שיחת חיזוק (2) בטלפון בתכנית TorahMates (פרשת ויגש, אבולוציה, כעס, ימי המשיח ועוד)

0:00In the name of G-d, let's try and succeed. Now, everything that happens in the world... Yes? Yes? Listen, everything that happens in the world is not simple, because you see, even people who are not close to G-d, and not close to religion, and don't really understand what the purpose of life is, they begin to understand the matter. They begin to understand that there is really... Something or someone who really organizes things in a way that people will start to ask the question, at least they will start to ask the question, what is the purpose of life? Because if a person thinks that the purpose of life is, let's say, money, then he sees that in the situation that there was, unfortunately, in the Holocaust, money didn't help, not even much. Money even caused bad people. The rich people were one of the first to take them and eat them and kill them and give them all the money. So it's clear that it's not money. So he sees that in the situation that there was, unfortunately, in the Holocaust, money didn't help, not even a little. Money even caused bad people to act. The rich people were among the first to be taken, consumed, killed, and stripped of all their money. So it's clear that it's not money.

1:07So if it's, let's say, a matter of divorce and relationships, you see that a person who every other Thursday has a new wife is sad in life and is not doing well, and even worse than everyone else. He feels bad; he feels alone. Even if he has a new wife every day, he feels more alone. And in the matter of, I don't know, all kinds of things that human beings today, in every generation, all the time that they went after it, they understand... What if a person... What if a person... What do you mean? What did the girl say? Like, what did she say in her life? I don't understand the... The girl said it was alcohol. Oh, what if a person has a problem with alcohol, like? No. The person said that, yes, he said alcohol. He said alcohol is bad for him. He said alcohol is bad for him. He said alcohol is bad for him. Yes. Yes.

2:28Yes, but the problem is that alcohol or drugs, or even people who have the possibility and the ability and they think the desire to be with a new woman, all these things are solutions to block the hole that is in their heart. And it's really not only that it doesn't block the hole, it causes the hole to be bigger. or even people who have the possibility and the ability and think they have the desire to be with a new woman. All these things are seen as solutions to block the hole that is in their heart. And it’s really not only that it doesn’t block the hole; it causes the hole to grow bigger. And because of that, you see people in the world who have, in our view from the outside, everything. They have a family, they have children, they have money, they have respect, they have a career—they have everything. But in the end, they kill themselves. How can you explain that? Like we said last week about the poor man, Robin Williams, this famous comedian, who in the end killed himself.

3:31And you understand that really, all these things, not only are they not a solution, they can even cause a person to become worse. Because when a person is poor, when a person has no money, then he can tell everyone, "Listen, I'm poor and I'm not doing well in life, but I promise you, if I win the lottery and I have money, I'll be happy." All the time he has this idea, and this thought, and this complete faith that if he has money, it will solve all his problems. The rich person, who already has everything, is much worse than I am. Why? Because he is bad, because he has no connection with the blessed Hashem. And he has no solutions. He can't say, "If I have money." He already has money, so it's even worse. That's why it's even worse to be rich without a connection with Hashem than I am. Because sometimes, when he gets to a situation that is even worse than his normal, he has to get closer to Hashem because he has no solutions.

4:43So even when he buys the lottery ticket, he prays to Hashem. He calls it tefilot. He thinks that maybe Hashem is Santa Claus. He thinks that if he davens, he'll say a few tefilot a year, then he'll win the lottery, and then he'll solve all the problems. There's no such thing. And that's also, that's also, now, now, really, today, we learned something, an example, a beautiful example, to explain the issue of people who are really... I live in Florida, yes. We study here, we study on the phone, we study in classes, Baruch Hashem. Now, every Thursday, for many years, I have my own chavruta, Rabbi Ephraim Kachlon, with whom we study regularly every Thursday, but really now we almost study several times a week, sometimes even every day. But every Thursday is our regular, historical lesson. So...

5:52He's in Jerusalem, we're talking through Skype, so we see each other and learn, but in the beginning, we started exactly the same way I started with you, on the phone. And that really shows that the truth of the Torah refers to a person who wants to know the truth in every way. There doesn't have to be face-to-face, there doesn't have to be anything, there's no specific way. If a person really looks for the truth, he finds the truth. Yes, there is a thing in Masechet Berachot, they say that there is a concept of reward. Yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes, okay. So now, there is in the Gemara, in the Torah Sheba'al Peh, so the source of the Torah Sheba'al Peh is the Gemara, and the Gemara is a blessing, we've talked about it a few times, and there is in it something, they call it S'char Halicha. S'char Halicha, they say, in the Gemara, that... No, no, no, S'char Halicha is in everything, it's what? What is the S'char of a person who goes to a lecture? S'char Halicha is if it's a person who is connected to the Torah, then it's connected to the Torah.

7:17No, no, there's something else beyond that, beyond that, beyond that, strong or blessed, that what does a person get when he goes to a shiur? To a shiur! So they say that if a person goes to a shiur that is relatively good, So most people, not only won't understand, but won't even remember what he said. If, for example, I'm giving a shiur, and I'm speaking for two hours, even if people like it, it's nice, everything is good and nice, most people, in the normal way, won't remember most of what I say. An hour or two hours after the shiur. And even if they understand a few things, they don't understand everything. So, the Gemara says that because of this, most of the benefit that people, every person, every person receives, in the sense that they go to a lecture, is the journey itself. In their days, it was like they would go on a trip, not a long trip, not like today, when you go in the car, five minutes and you're already in the lecture. Once, they would even go for a few days to attend the lecture, to listen to a lecture of a day or two full days. Once, the power of man was much more than today. Today, the maximum that human beings, both the listeners and those who want to listen,

8:36Most people, two hours is already the limit. Once, they would attend a lecture for a full day, even two full days, and that was normal. So, they say that even if most people didn't remember and didn't understand everything, the fact that they went for half an hour or an hour or a full day or a week for this lecture, most of the profit they get is from this. So, this is a big deal for a person who goes to lectures, because he is also a follower of the Torah, but he also gives strength to the speaker. When there is, I'm telling you personally, I've been doing lectures for many years in business, and in the last years in Torah. I'm telling you personally, when I had a crowd, when I was in business, I had a crowd of 300, 400, 500 people listening to what I'm saying, like it's the words of Hashem, but it's all nonsense. But I'm telling you, 400, 500 people listen to every word I'm saying, and it's like it's holy. But when you see a crowd of 500 people,

9:38you see a crowd of 500 people; it really gives you strength. It gives you strength to continue with more ideas and more things. It really gives you a lot of strength to see when people really come and are interested in what you say. But when you see, you do the lecture, you get ready for the lecture, Exactly, exactly. That's why in sports they build a very big stadium, because the stadium itself gives the players a lot of strength. There is a group in American football called the Seattle Seahawks, and I remember that once I saw them, their team is the most famous. Why? Because they really have a party every game, every time they have their game, they have a party and a walk and all kinds of fun, and it really gives the team strength.

10:48So now, when you give a request, and you pray, for example, for a request, I pray for, in the words of Torah, I pray for a day, two days, three days, for a request, you learn, and you see that only two people came, so it already takes part of the power you have, and you really, really need to work a lot more in order to extract that material. And it's much harder. So the price of walking, it's not only because you walked, the price of walking is also because you really, when you go to the shiur in the words of Torah, you reward the rabbanim. The fact that you walked, you gave the maggid shiur more strength, and this maggid shiur will be better, he can influence people better, and you reward the rabbanim. You really become a partner. from all over the country. So, because of that, it's good. There are a lot of people who will now come to my shiur. And sometimes there's a suggestion, they say, no, no, I'll see it on YouTube, I'll see it on the internet, it's more comfortable, I can eat popcorn, I can stop it in the middle, go to the services, smoke a cigarette, do everything I do. They say, I'll see it on YouTube, I see your presentation, thank God, I see everything, everything's fine, but it doesn't suit me at 10 at night, I'll see it when I get it. Okay, good, you're learning Torah, 100%. But what I get here,

12:07gets a profit of a million more than the one who sees it on YouTube. No doubt. You will hear it from many preachers, you will hear it from Rabbi Mizrachi, from all kinds of rabbis, from Zamir Cohen, all kinds of rabbis, it's all a part of the Torah, it's all from the source of the blessing and a few other sources. So the matter of the Torah is when you participate in the lecture, you really honor the rabbis. Now, until next time, when you study one by one, with someone, you also, when you ask questions and you say all kinds of things that happen in the Torah, and you participate in the lesson, you also teach yourself, and you also encourage the teacher. Because the teacher doesn't always think about every question. So when you ask a question, you make the person who teaches, that he himself really teaches through the lesson. So there's... Yes, Baruch Hashem. Listen, you are a partner in everything, Baruch Hashem. Yes, Baruch Hashem. So now, there is... Why is he a good partner? Yes.

13:32Ah, here we go, let's have a refreshment with you. Really, HaKadosh Baruch Hu, He did cooperate. He cooperated with us. How did He cooperate with us? With the children. Ah, not only with the children, with everything, but something essential in the creation, in the creation itself. Yes, He did. He did cooperate with us, but really... No, no, no, I'm telling you 100% together. What? I'm telling you 100% together in the activity of the creation. What? HaKadosh Baruch Hu is perfect. He doesn't need the help of the person, as you said. Right? He doesn't need the help of the person. So now, a priest comes to Rabbi Akiva and says to him, you say that HaKadosh Baruch Hu created everything, and He's good, and He's perfect, and all these things, but what are you doing in the creation? What? HaKadosh Baruch Hu made a mistake in the creation? He gives the person a burden, and you need to fix it? the creation of this perfect figure? How can that be? What, He made a mistake? So Rabbi Akiva... Exactly, yes, you said He's perfect. So Rabbi Akiva... So Rabbi Akiva says to him, no, exactly like that. Now he says to him, no, it's not that He's not perfect, it's that He wants, His desire, is to do good. Someone who's good, why is he good? Because he's good at it. He does good.

14:56So now, He wanted the person to be good to Him. When a person feels that he is connected with the Creator, he feels good. So He said, if I share the person, and not only the first person, every person, every Jewish person, will share in the creation. How can I share him? He cannot return to the first person. He cannot return to 5,776 years ago. What will he do? He will make a covenant. I, the mother of the child, have a 97% role in having the baby, and on the eighth day, the man will make a covenant, and add the last 3%. And now, the Jew will be 100%. So you and any child you have will make a covenant, and you yourself, even if it was by force, have a covenant, and you keep the covenant. Are you a partner in the health itself? Yes, of course. The woman is really the main thing in the house, more important than the husband.

