You Must Chose Which Side You're On Before The End Comes

Good evening. This lecture is not to shame or vilify Malkiel Chai ben Benzion and, uh, uh, One announcement. Next week we still have lectures. I'm flying to Israel on Thursday, so Monday and Tuesday lecture will be as usual. Then we have 4 weeks. No lectures for 4 weeks. So come, you know, make sure you come next week for the final lecture until I'll be back, B'ezrat Hashem. As you all know, we had a massive storm in New York the last few days that 46 people died. There was floods, there was ice, there was a lot of tragedies. 16 people in Buffalo, New York, they died. But you know how some of them died? It's terrible. They were sitting in a car and they enter a place that there was flood. And the person, once the car goes into the water, it's like falling into the lake. That's it. You cannot open the windows. The car shuts off, the heat shuts off, and they were found frozen in one chunk of ice. I had to break the ice like cement to get their body out. Similar to what happened in the next world. There are two kinds of hell: hell of fire and hell of ice. Not that many people knows it. It's two different kinds of punishments. I always think about how easy it is for a person if the car doors cannot open or shuts automatically. He won't be able to break the glass. The windows are rough. It's hard to break it. You can't break it not with your leg, especially if water coming into the car. So I saw that they have special thing that you take on the side by the door, that as soon as you attach it to the glass, it smash the glass on the spot. You don't need to put, to apply any power. Once it breaks the glass, you can swim out. Chas v'shalom, it can save life. Has to show if you don't have it, a person can get locked in. Very dangerous. 46 people died in a storm, in a weekend storm. They canceled thousands of thousands of flights. People are stuck 2, 3 days in airports laying on the floor. Think about it, with no food, no shower. It's amazing what's happening. Unbelievable. I don't want to speak too much about current events, except if you know, if you follow the news, the last 2 weeks there was an earthquake about a week ago in the north of California, 6.4. 6.4. Long. It cut 70,000 people from the electric. And right after that, there was another one in the Gulf of San Francisco. This is on top of two volcanoes that exploded in Hawaii. Obviously, Hakadosh Baruch Hu is very angry at what happens in this country. So you can see non-stop natural disasters. It's in every state. Hawaii, San Francisco, California, New York, Chicago, all kinds of— Texas, everywhere. One state after the other is being attacked by Ribbon HaShelolah. Why? They legalized Sodom and Gomorrah's law. It can only get worse. That's the way the country wants to behave. I don't have to tell you what can happen. In Israel, in Israel, for the last 2 days, the secular people are fuming. They're going nuts. Why? Remember, now there's a lot of religious people going to be in the government. One of them, she's a balat shuva for like 30 years. A bright woman became a religious many years ago. She's extreme right and very religious. And obviously the ideology of someone that is a servant of Hashem is anti-gay and anti-anything that smells like gays. To be gay is one of the worst crimes against God. With one of the— not one of the worst, the worst punishment exists in the Torah is for this kind of people. There's nothing worse than that. Obviously it shows that Hashem is very angry at people who behave against the law of nature that he made. It's obvious. No need to be a genius to understand that. Listen to what she said. They told Netanyahu, "We want to pass a law." What's going to be the law? The law is that every human being from now on in Israel will have the right not to give service to someone that behaves against his religion and his belief. That's what she said on an interview. Obviously something like this can be interpreted in many ways. The way the secular people understood that is that if a gay will come into your store, you can tell them, "Get out of here. I'm not selling you anything." Or if you're a doctor and a gay is going to come to the surgery room, you tell them, "I'm sorry, I'm not saving you." Why? According to the Torah, you don't deserve to live. Why should I save you? That's what they understood. You had to see the reaction. Pogrom. You know what pogrom is? Million messages a minute. Right away all the hypocrites started to scream, "We will not do business with anyone who deprives someone because of his race or belief or..." Nonstop barking. You know how the dogs bark nonstop all night? What did she really want to say? They don't listen, they just bark, they just don't listen. She just wanted to say one very simple thing, which is perfectly fine, nothing wrong with that. Until now, if you are a religious doctor working in Israel hospital and someone comes and you have to perform a surgery, then it's against the Torah. Nothing to do with who the person is. A woman comes to you in the third month and she says, "I need to do an abortion." The manager of the hospital forces you to perform an abortion. Fill up the paperwork, there's a little committee, 10 minutes, they give her the okay. Doctor with the yarmulke has to murder the baby. It's against his will and against his belief. If you're not going to do it, we'll fire you and get a secular doctor. We're sorry, you're working for us. We in this hospital perform thousands of abortions every year. You don't like it? Find another place. A lot of people were afraid to lose their parnasah. Religious doctors or even secular doctors who are anti-abortion are forced to murder babies. On a weekly basis. So she's saying cannot force a person to go against his religion. Even in America you have this law. Cannot come to a person and force him to go against his religion. If someone is fired because of his religion, he can sue for millions here. So she said, why in America, the land of the Gentiles, they understand that And here in Israel, you force religious people to perform the monster crimes against their own will. You want to make an abortion? Find a secular person who doesn't care about his reward or punishment or his afterlife or the hell he's going to get for it. He doesn't care. Let him do it. He doesn't care. He does it anyway. He volunteered to do it. Oh, okay, I'll take care of it. Don't worry. He has no yachamayim. He's already a lost case. Let him enter there. Why are you forcing me on Shomer Shabbat? I don't want to murder babies. One other example is a woman come or a man and they want to change their sex. They have to get in hospital. You have your nurse. You have to give the anesthesia. You have to participate in surgery. I'm a religious person. You're forcing me to turn this person into a woman? To turn him into a woman, meaning to make him unable to give birth to kids and to perform all kinds of plastic surgeries on him and turn him into a woman? The biggest hillul Hashem. Oh, you don't want to give him the shot? You're fired. That's what she meant. But they're always so paranoid. That they're afraid that the next thing would be, you cannot force me to take care of gays, or you cannot force me to take care of Hamas terrorists, or you cannot force me to take care of Michal El Shabbat lefty haters of God. Why should I take care of them? If it was up to me, I would rather the world does not have such monsters. Why should I save their life? They already see it coming. They begin to bark now nonstop. You see what Hashem does now? He shakes the whole world. Everywhere you go, those are the topics right now. Pro and anti-gay, pro and anti-transgender, pro and anti-God or, you know, Torah or religion. Everywhere you go, the middle The middle is taking a side. You go all the way to the religious extreme side or all the way to the anti-religion extreme side. There is no more 50-50 people like the world had. The majority of the people 30 years ago, the people were 50-50, 50% religious, 50% secular. People follow tradition in Israel. Holidays, partially keeping Shabbos, putting filling, eating kosher, no one dared to eat pork. No one dared to dress like the women the way they dress today. You didn't hear about one gay a year 34 years ago. Who would dare to say this word? Now it became a zoo. Naked people everywhere, parades, terrible. The way their country became. It's terrible. But at the same time, other parts of Israel became extremely religious. Big cities with tens of thousands of Torah scholars. Lots of charedim. Hashem is pushing the middle, shaking them. You must choose a side. I'm not waiting for you that much longer. Choose. He gives a person all kinds of tests and the person make up his mind. Do I go with God or against Him? There's no more one leg here, one leg there. Why? It's preparation for the salvation of the world. We are preparing now to the end. We're very close to the end. The middle, 50/50, you won't be able to know what to do with it. If a person is modern Orthodox, What are you going to do with it? He's keeping Shabbos, deserves a big reward for it. He's putting Tefillin, big reward. He eats kosher most of the time, he deserves a reward. He doesn't eat hametz on Pesach, deserves a reward. Maybe he puts his kids in yeshiva, deserves a reward. Then he watch goyish movies, his wife doesn't dress modest, they don't keep 100% Torah Mishpacha. He does other things that makes Hashem very upset. So 50% Hashem is pleased with his actions, 50% Hashem is very upset with his actions. Now comes the final verdict. What do I do with this Jew, male, female? What do I do with him? Where do I send him? I cannot send him to hell. Shomer Shabbos, that's other thing, maybe give staka. But I cannot send him to heaven. Why? Because he watched horrible things and he listens to non-Jewish music and he's not 100%. His wife dresses not modest, she doesn't cover the hair, or he put his kids in modern, basically secular school. They call themselves yeshiva, but there's no yeshiva. So Hashem is now stuck. So what happened? It began to shake these modern people. And you see, unfortunately, that the majority of them became already conservative, and now they're on the way to become reform in the last 30 years. What they do today, they never dared to do 20 years ago. They never did. Today, that's it. They took off certain things, they don't keep that anymore. On the other hand, some of them became extremely religious. That's it. Changed their yarmulke, started to come to learn Torah. You see, big change in the family. Moved their kids to a much better yeshiva. That's what's happening right now. How long this process will continue to go on, I don't know. Maybe another year, another 5 years, another 10 years. But now Hashem is gonna force all the people that are 50/50 to be either zero or close Among the Jews and among the goyim also. Also among the goyim, you're gonna have to be either a righteous Gentile and stop with this immorality and unethical things that they do. So you're going with the tradition and you're gonna become a better Gentile, or you become a complete animal. One of the two. You see what happens today in the world on social media. You see people who lost completely human dignity, completely. Those are already lost cases. We know what's going to be their end. But then you have other Gentiles that are not like that. They protest, they try, they try to make things better. You know, you can see right away what's happening here. One more thing. I don't know if you ever heard it, but there are two massive changes that are about to take place in the world. One of them is already starting, the other one is a matter of a few more months. It's basically Hashem is going to change the natural situation of the world. Things that were applying to us for already 3,000 years are no longer in effect. I'll give you an example. In the land of Israel, the Torah says that if we're going to get Hashem angry because of our actions, He's going to stop the heavens, the sky, and there will not be rain. And once there's no rain for many months in the wintertime in Israel— summer there's no rain ever. Winter, you have 4 or 5 months of rain. Hashem will stop the rain for a few more months and it's not going to be rain. It's already a year straight. Nothing will grow. Everything will become weeds and dry grass. The sheep and the cows will not have what to eat. They begin to get skinnier and skinnier. There's not going to be meat and you're going to have animals who are starving. So therefore, we won't have what to drink. How we will survive? We need rain. We have one source of water in Israel. It's one lake. It's called the Kinneret in Tiberias. Sweet water. Every other place, you cannot drink the water. The ocean is salty. The Dead Sea is salty. The Kinneret has nice water. What are you gonna do? The Kinneret is shrinking. You see more and more land. Now Hashem is canceling this punishment. Until now, rain was subject to our behaving. When Hashem is pleased from our behaving, there's lots of rain. But not only a lot of rain, the timing of the rain is perfect. The timing is everything. You don't necessarily need a lot of rain. You need the perfect timing. Just when the farmers planted everything, they need the rain usually around Sukkot. Tishrei, maximum end of Tishrei. If you already go to Cheshvan, a month later, too late. Everything will die. If it comes too early, also everything will die. They're not ready for so much water. Has to be a week or two Usually it begins around Sukkot. What happens if the rain will continue too long into the summer? It's also not good. So the timing is very important. Of course, also the quantity of the water is important because overall, if the Kinneret will dry out, there's nothing to drink. Since today the world has an option to buy water from different countries, They can just get huge boats and bring 10 million bottles of water. That's enough for the whole month for the entire Israel. And next month you bring another boat and enough from Turkey, from other places that have a lot of water. This punishment is not in effect anymore because the world has an option. What did Hashem do now? It's unbelievable. The Israelis invented a way to clean the ocean water out of the salt. It completely takes out the salt and it becomes great water just like in this bottle here. You drink it, you don't taste even a drop of salt. It's called Hatfalah. Hatfalah. It cleans the water. Therefore you have unlimited amount of water in the ocean. They said that's it. Baruch Hashem, rain, no rain. We have no more problem. We have unlimited amount of water. Not only that, they decided to make one huge pipe from the ocean all the way to the Kinneret, to the lake, and it constantly sends sweet water, sweet clean water into the Kinneret, bringing it up, bring it up to the right normal level. So now we have unlimited amount of water. Whether we are righteous, whether we are wicked, the punishment by hitting us with shortage of water is no longer in effect. Why? Once there was a way to get water from a different— in the old days you couldn't get boats, the boats did not have engines and there was no electric. How would you bring 10 million barrels of water every month from Turkey? There's no way to do it. You cannot do it. So if you didn't have rain in Israel, everyone will die. And if you have too much rain, everyone will drown, or there will be massive damages. Hashem could have punished us or rewarded us with the rain, but the way the world is advanced, this