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0:00In the name of G-d, let's do it and succeed. And we'll talk about a few things that are really in the portion. The portion, when you read it, you see a lot of things that you don't feel are so relevant to today. Like everything, you can learn Torah in two ways. You can learn Torah and contemplate it, and you see all kinds of things that, on the surface, you can't always connect to. but when you dig deeper into the words, and you really connect to it, you see how beautiful, how much grace we receive from Hashem, that He tells us to study Torah every day, even a little bit, because everything, every little word, the smallest word, the smallest word, I really learned it today, the smallest word in Torah, is against 612 mitzvot. Like 613, and one of them is Torah study. So one word from the Torah, it comes from the Mishnah in Yerushalmi, the Talmud Yerushalmi, it says one word from the Torah is against...
1:04There are 612 mitzvot. So, it's a great pleasure that people really don't understand how good it is for us to study Torah, because it helps us in all these things, especially in things that are relevant to today—work, family, children, customers, all these things. And as I told you, it is against 612 mitzvot. Like 613, and one of them is Torah study. So, one word from the Torah, it comes from the Mishnah in Yerushalmi, the Talmud Yerushalmi, it says one word from the Torah is against... Now we find ourselves in the end of times. So the Holy Spirit sends all kinds of people who are not so normal in history. We know that the famous rabbis, they came from, it's clear that they were the owners of teshuvah, but they came from their tradition, that all their lives, their father, and their father's father, and their grandfather, they were all tzaddikim. Now we find ourselves in the end of times. So, the Holy Spirit sends all kinds of people who are not so normal in history. We know that the famous rabbis, they came from—it’s clear that they were ba'alei teshuvah—but they came from their tradition, that all their lives, their father, and their father's father, and their grandfather, they were all tzaddikim. Today, you find a lot of people who don't really come from a religious school, yeshivas, and kollelim, and so on. You see people as simple as me who have a little experience in life, and thank G-d, we were lucky to return to teshuvah, and you can use all this experience, not only to know how...
2:20how to take the Torah and make it something relevant to life, but it also helps you to connect with people and really bring them closer to Hashem. Especially when you are an expert in the Torah, and you see things in the Torah that if you don't study it all the time, it's really hard to see it. So, with the help of Hashem, there are a few things in the Tetzaveh portion that are really relevant to exactly what you are saying, with all the pressure that is happening in the world right now, yours right now, and everyone's, and with the help of Hashem, there are a few reasons. So now, Parashat Tetzaveh, the whole parasha talks about the fact that all the special clothes that the Holy One, blessed be He, is telling Moshe Rabbeinu to make and to wear, Aaron, the brother who was chosen to be the Kohen Gadol, and his sons Nadav, Avihu, Elazar, and Itamar. Now, the whole portion talks about all the measurements, how to do this and how to do that exactly. If we want to make these clothes now, we can see exactly what to use and how to do it, and all these things are something really amazing.
3:43But... But... What can we learn from this? Let's see. At the beginning of the parashah, it says, "And you will command the children of Israel, and they will take to you pure olive oil, which is a lamp for the light to rise forever." First of all, we see that instead of the Holy One, blessed be He, like every time He speaks to Moshe Rabbeinu, He says... The verse begins, "And the Lord spoke to Moshe, saying..." Here, He doesn't say Moshe; He says, "And you..." And if you pay attention... Yes, exactly. At the beginning of the parashah, it says, "And you will command the children of Israel, and they will take to you pure olive oil, which is a lamp for the light to rise forever." First of all, we see that instead of the Holy One, blessed be He, like every time He speaks to Moshe Rabbeinu, He says... the verse begins, "And the Lord spoke to Moshe, saying..." Here, He doesn't say Moshe; He says, "And you..." And if you pay attention... Why? Because what happened the next week, in the next week's portion, when the Holy One saw that we did the sin of the golden calf, that he taught it with the help of G-d the next week, and he said that he wants to destroy the whole nation of Israel and build a better nation. Why? Because what happened the next week, in the next week's portion, when the Holy One saw that we did the sin of the Golden Calf, that he taught it with the help of Hashem the next week, and he said that he wants to destroy the whole nation of Israel and build a better nation.
4:51And he started with Moshe. And Moshe said to Him, no, remove my name from the Torah, I don't want to, I don't care, I love Israel, no, no, no, I don't care. So this is something really amazing, that you see how much Moshe Rabbeinu gave his soul for the people of Israel, and not all the time they were physically healthy. No, not all the time do we appreciate today that we will be healthy. No, not all the time do we appreciate how much Moshe Rabbeinu gave his soul to bring us these 24 books that we have in the Torah, and all the mitzvot, and all the beautiful things. We don't appreciate it as much as we should. We say, no, it's how many rabbis wrote it, it's small, it's... We don't pay much attention. Now, Moshe Rabbeinu said, "I don't want to live at all. I don't want to come to heaven, chas v'shalom, and Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov will say, 'Oh, this is Moshe, this was the leader of the people of Israel when the Holy One destroyed them, chas v'shalom.'"
5:52i don't want to be like that. It's better if you separate me from the book. Then, for example, the Holy One says, okay, I'll separate his name from one portion. But you don't see Moshe Rabbeinu complaining or saying something off point. No. Moshe Rabbeinu was a tzaddik and an anav. There's no such thing. So that's the first thing we see. The second thing, why is it so important, why is it so important to be an anav? Now we know that Moshe Rabbeinu was the greatest man in all of history. There will not be a man greater than Moshe Rabbeinu. There will not be. But at the same time, we also know that Moshe Rabbeinu... He was greater than any person. There would not be a person who would speak to G-d face to face. There would not be a person who would speak to G-d in such a way and accept the Torah. And the Torah is the name of... It's the Torah of Moshe. In his name. He escaped from the glory and the glory ran after him. The world, the world we live in, is upside down. People run after the glory.
7:03So this is what we learn also from parashat Bo. Parashat Bo, HaKadosh Baruch Hu tells us the secret of how to get closer to Him. If you want to get closer to Hashem, there is something here. What? He says this to Pharaoh, that even a goy, rasha, can get closer to Hashem if he wants to return to teshuvah. What? He says to Pharaoh, Kor Amar Adonai Elohei Ha'ivrim, Ad Matai Me'anta Le'anot Mipanai, Shlach Ami V'ya'avduni. The main thing here is, Ad Matai Me'anta Le'anot Mipanai. Like, when will you be humble? When will you be humble? When will you show yourself and recognize Me? If a person wants to get closer to Hashem, he must be a servant. He must be a person who understands that HaKadosh Baruch Hu is not alone. This is what a person needs to return and return and return to every day. There is no one else. Problems are not alone. Good things are not alone. Everything is from heaven. Everything is from heaven. And if there are things that we do not understand, HaKadosh Baruch Hu speaks to us.