15:57All the children, they need to trust the woman—what to learn, what to do in life. The man, even if he needs to learn Torah and needs to bring his salary home, the woman is really most of the time in life with the children. Most of the children's learning comes from the woman. So if the woman is righteous, So it's clear that the children will have a very high chance to be great tzaddikim. If the woman is not good, doesn't do good things, then there is no chance in the world that these children will have a great chance to be good. There is, in every rule, something that comes out of the rule, but in a normal way, if you see that the mother is a righteous mother, the children will have good middos. At least they will have good middos. If the mother has bad habits, doesn't change, and looks at all kinds of things that are not good, and does all kinds of things, the children will think that everything is not good. So really, the main thing in the house is the woman. What did you say? Yes, exactly. That's it, exactly.

17:15So that's why they say, and they also say it in the Gemara, that it's more important to learn from the Rav, from the behavior of the Rav, than from his Torah. Why? Because you can, now, the words of the Torah, you can learn from a book, you can learn from Yartzeit, all kinds of places. Now, to learn from the Rav, if you see a Rav teaching you the Torah, And you see Rabbi Akiva, and Rabbi Yishmael, and Rabbi this, and Rabbi that, and Moshe Rabbeinu, and Avraham Avinu, and he did this, and he did that, and he did that. And a quarter of an hour after the lesson, you see this rabbi, he goes to a bar with women, and all kinds of things that are really against the Torah that he just learned. So you tell yourself, it's... I say, it's an example. So every example needs to be extreme. Why? Because they understand, as we said last week, that an example, that a person understands an example, needs to be extreme. An example that is simple, not all the time they understand. So if you see a rabbi who is really a kofer in the Torah that he teaches,

18:20So you say, you yourself say, this Torah is all nonsense, it's all nonsense. But if you see a rabbi, even without learning his Torah, you see how he behaves, what kind of chesed he does, what kind of beautiful behavior, how he is modest, how he speaks in a beautiful voice, and you understand him, and he cares for people, you see such a person, you say, you know what, I want to be like him, what did he do to be like this? So you say, you hear this rabbi, he says, I learned it from Hashem. The Torah that teaches the person how to be a person. This is the main thing. That's why the Chazal say that a wise student who has bad middot has a worse life than him. A person who knows the Torah but has no good middot is said to have a worse life than him. How can that be?

19:20How can that be? I have a question for you. Yes. I have a question for you. Yes. I have a question for you. Tell me, tell me, speak freely. No, yes, I don't know; the free speakers will know better. We, as Jews, don't care, let's say, that we have better conditions than the non-Jews. We don't care. We have better conditions than the non-Jews. No, no, no. Listen, yes, there are things in the Torah that do not teach the goy, but these are specific things to the commandments of the Torah. But the rest of the Torah, in terms of everything that is of logic, they are not only allowed to learn it, they are obliged to learn it. The seven commandments of the children of Noah are not only the seven unique commandments that they are allowed to keep.

20:30It's these seven commandments and everything that is logical. Everything that is logical. Now, in the seven commandments of Noah, they don't say, but it's already clear. It's a logical thing. It's forbidden for a person to shout at his father, or to shout at his mother, or to say hello to him. It's a logical thing. Everything that is logical, the goy is bound to it. The fact that people don't study doesn't mean that they are not committed to it. Many of us, unfortunately... No, no, if a person studies Torah, a person asks himself what is the purpose of life. Yes, but do you think that every person is born and wants to become a Jew? No, it's a very difficult process to reach this state.

21:41I'm telling you about G-d, I'm telling you, what do you think, that a person is born and suddenly wants to convert? It's a very difficult process to get to this state. No, no, that's right, no, it's not that they don't want to convert, it's a mistake. No, they curse him, not because they don't want him, chas v'shalom. It's written to love the ger, it's written to love the ger in the Torah more than any mitzvah in the Torah, even more than Shabbat. החיוב על אהבת הגר, יותר בתורה, יש יותר פסוקים בתורה, מכל מצווה בתורה, מכל דבר, על אהבת הגר, כמה הקדוש ברוך הוא אוהב את הגרים, כמה הוא מגן עליהם, כמה הוא רוצה אותם. תכלית החיים של עם ישראל, זה לגייר את חלק מהעולם, זה מה שהרבה אנשים לא מבינים. Part of the reason, even though we were punished, that G-d sent us to the four corners of the world, part of the reason, part of the reason is in the Zohar, part of the reason is to destroy the nations of the world. There are many people who were born

22:53With wisdom, they understand that there is a purpose for life. They are researchers, and they see that the entire Christian religion, yemach shemo vezichro (may his name and memory be obliterated), is all a complete lie and nonsense. A person who spends even 10 minutes on this book sees that there is already nonsense on the first page, the second, the third, and on all the pages. A person who sees Islam sees the same thing. Same mistakes, same things, same lies. They say that Moshe spoke, he was close to Yeshu; they weren't even close at all. And Haman spoke with Pharaoh; they didn't live in the same thousand years. All kinds of lies and lies. So a person who investigates and wants the truth, the Holy One shows him the way. And part of the reason that the Holy One sent Jews, really, to every corner of the world, is to expose these people. Why? Because when He came to the people of Israel at Mount Sinai, He didn't come to them first; He came to them last, after He approached all the nations of the world. He asked all the nations of the world if they wanted to receive the Torah. The leaders of all the nations of the world didn't want it, but there were individuals within these nations who did want it. So the Holy One, blessed be He, in His truth, said, "I promise you that I will return to you in a circle, that you will have the opportunity to become Jews."

24:19It's also a test. It's not going to be easy; it's not simple. Reconciliation is a very difficult process, and even after they get married, it's also very difficult. But the Ger Tzedek is a very high level, even higher than a Jew who was born a Jew. The Ger Tzedek is a huge thing. That's why it's written, I think, 48 times in the Torah, How important is the Ger? How much does Hashem like the Ger? How much does He protect the Ger? The fact that they are punished three times, which is the custom, is to know if he is serious. If a person is serious, then it doesn't matter if you punish him a hundred times, he will return. Because he loves Hashem, he wants the truth. If a person is not serious, he will not come back. If he is praying for a woman, or a woman is praying for a man, and they have no connection or knowledge of Hashem, then of course they will not pass the test. But if he wants the truth, or she wants the truth, There is no end. She will receive the truth, and she will stand on it, and she will go worse, and worse, and worse, and worse, and another trial, and one year, and not two years, and not three years. As long as she will receive the truth. One woman, who now we are helping her to convert, has been in this process for almost ten years. Because this was an experiment. Being Jewish is a great reward. It is the greatest reward in the world.

25:45The next world of the Jewish Tzadik is a different world from the Goy Tzadik. Even though the Goy Tzadik has a next world, and there are stories about Goy Tzadikim in the Torah, even in the Tanakh. Iyov, Iyov, he was a prophet, but he was not a Goy, he was not a Jew. But he, not only was he a Tzadik, part of the Torah is written about him. There is no book in the Torah about me. There is no book about someone in our generation or the generation that passed. A book about Iyov. Exactly. Iyov was a Goy. He wasn't a Jew. But he was a Goy Tzadik. Now the thing here is that the process is an experiment in itself. The process of growing up is an experiment in itself. Because the reward of being a Goy Tzadik, a Jewish Tzadik, This is the next world, this is the end of the dead, this is all the good of all generations, of all people. All of them, all of them, all of them together. Billions of people. Not even one hour of a righteous Jew in the next world. Not even one hour.

26:54Asger Tzedek, one hour in his next world, you can't compare it to this world. I'm telling you, all the people in the world, all the good that they had in life, didn't equal one hour. So in order to receive this prize, you need to act a little bit. It's not simple. That's why we need to make teshuvah. It's not simple. To make teshuvah, to make teshuvah. When a person does teshuvah, comes close to Hashem, being a Jew is even simpler. It's not simple to be a simple Jew. Being a Jew is not simple. But the reward, the reward is eternal, eternal. It's good from the good. There's no end, there's no end to good. So because of that, you tell yourself, it's worth it. When a person really understands... What's the point of not knowing the good? His place? His place is a very bad place, unfortunately. The truth is that a person who does not keep the importance of the mitzvot, the minimum, like Shabbat, Tefillin, Niddah, unfortunately, not only does he not have a part in the next world, he suffers for worlds.

28:01Netzach netzachim. Like the righteous Jew has good for netzach netzachim, a Jew who is not kosher, a Jew who does not keep the main mitzvot, like Shabbat, his punishment is netzach netzachim. It is impossible to fix this in the next world. There are mitzvot that can be fixed in Gehenom. There is, if you do the aveira, do the aveira... So there are aveirot that can be fixed. You have to suffer, either in this life or in the next world. You go to Gehenom, you suffer; even Auschwitz is a children's game next to the punishment in Gehenom, even the smallest one, because there are seven levels in Gehenom. But, there is an end. There is an end. Clean yourself and go to Gan Eden. It depends on what kind of Gehenom he has. If a person desecrates Shabbat, a Jew who desecrates Shabbat, he has no part in the next world, he is not considered a Jew, and his Gehenom does not stop. He enters the seventh level. Huh? No, it's even worse than Kaf HaKela. The seventh level of Gehenom has no end. The world will end and this level will continue.

29:28It's about the Shabbat, the origin of Judaism. Many Jews don't know this, unfortunately. Okay, now. Now there's something called a tinok shenishba. Once there was a lot like this because there was no internet, there was no television, there was no telephone, there was nothing. 300 years ago, 400 years ago, 500 years ago, a person could live in a village in a country where it was forbidden for them to be Jewish. And within one or two generations, he didn't even know he was Jewish. So yes, he was a tinok shenishba. They don't tell you that he's going to Gan Eden, but they clearly accuse him of it. He doesn't get the same punishment as a person who does it in Persia. But in our generation, there aren't many, if there are at all, tinokot shenishbu. There aren't many if there are at all. Why? Because every Jewish person...

