שיחת חיזוק (1) בטלפון בתכנית TorahMates (פרשת מקץ, כוחה של האישה, תורה שבעל-פה, ועוד)

0:00Baruch Hashem, Baruch Hashem, Baruch Hashem, Baruch Hashem, Chag Sameach, Chag Sameach, Chag Sameach, Chag Sameach, Chag Sameach, Chag Sameach. And we also have Chanukah. First of all, I would like to say something about Chanukah. It is really good to tell the people who will know what the Chanukah holiday is. Many people celebrate the lighting of the menorah. It was a lighting of seven days, not eight days, because there was already enough oil for one day. And then they celebrate the fact that there was a war for another seven days. And they say that the reason they celebrate eight days is because of the war that we won, that there weren't many Jews against the huge army of the Greeks. So they add another day. But really, the Chanukah holiday, what you need to know, the Chanukah holiday is a holiday that needs to celebrate the fact that we are Jews in general.

1:21But not just Jews because our mother is Jewish. Jews who keep Torah and Mitzvot because that's really the purpose of life. During the Chanukah holiday, almost 2000 years ago, when there was this war with Greece, our biggest enemies were Jews. The Greeks weren't interested in killing us like the Nazis. The Greeks were interested in killing Judaism. So they put laws: it's forbidden to keep Shabbat, it's forbidden to make a brit milah, and it's forbidden to study Torah. Why exactly these three things? First of all, on the subject of... Yes, yes, on that. So better now? Okay, let's see, let's put the headphones on, maybe it's better. Seudah shniya. Let's see... What now? Well, well... So I said, our lessons are so nice, we learn so many good things, so maybe we should record it, and maybe if it turns out well, we'll put it on my YouTube, because most of my lessons are in English. So I said...

2:48Let's do something in Hebrew, let's see if it will turn out well. So... No, no, you can talk, of course. Even in your usual lessons, people talk, ask questions. It's free, it's not just to give a question like some president of a country. It's a Torah lesson; you need to talk about relevant things, and your questions are good questions. You strengthen my knowledge as well, Baruch Hashem. So that's... Yes, Baruch Hashem. Listen, that's all. We learn together. We learn together, Baruch Hashem. So now, what happens on Hanukkah, a lot of people, especially what's amazing on Hanukkah, almost all the people of Israel, even those who are not at all close to Torah and mitzvot, keep... Why specifically? Because almost 2,000 years ago, we fought not only with the Jews; we fought with the Jews who became Hellenized.

3:57Yes, the Jews. And they made a bigger problem than the Jews themselves. Why? Because we thought they were our brothers and sisters. And suddenly, these people come and insult us, the Jews. So it's worse. An enemy, you know he's an enemy. Okay, you know, you know how to behave. Yes, exactly. So if it's an enemy, you know him, okay. But if it's a person you think is your brother and suddenly he stabs you in the back, it's much worse. But what happens... Yes. Chazak u'Baruch. Chazak u'Baruch. Exactly. Exactly. Yes. Yes. This is really the best video. It's really, in our lives, it's also relevant to today, clearly. And people really need to know that in the matter of Torah, it's not that people who don't keep Torah or mitzvot hate us or something like that. What's happening, there will be a sorrow that a person who doesn't keep Torah or mitzvot He's so weak, the person himself is so weak against the yetzer hara, that he doesn't even know what he's doing. He has no idea, as you said. He has no idea even what he's doing. Today there was a notice that the owner of Facebook, Zuckerberg, issued a notice that he and Facebook will do everything possible to protect the Muslims.

5:28Al-Amus, to protect Al-Amus. Zuckerberg, he's a Jew, he's married to a Jew, he lives the life of a Jew, and he puts a picture that he's doing Bar Mitzvah, he's celebrating Hanukkah with his dog, he puts a tallit on the dog and a kippah on the dog, so he has no idea what really is Judaism. But the thing here, it's a shame, because such a wise man, and he has so much opportunity to do good. What does he do? He's so far from the Torah, that he thinks that instead of helping my brothers and sisters. From my people, I have to help our enemy. So there is no end to the evil that a person can do when he has no connection with Hashem. And this is really the origin of Chanukah. The Greeks wanted Chanukah not to destroy the Jews, they wanted to destroy Judaism. So they said, listen, we know that all those who went against you, in the end, everyone was destroyed. The Egyptians, with all their strength, in the end, Hashem destroyed everyone. Even Nevuchadnezzar. And the Babylonians, even though they defeated the people of Israel, in the end, Hashem destroyed them. The Persians destroyed them. Everyone destroyed them. So there's something here. And this small Jewish people is still surviving. Yes.

6:44Yes, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is, it is. It doesn't matter to him that you give a gift. It doesn't matter to him that you keep Shabbat. It doesn't matter to him that you walk on Shabbat. It doesn't matter to him that you make a blessing after you eat. It doesn't matter to him. What does matter to him? He is the Creator of the world. He is too busy for us. So it is said, listen, this Jewish people has something. They have a connection with Hashem. So if we cut this connection, then we will have the possibility to defeat them. What do we have to do to cut the connection? First of all, the main mitzvah of Judaism is Shabbat. You are not allowed to keep Shabbat. So they say, he is already upset with them. If they don't keep Shabbat, he is already upset with them. We don't have to kill them.

7:47They are already making a problem. It's like they say to a husband, to a friend of his, when he thinks he's his friend, he gets angry with him. He says to him, "Listen, I have a problem with my wife; I have to clean the house." He says, "Listen, I have a solution for you." He says, "What?" First thing, get yourself a friend. What kind of friend is that? It's better to put it in a bag. What kind of friend is that? So that's exactly what the Greeks say. They say, listen, don't keep Shabbat. And if you don't keep Shabbat, I'll give you a nice job in the government, with a lot of money, you'll be respected. Second thing, don't make a brit. Why? Because why will you be so different from us? We don't make a brit. don't do a mila peh, what's that? If you do a mila peh, it's really, like, it's really, if you think about it, there's something in it. They say that a person who doesn't understand, then of course, he can listen to it, he can... to this thing. They say, listen, if you really say that Hashem created the heavens and the earth and created the human being, then what, you say that Hashem created the human being and he's not perfect? You need to help Hashem and you need to cut off part of the human being? You say to them, you're cursing the Jews, you're cursing, you say that Hashem made a mistake and you, the Jews, need to fix it. How can that be?

9:12So a person who is not close to the Torah and the mitzvot can really fall into this trap. Because the idea itself is correct, in a spiritual way it is correct. But clearly, in a Torah way, we know that the Holy One, blessed be He, did it intentionally. Why? Because He wanted to give the person the feeling that he is a partner in the creation. That's why we're doing the word of God. So that's the second thing they want to do. The third thing, the source of all Judaism, they told them, "Don't study Torah." As long as Jews study Torah, they have a connection with Hashem. They read the instructions of the Creator, blessed be He. So they know how to act. They know how to plan everything, what to do, how to connect with the Creator. So they say, stop learning Torah. So they really did something, they did an operation, that unfortunately, a lot of Jews fell. A lot of Jews fell. And it got to the point that even those who didn't fall, because they didn't stop learning Torah, and didn't stop doing the word of God, but they stopped fighting. Like, they lost all their strength.

10:22And that's the problem. When a person loses all of his bitachon, the Creator is in pain. Oh, how He is in pain. He is in pain. He says, this person is already doing the work for me. I don't even need to work on him. He is doing it for me. When a person has no bitachon, or... Shema Rachel. So what happened? So, people, it's good to say to a woman on Shabbat, with the help of Hashem, it's very good. People really took the power in their hands and did real self-reliance, that it doesn't seem like there's a woman in the world who would even think about such a thing. But she did self-reliance, something that's even hard to understand. Every woman, girl, and boy... After eight days, she made the brit milah by herself, took the child to the gate, went up to the wall, and jumped and killed herself with the child. And before she jumped, she said, "At least we will die Jews. Because if the husband and his brothers and friends are not ready to fight for our brothers and sisters, for Avinu Shebashamayim and the Jewish people, then we have no chance."