8:04Pressure, G-d speaks to us. Problems, G-d speaks to us. There is nothing else to check. Everything, everything that happens in the world, the Baal Shem Tov said, has a private providence. There is nothing in the world without private providence. And Moshe Rabbeinu understood this in an amazing way. He worked on himself, and worked on himself, and worked on himself, and came to be Moshe Rabbeinu. He was not born Moshe Rabbeinu. He was born Moshe. Niyam Moshe Rabbeinu, after he died on his knees. Now, we know that a person who has pride, he goes exactly the opposite. So the Torah tells us, what is the matter of pride? Why is it so bad? So G-d gave us a few things to know about it. In the book of Mishlei, verse 29:23, Shlomo HaMelech, the wisest man of all people, But man's pride will deceive us. He tells us here something very important: that a person who flees from honor, God will approach him and give him honor. But a person who seeks honor and has pride, he has a special punishment. What is it? The most terrible punishment for a man of pride is that God will disgrace him.
9:33Busha. In a person who is a Gavtan, G-d promises him here: I will give you a Busha. Also in Masechet Eruvin, page 45, it talks about a wise Talmid. What will happen if there is a person who is a wise Talmid, knows the Torah, and becomes a Gavtan? They say here, not in heaven with me. What does it mean, not in heaven with me? The Torah of Shlomo says, not from heaven with me. He turns it into something good and something bad. Yes, yes, yes, one of the six, but not in terms of, well, not in terms of giving people to feel it. Like a person should have self-respect, and not let anyone distort the Torah, and things like that, but he is forbidden, he is forbidden to let people feel that they are less than him. Why? We learn from Moshe Rabbeinu. Moshe Rabbeinu says, and what are we?
10:45He says, what are you talking about? I am nothing. Me and Aharon, we are nothing. What are we? You are talking about Lot, you are talking about parnassah, you are talking about things. Who are we at all? These are the great generations. This is what Moshe Rabbeinu says. Moshe Rabbeinu says, what are we? What are we? We are nothing. What is what? What is nothing? And the world stands on nothing. The world stands on nothing. What is it? What? Nothing. Avraham Avinu says that he is less than afar va’efer. Afar va’efer. What is it? It's Avraham Avinu. David HaMelech says, "I am a worm and not a man." A worm and not a man. I am not even a man. I don't have anything to do. What am I at all? And these three of them They had all the reasons in the world to be greedy, greedy, and all the things. Why? They had greatness. They had money, they had wisdom, they had a constant connection with Hashem, they had everything you want in the world. They had it. They were billionaires. Who was richer than them? No one.
11:53But what did they say? We are nothing, nothing, nothing. So a person needs to know how to use this respect, especially when he knows the Torah. It's not a matter of showing off. It's to use this respect that he has to connect with people who are not just lying, like those who, unfortunately, lie to a lot of students who don't have that much self-confidence. So the person starts to speak and within a second he is disturbed. Every second he is disturbed. He doesn't let me speak. He doesn't let me speak. No, this is such a person. Either he will say, okay, if they learn or I will leave. Or he will leave. That's it. You can't spread the Torah like that. You can't try to teach people in a place and spread the Torah. It's a violation of Hashem. No. Another thing. In the Masechet Pesachim, page 6a-b, He says, if there is a wise man, like a person who knows the Torah, and he has pride, wisdom is taken from him. The Holy One takes back his wisdom. Masechet Sukkah, page 29, says, there are four things that cause a person to lose all his money.
13:16And one of the four is worse than the first three. What is it? It's anger. Just a second, how bad is it that a person has anger? Masechet Ta'anit says, on page 8, that a person who has anger brings anger to the world. Anger to the world. All the world... Yes, yes, all kinds of G-d rule over it. Yes, yes, strong and blessed, strong and blessed. So here we understand, yes, exactly. It's in the Ramban, in the Ramban, in the Ramban. In Masechet Sotah, page 4, beginning of Masechet Sotah, it says to you, every person who has pride, it's clear in my words, he's like a peasant worker.
14:20Like a work of art. Every person on the fifth floor, he tells you, every person who has pride, he really turns himself into a tree of pride. What is a tree of pride? A tree of pride is like the Christmas tree. With a tree of pride, it's like a work of art. He turns himself into a work of art. Why? Because when a person has pride, he really feels, thinks, and behaves in a way that everything is in His hands. He is G-d. So these are a few small things that we can learn about the matter of pride. It is very, very, very important to work on this level so that we will never have pride. We will never think that there is anything from us. There is nothing else. Everything is from G-d. Everything. Nothing is in our hands. 100% neto from Hashem. Everything. He just gives us the feeling that we are doing. Like when a person goes to work, he says, what do you mean? I work 10 hours a day, 15 hours a day, I had a new idea, I had a new customer, and I told him this, and I told him that, and I did the sale, and I arranged, I raised the stones, and I built the buildings, and I, and I, and I, and I. No, Habibi, no.
15:37You didn't do anything. Nothing. You did zero. Not just one percent. Zero. What do you mean? HaKadosh Baruch Hu behaves with us like you behave with a baby. Like you behave with a baby. When the baby starts to eat, he wants to start walking. At first, he can't walk. So what do you do? You lift him, and you let him move his legs and give him the feeling as if he's walking. Like, it doesn't really work. If you leave it and it falls, yes. It can't walk. That's exactly what we and HaKadosh Baruch Hu do. HaKadosh Baruch Hu gives us the feeling that we are doing, only that we have a little bit of, well, confidence. That we have a little bit of security. That we are, like, doing something in this world, really. But really, we are doing nothing. Nothing. The only thing that's in our hands is if we have a yirat Shamayim or not. That's it. A person who wants to be connected to Hashem in an exclusive way will work on yirat Shamayim. Apart from that, nothing is in our hands. Now, after that, we see in the verse, Chaf Chet Alef,
16:52G-d speaks to Moses and says to him, "And you will take with you Aaron, your brother, and his sons from among the children of Israel. Behold, Aaron, Nadav, and his sons, Eleazar, and Itamar, the children of Aaron." He says to him, "Take with you, take with you, to me, I want you to tell Aaron and his sons, Nadav, Eleazar, and Itamar, that I chose them." To be a Kohen. But here, I heard it from Rabbi Nissim Yagen, זכר צדיק לברכה (zekher tzadik livracha), he says something most special in this verse that can be understood. He says, "And you will be brought near to you." What does it mean, "And you will be brought near to you"? The Holy One here gives us the great secret. He tells us, if a person wants to be close to Me, he wants to be connected to Me...
