Are You Still Searching For A Cure To Fix Your Problems?

0:12You tell people to do teshuva, okay I'll do teshuva, so I'll watch your video clips. No, no, come to the shiur. Study. Fulfill the Torah, keep Shabbat. It's hard for me. Okay, it's hard for you. Your life's going to be harder. What is this like? Why do we make this mistake? Why do we constantly make this mistake as a nation, as a people, as a species? Even you see sometimes goyim, goyim that... Don't have necessarily the same obligation as a Jew to fulfill the Torah, but they have an obligation to fulfill their part of it, to work on themselves, and so on. Stop committing sins against the law according to what they're obligated to do. But you see them many times. Tom, listen, whether you're a Jew or not, you're not allowed to waste seed. Whether you're a Jew or not, you're not allowed to be arrogant. Whether you're a Jew or not, you're not allowed to be cheap. You're not allowed to be all these different things. You're not allowed to be a bad person. You're not allowed to steal. You're not allowed to cheat on your wife. You're not allowed to do these things. It doesn't matter whether you're a Jew or not. There are certain things, just as a human being, you're not allowed to do. Why? Hashem said so. Oh, but it's hard for me. Okay, so your life's going to be harder. I gave you instructions. I gave you a cure. You may not like it, but that's the cure.

1:35Then they ask you the wonderful question of the year. It's the best question. How do you know it's going to work? How do you know it's going to work? I'm just gonna read this book and everything is magically gonna fix itself. I'm just gonna come to the shiur and everything is just gonna magically fix itself. What, I'm just gonna read Parashat HaShavua, I'm gonna come to the shiur. I'm gonna work on my arrogance. I'm gonna work on all my demented ideology, and that's just gonna fix it. I'm gonna finally get a job. I'm gonna finally find a wife. I'm gonna finally find a husband. I'm gonna finally get a cure for cancer. I'm finally gonna get a cure for this disease that nobody even has an understanding of what it is. I know it's gonna work. That's past me. I know it's gonna work. I'm just a little more theatrical. I know it's gonna work. I know because God said so, but you're not gonna believe God. Why? He didn't tell you personally, but He told Moshe Rabbeinu, and even if He did, you still wouldn't listen. I...

2:43If you go to the doctor because you have a little bit of a pain on the right side, you go to the doctor because your tooth hurts, you go to the doctor because your foot hurts, and the doctor that went to school for four or five years says to you, Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Goldberg... You have to take this pill three times a day, 500 milligrams each time. You're going to want to throw up, you're going to get stomach aches, but in a week from now, you're going to be perfectly fine. And you, Mr. Goldberg, have to take this pill twice a day for the next three weeks, and in three weeks, you're going to be fine. I... You're going to take their word to the bank, and you're going to follow them like a tatele. You're going to follow them like a nice little boy right out of the shower. You know, little kids, little two, three-year-old kids, they come out of the shower, you shower them, you put their hair to the side, and they look like little angels. That's how you take the pills. Why? My doctor said it. My doctor said I have to take it. Look, it says on the prescription: "500 milligrams three times a day." So, I have to take it exactly every eight hours because that's three times a day. And you take it like a little tatele, like a little trained dog. You take it. Why? Because the doctor that went to school for four or five years said so. But what about the rabbi that studied Torah for 80 years and...

4:12What about Rabbi Ovadia, who studied Torah for 94 years? What about him? He said you have to keep Shabbat because God said so. I read it in the book. He said you have to keep Taharat HaMishpacha because God said so. I read it in the book. For 94 years, I read it. For 94 years, he's been reading it, and the rabbis have been reading it. You trust the doctor to take his medicine three times a day for two weeks, even though it gives you stomach aches. Even though you don't really know if it's going to work. Even though in reality, the more you know about medicine, the more you know the doctor has no clue what he's doing. It's trial and error. He's giving you an antibiotic because it's simply one of the choices. He doesn't actually know if this antibiotic is going to work. He doesn't know. How do I know? I took every antibiotic under the sun. I'm an expert in antibiotics. And one time I went to a specialist in infectious diseases, someone who knows internal medicine as an expert, and she told me, "Listen, there's a trade secret I'm gonna tell you. If the antibiotic doesn't work, meaning you don't have major relief—not that it finishes everything, not a cure, but major relief—within 48 hours, it's the wrong antibiotic."

5:26She said, "Yeah, but the medicine said seven to ten days." I called the doctor. "I'm still in pain three days later." He says, "Yeah, call me in four or five days." I said, "I don't think I'm going to survive four or five days." He says, "Okay, well, hopefully you do." She says, "Get a different doctor." Why? You most likely won't survive four or five days if you have a real infection. If it doesn't work within 48 hours, it's the wrong antibiotic. The doctor doesn't know. He's taking a chance because this specific symptom has five choices of antibiotics. He just gave you one of them. 20% chance of it working. 80% chance of not. But you're going to listen to him like tataleh, you're going to listen to them. He has to look like a little puppy. Why? Because it says MD. His name, and there's a plaque at the entrance that says he went to Harvard, he went to Princeton, he went to Gehinnom. He went to all those places, and he has an MD for it. And you listen to him, but the rabbi that studied for 90 years? You're not going to listen to the chachamim that have been studying the Torah for hundreds of years? You're not going to listen to him? He went to school for four years. Oh, I have to listen to him. So then what you're going to say to me?

6:35You're gonna say to me, "No, I'm not listening to him. I'm listening to medicine. I'm listening to science. Science is proven. It's not theoretical like you think. Science is proven. I'm listening to science." I brought you some science, and I want to know what you think of this science. In 1867 was the first time they performed a prostatectomy in order to treat cancer. Didn't really work. In 1904 was the first radical prostatectomy. Same procedure, but just 40 years later. They advanced it further. By the way, didn't really work. People still have cancer. In fact, the amount of cancer increased and... performed a prostatectomy in order to treat cancer. Didn't really work. In 1904 was the first radical prostatectomy, same procedure, but just 40 years later. They advanced it further. By the way, didn't really work. People still have cancer. In fact, the amount of cancer increased and In 1920, 16 years later, they started using radiation therapy for prostate cancer, using radium. Didn't work. In 1940, Huggins demonstrated a regression of prostate carcinoma through endocrine control. Guess what? Didn't work. In 1906, well, how do we know it doesn't work? Because people continue getting cancer and they continue dying.

