseph had in the Torah two boys. One was Menashe, one was Ephraim. The tribe of Ephraim, they took advantage on their status They were the children of the most important person in the world after Pharaoh. Pharaoh was the king of Egypt. He gave his ring to Yosef. Yosef was in charge of all the money in the world for 80 years. He was the most powerful person in the world. Who was going to eat, who was going to starve was his decision. Who is going to stay in his home, who is going to lose his home was his decision. Who is going to be tax-exempt, who is going to pay taxes to Pharaoh, it was his decision. He basically rewrote The Constitution of Egypt. The first person in history that invented the concept of tax-exempt was Yosef HaTzaddik. Everywhere you go in the world, in almost every country, you have charitable organizations. Every country almost in the world recognizes the importance of giving tax-exempt status to all kinds of organizations that does good in the world, helping the orphans, the widows, children in risk, poor people. We, the Jewish people, the most important thing in the whole world is the Torah. So our priority before poor people, before widows, before orphans, before anything, before synagogues, before anything, is always the Torah. Nothing, nothing in any world, not just this world, also in the next world and the upper world, nothing comes near a world of Torah. People would understand the value of Torah, they wouldn't leave the Beit Midrash for a second, sleep there, eat there, live there, wouldn't want to get out. That's all they would want to do. But, you know, with the help of the Satan and the evil inclination and all the destructions in the world around us, We're not always focused on the mission, but it's written that nothing is more important to Hashem than the Torah. There is one thing that makes Hashem even happier than the Torah is when you bring Him back His children that are lost. It's called kiruv. Once those Jews were lost and you brought them back to their Father in Heaven, That's a very, very big happiness for him. He's very, very happy that the lost children finally are reconnecting to him. But other than that, it's all for the sake of the Torah. What's the point of bringing back the children to him? The idea is to get them to learn Torah, to become righteous. Without Torah, you cannot improve an inch, nothing. No one ever became a better person without the Torah. No one. It's all an illusion. All these courses that they give, try to teach you about anger management and, you know, all kinds of things and remedy and for the soul, for the body and soul. In Israel, they are very good with that, with all this nonsense. Sadnaot, they call it sadna. Not one sadna ever made a person a little bit better. The only way to save a person and turn them from a monster into holy righteous person is the Torah. No other way. No other way. So that's why we, when we preach Munah Hashem, it's very interesting. We say, Baruch Atah Hashem, Rofeh cholei Amo Yisrael. Bless you, God. Rofeh, it's a doctor, right? Cure. Cholei Amo Yisrael, the sick people of his nation Israel. Right away you have to ask, what do you mean the nation of Israel. God is a doctor of everyone. Jews, non-Jews, animals. Every living creature in the world will have remedy only thanks to God. Right? If a dog is sick with something, who's going to cure him? Hashem. If a non-Jew is sick with something, who's going to cure him? Hashem. Same thing with the Jews. So what's that? What does it mean? We actually— it's a downgrade to Hashem to say "Rofech Olam O Israel." Meaning what? He's not the Rofech of the goyim? He's not the Rofech of all the 2 million different species in nature? You're lowering the level of Hashem. You should say "Rofech Ol Basar Umafli Lasot." Like when we come out of the bathroom, what's the Nossach of the Bracha? Baruch Atah Hashem, Rofe Chol Basar, the doctor of every flesh. Oh, that's great. Everything that moves, Hashem can cure it. When we come out of the bathroom, we give a compliment to Hashem that He is the ultimate doctor. He cures every creature. But in the middle of Shemonei Esrei, we focus on Rofe Chol Amo Yisrael. Why is it? Because over here we are not talking about bodies. After the body, you thank Hashem that your body has holes and the holes are functioning. You're able to release the waste, you don't have anything clogged there, God forbid, a person can die in an hour if you won't be able to go to the bathroom. So that's a very, very big miracle that there are holes in the body and the soul doesn't come out and that you're able to control what needs to be released in the right time and if you don't have a bathroom you can still hold it until you find a bathroom. This whole system is a huge miracle. Every time we use the bathroom, we show Hashem we appreciate this miracle. We don't take it for granted. But now we're speaking about the body. That's why "Rofechol basar"—body of the Jews, body of the goyim, same body. But in the middle of Shemona Esrei, when we say "Baruch Atah Hashem, Rofechol Amo Yisrael," we are not talking at all about the bodies. We are only talking about the souls and the only one, the only one that can be cured is the Jews that have Torah. That's why. The goyim don't have Torah. So the only one who can come to the world as terrible monsters with horrible traits and become a legendary righteous, humble, down-to-earth not angry, appreciative, with the best traits. We're not talking someone that was born already good. Ah, that's his nature. We're talking, take a monster, take an arrogant monster, ego, anger, pride, selfishness, jealousy, you know, violent, dirty mouth. Horrible behavior, and then after 5 years, putting him in yeshiva, become an angel. There is no such thing among the nations. It's only possible among the Jewish nation, but it's only possible if the Jews learn Torah. They don't learn Torah, they will be exactly like all other nations with no improvement. Since we are talking about God gave us the Torah. That's why we say Rofech Olam O Israel, because the only way we can get cure with the soul is only through the Torah. In the beginning of Tefillat Shemonei Esrei, we already say Rofech. Why are we mentioning twice? In the beginning, we speak about general doctor of everything. But in this particular bracha, Baruch Atah Hashem Rofech Olam O Israel, Rofech of the souls. And the only way to cure the soul is through the Torah. That's why we mention only Choleinu Israel. That's the secret of it. So now, Prophet Ezekiel, you know, about 700 years, the tribe of Ephraim, the children of Yosef, they were not slaves like the rest of the nation because the father was the one who made Egypt the biggest empire ever. And everybody appreciated Yosef because he was 80 years in charge. Egypt became the wealthiest country. Everyone from all over the world, they were hungry. They came, they gave everything they had, all their money, their animals, their property, and everything went to power and became the owner of the world, basically. So the Egyptians had such financial stability thanks to Yosef. So the children of Yosef, they were not working as hard as the rest of the nation. So what did they say? You know what? We have an opportunity to run. We're not in cages like the rest of the nation. We gotta run. Even though they knew that Hashem told Moshe there will be time that will take them out of Egypt with miracles and will give them the Torah and bring them to the Promised Land, they didn't have patience to wait. They were able to run. They came in the middle of the night, they all gathered together and they ran. Once they ran, came the goyim and killed them on the way. All of them. Thousands. Skeletons were all in the desert. They left them there, they didn't bury them. Do I have to tell you what happened to a body of a person if you leave it 700 years in hottest weather? Dry weather between Egypt and Israel in the south, it's all desert. It's about 110 degrees in the average day for 700 years. What happened to a bone? It gets very dry. You crack it with two fingers like this and it becomes powder. When the bone is moisturized, meaning it's fresh, person just died, you need a lot of strength to break it. Even a hammer cannot break it. But if you leave it to dry basically for 700 years in the desert, it's very easy to crack it. So they are all broken to pieces. There's no complete skeleton. The head is here, the hands are there, the legs, the knees, it's all detached. And Hashem took the prophet Ezekiel to this place and he asked him if these skeletons can come back to life. And the Prophet surprisingly didn't say, "Of course, Hashem, anything you want can happen in a second. What's the question, b'cholat?" That's what I would answer, that's what you would answer, but the Prophet obviously is a lot smarter and deeper than us. He didn't say, "Of course." He said, "You know God." You know the answer to your question. What does it mean? What, he's trying to be Chatzuf? He's trying to have Chutzpah? What do you mean you know? You ask me, you ask me, I'm a human being, I'm a prophet, you're speaking to me, you the Creator of the world, you ask me, Mr. Yosef, do you think these bones can come back to life? What's the answer you have to give? Of course, Hashem, what's the question? Anything you want can happen in a second. But imagine I don't say, "Of course." Why do I say, "I don't know, you know." "I don't know, you know." What does it mean? Has to be something here. Tell you the secret. The secret is not everyone has the merit to resurrect. Resurrection of the dead is only for righteous people. Only. That's what's written by the prophets. Mi yeshenei afar yakitzu, upatacht yet kivrotechem. I will open your grave. I will get you out of your grave. I will shake off the sand, take you out of the graves, bring the spirit back into your bodies, and bring you back to life. There's a clear prophecy about it. This will be after the arrival of the Messiah. There will be the resurrection of the dead of the Jews that lives out of Israel and those who lives in Israel. It's all happened within 40 years from the minute Mashiach come until all the dead will resurrect and will go back to Israel after they resurrect, 40 years. How the dead bodies from the exile will resurrect? Not in the exile. The land of the exile is impure. The land of America, the land of Europe, the land of the rest of the Middle East China, all these places is all impure. There's only one pure land in the world, the Land of Israel. No wonder why everyone fight for it. Every empire wanted Jerusalem, wanted Israel, wanted the Holy Land. The people understand spiritually that this is the most important place in the world. There's a clear verse in the Torah, The land that the eyes of your God is focusing on it from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, meaning the rest of the world is not as important. Of course Hashem watch and supervise everything, but here it's my precious diamond. What is it like? A woman has 100 diamonds in her drawer, half a carat, 1 carat, 1.5, you know, nothing special. Then she has a 10-carat blue diamond, rare, $100 million diamond. She has this in a drawer among hundreds of different diamonds, 1 carat, 2 carats, half a carat, all kinds of diamonds, nothing special, you can get it anywhere. That one, even Queen Elizabeth doesn't have. When the woman opened the drawer, what is she automatically