שיחת חיזוק (7) בטלפון (פרשת יתרו, איך לומדים להיות צדיק מאדם שעבד עבודה זרה?) בתכנית TorahMates

0:00Hashem, Hashem, we will do and we will succeed. We will learn a little bit of Yitro. Amen, amen, amen. Yitro, Yitro, Yitro, Yitro, Yitro, Yitro, Yitro, Yitro, Yitro, Yitro. Yes, Rabbi Nissim Yagen did a lot of lessons, really amazing things, and he listened to his lesson, and also, Baruch Hashem, there are a few new things from the parasha, so there are so many things that you can learn from each parasha, that every time you read it, it's something new. So, he begins something really interesting. Now, we know that Yitro was a ger, and... not only was he a man, he was the father of Moshe Rabbeinu, the most important person in history. And he received a parasha in his name. And not only that, he also gave the important advice on how to manage the... Did you hear me? Yes, I heard you. Did you hear me?

1:22And he also brought the conclusion that really, how do we run the law, how do we run the court, that to this day we use it, whether it's in America or whether it's in... Israel, everywhere you can see that everyone has the basic law, something normal, and then there is a higher one, and they tell a story, and so on, and so forth. And all of this comes from this parasha. As we said, everything that is good in the world must have a connection to the Torah. There is no such thing as good in this world that has no source in the Torah. There is no such thing. So now the question is, really, why did Yitro get so much respect? Why did he get this right? There were a lot of immigrants in the world. He wasn't the first immigrant. There were other people who immigrated in history, who were also very good people. Not everyone got a parasha named after them. So here the parasha begins. It says...

2:33So now, what we see here, is that Yitro heard what happened to the people of Israel and also what happened to Egypt, But what happened to Egypt? We can say that Hashem destroyed the Egyptians because they were sinners. So we can give it an excuse. It's a reason, it's an excuse. You know, as people see miracles every day, every second that we live, we see miracles. They say, no, no, it's a coincidence, it's nature, it's like this, it's like that, all kinds of things. No, they don't want to say that it's Hashem. Why? why don't we want it? It requires us. So if we say to Hashem that He does His work well, and He does everything He does, and He performs miracles and wonders, whether we see or don't see, or pay attention or don't pay attention, so if He does all these things, and we do realize that it is, like, we see that it is,

3:43It obligates us. Why? Because if He makes all these attempts, then there are other things He did. What else did He do? He wrote a Torah. What is written in this Torah? Oh, it's written to keep Shabbat. It's written to be straight in business. Exactly. Exactly. We really, really have to, exactly as you said. And the main thing is that a person does not want to keep his life. doesn't want to be a man, whether it's a woman or a man. You know, we've talked about this before, that our generation is the first generation in history that has a problem with masculinity in men. Not only with... The men today, there are, not all of them, of course, but there are a lot of men today who wear... Yes, yes, yes, we're talking about Jews, yes, who wear clothes that are really, really tight, and also the half-clothes are open, and you see the ערווה (ervah) coming out of the body, and they show their whole body, and it's not beautiful at all, and it doesn't look like Jews.

5:02Oh, yes, yes, to be healthy, you work a lot, so you don't see all the problems, all the filth that exists in the world, excuse me for the language. So, yes, yes, yes, unfortunately, yes. But... No, that's... Yes, yes, that's the point. So... So the point is that there is this, and even the bigger problem is the people, and this is a problem of generations. Especially in our generation, when women come to a situation where they think, both Jews and non-Jews, that the less clothes they wear, the more beautiful it is. So when a person says, G-d is doing miracles and wonders, then he says, what, G-d hates adultery. He hates adultery, and the lack of modesty, and how people behave, and the language, and all these things.

6:05So when a woman walks down the street half-naked, it can't be that she believes in the same G-d that is in the Torah. Maybe she can say that she believes in the same G-d, but if she doesn't keep everything He said, then she doesn't believe in the same G-d who said that there is a law and there is a judgment. There is a reward and there is a punishment. She doesn't believe. He believes in someone else, in some genie, in some Santa Claus or something. But not in the Holy One who said all the things that are written in the Torah. So this is when people need to understand that if we want to receive all the good that is in this world, and also in the next world, we need to do exactly what was commanded. We will do, and we will hear. But how can you explain that He called them the sea?

7:13Or you say, maybe it's a matter of nature. Okay, you can get another excuse. But how can you explain all the secrets? Oh, it's also nature. Nature is not normal, but it's also nature. Okay. So how can you explain the war with Amalek when they were strong and brave and were ready? What were we? Now we left being slaves in Egypt for 210 years. work in the field, we weren't in such a good situation. The Egyptians didn't bring us some kind of vehicle or some kind of, well, faith in us, faith in us with weapons and everything. So we came, we weren't ready. And suddenly you see Hashem comes, makes miracles and cares about everything, and everything, ...and destroys all these kings who want to go against us, and it came to a point where He asked Yehoshua Bin Nun to stop. To stop the war. As if we were defeating them. It could have been that we were really destroying all the kings. But the Holy One, Blessed be He, asked Yehoshua Bin Nun not to kill everyone. The world needs them.

8:41It needs to be balanced. It needs to be balanced. And because of that, because of that, He said, HaKadosh Baruch Hu said, at the end of the parashat in Shelach, And today the Lord says to Moses, as a good memory in the book, ושים באזני יהושע כי מחה אמחה את זכר עמלק מתחת השמים. תכתוב את זה בספר שתדעו. הספר, מה הספר? ספר תורה. כתוב את זה בספר, תגיד את זה, תעשה לי טובה, תגיד את זה ליהושע בן נון שיפסיק. למה? כי מחה אמחה את זכר עמלק. אני אעשה את העבודה. אל תדאג, אתה תפסיק בשבילי עכשיו, אבל לפני, מתי שהמשיח יבוא, אני אגמור את העבודה. So now, Abitro says, there is no explanation for this. There is no explanation for this. He heard once what happened. He left everything. He came to meet Moshe and the people of Israel at Har Sinai. Amalek... Not only was he a kohen. Not only was he a kohen. He was the most important person in every religion. He was like the Pope.

9:59Yes, no, but kohen, as there is the word Elohim, it also means a few things, not only to HaKadosh Baruch Hu, Hashem Yitbarach. It also means, there is a relation to Moshe sometimes, or to angels, or even to avodah zarah. So sometimes there are words that can be used several times, so kohen is like some great rabbi, but here kohen Midian is avodah zarah. It's a foreign avodah. He was the great Kohen of the foreign avodah. And the Midrash says that Yitro engaged in all kinds of avodah zarah, all the avodah zarah, everything that exists. Every kind of avodah zarah, he engaged in it. And not only did he engage in it, he was the Kohen, he was the leader, the leader of the avodah zarah. And then he says, no, it's not good, he changes another one, and another one, and another one, and another one. So now there is a question here. How can it be that a person who worked a foreign job all his life suddenly wakes up, sees the truth, sees the truth in a very clear way, and goes around and does everything he does? So really, the Chazal explain it very nicely.