8:01the numbers continue increasing. Just as the years passed, the number of deaths continued to increase. In the 1960s, they had a revolutionary thing: radiotherapy was established as an important treatment for prostate cancer. Guess what? More people are dying from cancer. Still, 60 years later, in the '70s, they started using steroids and other types of androgens. Guess what? People were still dying. The 1980s had to be something special. I mean, it's 80 years since we started, for heaven's sake. After 80 years, you get something, right? Long-acting synthetic luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone agonists started. Guess what? People were still dying in 1995. Cryosurgery was accepted as a treatment option for recurrent cancer after radiation therapy. Why is there recurrent cancer? Because the treatment's not working, but you still pay a quarter million dollars each time. You still have to mortgage your house, your business, your life, your wife, your kids, the dog too, your neighbors—everybody is mortgaging. Why? Because they're not going to treat you unless somebody pays and...

9:28Night tooth 1995 failed. We are a hundred years into treatment and it was still failing miserably. In 2003, the first gonadotropin-releasing hormone blocker was launched called Abarelix. People still died. In 2004, another revolutionary... as you can see, the changes and developments in... coming more rapidly now; it used to be every 20–30 years, now it's becoming every year—2003, 2004, 2005, 2006—every year you have some new biopharmaceutical company come out with some drug that they believe is gonna treat something. Later on, they find out that it's killing more people than healing, but once in a blue moon, they have the mercy of Hashem, and it works to some extent. And We still haven't figured out the big, bad cancer. So we figured, you know what? Cancer is just too big for us. Let's try to figure out something simpler—pain. You have a headache, you have a sore arm, you have some type of ache. They should figure out how to treat this ache. Let's see what they've done. The science of the 1700s decided that opium is a perfect solution to...

10:53perfect solution to treat patients to manage their pain. Even if the pain is simply a cough, we'll give him opium that's addictive and most likely going to kill him. He has a cough, now he's dead. Oh, what happened? Yeah, it must have been a really bad cough. Oh, you don't think it's the drug? No, you don't think about that. You're a scientist. No, no. A hundred years... Advanced now, we're gonna use morphine. Morphine became the revolutionary medicine for pain. Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany isolates morphine from opium and calls it morphine after Morpheus, the Greek god. Guess what? People die. Instead of dealing with a sore throat, he's killing them with morphine. Advanced scientists advance a little more. It must be smarter. Fifty more years past 1855, they start using the hypodermic needle. Alexander Wood of Scotland devises the hypodermic needle to administer morphine, the same medicine from fifty years ago. For patients that are suffering, guess what? They die faster now.

12:22advanced another 20 years, 70s into the 90s. Physicians raised concern with morphine addiction. Oh, wow, it took them almost 90 years to figure out there's a problem. They called it necromania. Americans are now buying over-the-counter pills and elixirs that contain opiates to treat menstrual cramps. A woman has a period now; she's taking morphine for it. Nice. Stabashi, more scientists and geniuses. So whether they have cancer or they just have monthly cycles coming back next month, by the way, I... At least until it stops. Forty years from now. You have a little ache? Okay, take some morphine, honey. Twelve years old. Go. Take some morphine, mommy. Take it. With a needle. We'll inject it for you. Come on. Let's go. Come on, mommy. Come. Come. Give me your arm. The doctor said it. He went to school for five years, ten years.

13:32Now technology must be getting better. We're in the 1900s. Must be getting better. We're getting smarter, no? 1900 to 1910. Free heroin. A philanthropic organization. This would be fun. It wouldn't be funny if it wasn't true. I'm reading this from a document that Leighton put together. A philanthropic organization. provides free heroin to morphine addicts to help them quit. This couldn't be funnier if it was fake. He's addicted to morphine, so they give him heroin. And it's coming from a philanthropist. Scientists, God bless them. God bless medicine. In 1906, the Food and Drug Administration, the FDA, pharmaceutical companies,

14:54must accurately label their products and list dangerous ingredients, especially if it's heroin and cocaine. They forgot they put it in Coca-Cola bottles in those years. That's what they did. They would give babies Coca-Cola because it would calm them. Nobody knew why until they realized it's called Coca-Cola because there's cocaine in it. That's why it's called Coca-Cola. Not today, obviously. Otherwise, the bottle would be $10,000 a bottle. But that's how they calmed down the babies. The babies were calm because they were high. God bless America. Wow. Oh, by the way, of course, you know the government, they can't let things go. So in 1914, there was a new tax on narcotics. In the 1920s, there were some major investments. Hydrocodone came into use as a painkiller in 1923. Legal narcotics were banned in 1924. There was an Anti-Heroin Act, meaning last year's medicine is now banned and...

16:091920s had some major investments. Hydrocodone came into use as a painkiller in 1923. Legal narcotics were banned in 1924. There was an Anti-Heroin Act, meaning last year's medicine is now banned and Last year's medicine that was curing the morphine crisis is now banned. Now we advance to the '30s and '50s. There's the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure consumer safety. Thank you, guys. Just stop killing us. It will be safety. In '55, Tylenol comes out. Tylenol comes out to help people. I think that killed fewer people, Baruch Hashem. In the '70s and '80s, Percocet comes out. In the '70s and '80s, Percocet and Vicodin come on the market. Both are short-acting relievers. In the '80s, these opiates called Percocet and Vicodin are called by everyone as safe.

