Who is Considered a God Fearing Person - Current Events

Good evening. This lecture is brought to you by the Refuat Menachem Kutiel Ben Chana Ori Ben Bikla, Viva Chaya Bat Lizet, Reuven Ben Rosa, Rachel Esther bat Miriam, Chaim ben Esther, Eliyana Eliel bat Yochaved. And the Avdiel, Leilu Nishmat Avram ben Sima, Avihu Singsit, Reifka bat Mas'ouda, Baruch ben Benjamin. L'atzlachat Yecheskel ben Leah u'Chol Mishpachto, l'atzlachat Lisa bat Rachel. So tomorrow, B'ezrat Hashem, I'm going to speak in Great Neck. If you have time, you should come. It will be a special lecture about what's going to happen after the election, what's the message from Hashem to us, where the world is heading to. We hear today on the news that Russia is declaring that they are, sooner or later, will engage in a nuclear war. The reason for it is that Sleepy Joe had to do one more thing before, one more damage before he leaves the White House. He authorized Ukraine to use ballistic missiles to shoot at Moscow. That can change the entire face of the war. You know, in life, when you deal with people, you have to know who you're dealing with. If you deal with a normal person, You can deal with him in a civilized way. If you deal with a crazy person, what's the problem now? Doesn't work? So when you deal with a crazy person, you have to know your limitation. Why? Sometimes you press on their nerve too much, the way they retaliate will cost you 100 times more than what you did. You— and that's what happened to the stupid Hamas and Hezbollah, mainly Hezbollah. Hamas, at least they, according to them, they achieved something. They killed 1,200 Jews and kidnapped almost 300 more. Hezbollah did nothing. Now they killed few of them. Back then, when they were shooting every day, I don't think they killed one person. Made a few thousand dollars damage every missile that fell. Most of them didn't even hit anything. And they got themselves into such a mess that they're almost— all of them are dead now. The whole south of Lebanon is taken. Beirut is half destroyed. Will take them 50 years to fix the damage they made to themselves. What did they achieve? Nothing. They play on the nerve of the Israelis knowing that the lefties are holding us from inside. They are killing us from inside, all the lefty traitors. And they were sure that we will never dare to respond. Why? Because they know we have enemies from within. Jews, they call themselves Jews at least. But we hit them by surprise. Lefties, no lefties. Finally Netanyahu got the courage. And decided that's it, there's nothing else we can do, we have to go into a war with Lebanon. Believe me, they regret the moment they're born. Asrala is dead, the beeper attack blew up their faces, more than 500 of them are blind for life, some of them lost their arms, their legs. The price that they paid is probably 100 times more expensive than the price that we paid. That's not a— that's a stupid way of running the war. You have to be smart. You push, push, push until the person will finally go crazy on you, and then you would lose a lot more than you gain. And that's what's going to happen now. The Ukrainians will shoot a few missiles. They'll make probably few dozens of Russians to die and some property damage before they realize they got a nuclear bomb on their head and 50 million or 20 million of them will be wiped out and that will be the end of them forever. Whose fault is this? The Democrats. In the end, it's always the lefties. All the problems in the world comes from them. Everywhere, not just in Israel, not just in America, everywhere. That's what's going to happen. In the meantime, Russians now, they building special, special boxes for nuclear war. They're going to put on the streets that people can go inside and lock themselves in. Supposedly, I don't know what can resist a nuclear bomb. How these big pieces that they make now, how is it going to help them? I don't know. But they increase the manufacturing of these shelters. Meaning they tell you, we take it serious. We know that it's going to be a nuclear war. Just a matter of time. So everything works according to the prophecies. Everything. So far, mamash, everything. Iran, Saudi, this— according to the prophecies. We will see where we end. On Shabbat, we read Parashat Vayera, which is a continuation of the Parasha before, of Lech Lecha. Hashem told Avraham to leave his place when he was 75, and he told him, you know, here you cannot have kids, but in the new place you will have kids. And he also hinted to him he's going to have a child when he will be 100. The interesting part is that finally when the angels come on what we read on Shabbat, the angels came to inform him that he's going to have next year, ka'et chaya, meaning in this time next year you're going to have your own son. And Both of them, Avraham and Sarah, both of them laugh. Both of them could not believe. Avraham says, "So someone old like me can have a child?" And Sarah says, "How can it be? I'm already so old." "Acharib eloti aitali ednavah don izaken." She laughed. Then Hashem comes to Avraham and he complains, "Well, why is she there to laugh?" It's very interesting, Hashem did not say to Avraham anything that he also laughed. No, Hashem doesn't complain to Avraham, how did you dare to laugh? The interesting question we have to ask, when Hashem told him when he was 75, go, because over here you won't have kids, but you're going to have kids later on. He was already 75. That's already a question. I'm 75, now I'm going to have kids? I'm waiting 50 years for a child. 'Now when I'm 75, you tell me I'm going to have a child? Ah!' He didn't laugh back then. Yes, 100 is more surprising than 75. 75, even today, people in their 75, they have kids. All these movie stars. He's 80, his wife is 20, and all of a sudden you hear he has another child. Meaning the man doesn't have so much limitation. It's not like the woman, she gets to a certain age and that's it. But it's still 75, his wife is 65. When they left, he should have been laughing back then. Now he laughed 25 years later when it became official. Very interesting, there's a lot of questions to ask. So it's a continuation of the Parasha before. After the Torah described the genealogy of humankind, mankind, in the first 19 generations, the Torah covered so far 19 generations, and now the Torah starting to elaborate, to describe directly and personally the History of Avraham Avinu, the father of the Israelite nation. The Torah gives 3 chapters just about him. 3 chapters: Lech Lecha, Vayera, and Chayesara. 3 chapters about him from 54 chapters. 3 of them are focusing on Abraham. And it's very interesting because the Torah does not speak about the life of Abraham when he was out of Israel. The first 75 years that they lived in exile, you hardly have one sentence in the Torah about it. Nobody cared. What do you mean? It was already when he was 52, he was already making seminars, he was making balay teshuvah, he was already— he had a hotel, people came, they eat. He used to, you know, make them bless Hashem, convince them to stop with their idols. He was doing a lot of good things out of Israel. Why all of a sudden the Torah described the life of Abraham only from the time Hashem told him, go to the place I'll show you, go to the Holy Land. From then on, the Torah speaks, you know, with more details about the life of Abraham in the Holy Land. Very interesting. So how many years of Abraham is described in the Torah with details? 100 years, because he passed at 175. So Hashem revealed Himself to him. All these years that he was out of the Holy Land, He didn't reveal Himself to him in such a way, in a clear prophecy. "Vayirah elav be'elonim amre." This was after Hashem told him to circumcise himself, his son, and all the slaves, the servants. Now it's the third day of the milah. Now it's the third day after the circumcision. It's the most painful day. Hakadosh Baruch Hu come to visit him. Mitzvah to visit the sick. The Gemara in Baba Metzia, the Gemara in page 86, the Gemara talks about Hashem's visitation to Avraham in the third day of his brit milah. The question is, the Gemara over there discussed, Chazal are saying that Avraham kept mitzvah of achnasat ochim, so important to Avraham hospitality He was very good at this mitzvah. So the Torah, the Gemara said that on the third day after he was circumcised, which is the hardest day, usually people, older people, when they get circumcised, they need to rest more on the third day than the second or the fourth. That's more and more painful day. So the Torah wanted you to know that Dafqar, just when he was suffering the most, He said, "I have to overcome my pain and find guests." And what happened? Hashem made the day the hardest day in history. There was no harder day than that day ever. I remember 25 years ago, 28 years ago, something like that, 28 years ago, yes. I did one time Shabbat in Brooklyn. I think that's in my entire life, one Shabbat I was here for by my friend in Flatbush. He's already now in Israel. I don't know why Hashem made that day the hardest day in the history of New York. I don't remember since 1989 I came here, 35 years I'm here, I don't remember a day that was close, even close a little bit to that hot day that was that day. It was on Shabbat. I think it was 110 degrees, 120 or something like that. Very humid. My friend got an air conditioner the size of a watermelon. He couldn't breathe in his living room. I don't exaggerate. Every 2 minutes I had to go wash my face with cold water. Not that the water was cold. You know, when it's so hot, the water is not so cold. It was impossible to breathe. And then he says in the morning, "I want to go to Avenue S. Sefaradi." Which is about a 45-minute walk. I said to him, "You're normal? By the time we get there, we'll die. Let's go here to one of the Syrian shuls in Ocean Parkway." As we walk, and the heat was boiling, my friend used to say every few steps, "Domo re rabbi, over there it's a lot hotter." Meaning in Gehinnom. Better get used to it now. Why am I remembering this day? Because finally we went to mincha. We went to the Syrian shul, I think it was Shaaret Zion. I also wanted to see this great chazan, David Shihru. It's an opportunity once to see him in a shul live. I was hearing him on a CD. Now it's an opportunity to hear him live. So we went in the morning over there, but then from mincha we went there. He didn't give up. Takaman, seudah shelishi, this, that. So they, I will not forget that, they eat seudah shelishi in a school across the street, Avenue S. Sepharadi. I don't know if they still do it. We had to just cross the street, that's it. It's maybe 30 steps and I was dripping like someone spilled buckets of water on me. That's how hot it was. It was impossible, cannot believe it. That hot day is nothing compared to the day that Hashem made boiling in a desert, probably 120, 130. Hardest day ever. And Abraham Avinu, age 100, he runs to look for guests. What's so urgent? Few days you won't have guests. I have to have guests every day. Even people that have a lot of guests, they have some days off, no? So have a day off. Because Hashem saw that he's anxious to get guests, He turned the day to the hottest day ever. Why? That no one should walk. No one would walk. Everyone hides in his tent. Who's gonna walk in such a day? But he doesn't give up. When Hashem saw he's not giving up, he must find someone, send him 3 Arabs, angels. Dressed like Arabs. Arabs, the word 'Arabi' comes from the word 'Arava'. 'Arava' means desert. In the Shona Kodesh, in the language, 'Arava' means open space of the desert. That's why they call the Arabim 'Arabi' because they come from the 'Arava'. They lived always in the desert. So now 3 Arabs are coming, he gets water, they wash their legs. That's the story. Why did Hashem revealed himself in a place called Elonim Mamre? So the Gemara discussed this. Nothing in life is coincidence. There's no such thing random. There were 3 people, Aner, Eshkol, and Mamre, friends of Avraham. He came to ask them before the Brit Milah if he should circumcise himself in his age. What do they think about it? So Aner and Eshkol said to him, oh, it's because you're old, it's not for you. For the kids, for you. No, it's too much of a risk. You are a noose. You shouldn't do it. Mamre said to him, of course you should do it. God said to you to do it. Yes, so what are you thinking about it? He is the same God who saved you from the furnace, from the water, from Nimrod, all these miracles he made for you. So now all of a sudden you worry? Of course Abraham wasn't worried. He just wanted to hear their opinions about what he's about to do. With or without them, he would do it. There's no question about it. But because Mamre gave him the right advice, Hashem came to Abraham in the territory of Mamre. See, even little details like these can change a person's life. Now the Shechinah, the holiness of Hashem, came in the house of Mamre, in his territory, but not in the house of the other two. Sometimes, you know, you hear that someone had a child in your, in your neighborhood. When? On Shabbat. Now, Shabbat, they need to do Brit Milah, but they can't travel the baby now to the synagogue. Maybe winter, maybe summer. So they have to do the Brit Milah in-house, but they have a tiny place, tiny house, tiny apartment. So if you have a nice big home and you right away call them and say, you know what, I want you to do the Brit Milah in my house, you come with your wife, sleep by us, everybody will come to us after they finish the prayers, we'll do the Brit by my house. You cannot schlep the baby from one place to another. What's the advantage besides the mitzvah, besides the hospitality, besides all of that? What's the advantage? Eliyahu HaNavi is coming to your house. You put the kisev Eliyahu. Eliyahu, Elijah the Prophet, he got punished. What's his punishment? That he has to participate in every brit milah until Mashiach would come. He is the one who also come to announce the arrival of the Messiah, but until then Hashem say to him, every brit milah I have to be there. But it's no problem, he's an angel, he can jump from one place to another in less than a second. And he has to be there. So now, how long is he gonna be in the house? For the time of the Brit Milah? No, his spirit remains over there for 3 days. Meaning the holiness of the arrival of Eliyahu HaNavi, the holy Elijah the Prophet, in your house remains for 3 days. So what did you gain? You gain Mitzvah of V'achnasat Orchim. You gain hospitality of Brit Milah in your place. And you gain the visitation by Eliyahu HaNavi. What could be better than that? So, same thing over here. This Mamre gave a good advice and he gained something great. The Gemara, as I told you in Baba Metzia, page 86, the Gemara says it was the third day of the Milah of Avraham, Hashem comes to ask him how he's doing. How do we know that it was the third day? Who told them? So we know that the world is standing on three pillars, three poles. One is Torah, one is Avodah, and one is Gemilut Hasadim. That's in Pirkei Avot chapter 1, Mishnah 2. Ashloshad varim a'olam umeid, a'la Torah, a'la Avodah, v'al Gemilut Hasadim. Torah, we know what it is. Avodah, it's Avodat Hakorbanot, sacrifices and prayers. And Gemilut Hasadim, we spoke about it, if you remember, last Tuesday. It's kindness. That's how I named the lecture last week, kindness, chesed. Spoke about that, that chesed will remain until the end, even though Torah and prayers are weakening by the generations. Milut chesedim is still in full effect. Every one of the fathers symbolize something different. Avraham, ish ahessed, is the kindness, hospitality, is willing to do anything, hotel, people come, they eat for free, that's Avraham. Yitzchak, avodah, prayers. Vayetzeh Yitzchak, lasuach basadeh, lasuach basadeh. You know the way he said it? 