11:22that Yitro, even though he worked as a stranger, he did so because he was a true man. What does it mean to be a true man? He was looking for the truth all his life. All his life, he was searching for the truth. He would find some strange job and start working as a stranger. And after he saw that it was all fake, it was all nonsense, He finds something else. He sees that this is nonsense, he finds something else. And again, and again, and again. All his life, he was changing his mind until he found the truth. And because of that... he did do it. He did do it, and I'll talk about it a little bit more. He did do it in the end. But first of all,

12:22We need to move on to what happened in the beginning. Now, when did he meet Moshe Rabbeinu? If you remember the story, Moshe went and saved the daughters of Yitro. So how is that possible? Why? Because the people of Midian wanted to kill them, to throw them into the water, to kill them. So how can it be that a person who is the most important person in his entire country, People wanted to kill their daughters. How can that be? So the Midrash says that at the same time, he discovered that their work is wrong. It's all fake. It's all nonsense. And he said, "I'm giving up. I'm leaving this job. You work with wrong work and you made me your manager. But it's all nonsense. So I'm leaving it." They were doing everything; they were making stars, the sun, the wind—all kinds of work. So he told them it's all nonsense, there's no such thing. So he got rid of the work. And when he got rid of it, they wanted to kill him. So they took his money.

13:40They wanted to kill his daughters. Really, they caused him a lot of trouble. Because of that, he really sent his daughters. An important person, he didn't send his daughters to the sewers. But because they really got involved with him, caused him so many troubles, took his money, and all these things, he didn't have a choice. And because he was looking for the truth, When he heard the truth once, he left everything: he left the money, he left the honor, he left the family, he left everything. Why? To go to Mount Sinai, to see Moshe and to recognize HaKadosh Baruch Hu as it should be, to go out and do all the good things. The king, the king with his brother, they also heard. They also heard what happened. But instead of repenting and doing all the good things, they said, "No, we don't want to. It's not just that we don't want to believe it. We will invest everything we have to prove that it's not true." So when they attacked the people of Israel, they really wanted to prove that there is no HaKadosh Baruch Hu. There is no war with HaKadosh Baruch Hu.

15:06Shomea? Yes, yes. If it's from verses, if it's from knowledge, if it's from life, if you see, pay attention to the details of what's happening in the world. There are proofs that Hashem, blessed be He, is not just that He exists, but He is in everything and everything. He cares about everything and everything. Even if it's a handshake after the services. Even if it's a miracle. Even if you do the right blessing or a blessing for a failure. Even if you do prayers in time. Everything. Yes?

16:07Yes. Okay. Do you need to wash your hands? Do you need to dry your hands? What? They don't have... They don't have... They don't have rice? They don't have water? No, so you do, you put your hands together, you put one hand, right hand, left hand, right hand, left hand, right hand, left hand. Even if there's no knife or something, no tool, you can do it under the branch. Yes, and then you put your hands together. I know a lot of, like... And then when you get out of the service, you do the blessing. Yes, but, but, how is the service? No, no, no, you're doing the blessing, you're holding your hand and you're doing it inside, but you're doing the blessing outside. The blessing you're doing, you're reminding... I'm doing it like this, but it doesn't seem good to me. No, no, it's very good. The blessing, you have time, you don't need to do it directly on the spot. You're reminding the name of Hashem when you leave the lessons, that's fine. Just don't talk, don't talk from the time...

17:33Yes, exactly. Don't talk, and also, don't do the blessing while you're washing your hands. Or when you're doing... Okay, I'm saying, there are people, it’s also at home, they make this mistake, that they're washing their hands, and then, like, while they're washing their hands, they're doing the blessing. It's not a bracha. So... Yes, or that they are wet and you do the blessing in a good place, or that they are dry, not in the middle. You have to give respect to the blessing itself because you mention the name of Hashem. It's not the best thing in the world; it's better to wipe with a cloth or... Because you're in services, so you're dealing with a matter of impurity. Yes, yes, but why forgiveness? Why are things not good? Because there is this, the sherutim is a bad place. It's the same reason you put your hands down in the morning. When you put your hands down in the morning, it's because the soul left the body and then it returned, so the body really feels part of death. So the body is bad.

18:59So, straight to the point, when a person gets up in the morning, he does, thank G-d for bringing his soul back, hands down, and then you can manage your business, do what you need to do, the blessings and the prayers, and so on. But the issue of tumah, it's very important to wash your hands, and after that, and not just... to get out of the services and not do anything, it's not so cultured, it's not a nice thing. So, in any case, we see here that you have two options. There is a person who hears the truth, he doesn't need to hear the truth a few times. He hears it once, he knows that he needs to tell his wife to shave his head. He knows that he himself needs to be straight in business. He knows that he himself is not allowed to go to a non-kosher restaurant and eat salad. There is no such thing. If it's hard, it's allowed. If it's not hard, it's forbidden. There is no such thing as eating salad.

20:01in a place where he is called, because you think he is a vegetarian. There is no such thing. So, he hears the truth, and he does it. That's it. There is no need to lie, there is no need for the Holy One, blessed be He, to speak to him from His mouth, as He spoke to Moshe Rabbeinu. He hears the truth, he sees the truth, that's it. But there is one, like Amalek, poor people, they have no reason, they just want to run away, they don't want to change their lives. They don't want to do anything. They want to live like they're free, like there's no law and no judgment, there's nothing. What do they do? They say, no, not only will we not do this, we won't keep Shabbat, we won't keep mitzvot, we won't be transgressive, we'll behave like animals. Not only that, but we'll prove to you that we're right, and we'll make the righteous people, who are not so strong in themselves, return to the question of Hashem. ולצערנו, יש ארגונים שעושים את זה והם רק דואגים להחזיר אנשים בשאלה, ה' ירחם, ואין להם מושג איזה עונש הם יקבלו כאשר יגיע הזמן.

21:18So it's good to be like, the first thing we learn, when you're Amalek, you lose. Why? We saw it last week, they lost, G-d calls them, G-d hates them, and G-d promises to punish them. But everything is in His hands. They get punishment, but we let them be like that, because there are a few of them who will return to Teshuva, like a few of the descendants of Haman HaRasha. And also, we need to balance until the time comes and I destroy them. Like a person who today is celebrating Shabbat. In fact, in the Torah, it says, if a person is desecrating Shabbat, his soul will die and be destroyed. So why didn't anyone die? Because G-d says, no, he still has fear if I exist or not exist. I will give him another possibility, and another possibility, and another possibility. I will give him time. But, the time is coming. And that's it. There's no more time. A person doesn't know when it is. He doesn't know if it's 20 years, if it's 5 years, if it's 5 minutes, if it's 80 years, if it's 100 years. He doesn't know when it is. So because of that, the sages say, a person needs to repent every day. So there are people like that whom He gives the time. But you see that they fail in any case. Because even to repent is hard. It's not easy to repent. Even those who repent...

22:39Like us. It's a difficult thing. It's a difficult process. It's not that in a second you get used to the new life. Even if, in the end, it's the best thing in the world. And you enjoy every second of life. You see that you are connected to God. Connected to Him. You enjoy Him. You see all His things. Then you're really... It's an amazing thing. But to reach this level is a difficult job. It's a hard job. So a person who wants to live like this, the more arrogant he is, the more he behaves like Amalek, the harder it will be for him to respond. So it's better not to. So what's better to do? It's better to be like Yitro, and listen, listen once, you'll see what the truth is. Don't oppose, don't try to be wise. So we'll say, so my point, and thank G-d that you said what you said, it's a hard level, a high level. So, thank G-d, there's a revelation in this parasha, instructions on how to do it. How is it? Let's see, let's see, let's continue the parasha. Instructions on exactly how to do it. Now, we continue the parasha. We see that after...