17:28Safe to take, perfectly safe, no problem at all. In one letter, it says addictions are rare. Addictions are rare in patients treated with narcotics. It was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, 1980. In another study, it says chronic use of opiates, also again, it's not creating any major problems. anyway, advanced to the 1990s. In 1996, they advanced because, you know, listen, they’re used to heroin for the last hundred years. You’re only giving them a little bit of Percocet—no good. So they bring out OxyContin. OxyContin, whoever made it, has to be partners with the Satan himself. OxyContin is a long-acting painkiller. It hits the market and Aggressive marketing pain. They literally spent hundreds of millions of dollars marketing this to become the number one pill everywhere, saying it's less addictive. It's less addictive than its short-acting cousins, Percocet and Vicodin. Guess what? It's at least five times stronger and more addictive. Complete outright lie, and they paid six hundred million dollars for people to keep this lie under the carpet.

18:552002, the "safe" drugs — remember the Percocets and the Vicodin that were supposedly safe and non-addictive? In 2002, 10,000 people died from them. By 2012, the number of prescriptions written for opiate pain medicine reached 259 million, enough for every adult in the United States to have a bottle of pills. 2015: The overdose deaths from prescription opiates and heroin reached 33,000, almost tripling the number just 15 years before. By 2006, it doubled again to 59,000. 2016 continued to see an increase. In 2017, President Obama asked Congress for a billion dollars in...

19:55Fight the opiate epidemic. What do you mean? You just said it was safe 15 years ago. Said nobody can get addicted. Now, wherever we have an epidemic, guess what? As of this study, which is actually only a couple of years old, six out of ten drug overdose deaths involve these pills—60% of drug overdoses. It's more dangerous than heroin. It's more dangerous than cocaine. It's more dangerous than all the medicines we've ever had before. It's also more advanced. Every day, 91 people die from it. I am positive the statistic has increased by at least 20% in the last two years. Fifty percent of opiate prescriptions originate from a primary care physician. Now, of course, painkillers have a good... good in them, you need them if you are seriously in pain. But the point is not to say they should ban painkillers simply because people need them. If you're in pain, you need a painkiller because it's very easy to become suicidal when you're in pain and

21:08But at the same time, this is simply to show us an example of how every average kid who just hurt his back, every mom who just went through a difficult pregnancy, every guy who got hurt on the job, goes to the doctor. The doctor gives him pills, tells him this is perfectly fine, this is perfectly safe, and he takes it like a little baby. Like a trained dog, he takes it, he does it, and he only realizes that good part of the time. It's the wrong medicine. A good part of the time, it may actually kill him. A good part of the time, it wasn't the right choice and the doctor might have known it, but he gets a bigger bonus from Big Pharma. But you just listen to him, knowing all this stuff, because you trust in medicine. But if I told you that there's a different medicine that doesn't change every year has never killed a single person and hasn't changed in over three thousand three hundred years. Meaning, the doctors haven't changed their mind, the scientists haven't changed their mind. They know for sure it's the same exact formula for over three thousand three hundred years. But you're going to say, "Nah, it's not possible." It is. It's called Torah. But you don't want to listen to Torah.

22:34You want to listen to the doctor that went to school for five years because he has a certificate. If I send you a certificate, would you listen to me? I have one on the website. You can print it if you want. You want to start listening to the Torah? Rabotai yikarim, Torah is the only cure there is. People suffer for no reason. They suffer for no reason. You don't need to suffer. Just follow what Hashem says. My proof that it works, aside from countless letters, is one I received just a couple of days ago, on Sunday at 1:18 a.m. I got a message, Baruch Hashem. I don't know what this is, but it seems like Hashem wants me to encourage you, Rabbi Yaron. Okay, listen to this story: until 45 minutes ago... Oh, listen, listen to this...

23:3545 minutes ago I had this terrible toothache, which had been torturing me for three to four days. I don't know personally if I had a toothache for four days, I'd probably go to the dentist, but a four-day toothache doesn't sound like fun. And when I started to watch your videos, I started to sweat like crazy and And the toothache just dispersed, Baruch Hashem. May Hashem bless you and your household. So now the shiurim Torah are better than your dentist. And they're free. Instead of going to the doctor and getting a root canal for $3,500, all you gotta do is go on BeEzratHashem.org and press play. Down some notes. The toothache goes away. You can't make stories like this up. There are countless of them, but we don't want to listen to that. We want to listen to the easy way. But the easy way is hard. That's why in America, only 34% of American Jews say that they believe in God with certainty. That means that 66% of American Jews are not even sure if God exists, and

25:03Biggest reason why people don't want to listen is because they figure that if you listen to the Torah, that means that you're gonna lose out on the materiality of the world. You're gonna lose out on the fun things in life. There's no bigger mistake than that. Thinking that just by you listening to Hashem, you're gonna lose out materially, you're gonna lose out as far as fun, you're gonna lose out on the joy, and so on, is a mistake and a half and because you simply think that, number one, what you're doing is actually good and fun, and number two, that what you're supposed to do is an error, is a problem, and is no good for you. The law says that God grants life not only to those who learn Torah, but also to those who support Torah and Where do we know this from? The law says this is the reason why God does not give scholars their livelihood directly. Many times you're going to see people that learn or teach Torah. Many times you're going to see that they live partly or completely off of tzedakah (charity); people donate to them. Some of them have fancy houses, some of them don't. Some of them have...

26:28Brand-new cars, some of them don't have a car at all. Some people get rewarded with both money and Torah, and some people only get the Torah. But they get the parnassah, it's just not as much. Nonetheless, it's very common for somebody that learns Torah to get his parnassah in an indirect way. Where does the law get this from? Rabbi Akiva. Rabbi Akiva would have debates with heretics. One of them specifically was named Tonus Rufus. Tonus Rufus came to Rabbi Akiva, Gadol HaDor, giant of giants. He says to him, "There has to be a mistake in this Torah of yours. This is why. He says, you see, if your God really loves you, why does He make poor people? If God loves you, Am Yisrael, why does He make poor people? Why does He make them poor? You know how hard it is to be poor? Every day you have to go beg for change. Every day you don't know how you're going to eat. And if He really loves you, why did He make you poor?"