'Veitzei Yitzchak la'siyach basadeh.' And now, that's Hasidish, Hasidish Avara. But for me, what, you know what you just say now? That Yitzchak went to visit a bush in the field. 'Siyach' means bush. 'La'siyach,' to the bush. 'Veitzei Yitzchak la'siyach basadeh.' There, 'siyach,' small bush, burning bush, like Moshe Rabbeinu? Look how it changed the meaning of the words. If you're Hasidish, you say, "Vayitzei Yitzchak lasiach basadeh," means Yitzchak went to speak to Hashem in a field. But the way we understand it is Yitzchak went out to the field to visit a bush. Chanukah bush. Something like that. Changed the meaning of the sentence. This is, by the way, one of the punishments that Hashem gave us. Who understood what I just said? Why it's a punishment that two Jews will say the same sentence from the Torah and it sounds completely different? Why is it? What caused it? Shimshon, you're not doing your job. What caused it? Galut. Exile. Exile. Why we went to exile? Because of the sins. Now Hashem scattered us all over the world. Some people went to Syria, Lebanon, Iraq. They speak with similar to Arabic accent. Most of the Middle Eastern Jews, Sephardim. Some went to Ukraine, Poland, Russia. Lithuania, all these areas speak completely different accent. Completely, it sounds like completely two different languages. You hear Yiddish Jew from Europe— problems, Benji? Why does it have to be every week like this? Almost every week there's problems. What now? What happened now? So what do you see? You see that two people speak, one cannot understand the other. Also by Yemenite, like this. I once said an older Yemenite came to read for us for Mincha in my house. I have a shul. He happened to be there. Someone said, let him read. Temanim, from very young age, they learn to read. They teach them how to read. He read in mincha, I don't think one person understood one word. Completely different accent. So when you hear a Hasidish guy reads, it's very hard to understand, but you understand some words. This Temani didn't understand anything. I wonder how the Hasidim, when they hear Sfaradi reading, if they understand or not. Maybe it's also very different for them. One way or the other, this is a result of exile. When you went to exile, it affected our food, it affected our clothing, it affected our accent, and it also affected the havara, the way we speak, the pronunciation of the words. Not just the accent, the pronunciation is completely different. You know, so by the Sephardim, by the Litaim, by the Temanim, you have 'he' and 'who.' By the Hasidim, you don't have 'who,' you have 'he' and 'he.' So you have to know when they speak about a man, when they speak about a woman. It's hard to know. You need to understand the meaning of the verse. If you don't understand the meaning, you won't know. But about a man, they say 'he,' and about a woman, they also say 'he.' But in the Torah it's written different. Once it's written with Vav, once it's written with Yud. Has to be some difference. But this is, like I said, the price of being in exile too long. Everything was messed up. But Baruch Hashem, Rav Moshe Feinstein zatzal was asked this question, what about all these different Avarot, different accents, different pronunciations? What should we do? Should we stick to only our tradition or we can pray other places? Say all of them are accepted by Hashem. Why? Because we're lucky that Hashem also reads our mind and our hearts, not just what we say. We can sometimes say something that is incorrect, it's not precise, but Hashem knows what we mean. If we would speak to a human being king, he won't understand what we want. He would give us according to what he understands. But with Hashem, he understands what you want. So he knows that it's not your fault. This is the way they raised you. This is the way you talk. You don't know any other way. And he will follow your intention, what you really mean when you say those words. One day when Mashiach comes, I believe that we will go back to the original way of Moshe Rabbeinu, of Mahamad al-Sinai. You know, it's very interesting, there was one Hasidic Rebbe that— what was his name? Vayetav Moshe? Vayetav? Huh? Could be Ismach Moshe, that says that he remembers his reincarnation That he was by Yankov Hashi. No, that he was by Korach. That was after, but before that he was by Yankov. He showed on the back. What was his name of the rabbi first? Ismach Moshe. Okay, so Ismach Moshe, he was by Yaakov and he was with the argument between Korach and Moshe Rabbeinu. You know what I would ask him if I would be there? I would tell him what Avarah they spoke. If you remember your past life, you spoke to Moshe and you spoke to Korach and you heard the argument. Tell me who they spoke like. Like Sfaradim? Like Litaim? Like Temanim? Like whom? Let's clarify this first. But I guess nobody thought to ask him this question. There was one baby that was born, he's still alive by the way. Someone told me he's in Natanya, he lives. He was born and the angel did not make him forget all the Torah he learned in 9 months in his mother womb. So as soon as he started to open his mouth, he was telling you pages of Gemara, little baby, toddler. Everyone was shocked in Israel. I once met one Ashkenazi person that told me that he was in his class. So what did they do? The rabbis took him. I think the Rebbe from Belz and a few other rabbis came. They all gathered together. They put him in a room, that child. The Rebbe did something to him and he made him forget that. I said to myself, Chaval, should have made a video first. First question, why did they make him forget all the Torah he learned? We all forget, right? When we come out to the world, the angel tap us on the lip, the Gemara say, and we forget all the 9 months that we, we learn. What do you mean you forget? You forget it in your conscious, but it remains in your subconscious. That's the purpose of learning it to begin with. So the question is, question we have to ask first, why they made him forget? One answer, they didn't want to create problems between all the poskim and all the rabbis. Between all the poskim and all the rabbis. Because now, you know what would happen? You have a 5-year-old child, you have all the big rabbis of the generation, nobody goes to them, everyone comes to him. "Tell me what the angel told you about this sugya, this Gemara. What's the P'shat here?" That would become a big insult to Gedolei Torah. Plus, he would start saying, "He was right and he was wrong. His opinion is like the angel taught me." What he said, the angel didn't teach me. It would create problems. It would make, it would shake the foundation and the basics of all the rules of Halachot and Psakim, of all the Poskim, of all the generations. So they didn't want a problem, they didn't. I said, no problem. The fact that they made him forget, I understand. Question is why they didn't make a 5-minute video Maybe there was no video cameras back then. Talking about at least 75 years ago. They had a camera, camcorder? That's the reason. That's the answer. Imagine if it would happen in our days. It would be all over YouTube in less than an hour, 300 million views. Right or wrong? The whole world would talk about it. It'll be all over the news. Something unbelievable has just happened in Israel. A baby, 2 months old, is talking words of Torah nonstop from morning to night. Who taught him to speak? How does he know all these unbelievable hard words? The whole world will shake. It will probably make more baalei teshuvah than all the seminars we will ever do. The Satan will never let something like this happen today in the world of media, social media. That's why it happened back then when only 20, 30 people was able to witness it. Today, the Satan will not allow such thing. So what do you see? Why the angel didn't make him forget? I'll never be able to answer you this. One answer I can give you that every rule in life has an exception to the rule. Every rule. Hashem made rules in nature. The world is acting according to the laws of nature, but every once in a while you see something interesting. For instance, you have Siamese twins. The world have babies and twins. A lot. That's normal. Every 100 million pregnancy, up, all of a sudden, Siamese twins. They're attached in the head, attached in the shoulder. They have one stomach. One heart, one liver, two heads. One head on the left shoulder, one head on the right shoulder. Very interesting. Obviously, that's an exception to the rule. So, Rabotai, the Gemara says we have three pillars in the world: Torah, Avodah, and Gemilut Chasadim. Abraham is kindness, Yitzchak is Avodah, sacrifices and prayers, Vayetzeh Yitzchak lasuach besadeh, and Gemilut Chasadim And Torah is Yaakov Avinu, Gemilut Chassanim is Avraham. So we have all three fathers. Avraham Avinu was the symbol of chesed. That's why he gave his— Mamash was willing to give his health and to risk his life for hospitality. The one thing we have to ask, we have a rule. If you want to do a mitzvah and you are unable because you're sick, you're sick, you have very high fever, 102 fever, you're in bed, you cannot even move your head, you cannot stand, you're dizzy, you're very weak, and now you have to walk to the synagogue 10 minutes to pray. You cannot walk, cannot stand from the bed, you lay like this. Even to stand to pray at home you can't. What do you do? If you could sit in the bed, you pray when you sit. Why? Anus. If you cannot pray at all, your head is pounding, you're dizzy, you're about to faint any second, you're vomiting, you're nauseous, whatever the case may be, then it's called anus. Anus rachmana patri. If you are anus, anus means you are forced. Right now you are forced, it's not in your hand. Hashem is giving you the reward like you actually fulfilled the mitzvah. Ma'aleh ani alav ke'ilu asa. So why Avraham was so anxious to do it anyway? Hashem knows he wants guests. Hashem knows he's in the third day of his brit milah. It's not safe to walk outside, jeopardize his life, especially in his age. Lay in bed, eat your heart that you don't have guests, and Hashem will write in your file that you had guests that day. Because every day you have guests, and he knows you want guests, and he knows you're weak and you cannot have guests. That's it. Anus. Who are those 3 angels that came to Abraham? Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel. You heard those names, right? In English, Raphael, Michael, Michael. Michael became Michael. Ah, Raphael, Michael, and Gabriel. Almost sound the same, almost. In Russian is Mikhail, Mikhail Gorbachev. Tov. A question now, Rabotai, why Hashem had to send him 3 angels? One, to destroy Sodom. We're about to speak about Sodom. Who is this? Gabriel. Gabriel is Gvurot, judgment. He comes to destroy Sodom. Michael, to inform him that he's going to have his own son. And Raphael its refuah, remedy, to cure him. Why Hashem needs to send him 3 angels? Send one, he will do all 3. Angel is not limited. This angel will come, Avraham, Mazal Tov, next year you're going to have your own son, right? Cure him, 2 seconds, and move on to Sodom to burn them. Same one, what's for him? The answer, Hashem made a rule in the creation that one angel cannot do two things. He's a messenger only for one thing. It doesn't get mixed. It's technical reasons for it. Therefore, one One subject right now to inform that tzaddik is going to have his own child, that's one angel for that. One angel to cure him and one angel to take care of Sodom. Question is, okay, we got that, but why the angel Gabriel that needs to destroy Sodom, why he had to come to Avraham in first place? He should have gone directly to Sodom. Why wasting time? Here, Michael has to come to Avraham. He has to tell him he's going to have a child. Raphael has to cure him. So both of them had to come. Why Gabriel did not go with them? Why Gabriel had to go with them? You hear the question or no? He have nothing to do by Avraham. What's the answer? No, so he should have gone directly to Sodom. He has to inform him that all his efforts by Hashem to try to save those cities from destruction unfortunately were turned down. So out of respect, he said, I'm the one who's going to do what Hashem wanted to do. And I'm letting you know that today, as of today, moments before I go to do it, there are no 10 righteous people in Sodom. Because remember when Avraham said to Hashem, you're going to kill the righteous with the wicked? God forbid that you will do such a thing. Killing the righteous together with the wicked. The judge of universe will not perform a fair trial. That's the text. What do you understand from here? That Abraham is praying to save the righteous or to save the wicked also? Hmm? Clearly Clearly, the answer is that Abraham is worried that the righteous people will die together with the wicked. Now, between me and you, isn't it a big chutzpah to even bring it up to Hashem? Let's say if I had it in my mind and Hashem would come to inform me— it will never happen, but let's assume Avraham is important, so Hashem come to inform him. Also, He want him to pray. But let's say if Hashem would come to me and say to me, I'm going to destroy San Francisco, Manhattan, Tel Aviv, Bangkok, and what's the fifth one? Paris. Paris. So, 5 wicked cities in the world. And I would think to myself, wait a minute, but these cities have a lot of religious people. Paris has synagogues, Manhattan has some religious people, you know, Bangkok also has Shabbat, I think, the Israelis who come there by lechuvah. So every place you can find some tzadikim, how many only Hashem knows, but has to be some. So I would think to myself, "Ma, Hashem is going to wipe out the cities and will kill the righteous with the wicked? How can it be such thing? No, it cannot be. It's against all the rules. Everyone gets what they deserve. It's against the 13 principles