שיחת חיזוק בטלפון (3) TorahMates (פרשת ויחי, למה צמים, מידת הענווה, אחרית הימים)

0:01Amen, amen, amen. That's the name. So, Adonai Shabbat, open your mouth as I said to you. There are certain questions about the parashah. We'll start with the parashah and I'll see where we'll go. That's the name. Okay. So, Yaakov lived in Egypt for 17 years and Yitzchak lived with Yaakov for 7 years and 40 and a half years. So, I'm telling you now, from the beginning, that Yaakov really makes a mental calculation and it's like... Every time one of our fathers passed away, they told us exactly the years that he lived. And when Pharaoh asked Yaakov, "How many days of your life?" So Yaakov said that it was like less than his father's. Even though in general it was really fewer years than his father's. But it was also a form of modesty, that Yaakov said that he was not a righteous man like his fathers. No, no, my life wasn't full of commandments like my parents did, which is not even really so true, but it's one of the things that you know, that you can see from every...

1:07כל בן אדם שהוא מוזכר בתורה, שהיה קרוב לה' זה מידת הענווה. באיגרת הרמב"ם, המכתב שהרמב"ם כתב לבנו, שדיברנו עליו שבוע שעבר, הוא אומר שמידת הענווה היא טובה מכל המידות. מכל המידות הטובות, מידת הענווה. עכשיו, יש באמת שאלה, שהיא קשורה לעניין של הענווה, that this week was the 10th of Tevet, a holiday day, and not in a historical way. It's a very difficult day for the people of Israel. It's really the day that HaKadosh Baruch Hu decided in heaven that He would give us Nebuchadnezzar to destroy the Temple. We are sad until today because of everything that happened, but really my question is like this, Now we have a few holidays this year, and I really want to ask, why does G-d care if we eat or not eat? What does He really care? Why does G-d care if we eat or not eat? If He really wants us to be hungry...

2:31Chazak u'Baruch. But if He really wants us to be sad, why doesn't He do chas v'shalom? But why doesn't He do ra'av like He did last week, the week before? The ra'av He did in the whole world caused the whole world to be in ra'av, except for Yosef HaTzadik, who ate all the food of the whole world; he fed everyone. So if really HaKadosh Baruch Hu cared that we don't eat, then why doesn't He do ra'av? Now, there is a very difficult situation in California. Really, they have already... They haven't had enough rain for five years. And they say that if it happens again next year, like this year, there won't be water for all of California. Now, that's a big problem because a lot of people don't understand that California, in terms of... Her economy is number 8 in the world. What does number 8 mean? Now you have, let's say, China and America, etc., number 1.

3:47or China is bigger, or America is bigger, it doesn't matter really. China, every country in China is one, America is number two, and so on and so forth. But number eight, number eight in the whole world, is not a country. It's California. It's not a country in itself, it's not like America; it's just part of America. So this is the size of California, that if really, will be like this, and there will be no drinking water next year, it will cause a problem all over the world, not only in California. Because 80% of all the fruits and vegetables that come from all of America come from California. And also from the rest of the world. So it's not just a problem for 30-40 million people. It's a big problem. So really, if G-d cares that we will be in a crisis, that we won't eat, then it will do the same thing as it did in Egypt, God forbid. So it can't be like that. Because there is no rav in the whole world. There is a problem here and there, but relatively, everyone is eating, drinking, baruch Hashem, everything is good and beautiful. As long as we are eating the food, everything is good and beautiful. So why are we really fasting? So the Holy One wants to remind us that from the point of view of the anavah,

5:10It's a condition that not only is it important for everyone and good for everyone, but really, a person who is not an anav, it's hard for him to connect with HaKadosh Baruch Hu because he really doesn't understand its meaning. And I'm not just saying the meaning of HaKadosh Baruch Hu, I'm saying the meaning of the person himself. A person should understand that there is no person in the world, not Bill Gates, and not the most beautiful person in history, and not the most, I know, the smartest person in history, not important. There is no person in the world who has a reason to be ga'avah when he has pride. Why? Everything he has, Hashem gives him. But now, a person doesn't think like that. A person thinks that I did everything with my own hands. And I thank Hashem, and He helped me, and He gave me. But over time, sometimes you forget—not you, but you forget—you forget to thank Hashem.

6:12And a person starts to get to the point where he thinks that if he works extra, if he works 15 hours instead of 12, or instead of 10, or instead of 8, then he will make more money. Because he thinks that if he works more, he will make more. So when a person thinks like that, then he really says that everything is in his effort. And it's 100% against what Hashem says to us. Hashem says to us, "Poteach et yadecha, umasbia lechol chai ratzon" (Open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing). What does it mean, "open Your hand"? It means that He opens His hand, not our hand. Not that we open our hands and He gives us. It's that He opens His hand, as He can – He doesn't have physical hands, but in a figurative sense – He opens His hand, and He gives to everyone. He gives to the sheep all they need, He gives to the cattle all they need, He gives to humans all they need. He opens His hands and makes every wish come true. So when a person says, "If I work more, if I do more," then this person is really stuck in this misconception. He says, "No, I open my hands. I need to open my hands so that the Holy One will give me." So if I open my hands, what does it mean to open my hands? I need to work. I need to work and work more and work more, but that's not really true.

7:29Hishtadlut, hishtadlut, זה טוב מאוד, אבל יותר מדי זה מגיע למצב שאתה אומר שבלי ההשתדלות האקסטרה שאתה עושה, הקב"ה הוא לא יכול, וזה באמת לא נכון. אז באמת, בן אדם צריך להבין שהשתדלות, זה הכל, כמה השתדלות לעשות, זה הכל תלוי בכמה אמונה יש לו. אבל בכל מקרה, לחזור לעניין של הצום, Yes, of the harvest. So why does G-d cause us to harvest? Because as long as a person has a lot of pride, and then he is poor, he begins to understand that he is really zero. The person himself is zero. Because if he is missing one thing, every person is missing one small thing, the smallest thing in the world—he is missing water, he is missing food, he is missing some money, he does not have enough money to pay his rent, he is missing everything in the world. You see, the person looks the happiest in the world, he has the most money in the world, but if Hashem does not give him enough food for a minute, he cannot live.

8:38He doesn't give him food, he can't work. He doesn't give him to drink, he can't work, he can't live. So a person understands that really, really, really, without HaKadosh Baruch Hu, without a constant connection with HaKadosh Baruch Hu, he's really nothing. So this, really, when a person thinks positively about food, then he can get to a situation where he says, you know what? Everything I have is from HaKadosh Baruch Hu. All this anger is in general... There's no reason in the world for me to be angry. So a person can really take advantage, like really take the burden and turn it into something really holy that can return in repentance and can really be more of a burden because he starts to get to the point where he understands that really, without even just one, one of the smallest things that HaKadosh Baruch Hu gives us in abundance, without one of them, I'm nothing. So this is the reason why G-d says that we need to remember that the first thing is to learn the Anavah, the second thing is to connect to it more, and the third thing is that when a person is sad, then there is less negativity here. So when there is less negativity here, then it forces the person to be a little more spiritual. The level of spirituality depends on how deep he really is in the matter.

10:03So here Yaakov tells us that really, being an anav (humble person) is one of the most important things in the purpose of life for a person, and that's why you hear that the Holy One, Blessed be He, calls Moshe, "the most humble of all people." And you see, David HaMelech says that he is less than a worm. Avraham Avinu says that he is dust and ashes. Moshe Rabbeinu and Aaron say, "What are we?" as if they are really nothing. You see the humility of these people because really, if a person had a reason to be arrogant, they had it. David was a king. I am not a king, you are not a king, there is no king in the world. He was a king. Yes, but he was a king; he had money, he had women, he had beauty, he had everything, he had wisdom. He had a reason to be like Moshe Rabbeinu, leader of the people of Israel. He is the only person in history who spoke face to face with HaKadosh Baruch Hu. He spoke to Him like you speak to your wife, like you speak to one of the workers. Really, face to face. He didn't say anything bad.

11:11No, HaKadosh Baruch Hu doesn't really have a figure. He doesn't see anything. But "face to face" they say that He spoke to him when he was awake. When Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov, the first man, all the Nevi'im, all spoke to HaKadosh Baruch Hu, it was in a different way. Either they were sleeping. or that they did some kind of meditation, or that it was some kind of epilepsy, all kinds of things. No one was, well, standing on both feet. Moshe Rabbeinu is the only one in history who stood on both feet and communicated like an ordinary person, and at the same time spoke to HaKadosh Baruch Hu. So this is what Moshe had, and in terms of seeing the back, So what does it mean to see the back of Hashem? So I heard it...

12:26So Moshe Rabbeinu He wanted to understand the Holy One. He asked Him questions to understand the thought of the Holy One. The Holy One does not think like us. So the Holy One says to him, you cannot see My face. What does it mean you cannot see My face and live? You cannot see something I am doing now and understand what I am doing. Because you're still trapped in the body. You're still trapped in this world. But you can see the back. What does the back mean? The past. What I did already. What I did in the past. And you see from the beginning of the purpose to the end of what I did. From the beginning of the action to the end of the action. Then you'll understand why I did what I did after I finished the whole action. But to see something before I finished it, you won't understand. Why? Because you're still in the body.

13:41And this is the reason why he saw the back of Hashem, that Hashem will show him everything that happened in history. He was with Him, but he didn't see the figure, he didn't see the figure. Yes, he learned Torah, and I say He will also show him, Hashem will show him everything that happened from the beginning of the world until the day he came to it, and He will also show him parts of the future. But He showed him everything that happened, showed him all the past. He said, like, why did He do the Flood? Why did He save the world? Why did He... all kinds of things like that. Not everything has answers, but He showed him everything He did. Why did He give the... Avraham gave him the covenant, and not, say, Noach. Why did He... Exactly, exactly. So He showed him everything He did, everything He did, and the whole process. But in the matter of Rabbi Akiva specifically, He didn't explain to him. When Moshe saw the end of Rabbi Akiva's life, he said to Him, "What? This is Torah and this is its reward? How can that be?" He didn't explain to him. He didn't explain to him. He said, "This is already beyond you. I won't explain it to you." Yes.