27:31A typical person who has never learned Torah is stumped and doesn't have an answer. Why? Logically, there is no answer. There's no answer. Are we going to say God loves you and He makes you poor? Just saying God loves you and He's going to send you to the Holocaust, good luck. How is your logic going to explain that? How does your doctor who went to four years of medical school explain it before he kills you? How does he explain it? How does the scholar explain it who went to Columbia University? It was a professor there. How's he going to explain it if God loves you? Why does He make poor people? There's no logical way of explaining it. There's only one way to explain it, which Rabbi Akiva says: To save the rest of us from Gehenom, He made poor people. So the rest of us that are making sins and are destined to go to Gehenom for the sins that we're making. Hashem doesn't want us to go to Gehenom because we're making sins, but we're also making some mitzvot. So to save us from Gehenom, He says, you know what? You were supposed to study for three hours today. Would you study for three minutes? You had the book in front of you for three hours, but you're playing with the phone the whole time. You pretended like you were studying, but in reality, you were playing with your phone the whole time.

28:53Rashi says, three hours later, Rashi says, well, oh, the book's closed. It's upside down. It's upside down. It's a newspaper. What do you think, that's free in your mind? It's Bitul Torah. You didn't have a job, you didn't have a wife, you didn't have anything, all that you did, you played on the internet. Guess what? Shema Yisrael, for that day, nice, nice, nice sentence. Three, four, five, six hundred years in Gehinnom for that day. Nice. Why? I gave you 24 hours. All day, you're watching sports. All day, you're playing sports. You didn't learn my Torah for one minute? So what is the person gonna do? Rabbi Akiva says, go, take that money you have in your pocket, Give it to a Ben Torah. Give it to Am Yisrael to do Teshuva. Don't do that. Why? It's gonna save you. It's gonna save you. Why? Hashem specifically made that rabbi, that kiruv organization, that talmid chacham, that avrech, He specifically made them need the money. Why? To save you. Not because He doesn't love him. He loves him. That's why He's sending you to give him parnasah.

30:15He promised him parnasah. He's sending him parnasah. He doesn't care how parnasah comes, if it comes through PayPal or comes through Flipkart. If it comes through Facebook or if it comes in the mail. He doesn't care how parnasah comes. When it's coming, how does he know? Hashem promised. Hashem promised, so He loves him. It's you that's the problem. You don't understand Torah. You barely keep Shabbat. You touch your wife half the month. You have a problem. So do you know that money that Hashem put in your pocket? The Beit HaLevi says we’ve got to use it for Torah. You’ve got to use it for Torah. The Tiferet Yisrael says something else. He says while other types of wisdom can grant a person many good things in life, you have wisdom in medicine, it gets you a nice job. Like one of my former clients, he was a spinal surgeon and... day-to-day job generated 1.8 million dollars a year for him in income. It's a good job. It got him a lot of good things in life—a new car every year. His house was like the White House. He had all types of special animals he killed in Africa hanging on his walls. He thought it was good, so he bought it, or he killed it, or he did all types of things. There are good things in life.

31:44wisdom that he had in medicine. He was pretty good at it, so therefore he got a lot of good things in life—a few wives, kids with all of them. But if everything says, only the Torah grants a man life. The other wisdoms can grant you good things in life, but the Torah grants you life and Difference is about is that you can live without the good things in life, but you can't live without life. The Torah is what gives you the blessing. You go to work; a lot of people work. For whatever reason or another, everybody's struggling anyway. whether they were making $30,000 coming out of high school or $500,000 when they're already in their career for 20 years, struggling just as much. New year, new weds, newlyweds, finished the wedding, the balagan, the honeymoon, started real life. First kids born, all of a sudden they hate each other.

32:59Guess what? 10, 15 years later, they're together. Maybe. But they still hate each other. Why? Why? Why such miserable lives? Because they have good things in life. They have the kids. They have the car. They have the house. They have the job. They have all the good things in life from whatever wisdom they studied to get those things. But life itself, the blessing in life, you can only get from the Torah. Without Torah, there's no blessing in life. This is why you see multi-millionaires committing suicide on a weekly basis. A statistic was made, a study done by the US government, I believe it was actually the Taxing Department for whatever reason, or the Labor Department, maybe about five years ago, four or five years ago, I remember reading it recently, Pretty much confirmed that suicide is a rich person's problem. Meaning, rich people commit suicide. Yes, of course, some poor people commit suicide also, but statistically, it's an overwhelmingly larger number of rich people. Middle-class to higher-class to extraordinarily wealthy, and...

34:25suicide, like Robin Williams of the world, with a 100 million dollars or 200 million dollar net worth, chokes himself with a belt. This famous shoe designer or bag designer woman, a Months ago, suicide; Anthony Bourdain, a very famous chef and restaurateur, and so on, TV personality, kills himself. Linkin Park lead singer, a member of a rock-and-roll group, had six kids, wives, a multi-million dollar business, millions of records sold—suicide. His friend committed suicide two months before him. And... It's an extraordinary amount of suicide for rich people that have all the good things in life, but they don't have life. They have tattoos. They have cars. They have big holes in their ears sometimes. They have weird haircuts, big restaurants. A lot of people like their stuff, a lot of people are jealous of them until they die. Nobody's jealous of a dead person.

35:38Real story happened some years ago. A wealthy man, very, very wealthy, dies and leaves his children two letters. He says, "My dear sons, I only have two requests from you. One, second letter, don't open it until the shiva is over. The week of shiva, the week of mourning my death, is completed. That's when you open the second letter. Second request is please tell Chevra Kadisha to bury me with socks on. Buy me brand new socks. I want to be buried with socks." Second letter: don't open it until the shiva is over. The week of shiva, the week of mourning my death, is completed. That's when you open the second letter. Second request is please tell Chevra Kadisha to bury me with socks on. Buy me brand new socks. I want to be buried with socks. He was sick for some time, so they expected that he was going to die. When he died, he gave me these two letters. So, they called the Chevra Kadisha. They said, "Listen, we have one request. Our father, very well-known and very well-respected, built houses and roads. All he did in his life, he has one request: He wants to be buried with socks on."