23:57Moshe and Yitro met, it says here in the verse of Zayin, "And Moshe went out to greet his father-in-law, and they bowed down and kissed each other, and they asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent." What does that mean? Moshe came to him, gave him respect, and really, the Sages say, that the Holy One Himself, asked Moshe to give respect to Yitro. He asked him a personal request because Yitro didn't expect him to get any respect. That's why it says, "And Yitro took from Moshe the sheep and the other sheep of Moshe, and the two of his sons, whose name is Gershom, because he said, 'Ger hayiti be'eretz nochria,'" and so on. And then it says, "And Yitro said to Moshe, 'I am your shepherd.'"

24:59Yitro came to you and your wife and two sons of the mother. It's true, Chazal says that Yitro didn't speak to Moshe, he spoke to one of the people there. One of the Yidden said, tell Moshe that his father-in-law Yitro came to him, but if it's not enough that he will accept me, tell him that I came to him with his wife and his two sons. So at least if he doesn't want to accept me, at least he will accept his wife and his two sons. So it says now, in the next verse, in the words of Moshe, he came. Because he says, I work as a laborer. I worked as a laborer. Moshe is the most important person in the world. Moshe speaks with HaKadosh Baruch Hu face to face. He sees miracles. He hears everything that happened in Egypt. So he knows that Moshe is the leader. He knows that Moshe is the leader of the most important people in the world who received miracles from Hashem. So, as you say, you go to the most important person in the world,

26:22And you tell him, oh, I'm your father-in-law, I'm your husband. Okay, big deal, what, okay, well, you know, sit in the living room, if someone brings you coffee, it's okay, I'll take it, it's nice, but no, he's waiting for something, you're an important person, a busy person. Not an important person, let's say the president of some company, Avi, but the president of some company, the president of Coca-Cola, what's his uncle's name? or the boss comes to him from some place, he can't stop the whole company and all his work in the middle of the work, and just in this surprise, To give respect to the guy, tell him, listen, I'm the manager of the company. He sends his reminder to tell him, listen, tell him I'm busy, I'm the CEO of Coca-Cola. Bring him coffee, give him one of the workers who will take him, who will show him the company, who will give him some fun. But I myself, I'm busy. So Yitro says, this is the most important person in the world. So at least he'll come. I tell him, for me, he won't come. But at least tell him that his wife and her sons are here. They're here, they're his sons. So he'll want to see them, they're his sons. The father will always make time for his sons. When...

27:47No, no, we talked about this. He was a king in Kush. He was a king in Kush for 40 years, but after that... He was in Midian. He was in Midian. Yes, before Midian, he was a king. After he left, after Moshe fled from Egypt, he went to Kush. There, he helped the king to increase the power of the sword, the sword of Bilaam, who put very large spears that surrounded the whole city, the whole state. So Moshe had a wise idea to give to every soldier that was with the king, to tell him to catch a chicken, ויעמיד אותה שכאילו היא תהיה הציפור שלו, אבל אחרי זה, ירעיב אותה שלושה ימים, ואז ישחרר אותה. למה ירעיב אותה שלושה ימים? בגלל שציפור, יש לה גם קצת שכל, היא לא סתם תתקוף איזה נחש, סתם, מפחדת. אבל אם אתה מראיב אותה שלושה ימים, היא לא שמה לב לשום דבר, היא גוברת מרעב, אין לה אותו פחד. באדם שהוא גובר מרעב,

29:02He has no fear if there are guards who protect the food or not. If he sees food, he’s straight; he fights. He goes to... So the Kushites came in and took their state back, their kingdom back. And then this king died. So the women of Kush... They said, "Who will be the king? The king has a baby. But the baby is only two months old. What, we'll make a boy two months old king? That's not logical. So who will be the king?" They said, "The most important and best person we have to save us is Moshe." So they made Moshe king. They killed Moshe Melech, and they also said, "We will give you the most beautiful woman we have among the people, which is the wife of the king who died." So he married this woman, but Moshe knew that he was from the people of Israel. He knew that he was not allowed to touch her. But he could not tell her or tell their people. Why? Because they would kill him.

30:12So he said, "Be quiet," and he stood in a test for 40 years; he didn't get there even once. After 40 years, this baby boy grew up, and the mother already got to a situation where she had a little more security, and she said to Cush, she said to the people of Cush, she said to them, "Listen, if this king, Moshe, my husband, will die, there won't be another king. Because we don't have children. And the reason we don't have children is because he doesn't touch me. He doesn't agree to touch me. And the reason he doesn't agree to touch me is because he's from another people. At least, if you want a king, find a king who has a wife, who has a son. My son, my son, will become the king. So... The people asked Moses, and he told them what he said. He said, yes, I can't go there, I'm forbidden. But then, the Holy One made them afraid of him, that usually they would kill someone like that. So He made them afraid, He gave them fear, and then they released Moses, and with honor, he left. He came to Midian, which is what is written in the Torah, in the Torah shebichtav, everything you heard is in the Midrash.

31:36Torah on the lips. The Torah in writing says, it only tells the story that he came to Midian, but even the Torah in writing doesn't tell the story behind the story of Midian. When he came to Midian, and he saved the daughters of Yitro, then he met Yitro. Yitro, I told you, he was a true man. So Yitro asked Moshe, where are you from? So Moshe started the story and said to him, I was in Egypt, and then I saw one of the people that the Egyptians were beating and trying to kill, one of the Israelites. And then I killed him, and then I escaped. I saw him on the spot and stopped him. He said, no, no, no, I don't want to hear the rest of the story. You're telling me that you killed someone, you're a fugitive of Pharaoh? He says, yes. He says, I was Pharaoh's assistant. Even though I escaped, I didn't kill anyone. You have to go to jail. He threw him in jail, but not a normal jail. What jail? What prison did he go to? Yitro. Yitro. Yes. Yitro was a dead man, I told you. He was a bad man, a murderer. He was not allowed to be outside. He was a murderer.

32:55And Yitro was a Midian priest, he was a leader there. So he threw him in the grave, without food, without drink, for ten years. Ten years without food, without drink. And the reason that Moshe... The daughter of Yitro, Tziporah, fed him every day. And she was exiled to... to the zoo and let him drink and eat. And then, after ten years, Tziporah asked her father... Why did he do that? Because he saved her. Why did he save her? First of all, she saved him. No, from the pit, from the pit. When he was in the pit. The people from Midian wanted to kill her. They tried to throw her into the pit. And then he saved her. And then, because he saved her, she came to her father and said to him, "Someone saved us." And then he said, "Why didn't you bring him to my house?" Then she brought Moshe, and then Moshe said to Yitro that he killed the Egyptian. And then Yitro didn't hear the rest of the story, and why, and who, and what. Straight away, he threw him in the pit. So Tziporah had good intentions.