of Judaism. Hashem rewards the righteous and punishes the wicked. It's one of the 13 principles. How will I even dare to ask such a question?" How will I dare to ask such a question? Then Hashem would say to me, what, such chutzpah? How do you ask me such a question? You think I'm giving the righteous the same end like I give to the wicked? So what was the hava amina of Avraham Avinu? Meaning what was on his mind to even think that there is such an option? Avraham is not a fool. He knows it's chutzpah to even ask such a question, especially when it's not a valid question. It's stupidity to ask Hashem such a question. It's either chutzpah or stupidity. You cannot get away with that. One way or the other is bad. You hear the question or no? If it was a valid question, it's chutzpah. If it's not a valid question, it's ignorance. Or stupidity. One way or the other is bad. You hear the question or no? For monetary, I shall just be exact, that was their move. Good point, but I have a better one. Not me, I mean the Gemara. We have another rule in the Torah. Although everyone gets what they deserve in the end, Everybody will get exactly what they deserve, for good or for bad. That's guaranteed. For the time being, if Hashem allows the angel of death to attack a city, he does not differentiate between— between— how do you say this word again? Discriminate. No, not discriminate. Differentiate. Differentiate, like from the word different. Differentiate. Okay, hard word. Between righteous and wicked, it destroys the whole place. Hurricane, hurricane knock down the whole city. Typhoon, typhoon. Pandemic, pandemic. It comes as a wave and wipe out everything. Then you may ask, I understand the concept. And no Mafirim Ben Tzadik L'Rasha. He kills everyone. But why Hashem made such a concept? We understand that's the law. Once there's a decree on the city, that's it. I heard that there is a city in America. You help me out, you probably listen to the news. That they decided to put Israel on a ban. It's a democratic place. So now 110 rabbis wrote a letter to put that city on a ban. Now no one should ever step there, no one would do business there, no one would move there. Because there's a big antisemite city. You never heard about it? No. Somewhere here in America. Who will be these 110 rabbis? I give you one guess. Which rabbis will waste their time writing a letter to put the city of Goyim in a ban? Oh, political rabbis, university rabbis, Reform. Reform are busy with politics. They have no connection to religion anyway. They are all dealer, wheeler-dealer in politics. So, oh, you're putting us on a ban? We'll put your city on a ban. A normal kosher rabbi care about them? Haters, antisemites. What else is new under the sun? It's the first time. I came, I come. Echomrim in Israel, how they say in Israel? Achlavim nofrim v'ashayarah o'veret. Translation? The dogs are barking and echadis echayarah o'veret. And? And the caravans pass. The dogs are barking and the caravans are passing, meaning their dogs doesn't add and doesn't decrease anything. Let them bark, who cares? By the way, one of the highest level of a Jew in life, in this world, is to reach a level whether people cheer for you out of admiration, they admire you, they cheer for you, or they bark at you, they curse you, they curse you, they want you dead, they protest, whatever the case may be, whether they are your fans, whether they want to kill you. Should be equal feeling for you in both scenarios. Whether people scream, "Yeah, Rabbi, we love you!" or, "Rabbi, go to hell! Why you even dare to come here? Wait until we grab your head and we—" One way or the other, you look at them as two kinds of dogs. One dog bites and moves his tail, the other one barks and doesn't move his tail. Either way, it's nonsense. It's very hard because everyone loves to be loved, to be admired, to have fans. That's what the whole social media is about. People live in a fiction world, virtual world, virtual friends, virtual illusions. They can have 5,000 people on their Facebook page. If they're gonna have a flat tire at 2 AM in a BQE and they say, "Someone, if anyone can come and save me, I cannot open the screws on my tire." From the 5,000 people, I'll give you one guess. How many would show up at 2 AM to help them? Nobody would answer. No one would reply, b'challah. No one cares. But if you have 5 good friends, 5 good friends, and you have a group of your real good friends from every day, and you say, guys, I'm stuck, how many would show up? How many? How many? No, give a number. He says 1. 2. No? 3 out of 5? 5. 1, 5? I say 10. Each one would want to bring a friend with him. He won't want to come at 2 AM alone. So he's got his brother, his friend, come, come with me, there's a big mitzvah. So the 5 good friends will come with backup. You're going to have 10. 5,000 got you goonish, nothing. 5 good friends got you 10 to come. Yes, absolutely. That's how it goes, Rabotai. So 3 angels are coming to Abraham. Amar aviuda, amar av. It's Gemara in Masechet Shabbat, page 127. Gdolah achnasat ochim me'akbalat p'nei shchina. Hospitality, having guests by you, is higher than accepting Hashem Himself, the shchina of Hashem. The question that we have to ask How did the Chachamim learn that "achnasat ochim," bringing guests and taking care of them in your home, is more important than to accept the Shechina of Hashem in your home? You could say it's equal. First of all, how did they get this idea? Because Hashem came to visit Avraham and he said, "I'm busy with the guests, I'm thin, wait." So what does it mean? The guests come before right now. I'm taking care of the guests. I cannot leave them in the middle. From here you can learn that they are equal, but since I was busy with one, I'll go, I'll get to you when I finish with the first customer. It doesn't mean the first customer is more important than the second. It was just here first. How did they learn no is more important than the second? You hear the question or no? De'admor mimodzitz. You probably would know what city it is in Europe. Modzitz. The Chachamim says in Masechet Sanhedrin, page 42, if the nation of Israel will get to welcome their Father in Heaven once a month, Dayan, like we say in the Haggadah, Dayenu, great, good enough, once a month. Where are we accepting it? Who knows? Once a month. Kiddush Levana, Birkat HaLevana. The first, the Ashkenazim, after 3 days they do Kiddush Levana. Sefaradim after 7 days. Up to the 15th of the month. After the middle of the month. Why? Because you, huh? 7 days? Because we go like Kabbalah, like the Ari. Anyway, the concept that you make the Birkat HaLevanah in the first half of the month but not the second half of the month because the moon is increasing from 0 to 15, every day it becomes bigger. From the 15th to the 30th, it's decreasing. You don't make a bracha on something that is on the way down. It's not such a respect to Hashem that we come to praise Him for the moon when the moon is disappearing, while the moon is disappearing. Come when the moon is appearing. I give you an example. When someone walks into your house or after an hour he walks out of your house, and you would like to welcome him and to bless him, when will you do it? When he walks in or when he's on the way out? What's higher? You can do both, but what's higher? When he comes in or when he leaves? He comes in. That's the great welcome. So we're welcoming the moon because the moon is now becoming bigger and bigger. The moon is always the same, don't get me wrong. Same size all the time. It's just that the reflection of the sun on the moon every day shows more of the moon depending on the angle. At the beginning, the sun and the moon were equal. Both of them were like the sun. After the angel that is in charge of the moon complained, how can it be two kings in one place? One has to be higher than the other. Cannot be two the same power, the same, same size, same everything. Hashem say, you're right, and made the moon smaller. And the moon does not create its own fire. The moon is a reflector, like a mirror. Our mirror, if the sun hits the mirror, With the mirrors you can blind someone, right? How the light goes to his eyes? It's reflecting from the mirror into his eyes. Okay, same thing now with the moon. The sun is lighting the moon and the moon reflects the light at night to us. It's not such a big light, but it gives us some idea at night. You in the middle of the desert, you see something. Tov, so Rabotai, since the Gemara says that if we get to welcome Hashem once a month, Dayenu, we couldn't say such a thing about guests. If we have a guest once a month, Dayenu. It's not Dayenu, should have guests a lot. Guests have no place to be. Be busy with Mitzvah or Vachnasat or Chirim. People don't have a place to eat on Shabbat. How can you eat and enjoy when you know there are people who have nowhere, no place to be? Or in Lelasse there, or you know, in general. Avraham said to the 3 Arabs that came, wash your legs. I explained last week, Rashi writes, because they will bow down to the dust on their legs. And I asked, who would do such a stupid thing? People bow down to idols, as stupid as it is, but it exists. People bow down to trees. Exist, to the sun and the moon exist, to bow down to dust, dust that are on my legs, what is the point behind it? The answer, it's an expression. They don't really bow down to the dust, no. What does it mean? What's Rashi hinting here? These are people that are— My strength and my talent is the key to my success. How are you so successful? I work very hard. I have a degree. I went to university. I learned a lot. I work two shifts. I built myself with my own hands. You know how people talk. So in the old days, people that worked hard their legs would become dusty because remember the roads were not paved. You had to walk on sand. Right away goes into your dress. People used to wear long dresses, men. It goes inside non-stop for hours and hours and hours. By the time you get home, their legs is full of sand and dust. You have to clean your legs from all the dust. No, no, leave the dust on. Why? This dust is a testimony how I became such a successful businessman. Yeah or no? So these Arabs, they come to the house. In the beginning, Abraham thinks they are people. He brings them butter, milk. Then he later makes them tongues of the cows with mustard. So first they will start with the dairy and then he will serve them with meat. No problem. We do it on Shavuot sometimes. Eat dairy, wash your mouth, and then eat meat after that. At what point Abraham Avinu found out that they are angels? And how? They didn't tell him they are Raphael, Michael, and Gabriel. They come in a costume of Arabs. When did Abraham realize that we are not talking about regular people? When they told him, "Ka'et chaya u'lesaraben." Okay, if Baba Sali would come to my house and will tell me, "Next year, this date, you're going to have a boy," for me it's good enough. I don't need him to be an angel to tell me such thing. I would already know, "Oh, if the rabbi says such thing, Baruch Hashem." will happen. How do we know from this that he's an angel? Maybe he's a rabbi that has Ruach HaKodesh, and right now in a vision he sees that I'm going to have a boy. Whether he's right or wrong, we will find out if Hashem agrees with the blessing or not. But how do I know from that that he's an angel? So next year, when it's going to reach here, It could be a scientist, an astronomer. Makes a line over here, says, "See the sun, how the sun reflects?" Next year, the same exact time when you see the line over here on the wall, that means— that's how the people measure time. They didn't have watches made in China, you know. So how do you know? No? You say the right answers, but you didn't really mean it. I gave you a big hint. It's from this verse. This time next year Sarah will have a boy. How do we learn from this verse that these are angels? Boy? No. Sarah? I once had a rabbi, he claimed that he can tell anyone if they have a boy or a girl by looking at the stem of the hair. Stomach of the pregnant woman. You have a boy, you have a miss. I once tried him and he said, "Yeah, you're gonna have a boy," and I had a boy. Okay, he has a 50% chance to succeed anyway. It's good odds, you know, better than the market. No? He knew his wife's name without meeting her? You're very close. Not only he knew her name, he knew the name that Hashem just gave her. Her name was Sarai, and Hashem replaced her name to Sarah, and nobody knew about it, only Hashem and Avraham. And all of a sudden, the 3 Arabs come in. Next year, at this day, this time, your wife Sara, not Sarai. They knew the exact name, not just the name, the name that Hashem gave her. Now Avraham already knew, wow, I have angels coming here. Now right after that, Baruch Hashem, Hashem comes to Avraham and says, excuse me, Avraham, I'm very I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I'm going to dump a nuclear bomb on 5 cities, Sodom and Gomorrah and 3 other cities similar to New York City. You know, New York City and New York State is two different worlds. In New York State, almost everyone voted Trump. In New York City, everyone voted Democrats. It means almost everyone is wicked in New York City. Everyone. But in New York State, people are not wicked like the people of New York City. Guess how many people voted Trump in Muncie? You won't believe it. Nowhere in the history of the world a city voted to one candidate in such numbers. 99.8%. I wonder who are the two morons that voted for the chameleon in Muncie. I cannot imagine. Every Jew in Muncie voted Trump. It's basically 100%. Success. Did you ever have such a thing in any city, anywhere in the world, in any election, that one entire city voted for one person? It wasn't 90-10, 95-5, 80-20, 60-40. 100%. Unbelievable. Next time when Trump cries that the Jews betray him, how can you be Jewish and vote Democrat, we have to remind him. I once sent a letter to his son, told you that. Please do not mix between the real Jews and the fake ones. The real Jews, all of them will be back you up 100%. They appreciate what you've done to America, to Israel, and to the Jewish people. The ones you upset with are people that call themselves Jewish, but there is zero connection between them and Judaism. Zero connection. All the Jews that lives in New York City, how many of them are really Jews? Biologically, how many? Very few, because all of them are Reform. Reform, that means they assimilate 230 years, 8, 9 generations. They marry go in, parents, grandparents, grand-grand-grand-grandparents from the time of Napoleon. Napoleon lived how many years ago? 230 years ago, something like that. From the time of Napoleon, these reforms are merry-go-round. Can you rely on their Judaism? If you are a fool, yes. What's the connection between— then you wonder why they don't care about Israel. What do they have to do with Israel? They are not Jewish, b'cholal. You may have a name Leibowitz or Horowitz or even Cohen, but that's just a name. I can show you Jews that their last name is Jackson and Williams and they are really Jewish. The last name is nothing. Anyway, it goes by the mother. So now Rabotai, Hashem says, I cannot destroy destroyed millions of people and not inform my servant Abraham. So Abraham begins to be a good lawyer. How will you kill the righteous with the wicked? Ashofet kol ha'aretz lo yasem ishpat. The judge of universe will not make a fair trial. Maybe there are 50 righteous people there. Why started with 50? Why didn't start with 100? Because you need a million in each city. 5 cities, million in each city, so you need minimum 50. 