11:37Yes? It's a scary story. A scary story. I'll tell you the truth, since I heard it for the first time, I got scared. I even tell the story several times this week, I get scared again and again. A woman says to herself, she takes the new baby, carries him for nine months, and says, it's not worth it, it's not worth living, if we get married, it's not worth living, at least if I kill myself now with my son, at least we'll die Jews. This is the sole mission of the soul mission. And what happened? The people of Israel saw that what the women do, not the men—the women—what they do for HaKadosh Baruch Hu, they said, it's impossible, it's impossible, that's how our women love Him, it's impossible, it's impossible. He gave them the strength and gave them all they needed, all the security they needed, because, as they say in English, desperate times call for desperate measures. When a person is in a bad situation, he really... Ah, that's it. He goes through everything. Yes. Noach. Noach. That's it. Yes, yes, yes. So, like, when...

13:02Yes, but that was the point. Now, when the person is already depressed... Yes. Yes, yes, yes. Yes, okay. Okay. Yes. Yes, they give a lot of strength, Rabbi Nachman. It's a mitzvah to be happy. It's the main mitzvah. They recommend it, to be happy. Yes. Yes.

14:09Yes, 100%. Listen, if a person really has a connection with G-d, yes, he needs to have a connection with G-d. Yes, exactly. When a person has a connection with G-d, he always knows what to do. He knows what the instructions are. He can open the book and say, what is a person doing here? What is a person doing in his situation? There are the instructions from G-d directly. You can read it in parashot, you can read it in the words of Chazal, you can read it in all the things. Yes, 100%. Listen, if a person really has a connection with G-d, yes, he needs to have a connection with G-d. Yes, exactly. When a person has a connection with G-d, he always knows what to do. He knows what the instructions are. He can open the book and say, what is a person doing here? What is a person doing in his situation? There are the instructions from G-d directly. You can read it in parashot, you can read it in the words of Chazal, you can read it in all the things. Ken? Ken? Ken? Ken? Ken? Ken? Ken? Ken? Ken? No, no, now, if it's before he bought it, if a person now has, let's say, yes, no, no, no, no, now, there are two things, two things to know. What do you mean? Yes, but, but there are, yes. No, no, now, if it's before he bought it, if a person now has, let's say, yes, no, no, no, no, now, there are two things, two things to know. What do you mean? Yes, but there are, yes.

15:36100%. 100%. 100%. 100%. Are you right? And also, there are people who think they're a bit smart. So, when they see that their friend bought something, let's say he bought a car, and let's say he pays, I know, he pays $300 a month, and he says, ah, I bought the same thing and it cost me $200. It's forbidden to do that. It's forbidden because... So it's just painting it, it's forbidden to do that. So that's what I'm saying. Now, if a person, before he did something, and you know that you can help him save money, yes, even if you... Yes, yes, yes, that's... Exactly.

16:46Yes, 100%. 100%. 100%. 100%. But even if you know for sure, one more thing to add, you know for sure that a person, let's say, bought a replacement or bought something from a store, and you know for sure that he can return it, and you can save him money, you can tell him. that you can tell him that he can go to another place to buy it for more money. But if you know for sure that he can't return it, that he can't return it, then you can't tell him. Yes, yes. It's also good to know that if you have two stores, one of them is Jewish and one of them is goy, And you need to buy from the Jew up to 16%. No, no, 16%, exactly 16%. It's like you can... No, Chomesh is 20%. 16%. You need to buy from him up to 16%. If it's up to 16% more expensive, like instead of $1.16, you need to buy it from the Jew.

18:10Okay, okay, but the thing is, I'm talking about Torah and mitzvot, a person who keeps Torah and mitzvot. We're not talking about the people of Israel, we're talking about a person who keeps Torah and mitzvot, to buy from him, even if he's more expensive, at 16% it's allowed for you. And you have to do it. But if he's more expensive, at more than 16%, then you can go to a goy, or go to someone else, without a problem. You don't have to feel like it's anything. yes, it's good, it's good, all the time it's good to give the initiative to the Jews, but you're not obligated as you are obligated when it's... yes. Okay. So now, to get back to our topic, so the women really, really believed that they see all the Jews who are getting married, and they say, if this child who was born just 8 days ago, will continue in a few years. We will not only be the leaders in general, yes, yes, yes, they put boxes. They told them to write on the boxes of the children that it was like a shepherd. Write, "I don't have a part in the God of the people of Israel" on the box, to tear it. So they really wanted to,

19:30Yes, in the God of Israel. So they really wanted to destroy Judaism, and because of this amazing act of the children of Israel, they really saved the people. And because of them, we really celebrate Chanukah. It's not just because of the fact that the well-known And it's really because of the people, because the people did it. And there's another story about a Jewish woman who is famous, who really gave strength to the people of Israel. Do you know the story? No, her name was Yehudit. Her name was Yehudit. Yehudit... Okay. Yehudit, Yehudit... Yes. Yehudit was... She was... she realized that the Jews, the Gentiles, made a law that every Jew who gets married, before she gets married, she has to marry one of their Caesars, one of their leaders. She can't go to her new husband naked. Yes, she has to be like a maid, she's already second-hand. She has to do everything. So it's...

20:57White with whom? I don't remember. I don't remember. It could be. Yes, it could be. Exactly. White had a captured king. So it could be. There's no end to his capture. So... So now, she saw the people of Israel so upset, they didn't want to fight, they let their daughters go, and she said, I'll do it, I'll do it, it's over. What did she do? She went to one of the leaders of the Greeks, she said, yes, I want to celebrate with you and make you happy, so I brought you a gift. She brought all kinds of candles. Special wines, delicious. Let's eat, let's celebrate. What a beauty, she was a very beautiful woman. He said, look, you see, now, finally, they learn. That's what the Greek, the rasha, says. Finally, they learn. They celebrate, and he wants to go to her. No, no, no, first you celebrate, first you eat. And you know that if you eat a lot of heavy things, you drink a lot of wine, you'll get tired. You'll get tired.

22:07So she let him eat and drink as much as possible. She said, okay, now I'm ready to go to the room. She came to the room. Yes, of course. She came to the room. He went upstairs. She took the knife and cut his head off. She put his head in her bag. Yes, yes. She put his head, his head, this head in her bag. and took it back to the people of Israel, and took it back to Matisyahu and his sons, and gave it back to the people of Israel, and said, if I can do this for the people of Israel, what are you doing here? You can't fight? It's not only that it gave strength to the people of Israel, that they saw a daughter of Israel, holy, doing such a sacred deed, such a danger, it really killed the leader of the Jews, but it's when they called her Yehudit.

23:07Karula Yehudit. Oh, Shimon, let me check his name. It was a famous leader. Shimon, Shimon, Shimon. No, it wasn't him. Shimon, I'll tell you. Shimon, Shimon, Shimon. Shimon, Shimon, Shimon. This is also from the Midrashim. This is one of the famous stories of the whole story of Chanukah. A Jewish woman. Yes, she was called a Jewish woman. She was a holy woman. I believe that she was the daughter of a Kohen Gadol.

24:11A great Kohen Gadol. Yes. That's his daughter. Let's see, let's see. Okay, I'll find it and I'll tell you. But in any case, when the Jews came to them, they brought this head. So the Jews were afraid. Why? They were afraid of our leader. That's when they lost the war. That's what happens in war. When you kill the leader, the war is over. World War II, when... It's not that the Americans really defeated the entire army of the Nazis with a gun and a bomb. The war was over when they killed... Or at least they say that Hitler with a gun killed himself. When he disappeared, that's it. The war was over. The same thing with Iraq. Not many years ago, about 20 years ago. When did the war end? When they captured Saddam Hussein. Even though they had been defeated before this and that. But the war ended when the leader died. It was a war like that. So when they saw that one of the leaders of the Jews, the daughter of Israel, cut off his head, this shocked all the Jews. And this already gave the Jews a lot of strength.

25:35Because now they are fighting with fear. When a Jew had fear before a war, we wouldn't let him go to war. In Judaism, in the Torah, there are laws on how to fight. So they would ask the men all kinds of questions before they go to war. And they say, every person who has fear is forbidden to go to war, to go home. Forbidden. Because of you, we will die. So is it better for me to go home? No, it's better; you're obligated to go home. Also, King David said that if a person would speak between the hands of a person and the head of a person, he is forbidden to go to war. Why? Because in their degree, they said there is a chance that you will not return from this mission. Because of this, there is the ruling that if a person speaks between the hands of a person and the head of a person, they make the second blessing.