punishment is no longer in effect. If it's already no longer in effect, Why do I care? You can invent a machine that will get as much water as you want from the ocean. Anyway, I'm not using water to punish you anymore as I did for more than 3,300 years. Now comes the, the bomb of the evening. You ready? I'm about to drop a bomb. If you didn't hear about it, you're about to faint. It's unbelievable. I already saw it 10 times, but it's hard for me to digest. One other way that Hashem punished us for 3,300 years is by making couples barren. They can't have kids. Until 30 or 20 years ago, if you have any problem, the woman or the man, any problem, that's it. You cannot have kids. There's no technology, no way to take the seed and put it in an egg in a lab, fertilize it, plant it inside. All these shots that they give today or special pills, none of that existed. So 15% of the couples just couldn't have kids. That's it. That's a punishment of Hashem. Usually it could be for sins that people commit in this life or previous life. If people would do teshuvah for many, many years, eventually they had a miracle and all of a sudden the woman is pregnant, as we saw with Rachel, Sarah. We saw many in the Torah Chana that were barren, righteous women that were praying and praying and praying, and in the end Hashem gave them a baby without doctors, without medicine, in a natural way. Since now Hashem gives us always the ability to develop the world and make it more advanced. Now they already can fix most of their fertility problem. They can fix a lot of the problems. So the, the amount of barren women in the world percentage-wise dropped a lot because many women who 30 years ago could dream to have a child, now they're having kids. IVF, all these things. Since already humanity developing all kinds of ways, we see that Hashem is changing the method of his punishment slowly, slowly. Instead of torturing people by not giving them children, he actually now let go. And here comes the punchline. Listen carefully what I'm about to read to you. You won't believe that something like this you ever heard in your life. There is a company, a German company, it's called Aktolife. Aktolife. You can Google it later on. They have a big scientist that you're not gonna believe what's his name. His name is Hashem El-Ralili. Probably Arab. The name sounds like an Arab. But it's very interesting that his name has meaning in the holy language. Hashem, we know what it means. El means God. Ralili, it can be also interpreted in certain ways. They developed a special place, like a hospital, that will be able to grow 30,000 babies per year without a woman. They take the seed from the man and they take the egg from the woman, fertilize it, and from day one, without planting it into a woman's womb, they grow the baby in a special incubator And the baby is growing there 9 months until he's ready to— they disconnect the artificial cord. There's a lot that keep injecting minerals into the system, whatever the minerals the baby need. But it gets much, much more interesting. So first, from day 1, you can choose the sex of the baby. You have already 2 or 3 boys and you want a girl now, and the woman cannot have another 9 months of pregnancy. So she said, oh, I already have 3 boys, I want a girl. Oh, I have already 3 girls, I want 1 boy at least. So they can play with that. That's one thing. Second, you can design the beauty of the baby by playing with the DNA. Meaning if you want him to have blue eyes or green eyes or brown eyes or stuff like that. If he should be tall, if he should be short. So mamash, it's like you have like almost a divine power here. You can actually, like you know when you go to the ice cream place, they ask you what do you want in your ice cream? Put cherries, put nuts, put this, put this white ice cream, put the dark, mix, do half and half. You know how in Jerusalem when you go in Mamila? They have a famous ice cream place over there. You have about 500 things over there. You don't know what to choose. Cornflakes, chocolate, this, that. Similar, similar idea. So you choose in advance. While the baby is developing, you have an app that is connected to him 24/7. Every hour that you want to see how much more he advanced. In the beginning is one tiny dot. A month later is already size of a cookie. 3 months later is a chocolate chip cookie. And then by the time you finish, he's already 9 pounds or whatever the case is. You see every day how the baby is developed. Also, they check in advance that the babies will not have any defects. No autism, no Down syndrome, all the problems with the DNA that cause all these problems, they eliminate. That means according to what they claim, listen, I'm not working for them and I don't know if they exaggerate in the video or not, or it's really 100% real. I cannot commit and speak for them, but assuming That everything their video is true. That's the biggest inventions in a cre— since the world was created. Something like this was never ever invented by human beings, such a thing to be able to develop life out of a woman's stomach. So they eliminate all the defects. They eliminate sicknesses. They eliminate genetic problems, even though the men and the women may be their match. They both have the same genetic problem. This is what we do in Torah Yesharim. Before the kids get married, we check. It's more common by European Jews, but even Sefardi Jews have these problems in this generation. This will eliminate all of that. Even before they actually do it, they fix the DNA before it develops to a person. Now, soon you're going to understand why I'm telling you all this. So, you can have in advance, you know, how the baby is going to look, in a computer they show you a sample, would like it like this, it's going to match play with the DNA. And of course you're going to choose the height, and you choose the— you eliminate obviously all the problems, all the diseases, stop. One other thing, you can play 9 months music that you choose. If you want the baby to be hyper, you play hip-hop. Ta-tam, ta-tam, ta-tam, ta-tam. As soon as he's ready to come out of the box, you know what's gonna be with him. All day he's gonna move. Or you can play Mozart, Beethoven, you know, classical music. Maybe he'll become an intelligent baby. Not only that, they have a special alphabet, pressure alphabet. That if you wanna feel what the baby feel at this given moment, it's simulation. For instance, when the baby kick, you feel the kicks. That's unbelievable. High-tech, Harleen. Artificial intelligence, that's the right word. AI, artificial intelligence. So, about eye, they have two containers. One bringing in minerals and one taking out waste. Until now, the baby is connected to the mother, it's a two-way street. The mother eats and all the minerals that goes into her body is shared with the baby. And the waste of the baby is going out together with the waste of the mother. So, it's a system, two-way street. Same thing over here. Mineral goes in, waste go out to a separate container. What do they do with the waste? Clean it and use it to re-inject it as mineral. There's no waste. Just clean their garbage and many of that waste can be reused. They thought about everything, these Germans. So, Rabotai, after telling you everything the video shows, I have only one question to ask. Just like with the water, it's obvious that Hashem gave up about the option to strike and to make a drought. Why? Because it's not relevant anymore. It's not going to affect anyone. We have plenty of water that we can clean. We don't need rain. So that's one problem. What happens, you need the rain for other things. You need for the field, you need, right? The rain saves a lot of time. Okay, so we are gonna have to make sprinklers, you know? Because you have unlimited water. One time you invest in sprinkler system and that's gonna give water as much as you want. Water is also gonna be very cheap. If you have unlimited, the entire ocean is yours. You can take as much water as you want, it comes already sweet. Right now in Israel, many of the lettuce and the greens have a lot of worms and bugs. One of the reasons is because they recycle water. All the water that goes to the toilet, they use it to give it to the plants. Why? Because Israel until now did not have enough water. It's not New York, every 2, 3 days, 3 days of rain and floods everywhere. It's not like that. So what did they do? They had to think about every drop of water. Like in California, I heard they passed a law, the Democrats, liberals, the lefties, that if you build a new house in California, in Los Angeles, you're not allowed to make a swimming pool anymore. Imagine how much houses with swimming pools gonna be worth now, because there's no way to make houses with swimming pools. Why? It takes too much water, and California doesn't have a lot of water. There's no rain, barely not that much rain there. So now the liberals, they think, how should we save water? How? No one is allowed to make a pool. I don't understand. When you build a house with a pool, you only need to fill it up once. You don't keep changing the water. A million cubes of water, whatever it is, but you put it once for 20 years. The filter cleans it. Even if you neglected it and became green, green, look moldy, 24 hours with chlorine and all that and these filters, it makes it brand new water. Cleans everything. You don't really need to keep filling up the pool. So I don't know why, why they made such a law, but that's it. Someone that I know told me, I just made it. I submitted my claims just before the law is going into effect in 6 months. So he's still gonna have a house with a pool. You know, in LA, almost every house has a pool. It's getting hot there. Almost every house has a pool, like Florida. But soon, there's not gonna be water. In Israel, you won't have this issue anymore. Why? You wanna have a pool? Have a pool wherever. The whole ocean is ours. We just get as much water as we want. So the question here is, with this incubator, whatever you call it, they develop the baby. First of all, there will be women who can have kids without pregnancy. So one of the punishments that Hashem gave to Chava, to Eve, is that she will suffer 9 months of pregnancy, right, as a result of the sin of Chava. This will be no longer in effect to some women. So she doesn't have to carry a weight of a baby 9 months. She doesn't have all the vomiting and all the other problems that pregnancy brings. She doesn't have to suffer giving birth. It will not affect her body because women, when they give birth, it affects the entire body, the bones. So a lot of these punishments that every woman in the world almost got that had kids eventually will not longer be in effect. If that means that the curse that Chava got is about to expire, that's the question that I'm asking. Another question is, another question is, as we say already, the, the punishment of being barren is also seems to be is about to be expired as well. Also reincarnations of people with birth defects, which is as a result of certain things that they did in their past life. Someone is born blind, someone is born handicapped, someone is born autistic, someone is born Down syndrome, someone is having all kinds of other problems with the heart is on the right side instead of the left side. All kinds of strange things with babies. Is it all going to stop? It's very possible. Why would Hashem cooperate with such a human plan to give humanity an ability to get to such a divine level with artificial intelligence and play God? My guess, if it's all true— and remember, I'm being careful because just by seeing a video from a very important company in Germany And they showed the entire facility. It looks very real. But only Hashem knows what's really real or not. We will find out in a few years. And once we see babies walking the street, 5, 6-year-old kids, "Well, how you were born?" "I was born in that hospital in a box." Oh, so we will know it works. However, I think if there is a chance that something like this would work, I have a reason why. Because there's no longer reincarnations gonna stay forever. We're about to finish all the reincarnations because we are now coming to days of Mashiach. It's very interesting. Why? Until now, if Hashem wants to send a soul which was in the world before, the soul has to be reincarnated with a certain image. Pretty or ugly, healthy or not, you know, normal head or defected head, or whatever the case may be. It was a continuation of past life behaving. If now we will be controlling it, that means no one will be born with any problems. That means that the people that Hashem gave them another chance to be reincarnated with problems and the suffering that they're going through cleans the soul will no longer be in effect. What does it mean? Maybe Hashem will allow this to go 6 months, 12 months, and then the Mashiach would come and it won't be relevant anymore. So, you know, Baruch Hashem, they invented something very nice, but we won't need this, right? No more birth. Once the Mashiach comes, you don't need to bring new souls. Those who survive, survive, and those who didn't They will not come back to the world for another test. So big things are about to happen in the world, very big things. Where does Hashem take us? I don't know. It's hard to know. Same question I asked 10 years ago, 20 years ago, when they said that they duplicated the sheep, Dolly. Remember Dolly the sheep? They cloned it. Cloning. I gave once a lecture, human cloning. Will it be possible or not? Back then I said I don't think that Hashem would cooperate with that because Hashem has to give the soul. If the doctors would clone a human being, right, they take the DNA, clone it, but once the baby is about to be born, a soul has to be put in to give him life. Who is to say that Hashem will agree? Why wouldn't Hashem agree? Very simple why, because If they want to clone a handsome movie star or a pretty actress, there's going to be 50,000 of them now. Everywhere you go, same face. Everyone wants to look like him. So every couple who wants to clone a baby, they say, I want my baby to look like him. Another one, another one, another one. You'll have a million of them in the world. Same face, same body. Same height, same everything. Or million men that looks exactly like this person. Everyone that admire an athlete or some politician or movie star would want his child to look like him. So you're gonna have millions of the same faces. That's going to destroy the world because the face of a human being has to be unique. Has to be unique for its purpose. The Gemara says, "Hashem she'partzu fe'emshonim kach de'ot emshonot." Same way Hashem doesn't make, create a person with the exact same face like someone else. Why? Because every image of a face also reflects the personality and the traits of that human being. So if now you have 50,000 clone people, what kind of a You're going to design their test in life. If Hashem want to bring a soul to the world that has to be ugly because in a past life he was very handsome, he used to commit a lot of sins with the ladies. Now his punishment, measure for measure, this time you'll be very ugly, no one will want to look at you. If they decide to clone a baby, which soul Hashem will bring? It will have to go according, their will dictate to Hashem Whose soul should come into that baby? It cannot be. But over here with this German company, it's the same ethical question that we have to ask. If they would like to play with the DNA, let's say Hashem wants Yosef and Miriam to have