focusing on only that blue diamond. She doesn't even care about the rest. That's what brings joy to her. All other diamonds, ah, it's important, I don't want to lose those diamonds, but compared to this, it's nothing. I would rather give up all the other diamonds and just keep that one. That's exactly the situation with the Land of Israel in the eyes of God. This is the chosen place. This is the place of the temple. This is where God made his home in Jerusalem. This is where Jacob had the dream that's the gate to heaven and the Moriah mountain. This is where Abraham made the Aqedah of Yitzchak, took his son Isaac. All the stories that changed the world, it's all in the Holy Land. Everything there. You don't have anything in China and you don't have anything in Europe and not anything in the United States. Those places are not significant, as beautiful as they may be. There's all kinds of natural treasures, beautiful view, water, oil. That's not important. What's important spiritually, this is the house of God. So he takes the prophet. The tribe of Ephraim are there already for 700 years. He asked them, will they, will they 'Will they revive?' And he said, 'You know, I don't know the righteous, the wicked, they deserve, they don't deserve. You're the only one who know who deserve to resurrect.' And Hashem says, 'Start saying your prophecy.' And they all came back to life. They started to connect. The dry bones started to get moisture, started to connect. He wrote it in the prophecy in the book of Ezekiel. It's called 'Hazon.' "Ha'atzamot HaYeveshot"— the prophecy of the dry bone. Everyone believes in it. The Christians, the Muslims, other people in the world. It's in the Tanakh, in what the Christians call Bible. "The Nevoa of Yecheskel." And what happened? They all connected, they got up, there was a lot of noise. Imagine hundreds of thousands of people all of a sudden in one place in the desert. So much noise, everyone was shocked. What's going on here? They understood what's happening there. And in the Gemara, one of the Amoraim said that he has a family tree all the way to his grand-grand-grand-grandfather. Remember, the prophet Yecheskel was 2,400 years ago. This Amorai was 1,600 years ago. That means he has a family tree of 800 years that linked his genealogy all the way to one of those people that the Prophet resurrected. Father to son. And when my first son was born, you know, when you have a first boy, you have to redeem him, right? If you yourself not a Kohen or Levi, you have to call a Kohen only Shomer Shabbat. Kohen that is not Shomer Shabbat is worthless, has zero importance, zero. Don't, it's a Brachot Levatalah to use such a Kohen. Arei ukegoy lachol davar. Even though his last name is Cohen, he's considered like a goy. You cannot redeem from a goy. You have to redeem from a kosher Kohen. So the Rabbi back then, he said to me, you know, you have to do pidyon in 30 days. I say, okay, yes. He said, I'll get you a special Kohen. What's special about him? Kohen miyuchas. He has a family tree of 1,600 years. Big tree, big book that went from father to son all the way to one of the Amoraim in Agmarah. There was a Kohen. What's his name? Rapoport. Rabbi Rapoport here from Queens. He was 90 years old at that time, something like that, 85. I went there to pick him up. I gave him a ride back. I brought the 5 silver coins. We came to the brit milah, to the pidyon. The rabbi asked, "Anyone here is a firstborn?" Maybe there were 20 people that raised their hand. Do you know if your parents redeemed you from the Kohen? Most of them were secular or new baalei teshuvah. Secular parents, they don't know exactly how that they have to redeem their kids from the Kohen. They don't know. But, you know, the only boy that you redeem from the Kohen, it's only if this is the first baby that was born from you naturally, not in cesarean surgery and not that you had a miscarriage before. If you had a miscarriage after 40 days of pregnancy, there was already a living baby. Up to 40 days, there's no life. In the 40th day, life begins. So if a woman was pregnant for more than 40 days and she had a miscarriage, what they do usually, they check to see inside whatever fell with the placenta they recognize sometimes a little shape of a baby even though it's 2 months old only. And if they don't see anything, they assume that it was less than 40 days. But if they begin to see a shape of a little baby, then they know there was an actual baby here. So that was the firstborn even though he died. It was, you know, aborted, but that was the firstborn. So therefore, the next time when she'd be pregnant, it's not— there's no pig on the bed. for the first one, basically, it was already— he already died. But if it's the first time it comes out of her wound, out of her system, that's what the Kohen asks her. This is your first time you give birth. Sometimes it's a divorced woman from her first marriage, she already had a child. That's it. She cannot have re-epidion because now she has a new husband and a new baby. With a different husband. Once she had once already came out of her system, that's it. So I remember with Rabbi Rapoport, when I gave him the 5 silver coins, I gave him a ride back home, he gave me one of them back. Now it belonged to him. This is my payment to him to release the boy from his possession. Because every firstborn, it's written in the Torah, belongs to God. You want it back? You want it to be yours fully? Redeem it from God. How do you redeem it from God? From his messenger. Who are God's messengers? The Cohanim, the people, the children of Aaron the Kohen, the brother of Moses. Aaron is the first Kohen. Everyone was born to him from a Jewish mother. Unfortunately, here in America, there is a pandemic. 85% of the people that their last name is Kohen are goyim. They're not Jewish, because their mother is not Jewish. So the last name, it doesn't indicate anything. If the mother is Jewish and your father is a Jewish Kohen, then you are a Kohen. But if you are Mechalel Shabbat, your status is worthless. Cannot use you, not for Birkat Kohanim, not for pidyon haben. So it's important. So what happened, he gave me one coin back, he said, "Don't forget to invite me to his Bar Mitzvah." And I forgot to invite him to his Bar Mitzvah, 13 years later. You know, the reason is because he was already close to 90 years old when he told me, "Invite me to his Bar Mitzvah." He was probably going to be 103, 105. What did I know from my life at that time? Who knows if he was even alive then, I don't know. But there was he, right here from Queens, Rabbi Rappoport. He had a family tree. I asked him that before he left my car. I said, "The rabbi told me that you are a kohen miyuchas." He said, "Yes, I have the list of all my fathers and grandparents all the way." He told me the name of the Amorai in the Gemara, I just don't remember it. That is known to be a kohen. So the Prophet Yecheskel Na'ahu started to speak, all the tribe of Ephraim started to come back to life and they started to live just like— they didn't just come back to life and died again, they stayed alive. They started to have children, it's unbelievable. There was a mini, mini resurrection of the dead. We are expected to have, B'ezrat Hashem, very soon The main one, the resurrection of the dead after the Mashiach would come. But the Torah say, the Tanakh say, only the tzaddikim will resurrect. Mechalelei Shabbat can dream about it. Someone doesn't keep Shabbat, it's written clearly that that soul will be cut permanently, definitely not resurrect. And also Malve beribit, someone who is a loan shark taking interest from Jews, also is in jeopardy. There's a list of people that cannot resurrect. That's why the Prophet did not say, of course they can resurrect, like all the fakers that teach today. Everyone is a tzaddik. It's enough you're Jewish, you resurrect. Baloney. Enough with these lies. Who are you to contradict what the Prophet says? That's okay, ma. Call Israel Yisrael HaShalem, All Israel have a share to the World to Come. Isn't it written? But there is a continuation. What comes in the next row? And those are the Jews that lost their share to the World to Come. That part they erased. It's not good for business. It's not good for business. When you are a speaker or a rabbi, if you tell people things they don't like to hear, doesn't matter that it's 100% the truth because you read it from the Torah, but if it's something not pleasant and they don't like to hear it about themselves, they resent you. Like children, if you tell a kid, "Don't touch, don't touch, it's bad." You're giving him the right advice, but he's a little kid. Kids, the Ben Yisra'el say, up to 6 years old, they are considered like monkeys. Meaning don't expect any common sense from them. Ah, if you have a special child that is already age 3, 4, is very clever, that can happen. The general rule, up to 6 years old, you have zero expectation from him. Don't expect him to be responsible, to be a babysitter, to know what to do, what not to do. You give him instruction, you leave the house, forget about it. It's considered like a monkey. You count on a monkey to do the right thing? Good luck with that. So, about Thai, now, in the end you say to something, to a kid, something he doesn't like, automatically he doesn't like you. My friend has a boy. I have a friend, he's a divorced man, 45 years old, great guy, my Mashi, an angel. He has a boy and a girl. So every other Shabbat, the kids are with him. He comes to me a lot for Shabbatot. I told him, when you come to us, you know, usually when you host someone, you pleasure the guest. But in your case, it's the other way around. We get the pleasure when you come. It's entertaining, you know. So one time I said something to his kid, meaning he was touching something, was about to fall. This was maybe 5 years ago. The boy is 9 years old, he was 4. Every time I look at him, he turns around. I try to apologize to him, try to give him a hug, try to shake his hand. 5 years later. Why? One time you told him something he doesn't like, that's it. Today the world is full of fools, unfortunately. People's level is very low. They don't know Torah, they did not go to yeshiva, they didn't learn serious. They act like kids, kids. So if the rabbi in a synagogue would say something to one of the people that he came with the car, He will hate him forever because he's like a little child. If he was a serious intelligent human being, he would run quickly to kiss his hand and his feet. Should kiss his feet, not his hand. Thank you, thank you for hitting me on the head. If a person is smart, he loves to be rebuked. When someone rebukes you, it can save your eternity. What could be better than that? That's what Chazal say, love those who rebuke you, hate those that compliment you. Someone who keeps telling you, you're such a tzaddik, tzaddik, Hashem loves you, Hashem needs you, Hashem cannot survive without you. The jewel of the Jewish nation. And in the meantime, "Challel Shabbat," "Drahi Gadik," "Hashem Irachem," Hashem loves you. The Rashah thinks, Hashem loves me, so why should I change? I'll stay exactly wicked as I am, because if Hashem loves me like this, why should I take a risk and become righteous? Maybe He won't like me. He likes me like this. Hashem Eru Sha. According to this Chacham with a beard. But everybody knows that that's a circus. Most people do know that it's all