26:36But during this time of King David, he said it's so terrible, so you can go to war, you won't go back. Go home. Yes, yes, in any case, because all the time there is fear that maybe there is a wrong thought, maybe there is talk without intention, but in any case, the story above is that the truth It's not like today, where every Jew goes, whether he's religious or not, to war. In those days, the army of Moshe Rabbeinu, they were all ultra-ultra-Orthodox. They were all great tzaddikim. If a person didn't listen to Torah and mitzvot, he wouldn't go to war. They would leave him at home. Not only will you die, but you will cause us to die. Because Moshe understood, and David HaMelech understood, that who will win the war? The red cap, or no, only the name? The weapon, or the name? I say, the name decides who will win the war, or the missiles of the army? Who will win the war? Obviously, Hashem is revealed, so what, that's the point, that's understood. If we do His will,

28:03So of course we'll win. It doesn't matter if we have a thousand people, a million people, a lot of weapons, no weapons, it doesn't matter. We'll win the war. That's the point. So when a person isn't really proud of the Torah and the mitzvot, he wouldn't be surprised to go to war. If really the government of the Land of Israel today understood the Torah, they would not only tell people to keep the Torah, but they would also force them to study Talmud every day. because this is really the greatness of the people of Israel, our Torah. So now almost every year, most of the time, the Chanukah holiday coincides with Parashat Miketz. Because in Miketz, we also have a few stories that connect to the Chanukah holiday, but in terms of... No, not always, most of the time. Most of the time. Most of the time there is.

29:03No, not always, not always, but a lot, it’s like, relatively, it’s like, more than common, yes, yes. So now, the story continues that... Common is like, normal, it’s like, it’s already clear that it’s happening, and more than common is like, it’s like, oh, if it’s happening, it’s not a surprise. Yes, yes, yes. So now in the story from last week, we talked and learned that after Yosef's brothers sold Yosef, he went to Potiphar's house. After all the incidents with the wife of Potiphar, he fell and went to the prison. And at the end of the parasha, he had the incident with the two officers of Pharaoh. והוא פירש להם את החלום שלהם. אחד מהם, פרעה, קטע לו את הראש, והשני, זה שב אליו, כן.

30:13and the second one received his work back and became the chief of the cupbearers. So now this parashah begins, so it tells you that this parashah is exactly two years, exactly two years, it doesn't just say two years, it says exactly two years after the incident that happened, after the thing that happened. Why two years? What does this thing tell you? I put the headphones on, not in the... Is it better? Okay. No, you're already in your ears, not in the speaker, but sometimes the line isn't close to the mouth, apparently. All right. So now it tells you that it comes from a period of two years, or two days. It doesn't just tell you two years, it tells you two days. It tells you that it's exactly two years after the story that happened. Why exactly two years? The Holy One, blessed be He, tells you that even if I punish someone,

31:15The punishment is precise. There is no such thing that it will be an extra minute that he will suffer more than what he needs, or that he will receive a reward that is not enough. Now, when Yosef gave the dream to the Minister of Finance, he asked him twice to mention his name to Pharaoh. So the first time he mentioned it, it was allowed to him. Why? It was considered an effort. Even if he was on a higher level and had to open up to Hashem, in any case, every person needs a bit of effort. But when he asked a second time, when he said, don't forget me when you get to Pharaoh, tell him that I'm not really, I'm just here. For ten years I've been a dog for no reason, I didn't do anything. So, the second time when he mentioned it and asked for help from a person, from flesh and blood, then Hashem said, it's already too much effort. will receive punishment, both the first and second time, and will be in prison for another two years. So now, it's... the Minister of Finance. Yes.

32:39Yes, yes, at his level, yes, at his level, he says, you have to believe in G-d 100%. So now, this, this, this, you have to understand that a person has to make an effort in his actions. You have to, you have to do all kinds of things, but how much effort, how much effort, I don't want to get offended, how much effort, in our generation, in our time, a person has to make an effort at the level of his emunah. If he really believes 100% that Hashem will help and do everything, then he doesn't need to work. He doesn't need to work at all, because if he really believes 100%, he knows that... Exactly, that's what I'm saying. So how does a person know that he really believes 100%? So if they tell him...

33:44Exactly. Exactly. Yes, exactly. Yes. But now, how can a person know how much faith he really has? So if he's worried, if let's say he doesn't work, and there's no money in the bank, and the bills are always coming in on time, they're never going to be paid like the workers. אז אם הוא דואג אפילו בשביל דקה אחת מאיפה הכסף יבוא, זה כבר אומר שאין לו 100% אמונה. יכול להיות שיש לו 90%, או 80%, או 50%, אבל זה לא 100%. אם הוא דואג אפילו בשביל שנייה אחת, אין לו 100%. אז בן אדם צריך לדעת כמה אמונה באמת יש לו, ומתי שהוא מבין, אוקיי, לי יש 50% אמונה, אז אני צריך לעשות 50% השתדלות, 50% אמונה. So this is how a person needs to judge himself all the time, because faith is not something that... yes? So he needs to work half of his time. So instead of... Now, a person who really... If you have a person who works day and night...

35:01A man who works 15 hours a day. This man has no faith at all in Hashem. Because he thinks that everything is in his hands. He doesn't have to say that he has no faith. His actions already say that he has no faith at all. Because he really thinks that if he works 15 or 16 hours, this is the only way that Hashem will send him a reward. Yes. Yes. Yes, this is strong and clear. This is the thing now. What does it mean now that a person works a lot? If a person works until... There are jobs where a person has to work. It's like if he has a boss, he has to work 9 hours a day. It's...

36:11Yes. Okay, okay, I understand you 100%, but now you have to understand when it becomes too much effort, when it becomes a situation where he doesn't have time for Torah. If, in any case, even if he works 20 hours a day, the 4 hours that he has left, or 3 hours out of 4, he really doesn't learn Torah, then it's okay, he makes time for Torah, it's okay. But if a person becomes a situation... Yes. Okay, okay, I understand you 100%, but now you have to understand when it becomes too much effort, when it becomes a situation where he doesn't have time for Torah. If, in any case, even if he works 20 hours a day, the 4 hours that he has left, or 3 hours out of 4, he really doesn't learn Torah, then it's okay, he makes time for Torah, it's okay. But if a person becomes a situation... But I tell you, when I started to study, I said to myself that it doesn't matter what happens. I study for a quarter of an hour a day. In the course of time, I said, no, a quarter of an hour is not enough. Half an hour. Half an hour was not enough. I said, no, I will study for an hour. And then, when the Torah in the beginning is a bit weak, it is not so tight. But in the course of time, it becomes tighter. And the hour is not enough. So you become more stubborn. The more you study, the more you want. But I tell you, when I started to study, I said to myself that it doesn't matter what happens. I will study for a quarter of an hour a day. In the course of time, I said, no, a quarter of an hour is not enough. Half an hour. Half an hour was not enough. I said, no, I will study for an hour. And then, when the Torah in the beginning is a bit weak, it is not so tight. But in the course of time, it becomes tighter. And the hour is not enough. So you become more stubborn. The more you study, the more you want.

37:35And then you see how beautiful it is, you want 24 hours already. It's already beautiful. So this is the point that a person needs to understand that he has to study Torah every day. that he has to study Torah every day, and every person, at his level, has to do it every day. So if a person comes to a situation where he just works, and until he gets home, he has no strength at all, not for the family, not for Torah, not for Haftarah, he just eats, sleeps, and comes back every day. Every day is like Groundhog Day, like every day is the same thing. He works like a firework, only for the money, the clients, and all, all, all—forget everything, forget the name—that's a problem. So a person needs to understand that his effort, he needs to make an effort in terms of the level of his faith. And if he really has complete faith in God, not 100%, even if it's 50%, he already knows he doesn't need to work too much. It doesn't matter what he does, it doesn't matter if he starts a business, it doesn't matter if he's in a difficult situation. He knows that it doesn't matter what happens every day, he sets aside time for God, he learns, he prays, he does the things he needs to do.