a baby that is not supposed to be green or supposed to have birth defect, problems with the kidney, problems with the heart, whatever the case may be. If people would be able to eliminate these, that means Hashem will have no say anymore in reincarnating wicked people and give them another chance to become righteous. It will be no longer in effect. So now we have to ask, will Hashem continue to reincarnate people? Or not. It's a little bit complicated. Because you are going to tell me how do you want the baby to look? That means I have no say anymore. Until now I decided how the baby would look based on his purpose. If he needs to be suffering, I made him very bad looking. If he needs to have privileges, I gave them a look like Yosef. He had very nice look. Why? He's going to dominate the whole world. Look helps. People give respect to someone that looks good. People do not affiliate so much with people that don't look so good. That's why in the movies they always check perfect faces. They always check the most pretty people. Why? Look sells. Look makes it interesting. Look makes people more interested to stare at the screen. If you bring them a lot of ugly people, after once or twice, people don't enjoy anymore the show, even though the show itself is interesting. The faces of the people take away the fun. Why? This is the way Hashem made the world. It's written in the Torah. Why the Torah has to say that Rachel is pretty and Sarah is the prettiest and Chava is so pretty? Well, what for? Who cares pretty or not? It's not relevant. No, no, it is very relevant. And there's a reason why the Torah talks about their eyes are beautiful and their look are beautiful. Why? Because it has an effect and it has an impact. They call it in English charisma. In the Torah, it's called mitziat chin. Mitziat chin, meaning you find favor in the eyes of the people that looks at you. So, Rabotai, after we know all of that, let's talk a little bit about the parasha we read on Shabbat. Parashat Miketz usually always fall on the Shabbat of Hanukkah. Shabbat of Hanukkah. The Chachamim in the Gemara, they find a connection between the content of the parasha to the story of Hanukkah. The Parasha begins, "Vayehi miketz shnatai miyamin." "Vayehi," miketz means in the end. Shnatai means two ears. Two ears, you know, two ears. The Chachamim say, "Vayehi," every time you read in the Torah, "vayehi," it means it's a language of sorrow, pain, upset. It's not a happy format. Vayi, that means there's a problem. Tza, aggravation. The beginning of the parasha starts with big sorrow, pain. The pain of Yaakov Avinu for losing his loved son, Yosef. Yosef is suffering 12 years in a prison. They dump him in a hole. His life looks like it's over. He's suffering every minute from his new life there. Plus, his brothers turned their back on him, betrayed him, threw him to the pigs, sold him for a cheap price. Horrible situation. Then the brothers begin to also feel bad when they see their father sitting and suffering for 17 years. Every day, imagine you have to see your father crying nonstop. And you know it's your fault. It's pain for the brothers as well when they see Yaakov suffer. The end of the parasha, it's a big drama, a revolution. Yosef become the most powerful and most important person in the whole world for 8 years. He sits in a beautiful meal with the brothers, fancy meal. He gives them gifts and sends them back to Yaakov Avinu. In Chanukah, it's very similar. Chanukah, in the beginning, there are decrees and pain on the Jews that the Greeks made. All Jews are being tortured, pressured. Destroyed mentally, religiously, and in the end there's a revolution. The Hashmonaim, Judah, the Maccabees, his brothers, and few hundreds other righteous people kick the biggest empire, the wicked Greeks, throw them out of Israel, purify the Temple, and save Judaism, that's the most important thing. If they didn't get to build the Beit HaMikdash, no, we'll build it later. They didn't find oil for the menorah, we'll live without menorah. But if they would not be able to get rid of those evil Greeks, none of us would be sitting here today speaking words of Torah. You would not have Jews, you would not have synagogues, you would not have anything. So that's really the big miracle of Chanukah, that only few hundred stayed ultra-Orthodox. Everyone else became a Greek. All the Jews became Greeks. They started to go to the stadiums, they imitate them, they got benefits from them, and they became 100% goyim. Few hundred charevim and everyone else is Greek. Some Greeks from birth, some Jews that became Greeks. Disaster! A spiritual Holocaust which was about to get to zero Jews in the world in few months or few years. That's it, it will be the end of it. And a miracle happened that the Greeks were kicked and their ideology was kicked out. And Baruch Hashem will revive Judaism before it was over. I always say, I have a side comment, that it's kind of an illusion what I just said. That's what's written in the books. But when we see the way the Jews are today, if you take 12 million secular Jews, who they remind you of? The Greeks? O Judah the Maccabee, look at 12 million secular Jews with their tattoos and ponytail and earrings and sports and addictions and all the nonsense that they have. What are they represent? They represent the righteous Maccabees or they represent Antiochus and his friends? Who do they look like in their image, in their behaving? In their belief, in their desire, in their addiction to sports. Sport comes from Sparta, it's the city in Greece, Sparta. Also Olympiada, Olympic Games, it's a city in Greece. Olympic, Olympic, there was a place in Greece, Olympia. This is all Greek terms. The whole world became Greek. Americans are Greeks, French are Greeks, many Arabs are Greeks. By the Arabs, there's still a big amount of them that are not Greeks. They refuse to become Greeks. In their ideology, they don't want to become Greeks. They want to be servants of God, they want to be modest. They just don't have the right guideline. They follow a fake religion. So whatever there in the Quran is copied from the Torah, they follow it right because it's copied from the Torah. But everything else is made-up stories. So they believe other things, they do other things, they fast 40 days for nothing from morning to evening because it's not what God told the Gentiles to do. But at least they are trying to do something. The rest of the world Look what's going on. I don't have to show you. Sport became the god. Look in Argentina how many people died because of a stupid soccer game. You know how many tragedies they have because 5 million of them went on the street and celebrated for 3 days nonstop on the streets of Argentina? Do you know how many casualties there? By then, sport is the real god, is the real religion. Take it away from them, half of them will commit suicide in a day. No jokes. Go to the Argentinians and tell them from now on we cancel the Argentinian soccer league. There's no more Argentina, no more River Plate, no more— what's the other one— Boca. No more Boca against River. Half of Argentinians commit suicide the next day. Yeah, no joke. Same thing in England. Come to the British, tell them there's no more Manchester United, no more Liverpool, no more Manchester City. Manchester City, all these teams. That's it. We close the British League. Half of them will kill themselves. If you come to the Arabs and tell them no more league in Egypt, no more league in Saudi Arabia, I don't think anyone will kill himself. Some of them get upset. They won't commit suicide. But in Israel, many fools will kill themselves. Tell them no more Maccabi against Tapoel or Betar. No more Israeli. You know how many teenagers will kill themselves? There's no— I don't see a reason. They used to have a commercial when I was a child, Coca-Cola, the purpose of life, Coca-Cola. That's how they fool Israeli children back then. They make the noise. You know how you pour the Coca-Cola from the can? Coca-Cola. Right away, a million Israeli fools go to the fridge, pour the Coke, open the can to pay for that commercial. Same thing with beer in America. When your head is empty, when your ideology is rotten, this is who you are. They play with your tiny brain as much as they want. One day they make you like this, the next day they make you like that. They control you. They pull the strings. So, Rabotai, the story of Yosef, he's allegedly, his destruction, Chas V'Shalom, was no destruction. It was all a plan, but it looked like A tragedy. The tragedy of his life came from a dream and the salvation of his life came from a dream. To show you it all was to begin with a divine plan. He dreams that his father and mother and the brothers bow down to him. Sun, the moon, the stars. All these dreams was to show him where you're heading. One day they will all have to bow down to you. Why did Hashem show him this dream? To get him into trouble. For the brothers to throw him out, that he should end in Egypt, because that's the empire where Hashem wants him in charge. It's all a divine plan. At the same time, that Yosef will know not to lose hope, because if you don't have hope, you die. You die from a broken heart. You don't want to live. You actually do something stupid, let someone kill you. You don't want to be in jail for the rest of your life. Why Yosef was optimistic? Why he had the strength to be in a horrible jail for 12 years with these monsters? Why? Because he knew what Hashem showed me, that prophecy that my brothers will bow down to me must happen. So as long as I'm here, I know there's got to be an happy end to the story. As you saw, in one minute everything turned around. Avotai! Let me read to you some interesting things that will shock you a little bit. Right in the beginning of the parasha, we have this pasuk, upar ocholem. Pharaoh is the king of Egypt. He has a dream. The dream obviously shows him what about to happen in his country, but he doesn't understand that. 7 skinny cows swallow the 7 fat cows and they stay the same. They still stay skinny. And same thing with the wheat. The skinny swallow the fat, stays the same. It's written in the Parasha, "V'etnalachem etuv Eretz Mitzrayim, v'ichlo et chelav Eretz." I'm going to give you the wealth of the Egyptian land, the best stuff that grows there. What's the explanation for that? Egypt was not a wealthy country in the beginning. It was a poor country. Even today it's a very poor country. This place does not have potential for wealth. There's no rains over there. The things that grows there are not in a good quality. You have about 80 million Egyptians, very anti-Semite, all of them. They're allergic to Jews, even though some of the leaders are peace agreement, which is belonging. It's just ceasefire. And cooperation because it's good for both sides. But the hatred in Egypt to the Jews is more than any Arab country in the world. Country that are 40 years in a peace agreement with Israel hates Israel the most in the world, more than Iran. The majority of the citizens of Iran do not hate Israel. They hate the ayatollahs. They say in closed rooms not in front of the camera, that they are dying for the relationship of Israel and Iran to go back like it was in the time of the Shah. They already dread of— you saw what happened in Iran in the last few months. Most Iranians are not crazy like these ayatollahs and some of these radical murderers. Most of them are open-minded. They want normal life. They want to be friends with Israel and the rest of the world. They don't want nuclear. They don't want to kill anyone. They just want Iran to go back to the way it was before the Khomeini came. Iran was the fourth country in the world in wealth, in success, in beauty. They have rich culture, they had plenty of money, they used to sell oil with no sanctions, no problems. It was better than Paris. And now they went back in time 1,000 years. That's how bad it is over there. You can't get medicine there. Half of the food you want, you can't find. It's a disaster. The currency went down by thousands of percent. If you sell a mansion in Iran, you cannot buy a bathroom across the street here. Tiny bathroom for a price of a mansion of 10 acres. A bathroom here in Queens you cannot buy with our money. It's worthless. It has no value. Why? They brought it on themselves. But in Egypt, everybody hates Jews. 80 million Egyptians, if you find one out of a million that doesn't hate Jews, it will be a miracle. In the United Nations survey, they all said 90-something percent of them admitted to the camera that they hate Jews. Even though supposed to be in peace with them, they continue to teach their children One day we have to kill all Jews. Nothing has changed there in the program of the learning. So why you make peace with Israel? It's good for us for the time being. The Israeli could have wiped us out. Let's not get them angry. And it helps us with the smuggling, with the Muslim brothers, with other problems. Now we sell them gas, natural gas. My best guess on Shabbat is the nephew of this, uh, Tshuva. There's a person in Israel, Yitzchak Tshuva. Hashem blessed him with wealth, but unique, not just wealth. Besides all the real estate or all the gas stations that he owned, he invested in a project that searched for natural gas in the ocean. Between Israel and Lebanon. And guess what? They found a huge amount of natural gas. $1 billion a year profit. Natural gas comes from the ground. He owns, I think, 40 or 50% of it together with Israeli government and some investors. One time I had an interview with him and he said that when he was a teenager, he was so poor that they didn't have a shower in their apartment. So he used to take shower with a hose on the street, going back to the backyard of the building, take a hose, connect it, and take a shower like this when no one looks. There's no shower in the house. Imagine you have to take showers on the street. Now he's one of the top 5 wealthiest people in Israel, something like that. And his nephew Baruch Hashem is a religious boy. He took him to Great Neck to the Moskodesh Davening. He saw how everyone danced together with the Hallel. Baruch Hashem. He's a student here in the university. This Jew used to own the Plaza Hotel, if you remember. He sold it to some Indian guy who sold it to an Arab Sheikh. The Plaza Hotel, the fanciest hotel in Manhattan, the wealthiest hotel in Manhattan. He used to own it. 100% was his. No stockholders. Hashem took him from being a poor Israeli teenager to become a tycoon. When Hashem wants, he brings someone to the top. If he wants, he smash him in a minute. Look at Roman Abramovich, had $30 billion. Everyone bowed down to him. Hundreds of people works for him. Gardeners, bodyguards, chauffeurs, accountants, lawyers, personal doctors, masseuse, pilot. Everyone is on the world payroll. Putin decides to attack Ukraine. A week later, Roman Abramovich, all his assets were frozen. The American put an end to him. Why? Because he's a friend of Putin. What does it have to do— what do I have to do with the war? Putin didn't consult with me. You're a friend of this Putin? We freeze all your assets. He had a soccer team in England worth $3 billion. They took it away from him, forced him to sell it. He got to a point within a week that he begged all his rich billionaire friends to lend him $1 million, which is peanuts for them, to pay the employees that he shouldn't fire them, to keep them on payroll. Give me $1 million for a month or two that I survive that I have to pay salaries. Not one of them agreed to