fake. You really have to be extremely dumb to know that you are mechalel Shabbat and eating not kosher and married to a non-Jewish woman and your kids are in public school and you're still in the business all day and speak Lashon Hara that when someone comes to you and say to you Hashem loves you and you buy it, you're really extremely, extremely You are extremely stupid. There's no other words for you. Come on, where is your head? What's to love? Every second of your life you make Hashem upset. How much patience He should have for someone like you? We are lucky that Hashem has a lot of patience. That's really true. How else He keeps us around for so many years with all our nonsense? If we would have to be Hashem for one hour, How many people would survive in the world? Now look at— if Hashem put you in his chair for 1 hour, see all the Arab monster murderers, Hamas, Al-Qaeda, this, you would let them breathe another second? Shh! Next! All the Nazis, all the KKK, all the anti-Semite Nazis all over the world? Next! All the thieves, all the robbers, all the people who make children miserable, all the pedophiles? Next, by the time you purify the world, maybe you will have 1 or 2 minyanim left. Why? I follow the book, the book of Hashem. Bar Hashem also follows his book, but you see, he has a lot of patience. How else he keeps these Hamas monsters in the tunnels for 73 days? They eat good, they prepare themselves enough food, they still sleep in a mattress. They're not so worried. Israel is very good talking, talking, promising we will wipe out Hamas. We didn't wipe out 20% of them yet, but it's about to be over. That's all this illusion that Israeli Army is a special force that can do wonders. It's baloney. I mean, don't get me wrong. I mean, the soldiers are amazing, brave. They really sacrifice their life. Some of them went to the battle knowing they're not coming back. Knowing. Because it really need a huge miracle to come out of there alive. The stupid Israeli generals and politicians, because they worry what the world would say, they sacrifice the soldiers. Instead of wiping them all out. Citizen, not citizen, all this nonsense. They sacrifice our citizens and our soldiers. We have to die not to kill this monster who was dancing when we were burned. When they burned our babies, they were dancing. So in order for us not to kill those monsters who were dancing when they raped and tortured people, we have to die for that. Do you understand what's happening here? You know what it's like? You have a policeman, he's a good man. He's dedicated his life for the police in New York. And now he has a big gangster cartel, drug addict, drug dealer, a murderer, a robber is attacking him, shooting him, missing. And now he got hit by another policeman. He's sleeping on the floor, right? He's about to die and the policeman run to revive him, give him oxygen and this. Knowing that any second he can pull out a knife and stick it to his neck. And that's what's happening right now. All these soldiers, none of them should have died. 130 soldiers died for nothing. They only died because the stupid generals are not brave and they have no trust in Hashem. Someone that had trust in Hashem would say not one inch of Gaza would remain. Nothing. There's no place to go back to. You can dream about coming back to Gaza. There's not going to be one building and not one person, one Arab would ever live on this land. Ever. We make a new border around. Nobody would live here. This is a cursed place. It will remain destroyed forever. You want to stay in the tunnel? Stay in the tunnel. Die over there. Die. At one point your food will, you know, will finish. What is this? Putting soldiers, risking them, shooting them from all kinds of places. Halal? Let's move on. So, Rabotai, now listen to what the Prophet says. Like I said, this is very important, not ever to forget that. This is Ezekiel chapter 23, starting from verse 1. Those are the words of God to me to say, meaning I have to pass the prophecy. Ben Adam, daber al bnei Amcha, speak to your nation, ve'amartaleim, and you say to them, Eretz Ki Yavi Alei Acheriv, the Land of Israel, when I will send the goyim to a war against Israel, the goyim will come to attack. the nation of the land will take one person, one Jew. The people have to choose one person, one soldier, put him as a guard. He has to check when the enemies are coming close. And he sees the soldiers coming to the land, meaning the people with their swords and bow and arrow and spears with the horses, they're a mile away. What, how will he prepare the soldiers, the Jewish soldiers to come to prevent them from entering the land of Israel? He has to blow the shofar. There's a big shofar, whoo, it makes noises. It's not Rosh Hashanah, people would say, "What, shofar now? In the middle of the day?" Tragedy. Today we have sirens, every minute in Israel, siren here, siren there. Siren is easier, you press a button, you have siren. But here, he has to blow the shofar. Remember, this was 2,400 years ago. And warn the nation. Someone that heard the voice of the shofar Velo nizar, any neglect, doesn't care. Veta vo cherev vatikach, hehu damo berocho. When the goyim come, the first one they will kill is this person. You don't care, you take it for granted, you're gonna be the first one to die. So continue, soon you're gonna see where does it lead us to. Damo boye, we have an expression in Hebrew, damo berocho. 'If you get a warning, if you do that, we will kill you, and you do it and we killed you, you are the only one to be blamed. Do not say he killed me, it's not fair. We told you, if not, if this is what you're going to do, that's what's gonna be. You died, you're responsible.' That's what I said, 'His blood is in his head,' meaning he caused his death. Tov. Ve'unizar nafsho milet. If he was taking it serious and got careful and he was able to run or to hide or whatever the case may be, nafsho milet. He saved his soul, saved his life. That's Ofer. And the guard, the guard, when he see the army of the goyim coming, ve'lo takabah shofar. He did not blow the shofar. And as a result of that, the nation was not careful. And now they're all dying. They're going— caught them by surprise, like in October 7th. The intelligence did not blow the siren. They got caught not ready. So he's talking about it. Who is responsible for all the people? That guy. 'Ve'ata ben Adam'— and you— 'tsofen et atich alepet Yisrael.' Now Hashem gave this story to Prophet Ezekiel, everything I just read to you, as a parable, mashal. After Hashem told him this whole story about the guard, now he's getting to the point. Yesterday I didn't have time to finish it, so I left it here. From here I continue. And he said to him, "Vata ben Adam," and you, meaning Ezekiel the prophet, "tsofen et atich halebet Israel," you are the guard, you are the prophet of the nation of Israel, meaning your job is to warn them. "Veshamata mi pidavar," you heard from me words. "Ve'izarta otam imeni," and you warn the Jewish people from me. Why you have to warn the Jewish people from God? Because God is not the friend from high school. He's also not a dancer that will dance according to your flute. You're gonna play music and Hashem will dance according to your request. That's in the dream of all these losers that speak. I don't know who gave them permission to speak. You can do whatever you want. No, you have to be shaking from Hashem before you do things. Shaking. If you're smart, you think a million times. And this is now, I'm going to prove it to you, not 100%, 1 million percent, that if you ever doubt what I've been telling you over the years, it will be very clear after today. And He said to the Prophet, you heard from me words and you warn them from me, "Be'omri la'ra'sha," that I say to the wicked, "Be'omri la'ra'sha, ra'sha mot hamut," wicked Jew, you're going to die younger in this world, "mot," and you're going to die in the next eternal world. Two deaths, one in this world and one in the next world. "Velo dibart al azir ha'shamidarko," and you, Ezekiel, You didn't speak, you did not rebuke the wicked to warn him from his path. He's going in the wrong direction. That Jew, the wicked Jew, will die because of his sins. I will hold you responsible for his death because you could have stopped him from being mechalel Shabbat and you didn't. You could have stopped him from being a thief and you didn't. You could have stopped him from being heretic and you didn't. What is it my business? I'm not judgmental, Rabbi. We don't like it. We cannot be judgmental. The Americans, they made up a new religion for some reason. I don't know why, who gave them this idea. They make up their own rules. You're not allowed to be judgmental. You must be judgmental. You must. If you're not judgmental, there's no one dumber than you. Someone with a knife, a dangerous character walks around in the neighborhood. I can't be judgmental. "Maybe he's trying to collect clementines from the trees." You fool, you may slaughter your family. There's an Arab walking around with a knife. There's an Arab with a gun walking around in the neighborhood. There's an Arab construction worker in Israel giving you dirty looks. You must be judgmental. If not, you'll be dead in a minute. Immediately call the police when you see a dangerous character in New York. In your backyard trying to jump the fence, immediately dial 911. That's being judgmental. Maybe in the end it's just the gardener working for the neighbor. He just wanted to do a shortcut to walk to the other street. Could be, but I cannot take that risk. I cannot take that risk. Someone walks behind me at 2 AM in Harlem, a place that already the police reported 500 robberies in this block at 2 AM. There's gangs over there, dangerous people. I walk with a suit and a tie and a bag and an expensive watch and he follows me at 2 AM. What do I do? Dial immediately 911. Maybe in the end is a guy that runs to play basketball at 6th Avenue at 3 AM. Maybe, maybe it's an angel. No personal thing, I don't know, you are just too cautious. That's not racism and that's not judgmental, that's nothing. That's mandatory, right? Someone that may be a threat, immediately you have to take actions. If later you'll find out you were wrong, no problem, both comes to us, apologize. But that's life, that's what the Torah say. The Torah didn't say to be stupid. The Torah said to be stupid? If you have a customer that already took merchandise 2 times and his check bounced, third time he's coming with a $10,000 check and give it to you. You will take it? Be my guest, you fool. Take it for the third time. I can't take your check, I'm sorry. Cash only. Why? Because you're a thief. You're a crook. 2 times you took merchandise and gave bad checks. 'Oh, you're so judgmental. Maybe he has a tough life.' Maybe. What is my problem? You're getting the point or no? The Torah obligates you to be judgmental. You see kids that are in a neighborhood that are not kosher, you cannot let them play with your kids. Move your kids away from them. 