30:30In most of the world, he knows, not only that he knows, if he doesn't know that he is a Jew, then of course he will not be punished. But if he knows that he is a Jew, but he doesn't know what the Torah is, but he knows what Judaism is, he sees Jews on the street, Baruch Hashem, most of the world can be a Jew, even if they make our lives difficult and cause us all kinds of troubles, we can be a Jew. You see the people with beards, with the cover, with the clothes, women with righteous movements. You see, you hear what Shabbat is once. Maybe you don't know the source of the Torah, but you know what Judaism is. You can click, just like you click on a button on YouTube to see a baby laughing for five minutes, that there are a billion and a half people who saw this video; you can click for five minutes on a video of a rabbi who is telling the truth. To know what Shabbat is. Just like a person spends 20 years to learn his profession so that he can earn $1,000 per hour like a famous Jordanian in New York, he can spend an hour—not 20 years, an hour—to learn what is Judaism, what is Torah. So you can't come to Heaven and say, "I didn't know. I didn't have time." What do you mean you didn't have time?

31:43Did you have time for 20 years to work as a lawyer? Did you have time to watch sports every day for two hours? The Holy One, blessed be He, does not give any person a test that he cannot withstand. The Holy One, blessed be He, decides. Every person receives his efforts and reaches a state. Every person who has a license, who is a normal person, Every normal person, who is not mentally ill, comes to several situations in his life where he has to ask himself, "What is the purpose of life? What is the purpose of my life at all? Why am I alive? Is there such a Creator? Is there such a God? What is it? Did I just come out of some explosion, from some bomb, from some wall?" So he can check it out. If you check the matter of the birds, and you check the matter of the science, the person who picked it can prove that it's all nonsense, from the science itself. Proof that the science itself is wrong. Okay, so you got to the point where you understand that there is a Creator. There is a Creator for the world. Okay, so if a person who created a phone, created a phone, a wise person,

33:01He created a phone. So if he gives you this phone, and you've never seen a phone in your life, never seen a phone, he gives you this phone without instructions, what will you do with this phone? Maybe you'll put your coffee on it, maybe you'll throw it at some enemy, thinking it’s a weapon, maybe, I don't know, maybe you'll try to eat it, maybe it's delicious. You don't know what it is at all. But a wise person who created the phone, he knows that people don't know what it is, so he gives instructions. Instructions for what he created. So if a simple and straightforward person who comes from the flesh knows and understands that everything he does must come with instructions for people, then it is clear that the Holy One, יָצַר אֶת הַבְּרִיָּה, אֶת כָּל מַה שֶׁבָּרָא, בָּרָא אֶת כָּל מַה שֶׁבָּרָא, עִם הוֹרוֹת. אָז בֶּן אָדָם שֶׁהוּא פִּקֵּחַ, שֶׁיֵּשׁ לוֹ קְצָת קְצָת שֵׂכֶל, שׁוֹאֵל אֶת עַצְמוֹ, אוֹקֵי, אָז אֵיפֹה הוֹרוֹת? יֵשׁ עָם שֶׁקוֹרְאִים לָהֶם יְהוּדִים, שֶׁאוֹמְרִים שֶׁיֵּשׁ לָהֶם הַהוֹרוֹת. אֵיךְ אֲנִי יוֹדֵעַ שֶׁהַהוֹרוֹת שֶׁלָּהֶם, יֵשׁ לָהֶם אֶת הַסְּכַנְס הַגָּדוֹל שֶׁיֵּשׁ, שֶׁזֶּה הָאֱמֶת, בִּגְלַל שֶׁיֵּשׁ שְׁלוֹשׁ דָּתוֹת

34:18that relatively most of the world has, or four, you have Buddhism, you have Judaism, you have Islam, and you have Christianity. What? Go back, I can't hear you, I don't understand, what did you say? Okay, fine. But the point is that, yes, we will give more respect to Judaism, blessed or not. But the point is that now, if a person understands, he knows that Christianity has a book, they call it the New Testament. They call it the New Testament, like the new book. So if they say there is a new book, then of course, there is an old book. So they themselves call our Torah the old book, the Old Covenant. So they say that their book is the continuation... They say that their book is our continuation. No, they say that it is true. The old book must be true. Because if the old book is not true, then it means that the new book is not true. There is no such thing as the old book not being true. Maybe...

35:46Okay, they can say what they want, but everything that is written in the Torah is true. The fact that they say that G-d changed the laws, and changed the commandments, and you don't have to keep Shabbat, and you don't have to do all these things, that's already a different thing. The thing is that everything that is written in the first book, they themselves are saying that everything is true, G-d gave the Torah to the people of Israel. They just believe that the second part has it. Okay. But they don't say, there is no Christian or Catholic in the world, in history, who says that G-d did not give the Torah to the people of Israel. The same thing with Islam. Islam says, even in their Quran, it is written that G-d gave the Torah to the people of Israel, and they have the rest; they have a new book, the continuation. So what does it say? It says that Islam and Christianity, and the Catholics, who are relatively... Most of the world says that the Torah is true. Everyone says that the Torah is true. Some people say that the Torah is not true. Unfortunately, most people who say that the Torah is not true are Jews.

36:58But the Christians, for them to be Christians, have to say that the Torah is true, and even Islam says that the Torah is true, but they only believe that there is a continuation. It's clear that it's a mistake and nonsense, but the point is that all the believers acknowledge that G-d has given the people of Israel the Torah. So now, a person has to understand with logic that if all the nations of the world come with their religions, it's all coming from the Torah. If everything comes from the Torah, stands on the Torah, then let's read the Torah. Let's see what this Torah says. These are the instructions of the Holy One, blessed be He. What? Yes. So now, if a person says, okay, now, everyone believes that this book is true, The Jews, the Christians, the Catholics, the Muslims—all of them say that the book of Torah is true, that these are the instructions from G-d. Let's read these instructions. Let's read this Torah.

38:10And I promise you, and I did it myself, and I heard it from Rabbi Mizrachi several times, every person who reads the Torah from beginning to end, like only the Torah book, the Torah in writing, not all the Gemara, Zohar, Kabbalah—no, only the Torah in writing. Tikkun HaTorah, with a simple understanding, like only with a minimum, a minimum of the Torah, not all the Mefarshim and Gemara, not even a minimum, to understand the Torah in the simplest way, from the beginning to the end, there is no chance in the world that a person will think that it is not true. There is no doubt. Those who say that they have learned the Torah and do not believe, it is because they have spread things in their language, in their brain, in their logic, which is logic that looks for mistakes and finds mistakes. But I am telling you, a person who understands what is the wisdom of the Chazal, understands what is Rashi, understands how to read the Torah by itself, and not just looks for excuses,

39:13in order to live his life. So when a person reads the Torah, not only will he know that the Torah is true, but he can really learn something new about himself, something relevant to himself, every week, while he's studying it. something personal to himself every week while he reads it. He will learn something personal to himself, and he will even find help and answers to his questions every week. So even if a person can't read everything in one sitting, if he reads it once a week, he can see the truth. Over the course of the year, he will see that the Torah is the truth, and it's the only book that is divine. But now, as I said before, a person tells you, listen, I don't want to invest in the next world. And he says, it's not appropriate to invest in the next world, I just want to invest in things of now. So you can come to this person with a claim.

40:27Yes, he tells you, no, I don't invest in the next world, I only invest in this world. I only invest in what is good for me now. But even this person invests. He doesn't tell the truth. Why? So let's say, let's take the example that started with the person who is shikor. This person does invest in the future. How does he invest? When a person... If he's a 15-year-old boy who makes the mistake and starts drinking alcohol, or an older man who is 25-30 years old and drinks with a few friends, every person in the world who drinks alcohol for the first time, the same thing as a person who smokes cigarettes for the first time, the same thing as a person who does drugs for the first time, no one likes it. And even with alcohol, it's even more serious than the second; it's the taste of the alcohol, relatively, in the beginning, it increases. For every person. But what? Why does he continue? Why does he continue to invest? Because he wants this feeling. So he says that he does invest in the future. Even if the future is half an hour after that, in any case, he invests in the future. Every person who works and loses money wants to go to retirement for another 25 years, so he does invest in the future.

41:44So why do you invest 25 years to save money, and to know where every profit goes, and where all this, and to invest in the stock market, and in real estate, and in this, and in this, and in this, and in all these things? Why do you, because you want that when you're 70, you'll have a lot, and you don't have to work. So you do invest in the future. So if you invest in the future, in any way, so why don't you invest in the future, which is eternal? What, a person comes, saves money, Exactly, that's the point. So a person needs to understand that... Yes, of course, it's all deep. It's all deep, but every person reaches a point where he has to ask himself, what is the purpose of life? And if he asks what is the purpose of life, he also asks, who created the world? Where did it start from? If he starts with these two questions... It's okay, the Big Bang. It's okay, if we say everything started with the Big Bang. So, two things, two questions. First question, why doesn't he believe that if I come to him and I tell him there was an explosion in the microwave, and all of a sudden, a watch came out, which was written on it, Franck Muller, equals 75,000 dollars, and here it is. Why doesn't he believe? Because it's not...

43:12Because it's not logical. Okay, it's not logical. So it's the same thing with the Big Bang. But second question. Okay, let's say everything comes... Okay, so we came from the Big Bang. Okay, okay, we came from the Big Bang. Now, in the matter of science, we need to understand... Yes, yes, yes, all right. Okay, so now I'll bring you an explanation, just in case. No, no, no, no, I'll bring you... No, it's... Chazal say to us that... No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. So if you want to win a dispute, you can't give a person an answer from your material. You have to give him an answer from his material. So if a Christian comes to me,

44:33ומתווכח על הנצחות, אז אם אני אתן לו, אם אני אתן לו תשובה מהתורה, לא, לא, לא, אם בן אדם מתווכח, יכול להתווכח עם בן אדם שמאמין במדע, מאמין שבאנו מקופים, אז אם אני אגיד לו פסוק בתורה, הוא לא יאמין, בגלל שהוא לא מאמין בתורה, אז לא ניצחתי את הוויכוח. אבל אם אני מראה לו את התשובה שלו, מהמקור שלו, ממדע. So he doesn't even have a small chance against me. So I will give you an answer to the questions from science. Okay? Now, for everything in the world, everything, even things that changed over the years, changed, developed, and so on. Now we see it even in general, we see it every day. You see that one day you have a fever, then it's a fever, it becomes something similar, you think it's dead, and then over time it becomes a fever. You see it in general, it's part of the creation. Hashem created things like that to show us that everything is developing. The person

45:39is the same thing as this purpose, and the person's soul is really the real one. Then there is his body, which is the alternative, and then he leaves this alternative to the real world, and he leaves his body here. So, a person needs to understand that the world here is not the only thing he needs to develop. But in any case, it's a matter of levels for every creation that exists in the world in order for it to develop and continue. Now, let's say you have this drawing, like the Goyim wrote, that the kof began, and this is the first process. The second process is less kof. The third process is a bit similar to Adam and kof. The fourth, fifth, sixth, I don't know how many processes, let's say even 100 processes. So let's say, leave the 100 processes. Let's say we have five. Five processes. Kof. The goyim wrote that the kof began, and this is the first process. The second process is less kof. The third process is a bit similar to Adam and kof. The fourth, fifth, sixth, I don't know how many processes, let's say even 100 processes. So let's say, leave the 100 processes. Let's say we have five. Five processes. Kof.