50. Hashem say, if there will be— Hashem did not say there are no 50s. If there will be 50 righteous, Meaning in the day that I supposed to start killing them, I will cancel the decree and won't even kill the wicked, not just the righteous. The righteous will protect all the wicked. Why Hashem didn't say there are no 50th? Why you say if there will be? Right now, there are or there aren't? There are none. End of story. People have time to repent between time. Now that I'm informing you that I'm going to destroy Sodom, there is a period of time that the people of Sodom may repent. Many of them. I can change the decree for the entire city. 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 people will do teshuvah like in Nineveh. Nineveh, Hashem sent Jonah the prophet to warn them and they all repented. To Sodom, Hashem did not send a warning, did not send them a warning. What do we learn from here? That two people that have sins that they deserve to die, they have the death penalty, they are still different in the eyes of Hashem. One deserves a warning and the other one does not deserve a warning? What was the difference between the people of Nineveh to the people of Sodom? They're both horrible people. Hashem said that it's unbearable to see the amount of sins they commit, both places. Why sent Jonah, the Jewish prophet, although you know where Nineveh is? On the border of Syria and Iraq. That's where they shoot missiles at us over there from there, from those areas. Now this is where the Kurdish people live. You know, there's a lot of Kurdish people, the millions of Kurds. It's very interesting, their situation. They are divided to 4 different countries. Some of them are in Iran, lots of Kurds in Iran. Some of them are in Iraq. Some of them are in Syria. Some of them are in Turkey. It's all area. Some of the Kurds are here, some of them— it's similar to the Druze. Some of the Druze are in the Golan Heights, that belongs to Syria. Some of them in Israel because after the war we took a part of the Golan Heights. Some of the Druze remained in Israel. Their brothers and cousins live in an enemy country. Think about it. You and your brother, you live in one mountain. There is a war, they split the mountain to two. You live in one country and your brother in the opposite side. Like in North Korea, South Korea. Yeah, something like that. As a result of this war, the First World War, the Druze suffered a lot in the war. Some of them ran away. One of them was this legendary Arab singer Farid El Atrash. You heard about him or no? The greatest Arab singer in history. Sang a lot of classical music, had hundreds of millions of fans. He was Druze. He was Druze. His parents escaped from Lebanon, over there, Syria, Lebanon, that area, to Egypt. And in Egypt, he became an actor and a singer. It's unbelievable. Because no matter how great he was, meaning as musician and all that, they still didn't like him so much. Why? Because he wasn't an actual Arab, he was a Druze. You know, among the Arabs are many different groups, Shiites, Sunnis, this, that. In Iran, you know how many different ethnics you have? Azeri, Azerbaijan, Kaskazi, Shia, Shiites, Sunnis, Arabs, Armenians, Kurds, Jews, Jews. So many, 90% of them hates the ayatollahs. Israel is not sophisticated enough. They should have helped them, all these ethnics, with weapons and ideas. They would make a revolution in Iran a long time ago. We wouldn't be where we are right now, moments before they're going to have a nuclear bomb and the whole world will go on fire, because those groups would constantly fight them. They wouldn't be able to fight so many here, there, attacks there. They have Erdoğan, the Nazi, the president of Turkey. He bombs the Kurds. Nonstop. Not only they made the Holocaust to the Armenians, killed more than a million Armenians, and they try to cover it and deny it, these crooks. Every day they bomb the Kurds. Just the last week or two, 100 massive attacks. They killed them nonstop. Now what he did, he bombed the pipe of the water. So you have 1 million Kurds on the border of Turkey, right there between Turkey and Syria, that do not have water at all. Not for shower, not to drink water, nothing. That's a genocide. Did you hear a word from the United Nations about committing a war crime, genocide, anything? It's an actual genocide to cut water from a million people and make them die without water That's a Holocaust. That's a genocide. Targeting civilians, without a doubt. Israel is the war criminal who tried to defend themselves from the Nazi-filled murderers. Israel is the war criminal. Aveldé that constantly bombed the Kurds for only one reason. They don't want them to become one day a majority because they're close to becoming a majority and they win the election in Turkey. Turkey will turn into Kurdistan. So it's politics. For political reasons. Imagine now the Republicans will start bombing Democrats. They bomb New Jersey, they bomb Manhattan, they bomb LA, where all the lefty liberals there. Bombs. Trump gets into power, yalla. B-52, I have missions for you. Every area that was blue, it's your target. That's basically what it is. That's what he does in Turkey. Nobody makes a beep. Wow, and the Jews try to defend themselves. Ah, war crime, sanction Europeans. Why is it? Who can tell me the answer? How can it be such hypocrisy? Huh? The answer is because Hashem said so. It's all from Hashem. When it comes to the Jews, He ignites the goyim. See what they do? See what they do? Look what they do to this Palestinian, to the Hamas, poor Hamas. Warriors, liberation, freedom fighters. Who gives them this idea? The Satan. Who gives the Satan permission to do it? Hashem. Why? To make us His children understand, do not count on anyone to help you but Me. United States, Europe, United Nations, forget about it. You trust me, I'll do everything for you. I don't need them. How many times we fail? All the time. Didn't we read the verse, "Arur agever asher iftach ba'adam"? Be'ben Adam she'en le'netzuaat etzeruchoy ashu v'ladmatoh. Baruch hagever asher iftach be'Hashem. The one who trusts Hashem always is blessed. The one who trusts people is cursed. If that's the case, why people come to rabbis to ask for help, blessing? Direction in life. Isn't it the same that they get cursed right away when they have trust in Rabbi? Should have trust in Hashem only. What are they asking from the Rabbi? If they ask for blessing and they believe that thanks to the blessing of these men, whether he's holy, whether he's not, whatever the case may be, Thanks to the blessing of these men, I'm sure I'm going to have great Parnassah next month. Isn't it? That's what the Torah says, "Arurah gevara sheriftach ba'adam." Adam means all Adam, Jews, goyim, rabbis, anyone. Good or no? Needless to say, to come to talk to a grave of a rabbi, That's even worse. Who did you block, Mr. Simanto? So what's the answer? Allowed or not allowed? Yesterday I went to a wedding of A student from our yeshiva got married. So there were a bunch of Hasidic Breslev over there. Breslevim. One of them was one of the actors in the movies Ushpizin. You saw the movie Ushpizin 10 years ago, 15 years ago? I didn't recognize him because it was 20 years ago. He got older since then. But the guy told me, "You recognize him?" I said, "No, that's the one who screamed in the movie in the neighborhood when the two Chilonim came." I was standing over there. "That's him." I said, "What, you live in Mea Shearim?" He said, "Yes." So he comes to me, "I must take you to Oman." I said to him, "No chance." Why not? Then he told me this sentence, listen carefully. He said to me, you should know, if a person came to the world in Gilgul, in reincarnation, there was a complete tzaddik, Torah, prayers, Hirat Shamayim, perfect midot, keeps all the mitzvot of the Torah and he left the world without coming to pray by Rabbeinu, meaning Rav Nachman of Breslev in Uman, in Ukraine, he will have to come back again in Gilgul. That maybe on the next life he will fix the damage that he have done. That's what he told me. I used to argue about this, but now I said, you know, there's nothing to talk about. I gave him a smile, ate my chicken, and was hoping that Hashem will get someone else to get his attention, that I should move on. So He admires his Rav, for him is a second God. No problem, that's his life. That's what he want to believe, let him believe. Say to someone, if you keep all the Torah, you're a big tzaddik, a dollar door, and you didn't go to Uma, you have to come back in Gilgul. That means Baba Saleh has to come back in Gilgul, and Rav Menchion, and Rabbi Shaul, and Rav Eliyashiv, and Rav Shach, and Rav Ovadia, and 5,000 other gedolei olam. They all have to come back in Gilgul. Good thing he didn't say they have to come back in Gilgul of a kelev. You saw the chatul, the cat that came to pray in the Kotel? You saw that video or no? I posted it on my groups. Someone came to pray by the Kotel and guess what? From hundreds of people who cries by the wall, one cat came all the way Picked up the head and the hands and started to cry to Hashem. I wonder it's a reincarnation of whom? No cat will come to pray by the wall. Let him go to the wall in his neighborhood next to the garbage can. How did he know to come to that wall and to pray by there? It doesn't leave any doubt. If I saw a cat Praying right here across the street by the wall of the house here. Okay. Nothing is out of the ordinary. In Yerushalayim, you know how many thousands of walls you have? Where did he come to pray? To cry? Cry, mamash, cry, you know? By the wall, attached to the wall like this. Like all the people. Unbelievable. So anyway, there is, there is, when what the Torah says, a person that trusts people is cursed. The same Torah says that if a person has a problem, before he goes to the doctor, he should come to the Chacham. The Torah says come to the Chacham. Why? The Chacham has the power to be a very good lawyer for you. If you ask for remedy, I may take your prayers, accept it. I may not. I may reject it for now. But if he asks for you, I have to look at the request in a different way. Your mouth and his mouth is not the same. That's what the Gemara says. Where the Gemara learned it from? "L'tsoni ravi aser," meaning when they want for themselves. For the whole world? "L'tsoni ravi," could be right, could be that for others as well. That could be a good source, but we have a better source than that. We're just talking about it now. Avraham Avinu. Hashem said to Avraham in the end of all the negotiation, if there will be 10 righteous people, 10, I will forgive the entire place. I mean, millions that's supposed to get burned right now, for now I won't touch them. Why? Who will save them? The 10 righteous people. So the merit of the righteous that they are together with the wicked helps not only the righteous, helps the wicked as well. Okay, but also Abraham, Hashem came to tell him, I am about to destroy all these 5 cities. Why does he have to tell him? Why? Because he wanted him to pray that these people will do teshuvah, they shouldn't die. You know how when two guys fighting, when there's fight in the streets, in the neighborhood, so one guy beat up the other guy, they're beating each other, so one guy screamed to his friend, 'Grab me, hold me before I kill him. Hold me, hold me.' Why he screamed to his friend, 'Hold me, hold me before I kill him'? Just go and kill him. Why do you need him to hold you that you shouldn't kill him? Why? Because he's afraid of him. Afraid he's gonna kill him. So he said to his friend, 'Hold me.' Later he's gonna say, 'Believe me, if you wouldn't hold me, you'll be dead by now.' But that's in the neighborhood, the gangs with their show, show off. Tov Rabotai, if there would be 50 tzadikim, and I keep constantly saying, "Betocheir," inside the city. So inside of where? What does it mean, inside the city? If there will be 50 people in the city. What does it mean, inside the city? And if it'll be outside of the city, then what's the question? They don't belong to the city. If we're talking about San Francisco and they live in a different city, what is the connection? Why they constantly highlight inside the city? Meaning they're not hiding in hidden places. Inside. The Gemara explains righteous people benefit the city when they preach to the wicked to do kiruv and try to bring them back to become righteous. If they are in their isolated room all their life, learn Torah, they don't benefit the city so much, even though The Chazon Ish, the legendary Chazon Ish, perhaps is the biggest Rabbi who ever lived in the last 100 years. Chazon Ish is no joke. Very, very holy giant Chacham. Chazon Ish came to Israel from Kosovo. Nobody ever saw somebody that learns like this. Until he does not have the strength to lift his hand. Skinny, short, bone, all bones, learning for day, 2, 3 days in a row. Doesn't move his face from the Gemara, 3 days. Chazon Ish said, "I don't remember being hungry once in my life." He wasn't eating for days. We don't eat 3 hours, we already starve. People eat 5 times more than what they need today, on average. That's why everyone is a basketball or watermelon. Chazon Ish, because his mind was so deep into the Torah nonstop, it was disconnected from the physical world. They needed to wake him up and force him to eat something. He wouldn't know, he didn't eat. Did I eat? Did I not eat? It's not in this world. Chazon Ish writes that people that sit and learn Torah, they do as much kiruv as those people who go and give speeches to the Chilonim to turn them to Shomrei Mitzvot. What they learn in yeshiva gives the merit to the rest of the nation of Israel, all the wicked people, to hear the truth. Without the Torah, they wouldn't have the merit to hear the truth, because to hear the truth of Hashem, you need a big merit. You don't get it as a gift out of nowhere because of your beautiful eyes. It's not such thing. Same thing, every goy today that you see that discover a rabbi on YouTube. Rabbis that talk to Gentiles, meaning Gentiles listen to