38:43So what happens is that the person, in his mind, becomes everything. The Torah is the main thing, and the work is secondary. So yes, I have to work, and I have to learn. And most people now have to work a lot more than they learn. But I learn... Every day. So if the work is not important, what will happen? I will work as much as I need to work until it comes to the time that I have to finish the Torah. This is one of the first questions that a person who comes to heaven after 120, they ask him, "Did you set time for the Torah?" If a person set time for the Torah... Yes, yes, time. Zmanim. Zmanim is time, daily time. So, like, if you spent time on the Torah, and also how you handled your business, if you were a shakran or if you were a tzaddik, and you were doing the truth. So a person needs to understand that he has to meet with G-d every day. And meeting with G-d is simply opening a Torah book, whether it's Tehillim, whether it's Chumash, whether it's Gemara, whether it's all kinds of words of Chazal—there are many, many Torahs; there is no end to the Torah. But every day he is obligated. And if a person, I suggest to myself, that a person who doesn't study every day,

40:04The best thing in the world is to start with a little time, 15 minutes a day. 15 minutes. Don't say I'll do an hour, don't say I'll do an hour and a half. 15 minutes, it doesn't matter what happens, 15 minutes. If there's more time, Baruch Hashem. But tell yourself, it doesn't matter what happens, 15 minutes a day. Over time, you know, okay, more than 15 minutes. Now I'm doing half an hour a day. Promise me. Of course, we're learning Torah now. 100%, 40 minutes, we're already learning Torah, Baruch Hashem. Yes, you're strong and blessed. You're already doing work, Baruch Hashem. You're helping me too. So everything we're doing, Baruch Hashem, is Torah. So now, the thing here is that a person who determines with Hashem, they say, I once asked my Rebbe, Rabbi Ephraim Kahlon, in the beginning, I said, is it better that one day a week I learn, let's say, some 5-6 hours, And the rest of the week I won't study. Or that I will study a quarter of an hour a day, but it will be much less time. It won't even be close to 5-6 hours. So he told me exactly what you're saying. He told me, listen, if I were to tell you, once a week you eat 20 steaks. The best steaks of the week, the best in the world. But the rest of the week you don't eat at all.

41:28No, that's what he says, exactly, even more, he says, if a person is far from Hashem for one day, HaKadosh Baruch Hu is far from him for two days. So he says, it's better to learn one hour a day, every day, than even 20 hours one day and nothing the rest of the week. It's really like that, to learn every day is really, really good. The best thing also for a person like you, when you're in the car a lot, discs, put discs in the car. Discs, you have discs in your bag. If you want, I can send you some too. There are a lot of good discs, but discs are the best; you learn all day. Mutzafi, yes. Ilan Shishi, no.

42:29Baruch Hashem, Baruch Hashem. And that's Hashem. I'll check, I'll check. Maybe there's a chance that... Yes, yes, many of our generation don't call themselves rabbis because... it also connects to people much more. In the matter of Gemara, just so you know, And in Gemara they say, who is really your Rav? Who is really your Rav? So Rabbi Meir says, no, you have three answers. So Rabbi Meir, and there is one answer from our generation, that I heard from Rabbi Mizrachi, and really that the elders of the generation say, not only from his opinion, so Rabbi Meir Baal HaNes says, it is to teach you the words of wisdom. What do you mean by the words of wisdom? Gemara. If you have a person in kollel, and he has a rabbi who calls him a chumash, one calls him a mishnayot, one calls him a midrashim, and the other calls him a gemara. Who is his rabbi? The one who calls him a gemara, because gemara is the highest level of the Torah. This is called a malveh Torah. This is what Rabbi Meir says. Rabbi Yehuda says,

43:52to teach you the most. From all the Torah you know, let's say you have now, from all the 100% of your knowledge, there is a rabbi, in 20 years of study, or 5 years of study, one of these rabbis, you heard him the most, he teaches you, let's say, 40%. The rest of the 60% is... Nice. Nice, nice, nice. Mesilat Yesharim is, wow. With God's help, I'm working on making a series about Mesilat Yesharim on YouTube. With God's help, we'll publish it on YouTube. It's a book, it's something every Jew needs to read at least 100 times. It's really, every time you read it, it's something new, another thing, and another thing, and you're really working on the knowledge of the person,

44:56It's the voice of man. It's an amazing thing. The message they sing is from one of the most important books of moral principles in the world. So now... Yes, yes, the works of Avot, of course, are from the Gemara. All the works of Avot are from the Gemara. They took all kinds of pieces from the Gemara and put them in a book. Yes, yes. So now... No, a clear Mishnah is also an interpretation of the Mishnah. It is from the book of Zechariah. The Mishnah is what Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi wrote. It was the first Torah Shebe'al Peh that he wrote. No, Mishnah. A clear Mishnah is from the book of Zechariah. It is from 100 years ago. The clear Mishnah is an interpretation of the Mishnah. But the Mishnah is the source of our Torah Shebe'al Peh. And then they wrote the Gemara to elucidate the Mishnah, explaining how they derived all these laws, all these halachot, and all these Mishnayot, how they arrived at these insights. So that's all the arguments, to explain, because in the beginning, the people of Israel had a very great wisdom, knowing everything by heart. Not only the whole Torah by heart, but all the explanations of all the mitzvot and mitzvot, everything and everything. Then we got to a situation where not everyone remembered everything by heart, so Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi

46:22They called him Rebbe. He decided that if we don't write the Torah She'be'al Peh, we will be done for. All the Torah, all of Judaism, will be lost. Because the Torah in writing, the Chumash that we call, the Tanakh that we call, Chumash is the weekly portion, and the rest of the Tanakh, or part of the Tanakh, is called, also on Shabbat, the Haftarah. So all this, this is really the Torah in writing, but they don't explain the mitzvot. This is the root of all the mitzvot, come from the Torah. The Torah in writing. But really, the Torah in writing doesn't explain how we got to this. Like, what, what, the Holy One tells us to do, no, to keep Shabbat. Okay, what do they say on Shabbat in the shul? What to do on Shabbat? So it doesn't explain it to you in the Torah in writing. That's why we need the Torah she'be'al peh, which we also got at Har Sinai. So in all the generations of Moshe Rabbeinu, of David HaMelech, of Shlomo HaMelech, until we got to Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi,

47:27Everyone knew everything by mouth. That's why they called it Torah she'be'al peh, and it was forbidden for us to write it. But then, Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi saw that it was being forgotten, and there were a lot of... Not only that, there were also a lot of problems with the goyim. They were destroying our Torah, killing Jews, killing the tzaddikim; there were a lot of problems, it was a mess. So Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi said, if we don't have Torah she'be'al peh, we don't have Torah at all. We won't bring the Torah in a letter. Many Jews don't understand that the Torah She'be'al Peh is really the main part of the Torah. That if, Chas Ve'Shalom, one day the goyim tell us that we have to choose between the Written Torah and the Oral Torah, we would choose the Oral Torah, not the Written Torah. Because the Torah She'be'al Peh explains everything. The Torah in writing, you can't understand it without the Torah She'be'al Peh. One of the examples that you need to understand what the Torah She'be'al Peh is, it's not just the Gemara, there are many parts of the Torah She'be'al Peh. One of the simplest parts that you need to understand, how important it is, is a book called Kodesh. Keter. Keter in Hebrew. What is this Keter?

48:43Now, when you go to the Knesset and read the Torah, you know that there is no punctuation. There is no punctuation. It is forbidden to have punctuation. A book that has punctuation is invalid. But punctuation, if you compare it to the English language, is like vowels. It is the source of the language. So, let's say in English, there are five vowels: A, E, I, O, U, exactly. A, E, I, O, U. And sometimes Y. So five or six letters that are the basis of every word. There is no word in the English language that does not contain at least one of these letters. This is the foundation. So our point in the Holy Language is the vowels. So what does it mean? If there is no point, we really don't know what it means. So imagine to yourself that now I tell you to write to me Moshe in English without vowels. Without a dot. So you say to yourself, okay, M is fine. O I can't write. No, M-S-H. That's it. Msh. Msh. What is Msh? It's not Moshe. So who is Msh? You can't understand it.

