שיחת חיזוק בטלפון (17) (פרשת עקב מה העסקה שלנו עם הבורא יתברך) הרב ירון ראובן ToraMates

0:32Good, good. With the help of Hashem, we learned about the next portion. Do you have any specific questions that we should answer before we finish the portion? Okay, in the name of Hashem, let's do it and succeed. So, the end portion starts with something that shows us where we are and where the Divine thought is. And let's see, let's measure it, let's see if we are really the same. Now, the portion starts, "And it shall come to pass, because you listen to these judgments, and keep and do them, that the Lord your God will keep the covenant and the mercy which He swore to your forefathers." and your loved ones, and your brothers, and your loved ones, and your children, and your children's children, and their children, and their children, and their children, and their children, and their children, and their children, and their children, and their children, and their children, and their children, and their children, and their children, and their children, and their children, and their children, and their children, and their children, and their children, and their children, and their children, and their children, and their children, and their children,

1:56Something that you don't understand. It's obvious to you. The language itself, even in the parasha, relatively... It's a simple language. You can understand it. Even in the parasha, you can understand it. He says to you, he says to you, this is the reward that a person receives if he does the will of Hashem. And it was, after you hear... So, first thing, why doesn't it say, and it was... If you will listen to these laws and you have kept them and you have done them and Hashem, your God, has kept for you the covenant and so on and so forth. Why does it say, and you will listen to the end? Now, Chazal tells us a few descriptions of the word "end." "End," first thing, you understand that it is like the word "end." Now, the first thing you can understand is that every place a person goes, he goes forward. His joy is always the second thing that comes to the place, not the first thing. So first of all, they try to explain to us in a simple way that after you hear and do the mishpatim and you have kept and done them, after you have completed the Torah, then Hashem will give you all these blessings that we will talk about in a few minutes.

3:17So this first thing shows us in very simple language that all the blessings, all the good things, both in this world and in the next world, everything is conditional. Everything is conditional. It's not that a person comes to the world and is a nice person. or when it says, "and it was after you heard." So it tells you, after you heard and you did these commandments, then I will give you the covenant. It tells you, this is the condition. It doesn't tell you, and He didn't start with blessing, He didn't start, yes, yes, because you fulfill and do, fulfill my Torah and do the mitzvot, then I give you these blessings and Hashem will love you, He blesses you, He multiplies you, He multiplies the fruit of your belly, so that the children themselves will also be blessed.

4:17Even your land, your trade, with the issue of development, it also gets destroyed. Even if he tells you that every Jewish house won't have someone who can't take care of the children, or a wife who can't take care of the children, even the parents of the person, they won't succeed either. So his business, if he has a fortune, or he has all sorts of things, then he tells you, even the deeds of your hands will be blessed. All the things you do will be blessed. But, This is the condition: this is after you will hear, after you will hear and you will do everything I say to you. Not before. I will not give you just because you came to the world when the Holy One brought you. Not because He brought you to the world will you receive all the reward. No. You will know there is a condition here. If you will hear, and you will keep, and you will do them, then it will say to you, and God will keep and take from you the blessing and the money. So now, there are a few things.

5:24The first thing is that we know that we have a deal with G-d. We call it a deal. A deal is a deal. It's a deal. That's it. You know that He signed a deal with Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov. And He's ready to do it with their great-great-great-grandchildren. We are. But since they didn't fulfill the Torah, we have to fulfill the Torah. They didn't receive all the reward, just like that. Avraham brought us, not only Avraham brought us, just like that. Yitzchak and Yaakov, it was very hard. I heard a sermon from Rabbi Efraim today. Something happened with him, something very beautiful, very sweet. Now we understand, Avraham brought us, We meet Avraham Avinu after the trials. We don't meet him so much when he is a small child. We heard a nice story and so on. But Avraham Avinu, the Midrash says, the Midrash Rabbah says, that when he was born, the day he was born, Nimrod received a message from those who do avodah zarah and all the things in the stars and so on. He heard from them that someone was born today

6:41that will destroy you. If you don't kill him, he'll go after you. So he said, bring him to me. So he called Terach, Avraham's father. He said, I'll give you a son in the day, bring him to me. So Terach had a wife, and she also gave birth to a child on that day. So he brought her the child of the wife. And he kept Avraham in the cave for three years. Three years in the cave. After three years, Avraham went out, he saw the sun, and you know the story, he thought that the sun is the God. He started praying to the sun. He prayed, prayed, prayed, prayed, prayed, prayed all day. Between three, he prayed. We can hardly pray a quarter of an hour in a tent. He prayed all day to the sun, he said, this is the God, what am I going to do? I came to the world because of this sun. Then he saw that the sun was coming down, there was a sunset. So he says, the sun is not strong, it can't be, because now it's in the sunset. Midrash Rabbah, this is Torah Sheb'al Peh. Torah Sheb'al Peh, Torah Sheb'Ketav, and Torah Sheb'al Peh, we got from Har Sinai. Moshe Rabbeinu. There is Torah Sheb'Ketav and Torah Sheb'al Peh. Torah Sheb'al Peh is the Mishnah, the Gemara, the Midrashim, the Holy Zohar, Torah Sheb'al Peh.