15:02Yes, exactly, in the name of Yisrael, the name of our King is one name. So now, to be an eved (servant), if a person has a reason to be an eved, Moshe Rabbeinu has a reason to be an eved. He spoke with HaKadosh Baruch Hu, he saw the future, he saw the past, but he was more of an eved than any person. Avraham Avinu said, "I am dust and ashes." A person who made the covenant of the word, started the whole concept of the covenant of the word, started the whole, really, of Judaism, as it were, even if he was considered Hebrew and not Jewish, in any case, he is one of our fathers. So the point here, if someone had a reason to be haughty, Avraham Avinu had a lot of reasons to be haughty. He was rich, he was wise, he had a special connection with G-d, but he wasn't haughty. He was just humble. So how can it be that these people are the greatest in history, yet they have a degree of jealousy that it is impossible for us to even be a quarter of them? Or even one percent of them, really? So how can it be that a person who really has a reason to be jealous is not jealous at all, and is jealous in the other direction?

16:15And all the people who really have no reason to be jealous of anything, but they are more jealous than everyone else. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. As much as a person begins to recognize Hashem, He begins to recognize his wisdom, which has no boundaries. He begins to recognize his Torah, and finally, he begins to understand. How much is he next to Hashem? Not how much is he next to a person. How much is he next to Hashem? And he sees, so Moshe Rabbeinu himself, he was strong, he was tall, he was ten amot, which is about seven meters. He jumped about seven meters. He jumped in the air ten amot. He was strong, he was wise, he was rich.

17:21It was everything. But he knew Hashem. He understood who he was standing next to. And he said, "I'm nothing next to anyone. I'm really nothing." So as much as a person knows Hashem and His Torah more, he understands how much he is really nothing. But as much as a person doesn't know Hashem, doesn't know His wisdom, doesn't know His Torah, doesn't know anything from his life, then he thinks that the bones he has on his hand, and his hair in a certain way, and his clothes are dirty, and his car is $150,000, and his house is $5,000,000, then he thinks that he really did everything, and he has a reason to be a kavod (honored), and there is no person who is further away from such a person, and he is really more miserable. So this is what we really learn about ahavat Hashem (love of Hashem), and this is one of the reasons that remind us that Yaakov said that

18:22he lives less than his father and from his grandfather Avraham Avinu. After that, he says to Yosef, "Put your hand under my shoulder and do with me chesed v'emet (kindness and truth)." So why does he say chesed v'emet? What, do me good, do me chesed? But no, he doesn't just say chesed, he says chesed, real chesed. What does it mean to have true mercy? When a person does good to someone, even if he doesn't intend to, he always thinks about it, that there is a chance that the person will return to him if he will take a risk. So let's say a person, a friend of his, asks him to take him to work with his car. He doesn't have a car, his car is broken, so he takes him to work. But he thinks to himself, even if he doesn't say it to the person, he thinks to himself in actuality, he says to himself, you know what? If I take a risk one day, he will take me to work in return.

19:31So even if the person is a good person and he doesn't do it because he expects a favor in return, he thinks about it. He thinks that there is a chance that if I give, he will give back. If I give him money, maybe if I help him now, he will help me in the future. And all kinds of things... Exactly. Yes. Yes, yes. Exactly. So now, Yaakov says to his son Yosef, "I want true chesed. What is true chesed? Chesed that you don't expect anything in return, and the only true chesed that can be done in this world is chesed for the person who died." Why? Because he died. He can't return to you. Yes, this is true chesed. True chesed is when a person is dead and you have... Yes, chesed shel emet. Yes, true chesed shel emet is the greatest chesed shel emet. Exactly, this is the greatest chesed shel emet because the dead can't bring you anything. So this is what we learn from this part. When a person... Every time a person eats meat in the blood,

20:48There is a person who is more spiritual, a person who is less spiritual, but all of them, may G-d bless them, let's say, are in the same place. Yes. But this one has this cleanliness of the other. And of course, he is trying to recognize the good. If he is in the corner, he is trying to recognize the good. There is one more, there is one less. No, maybe there are people that I don't know, but I'm sure there are. Yes, yes, yes, 100%. So this is the biggest level, as you said, the biggest level is to make true chesed with a person who died. So this is also the level that, with the help of Hashem, we can all get to. After that, he now tells Yosef, "I got to the point where I will die," after we discover that Yaakov is the first in history that it is written that he will be sick. They say in verse 1, "And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Yosef, 'Behold, your father is sick.'"

22:13And he will take his two sons with him, Menashe and Ephraim. So Yaakov really was the first person who became sick in history before he died. And he asked for it from HaKadosh Baruch Hu. Because before... He asked for people to be sick before they die. And the reason is that before Yaakov was sick, when a person was getting to the point where HaKadosh Baruch Hu wanted to take him out of the world... ...in a natural way, a person would get sick, do apchi, and then die. So because of this, we say "to health" (l'chayim), until today we say "to health." Why? Because once, a person would get sick and die. He wouldn't look normal; everything would be fine, healthy, good, everything beautiful. Get sick, die. That's it. So Yaakov said to HaKadosh Baruch Hu, the Rav of the world, "Why don't we say 'to life'? To life? You can also say 'to life.'" Yes, the reason why they drink wine... Yes, not only that, also when the Sanhedrin was...

23:33They say, what did you decide? So the head of the Sanhedrin says, what did you decide for everyone? What did you decide for them? What did you settle? To what agreement did you agree? And then they say, to death. To kill, they kill the person, Chilul Shabbat, he did some sin, to death. So that's why we still say, to life. That they settled, that we will live. That's why we say, to life. But now, in the matter of the last time, it was a man who was getting drunk and... Yes, yes, but the reason why they say Sabri Maranan... It's to remind what the Sanhedrin were saying. And the reason they say "Sabri Maranan" is because we want, as if we were judged, or at least they say that the Sanhedrin judged us to live, not to die. That's the reason. But to continue, the issue of the fact that he was the first patient, the first monument that appeared in history,

24:49He said, the Rav of the world, a man who gets sick and then dies, he doesn't have a situation where he can arrange his things. He doesn't know when he will die. He can't, if he has, let's say, a property, he wants to give it to his sons, or he wants to arrange a few things, he can't arrange the things. So at least if you make him sick, it will give him time to arrange the things before he dies. So the Holy One, Blessed be He, agreed with Yaakov, He said, okay, we agree with you, we will do it, and you will be the first to be sick. So that's why it's mentioned here that Yaakov, it's the first time in the entire Torah that it's written that someone was sick. After that, Yosef brings his sons, Ephraim and Menashe, Menashe the elder, and then he wants to receive a blessing. He wants to receive a blessing. And you and your two sons who were born to you in the land of Egypt, until you came to Egypt, for me they are Ephraim and Menashe, just as Reuven and Shimon will be for me. He says to him, your two sons are exactly like Reuven and Shimon. Not that they are my grandchildren, they are really my sons. Just a second. I'm looking for a pasuk here. One second, one second, one second.

26:15Oh, here. Okay, that's a verse, okay. Now, he understands, he understands, now, Yaakov, when he said that your sons will be like my sons, or that my sons will really be part of the tribes, so it's clear that he knew them, and he, 17 years old, he saw that it comes to them to be his sons, part of the tribes, it's not like he never saw them or something like that. But there's here, there's here, First of all, he says, he knows that now Yosef brought his sons. After Yosef brought his sons, in verse 8, verse 6, what is the reason that he decided to write about his mother's grave? Yes, he ran away because he wanted Yosef to promise him that he would bury him in Canaan, and that he wouldn't think, "How can you ask me to bury you in Canaan when you didn't bury my mother in Canaan?"

27:37So Yaakov explained to him why he didn't bury her in Canaan. Part of the reason was that he received a prophecy that the day will come when Nevuchadnezzar will destroy the Beit HaMikdash and will take Bnei Yisrael as slaves. They will all go into despair and lose all their strength. Then, when they will pass by the kever of Rachel, she will begin to repent, her soul will return, and she will see the people of Israel crying and in sorrow. She will appeal to the Holy One, and the Holy One will assure her that He will build the Temple again, which will be 70 years later. So, really, by burying her on the way and not in Canaan, it was a tool for the people of Israel. So he said to him, just so you know, I didn't just bury her there. I didn't bury her in Canaan. There's a reason. So, I don't want you to think that I didn't love her or I didn't care for her, or that it was something that wasn't right. I didn't bury her because it means to the people of Israel that I got this prophecy. But now, there's a return to Menashe and Ephraim, who first of all says, "Okay, bring your sons." Yosef brought his sons,

29:03Jacob in verse 6 says, "And Israel saw the sons of Joseph, he saw them, and said, 'Who are they?' Who are they at all? Who are they?" So now, if you go a little further, you see that it says that Jacob was blind. He lost all his... he was already old, he couldn't see. Yes, so now, if you say... If they say, oh, yes, he didn't see them. He says he saw them, but he says he didn't see them. It's written in the verse that he saw them, but he wasn't a believer. How did he see them? So now there's a bit of a problem with all this. He saw them, but he didn't see them. He said, who are these? And then after that, if there's another doubt that maybe he really didn't see them, then when he changed his hands, he put his right hand on the young man, Ephraim, and the left hand on Menashe. When Yosef tried to fix him, he said, "No, no, I know." He said, "I knew, son." He said, "Here, I don't know."