50:04So without a point, you can't bring the word. The only reason we can read the Torah now is because those who are the owners of the Torah, the ba'alei mesorah, already know the point. They know it by heart. They know how to read it. But if they didn't know it before, they wouldn't know how to read the words. Exactly, exactly. So this is the point. Now, this is part of the Torah she'be'al peh. Without the Torah she'be'al peh, we don't have a Torah she'bichtav. This is the mistake of the Christians, who think that our first book, which they call our Torah, the Old Testament, is okay, but the Gemara is not okay, the Torah she'be'al peh is not okay. So they say, we believe in the Torah that you received at Mount Sinai, but the Torah that the rabbis wrote after a few generations, we don't believe in it. They don't understand how mistaken they are, because they don't understand that without the Torah she'be'al peh, there is no Torah she'bichtav at all. So this is... It's not a matter of what they think; it's just to understand how much lack of knowledge can cause. There are a lot, unfortunately, a lot of Jews

51:17When you tell them, "Listen, let's learn the Torah," they say, "No, no, all this Torah was written by rabbis." They don't understand. I once thought that all the Torah, I understood the stories of the Gemara from Har Sinai, okay, everything is fine. But the Gemara, I thought it was like disputes between rabbis, and they wrote it from their own opinion, their ideas; they invented things on their own. All the Torah we have up to this day, we received at Mount Sinai. The rabbis who wrote the Mishnah, the Gemara, and even the books that are written today, are explaining what was already received. But all the laws that exist in Judaism, there are laws that have explicit verses, explicit verses, in the Torah, which is called Deoraita, and there are things that the Rabbis added, which is called De-Rabbanan. So many Jews think that, okay, fine, Deoraita laws, all the Deoraita commandments I will do, but De-Rabbanan is one rabbi. He wrote it, no, no, no, no, I don't want the Rabbanan. They don't understand that to pass on De-Rabbanan laws, it can be, or it's a bigger loss than Deoraita.

52:44No, no, the punishment, the punishment, the punishment of Deoraita. Now, you have, now, let's say, laws, commandments of Deoraita. They say to a person, okay, to a person who is a Gentile, to a person who is a Gentile, it's written in the Torah, to a person who is a Gentile, you need to give back twice. To a Gentile who is a 100, you need to give back 200. That's Deoraita. Now, sending hands, that's Deoraita. Chanukah, that's Deoraita. Shabbat candles, that's Deoraita. No, no, the punishment, the punishment, the punishment of Deoraita. Now, you have, let's say, laws, commandments of Deoraita. They say to a person, okay, to a Gentile, it's written in the Torah, you need to give back twice. To a Gentile who owes 100, you need to give back 200. That's Deoraita. Now, laying hands, that's Deoraita. Chanukah, that's Deoraita. Shabbat candles, that's Deoraita. Now, a rabbi teaches a Torah lesson, he tells you all the laws of the Rabbanan, and the person says, no, no, this rabbi says it, no, it's the Rabbanan. He doesn't understand that if a person goes against what the Holy One wrote in the Torah, if you go against my rabbis, there is only one punishment for everyone, for all the mitzvot of the Rabbanan. What is it? A death sentence. To go against the rabbis is a death sentence. That's why I say, a person who doesn't understand this thinks that the rabbis are just inventing things. That's not true. How can I explain this? Let's say you heard Rabbi Zamir Cohen tell this story. He says, listen, you have, let's say, some king, and this king tells you, listen, I don't want one army, I want two armies.

54:08Two big, magnificent buildings, and so on. Okay, fine. But one of them, I want it to be a sermon, and I will tell you exactly what to do. Don't do anything without my words. Fine. The second sermon, I'll give you some advice. Do everything I tell you. Fine. Then a little time passed, two palaces were built. The king came to the first one, everything was good and nice. He came to the second one, he saw that there were changes. So he came to you and said, why did you change what I said? So he says, no, no, no, Kvod HaMelech, I didn't change what you said. What you said, I did exactly, but what this engineer said, I didn't do exactly, I changed. He says, no, but I told you to do exactly what the engineer said, and that means that I told you to do exactly what I told you to do. So when you went over what he said, it's like you went over what I said. So that's the mitzvot of Rabbanan.

55:15And we also need to understand that the commandments of Rabbanan are almost 2000 years old. It's not like some rabbis today from the neighborhood are making new laws. You can't add to the Torah now. It's almost 2000 years old. So it's all things that have a strength. A strength of... also a source in the Torah. So... so, to get back to our topic now, we have a story in this parasha that we know that Hashem says to us, when I was born... Yes. Yes, yes, yes. So, now, the issue of... Yes, yes, yes, yes. Exactly. The minister of finance. The minister of finance. Yes. Exactly. So now, at the beginning of our weekly portion, it tells you that because he said it twice, he received a punishment of another two years. He added another two years to his punishment. The Holy One added another two years to his punishment. Now, a person needs to understand that even when a person receives a punishment from Heaven, it's exactly 100%. Why is it important for us to know that it's exactly 100%? Because when a person enters into a bad situation,

56:39והוא נכנס לדיכאון. יש אנשים, לצערנו, הורגים את עצמם. ממש, מגיעים למצב כל כך גרוע שהם הורגים את עצמם. כמו שרובין ויליאמס, שנה שעברה, הרג את עצמו. אדם שיש לו ים של כסף, משפחה טובה, קריירה טובה, הכל נראה טוב מבחוץ. אבל כנראה רובין ויליאמס, הקומיקאי המפורסם, היהודי, אבל אמריקאי. Robin Williams. Yes, he killed himself. He killed himself, poor man. This man had a career, he had a good career, he was funny, he had a family, he had 100 million dollars, if not more. He killed himself. So now, why does such a man, who looks like everything is good, kill himself? How does he manage such a situation? Because when a person gets to a bad situation and has no connection with the Creator, then he doesn't know that everything is in the hands of HaKadosh Baruch Hu. He thinks that everything is in his hands. What does Robin Williams ask? No, he doesn't know exactly what caused him to kill himself. But he doesn't really know what the specific story is, why he killed himself.

58:03Even if he was sick, even if a person knows that he only has six months to live. A person who... What? Oh, right, yes. A person who gets to such a situation where he kills himself, of course, he has a mental illness. A person... Yes... Yes, but this, in this second, he was soul-sick. It doesn't mean that he was a soul-sick person. A person doesn't need to be soul-sick all his life. 100%. This is the depression, yes. This is what I'm trying to explain. When a person comes to a situation where he really takes this mental illness, this problem, and he presses the button...

59:14Exactly. So when a person has no connection with G-d, and he thinks that everything is in his hands, then he comes to a situation where he thinks, okay, this depression that I have, that let's say something bad happened, or that there is a disease, or that his wife left him, or that his husband left her, or that there was some kind of death or something like that, all kinds of bad and terrible things that happen in a person's life, So he thinks that the evil that he has in his heart now will be forever. It will always be like this. It will never change. He thinks that the feeling that he has now, the evil that he has, the evil that she has, it will be like this forever. And if it will be like this forever, it is better for him to live. So here, HaKadosh Baruch Hu explains to you, even the punishment is precise. To every person. Not only to Yosef. To every person. The Torah, HaKadosh Baruch Hu wrote it, all the things that are written, it's relevant to every Jew in the world. Every person in the world. He didn't write it just for a history book. If it was a history book, it would have been a much bigger book because it would have needed much more detail. This book, every sentence and sentence, is relevant to every person in the world.

1:00:42Exactly. So now, he says, just know that when something bad happens to you, and the situation is not good, and you are going through a test that Hashem sent to you, know that it will end. Why is the parashah, what is the end? The end is the end. So he says, everything has an end. Everything bad has an end. גם למחלה, גם לבעיה עם הכסף, גם לבעיה עם האישה, גם לבעיה עם הבעל, גם לבעיה עם העבודה. כל הבעיות שיש לאדם, יש להן סוף. מה יהיה הסוף, תלוי במעשים שלך. כן? כן. כן. Yes, yes, yes. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't work. Sometimes you want to sleep even for two days. Yes, yes, yes. Listen, this is also a matter of patience. Sometimes a person needs to calm down, not say anything, relax for a few hours, and then he already forgets all the reasons he was upset. Yes.

1:02:17Baruch Hashem. Baruch Hashem. Baruch Hashem. Baruch Hashem. Baruch Hashem. Baruch Hashem. Baruch Hashem. Baruch Hashem. Baruch Hashem. Yes, yes, yes, listen to this. Yes, but listen, it's a matter of depression. It's not all the time just depression that a person doesn't come to work. There are people, and I can tell you from my experience, from my personal experience, I was very desperate since I was a little kid. I was working, even when I was going to school and all these things. But for many, many years, I was in depression.