8:08No, from what I heard, she was 3 years old. No, no, no, she was too, but you have to understand, it's not the same thing, a 3-year-old like us. How do we know? Because Rivka, when she helped Eliezer, We already understand that it is not the same thing at the age of three as we are. Why? How do we know this? What is the simple thing? Because she brought water to all the servants and all the camels of Eliezer. So do you know how much water one camel drinks? You can't lift the whole body. You see that it's a bigger woman. Maybe not in height, but in the size of the body, much bigger, much stronger. So you already understand that it's not the same thing. But anyway, you understand that...

9:09Abraham, at the age of three, comes out of the cave. He realizes that there is something; he already understands. He has a mind different from ours. He is not an atheist. He goes straight to the place and says, it can't be that I came from nothing. He begins to pray to the sun. Then the sheep comes; he begins to pray to the sheep. He prays to the sheep all night long. He says, I made a mistake. He responds, I prayed to avodah zarah. Now he is praying; he thinks he is praying to the true G-d. Then Hashem comes again. So he says, how can this be? This is not the G-d, and this is not the G-d. So who really is HaKadosh Baruch Hu? Who is He? Where is He? And then Hashem, blessed and exalted, shows him, "I. I am the G-d. I am HaKadosh Baruch Hu. I have blessed you. I have blessed the whole world. Why? Like in Parashat Va'etchanan, in chapter Dalet." He says something amazing, something very amazing that every person will come to Heaven, he already knows if he knows this verse, he already knows that he has no chance if he doesn't answer. Why? He says to you in chapter Dalet, verse 29.

10:20And from there you asked the Lord your God, and you found Him, for you will seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. What does he say? He says, if you are really looking for the Holy One, with all your heart and all your soul, you will find Him. You found Him, because you will seek Him. No, you are not looking for a place where you are looking for a bird. He asked you, with all your heart and soul, if you really... If you really want to find HaKadosh Baruch Hu, you will ask for it, you will search for it, you will not leave this thing until you find it. HaKadosh Baruch Hu will surprise you. If you really search for Him, you will find Him. And I will now give you a revelation. Today it happened. Does it suit you? Does a revelation suit you now?

11:39Okay, let me tell you. This is what I tell you all the time. I tell you in the requests all the time. When you are engaged in Zikui HaRabim, you really see miracles and wonders every day. I see miracles every day, thank God. If it's not in my life, it's in the life of someone else that I know. So I have a student in Bulgaria. Bulgaria. This guy is very kind. He is gay. And... came from a family of foreign workers at the highest level. It's not just Christianity, but it's Christianity in a way that's like a joke. They play it like they're talking to angels, and they're talking to Hashem. It's all a joke, a joke, a ghostly joke of nonsense that they say. It's all money and nonsense. And he already discovered it from a young age. He's between 20 and something, 21, 22.

12:40Bulgaria. Bulgaria, he lived there. And he already realized that everything is nonsense at a young age. He didn't connect to it. He went and searched for the Holy One, where? In Islam. He started to study Islam. He says it's nonsense too. It can't be. Both the Christians and the Muslims, both say that the Jews are right. Both say that they build everything they have on Judaism. Yes, but this is the point. Very wise, very wise. But the main thing is that every person has a sense of wisdom. But Hashem doesn't say in this verse that you found it because of your wisdom. No.

13:52Yes, yes, but He doesn't say to you, "You found Me because you have wisdom." But the people understood that he didn't have divine wisdom. He didn't have Torah wisdom at the age of three. Now he left the cave. He wasn't there. He said to him, what? If you really want to find Me, you want to find the truth, find Me. Why? Because you will search for Me until you find Me. And I will reveal Myself. So now, this person, really something amazing. He searches for Islam, sees that it's nonsense, and says I will check Judaism. He starts to check Judaism. He says, this is the truth. Now, he says, if this is the truth, I have to change my life. But I live in a place of avodah zarah. My work doesn't allow me not to work on Shabbat. What does he do? He leaves the work. Yes, but now, no, now he wants to change. It's forbidden to keep Shabbat, he still doesn't change.

14:57If a person starts the process of giyur, it is allowed for him to keep Shabbat. At the beginning, it is 99%, as if he equates it with one thing, and then at the last stage of giyur, he already keeps the whole Shabbat. So now, now... So listen, listen to the story. It is a wonderful story. I am telling you, it is a revelation that is happening to you today, not just. You see, we are telling you, this is the first story that I am telling you the story about. You have the right. I also have the right to teach you, so now we're talking together. Now, when you start to get up, this person starts to learn about Judaism, buys books, starts to see my lessons, starts to see the lessons of Rabbi Ezrachi, starts to strengthen, strengthen, read, starts to learn Shulchan Aruch, starts to learn all kinds of... everything, holy books, his house is full of holy books, and he doesn't have the books, doesn't have, doesn't have, doesn't have, but now he has one problem, what will he do with his work? He says, I'm leaving this work. Why? I can't work on Shabbat anymore. It's, no, I have to be a Jew, in time, I have to be a Jew. How can I be a Jew? I don't know, but I have to be a Jew, so I have to start the process. What does he do? He leaves his work and finds the only work he can do without working on Shabbat, in Bulgaria. What does he do? He becomes a leader.