30:21And in the days of the prophet, he said, "I knew, son, I knew." Like, I know, don't you know? I know who I put my hands on. So he did see them. So why does he say, "Who are they?" That's the question, really. Why does he say, "Who are they?" So at the same time, at the same time that he put his hands on them, when he saw them, when they came, he received a prophecy about who would be their successors. And he saw that some of the descendants of Ephraim and Menashe are not so righteous. Most of them, the rest, are not the righteous individuals that we want to take as examples. So he said, "Who are these?" What does this mean? What is happening here? You said that your children came from kosher marriages. You said that your children are righteous. So how can it be that they have sins, sins like that? How can it be? So... so now... yes, so that's what Yaakov really asked him. Is your wife, Osnat,

31:46it was allowed for you. Did you marry a widow? Did you marry without marrying her? Is she still a slave worker? So this is when the Midrash tells us that this is when, at that time, Yosef went to, probably to his treasury, to some place where he hid the medallion. What medallion? We talked about when Shechem stole the child, he went out and stole it. This girl, she did a lot of mischief to her. Every day she saw this baby, it caused her to be mischievous, reminding her of what happened to her. So Yaakov said to her, send her to a family that has a respectable family, a family of Potiphar, and they will take care of her. But she will know, that this girl will know, that she is one of the descendants of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov. I will write her a medallion, a special medallion in Hebrew. The Egyptians didn't know Hebrew, so they didn't know what it was and they didn't throw it away. I will write to her that you are a daughter of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov. You are a descendant of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov. So when, when Yosef received the great job,

33:08From Pharaoh. And Pharaoh gave him some of the gifts that he gave him. He gave him some, some, how do you call it? Some kind of special ring. Some kind of special ring. Some kind of special ring. And he said to him, "You need to look for your wife. It is not right for a king to be a slave." You have to look for a wife. So when Yosef was in the circle and saw that all the women wanted to be with him, they threw on their shirts and so on. But one of the women threw the medal. And he throws the medal and he is the only one in all of Egypt who can read Hebrew. He saw in the medallion that there is Hebrew. He saw that I am in the shoes of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov. Who is this woman? Is she a virgin? Is it allowed to marry her? So he brings now, almost 20 years after that, or even more than 20 years after that, almost more, much more than 20 years after that, his father asks him, was he allowed to marry this woman? So Yosef comes to him and shows him the medal. Yes, she was one of your nieces. Ah, then he says, okay, bring your sons, I will bless them.

34:25So now he decides to bless her, and then Yaakov changes his hands, because he put his right hand on Ephraim, and his left hand on Menashe. But because of that, he said, who are these? So now... Yes, so now, the first thing, the question of why he left them, Yeravam, and Achav, and the good children, he tells them, listen, like... Even Avraham, we understand, he had Yishmael. Yitzchak, he had Esav. They will also have disciples who are not so righteous, but that doesn't mean that all of them will not be righteous, because one of them will be Yehoshua bin-Nun, who was the most important person in the world after Moshe Rabbeinu. He was the leader of the people of Israel, Yehoshua bin-Nun, one of the descendants of Ephraim. Mordechai and Esther, descendants. A lot of righteous people, a lot of righteous people came out of Ephraim and Menashe. So not everyone... But wait a minute, a lot of people came from them. Yes, from them, that's what I'm saying. Yosef asked him, how can it be that your sons' decisions will be not good? So he says, they are not good, as you saw, but there will also be a lot of good. Yes.

35:49No, he explains to him, he says to him, Yosef did not see what Yaakov saw, but he said, as to Avraham and Yitzchak, that they were righteous of our fathers. Even they had bad children. So it's obvious to my children that they are... It's easy and material. If Avraham and Yitzchak had a bad child, then it's easy and material that Ephraim and Menashe, who are less than Avraham and Yitzchak, also have a great chance that they will have bad children. But that doesn't mean that they came from unfaithful marriages. It just means that someone fell from the way. So now... he changes his hands, he changes his hands, and it's not, it's not so clear in Yosef, he says, and it was Yosef who, his right hand, his right hand on the head of Ephraim, and it was in his eyes, because it was in his eyes, and he supported his father's hand to take it,

36:55he says it's not true. You put your right hand on the smaller child. You put your right hand on the son of the prophet, on Menashe. And he says, וגם הוא יגדל, ואולם אחיו הקטן יגדל ממנו, וזרעו יהיה מלא הגויים. אז הוא אומר, אל תדאג, מנשה יהיה עם גדול, יהיה מוצלח, כל טוב ויפה, אבל אפרים יהיה יותר גדול. The decisions he makes are more important, bigger, and he needs a bigger blessing. But I can't blame them and tell them that my right hand will be on Ephraim and my left hand will be on Menashe. So I do it in a way that they don't look at my hands. They look at Menashe coming on the right side, and...

37:57Binyamin came on the left side, so they think that you don't pay attention to which hand he put on him. He made an X with his hands. So in order not to embarrass the children, he did it like this. Why? Because the blessing that Ephraim needs is a greater blessing because he is more successful. He needs more protection. So that's the reason, and he tells him, "I know, I know what I'm doing." After that, after he saved them, Yaakov says to all his sons, he says, in fact, what Yaakov is trying to tell them here is not only what will happen at the end of the world, but exactly when the Mashiach will come. This is the end of times, this is the end of the world. The end of times. The days of the Mashiach. And he intended to tell them exactly when the Mashiach will come. But it's not written here. If you see what he tells them, it's not even close. First of all, he reproves Reuven. Reproves him. Then he reproves Levi and Shimon. Shimon and Levi. Reproves them. Then he blesses Yehudah and so on. He doesn't tell them when the Mashiach will come.

39:26Why? Why? Because if he tells us when the Mashiach will come, then Yetzer Hara will convince us to go back in repentance just before he comes. If a person knows that the Mashiach will come in another 50 years, he will not go back in repentance now. He says... What? He will convince us to go back in repentance in 50 years. Yes, exactly. He will wait. He will wait until this, and when he reaches the last minute, he will begin to repent. So this is the point. So now HaKadosh Baruch Hu did not want, even when He told Yaakov when the Mashiach would come, He took back this prophecy, this knowledge from Yaakov, that he would not tell his sons when the Mashiach would come. Because a Jew, really, his life goal is to repent every day. Every day. Even a religious person, from the day he was born, has to repent every day because there is no such thing as a tzaddik who doesn't make a mistake. A tzaddik who doesn't sin. Every person makes a mistake here and there. There are four tzaddikim in the Gemara who never sinned. But in any case, an ordinary person, even a person on a high level, even Moshe Rabbeinu, made a mistake. Shogeg, but he made a mistake. He did, he did something. Every person does something.

40:52There was the father of David HaMelech. There was the father of... Yes. The father of David HaMelech. The father of Moshe Rabbeinu. The son of... Amram. Binyamin. Binyamin. Binyamin. One of the 12 tribes. and the son of Shlomo HaMelech, Kalev. Kalev ben Yefuneh? Yes. He didn't commit suicide. So you have four people in history who didn't commit suicide. But why do you say Kalev ben Yefuneh? He's Shlomo HaMelech's son. Yes, yes. I remember I read it somewhere, but I don't remember exactly the question. With the help of G-d, we'll continue to think about it at the end of the lesson, and then maybe I'll give the answer in a few more minutes. Amen, amen, amen, amen. The whole mission is to listen. Probably, to know it is not important enough to say it now; you need to know something more important. So now, to return to our topic with the help of G-d,

42:17Yaakov tries to tell them what is happening in the present day. He doesn't tell them exactly when the Messiah will come. But Chazal tells us that he did tell them a few things about what will happen in the present day. He told them about the war of Gog and Magog. He told them all kinds of things that will happen in these days. And this is part of the source of where we get what will happen in the present day. But now, if a person pays attention to what is happening in the world this week... and even in the past months. You see, this week, Turkey sent a message, or, like, made a statement, saying to Russia that "we can destroy you in a week." Now, Russia has already threatened Turkey in the past. They don't like them that much. And Turkey...

43:20Exactly. But the point here is that when a person pays attention to the details, he sees that we are really, not only at the end of the days, but we are really at the end of the days. We are really in the days of the Mashiach, the Mashiach really, and the whole war of Gog and Magog, all these things happen. And really, there are people who say that the war of Gog and Magog has already begun, on the 11th of September, the non-Aziz date. The war of Gog and Magog has already begun. No, no, yes, no, the war, no, listen, listen, a few months ago, the Gog and Magog war started, how did it start? I heard, I didn't hear, you said, wait a minute, I'll tell you what you said, you said, you said, you said, what did you say? No, it's interesting that it started on this date, because this date has already been recorded. What happened in history on this date? But in any case, it doesn't matter. What happened on this date? On that day, the Russians decided to go to Syria, but before they brought, as we said, it seems like a week ago,

44:28Before they brought the tanks, before they brought the planes, before they brought the soldiers, before they brought all the weapons, they sent a squad with 200 atomic bombs to Syria. It's in the news, yes, it's not a secret. Before everyone came, they sent a squad with 200 atomic bombs. Now, if a person really believes in the story that Russia came to Syria in order to destroy and crush Daesh, you don't need even one atomic bomb for Daesh or for Syria. You don't need two. Two is to destroy the whole world. Ten is to destroy the whole world. you can already see that Syria is longing for something much bigger than Daesh, much bigger than Syria, or from Turkey, or from America, from everything. Really, something serious. And now that Turkey has done what it has done, and they live among them, and they tell them, we are not afraid of you, we can conquer all of Syria in a week, you can see that the world is breaking. The world is breaking,

45:49And every second you can really start a third world war, but on every level. Not just in pressure like there is now. Now it's far from us, so most of the world doesn't pay attention. Even if a lot of people die and so on, we don't care; it's far from us. But if there's within 30 seconds, like the newspaper in England wrote a few months ago, we're 30 seconds from the Third World War. Why? Russia didn't come alone. They came alone, but if, say, the 200 atomic bombs weren't enough, There wasn't enough for the illusion that they were only going against Daesh. So they invited the world's largest army. Who was it? China. China, with 2 billion people, came to cooperate with Russia. If China wasn't enough, they also asked for help from North Korea. The world's largest theorists, except Iran, also came to cooperate. So they're also there in Syria.