34:13And she said, "I have to recognize the good, he saved me, I have to save him." So she would bring him food every day. No, he escaped from the Beit HaSo'ar of, well, of Pharaoh. This is mentioned in our weekly portion now. It says, well... and when he says the names of the sons of Moses, he says, "And the name of one is Eliezer because the God of my father was my help and saved me from the sword of Pharaoh." What does it mean "from the sword of Pharaoh"? When Moses killed the Egyptian, they caught him, and Pharaoh tried to cut off his head, and his head turned into a sheep. So it says, I read to my son, Eliezer, because G-d saved me from the sword of Pharaoh. And then he ran away. The Midrash says that they put him in a cage, and then G-d sent an angel to look for Moses, and that gave Moses time to run away. And then he ran away. And he went to Kush, and so on.

35:29So now, Moshe Rabbeinu was in the tzohar for ten years. Then Zipporah asks her father, Yitro, "What's going on with this poor man that you threw in the tzohar ten years ago?" He responds, "No, he died a long time ago." He didn't feed him, he didn't give him drink. She insists, "Let's check." He says, "What do we check? He died." She says, "No, no, let's check. It's okay, it's okay, let's check." You know, Abba always warns his daughters and his sons. went and saw that this man is still alive. So, on the spot, he understood that there is something special about Moshe. On the spot, he understood that this is not an ordinary man. He didn't know how he was alive, he didn't know about the story of Tziporah, he didn't know anything. He took him out of the cage, and now, how did it get to the point that he became someone who was his slave for ten years, Not only was he working for him, but he let him marry his daughter. How did it happen? In the middle of the area of Midian, which belonged to Yitro, in the middle of the area was a mateh. Mateh from like... How do you call it? Ruby. Like a ruby. A very big mateh, which is 10 levels.

36:58Ten hundred, something very big, that he stole. The Midrash says he stole 600 pounds. Like some kind of tree, something huge. 600 pounds, something amazing. But it was something very beautiful. And for many years, Yitro, he didn't understand Hebrew, but he saw that there were all kinds of things, some kind of writing on this mateh, All kinds of writing and stuff like that in a language he doesn't understand. And he said, and he tried to get it out, and no one could get it out. In the middle of the field, on the ground there, in the middle of the field, there's a field, you have a stick stuck in the middle of the field there. In the middle of the field, like there's a tree, you have a stick; it's not a tree, it's a stick. but this stone is almost like a big ruby. It's not just a stone. What? Oh, it's like, well, a beautiful stone, like there's a diamond, so it looks like a diamond, but it's red. Something red, beautiful, like a beautiful stone. Yes. So, anyway,

38:27So Yitro made a law. He said, "Whoever succeeds in taking this mateh out of the ground, I will let him marry any girl he wants of mine." So he held a contest. And all the biryonim of Midian came, and from everywhere people came and tried to take out this mateh. They didn't succeed. Years passed, and the mateh is still there, and now Yitro releases Moshe, And Moshe was also a tall man. Moshe was 10 feet tall. He was a tall man, 7 meters tall. But in any case, this mateh was also 10 feet tall, and it was also a huge thing. And Moshe doesn't know this story. He doesn't know this story, that this mateh was... Huh? He doesn't have an excavator, no. No, probably not. He even tried, I think. So Moshe goes in the area with his wife and daughter, and he sees a mateh, and in those days it was like, in the way that every person has a mateh. Or a tree, or even an important person, everyone had a mateh, so he saw this thing, without thinking about it twice, he took it out of the ground without, like, a big deal. Nothing, he took it out like some, you take a hair out of milk.

39:53right on the spot, Yitro was shocked, and now he completely understood that this man is not only special, but he must fulfill what he said. So he said, "I made a law that every man who finds this mateh gives him his daughter. Which daughter do you want?" And Moshe chose Tzipporah because she saved his life. This was the first time; she saved his life several times, also. but he married her, and because of that, he gave her a job. And this mateh is the same mateh that Hashem created at the beginning of the world, between the souls. On this mateh was written the name of Hashem and also the names of all the 12 tribes. And also, the Roshei Teivot of all the makkot in Egypt. All the makkot in Egypt. So, this was the maté of Moshe Rabbeinu. So, let's continue on. And go back to pshat. Did you understand?

41:12The mateh of Aaron was also something special, but not in the same style as Moshe's. The mateh of Aaron, really, is what they used to turn it into a snake. Yes, with his mateh. They used it to turn it into a snake, not Moshe's mateh, because they didn't want to destroy Moshe's mateh. A lot of people think, even I myself thought for a long time, that the mateh that was thrown on the floor, that became a snake, was the mateh of Moshe. But Chazal say, no, it was the mateh of Aharon. It's written like that. So now... The mateh is also a snake. Yes? It's a snake, a snake. A snake, a snake. So now, Yitro finds the truth. He takes everything he has, and he comes to Mount Sinai. HaKadosh Baruch Hu asks Moshe to give him honor because he is a man of truth. Yitro finds the truth, and HaKadosh Baruch Hu gives him honor. Moshe goes, and then Aharon sees him, "Where are you going, brother?"

42:29He says, "I'm going to get the fire." So he comes. After he comes, the sons of Aharon say, "Where are you going? These are the two leaders of the Jewish people. Not just Tzvika and Shmuel going to the restaurant to eat steak. It's Moshe Rabbeinu and Aharon. So the sons of Aharon, who were also important, ask, "Where are you going?" Kabele Tchami. Gam Bahu. And after the people saw these six important people, all of them going in the same direction, they all went together with them. So the entire Jewish people went to receive Yitro. After all this, Yitro heard all the details of what happened. He heard everything that happened. It means that... In verse 1, And Moses told his wife all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt, about the gifts of Israel, all the gifts that you found on the way, and they will be given to the Lord. So, like, the Chazal tells us here that Yitro heard the story, but he didn't hear all the details, all the small details.

43:50So, Moses, he teaches us here that when there are trials, when a person has a trial in his life, he must expose it. If he wants G-d to continue to give him trials, he must expose it. Why? Because it's the sanctification of G-d. It's the highest level there is. So that's why he told him all the details. Moshe told him to recount all that Hashem had done, not just a little bit. He told him how Hashem took them out of Egypt, how He killed this one, how He killed that one, and now we are here. No, he told him all the details: this happened, and he said this, and then Hashem told him this, and this, and all the details, all the midrashim, everything that happened. He told them to read, and he read, he acted so much, he made sacrifices to Hashem. And then he said something very important. In verse 1, he says, "Now I know," not that I think or that I believe. "Now I know for sure that the Holy One is greater than everything. Why?"

45:02Not only because He did miracles for you, but because anyone who wants to be a kofer can find all kinds of solutions. Why did this happen, and why did that happen, and why did that happen? He said, the fact that G-d will destroy Egypt, that's a level. But the fact that He will destroy them, measure against measure, This shows us how exactly G-d acts and does everything in a precise and specific way. And it's really a measure for measure. If it's the plague of blood in Egypt, we see that they received a measure for measure punishment because they didn't allow the people of Israel to bathe and drink after work. the Tzefardea, because we didn't let the people of Israel sleep at night. They would wake them up at 2 or 3 in the morning to work. Every makah was a measure for measure. So Yitro, he not only hears the story, he now sees the Creator, blessed be He, through His creation. And this... He sees the Creator, blessed be He?