16:19He buys a few clothes. He says, I will be a shepherd, I will do a few things here and there, so that I will live. Like David HaMelech, Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov. He says, this is not a person, this is a personification of the soul, 100%. So listen to what Hashem is doing for this person. Oh, he split. A wonderful story for you to listen to. Yes, so now, this person leaves the work and becomes a farmer. A farmer who is born, continues to learn, creates a connection with me, continues to learn, continues to learn, and begins to help me. To help me with many needs. But now we have one problem. In the place where he lives in Bulgaria, there are no Jews. No. No one. No Jew at all. The closest place where there are Jews is maybe 3-4 hours from there.

17:20And he doesn't know anyone. Now, if a goy comes, even if he's gone for three hours, comes to the synagogue and tells them, "I want to go to the synagogue," what do you think they'll do? Tell him, "Do us a favor, there are enough anti-Semitic people in the world. Stay a goy, leave us, we're afraid of everything, do us a favor." They don't know you—who are you, what, what, you know? So the man doesn't care, he continues to study Torah, he continues to help me with the zikui harabim. I'm telling you, this person does zikui harabim day and night, but listen to what he did, something that I still have to answer for because of what he's doing and I'm not yet doing. Listen to what he's doing. This is something amazing, but listen to what this person did. Now, before, he says to me, "I have to do something with the word." A brit. You have to make a brit. You hear what I'm saying here? You have to make a brit. We don't remember our brit. It wasn't our option. Your father didn't ask you to make a brit. You don't remember it, right? He's a 20-something guy. He says, I have to make a brit. He spends all the money he has, the profits he has, he spends all the money to organize a brit milah. That you'll never hear again.

18:45The person is doing a brit milah, and then I see him, the same day that he's doing a brit milah, I see that he's spreading my lessons on the internet. I ask him, I know that he had a brit milah today, so I say, what happened, didn't you do the surgery? What happened to the brit milah? He says, yes, yes, I did the surgery. I said to him, so what does that mean? You don't have pains? He says, yes, I have pains. So I say to him, So why don't you rest? In English. It's in English. It's in good English. But now I'm asking him, why don't you rest? So listen to what he's saying. He's saying, if I go to rest, where will the people of Israel find their Torah if I do rest? Where will they learn Torah if I'm resting in my bed with the pains? What will they do on the internet? Look at the mess there is. They will see women who are not modestly dressed. They will see a police officer who saves homeless people on the highway. Pokémon. What will they do on the internet? If I don't publish Torah on the internet, what will the people of Israel do? On the day of the word of God, Shimon HaTzadik, this man, does Zikui HaRabim, which most people, even if you invite them to do Zikui HaRabim, don't want to do. He does it for free. So listen to what happened.

20:10I signed up, it strengthened me, this story strengthened me so much. It strengthened me, so in the requests we made in New York, which unfortunately I didn't see you, but okay, I understand that it was a bit busy. But in any case, the requests we made, I told this story almost in every request. It's a simple principle: a person needs to understand that you need to come to Heaven. The Holy One will ask you, what did you do for Me? What did you do for Me? Did you pray for yourself? Did you learn the Torah for yourself? Did you pray for yourself? What did you do for Me? Did you help My children? Did you bring them back? What did you do for Me? You did everything for yourself. What did you do for Me? So I said to them, this person is not obligated. He is not obligated to the Torah. He is not obligated to zikui harabim. He is not obligated to the word of God. He does everything for everyone. So what about us? What are we going to say when we get there? Until now, listen to what's going on here. The wedding didn't end, so the wedding didn't end. This man is losing his soul, and I told the story, and I tell myself, like, this is something amazing, but that's it. I get an email yesterday, yesterday morning, or last night. After the wedding, I go home, I check the emails. In the middle of the morning, I get an email in Hebrew.

21:38A Rav said to me, we heard that I am a Rav in Bulgaria and there are a few people in the community who see your lectures. They heard in your lecture that you have a student in Bulgaria who is interested in becoming a rabbi, and we want to help him. That you will help him. Do you understand what is happening here? What is the chance that someone from Bulgaria will see my teaching? That's the first thing. What is the chance that someone will see my teaching? Second thing, what is the chance that a Jew will see this specific teaching? Third thing, what is the chance that they will care? But you see, as the Holy One, blessed be He, shouted and said to Avraham, who is the boss? Right now he's doing it. He tells him, he sends... Mesirat Nefesh, Chazak U'Baruch, Mesirat Nefesh. So this Rabbi says, we'll help him. So I tell this guy, the guy starts crying. He starts crying, he says, it's my dream. He doesn't know anyone else. A dream that starts crying, crying, crying. Crying for what we already have. Crying. I tell him, but he tells me, but he tells me, I don't have money. All my money, I spent it on the word of God. I don't have money. It'll take me time.

23:06At the same time he tells me, "I don't have money," he gets a phone call. Someone from the community offers him money to go to this city, which is three hours away. He doesn't have a penny; he doesn't have anything. Maybe he needs money to study, he doesn't know. He can't go every day for three hours, so he needs to rent an apartment. At the same time that he tells me this, he gets a phone call, probably from the person who saw the lesson, who calls him and says, "I heard about you, we will pay for your education, pay for your promotion, for everything, we want to help you. 100,000 Taf, Shabbat Shalom. And we will also give you prayer books, we will also give you tzitzit, we will also give you a tallit, we will also give you mezuzot, we will give you everything you need, Shabbat Shalom." Do you understand what HaKadosh Baruch Hu is? Do you understand what HaKadosh Baruch Hu is? When you sacrifice your soul for HaKadosh Baruch Hu, what does He do for you? Heaven and earth are not enough to say what HaKadosh Baruch Hu will give you.