'Oh, you're so judgmental. They are only kids.' Kids? Kids can destroy my children's soul. What do you mean they're only kids? Oh, we want your son to come to play with our children for Shabbos, to sleep over. Do you know what they watch over there? Do you know what language the parents use? Do you know what kind of guests they're gonna have in the Shabbos table? You don't, you don't know. You must be judgmental. You have to be careful. One mistake, one Shabbat, your kid will be with bad people, bad kids. Bad influence, and that's the end of him. You build 10 years of efforts to build his soul, one Shabbat destroyed. It's his cousin, family. You cannot judge family. Family, family can destroy you. We didn't have cases that family member destroyed the life of another? People didn't kill each other? People didn't rape each other? People didn't turn each other to the police? People did not sell each other for money? Of course they did. What does it mean, family? Family means nothing. Of course, if it's a righteous person, then he comes before strangers. It's your family. But if he's wicked— Yaakov did not want to be with Esav one minute. It's his brother, biological brother, twin, twin. They came out together at the same time. Your twin brother. 'I don't want anything to do with you.' 'Come on, let's be together.' 'No, no, you should move forward. My kids, my people, they're not that fast. You're gonna make them collapse. They can't keep up with you. You should go, my brother Esav. Go, go, get lost. I don't want another minute to be around you. I don't want my children to see your character, the way you look.' Why? Because I must be judgmental. I hope I made it clear to you. So, Rabotai will continue, listen to this, the rest of the prophecy. "Ve'hu rashab Avono Yamut"— that wicked Jew will die because of his sins. "Ve'damo mi'atcha vakesh"— I will demand his blood from you, for me? 'I didn't murder him, he murdered himself, he killed himself with his sins.' 'Of course, that's why he's dead. But you could have stopped it. You didn't try to stop it, you are responsible.' That's the answer, by the way, to the famous question why righteous people died in the Holocaust. Why righteous people? They put rabbis in the gas chambers. They burned them alive. Talmidei Yeshiva got killed. People who did not commit sins, they killed them as bad as with all the other criminals. Criminals and righteous were burned in the same oven, sometimes in the same minute. It looks like there is no judgment. Coincidence? Everyone is dying, righteous, wicked, young, poor, old, rich, male, female, people who knows Torah, people who never open Torah. Where is the judgment? Where is the fairness? The answer is when the righteous do nothing about save the wicked, they are wicked. They are wicked also. Ah, he's 20 years learning in yeshiva, he has family members, he has cousins mechalel Shabbat, he has neighbors in the neighborhood mechalel Shabbat, he sees people drive on Yom Kippur, he sees all kinds of Jews eating burgers in Pesach Chameitz, he does nothing about it? Doesn't try to give them USB, doesn't try to get them a book, doesn't try to say to them, why don't you make a lecture al kamah, give give the Torah to all the people. He doesn't care. Children of Hashem are being destroyed while he's walking to shul or to learn Gemara in yeshiva. Hey, it's very important to learn Gemara in yeshiva. This is the most important thing. But there are a lot of lost people here. Hashem, his heart is burning to see these wicked Jews. Most of them don't even know they're wicked. I don't know, I don't understand the severity of their actions. You could have stopped it, but you can care less. And that's why a lot of rabbis that did not do kiruv in Europe, they ended up with the people that they didn't save, they ended up exactly like them. But there's only one difference. Where did they go after? That's already a whole different story. Those who were righteous, they paid the price, they died because they didn't rebuke. But now they have to get the reward for the Shabbat they kept, for the kosher food, for all the Torah they learned, for all the tzedakah they gave, for all the tefillot they prayed all their life. They put their children in yeshivot and pay a lot of money for it. Now they're gonna get the reward for it. The other ones have nothing to be rewarded for. Zero. Empty bank account. That's a very big difference. And that's what we have to remember. In the end, yes, we may be punished here, we may die here, but the question is where we go from here. And that still is a very big difference, and I'm going to read it to you, you're going to see it clearly soon. And the part of Hashem continues. Now is the second scenario. You did warn the wicked from his wicked way. You warned him. You tell them you must repent. Stop being mechalel Shabbat. He did not. Did not repent, he will die because of his sins, and you saved yourself. You're not going to die. Why? Because you did warn him. Now it's 100% the guilt is on him. Do you understand what's happening here? If you you saw a wicked cousin, a wicked neighbor, a wicked partner, a wicked father or mother, a wicked son, friend, you could have rebuked him and you said nothing about religion for 10, 20, 30 years, don't care. Never got him a book, never gave him USB, never invited him to a lecture, If you really wanted, every one of you tonight could have brought at least 4 more people with them in a car. But why you don't do it? Because you're selfish. Everyone here is selfish. If now we had to put Jews on a train releasing them from Auschwitz, wouldn't you want your friends to be on the train? If your friends are fainting on the floor, wouldn't you want to pick them up? Drag them into the train? You would get on the train and go and leave them to die there and the Nazis will come and kill them? No, right? You would do everything you can to drag them into the train, push them in and later they'll continue to live. When you come to a 2-hour massive lecture that is very possible that the life of a person will never be the same after, you don't feel any responsibility to bring others. But not only that, here you can say, oh, you know what, I have to struggle, I have to drive, I have to pick him up, he's making faces, he's not interested, we know it. But even to send the link you refuse to do. When you finally see that it goes on the website or on the app or on YouTube, it takes a second to send it to all your people on your list. I don't know, you have 300, 500, 700. How many here does it every day? One person. From all the people here, one person shares. Why? Sometimes you just don't think about it. Okay. But some people know about the importance of sharing Torah and still not doing it. You know why they're not doing it? They're afraid what the people would say. People on my list get upset. I have a WhatsApp group, all my friends. If I send your lectures that are strict and strong, 10% of them will bark, "Wow, wow, wow, what are you doing?" They'll get angry. They begin to bark at me. I cannot tolerate barking. I can't. So therefore, I don't want criticism. Let me ask you a question. If someone is drowning now and you try to pull him out, said, "No, I decided to die. Leave me alone. I don't give you permission to save me." What would you do? Okay, you can die and send regards to the whale and the shark in the bottom of the ocean when you die. What would you do? Give him a smack on his head. Boom! Knock him out. Pull him out and then deal with him after he saved his life. Right or wrong? If a policeman sees someone is about to jump from the bridge. He's running towards jumping and he will not be able to catch him on time. If he has a taser gun, he would shoot him and freeze him with the electric. If he doesn't have, he has a regular gun, he would shoot his legs. One or two bullets to his legs. Why? To make him unable to run towards the bridge, towards the rail. Ah, now he's complaining. Look, I have a hole in my leg because of you. Why did I shoot you? Because I wanted to save your life, not because I wanted to hurt you. So I sent you something, you get upset. What's the worst can happen? You get out of my group. Adios. Who wants a friend like that, to be honest? Who wants friends that you send him a link to a Torah class and he gets angry? Who wants to be a friend of someone like that? I'm asking, you don't have to agree. I wouldn't want friends like this. Someone who gets angry when you send him a Torah class? What's the worst can happen? You don't like it, delete and move on. Big deal, nobody forced you to press on the link. No one forced you. You're alone in the house, he may get curious, press on the link and begin to watch, and then watch another one and another one, and a month later he's a tzaddik already. This is what we're talking here about. Don't say it's my idea, it's my opinion. I am not a factor here. I'm just reading to you what's written. Listen, let's continue. "You warned the wicked from his way to repent. He did not repent. He will die because of his sins, and you saved yourself." So far everything is clear? Next scenario. "V'ata ben Adam." This is all the words of God. Who is speaking over here? Not me. Hashem is speaking. "V'ata ben Adam emor el bet Israel." Say to the Jewish nation. "Amartem le emor." You are complaining. What's the complaint of the Jewish nation? "Ki peshaenu v'chatotenu alenu." They lost hope. They say, Rabbi, Rabbi Hezekiel, Rabbi Ezekiel, we lost hope. We have crimes, we have sins, it's all on our head. We are melting as a result of our sins. Look what's happening to us. We are dying every day. Every family lost a son, a daughter. Tragedies nonstop. We are already paying. How are we going to repent? How are we going to live? Amar alehem, imor alehem. Say to them. Hashem is instructing Prophet Yechezkel what to answer to such a claim. "Chai ani ne'um Hashem Elokim." I swear on my name, God says. "Im achpotz bemot harasha." I swear that I'm not interested to kill the wicked. You are dying because I have no choice, meaning Satan is demanding it in the court of heaven and I don't have what to answer. I'm a judge, I have to be fair. The prosecutor made a case and there's no merit to save you. But the last thing I want is to see you dead. Listen, Rabotai, im achpatz bemot harasha, I'm not interested in the death of the wicked. Ki im beshuv rasha midalko vechaya. What I am interested is that the wicked will return from from his bad way that he should live. Meaning what is he now? When he's wicked, what is he now? Dead. What do you mean? He's making millions. He's making millions. He's driving a fancy car. He has his own airplane. He has 5,000 employees. He runs in Central Park every morning. What do you mean that he should leave? It doesn't matter. Dogs also move and run. Animals run. They don't live spiritually. They don't have a soul. Its soul is dead. That's why it's considered dead. Doesn't matter the body moves and talks and runs. It's considered dead. I want him to repent that he should leave. "Shuvu, shuvu midar kechem haraim." Please return from your bad ways. "Ve'lama tamutu bet Israel." And why you should die, the nation of Israel. So far, conclusion: what makes people die? Not old age. Not cancer. Not nature. Not pandemics, not COVID, not Hamas, not Al-Qaeda, not ISIS, and not a robber that robbed the store. The robber and the COVID and whatever happened came as a result of the bad choices you made. You understand why COVID, from all the people in the room, that micro microscopic virus went right into your nostril? Your friend has a much bigger nose. Why did it come to your tiny nose? Because your friend is not in Chalal Shabbat and you are. And Hashem wanted now to execute you. Why? Because he had nothing to answer to the Satan. You're 50 years old, in