give him a million dollars. For these billionaires, people that worth $20, $30 billion, to ask them for $1 million, it's like me asking you for $10 loan. You wouldn't do it for me. If I said to you, listen, my situation is temporarily very bad now, it may take a month or two, can you lend me $10? Of course, why not? Jew is in a time of trouble, I run to help him, no? Now one of them agreed to give him a million dollars and many of them made all their wealth thanks to him. Hashem decided to wipe him out, one week he's done. One thing, he's lucky that he bought some property in Israel that worth a lot of money. Israel didn't freeze his assets. Assets. He didn't freeze his assets. Before it happened to him, one of my students gave him my book in Russian, Preparation for Eternal Life. He is in Herzliya. He come to this store, and I, I told him, when he come next time, make sure you give him the book in Russian. If we make him balshuva, he can benefit the Jewish world because he donates to a lot of silly causes. He might as well help to save souls. So he came on Shabbat when that student doesn't work on Shabbat. The place there works on Shabbat, so there is a goy over there. He said to the goy, if he comes on Shabbat, your job is to give him the book. I'll take him to lunch. And he came after Shabbat, he sent me a message. Guess what? He picked up your book. A week or two after, I guess he didn't open the book. That's my guess. Probably threw it somewhere. Hope not in the garbage, but maybe somewhere like the garbage. And Hashem said, I gave you a final warning to open up your eyes to see what's the purpose of life. You're a Jew or not? What is the point of just collecting? What happened? One problem after the other. Every 5 minutes, 1 billion frozen, 2 billion frozen. Take away the team, cannot fly to certain countries. The British kicked him out. He was like the king in England. The king. Tens of thousands of people run to kiss his feet on the street. He owned a big soccer team, world champion. Kicked him out of England, cannot enter there. Treating like a Nazi. Why? It's all Hashem. Nothing to do with Putin. Hashem decided who's going to suffer now, who's going to benefit from this war. It's all written. When Hashem made that decision that Putin would drop the first bomb, every human being and the effect it's going to have on him, it was already written on Rosh Hashanah. Moshe, Yitzchak, Vladimir, this one, that one, Alex, everything was written. How Hashem does it, only he knows. Now we're going to learn it from what I'm about to teach you from this parasha. So, Rabotai, Egypt was not rich until Yosef arrived. Once Yosef arrived, the wealth began. The name Yosef is a name of a blessing. Yosef means to add. It brings more and more wisdom, money, success. Success, power. That's why the Bukharians, when they call their children Yosef, they add Chaim to break the Ain Hara, because it's a name that attracts Ain Hara, attracts jealousy. The name Yosef, that's why the Idols make it— the Iraqis, they make Yosef Chaim, and Bukharians, they make Yosef Chaim. Same idea. Why? If we're only going to keep it Yosef, It attracts fire. Let's break it by saying another name. So once Yosef arrived to Egypt, the economy of Egypt is on the rise. Why? Does Hashem do anything without wisdom? Why? Because of one sentence that Hashem said to Abraham Avinu 200 years earlier. One sentence is going to change the life of millions of people, change the entire country, turn Egypt from a poor country into the biggest empire of those days. One sentence that Hashem said to Abraham Avinu, to Abraham: your children will be slaves in a country that they don't own, they will torture them, For 400 years. In the end, there was a discount, but that was the original plan. But after that, they would leave with lots of wealth. How are they gonna have wealth if Egypt is a very poor country? I have to start a process. I'm gonna bring them and pump them. What is it like? There are two pigs. In a barn. Chris in Arizona or Texas is raising pigs. One pig is getting tons of food, the other one barely gets any food. So one is skinny and hungry all the time, and his friend is getting fatter by the minute. The skinny one is very jealous why his friend's getting So much food, look how he enjoy all the fresh things. He's a pig, what do you expect from him? People from the outside, they understand the real case here. Why Case is giving the pig a lot? 'Cause he's next on the slaughtering. They wanna have fatty steaks. The 4th of July is coming. This year they're going to slaughter this pig. Next year, the skinny one, we will pump him with lots of food because we will need to eat him next year. He's a year younger. So now we're targeting this one. We want him to be delicious. We give him tons of food. Oh, he became 300 pounds. Very good. Why? Sex will be delicious. Someone that sees how Chris keeps putting food in the stomach of his pig and is neglecting the other one, says, "It's not fair, such a racist. Why you give the black pig and you don't give the pink one nothing?" Or the other way around. "What, you racist? You're not fair." No, you fool. What do you really think over here? That I have preferences, this one or that one? Or I do anything for the pig's sake? The pig is not a factor. The only reason we feed him right now is to benefit ourselves. The only reason Hashem is going to raise Egypt to the top of the pyramid for his children to keep his promise to Avraham Avinu. The only reason Hashem elevates politicians sometimes overnight, against nature, against all odds, is to benefit someone else. Best example for that, Bennett, the one that sues me, the former Prime Minister. He didn't have that many voters. He only had 5 or 6, if I remember correctly. Definitely not more than 6. Lapid, the other anti-Torah, had 20. Who should become a prime minister? Someone that has a million voters or someone that has less than 200,000 voters? They want to form a partnership. Who should be the leader? Someone with a million fans or someone with 200,000 fans? The problem is that there was two large parties and one tiny one. This Bennett was the small one. The two big ones started to fight. I have to be. No, I have to be. Gantz and Lapid. They both have more or less the same. He wants to be. He wants to be. Say, you know what? We hate Bibi Netanyahu so much, we want to get rid of him. The only way to get rid of him is to let Bennett be the Prime Minister. There's no other way. But he's a tiny cookie over here. What is the connection? The people of Israel didn't want him to be a prime minister. Doesn't matter. That's the only way to get rid of Bibi. I will forgive my ego. You will forgive your ego. We'll take somebody, a nobody, and make him a prime minister. But we will ask him to betray the right, all his voters, and to go with the left and the Muslim brothers. And that's what he did. He was so fascinated to become a prime minister, in one minute he went against everything he promised a week earlier in the studio with a piece of paper, signing. I will never go with Lapid, I will never go with the Muslim Brothers, I will never do it. Netanyahu, can you sign and give a guarantee like I just did? A week later he went with them. Why did Hashem bring him up? After all, if it happened, that means on Rosh Hashanah Hashem approved it. Why did Hashem bring it up? You know why? Why? So now when the religious people form a government, until now they were shy. They barely asked for anything. Just let us be in the government. Whatever you do, it's fine. Give us a little bit money for the yeshivot. Little thing for the babies and we okay with you. Whatever you want to do, you do. Now, that's a whole different story. You were willing to give the Muslim brothers $53 billion, you're gonna give us a lot more money from now on. We want to double the money for the yeshiva and we want to help this and we want to fight all the murderers and we want to fight the crime. We want money now. You're not doing us a favor, we are doing you a favor. The mentality is changing. No longer a servant that comes and begs Netanyahu for donations. You will do what we tell you to do. That's a whole different game now. That's why there's so many problems already before they even start the government. Every hour there's a new war. Why? Because we dictate to him what we want. The only reason that everyone got confidence Is when they saw that they were willing to give the Muslim brothers $53 billion and the people of Israel did not make a beep. They ate it. The lefties, they don't care. Let Israel get destroyed. Ah yeah? We are not less than the Muslim brothers. So now you're going to start giving us. Still nothing compared to what they're willing to give them, but it's a much bigger progress. Good news is that— remember how many times I said in my lectures that they do not let any religious Jews make Aliyah to Israel? You know how many people wrote to me that they took their heart out and not let them do Aliyah? They drag them up to 6 years until they give up. Why not just go there and stay? You can't, you can't. They catch you, you will be burned. You cannot— that's it. A lot of people did that, but they cannot leave Israel. They leave, they come back, they will not let them in. You're right, some people, that's what they did. They came as a tourist and they stayed in Israel. Yeah, but for me, I'm not from my country. I don't even need a passport. Yes, but if you enter and stay illegally, they can say to you, we're not letting you in. They do whatever they want. Remember, they have two different kinds of behavior to secular and to goyim and to religious Jews. It's not the same. Secular and goyim are always welcome. Come, the gays, the transgender, the Arabs, you're all welcome right away. Religious, they begin with their nonsense. Give me your birth certificate of your grandparents from Uzbekistan. Doesn't exist. It used to be USSR. There's no more USSR. There's no way to get it. We want the original one. If you're lucky and you have a copy, they're gonna tell you they want the original one. If by any chance you have the original one, then they say we want also your uncle and his wife. What does it have to do with my case? We want the original, knowing that the uncle would never agree to mail the original to Israel. If it's gonna get lost, he has no ID. They do things on purpose that no one can make Aliyah. Why? They want to keep Israel as secular as possible, as goyish as possible. But today, Baruch Hashem, someone that I know very well was nominated to be in charge of that office. So now we'll be able to help, B'ezrat Hashem, if the Satan will not interfere, to all the people that were denied Aliyah. That's when I'm going out to Israel, I'm gonna meet this man. Cannot say right now who he is, but he's a very powerful one. He was once before already there in power, but now he got much more power. And we're gonna try and help every religious Jew and every convert who was denied Aliyah. For no reason. I promise you, all the cases that were denied Aliyah were all legit, 1 billion percent legit people, real Orthodox Jews keeping mitzvot, real converts, Jews from birth, religious. They don't want them in Israel. But now it's a different approach. We'll be able to help. So you see, all of that now it's possible because of What Hashem did in the last year, we suffered a lot, but there was a preparation for us to open up our eyes and stop being naive. Same thing over here. After 210 years the Jews left Egypt, what do we say in the Haggadah of Pesach? Asa'uah kemetzulah she'en badagim. You know the fishbowls? Israel is full of them. They catch fish, they throw them in pools. Also in Chile, in Canada, in many places that they grow fish. They have million fish in one huge pool. It's artificial lakes. And they keep hunting them, selling them, and then they give birth to more. They make sure that the pool will always be full. When the Jewish nation came out of Egypt, all the fish that they had in pools Not one left. "Not one fish is left." Everything they took from them. There's nothing left there. All the wealth, the clothing, the jewelry, they gave them all out. Immediately Egypt went back to be the poor country it used to be. So the entire 210 years with the wealth of Egypt from the story that Yosef arrived there until the Jews left, Hashem raised them. Once the Jews left, crushed them to the ground. Same thing in Spain, the Spanish Empire, Spain and Portugal. Once the Jews left or got killed or expelled, Hashem crushed them. Same thing in Libya. When the Jews were there, they were very powerful. They stole their money and kicked them out. Hashem crushed Libya. Same thing in Russia. When the Jews were in Russia, before they left 4 years ago, Russia was the biggest empire in the world. As soon as the Jews came out of Russia, Russia, USSR broke, and overnight they starved to bread. One, one goy a diplomat. I once met him in Manhattan. Told me, he's Ericsson, he's originally Swedish, but he had businesses in Russia selling Russian watches that are similar to Swiss watches. That was his business. $50 million company. This was 25 years ago. Imagine how much it will be today. Very, very wealthy. He was also a diplomat. He has a diplomat passport. He told me, "The lobster that I used to buy for $3 in Moscow, I went now, it jumped overnight to $300." He told me, I will never forget that. Overnight, the price went up 100 times more. We cry for 40% increase, inflation, depression, recession. Imagine, Rabbi Tzvi, a slice of pizza now is $4. You go the next day to the store, $400, one slice of pizza. What would happen? I make my own pizza. The cheese and the dough and this will cost you also hundreds. Imagine gasoline, $4 a gallon. You come the next day, $400 a gallon. States will be empty. Only the billionaires will die. No one will be able to die. Rabbi, I lived through that time. I lived through that time. I saw that. You saw that. You know what I'm talking about. Money changed few times. Iran. When the Jews were in Iran, Iran is an empire of wealth and success. Khomeini come, all the Jews run away. Hashem crushed them. They barely have what to eat. It's interesting, even the money that they have, instead of feeding their people, they send to all kinds of murderers in the world to kill Jews and Americans. They don't have blessing with the money. The oil that they sell around the sanctions does not bring any blessing to the people of Iran. They don't get from it. Venezuela. Chavez, he marched him on, started to attack the Jews, this Nazi. What happened? Hashem gave him cancer and wiped out Venezuela. There's no more Venezuela. They don't have what to eat. Nobody can pay rent there. You know, in Venezuela, all the people live without paying rent. Those who want the apartment, it's the government took away their apartments from them. They cannot evict anyone. They cannot sue anyone. As long as they're there, you have to let them live. That's what they did in Venezuela. I spoke to people that came from there to Yeshiva and came to me for Shabbat. You have a half a million dollar apartment, technically it's not worth a dollar. You cannot collect rent because nobody has money. They wanted to charge one quarter a gallon. They have plenty of gas, you know, they have oil. Venezuela has a lot of oil. Should have been a very rich country. Hashem wiped them out. Why? You're going to join the Arab terrorists against Israel, you're calling death to the Jews. I will show you what's going to be your end. The Romans, the Greeks, the Philistines, the Babylonians, the