46:54And if that's not enough, about a week and a half ago, Russia sent another ship, a submarine, but it's not just an atomic bomb. It's the largest atomic bomb in the world. We have no idea how many atomic bombs it has. But there's a chance that it's more than the 200 that we've already talked about. Why all this weaponry? What are they doing there? So a person begins to understand that really what... So you see that there is a situation here that they know that America will unite, and the world will unite, and there will be a world war. So they want... Yishmael will be... What Chazal says to us is that in the beginning there will be Yishmael against Esav, and after that they will unite and everyone will be against the people of Israel.

48:13Baruch Atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech Ha'Olam, Shalom Yom HaGadol. This is the last of the days. So now when you see this in the parashah that Yaakov tells us, I will read to you in the last of the days. So you see how relevant the Torah is. l'chayim shelanu, matai sheh ben adam lomed ota, o roeh sheh be'emet, matai sheh ta koreh kol parasha, ata roeh sheh yesh mashu relevanti, lo rak la matzav ha'spesifi sheh la ben adam, aval gam la ma sheh koreh ba'olam ba'atzmo, ba oto zman sheh ta koreh et ha'parasha. Achshav, achrei kol ma sheh koreh po, Yaakov oseh mashu, which also gives us a simple concept about what we can do, about the new knowledge we have, about the decision of the days, and about what is happening in the world today, what a person can really do. So now, he, first of all, is going to die. But before he dies, he gives them, to each person, something. He understands, he proves it. He tells him, "You were my choice, but you lost the...

49:27And not every mistake can be fixed. After that, he says to... But in any case, I consider you my son. In any case, I love you. And there will be a day when Moshe Rabbeinu, the leader of the Jewish people, will bless you. After that, he says to Shimon, to Levi, he says to them, he's like... He doesn't call out Shimon and Levi, but he calls out their anger. Their anger. This is what we learned from Rabbi Meir and his wife, Bruriah, that a Jew is not allowed to call out or criticize another Jew. He is not allowed to call out the faults of another Jew, but not the Jew himself.

50:49So when there were a few murderers who were giving alms to Rabbi Meir Baal HaNes, he started praying that they would die. So it is clear that you don't know that you are allowed to pray that their evil actions would cease, you have to remove their evil, not the one who does the evil. So this is really what Rabbi Meir Baal HaNes, his wife, Bruriah, And he began to pray so that they would return to Teshuva. And they returned to Teshuva. So this is really what Yaakov Avinu tells us here. Not that, chas v'shalom, Shimon and Levi are arurim. They are not arurim. But their tribe is arurim. Because, as the Ramban tells us in Iggeret HaRamban, and the Ramchal tells us in Mesilat Yesharim, and Chazal tell us in the Gemara. Now the question is, why did Yaakov Avinu choose this moment to rebuke his sons? What does he seek to accomplish by addressing Shimon and Levi in this manner? And what lessons can we learn from this episode about leadership and responsibility?

52:11First of all, let's go back to Yehuda. He blesses him, saying that the Mashiach will come from him. Then he blesses the rest of the brothers, especially Yehuda and Yosef. But the question is, why did Yaakov choose, right now, to rebuke the brothers, to tell them, to give them musar? The reason is that when a person talks to someone, and he knows that there is a constant connection between them, when there is a constant connection, then he knows that even if it's not intentional, he knows that he doesn't always have to listen to everything that this person says, because he knows that if I don't listen, I can ask him tomorrow, what did you say?

53:11If I don't listen, then I'll ask him again. He still feels comfortable. But Yaakov knows that his sons understand that he's going to die now. And there won't be tomorrow. There won't be two days, there won't be a week, there won't be two weeks. They won't be able to ask their father, "What did you say?" So that means that what he says to them now, they will listen. To everything he says, so everything he says to them must be the most important thing that he said to them in all their lives. Because what he says to them now must be something that will really remain with them for all their lives, and not only them but all their descendants, and us, and ourselves. So he... He chooses to rebuke them because he knows that if he rebukes them now, they will listen to what he says and they will respond. Because it will never leave them. Because every person, if you ask a person what he did in a historical event, like where were you, let's say, when September 11th happened. So every person in America, in general, even abroad,

54:36Most people who know what happened know where they were. They remember this incident. "Oh, I was on 38th Street and 5th Avenue. I got off the bus at the time it happened." The other one says, "I was at Subway. I was at, I don't know, McDonald's. I was at this." Every person knows where he was. He knows what happened at that time because this was a historical incident. But now all the sons will remember forever where they were and what happened on the day their father passed away. So it's clear that they will know what their father told them before he passed away. And if their father reprimanded them and gave them a little bit of admonishment, then Reuven, Shimon, Levi, Yehuda, Yosef, and all of them will remember exactly what their father told them forever. So this is the most important thing, that's why Yaakov gives them the most important message that they need to know. He understands, he needs to know that he needs to go back to the emet, he needs to control his feelings.

55:49Like us, exactly, we need, a person needs to be, even when a person gives you a headache, you can't be too emotional. Or you don't want to hear, he's too extreme, he's like that. What do you mean you tell me, I work a strange job when I'm angry? What do you mean you tell me, I work a strange job when I'm fasting Shabbat? What do you mean, it's a rabbi? No, you can't, a person can't be angry at someone who tells him the truth. And of course, if he does it in the right way. So, unfortunately, there are a lot of people who don't really like the truth, and they fight with it. They fight with the truth. They even cause rabbis not to come and give a shiur to the entire kehillah because they specifically don't want to hear this rabbi. And there is no worse punishment than this. Why? Because this person becomes the rabbi's antagonist.

56:49Did we go over the chapter of Avot last week? Did we go over the chapter of Avot? So it tells you, chapter of Avot, chapter 5, verse 21, it says, All those who harm the rabbis have no sin in their hands. This is a man who harms the rabbis, returns people in teshuvah, or that he gives orders on his own, or that he gives discs, or that he brings rabbis to the community, all kinds of things, or that he distributes lessons on the internet. If he's already on the internet, on Facebook, instead of looking at drinks, he puts on Torah lessons, so that people can learn Torah. All kinds of things like that. He purifies the walls, he helps people to repent. He says, there is no sin on his side. What does that mean? Every person has his own challenges. But a person who cares so much about the sons of the Holy One, the Holy One says to him, "I will not give you the same test as I give to a person who does not honor the rabbis." There are even things that I know that you will fear or that you will not withstand, I will not give you any test. Just big tests, not just. So that you will not come to a situation where you will commit a sin.

58:10But it says, at the same time, Chazal say to us, and all who reject the rabbis, the opposite, instead of rejecting the rabbis, honor the rabbis. All who reject the rabbis do not have enough in their hands to make teshuva. A person who rejects the rabbis, the gates of teshuva are closed. What does it mean that the gates of Teshuva are closed? Every person can return to Teshuva. So there is a problem here. How can it be that the gates of Teshuva are closed and at the same time HaKadosh Baruch Hu tells us that every person, even the biggest thief, can return to Teshuva? Even a beggar who brought avodah zarah to the Beit HaMikdash returned to Teshuva. He did not close the gates of Teshuva. So how can it be that the rabbi's wife, the rabbi's wife's wife, So how can it be that a lot of people don't get the rest of the teshuva? Every person who returns to teshuva, not only does he need to have the right to return to teshuva, but he also needs a lot of siyata d'shmaya (divine assistance). He needs a lot of help from Hashem to return to teshuva. It's not easy to return to teshuva. So when a person returns to teshuva, HaKadosh Baruch Hu really helps him in most ways. He gives him 90% of the return to teshuva; it's the power that HaKadosh Baruch Hu himself gives to this person.

59:31He helps him. The more a person returns to teshuvah earlier, at a younger age, G-d helps him more. If he returns to teshuvah before the age of 30, G-d helps him 80 or 90 percent. If it's after the age of 30, maybe it's 70 percent and so on. If he returns to teshuvah at the age of 70, it's much less. 30 percent maybe will help him, but in any case, He will help him. And if G-d does not help him, then there is almost no chance that the person will stand in the test and will come back with teshuvah. So a person who is a rabbi, and he goes against rabbis and speaks disrespectfully about them, which causes the rabbi to lose influence and the ability to bring people to repentance. He does all kinds of things, such as when the rabbi says to his friend, "What, what do you care about Shabbat? You already do a lot of things. Come with me to the sea, come with me to the pub on Shabbat, Hashem forbid, smoke a cigarette, come in the car." What do you care about Shabbat? And he really causes someone else to desecrate Shabbat, or creates a bad atmosphere, and he really freaks out a lot. Then the Holy One says to him, I don't help you to go back to Teshuva. You can go back to Teshuva, but I don't help you. And it really causes the person to come to a state where he can hardly go back to Teshuva. So that's what he says. So now, when a person is angry,

1:00:53So he has to understand that this anger can cause him to make a lot of mistakes from what he has already done, from the anger in himself. And a person can get angry, let's say, at some rabbi, because this rabbi told him the truth, and he doesn't want to hear the truth. It's angering for him; the rabbi told him that you are not allowed to be with a widow, you are not allowed to commit adultery, you are not allowed to do all these things, and he doesn't want to hear it. So if this person has a little bit of wisdom, She will feel it in her stomach. It's not good, but she will feel it at least in her stomach. Because if this anger goes out, there is no end to the punishment he will receive from the rabbi's wife. He really becomes a complete enemy of Hashem. Some say that even his prayers are not heard. It's a problem. So anger really, when the Ramban says that all kinds of Gehinnom rule him, he really says that all kinds of things can happen because of this anger, because the person has no control over his life at all. He really becomes a different person.