17:53There has to be self-reliance. There has to be. There has to be self-reliance. There has to be something. There is no such thing as religion in the heart. There is no such thing as religion in the heart. There is no such thing as "I am." There is no such thing as the people of the land are chassidim. That's what the Mishnah says. Mishnah Avot says. There is no such thing as the people of the land are chassidim. There is no such thing as a person who is connected to Hashem. And he is a good person in the interpretation of Hashem if he is really good. There is no such thing as going to Gan Eden without Torah. There is no such thing. A person wants to go to Gan Eden. A person wants to be saved in the days of the Mashiach. After the days that we find ourselves in now, he must have Torah. He must. He must have a soul ministry. Now. Why does a person want to be close to Hashem? Why? Why? With a simple word, you can say, no, I want to be close to Hashem, I want to go to Gan Eden one day. Okay, fine. That's nice. But not everyone thinks about the next world all day. Do you agree with me? Yes. Okay, not everyone thinks about the next world all the time. Not everyone. So why...
19:14Exactly. So now, why do we want to get closer? Why do we want to get closer to You? Why do we want to be closer to Hashem? Why? How can we connect this to our lives? In order for us to be able to act in this world, Alma deShikra, with all the pressures, with all the problems, with all the things that happen to us, בשביל לתפקד עם ביטחון, חייבים להיות קרובים לה' יתברך. באדם שלא קרוב לה', אין לו ביטחון. אין דבר כזה. אין לו ביטחון. למה? הוא חושב שהכל בידיים שלו מסכן. He needs to work, he needs to do this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this.
20:27So in order for a person to have security, he has to be close to Hashem, he has to be from a spiritual point of view. So now, let's talk a little bit about the issue of security in Hashem, and what this is, how really, what's good in it, what's bad in it, and all these things. David HaMelech says in Tehillim, Ashrei ha'Adam boteach bach. He says, Ashrei ha'Adam, what a beauty, what a beauty. You have to understand, the king is one of the most righteous people in the world. The Messiah will come from him. He says to you, what a beauty, what a pleasure for a person, that he has security in Hashem. Why? If he has security in Hashem, then it is clear that he is already close to Hashem. And there is no person happier than a person who is close to Hashem. Gemara Masechet Menachot, page 9, verse... He says... Ashrei HaGever, Asher Sam B'Hashem Mivtacho. This is something even more profound. Why? It means the same thing: placing one's trust in Hashem. No, but what's the difference here? The first one tells us, "Ashrei HaAdam HaBoteach Bach." A person who trusts in Hashem, what a pleasure for him. Yes, yes, it has a continuation, but I'm only talking about these words. Here he tells you, "Ashrei HaGever, Asher Sam B'Hashem Mivtacho."
21:53This, at first, Rabbi explains that this person not only has security in Hashem, but he put security in Hashem. What does that mean? He didn't make a mistake and put his security somewhere else, in some person, in himself, in his customer, in the dollar, as it is written, "In God we trust," and they think that the dollar is God. or in the government, or in Obama, or in Netanyahu, or in all kinds of nonsense. No. He tells you that the man who put his security in Hashem will be protected. He put his security in Hashem, not in any other thing. We are already on the second level. We are already on the second level. There is... Where is it? There is someone who knows this and doesn't do this. We need to work on ourselves because of this. We are learning. That's why we're not dead. Wait a second, I need you to give me a second book, the Tanach, I'll bring you a really nice passage. This is a person who has this knowledge,
23:09It's like the Ramchal says in the book Mesilat Yesharim, "I didn't come to bring you any news, all the things you already know." But it sounds so simple that no one thinks about it. So what, what, how? Yes, the Ramchal wrote it. Ramchal, Ramchal, Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto. Yes, Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, that's what he said. He talks about the standards, the standards of the person. These are things that he writes; it's all really, in a logical way, it's all logical. It's not, don't be angry, don't be, all kinds of things like that. But this book, even when he says there are no new ones here, there are really a million new ones here. And all the greats of the generation say every Jew must read this book at least 100 times. Why? Because there is knowledge that you know is material, but it's not really in your brain, that you think about it all the time. There are people who know what Torah is, they know a little bit, a little bit, what Torah is, but they don't learn Torah every day and don't think through the Torah. If a person...
24:20Come on, come on, of course. So that's the point. We need to get to the point, through the elevation of the soul, to study Torah every day. What's the purpose, what's really the main thing here? To get to the point where our thinking is through the Torah. We are acting, in all the things in our lives, with the first question being, what does Hashem think of it? What is the will of Hashem? What is the will of the Torah? Not what I think, what Hashem thinks. Because a person has a desire. And if he uses his mind, then there is a big chance to be happy. So when a person really learns and learns and learns, and a little every day, a quarter of an hour in the morning, a quarter of an hour at night, an hour here, an hour there, learning, every day a little, every day a little, every day a little, over time he begins to turn his thinking into Torah thought. And this is really a very high level that every person, the simplest person in the world, can reach. Every person. It's just needed from a mental facility. Now, you have here a lot of good things in terms of bitachon. Now we learned. But now, what if we don't have bitachon?
25:40Not that we don't have bitachon, but we put our bitachon in a person. We rely on the customer. If we don't have bitachon, the book of Tomer Devorah will teach us about bitachon. But... Chazak U'Baruch. In the book... Yes, Chazak U'Baruch. In the book of Yirmiyahu, he says, Therefore, the Lord said, If you return... No, excuse me, this is not the correct verse. This is not the correct verse. This is verse 17, 17.5. I read it wrong. 17.5. Here, here, here. Oh, here. So the Lord said, "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart turns away from the Lord."
26:41HaKadosh Baruch Hu says to us, in itself here He says, the man arur, arur is the most terrible curse in the whole Torah. Who is called arur? Who else? Parashat Bereishit, Parashat Bereishit. The snake, the snake. When the first sin was committed, HaKadosh Baruch Hu asked the man, "What did you do?" He said, "No, no, it's the wife's sin that You brought me." He asked the woman, "What did you do?" She said, "No, no, it's because of the snake. He did it." HaKadosh Baruch Hu didn't even ask the snake. Even if He didn't ask the snake directly, He would have cursed him. Why? Because the snake had a curse. HaKadosh Baruch Hu knows that he has a curse, that he has a reason why he did it. He didn't want it to warm up. So what he did and brought death to the world, He cursed him with the worst curse in the whole Torah, which is taught with the help of Hashem in the chapter of Bechukotai, and in His book, the Holy One says, Bechukotai, go away.