Persians of the old days, Haman and Achashverosh, went up, up, up, up, started with the Jews. Hashem wiped them out. America is next now. It's a matter of few years or maybe a decade or two, that's it. All the Jews will have to run away from America, just a matter of time. It's not if, it's when. The antisemitism is on the rise every day, it's worse than yesterday, every day. More attacks, more on social media, on the open with no shame, kill Jews, We are one demeure, all kinds of things like Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany was a very powerful country. They killed the Jews, Hashem wiped them out. Today Germany is another country, that's it. And now they're suffering because Putin doesn't sell gas to them anymore. They used to buy the gas and make profit on it and sell it to others. That was their main income. Now it's going to be recession here in America. BMW, Mercedes, all these fancy cars, they're gonna have to lower the prices or lower sales. Because people that right now buy cars for $100,000, $150,000, $200,000, this is all going to stop. For two reasons. Most people won't be able to afford it, especially with 8% finance. So you have to pay $2,000, $3,000 a month on a car. It's too much money. Second, those who still have a lot of money, they will be afraid to drive these cars because people will put guns to their head because they are hungry for food. They want to attract attention. If you drive a Mercedes, you're risking your life. Soon, in some areas of the hill, you're going to drive a fancy car, expect someone to come in a light and put a gun to your head, get you out of the car and drive away. They do it in South Africa every day. They're already doing it. I know they're doing it. Someone told me in Brooklyn, two guys came with guns, they stole the car. What do they do with the car? They take it to a place and they take it apart. Every part worth fortune. It's very fancy cars. The engine is $30,000. This, the transmission is $20,000. It's expensive. Every tire is $1,000. They sell it. They give a car to someone, he's going to take the car apart and they're going to get $10,000 and he's going to make $50,000, $60,000, $70,000. I have a Hyundai. Hyundai. Hyundai, it's not even $30,000 brand new. Lease it for a few hundred dollars a month. The guy told me, if we— if you take your car apart, headlights, tires, all the system of the car, each one by itself, it's $150,000. $30,000 car, if you take it apart, just the headlights, each one is $1,700. 4 of them right there is $10,000 almost. Engine, the hybrid battery, 20-something thousand dollars. The whole car, $130,000. If you sell just the— if you want to now buy the battery, $20-something thousand to install just the hybrid battery. Every part in the car is thousands or minimum hundreds of dollars. A plastic container to have water, the fluid, $300. Piece of plastic. The entire system, $7,000, that you'll be able to spray water. Crazy, crazy what's happening now with Korea, with shipping, with COVID What do you think people do now? You know people steal metal? You know that people steal your muffler? I was in LA, they told me don't use the car over here. I said, my car? I said, why? It's a parking lot. Every night they take 2 cars over here, they take the catalytic converter. It's a piece of metal, they sell it for $1,000 to the garage. You come in the morning, you don't have it. Why? It's worth money. They lay under the car, they take it apart, and they steal it. If they don't steal the entire car. So now America is not what it used to be. Very dangerous now. Life here will be like South Africa. South Africa after 8 PM when it gets dark, you have to be crazy to walk in certain places. Your life will be at risk. So the Germans are going to get it real hard, the same way Hashem punished the Ukrainians after they killed 2 million Jews. In the end, everybody will feel in the fist of Hashem, sooner or later. Just some people are blind, they don't see it. And what I tell you, it's not my personal opinion. Everything I tell you, it's written in a parasha. You read it 2 days ago, but you don't pay attention. It's right in front of your eyes. Hashem shows you how he runs the world, why he brings up leaders, why he makes countries wealthy. All for his children, directly or indirectly. In the end, it's all for the Jewish people. It's written many, many places in the Torah. And the goyim, the Gentiles, if they are honest and they read the Torah once, once with English translation, they would see it right there. You don't have to be a genius to see it. You don't need commentary. Just read the verses. For instance, the Torah says Joseph, Joseph is going to the minister Potiphar. He was sold to be a servant in his house. What's the next verse? From the minute he arrived there, Hashem made this minister more and more successful in everything he touched, he succeeded. Why? Thanks to Joseph living in his house. It's clearly mentioned in the Torah. So a Gentile should admire the Jew and run and help him? Or should run after him to rob him or to kill him or to expel him? What are you, normal? You don't read in the book of God that you learn in a church? You don't see the way Hashem does things for the Jewish people? How are you such an antisemite? How is it? The answer It's not in their hands. Hashem turns them like that. Hashem knows they don't read, they don't learn Torah, they don't know, and He turns them against the children. Why? Just as a punishment. Just like the Arabs. Everywhere we go, we live in stress. Imagine if they like us, not one of us would stay Jewish. Intermarriage, and there will be the end of us. So why the way they keep punching us? Why? To save us from losing our identity. Rabotai, the Jewish people left after 210 years and now right away was clear that their entire wealth was all prepared for the children of Hashem. Why the Jewish people needed gold and silver and all these things when they came out of Egypt? To build a Mishkan. You need to build a beautiful thing. And then when you move into Israel, you're gonna have to build the whole country. You need the money. In the desert, you don't really need it. When you're going to need it? When you have to build a Mishkan, you need a lot of gold. When you build a Temple inside Israel, you're gonna need a lot of gold. It's all the preparation for the future. Pharaoh cannot fall asleep. These dreams bother him very much. As a result of that, all of a sudden, Joseph is in jail. Before that, what happened? Sarah mashkim and Sarah of him, Pharaoh threw them to jail. Pharaoh was not politically correct. You mess up, Imagine one of them keeps serving drinks to Pharaoh 3 times a day, every day. He's around him, one of your assistants is keep pouring for you wine or whiskey or whatever they serve. The other one is serving your food. They mess up, today somebody mess up, you're fired. Go find a job somewhere else. That's it. You know anyone who throws his baker or his chef to the jail because the food didn't come out good? You don't mess with dictators. Saddam Hussein will kill them. They're lucky Pharaoh only put them in jail. In jail, they meet Yosef after they had all their dreams. Sarah of him would die, Sarah of Hashem would live. That's what the way Yosef told them. And exactly that's how it was. And then Yosef told him, please don't forget me. I'm here 10 years for nothing. I never sinned. It was all a fake story about me. I'm sitting here 10 years for nothing. Tell Pharaoh to give me parole. Why am I here? For that Hashem added 2 more years to his sentence. Question is why? I don't understand. If a religious Jew is in a jail and an attorney passed by, he has no attorney. And no telephone. And an attorney came to a different prisoner and he screamed to him, excuse me, I'm here, I have nobody to turn to and I'm here for nothing. It's all a mistake. They arrested me, it's not me. Can you do something? What's wrong with that? He asked twice, like a criminal. Ask 10 times. Excuse me, Chris, you're an attorney, right? Can I give you my name and my Social Security? I'm here for no reason. I'm locked here for no reason, it's all a mistake. What's wrong with that? A person has to do Isha Dlu to save his life. What's wrong with that, Rav Otani? Now we're going to find out something very interesting. Listen to this. King Solomon, 3,000 years ago. What happened? With his brilliance, Hashem gave him as a gift. He writes in Kohelet, Book of Kohelet, chapter 2, verse 26. Translation: Someone that God loves, he gives him wisdom and that— what does it mean, that? The ability to translate what you learn into actions. And happiness. Happiness, it's very hard to reach in today's world. Very hard. The richest people are depressed. Poor are depressed. Jews are depressed. Cohim are depressed. Everyone is almost depressed. And angry and uptight and OCD and anxiety attack and panic attack and depression and Hashem Mirachem. There's really no happiness anymore, and everything is so fast, one problem after the other. People are all over the place. The only people that can be happy today, only, are people that are constantly covered and surrounded with Torah studies. Their mind is always Torah, Torah, Torah, Torah, nothing else. They don't come in contact with secular people, with non-Jews, with all kinds of infidels and all kinds of heretics and all kinds of atheists and all kinds of anti-Torah. They're not involved with it. They don't know politics, they don't listen to the radio, definitely they don't have any screen to watch. They have the most simple life you can imagine with no materialism, no luxury, Even a phone, some of them don't even have. Or if they have, it's a very old-fashioned phone with no screens. And then entire life is Torah. I have a guest like this as we speak in my house. He arrived last week. He's in my kollel in Yerushalayim. For 20 years he's there. He has 13 kids. He doesn't have one penny to his name. He lives in a rented apartment and the rent became double in the last 2 years in Jerusalem. He got to a situation he doesn't have money to pay ordinary bills. For the first time in his life he had to leave Israel and come to America to collect money. You never saw in your life such a tzaddik. You see the light of Hashem on his face nonstop. He does not stop smiling. He does not stop helping people and encouraging people. He has such influence, even when he doesn't speak, immediately everyone fall in love with him. I had a lot of guests by me on Shabbat. Everyone fell in love with him. You see the Shechina on his face. He's happier than all of us combined multiplied by 10. And he cannot afford to get on a bus here. How much a bus costs? $3, $2? So now he came to collect, to pay, to bring the negative balance at least to zero. Till the next time we'll have to— His entire life is Torah. He's a yidshar mikvacha. He can look at a cloth of a woman and tell you right away which blood is pure, which one is not. It comes from the Rechem, it doesn't come from the womb. Many years of learning, not a joke. He was loved by Rav Ovadia like his own son. Rav Ovadia, when one time he forgot that he's waiting for him because he was so deep into the Gemara, the next day apologized 10 times to him, "I'm so sorry that I made you wait." Rav Ovadia looked highly of him. And many other big rabbis. Everyone who sees him right away sees a perfect tzaddik, perfect midot. Complete Anava, humility, makes himself nothing. People call him Rabbi. No, no, no Rabbi. I'm just a regular person. Nothing. Don't call me Rabbi. I'm not Rabbi. He's better than any Rabbi you know. But that's someone who already reached a very high level. And Munah, he has to marry now 13 kids, can't pay rent. You know what it means to rent, to marry in every year a kid? 1, 2, 3, 4. Not a drop of stress. It's not worried. Doesn't have one gray hair. Why? He's surrounded by Hashem. Now I'm going to tell you the reason for it. I'm going to read it to you. So, Rabotai, King Solomon said, when Hashem loves someone, obviously because of his actions and his intentions, he gives him wisdom and that and simcha, internal happiness. The heart is full of joy with money, without money, with that, suit, without that suit, doesn't care. Yes car, no car. A criminal, for the wicked people, Hashem gives them desire to collect. Collect what? Wealth. They never get fed up. All the times more, more, ah, ah, ah, ah. The Gaon Yehuda described it in a beautiful parable. A thirsty person who constantly drinks salty water from the ocean, thinking it's going to help me out with my thirst. What happened? Makes me hungrier and hungrier and thirstier. So, it gives the wicked desire to collect another building, another house, another car, another bracelet, another diamond, another jet ski, another suit, another watch. That's an addict. It makes everyone an addict. What for? Is using them In the end, to do what he really wants. He's gonna work 30 years like a dog, and what happened in the end? Someone else will take all the money. Son's gonna marry some woman, she's gonna be a real witch, and after a year or two, she's gonna file for divorce and claim all kinds of false accusations that his son did all kinds of bad things to her. And the shame will be so much, so they say, you know what, how much you want? You want $10 million? Please don't press charges. Take the money, take the house, take everything. And all the father's wealth went to that witch. To begin with, that was the plan. That's why for 20, 30 years Hashem made him so successful. Or that sleepy Joe will take away his money, send him the FBI. You just launder money, eh? Well, you did. You know, when they decide to press charges, for some reason they always find 20 different counts. These, that, tax, money laundering, that one, they have all these names. It's all the same thing. On one crime, supposedly, they give you 20 different counts. Then in the end you get so scared, they say, listen, we're offering you a plea. You're gonna sit 7 years in prison and we're gonna drop from the 20 counts 18. We only press charges in the end for this and this. We will give you a big discount. You're gonna sit 7 years and you pay us $100 million fine. And the lawyer, take it, take it. You must take the deal. If you go to trial, you're gonna have— you're gonna sit 10 years. And when you refuse to take it, you come in front of a liberal judge. And if your religious bechler is fuming to see your face, and he will give you 30 years for having the nerve of wasting the time of the court, nobody cares about justice. And so they did to Rubashkin. So, supposed to get 4 years according to all experts, maximum 4 years according to what they blame him for doing, if he did. Assuming he did. 4 years, they gave him 30 years. Make sure he die in prison. Why is a religious Chabadnik Jew with his beard got on their nerve? They gave him like, I don't know, 30 different things. It was nothing. One thing was really breaking the law according to what they claimed. Everything else was the same thing. This and this, it's all the same. It's one transaction, 30 different Accusation. I'm gonna ask you a question. Who can tell me how is it possible that for doing the same exact thing you just did a second ago, and the same exact thing that you did 2 seconds ago, and the same exact thing that you did 3 seconds ago, etc., hundreds of times, every time you repeat the same transaction, You get a complete different outcome. Complete different outcome. Same exact transaction, nothing different. The outcome, 100 times worse or better. Within a second, less than a second. Who can tell me? Huh? No, no, I'm not talking about feelings. I'm talking about outcome. I'll tell you. You go on your laptop. You want to do a wire. You press 1. Now you press 0. What is it? $10. You press the 0 again, became $100. Press the 0 again, became $1,000. Press the zero again, became $10,000. So you go like this. Each time you press, millions of dollars goes out of your account. Each time, it's the same transaction, but each time you eat becomes much worse than the one before. That's what sins are. First time, small punishment. Next time, 10 times worse. Next time, 10 times worse. Where does it say it in the Torah? Where it's written in the Torah what I just told you? There's clear parasha that describe what I just told you. Who knows? See, I told you everything is in the Torah. Everything is in the Torah. Parasha Bechukotai. 