24:11Do you understand what's going on here? This is something amazing. So when G-d says to you here, in the verse of Ekev, the verse of Ekev says to you, if you listen, He says, listen to the verse of Ekev, listen to the verse of Ekev, He says to you, accept all things, I will keep the covenant, and the mercy, and that I have sworn to your forefathers, and your love, and your blessings, and all these blessings. He doesn't joke, He doesn't joke. He tells you the truth. He tells you, I will give you, from Aleph to Tav, it's not enough, it's just the beginning of the way to what I can really give you. So you understand what's going on here. But you have a condition. You need to lose your soul. That's why it's written, after you will hear. It's not written before the blessing and after you will hear. Before you will hear what the Holy One says to you. With God's help. Yes.

25:19For you, you have to fulfill the Torah. It's clear that you do it because Hashem said to you to study Torah, you don't learn Torah. It's clear that you do mitzvot because Hashem says to you to do mitzvot. But really, Hashem doesn't need your Torah. So I'll tell you the story. There was a rich man. There was a rich man. And now he won the lottery. Not all the time was he rich, but he won the lottery. He sends a letter to his two sons. One of the sons is already rich. One of the sons is me. I'm poor. So he sends the letter to the rich son, telling him, "Listen, I won the lottery. I'm having a big party." I invite both of you. Here are the cards for the show, for the event that we are doing. Please arrange for your brother to come with you. Everything that you are complaining about, I will give back to you. Don't forget to take care of your brother. That's what it says. Thank you, with love, Dad. That's it.

26:37Then the rich man sees the letter and says, "Hey, that's nice, Dad. I need the car. Come on, let's buy what we need." He says to his wife, "The car you wanted, $150,000. Come on, let's buy it. Dad asked me to pay for it. The new car, let's buy it too. For the production, you can't get to JetBlue. You can't get to El Al like that. You need a private jet." Let's take a private plane, $30,000 per hour, something nice like that. The replacement, you can't wear a $2,000 replacement, it's a waste. You need a minimum, custom-made, $10,000. Minimum. Custom-made. Custom. Yes, custom-made. Yes, so why not? Something special for you, you don't buy it in stores. When I was in the business world, I would bring a person to my office; I wouldn't go to the stores, there was no time. So the person would come to my office and he would take care of me. Exactly, exactly, but I'm telling you this for an update. You understand that, like, a person wants custom, he can, custom. So anyway, it's all nonsense anyway, it's not to impress anyone, it's just a matter of course that a person, like I was, in the desires of the world, nonsense, yes, you have nothing, so what are you doing? Exactly, exactly.

27:53Exactly. So now, this person starts to get confused, like, that's it, that's it. And then, finally, on the last day before they leave, he remembers his brother and says, no, no, no, let's go to Macy's. Go to the store, it's simple, I'll buy you some new clothes, at least you'll look like a person. He buys him some clothes for 100 dollars. And he says, let's go, limousine and everything, we'll get to the party. This rich man gets out of the limousine. He's dressed up. Everyone thinks he's a minister or a president or something. And then they see a man just behind him. They think maybe it's his assistant. Maybe he's some homeless person. Who knows? And the father looks at his two sons and hears what people are saying. They say, "Oh, he brought his assistant to this party? That's not nice. Why did he bring his assistant? Maybe it's some homeless person. He's doing some charity. We're giving him a ride." Maybe it was some homeless person he found. The father hears what they're saying about his little son, who is me, and at this moment, he wants to die. Really, to die. What a mess of things people say. What's going on here? At the end of the party, the big event and so on and so forth, the rich son comes to the father and says, "I'm going." The father asks him, "Where are you going?"

29:19He says, go home. He says, Koresh, ask for peace. He says, yes, yes, but dad, I'm going. He says, okay, you said you were going. Go, ask for peace. No, no, no, dad, you don't understand. I'm going. Now, I'm with the family, everyone, we're going home. He says, what, do you need money for the monitor? What do you want? He says, no, dad, you promised me that everything I mess up, you'll give me the money. I spent three and a half million dollars to come here. No, I didn't say that. He said, what do you mean? I have the letter, it's on me. Here, let's show you the letter. Show him the letter. He said, read the letter. I told you, everything you say about my dignity, I will pay. Don't forget about your brother. That's what I wrote. So what does it say? It says, you, this plane you brought, is it for me? No, it's for you. The ticket to your wife, 150,000 dollars, that you have the ticket. From Tiffany. 150 dollars. Is it for me? No, it's for you. The replacement for 10,000 dollars. Is it for me? No, it's for you. I said about my honor, don't forget about your brother. But your brother, that everyone thought he was some homeless, poor, your helper. You left him like that. Ah, once again, the Satan must be disturbed because this story is strong.