them, and after a while they want to convert. Why Tony heard and Ahmed didn't hear? How did Hashem decide that Tony will hear and Ahmed won't hear? How does he decide? There's 8 billion of them. Why the 0.01% of goyim will hear in their lifetime the words of God from the real book and all the others will hear nonsense and more nonsense and more nonsense? The answer is 100% they earned it. This goyim, not maybe in this life. When Hashem gave the Torah in Mount Sinai, they wanted to accept the Torah, but they couldn't. Why? Because the majority of their nation voted against it, but they wanted. The Zohar said that Hashem sends them back in reincarnation and now gives them the opportunity to convert. How are they going to have an opportunity to convert? One woman, he sends her to work by religious Jews in a clothing store. Jewelry store. She works for them. She sees how they pray. She hears the Torah. She gets interested in this. She opens the book. She reads when no one is around. Little by little, she's discovering the truth. A year later, she's becoming Jewish. Why she found that ad that is looking for saleswoman to come and sell in a jewelry store and her friend didn't see? Because she was in Mount Sinai, voted to accept the Torah, to join the Jewish nation, and her friend didn't. That's it. So that means it's not random. It's no such thing random. Remember this Yehuda Peretz from Mexico. He got on a plane to come for test by the Yankees here. Was a great baseball player in Mexico. He wanted to get a contract by either the Mets— which one is baseball? Mets, Yankees, which one of them? Both? And one of those teams, I gave him a ride once, he told me the story. A Mexican guy who became a Jew. I asked him, how you converted from Mexico? You came here, look, you're in yeshiva now, became sofer, writes Sifrei Torah. He said to me, I lived in a house with 10 sons and 1 girl, 1 sister. Our parents were open-minded. They always searched for the truth. My father tried these Jehovah's Witnesses. He tried Christianity. Didn't make sense. So I was a very good baseball player. I came to New York that they should test me. Maybe they give me a contract. And accidentally I took the wrong bus 'And I ended up in Boro Park.' Boro Park. He comes off the bus. What does he see? 10,000 Hasidim, black hats, long coats, everyone with beard. He never saw in his life such thing. Imagine, it's like going in a different planet. Where else in the world you're going to come to a city that 10,000 people look alike? They all dress alike. You look at this, wow, he looks like him and he looks like him. They all have the same custom, same clothes, same everything. What's going on here? He asked one of them. It was Friday afternoon. He asked him, what is this place? This is Borupa. But why everyone dressed like this? so this is all religious Jews here. These are the Jewish people that I read about in Mexico in the Bible? The chosen people? They say, yes. Wow, I'm shocked. How did I get here? He said, where is everyone going to? They said, we're going to the synagogue. It's Shabbat soon, the Sabbath. It was Friday afternoon, like 4:00, 4:30, wintertime. He said, can I come? The chasid told him, come. He followed him. Look at this. He walked in, he sits, he sees how they pray. On the way out, someone asked him, you have where to eat on Shabbos? And grabbed him with him. Maybe that chasid was drunk, I don't know. Maybe he took, he put kippah there when he walked into the shul, he saw him with kippah, okay. He forgot about the baseball. He was so fascinated by the Jews that he saw, reminded him what he learned. So he converted and all his brothers followed him. And the sister, she's a nun in a church. So what do you see? Hashem put two 10 goyim that voted to accept the Torah when Hashem gave us the Torah in Mount Sinai, He reincarnated all 10 to a house of a Mexican goy that is curious, is searching for the truth, exploring all kinds of different religions, that He should give them that education, they should always search for the truth. And all of them became religious Jews. And the sister, nothing to talk to her about it. She's in the church. You see what's going on over here? So, Rabotai, Avraham is begging Hashem, say, if there will be 50 people inside inside the city, meaning that they are involved with the people. The people see them, they preach to them, they rebuke them. 50 people like this can save 5 cities. 10 people like this can save 1 city of hundreds of thousands of people. Why? They try, they work with them, they preach to them. People that hide themselves and they only take care of their own soul, they don't make such an impact in the city. But Chazon Ish says whatever we learn in the yeshiva make an impact in the entire world. When the Chazon Ish saw that when he came to Israel, there are farmers in Israel, in the kibbutzim, in the moshavim that don't keep Shnat Shmita, They work every year, plant seeds, cut the proceeds. They don't have the year of rest. Crazy rabbi, one year not to work? How are we gonna eat one year without selling our merchandise, you know, whatever we grow? So the Chazon Ish told all the people in Bnei Brak, everybody should learn now Shemitah. And Maserot. Once we learn this here in Israel, that will open the merit to all the people that don't keep Shemitah to come and to be open for the option, for the advice that they should keep Shemitah. Today, by the way, a lot of secular farmers, they keep Shemitah. Yes. It wasn't easy to get them to keep Shmita. They had to give the money. They made a fund. We'll give you enough money to live, don't worry. But they showed them, they showed them that the people that keep Shmita are more profitable than those who don't keep Shmita. That's why they agree, they agree, they agree to to change completely and not sell for the whole year and not cut anything and let the poor people come and take for free. It's not easy. There was one kibbutznik, you know how he became religious? He was growing calves and sheep. Yeah, the cattle, they wait until they grow and they sell them. He saw that few of the sheep, they fell from the cliff and all the foxes, they come and they eat them. Sometimes the animal break the leg or something, he doesn't want to mess with that now, veterinary, this, that. They push them to the, from the cliff and the other animals come and eat them. One time he saw that they ate all the animals and one of them they didn't touch. The wolves and the foxes, they didn't touch that animal. How can it be? Every other, every other sheep that fell or calf There's only bones left, not one gram of meat, and this animal nobody touched. And he investigated and he found out that this animal was a firstborn, bechor. It belongs to the Kohen, to the Beit Hamikdash. Today we don't have Beit Hamikdash, but it's kedushat bechor. And that's when he started to ask questions from the rabbi. And the Rabbi explained to him, of course, there's a special Kedusha. This Bechor has a special Kedusha, like when we make Tefillin and all that, we make sure it doesn't come from an animal that is firstborn. It's Kedusha, different halachot in it. So that's how he started to get into it, and Baruch Hashem, he found out the truth. So Rabotai Abraham said to Hashem, if you don't mind me speaking, I am sand and ashes. Afaar v'efir. What does it mean, afaar v'efir? Just say I'm nothing. Say I'm nothing. David HaMelech said, I'm a worm. Anokhit olad velo'ish. Moshe and Aaron say, "What are we? You can't define us as anything precious. We are nothing." Avraham Avinu says, "I am sand and ashes." Why use two expressions? Say, "I'm ashes. I'm dust. I am sand." We get the point. What's the difference between sand and ashes? The answer is sand is valuable, ashes doesn't have any value. What can you do with ashes? Something got burned, the whole house became ashes. Can you do something with the ash? Nothing. Sand, you can make cement, you can build, you can make a garden from it, you can do a lot of things. You can make glass from sand. Sand has a lot of value. Go and buy sand today if you want to fill up your garden, see how expensive it is to bring one truck of sand. Thousands of dollars will cost. It's expensive. So Abraham should have said that his ashes Why did he say send? The answer is every word in the Torah is very calculated. Ashes, it's someone that his glory days are behind him. The great days of his life are finished. Meaning I used to be something, I got burned, and now I'm ashes. That's it. My glory days are finished. Sand, although right now is nothing, but it has future. It can become something. Right now both of them are nothing. You have two individuals. This guy is 80, this guy is 20. Both of them are broke, homeless in a park, sitting on the bench. The old man used to be somebody important. I was a doctor. 'I made half a million dollars a year, I lived here, I lived there, I used to drive this car. Where are you now?' 'Right now, broke over here, no teeth.' The other, the 20-year-old, it's temporarily broke right now, he's looking for a job. He had no place to— you know how many tens of thousands of people in America lives in the car? Even Jews live in a car. These people that they have no family or they're not in touch with their family. For a few months they couldn't find a good job. Their unemployment finished and now they couldn't pay the rent and they went to move in, to live in a car. So where they take a shower? In a mikveh. Come every morning, they take a shower in a mikveh, they go in a mikveh, take a shower, get dressed, come to pray, and that's it. They live in a car. Even they work, they work, they go to work, they park the car, they walk in the office, whatever, and try to save money that they can get a new apartment. And some of them have bad credit, no one to co-sign for them. So even if they have a few thousand dollars that they save, they cannot rent a place. So they live in a car. When you live in a car in good temperature, 60, 65, 70, okay, you don't freeze to death. But imagine now it's 0 degrees outside. You have to keep the car on all night with the heat on. It's expensive. It eats gas. Plus, I don't know how healthy it is, you know. Car is on for hours, you try to sleep in a car. But there are a lot of people, Rabotai, that sleeps in cars. Some people sleeps in cheap caravans, caravan neighborhoods. The place give them a cable to have electric, can charge their phone, or they have a little balloon gas, they cook over there. A little bit, that's it. Trailer parks. Yeah, you know, that they have those caravans. Life is not a picnic, Ravotai. So end of story. What did Hashem do? Wiped out all these wicked people. If you want to see how the land look after Hashem burns probably hundreds of thousands of wicked people, next time you go to Israel, when you drive to the south, you pass Be'er Sheva, half an hour after Be'er Sheva, you're gonna see an arrow, Sodom. This is on the way to Eilat. You have curving roads. You're gonna see a pittoresque dome. If you park the car and walk 5 minutes, look at the floor, you're gonna see signs, tracks of like a nuclear bomb fell over there. The scientists check that area, cannot have life there. Where all the wicked people got burned, you can still see marks on the land of what's written in our parasha, that Hashem threw fire from heaven on them and they all got burned alive. But the angel came to Lot to save him. Why? Why Lot is being saved? It was a bachur yeshiva. He left Bnei Brak and moved to Tel Aviv. And went to the Tel Aviv University, became a lawyer, and then he became a judge, and he's sitting in a Tel Aviv lefty court with the people of Sodom. He was a judge in Sodom. The nephew of Avraham Avinu that was attached to the holiest man in the world left him for greed. Greed. He didn't care to be a judge. Money. Where did he go to be a judge? In San Francisco. From all the people, places in the world, he chose the worst place. Place that made a special constitution designed to make God angry. Every halacha in the constitution, they put a lot of effort to make the Creator of the world extra angry, like the Democrats here today. Imagine Bernie Sanders. That's how the people of Sodom are, all of them. Everything that is good and positive, he hates. Everything that is negative and horrible, he loves. Those are the people of Sodom. I don't have time to go into details. We spoke about it in the past when we spoke about the people of Sodom. But all of them got burned. But now we have to save Lot. Why are we saving Lot? That Abraham will not be upset. Abraham will not be upset. Why? That's the only relative he has. That's it. So Hashem sends an angel to take Lot out. Of Sodom and his wife and their two daughters and their two husbands. How many people are going to get saved thanks to Abraham Avinu? Six. How many really got saved? Three. What happened to the other three? The angel held their hands and grabbed them out of Sodom. Any moment the fire will start. I came to destroy Sodom. Quick, do not hesitate. Quick, quick, quick. No time to pack all your belongings. Any second the fire will start. But Lot, remember, is a very greedy person. Vayitma'ama, it's written. Vayitma'ama means? It means he stole. Pressed, delayed. Delayed. Delayed. Why delayed? He collects all the money that he made in Harvard Law School. All the money. Not only that, he had an argument with his two sons-in-law. So quick, pack your stuff and let's go. Hashem is going to destroy this place. Hashem? Since when you became religious, judge? His son-in-law, what do you— it's how Fanta? You're a lunatic? What's going on with you? No, no, please don't ask me how I know. Quick! You lost your mind. You lost your mind. He said, okay, you don't want to come? Fine, but give me all your money. 'If I'm right, anyway you're going to die. At least your wives will have something. If I'm wrong, I'll come back tomorrow when nothing happened and I'll give you back everything. Give it to your wife.' 