46:17Rashi says that he was in charge of all the work of the stars. Yes, the work of the stars. Yes. The way he works, when he was in charge, he realized that God is the greatest. Yes. He was in charge of all the work of the stars, he wouldn't have understood that. He was looking for the truth all his life. But now that he sees how He works in a precise way, that's it. There is no such thing. It doesn't happen. He didn't do it in all of his previous work. Rashi says that he did it in all of his previous work. He didn't do it in all of his previous work. He didn't see what was written in the Torah. Exactly. Exactly. Chazak U'Baruch. Exactly. In his previous work, he learned it. If he didn't do it in his previous work, he would have said, yes, there are Elohim. But his Elohim don't know what the Elohim of Israel know.

47:17Exactly. And because of that, the Gemara says that the level of the baal teshuva does not stand in the place of complete tzaddikim. Exactly. It does not stand in the place of complete tzaddikim. A person who returns to teshuva, he reaches a higher level than a person who was a tzaddik from the second he was born. Why? but let's explain exactly, strong and blessed. Exactly, exactly, it's like you're going to Africa.

48:35Only Hashem knows what's inside the heart of the person. Let's explain it like this. Alright, let's sum it up like this. There is a person who is religious on the outside, and there is a person who is religious on the inside. When a person is religious on the inside, it is clear that he will be religious on the outside as well. When he is religious on the outside, not all the time will he be religious on the inside. What does that mean?

50:02Thank you. Thank you. It's probably an important part, so I'll have to slow it down a bit. That's it. That's the name. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

51:22Okay, I got it. Alright. Now, this is probably going to be an important part because the singer has to be disturbed all the time, in everything that is important, with the help of Hashem. No, I'm saying not only with you, with everything. I'm saying, I'll leave you, Sarah, the girl, in the room, and she said to the girl in front of her, she said to the girl in front of her, I see her, No, I'm telling you that our conversation is important. I'm telling you that our conversation will be important. So let's continue. So now you have two types. You have a person who is religious on the inside and religious on the outside. The one who is religious on the inside, of course he will be religious on the outside. Why? Because if he has yirat shamayim, of course he knows that he needs to see, or she needs to see in a certain way, to act with yirat shamayim. It's religious on the inside. The one who is religious on the outside, not all the time, sometimes yes, but not all the time, he will be religious on the inside. Why? Because there are people who are born in a certain area, with many religious people, a certain family, full of religious people, but they don't really have yirat shamayim, love of Hashem, believers, nothing. But they can't leave everything they know. So they stay, like a habit. It's like when you go to Africa,

52:48And you see people walking almost naked, only with underwear. And you walk with clothes. You look at them as if they are crazy. They look at you as if you are crazy. Why? Because they are used to these lives. So it's like a person who is religious outside but not really religious inside. That's the problem. We need to be religious inside. That's also the reason that the Gemara says that the The jurists, the jurists, the jurists of justice, the people who challenge Judaism for the right reason, are like a disease on the skin of the people of Israel. What does that mean? Like a disease on the skin of the people of Israel. What does that mean? Why? The jurists have reached a very high level. If it's Shemaya and Avtalyon, If it's Shemaya and Avtalyon, yes. Rabbi Akiva. No, I said Shemaya and Avtalyon, not Rabbi Akiva. Rabbi Akiva was the son of Gerim. Yes, Shemaya and Avtalyon, who were before Rabbi Akiva, they were both Gerim. Onkelos was Ger. Rabbi Meir Baal HaNess, son of Gerim, or was Ger himself, I'm not sure. Yes.

54:13Rabbi Akiva was the son of Gerim. Yitro was Ger. Tzipporah was Ger. Ruth the Moabite was Ger. The Messiah comes from Gerim. So why do they say that Gerim are like a disease on the skin of the people of Israel? Because Chazal (our sages of blessed memory) explain that when a person comes to the Day of Judgment in heaven, They ask him, "Did you do Torah and mitzvot? Did you do Torah and mitzvot? Did you do Torah and mitzvot? Did you do Torah and mitzvot? Did you do Torah and mitzvot? Did you do Torah and mitzvot? Did you do Torah and mitzvot? Did you do Torah and mitzvot?" He says, there is no chance in the world that you will have more work than him. He came from a foreign job. She came from a foreign job. She chose, she was not obliged. She was obliged to leave the foreign job, but she was not obliged to emigrate. She could have kept Sheva Mitzvot Bnei Noach. But she, or he, emigrated and chose the Torah.

55:29And you tell me that you don't have time for the Torah, you couldn't keep Shabbat, you couldn't keep Kashrut. So it means that the challenges of Tzaddikim, even though it is a challenge of Tzaddikim, they are so high level, that not only do we see something scary, in our generation, I tell you, not only once, now in our generation, you see immigrants. I deal with a lot of immigrants, Baruch Hashem, I tell you, you see these people, they love Hashem with complete love, and they really sacrifice their soul for the Torah, for learning, for everything that is related to Hashem. It's something amazing that it really makes the situation of the people of Israel. that it's not that good. We don't look that good. Why? Because they chose. We didn't. We were born with the golden cup in our mouth. Exactly. We don't look that good in heaven when we don't do Torah and mitzvot and they do. And because of that,

56:44It's written in the Torah, more than anything, 48 times, I believe, about the special connection and the special connection of the Holy Spirit with the gerim, that the Jew is obligated to love the ger. Because HaKadosh Baruch Hu is his father and mother. He is considered to be the father of all of us, but for the ger, He is his father and mother. Yes, exactly. So now, this is something amazing. Now we see, we have reached a situation where we understand what is a ger and what is Yitro. Okay, but now we said at the beginning of the lesson, that Yitro will teach us about the source of how to get to a situation where we are righteous. How to be righteous, not just how to be righteous, how to be something very special, how to be at a very high level, that you hear once and you do. Not 20 times, not 700 times, like there are people, unfortunately, who go to lectures for 10 years and still don't keep Shabbat.

58:02Shomim kol rav? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It is forbidden to speak the first word about ourselves, first thing. Second, it is forbidden to remind a person who has done teshuvah about their past. You are considered a new person; your past has nothing to do with it. So forget about it; it is just the yetzer hara reminding you of what it was. What I said was a reply, but I heard that I am in a position to be with other people. Slowly, slowly. Listen, all of us, all of us need to go back to teshuvah every day. Even a person who is born a tzaddik. Yes, 100%. 100%. Money is...

59:22Money is a type of avodah zarah. It's our generation, really. It's the biggest tikkun. Money, money. A person who has a love for money can go through all the obstacles in the Torah in a moment, just for money. The problem with this love is that it's a lack of bitachon. Okay, we'll talk about that too. Now, we'll start talking about how to get to the point where... Yes, yes, but now we need a solution. We talked last week about how to get to emunah. But now we need to get to the point of how we can be tzaddikim. Tzaddikim don't have the love of money. Now, Yitro sees everything that's happening. he sees that Moshe sits and judges the people from morning to evening. He sees that there is a line that does not end, from morning to evening. People wait: one waits because he wants blessings from Moshe Rabbeinu, another has a problem with his neighbor, he did business and lost money, they have a problem, Moshe Rabbeinu...