47:01Okay, I'll tell you five. Let's say five. Okay. Let's do it in Hebrew, and if you don't understand, I'll explain it in English. Because we'll see, maybe... I know you understand. Yes, exactly. Now, let's call each process a number. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1 is the first stage, and 5 is the last stage, it's a person. So now, in order for 1 to get to a state where he will develop and change to a second stage, he must be strong enough to live without developing. Okay. For something to develop, for something to mutate, for something to change, for something to move from the first stage to the second stage, it has to hold a position. If, let's say, we had to change during the day, after the birth, during the day, to something else,

48:21all of them will die. Because the baby doesn't have enough strength to change. He's still small. He can't even eat by himself. He doesn't even know what to eat. He can't do anything. If a person really came to the world alone, then he wouldn't be able to stand. He would die within a day, maximum two days. But he has help. The same with everything. So now, in order for the first stage to reach the second stage, he needs to have enough strength to exist. He needs to be healthy. He needs to be strong. Even if he doesn't change, he will hold on. Like a person, he doesn't change. The same person that was today, the same person that was 50 years ago, 100 years ago, 500 years ago, 5000 years ago, the same thing. Science doesn't say that we changed in the last 5000 years. They say it's billions. So they say that the same person, 5000 years ago, didn't change. Right? Okay, fine. Now, if the person wants to reach the second stage, it means that he had to be strong enough.

49:31...over time, over a billion years, a million years, it doesn't matter what number they throw, over time, he changes from the first stage to the second stage. Okay? Are you with me so far? Okay. Okay. You'll understand at the end, you'll understand at the end when I explain everything. Okay. To maintain a position to reach from the first stage to the second stage, he has to... Yes, with the help of G-d. So now, this means that when a person, the number one, the first number, changes to the second number, let's say there are a million numbers, and now they change to the second number, not everyone changes at the same time. It's not that one day we're numbers, and the next day we're something else. No, over time, over time, we change.

50:31Yes, exactly. Okay, now I got it. I got it. Okay, now. Okay, now. Okay, now. So now, it means that in any situation, all the time there will be a minimum, a minimum, the number 1 and the number 2. All the time. If we have 5 numbers, like 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th, all the time there will be 2 levels. There can't be only one level because there won't be a situation that everyone will evolve and pass from the first stage to the second stage at the same time. Why? Because when... Okay, wait a second, a second. But who says that the fifth stage is the end? No, I'm just giving you an example. So you haven't finished the example yet. So now, when do we start? We have, let's say, a million...

51:36Let's say 1,000,000 are waiting at the beginning of the first stage. After a long time, 300,000 of the 1,000,000 passed and became number 2. But this tells us that we already have another 700,000 in stage 1. During this time, These 700,000 are more and more from the second stage. But at the same time, it passes on those who have already passed. The 300,000 who passed are number two. No, okay, but no, the 900,000 are not. The first 300,000 have already passed to the third stage. They are already number three. They continue to develop. So it means that, at the same time, you have, let's say, 100,000 that remained at the first stage, 500,000 at the second stage, and 400,000 at the third stage. Until the first stage finishes and reaches the second stage, some 50,000 have already started to reach the fourth stage.

52:44and until these, from the second stage, finish and reach the third stage, we have already reached the fifth stage. This tells us that in any situation, scientifically speaking, there must be a minimum of three out of five. So, until next time, if there are 100 levels, We have to have 20, 30, 40, 50 things that look exactly like the person who speaks and thinks and does and acts and does all this. We don't even have one. We have the first stage, the top, and we have the fifth stage, the person. So, scientifically, you see that it can't be that it happened because where is number 2, 3, and 4? Yes? Okay, number one is over, but there are two, three, and four that are not over. Okay, so if there are two, three, and four, then it continues, five, six, seven, eight, it doesn't stop. We didn't stop. Science doesn't say that life is over. It continues to develop.

54:02So it means that there need to be all kinds of creatures that look the same. Similar. The edge, they say that the edge is the first stage. They say that the first stage is the edge, not us. They say that the first stage. So they say that the first stage still exists. The last stage that came, not the last last, but like the latest, is us. Okay, so we have the number 5 and we have the number 1. So where are 2, 3, and 4? It can't be that 1 will still exist, and 5 will exist, and 2, 3, and 4 will not exist. Why? Because... you're asking me why I'm looking at this bubble, and why this name is broken. There's no bubble. It's not a bubble. You have an end here and an end here, but there's no middle. Because it's... it's broken. It can't be that it developed. Because I'm telling you, development is based on the fact that everything that has the power to develop means that it is strong enough to remain in itself without developing. The wall is strong enough to remain a wall. It doesn't have to develop. This also means that the second number is also strong enough...

55:22without developing. And thirdly, the same thing: strong enough without developing. So it means that every other... that... yes. This is a matter of science. In any case, if we have the first number and we have the last number, it doesn't matter if it's 5 or if it's 100, it can't be that it's an error because there needs to be at least one. At least one from the middle. It can't be that you go from level 1 to level 5 without a connection in the middle. That it has to exist. And they say that there were 100 levels, not 5. They say that there were 100 levels from the top to the bottom. There were 100, 200, 300 million levels. So if I tell you about 5, just because it makes it easier. So if you say that you have a number 1 and a number 5...

56:23or number 100, okay, I agree with you, but where's the middle, Habibi? There's no such thing as ending. There's no such thing as ending. There's no such thing as ending. It can't be that everyone will evolve. Like one, when he went to number two, until the end of the million of number one reached number two, we already started the third and fourth degree. So it can't be that in a certain amount of time, it will stay a little bit from number 1, and not 2, not 3, not 4, not 5, not 6, not 7, not 8. It has to be the middle. It has to. It's in a scientific way. Every creation has to use the power to deal without developing, without making a mutation, okay? Huh? Exactly. So when G-d created man, He created him as an adult. He didn't create him as a baby. He didn't create him as a child. He created him as a man. Even the children, Cain and Hevel, were born complete. He didn't create them as babies.

57:50The power of the first man was completely different from ours. The first thing is, he was very great. The second thing is, he had knowledge and spiritual power that are unparalleled, beyond comparison with our generation. And... Not only that, he also knew the creation, all kinds of things that are not logical for us. He had wisdom, he gave a name to all creation, to all life that exists, and to all creation that exists, and to all things that the Holy One, Blessed be He, created, he gave them their name. But if you know, in the Hebrew language, there is no such thing as just a name of a thing. Everything has a meaning, everything has a meaning. So he, everything, he gave it the name of the meaning of this thing. So he had wisdom above our logic, above the thing that can be understood. And also physically they were different. So on the same day that he built Adam and Chava, yes, on the same day,

59:09Bnei Shmashot, B'oto yom sh'bara otam, b'oto yom Chava nekhnesa la'erayon, b'oto yom yalda et Kayin v'Hevel v'od shlosha yeladot. Kayin haya lo torma achat v'Hevel haya lo shtei tormot. Az b'oto yom yalda chamisha chamisha yeladim. Avim lo yeladim ayu tze'irim, k'lo k'lo k'mo teenagers. They didn't have a baby. There wasn't a baby. And this is a bit of a mystical thing, and a bit of a... but in any case... It's a bit of a mystical thing? It's like a thing from above nature that we know. Can we get married in the future? Can we get married? Yes, each one of them, to continue the creation, was allowed, until we received the Torah, it was allowed to get married with the sister.

1:00:10So Cain got married to his wife. And Hevel got married to his two wives. But that caused Cain to be jealous of Hevel, that he had two wives and he had one. So that's really one of the reasons that he killed him, not only because the Holy One did not receive his sacrifice. So the answer, Cain—after he received punishment. yes, he understood, but he made a response after G-d redeemed him. He exiled him from his place. But He protected him and gave him an oath that there is a saytan who is said to be the dog, that he will protect him, that every person, he will say that now that they know that I did a transgression against G-d, they will kill me, and so on, so he will not know what is in the rest of the world. So G-d,

1:01:13gave him a sign that they say it's a dog or they say it was a mark on his forehead. In any case, he had a sign that was protecting him, but during the seven generations, as G-d promised, he received the final punishment. He killed him, and then he had to return in Gilgul. Abel returned in the Gilgul of Moshe Rabbeinu, and Cain returned in the Gilgul of Yitro. who was the father of the wife of Moses, the father of Tzipporah, and he also returned to Egypt, the Egyptian that Moshe Rabbeinu killed. So in the same generation, the soul of Cain was divided into two. And this is one of the sources that we understand that there is no end to the soul that can be divided into several parts, there is no end to several parts, it is like fire. So if you light a candle, and you want to light another candle, if you use the first candle to light another candle, the fire of the first candle doesn't change; it doesn't become less fire. The same thing remains. The same thing with the soul. You divide it into another soul, into another part, and another part, and another part; there's no end. So the first person will divide into all the...

1:02:39Yes, the Devil returned to Moshe Rabbeinu, and Kayin returned, but... No, they don't say that every body will return, they say that every neshama will return. Now, what kind of person are you and I? No, this is not the first time we've been here. We've been here a few times, and a few times again. Of course, of course, several times. Not only once, but not all the soul returns. So if, for example, you have a person who is relatively righteous and who preserves most of the mitzvot, but there is a part, most of his soul is good, or there is something that he does that is not good, then the good part remains in Gan Eden, and the part that needs to fix itself returns in the Gilgul. So not all the soul returns. The part that needs to fix itself returns.