'Give it to the wife? We'd rather die with it than give it to the wife. I never even told her I have a bank account, Rabbi.' You don't tell your wife you have a bank account? Of course not. How does she pay the bill? From her own account. Two accounts. You know, there are some people who never opened a bank account since they came to America. It sounds like so odd and so primitive. Who can live without a bank account today? Today it's all credit cards and stuff, but back in time you needed to write checks. It was all checks. You send the phone bill, this, electric bill, it's all checks by mail. Today, Baruch Hashem, it's all electronic. Still need an account, your credit card. How are you going to pay? Why doesn't one open an account? Huh? He doesn't want the government to know he exists. The government is not aware that he exists because they checked in the banking system. They never gave him a 1099 for the interest, W-4, whatever they call it. He never had a penny interest, so they assume this person doesn't exist, doesn't have a bank account, doesn't work. Either he doesn't exist or he died or he doesn't make a penny. We have no interest in such a person. How does he pay his bills? He goes with cash to the pharmacy, give them cash and make money orders. That's how they live. Money orders. That's how he pays credit card bills, if he has credit card. So nobody knows he exists. Nobody knows he exists. You're taking turns, I see. He rests, you alert. You say, I put him to sleep, I should wake him up? So? Thanks for waking me up. Now I will finish with one last thing. Sarah, Sarah is very upset. She sees that her stepson Ishmael from Agar, the son of her husband Abraham, is off the derech. Not that he was ever on the derech, but he's off track. He does bad things. It's very bad influence to her son, Yitzchak. Yitzchak is 13 years younger. Abraham was 87 when Ishmael was born, and he was 100 when Yitzchak was born. So we have a baby and his brother is 13. Later they grew up, the baby is no longer a baby, 6, 7, 8 years old, and this guy is already 20. By now he's already a wild beast, hunter, this, idol worshipper, all kinds of things. Very bad influence on her son. What do you do in a case like this? This is, by the way, a very common problem today when there are so many people that get divorced. Divorce and get remarried, they come to the new marriage with kids. Now you have to marry a woman who comes to the marriage with 1 or 2 or 3 kids from her ex-husband. Usually, is that a good idea or a bad idea? What do you think? You have to raise someone else's children. Technically, it could be a huge mitzvah. You have a child, you become his stepfather, you take him to shul, you teach him Torah, you buy him things. Technically, it should have been a very good positive chesed. Problem today that people are not good, they're not righteous, they're arrogant, they're jealous, they have ego. The ex-husband He hates the fact that his wife left him and married someone else and she's happy with that someone and his kids are with that someone more than they are with him. Especially if he didn't pay the wife what she deserved financially. No child support, no alimony, none of that. So the wife, as revenge, turned the kids against him. So now he doesn't get to see them. He doesn't give money. He has zero connection with them. They don't want anything to do with him. He eats his heart and he sees that his kids supposedly are happy with someone else. What happened? He will do everything he can to sabotage them. Call the child services, the police, I don't know, we'll find a way. Getting married to a woman who brings with her a carriage into the wedding, if you're very lucky, it can end okay. If you're not so lucky, it can be your biggest nightmare. Biggest nightmare. Some people did it and their life became very, very hard. On top of it, you have a teenage boy or girl that are bitter from the fact that their parents got divorced. They may not like their new stepfather. They don't like him, they miss their own father, so they make it hard as it is. 'You're not my father, I don't want you to tell me what to do,' all kinds of things like this. It can create a big battle, you have no time to walk, no time to learn, all you have to do is to fight the carriage she brought with her. And sometimes it ends with police, with all kinds of problems. This is all as a result of bad personality issues. People have bad midot. Someone asked me, do you know a marriage counselor, a good one? We need mamash, a good expert, they say. I say there's one way that you may not need a marriage counselor. What is it? To fix the middot. It's a lot cheaper. All these marriage counselors today, they charge hundreds of dollars for an hour. It's not for free. First of all, to make peace between husband and wife that don't have such good marriage, Usually it's more than one meeting. It's a follow-up. You need few good meetings at least. In the beginning, maybe 2-3 times, and then after that, once every 10 days or every week. It can add to thousands of dollars. Not everyone has the money. Even to make peace with your spouse, you need to have money. Otherwise, you won't be able to afford them. Of course, when you want to go to marriage counselor, do not dare ever to contact a secular one. That's a huge sin to do such thing. To go to a man or woman that are secular to give you advice about marriage is like to go to Hitler to give you advice how to 'How should I stay alive with a yarmulke on your head?' It's more or less the same comparison. It's like the sheep asking from the wolf, 'Can you give me advice how I should stay safe?' Or the chicken in the neighborhood, 'Help me out, Mr. Wolf. How should we stay safe?' Or the fish is asking asking the fishermen, can you help us to survive from all the nets that you are throwing into the water? Yeah, yeah, of course, come to me, I'll tell you how you should stay safe. Going to a secular marriage counselor, in Hebrew it's called me'apach el apachat. You know what it means? "Pah" means garbage. You have a garbage can, 50 liter, 50 gallon. It's not enough. Baruch Hashem, your family has big appetite. You need 150 gallon. So you have two garbage cans. One is 50 and one is 150. 50. Now you are inside the 50 one. Someone stuffed you inside with the garbage. You scream, "Help!" So big guy comes, he grabs you out and puts you in a bigger garbage can. That's an Israeli expression meaning my problem was $1,000, it just became $10,000. I left this lawyer that was killing me on the price I came into a much bigger crook that now charge 10 times more. All of those situations called me apach, el apachat. From a small garbage to a much bigger one. So, you know, Ishmael is giving very bad influence to Yitzchak. So Sarah comes to Avraham, "I can't have her here anymore." I want to remind you, it's the first time in history that a Jewish woman let her maid go. All the Jewish women now are extremely nervous after after Trump won. Even those who voted Trump, they did not do the right calculation before the election. They kept hearing Trump say, "I'll get rid of all the illegal immigrants. I'll get rid of them. If you come back, we'll shoot you." And she didn't think that it applies to her lifestyle. Where is she going to find a new amiga now? They're all going to be sent back to Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico. Mexico. All of a sudden, a cleaning lady that has papers will charge $100 an hour. Get ready for the new days. Hello, cómo estás, señora? Trabajo, mucho trabajo. How much you charge? $300. Come on, you don't have to take me. I'm stuffed already weeks in advance. Cleaning ladies that have papers will make more than lawyers here. If Trump will keep his promise, you won't find any workers. It's good or bad? New York will keep them safe. This question is similar to the question everybody asks in Israel. Do you want to give Arab permits to work in Israel? They are the only ones who can clean and build the buildings. Who is going to work in construction? This question is constantly getting an answer. Yes, no. Yes, no. Yes, no. Yes, when you don't have workers, you're up to here, you're stuck in the middle of the project, you have to get them. They come, they work 2, 3 months, then they slaughter you. So the answer is no. We don't need them. 2-3 months without them. We need workers. Approve. Muhammad, yalla, go work in Israel. 2-3 weeks, they slaughter you. Oh no, shut it down, kick them back. Back and forth, yo-yo. One day here, one day there. Why? Because the Israeli leaders are dumber than the shoe. That's really why. They could have solved that problem a long, long time ago by doing what? Bringing Thailandeses, Indians, Sri Lankans, thousands of workers, Chinese. What's the problem? They work very well. Everybody would learn the job even if he wasn't such a great builder. The Arabs, they learn the job. you'll teach them the job. They work very good and neat, the Chinese. And the Thailandy, they work in farms, they pick up oranges. There's only one problem, which is not such a big problem, depends who you ask. All the million dogs that lives in Israel in a period of 6 months will go down to 100,000. I'll tell you. Somebody put a trap for the mice. Saw mouse walking around in his kitchen, they put a trap. So you know this glue that you put and the mouse comes and it gets stuck? If you touch this glue, that's it. There's no way to get the glue out. Such a strong glue. So they see a mouse is stuck there. They come back an hour later, instead of the mouse they see a cat there. Meaning the cat swallowed the mouse and he got stuck there. They come back an hour later, they see a dog there. Meaning the dog swallowed the cat and now the dog is cat. They come the next day, they see what? A Thailandi is stuck there. They love to eat the dog. One time they ate all the all the lefties, you know the lefties love dogs. So they come out, Mootsy, where are you? Mookie? And called Venone. No joke. I'm not telling you stories. Remember Trump when he said they eat the dogs? They made fun of him. It's 100% legit what he said. They love to eat dogs. Chinese, Thailand, all these people, They love to eat dogs. Dog is a delicacy. Delicacy. You don't believe me? I send you videos. How they have these two sticks, there's a little mouse in a plate, he moves. They grab him, put him in the soy sauce. He's alive, still move his ears. They throw it inside, then they take a cup of cockroaches and worms, throw it into the mouth. You see the cockroach is trying to come out between his teeth. And once they swallow all the cockroaches and the things, they take one broccoli. I saw a whole video in my own eyes. Hard to believe, huh? The guy comes with a bicycle in China He has a big barrel, he opened the lid, pshh, scorpions, cockroaches, this, they fill up the cup. Person next to him is drinking it like he's drinking Starbucks coffee. But Baruch Hashem, they don't murder anyone. They're not violent. They're not a threat to your life. So they eat mouse, they eat mouse. What is it my business? They eat worms, let them eat worms. They eat dogs, no Hashem irachem, what can I do? But at least they don't eat me. The Arabs don't eat dogs, they can't even look at dogs. They hate dogs like they hate pigs. They learn it from the Torah. They don't eat mouse. They don't eat cockroaches. They have some good food. Why do they need that? They eat good. But they eat Jews. As soon as they see a Jew, becomes very hungry. So what's better? The answer is to seal Israel, to close the border. Nobody comes in to work. Just like Trump say. Who is gonna work? People that are not a threat to our life. That's it. If they are a threat to your life, Hashem Irachem. Sarah said to Abraham, "Get rid of your son. Kick him out and kick the maid with him. I don't want her here anymore." Abraham was happy to hear this or said, Very sad. Who wants to hear that he has to get rid of his son? And Hashem comes to Avraham and says, everything Sarah told you, listen to her. She's a bigger prophet than you. You are a prophet? Prophetess? Prophet is not the right word? So why you say prophetess? Prophetess is a lady. Ah, prophetess is a lady. Oh, so she's a bigger prophetess than you. Very good. In English. In English. In America they speak English, to the best of my knowledge. One guy sent yesterday a joke: I can't wait for the days that when you call every office in In America, you won't have to say, "For English, press 1." Finally, people that would be left in this country will speak English. You know, if you go to California, the official language there is Spanish. Yeah, all the signs in Spanish, every person on the street is Spanish. San Diego, LA, parts of there by the border. Yes. In Israel, the same thing. For Arabic, press 1. For this, press 2. In the end, for Hebrew, press 5. First comes Arabic, Russian, a few languages there. Smaller name, of course. So Rabotai, Avraham is upset, but Hashem say to her, Hashem said to her, you must listen to her. The Chafetz Chaim, you know, Chafetz Chaim was very sensitive not to hurt anyone, right? He wrote a book about the laws of Lashon Hara. Chafetz Chaim, same Chafetz Chaim that was such a holy person and such a perfect person with such traits, such holy traits he had. Rav Yitzchak writes, Sarah is showing us a perfect lesson of education, how you raise a child. If Ishmael will stay attached to Yitzchak for longer period of time, it's very possible that Yitzchak will make Ishmael more gentle. Right now he's a wild beast, hunter, murderer. If he lives with a righteous brother, stepbrother, half-brother, it will affect him not to be so aggressive. But there is no doubt that the existence of Ishmael next to Yitzchak would bring the level of Yitzchak to be lower. And that is totally against the laws of Hashem. You have a rotten apple in a basket, if you leave it there one more day, all 6 apples there will all become rotten. You feel bad about this rotten apple, what do you do? You gotta get him out of the basket. He wants to be with his friends, enjoy the party. I'm sorry, buddy, you are a danger to everyone around you. What do you do? You isolate him. And after you isolate him, what do you do? You make a surgery. You cut the rotten piece, if there is anything left after that. That's how you raise children, if one of them is such a big threat and he's going to ruin everybody else in the house, what's better, to lose everyone or to lose one? I don't want anyone to get the wrong impression. The last thing a person should do is to throw a child out of the house. That's only when every, every possible way to save this kid fell, and only with the ruling of somebody that is big in Torah, not just you had a hunch that that's the right thing to do. No, no, no. You need Psakalacha. We're talking about the Nefesh HaShotir. This person can turn into a mass murderer, a serial killer, who knows what, a big drug addict, just somebody, a barber here in Coney Island, just died 20 years old from overdose. 