1:00:47Yes, yes, even today there is such a thing. Sometimes it doesn't really matter, but yes, there is. Not everyone who has lines until the end of the street is really a tzaddik. So we need to be careful about these things. There are a lot of ba'alei batim in our generation. A lot of ba'alei batim. Do you want a blessing? The best blessing and blessing in the world doesn't cost money. Why? It's from HaKadosh Baruch Hu. That's it. Pray. Your prayer is greater than any prayer you receive from someone else or a blessing from someone else you receive. Even if it's a great generation. Your prayer is really a prayer with a cry. And you're really praying to Hashem. There's something, chas v'shalom, there's some trouble. There's a problem. You're crying. So you cry to Hashem, it's bigger than any blessing you can get. So now, Yitro sees that the way that Moshe manages these things,

1:01:56And he sees and says, it's not good. And Moses says to his wife, because the people will come to me to seek God, because they will have something in me, and I have judged between man and man, and I have made known the laws of God and His statutes. He says to him, there are those who want blessing, there are those who want me to be a judge, and there are those who want me to teach them Torah. And he doesn't say Torah, it's also proof of Torah Shebichtav and Torah Shebe'al Peh, that he says, the Torah is better. The Torah is better than Yachid. And today Moses says to him, the thing you are doing is not good. He says, it's not good how you are doing, how you are managing things. You are losing all your energy. Let's go to Yitro. No, there is no chance that you will hold a position. What does he say to him? You listen to my voice. Listen to my voice, he says to him. Like I heard, like we started the parasha. He says to him, listen to me. I heard once, I returned in teshuva. Listen to my voice, you will return in teshuva. You are not doing well here. Learn from your father. What does he mean by his father? Moshe's father was one of the four people in history who never sinned, they said.

1:03:12No, there is no chance that you will hold a position. What does he say to him? You listen to my voice. Listen to my voice, he says to him. Like I heard, like we started the parasha. He says to him, listen to me. I heard once, I returned in teshuva. Listen to my voice, you will return in teshuva. You are not doing well here. Learn from your father. What does he mean by his father? Moshe's father was one of the four people in history who never sinned, they said. The father of David, excuse me. The father of David and the son of David. Yes, the son of David. Yes. I'll start with kuf. I left it, but I'll remember it at the end of the lesson. So, wait a minute. So now, when there was the destruction, the destruction from Pharaoh of killing all the children who were born, so Amram was the eldest of the generation. The father of David, excuse me. The father of David and the son of David. Yes, the son of David. Yes. I'll start with Kuf. I left it, but I'll remember it at the end of the lesson. So, wait a minute. So now, when there was the destruction, the destruction from Pharaoh of killing all the children who were born, so Amram was the eldest of the generation.

1:04:12He said, "No, it's not worth it. What, now we will make children and kill them? No," he left Yocheved. So, at that time, Miriam, his daughter, was five years old. Five years old. Now, she returned from the garden. She said to her father, "Listen to me. Your decree is worse than his decree." Pharaoh, Pharaoh, he only kills the children. You also kill the children. Pharaoh, his separation is only in this world. You are separated in this world and also in the next world, because a person who cannot return, cannot return to the world, cannot fix himself, cannot fix his soul. The separation of the cow is not certain that it will happen. Why? Because he is a rasha. But you are a tzaddik. So it is clear that HaKadosh Baruch Hu will give the separation after you work. Now listen to me. The thing here is that a 5-year-old girl, if your 5-year-old girl shows you, after two seconds, throw her in the room, stay in the room, play with the Barbie, and leave me.

1:05:41But Amram was a tzaddik. He heard and got the proof. He got the proof from his daughter, his fifth daughter. He returned to teshuva right on the spot. He remarried his wife, his daughter-in-law. And what did he get? The gift he got? Moshe Rabbeinu. He got Moshe Rabbeinu. Why did he return to teshuva? So Yitro says, listen to my voice. Once I tell you, you don't do well. But, you bring the things to God. Like, I'll tell you what I'll tell you. You're my servant. But you bring it to HaKadosh Baruch Hu first of all. Not me. I'm not like, I'm the great and I know. I tell you, you're my servant. You bring it to HaKadosh Baruch Hu. And if He lets you, you do it. And then he tells him how to manage the things, with the instructions on how to do it. This is really the source of everything I wanted to say. He says, and you have purified them, the laws and the Torah. Not Torah, Torah. Torah is also, many people do not believe in the Torah She'ba'al Peh. They believe in the Torah She'bichtav we received from Sinai, they do not believe in the Torah She'ba'al Peh, that it is the Gemara, it is the Zohar, it is all the books that exist to this day. All the Midrashim, it is the Torah She'ba'al Peh.

1:07:03So he says, where is there proof in the Torah that there is such a thing as Torah She'ba'al Peh? So look, in the Torah, many times, it is written Torot, not Torah. That Torot is more than one. So he says, you will continue to teach the people of Israel Torah, and you will give them the laws and the Torot, as if there are commandments and there is Torah. You will continue, you are the Gadol HaDor, you speak to G-d face to face. And you have given them the way. They will take it, and the act that will be done. You tell them how to act, how to manage their affairs. But, all these laws, what to do? It says in verse 1, "And you will judge from all the people, the people of Chayil, the people of Elohim, the people of Emet, the people of Batza, and you will put on them the ministers of thousands, the ministers of hundreds, the ministers of fifty, and the ministers of ten." It says to them, you will divide all these things, but there are judges. there will be judges everywhere, ministers, like one of them will manage 10,000, one of them thousands, one of them dozens, and so on and so forth. But not just any person. These judges, these judges, these judges, these judges, these judges, these judges, these judges, these judges, these judges, yerei Elohim, sheyesh lahem yirat Shamayim, anshei emet, shezeh ke'ilu anashim she'rak ohavim et ha'emet, lo efshar liknot otam. Im hem anshei chayil, az zeh omer sheyesh lahem kvar kesef, lo tzrichim et ha'kesef shel mishehu acher. Im yesh lahem yirat Shamayim, az zeh omer she'afilu im yesh lahem et ha'ta'ava shel kesef, hem p'chadim me'haKadosh Baruch Hu. Az hem lo ya'asu et zeh, lo efshar liknot otam.

1:08:28Yerei Elohim, sheyesh lahem yirat Shamayim, anshei emet, shezeh ke'ilu anashim she'rak ohavim et ha'emet, lo efshar liknot otam. Im hem anshei chayil, az zeh omer sheyesh lahem kvar kesef, lo tzrichim et ha'kesef shel mishehu acher. Im yesh lahem yirat Shamayim, az zeh omer she'afilu im yesh lahem et ha'ta'ava shel kesef, hem p'chadim me'haKadosh Baruch Hu. Az hem lo ya'asu et zeh, lo efshar liknot otam. If people are truthful, there's no chance you'll deny them, because they are people of truth. Even if someone says, "I'm not afraid of Hashem, even if I love money, but I love the truth," they can't get up in the morning, look at themselves in the mirror, and say that this poor man, they took away all his money because a thief paid them a few dollars under the table. The last thing is to deny the truth, to deny money. If they have already reached a situation where they have money, this is the best judge in the world. So now I had, Baruch Hashem, I had a revelation, a really amazing revelation. At the beginning of the parasha, Chazal say, there is a division, if this whole parasha happened before we received the gift of Torah, before Matan Torah, or after it.