1:03:50So, there is a part of you that is already waiting for you in the world of truth, and there is a part of you that is here, that needs to fix something, and that is the reason you came back. How do they know that you are really the reincarnation of someone else? There are proofs for this. Rabbi Mizrachi made a movie called Life After Death, both in English and in Hebrew, and there are a lot of things that Rabbi Zamir Cohen did, and a few other rabbis who did these things, and even goyim did these things. You can prove that there is life after death in many ways. One of the popular ways is hypnosis. It's called regression. You can make use of an expert who knows how to deal with it, because it's a relatively dangerous thing if you don't know what you're doing. He does hypnosis to a person, and he tells him to go back, Let's say we are in the year 2015 of the Goyim. You will return 100 years. So this person returns, starts speaking another language that he doesn't speak at all. Now he speaks, let's say, English. He returns speaking Arabic. He speaks Yiddish. And this person doesn't know Yiddish. He says to him, you will return another 100 years, to 1800. He starts speaking Greek or something like that. He doesn't know Greek, nor French, nor anything. He hardly knows English.

1:05:07Now you're telling him again. You're telling him, speak with me in this language. You won't speak with me in this language. Huh? It could be. It could be. But in any... Yes, yes, yes, chazak u'baruch. So that means that now he tells you, every time he speaks a different language, he tells you what he sees, his life, and he tells stories that in general the person who lives in our world now does not know them. And these are proofs that not one, not two, not 100, not 200. I'm telling you, tens of thousands of people have passed and done these things. And there are also people who have returned from clinical death, who show you all kinds of things. There are many proofs. Baruch Hashem, HaKadosh Baruch Hu knows that we are in the weakest generation in history. And He knows that we need proofs. We need proofs. And the science, you can see that the science itself has advanced.

1:06:09Exactly on time. The Holy One does everything on time, everything in His house. So, the science, if the Holy One would have given us the science to know how many stars there are in the world, in the scientific matter, 200 years ago, 300 years ago, it wouldn't have been so relevant. But the fact that we know it now, it's relevant. Why wasn't it relevant 300 years ago? Because 300 years ago, most Jews didn't need proofs. It is written in Massechet Berachot, page 32, that Hashem told us exactly how many stars He created, how many He created. It is a ridiculous number. 1, 0, 6, 4, 3, 4, 0, and then 12 more zeros after that. It's 10 to the 18th power plus 64. I don't know, a big number, a number with 6, 4, and 12 zeros. It's a number that we don't even use today. Leave it to you if you used it 100, 200, 300, 400 years ago. It's a very big number. I don't even know how to say this number, but I remember the number because we talked about it a few times in the lectures, of proofs and so on. So this number is very long, it's a number of 18 digits, and it's written on a beracha sheet.

1:07:27Obviously, not like, think, maybe, yes, I'm not telling you exactly how many stars the Holy One created. I'm telling you mathematically, to do a few things, 30 like this, 30 like this, 30 like this, 30 like this. I'm telling you exactly how to do this to reach the result. If you're interested, I can read the conclusion. So it tells you exactly how many stars there are in the world, in the galaxy. So when the Jews told this to the world, told this to the Goyim, the Goyim laughed at us. Why did they laugh at us? Because the Gemara was written 1,500-1,600 years ago. This knowledge we got from Har Sinai, 3,300 years ago. But we didn't write it in the Torah, we didn't write it until about 1,600-1,700 years ago, something like that. So now, 1,600 years ago, the Goyim and the world itself thought that there were maybe 7,000, 8,000 stars. Why 8,000? Because that's the only number we could see with our eyes. There was no telescope. There was nothing. There were eyes. That's it. Over time, yes, what we see in the sky is what we believe in.

1:08:44So they laughed at us and said, you said that there is no error in the Torah. Here is the first error in your Gemara. You say that there is a number like that. Stars, there is nothing like that at all. What is this number? It's stupid. Okay. Years passed. We got to the year 1600 from the years of the Christians. That's about 400 years ago. And there was someone, we call him Galileo Galilei, who... found the telescope, the first one. It really was the second one, but in any case, he found the popular telescope, and he revealed to the world that the world is wrong. There is no such thing as 6,000 or 7,000 stars. There are at least millions. I don't know how many millions, I don't know how many tens of thousands or tens of... but there are many, not 6,000. There are many more than what we see with our eyes. It will take another 400 years... In 1994... NASA from America... made a connection... a computer... they call it a supercomputer... to the most complex telescope there is... and made an estimate... like... this computer gave an estimate... how many stars there are... in all the cosmos... so it reached the number... 10...

1:10:0910 to the 19th power. 10 to the 19th power. So this is already similar to our number. We are 10 to the 18th power. Ten years later, some university from Australia, in 2004, about 10 years ago, 11 years ago... will connect a more complex computer to a more complex telescope and will get to a number much closer to the number that the Jews already had 3300 years ago. So now, if we had this telescope 500 years ago, It wasn't that relevant or important. Why? Because the Jews, 500 years ago, what was written, they believed. They were simple people. They didn't need proof like they do today. Today, our generation is much, much further away from the Torah, and especially the children, and young children, chayavim lirot, lirot ma katuv v'hochachot le dvarim, v'biglal ze, ani maamin, u'baruch ze rabanim gdolim, gam maaminim, shehasignon limud shel Torah v'hochachot ayom le karev anashim, chayav, chayav le osif et ha-teva, v'chayav le osif ochachot.

1:11:11Chayavim lirot, lirot ma katuv v'hochachot l'dvarim, u'b'glal zeh, ani ma'amin, u'baruch zeh rabbanim g'dolim, gam ma'aminim, shehasignon limud shel Torah v'hochachot hayom l'karev anashim, chayav, chayav le'hosif et ha-teva, v'chayav le'hosif hochachot, that are relevant to the life of today. Because the generation of today, if you teach it how to pray and how to do things in the Temple, and that's how you think the beauty of the Torah will bring it closer at the first stage, you're wrong most of the time. Not all the time, but most of the time, you're making a mistake, and you're wasting both your time and their time, because the children of our generation are far from it. So you have to show kids in our generation, and even people in the age of 25, 35, and 40, like, wow, this and that, proof of understanding.

1:12:16that HaKadosh Baruch Hu created the world and has a purpose for life and all kinds of things like that. Because of that, every Rav who approaches people has to learn a little bit from his knowledge and these proofs, because this has to be the first step. Then, when you approach him and you get to the point where he believes that there is a Creator, and he believes that the Torah has a great chance that it is from the Creator, You've already passed the first lesson, then you can teach him about lessons, and about our beautiful Torah, and about Moshe Rabbeinu, and all these things. Then you can get to the second stage. But if you go straight to the Beit HaMikdash and these things, most of the time you won't succeed, unfortunately, because the children today want proof, especially in America. Did you understand? Let's continue with the parasha, or do you want more knowledge? Let's continue with the parasha. The beginning of the parasha tells us, last week, last week, we finished the parasha, the parasha of Miketz.

1:13:38that there was the last meeting between Yosef and his brothers, and Yosef really wants to test his brothers to see if they really changed, if they returned to Teshuva, if they really love his brother Binyamin, if they... They really think that what they did was right or wrong, etc. So he wants to test them, and he does this process where he organizes them, and after they return from the house of Avihem, of Yaakov, with Binyamin, he organizes them in his house, And he gives them a beautiful kibbud, shows them how he tells them that his son is in the beit midrash, that he will show them how he swallows the bimah, that they will see that it is kosher. And they are all happy, and they look a little, and then...

1:14:55They go home and then after less than 200 days, Menashe comes to them. Yosef sends his son Menashe to stop them and tell them, "Why did you give him such a bad honor when he gave you such a good one?" They say, "What did we do?" He says, "You gave him his sheep." He said, "What do you mean? They didn't steal anything from him. What are you talking about? They were so sure that they didn't steal anything. He said that whoever stole it would die. So he fixed them because he knew that the words of the righteous could happen. He said, no, he wouldn't die, but he would be our slave. He said, all of us will be your slaves. No, not all of us will be slaves, just the..." Raka zeh sheganav. L'chol mikrei, hem kokach betuchim ba'atzmam, yordim me'al ha'gamalim o hasusim shelahem, u'potchim et hatikim shelahem, l'harot shem lo gaanvu, echad acharei hasheni, u'menah sheholech beseder, beseder shel gil, mi'Reuven ad Binyamin, u'baruch shehu yodea kvar shehu sam et ha'gavi'a hazeh.

1:16:17in Benjamin's bag. But he gives them a good feeling that they have a lot of security. Then he comes to Benjamin, opens the bag, and he sees Mozet HaGavia on it, and oh, what a pity they have. They don't know what to do, they don't know what to do. So they go back with him to the king, they go back to Yosef, who they don't know is Yosef, and they tell him, they get angry, we don't have words, it's clear that it's in my words, we don't have words to say, we're all going to be your slaves. So he says to them, Chalila, no, there won't be such a thing that, Chalila, what does this man do, whom I found, by the way,

1:17:17in his hand, he will be my servant. And you will go up to your father in peace. He says, no, no, chalila, chas v'shalom, this is not, if you don't do the transfer, only he, only he, this right-hand man, he did the transfer. The one who did the transfer, he is my servant. So here, Yehudah notices that there is something here, so he says, no, no, it can't be that he is your servant, I can't go home to my father and tell him that his son, the dear one, And the only one from Rachel's mother, because the other one is already dead. So he says, I can't leave him here. Take me as a slave. Take me as your slave. I'm stronger than him. I'm smarter than him, older, better, more experienced. So Yosef begins to test him. Really, how do you test a person? How can you recognize a person? When is he angry? If you want to recognize a person, see how he behaves when he is angry. Why? Because anger is when a person really shows you the truth. But that's not good. In the letter, they call it the Ramban. How can you recognize a person? When he is angry. If you want to recognize a person, see how he behaves when he is angry. Why? Because anger is when a person really shows you the truth. But that's not good. In the letter, they call it the Iggeret HaRamban.