37:02Chevra Kadisha says, "We're sorry, we cannot do it. We cannot bury him with socks on." "No, what do you mean you can't? You know who my father was? You have to bury him with them; it's all he wants. He's a tzaddik. You have to fulfill his wishes." "No, we don't. We cannot bury him with socks on. There's no halakhic permission to bury anyone with clothes on. All you get is that nice little white robe. They wrap you in a tallit. That's all you get. No socks. That's the halakha. No socks." That's why, no, no socks. No pants. We're not going to bury him with suits—$5,000 suits. They get five thousand during their life; they wore t-shirts, but when they die, they wear a $5,000 suit. We're not going—You came here naked; you go out naked. No socks. After arguing back and forth about the Chevra Kadisha, there's nothing to do.

38:03We bury him with nothing or go find somebody else. Go find a goy to bury him. We're not burying him. Poor kids, what are they gonna do? They bury the father with no socks on, they're very upset. Number one, that he died. Number two, they came to finish shiva. They open a second letter at the lawyer's office and they read the following: "My dear sons, I... Know that by now you're reading this, you discovered that Chevra Kadisha did not allow you to bury me with socks on. So I know I'm without socks, but I specifically asked you to do it to show you that regardless of how many roads I built and buildings that I built and cash I had in a bank and people that called and praised my name, when you leave this world, they won't even let you take your socks with you.

39:06only thing that I have is me to it, and that's the only thing you're gonna have when you leave. You can listen to me saying these stories, or you can listen to the doctor that's been killing people for the last few hundred years. I The non-Jewish perception of holiness is part of the reason why we are confused about being a holy person. Hashem says, "You be holy because I am holy." We get scared of being holy; we get scared of keeping Shabbat, being modest. We get scared of these things. Why? It's so much different than everybody else. Start thinking about, "Wait, if I start keeping Shabbat, that means I can't work as much. If I start keeping mitzvot, that means I can't really cheat in business. If I start doing this, I can't do this. I can't do that. I can't do a lot of things." We start getting scared. We start thinking that we're gonna lose money out of it. We're gonna go homeless. We're gonna be like those poor little people people throw rocks at, and...

40:24We think that's the answer. I'll put it in our pocket, in our hand. The problem is the answer just put the little seed in our head in the beginning and said, "No, no, it's tough. It's tough. It's tough," but he didn't actually mean for you to stay that way. He just gave you an obstacle. What ends up happening is that we take what the yetzer hara really seriously. I... To such a point, he says, no, no, I didn't mean for you not to learn Torah. I just wanted to give you an obstacle. No, no, I didn't mean for you to go to the strip club. I just told you, yeah, there's stuff there. No, I didn't mean for you to do all these things. The yetzer hara says, hey, you're on your own, buddy. I'm not even influencing you. There's some people, it's such a shame. They're making so many sins that the yetzer hara himself says, "What are you doing? It's not yetzer hara." That's what Rabbi Salman says. It's not yetzer hara anymore. They're on their own. They like the sin. They like going gambling in a casino. They like it. They like seeing girls that are not their wives. They like pornography. They like wasting seed. They like non-kosher food. They like it. They like the sin. So when you tell them you have to do teshuva, it's hard for me. What do you mean it's hard for you? You're a Jew. You're a Jew. What do you mean it's hard for you? Hashem created you to do this. Moshe Rabbeinu says to the people of Israel, it's in your mouth.

41:47It's, uh, it's in your heart to do it, meaning that's why you were created. What do you mean it's hard for you? Hard for you to make money, but you still did it. Hard for you to fight a war, but you still did it. Hard for you to do avodah, but you did it. What do you mean it's hard for you? Well, hard for you, you're gonna do it anyways. Hard for you, like you're giving up before you started. Hard for you, giving up before you started. Oh, it's not the Yetzer Hara. It's you. You like the sin. Oh. It's not the Yetzer Hara. It's you. You just enjoy the sin too much. You are trying to blame the Yetzer Hara. It's not the Yetzer Hara. The Yetzer Hara didn't do that. It's you. You like the sin too much. You like the heroin. You like the cocaine. Even after you found out it kills people. Even after you found out it's bad for you. But you like it. That's not the Yetzer Hara. That's us. And when you tell people, "Listen, the things you think about religious people, they're wrong. You can prove it; it's all wrong. The things you think about the Torah, they're wrong. You can prove that it's wrong." It's like, "No, what are you talking about? Look, these religious people, they have to be poor." No, only goyim say stuff like that. Only the goyim think that being holy means being poor.

43:11Strangely, none of their so-called holy people are actually poor. The Vatican is the richest entity on the planet. The second richest entity is the Avodah Zarah in India, the second richest entity in the world. Real holiness, just like the heroin and the morphine from the doctors, Godliness does not mean living in isolation from... Godliness does not mean that a person has to rid himself of all the materialism in the world. Hashem created material in order for you to benefit from it, in order for you to serve Him with it. But you can use everything He created for good and for bad. You can use the phone to do good things or bad things. You can go on the internet on your phone and look at pornography and destroy your Olam Haba every second, and

44:14and over again to no end, or you can go to Be'ezrat Hashem and watch the shiur Torah and create a good Olam Haba. You can use your car to run over this guy that cut you off, or you can use your car to come to a shiur Torah. You can use a book throw it at somebody in your class because he cut you off and hit him in the head nice and be happy for two seconds before the cops come because he passed out because of you. Or you can read the book and make sure that book is a sefer Torah and learn from it to do what it says and Everything in life can be used for good and for bad. Just because you become a Shomer Shabbat, Shomer mitzvot, Shomer Torah, and so on, doesn't mean that there's no materialism. It's not Torah-only thinking like this. Only fools think like this. Yes, there's materialism in the world; use it for good. There are ways to make money, make the money in a kosher way.