27:50So He gives you all the good things. But if not, He gives you all kinds of bad things that many people don't like to hear, but they have to hear it, and as much as possible. Why? If we have a Heavenly command, we won't make mistakes. If we have a Heavenly command, we won't make mistakes. So now, when a person understands what a mistake is, he sees that a person who makes mistakes is considered a sinner. It's a very bad thing. A person who makes all kinds of mistakes, who doesn't think it's such a big deal because the government in America says it's not a big deal, it even becomes okay. They make a law that it's okay—all kinds of things. Or people are gay, or all kinds of lifestyles that people have. A person doesn't understand, if he doesn't read the Torah and doesn't understand that he's considered the worst thing in the whole Torah. Arur. Arur is the worst curse. Now, something else here we learn from the book of Yirmiyahu. A person who doesn't have security at all, that's already not good. But a person who puts his security...
28:54in a person, or in himself, or in someone else, in his boss, or in his manager, or in his customer, or in the government, or in the president, or in everything. Everything is considered a problem. It is considered a problem. And this is a very big problem, and the Holy One, blessed be He, is moving away from it. Why? You're saying that a person is bigger than me? You don't have a beard? That's too much. So you need to know that it's very important that we have bitachon in Hashem. Why? Because here there is a Midrash about the righteousness of Shimon, about the disciples. He says to you, even if you are a rasha and you have bitachon in Hashem, Chesed yesovevenu. I'm telling you something great here. I'm telling you, even if there is a person who is a rasha, a rasha, who is going to rob a bank, who is going to rob 100 million dollars from his investor, who is going to do all kinds of things that are not good, against the Torah, but he has bitachon in Hashem. Why is he not a rasha?
30:17Why? Rasha? He's against the Torah. But why isn't he rasha? It's one of the ten statements. Why isn't he rasha? A person who violates the Torah, who goes against the Torah in a normal way, he has a big problem. He's not even considered a Jew. If a person in a normal way acts... Against the Torah, we consider a goy to be everything. Like a person who desecrates Shabbat, the Shulchan Aruch says it in seven places, we consider a goy to be everything. Not only that, but not a goy who was born a goy, who could be a goy tzaddik. A person who was born a goy could be a goy tzaddik, like Iyov. Iyov was a goy tzaddik, he became a prophet. Right, but before he could become a goy... So that's what we're saying here. He says, even if he's a rasha, that he has security in Hashem, HaKadosh Baruch Hu will help him. So what are we learning here? We're learning something amazing here. What are we learning? If HaKadosh Baruch Hu is ready and helps a rasha, why won't He help us, good people? We're trying, we're trying, we're learning, after work all day, we worked 12 hours today.
31:40And we pray to Hashem that He will give us some money for the new house for the family. We will do more mitzvot. We will bring more workers. It will be more comfortable for us to learn Torah. We will do good things with this house. Why wouldn't He help us? Exactly. Exactly. You are doing a mitzvah. There is no such thing in a person. Okay, so that was the point. So you see, a person who is doing something right now, and he is sharing Hashem, and he is doing something that is good for him but also for others. It's the will of Hashem. Why the will of Hashem? If I have such a home, there will be more guests. If I have such a home, I will be closer to the yeshiva, and the children will go to a better yeshiva. If I have such a home, I will have a little more comfort, that I can study Torah, and so on and so forth. If a person really intends to do this, then of course Hashem will help him. No doubt. Why? He tells us here, he is even willing to help the leader.
33:06Even ready to help the leader. Why? Just because he has bitachon. Just because. So it's not that He just helps us. A person needs to understand. Bitachon is a very big thing. Just because a person has bitachon. That's enough reason. For Hashem to help him. That's the point here. That's the point. So a person needs to work on this, really work, work, work on this bitachon. How do you work on bitachon? We already said, we already said, be close to Hashem. Yes, but how do you get to emunah? Can you get to emunah if I sleep all day? You have to be careful. Be careful. It's up to you. Like Parashat Shavua tells us. It's up to you. It's up to you. So let's give an example. What is really bitachon in Hashem? There was a very nice story I heard about the Chafetz Chaim. The Chafetz Chaim was a holy man. And one day they went from Warsaw to Radin. Like from town to town in Russia there.
34:24And that was when the train was already old. It wasn't able to go as fast as it could when it was new. In any case, when they decided to go home, the train wasn't one-way. It wasn't like a connection. They had to stop in the middle, switch trains, and catch the second train. Now, the first train was a bit slow. And the students of the Chafetz Chaim noticed that there were only 5-6 minutes to get to the second train. And sometimes, it wasn't like today, like the subway. You miss one, 5 minutes later, another one comes. Miss one, another 5 minutes, another one comes. That's it, if you miss one, you have to wait until the day after that. Or even... So you have 5 minutes. But the Chafetz Chaim, he was... Chafetz Chaim was an old man; he couldn't walk fast. So, he gets out of it, and the students say, "Yes, yes, honorable." He says, "No, don't worry, everything is in the hands of Hashem. What Hashem wants will happen. There is no other way." The Chafetz Chaim had complete faith; there is no doubt. He goes slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly, and one of the students says, "There is no risk, at minimum, it will take us a quarter of an hour to get to the second train, minimum, a quarter of an hour."
35:47And he leaves for another five minutes. In the same minute that he does this, he turns around and he sees that they changed the train's sign. And there is the name of the city they are going to. He says, "Oh, honorable Rav, look. No, we made a mistake, we need to go back to the train. It goes home." They turned around. After two steps, they turned around and returned to the train. What did they notice? They noticed that no one was in the train. Only them. Only their teachers and students. The train continued to run. It ran, ran, ran. And then there were a lot of people waiting at the stop. The train didn't stop. Another stop. A lot of people were saying, "Hello, hello. Stop, stop." It didn't stop. It continued, continued, continued until it got home. What is amazing is that the train is completely empty except for its passengers and students. Two days after that, there is an article in the newspaper from the train company asking for forgiveness from their customers. "Excuse us, we made a mistake two days ago. One of our trains..."