7 times more. And if you continue, I will hit you again 7 times more, meaning 49 7 times already. And if you continue again, I will hit you again 7 times more. Wow, how many, how much worse? Senhor, nobody told you to be a criminal. Why you keep repeating the same thing? First time you got a punch, next time you're gonna get 7 punches, third time you're gonna get 49 punches. Next time you do the math, how much it's gonna be? Why? This is the way Hashem is. Same thing with reward. When you do something, the reward will grow also constantly. It doesn't grow in the same ratio. It grows a lot more. If you make one Baal Teshuvah, first day, how much reward you got? Next day, next day, next day, then he has children, and then he has grandchildren. It grows a lot more. It doesn't grow at the same pace. One day is 1,000 grandchildren. 1,000 grandchildren learn Torah brings a lot more income to your account than one that learns Torah. The Gemara explained that this verse, Rabbi Abba Bar Ka'ana in Masechet Megillah, page 10, said that this verse applied to Mordechai and Haman. Haman the Nazi and Mordechai the chief rabbi from the Sanhedrin. Haman had control in 127 countries of Ahasuerus. He is wealthier than the king. Haman used to be a barber. First barber that was not Bukhari, Haman. Aman, Aman, Aman was a barber, became the richest man in the world. He's wealthier than the king that he works for. Imagine now you have the king of Saudi Arabia. Let's say he has $200 billion. A person, one of his secretaries, has 300 billion. He's working for the Sheikh and he has more money than him. To the point that the secretary gives a donation to the king. I will give you 10,000 pieces of silver. Like, big silver used to be almost like gold, not like today. Today it's nothing, it's 20-something dollars. Gold is 2,000. It's 1% from the gold. It used to be almost the same. Silver. I never understood why silver is worth nothing compared to gold. It's just as pretty. Nice shiny white, beautiful. Look at the menorah. I hear it for 25 years. 27 years they say buy silver. It has to go to the same level of gold almost. No, but it doesn't happen. So, Rabotai, listen to this. Haman, Mordechai, that Hashem loves him, he gives him wisdom, doubt, and happiness. He's always happy. Haman, the sinner, collecting, collecting, collecting wealth. Why? All preparation for Mordechai. What happened when they hung Haman and his 10 sons on a tree? What's the next verse in the Megillah? Vatasem es terech Mordechai al bet Haman. All the wealth of Haman went to who? To the rabbi he couldn't stand. And the tree that he prepared for Mordechai, you know how difficult it is to prepare a tree 50 amar? You know what 50 amar? 75 feet tall. 75 feet. From this tree, it's very high, right? How many feet you have from the bottom to the top? Not even 30. That's more than double the need, a tree. It's not easy to prepare such a tree. But not only that, this tree had enough roof to hang 10 people. I mean, it was very wide. I don't know how he did it. They hung the 10 sons of Haman on the same tree. Believe me, it was a great effort. I once asked in my lecture, does Haman get a reward for helping Mordechai to kill Amalek? Who is Amalek, Haman? Haman Ha'Agagi. To execute Amalek is a big mitzvah in the Torah. So when they hung Haman, they hung him on a tree that he prepared for Mordechai, but in the end it was for himself. Since he helped performing the mitzvah, he prepared the necessary things. Does he get a reward or no? His intention. No. His intention. You have a good point. But what can I do that he didn't think about a different part of the Torah? He said, oh, it was for bad intention. He doesn't deserve to get a reward. Og, the giant, came to tell Avraham that Lot was captured. Lot, his nephew. The kings captured Lot. Run and save him, Avraham. Run, take your army and go. The Gemara says, why Lot all of a sudden became so nice to Avraham? Because he was in love with Sarah, the prettiest woman in the world. Og was a king. As giant as he was, he was a king. Og melech habashan. Wasn't just shoe shine, shining shoes. He wants to take Sarah. If Avraham will die, he takes Sarah. She can't say no to such a king. You have to remember, women didn't have the rights they have today, that they become president of countries and chief of command. It was different world. So what happened? Lord sent Avraham, knowing Avraham very It's very possible that he will die in a war saving Lot, and that's how he will be able to steal Sarah from him. So Lot, the rasha, Lot is very wicked, but he will not dare to touch a married woman. He won't grab Sarah and he won't kidnap her. He could. What stops him? He's a big giant. He'll pick her up like this and go. Abraham is gonna jump, give me my wife back. He picks her up like this in the air. He's a giant. There were few giants living in the world. In Hebron, you had few of them. Why does he need a wife such a small person? Let me ask you a question. You have NBA stars that they are 7-something foot and they have a wife 5'11", 5'8". It's not the same. You know, she walks on boxes. Is not his and she still cannot reach his shoulder. Do you get the idea here? Why different as a snake? This is the way it was. The giant also needs a wife. Rabotai, so everything Amman collected was for who? How many Jews collected so much money and it all went to who? Madoff. 30 years of hard work in one minute made of Tukerol to buy himself another mansion on top of the 20 already had. He's sick with collecting, they are sick with collecting. Hashem take two Reishaim, put them together. Why? Collecting meaning you don't give Tzedakah. Collecting means you don't read Yeshivot. Collecting means you see hungry people don't have what to eat on Yom Tov and you don't give. Collecting means you don't give enough to your children or to your wife. Collecting means you don't help the Torah, you don't help to save souls. What happened in the end? You must lose the money, must. And if you lose the money, you have to thank Hashem a million times that you lost it. At least you got your punishment in this world. If you died with the money, your situation will be a lot worse. At least the pain of losing all the money in one minute repents for a lot of the greed. But if you didn't lose it, to the last minute you were still planning to buy another building a minute before you died, you died in your sin. Sometimes a person lost in one minute all his money That crushed him already. After that, he doesn't collect anymore. The little he make, he gives it all out. What happened? Well, I saw that everything I collected anyway went. Now I learn, whatever I have, I give right away before I lose it again. Listen to this, Rabotai, the same thing was with Lavan Ha'arami. Lavan, the father-in-law of who? Who is Lavan Ha'arami? Ah, the father-in-law of Yaakov's children. The father-in-law of Yaakov. He is the father of Rachel and Leah. Lavan the crook. The grandfather of Yaakov's children. Lavan was rich before Yaakov came to him or was extremely poor? Poor. Complete broke. How many sheep he had? 3. Not enough for milk. You know, poor people have 1 or 2 sheep. That's what he had. And also no children, like he had after Yaakov came. Lavan— how old was Rachel when she went with the sheep to take them to drink, by the way? How old was Rachel? You know? Ah? 5. 5 years old. Is it normal to send a 5-year-old girl with sheep? How can she take control of them? The answer is, if they have 500 goats, of course it's not normal. Who can take control of 500 goats? 5-year-old girl? But if you have 2 or 3, 5 years old, well, no, forget 5 years, it was not like 5 years today. 5 years is like 15 today. Women were much more developed. The nature has changed completely. Man is different, women are different, the whole world is different, animals are different, pregnancy terms are different by species. I have a whole lecture about the the change in the nature. Ishtanuat vayim. What used to be in the time of the Talmud and what is today, completely different. So when you have 2 or 3, even a little girl can take it, no problem. Laban was very poor until Yaakov showed up. Once Yaakov took off the stone from the well, the water came out automatically. Why? Yaakov is a blessed person. No matter what, he will always have blessing. How many years Lavan was getting wealthier? 20 years. 20 years that Yaakov was by him. 7 years for Leah, 7 years for Rachel, 6 more years he stayed for the sheep. 20 years he's in his house. Every day he gets wealthier. For what reason? When Yaakov now wants to separate from Lavan and wants to go back to the house of his father Yitzchak in their old land in Eretz Israel, after 14 years, after he finished to work for Leah and for Rachel, he wanted to leave. He didn't want to stay there 6 more years. So Lavan said to him, it's all in a parasha, Lavan said, "Alte Lech, don't go." Let's make an agreement that we split the profit. I'm giving you 50%. What is it like? A person owns a successful business. He got a manager that brought him up from zero to 100, made him a very wealthy man. One day the manager comes and says, listen, I retire. I want to go. No, no, don't leave me. You can't do that. Business is all depending on you. If you leave, I'm crushed. What do you want? I don't want to stay here forever. I will double your income. I will give you 5 times more. That happens with athletes. They play for a team, they give them 20 million a year. I'm going to a different— No, why, why? Stay, we love you here. I want to change a little bit. We'll give you 50 million. Eh, how come now you didn't want to give me more? All of a sudden you triple my income? Yes. They get nervous, they're about to leave. Laban knows if Yaakov leaves, all my wealth is gonna go down to the way it was. I know everything is thanks to him. So Laban, as wicked as he is, is not that stupid. So he said to him, listen, I'll give you 50% of the profit. Please stay. Of course, he's a crook. He has no intention to give anything. So, Avotai, lavanse al telech, bona seskem menachlokta revachim beneinu. You will be an equal partner. Why? Listen to what Rav Ansei, ki nichashti, I checked in my, he's like a fortune teller, I checked in my voodoo, whatever you want to call it, that all my wealth God gave me thanks to you. From his Avodas HaRai, he got it. To say I myself know it, he didn't want to admit. I looked in my Nekush, Nekushim. When Yaakov separated from Lavan later, 6 years later, the Torah says, Lavan went back to his place. He didn't say he went back home. He should have said, the Torah doesn't say, the Torah says, why? The Midrash Raba, the Midrash on this pasuk says, Financially, 99% of his wealth were gone. Went back to the poor Laban he was. Why? Because the entire blessing in his house, because Yaakov lived there. Same thing with Potifar. All his success, because Yosef lives there. Why did Yaakov Avinu agree to stay 6 years for more money? He has nothing. After 14 years, he has nothing to take. His father is extremely rich. Why didn't he take money? Good point. Why he didn't go and say, "Abba, listen, I'm already 80 years old. Why don't you start paying me all my bills?" You know? He's a billionaire. Billionaire, right? So, Avotai, how did Lavan become the poor Lavan he became? Again, in the 3 days that Lavan was chasing Yaakov, Robbers found out that him and his sons chasing Yaakov and his servants. They came to his house and cleaned him out from everything he owned, left him with nothing. And they broke the entire house. Why? Because people used to hide their wealth inside the walls. There was no safe in Citibank that you go in with a key and open and put your jewelry there. So people had to hide their stuff inside the walls. That's one of the miracles Hashem did to the Jews when they came to the land of Canaan. The Canaanites ran away and they left all the wealth, and Jews started to have tzarat in the walls. So they had to peel the wall to break it and rebuild it. Once they did it, they found all the treasures of the goyim inside the walls. Everything was hidden. So, Rabotai, this is the difference between Lavan and the other ones is Lavan knew that his entire wealth and success is thanks to Yaakov. The other, Haman, didn't know that everything he gets, he's prepared for Mordechai. And many others. Everything they got is just for the sake. Why did Hashem put Yosef in the house of Potiphar? To prepare him for the day he will be a minister. He has to go into politics. How are you going to become a minister of the treasury of all the money? You have to be in the house of one of the ministers and you'll learn from him how to behave. Ministers are not ordinary people. You have to learn. Now I want to ask you one question. We finish here. Yosef comes, they take him out, they cleanly give him a haircut, fix his beard, giving him nice clothes, shower, after years he comes in front of Pharaoh with his beauty. Baruch Hashem. Once the decree is over, it's over instantly. You don't suffer another minute when the Yisurim goes away. The Gemara says when Hashem sends suffering to a person, the same day Hashem decreed the suffering, He makes the suffering swear that that particular day and that particular time they have to leave the person. What do you mean the suffering swear? The angel that is in charge of it. The suffering is for this amount of time. By this day it must go away. Was he suffering, Rabbi? Huh? Was he suffering? Who? Yosef. If he had such a state of mind, did he suffer? Physically he was suffering. Mentally not so much because he had a lot of Bitachon. Plus he already had hope because he knew that it has to be that my brothers will bow down to me and it would not happen here in jail, that's for sure. But listen to this, Rabotai. After they bring Yosef to Pharaoh and he actually answered him about the dream, all of a sudden Yosef became a shrink. Shrink, psychologist, an advisor. Who asked you to give advice? I asked you what's the meaning of the dream. Right away Yosef take control. You need to hire a person that is extremely wise and smart to be in charge of all the finance of Egypt, to store in storages, to know how to run the country. Excuse me, mister, I only know you know how to answer a dream. Who gave you permission to give me instructions what to do? I'm the king of Egypt. You're a prisoner who just came out. What's going on with you? Yosef already knew. If now Hashem took me out in a second, everything turned around, and I got here because of my dreams, and I'm coming out of here because of dreams, then the salvation began. Once you know the salvation began, you have full confidence. Nothing to worry about. Hashem doesn't do half a job. I told one guy, That he was supposed to get