1:03:31And one of the solutions that I found for myself is to work a lot, to focus on work. Because my real life, in my eyes, was so bad, and I felt like I had nothing, so I would say it's better to live in business. So I would work day and night, I would work maybe 20 hours a day sometimes, 16 hours, it was a normal day. Every day he works; one day at night he gets up at 5 in the morning, he starts work, he works until 1 at night, he goes home and sleeps for 2-3 hours, he goes back to work. Really, he lives in an illusion. I escaped, I escaped from life. Yes, so... Exactly. Exactly, that's the point. So a person needs to understand that the connection with the Creator is not only the solution, but the only way for there to be joy. There's no person in the world who has true joy without Torah. There's no such thing. Why? How do you know that? Because joy is a spiritual thing. It's not a material thing. So it's like I'm going to tell you, listen, you're a n00b.

1:04:56He wants to eat. He needs to eat something. He needs to eat some steak. But what if I tell you, listen, instead of eating, maybe you'll start singing. Maybe you'll start praying. Okay, okay, he's happy, but I don't think he's hungry. No, I don't think he's happy. He's hungry. He wants to eat. He's hungry. But after two days of singing, you're even more hungry. You understand? So what does that mean? A person needs to eat what he needs. If he's really hungry for food, he needs to eat food. But if he's hungry for spiritual things, like joy, like love, he needs to "eat" things that are spiritual. Spiritual things. The soul is spiritual. So the spiritual needs to eat the spiritual thing. The body is material. It needs to eat the material thing. So that's what a person needs to understand. Certainly, it's hard. It's hard for a person to separate the soul from the body. We always think it's one. But it's really not one. It's two things. It's two completely different things. The body is clothes.

1:06:22The soul is really you. When you say "I", your "I" is really the soul, not your body. Exactly. So now, most people find it hard to differentiate between the body and the soul. Okay. Every one of us has a special trait. It's custom-made. Custom-made. It's one of a kind, Baruch Hashem. One of a kind. Listen, if you have a place, I made you a designer, I made you a replacement, one of a kind. It's not that kind of thing; it's a precious thing. The Holy One, blessed be He, made one of a kind. He did one lesson. So, now, in the matter of... Yes, yes. Yes, every Jew. Shaatnez is forbidden to every Jew. Yes, every Jew, including the women here. Hashem, yes, Shaatnez is forbidden to wear.

1:07:38Most of their clothes are made from the same material. I have a wife who is very particular with clothes. She likes a specific material. So she always looks for things that are made from that material. But most women's clothes are not made with Shaatnez. Usually Shaatnez is used in substitutes. Usually Shaatnez is in the collar, in the collar of the chalifa, because it makes the place a little harder, yes, stronger. There are also companies that use Shaatnez almost 100% of the time, like Hugo Boss. Hugo Boss, all the time they have Shaatnez. but there are things that they don't. But anyway, it's relatively easy to check. There are guys who are involved in it. Not a lot of money, maybe $10, $15, they give you the Shaatnez check, and then if there is, they give you the part, or they will give it to you themselves, or you take it to the dry cleaner, and they put this part that replaces the Shaatnez, and that's it, you finished the whole thing. Yes. Yes.

1:09:00Yes, yes. Yes, you can take it off. Nice. Yes, yes, you're right. You're right, Baruch Hashem. She really does everything she can, even above and beyond, so that even if you have a good feeling, and even if you see light in the Knesset, you don't have to go pray to the Holy One. Very nice. Yes, Shaatnez is a very big thing because if a person knows that his friend has Shaatnez, he is allowed to take off all his clothes on the street, in the middle of the street. If you know that your friend is wearing, let's say, a halifa and he has Shaatnez, you are allowed to take off his clothes in the middle of the street. I know, but I'm telling you, I know what is allowed, but it's not the matter that we need, yes, I'm not telling you that we need to search for people to take off their clothes.

1:10:02Yes, yes, it's a problem. Yes, I know. Yes, 100%. It's just to explain. Why do Chazal explain it like that? Just for... Yes, exactly. Exactly. Exactly. To explain things, it's best to explain things in extremism. That's how a person understands. If I tell you, there was once a brother of mine, who was a barim, He told me, "Listen, I wanted to buy a jersey, one of the players in baseball, football, I don't know, some sport, and some store on the internet made a mistake. Instead of it being $250, they put it at $25." And I wanted to buy one. But then I asked for it. And then they told me, no, you can't get this jersey because we made a mistake. It's not $25; it's really $250. We made a mistake, and we won't stand by this mistake. So I said, no, I'll fight them and get upset and so on. He said, no, they're obligated. They did false advertising. So I said, no, no, it's not considered false advertising. It's considered that they made a mistake.

1:11:17I said, why? He said, listen, you only understand this because of your business. You say, they're a big company, they make millions of dollars every year, so why can't they give one person who bought a jersey for $25 to fix it? It's their problem. A jersey is some kind of shirt that people in sports wear. He likes the sport. He likes the sport. No, no, not that. A jersey is like... Let's say you like a football player, and you want to buy a shirt, the same shirt he wears in the game. How do you call it in Hebrew?

1:12:19Yes, exactly. Exactly. Now, he bought the... No, no, not that. A jersey is like... Let's say you like a football player, and you want to buy a shirt, the same shirt he wears in the game. How do you call it in Hebrew? Yes, so it's like people who see, for example, they like a popular player in basketball, or in football, or in any sport. Exactly, so the point here, a lot of people, this also belongs to Chanukah, that this is really what the Greeks wanted to do, to get us used to, it's really to like all this sport. Sport comes from the word Sparta, Sparta. Yes, Sparta. They invented the whole sport thing. So, in any case, he told me, no, they made a mistake, they need to pay for it. I said, no, you're wrong. And how did I explain to him that he's wrong? I said, you think it's just yourself. They made a mistake of $225. Instead of $250, it was $25. So it's a mistake of $225. They make millions, so, okay, we can lose $225.

1:13:35But you don't look at it the right way. Why not the right way? Because if they really had to stand by their mistake, then a company that was competing with them could come, see that they made a mistake, and invite a billion loans. A billion. Not one, not two, not ten, not a million. A billion. So it means that now they have to pay, to lose 225 billion dollars. Can you understand that? He said, "No, why all of a sudden?" So I said, "If it's not true that they will lose, they will lose a leg for such a sum. It's clear that they don't need to lose. 200,000,000,000 is not for you. If it's not true for the big, it's not true for the small. Easy material." So many people who are upset about other people, for example, when there is bad customer service or some mistake, all kinds of things like that, they only look at things in the way that they are the only ones in the world. A person needs to look at their personal goodness, exactly, very clearly. A person needs to look at things in a general way.

1:14:55Yes, yes, exactly. Exactly. So now, in the matter of punishment and also reward, earlier we were talking about the punishment, now we are talking about the punishment for Yosef. Yosef says "punishment," but he is precise, exactly, and all the punishment will be completed exactly two years. After that, they say, the verse says, and they will release him. Like, when Pharaoh hears that there is a Hebrew man who interprets dreams, then the verse says, "And Pharaoh sent and called Yosef, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon; and he shaved, and changed his clothes, and came in to Pharaoh." So he doesn't say... And they ran, like they rushed him. They say that instead of, yes, instead of going slowly, slowly, now if a person, let's say, leaves the cell, it takes a few hours until he leaves. It's not within five minutes. He leaves the cell, signs a few forms, goes to another place, signs a few things, goes to another place, takes the clothes, goes to another place, says thank you. So it's a process of a few hours, it's not within five minutes.

1:16:08Here they say, within a few moments, he went from the grave to the place where the person most... Yes, yes, yes. Now, why did he go and change his clothes? What do we learn from this? First of all, in the context of Yesurim, G-d teaches us that when it comes to a person who finishes their punishment, when it comes to a person who will receive their reward, it will come to them in a second. In a second. It doesn't have to come; people think in the context of payment and good, they think that everything has to be rational, normal. But you don't understand, when the Holy One really wants to give you something, it's above nature. The resurrection of Hashem is two nights. When the Holy One really wants to give you some resurrection, it can happen faster than it takes you to close your eyes and open them. Two nights.

1:17:16So, this is what a person needs to understand. Now, when the time comes to give Yosef his reward, he says, in a few moments, in a second, now get out of the cage, now they're slaughtering him, changing his clothes, giving him beautiful clothes; he's going to meet the king. And this also tells us the third thing that we learn here, that when you're going to meet an important person, an important flesh and blood person, dress like a person. Dress nicely. What does that mean? If you're now going to meet some king, you need to dress nicely. Yes. Yes, yes, that's... if, I mean, it also depends on your profession, and it also depends on how he manages his business. If all the people around him are like that, and he's used to it, then it's clear that it's okay; it's in a way work. But if it's a special meeting, and let's say you're not going to the office, you're going to meet at some fancy restaurant, and it's at night, and it's something respected, then it's clear you can't go with paint on your hands.