20 years old. Every week somebody dies from drugs. Kids, kids from the community, 20 years old, died. I don't know who he is, I don't know his family, I don't know if he lived with his family, they threw him out or not, school threw him out, you don't know. But even if you own a yeshiva and you throw a child out of the yeshiva, Usually the reason for it is because he's a danger to all the other kids. But it's very difficult to throw someone out of yeshiva because it's almost a guarantee that he's going to become complete secular anti-religion for the rest of his life. He could also become a very bad drugs addict, you know, which would not survive more than a few months. He can become a robber, rob places. Some of these drug addicts, they rob synagogues. They come on Shabbat, they steal the keys from the synagogues and they know the cars outside. They're not shomer Shabbat anymore. They're drug addicts. And they take the car on Shabbat and they drive. People come Saturday night, the car disappear and the key is not there. They steal the quarters from the boxes. Even here someone stole stole. Someone stole. The gabai of the shul one time called me. He said, did you see? Someone stole the box with all the money here. There's one boy who comes here sometimes, you know, they saw him in a camera later. I don't know what's exactly how they found out. For drugs. For drugs. Usually people that become thieves on a daily basis, usually it's not because of poverty. Because for poverty, there are easy solutions. You come to the restaurant, "I'm sorry, I'm hungry. Can you help me out?" Of course, he's going to get you something to eat. He's not going to starve you. "Okay, give him the leftover pizza. Give him the spaghetti. Here, open the fridge. We have some things in the fridge. Take it." Or you give him $10, "Go buy yourself something." For food, you don't need to become a thief. You'll find what to eat, especially when there's all kinds of organizations for the poor people. They feed them. It's called Bet Hamchui. The problem is that the theft is not for food, it's for drugs. That's the problem. I wish these kids would have a brain not to ever start with drugs because once you start with that, your life is basically over. Unfortunately, they don't have the head. They don't have the brain. But like I said, you don't throw anyone out of the house before you consult many, many times with a big rabbi. You tell him exactly the situation and if there is a way to rent him a place, to to punish, that he's not too close to the other brothers, okay. But, you know, there has to be a solution. If just throwing them to the street, the survival on the street, especially in wintertime, it's like a war zone. And a lot of people will take advantage of them. People would see a 16, 17, 18-year-old kid on the streets, it ends very bad. And if he goes to jail, bechlal, what can happen to him over there with all the older monsters that are there? Hashem Yirachem. Here Hashem agreed. Cannot argue with what's written in the Torah. Get rid of her and get rid of Ishmael. She's right, Sarah. It's too much of a jeopardy to your son Yitzchak. It's like supposed to be a holy like you cannot live with this monster next to him. Who is this monster? The father of all Arabs in the world. 1.5 billion came out of him. When you see all the terror in the world and all the suffering that the world has from all these terrorists, almost all the terrorists come from Ishmael. There's not that many terrorists come from Esav. Estabes, Nazis, and Holocaust, and pogroms. But to put bombs today, blow up places, burn places, shoot missiles on civilians, you name it, who does it? Almost no nation. Only one nation, the children of Ishmael, the ones that the Torah called them wild beasts. That's a fact. Expect to see what I say now in Al Jazeera soon. You know, they're cutting parts from this lecture. They put it in all the Arab channels now. They think they scare me. They don't understand that I tell them the truth in their face because when they go to their trial in front of Hashem, they won't be able to say, "We didn't know." I make sure that their punishment will be a thousand times worse because if they didn't hear it from me, they would be able to claim, "I'm sorry, I'm innocent, I didn't know. I didn't know that what I'm doing is wrong. I didn't know I'm following a fake religion. I didn't know Muhammad wasn't a prophet. I didn't know he doesn't know how to read and write. I did not know that the Jews were in Israel 2,000 years before Islam, when King David was already there and his son. I didn't know all of these things." I didn't know there's no such thing Palestinians. Everywhere I go, they kept telling me Palestine, Palestine, Palestine. They can't even say Palestine. They don't have P in the Arabic. And there was no such nation. No such nation. In the Quran, how many times the word Palestinians is mentioned? Zero. Nothing. There's no such word Palestine in the Quran. But the name Israel is mentioned 43 times. The nation of Israel is mentioned in the Quran 43 times in very good connection. That Hashem promised the nation of Israel the Holy Land, he saved them from Pharaoh, he brought them to the Promised Land, that they are the chosen people. It's all written in the Quran. How many times the word Jews is mentioned in the Quran? 9 times. How many times Palestinians are mentioned in the Quran? Not at all. If there were Palestinians in Israel like they claim, why the Quran did not call Israel Palestine? The Quran called the Holy Land Israel. If it was the Jews took it from the Palestinians like these morons think, why Muhammad, the hero, did not call the Holy Land Palestine. Muhammad knew that the Romans, 700 years before him, called Israel Palestine after the Palestinians to insult the Jews. That we're giving the land to the Palestinians, not to you. Muhammad knew that there is no such thing Palestinians because they were just Arabs. There was no such thing Palestinians. That's why it's not mentioned. How many times Jerusalem mentioned in the Quran? Never. Nothing. It was obvious to them that it all belongs to the Jews. Al-Aqsa Mosque, that's not the one that you think in Jerusalem. It's also fake. It's in Saudi, there, Mecca, over there, one of those places. It's not in Jerusalem, b'challah. That's a different mask, bichlat. Everything they believe is a lie. Thanks to me, they won't be able to claim we don't know. That's why Hashem made one of them discover me. Supposedly have millions of followers and he watched the Tuesday night lecture carefully, searching and cutting things out. Of course, he always twists what I say. You know how it is, he cuts from here, cuts from there, he puts the fake headlines, he never really shows the whole picture. But when he puts it on, at least they get to hear the truth. Get them angry, fine, but they won't be able to say, "We didn't know." They won't be. Because if someone once spoke to you about the truth and you moved on and ignore it, that's it. You're guilty already. You cannot say, "I didn't know." Rashi said, Rashi said, "If you know there is a Creator to the world, if you know there is such a thing Torah, and if you know there is such a special day called Shabbat, you can never be tinok shenishba." That's it. You already have an obligation to investigate. You have more than a million baalei teshuvah. They came to investigate and they changed. You had the same obligation. Come and investigate. How can you move on with your life thinking there is a possibility that this rabbi was right, the CD you just heard is right, the show you just saw is right, the book you read could be right, and you ignore all the signs and you move on? What is it like? Someone that is a heavy smoker and he coughs nonstop and he has chest pain and even blood comes when he coughs. It's 99.9% lung cancer. But he ignores all the symptoms. By the time his wife screams, "If you don't go to the doctor, I divorce you!" He gets angry. "Okay, I'll go to the doctor." By now it's too late. It's all over your body now. If you came in the time when it started, and started to feel a little pain or cough that is out of the ordinary, you should have come immediately to a CT and all of these things, and maybe there was a 30, 40, 50% chance to save your life. Now, zero chance. Same thing, a person finds out that The world is created, people run the show. The Jews claim they have the book of God. They got it in a public event. They have a special day they rest. They say God made the world in 6 days and 7 days he rested. And that's exactly what we do. 6 days we do everything we need to do, 7 days we rested just like God told us. That's enough. If you heard that, how long did it take me? 20 seconds. 20 seconds. That's enough. You can never be Tinok Shenishba. And don't let these American liberal university rabbis tell you otherwise. They fool you. Almost all the poskim, they rule that the Chilonim of today are not Tinok Shenishbu. Some say, oh, the Chazon Ish say that Tinok Shenishbu. I read almost every book by the Chazon Ish. I can prove to you that it's not correct. Because the Chazon Ish held that all these Zionim, Ben-Gurion and all his friends that came from Russia and Europe, are all Reshaim Haruim. Couldn't look at their face. They wouldn't look at their face. If they are tinokot shinishbu, they are innocent. You can count them in a minion. There's no problem. No problem with Ben-Gurion. No problem with all the other Reshaim. But the Chazon Ish didn't want to look at them. Don't want to hear about them. Of course he knew their Isha'im. Yes, here and there you have some that never heard a word of Torah in their life. They don't even know there's such a day Shabbat. But how many Jews like this you have in Israel today? One out of a million? Five out of a million? For that five, we're gonna rule that all million are innocent, leave them alone? Come on, what kind of a movie you live in? It's an illusion. What's the source of the Chazon Ish? So many books from quotes from the Chazon Ish. You know, they claim that the Chazon Ish held that there are tinokot shinishbu. Of course, there are some that are tinokot shinishbu, but it doesn't mean everyone. By the way, a lot of these people who said all these things, you can challenge them and see that they don't even mean it. For instance, that speaker from Long Island who started to praise the people that got murdered in the Pittsburgh tragedy. Remember? When these Nazi Americans shot them. I think he killed 11. They performed a Brit Milah and some goy that they brought from Brazil on Shabbat, Reform people. Hashem sent these Nazis looking to kill Jews, send them to that Reform synagogue. and he started to shoot them. So one of them started to— one of the speakers, one from the university in Manhattan, of course. All these amazing speakers came from the same university. So he said, "They are kadoshim, they are holy! How can you say they are wicked? The gays are holy, the mechalelei Shabbat are holy, people that spit at Hashem every second of their life, they are all holy." when Hashem sent someone to kill them and send them to the trial, all of a sudden they became bigger than the Rambam. Does he really believe they're holy? I never saw him walking to their graves and reading Tehillim, asking them to help him in Shamayim. If they're holy, if I believe they're holy, I promise you I'll go and read Tehillim by the grave. Mr. gay, help me out please. I have problems. Ask Hashem since you're so holy. And you mechalel Shabbos, but you holy, you holy, please ask Hashem to have mercy on me, I'm not holy. Do you believe he believes the holy? I put in every penny I have that if you connect him to a lie detector, he wouldn't even spit at them. But why scream the holy? It's good for publicity. Good, good for all the modern Orthodox modaks. Wow, that's a rabbi we like. They call us holy. We are also gay, mikhal eli shabbat, all kinds of things like that. Wow, we're holy, very nice. Rabbi Victor Miller disagreed. He said none of them is holy. I'm reading his book. And every other posek said the same thing. And even I spoke to Rabbi Weiss from Staten Island. I told him, I heard in one of your speeches that you say that the kedoshim, 'Can you tell me where is your source?' 'To the best of my knowledge, there is no such a source.' He told me, 'Okay, give me some time, I'll find the source for you.' This was in the morning, an email. At 11 o'clock at night, he sent me back an email. 'I sat with all the rabbis in yeshiva in Staten Island, yeshiva of Rav Reuven Feinstein.' We look for the source and you are right, there is no source for it. But that's what me'kuba al befi'ama, that's what people say. People also say Muhammad is a prophet. What does it mean? How does it help me? Or JC is the Son of God. So what? What people say? People say a lot of things. The question is what Hashem said, not what people say. You hear or no? Yeah, people say Donald Trump is Mashiach, but he's not. People say Bibi Netanyahu is a holy hero, but he's not. They're not. Actually, almost everything that people say, unless they are big tanmid ha-chachamim, it's nonsense. Almost everything. Here and there they surprise by saying something valuable. Check, check the level of the people in the world, what comes out of their mouth and what they believe in, how they live their life. Look how their life look, how much order they have in their life, how much discipline, how many achievements, how many things they started and finished in their life. Almost everything end right in the middle and they never accomplished anything. I once say a life of a secular person, a minute before he dies, an hour before, doctors say you have one hour to die, one hour, that's it. Here is a pen and a paper, please conclude your life. Write, I was born in Michigan and age 3 my parents moved to New York. I went to this school, I moved to that school, this, that, I did this age, I went to college, I finished that year. 'I became a doctor, 5 years later I opened an office, I married this woman, I divorced her, I have one child with her, I got remarried 3 years later, 4 years later I was sick, I was in bed for 3 months, I almost died, but I came back, I went back to practice medicine, I got remarried, I had 2 more kids, my kids are da da da da da,' and the page is finished. How many years of life? 80 years of life, one page. 'Can you elaborate? Write some more things?' 'I love baseball. I love the Grateful Dead. I was a Deadhead. I went to all their concerts.' 'No, okay, no, it's another quarter page.' 'No, what else can you say?' 