45:25Once you have the money, use the money in a kosher way. Everybody thinks that, oh, if I do teshuva, I have to leave my job, I have to leave my wife. No, you don't have to leave anything. You just have to do everything in a kosher way. Sometimes there's no way of doing something in a kosher way. Like if you have a bar, there's no way to have a kosher bar, unless you make it a men's only bar, which I highly doubt will survive. There's no way to have a kosher bar. There's no way to have a kosher nightclub. There's no way to have kosher mixed dancing. There's no way to do that. There are certain things, there's just no way. Somebody asked me today, is it okay if I open this new business that promotes... Shami, I have a she'elah, I have a she'elah, I have, but I can't even tell you what it is, a she'elah. I'm thinking about right now, is there a way that I could do it in a kosher way if I give myself? There's no way to do certain things in a kosher way, but the vast majority of things you can. The vast majority of things you can do in a kosher way.

46:53The Torah is saying to do things in a kosher way. That's it. A kosher marriage in a kosher way. Kosher food in a kosher way. Even food—just because it's kosher doesn't mean you're allowed to eat it. It doesn't mean you're allowed to eat it at any time. There are certain times to eat and certain times not to eat. If you eat it on Yom Kippur, it's not kosher. If you eat the pizza on Pesach, it's not kosher. you overeat, it's not kosher. If you're disgusting when you eat, it's not kosher, even if the food is kosher. Meaning we have simple guidelines from Hashem that say there's a kosher way to do everything, every desire you have. And you're not gonna lose out for it. In fact, you're gonna gain. The Torah gives a person, as the Sefer HaChinuch says, the Torah gives a person a way to sanctify all facets of human existence. You could literally make your phone holy by using it to watch shiurim. You could literally make your car a kli kodesh by using it to go to shul, using it to come to shiurim, and not using it for the garbage of the world.

48:18You can turn your clothes into something holy, making it a mitzvah to buy them. Mitzvah, mitzvah to buy clothes if they’re modest. If a woman buys modest clothes, it's 100% a mitzvah. The Gemara says Hashem will pay 100%. Modest clothes, not what you think is modest, but what's really modest. Shop away, honey. Sharper way as long as it's modest, but not according to your opinion, according to His opinion. Not the way you translated the Torah. That's what we have next. We have a problem. We have a problem that people want to translate the Torah their own way, and they don't want to believe what it says. This is the reason why only 13% of American Jews avoid using money on Shabbat. They are so afraid to lose this money that almost 90% of American Jews hold on to it and use it on Shabbat because they like their money much more than they like God. Because they believe that if you're a religious Jew, you're going to be poor and broke. But statistics show that...

49:36Regardless of whether a person is religious or not, Orthodox Jews—you could see statistics, the Pew Research says Orthodox Jews who observe Shabbat are just as likely to earn over $150,000 a year as any other Jew. The guy that has a kippah, learns Torah every day, and... ...fulfill the Torah. He's just as likely to make a nice six-figure income to do whatever it is that he needs to do in life. But he makes $150,000, and his money is kosher, and his job is holy. The secular person makes $150,000, his job is a sin, and... Why? He's not using it for the right reasons. The problem is that because we are weak to the extent that we want to translate the Torah to our own likings, we allow the Amalek inside our own people. I'll give you a couple of new examples. Recently

50:56Journalist Charleston, whom I told you about, uncovered a few things that we talked about recently. He says that right now there's a blog he came out with a few days ago—three or four days ago. One of the biggest problems that the world of Orthodox ultra-religious Jews are dealing with right now that the missionaries have entered the ultra-Orthodox world. However, they entered it. I've told you guys that they had somebody they paid off to translate the false testament into Yiddish. I told you guys that they also convinced a few teachers in yeshivot in Lakewood and Monsey in other places and to missionize and teach the New Testament undercover. If that's not bad enough, they have now infiltrated the kashrut department. People in the kashrut department, mashgichim, who are missionaries? How come nobody says anything? Because he looks more religious than everybody else here. I

52:20Black-and-white, peyos, beard nice and groomed, from Mount Sinai. Goes to minyan, prays with everybody. Missionary Bill believes in idolatry. No, he is an idol worshiper. He's an idol worshiper, but he's a Jew. How did he do it? He's an idol worshiper. Why? Because the missionaries told him and the rest of his buddies that followed. Don't change anything. Keep going to shul. Keep the look, the way you look. Don't move out. Why? Because we need you to spread the mission. And now they have a serious problem. Why? These people are not regular religious Jews. They're in some of the most famous and strongest Chasidut in the world, Chasidut Satmar.

53:22Others, of course, but this mashgiach and other people, some of them have high-level positions, very important jobs; people go to them for pesak halacha. Their keilim, guess what? The keilim were not kosher. He's an idol worshiper. The keilim, the pots and pans, are not kosher anymore. Why? He's an idol worshiper. How does such a thing happen? A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. We let falsehood into our schools because we let falsehood into our own hearts. To believe that this is okay, but not everything else. This is okay, but not everything else. I So you're going to see, sometimes from different places, that they're very, very stringent about Chalav Yisrael. You drink regular kosher milk, they're going to treat you like a goy. But to put idol worship on their head as a wig, no problem. To pray to the Rebbe, no problem. To steal in business, no problem. But you drank non-kosher milk, oh, sheigetz, sheigetz!

54:49demented ideology. We let one thing in, and the rest of it follows. That goes into our hearts and then it goes into our schools. Then it goes into the so-called kiruv organizations. Kiruv organization by the name of Bina. The Bina program is The Bina program of OFJCC wrote the following: Those books, referring to the Torah, do not belong only to the Orthodox. They want to open a secular yeshiva. They're part of our culture, and we need to study them and do our own commentary on them. It will be a different commentary than how the Orthodox read them. Your average secular, ignorant person is going to be the new Rashi. And Jake—this person's name is Jake, I don't know what parent names their kid Jake, miskeneh—and...