30:46Yes, so you are disturbing because the story is strong, Baruch Hashem. So what? So he says, but your brother who came, and everyone thought he was some homeless, thought he was some poor, poor man, that you are doing him some mischief, that you have spoiled him at all. I, at that moment, wanted to die. How can you say to yourself, that you have done me honor, even one percent of honor, and you give my little son to be seen as some homeless? How can you do that? So you understand, this is what HaKadosh Baruch Hu Hashem and Shalom, Hashem and Shalom will tell us if we don't start to give a serious answer and start to understand the word Esek here. Okay, a person is learning Torah, it's for him. You have to learn Torah. Whether you want to or not, you have to learn Torah. Prayer, you have to learn. You have to make prayers. Connection, of course you have to. You want to learn Torah and understand what you are learning. You have to be able to connect. Why? It's written in the Torah. And you will die. And Chazal say, don't cry, you will die. And you will cry, you will die.

31:49So, a person who eats non-kosher, it confuses him in the matter of Torah. He reads Torah for 700 hours and doesn't understand anything. He doesn't understand. So, you have to eat kosher, it's for you. What, a family meal? Do you want to stay married? Do you want to stay married to the world and be happy? How can you be married to the world with happiness and not be part of the statistics of 80% who get divorced without a family meal? How? Do you want good children? All the things, all the commandments are for you. For you, Habibi, for you. What have you done for me? How can you say that you're fine, you came with the black and white, with the black and white to heaven, you think you're a righteous person, the origin of the world, without heaven, and your little brother, the poor, the poor, has no minimal understanding of what he lives for. He doesn't know what Shabbat is, he doesn't know what HaKadosh Baruch Hu is, he doesn't know what Tefillin is, he doesn't know what Taharat Mishpacha is, his wife is going to Aramis, she has been divorced 5 times already. How can you say that we have done honor to Hashem and he remained your neighbor, your neighbor for 20 years, on Shabbat? How? So you understand? So HaKadosh Baruch Hu asks him, what did you do for me? So you understand?

33:00מתי שבן אדם מתעסק בזיכוי הרבים, לא כולם צריכים לעשות דרשות, לא כולם צריכים ללמד, יש אנשים שעובדים, לא כולם ללמד, יש אנשים שיש להם כוח דיבור, אז עושים מה שעשיתם לפני חודש חודשיים, זיכיתם את הרבים, אתם תומכים בדיסקים, או שאתם מארגנים שיעורים, או שכל בן אדם שמתעסק בזיכוי הרבים באופן קבוע, לא פעם ביובל, פעם בשנה, אני שולח מאה דולר או משהו כזה, רק בשביל המצפון שבי. Something fixed. There are discs; they support discs. There are lectures; there are rabbis. You understand the rabbis. If there is someone who doesn't observe Shabbat, you invite him, "Stay with me. Let's see what a Shabbat table is." All kinds of things—every person does it in his own way. Not everyone needs money. If a person doesn't have money, you don't need money. You organize a lesson, you don't need money. You collect money from your friends, you organize a lesson. If you don't have friends and you don't have money, okay, you have the internet. You're already on the internet anyway. In any case, you're on the internet. You're on Facebook, okay, so take a lecture that's good, that's really something that... You can even put it on the internet every day 500 times, every day 5 times, every time even, every time.

34:12All right, but not you. I'm telling you, every person has something. Everyone has a strength. There's one who's on the internet all day, in any case. There's one who's in the world, but he can give every worker or every customer a disc. Or he goes to the Knesset. He sees that there are people who put discs in the Knesset, he also puts discs. Or he knows he has a friend; he can get 30-40 friends to his house, he will come to a shiur, he will call the rabbi, thank the rabbi, we need to thank the rabbi. Come to my house and thank the rabbi for God's sake. There is a shiur, an hour, an hour and a half, whatever there is. But every person in a constant way has to do something. Why? We will come to Shamayim and we don't want the one who is in charge to tell us, "Oh, what a good person you are, the Holy One, blessed be He, gave you everything you have, He gave you and you didn't do Him any good? You didn't even save one of His sons?" One? You didn't save one? You lived 120 years and you couldn't save one? Do you understand what is happening here? This is the point. I explained it in the shiur. Of course, G-d will help us. We have to help ourselves.

35:27We have to help ourselves. We continue to do, we continue to do, we continue to do with the help of G-d. Now, the next parashah tells us the first thing: first of all, do and complete the Torah, then you will have blessings and success. The second thing tells us, what blessings, what... It hurts a lot? Not many. Most people, but what I do know, most people who can't organize classes, can't give lectures, can't distribute disks, can't even teach or something like that, what do they do? Baruch Hashem, there are many people who work. When we started the disks, maybe two months ago, we started with 25,000. You helped, many other people helped, and now we are releasing disc number 2, and with God's help we will release 50,000. Disc number 2 is stronger than the first one, and we have at least 15 million Jews to reach. If not, including all the goyim in the world, the leaders of the nations of the world, who also need to be reached. So we are going big, we are continuing to grow, 25,000, 50,000, next time, another 2,000. We need to be a light for the goyim.