1:09:51i, in my opinion, that I'm not something, but there is an opinion that you can trust, that says that all this, the Ramban, says that all this parasha happened before Matan Torah, so I trust this, but this innovation, that I'm telling you now, is something that I also trust, that we got this before, this parasha is before Matan Torah. So what really Yitro says to us here? People of chayil are people who succeeded. But usually, when we understand this plainly, people of chayil are wealthy people who have money. But chayil is not always successful with money. He can be a wise student. He can even be a person who is not a wise student, but a person who started to repent. He set himself time for the Torah. Every day, a quarter of an hour, a half hour, an hour, two hours. This is already a successful person. If we are already living as people who have reached a state where we have set time for Torah, then we have a chance to reach a state where we will have yirat Shamayim. Living people will have a state to reach yirat Shamayim. If a person reaches a state where he has yirat Shamayim,

1:11:16then he can reach the level that he is an ish emet, a true man. There is no chance in the world that he will be an ish emet without yirat Shamayim. There are people who say that they are true people, but they are big liars; only real people with yirat Shamayim can be truly honest. There is no such thing in the world, a person who is an ish emet, without fear of God. And if a person reaches the level, a high level, that he also has yirat Shamayim, וגם איש אמת, אז ברור שהוא ישנא כסף. למה? בגלל שהוא יודע שהכל מהקב"ה, כסף זה עבודה זרה. יש דברים טובים שאפשר לעשות עם זה, אבל באמת, כשהאנשים אוהבים כסף, לצערנו, ה' ירחם, הם מוכרים את ה' תוך שנייה בשביל כסף. So if a person has a heaven-sent spirit, he will never go astray in his life, and then he can reach through the Torah, which he learned in the beginning, and continues to learn, which he receives this time every day, he can reach a situation where through the Torah,

1:12:30If it's a million dollars or ten dollars, thank G-d. If it's a lot of money or a little, it's the same thing. It's just a tool, just like you use a pencil to draw a picture, hang something on the wall, or to break something, or to do all kinds of things. The same thing with money. This is what Yitro teaches us: to get to the point where we are not wasting money. This is a very high level. This is avoiding avodah zarah. It is impossible to get to this without being anshei chayil. What are anshei chayil? Anshei chayil are those who work with Hashem every day, learning Torah every day. There has to be time every day. Now, why do I say that this parasha was during the time that... before we received the Torah. Because it says in Chapter 1, "And Moses heard the voice of the Lord." So he heard—not only heard—and he heard what the Lord said. He heard what the Lord said. He saw that it was logical. He received the message from the Holy One. And he heard what the Lord said. He did it. But Chapter 1 says, "And Moses chose people who live from all of Israel."

1:13:59what happened to the people of God, the people of truth, the people of sin, what happened? Moshe says, our Torah says, there wasn't such a thing. There wasn't the people of God, there wasn't the people of truth, there wasn't the people of sin. So there's, there's, you can look at it in a bad way, chas v'shalom. In a bad way, what, these people weren't afraid of Hashem, there weren’t people of truth, they loved money, what happened here? So I say, that this is one of the proofs that we can trust them. Maybe, I imagine to myself that it's clear that some Chazal who wrote this had this thought in front of them, but I just say that this is my understanding. That's proof that we received this portion before giving the Torah. Why? Because the reason that there wasn't Yirei Elohim, people of truth, and Sonei Batza, is because we didn't receive the Torah yet; we just received it now. So we didn't have time to learn enough from the Torah.

1:15:01To get to the point where we will see heaven and people will die and so on. So because of that, all that will happen is that only people who heard what Moshe said, will do and will hear. You know, he spoke with the Holy One, blessed be He, he said, here is the Torah, he said, okay, we agree to study the Torah every day. So what did you get? You got people who are living. They have already succeeded in reaching the level where they have set time for the Torah. But they have not yet reached the level where they have the Heaven and all the other things. It takes time. So that's what we said in the beginning, that a person needs to understand that returning to Teshuva takes time. If a person supports the... This thing that they said, that a person can return to Teshuva in the last second or minute before he dies, and then if Mashiach comes, he will return to Teshuva a minute before that, all kinds of nonsense that people say, that they are spreading something holy to something bad. So you have to understand that every person has a process that he has to go through to return to Teshuva. It doesn't happen overnight.

1:16:19So this process can take a year, it can take 20 years. A person who now hears something and says, okay, fine, I will now start to return to Teshuva, I will start with small things. I will pray once a day, the Tefilat Shemoneh Esrei and the Kriyat Shema with the Tefillin, at 3 o'clock, before it gets dark, I don't go to the Beit Knesset. And I... He'll say a blessing before I eat bread. And that's it. And then another year, we'll do something else. And another year, something else. And another year, something else. So even if every step towards Teshuva is already a good way, he needs to understand that we don't have much time. The Mashiach can arrive at any minute. If the Mashiach arrives already now, and the person still doesn't keep Shabbat, still doesn't keep Nidda, he doesn't keep the essence of the Torah, he doesn't keep the unity of the Torah, he hasn't set a time for Torah, for learning Torah, he hasn't even reached the point where he has yirat shamayim, he hasn't reached the point where he even learns Torah every day, he will be in trouble. But it will be later. So there is a way to get there. You don't have to do it in the middle of the night, you don't have to get all the things in a second.

1:17:40But, you need to understand that there is a way, and this way takes a little time. First of all, you give time to the Torah every day. After that, through the Torah, you notice that the main thing is to get to yirat shamayim. Why? You can't get to the love of Hashem. You can't get there. There is, I saw it today, Baruch Hashem, the study before the lesson. There is, where is it? in the book of Iyov, where did you go? In the book of Iyov, there is a verse that says, even if G-d will kill me, I will still support Him, I will still follow His path. Not again. Even if I know that G-d, this is chapter 13, verse 15 and 16. Even if HaKadosh Baruch Hu, I say it in my own words, but even if HaKadosh Baruch Hu decides to kill me, I'm still going His way, still keeping Torah and mitzvot, still keeping all the things. This is Iyov. And in Gemara Masechet Sotah, verse 27, Chazal has a division. What is the division?

1:18:42verse 15 and 16. Even if HaKadosh Baruch Hu—I'm saying it in my own words—but even if HaKadosh Baruch Hu decides to kill me, I'm still going His way, still keeping Torah and mitzvot, still keeping all the things. This is Iyov. And in Gemara Massechet Sotah, daf 27, Chazal have a machloket. What is the machloket? Some say that Iyov, even what he said here, that even if G-d decided to kill him, even if he says it, he feared G-d only out of fear. Some say that he feared Him out of love. But there are enough who say that the level he reached... He says that even if G-d will kill me, I will still keep His Torah. Even if I have nothing, I do this, even if I know that I am losing, as it may be. Only to ask for Hashem. There is a Chazal that says in the Gemara that this was the Yirat Shamayim. This is the Yirat Shamayim. So what does it say? That what? That he lost from fear? That he lost Hashem from the Yirat Shamayim. Yes, from fear.