1:02:06So this is what Yaakov teaches us here, that he tells Shimon and Levi that their anger is terrible. It is so terrible, the most terrible thing in the Torah that is written is the word "terrible." Their anger is incongruous; it causes them a lot of evil. He not only tells them this, he tells us that now that we are reading the Torah, and to all the people who came before us and after us, to the world, how terrible is the anger. Are you with me? Now, he comes to Yehudah and tells him that the Mashiach will come from Yehudah. Hashem bless him. He says, wait, wait, He says, He says,

1:03:07and he will walk between his legs until Shiloh will come, and no one will believe. This means that the Mashiach, Shiloh—Shiloh is another name for the Mashiach—the Mashiach will come and will build all the nations together after what will happen, and all the things. But the Mashiach at the end of the world, all the tzaddikim who remain, both from the Jewish people and also from the nations of the world, will unite and will do the will of Hashem. This will come from the tribe of Yehudah. After that, he will bless Zevulun, and after that, he will bless Yissachar. Now, the famous question is, why does he bless Zevulun before he blesses Yissachar? Yissachar is greater than Zevulun. And even if you want to say that

1:04:23Maybe Zevulun was a greater tzaddik, a smarter talmid than Yissachar. It's the opposite. Zevulun was a businessman; he was in import-export. Yissachar was a smarter talmid. He studied 24 hours a day; he didn't sleep. There was an agreement between Zevulun and Yissachar, a famous agreement, that Zevulun said, "I will pay you, everything you need, everything your family needs, I will pay you, you don't have to worry about anything." Not just give you $500 a month, maybe you'll live, maybe you won't live. Maybe you'll pay the bills, maybe you won't pay the bills, because really, a person has debts, $3,000 a month, the $500 helps, Baruch Hashem, but it's not a salary in Zevulun. Zevulun said, I'll pay all the debts, whatever you want. Live with honor, all the bills, all the things, I'll pay. And I'll work. But, why? Because I want to receive the commandments of your Torah, I want to be a partner. to be a partner. Now, because Issachar wanted all the mitzvot, so he really worked in the Torah to the extent that he studied 24 hours. He didn't sleep. So he said, because now that I have a partner, I want to learn extra. So he really studied 24 hours. He didn't sleep. So now the question is, why, if Issachar is a smarter student, and also בוגר ממנו. תרגל ממנו. אז למה זבולון ראשון? למה זבולון מקבל ברכה לפני יששכר? כמו שאפרקי אבות אומרים, אם אין קמח אין תורה. אם אין תורה אין קמח. אז פה מלמדים אותנו, שבן אדם שגורם לתלמיד חכם ללמוד,

1:05:50בוגר ממנו. תרגל ממנו. אז למה זבולון ראשון? למה זבולון מקבל ברכה לפני יששכר? כמו שאמרו בפרקי אבות, אם אין קמח אין תורה, אם אין תורה אין קמח. אז פה מלמדים אותנו, שבן אדם שגורם לתלמיד חכם ללמוד, First of all, he is a partner. When a person really gives to Zikui HaRabim or to study Torah, he is really a partner. He is really a partner in the mitzvot. For example, if he submits 20% of the investment that this person needs to... to the month, then he is a partner in 20% of the mitzvot. If he really does like Yissachar and Zevulun, and he pays 100% of what he needs, then he is really a partner in every mitzvah he does. Now, how many mitzvot does a wise student do a day? So, not only more than the mitzvot, but the Chafetz Chaim, the Chafetz Chaim, alav ha-shalom, did a calculation. He said, a wise student

1:07:09does 600,000 mitzvot a day. How is it 600,000? If he reads... No, not prayers, just in the study of Torah. If he reads Torah, every word in the Torah, not a word or a sentence, every word in the Torah is a mitzvah. Every word. So, always be wise... who studies 10 hours a day, he does 60,000 mitzvot, he calls 60,000 otiyot per hour. 60,000 otiyot per hour, 10 hours, 600,000. He does 600,000 mitzvot per day. Now, if you compare this to, say, a person who compiles a Torah book. Baruch Hashem, it is a very important mitzvah, but most synagogues in the world have enough Torah books; they don't need more. So now, a person wants to donate a Torah book because that's the popular thing. Let's say he wants to donate, I don't know, 30, 40, 50 thousand dollars to a Torah book, a respected book. 50 thousand dollars he donated to a respected book, it goes to the synagogue, and even...

1:08:33If they have only one Torah book in the entire kehillah, there are two. Okay? So one book gets half of the mitzvot per year, the other book gets the other half. So every week, instead of... Every week they read the Torah book three times. So every month there are twelve times. Every time it's a mitzvah for the one who reads the Torah book. So you have six mitzvot per month. Yes, of course. So now, okay, so you did six mitzvot per month, per year, so with the Torah book, with the $50,000, you did 72 mitzvot. Very nice. But, if you take, not $50,000, you take a quarter of it, and you train a wise student, who learns, You learn Torah, you receive 600,000 commandments every day. So, in the entire history of this sefer Torah, you will not receive the same mitzvot as you received if you have always been wise. For a day. Not for a month, or a year, or forever. One day. You give him enough of what he needs for one day, his study for one day, that's already a bigger increase.

1:10:00So, this is what we need to know: What are the real investments that we make in tzedakah? Where is it the best? And I can tell you in a general way, I'm stuck in the matter. How am I stuck? I bought a Torah book before I knew it. When we had money, and we did a lot in business and all these things, I bought a Torah book. So it's not like you'll say that someone will say, not you, but if someone will say, no, he just says it because maybe he didn't buy a Torah book, he doesn't have that money, so that's why he says it's better to be always wise because now he's trying to be always wise. So he's trying to make money. Why all of a sudden? It's nonsense. I'm telling you, I myself bought a Torah book. And I'm telling you that if I had taken, I don't know, 60-70,000 dollars that I got from this Torah book, and I would have given it to some wise people; I would have already bought the world. Do you understand? So that's why you need to learn Torah, to know the trick, to know what is the best investment. You have one investment, $70,000, you get a couple of mitzvot every year, in the eyes of Hashem, very good, not bad. Every Jew is obliged to write a sefer Torah in his life. This is the last mitzvah written in the Torah. But,

1:11:19But why is it the last one? Because there's a lot before that. It's more important to learn Torah. It's more important to even buy a Gemara for people to learn. More than a Torah book. And there are enough Torah books. So if a person doesn't know, doesn't learn Torah, he doesn't know. He just thinks, in general, if I add more, it's a better investment. But it's not always right. You can invest the same money, $70,000, or even half of it, $35,000, to fund how many wise people you have. Of course, this and that, but if a person really wants to do something big, or something like that, and doesn't want to do both, it's really, really better to help wise people than to read a Torah book. But in any case, this is just, in general, a person needs to understand that when you study the Torah, you also study what is the best investment that there is. In our generation, a person who studies Torah all day and doesn't work, a person who studies seriously, that you know him, and you know that he studies. Not just a person you heard about from a story, from a person who knows someone who knows him, and maybe he is like this, and maybe he is like that. No, a person that you know. You can't look at someone that you don't know. You could just be, you're wasting your money.

1:12:46Like if I tell you, listen, you say you want to invest $100,000. So I tell you, listen, I have investment experience. Let's invest this $100,000 in a certain business. A person who has a brain says, okay, fine, nice idea, but let me check it. No? Don't check it? Return of the money, not on the money. Return of the money. Same thing with tzedakah. First of all, you need to know that tzedakah is equal. You really give it to someone who is trying or trying to be a tzadik, or even he is already a tzadik and is learning. You can't just give a blank check to someone you don't know and then say, "Hashem will have mercy on me and Hashem will do the rest of the mitzvah." There is no such thing.

1:14:03It's about a person who doesn't have a conscience; you can't have mercy on him. A person who doesn't use his mind; you can't have mercy on him. A person like that, there's a chance that this money will go to nonsense. So, just like you're wasting time to check your investments in the business, you need to check your investments in the next world. Even more. Okay? So now he's saying that Zebulun, because he's serving Issachar, his mitzvah is great, and really, he's getting more respect than Issachar because he's saying that without Zebulun serving Issachar, Issachar can't reach such a level that he's studying 24 hours. It's written here that it's better to respect the person who

1:15:05Yes, yes. So now he's saying that Zebulun, because he's serving Issachar, his mitzvah is great, and really, he's getting more respect than Issachar because he's saying that without Zebulun serving Issachar, Issachar can't reach such a level that he's studying 24 hours. It's written here that it's better to respect the person who supports Torah learning. That's the letter he wrote. I really like this letter, so I read it a lot. But all the letter, it has sources from Tehillim, from Gemara, from Sefer Melachim, from Mishlei. All the Torah, all the letter itself, it's really like... Everything... Yes, yes. That's the letter he wrote. I really like this letter, so I read it a lot. But... The entire letter, it has sources from Tehillim, from Gemara, from Sefer Melachim, from Mishlei. The whole Torah, the entire letter itself, it's really like... Everything... Yes, yes.