Chalal Shabbat all your life. He did not finish yet. I'm waiting. It's not right now. There's no verdict to kill him on Rosh Hashanah. That's why the virus will go to where I will push him. And the Hamas that will shoot at 3,000 people, I will direct the bullets only to those that I wrote on Rosh Hashanah they have to die on October 7th. And if someone doesn't have to die, the gun of the Arab gun will not shoot. Stuck. It happened hundreds of times. Try to shoot, boom, boom, it got stuck, beats the gun, doesn't shoot. Or it shoots, the bullet goes in and comes out and doesn't make a damage. And the other one, boom, right to the heart. Why? It was written on Rosh Hashanah. Two girls, one will be abused and the other one One would just be a prisoner. It was written on Rosh Hashanah. One will be released after a month, one will stay for years. Was written on Rosh Hashanah. Why it was written? Hashem calculated what the person is guilty of from this life and past life. And now is the verdict. So when next time when someone asks you, what caused Mr. X to die? Why? The answer is not the Hamas. It's not the cancer he got. It's not the cell phone. Oh, he's talking a lot on his cell phone. It made him brain tumor. That's stupid. Millions of others speak the same amount or more and they don't get brain tumor. Could be that the phone actually caused it, but the phone caused it to him because of other things. And in case you were wondering, I just read you the source. I will repeat it one more time that you don't say that I'm making up things. It says, "Shuvu, shuvu, midar kechem haraim." Please return from your bad ways. "V'lama tamutu, B'et Yisrael." Why you would like to die? Why should you die? Now comes the next scenario. Please speak to your nation. That's the next scenario. Pay attention, Rabotai. Say to your nation, a righteous person that was righteous all his life and then became wicked, what they call in Israel, "Choser B'Sheilah," left the religion. I used to be frum, I'm off the derech, I became Modern Orthodox. I became open Orthodox. I became conservative. I became Reform. I became gay. Everyone with this nonsense. Oh, but you used to be bachur Hashiva, you used to be tzaddik. Wow, what happened to you? What is this red ledriyamaka on your head? What happened? What is this? You became Bennett? So what happened to someone like that? Again, don't say I say, I'm reading to you word by word. When a righteous person becomes a criminal against me, says God, what about the years that he was a tzaddik? It will not save him from death. Because it's everything goes after the end, Acharachitum. And that's how life is. You'll be a good friend to your friend 20 years, helping, giving money, finding jobs. I don't know, you did a lot of wonderful things to him. And then one time you put him in front of 1,000 people and insulting him for an hour. You murdered him. He lost his entire dignity because of you. You made him look like a fool, like a clown in front of everyone. From this moment on, can he ever look at you ever again or no? Someone comes to him and says, "It's not fair. Why are you angry at him? 20 years he's been helping you, he was very nice to you." 20 years? I wish I wouldn't know him. I would give up his 20 years just that he won't do to me what he just did yesterday. Makes sense, right? That's what's written here. You were righteous all the time, and then you decided to become a chalel Shabbat. You decided to do all the horrible things. You decided to be a thief. Until now, you had Parnassa, you made money, you didn't have reason to steal. You're afraid to steal. You know that Hashem will punish you. So you didn't steal for 20 years. Now you got fired, you have tests, you have difficulties, it's hard for you. To live the luxury life that you had. As a result of that, you started to steal, and then you started to open the business on Shabbat, and then you started to do all kinds of other bad things until you became Hashem Irusha. What happened? You cannot count on the years that you used to be tzaddik. Because right now you became a Rasha. Now we continue. Someone that was wicked all the time and now became righteous. He got the USB, plugged it in the car, started to listen Torah and science. Life after death, purpose of life. Debate with a Christian professor. Shabbat, he begins to open up his eyes. Wow, where have I been until now? I had no idea what I'm living for. Rabbi, do you have tefillin? I need tefillin, right? I need mezuzot. No problem, we'll help you out, get you the best one. I need tzitzit. Where can I get tzitzit? How do I keep Shabbos? 'You know any book to recommend to me?' I get emails like this 20 every day, minimum 20 a day for years. 20 a day like this. 'I started, I'm trying, what should I do? Where should I go? Who should I learn with? Who can help me? Who can help me to convert? What's the first step?' Where these people come from? Only from listening. Listening to the truth. Nobody puts a gun to their head, nothing. Someone opened up their eyes, gave them a CD, gave them a book. So that's the next scenario. Listen, I'm reading it to you and it says, you were wicked all the time. All the years that you were wicked will not be held against you because you did teshuvah, you repented. You're not who you used to be anymore. You're now Shomer Shabbat, you're now ben Torah. Look at you, how you used to be, look how you are now. Look how you used to dress, look how you dress now. Look how you used to talk, look how you talk now. You're a whole different person. You, your wife, tarat mishpacha, move the children from public school into yeshivot. Continue, Rabotai. "Vetzadik lo yuchal lichiot ba beyom chatatoh." And the righteous that became, Chas V'Shalom Rasha, wicked, he will not be able to revive after he committed his sins. Meaning once he became Chalel Shabbat, that's He lose everything. Be'omri latzadik, when I say to the righteous, chayo ichye, would live longer in this world, was supposed to already die at age 72. I just add him 15 more years to his life. Will die 87. He doesn't know it. Why Hashem gave him more years to live after he became bal tshuva? To give him enough time to gain Mitzvot and merits. If he will die in a year or two, it's not enough. How many Shabbatot he kept? 50? It's not enough. Let me give him another 10, 15 years. Like this is hundreds of Shabbatot, thousands of days of Torah. I want him to come up there with a lot of wealth. Not became Tzadik yesterday and the next day died. He comes empty-handed. But that's not the main prize, that you're gonna live an extra 5, 10, or 15 years. What's the main prize? Chayyob, ichye, would live in this world and would live to the next world, which is eternity. What made him live for eternity? Became a shomer Shabbat. A girl that dressed not modest, she became modest. Change everything. She's not modest, she's Machtiat HaRabim. She affects the public to commit sins as a result of her behavior. So it's continuing. 'You were counting on the days you used to be righteous. Now you allow yourself to be wicked. You don't care anymore. You say, I was in yeshiva for many years, this will save me.' Baloney. It's all going after the end of your days. You became wicked, it never ever will be remembered that you used to be righteous. Nothing will be memorized. I only care how you died. You die righteous or you die wicked, and based on that, you're going to be judged. You made an Avil, a horrible crime, and that's why you are dying. Be'omri la'rasha, another scenario. When I say to the wicked, motamut, you're going to die younger in this world and you're going to die permanently from the next world to the next world. Veshav michatato, but he repented and stopped to do horrible things as he used to. He judged himself, what have I done wrong, to fix it, and gives a lot of charity, tzedakah. It's not enough just to become Shomer Mitzvot. You have to make up for all the years. Years you didn't give Maaser, years you didn't give tzedakah. When exactly you planning to start? You must give a lot more now. If someone normal gives 10% 20% all his life, you woke up age 40, 50, you're already 30, 40 years behind. You know how much you owe the master? You gotta give a lot more. 40, 50, 60, 70%. Of course, if you have enough to live. So, Rabbi Tzvi, after I warned the weak and say to him, if you continue like this, you die here and you die in the next world. But he returned and repented, and he judged himself, and he started to give a lot of tzedakah, right? Chavol yashiv rasha'atz Eliyahu HaShalem. He has to return all the money he stole from people. Haha, you came to Shabbat, good for you, but you owe a lot of money to a lot of people. They're waiting 10, 20 years for you to pay it. You want to go to heaven when you owe millions to people that you left them with nothing to eat? Keep dreaming. He started to live according to the life of Torah. The Torah is a tree of life to those who support the Torah. Now comes the next scenario. V'amrubne amcha. And the nation of Israel would complain after they hear all these things that I just read to you, right? Hashem is instructing the prophet Ezekiel to speak to the Jewish nation everything I just said. Meaning, who is speaking here? God himself. But Hashem already knows what kind of children he has. He already knows that we know very, very well how to complain nonstop. He already sees it coming. Now they're going to complain. He's already telling the rabbi, rabbi, they are going to complain to you. What are they going to say? Tell me if we didn't say it or not. V'amar tem, lo itachem derech Adonai. It's impossible. It's not acceptable. It's not fair. What kind of a God is this? Right? I don't want relationship with this kind of God. I remember one time I was in a Shabbaton. One of the speakers there is actually one I actually appreciated very much. He was speaking very good, very well for his entire career as a speaker. He shocked me. I got the shock of my life. How in the middle of his speech All of a sudden he said, "I have to live with fear that if I do this and this and that, God is going to punish me. I don't want this kind of God. I don't want this kind of relationship with the God." Next to me was a very, very big rabbi, big Talmid Chacham, Rav Meir Moshe Weiss. He's in Lakewood now. He used to be Rabbi in Staten Island, the student of Moshe Feinstein's Atzar, Rav Victor Miller. An older man, I guess he's close to 80 years old today. I looked at him, he looked at me, and we both are speechless. If one of the clowns in my back, at least say it. We didn't have any expectations from them. Someone like that, it was really painful. To hear it. I don't know what came out of his mouth shortly after he died. That was the end of it, unfortunately. We got to be very careful, Habibi. Hashem is not our friend and we have no permission to modify this Torah. We have to read what's written, not what we feel. I don't want relationship like this with the God. Who are you? Who put you here to open your mouth to even say something? Read and do. You don't want to do, pay the price. That's it. Every other way, it's baloney and excuses. Ah, I don't like it. I wish it wasn't like that. Okay, you wish. You wish. I also wish a lot of things. Anyone here doesn't have dreams? I want to have this, I want to have that, I want to have this child, that daughter, this grandchild, this remedy, that money, this car. Everyone has dreams. Life