36:48Every goy who is looking for Hashem, where will you look for Him? In the restaurant? Where will you look for Him? In the Torah! This goy in Bulgaria, where did he find me? He found me on the internet! So let me give you a revelation: The holy Zohar says And I heard it from Rabbi Ephraim, not that I am a wise student who studies Zohar, but I will tell you what my Rabbi said. He said, everything that Hashem does, even if it is a punishment, there is good in it. So now, in the parashat of Va'etchanan, Hashem also said to us that we have a punishment when we work a foreign work, etc. etc. So He separates us into the four corners of the world. So this is what Hashem says, ok, part of it is punishment, of course, but it's avodah zarah, if this avodah zarah is really like Buddhism, they pray to idols, or to Christianity, or if it's avodah zarah of money. Money is also avodah zarah, it's the avodah zarah of today. So this punishment, Hashem threw us out of the land, divided us into four parts of the world, so this is the punishment. But what's good about this punishment? He says in the days of the Messiah,

38:12The Gemara Masechet Avodah Zarah, yes, exactly. The Gemara Masechet Avodah Zarah Daf Dalet says that in the days of the Messiah there will be a lot of geirim. People from all the nations of the world will come and want to convert. There will be a lot of geirim. And I will tell you a story that is also happening now. Part of this prophecy is happening as we see it now with our own eyes. And now There will be a lot of geirim. Now, what will happen to these geirim? Hashem has dispersed us all over the world. Why? Because at least these geirim can find Judaism. Exactly. They will have a rabbi. A rabbi in the community. A rabbi in Bulgaria. A rabbi in India. A rabbi in China. A rabbi in Australia. You have a rabbi everywhere. You have the name of Hashem. So at least this ger who wants to find the true G-D, he has a way to find it.

39:13And then you will be blessed by Hashem. And then you will see wonderful things. Now, you can see this lecture. I have not seen the whole lecture yet, but I have already heard the story, and I have heard part of the lecture. Rabbi Daniel Assor, the owner of Tshuvah Tzadik, who came out of Sitra Achra to kedushah, really holy. He is now, Daniel Assor, Rabbi Daniel Assor. Assor. I will send the lecture in a text after this. Yes, so now there is one king in Africa, and his family has been in the kingdom for 2,000 years. They have a tradition of 2,000 years from the Temple, and they call themselves

40:15Seven, not only Jews, seven Ephraim. Black. But now, yes, yes, yes. Now, there is a doubt about their Judaism because there was discrimination; it was like this, it was like that. In any case, they came to, I think it was Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, They asked him, Rabbi Kanievsky, I think he also got involved in this matter. They asked him, if you are really a true king or just a king, it's just a job. So he said, what do you mean? He said, if you want to kill anyone, is it allowed? He said, yes, I am a king, I am really a king. Not only that he is a king, I am a king, there are 357 kings, he is king over all of them. So they made a blessing. The rabbi made a blessing on the king, a special blessing on the king, the real king. And now this person, because there was a doubt, a doubt about the matter of Judaism, he converted. Yes? In Africa, there are many kings. Now he converted for the sake of the doubt, and now he says, we need to convert all my people. Now we...

41:44they are Jews. They have a tradition; they have the whole Torah in writing. They maintain a connection; they keep a family tree. They have a tradition. It's not the only story. There is a series of tribes all over the world that are being discovered now. There is even in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, there is a people called the Pathians. These Pathians say that they are from the Middle East. A tribe of Binyamin. How many are there? And they keep the commandments that only the Jewish people keep. They have tzitzit. The Arabs don't have tzitzit. They do shechita like the Jews do. Family taharat that only the Jews do. Family taharat. They carry out all the Torah. No, Muslims don't have taharat. Muslims have shechita, but not shechita like us. Yes, he didn't eat, so he went to the gym. Exactly. Exactly. So what's happening here, there are the Pathans. Now, these Pathans in Afghanistan, there are 16 million. 16 million. In Africa, this king says, now we need... Listen, listen, listen, wait. There are now, they have 25 million in his country. 25 million. Even a week ago, I made a connection. Something amazing.

43:10No, a different king. A different king, a big king, who is in Nigeria and some other place in Africa. I forgot the name of it. And he is now coming to America for Erev Pesach. Erev Pesach. He made a connection with me, saw my notes, or someone saw my notes, I don't know how it happened. He says, we are Jews in Africa, in Nigeria. They call them Igbos. And they call themselves from Shevet Gad. Shevet Gad. So I asked him, I told him this story about this king. About this king that... What does he think of it? He says, yes, yes, they are not the only Jews. There are also many here. I told him, how many? How many do you have there? He says, we have at least 25 million.

44:14HaKadosh Baruch Hu told us that one of the things that the Messiah will do, one of his roles, is to reveal all 12 tribes. The time has come. We... exactly, I see every day, I tell you... Yes, certainly in Central America, all over the world there is, even in India there is. Now there is. That's what I'm saying. Oh, it could be, it could be. It could be, it could be. The point is that one of the roles of the Messiah is to reveal all the tribes. And we already see, I tell you, I myself, not that I'm a great Rabbi or something special, I don't know how...

45:17It's forbidden to say the time, but really, it's impossible to say the time, but we pray for it every day, every day in Amidah. Every day in Amidah, you say, right? Every day, so now I'll tell you the story. The Rabbi, Yisrael Salanter, Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, the founder of the Mussar movement. So Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, the founder of the Mussar movement, So every day he would pray with all of his students. And you know, a standing prayer, how do you do it? With your eyes closed. Close your eyes. You can't open your eyes. You have to close your mouth and really contemplate the prayer. It's really natural that a person prays a standing prayer, the Amidah. He really has to bring himself, it's a mess, but he really has to bring himself to a state where he really feels that the Holy One, blessed be He, is with him. Next to him, not somewhere far. Next to him, next to him. Sit next to him and listen to all his words. You need to close your eyes. I understand you, but that's what you need to do. I'm telling you what you need to do. We need to grow. It's impossible to stay in the same place. Okay, we don't do this, then it's in order that we don't do it. No, it's not in order. We need to grow, just like you're not okay with what you have now at work.