1:18:33He says to his son, he wrote him a letter at the end of his life. It's a famous letter. He says, listen to me, mussar rabbecha, and don't steal your wife's Torah. Do you know the letter? Yes, so he says, always act to speak all your things in peace, to every person and at every time, and in this you will get rid of the anger. The Gemara says that a person who is angry and loses control... He is strong and blessed. Why does he say this? He also says this in a letter. He says, this person works avodah zarah. A person who is angry is like a person who works avodah zarah. So now, there is a question here. Every person in the world has a situation where he is angry. And... Okay, he says, I want to work on myself. So I go to a psychologist.

1:19:56or I'll read a few books. In English, they call them self-help books, like books to help ourselves. But he sees that he's reading one book, then another book, and another book. He goes to the psychologist, he has $300-$400 left, and he, a little bit, No, he hears them, he tells them, they tell him, don't spread, don't break things, don't do this, don't do that. And he's been holding a position for a year, two years, three years; he doesn't hurt anyone. He doesn't hurt, he doesn't break. But one day, someone puts him in a crisis, he takes someone and kills him. How can that be? If he worked on anger, If he worked on anger, how can it be that suddenly he got angry and killed someone? It could be even worse than what happened before that. But even more than that, there is a way to fix the position in a way that is not real, and there is really a way to fix the position in a real way. In a non-real way, which is the way of the world, Shaker Shaker Shaker Shaker Shaker Shaker Shaker Shaker Shaker Shaker Shaker Shaker Shaker Shaker.

1:21:08shakran shakran shakran shakran shakran shakran shakran shakran shakran shakran shakran shakran shakran shakran But it's not true. What happens? A person puts it inside, and inside, and inside, and he soothes the nerves, and soothes the nerves, a week, two weeks, a month, two months, a year, two years, three years, and then he becomes like a mountain of anger over the smallest thing. A person, one of his workers, buys him coffee without sugar. Instead of putting two sugars in it, he takes this hot coffee, and throws it on his head, throws him a knife, over a simple thing. Why? Because instead of fixing the middot, he made them worse. He became emotional. So this is not fixing the middot; this is nonsense. What is fixing the middot? Fixing the middot is learning how not to bite. Not how...

1:22:15To make you just put it inside. How not to bite at all. So a person who wants to learn how not to bite must learn the instructions of the Blessed Creator, the One who wrote how not to bite. Yes, you need to know who He is at all. You need to understand that when he is angry, it all comes from anger. Why is he angry? He is angry because he thinks that everything is coming to him. Why does he think that everything is coming to him? Because he thinks that he is better than everyone else. So when you tell a person that he is angry because he is a coward, in the beginning he says, "I am not a coward, I don't think anything." But you prove to him that everything is out of anger. So he starts working on anger. And as much as he works on anger itself, and he knows that he is one of the smallest creatures of creation, he is a tiny thing that comes from a seed. And he comes back, and at the end of his life, the tola'im eat him. And he really understands, slowly, while learning Torah and learning the Torah that Chazal are teaching, he really learns what he is, and he doesn't have anything to complain about.

1:23:25If he's rich, HaKadosh Baruch Hu decides who's richer than him. One day you can be rich, the next day it can be me. I know this from my own experience. I made millions of dollars in my life. Huh? Yes. So if a person is jealous because he has a lot of money and he can understand while learning Torah, then it's not that at all. If a person is beautiful, Hashem can take it in a second. A small mistake can be the ugliest thing in the world. If he is wise, he needs to understand that a person who is wise, Hashem can take all this wisdom and make him a person who can't speak. So all the things that he has a reason to be jealous of, it's really not his. So he's jealous of something that's not his. So slowly, slowly, this person, if he's not jealous, he doesn't have the courage, then he really doesn't have a reason to be jealous. Because he knows that nothing will come to him. And everything that comes to him, Hashem cares for him. If something good comes to him, he gets good. If something bad comes to him, he gets bad.

1:24:32So in the meantime, he understands that there is no reason at all for him to get angry. This way, you don't get angry. You don't get angry when you're in some kind of situation that could cause a stomach ulcer. And then one day you get an ulcer or some kind of disease. No, you work on it. This way, working on the middot is the most important thing. So now, to go back to the parasha. Are you with me? Yes, that's right, that's right, we've returned a few miracles. But let's finish this point of the parasha, that now, when... he comes to...

1:25:36So what does he mean when he says, because you are like a cow? He says, you're a cow, you're a coward, you say one thing and you do something else, you push your strength, you make people do things, I told you that... How did they understand? So let's add something else. The Midrash Rabba says that when he came to him and said, He came to a point where he said to him, "Listen, either release my brother, or we will kill everyone. I will start with you, and I will finish with Pharaoh. We will kill, we will destroy all of Egypt."

1:26:50But a normal person can't say that. So the Shevatim, as we said, had tremendous power, power above nature. So Yehudah was the strongest of them all. When he got upset, he had a few hairs on his head that were like a sword, and a bullet came out of his body, like a bullet. Yes, yes, it's something amazing. All these superheroes come from the Torah. Yes, now all the imagination that people have today to invent people who are above nature, it comes from the Torah. Yes. If you see and read the Midrashim about the 12 tribes and their strength and the wars they fought and how... Not only when he did this, Yehuda...

1:28:17he was a leader, like Aryeh, but it happened that when he was a leader, he would destroy things. So when Yosef continued to argue with him, to test him, he killed, And then he shouted in such a dramatic way that he destroyed, he destroyed the two, Pithom and Rameses. These two cities within Egypt, he destroyed both of them. This is all in the Midrash, the Midrash Rabbah and in Me'am Loez. will destroy two countries. In this argument, in the first two verses, he will destroy these two countries. And then Yosef says to him, "No, what do you think, are you the only one who has the power?" So he brings Menashe, and Menashe took, made a step on the ground, made a hole in the ground, saying, "Destroy all the stones in the whole house." And then Yehudah sent Naftali,

1:29:30One of the tribes said to him, "Listen, go and see all of Egypt, and come back to me and tell me how many parts there are in Egypt." So Naftali was very angry. He went to all of Egypt in a moment, just a moment. He went to all of Egypt and returned to Yehudah. Egypt is a huge place. Even today, with a plane, you can't go back in a moment; it takes hours. He went to all of Egypt in a moment, returned to Yehudah, and said to him, "There are 12 parts to Egypt." So Yehudah said to his brothers, "I will take three, and you will take the rest. We will destroy all of Egypt." But his brothers came to him and said to him, "Dear one, the Holy One gave us this power, not to destroy the world. It's not Shechem. Shechem was a small country. It's not your opinion." Yes, he said that to Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. When he left the cave, when he and his son studied in the cave, they studied there for 12 years.

1:30:46came out of the cave and said they saw Jewish people who keep Torah and mitzvot, but they work. They work in ordinary jobs like a person trying to make a living. He works; he sells stones; he sells tires, you know, all kinds of things. So this... He would say to him, "How can a Jew waste even a moment on such things?" It really hurt him so much, he would look at him, and the person would burn. And then his son also thought the same thing. He looked at the son of Adam and he beat him. He beat him to the ground. So the Holy One said to them, "Did I come to destroy the world? Return back to the cave." Like you said, the verse you said, "Return back to the cave." Return them to the cave for another year. And then when they came out, Rabbi Shimon was more normal. He understood that the purpose of life can't be that a normal person will be at the same level as him, like an angel. But Rabbi Elazar, his son, hadn't reached that yet. So every time his son, Rabbi Elazar, looked at someone and attacked him, then Rabbi Shimon would burn him with his power and return him to life.

1:32:09Yes, bring him back to life. Yes. So now the Shevatim... No, no. Rabbi Elazar ben Shimon. It could be. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Rabbi Shimon was one, no, I think Rabbi Shimon is one of the students, I think Rabbi Shimon is one of the students of Rabbi Akiva, one of the six that he started after 24,000 students were killed. He is one that started Judaism again, he, and Rabbi Meir, Rabbi Meir... Yes, Rabbi Meir Baal HaNess, Rabbi Yossi, yes, yes, yes, Rabbi Yossi. All those who are mentioned in the Gemara, they are not only the Jews of Torah; each one of them who is mentioned by name in the Gemara had a large enough following that he could bury the dead, bury the dead.

1:33:37They don't put all names in the Gemara. They don't put any... they don't put every... they don't put every... they don't put every... they don't put every... they don't put every... they don't put every... they don't put every... Judah is arguing with Yosef. Yosef also shows him his strength. So Judah says to him, "Listen, if I take out my sword, I will start with you and finish with Pharaoh. We will destroy all of Egypt." So Yosef says to him, "If you take out your sword, I will destroy it." So Judah tries to take out the sword, and he sees that he cannot. There is strength from above, his power that stops him, and this is Yosef's power. But Yosef already thinks to himself that if I continue to annoy him, he will kill me in the end. Then he came to a situation that Yosef couldn't, couldn't take it anymore. Paragraph 45 of Menachem Mendel.

1:34:54and Yosef can't complain about all the decisions he made. No, I don't understand what you're saying. It's a bit stuck. What did you say? No, I don't understand what you're saying. I hear, but I hear the voice, but it's not so clear. Yeah, perfect. No? Exactly, that's what we just heard. He tried to take out the sword, and Yosef's strength stopped him. So the war between the two, which is all this debate,

1:35:54It was a spiritual power, and all the brothers, all the tribes, united, and then Yosef brought his army. There were tens of thousands of people, and there were huge giants, but Yosef warned them, he told them, don't fight with them, they will kill you, just for intimidation, just to scare them. But what scared Yehudah the most of all is that he couldn't take out his sword. Why? Because he understands that Yosef is not an ordinary person. Not only that he is not an ordinary person, but HaKadosh Baruch Hu agrees with him. Because HaKadosh Baruch Hu does not give this power, this spiritual power, to every person. He gives this spiritual power to a person who comes to Him. That's it. So this excited Yehudah. And then... Yosef said to him, "Why are you fighting so much for this boy? Why didn't you fight for his brother?" He got a little scared. And then Yehudah started to cry. He didn't want to cry. "I don't know what to do about this boy. He already left. We told you he's already dead. What can I do?"

1:37:18Give us his brother, leave him alone. And then, when he saw that everyone was excited, he himself started to cry. He kicked everyone out. And he started to cry and told them that he was Yosef and that his father was still alive. His father was still alive. His father was still alive. So the answer is, Yosef's eyes were exactly the same as Yaakov's eyes. So Yosef said to himself, how can it be that I look exactly like my father and they don't recognize me? They don't recognize me. So Chazal say to us, that the tribes never looked at Yosef's face. Why? Because Chazal say it's forbidden to look at the faces of a rasha. So as long as they didn't know he was their brother, they thought he was a rasha. So they never looked at his face. So they didn't realize he was really their brother. This is how much they respected the Torah, even before we received the Torah.