here to America. Got married in Israel. His wife came out, came out, came back here, and he needed to go. It was COVID. He needed to go to the embassy in Tel Aviv. It was almost impossible to get an appointment. He was waiting for more than a month. His wife is already a month or two in America. I don't remember the exact time, but for a while he cannot join his wife. Got married and He cannot be with his wife in the first year of marriage because he cannot get a visa to enter America. Once they get to America, he will marry her officially and become an American citizen. He could have done it in the embassy in the old days, but COVID, you know. So he said, Rabbi, pray for me that they will approve me, that I can go and get a visa. I can't even get an appointment. We prayed for him. One day he calls me up, they call me from the embassy, can you come now? It was after hours. I said, but you open? He said, when you come, you see a guard in the back, ask him to open the door for you. It's not a natural way. Nobody calls you after hours to come, they open the embassy for you. It was very strange. So when he told me the news, I already know that soon he's gonna be here. He wasn't sure, but I was sure. How was I sure? When he told me how they got him in and they got him the visa to come to America, he was still very worried that they won't let him enter America because he was here before and he had an issue with them. So he was very nervous. I said to him, don't worry, you have nothing to worry about. He said to me, why are you so confident? I said, because Hashem doesn't do half a job. If He already went out of His way to get you into the embassy against all odds, that nobody can get an appointment, no one, COVID, everything is closed, there's no appointments. Do you know that already for 2 years you cannot renew an Israeli passport in the Israeli consulate here in Manhattan? If you do not have a valid passport, you Done. You cannot renew it. And if you go to Israel, they won't let you back in America because the Israelis stay after their visa, past their visa. So do you know how many thousands of Israelis living now in America without an ID? They don't have an official ID. They can't go to the bank. They can't show an ID, nothing. Why? Because you cannot fly anymore with a driver's license. So if they want to fly from here to Florida or to LA, they can't fly. Hashem is choking us from all directions. You can't fly. You need a passport now, or you need a special ID. But to make the special ID, you need a valid passport. And if your Israeli passport expired, you cannot get that special ID. And if you cannot get that special ID, you cannot fly with an expired passport, even though it should have been a legitimate ID. Who cares that it's expired? But you know it's me. What is the purpose of ID? To tell you if I am Mr. X or not. If the passport expired a year ago, does it make a difference in my identity? Stupid! Let's take advantage of people. The laws are not meant to help the public. It's meant to help them. Why? To get more money out of you. Force you to renew your passport for another $100 and something. Multiply by million people, you do the math how much they make a year. They don't care about the suffering of the people. So someone wants to fly now, they cannot go to the Israeli consulate and renew the passport because since COVID they took advantage. They don't renew passports. What are you gonna do? You live the rest of your life like in China. Hundreds of millions of Chinese live with no ID. Did you know that? Do you know that even in Israel you have people that were born with and they don't have an Israeli ID? Some ultra-orthodox Neturei Karta that don't want anything to do with the Zionist government. They call a midwife to deliver the baby quietly. They pay her whatever the money is and say, please do not talk to anyone that you gave birth to our child. This child has no passport. The government doesn't know he exists. Just like that, he sits and learns Torah. He doesn't need a passport. He's not having any plans to fly anywhere. He sits and learns. Why do I need all this nonsense? Don't you need a bank account? No, I go to the Gemach. Gemach? I live in a camp with them. When I need money, I take it out. Drive a car? They don't drive a car. This is what I'm telling you. This is people that are excluded from the material world. Sit and learn and that's it. There's not that many like that, but there are people like that. Even in Israel, not only in China. So Rabbi Tzvi Yosef begin to give instruction to Pharaoh. Immediately Pharaoh say, you are the one. A minute ago he was a prisoner, now he's the king of Egypt. He takes off his ring. Ring is a stamp. I'm making you the most most powerful person in the world. The only person that can overrule what you're gonna do is me. But besides me, no one can argue with your decision. 5 minutes ago, he was a nobody in jail. Who would ever get him out of there with all goyim, all kinds of murderers, 5 minutes later, he's the king of the world for 8 years. Pharaoh gives him special clothes of a prince, of a minister, and he called him Avrech. We use this word of someone who sits and learns Torah, we call them Avrechim. And made him the king of Egypt officially. You know, ba'alame'au, ba'alade'ah. Who is really runs the shuls today in America? The rabbi that desire to teach Torah and teach the people what to do right or wrong, or the person that give the money every night? The person that gives the money control the show. If he has good middot, good personality, and is humble, he doesn't push his nose to the rabbi's business. Rabbi, I'm giving the money not to be the bossy You're the rabbi. I will never dare to say something in religion as long as you're the rabbi. That's it. Whatever your decision is, whether I like it or not, not a factor. I just give unconditionally donation. How many like this you have? Find me one. Find me that one. Usually wealthy people, when they contribute to a shiva or to or to a shul, they want to make it, they want to be a decision maker. They want to decide how the mishpitzah is going to look and what chandeliers to put and what time to pray. Rabbi, it's too early for us, 7 AM. We want to make it 9:30. 9:30? The whole Shabbat is 4 o'clock, Shabbat is almost over. Why 9:30? Wintertime, No, we want to sleep late. You're too uptight. The rabbi said don't bring children younger than 5 to the synagogue, it destroys everything. I give you $20,000 every month to the shul, you tell me not to bring my child? My child will come and run in the middle and scream and make noise and you won't dare to say take him home. 'Let's see you messing with me.' That's how the Satan plays with the mind of the wealthy people. That not only won't count for them a mitzvah, it would count for them sin. Why? Because the money that they give makes them so proud and arrogant that they are putting the rabbi, the Talmid Chacham, down like he's a general over there. Not only that, some of them speak with such confidence I will tell the rabbi to let you go. What do you mean you will tell him? You have to ask him. Don't worry, consider it done. He's in my pocket. He won't align himself with my decision. He will have to find another shul to work. That's how they talk, these lowlifes. Some of them are big thieves. They sit in boards, they run the show, they steal, they do insurance fraud, they cheat the customer, they cheat the government, and then they give few peanuts from what they steal, and now they want to be in charge of the yeshiva or the synagogue. You understand? That's why, if you remember, I said it many years ago, shuls that run by boards of not religious people or not righteous people, they will never have blessing. Will never have blessing. If the rabbi is a picture on the wall and is afraid of these reshaim, chalelei Shabbat, that some of them marry to non-Jewish women, this place will never run properly. The only places that can be kosher is that the rabbi build the shul and he's the boss. No one is— there's no board over dictatorship. I built the place, but who gave you money? People donated money. I took the money and built this building, and I'm running the show here. No lawyer, Reform lawyer who married to a goyim and eats shrimps will tell me how to run the shul, or what time to start the davening, or which kashrut to bring in, or who to make bar mitzvah to in the synagogue, to some goyish kid, that his mother is not Jewish. The rabbi will make the decision. In Queens, you can see there are a few shuls that the rabbi is the boss, no board. They run for 20, 30, 40 years properly. There's always problems. I mean, obviously we're not perfect, but nobody can tell the rabbi how to run the place as far as religion Once you have a board, you have to hope that they're all righteous people. That they do for the sake of heaven and they don't push their nose into the rabbi's decision. If they're not righteous, every week there's going to be another machloket. Why this kind of lag? Why this kind of parochet? Why you take this Torah out? Why you don't take mine? Why you didn't take this? Why you didn't give back this? It's always going to be a problem. Why you don't Mishaberach, you don't do Mishaberach to the Zionist state? Why you don't do Mishaberach to Christina, my wife? Everybody has what to say. So, Rabotai, Paro said to Yosef, without you, no one would lift a finger. Without your permission? Obviously it's Hashem. Yosef, all this now you understand that I prepared you for this day. I prepared you for it. But in jail Hashem also made him a governor. Immediately the minister of the jail made Yosef the supervisor of all the prisoners to train him for being in charge. The entire preparation of Yosef was for that moment that he will become 30 years old and take over the world for 8 years. No one ever controlled the money of the world for 8 years. No one. Here in America, maximum 4 years. The chief of the Federal Reserve, 4 years, then that's it, somebody else. 80 years. 80 years. But Yosef is not excited. Papa just gave him the ring. Someone else should have fainted from excitement. Oh, Your Majesty. Oh, I'm shocked. Wow, thank you, thank you. I appreciate it. I have no words to thank you. You sure you want to do it? You sure? I'm the guy, thank you, I don't know what to say, I will always be grateful to you. Not a beep. Yosef doesn't make a beep. The Chachamim say same Yosef that was in jail is the same Yosef that became the king of the world. Nothing. No joy, no dancing, no I'm in power, no I'm gonna run the show, nothing. Yadua, yada Yosef. Yosef knew Hashem put me in different position, but the plan is the same plan. When I was a prisoner and when I'm the minister, it's all a part of one plan. I did not get any upgrade like some people think, oh, he just got promoted. I am a pawn. In Hashem's plan. Until now he needed me here, and now he moved me to here. It does not benefit me personally or decrease my position in any given moment. This is the way righteous person think, down to earth and humble. When he was in prison, he asked himself, what does Hashem want from me here? Why put me over here? I have to see what is my job over here. And now when all the money is in his hand, what does Hashem want from me now? Obviously put me in a different place. When Prophet Samuel nominated King David to be the king, immediately he wrote one chapter of Tehillim when he became the king. Which chapter? Chapter 131. What does it say? Hashem, lo gaval ibi, I just became a king, my heart did not raise by even a drop. Velo amu enai, I do not have one drop of extra pride. Lo ilachti bigdolotze beniflawot mimeni. I did not become anything special. I'm the same shepherd that was sitting with my sheep on the mountains. I don't see any difference in my job here. Not one drop of pride. The answer is: Im lo shiviti ve'romanti nafshik gamul alei imo. I am like a baby in the hands of his mother. Ke gamul alei nafshi. Just like a baby is with his mother, depending on her. I will tell you what it means. You have a guy, you call him up. Itzik, where are you? On the way to Jerusalem. You call an hour later. Itzik, where are you? I'm in the office of my doctor in Jerusalem. An hour later, Itzik, where are you? I'm on my way to the shul to pray mincha. An hour later, Itzik, where are you? I'm going to eat dinner. Every hour is in a different place, right? One time is here, one time is there. So his life is keep changing. When you ask a baby, where are you? He's with his mother. In the doctor's office. You ask him, "Where are you, little Itzi?" "I'm in my mother's hand." An hour later, "Where are you?" "He's already home." "Where are you?" "I'm in my mother's hand." The next day, "Where are you?" "He's walking in the park with his mother." "Where are you?" "He doesn't say I'm in the park. He doesn't say I'm in the doctor's office. He doesn't say I'm on my way home." What does he say? "I'm in my mother's hand." The baby always thinks, where are you? I'm with my mother. I depend on my mother. What difference does it make if I'm in a park, if I'm in the office, if I'm in a house, or if I'm in my bed? I'm in my mother's hand, that means I'm in Hashem's hand. What difference does it make? I'm a king, I'm a shepherd, I'm a prisoner, I'm a treasurer, treasury. David said, "My heart did not rise even a second, nothing." You cannot lie to Hashem, you know. You just became the King of Israel, the King of Israel, and you feel the same shepherd that cleaned the dirt of the sheep. Not one minute your chest is full of air and You're so pleased and you have tears of joy? Come on! You became the King of Israel. You were a nobody, a shepherd that your family hide you. People talk behind your back that you are an illegitimate kid. People think that you're not the child of your father. Your father asked you to hide yourself. Your own brothers are ashamed to be around next to you. A minute later, everyone saw their mistake. Just you became the King of Israel. And what happened? He writes, you are my witness that there was not a minute that I felt anything special. Do you know another person in the history of the world that can reach such a living? What will happen to Trump if he gets reelected? Will Trump be able to say, "Dear God, sending you back to the White House, to my office against all odds, and you know that not for a minute I felt any special joy or special pride." to get reelected, the light detector will go on fire. The whole White House will go on fire. But not only Trump. Any rabbi who just became a rosh yeshiva, or a dayan in a beit din, or the rabbi of the shul, or anything you can think of, any promotion. Will he be able to say, "I'm still the nobody I was yesterday," and it won't be a lie? Hard to tell. Very hard. And David, how do you know it's true? Maybe David is fooling us. How do you know? It's in the Tanakh. Hashem doesn't put lies in the Tanakh. Tanakh, the whole world reads it. Goim, Christians, Muslims. Everyone heard about Psalms, read it. Hashem wouldn't bring to the public false information. So Avotai, David say, for a second I did not think of anything special. I still feel like a baby in the arms of his mother that is still nursing. If he will have what to eat and he won't die depend on his mother. Everything it's in his mother's hand. That's how I'm in your arms, Hashem, every second. This was indirectly a lesson about pride and ego and arrogance and gratefulness and understanding how Hashem runs the world. The more we hear about it, it improves our ideology. You're not impressed by anyone. You're