46:41So we have to give him more. A person has 100, he wants 200. A person has 200, he wants 400. So it's the same thing with the commandments, the same thing with the Ruach HaKodesh, the same thing with the Torah, the same thing with everything. The Torah is a business, but the point is that we have to give him more. So now, he prays, his eyes are closed, and then, when he reaches the prayer, the blessing of Mashiach, that the Ruach HaKodesh will bring the idol, opens his eyes and looks. And one of his students, who probably came to the prayer later, sees the Rabbi looking, and then, right, left, and then he opens his eyes and starts praying again. So this student says, why is the Rabbi like this? So after the prayer he says, dear Rabbi, why did you open your eyes in the middle of the prayer? What, you don't open them for the students who are praying? We're all praying, what?

47:41No, chas v'shalom, chas v'shalom, no, why all of a sudden? So he says, why do you have to say that? He says, no, you have to understand, I don't want to bless a blessing for no reason. He says, no, what do you mean, dear Rabbi? He says, I pray that the Mashiach will come. I pray every day. But before I say this blessing, I have to open my eyes and check if he's already here. So I open my eyes, I look right, left, if I don't see him, then I bless the blessing. This is the thought of the holy Tzaddik. They really, and there is a similar story in the chapter of life, they really expected the Mashiach to be the same, really. So every Jew really, You have to understand where we are and what we have to do. When you pray for the Mashiach, it's not just that he will come. So that's why it's impossible to say time. Whether it's five years, ten years, five months, it doesn't matter. The point is really within yourself. One of the thirteen main principles that the Rambam wrote to us, that every Jew must believe in and reflect upon every day. Thirteen main principles. What are they?

48:55that the Mashiach will come now, not 700 years later. Now. Yes, exactly. So, now it will be easier to believe that the Mashiach will come. Why? You see, all the prophecies exist. If it's a red heifer, if it's the government going against the people, if it's the corruption that exists all over the world with all the things that are happening, if it's the war of the third world, if it's all kinds of traitors all over the world that you can't understand, all kinds of cowards that you can't understand in all kinds of places. Prophecy after prophecy after prophecy after prophecy is something amazing. And now you see all kinds of people coming to you from all kinds of holes that no one even knows exist. They tell you we have 15 million Jews here, you have 25 Jews here, 25 million here. Within a week, you see what it is. We don't have 15 million Jews. It could be that we have half a billion. Do you understand what's going on here?

50:01So the prophecies exist. So all those who think that I was born from a Jewish mother and I don't need to do anything or I'm Jewish and I'm okay, that's not true. Why? First of all, there are many like you who are much better than you. So it's up to you to improve, to wake up a bit. You're not so big, tzaddik. There are many. Second of all, The point is that every person needs to wake up, wake up, wake up. Every person needs to engage in Torah and mitzvot, to learn every day, to do teshuva every day. I don't care if you were born religious, or you did teshuva a week ago, or 20 years ago, it doesn't matter. Every person needs to do teshuva for something, every day. You have to learn, you have to deal with many things, in what way. If it's to support with money, or if it's to distribute lessons, or if it's to practice, something, something. You have to do things. Why? This is the mitzvah, apart from studying Torah and fulfilling it, this is the most important mitzvah in our generation. How do I know? How do I know? What is my proof? What is my idea? The Chazal says to us,

51:33There are a lot of things in the world; it doesn't mean that everyone is right. There are 2.5 billion people who believe in Christianity; does that mean they are right? There are 2 billion Muslims who want to kill Jews; does that mean they are right? The majority doesn't say anything, even though there are a lot of rabbis who don't agree with other rabbis. Okay, it doesn't mean that they are right. But we also don't know what they are doing, what they are not doing. You really need to understand that a lot of tzaddikim are doing things quietly. If they have a community, if they have books, yes, they have books, but you also need to understand exactly, you can't judge anyone, but you need to understand. You need to understand. Zikui HaRabim, exactly, Zikui HaRabim is everyone. It's also the religious, Haredim, Satmarim, Chilonim, Russians, Georgians. It doesn't matter to me. If you have a Jew, you need to honor him. You need to help him to reach the Torah, to reach the Mitzvot, to reach Hashem Yitbarach. We have to! We have to! Why? Chazal tells us. They tell us something very important. Only two things will save us in the days of the Messiah. Two things. Torah and Chessed. Torah, we are... The disciples of the Messiah. The disciples of the Messiah. The disciples of the Messiah. The disciples of the Messiah. The disciples of the Messiah. The disciples of the Messiah. The disciples of the Messiah. The disciples of the Messiah. The disciples of the Messiah. The disciples of the Messiah. The disciples of the Messiah. The disciples of the Messiah. The disciples of the Messiah. The disciples of the Messiah. The disciples of the Messiah. The disciples of the Messiah. The disciples of the Messiah. The disciples of the Messiah. The disciples of the Messiah. The disciples of the Messiah. The disciples of the Messiah. The disciples of the Messiah. The disciples of the Messiah. The disciples of the Messiah. The disciples of the Messiah.