1:38:41They won't look at his face. So because of that, he asked them, "Is my father alive?" And he said, "It could be, what, maybe they lied to me. Or maybe my father is really alive, just to say something. How could it be that he's alive, and they don't recognize me? Or maybe they didn't see him, or maybe he died so many years ago, that they already forgot how he looked. So because of that, they don't recognize me. Do you understand?" But on the other hand, he didn't look at his face. He always stood there with a mask on and kept talking. And he didn't talk. That's what you have to say. Yes, yes, you're right. But it was even the Chazon Ish who discovered... They even had the opportunity to look at his face. They had the opportunity, and they didn't look at his face because they thought he was a rasha. But now he says to his brothers, this is him. Don't worry about him.

1:39:43Everything is fine, and at the same time, he says to them, "Your brother," he says, and they could not bear him, because they were killed in front of him. So the Sages tell us, what does it mean that they could not bear him? They were killed, they all died. From the grave. from what happened here, that this is their brother, that they didn't see him for 22 years, and the whole story, and they really received a prophecy, that really, what happened, and everything really, everything that happened, was for the good. They now understood, everything that happened, the Holy One gave to each one of them a prophecy of what happened. He also told them, I am Yosef. He also told them, I am Yosef. No, he told them, he told them, vayomer Yosef aleihem, ani Yosef.

1:40:45But at the same time, they realized that it was him. They realized that it was him. They received a prophecy. They received a prophecy, and they looked at his face, and they saw, and out of the darkness, everyone really died. The Holy One, blessed be He, resurrected the dead. He returned everyone to life. But he said to them, he said to them, in a sermon, he said to them, that I do not envy you. Yes, yes, it's after that, it's after that, it's after they died and returned to life. Then he said to them, וַיֹּאמֶר יוֹסֵף אֶל אֶחָיו, "Come to me, come to me," and he said, "I am Yosef, your brother, whom you sold to the Egyptians. And you, do not be sad, and do not be angry in your eyes, because you sold me, as if I were the life of Chana, God before you." Okay, so he tells them, like, hey, don't worry, don't worry, everything, everything from the Holy One, Blessed be He, means everything and everything, He does everything and everything, and all this thing, all this process was for good. And then he, first of all, hugs his brother Binyamin, and they say that they are now really crying one on the other, crying one on the other, and the sages say that they both received a prophecy,

1:42:08of all the generations, they saw the destruction. They saw that the people of Israel became slaves, and then they saw the destruction of the First and Second Temples. So, they wept for the destruction of the First and Second Temples, which occurred in the portion of Benjamin, the part of the Land of Israel that he received. And so they really saw the future. Something amazing. And that's one of the reasons, the Zohar says, that one of the reasons they chose is that 10 out of the 12 tribes disappeared. Like, in the matter of all the... Everything that happened to us in the last 2000 years, this is one of the things, one of the things that the Holy Spirit did. Where are we today? In which area? In Yerim? Yerim in Yehudah? Yes. Yes. But the rest of the tribes don't know. There are a few who say that there are a few in Africa, of Naftali, and a few more. But...

1:43:33Yes, yes, black, black, black. There are also in Asia, in, I think it's Singapore, or a place like that, where they have discovered all kinds of, recently, they discovered other communities that were really living in the third world. That HaKadosh Baruch Hu connected them with the people of Israel for many years, but now, slowly, slowly, everything is revealed. Now, now, he sends them to their father, to Avinu, to Yaakov, and he tells them, like, hurry up, tell him he'll come, but now there's a problem. Their father is in his 130s. If he tells him that he's now 22 years old,

1:44:33He's crying over Yosef. Twenty-two years he thinks he's dead. And now if we tell him this good news, he can die. He can die on his own. Heart attack. Chazak u'Baruch. Serach bat Asher came to him and started to play and to sing. And she sang that... that Yosef is still alive, and it's like in the background, like elevated music, like music in the ma'alit. And to praise him, and then when they tell him, at first he doesn't believe, but then he understands something, he understands something that they tell him. They tell him that they told him all the words, and they told him all the words of Yosef. When he spoke to them. What is the voice of Yosef's words? Now, in the beginning, he says, "I don't believe them." The verse, Chaf Zayin, says, verse like 45:26. So he says...

1:46:10And they said to him, "Yosef is still alive, and he is the ruler over all the land of Egypt." But his heart grew faint, for he did not believe them. And then it says, "And they told him all the words of Yosef, which he had spoken to them, and he saw the wagons that Yosef had sent to carry him, and the spirit of Yaakov their father was revived." And Yomer Yisrael, Rav Yosef B'ni Chai. So what does it mean now? They told him all of Yosef's words, and he saw the agalot... Ah, Chazak U'Baruch, Chazak U'Baruch, beautiful. Very beautiful, very beautiful. I'm telling you, it's like standing in the beginning. Just because a person says something, he doesn't say to remember it, Chazak U'Baruch. Now, he receives the Holy Spirit and sees the truth, but before he sees the truth, he sees the whole prophecy. He even sees that this is the step, that now he's going to Egypt. This is the next step, that now starts all the things in Egypt.

1:47:35Yes, but the problem is that before he was received, before he was received, before he was returned to Israel, he says that he doesn't believe them. Yes, but even before, but now... Yes, but really it started from the beginning of the life of Yitzchak. But anyway, first he says he doesn't believe them. He doesn't believe them, until they tell him the words of Yosef and he sees the עגלות (agalot). What is it about? What did Yosef tell them that he said no? And what are the עגלות (agalot) in general? What does it matter to them? Now... Yosef, before they sold him, was learning Torah with Yaakov. All the secrets of the Torah, he was learning with Yaakov. So the last lesson they learned together, it was about eglah arufah. Eglah arufah and also a parah adumah.

1:48:54So they said to him, "Listen, Yosef sent us, and to prove to you that it wasn't just him, he even told us the last lesson you taught him on the eglah arufah. And if you don't believe that it's true, that maybe we remembered it from 20 years ago when he told us, then he sent us these special circles. Circles, if you find, it changes the point." It comes from the root of the heel, the upper leg. So when he saw the wheels, he understood that this is a message from Yosef, his son. Then he believed them, and the spirit of Yaakov came back to him. The good feeling returned to him, and when he felt good, he returned to Yisrael and received the Ruach HaKodesh back. Do you understand? This shows us that a person who is sad, when a person is sad, it can't be that Hashem can give him the Ruach HaKodesh and all that. A person needs to be in a good state of mind. When a person is sad,

1:50:14It's a problem. So a person really needs to work on himself so that he won't get into such a situation of being sad. And really, one of the most important things to do is emunah. Emunah in Hashem. When a person works on his emunah every day, he won't get into a situation where he will be sad. Yes? Yes. They said that the idea of breaking all these laws will be a disaster. They said, don't even look at it; it will be a disaster. It will be a disaster for you there. Yes, we don't have anything here except for the land. In the 70 years that we lived, we don't have anything here except for the land. Chazak u'Baruch. Chazak u'Baruch. Chazak u'Baruch. Chazak u'Baruch.

1:51:39So now, China, China, they have almost 2 billion people. And they started after us. So the minimum that we need to have is at least the same thing as them. At least 2 billion people, if not more. So how can it be that only in Klal Yisrael there are 13, 14, 15 million Jews? Billion is 1,000,000,000. A billion, I thought it was a thousand million, but maybe I'm wrong. After 26 years in America, English has become the language that is more complicated than Hebrew, but with the help of Hashem, with the help of Torah, we learn.

1:52:51In any case, we really need to be at least like the Chinese. How can that be? And also, as you said, Chazak U'Baruch, you said, He promised Avraham, He said, I will make your descendants like the stars in the sky, like the sand, like the dust that exists. So what happens here? Is there a mistake? What happened here? So there are two parts to this answer. Chalek Rishon, Chalek Rishon, Chalek Rishon, Chalek Rishon, Chalek Rishon, Chalek Rishon, Chalek Rishon, Chalek Rishon and at the end of the parashah, it says, "And we became from 70 to millions upon millions." Really, in a miraculous way, something amazing. Every birth there were 6 children.

1:54:03Every family was 50, 60, 70 years old. It was normal. You didn't need a truck to feed them in the morning. Yes, but also at the beginning of Parashat Shemot it's written very, very, they said 6 words. to explain how much more there is from it. So it's six times, so it means that every birth was six children, minimum. Anyway, we became millions. The fact is that we left Egypt. There are many numbers, the lowest number, the lowest number, which is the estimate of how many Jews there were, is three million. Really, it's a lot more. Really, it's a lot, lot more. But if it's 3 million, it means that in... in Egypt it was 15 million. But 80% died in the plague of darkness.

1:55:32And in the darkness, chamushim, chamushim. But there is a Chazal. There are Chazal books that say that chamushim is not one of five that came out of Egypt, like twenty percent. It is really one of five hundred that came out of Egypt. That like, two out of a thousand came out of Egypt. Less than. 2% is 20%. 2 out of every 1,000 came out of Egypt. So if we had, say, 2 million Jews, there would be a billion, a billion Jews in the world. And there are numbers that are even higher than that. We did the math one time, estimating how many Jews there were. Even during this time and also during the time of the Beit HaMikdash, the numbers are staggering, it's something beyond logic. Something very huge. But the thing here was much more than we think. So how can it be that it's not now?

1:56:52First of all, we need to understand that part of the punishment is everything that happened to us, all the pogroms, all the Holocaust, all these things. It took a lot of lives from the people of Israel, a lot of Jews. This is the problem: Jews who don't repent and don't do what Hashem says, they say, no, no, no, I'll manage. I'll live my life here and I'll manage to go to Olam Haba. What, do you really believe that if Mashiach comes or if Hashem will destroy everyone? Most of Am Yisrael don't listen to Hashem's mitzvot. Oh, we lost the conversation. We lost the conversation. Hello? I'm sorry. What's up? Oh, oh. This is an accident. An accident. All the time. It has to be disturbed.