1:18:38So, you need to know where you're going. Now, if you're going to meet someone important, an important rabbi, important work, all kinds of things, you need to dress like... But what, in the Holy Temple, does He really care about these people? No. He's trying to tell you that if you need to dress nicely to a king who is flesh and blood, how much more do you need to dress nicely when you get to the house of Hashem? Every synagogue is considered the house of Hashem. Every synagogue is considered a small Temple. And a person needs to look respectable. There are people, unfortunately, especially Israelis in Israel, who go to the synagogue with shorts and a t-shirt. Shorts and a t-shirt, even with a body. Yes, yes, yes. So this is a person who doesn't really understand what Hashem is. He didn't read this parashah.

1:19:42So now, yes, yes, okay. What do you know? What do you know? Oh, okay, that's fine. But... Oh, so that's why you know so much about Tripoli and... Okay, now I get it. Now I get it. Listen, people are funny. Their language is funny. Their language is funny, yes. There are a few Tripolites in the Knesset here in... They're funny. There's one who's really Tripolite, authentic. He really lived in Tripoli.

1:20:43He lived in Tripoli until, let's say, age 8 or 9, something like that. Really, his experience was authentic. Funny, funny. So now, to... No, he's already been in America for maybe 30 something years. But... No, before he lived in Tripoli, he went to Israel, I think it was Netanya. Yes, that's where all the tripolitim are. Yes, exactly. Yes. So, yes, he lived there, I think it was 15 years in Israel, and then he came here. 30 something years here. A special family. A special family. Beautiful. Really good people. His children are all talmidim chachamim, Baruch Hashem. Baruch talmid chacham in himself. Yes, yes, really, really amazing. Baruch Hashem, yes. So now, when Pharaoh says... Pharaoh was not a little man. Pharaoh was also a thinker. And he was also a wise man. He knew 70 languages. And that was...

1:22:09Yes, but now, this was really the law in Egypt, whoever knew other languages would become a ruler. He knew 70 languages, he didn't know Lashon HaKodesh, exactly. But now, when he, we'll get to that in a second, when he now sees Yosef, he says, how do I know that this man will tell me the truth? So instead of telling him the real dream, he added things to the dream, and every time he added more details, Yosef stopped him and said, "No, no, no, you didn't dream of that. It was something else." So let's say he told him there were seven cows, eight cows, and Yosef corrected him, saying, "No, they were sheep, and there were three sheep." Just an example. There were three computers. So Yosef said, no, there weren't three computers. You didn't remember that. And he did it step by step. He added something. And he said, every time, Yosef fixed it. Until... Yes. So he came to the point that at the end of the dream, he said, he asked Yosef, how do you know? Were you in my dream?

1:23:29Yes, and the solution is to say to him, no, this is like when someone asks you if you can fulfill my dream. Then in Yom Yosef, Pharaoh will say, without the help of God, he will destroy Shalom Pharaoh. Like, no, I don't know anything about my life. This is if the Holy One wants there to be peace for Pharaoh, if the Holy One wants Pharaoh to know, then He will give me the knowledge to fulfill my dream. But I myself don't know anything. This is one of the reasons why he was called Tzadik. So think about it. If we were, at least I was, in a cell for 12 years, and now a king tells me, listen, can you fulfill your dream? You would tell him, how many dreams do you have? What do you want me to do with you? I will give you this, what do you want? He doesn't even know what minimalism is. Why? He doesn't want me to throw him in the cell again. But Yosef, Yosef is a man of truth. Yosef says, no, I don't know anything, HaKadosh Baruch Hu. It's really a person, he looks like a real person. Now he exposes his dream, and Pharaoh says, how does he know all these things? Were you in my dream? Yes. Not what you want.

1:24:55Yes. Yes, every day he suffers and complains because of Yosef. Yes. Ah, chazak u'baruch. Chazak u'baruch, good question. Good question, very good question, and there is a response, Baruch Hashem. Now, before the brothers sold Yosef, they gave him an option. The Chazal says they gave him an option. Either we kill you, yes, they said, either we kill you in the mine, or we sell you.

1:25:55They gave him an option, they gave him an option, that's what the Chazal said, they gave him an option. No, no, no, first of all, no, at first they wanted to kill him, but... Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, 100%, but it doesn't matter why and who is right, I just want to say what happened. First of all, everyone wanted to kill him because they thought it was the right step. Then Reuven said to them, no, no, no, don't kill him, that there will be no blood on our hands, let's throw him in the well. of yamut alone. Why? Because Reuven's plan was to save him. After that, Judah came to them and said to them, listen, why are we waiting for yamut to be here? Yes, yes, yes, there were us, the beasts, and the warriors, inside the cave, in Yediyot. But now, Yehudah comes to them... Exactly, but they say that... Yes, 100%. But now they see, they are in the middle of a well, that there is no water in it, and there are only snakes and scorpions in it.

1:27:23And every second that he lives there, it's a nes (miracle) in itself. They don't pay attention to that. Like, in the parasha it's written that there was no water in it. What does that mean? No, so they say there's no water in it because there was something else in it. What was in it? There were snakes and scorpions. To sum it up, because... Because if there was a well, there would be water. We didn't put him in a well with water; we put him in a well where there are snakes and scorpions, so he would die there. But after that, to go back to the question itself, Yehuda came to them and said, what, we'll wait here until he dies? Let's sell him, and if we're already selling him to some slave traders, he won't come back. And if he's really right, then there will be a nes or something like that, but let's sell him.

1:28:23Four times. Midyanim, Midyanim, Midyanim, Midyanim, Midyanim, Midyanim, Midyanim, Midyanim, Midyanim, Midyanim. four times, four times, four sales, four sales. It took four hands, in any case. Four hands, some say even more. But in any case, they say, what, we're waiting for Hatshi to die here? Let's sell him. But now, if we sell him, and he escapes from them, he'll go back to his father, he'll tell him, and his father will tell all of us,

1:29:24So let's give him an option. Chazal say, they said to him, listen, if we sell you, you will never tell the story to your father. Never tell the story to anyone. That we sold you. Never. So because of that, when he came to Egypt, and even in the beginning, in the first year, he could already go back to his father, tell him good news, and become a good businessman in Potiphar's house. He was important. Until the incident with Eshes Potifar happened, he was an important person. He became a successful businessman. He could have called his father. He could have sent him an email or something. But no. Why? Neder. After he was in his cell alone, but after he left, there was the king of Egypt. He could have contacted him, he could have sent him something on Facebook, he could have done something. He didn't do it. Why? Neder. Neder is wonderful. And they say that even... This is all in the Midrashim. I'll tell you exactly where this source is. Exactly. Wait a minute. This is also in the Gemara, and also in the Midrash Tanchuma. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

1:30:47Neder will know that it's forbidden for him to say this to... Yes. Yes. If he tells his father that they sold him, his father will kill them all. Yaakov was sad. Because of this, in all this situation, who talk about when Yosef thought he was dead. It is written in the Torah, Yaakov instead of Yisrael. When they called him Yisrael, he had the Holy Spirit. When it was written Yaakov, he didn't have the Holy Spirit. When he didn't have the Holy Spirit, he was sad. So because you see, when he revealed, in the same portion, the next week's portion,

1:31:54In the next week's parashat, you will see that in two sentences, in the parashat Vayigash, in two sentences, in one sentence, one is called Yaakov, in the second sentence it is written Yisrael. Why? What will change? In the second sentence, he finally discovered and believed that his son Yosef is alive. And then his joy returned, and the Holy Spirit returned to him, and he saw everything that happened. Yes, they beat him, and he became more mature. So because of that, he was able to accept his father and mother and return to them and tell them everything that happened. So now... Yes, yes, exactly. So now... Yosef... He... explains the dream. He shows Pharaoh that he is not a normal person. So Pharaoh says...