53:02Now, to support a patient, to give someone a ride to the hospital, or to the store, or to work, that's nice, that's tzedakah. But that's not chessed's generosity. Chessed's generosity is the greatest tzedakah there is. If it was only chesed, then the Chazal would say only chesed. Torah and chesed. But they didn't say chesed, they didn't say chesed. They said chesed shel emet. Something big deal. Extra. So what is extra? So the Chazal explains to us something amazing. They say to us, there is no chesed. There is no chesed greater than to help someone and to return to Hashem. But that was the point. Now, when a person thinks like that, when I meet a lot of people like that, when they think it's better not to eat bread, and not to bless the blessing of the food, you encourage the blessing. Why encourage the greatest blessing that is in the Torah? It's not an explicit blessing; it's a weekly portion. And now, if you see this, when you look at things, people go to rabbis, and the mekubalim, and all kinds of people who say that they are mekubalim, and they are only ramaim,

54:24Today we ask for blessing and blessing and blessing. The Holy One, Blessed be He, tells you, this is the greatest blessing there is. Eat, bless My name. Eat more, this is a promotion. Do you want a promotion? Instead of working 17 hours a day, 20 hours a day, just bless Me. Bless My name. Do it intentionally. Think about things. And the Gemara says, if you have an appointment, give it to a person with a big heart. Why with a big heart? Because he likes to give. Why? Because if he likes to give, then when he builds on the words of the blessing of the food, then he will focus both on himself and on everyone. But if this person is stingy, then he will only focus on himself. So it is better that he does not pray for me. Do you understand what's going on here? The Gemara says it. The Gemara says it. It's a Torah she'ba'al peh. It's a Torah from Mount Sinai. It says to you, this is a very important blessing, the most important blessing there is. Why encourage it? You know what? I was in business. I know a little about business. And now, thank God, there is a proposal, both in business and in Torah. If there is a restaurant, there is an owner of a restaurant, a kosher one. Clearly, if it's not a kosher one, I won't help the poor who will reply. But if someone has a kosher restaurant,

55:38And he wants to succeed. To succeed on a high level. I say that he should take the test for himself. And I can't... I'm not a prophet, and I'm not anyone. But I can, only with wisdom, and I can understand it this way. Now, every kosher restaurant has a place where they have some food. But you see, unfortunately, in many places, I see it myself, you go to some restaurants, like the one I go to, I don't go to many, but when you go to a restaurant, you see that these blessings, what do they have? A fight. Why a fight? No one touches them. No one does it for the sake of the food. They eat, drink, go. That's it. The food is gone. They don't do it for the sake of the food. So I say, if the owner of the house has yirat shamayim (fear of Heaven), and he is also wise, wants to make money, will tell everyone, from now on, whoever makes the meal, after he eats a sandwich or something, or eats bread here, I will take a dollar or two dollars from the bill. What are the clothes? A dollar. It's not that. I'm telling you, if you take a dollar from the bill, people will do it. And now you have, from the morning until the night, people blessing you in your place. It will become a synagogue. With what blessing? The best blessing in the whole Torah.

57:03So if a person was really... You understand? It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's... It's a good idea. You understand? Now, when a person... When a person is really... But he's close to money. But he's close to money, right? He has a restaurant. If he has a restaurant, it means that he has a lot of connection, and he has a connection with Hashem. He knows what a connection is. If he knows what a connection is, then he has a connection to Hashem. So maybe he is not the greatest tzaddik in the world,

58:19Maybe yes, I don't know. But if he doesn't even like it, but he has a business, why would he do a promotion? So you tell him he has two. You also show Hashem that you like Him. You also reward the rabbi, which is a huge thing. And also a third thing, what do you do? You bring more blessings to your business. People pay thousands of dollars for nonsense. I'm telling you in dollars. A dollar is worth more to you. A dollar for every person. If your business lives on dollars, then you have a bigger problem. You make a profit that is more than a dollar. Give the dollar back to Hashem, bless the food, bless the place. Instead of having 20 clients a day, you'll have 200 b'shem Hashem. You bring blessing to your business. It's worth it. B'shem Hashem. Baruch Hashem, Baruch Hashem. B'shem Hashem, continue to learn, continue to teach, continue to give many blessings b'shem Hashem. Many good things. Amen, amen, amen. Amen, amen, amen. Yes, Shavuot, Shavuot. Yes, Shavuot, Shavuot. No, Shavuot, Shavuot, almost 10 days before Shavuot. Shavuot, Shavuot, yes, yes. Okay, okay. Okay, okay, I understand, I understand. It's a hard day, it's a hard day.

59:46It was amazing. It was amazing. It was amazing. It was amazing. It was amazing. It was amazing. It was amazing. It was amazing. It was amazing. It was amazing. It was amazing. It was amazing. And there's also the speech after the lecture, asking questions and so on. Baruch Hashem, I didn't feel the pain. It was really amazing and wonderful. Something amazing, something amazing. No, I myself didn't think that I could... I thought that I would be accepted after the first lecture. I... The first lecture, I said, the first lecture is already out of my mind. I already committed to four lectures. I said, how am I going to do this? But I said, I work for Hashem, He will do it. I came to speak, He... Baruch Hashem. That's it. Shabbat Shalom Mevorach. Thank you, thank you, thank you. All the best. Bye bye.