1:58:11When there is something good, which is the words of the Holy Torah, there is no such thing that the yetzer hara will not disturb. If you study Torah and the yetzer hara does not disturb, there is a problem. It means that you need a little more. The yetzer hara has to disturb. That is part of its purpose. But if you really study Torah, it will overcome. So, Baruch Hashem, we have the privilege that we came to a situation where we study the Torah with shalom, and the yetzer hara didn’t care enough to disturb us. And I won’t let the phone work. Let’s see if we can reach him. One more time. But... if not, then we’ll finish a few more things, finish the lesson, and then... yes, yes. So now, when there are Jews who don't understand what ruach hakodesh is, what the Torah is, what the mitzvot are, what the purpose of life is, they say, no, no, what do you think, that ruach hakodesh will really destroy the majority of the people of Israel? If Mashiach will come today, the majority of the people of Israel will have a big problem.

1:59:36They have a very big problem. A person who doesn't keep Shabbat, doesn't keep the origin of Judaism, has a big problem. And this problem, you can't fix it. There's no answer. So people say, what, 80% of the people of Israel don't keep Shabbat? Wow, 80% will be destroyed? So we don't need to go that far. It's not that far. The Holy One did it already. He did even more. The Exodus of Egypt, which is the great revelation that is told about, and you need to learn it every day—you really need to read it twice a day to remind you of the Exodus of Egypt. To remind you of it. That's it. Yes, yes, but that reminds us of the Exodus from Egypt. Why? Because the Exodus from Egypt is a very big thing. But in the Exodus from Egypt, more than 80% of the people of Israel, the Holy One destroyed them. Why? They didn't want to do what He wanted. He was the boss, not them. So if He already did it in the Exodus from Egypt, when we say that there is a Chazal, even though it is much more than 80%,

2:00:52It's almost 99%. It's a crazy thing. One out of 500 came out, 2,000 came out. So a Jew who has a little bit of wisdom needs to understand. It's not a joke. G-d did not steal from the shul. It's not a joke from the club. It's the Holy One, the King of Kings, the Holy One. It's not a joke. So people need to understand. Now, a person who sees what's happening in the world, all the wars, the war of Gog and Magog has already begun, even if it's relatively quiet. The war of the Third World has already begun. All the problems that exist in the world, all the antisemites in the world, everything that's happening, a person needs to understand. The time has come. The Mashiach needs to come every day. He needs to answer. It's impossible to answer when the Mashiach has already come. There is no more experience. So we need to understand that we can't just get along. G-d is not our friend. He is our G-d. Now, when we get all these threats, it is really to do us good. When G-d is punishing us, it is not just to punish us, it is to enlighten us.

2:02:04So now he says to Avraham that Avraham's descendants will be like the stars or like the dust. How can that be? There will be many of them. Stars, that's the meaning. They are visible. They will be visible in the Torah. They will be visible to you like the stars. They will be numerous like the sand on the seashore. or that they will be or that they will do Torah and mitzvot and will be like the scholars, as you said, something huge, great, holy, and good that will help the world and all of creation, or that they will be more harmful than the harmful ones even Yes, worse than all of them. It's a weird thing. You're telling me that a Jew can be worse than an anti-Semitic person? Yes, because the biggest anti-Semitic people are Jews. You see, anti-Semitic people, it's not just Israeli. It's really hate of religion. It's really, you see what's happening in the government in Israel. You see, there are people...

2:03:33No, no, no, no, no, but I'm telling you, there are people who, not that they do it intentionally, but I'm telling you, I'm telling you that we have people in the government, not just everyone, there are people in the government who do everything they can just to go against religion. Yes, it doesn't matter, his father and that, it doesn't matter, yes, there is enough. There is enough to change the religion. Yes, yes, Lapid, he... Lapid got beheaded and... Yes, the father got beheaded and the son is still alive. But the son is still... Sari, yes, yes, strong and clear, strong and clear, okay, so anyway, there are people... Yes, yes, Sari. Yes, but the son is still alive, and the son is still doing terror to Assad until he is released.

2:04:51In any case, it's not important. He's not the only one. There are many who go against religion. There are many who really do everything they can to go against religion, to go against the talmidei chachamim, to do everything they can. This is what he expects when he says, but if we are human beings, we know that it's a real man. It's not a real man. It's a cheftza shel mitzvah. Yes, yes, yes, that's right. Okay, okay. So the point here, to conclude, is that now we need to understand why all this is happening. All these things happen when we want to behave like cowards. So because of that, when Yosef said to his brothers, say to... When Pharaoh comes to you, and asks you what you are doing, what is your profession, tell him that we are farmers. Why farmers? Because being a farmer was loved by the Egyptians. The Egyptians loved the animals; they considered them sacred. So they said, if he hears that you are farmers, he will not want you. So if he does not want you, we will all live quietly, only with our people, only with the Jews, in Goshen. So why does he want everyone to live in Goshen?

2:06:17Because he doesn't want there to be discrimination. When there is discrimination, there are problems. When we feel that we are like the nations of the world, then that is when the problems begin. A Jew must understand all the time that he is not like the nations of the world. He is special. He is the son of the special King. And he must behave like the son of the King. This does not mean that the nations of the world are not good. There are many of them that are very good. As we said at the beginning of the lesson, there is a very big book about the book of Iyov, Job. So, no, he didn't write about me or about you or about all that. He wrote about Iyov. Iyov is not a Jew. So it doesn't mean that the Goyim are not good. But it means that a Jew must behave like a Jew. And that's the main thing. That's the main thing, that a Jew must understand these things. And this whole process, this whole story continues with the help of G-d next week as well, that we slowly understand that this whole process, that G-d brought us to Egypt, is in order to take away the people of Israel, because He created the people of Israel, a people of hardship, a people of hardship. And to receive the Torah, when a person wants to learn Torah, he must overcome stubbornness, overcome pride, overcome anger, and overcome his bad traits.

2:07:38לקבל את התורה, כשאדם רוצה ללמוד תורה, הוא חייב להתגבר על העקשנות, להתגבר על הגאווה, להתגבר על הכעס, ולהתגבר על מידותיו הרעות, And to accept the Torah and slowly, slowly to relax. So, because he saved us, even when we are in trouble, it can also be for the good and it can also be for the bad. When it is for the good, it means that a person who has complete faith, it is not important what you will do, even if you will put a sword on his neck, he will not run away, he will not kill me. I will not go to something else. I will not do anything else. He will kill and will not pass. But, a person who is a heretic, and goes against the religion, and you try to renew him with a few things, you want to show him that there is a purpose for life, there is a Creator, blessed be He. Exactly. Blessed be He. Blessed be He.

2:08:39the Jews forbade him to give up. That was the bottom line. Jews forbade him to give up, and that's what we learned from Moshe Rabbeinu. Moshe Rabbeinu, the Pharaoh put a sword on his head and tried to cut his head, and Moshe's head turned into a sheep. Until now, Moshe Rabbeinu's head is like Yaakov's head. Yes, when Yaakov's head was like Yaakov's head when his grandfather tried to kill him. So now, a Jew needs to understand that he is special, and if he doesn't behave like a Jew, doesn't pay attention, and he starts to go against Hashem, doesn't know the Torah, doesn't fulfill the Torah, doesn't do anything, you try to renew him a few things, it's hard for him to accept it. So if a person really wants to accept the Torah, he needs to... To work on himself. Not everyone can learn Torah. First of all, you need to know that when a person eats, he eats well. It stimulates his soul. It's hard for him to understand the Torah. Another thing, if he has pride, there is no such thing. The Holy One, Blessed be He, can't be in the same room with him. A person can't be... Yes, he can't. He can't be in the same room with him. In simple terms.

2:09:59It can't be. So, a self-confident person is like a migrant worker. If you work as a man and you want to invite Hashem into your life, how can that be? So a person should understand that learning Torah is not like learning Bialik, or science, or accounting, or all sorts of things like that. A person should understand that Torah is a sacred thing, a thing that takes a little patience, strength, effort, and really perseverance. And with the help of Hashem, slowly, slowly, all these lessons strengthen us, and slowly, slowly, we ourselves will return to Teshuva. And we'll do more mitzvot and... What? Okay, no. Yes. Osnat was called Potiphera. It's the same thing as Potiphera.

2:11:03Yes, yes, Potiphera is the same thing as Potiphar, so just a second. And Osnat, Osnat was his daughter, that she was really, Osnat was really the daughter of Dinah. Of Dinah. When she, when she, when Shechem violated her. Because after Shechem violated Dinah, she was embarrassed that she had a child from it. So Yaakov told her not to look at her belly every day. He sent her to a good family in Egypt. A special family. A family in Ramah. So he sent her to Potiphera. Potiphera really raised her. Potiphera and his wife raised her. Why? Potiphar, really, he was gay. So in the beginning, yes, he really took, he bought, the Gemara says, he bought Yosef because he wanted to have relations with him. But the three of them didn't let such a thing happen. He sent the angel Gavriel to make him a man. So he became Potiphar.

2:12:30he didn't want to have relations with Yosef. But after Yosef left, he lost the power that the angel gave him and he became gay again. He became Potiphar again. And this also shows a person that beauty is not the purpose of life because Potiphar's wife was one of the most beautiful women in history. And yet he wanted Yosef. Yes, she was a girl, but she had a dream or some kind of prophecy that she knew that from Yosef would come the seed of Israel, and she wanted to be a part of it. However, she didn't understand that the dream really meant her daughter, Osnat. So, really, because of that, she wanted to have relations with Yosef, not only because he was beautiful; she truly wanted to be part of the seed of Israel.

2:13:30It's also in the Midrash and in the Gemara. Part of what you said is in the Gemara, part in the Midrash Rabbah. Yes, so it wasn't like she was just jealous; she wanted to do things like that. She wanted to be part of the descendants of Israel. Chazakim U'Berukhim. Thank you for reminding us and encouraging us to be righteous. It's all your z'chut. Baruch Hashem, Baruch Hashem. Chazakim U'Berukhim. Thank you very much for the lesson. Baruch Hashem. We missed a lot of things. If there is something else, you will return to it. But in the name of Hashem, we will continue in the name of Hashem next week. Thank you. Thank you. Chazakim U'Berukhim. All the best. Shabbat Shalom. Shabbat Shalom Tzadik. All the best. Bye-bye. Baruch Adonai Le'olam. Amen v'Amen.