1:16:06This is a three-page letter, very nice. Really, there's a lot of wisdom in this letter. He tells a person how to get to a situation where he can buy himself... How does he get to the next world? What to do in order to get to the next world? And he tells his son... Yes, he wrote it to his son, but it got published. Because there's so much wisdom in this letter, it got published. So here he says... And if they are wise or rich, if he is wise or rich, you have to respect him. If he is wise or rich, you have to respect him. And if he is wise and you are wise or richer than him, if he is me and you are wise and you are more wise than him, think in your heart because you are alive from him and he is wise from you. So think, yes, he is me, but he is more righteous than me.

1:17:35that if he sins, he's a liar, and you're a liar. He's a tzaddik, and when he makes a mistake, he's a liar, without intention. But you look at yourself, I did it intentionally, I did it intentionally. That's what he tells his son, that's what you have to do, that's what he tells us. That's what you have to do, to get to the level of the ego. So really, yes, you have to respect a rich man, but you also have to understand that to be a thief, it's not, it's something that Chazal is talking about, Hashem hates people like that. So you really need to know how to give respect. No, I'm saying, there are people who don't go above the respect. To say hello to a person, to treat them nicely, okay, you're obligated, you're a rich man, you're a wise man, you have to do it. But to be such a scoundrel, not a thief, excuse me, a scoundrel, that you just tell him all kinds of nonsense, call this person, you know he's a big thief. He has a pornography company, I know, and he has a billion dollars, and you call him, a person calls him a righteous man. No! This person is a corrupt thief. You can't give this person nonsense.

1:18:57The Gemara says a lot of very serious things. That a person who... Exactly. That's not what I'm saying. So, like, honor, there are people who don't understand what honor is. Honor, not you. I'm just saying this for the lesson itself. To remind yourself, and also for those who see the lesson, or listen, so it's also good to know. A lot of people think that giving a person honor is like being like... Like a dog. No, why all of a sudden? Give a man respect? Okay, fine. Hello, hello. Press your hand. Fine. But to let, to say, to blame a person, to say it's a mitzvah, his absence is a mitzvah, and it's forbidden. It's forbidden to do things like that. So it happens, unfortunately, it happens in many places, especially when it comes to tzedakah. a person who wants to destroy his fortune. All year long, he commits offenses against Hashem; he is an enemy of Hashem. But he is reminded once a year to go to the Knesset and to donate a million dollars. Yes, on Yom Kippur, yes. So, in such a way, thank you very much. There are even righteous rabbis who won't even take your tzedakah from us.

1:20:19but you have to understand that to give him all the compliments, tzaddik, tzaddik, is forbidden; it is forbidden to do things like that. To call a tzaddik a rasha is forbidden. So, to go back to... You can get close to him, you don't have to give him compliments that are bad. You can say to a person, "Listen, I know that the person is struggling, the person is good in the heart," You just don't know. But to call this person a tzaddik as if he's really a tzaddik, that's not, that's a lie. Just to say, just to translate tzaddik, yes, yes, come tzaddik, just like a friend, okay, but just to mean, oh, this person is so good, so tzaddik, yes, there are levels. Just to call a person, even if you say, there's a person at work, I don't bother him. But I say to him, what does it sound like, brother? What kind of brother is this? I want to kill him like Saddam Hussein. I call him brother, just because it's a way of speaking, not to argue. Okay, so it depends, it depends on what level. Clearly, to bring people closer. Yes, listen, this is my job, this is what I do, to bring people closer, to bring Jews closer to Hashem, to do mitzvot, and there is a certain way to do it, there are a few methods, not one method.

1:21:40Not that I have the only method. There are many methods. The thing is, it's the first thing, like the song I did yesterday in Miami, in English, it's the truth that is more important than everything. But there is a way to tell the truth. You don't have to tell a person, listen... You're angry because you're desecrating Shabbat. You don't have to tell him that. You can tell him, listen, desecrating Shabbat is a very bad thing; it's one of the worst things that exists, or really, the worst thing that exists in the whole Torah. You can tell him all kinds of things in a nice way, in a lesson style, even not to... There are all kinds of ways to tell a person the same message. But... To approach a person, you can't approach a person with lies. When you tell a person, listen, I know you're a tzaddik, and you at the same time don't tell him the truth. So you only tell him that karev, you only tell him that his avirot are really mitzvot, and you never prove it. You never do what Yaakov Avinu did here, or what his sons did, or what Moshe Rabbeinu did in the whole book of Devarim. The whole last book of the Torah, almost the whole book, he rebukes the people of Israel.

1:23:05He wrote this book. The Holy One wrote the first four books, and Moshe Rabbeinu wrote the last book. And the Holy One asked him to add it to the four books so it would become the fifth book of the Torah. This is also one of the reasons that it can be one of the reasons that they call it the Torah of Moshe. Why? Because he really finished the Torah. He finished the fifth book of the Torah. His book was the last book. But in any case, he proved to the people of Israel, he proved to the people of Israel because he knew that This is the most important thing that he will do in his life, because this thing will remain with them forever. If he will simply say to them, “You are righteous, you have never hated Hashem, Hashem loves you, and you only do good, and every Jew has a part in the next world.”

1:24:12Even if he prays on Shabbat, even if he commits transgressions against Hashem, this will become a big problem and it is forbidden to do such things. So, there is a way and there is a way. As you said. We said it together, Baruch Hashem. So now, now he blesses the brothers, the Naftali, the... He also says to him, Naftali was his friend, the guy with Reish Shafir, so he says to him, Naftali was his, as he said to him last week or two weeks ago, Naftali was his strength, he was very strong. When they... Yes, when they... Yes, when... Yes, exactly, exactly. So, at the end of the week, when they tried to kill Yaakov, and Saraf came to disturb, he tells them, "No, I want to show you that you have the document, that it is really the seal of the seal, that for you, I am the winner, I have to get it." So Naftali went back to Mitzrayim, and back.

1:25:32Within a few minutes, he was very angry. Then he says a blessing to Yosef, son of Porat Yosef, son of Porat Alei Ayin, sons of Tzadel Alei Shur. This is from the famous verse that the mother says to her son, son of Porat Yosef, that there will be no evil eye, because Yosef HaTzadik was above the evil eye. ...after that he gives a blessing to Binyamin: "Binyamin Ze'ev Yitraf; in the morning he will eat, until the evening he will go to sleep." Chazal say that Binyamin—what does it mean that he was "Binyamin Ze'ev Yitraf"? It means that Binyamin was a man like a wolf; he was like turned into a wolf, yes, yes...

1:26:33Did you ever see a movie or read any fairy tales that tell that a person is turned into gold? Binyamin was really a man of gold. He was turned into gold and he was really destroying his enemies. He was killing them. No, he didn't eat them for food. He was crazy about them. It was his strength. Like we said... Yes, but he was really turned into a wolf. Not just that he had the power of Ze'ev. He was turned into Ze'ev. That's what the Chazal say. Not me, I said. The Chazal say. Yes, the Midrash, yes. I think it's Midrash Rabbah, yes. Midrash Rabbah, or Me'am Loez, it could be. Me'am Loez uses several sources. But yes, yes, that's the reason why he's called Binyamin Ze'ev Yitraf. After that...

1:27:53Yaakov... niftar? Niftar? Okay, what's the question? I don't understand. No, no. Yes, no.

1:28:53So it doesn't seem to me that he brought it from the Torah. Maybe his parents weren't left-wing. Maybe they brought it from the Torah because the verse says, yes, it could be that his parents were righteous and he became a rasha. I don't know, I don't know exactly. Yes, but that's sometimes what happens with all the... There are Zionists who are righteous, and there are Zionists who are more powerful than Daesh. So, because they really try, they really fight the Torah. So that's a problem, but listen, the Holy One controls everything, and He doesn't let anything happen if He doesn't want it to happen. And really, all the things that happen in the world today, and what happened in the past, and what will happen in the future, everything... He decides what will happen, He allows it to happen, He commands things to happen. And with the help of Hashem, all the things that are happening now are really to wake up the people, to wake up from error. And they started to ask the question, what is the purpose of life? And really, how do I get to that? And the purpose of life, you can get to the answer of what is the purpose of life...

1:30:15Yes, every day someone hurts someone. It's very bad. With the help of Hashem, we will, as long as he returns in teshuvah, does good, and does the will of Hashem, Hashem also protects him. And it's also good to know that in any case, the prayers and the Torah that we learn not only help to ourselves and it helps our families and also all the people of Israel. To all the people of Israel. When a person learns Torah, he really influences spiritually all over the world. It could be that the study you do, you study for even a quarter of an hour, could influence a person who is alone in Africa, a Jewish person alone, not close to the Torah and the mitzvot, suddenly came to open a book that his father gave him 30 years ago, a Torah book, and he never opened it. Why? Because you learned Torah for half an hour in New York. It's really, it's really, the Chazal explain to us that the power of the Torah, we don't even have a minimal understanding of how much it is. So, this is also... Yes. Not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet.

1:31:41I had a lecture every day. Every day I did a lecture. Baruch Hashem, Baruch Hashem. I did one in Fort Lauderdale on the second day; on the third day, at home, I had a regular lecture. Yesterday in Miami, Baruch Hashem, today I have a regular lecture with you, and then in front of you, I have my chavruta in Jerusalem, Rabbi Ephraim Kachlon, who is trying to learn a little. And with the help of Hashem, slowly, slowly. Yes, yes, he is a wise student, Baruch Hashem. He is not an ordinary person. He is a person whose Torah is more important to him than anything else. It is more important to him than the needs of the body. And he, Baruch Hashem. Yes, Rabbi Ephraim Kachlon. I will send you some of his lessons. We have put lessons on YouTube. Maybe it is 150 lessons. On every episode of the week, everyone has a really, really wonderful lesson. He also did one on the chapter of Avot and all kinds of moral teachings. Shalom Bayit, he has a series on Shalom Bayit. He has a series on children, how to raise children. Really, there are a lot of nice things. And everything is really...