'I love art, but not the stupid modern art, the real art. I love this and I love that. I also like Shakespeare.' No, Ya Allah, 2 pages. If you come to Rav Ovadia, Rav Eliyahu, Rav Shach, Rav Schtenemann, Chazon Ish, anyone, tell them conclude your life. How many pages do you think they can write? Easy, thousands of pages, easy, without searching in a diary. Thousands of so many things, so many sugyot. The Torah became an integral part of their life. When Rav Menchion Abba Shaul used to sit, no matter where he is, by the doctor's office, or while he was picking up cucumbers in Machnei Yehuda for Shabbat, what do you think was in his mind? Only Torah, nonstop Torah, that his eyes were like this. All the time talking to himself, thinking, going like this, forgetting the cucumber. Rav Shach went to get watermelon. He arrived with the Gemara in his hand. His wife said, "Where is the watermelon?" It fell on the way. He didn't realize the watermelon fell. He was so deep in the Gemara, he forgot the watermelon fell. That's how they lived. "I have to get watermelon." "I go get you watermelon." By the time he arrived, the watermelon fell in the way and he didn't realize. Rabbi Wadia climbed on a ladder to get a book from the top shelf when he lived in Rechavia. Rechavia, they have old-fashioned, big, beautiful homes. The ceiling is very high. So the library was all the way up to the top. He got on the ladder at 6 PM. His son-in-law took him to the hospital at 11 at night. His son-in-law came at 6 PM to ask him a question. The wife said, "He just got on a ladder and he's busy, I can see. I don't suggest you should wait. When he finish, I'll call you to come back." At 11 o'clock at night, she called him screaming, "Come, come quick with your car." Gotta take him to the hospital. What happened? He fell from the ladder and broke both of his legs. Both legs were broken. Why? He was standing on the ladder with the book for 6, for 5 hours, from 6 to 11, 5 hours. Read the whole book. He could not let go. He read the whole book and when he finished, he started to walk. And he forgot that he's already for 5 hours standing on a ladder. And they took him to the hospital with 2 broken legs. And one big Ashkenazi, big old tzaddik, Talmid Chacham, one of the Gedolei Ador, said that he has to go visit this Sephardi young man. He was not so old. I said, why? Everybody that breaks his legs, you go to the hospital to visit him? He said, no. That's not just everybody. This is the new Gdolador. It's just a matter of time. So this is the way they live. You're going to ask Rav Ovadia, write a conclusion to your life. It will take him more than a week, more than a week, page and another page and another, nonstop. I'm sure Rav Shach the same and Rav Eliyahu. Everyone, everyone of the Gdolais But an average secular Jew or goy, how much they can write? How much they can write? Even take President Trump. Ask him, conclude your life. It'll be 3 pages. Just his marriages would be a whole full page. Then all the real estate, the business, another page. And then the election, this, Democrats stole the election, this, that. Okay, 3 pages. And he had an entertaining life. 5 pages, that's it. You get the point or no? Conclusion, Rabotai, Hashem said to him, "So, Ishmael," and then came the biggest test in Avraham's life. Avraham had 10 tests. First one, lech lecha, when he was 75. Last one, "Kach naid bin chai tichitra sheravta et Yitzchak velech lechai el eretz hamoriyah." How old was Avraham when Hashem told him take Yitzchak? 137. Meaning the 10 tests of Avraham's life started when he was 75, finished when he was 137. 37. How many years together? 62 years of test. We hear Avraham Avinu had a sarani sionot, 10 tests within a period of 2, 3 years. 62 years Hashem was testing him. Only after 62 years Hashem gave him the stamp. Now I signed on you. That you are a God-fearing Jew. When they threw me into the fire, you didn't know I'm a God-fearing Jew? I was willing to get burned for your honor. It's not good enough, apparently not. To die on Kiddush Hashem has no guarantee you are Yeresh Hamayim. We saw many people that were secular, they had no Yeresh Hamayim, but in a moment, out of nowhere, they got the strength strength and they die in Kiddush Hashem. Shema Yisrael and they agreed to die. Told them, burn the Torah or we kill you. No, I won't burn the Torah. 1, 2, 3, they burned them. We saw people like this. It makes him a God-fearing person? If he was a God-fearing person, he would keep Shabbat, he would eat kosher, he would not be a thief. He wasn't exactly a God-fearing person. In his life. He had, Baruch Hashem, one moment of, you know, that he was a hero. Avraham is such a tzaddik and he still did not get the stamp. Why? What's difference between the last test to the first 9? That now Hashem agreed to give him a stamp for eternity. He was going against everything he preached for all the years? The answer is, because you know, how do you know if you're really a God-fearing person? The way to test it is that you don't have anything of your own. I'm a vessel, I'm a tool, I'm a servant. I don't have my own desires, I don't have my own will. I'm here to follow what you tell me, what your instructions. Doesn't matter what I think, doesn't matter what I want. I don't have anything. I am at your service. Meaning, now you want to take all my money? Take all the money. You want to take all the children? Take all the children. You want to take my health? Take my health. You want to take my legs? You take my legs. You want to take my eyes? Take my eyes. For me, it's like he gave me a gift. How many people reach that level in their lifetime? Probably you can count on one or two hands how many people like this we had in the history of the world. That they have not said, that they don't care. Moshe Rabbeinu, Avraham, Yaakov, David HaMelekh, Yosef HaTzadik. How many? You can count on one hand. After all the promises that Hashem gave him, and after he told him rebuke the goyim, should not kill their children, should not sacrifice kids, all of that, your son is going to inherit you, Beit HaKikarel Hazara. And after all these promises, in one second Hashem switched everything 180 degrees. Even a person, a biggest liar, wouldn't do such thing. A boss that has an employee and he promised him and promised and promised, and in the end he does everything the opposite. Like Bennett. I won't go with the lefties, he went with. I won't go with the Muslim Brotherhood, he went with them. Everything he promised in the studio, a week later he did everything 180 degrees. That's why he's now considered the biggest liar. The biggest crook in the history of Israel. Nobody can look at him. How can Hashem do such a thing to Avraham? Of course, it's all a test. So after all of that, and in one second Hashem flipped everything to the opposite side, Avraham did not even think negative about Hashem. Forget he did not argue. You know how many arguments he had? Dear God, you know how much I love you. With all due respect, it has to be a mistake here. The word of God is never changed. God is not a human being to change his opinions based on his mood. Can you explain to me at least that I should understand? Just a few days ago you told me I'm not interested in children sacrifice. So how is it possible that you tell me to sacrifice my son? Not one beep. You told me to tell the goyim that you're not interested, that they should kill their kids, and now you are telling me to do the same thing? The whole world will speak against you, will speak against me, will call me a crook, will tell me all the things he preached to us, look what he did in the end, the opposite. I'm afraid it's going to be chilul Hashem. For your own sake, Hashem, not for me. You want to take him, you take him, it's yours. I don't want to create Chilul Hashem. I don't want your reputation to be ruined. Believe me, Avraham had such a strong case, the strongest ever in an argument. Not only didn't open his mouth, Hashem testified in the Torah that he did not even think a second How can it be? That's what made him a legend. Because all of us, if Hashem comes and says to you, take your son and sacrifice him to me, how many options do you have? You say, no, no, I'm not interested. I'm sorry. I waited for him for so many years, 75 years until he was born. I'm not going back to the situation without a child. I'm sorry. You can do whatever you want yourself. I'm not killing him. You say in your Torah you should not kill. I'm not gonna become a murderer. It's against the Torah. I'm sorry. Lo bashamayim. Don't the Torah say that if the Torah says you should not kill, even if a prophet come and say to you, go and kill someone, you're not allowed? If I have 50 arguments to prove the request completely wrong. I'm sure Avraham had 500 at least. Not only did he not say any of them, he was happy to do it. Vayashkem Avraham babokeh. 5 AM, he's on the road already. Chap 3 is that, going. Yitzchak doesn't know, by the way, until the last minute that he is the sacrifice. He asked him, "Here is the fire and the trees, and where is the goat?" Avraham said to him, "Don't worry, God will show us the goat." Don't you trust Hashem that when we get on the mountain, we will to find the goat? Imagine goats walking in a mountain just like that. It looks strange, no? Probably Yitzchak understood what's going on over here. Yitzchak was 37 years old. He wasn't a little child like some people think. But it doesn't count for Yitzchak that much. The Ohr La'Kedah is Avraham Avinu. He gets all the credit. Yitzchak was willing to die? Okay, very nice of you, Yitzchak. You're willing to die, Baruch Hashem, very nice. The test is Avraham, not Yitzchak. Nowhere in the Torah it says that there was a test for Yitzchak. His father told him, lay down on the altar, I'm about to slaughter you. Yes, Father, tie me that I should not move. It doesn't deserve credit? Of course it does. But the test is for Abraham. What's the test? The entire 3 days walking, thinking, you walk with the sun, I waited for the sun 75 years. How much I prayed for him? How much I cried? Everything I have is supposed to go to him. 'Now I'm going to kill him and go back to square one? What did I achieve in my life? Nothing.' So it's supposed to be the biggest tragedy in his life. He runs early in the morning. 'What? Wait until 6 PM. He told you take your son. He didn't tell you at 5 AM. Bring all the family. Mwah, mwah, Yitzchak. Let's take selfie before you go away.' Right away, not one thought against Hashem. That's the greatest level of Emunah that probably someone ever reached, that he did not even think, how can Hashem do such thing to me after He promised me so many times, I will multiply your children like the sand on the earth. 'Like the sky, like the stars in the sky, Yitzchak will inherit you.' How many promises you're going to break now? Now one thought. We are lucky to be the children of these men, Abraham, Abraham, Ibrahim. It's very interesting. Because the children of Abraham, even the Arabs came from Ishmael through Abraham, they inherit things from him. Like the Arabs are very good in hospitality. You go to an Arab, to their house, it's not going to be a glass of water on the table. They're going to open a table from all kinds of greatness. Let's slaughter a goat for you. 'Come, you are our guest. Wow, you're gonna feel like you're king.' One billionaire told me that he had to go to meet the King of Morocco in his palace in Morocco. He told me the King of Morocco said to him— it was a business meeting, 2 hours meeting— the King of Morocco said to him, 'I will make my entire palace, glatt kosher for you, that you can eat with me. Whatever the rabbi you tell me in Morocco that can come and do it, whatever it costs, we will pay. Let him tell us which food to buy, what to buy. Why? Because I want you to eat with me at my table. I don't want to bring from restaurant to you. We want you to be our guest here. What, who cares? And if you order from one of the glatt kosher restaurants a delicious meal or $10,000 meal for him, how much he can eat, this billionaire? Taste a little bit from each and he will be happy. I'm sure he orders Chinese sometimes here or pizza, no? With all his billions. So what happened? No, it's an insult. 'You have to be our guest.' Where did they get this? All Arabs, you see, they're all very good into hospitality. They got it from Avraham Avinu. Where did they get the ability to be good servants, to work, to build, to work hard, to lift bricks like this? From their father Ishmael and from their mother Hagar. Agar was the maid. All her children will be maids forever. You will never find in the entire Middle East a case that a poor Jewish woman was a maid in the house of any Arab ever. But in every Jewish wealthy home in the Middle East, in every country, they had few Arab maids always in every generation. Every Jewish wealthy home had Arab gardener and Arab that brings the water from the well and the Arab cleaning lady. The Jews always had Arab servants. All the buildings in Israel were built by Arabs. All the roads were paved by Arabs. All the gardens were planted by Arabs almost. All the gardening, all the cleaning, everything is done by them. They worked for us 24/7 for many decades. Many, many decades. They are actually working for us from 1880 when Israel was all swamps and the first Ashkenazi Jews came from Europe together with 5,000 Yemenite religious Jews from Yemen. And they started to plant eucalyptus trees and dry the swamps. They hired the Arabs to work in the field, to plant the trees, to cut what needs to be cut. There were the Arabs, the few Arabs that were there, because everything was malaria and diseases. The Ashkenazi Jews, they were not farmers. They were all Bnei Torah. They actually hired them right there, and everything that was done, they did for us. Why? Ma'aseh avot siman lebanim. Your mother was the servant of their mother. All of you will be their servant until the end of days. So why they torturing us so much? Why they kill us so much? Why they hate us so much? No matter how nice we'll be to them, one day they get up and they want to stick a knife to your throat. Why is it? The Ramban said, the Ramban writes, a big mistake Sarah made, Sarah our mother, that she was tough and strict with Hagar. She was tough with her, meaning she was aggressive with her, and she felt tortured. Because of that, the children of Ishmael will torture the children of Sarah until the end of days. Can you believe it, Rabbotai? You do one bad thing to someone, a worker, a servant, a maid, a babysitter, it could be decades, generations after, their children, Hashem would run it in a world that your children and grandchildren until who knows how many generations, will have so many problems and they will come through her children. Why? How they say, what comes around goes around. Mida keneged mida, measure for measure. Measure for measure. Whatever you do to others will be done to you. It's in Pirkei Avot. You see a skeleton floating on the water. Who? The one you killed? Huh? You killed someone and that's why someone killed you. And the one that killed you will be killed. And it will go on and on and on forever. You kill, you'll be killed. The one that will kill you will be killed. The one who killed him will be killed. It's all Mida, Keneged Mida. Tomorrow, B'ezrat Hashem, the lecture is in Great Neck. We'll talk about the situation after the election, new government, situation in the world, what's happening in Israel. A lot of interesting things tomorrow. Of course, from a Torah aspect. We don't care about politics so much. We care how the politics goes together according to the religion. Because after all, politics is a way of life and it affects our life and it all starts in the Torah. Everything that you see today, it's all in the Torah and we'll talk about it tomorrow. Baruch Adonai Elohim. Amen.