not impressed by every title that today everyone is a great rabbi, the great gaon, the rabbi. People barely know how to read Hebrew already, they're big rabbis according to the public. A lot of titles today. Titles don't really have any significance in this generation. To the point that someone asked the Chazon Ish if it helps me to be closer to Hashem when people call me Rabbi, am I allowed to tell them that I'm a Rabbi even though I'm not? Someone came and asked Chazon Ish this question. He said, today, since they call any Am Haaretz Rabbi, you cannot call yourself a rabbi. If it makes you closer to Hashem, you'll be the rabbi, you'll be the admor. Today some people were nominated to be admorim. The only luck they had is that they were born to a real admor, that used to know Torah. But now since he passed, he has a son, he has to take his place, but he has no idea. He will have advisors. Ah, but there are other Hasidim that are a million times more knowledgeable and older and more responsible, they can lead the community in a much better way. Who cares about the community? According to the Torah, he comes before everyone to inherit his father. Yeah, that's it. But he's not qualified? We'll make him qualified. They have an interesting joke. We'll finish with a joke. That one Rebbe died and he only had a 2-year-old child. Not ready to be Admor. He needs to wait 20-something years. So what are we gonna do? He said he inherits his father, he's the new Admor. So let's make a tish Friday night. They brought him in a crib, they put him in a shul, 1,000 Hasidim around. He begins to cry. One said to his friend Mendel, I have a feeling he sees what's in his shamayim. That's not good news that he started to cry. See, problems are coming. He's "ubodek ba'el yonim." He checks in the upper world. He already feels something coming. "Amori!" His friend told him. "Phaibut." Worry what's in the upper world, check what he has in his underwear. He probably needs to change a diaper. What do you want to make him, some de Ariakadosh? He's a 2-year-old baby, face it. People like to live in illusions. So people look for a leader, they take someone, okay, you be the leader, but he's not qualified. That's okay, we still We still need a leader to tell us what to do. In the Torah, you need someone to be qualified. You cannot put someone who doesn't know. People will ask him what to do, he'll give them the wrong answers, destroys them. Can destroy their marriage, can destroy their children, can destroy their business. It's a big responsibility to be a rabbi of a community. It's not easy. It's a very hard job. There are always going to be certain people who are not pleased from your decisions. Decision. If you have 1,000 people in your community, well, every decision you make everyone would like it? There's always gonna be 1% against you on every decision you make. Sometimes 5%, sometimes 20%. So at least always gonna be 10 who barks against you and instigate. Sometimes 30, sometimes 50. It's always gonna be headache. Same thing when you're a public speaker. No matter how wonderful you explain what's written in the Torah, word by word, they attack you. You read the words of the Rambam, they'll attack you. What are they gonna do? They will attack the Rambam? They rather attack you. You read a verse from the Chumash, they'll attack you. You read the Halachon Shukhan Aruch, they'll attack you. You read something from the Zohar, they'll attack you. You get up in the morning, you're happy. If you want to know what I mean, you can come to someone religious, modern. Tell him something strong that came from the mouth of the Rambam or the Ramchal or the Gaon Yivina, one of these giants. Everybody understands. With them you don't argue. But don't tell him it's from the Rambam or from the Gaon of Vilna or from the Ari HaKadosh. Don't say it. Let them criticize and bark and scream and call you names, and after that you pull out the book and tell them, look, it wasn't my words, the Ari HaKadosh wrote it. What do you think will happen? I used to think that after you trick them, it's in such a way they will hide for another 10 years. They were not there to show their face. Surprisingly, a minute later they continue to attack like nothing happened. They don't care. You, Ari Hakadosh, Rambam, Moshe Rabbenu, they attack everyone. We want to redesign humanity. We want to design the laws of nature. We want to do whatever we like, and now you're gonna make the Torah adjusted to our mind. That's your job. That's called reform, conservative reform. You show them it's in there. I, when I spoke about reincarnation, you know how many ignorants attacked me? When I said that someone comes to the world with a health issue, from past life. Measure for measure, blind for sins that they committed with the eyes. According to what sins a person commits, that's how the body is affected. Everything is measure for measure. The Marashei, the Palestinians make Shimshon blind, they poked his eyes because he looked at the goyad Laila. She wasn't his, she could never be his. He went against Hashem. Hashem made the Philistines poke his eyes even though he was holy from birth. Prophet, Shimshon, Samson the prophet. Why they poked his eyes? He made sins with his eyes, his eyes got hurt. I give you thousands of examples. The Torah is full of it. All measure for measure. So after you read it from the Ari HaKadosh, word by word, or you read the words of the Gemara, these Rechaim don't care. They're not impressed. They say, Rabbi Akiva said it. They continue to attack. Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai said it. They continue to attack. And if you tell them, I don't understand, you're attacking me, or you're attacking Moshe Rabbeinu, or you're attacking the Rambam, or you're attacking Shukran Aruch, who are you attacking? The answer is, who told you you understand the Gemara? Yes. Who told you that that's what they meant? So basically what you say, let's cancel everything and we will make up our own rules. Why? Anyway, you're always going to claim that we don't understand simple Gemara. When the Gemara says all punishments are measured for measure. We don't understand. Any suffering, there's no suffering unless there are sins first. We don't understand everything. You said we don't understand. That's it. The end of Judaism, the end of life, the end of everything. We don't understand. You have to wash your hands in the morning. Who told you you understand? Maybe they didn't really speak about the hands. Maybe they meant the hands of of your holes. Because you're always going to make up anything you want. There's never going to be an end to it. We all know exactly what it means. We understand. And when we say something, you know we're right. But you have desires and you want to follow them. And the truth of the Torah is an obstacle. It's a pain in the neck. So you take your anger at the mailman who delivered you the bad news, even though he has nothing to do with the bad news. They're only a mailman delivering letters. You got a letter from the government that they need you for an investigation. So you beat up the mailman. Why? Because he told you something you don't like. The mailman would say for his protection, what do you want from me? I only deliver the mail. What do you want You want me not to give you the mail? That would be worse. Why you gave me the mail? Who told you? Who gave you permission to give me the mail? You understand the mail? How did you— I have nothing to do with the mail. I'm only delivering the mail. I'm only reading to you Rambam. You should have read it yourself. I'm only reading to you Gemara or Ari HaKadosh or whatever the case is. It doesn't matter about that. Wicked always find excuses. You'll be shocked. You show them black and white. How many times I show people? "Mechalel Shabbat mot yumat ve nichretah nefesh hayina ameha." "Mechalel Shabbat will put to death in this world and in the next world, and his soul will be cut permanently from the afterlife." Such a clear verse leaves no doubt. The Rambam say, "Mot baolam hazeh, yumat baolam aba." Permanent Karet. Do you really think Hashem is going to cut the soul of a Jew for eternity? Who told you that? It's written in the verse 12 times in the Torah. We don't understand that. It cannot be feelings. We speak with the head and He speaks from the heart. We also would like nobody to be cut off. We would be very happy if all Jews will be righteous and go to heaven. That's the purpose, no? But can we twist the truth of the Torah just because our heart refused to admit? We have permission to twist the book of God to say otherwise? We have permission to read the verse in the Torah that homosexuality is an abomination and death by stoning and a permanent cut for their soul in the afterlife, and to stand in front of an audience on YouTube and say, "It's not an abomination, it's just a sin, just a sin." You know what a sin means. You didn't wash your hands when you ate bread. Living with a man together like husband and wife, doing a horrible chilul Hashem, Declaring a war against Hashem and the laws of nature is just a sin, but the Torah said the worst sin, the worst punishment, the worst outcome. What incentive you have to lie like this? I want popularity. I want the gays to like me. If I tell them that they're all doomed to be put to death by stoning and their soul will will be cut permanently from the afterlife. Right there I have 10 million enemies. Every other man today is gay. They're all gonna hate me. And if I will tell them, "Hallelujah, Shabbat, what's gonna be their end?" Another 5 million enemies. And if I will tell the thieves what's gonna be their end? Another few millions of enemies. In the end, 90% of the people in the country will hate me. So today I'm in a prison cleaning dishes. Tomorrow I'm the king of the world. Here I'm nothing, and here I'm nothing. If I have 10 million followers, I'm nothing. If I have 10 followers left, I'm nothing. If I will have 500 million followers, I'm nothing. I am a tool in the hands of Hashem. You use me to teach, I have to do it properly. People who like it, I'm lucky. They don't like it, not my problem. Throw eggs at you, not my problem. Curse you, wish you to die, not my problem. Make up false stories about you every day on the internet, not my problem. It's not about me. This entire process was not to benefit myself. I am nothing. I'm just the pipe. The water goes from here to here. Nobody gives credit to the pipe. We need water here, that's the purpose. From there it gets to here. That's it. The pipe doesn't come every day and ask for credit and reward. Someone put it there and that's it. That's what I am. Transferring from here to here. Mailman. Mailman that brought you a big check from an insurance company, million-dollar check. Does he want 10% from it? For my efforts, I just brought you a million-dollar check, give me $100,000 tip. Give him 2 snacks, get out of here. Chutzpah. Before I report you to your supervisor. Why? I just gave you $100,000. I give you a million dollars, you don't give me 10%? In a restaurant you give 20% tip. Why you don't give me tip? That's your job. You are a tool in the hand of the government to bring it from here to here. That's it. Same way we don't punish you when you bring bad news, we don't reward you when you bring good news. Why? You just do your job for your own sake. That's it. Same thing over here. Our job as religious people, I am a tool in your hand. Even Hussein Obama, the wicked Hussein Obama, when he got elected, he came to the Western Wall and he wrote a letter and stuck it in the wall thinking it will stay anonymous. One Hasid saw it. 2 minutes later, The whole world saw what Hussein Obama wrote. Everyone was curious. The new president, first black president in the history of America, is a revolutionary. What can he ask God? Guess what he wrote? Have you no idea? Guess what Hussein Obama wrote? He asked Hashem to help his daughters. He has two daughters. To save the daughters, to guard them, and to make him a vessel to perform God's will in the world. Hussein Obama, the wicked Hussein Obama, the pro-gay, the pro-transgender, the pro-Iran, the anti-Jews, and many other negative things you can say about him, one compliment you can give him When he came, when he got elected, he's a law professor from Harvard, graduate of Harvard Law School. Not easy to get accepted there, especially when you're Black and there's so many racists in this country. He made it against all odds. Speech, he knows how to talk, he's charismatic. He fooled a lot of people with his horrible ideology. Even now, he controls Sleepy Joe. When he sleeps, he runs the show. Don't ever think that Sleepy Joe is the president. Hussein Obama is the real president. 1 million percent. All the decisions he makes. But one thing, we have to give him a compliment. What? Make me a a tool. Use me to perform your will in the world as the leader of the world now. Rabbi, if he made so many decrees against, you know, Israel and all that, was he like sincere when he put that note? He was sincere, I believe he was. But the truth is that every decision he made was against Hashem. That's no question about it. So he chose to do bad things? He made a lot of horrible decisions. All of them were against the Torah ideology. However, it's very possible that that was the punishment of Israel and the Jewish people for not obeying Hashem's Torah. So the punishment of the Jews were Hussein Obama. That's it. Nobody— Trump was very good to the Jews, very good to Israel, very bad for Iran, very bad for the Hamas. It was very good to Israel and to the Jewish cause. And what happened? He lost. And we got these Democrats, which is the exact opposite of what Trump wanted to do and did. That's a punishment. We are being punished right now. Baruch Hashem, that sleepy Joe is still the president. Imagine that antisemite woman, this Muslim Omar, what's her name. Imagine someone like this in the Democratic Party. There's a lot of Nazis there. Nazi ideology, hate Jews, hate Israel, pro-Hamas. Imagine if one of them will be a president here, like Al Sharpton and other, Louis Farrakhan. All these Nazis. Just imagine this. In one year, we're all gonna have to run out of here. Do you remember Mayor Dinkins, the mayor of New York? Do you remember the riots in Crown Heights that the blacks of Crown Heights were attacking the Chabad for 3 days and Mayor Dinkins said to the police, don't push your nose into it. Don't do anything. Mayor of the city said to the police, let the Blacks attack the Jews. Why? Because one poor Chabadnik had an accident. He hit a Black kid. Accident. It wasn't intentional. Riots all over. And the mayor, instead of getting up and say, what is this? An accident happened. The person, let the police handle it. What is this? He said to the police, don't do anything. For 3 days they're attacking them, the police don't want to get involved. It happened here in New York. I know some of you are young, you don't know. Those who are older, they can back up what I say. Why did he do it? Because he was black and he wanted the black to torture the Jews because he himself was antisemite. The mayor today is also black, but he's not antisemite. Is nice to the Jews. It's just a liberal Democrat, but he's not antisemite. So it depends on the person. One black is good to the Jews, the other one hates them. Same thing white. One likes, one hates. It depends on a person. We will see about that. Anyway, tomorrow, don't forget, next Monday we still have a lecture and then you have a month off.