is not tochnit ke bakashatra. Get it to your head. Life is not a show that you make a request and Hashem is immediately will deliver it. Hashem is not Amazon Prime. Get it to your head already. Get it to your head. Unfortunately, that's how the Satan fools people. I have the right to demand how I want Hashem to be? Such a chutzpah! Such a chutzpah! I will decide how you should be? You're not gonna tell me how to be, I will tell you how to be. This is basically, but this is written right here. Hashem already knew that we're going to complain. All of us complain, all of us. How many people can say I never complain about my situation? And Hashem said to the Prophet, "V'amartem lo itachem derech Adonai." It's impossible. It's not possible. I can never be such a tzaddik. It's too tough. It's too hard. It's too stressful. How many thousands of complaints I hear every month. "Ish kedrachaveh shvot etchem bet Israel." Everyone I will judge individually according to his behavior. Can complain all you want. Complaints will make your situation a lot worse. If you're not sure, what happened to the Jewish nation when they complained that there's no water? What happened to them when they complained about the manna? What happened to them when they complained against Moshe? Every time we complain, thousands or tens of thousands died. Complain brings tragedies. Complain makes people unhappy from you. Needless to say, Hashem. I give you access— Yaakov Avinu complained, by the way. Yaakov, Yaakov the legend. Yaakov, our father Yaakov, Jacob. He came to Pharaoh. Pharaoh asked him, "How old are you? He looks very old." He said, "My life was shorter than my fathers and were miserable. And no one had the worst life than Yaakov Avinu in the entire history of this world. No one. Yaakov had the hardest life. We complain, our life is not 1% as bad as his life was. Do you know what life he had? Do you know what it means that someone kidnap your daughter, some Hamas terrorist Shrem Ben Chamor and does what he did to her? You don't even know the whole story what he did to her. To Dina. Do you know that you have a wife that you work for her 7 years, you love her, she's the love of your life, you work like a servant, you've been taking advantage, and then she died age 36 giving birth to your second son? It's another big tragedy. You have a son that is the light of your life. You learn with him, you taught him, he is the one who will take my place and then they come and say, "Oh, an animal ate him, look, some lion swallowed him, look, you recognize the blood?" How can you live after that? You have a brother who is looking for you for 34 years to murder you. He comes to you with 400 mercenaries with weapons. On the way to kill you. You have to hide from them for 34 years. You cannot see your parents all these years. 14 years in yeshiva, 20 years by Lavan, 34 years you in exile. There's no telephone. "Hi, Dad, I'm okay." Move in front of the video. Put your face on the screen. Where are you? I want to see how old you got. Yeah, it's 30 years already. There's no phone call, no letters, no US mail. Anyway, it doesn't get anywhere, so. But there's no way to communicate. No telephone, no— that's it. You don't see your family. 34 years. Don't know if your father is alive, if your mother is alive. What happened to them? Where are they? They move? Nothing. Your brother is searching for you to kill you all these years. You live in fear. Then all of a sudden, there is— the ISAF sends the leaflets. After you made so much money, Alif has wiped you out. Imagine made of Kaam, take away all your life savings. How many people would commit suicide here in Queens if you take away all their wealth? One minute they drive a Mercedes, a second later they become homeless. What happened to these rich people? They'll kill themselves. Half of them will die in one day, the other will die in a year. From a broken heart. Why? You take away my money, I'd rather die. Yaakov came to his shidur with uniform of a non-Jewish soldier. He found him dead on the water. Elifas took even his clothes. He stayed with underwear in the water. What did he do? He was looking to, what am I gonna do now? Oh, he saw a body floating on the water. Of a goat, soldier, took off his clothes, wore it, and then he came to Lavan. "Hi, I'm your nephew. I came to work by you." He doesn't want to tell him, "My brother is looking for me to murder me. My parents sent me over here." "Come, come, you'll be the cleaning lady. We need someone to clean, a janitor here." That's the life of Yaakov. Then hunger, then he has to move to Egypt. So he stands in front of Pharaoh and he says, "My life was miserable, was horrible." And Hashem said to Yaakov, "I'm very disappointed from you that you complain. You have the life of eternity with all the pleasure waiting for you and you complain about your miserable life?" So if someone that had the most miserable life you can imagine complained one minute and Hashem was very upset with him, we that do not have 1% of his suffering, we have permission to open our mouth? It's very clear, no? The point is very clear, I think. So, Rabotai, let's conclude. Conclusion. V'amar ten, and you're going to say, lo itachem derech Hashem, impossible, God, what do you want from us? Like Santa say. Santa has a very annoying sentence that he likes to use. "You have no right to tell us what to do. We do not need to apologize to you. You have to apologize to us." Did you ever hear a bigger chutzpah than this in the history of the world? Did you ever hear an Arab would speak to Hashem like this? A filthy Nazi Hamasnik. Will he dare to say such words? "God, we won't apologize to you, you will apologize to us." Did you ever hear this? No. Two people from my blacklist, this is how they talk. Santa and the clown from Englewood. That's how— I once was in a bar mitzvah in Englewood. I'll tell you how many years ago. The boy today is married with 2 children, probably 24 or 25, so it was 12 years ago. In a beautiful nice home by the pool, 300 people, they put, you know, it was summertime, they put round tables in the grass. Bar Mitzvah. Now, Seudah Shlishi, third meal of Shabbat, and after that the clown from Englewood was supposed to speak and me after him. He sits in his place, I sit in my place. The father of the boy, the bar mitzvah boy, the boy asked him to talk. He gets up and this is what he said to the people: I'm coming now back from Israel. I see, I saw what the Arabs are doing to the Jews over there. It boils my blood. I'm sick and tired to apologize to God. It's time for him to apologize to us. He have no right to do this to us. I'm not going to apologize. I am not going to— all these words, you know, these these words that he was using. 300 modern people sitting over there. What do they know from their life? Most of them don't learn. Some of them religious, some of them are not, some of them chalel Shabbat. There were people there that came with a car in the middle of Shabbat. Came to the party in the middle, they didn't stay the whole Shabbat. Once he finished, they asked me to talk. Baruch Hashem, until today I thank Hashem that it wasn't the other way around. If I was the first speaker and then the clown would speak, the damage would remain permanent. After he spoke, they called me. Now remember, this is a bar mitzvah. It's not the erev Yom Kippur. We're not in a tzlichot. You have to do it in a politically correct way. I said, "No, that's an emergency now. The Bar Mitzvah can be on hold." I got up, I said, "Everything you heard from him now, forget you ever heard." In front of his face. "Everything you heard from him, forget you ever heard it. That's the highest level of heresy. We have the right to tell Hashem that He has to apologize. We're sick and tired of what He's doing. Everything that is happening to us in Israel with the Arabs we brought on ourselves. If you don't believe it, you are a heretic and we cannot count you in a minyan. And him definitely cannot be in a minyan. But he took revenge against me a few years later when the few clowns from the university wrote that letter that they don't recommend to invite me. He made a delicious, delicious soup out of it. The guy told him, "I warn you, be careful not to join the party." But immediately he ran to do it. And then he opened— I'm embarrassed even to say— with his wicked daughter, this horrible wicked Purusha daughter that he has online, open a— I don't know how to say it in a clean language— a store that sells people things that, you know, the filthiest people love. And they're not even embarrassed. They publish it that they're selling this kind of things. They call it toys. A person that considers himself a rabbi. The highest level of Hilul Hashem, highest level of Hilul Hashem. That's the clown from Englewood. Hashem Rechaim, Mirka, V'marchimov, Zichro. Him and his daughter. So, this is what we have to deal with. You understand? So the next time when someone feels brave enough to complain, better to be quiet. Even if you complain in your mind is a problem. The complaining in your mind is already a problem because Hashem reads your mind. But to say it to the people, it makes it 10 times worse. If you're such a loser and you have zero Emunah and zero faith and you cannot handle your punishment like a man, at least be quiet. At least be quiet. You don't have to scream loud. And show the world what a loser you are. You don't have to. Pretend. Pretend for the time being in front of the people. You know, I want to tell you something. I have a friend. He never got married. He's now probably almost 70. He never got married. One time, one famous speaker from Israel came here to do a a lecture. There was hundreds of people, maybe 500, 600 people in that place, in some hotel near Montecito. It was, you know, hotel. They took the conference room. And then that speaker say to him, he got up, people are asking for blessing, you know, they give them the microphone. So, you know, his friend next to him, there was a friend, He said, "My friend is asking for bracha for shidduch." Both of them needed shidduch. The one that was talking and the one next to him, my friend. But my friend wouldn't ask for shidduch, so the other guy said, "He wants shidduch." Meaning, "I also want." Both of us. So that speaker over there said to him, "You're learning Torah every day?" He said, "No." He said, "Are you willing to accept on yourself 2 hours learning every day for 3 months every day, but don't miss a minute?" He said to him, "Can we start with an hour?" So the speaker told him, "Okay, sir, will be 6 months." 1 hour, 6 months. 