1:20:09What he says here, that he will do what G-d wants, even if he knows he will die. We, if we read the Torah, it looks like an exclusive love. It's the love of the Avot. I read this verse, I said, what kind of love does G-d have for him? What kind of love? A person says, even if I, the Holy One, Blessed be He, decides, there is chastisement and peace, there is, well, separation, separation of death. Even if I already know it from the beginning, that there is separation of death, I keep Shabbat, I keep all the mitzvot, I pray all day, I study Torah, everything. But there is separation of death, what are you doing? What do you care? Enjoy the world, go to freedom, go to, I don't know, to the jungle, see what happens, go to the mountain, do, live. No, he tells you, even if there is a division against me, a division against me, not against me, against me, I will do the will of Hashem. So now we see it, you see it. It's the love of the fathers. But the Gemara says that it will be seen. So what do they say? If it will be seen, Rabbi Ephraim Kachlon told me this today, we learned it today,

1:21:30there was a city of Heaven, and he said it, so it means that the love of Hashem, we don't have a minimal understanding of what it is at all. Avraham, we understand, Hashem is the only one in history who said to him, I love you, he loves Me. He has the love of Hashem. And all those of the older generation, and the righteous, and our fathers, they loved Hashem. Of course. But we, who have a little difficulty in davening, we have difficulty in holding hands, we have difficulty in learning Torah, we have difficulty in doing all the important things, and we say, no, I love Hashem, I am connected to Him, We have no idea what the love of Hashem is at all. We have no minimal understanding. So this is really what we need to know, that really, first of all, learn Torah. After that, you'll get to the point where you have a heavenly city. Why a heavenly city? Because if you have a heavenly city, you think all the time and ask yourself all the time, what does Hashem think about what I want to do?

1:22:50If he's okay with that, that's a good opinion. If he's not okay with that, that's not a good opinion. There's no logic. Our logic is broken. There's no logic. The logic of the Holy One, that's it, we use what He told us, the teachings He told us. Then we have a heaven-sent city. Slowly, slowly, with the help of Hashem, we'll get to the love of Hashem. But first of all, to get it out of our minds, that there's such a thing, even the love of Hashem, without a vision. There's no such thing. And also another thing that Rabbi Ephraim told us, that the highest level, the highest level of heaven, is in a person who is yerei Hashem, but heaven is not like he is hiding, heaven is like he really thinks about Hashem from morning to night, and really asks himself, step by step, what the Ribbono Shel Olam thinks. So the highest level of heaven,

1:23:51This is the lowest level of the love of G-d. So if it's like this... The highest level of heaven is only the beginning of the love of G-d. That's what I'm saying, the love of Hashem, the love of Hashem... Fear is fear. Fear comes from fear. Yes, but it's not fear like fear, like we're afraid of a disaster, or we're afraid of... There's a fear of heaven, the lowest... There's a fear that's the lowest... Yes, there's a fear, the lowest, that we're afraid of punishment. But there's a fear, that's a higher level, that we're afraid...

1:24:51to hurt the special connection that there is between us and HaKadosh Baruch Hu. Like there is between a man and his wife. A man... Okay, but if this tzaddik loves Hashem, and he is really a tzaddik... Yes, but even this person who is a tzaddik, whenever he makes a mistake, he hates it. Why? Because he has a heavenly power, but it's on a higher level. So it's like a person, bar minan, he gets involved with a bad person, which is a woman. Not his wife. And he's married. Married, children, everything is good and fine. But this woman, with her memory, or acting, or whatever it is, she did all kinds of things that she was with him. So if this person has a special connection with his wife, he won't do it. Why? He knows that his wife won't find out. She won't find out, she's not there. She's in the office, she's in Europe, she's somewhere else. She won't ever find out. Even if it's not his girlfriend, even if it's, I don't know, it's someone he knows, he never saw her in his life.

1:26:13But he wouldn't do it. Why? Because he has a desire. Not love, he has a desire. What is this desire? He doesn't want to be with someone else because he doesn't want to go home with this feeling that there is something that can enter the way and come in the middle of the relationship between him and his wife. It is clear that it can lead to love and so on, but this desire is the reason why people don't form relationships. The fear is the reason. So, a person who comes to the fear of Heaven, yes, there is a fear of Heaven that is the lowest, which is, we are afraid that we will go to Gehenom, or get a punishment, get cancer, get a fine, lose money, all the things that happen in the world, we are afraid. This is the lowest fear of Heaven that there is. But a very high fear of Heaven, it is a fear, we are afraid of hurting the special relationship that exists between us and the Holy One, Baruch Hu. So, the highest level of fear of Heaven is only the beginning. Only the beginning of loving Hashem. So those who say, "I love Hashem, I love Hashem," please read this lesson and understand that it is clear that you can reach it, but not in a second. First of all,

1:27:39we need to connect to it through the Torah to get to a situation where we really have a water tower. We are people of truth. If we see darkness, we see people defying the Torah, we see people going against Hashem, we see a person traveling on Shabbat, not just, "Oh no, this is not my problem, this is not my war." No, we need to be, prove your truth. They have to do it in a beautiful way. But they have to say something. You can't just give the world to ignore our Torah. We have to say something. And this is really the revelation that was, that it's like, it's not a revelation, it's like a nice understanding of how to get to a high level. How Yitro got to a situation where he wasn't just a judge, but he

1:28:39He received a parasha in his name. He was the son of Moshe Rabbeinu. And after that, Chazal says, "And he sent Moshe to his house, and he went to his country." He left. Where did he go? He went back to Midian. Why did he go back to Midian? He said, now that I know the truth, it had been a year in Sinai. Shana Be'ar Sinai saw the truth, learned what he learned, didn't learn much Torah, but learned enough that he already knew the truth. He said, "I can't know the truth and just take care of myself. I have to go back to Midian to tell them the truth, to bring them to repentance." And Chazal say, not only did he bring them to repentance... When we arrived in Israel, he met Yehoshua Bin Nun with hundreds of thousands of people that he brought from Midian. He brought them. He came there, and they brought him a lot of honor. They brought him a lot of honor. They brought him to the most beautiful city.

1:29:54The most beautiful in the country, like, at that time, that... No, that was the main thing I really wanted to say about him. But, like, they gave him respect, and even when they gave him all the money and all the nice things in this world, even there he said, no, no, no, I didn't come to the country to have fun, I came to learn Torah. They told him, do you want to learn Torah? You have to go to the desert of Yehudah. went with all his disciples to the desert of Yehudah, learned Torah for years, and reached a state where he had Ruach HaKodesh. He had Ruach HaKodesh. So because of this, we call it Teshuvah every year, but usually, we spend most of the time on the series of drashot. We will go over the series of drashot later. Each one of them has its own secret. But I think that's really the main thing that can strengthen us in terms of faith, in terms of learning Torah every day. That's really the main thing. Any questions? Yes. No. No. No questions. Okay, with the help of Hashem. With the help of Hashem, be strong and blessed. Thank you very much for the lesson. Thank you. And with the help of Hashem, have a Shabbat Shalom.

1:31:20with what we learned with the help of Hashem, with the help of Hashem, we will continue to strengthen, to learn, and to teach, and to return, and to return in repentance with the help of Hashem. Okay, take care, take care, take care. Thank you, thank you very much. Good night, good night, take care. Thank you very much to all of you who saw our lesson, learned with us, and with the help of Hashem, Shabbat Shalom to everyone and All the harsh conditions that the people of Israel have, they will go through and it will be good for the people of Israel, with the help of Hashem. And we will reach a situation where we will really fulfill all the things that are written here. Just look at this verse. People of Israel, see God; people of the truth, hate and despise. Something like this, we can already get to chastity, to something of a high degree in the Torah, to all the good things in the world, with the help of Hashem. So thank you very much for everything. Baruch Adonai le'olam. Amen v'amen.