1:33:02Yes, children's education. And the best thing is not only that in general he speaks, he knows how to speak, and he is understood, and he speaks very well, but many of the things he says, you don't hear in many places. Many innovations. Many innovations. So it's really nice. I'll send you, with the help of Hashem, the text. Av Kava? No, no, I don't know. It may be that I don't know your face, but I see something. I'm not very good at hearing. Yes, I'm talking about a guy who came to me and said, yes, yes, it's true, I'm good, good. Yes? Good. He's just, he's just a guy. He's just a guy. He's just a guy. He's just a guy. He's just a guy. Yes, I really like Rabbi Zamir Cohen. I like his books and... Rabbi Zamir Cohen, Rabbi Zamir Cohen. How did you find him?

1:34:31B'ezrat Hashem, listen, he's something, he's really... Yes, yes, he's... He's very good. Yes, yes. There are people who are r'duach (distant), who are really distant from the religion. Yes, there are. Yes.

1:35:32Yes, listen, every person has all kinds of rabbis that he can connect to, and there are rabbis that he won't connect to. It could be that a person is one of the greats of Israel, but you can't even hear a full sentence from him, you don't understand, you don't connect. And there are people who are hardly talmidei chachamim, hardly even chachamim, and you really connect to them, you hear all their divrei Torah, as if the Mashiach himself is telling you this. So every person, the Torah of the person comes from all kinds of sides. There is no certain way that everyone should accept it. There are people who say that there is a certain Rav, he is the best Rav in the world, and there are other people who tell you that this person, I can't even hear him. So regarding taste and smell, there is nothing to ask. But in the matter of Torah, it is also necessary to know that you have to connect to the person, you have to connect to the Rav. You don't have to force yourself to hear that it is a certain Rav just because he is a great Rav. You are obligated to learn Torah, but you are not obligated to learn it from someone specific. Yes, Rabbi Mutzafi, I myself love Rabbi Ephraim, as I told you, Rabbi Zamir Cohen, but one of the ones I love the most is Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi. I think that his way, in my opinion, his way is the best that exists for our generation, because there are many more...

1:37:01Yes, yes, I myself am trying, trying, with the help of Hashem, one day to be even a quarter of it, but I also think that his way is the best way for our generation, because most of the people of Israel need the pateesh. And not pateesh just to scare people, just to scare people, because they’re really in a different world, and there’s not much time. Yes, David, listen, it depends on who I'm talking to. It depends. If you see my requirements in English, if it's the third day of the shiur, it's the strongest lesson. We talk about strong things, we give it to the head as it should be. If it's a new shiur, with a new audience, it's a little bit different. It depends, it depends on who they're talking to. As we said before, you have to prove, every person has to tell the person the truth, but there's a way and there's a way. If you don't know the person, then you're not just going to tell him things that he doesn't, that he doesn't like. Maybe the person is too loose, and if you tell him something that's too much, he'll already get upset.

1:38:20Yes, so you need to know how to get to the person. And over time, you try a little bit. You say, okay, let's try to say this word. It's all true. It's all written in the Torah. It's not that I found it. It's not that the Abarbanel found it. It's all written in the Torah. You say to the person, okay, Chilul Shabbat, the person is considered a goy. What does the person say? If you see that the person is really excited and goes into depression, So you say, okay, so next time, less. If a person takes this in love and says, you know what, there is truth in it, so you know that next time you can tell him, even if you know that the one who desecrates Shabbat is not considered part of the matter. That even if it is... The law will prove it to you. It will prove it to you, exactly. It is a mitzvah from the Torah. So you need to know where you can go, like a person. What is the best way to do it? If there is a person you love, and you really want to prove that he will reply, but you, let's say, you're a normal person. He doesn't have a style of speech. Or you don't even have the words to say. Or knowledge. It doesn't matter what it is. The best thing in the world to do is to take a dollar.

1:39:37And you really want to prove that he will reply, but you, let's say, you're a normal person. You don't have a style of speech, or you don't even have the words to say, or the knowledge. It doesn't matter what it is. The best thing in the world to do is to take a dollar. Go to Rav Mizrachi's website, take some of his discs. I can even send them for free if you want. Give this person a disc. That's it, you've done your job. Do it for the person, do me a favor. This is something really, really, really special. I want you to see it or listen to it in the car. Listen to this disc in the car. Give the disc to the person. Do your job. That's it. So a person, with an investment of a dollar, with a dollar, you give a person a disc, you can really buy your world. The person who listens to the disc, he sees that there is truth in the world, and it is not the truth that he thought. He returns to teshuvah, he begins to keep the mitzvot, he keeps Shabbat, he keeps kashrut, he returns to complete teshuvah. You bought your world. In a dollar, in a dollar, brother, in a dollar.

1:40:49Of course, but in this person, I'm telling you, he listens to the disc of Rabbi Mizrahi, he listens to people who know a little about the head. If he wants, with the help of G-d, if he wants, if he speaks English, he can listen to the requests that I'm trying to give. All kinds of people who tell the truth. I'm telling you, you can buy your world in dollars. In dollars, like the rabbi said to Elazar ben Durdaya. Elazar ben Durdaya really wasn't a rabbi. He wasn't a rabbi. Who was Elazar ben Durdaya? So one day, one of the women that he was with, one of the women that he was with, She said to him, "What, are you a Jew?" "Yes, yes, I am a Jew." "They know you, everyone knows you. You come from the holy people and you don't have a chance. You make so many mistakes, Hashem will never forgive you. He won't accept you." So, I don't know how, it's all in the book of Shamayim, but what this woman said to him...

1:42:15She herself made a mistake with him. But it touched his heart, and he started to cry. And to cry. And to cry. And to cry. And to cry. And to cry. And to cry. And to cry. And to cry. And to cry. And to cry. And to cry. So Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi heard the voice of the prophet, and he said, he started to praise himself, he said, "We are leaders, we have all our lives to do mitzvot, and yet there is a person who buys his world in a moment, in one hour. But this person, not only did he buy his world in one hour with his teshuvah, but also the next world. The voice of the prophet called him Rabbi." Do you understand? So when you make a mistake, you need to understand that with a dollar you can bring a person back in teshuvah today. Why? Because people, they don't know what Torah is. So if you show them the truth of Torah, not the truth, basic things, give them a little bit of the truth, which is a little painful in the beginning, but you can really improve the life of this person forever. There is a famous story

1:43:43on Rabbi Levi Yitzchak from Berdichev and he was clearly a great tzaddik. One day, they tell the Rabbi that there are some Jews who were put in jail. They need to collect $30,000 to get them out of jail, and it is a great mitzvah to get the Jews out of jail. So Rabbi Berditchev said, "Okay, I will participate in the mitzvah." He went with them to collect donations, to save money. But listen, why do I say that? So he says to them, "Okay, who are the rich people?" So they tell him, "Like, the rich people's breath." He says, "No, what if this person is a certain person that everyone knows him as the greatest tzaddik in the world?" And not only a small one, when you come to him to ask for forgiveness, he laughs at you and makes fun of you. So he says, no, no, no, honorable Rav, don't go to him, don't go to such a person, he makes fun of us, he laughs at us, and even at the end, after he makes fun of us and laughs at us, he doesn't give. So Rabbi Berditchev says, I want to go to him first, in front of everyone. We have to do what the Rav says.

1:45:11They go to this man, a rich man, a huge house. They knock on his door. His guard, or one of his workers, opens the door, sees these rabbis, and starts laughing at them. "What do you want?" We come, we need some money from his honor. "Is he at home?" he says. "What, are you serious?" He says, no, no, excuse me, the man, he says, these people, they don't study at all. He calls his father. His father came and started laughing at them in their faces. Oh, what a laugh. He laughed at them in their faces. "What do you need? How much do you need? Tell me." He said, "We need $30,000." He laughed for another quarter of an hour. He laughed as if it was the best joke in the world. And then they stood there and didn't say anything. What could they say, poor people? Rabbi from Berditchev says to him, "Yes, you have to, it's a great mitzvah, participate." So the man says, "You know what?" Rabbi from Berditchev says to him, "Wait a second, I'll bring you something." He goes to the room and comes back with what? With a penny. A penny, a penny. A penny, which today, in a difficult situation, you can't even use. He comes back to him with a penny.

1:46:37The Rabbi from Berditchev takes the penny and begins to bless him with a blessing that this person in his life has never heard such a good thing. "Whoever blessed our father Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov, he will give to the person with the great heart, the pure, you, you, and give him blessing, blessing, five minutes of blessing." The person is so active, or what, the person, or what, what, the person is surprised, confused, what, what is happening to him, or what, what, wait a second, you're so, I love your blessing, you know what, you want another one? Well, of course, another one like that, of course. The person returns, he doesn't know what's going on, he goes, brings the penny. He says, you know what, instead of a penny, let's give him a quarter. Let's see, if he did so much blessing for a penny, what will he do if I give him a quarter? Gives him the quarter. The Rav says to him, who blessed, blessing, instead of 5 minutes, 10 minutes. Blessing, blessing. And all the Talmidim of the Rav, next to him, they see it and say, what is this? The Rav, the Rav, the Rav, okay, what's going on here? But they can't separate the Rav. But listen, this is a Rav who has Ruach HaKodesh. This is something different from most people. He blesses him, blessing him,

1:48:03Amazing. But he's not... But he's not... He's not... He's not... He's not... He's not... He's not... He's not... He's not... He's not... He's not... Wow, wow, how nice, he started dancing, dancing. This man doesn't understand what's going on here. And he really got excited from the Rabbi. He tells the Rabbi, I really appreciate your blessings, but tell me, how much are you looking for? He tells him, we're looking for $30,000. He tells him, it's on me. The man wrote him a check for $30,000.