2 hours a day, 3 months. So, okay, go back to the 2 hours. You have it on video what I'm telling you. It's on video. That lecture was recorded. I was laughing for a month after that. So he said, "Go back to the 2 hours." He said, "If you accept on yourself to keep 2 hours, to learn Torah 2 hours every day, I give you now a bracha," and everybody will answer amen, "that in 3 months you'll be engaged." "You accept the deal?" "Yes." Misha Berard, da da da da da, and 500 people screamed, "Amen!" He was happy. At that time, I was in touch with him every day. I'm a witness how he was measuring the time he learned. Half an hour, he writes. Then an hour, an hour and a half I learned today. Then he learns another 15 minutes, an hour and 45. Make sure that every day he will pass the 2 hours. Make sure. One time he came with me to a lecture and he said, "I'm gonna go to the car." I said, "Why?" He said, "I have to finish my learning." I have to finish my learning. Mama, she was counting the minutes every day. And he kept 3 months, 3 months he kept his part of the deal and he never got engaged. People asked him, "What happened to the bracha that that famous speaker gave you?" He said, "I messed up. I didn't keep my part of the deal." I asked him, "You and I know that you kept your part of the deal and even more. You learned more than 2 hours a day." 2 hours a day, minimum 2 hours and up you learn. So absolutely, of course I did. I said, so why are you telling people you messed up? He said, I don't want people to— I don't want to cause Chilul Hashem. Then the people would say, ah, what good are the rabbis? He made a deal with him, he makes him learn now 3 months, and in the end nothing happened. It's causing Chilul Hashem, shame, right? Who are you to make a deal? What, you are God? If you make a deal, stand behind it. Right or wrong? He could have gone and said, "I did what I had to. He's full of baloney. His word is nothing. Who is he? He's a faker." He could have done that, no? Some people would choose this way. "It's not fair. I did what I had to. Why he doesn't keep his word?" But he was clever. He didn't want to upset Hashem even though he was right. Now look at that from the other way around. He was not guilty, he made himself look guilty. Why? That he won't look like he's complaining, that he will not be chinul Hashem. People that are million percent guilty, not only they don't apologize, They make the worst Hilul Hashem every day, all these clowns on my blacklist. The most guilty field on earth and what do they do? With such arrogance writing books, I didn't ask to come to the world. You have no right to tell me what to do. It drives me nuts to see these people and you know what's the The saddest thing that there are so many stupid people that follow them. You cannot believe it. And these people do not see on their own eyes. Sometimes people do see. I get sometimes email from people, something in— they don't know, they don't know my blacklist. Innocently they ask me, I listen to that speaker, meaning Santa, and he says strange things. It looks to me very strange. I would like to verify with you if it's kosher. Immediately I send him my list of jewels that we collected from his garbage. Oh, thank God I realized it. But how many people like this realize? 1%. The rest are fed with poison and they're not even aware of it. They're not aware of it. Mahmash like that. Rabotai, time is running out. I want to remind you that in Yom Kippur we read once the big confession of Rabbi Nonissim. "Aviduya gadol, it's in the sidurim of Yom Kippur, at least in the Sefaradi sidur." And this Rabbi Nissim lived about 1,000 years ago. This is a person that was in the league of Rashi, Rambam, the biggest legend we ever had. I mean, these are the holiest people ever lived, not just rabbis who knows Torah. There were people that were devoted to Hashem 100%, 24 hours a day, every second of their life. These were people who never looked at one not modest thing in their life. These were people who would not use something without permission once in their life. These were people that barely sleep 1, 2 hours a night and nonstop learning Torah. These are the people. He was one of them. It's a very big legend. Listen to his words. Listen to his words. Ribbono Shel Olam, Master of Universe. Kodem kol d'varayim lipela arshiv. Before I even open my mouth, I don't deserve to talk. Velo metzach la'arim rosh. I don't deserve to live I'm embarrassed to lift my forehead that you even look at my forehead. Why? Because on the forehead you have all the sins registered. Meaning I'm embarrassed to raise my face that my sins will be reflected to the people or to you. So I keep my head down. Ma ani? What am I? Ma chayai? What's my life? I'm worthless, I'm nothing. Ani hevel vari? I'm a bunch of nothing. Afaar v'efir— ashes and sand. Rimav et oleah— rotten something that full of worms. Master of Universe, this is what I wanted to read. Im batile farete tratay— if I come to reveal all my sins. Ich leazman— The time on earth will end and I will not finish to read the list of my sins. And I can swear on my life that that rabbi didn't make one sin a year even. With no fear, I'm willing to swear to all the Torah and swear. You look at his Torah and his holiness, you know that people like this don't commit sins ever. Definitely not intentional sins. But the greater you are, the holier you are, the more kosher you are, the more you understand that you're really nothing. The more wicked and arrogant, loser, empty mind you are, the more you feel like you are the owner of God and you'll tell him what to do. Like Santa and his friends. People that have dignity, they will never dare in public to speak such words. This, do you know who was Rabbenu Nissim? Pssst, Rabbenu Nissim. If I come to reveal my sins, the time will end and the list will still go on. I didn't, I don't even know which one of them to confess, to ask for forgiveness for those who are hidden, for those who are revealed. For the first ones, for the last ones, for the new ones, for the old ones, for those who I remember, those who I already forgot. And it begins now with the least. It says, before I was created, it wasn't worth it to create me. Now that I was created, it's like I'm nothing anyway. How will I welcome you, my God? What remedy I will ask from you? I'm a bensorer umore, I'm a boy that rebelled against you and did the bad in your eyes. I'm begging you to help me not to continue to sin and what I already committed the sin, please erase with your mercy. This is words of the holy person. You understand? We, if we read this video, is 100% truth. Every one of us has to say. He didn't have to say it. He didn't have to confess. We have to. He didn't have to confess and he did confess with a broken heart and tears every day. We don't have to cry nonstop. You commit your sins, I will commit my sins, together we will commit all the sins of the Torah. That's how he talks. I wonder if an Arab terrorist will see this clown, what will be in his mind? What happened to these Jewish people? How can it be such thing? 'He has his sins, I have my sins, that's the whole point. Together we will do all the sins.' It became a joke. And 90% of the listeners don't open up their eyes. For that I'm crying, for that. Wicked losers we always had, the world is full of them. For the people that hear these and it's not a warning siren in front of their eyes, that means the Jewish people are lost already. That's it. There's no cure for that. To hear such thing and not immediately be shaken up and shut the screen and never ever mention that word ever again of his name and you move on like, "Ah, it was wonderful." that you know that our end is Mamashir. Mamashir. What kind of a future we have if the people are so ignorant? It's simple common sense, by the way. Don't need to know Torah to right away see that something is wrong. You can be a complete beginner, 2 days in religion, 2 days. I think that if I would be in my second day of religion, meaning today I started to keep, tomorrow I would hear someone that says such thing in a speech, together we'll commit all the sins of the Torah, it would be a big warning for me, red light. What do you think? It would wake you up to see this or no? Or you would think everything is normal even? So why people are continuing like this? That's very, very big mystery. Very big, very big mystery. One last thing for today. We have an interesting Gemara. The Gemara says, mefarsemi me'tachanafim mipnei chilul Hashem. You have to publish the wicked people because of the Hilul Hashem that will be because of them. Rashi writes, Rashi, "Achanafim hem reshayim." These are people that pretend that they are righteous. Pretend! They have the whole custom All these fake babot, these fake speakers pretend that they are important chachamim or tzadikim, but behind the scene they are very wicked. You have to publish the truth about them that people will not fall in their trap. They come to you with all the assistance that they have. The rabbi wants to meet you. Come immediately. I'm busy, I'm at my store, close. He's waiting. What, you're not coming? What does he want from me? $26,000. For what? I should buy another Rolls-Royce and another vacation home on Miami Beach. He doesn't know. He wants to do good thing. He doesn't know who to deal with, who not to deal with. There's so many fakers like this hunting naive people. Why they are like this? Because they don't have a rabbi. If they would have a kosher rabbi, ben Torah, someone who knows the right Ashkafah, in less than a second he would warn them from them. Sometimes all you need is to see a person 5 minutes, you know right away it's a faker. You don't need to be a genius to make an FBI investigation. 2, 3 stories that people testify what they did to them, and you already see exactly what happened here. But listen, Rabotai, I'm reading to you the words of Rashi. Listen carefully. "Achanafim emreshayim"— they are wicked— "umari matzmam ketzadikim"— pretend to be righteous. We have to publish their wickedness. If someone is close to that crook, to that faker, and he knows that whatever he says in front of people, it's all a show, later in a car he hears exactly who he is because he's driving him. Because he's walking with him everywhere and he sees all the scams that he does. No one else knows. The people that are close to him, they know who he is. But listen carefully, and they're not warning the people. I'm not talking that they cooperate with the scam. Sometimes he sends them to hunt the naive people. He sent them on a mission. That's already criminal. What, you cooperating with a crook? It's like Madoff sent someone to someone to get money out of him. Why are you working for him? You know he steals the money. But I'm not talking that they cooperate. They don't. They're silent, but they don't warn and they don't publish these crooks. As a result of that, what happened? Many innocent, naive Jews lose tons of money to the garbage. Tons of money. They didn't want their money to go to this crook. They wanted the money to go to Torah, to save souls, to things that will help the Jewish nation, not to help the stomach of someone who wants to swallow the world. But listen, Rabotai, listen carefully. Why you have to publish them? First, to warn the people. Lo ta'amod al dam recha. Do not stand when the blood of your brother is dripping. Do something to stop it. Someone is about to be robbed. What are you waiting for? Immediately call him, be careful, don't do it. Don't do it. All right. I'm afraid, lashon hara. It's about time you learned the laws of lashon hara. Sometimes not speaking lashon hara, you will be punished severely. Someone is about to get married to a drug addict and you don't warn her? You're gonna destroy the life of this naive, innocent girl? When do you want her to find out? 2 months after the wedding? Hashem expects you to warn an innocent person before he falls into the trap. But that's not the main reason that Rashi writes. You'll be shocked. Listen, listen carefully. And I will finish with this. It says, Rashi writes, "Mitzvah lefarsemon mipnei hilul Hashem." What hilul Hashem there would be? Shebnei adam lemedim mimasav. People, other people learn to behave like him. Wow, it's good business. I should also start doing it. Shezvurim ala People think this person is righteous. They don't know what he does behind the scenes. So they say, you know what, we should follow him, we should be students, we should be his assistants. And Rashi gives another reason. This is a treasure what I'm telling you here. Translation: when you will find out he got cancer and have 3 months to live, or that he's now arrested and he's on the way to jail for 20 years, Oh, they're gonna publish an article in a secular Israeli TV about all his scams and it will be the biggest chinul Hashem in the world. When you see this person that you think is righteous with all the show, what are you sure? Well, where is the justice of God? Why such a tzaddik got cancer? He's only 50, he's only 60, he didn't even live to 90 yet. And then when he die or when he's in hospital or whatever the case is, a lot of naive students, it gives them very strong weakness in Avodat Hashem. So, oh, this guy was my whole world. Such a tzaddik is minimum the Baba Saleh. Ma Baba Saleh has to die like this from cancer? Chasvei Shalom. Where is the justice? 