37:02She made a mistake and went to a city that wasn't right. And really, all the people who had to lift them didn't lift them. So everyone had to wait a day or two. But the student understood. Finally, he understood. What did he understand? He understood that the Holy One, blessed be He, does what He wants. This train was specifically for a holy person who has bitachon (security) in Hashem like a life jacket. So we need to understand that that when we have security in Hashem, there is no end, there is no end to the Yeshua that He can give us. There is no end. There is no end. And this is the biggest thing that a person needs to work on, but it is a process. There are a few more things that can be learned from the parasha, At the end of the parasha, we see that HaKadosh Baruch Hu asks us to make another Mizbeach. There was a Mizbeach inside the Kodesh, and there was a Mizbeach outside the Kodesh. And here, at the end of the parasha, it tells you something that you know because you read it every day in prayer. It says, "And the ketoret will be offered on it as a fragrant incense in the morning and in the evening, and the lamps will be lit on it, and the ketoret will be offered on it as a fragrant incense always before Hashem for your generations."
38:23You already know this. But now... Yes, these are the fruits. Yes, these are the fruits that we make. We used to make them in the desert and also in the Temple. It was like a sacrifice, a kind of sacrifice. And we used to make it twice a day. But if you pay attention, there is something in the prayer that they added. to these verses, which are not understood by many people, and really, it's something that many people don't pay attention to. And if a person understands this, he can really turn his prayer into something truly amazing. I had a chiddush, Baruch Hashem, about a year and a half ago about this matter, and I think it's something amazing. But now, When we read the whole plan, or this whole part, all the sacrifices, it tells us that these sacrifices and the fruits, it was Hashem who gave us a precise way how to do it.
39:40Not just, you can't just throw away a few fruits that you buy from CVS and let it be a little smoke. No, you need something precise. He tells you exactly how much you need from everything, from everything, from everything, and what is forbidden and what is allowed. Okay? But you have here a Mishnah. Rabbi Natan tells you, during the prayer, read this. Rabbi Natan tells you that if something is missing, it must be eaten. If a person makes the fruits, He forgets something. One of the things. There is one Tzeret, he forgets one of them. Or he doesn't forget one of them, he puts the wrong amount. He says... No, no, no. It doesn't have to be the great Kohen. The regular Kohen also does it. There was a mizbeach, this mizbeach was outside the... Only in the Kodesh was the great Kohen. Outside, in the sacrifices, the fruits, it's even a regular Kohen. Even a regular Kohen.
40:43There were more than 20,000 Kohanim. Anyway, what does that mean? Did I kill one of them and I was killed? No way. A Kohen is not just any Kohen. It could be Moshe Rabbeinu. Why was he killed? Did I kill one of them? Maybe that's not true. So Rabbi Yehuda, Rabbi Yehuda, so Rabbi Yehuda, he says, yes, the same thing, he says, yes, a person who kills one of the things, it's clear that it's in my words, kills one of the things, or doesn't do the right amount, is killed. Chayav mitah, no, it's not like chayav onesh. I think to myself, what do you mean chayav mitah? I missed one of the things, let me know. Okay, if it's such a big deal, I made a mistake, let me know. If you have one of your actors, you say, do this, do that, do ABC, he did instead of ABC, he did AB. Leave one of them. Will you kill him? You won't kill him. There's a chance that he won't let go of it. But if it's such a big job, an important customer, something that's really a big deal, okay. Maximum, he'll let go of it. If it returns to him, he'll return to it. Yeah, that's it. Even if he returns to it. Here he tells you, not if he returns to it. The first time he makes a mistake, he has to get rid of it. It's a bit weird. Our Torah is not a ridiculous Torah. Why? Why does he say he has to get rid of it?
42:06That's what we need to understand. A person needs to understand, especially a Jew, needs to understand that each one of us, our actions, they don't just cause us something good or bad. We need to understand that everything we do, how it affects all people and all of Am Yisrael in all kinds of ways. So, A woman, let's say, has a problem with her head. She doesn't want to cover her head. She's not ready. No, no, it's not the way it is. It's not modern. It's a lie. It's all kinds of nonsense that people say. That it's a De'oraita command to cover the head. Cover with what? Cover with what? With a mask. No, a mask is forbidden. A mask is forbidden. It's the masks of the day. There were times when judges said a mask is allowed. Yes, there were times when they were saying that the mask is allowed, but the masks that they were saying were allowed were from chash. So it was clear that it was a mask. Rav Shach... Not with the masks of today. The masks of today... No, no, no. It doesn't matter where you live. You can live anywhere in the world. There is something sent to you about the mask. It's something very important to know.
43:35The thing about tznius (modesty), if there's someone who dresses inappropriately, it's a dress that's short and really tight. All these people who wear long dresses, with curls and colors and all these things, there's no posek (halachic authority) in the world, in the history that's written about it. There's no such thing. It's nonsense and shtuyot (nonsense). But they go with a mini. They go with a short skirt that hardly reaches the hips and they think they are tzanuah. So, this is the beauty of a woman.
44:55The beauty of a woman is only for the husband, not for the world. Not for the world. A woman needs to know that 60%, 60% of her mitzvot are tzniut. She cannot pass the test of the purpose of her life without being tzniut. She can do all the mitzvot. She can learn Torah like Bruriah, the wife of Rabbi Meir Baal HaNes. She can learn Torah, a wise student, something great. She is not tzniut, she does not pass her test. It's not me who says it, it's the Torah that says it. In Masechet Sotah, the first page, Daf Beit, in Masechet Sotah, it says to us, a righteous person receives a righteous woman, a wicked person receives a woman who is a liar. Why a liar? Why doesn't a wicked person receive a liar? Why? So Rashi tells us, he explains to us, he says to us, if this woman is a liar, and she is not a liar, So it is clear that she is not a tzaddeket. It is clear that she is a resha'ah. There is no such thing in the world, a woman who is a tzaddeket and not a tzenu'ah. There is no such thing. No. It does not exist. Rashi has already told us this almost 900 years ago. There is no such thing, he says. Women can read Tehillim, day and night, and all kinds of songs, and all kinds of prayers, and they can make prayers. Prayers, they can make prayers.
46:22She goes with unbuttoned clothes. No, no, Hashem yirachem. It's not good. It's a mistake of the rabbis. She doesn't understand that she causes a lot of tza'ar to Hashem every second. Why? Not because she cares about her clothes. If she's at home alone or with her husband, she can go with whatever she wants. She can go with her husband, whatever she wants. If she's at home. But outside, people look. No, no, in the house, in the house it can be as she wants, with her husband only. If there are children and people, no, it's forbidden. But if she's alone with her husband, it's possible. It's clear that she should be in a relationship all the time, but it's allowed to her, it's not like a break. Yes, but it's not a sin. They want to do even more, yes, 100%, 100%. But... she is transgressing. Sh'afilu im ze simla ad ha'anu, ad ha'kaf regel, aval ze tsamud, ve'kol gever ba'olam yachol ledamien ech yiniret aruma, Hashem yirachem eize avera zot, im machtiat harabim, hi lo mevina kama tza'ar hi goremet la'Hashem, ve'kama hi goremet la'atzma shehi b'ri'ah.