1:49:05Now, when it's clear, it's an amazing thing. They give a blessing, another blessing, and so on. They gathered together. And this person became the person who gives the most blessings in the whole city. And before that, even people from other places would recognize this person as the most humble person in the world. Suddenly, he became a great tzaddik, a person who gives donations freely. Like a person who comes to his house and gives him whatever he wants. So the students of the Rav, from Berditchev, asked the Rav, "How did you do that? What, is it the Holy Spirit? Do you have a curse? What did you do?" He says, "No, not all of a sudden, all of a sudden, no." So they asked, "What did you do?" He says, "I saw that his evil nature, he is not an ordinary creature, his evil nature entered his money. And it was in his two coins." The first coin, when he gave it to me, I saw that the bad yetzer was inside the coin. So because of that, when he gave it to me, I was so happy that I already took half of his bad yetzer. When he gave me the quarter, I took even more because that was the rest of his bad yetzer. His bad yetzer was finished. And now you can all enjoy the joy that he will give you until the end of his life.

1:50:32And that he has no more yetzer hara. This is the wisdom and the holiness of the tzaddikim. Yes, this is the wisdom and the holiness of the tzaddikim. It is to know how to deal with every person. It is impossible for us to be even a small quarter of it. And what are we? with the help of G-d, with the help of G-d, it will be good. Continue to study Torah with the help of G-d, it will be good. So, two things to finish that are related to each other: when Yosef sends messengers to Pharaoh, he is not going by himself to ask from Pharaoh to bury his father. הוא שולח את השליחים שלו להגיע לעוזרת של אשתו של פרעה, והעוזרת אומרת את זה לאשתו של פרעה, ואשתו של פרעה אומרת את זה לפרעה בעצמו, ומשכנעת אותו לעשות את זה, אבל הוא אומר לו, אבי השביעני לאמור, הנה אנוכי מת בקברי אשר כריתי לי בארץ כנען, שמה תקברני.

1:52:00And you went to her and buried your father in the Me’arah. So he says to her, my father commanded me. My father commanded me to bury him in Canaan. And I want you to bury him and I will return. So Pharaoh says, and Pharaoh says, he will bury your father when he commanded you. He says to her, really, I don't want you to leave, and I don't want you to bury him somewhere else. But because he insulted you, go and do it. He didn't want to. But he didn't say, the only reason I let you go to bury your father somewhere else is because he insulted you. Now the question is, what does it matter to Pharaoh if Yosef... Yes, but to blame him. What does it matter to him if his father will blame him or not? He says, no, because your father will blame you. But I tell you that you don't have to stand in this week. Exactly. Chazak u'Baruch. Like the week...

1:53:25that Yosef... Yes, but to blame him. What does it matter to him if his father will blame him or not? He says, no, because your father will blame you. But I tell you that you don't have to stand in this week. Exactly. Chazak u'Baruch. Like the week... that Yosef... Yes. Moshe accused him that he would not tell anyone that he knew another language. So, already 17 or more, more than almost 30 years, he did not say anything about the fact that he knew one language more than Pharaoh, which is, really, if people knew, they would turn Yosef into Pharaoh. I have one job. So if I cancel the... the... the assignment I made to my father, I have to cancel all the assignments, then it will also come later. Exactly. Exactly. Now... Now, at the end of the portion... Neder? Swear. Swear? Oath. Oath. Oath? Oath. Oath. Oath. Oath. Oath. Oath. Oath. Oath. Oath. Oath. Oath. Oath. Oath. Oath.

1:54:53This is a complicated word. Oath is more popular and useful. Oath. Oath and swear. Swear is like lishava and oath is neder. But now Yosef does the same thing with his brothers at the end of his life. He influences them that when G-d will get them out of Egypt They took out his bones from Egypt. But before that, he says to them, "And God will protect you and will take you out of this land, to the land that was given to Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov." He says to them, HaKadosh Baruch Hu, Pakod Yifkod. Pakod Yifkod is like, He will surely remember you. He will not forget you. Here is a message, a very beautiful message, that you see in the book of Shemot, chapter 13.

1:56:18That now, it's been a long time since the end of Yosef's days until Moshe Rabbeinu came to redeem the people of Israel. But there was no YouTube, no Facebook, no telephones, no anything. Now, how do the people of Israel really know that Moshe is truly a messenger of Hashem? And not, Chalila, like Shabtai Tzvi, who was one of the false messiahs that we had in history about 350 years ago, and many more that were in history. Yes, yes, there were many false messiahs. Now, how does the people of Israel know that... No, no, Shabtai Tzvi was 350 years ago.

1:57:18There wasn't a Temple. There was someone else. Maybe you're talking about... Okay. The thing here is that how do they know if Moshe Rabbeinu really comes from Hashem? So here, Yosef HaTzaddik says to his brothers, who came from Yaakov Avinu, and they know this, that there is a sign. How to know who really is from Hashem? Don't think that someone will do this, and it really doesn't happen. In the pasuk here he says, "And Hashem will protect you." Whoever comes, he will tell you this sign. And in the book of Shemot, Gimel Tet Zayin, he says, "Go and gather the elders of Israel and say to them, 'The Lord God of your ancestors, the God of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov, appeared to me and said, 'I have indeed remembered you and what is being done to you in Egypt.'"

1:58:46So, this is the code, this is the sign, possibly, that Moshe had to say to the people of Israel so that they knew he was really the shepherd because this is the code. This is the code, and we receive it in the weekly portion from Yosef. So, to conclude, We see that all the things here that Yaakov talks about at the end of his life, he talks to the tribes about the most important things that will happen in their lives. To prove to Reuven, to prove that he won't be so sensitive and won't control himself, and to Levi and Shimon, That chas v'shalom will not get angry. All the leaders of Gehinom control them when they do this. It's a very bad thing to be angry. To Yehudah, the Mashiach will come from you. And so on. Tell them the most important things that will be relevant to their lives.

1:59:59Yosef does the same thing. He tells them, "You should know that all the prophecy that the Holy One, blessed be He, said to Avraham Avinu, it starts now. The day will come, and Pharaoh will not recognize me. The Pharaoh that will come will not recognize me." Because of this, next week's parsha says that Pharaoh will not recognize Yosef. And a new king will rise over Egypt who did not know Yosef. So it will come today. You are all right now, but it will come a day that it will not be like this. The problem will begin. So I am warning you that even if there are problems for many years and you will suffer, listen to something very important. This is the sign. You know that Hashem will come. This is the true G-d. So we need to learn something important from each other. A person doesn't have to wait until the end of his life to tell people important things. A person has to use his words and all the things he says to make them as important as possible, as good as possible, for his children.

2:01:21Yes, Yaakov did it in the end, and Yosef did it in the end. Why did they do it in the end? Because they knew that these people would hear and remember what they were saying. All the time they need, what they try to say, yes, even Moshe. Yes, all the time, all the time, at the end. Why do they say that at the end of my life? Because they know that this is what they remembered, what I did all my life, to remember this day and this message, and what I'm telling you now. So this is what they also learn during the first week, that tells us, let's tell you what will happen at the end of the day. So I say, we are at the end of the day. Chazal says, we are at the end of the day now. All the sages in the world today, the greats of Israel, agree on one thing. There is a lot of division, there are a lot of problems, but everyone agrees that we are at the end of the day. So we need to use our time to tell people the truth. Why? Because this is the most important thing that can be said to them, that they remember it.

2:02:34And maybe they will take what we are telling them and use it to repent before it is too late. Exactly. Exactly. And this is really what we learn, one of the many things that we can learn from the weekly parasha, but really to use our words in a beautiful way, in a good way, to help people to return to Hashem, because there is no end to the good that a person gets when he goes with Hashem, and unfortunately there is no end to the bad that a person gets when he doesn't go with Hashem. Yes, but this is after the Messiah will come. This is in the war of Gog and Magog. Two thirds of the world will die. Yes, but a person would not think that all the people of Israel, if they do not repent, will be redeemed.

2:03:43A person who does not repent, a person who does not keep the Torah and the commandments, there is no such thing. There is no idea in the Torah that says that he will be saved. The idea that he will be saved when the Mashiach comes. If a person does not keep Shabbat, the Mashiach will not help him. The Mashiach is the worst thing that will happen to him. So that's why I say that we see what's happening in the news, we see what's happening in the world, we see, unfortunately, what's happening to the people of Israel in galut and also in the Land of Israel itself. We see, we see, everything is clear. Everything is clear what's happening in the world. So the time has come for people to pay attention and listen. And if, as we said before, if a person doesn't have the... the knowledge, or show him the words, or things like that, then the person takes 30 dollars, buys 30 discs, gives them to 30 people. That's it.

2:04:46It's not a big deal. It's not a big deal. And if they don't want, if they don't have $30, then tell them to call me, or I'll talk to them myself, or I'll send them the discs for free. Whatever they want, as long as they'll bring people back to prayer with the help of Hashem. Chazak u'Baruch. Chazak u'Baruch. Thank you very much for the lesson. And with the help of Hashem, we'll try it on YouTube as well. There's Baruch Hashem, people love it, Baruch Hashem, our lesson. And we'll be back in teshuva, we'll be back in teshuva, and with the help of Hashem there will be a blessed Shabbat, success in everything. If there's anything else, with the help of Hashem, return to me. If you want Shabbat or something like that, or next week, we'll learn, we'll continue to learn, with the help of Hashem. Thank you very much. Shabbat Shalom. Shabbat Shalom, brother, all the best. All the best. Thank you, thank you. Shabbat Shalom, all the best, bye bye. Baruch Adonai le'olam, Amen ve'Amen.