1:32:56He says to the people, listen, you have seven good years and seven bad years, and really, if you want to be wise and save your country, and not only save it, but also be in a good situation, you will find a wise man, not only a wise man in money, but also a wise man who knows how to keep all the food. It's not just that you put it in a fridge. There is no fridge. You need to keep all the food because it's many years old. Now, in this situation, Pharaoh says to all his people, "Is there such a person who has the Spirit of God in him? There is no such person, not only that he is wise, but he really has the Holy Spirit." The Holy One tells him what to say. He knows everything. There is no such thing, not even among all the astrologers and all the wise men. No, there is no such thing. Yes, there is no such thing. Until now, he says, you will receive the work. But after that, he says something. And I will explain why he says that. And today...

1:34:26Yes, but... Where are you? Yes, yes. On the day of the birth of Yosef, after the announcement of your birth, this voice will not be heard by anyone like you. You will be on my side and on the side of the woman. All the people, only the throne is bigger than you. So he gives him a job. But why did he really bring this job? He said, okay, you broke the dream. Okay, you broke the dream. Okay, give him a nice job. Fine, but okay, give him a good job. Why are you giving him the number one job? It's a bit extreme. Okay, listen, let's say you have an actor, and one day you find out that this actor really knows, what kind of person he is, he really knows how to build something amazing. What, are you making him a partner in a second? No, okay, you tell him, listen, you know what, I'll give you a raise.

1:35:30You get a little extra; instead of getting 50,000, you get 100,000. But you don't make a 50-50 partnership. First of all, get a raise. Let's see if you're really like this. In a while, maybe you'll do more. Slowly, slowly. What, in a second, you'll give him the CEO of the company? It can't be. So what, what's really the secret here? What's really the secret? The Gemara says, I believe, in Masechet Sotah... that the day before, at the same time that Pharaoh dreamed this dream, Yosef also dreamed the dream, the same dream of Pharaoh. And after Yosef dreamed the dream of Pharaoh, because he knew what Pharaoh dreamed, he knew where he made the mistakes. The angel Gavriel came to him and tried to teach him 71 languages.

1:36:30But after some time, Yosef's body couldn't accept everything. So Hashem made a miracle and gave him all these 71 languages. Just like the Matrix. One minute he didn't know, and the next minute he knew 71 languages. So... Yes, he gave him 71, exactly. So now Yosef comes, when he gets to Pharaoh, he speaks the Egyptian language, and... There is, for Pharaoh, not only that he understands, but Pharaoh sits on a chair. Not just any chair; this chair has more than 70 steps beneath it. So now, Yosef takes one step and says he speaks Egyptian. Pharaoh responds; Pharaoh speaks with him in another language. So Yosef goes on, takes another step, and another step, every language he knows, takes another step, until he reaches 70 steps, and they know the same thing. And then Yosef spoke the Lashon HaKodesh, the language number 71, and he told Pharaoh that he really knows one language more than Pharaoh. So Pharaoh said to him, I...

1:37:47will turn you from a Hebrew who is a slave, whom the Egyptians despise, to a king. Except for me, no one... No, he says no, I will turn you into a king. Except for me, no one can, well, tell you anything. You decide who, well, on every step that a person will take. He says in... Second, this is what I'm explaining to you. So, on the day when Pharaoh says to Yosef, "I am Pharaoh, I am the king, but without you, no man will raise his hand or his foot in the entire land of Egypt." So now Pharaoh says to you, "I am Pharaoh now, but you are..." Mem Dalet, that was 44.

1:38:55Yes, on the day of Pharaoh el Yosef, I am Pharaoh. Yes, on the day of Pharaoh el Yosef, yes, on the day of Pharaoh el Yosef, I am Pharaoh. He says, I am the number one, but you now, you are my work. But except for that, I will be Pharaoh. I am above you, I am the only one. What does that mean? He says, really, if you tell everyone that you know one language more than me, even if it is Hebrew, they will make you Pharaoh. The king will do it for you. I will do it for you, the king. I will give you the role of the king. But you will not say to anyone that you know better than me. So Yosef, neder will not do it. Why? Yes, exactly. Two more weeks. When Yosef wanted to bury his father, he said to him, "I buried a tombstone for my father, that I buried him in the tombstone. So if you tell me that I am allowed to go to the tombstone that I buried for my father, then it means that I am also allowed to go to the tombstone that I buried almost 20 years ago, that I told you that I will not tell anyone that I know the ends of you."

1:40:23You understand? So here you understand how much Yosef received, how much Siyata Dishmaya he received during this whole process. Afterwards, Pharaoh says, it's not nice for the king of Egypt to be a slave. He needs to marry someone. But Yosef is a tzaddik, he can't marry any girl. So he gives him Osnat. And this shows us how HaKadosh Baruch Hu gives the medicine before the disease. Who is Osnat? Do you know the Midrash of Osnat? Yes, exactly. The daughter of Dinah. Exactly. Osnat is the daughter of Dinah. Yes, exactly. So now... Oh, Baruch Hashem. Now he is getting married. He now has two children, Menashe and Ephraim. His brothers are coming. There is the whole story that his brothers are coming from there. And they come... Yaakov tells them, when you go there, there's a gate, and we need food. When you get there, you go... All of you, don't enter through the same gate. Everyone will enter through a different gate. Why? Because if everyone looked at you together, they would think, now they know that you're all in the same family, they would put an evil eye on you. So that they wouldn't put an evil eye on you, that we're a lot, that we're a big family, everyone will enter through a different gate.

1:41:50Now Yosef, he's looking for them, he's always waiting for them, he knows it will happen. After the seven good years, he's waiting for his brothers to come, when will be the bad years, with the ra'av. So he made all kinds of laws in Egypt, that every person has to buy the food for his own family. He can't send someone else, he can't send his servant or his helper. That's the first thing. The second thing, every person who wants to buy, has to recognize him in front of him. Yosef needs to see them. And thirdly, he said, if there is a family that is together, if there are ten together, send them directly to me. So he searched for them. When will they arrive now? Of course, the ra'av was all over the world. The ra'av was all over the world. Yes, 100%. But the ra'av itself was all over the world. Why did Hashem make the ra'av all over the world? Even more. Much more. Because it's like now there's only one country in the world that has food. Exactly. Yes. So now it's like you have one society, only one society in the world that has phones. It will be a society with a monopoly. Yes. Exactly. Food. It's even better. Yes.

1:43:16So that's the point. Now, the whole world came to Yosef, and that made Egypt very rich, and why did Hashem give them so much wealth? Why didn't He just make the countries for man to have a lot of wealth? Why did He also make distant places for them to have a lot of wealth? Because He wanted to make Egypt very rich, for the sake of the promise that He gave to Avraham, we understand, that He said to Avraham, we understand, that after your sons and your grandchildren will dwell in Egypt for 400 years, They made Egypt rich. So how can these workers become rich? Then the state itself must be rich. So here, if Pharaoh was, let's say, a billionaire, now, after this, he will become a trillionaire. It's not even the same. And even the Chazal say that the gift he gave It's in Me'am Loez. I'll explain it. The gift that he gave to Yosef on his first day of work, he gave him a gift. He gave him a gift of gold, he gave him a piece of land, he gave him 3,000 hundredweights of gold. In any case, gold and money that today is worth about half a billion dollars. Yes.

1:44:53Yes, yes, yes, Baruch Hashem. Do what you need, Baruch Hashem. And... Yes, do it, do it. Be strong and blessed. We stood, Baruch Hashem. And if there is... Yes, yes, why? There are many relevant things that can be learned only at the beginning of the parasha. Many good things, Baruch Hashem. And also, in any case, we will continue the story next week because this story will continue next week. So we will pass on things that we didn't pass on next week, Baruch Hashem. Okay, Baruch Hashem. Okay, have a Shabbat Shalom. Very, very good. Happy Chag Sameach. Amen, amen. Tell the woman, tell the woman the story, how important people are, Baruch Hashem. Tell them, everything she does, it's good to know stories, how important people are in Judaism. It's good for a woman to know how important people are in Judaism. Exactly, exactly. So because of that, she needs to know how many people put their soul in a pot. It's not just about oil, it's about...

1:45:53Yes, it's a good thing to know how important a woman is. Is this really a woman? Yes. And the second one was a woman, her name was Yehudit, who went and played her role like she wanted to marry the Jews and cut off his head. Exactly. Exactly. Baruch Hashem. Chazak u'Baruch. And if you have questions or something, you can ask me anything you need. But thank you very much for the lesson. And b'shem Hashem, continue to learn. All the best, Tzaddik. Shabbat Shalom. All the best. Bye-bye.