56:16Jake insists that this is no contradiction—no contradiction in using sacred texts to support their efforts, not because they get millions of dollars for it. That's why there's no contradiction, no contradiction that you can study these texts in a non-religious setting and... Make the process more egalitarian and open to everyone, including non-Jews. Why didn't you call it a yeshiva? What's yeshiva about it? Call it a public school. He's not being intellectually honest. And this is the best and worst part at the same time. She's quoted as saying the following: we don't see the Torah as obligating; we see it as inspirational. We don't learn the laws of Shabbat hoping that you'll go home and actually do it. We're hoping you'll understand the tradition, meaning they have zero interest in you keeping Shabbat. In fact, it would be the opposite of their intention. Their intention is just to understand the cultural aspect of it and

57:40Like they've turned the Torah into a history book, which the Zohar HaKadosh says that anyone who says the Torah is a history book has lost their right to live. Now, before anybody decides that they want to be the next Rashi, before anybody wants to decide that they're just going to simply ignore everything and You should know who Rashi was. Rashi said a few things about this Mishnah. But first, we need to know who we're dealing with here. There's a person by the name of Rabbi Yitzchak. Rabbi Yitzchak was married for a long time, with no kids. His wife simply could not have kids. No kids. He was a simple person who learned a little Torah in our version. It's a lot of Torah and didn't have much money. One day, he finds a very valuable stone that's priceless. As it happens, he brings it to the jeweler who says, "Let me work on it for you, and I'll get a customer."

59:10Makes it so that some idol-worshipping king wants this specific jewel, and he's willing to pay millions and millions of dollars for it, making Avraham the richest person in the entire country. The king sends a couple of his servants to go pick up the stone and bring this guy over here to honor him and... I buy the stone, make a whole ceremony out of it. Avraham says farewell to his wife, going on a boat. "I'll be back in a few months. I'm gonna sell this and come back with, instead of one stone, a boatload worth of gold." As he's on the boat... He overhears the two servants chit-chatting about the stone and how happy the king is going to be once he's able to put the stone in his statue, a statue of idolatry. As soon as the ba'al habayit heard this, he thought, "Just wait, they're going to put this stone in a statue and..."

1:00:26I'm gonna be involved in honoring an idol. I'm gonna be involved in benefiting from idolatry. Impossible! But what do I do? I'm already on the boat. If I tell them I don't want to sell it, they're just gonna kill me and take the stone anyway. And then I was involved anyway, because even though I didn't know, still it gets to the destination. He thought about it. decided to do something none of us would do. He pretended to slip, fall, and drop the priceless blue stone in the middle of the ocean. The two servants saw him, and then he pretended to cry hysterically that he couldn't believe that he just lost the precious diamond. The two guys felt so bad for him; they didn't kill him. they got to the other side, the king was ready for them. He said, "No, no, you don't want to know. Poor guy! He lost the stone. The guy was going to become the richest man in the country, and now he's the biggest loser in the world." They felt so bad for him that they let him go. As soon as he got off the boat on the way back home, he was the happiest he could possibly be, having just lost a hundred million dollars, and

1:01:50has no chance whatsoever of ever getting this money back. But he was not involved in idolatry. He celebrated, he danced, and an old man grabbed him, looked at him in the eye, and both of his eyes were bluer than the stone, and told him, "You gave up..." priceless blue stone. You gave up priceless possessions in this world, a stone that brought light to the world. As on Hashem's name, you will have a son that will bring light to the world. His wife, his wife—you don't get a husband like this. If you are just a wife who doesn't want to send people to the shul a lot. His wife was Kodesh Kodashim, so much so that the Christians wanted to kill her. One day they trapped her on a narrow, narrow road. On the right side was the shul, the building of the synagogue. On the other side was a different building, but it was very narrow. The Christians decided they're going to have fun; they’re going to put two horse carriages with running horses and...

1:03:11fill up the entire road and run full speed while she's walking and she can't run away. The woman who can't bring a child into the world, the woman whose husband just gave up the world of money—all she did was lay back on the wall of the synagogue, and the wall accepted her inside the synagogue. They say until this day you can see the indent of how the wall accepted her body into the synagogue. Let me tell you the third part of the story. When a woman gives up everything for Hashem to publicize His name, to send her husband to teach Torah, to learn Torah—when a man gives up everything for Hashem to show that all the money in the world is not worth even one sin—what do you think Hashem does?

1:04:11Hashem fixes the uterus of the woman, and if that's not enough, He gives them a son—a son that will bring light to the world, a son by the name of Rashi. That's Rashi. Rashi also stands for Rabban Shel Yisrael, the rabbi of Am Yisrael. Why? Because Rashi, Rabotai Yekarim, Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki is his name. Rashi, who lived almost a thousand years ago—nine hundred and fifty years ago—brought light to the world that we can't live without. He put commentary on the Gemara; almost 80% of the Gemara has his commentary on it. Without it, you cannot read the Gemara. If you don't have his commentary, the Gemara is better off kept closed. Why? Because you won't understand a single word. He wrote commentary on the Tanakh, especially the Chumash. Without reading his commentary, you practically become a Christian because you won't understand a single word. His commentary is so extraordinary that there are over 300 super-commentaries based on his commentary.

1:05:40His kids and grandkids were Gedolei HaDor, the Tosafot, Rabbeinu Tam. Giants among giants. How did it all go? How did it all happen? How did somebody get so lucky? It's not luck. It's also not easy. It's sacrifice. It's sacrifice that most people think is too big for them. because they think that you lose out by fulfilling the will of Hashem. The reality is you only win when you fulfill the will of Hashem in this world and the next. So, this same Rashi says that the Torah's healing power can overcome all the physical and spiritual maladies of this world. can overcome all the physical and spiritual maladies of this world. Meaning that if you have a spiritual problem or a physical problem, you have chas v'shalom cancer or you have shalom bayit issues, you have parnassah problems or you have AIDS. You have difficulty understanding a certain Gemara, difficulty remembering anything, or difficulty getting out of the bathroom. You have a problem, there's one cure.

1:06:41Meaning that if you have a spiritual problem or a physical problem, you have Chas V'Shalom cancer, or you have Shalom Bayit issues, you have Parnassah problems, or you have AIDS. You have difficulty understanding a certain Gemara, difficulty remembering anything, or difficulty getting out of the bathroom. You have a problem, there's one cure. Which is the cure to everything? Reading, learning, and fulfilling the Torah. That's the cure. Because the Torah's greatness is not limited to material greatness. Material greatness is something that you leave here, even if you attain wealth and extraordinary success, and so on. Best, at best, you get to enjoy it here. At best, other people compliment you about it here. At best, Torah is something that you get here and there because the greatness of Torah is exemplified by the fact that even though this world and the next world are diametrically opposite one another.