47:29Sh'afilu im ze simla ad ha'anu, ad ha'kaf regel, aval ze tsamud, ve'kol gever ba'olam yachol ledamien ech yiniret aruma, Hashem yirachem eize aveira zot, im machtiat harabim, hi lo mevina kama tza'ar hi goremet la'Hashem, ve'kama hi goremet la'atzma shehi b'ri'ah. She doesn't understand. Clothing for a woman is very important, so women need to understand. Women's clothes need to be modest. What is modest? First of all, you need to cover as much as possible of the body. You need to cover the shoes, even after she sits. Many women wear skirts that cover the shoes, but when they sit, it doesn't cover the shoes. No. The shirt needs to cover the pants even when she's sitting. So it's better that it's a long shirt. Second, the pants also need to cover the shoes. Third, the clothes can't be so tight that you can see how the woman looks naked. The woman needs to understand...
48:42No, not at all, that's what I'm telling you, they can't be straight at all. So now, the woman needs to understand that the brain of the woman and the brain of the man are two different things. A woman looks at a nice man, she says, "Oh, he's probably a nice man," she thinks about his personality. A man looks at every woman, if he doesn't have Torah in his life, in a second, he already imagines her naked. And in a second, she caused him to make a mistake, with the mistake of the Rabbis. She goes from this restaurant in New York, there are about 6,000 people in one block. She caused the mistake of 6,000 people. There is no end, there is no end to the punishment for this thing. It is a very serious matter. A woman must be humble. She must be humble. It is something; it is greater than all the commandments that a woman has. People don't understand this in our generation, unfortunately, but with the help of Hashem, they will change this teaching together and will see it. I'm not just saying this. So now, let's understand that if a person has a doubt, a woman has a doubt about how, why, why really the way I dress is so important to Hashem. Why does it matter to Him at all?
49:55אם אני גורמת למישהו לעשות משהו, אז אפשר להבין את זה מהקטורת. אפשר להבין את זה מהתפילה שאנחנו עושים פעמיים ביום. מה זה? Rabbi Natan, we say that now, if a person eats one of the fruits, his life is in danger. It sounds a little strange. It sounds a little too much. Rabbi Natan says this, and Rabbi Yehuda, both of them are mentioned in the Gemara, it says, both of them had such a great sanctity, they could have revived the dead. It's not just people; it's not a rabbi from Fifth Avenue and 47th. These are the great people in history. They tell you about a person who promotes something. Why? Now you need to understand what this movement really was, what it was doing. Now it was in the Beit HaMikdash, and it was doing the ketoret. And this ash, the Ramban explains that this ash was sacred to him, that it makes a pillar of ash that reaches up to the sky, and even if there was a strong wind, even if there was a tornado, the ash wouldn't move. Like light, like light, you see light in New York, let's say sometimes they have this light that reaches up to the sky, like this, but for avdi it was ash, something amazing. Okay?
51:21So what does this year really do? How does it affect people? So there is a nice innovation here that affects three types of people. The first is a person who is in the family of the people of Israel, where all the people of Israel are studying. And he has problems. What does he have? What problems? He has problems with emunah, lack of growth. Shalom Bayit, Yeladim, all the things that are relevant to us. He says all kinds of things: I have a problem, I have a problem, I have a problem. So what do we do when we have a problem? We look at the sky. It's instinctive. We look at the sky. What does he see? He sees the Ashan. He sees the Ashan. He sees the Ashan. It reminds him that there is no one else. It reminds him of their King. It reminds him of Hashem. What is the other person? The other person...
52:36He was once, he had problems with his faith, but he didn't look up; he left straight away. He distanced himself from the people of Israel, he got upset, he saw how many Chasidim, who are not really Chasidim, just wear black and white, and they have a beard up to the floor, but they steal money from people, go to the casino, do all kinds of bad things, call the name of Hashem, Hashem Yerachem. So he said, no, all this religion is a lie, this Torah, Chas V'Shalom, I'm leaving. So he already left. left Israel, but you know, when you walk a long way, every few hours, you look back. You look back, like, where am I, like, against where I was. So when he looks back, already in the mountains, what does he see? He also sees this sign this year. And then he thinks to himself, ah, you know what, I can't see the people, they are small like ants, but I can see the ash. What does it mean? It means that there is no other word, it means that really Judaism is not dependent on the Jews. Judaism is dependent on the Jew, on the connection between us and Hashem.
53:50Bein Hashem Yitbarach. This is the point here. You have to understand that even if a person finds himself in some island, alone. In any case, he has to be Jewish. In any case, he has to do as much as possible of the mitzvot that he can. A woman has to be even a tzanua in an island, alone. It doesn't matter... How can a person be Jewish? How can he know? If he is on an island, alone, he doesn't have time, he doesn't know the date. He will do what he can. To do what he can. To do what he can. It's clear that if he doesn't have the possibility, then he's free. But if he has the possibility, he knows. He's not allowed to eat a goat. So if he has an option to eat a goat or to swallow a goat in his own way, then he'll do it. If he knows that there are things that are problematic and he has the possibility to do them, then he'll do them. No, no. Shabbat. Shabbat, if he knows. Oh, Shabbat. That's a bit problematic. But I'm telling you that this won't happen. It doesn't seem to me that Hashem sends a person to some place and expects him to keep Shabbat as a halacha because, as you said, it would be hard, but at least if He did send him, He would send him with a watch. But in any case, to get back to the point... No, but there is... There is... Like, he writes seven days from the day he says Shabbat. Even if he dies, he says Shabbat on the day
55:15Yes, yes, yes. But this is just an example. Let's go back to the main point. I don't want to stop here. The main point here is that a person needs to understand that Judaism is the connection between him and HaKadosh Baruch Hu. It doesn't matter to him what people do, whether they are Chareidim, secular people, religious people, non-religious people, whatever they are. It doesn't matter at all what people say or don't say. Yes, yes, yes. But this is just an example. Let's go back to the main point. I don't want to stop here. The main point here is that a person needs to understand that Judaism is the connection between him and HaKadosh Baruch Hu. It doesn't matter to him what people do, whether they are Chareidim, secular people, religious people, non-religious people, whatever they are. It doesn't matter at all what people say or don't say. So now, this person needs to understand this. Now this person in the mountains sees this smoke. What does it do? It brings people closer. He now returns to Teshuva after he understands the context, he understands that the connection between him and the Holy One is the main thing. He returns to Teshuva. What is the third person? The third person is the Goyim. The Goyim all the time were asking, why did the Holy One choose the people of Israel to be the chosen people? Why? So now, this person needs to understand this. Now this person in the mountains sees this smoke. What does it do? It brings people closer. He now returns to Teshuva after he understands the context; he understands that the connection between him and HaKadosh Baruch Hu is the main thing. He returns to Teshuva. What is the third person? The third person is the goyim. The goyim all the time were asking, why did HaKadosh Baruch Hu choose the people of Israel to be the chosen people? Why?