'Justice of God, I don't know what's going on here. Maybe God left us alone. Maybe there's no more justice. Righteous people suffer like this.' He doesn't know what He does behind the scene. He doesn't know. I once remember 30 years ago, 28 years ago, one Israeli guy used to come to my lectures in Queens when I used to speak in Hebrew every week. Every Monday. I saw that he's full of anger, this guy. He was a new Baal Teshuvah a few months. Full of anger. You see, he's very aggressive. You see that something hurt him. One time I wanted to speak to him to see what's going on. I said, "What do you do?" He said, "I'm a driver." Driver of whom? Of that person. Somebody very famous in Israel. I'm his driver. I was his driver for few months. I said, why are you full of anger? What's the problem? He said, it's all Azov, a cold bluff. Everything is bluff. I said, why? He said, if you know what this guy does and to what places I have to drive him 'Not only wouldn't want to ever see him or hear him, you would go and kill him yourself.' So angry. I asked him, 'What do you mean?' Started to give details. Hashem Yerachem. I asked him, 'I don't get it. You drove him 6 months and it took you 6 months to realize? Why didn't you immediately came out after one time and started to tell the whole world to be careful from him. What are you waiting for? That now something will happen to him and all his followers would think, where is Hashem? Where is the justice? It will become a huge chinul Hashem. And this is what Rabbi Victor Miller Zatzal says. Rabbi Victor Miller Zatzal says on the Mishmor, 'El nekamot Adonai, El nekamot ofia.' God is the God of revenge. One day he will show up in a format of the revenging God. Pay attention to the words. This is written by David Melech 3,000 years ago in Tehillim. 'El nekamot Adonai, Says Rabbi Victor Miller, he says, as long as the wicked people celebrate and have the life from the outside. The name of Hashem is splashed in the mud. Hashem is not in the level he deserves to be. Hashem is humiliated. He's been pushed in the garbage, in the mud. When the name of Hashem will be elevated to the place it deserves to be? When he will kill all the wicked people. People and clean the world from them. Until then, the name of Hashem is hurt, is disrespected. He didn't get to where he needs to be in the eyes of the public. Says Rav Avigdor Miller, what does this Mishmoros mean? This is the words of King David, Baruch Hakodesh, it's prophecy. The judge of the universe will be elevated to the seat of the judge. When? Hashem Gemul Algeim. When he will pay back to all the proud, arrogant, wicked people. Until then, Hashem is not going to his chair, the king. The king is kicked out from his palace. Why? Because all the righteous people see how the wicked people celebrate. And they see how righteous people suffer and it makes them weak. It makes them weak in Avodat Hashem. How is it going? I'm very broken. Why? Look at this tzadik, how he suffers. Look at this, look at that. Look at all these politicians, all the wicked, corrupted liars, all the heretics. But one day everything will fall into place. This is what we say in Yoshev Beseter Elion. Yoshev Beseter Elion, in the middle of this Mismorah, we say, "Shilumat reshayim tereh, elech haLoigash." There will be time that Hashem will give you a prize if you're righteous. What will be the prize? He will take you to see the end of all these wicked clowns. That would be a huge prize. It will be a major satisfaction to see the end of all these people. Now they feel on top of the world. They fight Hashem. They promote revolt against Hashem. They write books against Hashem. They give speeches of heresy everywhere. I'm not even talking about the Israeli politicians who fight the yeshivot and the Torah. That's needless to say. When the time will come to see their end, not everyone will have the merit to see their end. It's written in the Zohar that in heaven all the righteous people always see ashes running under their feet. Why ashes is running? The wind is taking a lot of ashes, ashes on the floor, ash. That's the ashes of the wicked people that are getting burned in hell. Hashem brings the wind and sends the ashes to fly to the place of heaven where the righteous people look down and they see this Bernie Sanders and this Chuck Schumer and this is Bennett and this is this and this is that. And you recognize the ashes. That's the ashes of this Rasha and this one, the ashes of this one. It's written in the Zohar. That you're going to see their ephir. It's written, I will turn these wicked people to be ashes under your feet. There's a promise in the Torah, in the Tanakh. Don't be jealous with them. Don't eat your heart when they fight me. Their time will come. Shilumat reshaim tireh. Shilumat— when I pay these wicked people, you will get to see. Elechaloyigash. But it won't touch you. You will be immune. Why? You were good. This is what happened with Lot. Lot— Hashem sent 3 angels to save Lot and his family from Sodom. Hashem is going to kill millions of wicked people, thieves, Gays, murderers, all kinds of wicked people. They're all going to be burned alive with fire from heaven. It's written in the Parasha. The angel warned Lot and his wife, do not dare to turn around and see how the wicked people are being burned. If you're going to turn around and look, you're going to die. Why? What do you care if I see or not? You're going to burn San Francisco. You're going to burn the place of all the wicked people. What do you care if I see? You're saving me, no? You're taking me out of there before you burn the place. That means I deserve to live. No, you don't. You're only getting saved because of your righteous uncle Abraham. You already left the religion, you went to Sodom, you became a judge. You went to Harvard Law School, you became a judge, and then you went to Sodom and you became a judge in the Supreme Court of San Francisco. You're not from, you're not religious. What did I just read to you? The words of the prophet. None of your good days will be remembered. We care what you became, and you became wicked. You deserve to be burned more than the people of Sodom. But we're saving you now for the time being. Not to break the heart of Abraham. You're the only relative he has. You're his only nephew. That's it. He doesn't have kids. So for now we save you. Therefore, you don't have the merit to see the end of the wicked because that should have been your end. You don't have the privilege. And his wife turned around and what happened to her? Became a pillar of salt. She died. In the end, Lot and his two daughters got saved. The two son-in-laws, they don't want to leave. They had too much wealth. Many Jews didn't want to run out of Germany or Poland. They knew what's coming, but they wanted to sell their assets until they locked the gates, the ports. Nobody come in and out. Jews cannot leave. The only one who got saved was Rav Shach. He didn't have an apartment. All his friends got an apartment from the father-in-law. Father-in-law, Rav Shach, his Rosh Yeshiva told him, I want you to marry my nephew. She's an orphan. She has no parents and not a penny. Where would we live? Live in my living room. But someone already lives in your living room, Kvod HaRav. There is a couple lives there. Don't worry, we take a sheet We stick it to the ceiling and we divide the room to two. This couple would live in half of the living room. I don't have to tell you the size of the living room. It's not the houses of Great Neck or Beverly Hills, you know. It's a tiny living room. So you divide the tiny living room to two halves. One husband and wife would be in one side, the other husband and wife on the other side, and there's a soft Shit! Not shitrakol. Shit, it flies like this with the wind. If you open the window, it will move. You have to be with your wife. If by mistake you lift your elbow, you eat the eye of your friend's wife. She's on the other side of the blanket. Imagine you want to sneeze or other things, you know, you have zero privacy. Can't talk. Imagine you live with a wife who can't talk. Can't ask her, "How was your day?" But they're listening now. You know? Do you know one person in the world would agree to listen to his rabbi? The rabbi said, "I want you to marry this orphan." "Where would we live? I'm a bachor yeshiva and she's very poor." "Live in my living room with another couple." Everybody made fun of him, all his friends. Not normal. You're the number one student in yeshiva. You deserve to get the richest girl with the best apartment. We are not even half as great as you, and every one of us got a great girl that the father would support us to learn Torah. Why are you settling on nothing? He said, I learned one thing in my life. When all the tzaddiks he says something, I say amen. For me, it's Hashem talking. What happened in the end? When the Nazis came, all his friends knew they have to run away, but there's gonna be time to sell the apartments. You need few weeks. He said to his wife, we have nothing here. Let's run before it's too late. Took one suitcase, got on a boat, went to Eretz Israel. All of them were murdered. And he became the Rosh Yeshiva of Ponovich and the leader of the entire religious Jewish world and lived to 107 years old. That's what they say in Israel, "Tsochek mishetsochek acharon." Doesn't matter who laughs in the middle, who will be laughing in the end when the battle is over. The middle of a battle, you are up, He's up, you are down, he's down. Who cares? In the end, when the war is over, who won? He's gonna be the one who would laugh in the next 30 years. Someone that in the middle looks like he's winning and laugh and made a lot of noise, and in the end he got defeated and crushed. It would look even a bigger joke that he was laughing before. How we wipe out the smile from your face. That's what they say in Israel. Tzucheck mishet tzucheck acharon. We will see who will be laughing in the end. That's what it means. B'ezrat Hashem, we will be on the laughing side. Baruch Adonai lo olam. Amen, amen. Rabbi Chananya ben Akashya, Omer Atzaga, Leshem Kolei Zakotet Israel, Leficha Chirbala Em Torah Umitzvot, Shenei Ma Adonai Chafetz Neman Tzikko, Yagdi Torah V'Adir Kadish.
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