1:08:06Torah has the power to grant man life and happiness in both worlds. Even Shlomo says because the Torah is the source of life in both worlds, not just this world and not just the next. The key is to take Hashem's word for it, take our rabbis' word for it, take these giant sages' word for it and... The rabbi said it, he was serious. When the sages said it, they were serious. They weren't joking around. They didn't research it for three or four years and then, you know, go on to something else. They spent a lifetime doing it, living it, fulfilling it. Some of these people that you've never heard of had greater wisdom than anybody on earth today. You can't even compare the intellect of the Steipler Gaon to any person that's called a genius in the secular world. And...

1:09:09They're closer to a monkey than they are to him. You can't compare any scholar, scientist, engineer, physicist, or whatever to Rav Ovadia. You can't compare them. There's no comparison. It's not like, "Oh, Rav Ovadia is a ten and he's like a seven." No, he's a zero in comparison to him—zero. Zero, the same equivalent as a monkey—zero. Why? It's a different world. People insist on trying something else so much so that I heard a few days ago one of the most baffling and demented stories I think I've heard in at least the recent past. This woman called Ellen DeGeneres, a famous comic or something. It's comic what she says, actually. She says to people on her show, "We went to a..." ice cream shop, kosher mocha, Shem, and they had a TV—not such a kosher TV, but a TV. And you overhear this TV, and it had this Ellen DeGeneres show. I couldn't help overhearing it, and she tells her fans—which apparently are millions and millions of people that watch her every day, like as if it's like Mount Sinai and Har Sinai.

1:10:30you find out later on that she's a lesbian married to a woman, and gone niffish, but everybody's gay yay yay yay yay. You're another me of Hashem. Now, you would think, oh, this person at least maybe she got the... she... okay, she has a desire, she likes women, not good. Okay, she has fame, she has... okay, so hopefully she's like, smart. Hopefully she's like good, right? Why? Because on our show she tells people she does good things. One of the good things she says, "Please everyone, if you want to join me on this project, on this very, very important project, donate to my charity." She has a charity apparently because we have a foundation to save the mountain gorillas in Rwanda.

1:11:33We have a foundation, a multi-million dollar foundation, to save mountain gorillas in Rwanda. Now, this would be funny if it wasn't true. Now, I couldn't take it. The whole way home, I'm talking to my wife, and she's talking to me like, is this real? Maybe it's a joke. Maybe she's a comic. Maybe it's a joke. I'm going to go home, and I'm going to spend at least 10 minutes of bathroom time finding out about monkeys, gorillas in Rwanda. I want to know how many of these gorillas are in the mountains. Not any gorilla. It has to be a mountain gorilla, guys. Mountain gorilla, how many of them are in Rwanda, and how come they need so much money? These gorillas—the people don't have any money, but the monkeys need money. So, I did some research for you right now. Dangerous situation. To be precise, there are one thousand and six, exactly one thousand and six, mountain gorillas.

1:12:42of them live in the mountains of Rwanda. Now, this preservation, this zoo in Rwanda, is where people visit to see the mountain gorillas. Even though the people over there don't have food to eat, they bought four gorillas for 1.6 million dollars. which means $400,000 a gorilla. Now, if this wasn't funny enough, let me just show you how foolish Hashem makes certain people because of their own foolishness. Why are these gorillas almost extinct? Why? There are only a thousand of them. Why? Well, the people of Rwanda apparently like to eat them once in a while. Some of them like to take their head and use it as a nice chandelier. So, they like the head; they like the food. Some are just getting sick. So, that's what's happening. But really, some are just simply being sold on the black market.

1:14:01That's really the big thing: the black market, the evil, dangerous black market. So, how much does a gorilla, how much is a mountain gorilla from Rwanda, cost on the black market? Not to buy four of them; the zoo paid $1.6 million and... Means if you wanted to buy all thousand, I mean you have to be a billionaire. So, how much in the black market? I mean, I never knew that Rwandan people have such billions of dollars to buy the monkeys in a black market. Guess what? You can buy a mountain gorilla in the black market for a thousand dollars. Maximum price if he's extra muscular, five thousand. Maximum price for a mountain gorilla is $5,000, which means that this million and a half dollars, they could have simply bought all of them on the black market. They could have bought all of them. In fact, they could have bought all of them and still had a million dollars left to feed the poor people of Rwanda.

1:15:17If this wasn't true, it would be funny, but I mean seriously. Guess what? Millions of dollars are being donated to this stupidity. Millions of dollars. Their annual budget is five million dollars or more. For what? How many bananas can the mountain gorilla eat? But you see, Rabotai, it's funny, but it's true. You have a certain millionaire in Israel who decided he wanted to do a mitzvah. So he donated a fence to the Noahide Zoo for the elephant called Bracha, for Ilui Nishmat (elevation of the soul) of his mom. His poor mother. What did she get? She left a son in the world who has a fence for an elephant. It's his mother's fault. It's not his fault.

1:16:18It's his mother's fault that our Olam HaBa is full of elephant poop on a fence. Because she chose the shortcut. Shortcut is the long cut. So we see here that really, it's not just the benefits that a person gets in Olam HaBa where their son, chas v'shalom, and their daughter are not going to buy them a fence for an elephant to poop on, or a gorilla from Rwanda. Because if you fulfill Torah, your son is most likely going to buy you a mitzvah, a Sefer Torah, Shas, talmid chacham, tzaddikim, grandchildren. That's what you get in Olam HaBa. You get grandkids that can continuously bring your neshama higher and higher like Moshe Rabbeinu. But even more so, you benefit in this world. You benefit in this world that you are

1:17:22moves in your life. Just pure stupidity. It's not even like it's just pure stupidity. The Torah protects you from our own stupidity.