56:18Why? They see from afar. Why? Because G-d speaks to them, gives them food, food from the sky, clouds, war, all the good things. Why did He choose them? They also look up, and they also see the pillar of smoke, and then it reminds them, oh, when did G-d come to us and ask us if we want the Torah? We asked, what, what, what is in it, what is in it? He told us not to kill, not to steal; it doesn't suit us. So we see that we didn't want, we didn't agree to do the will of G-d. But the people of Israel, look, they make a sign, even from these fruits, that G-d wants it twice a day; they do even this for Him. They fulfill the will of G-d. So what is it? We will do and we will hear. We will do and we will hear. Oh. Yes. Now, this caused the sanctification of G-d. G-d saw the sign, the sign of the sign, and it became the sanctification of G-d. Now, this is the positive side. This is how we see that when we do a good thing, as G-d said to us, it causes faith, it causes the law to bring people back in repentance, and it causes the sanctification of G-d. Now, the Ramban says...
57:42That if someone would make a mistake with the fruits, it would turn into a wildfire. What does that mean, a wildfire? There would be no smoke. The smoke that would reach the sky—there would be no smoke. It's just a few fruits, like when you buy in the store, fruits for a good smell, that's it. There would be no smoke. There would be no smoke. So what happens? What are the results of such a thing? Let's go back to these people. Number one, a person who has no emunah looks up and does not see the smoke. Hashem will forgive this person who has no emunah; he can fall and fall and fall, and in general, leave the place. He becomes a number two person. A number two person who has already left the place, he turns around, and you only have one chance to return him in teshuvah. He turns around, he doesn't see the smoke. He doesn't see anything. He says, oh, what does he see? He only sees a lot of people. Oh, these are the people I left. Baruch Hashem, I left them. I continue to go. You can lose this Jew forever. If you return a Jew in teshuvah,
58:48and a person has been a Jew for 70 years, just to return him to teshuvah, he already buys his world. So to lose a Jew, you have to understand how serious it is. How serious it is. So already, because there is no such thought, because a person forgot, he lost a Jew. But, the goyim, who also ask all the time, why did Hashem choose the people of Israel, they look up and see nothing. What do they think? All kinds of excuses. They say, oh, maybe the Holy One made a mistake, bar minan. Maybe it's a mistake. Maybe there's no Holy One. That's what they say. What is it? It's a violation of Hashem. A violation of Hashem. It must be done. So you understand. Rabbi Natan and Rabbi Yehuda said, when a person makes a mistake, it's not simply not a big deal. We need to know that every step we take, Yesh le'zeh efeket. Zeh mashpia al anashim, zeh mashpia al ha'am, afilu al haTorah sh'anachnu lomdim hayom. Chazak rukach sh'lomdim ota. Zeh mashpia al Am Yisrael b'eizeh ofen. Mashu, mashu adir, mashu mad'im. Im lo b'riti yomam va'layla, chukot shamayim lo samti. Dibarnu al ze kvar pa'am, amarnu, sheHaKadosh Baruch Hu omer lanu be'meforash. Im ein mishu ba'olam shelomed Torah kol shniya ve'shniya, sha'olam kayam, mefsikim b'shvil shniya achat, kol ha'olam.
1:00:15If G-d already tells us, "Im lo b'riti yomam va'layla, chukot shamayim v'aretz lo samti," it means that if there is no one in the world learning Torah every second, the world would cease to exist. Even if we stop for just one second, the entire world would collapse. That a person who only uses one of the herbs, one of these small fruits, small fruits, he causes so much harm to Hashem, so many bad things, only with these small fruits. And he has to, so what are we? That we go half-naked, go things... That a person who only uses one of the herbs, one of these small fruits, small fruits, he causes so much harm to Hashem, so many bad things, only with these small fruits. And he has to, so what are we? That we go half-naked, do things... and all these things. You have to understand, you have to understand that G-d did not bring us to this world to be animals. He brought us to be people, a nation that brings light to the world. Light to the world. Every Jew needs to be light. Light. To influence the Jews, to influence the Jews, to influence the family, to influence everyone. You have to be, you have to be a person who is like a billboard that does Kiddush Hashem.
1:01:24That's what you have to do all day, Kiddush Hashem all day, to collect mitzvot, millions here, millions there, millions everywhere. If a person acts in such a way that everything he does is either Kiddush Hashem or Chilul Hashem, or a mitzvah or an aveirah, or it's in accordance with the Torah or it’s against the Torah, then he can already get to the point where he thinks about Hashem all the time. If he thinks about Hashem all the time, then it is clear that he is close to Hashem. If he is close to Hashem, then it is clear that he will have security in Hashem. Because if Hashem even agrees to help the wicked, then why wouldn't He help a person who thinks about Him all day? You understand? So this is the main thing. Any questions? What was the number of the... What was the number of the... What was the number of the... What was the number of the... What was the number of the... What was the number of the... What was the number of the... What was the number of the... What was the number of the...
1:02:43Yes, there were a few. I'll come back to you with the answer. But you know what? You... Okay. Yes. One. There was a restaurant. There was... There was a restaurant. There was a restaurant. There was a restaurant. There was the Menorah. Three. You know what? That was all in the Terumah section. Parashat Terumah. Parashat Terumah. Parashat Terumah. Parashat Terumah. Parashat Terumah. Parashat Terumah. Parashat Terumah.
1:03:45Aaron, the line of Aharon is the same thing, the same tool. The bread, the lechem hapanim, it's also not really considered a tool, but it's not considered a tool. The shulchan, the menorah. That's it, that's what I'm talking about, yes. The kiyor, that's it. That's it. Kerashim? No, kerashim is not... Parochet? What is parochet? Mizbeach? Parochet? No, parochet. Let's see, let's see all this. You have the kiyor, the mizbeach hanechoshet. What is kibosh? What is kibosh? It's like the ramah. The level that the Kohen goes up to the Mishkan. You have the Meisar She'ar HaChatzer, you have the Keilim, you have the Mishkan. That's it, that's it, that's what I think. I'm looking now at a picture of how it would look.
1:05:09So let's go back. You know what, you remind me of a very nice innovation about this issue of the Mishkan and also related to what we are talking about, the issue of decency. At the end of parashat Yitro, HaKadosh Baruch Hu points out to us and says to us, "And when you make for Me an altar of stones, do not build it of hewn stones, for by wielding your tool upon them, you have profaned them. And do not ascend My altar on steps, so that your nakedness will not be exposed on it." So what he's saying here is that the altar needs to be raised, but that it shouldn't be stairs. It should be like a ramp. Why? He's saying that you shouldn't reveal the structure of the... like they were going with... something like the... how do you call it? Yes, like that. So now...
1:06:32He says, "I don't want anyone to discover your weakness, like the weakness of man." But we need to understand this. Now, let's think about this for a second. There's no one sitting on the floor and looking up. The neighbor, the neighbor. Ah, Chazak U'Baruch, that's one thing. The other thing, the neighbor sees in any case. But the other thing, the other thing, He says, G-d says to us, that I don't want that even a similar thing, even a similar thing, will be seen by the priest's wife. Because of that, we said that the woman, that even the walls of her house, the walls of her house, yes, that's what we're trying to understand, that if G-d cares enough for her... that ladders, like if a person goes step by step on the ladders, and he wears a jacket like this, then there is a chance that you can see something from below. If the ladders, you see something. But if you go straight on this ladder, then you don't see anything. So if HaKadosh Baruch Hu cares for him, that even a similar thing doesn't see the man's flesh, of a man, then the material...
1:07:53that it is forbidden for a woman to have an affair in front of the eyes of people who are not her husband. This is a very important thing that people need to understand, that Hashem hates adultery. He hates adultery. What else can we add to this? If we see all the things that happened to the people of Israel, every time that Hashem destroyed us, all the things we did, there was always a warning. There was always a warning. Either it was for Moses, or it was for the prophets, and all kinds of prophets, or for the king, and so on. If it's for everything, the Holy One will warn us before he will punish us. Except for one time. When? When Balak and Bilaam failed to call the people of Israel. all the things we did, there was always a warning. There was always a warning. Either it was for Moshe, or it was for the Nevi'im, and all kinds of Nevi'im, or for the king, and so on. If it's for everything, HaKadosh Baruch Hu will warn us before He will punish us. Except for one time. When? When Balak and Bilaam failed to curse the people of Israel, So Bilaam said to Balak, "Listen, HaKadosh Baruch Hu is not willing to accept them, but I know that HaKadosh Baruch Hu hates adultery. So you will send naked women, naked women, and HaKadosh Baruch Hu will already do your work." And when he did it, he sent naked women, there was no help. Within a second, 24,000 people died.
1:09:18People died. A plague. 24,000. And if Pinchas didn't perform the miracle that he did, Hashem would have killed the entire nation. So you can understand, in the matter of adultery, in the matter of adultery, in the matter of lack of modesty, Hashem hates it so much that this is the only thing that He didn't help us. He didn't help us. There is no man. So you have to understand, i understand that in our generation, it's a matter of course, and it's allowed to be a woman, and it's allowed to behave like we're on the runway, and all those things, but we have to understand that Hashem loves us, And He wants good things for us. And He has a lot of good things that He wants for us. But He is true. He is a faithful King. If He says, this is what is written in the Torah, He does not change. If it is a sin once, it is a sin now.
1:10:22If it's important to have tzniut, once, it's also important to have tzniut today. You need to keep Shabbat once, you need to keep Shabbat today. Nothing changes from the Torah. Nothing. So that's what a person needs to understand. Both a woman and a man. And with the help of Hashem, all these things, when a person takes more of himself and more of himself, really gets closer to Hashem, he only makes a profit from it. He doesn't get punished, and he also gets an endless reward, and he also gets his will. זה שיש לו, שהוא בונה, שהוא מתקרב לה' יתברך, זה גורם לו שיהיה לו ביטחון בה'. מתי שיש לו ביטחון בה'? אין סוף, אין סוף לטוב שיהיה לו גם בעולם הזה וגם בעולם הבא. ובעזרת ה', אנשים יראו את השיעור הזה ויבינו. that HaKadosh Baruch Hu just wants us to be good. We just need to do a little bit, just a little bit, a little bit, to try, to get closer to Him. And He will get closer to you. Get closer to Hashem. A little bit. Do a few little things. Just profit. It's a guarantee. A guarantee to profit, Baruch Hashem. Okay, let's finish here. And if there are any more questions before Shabbat or something like that, you can ask me. But thank you for the lesson, Baruch Hashem.
1:11:38Baruch Hashem, Baruch Hashem. We are also blessed. As you learn from your son, I also learn from you, from the questions. We learn together, Baruch Hashem. Baruch Hashem, Baruch Hashem. Thank you very much. With the help of Hashem, you will have success with the new house, success with the family, success with the children, success with the businesses. And as we said, build your trust, stand on the principle that there is none beside Him, there is none beside Him. And every step you take, if you involve HaKadosh Baruch Hu and you say you are doing it for HaKadosh Baruch Hu, and you do it, you have nothing to worry about. Why? Because Hashem will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace. Trust in Hashem, HaKadosh Baruch Hu, who will fight all your battles. Do as you wish. Run, trust in Him. tivneh et ha-bitachon, ta'amod al ze she'ein od milvado, ein od milvado, ve'kol tzad be-tzad she'ta'aseh, im ata meshatef et HaKadosh Baruch Hu, ve'ata omer she'ta'aseh mashehu b'shvil HaKadosh Baruch Hu, ve'oseh et ze, ein lekha ma lid'og. Lama? Ki Hashem yilachem lachem, ve'atem tacharishun. Ata, bote'ach b'Hashem, HaKadosh Baruch Hu, yilachem kol ha-milchamot shelcha, aseh kamo she ta rotzeh. Rat, tivtach bo. Chazakim HaBeruchim, B'ezrat Hashem, and B'ezrat Hashem, we'll talk soon. May you have Shabbat Shalom Mevorach. Shabbat Shalom Mevorach, HaVayah HaTzahar, and all the things that will come. Thank you, thank you, thank you. All the best to you, all the best. All the best, all the best. Bye, have a good night. Have a good night.
